M onpay, September 30 is
“People’s Day.”

On that historic day, decisive
for the future of British Columbia,
theirs is the deciding voice which
alone can determine whether the
fate of the rich resources of B.C.,
the peace and well-being of its
people, shall be promoted by/and

- for the people—or continue to be

alienated and jeapordized by the
Socred, Liberal and Tory puppe-
teers of U.S. monopoly.

That is the big issue in Mon-
day’s election. The stakes are high,
and the danger to B.C. too great to
be left in the hands of political ad-
venturers.

A resounding defeat for the

- Bennett government and the Tory

and Liberal salesmen for Big Busi-
ness who hope to succeed them,
would bring the Bennett sellout
of the great Columbia River pro-
ject to a grinding stop—and stay
the hand of a pro-U.S. Liberal
minority in Ottawa from signing
away Canada’s greatest hydro-
power source of wealth.

A resounding defeat for the Soc -
reds and their would-be Tory and
Liberal successors would be a de-
cisive first step by the people of
B.C. to keep U.S. nuclear bombs
out of Comox—and out of Canada.

The issues facing the people in
Monday’s election are numerous,
grave, and far-reaching. Under a
continuation of a monopoly-dom-
inated Socred government, these
issues will remain unsolved—ex-
cept at the continued expense of
the common people. Like a malig-
nant cancer they will continue to
multiply until B.C. and its people

EDITORIAL PAGE

Give B.C. a break

have been stripped bare by the
U.S. and home-grown trusts. That
much the 92-years of successive
Tory, Liberal and Socred hetraval
since B.C. entered Confederation,
has proved up to the hilt!

On Monday, September 30 the
people of B.C. have a golden op-
portunity to write a ‘finale’ to
this long history of betrayal, sell-
out and doublecross. The oppor-
tunity of producing by their unit-
ed votes, an alternative to this
sorry record; the alternative of a
New Democratic Party (NDP)
government!

Not a “socialist” government,
not even a militantly anti-monop-
oly government, but government
by a party with its roots deep in
the ranks of Labor and the people;
a government sensitive and re-
sponsive to the needs of the com-
mon people of factory, farm and
small business. ees

An NDP majority legislature,
with the voice of four Communist
candidates in this election added,
could redeem British Columbia
from its monopoly-Socred fire
sale misery, and place B.C. first in
the vanguard of Canada’s “world
of tomorrow,” where only the
people count.

The stakes are high, and with
unity at the polls for an NDP gov -
ernment, so are the odds for vic-

candidates running, vote Com-
munist. In all other ridings, with-
out exception and with maximum
unity vote NDP. That way lies
victory—for the people. Give B.C.
a break!

Editorial comment. . .

te
W HEN old-line politicians
panic,” says Tim Buck; “‘the old-

Goldwater.

That may explain why local

W HEN the Diefenbaker gov-
ernment contracted the first big
Canada wheat deal with Peoples’
China, Liberal leader Lester B.
Pearson spluttered all over the

place bemoaning “this betrayal of ©

our U.S. friends,” etc. and sé forth.
For Mike it just wasn’t “kosher”
to deal with “the Communist
enemy’ thataways.

It may be recalled that the big
China wheat sale had many bene-
ficial results for Canada; it
brought a much-needed spate of
prosperity to our coldwar restrict-
ed grain trade, helped to reduce
our huge surplus grain stocks,
brought an atmosphere of ““boom’’
to our prairie wheat growers, and
incidently, kept the wheatbelt
vote solid for Dief in the April fed-
eral elections.

It also proved, among other
things, what the Communists had
been advocating for decades pre-
viously—the vast potential mar-
kets of the Socialist world avail-
able to Canada, were a medium of
common sense allowed to pene-
trate the fog of U.S.-manufactured
coldwar propaganda, and a deter-
mination to trade where and with
whom we damn well chose, regard -
less of U.S. interference, likes or
dislikes.

Now comes the Canada-Soviet
wheat deal, topping the China rec-
ord by nearly half-a-billion dollars,
and this time consummated by a
minority Liberal government.

“Oh yes’’, says Lester B., “our
U.S. friends have been kept in-
formed”’ as though such informa-
tion was obligatory upon Canada

formed, and from all reports they
don’t like it, particularly that part
of it where the Soviet Union may
divert some of its Canadian wheat
purchase to the republic of Cuba.

Wheat spells votes?

from a 17-storey window without
any additional booster?’

Others of course, the more sane
and realistic of U.S. Big Business,
are discussing if they too should
not get busy and get in on these
great new Socialist markets of
Europe and Asia before oppor-
tunity passes them by.

But Mr. Pearson has another
idea in mind as a by-product of
this magnificent wheat deal; the
possibility of an early federal elec-
tion to win the majority approval
of the Canadian people, which un-
limited U.S. election slush funds
couldn’t buy him last June. To
woo the prairie provinces with 4
bigger wheat deal than Dief’s.

Only a few short weeks ago any
hint from.the Opposition about
toppling his minority government
was promptly countered with 4
typical Liberal brand of political
blackmail; “the people don’t want
another election’ quoth Mike,
“the people are tired of elections.
They want to get on with the busl-
ness of the country. If you force an
election the onus will be on your
heads,’*-and so forth.

Now with a whopping wheat
sale contract signed, thanks to
the economic solvency and the
peace policies of a great Socialist
state, Mike is not too perturbed
whether the people “want another
election” or not.

So don’t be surprised if another
election is in the offing. And don’t
forget ‘our friends have been kept
informed.” It all points in the di-
rection of seeking that “stable
majority” the pro-U.S. Liberals
didn’t get last June.

* * *

“Keep B.C. Moving” urge the
Socreds? -

ee.

“Keep Moving” Ghee the NDP,

its No Damn Picnic having you

around? : e
Monday is “ Moving Day.”’

age pensioners get ten bucks”!
How true, how true. It was
Liberal panic which enabled the

Socred pundits from WAC down,
preserve a studied silence on this
windfall to the Canadian economy.

At the mere mention of Cuba not
a few of. Washington’s lunatic

‘vituperation of a Senator Barry

passage of OAP legislation in the

fringe are almost ready to take off

first place; a similar panic has
heralded every meagre increas2
since. Pearson’s panic won the last,
ten bucks and the end is not yet. _
In his “march-forward-with-
B.C.” deluge of promises to woo
the electorate, panicky Premier
Bennett now promises to up the
OAP provincial grant. a
Moral for the people — keep the
old-line spellbinders in panic!

* * *

The Soviet-Canada wheat deal
is by far and away the biggest
economic boost Canada has had
since the end of World War II.
Most political leaders are agreed __
on that, publicly at least.

But not national Socred leader
Robert Thompson. Down in New
Zealand orating on the glories of
Social Credit, Herr Thompson
condemns the Soviet - Canada
wheat deal with all the anti Soviet

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y= blueprint for ‘‘freedom from

communism’? drawn by U.S. imper-
ialism in Asia or elsewhere follows
a uniform pattern, First the promo-
tion of a reactionary native circle
through which U.S. operations can be
carried on, and second, to pour in

U.S. ‘‘aid’ in the form of mountains
of arms, ‘‘advisory personnel”, and
millions of dollars to boost sales ofthe
Pentagon’s special brand of ‘‘free-
dom’’, ;

In Taiwan (Formosa) the U.S, stooge
ensemble isn’t too numerous; the Mad-
ame and Chiang Kia-shek, plus a bevy
of immediate hangers-on to pick up
the ‘‘aid’’? boodle, earmarked to keep
the U.S, coldwar against People’s China
‘thot?’, In this the Chiangs have done
very well, as provocateurs and as bank
depositers,

When France’s 7-year ‘‘dirtywar”
against the people of Vietnam ended,
as all such wars do, by the French
colonialists getting booted out, U.S.
imperialism moved in with a much,
dirtier war and a made-to-measure
native stooge clique, the Diem family
equally vocacious and _ considerably
larger than the Chiang ensemble.

A whole raft of Ngos and Nhus,
with a stooge president Ngo DinhDiem,
a Ngo Kha, a Ngo Can, a Ngo Khoi,

a Ngo Nhu, a Ngo Thuc, and of course
the charming and irresistable Mme.
Ngo Dinh Nhu, a lady with much sex
appeal, the vocabulary ofa street walk-
er, and a well developed yen for Yankee.
dollars,

Each of these Nhus, Khois, Thucs
ad infinitum have their special function
in the U,.S,.-Diem dictatorship in South
Vietnam. Each their special source of
graft, corruption, U.S. ‘‘aid’’ boodle,
etc, in the ruthless exploitation and
extermination of their own people. All
who do not submit to their dictatorial
will are held suspect of ‘‘communism’’,
or in the official U.S,-Diem jargon,
of belonging to the ‘‘Viet Cong”? (Viet-
namese Communists)?

In this family of ruthless Borgias,
special attention should be accorded
Ngo Dinh Thuc, who promotes his own
special brand of Pentagon ‘‘freedom??
garbed in the ‘‘cloth’’ of the Catholic
faith.

Ngo Dinh Thuc is Archbishop and
Apostolic Vicar of Vinh Long, a large
industrial area some 60-miles south
of Saigon. Not long ago on the advice
of his U.S. ‘‘advisers’’President Diem
tried to pressure the Vatican into
elevating his brother Thuc to the emi-
nence of a Cardinal. That impudent
proposition was rejected by the Vati-
can, More recently Archbishop Thuc
hitailed it to Rome to seek an audi-
ence with Pope Paul. That too was
denied, so the Bish headed back, via
New York . . , there to panhandle
sympathy—and more dollar ‘‘aid?’, The,
million bucks or more per day which
U. S. imperialism pours into Vietnam
to promote its dirty war on the Viet-
hamese people is, in the Bish’s op-
inion—and Madame Nhu’s—not enough?

In his diocese of exploitation in Vinh~
Long, Archbishop Thuc holds complete
monopoly control of all timber and
rubber industry, controls all import
and sale of sacramental wines, owns
and controls a big fleet of transport
vessels, and is sole owner of Sai-
gon’s largest $4-million dollar depart-
ment store, confiscated from its former
French colonial owners.

The Bish also runs a big U.S.-de-_
signed brain-washing institution, po-
litely referred to as an ‘‘Education
Centre for Personalism’’, There, with
a large staff of U.S. - briefed “‘pro-
fessors” Bish Thuc CONDITIONS the
minds of his ‘students?’ to a proper
regard for the U.S. - Diem dictatorship.

In his book THE FURTIVE WAR,
Wilfred G. Burchett describes in some
detail how the Diem family dictator-
ship applies its ‘‘education’? to the
people, It is not a pleasant story.

Canadians would do well to read
Burchett’s book, it for no other reason
than to learn that Canada, as a mem-
ber of the UN’s International Control
Commission (ICC) in South Vietnam,
has also not got very clean hands in
the Pentagon’s ‘‘dirty war’? upon 4
cruelly persecuted people, who seek
nothing more than the elementary right

to detemine and shape their own af- |

fairs. The best Canada’s representative
on the ICC has managed, has been
to lie shamefully about the true state
of affairs in South Vietnam, thereby
assisting U.S. imperialism carry for-
ward its ‘aid’? program; that is, the
extermination of the people of South
Vietnam to keep the whole Diem fam~
ily in the saddle,

and for payment of postage in éash

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