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McEwen 1s Canadian Manufacturers Associa- a recently got out a well-designed itrprice Pamphlet entitled Harvest of En- When the profits of big business soar, eon eteonOmical heights it seems to Sites oo practice for the CMA and outfits to blossom forth with ve On the subject, designed main- Moe oe up their “moral” right, as Profit took their fellow men. tegray lls,” we are told, “are an in- ang. «ght of free enterprise economy,” own eedom,” of course, is “the right One what we honestly (?) acquired.” Ot this aa cite not a few instances e Onestly acquired’? boodle, such Unbia’s een grabbing of British Col- 84 ang Orest, mineral, hydro-electric, the CM Other incidentals out of which Preketed and their kind have already but the billions of dollars in profits, Slump Tecord is far too long for this With +; of the his description of “profits” out Wn to ad7 the CMA “economist” gets 5,0 telling us how it all happened. Pologi ly + as Wealth: Surplus value — the new labo, created by the application of 8 K Power to raw materials, which of all Marx discovered is the source Sts, es pocketed by the capital- May Sn’t even get a mention in the Harvest. 2 Rt at ite - The 89 “Eis “eeonomist” makes it all ae tfully simple; the workers of labor Under his great “division er appli discovery, Each skilled work- % th his skill to a given product Nodity ‘he whole turn out a given com- ing 7 Thousands of works all work- 8p op , oniously ~under the paternal ™ultitna CMA philanthropist, produce a We pe of automobiles, chamber pots, The’, °YY Crockett hats and what not. bis ‘ey 800d sport that he is, risks lohy 2 Just to provide them with ough . provides all the “investment” wit ys the land, builds the fac- Who Pplies the tools, so that “the man Epa rks in industry today does not he reno Provide the capital equipment Woulg wires . . . in point of fact, it lMagine Quite: beyond his means . . . Mloyeas 4 company advertising; em- %ch ;, Wanted’ — must have $68,000 ue buy tools.” Mist» RS got that far our CMA “econo- ‘Profite nes an additional shining halo. “dustry € says, “are the rewards of Sethe Tom successful management top hi Y are what the investor receives ae faith . Re ‘aitye Vet this profitable reward for fthe wore firmly upon the brows XO less .. the author of Harvest quotes Hlamentey @uthority than the late and 8 the ac cigar maker, Sam Gomphers te ed th Sam is reported to have aU Dloyer at “the greatest wrong an Dloyeg , ©an perpetrate on his em- The cy, {0 fail to make a profit.” jePing . here and elsewhere, daily i esoun €ir monopoly claws upon the tn ‘ awh of ‘the’ people, are not ee Pro down. On the contrary; & e 4 SSentiat> Once in a while they feel it met od na drape themselves in the op Ogetig enthropy and with such theove” he as Harvest of.Enterprise ou Would without the “profit urge” the latt be no “investors” and with- ig Mlmost no" We would all perish. se,W0ing . as the world turned socialist Cy tials TY nicely without such “es- Nady a Survival, I feel certain ‘ Suld also survive. fits are reaching such heights’ Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa One hundred and fifty: years ago, on. August 15, 1805, Simon Bolivar, “El Liberator,’ stood on the Aveftine in Rome and dedicated himself to the cause of ey Venezuelan independence. Spanish imperialism mocks his a. ie UJS. domination of the country he freed from vow. This statue to him stands in Quito, Ecuador. Behind the attacks on CBC OR some considerable time the CBC has been under’ heavy attack from various quarters, par- ticularly for its TV stewardship. Editorials and ‘‘loaded’’ articles have been aimed at the CBC by many leading newspapers. Locally, the Vancouver Sun has mounted a steady anti(CBC barrage during past months. ‘ What's behind all this anti‘CBC noise? F Without question the CBC, as a government-owned Canadian en terprise, leaves much to be desired in its programatic presentations. Nevertheless, it does provide an expanding medium) for the pro motion of Canadian art, letters and culture—and blocks the promoters of “‘private’’ TV stations, who are anxious to cash in by. flooding Canada with Yankee culture. The issue therefore is; get rid of the CBC as a government-owned institution and make way for the ore sen te’. OT © stations, .the ‘front’ agencies for U.S. movie and TV. monopolies. They have our resources; now they want our minds! To service the 1,250,000 owners of TV sets in this country, the CBC requires approximately $42 million during its coming fiscal year, of which the Canadian people contribute half in government sub: sidy. The anti-CBC agencies fall: ing over themselves with anxiety ‘to ‘‘save’’ the taxpayer, bemoan this spending and proclaim that opening the door to “‘private’’ sta- tions would effect an enormous ‘saving.’ These same agencies forget to mention in their noisy campaign for “competitive television’ that there is roughly a $100,00 gift of taxpayers’ money going annually to every private broadcasting sta- tion licensed in Canada (other than CBC) and that private TV would probably cost a great deal more for much less than TV users now get from CBC! It goes without saying that the anti*CBC forces are not interested in constructive criticism of CBC, except insofar as their “‘criticism’’ may help advance its destruction, thereby leaving the field open for a Hollywood deluge and the profit- able extinction of Canadianism. The “‘target area’ of the Cana- dian people must be to hold their CBC intact; to make it more ex- pressive of the grass-roots democ- racy and rich culture of Canada; to keep it clean and free from the profit-grasping filth of alien ideol- ogies with a ‘‘made-in-the USA”’ trademark. Hal Griffin HIS is a story about a cop, the only man on the Vancouver police force I have ever known at all well. In one sense, it has nothing to do with the royal commission now investigating charges of corruption in the police de- partment; in another, it reflects the workings of the system that has given rise to the charges. He was just a rookie straight from an up-country farm when he moved in next door. He wasn’t bright and he had no ambitions to be a detective- sergeant — not then. And he was one of the homeliest men I have ever met. His bride of a few weeks was a beauti- ful girl and we used to kid him about. “beauty and the beast,” but he would only grin self-consciously and say, “Well, I hope the baby doesn’t look like me.” He loved children. He used to boast that the only tickets he handed out were to motorists speeding through ‘school zones. As he saw things then, that was the gravest of crimes. We used to kid him about that too, and ask him why he ever left the farm. Those were the mid-thirties, the black- ‘est days of the depression, and jobs were hard to get. His answer was ob- vious. “It’s a secure job,” he would say, “and that’s all I want.” sos a so After I moved away I used to see him once in a while pounding a beat. ‘And then he was no longer standing at school crossings, but riding around in a patrol car. The only way I knew of ‘his promo- tion to plain-clothesman was when a police car pulled up to the curb late one night and a voice shouted, “Hey, you!” Then I saw the familiar homely face at the car window. He had always been a big man but now he was fat and already he was ac- quiring that hard arrogant look that expresses knowledge of the ability to inspire fear. His face smiled, but ‘his eyes were hard, calculating. That was before the late Mayor G. G. McGeer shook up the police force in the forties. . When I next saw him it was in a White Lunch and he was back in uni- form. He didn’t smile when I stopped at his table. “You're in politics,’ he said in reply to my question. “I got into politics too — I had to. Well, I chose the wrong side, that’s all.” Obviously he knew a lot but he had no intention of telling me. ; a x 5s He remained in uniform for some time, but his years of experience, resig- nations from the force and deaths made it inevitable that he should be promoted again. And he had also learn- ed something about politics. Whenever he saw me after that he passed me with a nod. After the Cle- mens case he would not even do that. Until a few weeks ago, that is, shortly before the police scandal broke. Then he went out of his way to cross the street to talk to me. He looked worried and his questions reflected his fear. He knew something was about to break and he wanted to know how much I knew about it. ‘Politics?’ "I asked. He nodded, start- ed to say something and checked him- self Then he changed the subject. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 5, 1955 — PAGE 5