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A Zorkin ‘blast-off’

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Only one choice

HE current election campaign
in B.C. might be best illustrated
at the moment by the stock
weather report, “Fair and
Warmer’?

While the “stratgey” makers

_ sweat in the back rooms thinking
% oe new angles to hornswoggle the
electorate, in the open it is still
pretty much of a newspaper cam-
paign. oo advertisements from
_ the Socreds, Liberals and Tories,
rehashing their “achievements,”
their “promises” and their pleas
for votes, all point up one obvious
fact; that ig Business is still
keeping its political Charley Mc-
Carthys well supplied with ample
election slush funds?
__ Unlike the common people, Big
Business always stands to win, no
‘matter which of its old-line party
hucksters come out on top on
election day.

Thus, while the voters may
harbor some illusions about the
“merits” of a Liberal government
in SU SSieeees toa Tory, or a Soc-
red ditto in preference to either,
the big monpolists harbor no such
illusions. Since they “pay the
piper” they also “call the tune”—
to which their Tweedledees and
Tweedledums obediently waltz in
the shaping of government poli-
cies.

_Twenty-five years of a Big
Business Tory - Liberal “coali-
tion’; twelve years of an unprin-
cipled and unscrupulous Socred
brokerage for the disposal of
B.C.’s rich natural resources to the

U.S. trusts for a “fast” Yankee
buck. Thirty-seven years in all
should be a sufficient experience
for the tax-ridden resources-rob-
bed people of B.C. to call a halt;
to vote on September 30 for some-
thing other than another old-line
partisan noose about their necks?

The opportunity to call a halt
to this sorry state of affairs is
here now, right on the people’s
doorstep. The opportunity to halt
the sellout of B.C.’s resources, in-
dustrial development, and the
jobs of our working people!

The opportunity to restore the
vast riches of B.C. to its people.
To put a final end to Socred, Tory
hh Liberal surrender of our
economy, our sovreign independ-
ence, our very peace and survival
—too long put in pawn to the U.S.
monopolists by these old-line
party hucksters.

To grasp this opportunity there
is oy one choice, one alternative,
the election of an NDP govern-
ment. Whether the electorate like
this choice or not is beside the
point. The hard fact remains that
it is the one and only choice by
which 37 - years of continued

‘monopoly domination of B.C.’s

destiny can be effectively broken.

_The election of an NDP major-
ity, Shen anied by the election
of five Communist candidates in
five selected constituencies, can
do the job; that of restoring B.C.
toits people; of taking B.C. “off
target’ from the resources and H-
bomb “wild men” of Washington?

Editorial comment...

FOR tnose young Canadians
leaving school for the ae market,
the Bank of Montreal “Business
Review” for August sounds an
“optimistic”’ note.

hile, according to the BM
prognosis, unemployment figures
are due to “greatly increase” be-
cause of an influx of young people
leaving school, it is comforting to
know that they will “be better
equipped to fill the jobs,” as, if
and when such jobs may be found?

In brief, the BM says it is “‘a
source of satisfaction” to know
_ that while Canada’s growing job-
less army may not eat better, it
will be “better educated to meet
the changing occupational needs

the economy’?

As the boys in the “jungle”
used to say, “if we had some ham
_ we'd have ham and eggs, only we

ain’t got no eggs”?
* * *

AFL-CIO President George
Meany aid his pot-bellied execu-
tive oozed “sympathy” for the
August 28 Civil Rights March on
‘Washington, but didn’t contri-
bute a bent nickle to its signal
success. Mr. Meany, like a good
Chamber - of - Commerce director
moaned that such a march “would
harm the passage of civil rights
legislation”

A. Philip Randolph, only Negro
vice-president of AFL-CIO term-
ed the Meany “sympathy” “‘a
masterpiece of noncommital non-
commitment.”

Pacific Tribune

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We note where an enterprisin

Socred candidate, like the fame
“Horatio on the Bridge” has rais-
ed his battle slogan—‘‘ Morton or
Socialism’"?

Reminds us of a similar slogan

in a Northern Saskatchewan rid-
ing many years ago, which shouted
from every telephone post King
or Chaos.” That time we got both!

~ herring esprit de

For Herr “Doktor’’ Mladen
Zorkin, Nanaimo’s star anti-com-
munist performer and vest-pocket
“Joe McCarthy,” things have
been much too quiet of late. His
anti-red stock-in-trade has beenin
‘the doldrums. Something kad to
be done to pep up the old red-

“corpse”? __

Last weekend it appears some-
thing was done about “arresting”
the slump. Some nitwit provoca-
teur, probably for a modest fee,
is reported to have planted a few
sticks of dynamite in the “Dok-
tor’s” real estate office. When the
smoke cleared away from the
“blast-off’ Nanaimo’s top “auth-
ority’’ on communism was back in
customary orbit.

Once again the public are being
regaled by Zorkin on his “‘15-years
Hgpting communism,” how the

eds said they would get me”

and so forth. Since the “Doktor”
has starred in previous years be-

fore the U.S. Un-American Activ
ities Committee and the Canadian —
Senate (according to his own say-
80) as an “expert” on Commun-
ism, he doesn’t like being left
with nothing else to do except
trafficking in real estate? ;

Hence the dynamite “blastoff”
to propel this pathological speck
man back onto the “lecture” po-

dium to rant and rave on the | —

“evils of Communism.”

Two requirements emerge from |
the Doktor’s “blast-off”’; a
thorough police investigation into
the real facts of this violent —
dynamite provocation, and/ora

ublic tribunal where Zorkin will
e compelled to submit evidence
of his lying allegations, that the
Communists “are to blame’”’ for
the dynamiting!

It is high time that such “‘ex-
perts” were called upon publicly
to “put up—or shut up.”

It won’t wash out?

|NSIDE and outside the
“special” prison compound at
Agassiz, Doukhobor people, the
young and the aged, die for a
cause—their cause; the right to
live and worship according to their
fee Sr one ie tenets and be-
efs. We assured them of this
right when they first set foot on
Canadian soil — to turn its virgin
lands into prosperous farm com-
munities. :

Behind them they left a cen-
tury or more of ruthless persecu-
tion at the hands of Tzarist ty-.
ranny; repeated in Canada since,
by reputedly “civilized” govern-
ments. And their future, (as of
now) heralds nothing better?

We dispose of the so-called
Doukhobor “‘problem”’ by label-
ling them as “‘religious fanatics,”
“lawless elements,’ “advocates of
violence,” “uncivilized” and so
forth. Our governments, without

exception as to partisan labels,
have invariably sought an answer
to this Doukhobor “problem
with more violence, more oppres-
sion, more disregard for the simple —
human longings of a misgui
and outcast people.

Today, as in the recent past, we oa

have politicians of all brands on ©

the hustings, literally promising _

Heaven and Earth to the elec-
torate in exchange for their votes,
but studiously silent on this liv- -
ing disgrace to the partisan gov-
ernments they represent or pro-
mote?

Like Pilate, we “wash our
hands” of responsibility for these
. “religious fanatics,” but when
' Death comes to them in our

rison compounds, we find, like

ilate, that the blood doesnt
“wash off,” so we “solve” the |
Doukhobor “problem” by com- |
pounding it?

Tom
McEwen

Scenario, the B.C. Legislature.
Enter Premier W. A. C. Bennett,
accompanied by his ‘‘we-need-the-
money” attorney-general and cab-
inet members, followed by a
swarm of back-bench ‘yesmen’.

Enter the Opposition parties; a
handful of resolute NDP’s, a couple
of piebald Liberals, minus Tories.
The Ghost of wine-vintner Tory
Anscomb fills the minus.

The premier rises to speak, wear-
ing his customary ‘burn-the-mort-
gage’ smile, something between the
satisfied look on a cat that has just
lapped up the family cream and a
second-storey artist ‘casing-the-
joint’ for a new ‘heist’?

The Premier deals with a typical
Socred problem, any problem;
what his government ‘has done’,
what it is ‘going-to-do’, which is
rarely what it promised to do, and
never what the people want it to
do! 8

Heavy desk-thumping by Socred
‘yesmen’, their prime _ function
when not ‘voting’ as per instruc-
tions. Uncomplimentary noi ses
from the Opposition, with a pair of
Liberal deuces clamoring to dem-

A tragi-comedy in one short Act.

onstrate their brand of stable ‘‘sta-_
bility’ smells less rancid than the

Socred by-product. The Ghost of
Tory wine-vintner Anscomb grins
sardonically; ‘How like the old
days when I and the Liberals to-
gether ran a similar burlesque to
‘save’ B.C. from ‘socialism’?”

The desk-thumping -subsides. A
noisy silence follows, much like the.
animated hum of a local beer par-
lor on a Saturday night. A large fly
alights on the shining dome of
“we’ve-got-to-keep-our-U.S.- credit-
good’ Bonner. He flips it off with
a copy of Bill 43. “Makes a good
fly-swatter” he quips, sotto voce
to WAC. Both guffaw at the pun as
they settle back to their customary
pose of easy nonchalance.

The NDP leader rises to speak.
He chooses as his introduction a
slice of British history, which fits
the Socred benches like a well-tail-
ored suit.

‘What’s this?’ The easy nonchal-
ance is gone. The Socreds sit bolt
upright, tense, like a tight E-string
on a cracked violin. Even the Ghost
of Tory Anscomb, its halo askew,

_ is seized with an attack of the old
familiar tory jitters.

‘In the name of the people of
B.C.’ begins the NDP speaker, ‘and
with their unity to this end’,—

“It is high time for me to put
an end to your sitting in this place
which you have dishonoured by
your contempt of all virtues, and
defiled by your practice of every
vice. Ye are a facetious crew and
enemies of all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary
wretches and would, like Esau, sell
your country for a mess of pottage.

And like Judas, betray your God
for_a few pieces of money.

"Is there a single virtue now re-
maining among you? Is there one
vice you do not possess? Ye have
no more religion than my horse.
Gold is your God. Which of you
have not bartered your conscience
for bribes? Is there a man amongst
you that hath the least care for the —
good of the commonwealth?

“Ye sordid prostitutes, have ye |
not defiled and turned the Lord’s-
temple into a den of thieves by
your immoral principles and im-
moral practices? Ye are grown in-
tolerably odious to the whole na-
tion. Ye were deputed here to get
grievances redressed ——- are not
yourselves become the greatest
grievance?

"Your country therefore, calls
upon me to cleanse this Augean
stable, by putting a final period to
your iniquitous proceedings in this
House... .”

(Speech by Oliver Cromwell,
April 20, 1653, when he cleaned
out a British parliament of simila®
sellout politicians.) _ :

True, the NDP leader is no
‘Oliver Cromwell’, perhaps not
even “a Cromwell, guiltless of his
country’s blood’ in the prophetic
words of Grey’s Elegy, but the
Cromwellian command “to depart
immediately out of this place’ can

be realized September 30, by aun- |

ited people in support of the NDP

to do the job; to say,—"Go, get

out! Make Haste! Ye venal slaves

(to U.S. monopoly) begone’’-
Curtain!

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