a?

An un-welcome ‘guest

ITH the A-bomb horror of

Hiroshima and the later
H-bomb tragedy of the Lucky
Dragon still fresh in their memory,
the common people of Japan want
no part of the Pentagon’s U.S.-
Japan Security Treaty so-called.
This they have made crystal clear
in recent days in tremendous pro-
test demonstrations involving mil-
lions of people.

Ever since the Kishi govern-
ment began negotiations on the
new U.S.-sponsored revisions of
this treaty, first signed in 1952, it
has been under ceaseless fire by
all Communist, Socialist, and other
progressive forces in Japan.

The U.S. demand for nuclear
launching bases on Japanese terri-
tory is regarded with horror by
the Japanese people.

Coupled with this unwanted

“security treaty” is the equally
unwanted visit of U.S. President
Eisenhower, looked upon by the
people as a harbinger of evil.
Hence the monster protest demon-
strations demanding that Ike “go
home” and stay there.

The reactionary Kishi govern-
ment, a willing puppet of U.S. im-
perialism, under implicit instruc-
tions that Ike’s visit must go
through, is mobilizing its full
strength of internal security for-
ces to impose this unwelcome
“ouest” upon the Japanese people.

In his Japan visit Ike and his
“brinkmanship” cabinet may learn
a very elementary lesson, viz.:
when our neighbor, for very good
reasons, doesn’t want us in his
home, it is very bad manners to
force our way in, or to expect other
than a justifiably hostile reception
for having done so.

‘Blimp rides again

INCE their successful scuttling
of the summit meeting U.S.
imperialism and its “free world”
satellites have attained their aim
—a new spate of “defence” spend-
ing to gladden the hearts of the
armament monopolies.

For example the U.S. Senate
committee on defence, reviewing
their summit wreckage with ill-
concealed glee, declares it has “‘put
life back in Bomarc.”

Down in Ottawa Defence Minis-
ter George “Blimp” Pearkes has
had a new lease on life. With $8
million (the price of several. size-
able schools) sunk in Bomarc
base construction at North Bay
and Mont Laurier, George was in
a Tory dither when the Bomarc B
insisted in going in every direction
except “up”.

Now with the summit success-
fully scuttled and Uncle Sam pour-
ing new millions into Bomare, with
Dief in Ottawa ready and willing
to follow suit, the old Bomare-
entranced “Blimp” is his old self
again, happy as a free enterprise
pig in a public trough.

“We've put life back in Bomare,”

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assured the profits of the arma-
ment manufacturers, and put a
renewed squeeze on the taxpayer

for a “defence” which, as Macleans
Magazine recently put it, is
“throwing the money in the gutter
as far as defence is concerned.”

,

EDITORIAL PAGE —

Jobs Eetare

HATEVER its final outcome,

the unemployment demon;

stration in Vancouver this week-

end, sponsored by the B.C. Feder-

ation of -Labor, points up the

gravity of B.C.’s 100,000 or more
jobless workers.

The old “seasonal” alibi, repeat-
edly put forward by government
buck-passers, has been blown
higher than a kite. At mid-June
there is not only no industrial
“pick-up” or jobs in sight to ease
the situation. but on the contrary,
a steady worsening of the unem-
ployment crisis by large scale lay-
offs and shutdowns.

This while Premier Bennett, on
safari in Britain to “sell B.C.”,
noisily invites thousands of British
workers to come to this province
to “share our prosperity.” Not
only that but we find Premier Ben-
nett larding his plea: for British
immigration to B.C. with a dash of
cheap political chauvinism, by
boasting that most of B.C.’s people
are _of _Anglo-Saxon _stock -and
“we'd like to keep it that way.”

The Socred government’s appar-
ent unconcern and buck-passing
on the plight of B.C.’s growing
jobless army is bad enough. When,

ee i)

however, Premier Bennett dema-
gogically “welcomes” thousands of
immigrants, the while spouting
“British stock” and the need .to
“keep it that way,” he adds insult
to injury to tens of thousands of
Canadian workers whose labors
built British Columbia, but who
lay no claim to this - superior
“stock” extolled by Bennett.

It could be, of course, that the
Bennett government, like its Tory
twin in Ottawa, is so wrapped up
in its own come-and-get-it give-
away services to monopoly, that it
doesn’t even know the extent of
unemployment and. hardship in the
province it governs?

If it did its spokesmen certainly
-wouldn’t yak about more immigra-
tion, nor spike its tub-thumping
abroad with the cheapest from of
chauvinism. Our rising jobless
army is not a problem of ethnic
origin, but of 100,000 working men
and their families deprived of the
right to earn a livelihood; working
men and women reduced to a
statistic in the vicious circle of

capitalist production.

Instead of tackling his respon-
sibility as premier, jingoistic Ben-
nett wants to “keep it that way.”

Tom
McEwen

HERE’S always a ‘‘first time.”

The austere Canadian Medical
Journal which generally features
medical and scientific matters re-
lating to diagnosis and health, with
the bulk of its advertising space
boosting sales for new drug or
health discoveries, has gone into
the sleuthing business.

The May 21 edition of the CMJ
undertakes thesjob of assisting the
FBI and the RCMP in “locating”
a U.S. doctor who has apparently
fallen foul of the Taft-Hartley Act
in these United States. So, if your
family doctor is “sensitive to light”
and is wearing bi-focals formula
number X-1.25 X.0.75 AX 180 on
one eye, that’s probably not him.

We have always regarded the
Canadian Medical Journal as hav-
ing to do with medical science per
se, rather than an extended sup-
plement of the Police Gazette. A
German doctor with an anti-Taft-
Hartley ideology, who survived
Hitler’s ‘“‘aryanization” of medi-
cine, tells us he never saw any-
thing like it, not even in Goebbels’

most rosiest days. Reading the
CMJ’s ‘‘wanted’’ column, we can
well believe it.

* * *

The 13th convention of the In-
ternational Federation of News-
paper Publishers, held recently in
New York City, issued a stirring
“call” to rally to the coldwar flag.

“The editorial voice’ said the
news pablum manufacturers for
Big Business, ‘‘should be more elo-
quent . .. to drown out the drone
of Marxist classics.” The editor of
the influential New York Times
called for ‘‘more truth .. : in trans-
lating global matters into local
terms.”

Unfortunately, for the big
‘news” concocters, truth is a com-
modity they are compelled to use
very sparingly, since too frequent
a use of that sterling virtue would
certainly gum-up “Fourth Estate’
“eloquence.”

Just imagine what would hap-
pen an “AP” story via Helsinki
and Tokyo, about a peoples’ revo-
lution on Pitcairn Island, with ail
the gory details supplied by “a
high government. spokesman who
declined to be _ identified” if
truth were applied? The monopoly
press might as well fold up. What
this convention actually aimed at
was not ‘more truth,” but better
techniques to obscure -it.

* * *

It is scarcely “news” that there

are nazis in the USA, nor that they
operate openly with the licensed
approval of the U.S. government.
It is disturbing however to find the
anti-Sematic and racist raving of
U.S. nazi “Fuehrer’ George Lin-
coln Rockwell spread over the
columns of the Canadian press,
boasting of the “extermination of
the Jews . .. and use of the gas
chambers” to complete the job!

This 1960 version of Mein
Kampf carries a grave warning to
all democratic and peace-loving
people; that resurgent nazism,
whether in West Germany or the
U.S., epitomizes the ultimate aim
of reactionary American imperial-
ism — to utilize the foulest of anti-
Semetic and racist ideologies to
give “moral” effect to its threats
of nuclear destruction.

With tongue-in-cheek some U.S.
commentators describe thte Rock-
well nazi organization as a ‘‘crack-
pot” aggregation. It should be re-
called that in the early days of
German nazism, Hitler and his
gang were also palmed off as
“cerackpots,”’ but that didn’t stop
U.S. imperialism and its British
and French counterparts from
building the Hitlerite “crackpots”’
up to the point where they set the
world afire, and committed atro-
cities unparalled in the history of
mankind.

Without a militant peoples’ vigil-
ance—it could happen again!

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June 17, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pase ‘