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Race Rock is one of the oldest lights on B.C.’s coast

A cold warrior gone

gates expressions of sym-
pathy with his illness could not
conceal world-wide feelings of re-
lief when it was announced that
U.S. secretary of state John Foster
Dulles had resigned his post.

To millions of people in every
land, including Canada, Dulles had
become the symbol of cold war, the
evil harbinger of H-bomb destruc-
tion, implicit in his fanatical policies,
variously expressed as “massive re-
taliation,” “brinkmanship” and open
naked aggression.

It is typical of the monopoly press
that, just a few short weeks ago
they were highly critical of his cal-
vanistic rigidity in diplomatc inter-
course and fearful of the possible
outcome of his nuclear “brinkman-
ship,” and loudly demanded his
resignation as a “menace” to peace.
Now they weep crocodile tears at the
“loss of a great statesman, and man
cf inflexible integrity,” who did not
“fear the Soviets.”

While there can be no guarantee
(save a steadily growing peoples’
peace movement) that the resigna-
tion of Dulles will ease cold war
tensions and aggressive U.S. mili-
tary adventures, there are high
hopes that a more tolerant and
sane atmosphere will emerge.

Doubtless the open hostility of
US. finan£al royalists and power-
ful monopolists (for whom Dulles
spoke and acted with fanatical zeal)
towards the countries of Socialism
_ and the colonial liberation struggles,
will remain, but that too may ease

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somewhat with the removal of his
evil genius from the “big stick”
councils of American imperialism!

Only this week several British
Labor MPs have urged that loud-
mouthed U.S. generals, schooled
in the fanatical anti-Soviet langu-
age of Dulles, “be kept under con-
trol.” A good augury for peace on
the departure of Dulles!

With others we can only regret
that is was the dread disease of
cancer which compelled the resig-
nation of Dulles, rather than the
vibtant voice of world-wide public
indignation.

That voice needs to be greatly
increased—to erase the evil policies
of nuclear “brinkmanchip” he left
to mark his trail. A cold warrior
has gone but the cold war remains.
The people’s job is to end that!

Commen?

‘Situation vacant’

ITH the resignation of Arthur
W Laing from the leadership of
the B.C. Liberals, party stalwarts
are working overtime in an effort
to dig up a likely successor by the
May 15 provincial Liberal conven-
tion.

Laing cast aside the. Liberal
leadership toga with a searing blast
at Socred corruption in “high
places,” and with a milder blast at
John Q. Public for ‘failure to fully
appreciate the grand old party of
Liberalism.

At the moment it looks as though
the Liberal wheel-horses will have
te insert an advertisment in the
“Situations Vacant” column to find
a suitable dupe for the leadership
job. -

Ex-minister of fisheries Jimmy
Sinclair is a popular choice in Lib-
eral circles to bring home the politi-
cal bacon, but Jimmy insists he is
quite happy in his new job as presi-
dent of the monopoly B.C. Fisheries
Association, and plans to stay there.

George Gregory, Liberal MLA
(Victoria) would like the job, but
too many Liberals don’t like the
sour and politically-rigid Mr. Greg-
ory. Archie Gibbs, Liberal MLA
(Oak Bay) is another candidate
who wouldn’t mind wearing the
Laing toga, but like Gregory, is not
too sure how many Liberals might
want him!

The problem is a ticklish
say the least. The Liberals
Moses to lead them out of a po
wilderness they themselves
ably helped’ to create, but there i
no Moses in sight. Worse, a pol
wilderness in which the only
stretched hand of ‘‘welcome” is
of right-wing CCF social demoe
beckoning displaced Liberals to
in political “unity” with the @
to oust the Socred “menace.” (CG
provincial leader Bob Strachan
first “appeal” following the
lan-Trail byelection debacle was
just such an electoral aff
rather than all-in united labor
itical action!)

The prime question for the p
of B..C. is not who or wit
the Liberals will fill Art |
shoes come May 15, but how to g
rid of the lot, Socreds, Tories
Liberals, with the election of a got
ernment which holds the people!
well-being above partisan or
opoly interests.

The Laing resignation —
revealing in its complaining
about monopoly withdrawing its
ancial support from the Liberals
favor of “that Socred mess of c
ruption” is just one more proof
the need of a united labor-farm
people’s party, dedicated to the ta
of freeing B.C. from the de
weight of big business governm
regardless of partisan labels.

Tom
McEwen

fe a recent visit to Van-
couver, CNR’s chief Donald
Gordon called for the need of a
‘new set of rules” governing the
“behaviour” of organized labor.
MacMillan and Bloedel’s key
front man, ex-chief justice J. V.
Clyne went Gordon one better.
He drafted a set of “rules,” now
implicit in Bill 43!

Not to be outdone, leaders of
the B.C.” Federation of Labor
have intimated that they too are
planning to draft a “code of
ethics” aimed at putting trade
unionism on its best behaviour.
For the social democrats now at
the BCFL helm it would appear
that union constitutions no long-
er suffice to keep the union
rank-and-file in line, hense their

_ proposed “ethical code.”

Needless to say big business

spouters have been lavish in

their praise of this “commend-
able’ step, and (it is rumored)
are themselves toying with the
idea of concocting their own
“ethical code.”

That, should it materialize,
will undoubtedly be the hit of
the century.

When this “ethical” binge be-
tween capital and labor gets
rolling in B.C. (or anywhere
else) one definite result may al-
ready be anticipated—the work-
ing people will be the victims
rather than the “beneficiaries.”

“You first, my Dear Gaston,”
says Alphonse Forest Products,
as he bows Gaston Joe Morris
into the capital-and-labor bridal
chamber to begin wage negoti-
ations. “Here, let me take your
hat.” Such politeness translated
into new “ethical code” parlance,
means that Alphonse plans to
have Gaston’s shirt before the
honeymoon session is over.

Or imagine another moving
scene in this “ethical code” bur-
lesque. Ex-Liberal fisheries min-
ister Jimmy Sinclair, now chief
‘ethical coder” for the big mon-
opoly packers, greets  fisher-
men’s leader Homer Stevens
with a glad hand (not the one
picturing him holding up a sal-
mon — and Alex Gordon’s fin-
gers, from which Alex had been

© ‘gangsterism,

amputated by the “ethical code?’
of the monopoly press). “Aw,
Homer,” cooes Jimmy, “let’s be
friends, let’s forget ‘my 1958.
high - catch - low-price guide to ;
good fishing; let’s bury the
hatchet.” : 4
Homer is all in favor of bury- —
ing the hatchet and getting the —
best possible fish prices for the _
union he serves but he would
like to see the hatchet buried
somewhere else than in the necks
of the B.C. fishermen.

No wonder the bosses are
highly enthused about the BCFL —
executive’s projected “code of
ethics.” First, because it is a
tacit admission that the Small-
wood-Chant-Chamber of Com-
merce slanders against organized’
labor as a nest of ‘racketeering,
corruption and
what not, is in part valid —
which it isn’t. ae

Secondly, and most dangerous —
to labor unity, it provides an
excuse. or pretext for inner-
union dissention — an ideal sit-
uation for those exploiters
labor whd now hail its caesarian
birth.

The best “code of ethics” for
labor, now or anytime, is unity
and more unity. It has no sub-
stitutes — and requires no sub-_
terfuges.

April 24, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PA\