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Comment

Schools before arms

duction in school grants, the
municipalities are being forced to
increase their tax levies for school
purposes. This year the average
Vancouver homeowner will have an
extra $21 on his or her tax bill —
and the problem of inadequate
overcrowded school rooms, under-
paid teachers, will remain, But
Premier Bennett will be able to
‘balance’ a Socred budget and an-
nounce that under his government
our province will soon be “debt
free.”

What a travesty of government!

To compound the conspiracy
against the people’s real interests
there is the North Altantic Treaty
Organization which costs Canadian
taxpayers approximately $2-5 bil-
lion annually. Enough to meet all
the nation’s educational needs in

every province; enough to build
hundreds of new schools, to pay de-
cent teachers’ salaries, to take the
excess weight of taxation off the
back of every municipality.

The provincial government and
many municipal governments would
stand higher in the esteem of those
they are elected to repre.ent if they
directed their pressure towards di-
verting the greater part of this crim-
inal war spending into educational

and other peaceful pursuits. The
burden of cold war costs in the
name of security is the main reason
there is no money for health and
education and the burden of taxa-
tion bcomes insupportable, Yet by

diverting a portion of there same
costs our children can be given the
education that is their right and -

heritage.

Tom &
McEwen

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a E need the money.”
W Who doesn’t?

That is a very popular theme
in these days of rising taxes and
shrinking incomes. In a recent
letter to all employees, as the
Pacific Tribune disclosed last
week, W. S. Piper, vice-president
and general manager of the B.C.
Telephone Company, waxed quite
eloquent on the subject.

“We need the money,” that’s
that, sc come across with that 15
percent increaSe on your phone
pill, How otherwise can we keep
our bondholders and coupon clip-
pers happy in these trying times?
And softly please. Noise annoys
us.

“We need the money.” Down
in Ottawa a bunch of our new
Tory MPs are already getting set
to promote a substantial wage
boost for themselves when par-
liament opens, and if they have
their way it will be the first order
on the agenda.

“We just can’t manage on $10,-
000 a year,” say these budding

Tory statesmen. “How can we
keep up two establishments in
proper style, our families at home
and ourselves in Ottawa on that

amount?”

It may be noted that none of
them said a word about this on
the hustings while they were
making the welkin ring with
‘promises’ of what they would
do for the people if only they
could get e-ected. Now, of course,
having made the grade, their
problem is how best to put the
ding on the harassed taxpayers.

“We need the money.”

It is a fair assumption that
cut of the 209 Tories elected
on March 31, a good fifty per-
cent never earned $10,000 a year
in their lives and that the same
percentage are not worth that
sum to any employer, public or
private, in any capacity whatso-
ever.

It may also be noted that of
this country’s labor force of some
5.5 million workers. (managers’
and employers’ salaries exclud-
ed), a good three-quarters have
to manage to get along on in-
comes far below $10,000.

At this moment we have ap-
proximately one million jobless
workers, men and women of the
highest productive skills, who
are compelled to maintain their
families (seperate or apart) on a
miserable unemployment insur-

ance “benefit”? which makes $10,-
00 look like a Jucky ticket in the
irish, sweepstakes. “But, say
these Tory MPs who were elect-
ed to “cure” all this, “we need
the money”

Every profiteering outfit or in-
dividual engaged in levering up
the price of stewing beef, pota-
toes, bread or what have you,
falls back on that popular hit-
song of the period, “We need the
money,” when questioned on the
subject oi rising prices and liy-

_ ing costs. “We need the money”

to satisfy our bondholders, our
coupon-clippers; to “expand busi-
ness” and thus promote
perity”’

“pros-

As a clincher to the above line
of argument, the same monopol
gangs will insist, with all ff
propaganda power of their press
behind them, that the root cause
of all our high-prices ills are
“high wages." if the workers
would only refrain, like Oliver
Twist, from asking for more
(and work longer and harder

for less) then everyone would be
basking in a Chamber of Com-
merce Utopia.

Like their monopoly backers,
Our young Tory MPs are learn-
ing the rules of game fast, get
it while the getting is good. To
this end they all ery in unison
“We need the money.”

Who doesn’t . . .when it can be
got that easily?

April 25, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5