A march for peace

T he thunder of marching feet and the beat of stout
hearts from well over forty nations and from hundreds
of the world’s great cities, will echo from mighty demon-
strations demanding an end to the U.S. war in Vietnam,
on this coming weekend, March 25-26 27.

In Canada the March for Peace in Vietnam will take

place in every principle city from Halifax to Vancouver, in

demonstrations that should drive home the reality to the
Pearson-Martin government apologists and covert sup-
porters of U.S. aggression in Vietnam that they do not,
and have not spoken for the Canadian people on this vital
issue of human survival—and that it is now time that they

did.

Not only since the beginning of U-S. interference in
the internal affairs of Vietnam, but since early in 1965

when the U.S. began its wanton
escalation of death and destruction

nam and the rapid

bombing of North Viet-

upon the people of South Vietnam, aided in this wanton
butchery by other foreign mercenary troops from Austra-
lia, New Zealand, Korea, etc., the government of Canada

has remained silent.

As destructive of peace as its silence, the Pearson gov-

ernment, fully supported by t

he Tories in this, have made

pretentious gestures for “peace” behind its membership in
the 1954 Geneva Agreement which established the Inter-
national Control Commission (ICC).

Through the media of this ICC membership the Cana
dian government has not only never once voiced its indig-
nation against escalating U.S. Hitlerite atrocities in Viet-
nam, but has actually utilized its membership on the ICC
to give “moral” sanction to U.S.horror and genocide upon

the people of Vietnam.

But the tide is turning. In the U.S. itself great waves
of public indignation and opposition against the Pentagon
war vultures is rising. “Sit-ins”, “‘teach-ins”’, intellectuals,

senators, university faculties,

churches, trade unionists,

Communists, all are fusing into one mighty tidal wave of
opposition to U.S. foreign policy and its poisonous fruit in
Vietnam — the apogee of its criminal insanity and bank-

ruptcy.

And so on March 26 the people

of Canada, from all

walks of life, shoulder to shoulder with their brothers and
sisters of America, and with the courageous and peace lov-

ing peo

EES

Tom
McEWEN

wo famous characters who

used to dominate Chicago’s
civic politics in that city’s hey-
day of graft, corruption and gen-
eral boondoggling were John
Coughlin, better known in polit-
ical and underworld circles as
*Bathhouse John,” and his bosom
colleague Michael Kenna, as
“Hinky Dink.”

When public criticisig and con-
cern got too hot, as it frequently
did in the realm of civic taxes,
corrupt franchises, crooked reai
estate deals or other social de-
fects in the hub city of Illinois,
#Bathhouse John” and “Hinky
Dink” perfected a sure-fire
formula to meet all situations
of that sort. “If the taxpayers
squawk too much on oneissue...
hit them with something some-
where else!”

For ‘*Bathhouse John” and
: “Hinky Dink” this formula had
= worked to perfection for nearly

ples of other lands, will claim the streets to—March
for Peace in Vietnam—NOW!

The history of
those hectic years is well cata-
logued in a classical literary

half a century.

work entitled, “Lords Of The
Levee® by authors Wendt and
Kogan,

For those who live in this
“dynamic” domain of Socredia
and its reflection in civic affairs,
it is not entirely essential to
read this book in order to savor
the Bathhouse—Hinky Dink form-
ula, Fifty years or more later
it is still highly functional as
the principle “guideline’’ in Soc-
red political skulduggery, seep-
ing down to civic levels,

Just recently, Trade and In-
dustry Minister Loffmark de-
clared that “man’s intrusion into
the sex life of bugs will make it
possible to rid whole areas of
harmful and unwanted insects,’’
In this “learned” discourse on

“The boys come marching home again. . ae

A fateful decision

Scheie to begin Wednesday of this week Parliament
‘d is expected to open its long-delayed debate on the re -
tention or abolition of capital punishment. This debate
will probably exceed the 3-day limit specified, unless of
course outmoded ideas and superficial emotions outweigh
sober evaluation of a barbaric custom.

Many “polls” of one sort or another on this corroded
issue have been conducted over the years, indicating a
slow but gradual trend towards its abolition. A recent B.C.

Corrections Association poll

indicated a 64.3% in favor of

abolition. Other polls throughout the country have reflect-
ed like results, while still others have favored retention,
indicating if anything, a persisting wide divergence of op-
inion on this disturbing question.

In Parliament every M.P. will be “free to vote as his
conscience dictates”; that is, not tied by any partisan de-

cree or consideration.

Probing into their conscience and with all the sense of
moral and human values their minds can command, it is
to be hoped our M.P.’s come through the ordeal with a
majority vote—showing Canada has attained the status of

being civilized.

the “sex life” of bugs, the min-
ister attempts to “play down”
the harmful effects of thousands
of tons of poison sprayed around
B.C, in the course of a year,
and highly detrimental to all
life, while at the same time
getting in a plug for the bug-
juice monopolists, whose annual
profits almost equal the bugs,
numerically speaking.

This Socred “expert” on the
“sex life” of bugs isalsoa strong
advocate of a ‘‘customs union’
between B.C., Washington, Ore-
gon, and California, with all other
Canadian provinces, without re-
gard to central government or to
public opinion in exercising the
same “right’’ to sell out their
resources and independence to
the highest U.S, bidder! The only
difference in the application of
the Bathhouse — Hinky Dink
formula is Socred Loffmark’s
ability to clothe it in more polite,
more confusing, and less direct
language,

Another consistent patron of
the Bathhouse—Hinky Dink form-
ula is Socred Health Minister
Eric Martin, While there is
widespread and growing public
criticism and concern onthe lack
of provincial chronic-care hos-
pital facilities, and the urgent

need to take this service out of
the hands of “free enterprisers’'
and make it a public-owned gov-
ernment responsibility, Health
Minister Martin “hits them with
something somewhere else;” viz,
that all the criticism and con-

cern about greater chronic-care

hospital facilities comes from
people who see their inheritances
disappearing . . .next-of-kin who
get angry because they see their

.inheritances dwindling.”

It may be said that while Bath-
house and Hinky Dink, with all

“their political and underworld

associates clipped millions in
graft and corruption from the
citizenry of Chicago and environ-
ment, aided by their unfailing

Pactfie

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We can only repeat that Charles
DeGavlle has made his mark on the
world scene and history will write it
that wey.

A man in his position, coming right
out and calling NATO an American

tectorate ther way of saying
on American sfeoge—must shake most
diplomats right down to their reots. He
is saying that playing the stooge role
might be good enough for Britain,
West Germany, Turkey or Greece—but
not for France and Charles DeGaulle.

—ILWU President Harry Bridges
in THE DISPATCHER, Mar. 4, '66

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African coal miners in Smith's
Rhodesia have a lovely time . . . They
are paid an average ten pounds a
month (approximately $35.00) with
two meals a day thrown in free if
they sign on for a year’s contract.

Not surprisingly that with such hand-
some wages being paid out, the man
who controls Rhodesia’s biggest colli-
ery—the Wankie, which supplies the
coal for Zambia’s copper industry—is
a millionaire, one of the richest in
South Africa, indeed in the whole
world. He is Harry Oppenheimer, who
alse controls about 60% of Zambia's
copper production. The millionaires
just can’t lose—can they?

—The SCOTTISH MINER,
February, 1966.
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The Computer under pressure of try-
ing to figure out a way of simultan-
eously raising the living standards of
people in one part of the world while

_spending billions killing people on the

other side, had a nervous breakdown,

and is now under the care of an emin- —

ent Viennese doctor. Meanwhile the
war on poverty and the wer on Viet-
nam are both bogged down.

—Rae Murphy in SCAN,
March, 1966.
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There can be no doubt, however,
thet given the present strength of the
lebor movement, if it were united
oround common objectives as ere the
leaders of the monopolies, together
we would be in a position to bring
about profound changes and obtain
substantial improvements in the con-
ditions of the workers of our countries.

—Benoit Frachon, General
Secretary of the French CGT in
TRADE UNION PRESS, Feb. '66.

formula, they never managed to
sink to the contemptable level
exhibited by Socred Martin,

What the minister is actually
saying in his modernized version
of the Bathhouse John*— Hinky
Dink formula, is that the people
of B.C, are more concerned about
losing the “inheritance” bequests

of their over-charged and suf-
fering relatives, than in govern-
ment provision of chronic-care
facilities to ease the sufferings
(and cost) of their last years.

Compared with Martin's *re-
vised” formula, Bathhouse and
Hinky Dink were novices in the
art of skinning and scandalizing
the public,

“Tribune

MAURICE RUSH

March 25, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4