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“Over the last 40 years we have

learned conclusively that the rich

Cannot cayvy all
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Labor
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Pinch vs profits

F° the third straight month in
succession living costs have
climbed to a new high. Dominion
Bureau of Statistics (DBS) cur-
rent report as of August 1 show
a living cost rise to 128.4 over
the May index of 124.5.
To the Canadian housewife
shopping for the family groceries,

.meat, clothing, etc, these DBS fig-

ures may be a bit vague and con-
fusing (as they are largely intend-
ed to be). But there’s nothing
confusing about the extra dollars
she must hand over the counter —
for a steadily shrinking grocery
hamper. |

Beef, pork, eggs, poultry, fruits,
etc, all have skyrocketted as have
other essential commodities as a
result of Dief’s “austerity” dollar,
and in spite of his noisy boast on
the hustings that devaluation of
the Canadian dollar “wouldn’t af-
fect living costs?” :

While DBS ‘index on wage and
salary “increases” report a .5 in-
crease from the previous “high”
of 188.1, what it doesn’t report is
the fact that most wage increases
were cancelled out by “austerity”
living costs before they were even
in the pay envelope.

While the effects of “austerity”
on the living standards of the com-
mon people is scarcely short of
devastating, a brief glance at the

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financial pages of our “free press”
will show that the industrial and
financial tycoons of big monopoly
never had it better.

Right down the line, with pre-
cious few exceptions, corporate
and monoply profits are reported
at an all-time high. A fact which
proves that for this class Dief’s
“austerity” pays off handsomely,
meanwhile exploding their speci-
ous pretexts about “holding-the-
line” on working class earnings.

he current Doukhobor “trek”
of some six hundred men,
women and children from Krest-
ova to Agassiz, a distance of 400-
miles or so, once again turns the
spotlight on the so-called “Douk-
hobor problem”.

While this paper sympathizes
with the plight of these Doukhobor
families whose fathers, husbands
and sons are incarcerated in the
new “special” federal prison at
Agassiz, for Doukhobors, we think
such a march ill-advised and pro-
ductive of no other result than
providing new “pretexts” for con-
tinued official persecution against
sections of the Doukhobor people.
Evidence of this can already be
seen in the “statements” of gov-
ernment spokesmen, and in the
anti-Doukhobor public hostility
being cultivated.

With an unprincipled monopoly
press acting in the role of prosecu-
tor, judge and jury on all matters
pertaining to Doukhobor or “Sons
of Freedom” issues, (a fact well
established when the mass trials

Hangmen lose out —

D™ Robert Soblen, victim of
FBI-Pentagon frame-up and
coldwar hysteria, is dead.

Death has cheated the Yankee
hangmen of their prey, and held
up to scorn and contempt the
cringing lackies of U.S. imperial-
ism in Britain and Israel, who
served as “running dogs” to help
hound a dying man to his death.

The sordid chapter is ended,

Call off the march

Comment;

of alleged Doukhobor “criminals
was thrown out of court becau
Attorney-General Bonner had ™
case against them), the public
not likely to fare any better °
factual “news” relating to the pr
sent march? ;

Already the sewer press x
poses of the Doukhobor trek 4 :
bluff”, “a new provocation”, —
nuisance gesture” and so fort
assiduously cultivating meantim
the idea that any untoward eve?
or occurance along the route ?
march must be chalked up 48 ®
indication of Doukhobor “v0,
lence’?

Hence the best advice this pap®
can offer the Doukhobor marche
at this moment is to turn back ¢
their charred homes and begift
build again—before worse befa
them in the form of RCMP-Socted
Tory “solutions”. (At press tim
the first indication of “violen@
against the Doukhobor marcher
is the government’s threat to bee
hold their welfare cheques pecaus?
they “have no permanent
dress’’?) -

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and another name added tO Magi
long list of American martyt§
the cause of truth, justice an
peace. But these will yet triumP
because what Dr. Robert soblet
was denied in life by his cole
accusers, the common people ™ f
someday extract from the mu¢ the
a monstrous frame-up for al vi
world to see — his innocenc® Z,

the guilt of his killers.

N the widely-debated subject
O of American “aid’’, “alliance-
for-progress” handouts, “peace
corps” and other forms of coldwar
trickery to preserve our “free-
way-of-life’’, Prime Minister Mrs.
Bandaranaike of Ceylon has come
up with the best formula to date.
“The biggest aid the U.S. could
give to others,” said Ceylon’s First
Lady, “is not to interfere in their
-Internal Affairs,’” Period.

Once again, however, the Penta-
gon is caught with its ‘“U-2s down’’,
this time over the territory of the
People’s Republic of China. While
we do not have the exact number
of the many times the government
of the People’s Republic of China
have officially protested U.S. mili-
tary violations of China’s air space
and territorial waters, it is now
well over the one hundred mark.

But this U-2 “incident” has call-
ed forth a deal of Pentagon ‘ex-
plaining.”’ One yarn is that the U.S.
“sold” two of these high-altitude
U-2 craft to its top gangster on
Formosa (Taiwan), Chiang Kia-
shek, and so the U-2 “incident” is
presumed to be one of Chiang’s
making rather than Washingtons.
- Not very convincing, but then

alibis advanced by war conspira-
tors and criminal elements never
are. An equally recent U.S. U-2
flight over the Soviet territory of
Sakhalin Island was explained
away, in answer to a Soviet note
of protest, as being “unintentional”
and caused by “severe winds dur-
ing this night-time flight”, etc, and
so forth.

Aside from official Pentagon
alibis, however, probably the most
headache-producing factor arising
out of downed U-2 on Chinese ter-
ritory, is the knowledge that the
Peope’s Republic of China possess
the tools and the know-how to
"finish the job” for U.S.-Chiang
Kia-shek marauding U-2s?

What a deal of worry and “ex-
plaining” would be eliminated if
the Pentagon would just heed Mrs.
Bandaranaike’s advice on what-
really constitutes “‘aid’’.

* * *

Some time ago ‘we watched a
TV “drama” about a Gentile chap
who decided he would turn “Jew”
for a time, in order to experience—
first-hand the anti-Semetic indigni-
ties and outrages heaped upon that
great people in every sphere of
social, economic and cultural life.

It was all very interesting and
from an ethnical standpoint, pretty
horrible. But this chap had one
advantage no Jewish person could
have—or would want to have. He
could stop being a “Jew” any time
he wanted to. Knowledge of this
fact. alone short-circuits the ‘‘ex-
periment” and renders it impos-
sible for any non-Jew to fathom
the full depth of degradation, in-

dignity, spiritual outrage, ° im
horrors of a Nazi genocide — A
distilled from the racist poiso? ee
anti-Semitism. :

This story was brought to ese
mind the other day by a simila?
“experiment” by American news
man John Griffin, who becamé
“Negro” in order to get a real fi5”
hand taste of “Jim Crow”. ist

“In his book “As Black As Me
Griffin relates his experiences a
“Negro” in New Orleans, Miss x
sippi, and other “apartheid” state?
of the Deep South. “ate

This too is all pretty horrible bus
scarcely new, thanks to the nero)”
efforts of the Negro people tea
selves in compelling public 2
tion upon the horrors of
lynchings, race segregation
other products of racist “
supremacy”’.’ Bie

Last week in Vancouver a PIC¥
line reminded the visiting 80Y°.
nor of Mississippi, (who “pelieve®
God created the white man to i
it over the Black) that Cant.
doesn’t quite think like MississiPP
As a result it is reported the oe
ernor toned down his “prepat©
racist’ harrangue somewhat — et
tribute to the efficasy of pick
lines. ‘

While newsman Griffin ¢*
enced many of the racist indigt
ties inflicted upon the Negro peak
by the USA “free-way-of-life i
too, like the chap turned aa se
was handicapped by the knowle®*,,
that he could always turn “ at
when he wanted to—a knowlege
no Negro fighting for racial equ
ity, has or wanis.

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Sept. 14,

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1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE

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