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Tom
_ McEwen

QOME time ago an old-time resident
of Nantimo sent me a large scrap-
a of newspaper clippings. Such gifts
' Very valuable. For one thing they
oe ‘Us to remember things no working
thi Should forget. The clippings in
_ Ss Particular collection deal entirely
jet events and personalities of 41
Md a80—the war years of 1914-18.
val Sag is just one shortcoming in this
fail effort of a generation ago —
Te to specify the date and name
for ets so patiently preserved
her: (This is also by way of
ik to the collectors of today’s cold
its Barer gems. These will be a
will ke Students 50 years hence, who
of ¢ ave the job, among other things,
Tying to figure out whether we of

thi
Mee See Were partially or totally in-

eg these yellowing pages depicting
types s Stage, one can see the proto-
Sita today’s actors. Despite our
he ere into the “atomic age” with
languet eating blast of Hiroshima, the
and aly used by Georges Clemenceau
With oe Lloyd George, as compared
A at of John Foster Dulles, doesn’t
orated 5 any large degree. These two
Civilizats ong and loud about “saving*
on from Prussian militarism
Dulles st anarchy.” John Foster
; bus ts, military cohorts of today
; Commi ae Saving the free world from
— Nag mine: — and reviving Prussian-
rea Ultarism to aid their “salvation”!

j Back i ot $e Bes
homies 2 1914-18 the top brass was as
sg sch as now. Sabre-rattling Colonel
defense wre 88 Canadian minister of
ed y, , Who is reputed to have pick-
age 2 tidy amount in war contracts
from th One sort or ‘another, thunders,
Ea € Tostrum that “. .. shirkers who
Shot to get into uniform should be
Witt scott Kitchener of Khartoum,
Doster lated finger, shouts from every
You,” ’ “Your king and country need
. Many © while he was getting on too
ish Boonie ls for the liking of the Brit-

“ter j

: Vance Pecial syndicated article in the
hor gist" World of 1916 by T. P. 0'Con-
Oye hoe a run down on the number
down yeustied jobs Kitchener held
Of this ;" Poses a question which we
“Hoy, 28° are also well acquainted with:
Public qe We going to preach to the
steps ,t° Reed for economy, when min-
Of goanr ever illustrious, at the head
trom, ment, are scooping in the coin
Most ing ountry at a rate which is al-
Bow cent?”
Slogger wdeed? How to equate the foot-
Ministers $1.10 a day with “illustrious
a Pulling down twice the pay
*ziment in the grand and glorious
TR these equality or sacrifice.”
traced yp Yellowing pages too, can be
he death of a socialist “inter--
Keutsky” ‘the international of Karl
Velde: > Ramsay MacDonald, of Vander-
branded Schumacher, of those who
Md then t Such wars as imperialist —
| iting themselves became the top re-
‘Tatherjg cTeeants for their respective
A loet@®) and “motherlands.”
Sotiajisg _Setibe pans hell out of the
We tava, there were no Communists
ation at in those days, but the. vitup-
Gigi, 'S familiar. “The Canadian so-
’ ‘pe rents, 20, longer a Canadian . . .
Bi

sient to the flag which flies over

; to yy “tty. The German flag is as good
a 88 the Union Jack... .”

Stage,» Pages one sees “all the world a
ik a change of actors — but
~~nge in roles or aims.

Ading SO on and so forth. Turning these

Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street. Vancouver 4, B.C.

HE announced intention of —

the U.S. to conduct another
atomic test off the Pacific coast
calls for a mighty protest of the
common people to halt these hor-
ror experiments now and for good.

The last under-water test at
Bikini caused death, suffering and
untold menace to the health and

economy of millions of people in.

Asia. In Japan they are still reck-
oning the evil effects — sufficient
in ‘themselves to have caused all
responsible goyernments to pause
and reflect. ;

It would seem however, that the
U.S. atomaniacs think little of the
consequences to other peoples.
They look upon the Pacific Ocean
age Yankee lake to be used at will
for new atomic experiments which
menace all humanity.

While responsible scientists are

urging a halt to these horror ex: —

~ Halt this madness!

this reckless plan.

periments, and millions of peace:

‘loving peoples across the world are

signing a world appeal for the ban-
ning of nuclear weapons, the U.S.
atomaniacs plan new tests, threat-

ening the wellbeing of Canadians

as the Bikini tests did the Japanese
people. :
British Columbia fishermen, in
particular, have good cause to be
concerned, for their lives and live-
lihoods are at stake. It could’ well

spell the doom of Pacific coast fish :

eries. The ‘‘experts’’ may shout
that it won't, but not one of them
dare say that it cannot.

The moral force of the people of
Canada must be compelled to stop

ment of Canada must be compelled
to act. Canada must tell the U.S.

_in simple, decisive words: Ban the
bomb and ban the tests which men- ©
ace all life! ~-

Behind Thatcher's resignation

sf ig grandstand play of Ross

Thatcher, the ‘little big busi-
nessman of Moose Jay, Sask., in

resigning from the CCF points up

‘a significant trend that even the

GCE leaders who are denouncing
him, refuse to acknowledge.

This trend is an unmistakable
tendency in the Canadian labor

movement towards the left — a

tendency that cannot now be stop-
ped. :

It is not only true of Canada.

Signs of it are appearing in the
United States. In Britain it 1s so
pronounced as to be a major politi-
cal factor in the general election
there. It is: true in France and
Italy and other Western capitalist
countries.

It was in an attempt to head off
and weaken this rising leftward

movement that Lice,
eve of an Ontario election — was

atcher — on the

called upon to resign — having

done his best for the Liberal party.

within the CCF.

It would be a mistake, however,
to think that Thatcher's expressed
differences were with M. J. Cold-

welf's leadership of the CCF. Both
support the anti-peace line of the _

St. Laurent government; both back
the government's guns-before-wel-
fare policy; both voted in favor of

German rearmament against their

own party policy, and are propon-
ents of the NATO policy of using
atomic weapons in another war;
neither has raised his voice against
the betrayal of our resources and
our sovereignty to U.S. trusts.

No, the Moose Jaw hardware
merchant's differences are not with

‘Coldwell, they are with the rank-

and-file of the CCF, where there is
growing impatience with the right-
wing leaders. : :

The govern

Hal
Griffin

REMIER W. A. C. Bennett has bounc-
ed back into town with all the ex-
uberance of a man seized with an idea.
He sees the Liberals crumbling and,
though he doesn’t say so; he obviously
feels that Conservatives who hope for
a future should follow him into the
Social Credit party. With the country
ripening: for political change, he be-
lieves that Social Credit can exploit
the situation to become the govern-
ment at Ottawa.

The hardware merchant from Ke-
lowna, it is being said, yearns to be
known as Bennett the Builder.

Discreetly, he doesn’t say what his
vision is, which is just as well, for some
people might get the impression that it
means a network of toll bridges stretch-
ing from sea to sea. He pours scorn on
the dream of linking the Columbia and
Fraser rivers, but leaves: it open to
conjecture whether the Social Credit
dream is to divert all Canadian rivers
to the U.S.

Infected with his chief’s ferver, High-
‘ways Minister Gaglardi informed a high-
way travel conference the other day
that Social Credit will “fill in Burrard
Inlet if we have to.”

Speaker Tom Irwin, ignoring the pain
he undoubtedly caused Einar Gunder-
son, now a director of the Bank of Com-
merce, recently expounded Social Credit
monetary theory as being akin to the

_ issuance of coupons by soap companies.

All this opens up a fascinating vista
for our future if Bennett should suc-
ceed in making his absence from Ot-
tawa merely temporay.

The following is dedicated to this
theme with apologies to Gilbert (but
not Sullivan). ; :

x % ¢

Scene: CBC studios at Ottawa. Prem--
ier. performance of the Social Credit
soap opera, “You Can’t Take It With
You — But Try To Get It,” starring
“Waccy” Bennett, Tom Irwin, Hinar
Gunderson ,and Lydia Arsens.

Bennett: ea Be

Mine are horrible social ghosts,

» Speeches and pledges and guests

and boasts ’

Protests coming from both our
coasts .
In every sad variety.
(Enter messenger: “Sir, the unem-
ployment delegation is here.’’)
Irwin:
Things are seldom what they seem,
Why should banks take all the

cream? .
Coupons used with shrewd dis-
discretion

Soon will end this brief recession.
When I was a lad I served a term
As MLA in a Tory firm, ~ —-

I cleaned the windows and I swept
the floor be
And I always kept an eye on the
big front door. ae
I am the very model of a modern
bank director, :

I’ve information orthodox that cov-
ers every sector, : i
I know the need of profits and I
greatly fear inflation, ~ :
Let's build another toll bridge .and
completely link the nation.
Lydia: -
Of that I am in favor, but never
’ vaccination,
Let the U.S. have our rivers, better
that than fluoridation. —
That should be enough to give you
the idea.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 13, 1955 — PAGE 5