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EDITORIAL
Our victory too

his Labor Day weekend an historic Convention Rally will
open its sessions August 31 in the Chicago Coliseum,
This convention will be known as the “New Politics Convention
on 1968 and Beyond,” Its sponsoring body estimated some time

ago that not less than 2,000 delegates and observers would be
Today there is the probability of that figure

Already the U.S, Establishment and allits multiple agencies
and hangers-on are showing considerable worry and alarm at
the possible political results stemming from this historic

Unlike the much-touted Tory leadership convention in
Toronto next week, designed mainly to foist another Tory hack
all dolled-up in a new political wrapper upon the Canadian
people, the Chicago “New Politics” convention will seek new
ways and new policies designed to lead America out of the
social morals of war, poverty, degrading racism and violent
retrogression into which successive Republican and Demo-
cratic regimes have succeeded in plunging 20th century Amer-

The keynote speaker at the Chicago Rally will be the Rev.
Dr, Martin Luther King, while co-chairmen of the Rally will
include Dr, Benjamin Spock, Julian Bond, Simon Casady and
other outstanding progressive Americans,
discussions at this “New Politics” convention will be led by
active in civil rights, peace, racial
equality, the “war on poverty” and other peoples’ move-
ments, seeking solutions for the many festering sores in the

“Those who believe that new politics can reshape America
must begin now to agitate, organize, and educate,” says Julian
Bond, “so that the vision of America held by each of us can
become a reality, . .for a grass roots march towards power
for the ghetto, conscience in the suburbs, and morality in
politics, , .the right to live. ..whether in Harlem or Haiphong.”

The Chicago “New Politics Convention” meets at a time
when thé crisis in U.S, government, politically, economically
and morally, is atits lowest ebb, It meets with the high resolve
to move America off its present disaster course, at home
and abroad, back to the grandeur of the free, progressive and
peaceful America envisioned by Jefferson, Lincoln, Tom Paine
and other great Americans; compared with whom the present
war-made Johnson “leadership” is not even a poor caricature,

Great events influencing the future of millions outside of
Chicago have had their origin there,
shorter work day had its origin there, sanctified by the blood
and sacrifice of its martyrs, Perhaps the “New Politics Con-
vention for 1968 and Beyond” will mark another of those great
milestones in human history, deeply significant to all Canadians
and to a world seeking an end to violence, race hatreds and

We join in fraternal solidarity with the delegates to this
historic convention for “, , .1968 and Beyond,” Their success
in starting America back on the road topeace and brotherhood,
will be our victory too; a victory for world peace,

Many of the panel

The struggle for the

Tom

McEWEN

y now it is fairly widely

accepted by John Q, Public
regardless of his political views
(if any) that government-estab-
lished commissions, “royal” or
otherwise, are primarily de-
signed to serve three specific
purposes,

To take the heat of some hot
issue or other off the government
by handing the problem over to
some time-consuming commis-
sion or other with the hope that
by the time its findings or recom-
mendations are available, the
public will have forgotten what it
was all about,

The second major function of
such commissions, should the
issue be a rather sticky one
politically in which one or anum-
ber of Establishment personal-
ities have got their fingers into
some shady stock pickings (the
“emoluments of office” for po-
lite) or other extra-curricular
deals and transactions — or
better still inthe more glamorous
field of illicit amours c’est la

Sees

romances, the prime job of a
commission in such matters
is the production of a good coating
of “whitewash,” thick enough so
that nothing will show through ex-
cept Establishment “integrity.”

The third, and by no means
the least benefit (although not a
public one) flowing from the prev-
alence of these commissions, is
the truly golden opportunities
they provide for retired judicial
personnel or other aging party
hacks and wheel-horses to pick
up. a goodly chunk of “loose
change” from the public purse,
There are no age limit barriers
for such jobs, The appointed in-
cumbent can qualify right up until
dotage sets in, All that is re-
quired is dependability to trans-
form the “greater evil into the
lesser one” — with John Q, Pub-
lic footing the bill in every in-
stance,

This fact was again brought
sharply to our attention a couple
of weeks ago with the completion

te 8 asa Sargent Com-

pa

Communist booth at P
attracts wide attention

Interested crowds and intense
discussion have keynoted the
Communist party of Canada’s
exhibit at the PNE this year,
Hundreds of visitors have stopped
to talk, debate, and ask ques-
tions of the Communists in the
booth,

The exhibit, located in the
Specialty Arcade of the Show-
mart building, focuses on the
working class history of Canada,
A series of panels depicts the
struggles of the past: the Re-
bellions of 1837, the fight for.the
10 hour day, the hungry thirties,
and the fight against fascism and
war. Other panels and literature
point out the connection between
the past and the mass movements
of the present day,

Volunteers working in the booth
report that discussion with the

visitors have been stimulating
and productive. One girl said,
“the young visitors have defi-
nite ideas of their own, but quite
often align themselves with the
Communists, especially con-
cerning the need for Canadian
independénce and on our posi-
tion on the war in Vietnam. The
discussion has been really good.”

A student working in the booth
said “all kinds of people come
in to debate: old, young, reli-
gious, socialist, left, right, you
name it, But this year, what they
want to talk about is Canada and
Vietnam. Most don’t agree with
everything we say, but nearly all

think that it is important to win
back our country from the U.,S.,
and absolutely necessary to stop
the American’s war against Viet-
nam, But what strikes me is the
number of younger people es-

_ NEWS ITEM — Premier Nguyen Cao Ky called on the
White House last week to increase the number of U.S. soldiers

‘in South Vietnam to 600,000.

mission report on bugging, Ap-
pointed by Premier Bennett to
“investigate” the bugging of the
Canadian Pulp and Paper Work-
ers Union convention in the Van-
couver Ritz Hotel by one Pat
O’Neal alias Casey.

In this sordid “invasion of
privacy” by a so-called “labor
leader,” aided by RCMP and
ex-RCMPs_ turned detective,
O’Neal in his capacity as organ-
izer for the rival International
Union of Pulp and Sulphite
Workers, fouled and besmirched
every principle upon which or-
ganized labor is founded,

Legal minds are generally pre-
sumed (mistakenly) to be logical
in their approach to detail se-
quences, but logic is a minimal
ingredient in the Sargent Report,
(See Ben Swankey’s summary in
last week’s PT),

What the learned judge de-
duced however, confirming the
old adage that “the servant is
worthy of his hire” was to pre-
sent “Bugs” O’Neal as a paragon
of labor virtue, more above sus-
picion than Caesar’s wife, and the
Canadian Pulp and Paper Work-
ers Union and its officers, (the
victims of the O’Neal bugging)
as everything that was notorious,
unprincipled and evil, Much of
this of course entirely outside
his terms of reference but the
commissioner was clearly not
one to let that small detail dampen

his manifest prejudice and bias —
which found sympathy with the
“buggers” and vented its spleen
on the “bug” victims,

A press report a few days ago
gave out with the information
that Judge Sargent received a
cool $10,000 of taxpayers’ money
for doing the job, And since the
learned judge negated any value
his “recommendations” may have
had re the “invasion of privacy”
by the use of electronic “bugs”
with a whole series of “exemp-
tions,” John Q, Public may well
consider that Ten Grand down the
drain, Particularly since any
volunteer committee of public
democratic-minded* citizens
could have done the job for free —
and considered it a public honor
and duty to do so,

What should now be very clear
at the end of our first one hundred

pecially who are peginnins
the need for socialism
country.” :
A leaflet, prepared oi
tribution at the booth, n
rich history of struggle”
and continues: “As We t
Second Century, we find
more determination and
will be required t0 80
fundamental problems
exist in our country.

The leaflet goes on
the basic policies of the
munist Party.
first job for Can
prevent war,” it takes
against NATO, NORADs
U.S. war in Vietnall
for an end to the “dom
Canada by Americal
and proposes 2 neW

based on equality of
nations, to win indeP

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Editor—TOM McEWEN

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