EDITORIAL PAGE *

—Dowling, New York Herald Tribune

“Think it’s safe to hand another rosy picture?”’

McNamara’s'‘tune-up’

. S. defense secretary Robert

McNamara is back from his
latest “‘on-the-spot™ study of the
,Pentagon’s dirty war in South
Vietnam.

For the Pentagon boys the pic-.
ture should be a familiar one —
holding a bobcat by the tail, fear-
ful to let go, disasterous to hold on.
A dirty war that is not only “going
badly” but is already inevitably
laste -

More money, more guns, more
U.S: “advisors,” more U.S. “know-

‘Editorial
comment

“or Y OU have been convicted of
having tampered with the
very soul of this nation.” So’said
judge Frank Wilson as he sentenc-
ed International Teamsters Union
president James Hoffa to 8 years
imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
The .‘soul of this nation.” Some
“soul”, if one looks at the long rec-
ord of persecution and frame-up
of labor in America during the past
75 years?

“Jimmy Hoffa is the latest vic-
tim of this “soulful” frame-up.
Once again this frame-up becomes
the immediate concern of every
trade unionist in the US. and
Canada.

This is one “soul” that only
labor’s solidarity with Hoffa can
“save.”

Pacific Tribune

Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH
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how’ and a brand new puppet gov-
ernment whose “jurisdiction”
scarcely reaches beyond the U.S.
“flesh-pots’ of Saigon. The people
of South Vietnam and their Lib-
eration Army hold the rest of their
country against the U.S.-Khanh
aggressors.

The current $1.5-million per
day, is a costly “face-saver” for the
Pentagon, since at best it can only
delay the inevitable for the tour-
ing ‘““McNamara’s band. *

A ‘rift in the lute’

Tue Bennett government's
thick-skinned insensibility to any
and all criticism of its policies got
an unexpected jolt last week, not
by Opposition spokesmen, but by
one of its own back-benchers, John
Tisdale, MLA.

Socred health minister Hric
Martin, in one of his current ti-
rades in defence of Socred “health”
policies (which among other things
would throw the onus of mental
health costs back on the munici-
palities), was defending govern-
ment policiesin respect to the
notorious Woodlands School insti-
tution for retarded children. Under
sharp NDP criticism of such poli-
ies, Mr. Martin was literally
screaming, much like the late in-
cumbent of Brechtesgaden.

Then John Tisdale, himself one
of the many B.C. parents so trag-
ically affected, got up to speak.
“We are stacking young boys and
girls up... stacking up crippled
children storey upon storey at
Woodlands... to put them out of
sight ... God save me from it. Put
these children in the community
where people know them and
where there is human kindness.”

The Socred MLA said much
more on behalf of grief-stricken
parents, who need but cannot get
accommodation for the unfortun-
ate child in their family. Some 900
of these retarded children are pres-
ently on a “waiting” list for such
needed care. j

It is reported health minister
Martin took ‘‘a walk” while Mr.
Tisdale was speaking, while others
of his cabinet colleagues observed
stony silence. For once the super-
cilious wise-crack grin and the
derisive desk-pounding was sil-
enced.

It may be remembered that dur-
ing the Hitler era the Nazi butch-

ers were more direct in their @
ination of retarded or “‘inferl®
humanity. Then the execull?
squads and the death oven “2
them out of sight,” on a 80
never before known in humat
tory.

Today our governments 4
more “humane.” Today we Just
and argue about “costs” except
monopoly give - aways), shufl

“costs’’ back upon the municipal”

ties if at all possible, and build ot
inadequate Woodlands’ institl®

tions “storey upon storey”’ in OF A

to put_ humanity's unfortuné
children “out of sight,” and, 1!
permitted, out of mind.

It is said that many Socred batt
benchers joined with the ND}
Opposition in applauding J ohn
dale’s courageous criticism 0+
callousness of his own governmel
In this John Tisdale has rendel®

a signal service to B.C. Whethe Th

the Socred cabinet silence that fo
lowed at having its mental hea!
policies so denounced, dene
shame or chagrin, remains toD
seen. But at last there is a “Tl
the Socred lute,” forced by t
presentation of a noble caus¢
one of their own, which will 2°
again be'so easily silenced by

tin demagogy and double-talk. Ap
for B.C.’s unfortunate retar
children and their sorrowing P
ents, that’s all to the good.

It is now up to the Bennett 60%
ernment to take the Tisdale cl
cism to heart; to face up to its?
sponsibility of providing sunsh!
instead of a “storey upon storey
prison for the unfortunates
Woodlands—and for the hundré
still awaiting admission to the
needed care, wellbeing and hapP!
ness which is theirs by rights ©
right which no responsible gove!®
ment can deny.

Tom
McEwen 7

here’s the money coniing from?’

How often do we hear that vexing
question. In the humblest home with
no end of urgent needs, it crops up
almost hourly.

When trade unions come out fight-
ing for a long-overdue wage hike for
their membership, spokesmen for the
bosses pull ‘*a long face’’ and peevish-

from?"’

Perhaps the most expert in flinging
this wrinkled apologia around are our
respective governments, at all levels
and all political labels.

Be the subject under. discussion
medicare, social welfare, a hike in
jobless benefits, a new school, hos-
pital, a new youth or recreational
centre, etc., the old hackneyed alibi
is always trotted out, ‘‘where’s the
money coming from?”’

The only time you don’t hear it
is when the politicians are voting them-
selves a thumping salary increase,
greasing some industrial tycoon’s palm
with a big resources give-away, or
pouring another billion dollars or more
down amade-in-the-U.S.A. arms drain.
On such occasions the question is high-
ly superfluous. The long-suffering
«1ow-man-on-the-totem-pole’’ — the
taxpayer, soon gets the answer—the
hard way.

In the February 15, 1964 edition of

ly inquire, ‘‘where’s the money coning ~

‘‘The Advance’’, organ of the Amalg
amated Clothing Workers of America,
there is a very enlightening article
on this intriguing question.

Who finances ultra-Right outfits like
the ‘‘John Birch Society’, the ‘‘Arer-
ican ° Constitutional Action’, the
‘¢American Coalition of Patriotic Soc-
ieties’’, the ‘‘Defenders of the Amer-
ican Constitution’’ and sundry other
ultra-Rightist and neo-fascist outfits,
all closely associated with or direct-
ly linked with the John Birchers and
Rockwell Kent’s ‘‘American Nazi
Party’?

You guessed it. The big monopo-
lies and corporations. The ‘‘Advance”’
writer gives a few of these and their
respective donations, the latter listed
with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service,
probably ‘‘deductible’’ on income-tax
returns.

U.S. Steel, $50.000, General Motors
$20,000, Sun Oil, $15,000, Republic
Steel, $11.000, and $10,000 each for
the du Pont Co., Gulf Oil and the
Chrysler Corporation.’’ Huge sums,
donated towards the subersion of demo-
cracy in America!

These are only a few of the out-
fits who subsidize and influence ultra-
Right and pro-fascist reaction in the
U.S. and provide the answer to the
question: ‘‘where’s the money coming
from?” to flood the mails, including
Canadian, with vicious nazi and anti-
Semitic propaganda.

A similar study on ‘‘where’s the
money coming from?’’ to finance the
ultra-Left might also come up with
the same answer; that it comes from
precisely the same sources, serving
a similar purpose from seemingly op-
posite directions: To help keep monop~

“oly in the saddle by the financiné |

and organization of disunity, disruP” |
tion and division among the broad ranks
of Labor and the people.

‘*pT’’ readers and supporters know
something of the effort and sacrifice |
needed to keep their paper a goiné |
concern, What then of the tons of

Trotskyite, anti-Soviet and anti-Can- |)

adian pro-fascist literary filth that
is given away for ‘‘free’’ every week
in Canada, to say nothing of the hund-
reds of tons in the USA?

The aim and purpose of such lit
erature is obvious, but the questio?
of ‘who foots the bill’’ much less S20

But with the big monopolies keepin |/M&

the ‘John Bircher’’ and similar treas~
uries well filled, it is a safe bet t?
assume that their Canadian counter
parts, together with home-grown mon-
opoly, perform a similar “‘pay-triotic’
duty to keep their ultra-Right and ultra”
Left disruption factories running full |

capacity.

Then, of course, there is the U.S. ©
‘Central Intelligence Agency’’ (CIA) |
with its ‘blank check’’ conspiracies
to head-off democratic progress and
foment war, plus our own RCMP

‘security’? financing, neither of which . |

is accountable to Congress or Parlia- |
ment on how the money is spent, —
or for what. : i

How, otherwise, could our so-called
‘Canadian Intelligence Service’’ with
its glossy paper, its screaming false-
hoods, its ‘first-class’ mailing rights.
and its long list of ‘‘business execuU-
tive’? anti-Communist dope addicts, —
survive?

‘Where’s the money coming from?” | 7

That depends entirely on ‘‘for wholt
. and what for!’’

March 20, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pa

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