‘he number is 1,538,823 © By LESLIE MORRIS n RCMP officer in Vernon, B.C., posed as .a press photo- er to take pictures of anemployed Canadians. When the Stier was exposed by Harold Winch, MP, spokesmen of ‘CMP in British Columbia and Ottawa had a fine old time icting each other, but were not able to deny the fact impostorship. Moreover, one of the officers volunteered nformation that the Mounties do\this sort of thing all the which will come as no surprise to the voters. long ago a businessman told the press that the RCMP were after his daughter she was active for peace among her fellow students. And more recently'a deputy commissioner of the RCMP made a political speech against a trade union and thereby interfered with the rights of its members. * He * Readers of the Tribune can add to this list from their own knowledge and_ ex- periences. They know of RCMP visits to em- ployers suggesting that so-and-so be fired for r her political opinions and that some employers have ntly told the visiting officers to go jump in the lake. ~ ey know that people have been denied citizenship after Years’ residence in Canada because the RCMP objects to the apers they read. : * * * . hese thoughts come to mind on reading an article in end Magazine by RCMP Commissioner C. W. Harvison, Old to Robert McKeown.” It is called, ‘‘Why the Police Losing Prestige.” e€ commissioner points out that while federal, provincial municipal governments spend about $200 million a year the police, “the growing lack of public support is a matter gency for all police forces.” e€ commissioner is upset about this. In fact, the recent rs are beaten each year in Canada by civilians. _ i e commissioner put this and other expressions of public ike of the police resentment down to the fact that the con- Pularly nowadays spends a great deal of time enforcing tic and. liquor laws, % % * But the sting is in the tail of Mr. Harvison’s article, in the ence: “The RCMP in the year between April 1,1959 and Ptch 31, 1960 made 1,538,823 investigations.” | That works out to about one investigation for every 11 Cana- (P investigations only and doesn’t include local police probes those a eatgieu in Quebec and Ontario by provincial police. °u put them all together it might add up to about one snoop every five or six Canadians. Uf course, some of these.are done in the dark, unbeknown he investigatee, who doesn’t see the investigator. The RCMP icularly, like the mole, prefers to work in the dark. a x * What a fine collection of fingerprints the RCMP must have. hat a lovely job of. regimentation they must be doing, one -or another. And if your ideas are a little in advance of the eq notions. of John Diefenbaker or Lester Pearson and think capitalism has had its day and can no longer even feed its slaves, then you too may be a subject for one of these stigations.”’ cy * BS it any wonder that the police are not popular and that apers across the country are filled with stories of police ance, or that many Canadians are of the opinion that this htry is overpoliced and in danger of police rule? o his own muttons. One million, five hundred and thirty aht thousand, eight hundred and twenty cae investigations, Seq. if you are worried that “Big Brother” RCMP may ‘be “King about you, you have lots of company. ; in one way or another? And will the 140,000 names on beace petitions laid on the prime minister’ s desk 8 other e added to them? ges French Canada assert right on issue of peace. ( TREAL—“The French. Canadian nation has the right xin to be dragged into a war against its own will,” declared The statement was. rie in answer to the recent. assertion Pres, Kennedy that ‘we. live in: the most dangerous: ome © history of humanity. - lecide-on questions of war or ‘peace themselves. . nn . Economic upturn—for whom? — “Upturn May Surge Right) ture is dealt with in great de- Into: 1963.” That’s the head- lines on a front-page story in the Financial Post for Oct. 7. It develops upon reading this report that the Financial Post’s idea about what makes an upturn differs from that of the average worker. There is nothing said apout whether or not there will be jobs for the unemployed but the profit pic- tail, Profits are getting better and better, the FP tells us. In the second quarter of 1961, they were up by 28 percent over first quarter levels in mining and oil well operations; -in manufacturing they were up 17 percent; in wholesale trade 22 percent; and in retail trade by 26 percent. Reading on we find that one SACK PHILLIPS TO ATTEND aie CONGRESS Jack Phillips, secretary of the Civic Workers Union, Out- side Workers, was delegated -by the last membership meet- ing to atiend the 5th World Congress of the World Federa- tion of Trade Unions to be held ~ in Moscow, Dec. 4-16, 1961. He will go as an observer. The invitation to the union came directly from the WFTU. ntion of police chiefs was told that about 1,000 police 2 hs, including new-born babies. This astounding figure is for| reason why the profits of the big shots are better is because the workers and farmers are going deeper into debt. Con- sumers have increased their debt load by six percent as compared to last year. Still further on the report begins to reveal some of the real facts about the nature of the “‘upturn.” It says: “Continued declines in one very important sector of the economy — business spending of new plant and equipment— suggest that the current ex- pansion won’t be much more sizeable than the modest up- turn of 1958-59.” That “upturn” was indeed sa modest that it just about es- caped the attention of many working people altogether. This estimation by the Post underlines two economic facts: 1. That the trend of the economic cycle is towards big- ger downturns and smaller up< turns. i 2. That in Canada, the ex. pansion of manufacturing tak- en as a. whole has ground to a halt. This point is emphasized not only in the fact that the unem- ployment of Canadians contin- ues at near record levels but also, strange as it may seem, by the figures for. increased employment of other Canad- ians. Employment went up by 127,000 between July of 1960 and July of 1961, but 101,000 of these new jobs were held by women, and only 26,000 were held by men. It is in no way to question the right of more women ta work, that it must be pointed out that from the standpoint of analyzing the state of the economy, these figures reveal a drop in employment in those industries engaged in the basic work of producing goods, and a sharp rise in the services in- dustries in which women still find the greatest opportunity for jobs. f Mr. Harvison wants an answer to his questions he should hich leads one to the thought: Who isn’t in the RCMP Si VIET UN ION sea St. To Pacific Tribune: - Please enter my le Dionne, Sueher leader of the Communist Party, Fe re-|f Dionne called on’ French Canadians» to: demand the a Those, not wantin uced rate “Mail to Pa acu 33 include your Special ‘premium SOY Neakige 22 eee me sane mie hs perp it omits us eifis Tribune, 426 Main St., | JOURNAL. 1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION to the SOVIET UNION THIS WORLD RENOWNED MULTI-COLORED MONTHLY SOVIET PICTORIAL MAGAZINE — BREATHTAKING PICTURES OF SCIENCE — INDUSTRY — SCENERY — STYLES — HOME — LIFE — SPORTS — TRULY A MAGNIFICENT rate — plus 50c. 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