RUSH CHARGES:

EDITORIAL.

‘Let’s take the bus!’

Bi in the old BCElectric transit days when it just
seemed the commuting public couldn’t fare worse or
be soaked more for less service, B.C, Hydro has proved it
can be done — on both counts;

With Hydro’s transit franchise up. for renewal next year,
something drastic is required to create an efficient low-fare
rapid transit system in metropolitan Vancouver and environs,
for two basic reasons; the transit of a rapidly-growing popu-
lation, and to serve as a major factor in easing a steadily-
growing traffic congestion;

Such a problem can not be solved _as the PUC used to
‘solve’ BCElectric problems, by simply charging ‘all the
traffic will bear’ and giving less transit service in return,
but by producing a transit service to meeta growing and chronic
need,

The Vancouver Board of Trade has proposed the establish-
ment of a ‘Metropolitan Transit Authority’ to enable‘ efficiency
and economy’ in the area of public transportation, It also sug-
gests that if subsidies are required for the promotion of such
transit, then by all means let’s have subsidies from the
provincial government (Hydro) and from metropolitan Van-
couver,

However it is to be done, one factor becomes more urgent
daily if we are ever to get on top of the traffic congestion
menace, ‘peak’ hours or any other hours: viz, a low-fare
rapid transit service, designed to meet the transit needs of
the day, instead of merely skinning the public;

If that’s what the Vancouver B-of-T have in mind, we’re all
for it,

‘Code of the sea’

efusal of Canadian authorities (whoever they may be),
to permit the Soviet Research ship ‘Adler’, now falsely
described as a “trawler” to tie up in any B.C, port for ship
repairs, will be Ser by many as a violation of the

national ‘code of the sea’,

What the incident actually boils down to is just another
reminder that in this as other matters, Canada must follow
U.S, dictation, No Soviet vessels are permitted into U.S,
ports for repairs or anything else, So none must be permitted
in Canadian ports;

And what with “fishing gear” aboard, that can only be taken
to mean that the Soviets are taking Canadian ‘fish’, so repairs
are ‘verboten’, And the fact must be conveniently ignored
that a Soviet vessel, as with a Canadian or any other flag,
can fish where in hell they care to just so long as they
are outside the territorial coastal limits of this or any other
country;

It would of course be a vast improvement in international
fisheries relations, conservations, etc,, were the Soviet Union
included in our. international fisheries treaties, But that too
(up until now) remains a coldwar instrument in the grip of
Washington,

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edical science has made tre-
mendous progress during the
past 25 years or so, It is now
mastering some of the most

deadly diseases ofour time; can-
cer, heart, brain, paralysis, etc.

In surgery it can almost re-
store the shattered body of man
to a condition “as good as new,”

_But medical science hasn’t as
yet discovered how to inject a

stiffening ingredient into a spine-
less and gutless politician. Only
the united determination of the
people can do that, if, as and

when it is fully brought to bear
on the afflicted. Even then the
stiffening process may not show
a lasting progress, but fear of
the loss of political votes, prest-
ige or pelf, can and does produce
its own reaction, and which in
turn manifests itself in a “tem-
porary” firming-up of the “verte-
bra” area,

To be more specific. In the

Pentagon’s inhuman aggression

upon the Vietnamese people, by
crimes more heinous than Hitler
ever dreamed about, scarcely a
day passes without some new
atrocity coming to light, Crimes

at which the world stands aghast
at their enormity —andtherulers

of America “deaf’’ (as yet) to all
protest,

The cause of this prolonged
“deafness” is not difficult to
diagnose, In our own country,
the Pearson government not only
doesn’t protest U.S. banditry and
atrocities in Vietnam, but lauds
the Canadian manufacture and
sale of arms and explosives to
help meet “U.S. needs in Viet-
nam.” That enhances Canada’s
“prosperity” — while token ship-
ments of medical supplies to the
U.S.—Ky Cao puppet regime in
Saigon, salves our “humani-
tarian” conscience — and ob-
scures the blood of Vietnam wo-
men and children onour “official”
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Perrault chief advocate
of U.S. takeover i in B.C.

“Liberal leader Ray Perrault
is making a desperate bid for the
support of U.S. financial groups
by his campaign of support for
American ownership of Canadian
industries and resources,”
charged Maurice Rush, Com-
munist candidate for the provin-
cial riding of North Vancouver-
Seymour last week,

Drawing attention to Perrault’s
statement made recently at a
Young Liberal seminar in Van-
couver, that talk of the U.S, take-
over is “hogwash” and that U.S,
investment in Canada is putting
an extra $2,000 each year into
the pockets of the average Can-
adian, Rush said:

‘Perrault has become the No,
1 salesman for the U.S, money
houses and the chief advocate in
B.C. of the American takeover
of our country. He and his sup-
porters in the Liberal Party,
including the Vancouver Sun, are
trying to sell the people a bill of
goods,”

Rush said if Perrault wants a
good example of what U.S. con-
trol means he should study the
case of the three millint’ com-
panies in Canada — Pillsbury,
Robin Hood and Quaker Oats —
who as U.S, subsidiaries in Can-
ada are abiding by U.S, laws in
violation of Canadian government
policies in their refusal to mill
grain for the socialist countries
who have purchased large quanti-
ties of wheat and flour from Can-
ada,

Rush said that U.S, companies
in Canada are so powerful that
they could determine Canada’s
foreign and trade policies unless
they are called to task by the
Canadian people and either forced
to comply with Canadian laws or
be expropriated,

The Communist candidate said
Perrault is deliberately trying
to confuse the question of foreign
investment in Canada with the
more serious problem of allowing
foreign capital — in this case

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a common prostitute — for the
dollar,

Yet, despite a rising protest
by Canadians from all walks of
life against this criminal govern-
mental hypocrisy, they have yet
to hear any minister in a U.S.
bellhop Liberal government in
Ottawa telling the Johnson-Mc-

‘Namara-Rusk genocides: “Stop
the bombing and get out of Viet-
nam,”

Nor would it be one iota dif-
ferent were a jowel-quivering
Diefenbaker government, or a
fascist-tinged Socred congrom-
eration in office.

Only the people can change this,
but so far hasn’t done so — in
large enough numbers,

And our boasted *Common-
wealth” governments, Tory, Lib-
eral, Independent or whatever.
Australia, New Zealand, Ver-
woerd’s racist South Africa, Ian
Smith’s racist Rhodesia — even
the “Mother Country’s” Labor
government of Harold Wilson —
all right up to the ears in U.S.
war crimes upon Vietnam, Some
with armed contingents of cannon
fodder, some with super-profit
armament contracts to supply
“U.S. needs,” all with “moral”
support to U.S, war criminals
in Vietnam. In a choice between
honor and human dignity and the
Yankee dollar — they reach like

— to completely take over
our eae and resources and
make themselves masters of our
economy,

“Most Canadians,” said Rush,
“recognize that foreign invest-
ment has a place in Canada’s
development, but what is happen-
ing today is that American fin-
ancial groups are taking over
Canadian industry and resources.
This is what is threatening our
national survival and this is what
most Canadians are opposed to,”

Rush pointed out that U.S, in-
vestment in Canada has now
reached the staggering amount of
$24.5 billion, U.S. companies
now control 59 percent of our
manufacturing; 97 percent ofthe
automobile industry; 93 percent
of our oil; 91 percent of rubber; ©
75 percent of electrical appli-
ances; and 55 percent ofthe pulp
and paper industry,

‘It’s quite true that some of
the current boom in B,C, is the
result of large-scale U.S, take-
over of B.C.’s natural resources,
including the Columbia River,”
said Rush. “But, he added, “the

price British Columbians are

paying is to allow their province
to become the property of U.S.
monopolies, and forfeiting the
future of B.C. We are becoming

. hewers of wood and drawers of

water for the U.S, corporations.”

Rush said it was significant
that Perrault, while giving ex-
aggerated arguments of the
“benefits” of U.S. control, hehas
never once mentioned the fact
that interest and dividends paid
annually to the U.S. amounts to

‘$1 billion, “The U.S. companies

are now spreading their control
of Canadian industry with the
profits they are making from ex-
ploiting our resources and work-
ers, and not from new large scale
U.S. regs Rush added.

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Were all such governments
(our own included), by some al-
chemy of human morality, dignity
and courage, to tell the U.S. war-
hawks to “Stop the bombing”
and “to get out of Vietnam NOW”
in order that peace under the
terms of the Geneva Accord could
come to tortured Vietnam, that
would stop the U.S, aggressors
dead in their tracks. But, as we
have said, that depends upon
people, millions today, and more
millions tomorrow, demanding
that it be so,

Ah yes, here in Canada we
may “deplore” U.S, barbarity
and atrocities in Vietnam, the
Dominican Republic, or else-

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Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor —
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where, But until we have put an
end to the spineless, hypocritical
and contemptable role played —
and being played by the Pearson-
Martin government in support of
its homocidal “friends’’ in Wash-
ington, the road to Peace can
become an escalated Calvary for
us and for all mankind.

That’s a job, not for medical

science, but for us — all of us:
to put enough gimp into the Pear-

son government so that it can

at least stand up and say pub-
licly to Washington, without any
humming and hawing — “Stop
your bombing in Vietnam and

get out!”

Wntbune

MAURICE RUSH

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