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, SS sate ecececes SSS SVN Tom Mc EWEN Ss Se es SS5es2 SSS : 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” = : 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 “WHAT ABOUT THIS INELATION, miTcH Oo” Scena 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. Se 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- a Le, Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — Circulation Manager — JERRY SHACK Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St. Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288 Subscription Rates: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. 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 “August 5, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2 TPN 4, EO CA Sil lle sata ane TS a: igs ee pede Dar soi,