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Review

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GANDER through the finan-
cial pages of our daily news-
papers provide ample proof of the
truth of the old saying: “to him
that hath, more shall be given.”

”

Three of our big oil monopolies
have just declared their 1960
profit boodle. Imperial Oil pocket-
ed a net of $61,202,000, British-

American a net of $30,803,000,
while Texaco of Canada squeezed
by with a mere $11,100,187 net.

Since modern monopoly book-
- keeping is now a distinctive sci-
ence, designed to get ‘under’ the
income and corporate tax wire, the
big oil moguls didn’t do too badly

at all. Even with only a_ shade

_ over $11-million, Texaco’s Share-

holders with their $3.38 per, did

. better than Imperial’s $1.94, or
B-A’s $1.51.

_ Chortling over this fine swag
haul, Imperial’s chief told us that
we in Canada can do still better in

one in oils

the booming 60’s, “providing we
do-not afflict ourselves with a
costly and emotional economic na-
tionalism.” ;

Reduced to simple language, the
man means that if we do not: in-
sist upon being “masters in our
own house”, but continue to let
U.S. monopoly rook and raid: and

dominate Canada (with the aid of
home-bred give-away politicians),
we can look forward with “opti-
mism” etc. and etc. -

Meantime against such a stack
of profit boodle (and that’s only a
small part of it) a lot of B.C, citi-
zens are asking a question; why a
4-cent hoist in the price of gas, 3-
cents to a “debt free” Socred gov-
ernment, and 1-cent to an already
profit-glutted oil octopus?

Perhaps a little of Cuba’s Castro
in the oil would answer the ques-
tion—and help equalize the “debt-
free prosperity” which weighs on
the taxpayer like an alp!

The long march

HATEVER their politics,
their religion, their station
in life, their convictions, we salute
those countless thousands of many
lands who marched for Peace on
April 1.
_ They marched with a_ single
purpose, a great resolve, and a
common knowledge — that the
thermo-nuclear bomb is a great
leveller. They marched that it may
be stopped, that it will be stopped.
For many. thousands it was a
long march, undeterred .by the
manufactured hysteria of “anti-
Communism’, the intransigent hos-
tility of Tory war conspirators, or
the “assurances” of high-placed
apologists seeking to minimize the
dangers of the radiation furnace.
The great march of April 1 her-
alds a new rising tide for peace
and an end to a suicidal arms race
threatening all humanity. In all its
manifestations and from all its
far-flung routes of march one sim-
ple lesson stands out; a growing
unity in humanity’s determination

to. life, a unity assuring the vic-

tory of Peace and an end to the

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nightmare of nuclear horror.

For that we salute, and thank

Easter Week peace marchers.

_* EDITORIAL PAGE *

HE small men who run Vancou-
ver city hall affairs have just
about reached the pinnacle of me-
diocrity. So much so that we now
have newspapers like the Vancou-
ver Sun urging editorially that we
“put politics back in city hall’;
that we run civic elections on
straight party lines.

This tricky homespun philoso-
phy lends credence to the -mista-
ken notion that “politics” have
been absent from city hall pre-
cincts these 20-years or more, and
it is now time to decorate medioc-
rity with its own party label.

The trouble at city hall is not
the lack of “politics’”’ but the dom-
ination of the most_ reactionary
political aggregation of Liberals,
Tories and Socreds, labelled a
‘NonPartisan Association’ that

- ever disgraced any civic adminis-

tration anywhere. NPA hucksters
who hold their grip on Vancouver
by a city-wide rigged and highly-
financed political machine, and
who no more represent Vancouver
than Mayor Tom <Alsbury repre-
sents the ‘socialism’ he once pre-
tended to espouse.

One brief look at the crisis mess
and aldermanic floundering at city
hall is sufficient to convince any

‘citizen that it is time for a major

Urgent clean-up iob |

clean-out and an equally majo
change. 4
Graft, corruption, maladminis
tration, mediocrity, McCarthyism;
tax gouging, bartering away citY
assets, political appointees to d
the job aldermen are well paid
do; there is scarcely a_ politica
evil in the book these NPA huck=

sters haven’t become proficient

Even in the preparations for thé
coming ‘birthday’. of this ban
metropolis these ‘non-parti
politicians have demonstrated @
inherent bankruptcy in imagin@
tion and outlook, fit to make thé
stones of Vancouver’s beach)
weep. _

It’s time for a drastic chang®
not to put ‘politics back in cit))
hall’ (it stinks with them now like
a long-neglected garbage can), bul
to put honest men and womely”
representative of the people of
Vancouver, and elected on a wat®
basis, so that each area of th®
growing city will have able and a&
equate representation. ye

That, to the people of Vancouv
at least, would be the best 75th
birthday celebration they coul
give their city. To unload the NP
and its city-wide political oliga!
chy and restore Vancouver to its
people.

tion of Canada issued a press

Criminal Code amended in order

racket. Present legislation dealing
with this gigantic monopoly
racket is as full of holes as a
busted seive. Some of the big chain
stores and the Trading Stamp com-
panies simply resort to new gim-
micks to fleece the public, gim-
micks which keep them “within

. the law” in their parasitical fleec-
ing. :

Bravo RMA, but why not extend
the demand to cover other. areas
of swindling and rooking the pub-
lic, a habit which has become
second nature with big business?

Take that marvellous invention,
the telephone. A subscriber who
knows the game sent us a copy of
the ‘Telephone Solicitor’s Script,”
which goes . . . well thousands of
housewives know how it goes from
bitter experience. j

Canada?” .

HE Retail Merchants Associa-

release last week, urging that the —
federal government have the.

to fully cover the “trading stamp’.

—
be worth twenty dollars to you. ‘‘ohs” of her good fortune,
Are you ready?’ Then comes the letdown, the —
Mrs. McTavish thrills with ex- grand coup-de-swindle. At. the

citement. After all twenty bucks
is not to be sneezed at in these
piping times of Tory-Socred “‘pros-
perity.”’

-“What is the largest city in
. . Montreal.

“What is the capital city of
Canada?” ... Ottawa.

“What is the name of the largest
park in Vancouver ” ... Stanley.

“That is absolutely correct Mrs.
McTavish. Congratulations. Now,
for having answered our quiz
correctly you. have just won
twenty dollars which you may
apply towards the purchase of any
of the following household appli-
ances—a vacuum cleaner, a three-
brush electric floor polisher, or a
beautiful fourteen piece set of
waterless cookware.”

The golden-voiced Sam _ Slick
then gives the prices and complete
description of the three appliances
listed, while Mrs. McTavish does
a bit of hurried substraction with
her imaginary twenty-bucks, and

- finds the result very enticing in-

deed. é

“Isn’t that wonderful??” gurgles
the sales pimp at the other end,
“we will have a representative in
your area this afternoon and he
will drop in and deliver the twenty
dollar credit voucher you have

- low price of just $39.50. Why can’t

‘sister housewives, learns the hard -

store Mrs. McTavish is met by a . }|
suave fast - talking operator with “||
personality-plus, .who offers pro- ©
fuse apologies that the -merchan- * |
dise of Mrs. McTavish’s twenty- :
buck voucher “is all out of stock,” |
but there’s plenty of more expen- —
sive triple-priced counterparts for °
sale. :
“But” says Mrs. McTavish, ‘‘the ~
man on the phone said all these
appliances retails in our stores
across Canada at the amazingly ~

you get one from another store if»

you're all out of stock?” “aan
Kindly honest Mrs. McTavish,

like countless thousands of her -

way about the big monopoly .
crooks who skin her daily by one —
“sales” stunt or another. Fat
The chap who sent us the “Tele- —
phone Solicitor’s Script” ought to
know since he held the job him- ~
self for a few weeks. “None of the ,
merchandise listed is for sale at
all—only an advertising gag” to,
trap the unwary into more expen:
sive purchases. ; |
We don’t know what Mrs. Mc- |)
Tavish said to the sales tout in |
charge of apologies. Being a lady
she probably thought about using
him for a floor polisher, the? -

April 7, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pas®

“Good afternoon, Mrs. Mc- just won...” swallowed her chagrin and toddled .
Tavish, this is “Telephone Quiz’ Mrs. McTavish phones her neigh- off home—a. wiser woman in the
calling and in a moment I am go-_ bors the good news, and they in ways of modern monopoly “gales: -
ing to ask you questions that can turn reply ‘with the “ahs” and manship.’.: . Saag

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