Senator

Ocrat _ Wayne Morse (Dem-

his nical is continuing
Brine a whe Struggle to drag
NG Tialism out of Southeast
lowing Ae Press conference fol-
Maxwen ‘ appointment of Gen,
Sador 4 aylor as U.S, Ambas-
Saigon, Morse declared:

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Churey by senators Frank
“laing @emocrat — Idaho),

Tne Pell (Democrat —

Form Socialist youth org.

fom, BPANCISCO— Close to 500
tong 4 ple from 40 cities and
Soy 1 the north, east, west,
ateas ora west and southwest
ter i the United States met
Malionwiae and set up a new,

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tion
4g
ica,’ A UBois clubs of Amer-

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Youn, three days andnights these

People deliberated, de-
areas pected and reached wide
tay @greement on fundamen-
Dleg 4 Cles, attitudes and princi-
Yems Cerning the major pro-

cing their generation,

en
the Parley closed, tumul-

Distruss in U.S. motives

eMtmen, — The Cyprus gov-
Sout n *S deeply concerned
Cyp 5 ®reased US. activity over
Geney * Dean Acheson’s trip to
Wor, , “2d interference in the
Seen : Mediator Tuomioja is
* solut a attempt to enforce
tat to serve the interests

i
Maney 4 dent Makarios has de-
Point hat he is against the ap-
: Mioja of “counsellors’’ to
ble *, who might push the
Ang away from the U.N,
Pott. 2S Fantis, acting lead-

Progressive Akel party,

left unity call

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tion pao greater co-opera-

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top = °mmunists in efforts
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Lesson for B.C.

Loginov said in Moscow recently

ggle

Rhode Island), William Prox-

mire (Democrat — Wisconsin) By BEN SWANKEY
and Hubert Humphrey (Democrat ' (The Fisherman)
— Minnesota), Seldom in Canadian history

has the report of a Royal Com-
mission received such wide-
spread support and enthusiastic
endorsation as has been accorded
the report of the Royal Commis-
sion on Health Services tabled in
the House of Commons on June

19.

Meanwhile, support for Morse’
position on Southeast Asia was
expressed last week by the Young
Democratic organization in his
home state,

A resolution adopted by the
Oregon Y.D.’s executive com-
mittee has insisted the U.S, with-
draw military support from ‘‘the
repressive and unpopular South
Vietnamese regime and submit
the Vietnamese issue to the Un-
ited Nations for adjudication,”

Seldom also has any royal
commission made such worth-
while proposals for the benefit
of all Canadians,

It proposes the kind of com-
prehensive me dicare program
that Canadians have dreamed of,
hoped for; and demanded for

decades,

The resolution called also for
‘¢neutralization of the entire In-
dochina Peninsula under inter-
national supervision,”

It is based on the sound prin-
ciple that every Canadian is en-
titled to the highest possible
health standards regardless of
age, place of residence, or abil-

ity to pay.

tuous ovations from the work-
weary, emotionally - drained
young people proclaimed:

The commission summed up.

* The formation of the new
national socialist youth organiza~-
tion, The DuBois Clubs of Amer-
ica,

* Election by acclamation of
two national officers: Phil Davis,
civil rights leader, as president;
Carl Bloice, of the San Francis-
co DuBois Club and staff member
of People’s World, as publica-
tions director.

* The organization of a na-
tional centre in San Francisco
with the goal of moving it to the
midwest as soon as possible,

its own philosophy in these words:

‘phat Canada’s human re-
sources, men, women and chil-
dren, are worth the price that
must be paid in taxes in ensuring
that all Canadians enjoy the best
health possible in this era of
scientific advancement and that
Canada can afford the price,’

*

The commission noted that to-
day less than halfofthe cquntry’s
population has adequate health
insurance coverage,

The highlights of the proposed
health services program include
the following:

, * All medical services are free,
This includes preventative,
diagnostic and treatment of all
physical and psychiatric condi-
tions in office, hospital and
home,

to overthrow Makarios,

Fantis stressed that his party
would do anything to avoid a
split in the national liberation
movement and would vote for
union with Greece in event of a
referendum,

Meanwhile, both the govern-
ment of Cyprus and Turkish Cyp-
riot leaders have given general
approval to a United Nations plan
to create a ‘‘free zone’’ on the
island, U.N, personnel would have
exclusive patrol and police rights
in this free zone, it was announced
in Nicosia recently.

* Free dental treatment for chil-
dren under 18, expectant
mothers and welfare cases.

* Eye glasses and eye care for
children under 18,

* Almost free drugs— the patient
pays only the first $1 on each
prescription,

* Care of crippled and retarded

children,
* Hospital insurance coverage

for mental and tubercular pa-
tients,

transit?

Soviet airline chief Yevgeny

that international air fares were
too high and should be cut, He
said the Soviet Union was not a
member of I,A.T.A., the interna-
tional airline operators’ price-
fixing body, ‘*but we expect a
decision on this will be taken

shortly.”

Everyone would be eligible,
There would be no means test
and no extra charges,

*

The scheme would be financed
by premiyms and general tax
revenues, Ottawa would pay half
the cost of the entire scheme,
It would be launched and admin-
istered by the provinces,

’

He pointed out that fare cuts
were opposed by I.A.T.A., al-
though. many individual airlines
realized fares were exceptionally
high and were trying to reduce

them in various ways. : ,
Air ambulances, medicine de-

pots, and nursing stations would

t
The Soviet airline pers be established in remote areas;

which expects to carry a record
38 million passengers this year,
had found that its cheap fares
policy on domestic routes filled
aircraft to 70 percent of capaci-
ty — well above the world aver-

age.

for the speedy training of spe-
cialists, Six new university med-
ical schools, four new dental
schools and 10 new nursing

SSS A —

There would be special steps’

“One final question before we operate .. .
parliament, how do you stand on medicare?”

schools would be established,

The commission éstimated that
the- additional cost of its re-
commendations (over and above

the present system of health
services) would be $466 million
in 1971, or $20 per person,

“The commission’s report was
welcomed by most people and
most organisations, Typical of
labor’s viewpoint was the opif-
ion of Pat O’Neal, secretary of
the 100,000 member B,C, Fed-
eration of Labor,

*¢It?s wonderful news,’ he de-
clared, ‘‘Labor has constantly
advocated this course of action,
We believe it is in the best in-
terests of all Canadtans,

“Tf this country can spend
billions of dollars on methods
of killing, then they can spend
a few billion protecting the peo-
ple’s health,’’

But, as expected, strong op-
position came from the leaders
of the Canadian Medical Associa-
tion, which claims to speak for
16,000 doctors, It reiterated its
view that ‘‘a tax supported, com-
prehensive program, compulsory
tor all is neither necessary nor
desirable,’’

The C,M,A, wants medicare’

limited to the 1,5 million Can-
adians it classifies as ‘*medical
indigents’’ and then only after
they have been subjected to a
degrading and humiliating means
test,

~

Haynie in the Louisville Courier-Journal

as a member of

It calls the commission’s pro-
posals **monopolistic’’ and
charges that they would ‘impair
quality of medical care,’’

At the same time it makes clear
that it wants full control of any
medicare scheme instituted by
any government in Canada,

The insurance corporations,
which are widely believed to be
in league with the C,M,A,, were
also quick to voice their op-
position to the commission’s re-
commendations for medicare,

*‘I don’t like anything to be
given free to people, if they
can pay for any part of it,’
said George L, Holmes, president’
of Manufacturers Life,

*

The commission’s recommen-
dations can, should be, and no
doubt will be criticised for in-
adequacies, That is all to the
good, The report could be im-
proved in many respects,

But the criticism by the C,M,A,
and the insurance companies has
a different purpose, They are out
to prevent Canada or any more of
its provinces from establishing

medicare,

The unprincipled and immoral
strike of manySaskatchewan doc-
tors against the people of Sas-
katchewan during the 1962 med-
icare crisis shows how far they
are prepared to go to prevent
governments from doing anything
they disagree with,

Those who oppose medicare
can now be expected to launch
a well heeled and extensive cam-
paign against it, They will en-
deavor to water down the com-
mission’s recommendations unt! ~
they are unrecognisable,

But the people ofSaskatchewan
won a medicare program despite
the opposition of the C,M,A., the
insurance corporations, and
reactionary politicians,

If all of us in Canada now
speak out together, we can win
a medicare program that will
be an example for the rest of
the world,

July 17, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page WW