Review

Real fight begins

B’ the time this edition of the
PT reaches many of its read-
ers the outcome of the June 18
federal election will already have
been decided by the Canadian
people.

The vital issues however, which
face Canada and which have been
kept pretty well in the background
by the_old-line parties of monop-
oly, still remain.

The issue of survival in a nuc-
lear age; of independence from the
domination of Canada’s domestic
and foreign affairs by U.S. imper-
ialism; the survival of Canada as
an economic entity, as “masters
in our own house” to arrange at
our own will. These issues remain,
to be fought out and resolved —
after election day.

Only the Communist Party,
with its limited resources and in
face of an almost total press black-
out brought these vital issues onto
the hustings for debate. Even the
New Democratic Party (NDP),
handicapped momentarily by a
_right-wing leadership barely dis-

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tinguishable from the Liberals or

Tories in coldwar outlook, was
unable to take a strong and un-
compromising stand on these vital
issues. There are notable NDP ex-
ceptions to this right-wing ap-
proach, but these are still all too
few to assure the outstanding vic-

‘tory which lay within the reach

of the NDP.
A working majority for either

— Tories or Liberals on June 18, will

spell growing crisis and disaster
for Canada, since both are com-
mitted to nuclear arms in Canada,
the ratification of the Columbia
Treaty sellout, the dragging of
Canada into the Organization of
American States (OAS) to serve
as a U.S. stooge for the further
exploitation of Latin America.
Worst of all, such a Tory or Lib-
eral majority will commit Canada
ever more deeply to U.S. domina-
tion and dictation.

We sincerely hope that in the
next edition of the PT we can
report the election to parliament
of an NDP majority.

Editorial comment...

A few days ago British peer
Lord Hinchingbrooke unload-
ed some evident truths. The Noble
Lord told a British press lunch-
eon that “ ... almost everything
the Americans have done since
1945 has sapped Britain’s
strength”. Among other things he
accused the U.S. of pushing Bri-
tain “ ... into the Common Mar-
ket ... and of dragooning her into
an ideological crusade against
communism.”

“We cannot remain” cracked
Lord Hinchingbrooke, “forever ti-
dily locked away in an anti-Rus-
sian strong-box, of which the U.S.
state department alone holds the
key.” :

His Lordship also told the press
hawks that this U.S. anti-com-
munist ideology puts us forever
“on guard against two nations —
Russia and China — neither of
which shows any sign of wanting
to come and possess our country
or those of our allies by military
force.”

Well spoken Your Lordship.

*

& * Poe
Standard pattern for murder by
the “Free West” colonialists un-

der a UN flag.
First unlawful arrest then pro-
longed incommunicado confine-

ment, then all semblance of par-

Pacific Tribune

Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH
Business Mgr..OXANA BIGELOW

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EDITORIAL

PAGE

A number of B.C.’s largest trade
unions, as across Canada, are
presently engaged in wage nego-
tiations for a new union contract.
Unions such as the International
Woodworkers of America (IWA)
and others are at one stage or
another in the process of bargain-
ing for a long-overdue hike and
other benefits.

The wage increases sought by
the unions, extremely modest in
their overall average, are not only
well below current living cost in-
creases, but also far below the
spiralling profit: levels netted by
the industries,

In the midst of these wage ne-
gotiations a new and unforseen
factor projected itself; the Dief-
enbaker-Fleming devaluation of
the Canadian dollar down to 92',-
cents, and with every possibility
of a further shrinkage to satiate
the profit greed of monopoly. In
essence, this dollar devaluation is
a wage-cut in disguise to the wage
earner, and to big business a new
windfall of millions in unearned
profits. No amount of commercial
press soothing syrup about “a dol-
lar is still a dollar’ can hide that
stark truth.-

It therefore follows that much
of the wage gains already won,
or still to be won by the unions
in negotiation, are already more
than swallowed up by the devalua-
tion shrinkage of the take-home-
pay envelope. s

It doesn’t require an adding
machine to tabulate the difference
between a 10-cent-an-hour wage
hike and an 8'%-cent per dollay

Dief’s $ shell game

-nor consolidate in any Way

Comment

shrinkage in a 40-hour week 4
age pay envelope. The shri
wipes out the wage increase
then some. a
Already price hikes on b
meat and other food staples
well as other commodities 4
evidence, with windy “thré
from Dief and company that ©)
profiteering will be “prosecul
if not halted. Such declar@
are patently worthless ané
nothing to restore the purch@”
power of the wage earner’s

real income; viz, what he 8©
return for a pre-shunk wagé
lar. =

Thus the hard reality ™
mechanical currency devalué
stands out like a sore thumb;
that if the maximum wage
mands of every union, settled !
to be settled, were all to be W®
full, such would still be totally
adequate to meet steadily ™,
costs in terms of comm”
prices, the rising costs of P
services, and unprecedented 5
alling taxation.

0

These rising costs are
centuated by a “devalued” d ;
— designed specifically 10 yy
the full burden of rising eco”
crisis upon the backs of the ©
mon people — and more milli!
in profits in the pockets of
Canadian monopoly.

And the worst may still bs
come unless the Liberals at
ies are voted out on Monday?
dollar with another ten or
cents lopped off?

Tom
McEwen

he extravagant “promises”
made by the Tories and Lib-
erals in this election campaign bids
fair to hit an all-time high. To par-
aphrase an old Churchillian cliche,
never has so much been promised
by so few to so many, only to be
conveniently forgotten the day fol-
lowing election day.

Just how many million of dol
lars Canadian and U.S. monopolies
have poured into Tory and Liberal
election slush fund coffers may
never be known. But its a cinch
the vast volume of TV, radio, press
advertising and the printed word

And either -way in the outcome,
Tory or Liberal, monopoly stands
to win.

There is another angle to this
deluge of old-line party propagan-
da other than mere ‘promising’;
the endless Tory boast of ‘‘achieve-
ment’, well illustrated by staged
pictures, plus the endless Liberal
boast of Liberal “superiority” in
“achieving a similar end?

A few examples to illustrate the
point. Not a few pieces of Tory
election propaganda shows num-
erous ships loading cargoes in the

to funnel these “promises” to the,
electorate, runs into the millions.

Port of Vancouver. This beehive

of “export activity” is held to be

the end result of Tory trade
policies.

But there are a number of im-
portant omissions in the “story”
of those Tory ships. First, there
isn’t a single deepsea ship in or
out of the Port of Vancouver or
any other Canadian seaboard port
flying a Canadian flag (such as it
is) or manned by a Canadian crew.

The reason for this total ab-
sence of a.Canadian Merchant
Marine in a country that lives by
export, is already history—begun
by the Liberals and continued by
the Tories.

In order to smash the Canadian.
Seamens Union the King-St. Laur-
ent-Pearson government .smashed,
Canada’s merchant marine, and
sold many of its ships to Canadian
monopolists for less than one-tenth
of their actual value. In order to
break down wage and working
standards won by the CSU, these
monopoly “pay-triots” now drape
their ships with “flags of conven-
ience”’, that is, flags of foreign
registry as an aid to higher profits
and lower wages. So much for
Tory and Liberal “shipping”
photography.

Then we have Dief photograph-
ed with a bevy of feminine beauty
in Ukrainian costumes, with Dief
pictured -as the ‘‘champion” of
Canadian ‘culture’ and ‘“‘national-
ity”, a Tory Don Quixote just
itching to “liberate” the Ukraine
and other ‘captive’ peoples in the
Socialist world. No sir, no more
“soft on Communism” than Mike

Pearson, but both of them ed¥@ ;
“soft on fascism” considering ©
number of “freedom fighters’) 4
Hitlerites and other neo-nazi ®
raff that have entered Canada
ing recent years via the Libé
Pickerskill and Tory Faircl0
immigration “screens’’. 3
There is one picture, easi
available in all Canadian ©
and towns in which John and
have shown no desire to get ua
that of long lines of jobless *
destitute workers lined up aug
some city or other “mission” ®,
a bowl of charity soup or @ sa
wich to ease the pangs of nung
But if the unemployed could
statistics both Tories and Lib@
have produced a goodly supP
one on how unemployment
been “cured”, the other on *
to cure it? : ;
Perhaps the most braz©
shameful of all Tory and Li :
election propaganda pictures
“claims” is that of Dief oF
surrounded by a handpicked en ;
of Native Indian peoples | rest
these pundits posing as the 8
“defenders of Indian rights’
people who have all but bee? ie
stroyed by the degrading porord
pursued by Liberal and
governments alike since Cal
became a nation ninety-five bk?
ago.
It used to be said that the ~ 4:
era “doesn’t lie”, but that pid
before the oldline parties %
monopoly discovered that it

vel

for them. Hence, the pictori
rage on the elector’s doorsteP,

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