il | A faithful servant Fuzome euologies are being paid the late Adlai Steven- son, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Euologies by the spokesmen for those interests he served to the last hour of his life. For the millions, temporarily deluded by his pseudo liberalism, few tears will be shed. He died as he had lived, a faithful apologist for the aggressive excesses of U.S. imperialism in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin Amer- ica. In London, England, on a tour to “explain American policies in Vietnam to key people”, the rumor got booted about that Stevenson had “reservations” on President Johnson’s war policies in Southeast Asia. Just a matter of hours before his sudden death Stevenson put the quietus to that rumor on a BBC-TV “Panorama” program. He said, “I do not share any misgivings about the direction of our policy.” On the UN, with the U.S. doing its best to scuttle it when it could no longer use it as a screen for aggressive war adventures as in Korea and the early days of the Con- go’s struggle for independence, Adlai Stevenson had a sticky job todo. The euologies of alleged statesmen at home and abroad are eloquent proof he measured up to the job. ; The ambulance crisis T he refusal of the Socred government to lift a finger to help solve the critical ambulance crisis facing most’ B.C. municipalities is a monumental example of a callous and inhuman attitude. Nearly all municipalities face an imminent shut-down of their emergency ambulance service. Some have been forced to curtail services drastically because of lack of funds. In Vancouver the subsidy ends this month without any help in sight. While men, women and children may lose their lives because of the lack of emergency ambulance service, Attor- ney - General Bonner washes his hands of the whole busi- ness by declaring it to be entirely a municipal responsibil- ity. Most municipalities have asked for a provincial sub- sidy. Many groups have urged that the ambulance service be made part of the BCHIS. The ambulance drivers union said last week Victoria should pay an $8 a trip subsidy and that this would only cost the government about $500,000 a year. An indignant public opinion must make the govern- my LABOR ROUNDUP: All-out support pledged — to postal, grain workers © Labor council hacks Vietnam peace petition Delegates to the Vancouver and District Labor Council, Tuesday night unanimously endorsed the petition and post- card being circulated by the B.C, Peace Council urging Prime Minister Pearson to act to end the war in Vietnam, Introduced by the Marine Workers and Boilermakers ‘delegate Jeff Powers, four or five delegates seconded his motion to endorse the petition after he read it out, The petition is reprinted in this issue on page eight, d V4 ‘ Delegates to the Vancouver and District Labor Council Tuesday night pledged full support to the striking grainhandlers and to the action taken: by Vancouver’s postal workéts in seeking a higher wage increase from the Federal government, Delegates cheered Bill Black, president of the Hospital Em- ployees Union, when he declared “if Mr, Pearson wants ‘a war on poverty let him start with his own postal service,” VLC sec- retary Paddy Neale said the ac- tion of the post office workers “is one of the finest manifesta- tions of workers strength I have seen,” The postal workers in Van- couver said they would be going on strike at 2 a.m. Thursday along with their fellow postal workers in Montreal unless the Federal Government met their demands, A spokesman for the post office workers said wages raas EMPLOTER _ BAS MOT SICMED wo AEREEOXT fog LWoo A. “STAY AWAY FROM FROLEK SAWMILL” says a leaflet published by the Wes- tern Region of the IWA. The leaflet urges all workers to respect the picket line at the North Kamloops mill. The above photo shows some of the pickets. The mill failed to resume operations this week after threatening to do so. Mean- ment act on these demands before tragedy strikes. Tom _McEWEN &@ Agestern civilization: Accord- ing to the “best” people in this “best of all possible worlds,” we are supposed to have attained . the highest form of* civilization” known to man, That is, our cul- ture, our intellect, our code of’ __morality, our social behavior, etc., is held to be par excellence, To be sure, according to these “best” people, we haven’t at- ‘tained perfection, but then who has? Yet at this precise era ofhuman history a sobering question is posed: how narrow the dividing line between this so-called *civi- lization” and organized savagery? The Hitlerite atrocities of World War II showed that divid- ing line to be very narrow in- deed, The Nuremberg court de- cisions, (now buried and forgot- ten by these “best” people) grim- ly confirmed its stark truth. Of course, despite some opinion to the contrary, there can be no such thing as a “humane” war. The young life snuffed out or the body broken by “conventional” weapons is a poor “concession” to war’s victims, - We probably still live too close ‘to that era of death and destruc- tion to evaluate fully its blighting touch upon our civilization, This might explain, among other things, our detachment, even un- concern, at the atrocities now being inflicted upon the people dof Vietnam, the Congo, and else- where, by the most “civilized” of all governments, the USA, the “leaders” of our made-in-the- USA “free world,” while, this week more former non-union workers joined the picket line. One might ask, what is thedif- ference between a child burned to death in a Hitlerite death oven —because it was Jewish, and an- other child burned to a crisp by U.S, napalm bombs becuae it was a child of the Vietnam people; the difference between the geno- cide of Hitler imperialism and the genocide of U.S, imperialism, and the “civilization” both equate? Not long ago an Indian paper carried an on-the-spot story of the “white mercenaries” in the Congo; the story of a former British Army major Mike Hoare and an ex-Hitlerite aryan super- man officer, Siegfried Mueller and the international bandit scum they command in their murder forays against the Congolese people, These two were and are out- standing examples ofthis vaunted “civilization” of ours. Thesetwo, on their own sayso have one motivation in the service of Tshombe’s assassin army; to kill and collect—in American dollars, “Shooting is in my blood,” says Mueller, “and the moren.....S I shoot, the less chance has com= munism to get a foothold in Af- rica,” With nazi thoroughness Mueller boasts of exterminating whole villages, down to the last man, woman and child. And the Britisher Hoare, he ° went to the Congo to “catch for- tune by the tail.” The major makes no bones about it in his interview. “The main thing is to kill as. many black commies as one can.” If their skin is black they must be a “commie,” and the “pay is a bit of all right.” * * * ‘For such upholders of our “western civilization” examples at higher government levels are were less than for laborers and that if the government can spel $1.6 billion on obsolete milital equipment, it can spend enough to bring their wages up to adecel! level. The Federal cabinet met eat!) Wednesday morning and a mee ting with postal union officials was set for later in the day. press time it was unknow! whether the cabinet had agre — to meet the union’s demands Delegates to the Labor Council also heard an appeal from B.C. Federation of Labor calli for financial assistance to he’ the six week old erainhandle! 4 strike. The VLC voted 4 4 contribution and called on rt affiliates to give solid sua to the grain handlers, Coun secretary Paddy Neale wasele™ ted to serve on a.special Bit — Federation of Labor committee — set up to aid the grainworkel® — William Stewart of the Marilé Workers was named alternate aE At press time talks were Goi on between Federal mediator D™ F Neil Perry, the union and eleval? operators on the dispute W flared up this week as the cP. attempted to move a freight loaded with hot cargo from Alberta Wheat Pool, ah KEK A letter from the oil workel? thanked the Labor Council foril? support in the recent displ es Delegates also endorsed “a principle” a resolution sent ay Alderman Hugh Bird urgine * chronic care be made part of # B,C, Hospital scheme, Approv was given to the city’s five J 1 plan “reluctantly” because itst? failed to give the east end of : sg city the attention it needed. con e cil also approved a call fot crash program to train youn unskilled Canadians instead © looking for masses of immig?@™ from abroad, ee rotete eas erate’ not lacking, One need only recal a recent “humanitarian missiO® in the Congo when U,s, plan flew in Belgian paratroopels ; from a British base to “rescl®, some alleged missionaries, y in the process to kill’as m9) Congolese people as the“ numae itarian” operation would perm y-to" When we total up these da tne day atrocities committed by “civilized” U.S, supermen their subsidized assassinS, "| marginal line between “civili2® : tion” and asavagery unsurpas*" even by Hitler, seems very 2 row indeed, In fact one mighteV" be safe in saying that such 4 ‘ marcation line no longer exist ck: Cll ment of postage in cash. 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