Layne the corner stone for
a “Fathers of Confederation” Me-
‘morial Building in Charlottetown,
P.E.I., Prime Minister Pearson is
reported to have made “an impas-
sioned plea” to all Canadians to
live up to the “high ideals of our
Founding Fathers. °

. If we read our history right
these“high ideals” did not include
abject surrender to the dictates of
Yankee imperialism; did not in-
clude a systematic sellout of Cana-
da’s resources, industrial potential.
jobs, sovreignity and peace for the
greater glory and profit of U.S.
monopoly? :

Lest we fo

FoLLowING seven long years
of cold-blooded persecution and
imprisonment, frame-up victims

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo
Vanzetti were finally murdered
in the electric chair. That was 36-
years ago, on August 22, 1927.

Just before his life was burned
_ out by the class hate of Yankee
monopoly, Nicola Sacco wrote a

_ farewell letter to his little son:

“My son, do not cry. Be strong
and comfort your mother. Take
her for walks in the quiet country,
gathering wild flowers, eating be-
neath snady trees, and visiting

NEWS item in the July 10 edi-
tion of the Australian Tribune,
organ of the Communist Party of
Australia:

“kK. F. Hill and his group make
“leftist” criticisms of party poli-
cies. They say that we are “soft
on reformism”’, that there is “too
much talk of peaceful transition
to Socialism”, that “pacifism” has
grown in the peace and labor
movement, and they tell us that
they (the Hill group) are the “true
Marxist-Leninists”, whereas the
Party majority are “revisionists.”

News item in the August 2 edi-
tion of the Peking Review: “E. P.
Hill, former member of the Polit-
ical Bureau of the Communist
Party of Australia and his wife,
left Peking on July 24 for home
after a visit to China. While in
China Chairman Mao Tse-tung of
the Central Committee of the Chi-
nese Communist Party received
them and gave a banquet in their
honour.” =

* * *

When a big monopoly fish-
packing newspaper like The Prov-
ince does a glowing pen portrait of

_NDP leader Bob Strachen, that’s
one good way of losing votes—for
the NDP. :

What is needed is not a Prov-

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Moreover. even if the Fathers
of Confederation couldn’t see that
far ahead, these “high ideals”

Pearson rhapsodizes about did

not include the signing of a nuc-
lear test-ban treaty one day —and
the next turning Canada intoa
suicidal ammunition dump for U.
S. nuclear bombs and Pentagon
trigger men.

Confederation must be celebrat-
ed as a symbol-of a united and sov-
reign Canada, not as a pro-U.S.

Liberal “high ideal’ sounding
board to cover up Liberal betray-

al!

the streams and the gentle tran-
quility of Mother Nature.

“Do not seek happiness for your
self. Step down to help the weak
ones who cry for help. Help the
persecuted because they are your
better friends. They are your com-
rades who fight and fall, as your fa-
ther and Barto foughtand fell, to
win joy and freedom for all the
poor workers.”

The dream of “a good shoemak-
er and a poor fish peddler, ’ echo-
ng around the world of today,
and imperishable as its deathless
martyrs.

Editorial comment...

ince-approved “new” Messiah, but
a fighting NDP, expressing the
unity and determination of the
people of B.C. to clean out the
Socred ‘“‘Augean stable” in Vic-
toria.

Then we’d see how much less
jubilant The Province or similar
monopoly-controlled newspapers
would bein their praises of Mr.
Strachan's “new” statesmanship?’

PREMIER Bennett and his
Socred cabal have moved to secure
another “mandate’, another
“blank check” from the people of
B.C.; a move engineered primarily
to enable completion of the Socred
sellout of this province and its rich
resources to the U.S. trusts.

In his announcement for a pro-
vincial election on September 30,
Mr. Bennett once again demon-
strates a typical Socred oppor-
tunism and reliance on the element
of “surprise”; that of aiming to
catch the electorate, the Opposi-
tion parties, and even his own Soc-
red back-benchers, unawares. This
special brand of Socred “surprise”
also serves to disenfranchise thou-

sands of B.C. voters, who are given —

little or no opportunity to register,
and hence deprived of their demo-
cratic right to vote.

None of the reasons given b
Premier Bennett for his haste in
calling an election at this time
have any validity or claim to truth.
But the real reason, unstated but
well known to Mr. Bennett, and to
a steadily growing section of the
B.C. people, have become patent-
ly and painfully obvious.

These include a growing public
resentment against the dictatorial
arrogance, ministerial corruption,

_and political slight-ofs-hand meth-
ods of Socred administration of
public affairs.

They also include a Socred
hydro debacle, in which Columbia
River sellout to U.S. monopoly,
the B.C. Electric “takeover”, and
Peace River development have be-
come mere pawns in a Socred
power play, designed to garner a
Yankee “fast buck” rather than
serve the needs and interests of
B.C. The “Alladin Lamp” of Soc-
red “prosperity.”

Added to the above, a “debt
free’ province, with Bennett’s
budgets “‘balanced” at the cost of
financially-starved municipal gov-

ernments, with educational, social.

welfare and health needs doled out

by Social Credit after the fashion
of giving “alms” to a tramp, but
always with an eye on the political
gain and “prestige” of the donor. —
Legislative ball-and-chain re-
strictions upon the free expression
and unity of organized labor, aim- |
ed at crippling its economic
struggles and obstructing its polit-
ical objectives by and through a |
party of its own choice.
Truly the docket of Socred dic- —
tatorial arrogance and brushing
aside of the principles of parlia-
mentary democracy in its service —
to U.S. finance capital, are legion; —
an odious record of sellout, be-
trayal and political chicancry.
There is panic in the Socred camp.
‘This election, contrary to ben-
_nett’s hopes for another political
blank check, offers the people of ©
B.C. a golden opportunity to give -
Mr. Bennett a long-overdue “sur-
prise’; that of consigning his Soc-
red regime to the political scrap-
heap of history, there to rest be-
side an equally corrupt Tory-
Liberal Coalition which sired it _
eleven years ago.
The alternative, and the only
alternative to this Socred govern- —
ment of monopoly yesmen, is an —
NDP government. Not a govern-
ment of “integrity ‘and “‘stabil-
ity” which NDP leader Robert —
Strachan calls for, since these
much bandied about terms are lar-
gely meaningless in today’s politi- _
cal scene, but government by a
party which sets as its objective
the uniting of the broadest masses
of the common people of factory
and farm around progressive poli-
cies designed by and for people.
The opportunity for such an
NDP alternative is here, righton
our doorstep. Allthatisrequired
is for the NDP leadership to grasp
it, apply the measure of unity _
needed and easily possible—and
march forward to victory. To the ©
winning of British Columbia’s re-
sources, peace and wellbeing for |
its people.

A. artist deeply engrossed

“Welcome stranger,’ said the
artist, ‘I see you too are a lover
of nature. I’m sure you too have
seen the splash of splendor when
the sun goes down; you know
what exquisite beauty it is when
‘morning gilds the sky. You too

rocky rims, turning the golden
west into a vast lake of fire.
Haven’t you my friend?” %

The old prospector shook his
head dolefully. ““Heck no, mister, I
ain’t had a drink for nigh onto six
months.”

Like all comparisons the fore-
going isn’t dead-centre, but it does
serve to illustrate the point; that
what humanity sees and experi-
ences depends pretty much on
where ‘and which side of the fence
they view it from.

To a_ profit-greedy monopoly
with a $12-million net profit for
the first half of 1963, the view is
without doubt, a pleasant one.

in

painting the desert landscape
of New Mexico, became aware of
an old. prospector peeping over his
shoulder.

may have seen the hidden beauty.
that lurks behind the cliffs and.

Ta the jobless worker at the
welfare wicket, the recipient of a
miserable pittance to hold body
and soul together, plus an ignor-
ant harrangue on “thrift” by some
political pen-pusher, the panorama
of life is much less pleasant.

Or take the run-of-the-mill poli-
tical windbag who has just re&

ceived an extra $8,000 to hig al- °

ready overpaid $10,000 to keep
him in the “huffing-and-puffing”
business; for him the political
landscape is bathed in warm ser-
enity. To him the were! thet enntd
happen is “another election”: But
to the ordinary citizen or the old-
age pensioner trying to subsist on
a pittance, who mistook ‘“prom-

ises” for reality, the landscape is —

much less entrancing.

As we said, it is pretty much a
matter of which side of the tracks
one assesses-the political landscape
from. In this year of 1963 the
Bankers Association literally
sweat “satisfaction’’ on and about
the bank’s “earnings”, while well
over 20-million jobless and desti-
tute in the Western hemisphere of
the Americas (which includes Can-
ada), don’t know where their next
crisis meal is coming from. And
they are only a small segment of
the world’s vast battalions of
Hunger,

In his Emperor Jones, Eugene
O’Neill laid bare the end result of
capitalist ‘prosperity’. when he
wrote, “The child was diseased at
birth, stricken with a hereditary
ill that only the most vital men are

able to shake off. I mean poverty
—the most deadly and ‘prevalent
of all diseases.”

Thus we come back to the old»
prospector, who, cold sober, just
couldn’t see the desert landscape
in quite the same glowing colors as
the artist.

Keep that in mind during the
next five weeks because B.C.’s top
political landscape artist, Premier
W. A. C. Bennett and his Socred
surrealists are going to be paint-
ing “the golden west” into a vast
lake of Socred-bathed “prosperity”
with a terrific “splash of splen-
dor’, etc. But for thousands not in
the coupon - clipping - resources -
giveaway business, the ‘hidden
beauty” of Socred artistry will re-~
main pretty much a blank canvas.

All of which reminds us of
another anecdote which  supple-
ments the old prospector’s limited
vision, and which may prompt the
B.C. electorate to a similar query

The clergyman was _ holding
forth on the life and good works
‘of the “departed”. So eloquent
and fulsome was his praise of the
deceased as to cause the bereaved
widow to turn to her little son and
ingure, ‘are ye sure laddie that’s
yer father in the coffin he’s speak-
in’ aboot”. |

When W. A. C. gets going on
the achievements of Socredia, a
good many B.C. voters will ask |
themselves a similar question. Our
hope is that they come up with
the right answer — and make the
“burial” decisive and complete.

X

jireet
ERS,

és ; _ August 30,

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