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McCarthyism in Canada

WHEN students at the University of
. British Columbia recently burned
Olonel Robert McCormick, publisher of
th '€ago Tribune, in effigy they noted
at it would, perhaps, have been “more
visable to burn an effigy of a Cana-
Lae But fortunately, they had been
able to find a Canadian counterpart.

il Cannot be said that the UBC stu-
ts are complacent. Their whole de-

Wneiation of McCarthyism denotes an

areness of its dangers to our liber-
4383 Rather, they are a little premature
ada haeratulating themselves that Can-
Mec 4S no counterpart of McCormick or
arthy,

Recent statements by’ Social Credit
that th in the House of Commons show
€re is at least one and perhaps
aspirants to the post of McCarthy’s

adian,
A Rage deputy.

‘Whos n Blackmore (Socred, Lethbridge),

e. Secretary has been mailing anti-
Raat’ Printed matter under his free
“mentary frank, has defended Mc-
ie In the House as a man of “great
«48e and sincerity,” a man with great
: eee capacity” and “understand-
Do a World affairs.” ‘He has been sup-
om by E. G. Hansell, who organized
Cam... redit’s first successful provincial
“Sea in B.C. By their own state-
: hey have revealed themselves as

€s. of Canadian liberties.
its a at is more alarming because of
Israg W, Cations. This week the British
Vertise orld Federation published an ad-
Aeiig ace in the Vancouver News-
in the Uaouncing Canada’s membership
latin hited Nations as a “flagrant vio-
erat, Cf Biblical command as the fed-

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Mg the UN and specifically External

wy aaa Arce

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‘ Mhote sl to carry. The peoples of the

wr lonial world have reached the
80. « es they just don’t want to be

“ed” and would much prefer to
“bur eh” hy Own way, unaided by such
Is ni Carers. At the moment this
ful arly so in Africa, where a mere

ng th in whites insist upon maintain-
Negro Supremacy over millions of

Colored peoples.

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Npidty “oY of the empire builders is
Shak Oving to its final twilight.

1, bkes Rasa
- AUliyg mare Put it in a nutshell in his
at

ma aesar ‘When he said “The evil
© lives after them, the good

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fits the ctred with their bones.” That

od Sa
emp; Others, €s, Livingstons, Stanleys

“ . . .
explorers,” missionaries,

: lre Py
- the “Dy builders, who foraged through

: e ne Continent.” They were out
+Pon the, pate” the natives, to impress

© superiority of the white
‘heres Sand incidently to bring vast
y Steal tan exploitation, material and
he » Wit

Y ta in the orbit of the empire.
ad eet the Ten Commandments
Whips , eed docile Obedience with

Ro ayonets, -

Wh
r ie ic ¢ ‘ ’
Ry i ai this “white man’s burden”

© seen in recent events in

Song’, “M8anyika, Uganda, the Camer-

Malan’s “apartheid” South
the © pretences to “Christian-
"atives ' Smooth talk of “helping” the
Kickeg 9 self-rule is: unceremoniously

de. Cold, naked, brutal rule

Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson as a
former president. One member of Brit-
ish Columbia’s Social Credit government,
Health Minister Eric Martin, it will be
remembered, was once identified with
the British Israel World Federation.

THe thousands of people in this prov-
ince who voted Social Credit in the be-
lief that they would thereby advance
their own interests in peace and demo-
cratic progress cannot rest content with
the statement made by Solon Low, Socred
national leader, that Social Credit has
no intention of “championing McCarthy-
ism” in Canada.

Social Credit supporters, and all pro-
gressives, in this province can best ascer-
tain the stand of their MPs by interview-
ing them during the Christmas recess
and getting them to state their attitude
toward the anti-labor and anti-democratic
clauses of Bill 7 to amend the Criminal
Code, which provide the intended legal
basis for McCarthyism in Canada.

Globe and Mail DECEMBER 3,
Thank God U.S, World's Leader
——__——- —>-_Torid’s Leader

City must demand better transit service

OUSANDS of Vancouver citizens who

wait for unreasonable periods for a
bus to come along during “slack” hours,
and who watch packed buses go past
without stopping during rush hours, will
not believe the B.C. Electric Company’s
claim that it is giving the best service it
possibly can.

They will agree, though, with Mayor
Fred Hume’s statement made in city
council this week that the public is en-
titled to adequate service» and that it is
up to the BCER to provide that service.

And they will remember that it was
Mrs. Effie Jones, popular campaigner for

by all. the death-dealing equipment of
imperialist aggression is brought into
play. Declarations of “Human Rights”
are only good, so long as-they don’t get
in the way of super profits.

The “independence” granted by the
imperialist governments is given on this
strict understanding—that the colonial
peoples can have the form without the

content, the husk without the kernel,

the “freedom” without the opportunity

of using it.
’. The events in British Columbia are a -

classical example—of the milder type.
The people don’t. vote according to the
rules of the British Colonial Office, so

their choice of a government is dis- \

qualified, with military and naval forces
brought in to enforce the ruling.

The new constitution is scrapped on
the pretext the democratically elected
government is using it to foster “com-
munism” and the Colonial Office takes
over—to the greater glory of “democ-
racy” and the profits of the aluminum
and sugar trusts.

The recent court martial of a British
officer for the cold-blooded murder of
Africans in Kenya brings a lot of in-
teresting psychological data to light.
White supremacy is linked with the
sporting tradition of the cricket fields
of Oxford and Eton. The battalions of
occupation troops to keep the ‘Kenya
people in a proper frame of mind to-
wards their British “emancipators” keep
an inter-battalion “score board,” that is,
how’ many Africans the respective com-
petitors murder. A rather gruesome
game it is true, but when “officers and
gentlemen” are drawn from the lowest
scum of the English gutter, and imbued »
with the idea that their white skin is
vastly “superior” to a black skin, the
genocide becomes a normal sequence vin
the preservation of “our way of life.

(The officer charged in this case was

acquitted, a fact which will lend incen-
hive to higher “score boar in the

murder of Africans.)

people’s causes, who forced city council
to take action by leading delegations to
council and demanding that the mayor
and aldermen do something about the
inadequate transit service.

The B.C. Electric’s attempts to prove
that it is doing its: best to provide .ade-
quate service do not stand up. When

- Ivor W. Neil, the company’s general man-

ager of transportation, says that an alder-
man who claimed to have seen 145 idle
season?” .

The fact is that the B.C. Electric
arbitrarily decided on certain “slack”
periods when making its recent drastic

The “white man’s burden” carriers are
also having no end of trouble with tribal
rulers in numerous African colonies.
Some have already been banished from
their African principalities to “Merrie
England.”

One of our problems, of course, is the
fact that a large number of these tribal
rulers and other leaders are graduates
of Britain’s leading universities, people
well tutored in all the social arts and
sciences. Soapbox protests in Hyde
Park, that famous cradle of British free
speech, are one thing. Educating their
own people in the ideals andthe rights
of self-government and self-determina-
tion is something else. We tolerate the
former, but we must meet the latter
with all the death-dealing force at our
command. So we banish tribal rulers
and appoint trusty “governors,” backed
by “score-board” troops to keep our

profits intact—and the natives “in their «

place.” :

The “white man’s burden” is rapidly
becoming an insoluble curse—upon the
white man. Having compelled the man
with a skin different to our own to con-
form to our way of life, we are now not
a little upset because he takes some of
our concepts at face value. And we are
more upset than ever when he begins
to develop the idea that, regardless of
the color of his skin, he is our equal
(if not our superior) in every way—ex-
cept, of course, in mass killing. With
each passing week the dilemma becomes
more pressing, indicating that the old
idea of “empire” is near the end of‘the
road!

e

In our own backyard we have the
Clemens case and other expressions of
racial hatreds and “superiority.” Further
south, lynching of Negroes still mocks
the fine-sounding pretenses of U.S. dip-

lomats, dedicated to the proposition that -
all men are created equal — provided
their skin is white.

cuts in service — with the result that
even in “slack” hours the reduced buses
in operation are crammed to the doors.
And during rush hours, the situation has
become intolerable.

The city’s franchise agreement with
the B.C. Electric calls for “adequate”
service. It is high time city council fore-
ed the company to live up to this clause.
“buses in the Oakridge centre at 4:30 p.m.
last Thursday “might have seen 40, but
not 145,” the public’s reaction will be:
“Why should any buses*be idle at any
time during the Christmas shopping

Forty Years Ago

(From the files of the B.C. Federationist,
December 19, 1913)

The B.C. Ministerial Association called
on the Conservative government of Prem-
ier Sir Richard McBride to undertake a
public works program to relieve “a very
serious and distressing situation owing
to the lack of employment for great num-
bers of men who find it impossible to
secure any means of livelihood.”

x * *

?

Ranks of Vancouver Island coal miners

~ Were still solid after 20 months of strike,

despite provocations and organized
violence. Canadian Collieries was re-
ported to have scoured “the American
continent and all Europe for strike
breakers” and the militia was still sta-
tioned in the coal centres. But in South
Wellington, of 300 miners on strike,
there had not been one desertion from
the union. In Cumberland only four
men had deserted the union, of some
1,200 on strike, and in Nanaimo, where
1,600 men were on strike, only 20 had
deserted.

Fifteen years ago

(From the files of the People’s Advocate,
December 16, 1938)

In the Vancouver civic elections, Dr.
Lyle Telford, CCF MLA for Vancouver
East, defeated five other candidates, in-
cluding Mayor George Miller, Non-
Partisan candidate, for the mayoralty.

Ten years ago
(From the files of The People,
December 18, 1943)

Labor scored a smashing victory at the
polls as Prince Rupert Civic Labor Fed-
eration elected its candidate for mayor,
four of its five candidates for city coun-

- cil and two of its three candidates for

school board. ee

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 18, 1953 — PAGE 5