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P UNTIL the West German
government’s efforts to estab-
lish nuclear military bases in
Spain became public knowledge,
the spokesmen of NATO have
always touted that war conspiracy

. organization as being purely an
- instrument of “defense” against

some mythical “aggression.” In
this they have had the full backing

of bourgeois and right-wing social

democratic reaction.

Even when they could no longer
conceal the knowledge that the
Neo-Nazi government of West
Germany was negotiating with
Butcher Franco to set up a new
Hitlerite anti-Soviet “axis,” with
West German military bases and
nuclear producing plants on Span-—
ish territory, NATO spokesmen
sought: refuge in the cheap pre-
tense that Adenauer had gone
“behind their backs” in his war
conspiracies with Franco.

Now the NATO cat is out of the
bag; the grim truth is emerging,
and in the process the “defense”
pretexts of NATO are being ex-
ploded. :

Adenauer’s negotiations with
Franco were not only known to all
NATO chiefs, but fully approved
by them. This on the grounds that
to be an effective anti-Soviet
“ally” in the NATO war machine,
West Germany must have foreign
bases. As U.S. NATO chief Gen-
eral Norstad and West German

- defense minister Franz Strauss

put it, West Germany must have
“lebensraum” (living space) in
order to make its fullest contribu-
tion to the war conspiracies of
NATO.

What is worse, as the British
Daily Worker states, is that the
British Tory government, in line
with the wishes of its senior part-
nef in Washington, are calmly dis-
cussing these demands with the
aim of satisfying Adenauer. Brit-
ish foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd
is reported as “excusing” West
German demands for bases on the
grounds that they are needed.
Lloyd let slip the “Sahara” as a
possible solution to Adenauer’s
demands for nuclear “lebens-
raum.”

While these NAT@ conspiracies

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are running full blast on the eve
of the Geneva 10-power disarm-

ament talks, and to which millions

of the world’s people look longing-
ly for a final easing of war ten-
sions and a turning to disarm-
ament and peace, it is clear that
the prime purpose of these latest
NATO conspiracies is to scuttle
the Geneva talks. :

This can be further seen in the
additional proposals of U.S. NATO
chief; General Norstad, who is now
proposing the immediate setting
up of a highly mobile NATO force,
armed with nuclear and “conven-
tional” weapons, which can be
used as a “lightning” striking.
force anywhere, against what
NATO brass may term “aggres-
sion.”

Thus, while the Geneva talks,

reflecting the urgent demand of

millions for peace, begins to tackle
the momentous issue of disarm-
ament and peace, the war conspir-
ators of NATO with the West
German dregs of Hitlerism in the
lead, plan new provocations to.
facilitate their drive to atomic war
and devastation.

The silence in Ottawa on the
West German military bases issue
is ominous. It must be broken —
‘by the mighty will of the Canadian

people for peace and an end to
NATO war conspiracies.

OLLOWING an exchange of
“billets doux’” between the
federal Fisheries Department and
the B.C. Department of Recreation
and Conservation on the delicate
question of how, where and on
whom to clap another tax gouge, it

_ looks as if the salt-chuck sport

fisherman is the next victim to be
filleted.

The suggestion mooted is that a
nominal licence fee of around a
dollar or so be clapped upon every
sport fisherman angling for the
elusive coho, spring or tyee in the
salt-chuck, and to hold him down
to one set of fishing gear per craft.
Such licences, says Ottawa, “would
help to gather statistics.’ Most
important, however, it would help
gather tax dollars, perhaps begin-
ning with one dollar per fisherman
(as in fresh water licences), and
winding up a year or two hence at
five or more per fisherman.

Another governmental depart-
ment on the hunt for tax sources,
has its eye on the licensing and
registration of all sport fishing
craft, from the streamlined cabin
cruiser down to the remodelled
washtub. With the increase of
such craft looking as though it
may soon be as crowded on the
briny as automobiles are on B.C.’s
bottle-necked highways, this craft

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get a bite
licensing should really be a lucra-—

tive field for government tax pr0S- — 4
pectors hunting for pay dirt.

To top it all off, annual pay-and-
fish salt-chuck fishing derbies,
long one of B.C.’s most attractive
and enticing sporting events, 1S
now being frowned upon as 2 Jot-
tery,” thereby fouling up the
Criminal Code, and hence condu-
cive to further “indirect” tax rev-
enue from the sport fishermal
fraternity. ;

The question at issue is a tick-
lish one, reminiscent of that other ~
famed question, “are bagpipes —
music?” Is the landing of a Big”
One a game of “chance,” “luck,
or as some sports fishermen con-—
tend, pure “science” and know-—
how? In either case those with
their eye glued to the lucrative
sources of revenue (as in the case
of parking meters), can always
interpret the Code to fit the fish—
and the sport fisherman. Fees

Any argument that such sport
fishermen licensing is necessary to
cover governmental costs of con-
servation, etc., is scuttled by the
fact that, minus such licensing,
the B.C. government last year net-
ted $180,000 profit from what it
collected in fishing and hunting

‘licences over what it spent on con-
servation. =

Tom
McEwen |

BIRD’S - EYE - VIEW of the
A “new party’ as seen from CCF
. general headquarters and relayed
by special courier to the “PT”.

cratic organization. That is, its
members will be free to think and
say what they like, providing all
thoughts and uttérances coincide
with official CCF dictum. ~

The “new party’ may make ref-
erence to ‘‘socialism” upon suitable
occasion, but only when “I’m-still-
a - diehard - socialist’? Harold has
duly sounded the tocsin.

All. candidates of the “new
party” for political office must be

politically amenable. Such certifi-
cation shall be carried out by a
duly authorized CCF Un-CCF Ac-
’ tivities Committee. Trade unionists
chosen by their fellow-workers as
electoral candidates, must be, or
become members of the CCF with-
in 30-days. That is final.
“New party’ members, repre-
sentatives, candidates or other po-

The “new party” will be a demo- —

.

certified as being safe, sane, and |

litical fauna shall refrain from the
use of such terms as “all-in-unity,”
“united fronts,” “nationalization,”
“socialism” and similar, subersive
terms. Any deviation from this rul-
ing can only be authorized by duly
qualified CCF “realists.”

Representation in national or re-
gional conventions, seminars, con-
ferences, etc., shall be on the ap-
proved one-horse-one-rabbit plan.
That is, one delegate for every
four CCF’ers or major fraction
thereof, and one delegate for every
thousand trade unionists, farmers,
or other “‘liberal-minded” fraction
thereof. E

(Such representation is designed
‘to preserve the purity of the “new
party,” while at the same time at-
tracting large numbers of castoff

_ liberals, socreds, torigs or other

political nondescripts, thereby as-
suring the “new party” a_ truly
“broad”? peoples’ character).
Trade union members of the
‘new party” seeking wage in-
creases, must bear in mind the
urgency of increased production as
the best safeguard against the
ever-present danger of: “inflation”
and “socialism.” They must be
guided by the timely Winchian
slogan: ““The world doesn’t owe
us a living.” :
(Trade unionists who are not
prepared to accept the CCF as
“God” and its top brass as his
Prophets, will not be eligible for,

special courier the foregoing pro-

membership in the “new party’’).

Those which do subscribe to
these basic principles and policies
of the “new party” will be accord-
ed the high responsibility of pro-
viding the votes and the finances.
On all other matters relative to
the “gradual” parliamentary eman-
cipation (not so loud) of the pro-
letariat, the CCF will provide the
“wealth of experience” essential
to governmental decision and
decorum.

When (??) the “new party” is
elected to power, all existing
Onerous legislation by previous
governments will come under close
scrutiny, and shall be remodelled
to the “common good.” With this
assurance, all workers, farmers,
unemployed, housewives and
others, are cautioned against any
united or mass actions seeking re-
dress, since all will be duly taken
care of when the “new party” as-
sumes the reins of. government.

Posiscript. According to our

visions set forth in the “new party”’
straight-jacket prospectus, provides
an iron-clad guarantee that, come
the next election, the old-time
hacks will romp back in, thereby
signalizing a signal “‘victory” for -
the ‘new party” pattern-makers.
PPs. And to think how differ-.
ent it could have been with the
common sense Winnipeg resolution -
as a guide! © : é

March 11,

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