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Keep the heat on

nder mounting pressure from the Canadian people the

Pearson government, through the media of External Af-
fairs Paul Martin, has finally mustered enough courage to
call for an end to U.S, bombing of North Vietnam as a pre-
condition for any workable negotiations towards a peace set-
tlement.
_ Of course, as is customary, Messrs, Pearson and Martin
had the latter’s call for an end to the bombing “cleared” with
Washington before presenting it to the UN Assembly.

Belated as the Martin call is, the Canadian people should
be very grateful to the Pearson regime for managing to go
that far after years of abject apologies, excuses, etc, for U.S,
aggression and barbarities in Vietnam, but don’t let us shout
“hurrah” too soon,

When an individal or a government has long demonstrated
a preference for imperial gangsterism, national or interna-
tional, it is always wise to closely scrutinize any abrupt
change-of-heart to the contrary.

The Martin call could also be an added bait on the Johnson
“peace” trap to swing public sentiment against Hanoi; an old
stunt in the Martin-patented trickery of “quiet diplomacy”.

There is only one sure formula for bringing Martin’s actions,
for peace in Vietnam in line with his words; keep the public
heat on for that much-desired objective,

‘Home sweet home’

uses in high places during the past 50-years?

week on how capitalism safeguards the home, in the dis-

so-called Children’s Aid Society personnel literally tore two
little girls, Peggy and Valerie, aged 5 and 3 years, from their
foster mother’s arms,

Had these little tots been abused, neglected, uncared for,
even then the methods used by the authorities would have been
disgraceful, But the opposite was the case, Mrs, Arthur Trim-
bell and her own family lavished all their love upon their adopted
sisters, and fought valiantly against the combined police and
“welfare” (?) authorities to tear them out of a little family
where they were both loved and happy.

What then was the cause whereby a mother, her family,
and two little foster daughters had to be subjected to violence,
terror and hysteria to effect an alleged “remedy”? Religion.
The Trimble home is Anglican, but Peggy and Valerie are

tt @ocialism destroys the home,” How often that slander
been thrown at the Soviet Union by influential ignoram-

Probably millions of Canadians had a glimpse on TV last

graceful scene at Preston, Ontario, where massed police and

presumed to be Catholic, Their happiness regardless, that had to |
be “remedied” — peacefully if possible, violently if necessary.

— and violence carried the day.

Tom

McEWEN

ed October! In the long

calendar of Man’s prog-
ress, probably the most symbolic
month in human history.

In our concentration camp days
of the early 40’s some of the
boys were always composing
songs, One of these songs had
a rollicking repeat line — “And
the Maple Leaf Turns Red”,

Well, on our new Canadian
flag it has, and in the Octobers
of a future Canada it will turn
a still deeper Red,

Great events have come to
fruition during October days.

On October 1, 1949, at a great
open-air Congress on the site
of the Canton Commune, Mao
Tse-tung spoke these prophetic
words: “China has stood up”,
heralding the birth ofthe Peoples
Republic of China, Long on their
knees, prostrate under the lash
of foreign imperialism and its
native landlords and warlords, a
nation of 650-million people
«stood up” on that glorious Oc-
tober day.

October 6, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2

That was 18-years ago, Today,
bedevilled by “Thoughts” which
sap the power which enabled them
to stand so proudly erect on that
October Day, with their Destiny
in their own hands, they now
stumble and fall,

But a people who have known
freedom are not likely to accept
for long a new servitude to ex-
ploitation, whether imposed by
alien influences like the CIA,
or a debilitating cult of their
own making,

Even at that, the Chinese people
accomplished more since that
October day 18-years ago than
all the Chinese emperors and
their imperialist blood-suckers
did in a thousand years,

Perhaps we didn’t start this
October theme just right. There
was another Red October day,
in accordance with the old Julian
calendar, which under our
Gregorian calendar, makes Oc-
tober 27 into November 7, That
was the day on which the Great
October Russian Revolution was
accomplished and proclaimed,

Council must get on with
urgent housing projects

Provincial gov’t out to scuttle public
housing, Communist brief charges

A demand that there be no
reversal of City Council’s de-
cisions on approved housing proj-
ects, and that Council protest
provincial government evasion
of its responsibilities on hous-
ing by approving the projects
now before it, was made ina
submission to Council by Charles
Caron, secretary of the Vancou-
ver Executive of the Communist
Party,

Voicing alarm at the failure of
the three levels of government
to cope with the housing crisis,
the letter to City Council ex-
pressed indignation at the deci-
sion of the provincial authorities

“to withhold approval of 15 hous-

ing projects on the pretext of
high costs.

The submission said:

“Both the Federal and Pro-
vincial governments have been
aware for a long time of the
cause of high prices — the
profiteering that has been going
on in the building industry —
since all they had to do was to

Wuy ALL THE
ALARM ABOUT AIR
— POLLUTION ?

On-that historic October day
an oppressed multi-national na-
tion of some 190-million illiter-
ate and backward peasants, under
the leadship of Vladimir Lenin
and their small Bolshevik Party,
broke the oppressive chains of
Russian Tzarism from their
hands, and began the stupendous
task of laying the foundation of
a new human society; a society
that would — and has demon-
strated its superiority — and
ability to “Reach for the Stars”.

That was truly an historic
October Day because, in changing
its own, it has also changed the
course of all human society.
An old world order of tyranny,
pillage, oppression and war re-
ceived a death-blow on that Oc-
tober day from whichit cannever
recover, try as it may, Its in-
vigoriating October breeze swept
the world, It still does,

From that October Day came
another — October 4, 1957 to
be precise — when the first man-
made earth satellite soared into
space, the trail-blazer of many,
heralding the dawn of the Space
Age, launched from the soil of
the young Soviet Union, And in
the wake of the Sputniks that
“Day to Remember” when Yuri
Gagarin made man’s first orbit
in space around Mother Earth,

In much less than 50-years
a nation of “illiterate backward
peasants” had become a nation of
scientists, dedicating their
science and creative labors to the

AIR PoLwTion ?
an

look at the balance sheets of
building supply and construction
companies that are filed with the
government, Why the sudden
concern about high prices of
public housing, projects? ... .

“Last February, in a submis-
sion to Council, we associated
ourselves with the criticism by
Council of the Provincial gov-
ernment’s undue delay in approv-
ing public housing projects pro-
posed by Council,

“It has become clear that it
was not simply delay that the
Provincial government had in
mind, but the complete scuttling
of public housing. Municipal Af-
fairs Minister Campbell’s inves-
tigation is a fraud, It’s only pur-
pose is to block public housing
and thus assist the private de-
velopers’ profiteering instead of
curbing it,

“Most deplorable is the pres-
ent position of the majority
of Council members on this issue,

WHAT

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greater knowledge and happiness
of mankind, Beautiful October
with its matchless colors light-
ing the way.

But all October days in-man’s
struggle for progress, happiness
and peace are not always joyous
days. In this symbolic month 33-
years ago, Hitler began the build-
ing of his Third Reich with a book-
burning orgy. Japan at the other
end of the Nazi axis prohibited
books as containers of “danger-
ous thoughts”, We in the “en-
lightened West” were smugly
content with a tight censorship.

It was also on an October day

in 1932 (Oct, 22) that the Tory

government of “Iron Heel” Rich-
ard Bedford Bennett attempted
the murder of Communist leader
Tim Buck in his cell in Kingston
Penitentiary. That Bennett’s in-
spired killer wasn’t successful
was not due to poor marksman-
ship, but because of prison struc-
ture which provided a minimum

of surrounding properties:

_ Provincial govert

expected
jon of

Vancouver Citizens
Council to denounce the action
the Provincial government, ‘

stead, the Council got on 3
bandwagon by taking similar es,
tion, namely cancelling Prole™ =
already approved. f

people are living.

that public housing 1
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with existing buildings. NO! all
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automatically lead to ante
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The sadness oy
another October Da
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to his friend sorse vit!
of Karl Marx: “7° a ore
all the unfinished WOR sell ah
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complete them at pols” oe
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Beautiful Oco!
the red and burnis Werte
maples, symbolic of Mt if ne Ps
gles, and ultimate
cause of peace
Socialism.

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Editor—TOM McEWEN Associate Editor—
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