* The Nixon

Gace

“We've been rehearsing a school play and | have the part of
Washington’s roving ambassador in friendly countries.”

GOD HELPS THOSE...

Little Rock, Ark. — Secretary
of State Kelly Bryant is arrang-
'ng a $20-a-plate appreciation
dinner for himself.

Reporters asked Bryant if he
Was sponsoring his own ban-
quet.

“Well, | wouldn't say that. |
guess you'd say it's like throw-
Ng a birthday party for your-
self,””

Where is the money going?

In my pocket,” he snapped.

Later he tried to say he had

said “in the pocket” or “in a
Pocket.”

fund@.~
“Well; it's going for: the ex-

Pense of different things,” he
said,

Bryant became hostile when
reporters pressed him for more
information.

You write any damn thing

you want,” he said. ‘You can’t
shake me.”

Further questions received a
Crisp, “No comment.”

KILLERS’ BUDGET

administration
Proposes to cut funds for the

ational Cancer Institute in
the coming budget $4.5 million
below the 1969 figure.

Is is exactly the amount
the Administration spends
€very one hour and twenty-one
minutes in prolonging the car-
Nage in Vietnam.

The White House would jus-
tify this cruel priority on the
9rounds that cutting cancer re-
search is essential to the fight
Against inflation.

That is bald-faced deceit.

é This Administration would
cut the appropriation for can-

Is it going into a campaign —

cer research to pay for another

hour and twenty-one minutes

of bloodletting in Vietnam.
The $30 billion a year cost

of that bloodletting—not can-

cer research is the biggest
single cause of inflation.

Daily World

AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL?

(To be sung to the tune of
America, the Beautiful)

O, beautiful for jet-jammed
skies,

For smoggy domes of gloom,

For purple mountains’ singing

- brooks -

Drowned out by sonic boom.

America, America, to Thee
came D.D.T.

And crowned thy green

With death obscene

from sea to stagnant sea.

O, beautiful for beer-can
graves

On every beach and strand,

For verdant forests, blackened
now,

Fire-scarred by man’s blind
hand

America, America,

God save you from your fate

If men decide

On suicide

And keep an atom date!

Robe:t L. Karp

FAKE BLOOD MONEY |

There is a certain irony then
in the report that some of the
mercenaries who fought in
Nigeria were to be paid with
counterfeit Swiss francs.. That
would seem to be fair remune-
ration for services rendered.

Globe & Mail

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LEST WE FORGET.

Exactly twenty-five years ago, as the
Soviet Army was rolling irresistibly to

finish the Hitler beast in his lair at ©
- Berlin, it liberated a handful of sur-

vivors in the Nazi concentration camp
at Oswiecim (Auschwitz) where four
million men, women and children had
been put to death by the fascists.

This must not be forgotten although
half a century separates us from that
horror of horrors. It must be remem-
bered because it can happen again — in
fact, as the atrocities revealed in South
Vietnam remind us, is happening now.

More than fifty million human beings
(over twenty million of them Soviet
people) died in World War 2. But wars
are being waged in several parts of the
world today and evil men are plotting
World War 8, even though it mean the

- destruction of the greatest part of the

human race.

Six million people of Jewish origin
were killed, thousands of Gypsies were
annihilated, the Slav population was
being cut in half with the rest to be
reduce to slavery, and other nationali-
ties were doomed to extinction as “low-
er races” by the Hitler “super race”
madmen, But does not what is happen-
ing in Vietnam amount to genocide?

No, we must not forget.

Representations are being made by
British, French and American bigwigs
‘to secure the release of Hitler’s right-
hand man Rudolf Hess from prison on

humanitarian grounds. “Let us forgive

and forget,” they plead, accusing the
Soviet Union of being harsh and vindic-
five in refusing to agree to free the
German fascist war criminal. Quite
-nart from the thought that the “hu-
manitarian” instincts of the modern
Munich men may have their roots in
the fact that Hess flew to Britain in
1941 in an attempt to arrange a deal
for joint war against. the Soviet Union,
would not such “humanitarianism” con-
done the crimes of war being committed
today and absolve beforehand the per-
petrators of new and even more hor-
rible Osewiecims, Buchenwalds (yes,
and Hiroshimas and Song Mys) of to-
morrow?

No, we cannot forgive and forget.

We dare not. -

WARNING SIGNALS

Whenever the Establishment finds it
tough to carry out its policy of escalat-
ing the plunder of the people because
of the victims’ resistance, it resorts to
greater and more naked violence.

Today we stand at the early stages
of a ruthless drive of big business and
the Trudeau Government for the whole-
sale robbery of the working people of
our country under the “austerity” pro-
gram.

The stage for the all-out offensive is
being. set by a campaign designed to
“orove” that it is the labor movement
that is to blame for inflation because it
will not submit to the freezing of
wages. The wolves of capitalism always

try to make out that the reason for the -

sheep being eaten lies with the sheep
themselves ...

But while the farcical propaganda
show is being put on, with the mono-
polists supposedly being “reasonable”

: a signal.

while the workers are “stubborn,” the
previously vague threat of “stronger
measures if necessary” is now accom-
panied by very concrete preparations
for compulsory arbitration, adoption
of more stringent anti-labor legislation,
and the build-up of the forces of re-
pression.

_Signs ‘of development in the direc-
tion of a police state are ominously
multiplying.

The RCMP reshuffle, with the new
chief publicly dictating to the govern-
ment on questions of foreign policy,
and the dragging of the “Communist
spies” fabrications out of the dustbin—
are warning signals.

The reported recommendations by
the House of Commons Justice Com-
mittee that police be given the green
light on wiretapping is another warn-

he various charges of police law-
sness in different parts of the coun-
try (in addition to their “lawful” pro-
tection of the Establishment’s interests
against the people) are also warning
signals.

We are moving along the road of
preparation for large-scale legal plus
extra-legal reaction in Canada, the
road that in the United States has led
to a system of “rule by murder,” and
which in Germany a generation ago
led to Hitler fascism.

The carrot of anti-inflation is being
waved before the workers’ noses to get
them to accept the “austerity” program
or at least to disorientate them, divide
their ranks, and soften them up.

In the meantime the whip of coercion
is being readied.

_ The carrot is make-believe, but the
whip is real.

THE REAL WAGES

Dealing with our last week’s editorial
comment on steelworkers’ wages, Ham-
ilton workers’ leader Bert McClure
makes these pertinent observations:

“I have not met any steelworkers who
think they got a good contract. Quite a
few have told me it’s a lousy contract.
Be that as it may. A worker with a
gross income of $10,000 only gets $8,090
after basic compulsory deductions. That
gives him an average of $155 take-home
pay per week. He was better off three
years ago. His standard of living has
gone down, not up, and will go down
still further in the next three years.

“Dollar wages are very deceiving and
gross wages even more so. The phoney
tax set-up robs the worker even before
he is paid. The standard of living has
to be based on net take-home pay. The
share of the national wealth that the
working class gets is going down and
is inadequate. The organized workers
are better off than the unorganized and
people on fixed incomes but the so-call-
ed high-paid construction workers are
falling behind with their standard of
living. Construction workers who are
fortunate enough to work steady and
who got a 90 cents immediate increase
per hour in 1969 are still not equal to
their previous living standard of three
and four years ago.”

As the Communist Party statement
printed on page 5 of this issue points
out, the workers must battle to catch.
up, let alone keep up.

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