HIS is Canada’s 93rd birthday.

In ninety-three years a multi-

national people have been welded
into a great bilingual nation.

We, the common people who
have built this land, are the heirs
and inheritors of great wealth, of
vast resources and limitless abun-
dance. Normally this ninety-third
birthday should be a day of bound-
less rejeicing, of happiness and
gratitude.

But sinister forces make it
otherwise. The dark and deadly
pall of Hiroshima, marking the
bursting of the nuclear age upon
mankind with its countless thous-
ands of victims, hangs heavy over
Canada.

The people who sit in our parlia-
ments today, with tragically few
exceptions, have become traitors
and hucksters of Confederation;
have sold out our land, its re-
sources, heritage and peace, to the
nuclear madmen of the Pentagon,
to the profit brigands of U.S. im-
perialism.

Thus on this ninety-third birth-
day, instead of a clarion eall for
independence, neutrality, peace
and prosperity for Canada, epitom-
izing the ideal of Confederation,
and the earlier rebels of 1837, we
have Diefenbaker’s declaration of
Subservience to Wall Street mani-
acs, entitled “Your Basement Fall-
out Shelter.” Not a declaration for
peace, but a nuclear pre-funeral
oration by a tory demogogue. The
price the Canadian people pay for
“following” a gang of tory scoun-
drels!

This, while a U.S. senatorial in-
quisition impugns the world’s
greatest nuclear - scientist, Dr.
Linus Pauling, because he and his
fellow scientists sought to warn
the world’s peoples of the terrible
danger of nuclear bomb testing,
and against which there is no de-
fence, save a cessation of such
madness.

But U.S. imperialism and its
lackeys have one over-riding pho-
bia, that of “communism,” and are
ready to destroy the whole world
in their madness.

On this natal day the common
people of our country have-a sacred

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duty to perform; for our country,
for the generation which now
lives, and for those who will follow.

To stop Canada from becoming
a blackened heap of nuclear ashes,
some things must be done, and
quickly.

Clean out the tory hucksters
and demagogues who have sold out
Canada to U.S. nuclear madmen
for a fast buck. Clean them out,
not on what they say, but what
they have done and still do.

Intensify as never before the
fight for peace and peaceful co-
existence with all nations and peo-
ples. Work to end H-bomb tests,
manufacture, and use. Make the
fight for Canadian independence
and neutrality a fight for survival;
for homes and loved ones; for
human dignity and national re-
spect.
3egin this struggle now on this
93rd birthday, so that when Can-
ada’s centenary comes around in
1967 (if we are still here) a
Socialist Canada will be the crown-
ing glory of Confederation; a Can-
ada free and independent, a beacon
light for the peace, prosperity and
happiness of all mankind.

This way lies survival. The other
leads to Diefenbaker’s backyard
“shelter,” to destruction and
death.

HE 10 - nation disarmament

talks in Geneva have collapsed
and once against the big business
press is pouring out its venom
attempting to put the blame on the
Soviet Union and socialist coun-
tries.

The Soviet representative was
telling the truth when he charged
that the Western powers were de-
luding the world by pretending to
take part in disarmament talks
while stepping up their arms pro-
gram.

Nearly three weeks ago the
Soviet Union submitted its far-
reaching disarmament plan which
undertook to meet the West’s ob-
jections half way. No alternative
was presented by the Western
powers despite pleas by Soviet
representative Zorin that they
submit their own plan.

Significantly, the Western pow-
ers kept the full details of the
Soviet disarmament plan from
their people. In B.C. not a single
paper with the exception of the
Pacific Tribune kept the public

informed what the Soviets had
advocated.
Only a few days before the

talks broke down editorial articles
were appearing in capitalist news-
papers explaining that “higher
ups” in Washington did not favor

complete disarmament. Their 2%
gument was that in the compel
tion between socialist and capila
ist states the capitalist stat@
would be at a disadvantage with
out armaments. What they meal
to say was that if they disarmé
the imperialist states would havé
to give up ‘hope of destroyillé
socialism by military means. Thi
some of the arch-reactionaries af

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not want to do.

The Soviet Union has now 4
nounced that it will ask the U:
General Assembly to place ¥
question of disarmament on }
agenda when it meets late #
summer or early fall.

The breakdown of the Genev
talks are a serious warning to
world. It indicates that power!
forces are lined up against relax®
tion of tensions and genuine dis
armament. The conclusion Cal@
dians must draw is that if there}
to be disarmament it will onl}
come through powerful pressl!
from the people.

Our first job in Canada is 4
demand Canada take an indepen?
ent stand on disarmament inste@
of running interference for
U.S. Canadian neutrality and }
cut-back in arms spending woul
give a lift to all peoples in ¥)
world looking for disarmame™
and peace. p

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Tom
McEwen

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T MAY have been pure coincid-
j ence, but just ‘immediately
after the big Vancouver jobless
parade two weeks ago, Ottawa
made the “timely” discovery that
unemployment was “falling off.”

Such discoveries are not diffi-
cult for Ottawa to make. With a
large staff of statistical jugglers on
hand to provide mathematical
alibis for Diefenbaker ‘“‘do-nothing”
policies, the old adage that “‘statis-
tics don’t lie, but liars figure’’ is
again confirmed by events.

One of the slogans carried in the
Vancouver jobless parade struck
an historic B.C. note — ‘100-years
of progress—100,000 unemployed.”
On this Canada’s 93rd birthday it
may be said with equal force, “93-
years of profit gouging equals 1,-
000,000 jobless,” with big new lay-
offs in the making.

That should give the professional
figurers something to apply their
special talents to, and we haven’t
heard of a single jobless worker
having an extra porkchop as a re-

sult of their recent ‘‘falling-off’’
alibi.

Just a few weeks ago also, when
Vancouver topped the nation’s
high-cost-of-living barometer the
Ottawa figure jugglers gave out
with some mathematical formulae,
aimed at showing that our c-o-1 had
“dropped a decimal fraction of one
percent.”

Had anyone offered us a hand-
some bonus of a new Rolls Royce
or a free trip with Ike to Tokyo,
we just couldn’t find this “drop” in
the week’s grocery basket, in the
landlord’s rent notice or the last
pair of paper-soled shoes we
bought at bargain-basement prices.

We couldn’t find it for the
simple reason it wasn’t there.
Neither can the jobless worker
find any “drop” in unemployment,
except the “drop” he or she gets
when the UIC draws a cancelling
pencil through their unemploy-
ment insurance benefits.

Such “drops” are only for the
political yesmen of big business, to
assuage what passes for a “con-
science’ because they have done
nothing about it, and having thus
“dropped,” see no need or urgency
of doing anything.

Next to statistical juggling in an
effort to dredge up alibis, the fine
art of political buck-passing has
lost none of its Hungry Thirties
flavor. Vancouver’s Mayor Tom
Alsbury, who is probably a typi-
eal run-of-the-mill mayorality in-

cumbent, thinks unemployment
more of a provincial issue than 4
municipal one.

Meantime Premier Bennett
wasn’t exactly glad to find a job-
less delegation waiting to welcome
him at. the airport on his retur?
from a junket to Britain to “sell
B.C.”, (something the Socreds até
pretty good at).

Any Socred spokesman, includ
ing our affable premier can delivet
a lengthy spiel at the drop of 4
hat-on what their government has
done and is “doing for unemploy-
ment,” the while neatly depositin’
the main responsibility on Tory
Dief’s doorstep. Hence if B.C-%
growing army of jjobless (or Ca
ada’s for that matter) could liv®
on statistics, buck-passing and Tor
or Socred promises, they could be.
rated as “enjoying” the highest }Y
ing standards in the world. t

Not too sure that its curre?
spate of statistics will be swallow”
ed without some gagging, Diefe™
baker has set up a senate commit:
tee to make a “study of mam
power” and “‘causes” of unemploy-
ment.

We won’t go into that now, other
than to say that the surest way ‘
make such a study useful is ve
organized labor and its joble
members to turn on a concerte®
united, nation-wide heat, to sec
work and wages now instead rt
statistics. A good job to sta
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June 30, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—?2? :