Guest editorial ug (The following editorial entitled “Blow him out” was published fm the Dec. 15 issue of the British Daily Worker.) ‘yf nations could take out libel actions against individuals, the British people ought to institute ‘@ne against Lord Home. Speaking of Berlin, he has. told ‘Nato that the British people are - prepared to be Betas into atemic West if necessary.” ®ither Lord Home eas, this ds a lie, in which.case he is a amenace. Or he really believes it, in which case he is an even bigger " mmenace. If there is one thing unt whieh At is possible to be absolutely cer- tain it is that the British. people -are not prepared. to be blown into tHlomic dust for West Berlin. . Lord Home need not take the “word of the Daily Worker for it. Let him look at what is no doubt his favourite paper (since it norm- “gily religiously reflects the views _wf the Foreign Office)—the Daily Telegraph. On November 13 it published the results of a Gallup Poll which showed that only one out of every eight people were prepared to fight a nuclear war over Berlin. | ’ “qmented: “This indicates that the British are reasonably agreed that “Berlin is not worth a nuclear war.” = When asked the trick question: “WWould you rather be dead than Red? nearly half refused to an- swer, no doubt. realising that it came in the “have you stopped beating your wife?” category. Of those who did answer, the majority (31 per cent_of the adult population) had enough sense to prefer to be Red, and only about one in five expressed a preference _for death. ; Far from wanting to die for West Berlin most people in Britain are coming to. the conclusion that the real threat to their lives and As the Telegraph itself com-_ future comes from those who are using that city as a-pawn in the _cold war — and especially the West German militarists. Yesterday the Nato council dis- cussed the Adenauer-Strauss de- mand that they should get their fingers on the nuclear trigger through the device of a “Nato nu- - clear force.” West German control of H-bombs and missiles would do more than any other single step to increase the danger that we shall be “blown into atomic dust.” This is the result of Home’s policy. He should be blown out of office before he does any more damage to Britain. He has the right to commit sui- cide himself if he wants to. He has no right to humbug the world into believing that his countrymen are as mad as he is. ~ Editorial comment.. “S The recent Weyburn | (Sask) “byelection. poses the need of some gareful study, not only by New Democratic Party leaders and qmembers, but _by all Canadians in- terested in ending the misrule of “pig business; be it Tory, Liberal or | Yn the Weyburn election the Liberal candidate, H. Stavely, won easily over the CCF-NDP candi- . date O. D. Reimer, and this, in: . fenstituency held for over 17-years by CCF Premier T. C. Douglas, now national ledder of the NDP..° 9" / A good hard look at the lessons of Weyburn NOW, might avert a Tweedledum landslide later. Pacific Tribune ' Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — MA Business Mgr. — OXANA . Published weekly at . = - Room 6 — 426 Main Street ~ > Vancouver 4, B.C. - Phone MUtual $-5288 Sub: Stion Rates: One Year: — Six Months: $2.25 CE RUSH‘ IGELOW: . Canadian and™Commonwealth coun-- tries erceut. Australia): year. Australia, United S all other countries: $5.00 one’ year. Authofized as second class mail by the 4.00 one | ites and- = Office Department, Otfawa, and. cash. ay eee pe McCarthy rides again he current campaign of The Province against the Vancou- yer Civic Employees Union (Out- side Workers) follows the well- worn Hearst press pattern; im- pudent interference in the internal affairs of a union, and the Me- Carthyite ‘anti- communist” “smear technique against union leaders. - Voicing the hopes and. desires of organized monopoly in its. drive against labor organization ‘and standards, the aim of such journals 2 as the Province is to provoke -in- ner dissention and disunity, and most important, as in this instance, x to launch its smear. campaign on . - the eve of wage negotiations. Se No greater error however sould be made than to think that The Province -campaign is merely ‘No friend prs Kennedy’s recent “goodwill” tour to a number of Latin American countries has been hailed by the commercial press and TV as “a great success”? Measured against the back- ground of “Tricky Dicky” Nixon’s Latin American junket in 1958, perhaps it was a “success.” It will be recalled that Nixon, as Wall Street’s top bellhop, had to duck for cover on more than one oc- casion from the anger of the peoples whose countries he visited. In the Kennedy visit, and par- ticularly in Venezuela, tens of thousands of heavily armed police - against ‘Communists’ in the unions -or‘elsewhere. That is only a smoke screen for reactionary attacks against all labor. . During the last provincial elec- tiouSs acting as a Charley Mc- Carthy for. the oil tycoon) ‘and — manipulator Frank McMahon, The- - Province publicly stated that “16,-"~ 000 jobs” would be lost if B.C. © voted “socialist,”. that is, CCF. Well, (regretably) B.C. did’nt vote “socialist,” ner did McMahon. or jobs.” fighting elan of* organized labor and the people—with ‘the “anti- - communism” ‘of a ‘McCarthy, os Hitler, or an Eichmann. in misery and military “security” forces were mobilized to safeguard the U.S. president from .the “warm friendship” of the peoples he visit- ed, and whose abject hunger and. poverty is directly traceable to the voracious jaws of U.S. imperialism. When the armed forces of a nation have to be mobilized- en mass to safeguard a visiting foreign plenipotentiary, the kept ° press of monopoly may describe - the event as “a great demonstra- tion of friendship,” but people con- demned to the scourge of poverty, illiteracy . and oppression have © another name for it. * Tom enelten Tease’ backwards over the year now drawing to a close “the balance sheet presents a strange -picture of tremendous human pro- “s gress and retrogression. By far the ~. most, significant factor for progress is the- growing determination of the world’s peoples to win peace, and to block the nuclear maniacs of thé so-called ‘free West” in their . .mad drive for Buctear “domination | or “destruction.” 7A glance.at the current headlines of the “P.T.” for 1961 emphasizes the economic and political mani- festations of this all-compelling issue of peace. While millions of dollars: went down the arms drain; “mass jobless delegations declared from the steps of Parliament “We ) Want Jobs.” That same January of ~ “1961, Diefenbaker and Fulton hur- ried to Washington to sign the Co-- ~Yumbia River Treaty give-away - with the expiring Eisenhower re- -gime; a giveaway which not. only - ~ meant a surrender of our vast hydro resources to U.S. monopoly, but Canadian jobs to boot. The early days of 1961 also saw the foul murder of Congolese - Premier Patrice Lumumba, con- monopoly in its drive on nived at by the same Western im- perlialists and their stooges, within ’ and outside the UN, who are now waging bloody war upon the. Con- golese people, to impose a new “Western” colonialism. In’ March the Bennett govern- ment enacted Bill 42, designed: to put a ball-and-chain on working- class economic and political action, and to sanction ‘open season” for labor standards and organization. Then came the “Day to Remem- ber” when Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin shot out into space in his good ship ‘‘Vostock I’; orbited the earth and came down on schedule. Man’s first journey into space.. - Over one third of the 1961 head- lines of the “P.T.”’ were on the Columbia River sellout. A year ago the “P.T.” almost stood alone in this. Today there is a rising vol- ‘ume of protest against this Tory- Socred sellout to Yankee imperial- ism, so much so that U.S. govern- ment incumbents like Udall and Goldberg publicly stick their noses into Canadian political and labor affairs, and express themselves as * “unhappy” at the trend of events in Canada. More power to the causes of such “unhappiness.” ” . Berlin -has also occupied much of our headlines of 1961, since a rearmed Nazi West Germany makes Berlin the powder keg of Europe. There too official Tory Canada has played a contemptible stooge role 2 throughout 1961. To the ht hg icicles “Titov of the Soviet Union orbited ~ ’ is to try and convince the capitalists : handicap. tion of peace, universal disarma- demand of “No War Dusk Berlin” Dief seeks subterfuge in dernagogic double-talk and McCarthyite. anti- . Communism. — ST Then there was that great day in August, another “Day To Re- member,” when Major Herman -° the earth 17 times in 25 hours, and brought his spaceship “Vostock IT” -. safely back to earth. Just about the time of his 14th orbit sections of the sewer press in Canada ‘were filling their front pages with the story of Major Titov’s “crash”. But it. was their front pages and not Major Titov that “crashed”’. Another big event in 1961 was the Socreds “take over” of the B.C.’ Electric transit and power octopus. A really worthy and worthwhile = move, but unfortunately as yet, not apparent to the public “owners” in reduced rates, And just before our space runs out, the birth of the New Demo- cratic Party: a birth with a tre- mendous potential for peoples’ unity and progress, but handicap- ped by a right-wing social ' ‘demo- ms eratic’ leadership, whose’ main aint ~ that it can run tapitalisin’ better 4 than they do. 1962 will see a goodly : start made to angen: that matures be Our aim for 1962 — othe 8a liza’ oi, ment, and human: ‘wellbeing.’ Am- ” 23 : bitious, yes, but the ees oo. ps os i Gi abe and progress.” Sas ae — Dilecsilais 22, 1961—PACIPIC TRIBUNEAPaie’ es The Province ppieer the “10, 000. ee Thus The Province campaign has «~ a single purpose, and an obsolete ~ weapon; to destroy the unity ‘and =<