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BXAct definitions of words are always
Re portant, and especially during
al jon time. For instance, we hear

Ot of politicians and their daily press

*ounding off on the need of “statesmen”

tet provincial government, the
is just ae eat thelr particular party
yearning ee ; ull of statesmen” all
o “serve” the people.
iio late Bob Edwards, editor of the
amous Calgary Eyeopener, came
x a in. our opinion to a correct
Jon of a “statesman”—the kind

to :
) 2)b8 found in our governments. Bob

eeu hia attended the funeral of one
bisa ae most outstanding range-

a iberal politicians and. grafters.
7 Nvariably the case at such events,
_~ Preacher in charge of the eulogies

“a
e is fulsome in his praise of the
ts a Statesman” who had passed on

reward.

Bt funeral Bob and a few cron-
to slak themselves to a nearby tavern
: eg “sorrows” with a mug or
om eer, “Now,” said Bob, when
Liberat Sokegend got around to the
DW wh ack they had just planted, “I
at a statesman is; a statesman

ad pave
Statesmen Politician. We need more

Ih ae
Wares eaition to their “statesman”
and ¢ C € Tories, Liberals, Social Credit
Mon Be oP brass have another com-
‘chorus € which they chant im raucous
talk of be the hustings. They .all
“Stable € need of “stable” government.
‘ditions f0vernment is one of the con-
One op a clamor for, especially if
brang of ‘ae other of their particular
&in the Statesmanship” politics should

ascendency on June 9.

AAAS ”
step Me g Sovernment? In one of Web-
Word «yap Atmold) definitions of the
Fixeg. a © We find it can mean:
se rmly established; not easily
“#9 mean wen Of overthrown.” It can
feed ‘Nos house for beasts to lodge
ANd somewt, The choice is very wide
Nitions conc te in between these defi-
Zytholog mes yet another from Grecian
“table : Y, the “Augean (political)
Strupp * &Xtremely filthy, foul and

Doub

OUbtless “the « ;

: pare firmly-established-not-
t concept of “stability” is
°pportunist politicos have

Mind, hence i i
ment® elects e their noisy appeals

Rega

: r

am os of how we look at it, it

‘s c " ae the people of B.C.—and

hen, of “stables had more than a belly-

A te in this © Sovernment: Right

Kg Om Tbevovince the late Johnson-
able» eral-Tory Coalition was so

§ W i ;
Pyiabie th. its immovable and un:

h © majori

gen. yyWority that it stank to high

eg e uh) 12 last year the people

stat, Save jt with such “stability” that
llizing» } 2 Most unexpected “de-

a " tain} “ve-ho at the polls!

Stahy waly :
rage tle in qrothing could be more

Y than the Political jargon of to-
xed” unyielding top-

Tate for “stable” govern- ©

heavy majority wielded by a Liberal
regime in Ottawa; readily accepting its
blueprints for ‘stability’ from the
Yankee directors of dollar imperialism.

And yet, and because of this “stabili-
ty,” Canadian (and B.C.) industry, mar-
kets, trade, jobs, social security, peace
and the general outlook, was never less
“stable” than at this moment.

Farmers, workers, small business and
professional men, the “white collar”
workers, all suffer from this brand-of
“stable” government. But does this
stop the marathon promisers on’ the
hustings from whooping it up for more
“stability”? Not a bit of it!

Premier Bennett’s idea of “stable”
government is to have such a whacking
majority of Socred yesmen in the next
legislature that no one will even dare
suggest that his economic-theological
halo is sitting askew.

The discredited Liberal party, with
its new political “face lift” and its new
leader “Moses” Laing, swamps the hust-
ings with “Ten Steps To Restore Stabil-
ity’—each “step” a political booby-trap
for the people, and a complete reversal
of Liberal policies when that outfit ex-
ercised a most “stable” government.
Laing would like to return to “stable”
government—by Laing, as would Deane
Finlayson for the Tories, since both
understand that kind of “stable” gov-
ernment and dictatorial power, as_be-
ing synonymous.

Even Arnold Webster beats the
“stable” government drum, but whether
for the CCF or the Liberals, no one is
as yet quite clear. This erstwhile “So-
cialist” has demonstrated his “stability”
in the service of “stable” government
on many occasions during the past de-
cade or two. When the BEG swimming
pool was an issue Webster was with the
“stable” gang who were ready to give
it to UBC, and thus deprive the bulk of
Vancouver’s citizens of its enjoyment.
Fortunately a mass popular protest
knocked Arnold’s. “stability” into the
limbo where.it belongs and won the
BEG swimming pool for Vancouver.

When another “stable government”
gang prevented the late John Goss, the
world-famous singer, from contributing
his talents to Vancouver’s cultural life,
Arnold Webster again demonstrated his
“stable” qualities — by introducing a
“stable” brand of red-herring smear
against a talented artist!

As a “seventh juror” in the noted
Clarence Clemens case, tossed in as a
sop to labor to allay the widespread
indignation against the brutal police
treatment of this Negro longshoreman,
Arnold Webster’s “stable” qualities
were once again manifested—with his
signature upon one of the most shame-
ful documents ever to come out of a
coroner’s court.

The “stable government” urged by

the hack politician means partisan in-
terests before the people's interests!

The kind of stable government the
people of B.C. want to see after June
9 is a government that will call a halt
to narrow partisan political axe-grind-
ing in the legislature; a government
that will put the people’s interests first.

Stable government means the people

. not the politicians. Keep that in
mind on June 9—and vote first choice
for the candidates of the Labor-Pro-
gressive party. They alone put the
people’s interests first . . . before that
of “statesmen” or other “stable” aspir-

ants.

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Sir, the West’ German. Freedom Committee to liberate Eastern Europe

is here.”’

(National Guardian, New York)

What about it, Mr. Bonner?

THE fact’ that two politicians who

figured prominently in the Clemens
case are candidates in this provincial
election makes this an appropriate time
to raise some unanswered questions and
draw certain conclusions.

The first conclusion is that the
promises made by Social Credit At
torney General Robert Bonner to the
editor of this paper and various labor
organizations, that he would give “con-
sideration” to, the widespread demands
for a new inquest, are apparently quite
worthless. Bonner’s studied evasion is
more eloquent than his carefully-
worded promises.

Undoubtedly it was a neat bit of
political footwork when Bonner as-

‘signed Nathan Nemetz, QC, to repre-

sent him at the shameful farce of a

- coroner's inquest into the death of

Clarence Clemens. The Socred gov-
ernment probably hoped to offset a
widely held opinion, engendered by
the public pronouncements of national
Social Credit spokesmen, that Social
Credit doctrines are strongly anti-

Semitic. Selection of Nemetz was also»

calculated to “appease labor indignation
as expressed in Vancouver Labor
Council, over police brutalities, and to
create the impression that with Nem-
etz, who once had a reputation as a
“Socialist,” holding an active brief,
nothing of the tragic events leading to
the unnatural death of a Negro worker

‘would be suppressed.

The infamous document produced
by that coroner’s inquisition is proof
to the contrary. Bonner’s failure to
order a new inquest underscores that
proof.

It may also have been considered a
neat bit of political footwork to add a
seventh to the stipulated six members

Save the

THE disturbing news that the U.S.

Supreme Court has again refused
to intervene in the case of Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg, frameup victims of
U.S. warmongers, can have only one
meaning to decent people everywhere
the need of a still greater world
protest,

Speaking of tht same warmongers
of fourteen years ago, the people who
burned Sacco and Vanzetti to death;

who buried Tom Mooney for a lifé-

time, who lynched and terrorized
thousands of American Negro workers,
the late Joseph Stalin said: “It would
be naive to preach morals to people
who recognize no human morality.’
That seems to be still too true of the
cabal of war conspirators who rule
the U.S. today and who want to rule
the world tomorrow; who rely on want-
on destruction, war and witch-hunts
to gain their coveted objectives.

of a coroner’s jury in the person of
Arnold Webster, now CCF provincial
leader. We don't know whether Bon-
ner or Nemetz engineered the selection
of the “seventh juror” or not, but
Websterls ‘ signature on the verdict
does not make it any more palatable to
those who believe in social justice and
racial equality.

‘Thus far there is nothing to indicate
that the Bennett government and its
attorney general intend to do anything
to honor their pledges in the Clemens
case. They are busy on the hustings
telling the people all they will do if
they are reelected. In their scramble
for votes they have forgotten Clarence
Clemens, a worker and a Negro to
whom even in death justice is doubly
denied because he had a black skin.

Bonner should learn from the fate of
his Coalition predecessors that politics
are not accepted by the people as a
substitute for social justice; that a
cabinet minister's pledge must count
for something — otherwise it counts
for nothing; and that a Canadian with
a black skin is not of less consequence
than one with a white skin.

Bonner is now on.the hustings de-
fending’ the record of his short-lived
government against Tory, Liberal and’
CCF charges, most of which could well
be ignored by any one honestly trying
to serve the people of B.C. But the
“unnatural”. coroner’s — inquisition
which stooped to the use of Clarence
Clemens’ “crime record” in an effort
to justify his death, is a travesty of jus-
tice that Bonner cannot evade — and
claim fitness to administer justice in
British Columbia!

What about that promised investiga-
tion,-Mr. Bonner? The people would
like to know — before June 9.

Rosenbergs

With a calculating maniac like Sen-
ator McCarthy setting the “moral”
pace, the executioners demand the lives
of innocent victims to feed the fires
of their war hysteria.

But there is a greater voice than that
of the McCarthy witch-hunters and
war incendiaries, the voice of an out-
raged decent humanity. That voice
must be raised to ever greater volume
to save the lives of Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg—and to save the U.S. and
the world from moral and physical de-
struction.

It is no longer a question of the lives
of two people, the father and mother
of two young boys. In saving the
Rosenbergs from the Wall Street ex-
ecutioners the world will avert the
tragedy of being hurled back to a
barbarism more deadly than Hitlerism.

Speak up—to save the Rosenbergs!

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