‘The ayes

Wher the politicians, civic, provincial or federal, decide
on a-salary or wage boost, little time is wasted on de-
bate as to whether the municipality, province or country
can “afford” it. No “hold-the-line-on-wages” piffle is per-

mitted to get in the way.

Nor, as in the case of organized labor going after a
few extra cents in the take-home-pay, is there any hint
supervised” votes or
what have you. The politicians prefer the simple direct ac-
tion method; they just vote themselves a salary boost
ranging all the way from an annual $2,000 to $12,000 sal-
ary hike. “Get-it-while-the-getting-is-good” would seem to
be the prime consideration.

about “conciliation”,

Should John Q. Public get a bit critical of this high-
handed legal larceny, the politico can dwell at length on
the “sacrifices” he (or she) is making in’ “serving the coun-
try”. how they cannot “afford” to maintain two family
domiciles, and how little their great “services” seem to be

appreciated, etc., etc.

arbitration”,

have it’

9? 66

From all such explanations one could even be led to
believe that these politicians had been “press-ganged” into
parliamentary office, instead of moving heaven and hell
and resorting to every political skulduggery and trick they

knew, in order to get there.

Then the big salary hike, sans “conciliation’’—to line
their own pockets and bolster the illusion that “capable

citizens” can only be lured to public office if there is a big

salary involved?

Thus, while the average taxpayer knows that a good
two-thirds of those now drawing $12-18-20-thousand a
year or over from the multiple public pork barrel, aren’t
worth one-quarter of that wage to any employer —includ-
ing their present one, he in turn must go through the long
wringer of restrictive laws to achieve a wage increase of 8-
cents. All the politicos have to say as a preliminary to poc-
keting a wage increase of $8,000 more or less is .‘aye”— and

“the ayes have it”.

t could well be that the
humble worker who writes
us and signs himself “The
Minority of One,” represents the
outraged conscience of all man-
kind. Here’s what he says:

Lyndon Baines Johnson may

never have to face an Inter-
national Tribunal as a war crim-
inal; ifatall, international justice
is meted out only to defeated war
criminals,

No objective observer of the
war in Vietnam can doubt how-
ever, that such a Tribunal would
have to find the President guilty,
Like his cold car predecessors,
Lyndon B, Johnson has completed
the ritual of his presidential
office by immersing his con-
science in a river of blood,

This time, the blood happens
to be especially innocent,

If President Johnson did have
to face an International Tribunal,

McEWEN

he, could invoke fewer mitigating
circumstances than even Hitler
could, The Nazis could at least
rationalize that they were acting
on behalf of a Nation that had
been severely deprived in Ver-
Saillies,

Also that they were acting on
behalf of allegedly persecuted
German minorities in Austria,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, etc,

But President Johnson? What’
could he say? That he had to
preceed international nego-
tiations and peace —— by mass

-murder? That he had to unleash

rivers of blood in order not to
appear ‘soft on Communism,’?

Even if it were correct that
the U.S, unprovoked attacks upon
North Vietnam are a prelude to
negotiations, (a monstrous
excuse) President Johnson’s and
America’s guilt is unerasable,

Somewhere in the middle of all this is the reason
why you can’t have a wage increase!”

HANSARD

C @ @ =: e

Profits unlimited

N et profits of MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River for
the year 1964 hit the all-time record of over $41-mil-

lion. Probably well over $50-million if all the new “tech-
niques” of modern book-keeping to cover up excess boodle

were taken into account.

This staggering profit pyramid for 1964 was piled up
despite “two serious interruptions,” as MB&PR chairman
J. V. Clyne describes it; the Alberni tidal wave disaster in
March of ’64, and the seven-week strike of the office em-
ployees which closed down production.

One a natural disaster, the other a most natural de-
velopment, neither seemingly affecting the company’s abil-
ity to extract record profits from the forest resources of
B.C. and the 14,360 working men and women who produce
this “King Midas” wealth for the MB&PR empire.

In 1963 and ’64 the company paid out cash and stock
dividends to the tune of approximately $25-million in both
“fiscal” years to its coupon-clippers. Roughly, four times
the amount the government, i.e. “the people” get for this
rooking of their forest resources by one powerful monopoly

alone.

From MB&PR’s profit rhapsody sung by J. V. Clyne,
one wonders just how long before “‘the worm turns’?

In the name of both Truth and

Justice, one must resist all future
attempts of the professional pro-
moters of the presidential image
to portray this president as
‘a man of Peace,’

* *& *

And from another angle, pre-
sented in the current edition of
the Peace Council of the German
Democratic Republic:

‘What does it look like inside
the heads of the generals of the
West German Bundeswehr?

“They have sat down with their
Ministers and said:

“Eichmann was made respon-
sible for Auschwitz, It took him
years to murder about six million
people, What afumbler! We can
do it in a few seconds, And more
than that, Our deceased Fuhrer
needed nearly six years to pro-
duce 50 million war dead, We can
do better than that easily, We can
send 50 million to-death in a
matter of seconds with our atom
mines,

“Either a Greater Germany or
a desert in Central Europe, said

‘ doctor,

the generals of the Bundeswehr
to their Ministers in Bonn, And
none of the Ministers sent for a
Oh no, they nodded and
clapped their hands,

“What is to be done?

“All those people and nations
who want to live must'put these
madmen in straitjackets and
oppose the crazy people in Bonn
with a sensible policy, It is
quite clear that these madmen
are a danger to the entire

az

ul!

Worth ‘1 |
Quoting |

If there is one single conclusion 1
be drawn from the costly American 0 |
venture in South Viettnam, with if —
perennnial changes in puppet.gove™ —
ments, it is that the United States has |
absolutely no business to remain of —
this part of Asian soil.

‘The very fact that three-fourths of |
South Vietnam is under Viet Cong Tule
is a further proof of the way in whic j
the wind is blowing. In such a situation”
it would be wrong to think that the
Communists have intervened in an
another country’s affairs.

—FINANCIAL EXPRESS, India,
February 9, '65.

*

In July 1964 when General Maxwell |
Taylor arrived at Saigon as U.S. a |
bassador, he declared: ‘we're already
aiding the Vietnamese in 1,001 way dl
But let's not be satisfied when it might :
prove that the 1,002nd way is the d¢
cisive one.” p.

The Johnson administration now —
seems to have hit upon this 1,002 —
way — by taking the war into Not
Vietnam ‘

—NEW AGE, India, Feb. 21, 65 —

*

In this tragic conflict, the U.S. inte”
vened to help South Vietnam defend q
itself against aggression and at the
quest of the government of the cou” —
try (?) that was under attack.

Its motives were honorable; neither
méan nor imperialistic. Its sacrifice’
have been great and they were "°
made to advance any selfish America" 4
interest (?). “ie

—Prime Minister Pearson.at  _
Founder's Dinner, Philadelphioy j
USA, April 2, '65. -

The United Nations has had its i, al
and downs. But one thing that nevé

changed was the fundamental U.>:
approach to it — Rule or ruin.

—From a feature reprint in
the Vancouver Sun,
April 12, ’65.

peaceable world,

“Probably one of these masé
murderers is to command 4
atomic mine belt, That sound? —
fantastic, But it is frightening!) —
possible,” j

eth tS guia Sa cate ga th ee ges

While we want no “statute of
limitations” for the war crim™- —
inals of World War II, let’s make
sure we build a truly strong 0M? —
against the potential criminal> —
who conspire to instigate a new
and more devastating war,

tre

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