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Review

The ‘tainted’ meat

A base timely action against a
number of Eastern Canadian
firms for retailing tainted meats
to the public may serve to spark
a similar action in _ B.C. Repre-
sentatives of the. Canadian As-
sociation of Consumers have been
conducting a province-wide study
for some time and expect to pin-
point a few possible prosecutions
in the near future.

Meantime, however, while such
investigations provide some safe-
guard to the public, the present
skyrocketting meat. prices, with
its accompanying temptation to
“bootleg” uninspected and taint-
ed meats, can be traced directly
to the door of the Diefenbaker
government and its U.S.-Canad-
ian “integration” policies.

Such “integration” not only
means the surrender of Canada’s
independence and the alienation
of our natural resources to the
requirements of U.S. imperialism,
but by an oblidging dollar man-
ipulation, making the bulk of our
prime beef production readily,
available to U.S. buyers at “de-
preciated” dollar prices. In turn,
this prime beef is processed in
the U.S. and shipped back to
Canada at fancy prices. Thus
Canadian beef is not only lost to
Canadians, but their jobs as well,
as may be seen in the recent

Editorial comment...

of the Winch NATO “dissolu-
tion” . . . and relax when the
Ubyssey scored.

closing down of old. established
meat processing plants in Van-
couver and elsewhere.

While many rural areas of B.C.
have as yet no facilities for
proper meat inspection (due to
“cost” we are told?), the bulk of
the “ripe” meats and fowl reach-
ing the B.C. consumer’s table (at
top prices), have come from so-
called “reputable” dealers.

What is actually required as
supplementary to the present
CAC investigations, is a full-scale
public inquiry into the B.C. meat
industry in all its many ramifica-
tions from. “the hoof to the
table”; An inquiry designed. to
promote full and rigorous inspée-
tion; determine the incidence (and
identity) of price fixing. and
fixers; track down the bootleg-
ging of uninspected meat, with
prompt persecution of those who
grow fat selling doubtful doe-
food to the public.

Nothing short of such an in-
quiry will stop the Tory “boot-
legger” of Canada’s prime beef
resources via the U.S. “integra-
tion route, or the local dealer who,
palms off.a slab of foul-smelling
dog-food as “prime veal.” Both
contribute equally to the “taint-
ed beef” delinquents and the dual
rooking and poisoning of the
public. :

HE Vancouver Sun_ reports
Harold Winch MP (Vancou-
ver-East) telling a UBC campus
meeting NATO should be “dis-

etter tienen henner eho

Fight the tax holdup

We the Socred government vision with appeals against tax
at the last session of the assessments, not just by a mere
Yegislature pushed through its handful of irate citizens, but by
“B.C. Assessment Equalization ratepayers en mass. Delegations
Act” amendments, few people at city hall daily demanding civic
gave the matter much thought, Charter amendments that would
and least of all Vancouver’s NPA- allow necessary tax reforms, by
dominated city council. taking the tax load off smail

Now, however, with tax assess- homes (by a minimum $2,500
ment notices in the hands of the homeowner exemption), and
homeowner, heralding tax boosts Shifting the main tax load onto
ranging from $15 up on an al- big business interests, who now

' yeady high tax levy, resentment get under the tax wire by, all

is beginning to boil. “Where will kinds of “exemptions” and. con-
it all end” is a common question CeSsions. :
heard on all sides? . In addition,. and perhaps. by
To put it in a nutshell this far the most important, a step-
“assessment equalization” in Van- Ping up of the universal demand,
couver plans to take.a tax load beneficial and necessary to urban
‘of $1 million or more off the big and rural municipalities — alike,
property owners and ‘load it on that senior governments, provin-.
the backs of the small-homeown- Cial and federal assume more of
ers. This together with the pro- the: rising. costs. of municipal
posed water rates hoist makes the needs, particularly in the field of
contemplated tax gouge on the educatior, health and social wel-
Vancouver homeowner the high- fare.
est on record. . Against the present exhorbit-
What to do atsout it? Even the ant tax gouge under this “equal-
Vaneouver Sun agrees that “cry- ization” gimmick, the small
ing havoc doesn’t constitute a homeowner sees $1! billion of:
solution,” and implies that some- his country’s tax resources going
thing must be done, but asks:— down the arms drain annually,
“with what ammunition.” while at provincial level he sees
Following are some suggestions vast chunks of his province’s re-
on “ammunition.” A lowered mill sources being given away to big
rate, which doesn’t remove tax business, with all forms. of
inequalities, but might head off gratutious tax concessions and
this year’s tax boost. An increase handouts as a give-away bonus.
in the “machinery” tax, also no Somewhere along the line a
basic solution but an aid to secur- halt must be called to this spiral-
ing additional civic revenue from ling taxation, and the tax load
other than small homeowners. placed upon those best able to
Inundation of the court of re- carry it.

solved” and the UN become the
world’s “‘peace-making” body.

The UBC paper Ubyssey re-
ports Harold Winch at the same
meeting telling his campis audi-
ence that he supports “Canada’s
continued membership in NATO
...and sees NATO as a counter-
balance to the Warsaw Pact of
the communist countries.”

Those who don’t know Harold
Winch, reading both papers,
might wonder just what the NDP-
CCF vice-president did say. Dief-
enbaker however holds no such
doubts on the matter, which is
precisely why he included Winch
in the recent. parliamentary jun-
ket to NATO.

That’s what made us_ blink
when we read the Sun’s version

Tom
McEwen

in Vancouver
r

Sun weekly

magazine section has just wound
up a series of articles by one Dr.
Mikhail Klotchko purporting to be

the “story” of his “escape” from

the Soviet Union.

At the time of the Klotchko
“defection” from the Soviet Union
and the noisy welcome he received
from Diefenbaker, Fulton, Fair-
clough, the RCMP and company,
we observed that the learned doe-
tor would have to “look to his
moutons” and promptly deliver the
usual modicum of coldwar anti-
Soviet grist in gratitude to Dief
and Co. for their raucous ‘‘wel-
come’. Presto, the Vancouver Sun
“exclusive.”

Looks like the good doctor has
“shot his wad”, and decidedly low-
grade stuff at that. None of the
Gouzenko, Kasenkina high-grade
anti-Soviet thriller-dillers of a few
years back. Seems like the ‘‘mar-
ket” for this brand of fertilizer has
slumped.

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As was to be expected the ex-
Soviet scientist Klotchko: had little
or nothing to say of the opportuni-
ties in a SociaNst society which

News Bulletin of September 18,
1961 said: _

“Mikhail Klotchko — formerly
Bendeizky, (or as the RCMP would

enabled him to become a man of
some learning. The bulk of his
serialized diatribe dealt mainly
with his petty scheming and plot-

ting to ‘get away from it all”, a
flourishing touch here and there
about the Soviet ‘secret’? police,
plus a wealth of gripes on his
domicile problems.

Of the suffering and _ sacrifice
and destruction of Soviet property
and life which went into the win-
ning of the Peoples’ war against
Hitlerism, nary a word. Nor the
fact that just because he was pro-
vided with the fullest opportunity
to become a man of science, he
probably fared a good deal better
than millions of his Soviet fellow
citizens? :

We noted at the time of the.

doctor’s desertion from the country
and people who had created him
that the Ottawa Citizen (for rea-
sons probably opposite to ours) was
also interested in his background.
Citizen writer G. Connoley feat-
ured some of the following detail
supplied by Moscow authorities. on
Klotchko, but which as Connoley
observed in his articie, “representa-
tives of the RCMP doubted the
reliability of the facts mentioned.”’
That of course is easily understand-
able since the “scarlet and gold”

boys are trained to ‘doubt’ any--

thing resembling facts — when it
doesn’t conform to Tory specifica-
tions.

However, here is what the Soviet

say, “alias”), changed his name in
1935. He was married three times
and has two children. When Klot-
chko’s first wife died, she left a
son, Konstantin Mikhailovich Ben-
detzky, born 1903. After Klotchko
divorced his second wife — Kor-
eisha, he left her with another
child, his son Mikhail Mikhailovich
Koreisha. Later on Klotchko also
divorced his third wife, Novoz-
henuk. Mrs. Koreisha, Mrs. Novoz-
henuk and Klotchko’s two sons are
now living in Moscow.

“Mikhail Klotchko had a three
room apartment in Moscow, and a
two-storey country house, his own
personal property in the township
of Domodedovo, near Moscow.

“According to his colleagues’
information Mikhail Kloitchko is a
man of extreme arrogance and
self-aggr'andizement. His sense of
self-appreciation usually goes far
beyond normal limits and probably
is close to a mania. Klotchko was
under observation by a phychon-
eurologist.” :

Naturally the Sun serialized
blurbs missed these “quantatively”
strong ‘family ties” in its Klotchko
portrait. And while the Klotchko
ego was prominently displayed
throughout, the best it could pro-
duce was a sackful of low-grade
fertilizer for the.‘‘Free West” pro-..
fessional manure spreaders.

January 12, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page