bes

Hon, Paul Martin, Secretary of
State for External Affairs (why
not Minister of Foreign Affairs?)
had an audience of 48 when he
asked the House of Commons for
$10 million to finance his de-
partment for the next year and
gave an account of his work,
More than 200 MP’s were absent,
less than a year after voting
themselves a big pay hike,

* KO

Mr, Martin has a hard job, He
must “speak for Canada” when
for years External Affairs has
been a discordant echo of US,
foreign policy, He deserved a
better crowd,

Times are changing, When a
Tory MP suggested that at one
point Mr, Martin spoke like John
Foster Dulles and his brinkman-
Ship, Mr, Martin protested, “Of
course not!”

No one nowadays wants to be
associated with John Foster,
least of all Mr. Martin, We have
come a long way, Once it was
fashionable to hold ‘Mr, Dulles
in high esteem—except for those
disagreeable Communists, of
course,

Ok ee

Mr, Martin gave a rambling
address filled with perhapses,
buts, ifs and commas,

—We SHOULD perhaps recog-
nize China, but, ...

—We SHOULD perhaps wel-
come the “pause” in our relations’
with the Soviet Union, but... .

—We DO support disarmament
while maintaining our military
strength, we must be firm with
the Soviet Union, control “Com-
munist aggression” as in Viet-
nam, but , . , and here is Mr,
“Martin’s main text:

“In piecing together the parts
of this complex puzzle I believe
we are during the next months
and years going to have to re-
think a great deal of what has
been our traditional policy.”

‘Rethink “our traditional poli-
cy.” That sounds hopeful, along
the lines of U.S, Senator Full-
bright’s remarkable speech call-
ing for a similar “rethinking”
by Uncle Sam about his Cuban and
Chinese policies;:

Would it be too much to ex-
pect leadership from Canada in-
stead of so many ifs and buts?

City worker dies
on welfare line

An unemployed, sick worker,
about 30 years of age, died Tues-
day morning after standing in
line for hours waiting for his
welfare cheque,

He told the man standing be-
hind him that he arrived at the
“Vancouver welfare office on 8th
Ave,, near Granville, at 6 a-m,
hoping to get through early as
he was due at the hospital at
8:30 a.m,

By a quarter to nine he was
‘still standing in line, and a few
minutes later he was dead,

Many commas,
no full stops

As Mr, Andrew Brewin of the
New Democratic Party said in
the debate on Martin's speech, if
de Gaulle can recognize China,
why can’t we? Why, indeed?

Why doesn’t the government
use its spokesmen on the South-
East Asia armistice commission
to condemn the U,S, napalm war
on Vietnamese peasants?

Why doesn’t Mr, Martin say
flatly that if French troops failed
to crush the Vietnamese peas-
ants, the Yanks will fail also,
napalm or no napalm,

Why doesn’t he recall the de-
feat of MacArthur in Korea? Why
not a bit of realism?

After all, Canada has cocked a
snook at the U,S, by continuing
to recognize Cuba and trading
with China, :

Why not report to Parliament
about all this?

* * OK

Traditional Canadian flabbiness
in foreign affairs is outmoded,
The time has come for plain talk
by Canada’s foreign minister,

There are beginnings, as when
Mr, Martin said:

“I hope the decision of France
to establish diplomatic relations
with Peking will help to reduce
communist China’s continuing
isolation, The isolation of the
Soviet Union between 1917 andthe
early 1930’s is now recognized
as having brought little benefit
either to the west or the Soviet
Union,” :

More than that, Mr, Martin, It
helped to bring on the Second
World War,

ae

We soon might have aCanadian
flag and an anthem—and also a
jet plane capable of flying a
Canadian representative to
Nehru’s funeral instead of trying
to hitch a ride on Uncle Sam’s
plane and being left ignominious-
ly behind,

We might be inching our way
to an independent foreign policy
of peace and peaceful coexist-
ence,

And clearly, we can’t leave it
to Messrs, Pearson and Martin,
the makers of the very “tradi-
tional policies” which now need
“rethinking” and themselves
architects of the policy of “iso-
lating” the Soviet Union and now
China, which led the world into
such disasters, ~

Like war and the generals,
peace is too serious a business
to be left to politicians and diplo-
mats,

CP opposes Home

The British Communist Party
has announced that it will run a
candidate in Perth and Kinross

against Sir Alec Douglas-Home,

The party will demand equal TV
and radio time with other parties,
The election is to be held this
fall,

FEDERAL MINISTER CHARGES:

‘B.C. lost 27,000 jobs

exporting raw

British Columbia lost 27,000
jobs last year by exporting raw
minerals which should have been
manufactured here, This was the
charge made last Thursday by
Ralph Hindson, director of the
department of industry, in Ot-
tawa, before a meeting of about

100 delegates at the B,C, Metals ©

Conference, held at the B,C,
Vocational School in Burnaby,

Hindson said that “by export-
ing 1,5 million tons of unmanu-
factured metal in 1963, B.C, was
in fact exporting employment for
some 27,000 persons,” The fed-

eral government official pointed .

out that for every person em-
ployed in mining in Canada in
1960 there were 5,3 employed in
manufacturing industries which
produce consumer products made
from mineral raw materials,

Hitting out at the policy of
large scale exports of raw
materials from B,C,, Hindson
said the “while mining may be
a good earner of foreign ex-
change, it does not offer nearly
as much opportunities for em-
ployment as does manufactur-

TORONTO—The 8th National
Convention of the Congress of
Canadian Women, meeting in
Toronto on the weekend of May
23-24, gave special attention to
the many and varied problems
facing women in Canada today,

The main report, presented
by executive secretary, Mrs, V,
Dewhurst, dealt particularly on
the stresses and strains placed

on the working mother—the lack

of child care centres, unequal pay
for equal work, the continu-
ing spiral of the high cost of
living, social security and old age
pensions,

Other aspects of the report
dealt with the questions of peace,
international solidarity with wo-
men of other countries, the ef-
fects of hate literature, comics
and TV on children,

The main report was supple-
mented by a very comprehensive
study of Women in Industry, pre-
sented by Miss Evelyn Arm-
strong, president Local 507 of
the United Electrical Workers
Union and by Mrs, Jean Woods-
worth, social worker and direc-

RALPH HINDSON, Otiawa director
of department of industry, charged
in Burnaby iast week B.C. was ex-

' porting many jobs along with ex-

port of raw minerals.

ing.” He added that while B,C,
would not be able to use all its
raw metals, the province could’
do much better than it is doing
now,

in effect what

Hindson said

the Pacific Tribune has ea
cated for many years. He AIO
out that B,C, is ideally suite

with its abundance of h
tric power and raw mater

By implication Hindson oe
cized the policy of exporting 3
materials and power ceiver
to the U,S, by pointing out fi
“the west coast of the Um
States is a logical market. =
separated from industrial
eastern states and cheap Poe ‘
is not available as in B.C.

esent the
natur
ide the

As things stand at pr
Columbia giveaway and
gas exports would prov
north-west U,S, with the
needs to manufacture met
ucts from raw minerals imP® :
from B,C, Thus the benefits w
B.C, could have derived oe
metal manufacturing mds
will pass to the U.S.

B.C, Attorney-General Rober
Bonner, who heard t
was obviously embarrassé the
Hindson’s speech and oe
press that the federal 0F' 7”
did not tell the whole story:

lto ship oil, coal, wood chips

Nation of || —
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pipelines
British Columbians are oe
to seeing pipelines oll
the place carrying our ol 0°”
gas to the U.S. Now 9 ee
sule-carrying undergrorn..
pipeline is projected for :
katchwan to transport por”
south of the border. This PIP
line could also later be 45°

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and other products to f™
U.S.

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WORKING WOMEN'S PROB
AIRED AT NATIONAL PARLEY

tor of the West Toronto YWCA,
who presented a survey dealing
with child day care centres for
working mothers,

The discussion on the reports
resulted in the adoption of re-
solutions covering the establish-
ment of day-care centres for
children, the endorsation of the

MRS. HELEN WEIR, who was elect-
ed national Presideni at the recent
convention of the Congress of
Canadian Women in Toronto.

June 12, 1964—PACIFIC TRIB

LEM

CCW brief asking for 10a
a month pensions for wom 0°
60 and men at 65; for ™ ae
crease in family allowance” yal
to higher cost of living; £07
pay for equal work for wy
for a comprehensive all-

health and medicare plan.

bases in Canada, condem?
artheid in South Africa 2? asic
ing for a boycott of south” 10
can imports, asking the viel”
act in stopping the war er fot”
nam and withdrawal of otf"
eign troops from that ©° et?
leaving the Vietnamese peor eft
decide their own destiny: d
also adopted,

of
The Congress also went iy
record as supporting ! yer
International Co-operatio® Be
in 1965 with a project yi
introduced by the Nation?
cil after deliberations. ‘ ne
The Congress ended W' yp~
election of anew Nation@” 96
cil with Mrs, Helen W®
national president and Mr°-

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let Dewhurst as executive®

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