U.S, imperialism,

CIA funds,

camp.

to Vietnam.”’

strong protest,

EDITORIAL
‘$-Peace and order’

he knowledge that billions of Yankee dollars are funnelled

out through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is now
widely recognized, In his book ‘‘CIA and American Labor”’
George Morris exposed its corrupting influence in the labor
movements of this and other continents,

CIA dollars have been used to subvert and overthrow gov-
ernments, corrupt world-wide student movements, promote as-
sassinations, foment anti-Communism, war and bloodshed,
wherever and whenever it serviced or advanced the policies of

The military coup which took place in Greece on April 21,
suspending all constitutional government, herding 10,000 or
more of the most active leaders of all Greek political parties
into prison or concentration camp, the punishment by death for
writing a democratic slogan on a wall — all made possible
against the Greek people by ample U.S. “aid” in the form of

It is a continuing story from the days of 1947 and the initial
U.S, “gift” of $250-million to the Greek Army under the Truman
Doctrine, which together with British bayonets, blocked the
will of the Greek people for democratic government,

Yankee dollars helped to oust the former Papandreou gov-
ernment, which had the overwhelming support of the Greek
people, CIA dollars also helped to prop upthe extremist right-
wing government which followed it, But dollars weren’t enough,
That government could only hang on by promising the people
democratic elections for May 28, 1967,

It was to head off this election at all cost that Greek mili-
tary circles, with its ‘‘advisers’’ in Washington and Londor
staged their coup, suspended the constitution, dissolved parlia-
ment, banned all trade unions and democratic organizations in
Greece, and re-established their rule of gun and club and prison

Now today — in a different setting, but under attack from
the same bloodthirsty anti-democratic forces, doing the bidding
of their paymasters in Washington, London, (and suspiciously)
by its silence, Ottawa, Greece is now added to Vietnam — with
the people of both countries subjected to the unparallelled
horrors of Western “democracy”, U.S. style.

The military junta in Greece claim justification for their
anti-democratic coup under the slogan of “promoting peace and
order”, Sounds as if that too was “made-in-the-U,S,.” since it
dovetails closely with President Johnson’s “explanations” for
U.S. genocide in Vietnam — “to bring democracy and peace

A prominent U.S, rail magnate once boasted that he could
*thire one half of the American working class to kill the other
half", The CIA operates on a similar, if wider field; to sub-
vert, corrupt, and murder at will, The working people of Greece
are its latest victim, It is time Canada’s voice was heard — in

Tom

McEWEN

most of the “Free West”
countries, or as they are
often referred to as the “NATO
Alliance” countries, where dem-
ocracy is taken seriously by the
inhabitants, the disease is quite
rampant in greater or lesser
degree, This disease ranges all
the way from a handful of Ges-
tapo-minded police chiefs to a
murderous military-fascist dic-
tatorship,

In Canada just recently the
Canadian Association of Police
Chiefs submitted a brief to a
Royal Commission in which these
vest-pocket Himmlers sought the
right to search homes without
warrant, to throw citizens into
the hoosegow without laying
charges, to arrest people on sight
and suspicion, etc, etc, In short,
under the pretext of “law en-
forcement,” to trample all basic
democratic iaw underfoot,

From there on, of course,
the process snowballs, with the
star chamber, the knout, the
hangman’s rope and other hor-
rors following in rapid succes-
sion — and does, A Gestapo

in embryo, with not a few police
chiefs already well endowed with
its mental outlook, as their brief
to the Royal Commission so
vividly illustrates,

Last week in the British House
of Commons, Labor M.P, Paul
Ross stated that a policeman
should not be allowed to arrest
someone just because he (the po=
liceman) “suspected” that person
was about to commit an offense.
The said person hadn’t done any-
thing but he looked “suspicious”
looking in at a shop window,
waiting for a bus, waiting for his
wife or his girlfriend or someone
else to show up, Definitely
“suspicious,” so “off to the cool-
er with you m’lad.” The British
Labor M.P., like millions of
other democratic-minded citi-
zens, just doesn’t like such “tel-
epathic arrests” no how, and es-
pecially where the cop relies
solely on “suspicion” to violate
the rights of the citizen.

But we don’t need to go to
Britain for instances of “tele-
pathic” arrests, In Vancouver
we have policemen (as well as

Rankin opens fight to
boost welfare payments

Alderman Harry Rankin called
this week for an immediate in-
crease in the scale of allow-
ances for people on welfare to end
the present “disgraceful” low
scale on which:single people and
families are forced to live,

In a special statement released
to the press he urged that xent
allowances for a family of four
be raised from $55 to $105 and

food and other allowances raised
from $120 to $200. Under pres-
ent scales a family of four is
allowed $175 a month of which
$55 is for rent and $120 for food
and other expenses.

Rankin said there are 22,500
people on social welfare in Van-
couver who can’t live as human

_ beings on the miserable pittance

the provincial government pays

U.S. firm would cutback
Canadian living standard

By CHARLES CARON

Morgan Reid, vice president
of Simpson Sears Ltd, in an
address to the Board of Trade
on May 1st warned against the
“disquieting economic prospects
for the nation.”

He said, “The problem is that
so much government spending
legislation has not only rigidities,
but also has a built in incremental
factor that is not controllable.”
What does Reid propose to resolve
the problem? “It is absolutely
essential in this environment that
government at all levels put a
halt onnew spending except where
these are socially productive in-
vestments,”’

Paragons of public welfare,
like Reid, always try to stop
further construction of schools,
hospitals; to put an end to in-
creases in pensions, in social
assistance and other measures
that would provide adequate liv-
ing standards,

But God forbid that there should
be any interference with the sec-
tor of the economy that is en-
gaged (in Reid’s words) “socially
productive investments” like the
Columbia River and Peace River
projects, In other words, the

other bigoted citizens) who do
not “like” young people with long
hair, short skirts, flowing beards
or what have you in the numer-
ous “Beatniks,” -“Peaceniks,”
“Hippies,” or other segments
of the New Youth who just don’t
conform to the rules of our
one-track narrow-gauge social
system, and who have already
become a handy target of our
“morality squads,” in mufti and
uniform, In the eyes of a cop
with a low IQ rating, all such,
youth are “suspect,” hence are

all subject to police harass=
ment and persecution.

The difference between what
some Canadian police chiefs
would like to see in operation in
Canada and what is now taking
place in Greece — “our NATO
ally,” is merely one of degree,
There the people were mobilizing
in their millions to restore dem-
ocracy in Greece — where it was
first cradled by man, To supplant
by the power of the ballot, a long
and onerous monarchist-fascist
regime, set up by British bay-
onets and Yankee dollars, by a
government “of the people, by the
people, and for the people.”

To block that eventuality the
police and militarists intervened
with mass arrests, disbanding of
parliament, filling prisons and
concentration camps, All trade
union organizations, democratic
and peace movements, “banned.”
Communist and Socialist organ-

state monopoly and private sec-
tor of the economy.

Simpson Sears shareholders
did not show any concern about
the over-heated economy when
they announced recently their
joining Project 200 for “devel-
opment” of the waterfront area,
Project 200 is not only acomplex
of retail stores, but aproject that
is intergrated with a system of
freeways, designed not to answer
the traffic problems, but tomake
profits for financial sharks like
the owners of Ocean Cement, re-
tail monopolies, and real-estate
speculators.

There is no doubt that Morgan
Reid is right about their crisis-.
riden capitalist system being
overheated, but not because of
the lack of productivity of the
Canadian workers, or abnormal
standard of living. It is over-
heated because of the overheated
profits of gouging bandits like the
shareholders of Simpson Sears,

We need economic expansion,
particularly in ‘manufacturing,
and the social sector of the
economy. Required economic ex-
pansion should not be contingent
on corporation profits but on the
needs of the people. This should
be the approach to economic
policies which would be consistent
with the interest of the natior.

today. “These rates ae
grace inaprovince suchas™
he said.

Under present arranges :
the (B,C.) government le
percent of the cost of we
payments, while the cit
balance, Welfare scales®
by the province.

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Rankin said the scale
ances has not been rais€
years, even though the
living and rents have
steeply, He also urged ©
city staff of 60 social
be increased to 75 4"
hostel be established 0%
unemployed where the
helped to get training an
ilitation, ;

Urging that City COU
the people of vancouvel
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people on social *
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be helped. :

Labor comm®
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issue in Alberni. Alen
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on April 19, and per
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families inthe Alber
ing under «utterly dep
cumstances.”

izations “outlawed,” the Star
Chamber military tribunals
working round-the-clock, Ges-
tapo torture re-established to
secure “confessions,” and the
few democratic rights of the

Grecian citizen — strangled in ~

the womb,

“Ah,” someone Says, the com-
parison between the “intent” of
Canadian police chiefs to curtail
democratic rights in Canada, and
its shameful strangulation in
Greece, “is too extreme, that
could never happen here,”

One could carry the compari-
son much further — to Vietnam,
and a “world policeman” men-
tality which drives U.S, madmen
to barbarous excesses and sav-
agery against the people of Viet-
nam; excesses which already
make the crimes of Hitler’s Him-
mlers look like Sunday school
play.

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Editor—TOM McEWEN

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