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RICH AND POOR

For those who still cling to the
philosophy of “get the govern-
ment to do it,” let us take a
looky at some of the areas
where government has been in-
volved recently. We could start
with beef cattle. As- you recall
beef: prices’ last’ spring went
up significantly for the first

‘time in eighteen years. While

the price to the farmer increas-
ed about 14 cents per pound...
increases of 50 to 70 cents per
pound at the retail level were
recorded.

During this same period,
one chain store official, a Mr.
Weinstein, of Loblaws, called
for a boycott of beef to bring
beef prices down; an exercise
which | believe, was designed

to take the monkey off their

back and -put:it on -the farm-

-ers’ and. to: establish. a new

mark-up or profit margin.

To add insult to injury, the
Minister of Consumer and Cor-
porate Affairs, Mr. Basford,
lent, his support to the boy-
cott suggestion. We didn’t,
however, see Mr. Basford call-
ing for a boycott on auto-
mobiles when the car. manu-
facturers recently announced

_ increases of 3 to 4 percent.

As we examine this type of
behavior from government one
can easily conclude that we
have developed a system where
we have “socialism for the rich __
and free enterprise for the
poor.” — Walter Miller, Vice-

President, N.F.U.

atetate :

ast edition, Canadian Tribune

blished Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH
weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St.,

Subserj :
" ic ach Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months.
Allo uth America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year.

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Equality, not charity

It’s United Appeal time again. The
tear-jerkers will be depicting tragic
scenes in order to loosen the purse
strings. That people feel sorry for their
fellow human beings, and donate to
help them is, of course, a wonderfully
good thing. They are motivated by -a
genuine concern for their less fortunate
fellow beings.

The United Appeal campaign, how-
ever is the height of hypocrisy. The
very people who are part of the capi-
talism which creates the poverty and
misery that the United Appeal is sup-
posed to help overcome, are often the
well-paid officers and administrators of
the campaign.

This kind of campaign has been with
us for a long time. It is now become a
huge operation, involving many mil-
lions of dollars. Most often the “volun-
tary donations” to it are extracted
either by social pressure, or without
your leave from the pay cheque. Big
donations from the wealthy get publi-
city, but are really nothing more than
conscience money. Some officials in the
trade union movement, the co-ops and
other people’s organizations, feel it
necessary to officially act on committees
in the campaign in order to be part of
the “good” social image it is supposed
to create.

No one can say that the money that
is paid out to help people is wasted. To
‘the contrary, it’s all too little to alley-
iate the big underlying problems,

- expressed’the other day in a TV pro-
gram dealing with poverty, in which a
young mother spoke out to tell her
audience that she is compelled to steal
both food and clothing for her children ;
that she is aware that she may be
caught and jailed, but feels it to be a
necessary risk for her as a mother.

Poverty is created by capitalism, not
by attitudes. In a rich capitalist coun-
try, such as Canada, in which a handful
of monopolists reap enormous profits
from the exploitation of the majority, in
“which billions can be found for an arms

program ‘that enriches these same

monopolies, poverty is a paradox that
need not exist, and which certainly
cannot be cured with a little charity.
The United Appeal is a, palliative
which poultices problems requiring
radical changes in our society which
would guarantee economic and social

equality for all.

Conning the public

‘How politicians are sold like deter-
gent and soap, is revealed in a book
recently written by a young reporter

who served with the Nixon campaign

staff. The facts expose the immeasur-
able hypocrisy and cynicism both of the
press barons, and of the politicians
themselves. ;

In Canada and the United States,
politicians and political parties try to
avoid the basic issues, a discussion of
which would reveal their real policy.
They dodge taking a position, or deli-
perately leave their audiences confused
on controversial questions, such as the
war in Vietnam — although they ma
privately say that their position is dif-
ferent from the one they take publicly.

A media “expert” who brain-trusted
a campaign program called “Straight

ee a a a a

Po ee

talk with Nixon” poses the question:
how do you sell a man like Nixon? He
says it was difficult, and the aim was

‘to make people forget all about “the

real Nixon.”

The experts (and it must have in-
cluded Nixon himself) agreed that
Nixon had a “charisma problem.”
Therefore, Nixon was to come out
strongly against it. Looking his audi-
ence straight in the eye, as any honest
man is purported to do, these words
were put in his mouth, “When style and
charisma connotes the idea of contriv-
ing, of public relations, I don’t buy it
at all.”

In Canada the king-makers of the
press decided to sell Trudeau’s charis-

- ma to the public — the magic that all

problems would be resolved with the
election of a “swinger”, a mere “youth”
of nearly fifty. And the hard-sell of
Trudeau was every bit as crude as the
hard-sell of Nixon. 2%

It would be a major error to say that

-the Madison Avenue Technique ex-

plains the election of either one of
them. Underlying all elections are real
issues to which people are seeking
answers.

The bubble finally explodes, and you
have a credibility gap.
_ President Nixon faces mounting
opposition to his plans to continue the
war in Vietnam. His statement. that he
does not intend to become. known as

the first president to lose a war, puts —

him squarely into Lyndon B. Johnson’s
shoes. His personal involvement in the
dismissal of the charge of murder
against the Green Berets has become

well-known, .
Similarly in Canada, Mr. Trudeau’s

charisma is developing a distinctly bad

odor. His rich man’s arrogant disdain
for the problems of the workers, farm-
ers, the poor, came as a Shock to those
who thought that, in his election they
would find answers to their problems.

The growth of. the credibility gap is
also the growth of understanding.

Humans as commodities

The Toronto papers carried the story
the other day about the arrest of three
teen-age girls, two aged sixteen and
one fourteen, for prostitution, along
with some young men whom the papers

‘described as “procurors.”

This is an aspect of teen-age sex that
doesn’t get too much of an airing. This
particular case is one that has come to
the surface. There must be thousands
that don’t. Stories often appear in the
press of the complete disappearance of
young girls off the streets who are
never heard of again, and the general
suspicion is that they’ve been shang-
haied into the white slave racket.

The girls are the victims. The female
sex is a commodity in capitalist society,
which often makes people somewhat
less than human.

Customarily society condemns the
prostitute, but not the men who buy
the commodity. And, it is typical of
“polite” language to describe the pimps
—the lowest of the low, who “make a
living” off the girls—as “procurers.”

It will take mankind a long time to
clean up the maiming and warping of
human lives by capitalism, and it will
take the new system of socialism to

provide the framework in which todo

it. .
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