president and vice-president”.

Vietnam “running dogs”.

people of Vietnam.

goon squad specialist,

“no” to SIU contract demands,

EDITORIAL |

‘E Pluribus Unum’

he news media hamburger-de-luxe served up this week
on the South Vietnam presidential election victory”
requires a cast-iron stomach to hold it down,

In this “free democratic” election in which the Pentagon
acted as campaign manager and cashier, the news was given
out that “Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, 44, and Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky 36, were strong favorites to win the races for

This prediction of victory for a pair of South Vietnam
quislings was further amplified by a Sunday night CBC post-
election newscast that “no less than one million South Vietnam
and U.S, troops guarded the polling stations” doubtless to
impress upon the electorate in this “free election” to mark
their ballots for Thieu and Ky — or else,

The National Liberation Front or Viet Cong, which repre-
sents well over three-quarters of the territory and people of
South Vietnam, were excluded from the ballot intheir entirety,
while other candidates, even mildly sympathetic to the idea of
peace, independence and unity of Vietnam, were literally
terrorized and defrauded out of the election campaign — not
by the Viet Cong but by Washington and its mangy South

Thus the “free elections” in South Vietnam, conducted under
Washington’s special “democratic” formula for similar “free
elections” in Latin America, resulted in an easy “victory” for
Ky and Thieu — and greater tragedy for the war-stricken

“In God We Trust” — when our guns control the ballot box,

New role—same end

j hans shipping interests and their legal advisors now
frantically scratching like scrub barnyard fowl in an
effort to bring U.S, union gangster Hal Banks back to Canada
to face perjury charges, have other motives in mind than a
mere re-trial of this one-time Seafarers International Union

There is currently an SIU strike in progress, tying up most
of the shipping on Canada’s Great Lakes and Atlantic sea-
board, The shipping interests seeking Banks’ extradition from
the U.S. are not motivated by any high moral reasons, but
rather to once again exhibit their erstwhile union buster in a
Canadian court as a horrible example of trade unionism perse;
especially at this precise moment when Shipping Federation
and Pearson government spokesmen are chanting a unanimous

With their one-time favorite union-buster, strike-breaker
and goon — who had served them faithfully in that capacity
against the Canadian Seamen’s Union, why not again as a
moral punching-bag — against the SIU?

Tom

McEWEN

"Ar injury to one is aninjury
? to all,” How fine and noble
that sounds. How oft repeated in
labor slogans, literature and ob-
jectives, And yet for the bulk
of working people, organized or
unorganized, it is still largely
sound,

On the other hand in present-
day society, it may be said with-
out much fear of contradiction,
that organized monopoly, the
prime exploiter of labor, with
its monopoly-dominated govern-
ments, courts and most other
appendages of the Establishment,
are more keenly aware of the
worth of that sterling principle
than are working men and women,

For then “an injury to one”
through the media ofa successful
strike for higher wages — ora
labor victory at the ballot box,
becomes in a very real sense
éan injury to all.” For them also
the demarcation line between
moral and violent retaliation is
exceedingly narrow, when pitting
their resources — against labor,

As is well known (or should
be), the monopolists may cut

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each other’s throats in their
“competitive” exploitation, since
that is the nature of the beast,
but just let any sizeable body of
working men and women decide
to withold their labor power from
the machinery of profit production
— and see how fast monopoly
and its subservient institutions
get together to overcome that
“injury”,

There are no accurate sta-
tistics available on the subject,
but if the question were simply
put: who inflicts the greatest
“injury” upon labor — exploitat-
ing monopoly and its state ap-
paratus, or labor itself, the af-
firmative would undoubtedly point
in the latter direction, and its
seemingly chronic habit of in-
flicting injury upon itself,

Some of the symptoms of this
self-inflicted injury are readily
discernable, Any union, whatever
the explanations advanced, which
raids the membership or juris-

diction of another union, does a -
grave injury to itself, to the

raided union, and consequently to
the entire labor movement, Such
internal injyry.also confirms the
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By ALD. H. RANKIN

City Council has set up acom-
mittee to investigate the “hip-
pies” in Vancouver, I opposed the
motion in Council. Investigating
people just because they’re dif-
ferent smacks of a political in-
quisition,

When City Council decided to
go ahead and investigate the “hip-
pies”, I agreed to go on the com-
mittee, mainly to make sure
they received a- fair hearing.

What makes a “Hippy”? What
are. they after?

I’ve talked to and argued with
some of them, including a dele-
gation that came into my office
last week, I’m not sure they
know themselves just what they
want; their philosophy isn’t that
clearly formed,

“Hippies” are rebels, even if
rather unconventional ones, They
are rebelling against the wide-
spread violence and wars of our
society. They’re disillusioned
with false middle class values
and standards, with status seek-
ers, with people living beyond
their means, with the vulgar

SAIGON's “FREE” ELECTIONS

boast of the notorious U.S, rail-
road magnate Jay Gould, that he
could “buy one half of the labor
movement to kill the other half.”
That was three-quarters of a
century ago, but the stark truth
of his boast still shows through
today.

True to the principles of his
union, a trade union leader who
lands in jail because he ignored
or showed his contempt for a
court injunction which reduces
him and his union members to
the status of a slave—for him
and his immediate family in such
circumstances, prison is a very
real injury, but to the thousands
of others on whose behalf the
injury was sustained, it is very
largely academic, easily for-
gotten or ignored on the busi-
ness-as-usual routine treadmill,

One of America’s greatest and
most beloved labor leaders, the
late Eugene V. (Gene) Debs, at
the termination of a long prison
sentence because of his advo-
cacy of the right to strike, was
being congratulated by some of
his union associates on his res-
toration to freedom, Debs looked
at them with sorrow-filled eyes
and quietly replied: “While there
is a soul in prison, Iam not free,”

Not all of us of course are
gifted like Gene Debs to feel
that depth of understanding, sym-
pathy and unity with our fellow
men, but by now atleast. we

What makes a hippy? ©

materialism and the bitter com-
petition so prevalent today. They
are suspicious that automation
will make man into just a work
horse, a cog in an immense
machine,

“Hippies” want a more ration-
al world, with the emphasis on
the complete freedom of each
individual to develop his own
personality.,»

Incidentally, the “Hippy” dele-
gation that came to see me con-
sisted mainly of university stu-
dents. They described the group
sitting it out on Fourth Avenue
as immature youngsters from
middle class homes, not really
representatives of the “Hippies”
philosophy.

Their disillusionment with un-
healthy aspects of our social
order and their opposition to the
hypocrisy of the Establishment
is understandable. I don’t like
these things myself.

What is more difficult to under-
stand, of course, is their form
of protest, The outlandish ap-
pearance of many “Hippies” is
not only a source of despair to
barbers and shoe salesmen; it’s
a source of wonder to many ofus,

should have learned that this in-
junction method of inflicting “an
injury to one... asa deterrent

to others” no longer deters a-

mass contempt for injunctions
and the courts which dispense
them,

In this, even the injunction-
dispensing “beak” drives home
the need to learn that lesson
over and over again that “An
injury to one is an injury to
all,” Not by supplications or
appeals to the legislatures and
courts which create and use these
instruments to inflict injury, but
by mass sharing of the injury
direct by mass action and
mass “contempt”,

The “crime” of Pat O’Neal
was not that he bugged his fellow
trade unionists in convention with
the aid of the RCMP, but in so
doing imprinted an ugly injury
upon the integrity of all labor,

Apparently they don't bell

in action to abolish the
against which they protest
philosophy is to withdraw a
society, to turn their hacks
the world, to do no more |.
than is necessary, t0 followin
own interests and to help
other, es

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