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 o Stem oer. ae ~~ oat s 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 “ee Le} N —Page 2 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 th This “opting-out” doesn't sense to me, I believe bei only make society petter bY - ping in and doing our ® However, you can't vist “Hippies” away just pecausé may disagree with some vn things they door don’t do, 7 r here; they’re one 0 life, Personally I don’ can stay forever in nd between make-believe 2 “al turning their backs 0” arate that they must live 9 ¥" a they like it or not. {his What we should avoid # nto stage is being stan acto" taking police oF 1 pest” against them, Ideas © 2 cal att pressed by force, but W° | tg! $ to correct the condition give rise to those ideas. ‘Welfare Social assistance rat Gh areas of Canada are inadequate,” said or Baetz, executive aired! eal’ Canada Welfare COUne © ogi ing at McGill Univers: ql Baetz said that many pal officials “seem ay with the long exploded 7 adequate social aS§ ster ve will take away all saitil incentive to pecom pendent,” a B. C. Mg e - Many agencies 1" (* afi payments be ine stantially. cal or otherwiS® * | ine that extent weaken’. ip ing elan of all it © ners struggle to attain 4 selve> dard of life for SI aaa families. B,C: similarly when thf ei eration of Labor 57 opree big IWA local union qu ing several workers from th No reason oF treason to labor the infliction of ® to the IwA, tot or to Canadian ! itself From all such : separately or 4° ‘ is only one Se isn’t the workingcl# e is #An injury to on! to all,” Time We living content — ~ . « f Pacitic Tr ‘West Coast edition, Can? Editor—TOM McEWEN ” Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one years North and South America and Commonwealth cov All other countries, $7.00 one year. Authorized o Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for paymen Associate Editor—MAP™ E Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezz@nine No. 3, Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. ntries: s secon de i t of post? ° og a ee Serr rrrrress::-~