Our best customer ‘he $400-million dollar wheat sale to the Soviet Union “ last week, and a cash sale at that, is really something to feel good about. That deal, on top of previous big wheat sales by Canada to the Soviet Union, People’s China, Poland and other Socialist countries, presents a rather in- triguing question: just what kind of a critical mess the Canadian wheat economy would have been in, providing there had been no such sales to Socialist countries? Could we have fed and maintained our prairie prov- inces on cold-war propaganda, and fed a billion or so bush- els of surplus wheat to the gophers? Since Washington doesn’t approve of our wheat trade with Socialist lands, that is undoubtedly what they would have preferred Can- ada to do. This latest $400-million cash sale will bring a whole number of benefits to Canada. It will bring our trade im- balances into line. It will keep our wheat producing areas relatively stable and properous. Our great seaport water- fronts will be busy. Had we possessed a Canadian merch- ant marine, it would have kept our ships and our seamen plying the seas for months; carrying our own products to our customers. By far the most important however, this and previous wheat sales help build a bridge to understanding and peace between peoples of differing social systems. After all the most coldwar-encrusted political or press hawk ignoramous must find it becoming increasingly diffi- cult to cookup coldwar slanders against those becoming our best customers. t.. : > b ek Exploded ‘alibis n its long and shameful alibing to justify murder, arson l and worse in Vietnam, U. S. Ambassador - designate to South Vietnam, Cabot Lodge now says that American armed forces will remain there, even if the Saigon “govern- ment” should request their withdrawal. Thus Washing- ton’s successive alibing to cover up its aggression in South- east Asia has turned full cycle. From “invited advisors” to ruthless and shameless killers, and now to permanent oc- eupants. : Of course such bluntness does not win friends and in- fluence allies to throw-in with the U.S. aggression in Viet- nam, nor does it make for lengthening the life of successive U. S. puppet governments. So there’s a bit of a dither in Washington in “explaining” just what Lodge said in the closed Foreign Relations Committee sessions on July 27. Whatever it was the people of Vietnam, plus a grow- ing world opinion have one answer: Get out of Vietnam, or be kicked out! Tom McEWEN ome time ago the West Ger- man government, better known as Bonn, set up a big howl of protest on the subject of U.S, chicken exports. Seemingly de- termined that their West German © After some very sharp diplo- matic exchanges between Wash- ington and Bonn on the subject of chickens, the deluge from America tapered off and the old coldwar “gemutlichkeit” returned allies should have several chick- to normal, ens in every pot, Washington literally inundated the German Now, according to an Asian Federal Republic with frozen chicken, What one might describe as chicken dumping on a mas- sive scale, News Service release last week, U.S, dumping of vast quantities of dressed chicken into Japan has set in motion a widespread and militant protest movement among Japanese poultry farmers in a whole number of districts. These “Kennedy chickens,” as they were sometimes referred to in the press, not only became something of a threat to Bonn’s Common Market interests, but created a near economic crisis in those sections of West German agriculture dependent upon poul- try production, Big farm protest parades with banners reading “don’t admit blue-eyed chickens into Japan” (please don’t mis-interpret the slogan) have been held in many farm areas, representative of “mA Labor urges action 2 in fall civic voting The B,C, Federation of Labor, through its Political. Education and Municipal Affairs Commit- tees, has put out two leaflets urging the public in general and trade unionists in particular to play their proper role in muni- cipal elections by registering to vote and turning out at the polls, Vancouver voters must be registered by this coming Satur- day, August 21. Deadline in all other B,C, municipalities isSep- tember 30, The leaflets have been printed in many thousands of copies and are enjoying a wide distribution through regional labor councils and affiliated trade unions, This is probably the earliest start made by labor on the civic elec- tion scene in many years, Crisis in Greece unabated The political crisis which has gripped Greece since the middle of June was still unresolved this week, despite an attempt to split the Centre Union Party of de- posed Premier George Papan- dreou. Papandreou has insistently de- manded a return to democracy by either reinstating the demo- cratically elected Premier (him- self) or the calling of a general election immediately, Up until last weekend he had enjoyed the complete support of his party and the overwhelming majority of Greece’s people on this principle question. Then, two of his lieutenants tried to make him back down, causing a split in the Centre Union Party, Western press sources initi- ally claimed that Stephen Stef- anopoulos and Elias Tsirimokos, leaders of the revolt against Papandreou, had the backing of a substantial number of Centre Union deputies, They were reluctantly forced to concede later, however, that only about a dozen Parliamen- tary deputies supported the power play. The United Democratic Left Party (EDA) has consistently some 175,000 poultry - raising farms and households, To emphasize their demands for an immediate end to U.S, chicken dumping and higher prices for their own product, plus lower chicken-feed prices, these Japanese farmers plastered the sidewalks along the route oftheir parades with smashed eggs, Egg production costs, accord- ing to these farmers, are ap- proximately 15 percent higher than fee prices they receive for their own product, while feed prices account for 70 percent or more of egg production costs, In its Japanese *co-prosperity sphere,” U.S, monopoly applies the double-squeeze. Since well over half of Japan’s chicken feed imports come from the US,, Uncle Sam gets the Japanese poultry and egg producer “going and coming,” by dumping cargoes of U.S. chickens in Japan—and ’ choking the made-in-Japan chick with monopoly-controlled feed prices, We can readily sympathize with “This is what | mean by ‘Unconditional Discussion’ " a2 —U.S. Farm News supported Papandreou’s prin- cipled stand for a return to democracy. Last Monday, - the EDA called upon the people of Athens to continue massive street demonstrations to show Papan- dreou the people were behind him, This would be the surest way to block Parliamentary man- oeuvres aimed at splitting the Centre Union Party and capitu- Willie passes aw@y Willie Gallacher the Japanese farmer and voice our solidarity with his protest against Yankee dumping, be it chickens or what have you. There are many farming communities in B.C, and other Canadian prov- inces which have fallen victim to the same dumping evil, an evil “recognized” but as yet un- resolved. Mebby we can learn something from these German and Japanese farmers on how to take the “dump” out of U,S, dumping. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s peace bid mission on lating to the fascist demands # the Greek monarchy, aided j the Central Intelligence Agen™ Since the crisis broke, nt dreds of thousands of creekcill zens have participated in gig™ y street . demonstrations. we observers feel this has bee? 3 key reason why the political int passe has not. been resolve 4 the satisfaction of the ultra ‘Right in Greece, ; Willie Gallacher, internatiO ally known British Commut™ leader who for 15 years reple sented the miners and work of West Fife in the British Ho® of Commons, passed away August 12, aged 83. Tributes to his memory i mediately began pouring in {r his political colleauges i? Labor Party, from Irish 7. Scottish workers’ organizatie? and from all around the worl® ee The national committee of a Communist Party of Britail, common with millions of wo ing people of every nation, 19” and color,” joined in the tribll to his memory Sears ondot Li Vietnam as seen by the tor!” Financial Times June 24e4 al; suspended animation. MS ii lie down and die a decent % | because the prestige of theC® oft monwealth—as well as that at the Labor Government — ove. stake; but it cannot make @™ because it is becoming incré ore ingly difficult to see anyW worthwhile where it can 8% | It could of course nave Uy the Pentagon warhawks t0 out of Vietnam,” Even that would have justified its exis mu tence lia : JRE ment of postage in cash. Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — Circulation Manager — JERRY SHACK Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St. Subscription Rates: Canada, $5.00 one year. North and South America and Commonwe® countries, $6.00 one year. 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