Review

N HIS ‘maiden’ address in the
UN Security Council as U. S.
‘ambassador’, the protesting voice
of the Congo’ s murdered President
Patrice Lumumba scattered the
fine diplomatic verbiage of the
“progressive” Adlai Steveson, like
dead leaves before a tornado.

Prior to and during the last U.S.
presidential elections, millions of
well-meaning people harbored il-
lusions about the “liberal” Steve-
son. In him they recreated the
voice of a ‘new America’, different
from the Eisenhower-Nixon-Dul-
des-Kennedy coldwar patter. Here
was a “progressive”, a “liberal”,
unafraid to stand beside and voice
the deep hopes and desires of the
common people for peace and am-
ity; for a ‘new deal’ in the Roose-
velt tradition.

Now, as the Bard of Avon ob-
Served in his Midsummer-Night’s
Dream, “Would you their fond

- pageant see, Lord, what fools these
mortals be”, the real Steveson is
emerging in his eapacity as UN
U.S. ‘ambassador’, with the voice
of a John Foster Dulles. An oily
and eager incumbent, eager, ready
and willing to do the dirty work
for U.S. and Western imperialism,

behind a thin veneer of “progres-
sive” phraseology.

In the UN special session on
French aggression in Bizerte, Ste-
veson’s forte was that of Dulles; to
obscure and evade the ruthless ag-
gression of a NATO partner
(France) upon an oppressed people,
with the familiar Dulles-patented
brand of anti-Soviet smear, sland-
ers and cheap falsehoods. To re-
frain. from censuring a criminal
act by out-Dullesing Dulles.

Similarly in the made-in-the-
USA “Berlin crisis” by which U.S.
imperialism through the medium
of NATO and a revanchist West
Germany, conspires to launch a
third and more horrible nuclear
war against the Soviet Union and
the Socialist world, the “liberal
Steveson displays his vast abilities
of “yesmanship” in this new Hit-
lerite “Drang Nach Osten” (drive
to the East).

Thus the “progressive” Adlai
Steveson, wallowing in the filth of
aggressive imperialist ‘diplomacy’,

and like the proverbial hog, en-
tirely at home in his wallow.

Pass the bacon please

The Restrictive Trade Prices
Commission operating by author-
ity of the Combines Act, have cited

- Canada Packers, now in process
of swallowing up small independent
packing firms as a means of elim-
inating all competition to Canada’s
biggest meat trust.

It’s the old case of the ‘big fish
swallowing the little ones’ in the
business of rooking the public.
--The RTPC have advised Justice
Minister Davie Fulton to take legal
action towards breaking up some
of Canada Packers more recent
gastronomic ‘mergers’. Canadian
consumers are likely to stow away
many tons of CP’s ersatz baloney
(at fancy prices) before Davie gets
around to putting the hog chain
on the nation’s largest beef trust.
_ Many years ago the American
writer, Upton Sinclair, wrote his
famous novel about Chicago’s
packinghouses, The Jungle, depict-
ing the terrible exploitation, the
preducts and the horror in these
packing trust abbatoirs.

Today. society needs another. -
Sinclair te write another Jungle, -
this time on our “free competitive 2

system”, and in less polite language
than RTPC uses when it states
that such mergers “are likely to
lesson competition in the industry
in a substantial way, and so de-

_prive the public of the benefits of - =

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the competition which otherwise
would prevail.”

Now had it been the fishermen’s
union, ah, that would have been
different? Then Fulton would act
—pronto.

aie. Voite rf —— "Editorial uu

|* A recent edition of the High-

land Echo a lead editorial pre-
sented a novel “way to fight, com-
munism”’. Briefly, the Echo would
compel all workers to become eap-
italists.

“No one who has worked for a
firm for a reasonable time would
be allowed to continue in that Com-
pany’s employ. unless he had
bought shares in the company.”

We trust our fellow editor didn’t.
burn too much midnight oil on the
idea, since millions of column
inches have already been written
on the subject of ‘worker-share-
holders’, ‘sharing - the - profits’,
‘people’s capitalism’, ‘make-democ-
racy-work’, ete. and ad infinitum.

An economic mulligan recipe to
finish off ‘communism’ which is
neither new nor workable, either
as a ‘cure’ for Communism, or a
stimulus to improved labor-man-
agement relations between ex-
ploiter and exploited.

Long ago the fabled King Canute;
tried to hold back the tides of
change, and failed. The modern
Canutes fare no better in their
efforts to halt the birth of the
‘new’ (Communism), emereging
from the womb of the old (cap-
italism).

* * *
CHOOL trustees in Courtenay
« are spear-heading a worth-

~ educational authorities with th

while ‘revolt’? against the: ar
tectural trends in modern sci
construction. Central points of !
new trend is glass, too much gl®
with little concern about its hat™
ful effects upon students.

Glass walls in schools not 0
tends to overheat class rooms, }!
excessive horizontal sun glare
comes highly injurious to stud
eyesight. Courtenay se
trustees are not seeking a ret
to the stuffy and ill-lighted
ventilated ‘Little Red Schoolhow
They merely seek a measure
sanity in school construction whl?
will be beneficial rather +
harmful to Young Canada.

It is interesting to note i
simultaneously with the effort
the Courtenay trustees, the Na
tional Union of Teachers’ and
Educational Institute of Scot
have also made strong represe!!
tions against ill-planned exces
glass walls, and which they dt
scribe as “hothouses, causing ey
strain and heat exhaustion.”

These organizations point
that “the inadequacy of consul
tion” between teachers and 10

responsible for the architect
designs, must be improved to 64”
guard the health of the studet™

Tom
McEwen

HE August 12 edition of the

Business, carries a feature story
on Civil Defense (CD) entitled
“Canada’s Great Plan To Go Und-
erground’”. This story deals prim-
arily with the issue of ‘‘shelters,”’

“more money and jobs in electron-
ics and construction industries,
more federal and provincial spend-
ing on stockpiles of food and medi-
cal equipment”, etc.
Aside from eight (contemplated)
_provincial “shelters”. to put fed-

' “underground”, as well as a series
' of underground burrows for army
installations, it is also “hoped” the
plan “can be expanded to include

' Civilian networks.”

In another Post article, comple-
tary showdown” (with whom it

and reasonably,” - -with Canadians
* “showing a marked. interest in nu-
clear survival’’.

This “marked interest” is 5 meas-
ured by CD having got rid of
“nearly a million copies of CD’s
booklet “11 Steps to Survival”, all
of course at the taxpayer’s ex-
pense,

Nowhere in the Post “under-
ground” preview is there any sta-
tistics on John Q. Public having
built, or contemplated building a

CD “shelter”, a fact which speaks

Financial Post, organ of Big |

plus fat government contracts; ~

eral and provincial governments.

mentary to the above, on the theme .
of Canada’s readiness “for a mili- —

: isn’t stated), we are told that CD.
“measures are advancing quietly

very highly of the sound common
sense of Canadians generally.

Since “Canada’s Great Plan To
Go Underground” has its origin
in the insane nuclear war policies
of Yankee imperialism, which Dief-
enbaker and company slavishly
follow, it is vitally necessary that
Canadians, deeply interested in
survival, take a much closer look
at this CD ‘shelter’ extravaganza,
and especially the homocidal tend-
encies which stem from _ this
“shelter”? mania, already much in
evidence in the U.S.

The ‘experts’ are agreed of
course that neither here nor any-
where else can all the population
be saved from the devastation and
death of a nuclear war. Like guess-
ing on how many beans in a pint
jar, these “experts” glibly calcu-
late how many millions can be
“saved”, and how many more mil-
lions will be reduced to ashes or
roasted pieces of living flesh, “un-
derground” or no “underground’’.

But that’s only one angle in our
“great plan”, In a number of Am-
erican states where the war hy-
steria runs at fever ‘pitch, the

_ “shelter” builders are now equipp-

ing their dugouts with an Al
Capone arsenal, not to ward off
-a mythical “enemy”, but to shoot
down their ‘“shelterless” “fellow”
Americans. In this they have the
blessing of a certain specie of ec-

’ clesiastical worm, confirming such
. homocide as a “‘christian ethic” of

CD “survival”,

ACD “shelter” is ihaeiore some-
thing more than a futile effort at
nuclear “survival”, When a nation
goes “underground” to avoid the

- mass’ murder its leaders have con-

spired for, unleashed, murder
itself becomes a “Justifiable’ Wway-
of-life, for the “underground”
dweller who may temporarily sur-

vive the shattering UsISAt blast |
and the fallout.
Thus as’ Time Magestno of
August 18 put it, quoting a Cali-
fornia CD poohhah, when wartime
refugees “like a swarm of locusts”
seek shelter elsewhere, ‘there
nothing in the christian ethic” |
which cannot be solved with a well :
oiled sub-machinegun in ee |
“shelter” kitbag. |
The Post forecast of more money | |
and jobs” via the “underground” |
fits in neatly with a Canadian Na-~
tional Exhibition (CNE) poohhah |
who insisted there be no ‘ban-the- |
bomb’ petitioning around the CNE 4
because, in his opinion it is “a e
cheap cause”. Much better to tie |
up CD “progress” towards na-
tional suicide with fabulous spend- —
ing and the promise of jobs in the —
eonstruction of a national grave-
yard.
No doubt ‘Diet . and company’ —
would like to see Canada’s jobless 4
army (which promises to double |
in the winter of 1961-62), “under |
ground” or out of sight somewhere. |
Similarly with countless thousands’
of price-squeezed impoverished —
farmers, if they could go “under--
ground” with the gophers it would
be all to the good, even if neither
exactly fits in with Dief’s “Great” |
Plan To Go Underground”. é 4
There’s just one solution to this’ |
brand of insanity and it rests in
the hands of the common mecpledll i
—everywhere; an end to the manu- {|
facture and testing of nuclear |
bombs. And for us in Canada, to |
make sure there will be no nuclear |
‘weapons here, as the first step in {7
making sure there will be no {ff
nuclear war.
- And if Dief and his ‘under-
ground” planners have a yen to go
“underground” before the next
federal election, all well and good.

September 15, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page