Labor can force Pearson to act

N MAY 3 the AFL-CIO

building and construction.

trades department’s legis-
lative conference in Washington
was host to President Johnson.
The President had decided to
attend the conference after re-
ceiving a telegram from that
body supporting his policies in
Vietnam and the Dominican
Republic. _

The press reports that John-
son’s speech in defense of his
policies was “rousingly ac-
claimed” by the 4,000 “labor
leaders present”’.

Cutting through all the fine
words used by Johnson about
freedom and democracy, the
flag and “protection of US. citi-
zens” just what were those pre-
sent acclaiming?

They were acclaiming massive
and brutal military aggression
mounted by the United States
for the purpose of preventing
the peoples of Vietnam and the
Dominican Republic from exer-
cising their democratic rights

to determine their own destiny
free from outside interference.

They were acclaiming the re-
fusal of the President of the
United States to adhere to
solemnly executed international
agreements:

a) the Geneva Agreement of
1954 which prohibits the station-
ing of foreign troops in Viet-
nam;

b) the Charter of the Organi-
zation of American States
which unequivocally forbids in-
terference by the signatories in
each other’s internal affairs, and

Not so muc
more a way ot life...

Long (even shoulder-length) hair is a fad among
many young men in Britain. JAMES FRANKLIN, 19-
year-old apprentice, a Young Communist and a

marcher for peace, explains in an article in the

O, I’m not going to get my
hair cut. It’s taken me 12
months to grow — I’m

not giving it up now.

So you think it looks horrible?
I like it that way.

I go down the street, watch-
ing all the faces. There they are,
all dead and miserable. Then
they see me. :

They all suddenly come alive
—some furious, some disgusted,
the old boys going red, the old
girls shuddering, and they all
start muttering about “modern
youth.” It’s a real scream.

Why should they. all get so
het up about it? It’s fantastic.

I’ve tried to fathom it out—
why do the older generation all
get so mad about long hair? Is
it because in their young days,
the only men with long hair
were either effeminate or old
tramps?

Some old girls shudder when
you sit next to them on buses,
and draw their skirts away. It
makes me laugh like a drain
inside.

I probably bath and wash my
hair much more often than they
do, but they have this back-
ground of long hair meaning
dirt and corruption. They’re not
with it—they are way back in
the past.

British Daily Worker why he wears his long.

Long hair is really all a bit of
a “gig.” I don’t know what my
shop would do if I did cut my
hair. After they have exhausted
the subjects of football and the
geegees, my hair is always good

‘for a laugh.

They offer to club together
for the cost of my going to have
my hair done at a ladies’ hair-
dresser’s.

It makes them all feel very
humorous at my expense and
why should I worry? Anything
for a laugh.

Long hair isn’t a fad. There’s
going to be a change in a lot

Long hale un-Marxist?

outlaws the unilateral use of
force on “any ground whatso-
ever’,

These AFL-CIO building and
construction trades department
official were acclaiming ‘U.S.
aggressive military actions and
Hitler-like trampling of other
people’s rights which have set
in motion an alarming drift to
world nuclear war.

All of this doubly underlines

that if there ever was a time
when the Canadian trade union
movement should speak out in-
dependent of U.S. official trade
union influence, that time is
now. :

Canadian labor cannot allow
Prime Minister Pearson’s spine-
less defense of U.S. aggression
to go unchallenged. There is far
too much at stake.

The dangerous drift to world
nuclear war must be stopped.

The blatant interference by
U.S. imperialism in the internal

beastashion —

of values, and the question of
hair is one of these.

You are never bored if you
have long hair. Strangers come
up to you to tell you their
opinion on the subject. As if
you cared.

_Last week, a woman came up

and said rather diffidently:
“About long hair, the round-
heads were progressive forces
and they had short hair, and
when the Romans were playing
a progressive role in history,
they had short hair.”

As I told her, she was finding
facts to fit her prejudices —
most un-Marxist. Anyway,
Marx had long hair.

Of course, my girl friends
like it long—I wouldn’t be in
the running if my hair was
short. They think it is real
kinky.

The trouble with the older
generation is they are all dead.
They have forgotten how to en-
joy themselves. Sitting around
the telly (TV), or having a few
friends in—they don’t go mad
any more, do daft things for
the kick of it—once you settle
down you’re done for.

‘So don’t tell me how to run
my life or how to wear my hair.
You lot can think you are
modern and say “Go, man, go!”
but you haven’t a clue really.

If you think long hair is way
out, then you’re dead. It’s not
so much a fashion—more a way
of life.

_ be stopped.

Look at the panders on James and Bay.

affairs of other countries must done by the trade unl
ment and all patf
dians if the Canad
ment is to be forced
demn the outrageou
actions of the U.S. #8
and the drift to w0
war stopped.

Coordination of
effort is the need 0

A joint declarati
CLC, the CNTU ani
pendent unions direct’
Canadian governme
these lines would sé!
cause of world pé
troubled hour.

For these reasons Canadian
trade unionists cannot remain
silent when Pearson can say in
Vermont that the United States
has proven to us that it is
“neither selfish, nor aggressive,
nor imperialistic,’ nor when he
States in the House of Com-
mons that his government “has
recognized that the United
States gevernment has_ inter-
vened in the Dominican Repub-
lic for the protection of its own
citizens as well as those of
other countries,” nor when he
declared in the House that “the
policy and purpose of this gov-
ernment has been support for
the United States in Vietnam.”

Pearson is neither naive nor
stupid. His words are calcula-
ted. They constitute an attempt
to bridge Canadian public opin-
ion with subservience ‘to the
USA. And he speaks as he does
despite the implied threat to
the right: of Canadians to freely
decide their own destiny inher-
ent in U.S. actions in Vietnam
and the Dominican Republic.

It is evident that the Prime
Minister is out of tune with
the feelings of most Canadians.
He must be brought back into
tune.

But much more has to be

J. S. Wallace

- Uncle Sam believes it smart
To share his bed with a Wall Street tart
If you think we're safe from going astray

HEN the first world war started, my brother
John Belliveau and I spent many hours studyif
state documents issued by the countries inv

that we could decide who was right and who wronb
didn’t know till later some documents were missing,
twisted.

How naive we were. As naive as if we turned t0
son, Martin, Wilson, Johnson, Rusk for facts on t
against Vietnam. They give us. some truth, of cour
enough to sugarcoat the poison of propaganda.

The truth about Vietnam was told in advan’
Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, 34 years 8
twice received the Congressional Medal so there
no question about his standing:

“I spent 33 years and four months in active se
as a member of our country’s most agile military ”
the Marines, I served in all commissioned rank
second lieutenant to major general. I helped make Ni
and especially Tampico, safe for American oil intere race
1914. I helped make Havana and Cuba a decent pla
the National City Bank boys'to collect revenue in. us
purify Nicaragua for the international banking h®
Brown Bros. in 1909-12. I brought light for Americal
interests to the Dominican Republic in 1916. I help® 3,
Honduras right for American fruit companies in 190%

“Looking back on it, I feel I might have he
Capone a few hints. The best he could do was tom
his racket in three city districts. We Marines opera”
three continents.”

Sa

And now they are in a fourth, Asia, once mot?
active service for Wall Street.

(The above was sent in months ago by a Trib readel il
name, alas, for the moment I forget. Perhaps you W! 1p
this quotation should be clipped and kept, copied and 210
up: giving credit to the Canadian Tribune, where it

amend?

May 21, 1965--PACIFIC TRIBUNE~