- By IAN ALLAN ‘gn keeping with annu- | al practice, this space 2 is presenting its predic- % tions for 1960. We have been reading the portents © and find that as far as hum- / drum matters are concern- ed 1960 will bring no great changes in the West- 4 -world. We are sorry to = have to report this but af- ‘ter having been up on the oof with a telescope and down the cellar with a flashlight we can come to no other conclusion. Television: During 1960 | Western public opinion, taste and culture will again be directed by the ) laxative, soap, cigarette & d toothpaste corpora- tions. They will buy ample television time in an effort to convince viewers that § their products will make * them happier, richer and more beautiful. To fill up ‘= time between commercials ® the corporations will hire comedians who laugh at their own jokes loudly and * heartily. Summary: No — # change. Movies: _Hollywood, al- ‘§ ways in search of new ma- ) terial, _will _produce the Concise Oxford Dictionary as a comic opera and Peter Pan as a Western. A film presently being made whose locale is Egypt will have the Sphinx made in the studio. When the com- pany sails to Egypt to make some exterior shots the director will take his own Sphinx to the desert s) because the _ original Sphinx is very old and Hollywood doesn‘t like to use second-hand stuff. This adult attitude will guide the American movie in- dustry in 1960. Summary: No change. Awards: “Labor lead- ers” will continue to re- ceive government. appoint- ments and honors provid- ing they have a record of steadily opposing any al- teration. in working-class conditions. The more time they have spent in care- fully not altering hem, the higher the honors. Sum- mary: No change. Senate: Protential ap pointees to the Canadian Senate will be asked to sign a Taft-Hartley oath swearing that they never have worked, are not now working and have no in- tention of ever working. Besides the no-work week oath the senators will also have to agree to accept a minimum of $10,000 a year in unemployment in- surance. Summary: Minor change. Government: Prime Minister Diefenbaker will make a Cream of Wheat speech early in January in which he will predict a sudden spurt in trade. In- dependent economists will figure out that, barring an- other Ice Age or a collis- ion with Mars. Tory irade progress will mean that all surplus labor will be re-absorbed by industry in not less than 15,000 years. Summary: No change. aaa al NED eNO NILE BE LEWIN EN 08 sey eee gt ee Ce Ce ee ee ee IED IE ON AN Tee TEN NAD AY Outlook for 1960 8 & : & : : : & : & & & 8 ® & & & M & NS & , & & & & : ; ' & & & 8 ss NUE U REN YEN EN BEN BES EN ON GREETINGS SOF THE SEASON to all our FRIENDS and SUPPORTERS KENSINGTON CLUB Communist Party of Canada AREER ET RE GEG CAE EAE CGI BROADWAY BROTHERS MT. PLEASANT BAYVIEW : Vancouver -Burrard Press Clubs PT. GREY OLGIN STUDENTS May 1960 see the Canadian people register great gains in the struggle for Peace, Progress & Democracy. REGEN REN REAGAN PEGE LDPE CDOL CLEARED SEASON’S GREETINGS from tet Bea es cas Tim Buck, national leader of the Communist. Party of Canada, will speak at a pub- lic rally in Vancouver on January 24, to open a tour of B.C. during which he will address a number of meet- ings on Vancouver Island, and in the Fraser Valley and interior points. . Longshore delegates meet K MOSCOW — Premier Khrushchey met a three-man delegation from the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union here recently — the first American official trade union delegation to visit this country for more than a decade — for an hour in the Kremlin. The delegation’s two-week stay as guests of the Soviet Sea and River Workers Union and the Ministry of Sea Trans- port, during which they have visited the ports of Leningrad, Odessa and Baku, is a result of Khrushchev’s visit to the San Francsscu ILWU head- quarters, “Premier Khrushchey sever- al times repeated his belief that the world picture now ap- peared brighter, and that the international situation is im- -|proving,” the leader of the delegation, Louis. Goldblatt, told a press conference later. Bert Whyte's SPOR A WEEK Before Christmas riding around Holland in a jeep with a girl named Meep. We were looking for a fat young pig. Meep was a friend of the sergeant. My interest was in the pig, which was scheduled to be the guest of honor (roast- ed) at our Christmas dinner. The regiment was holding a strip of land this side of the Rhine, and the war had slowed to a halt. Our mortars fired a few bombs across the river every day; and we were bil- letted in an abandoned vill- age, heavily mined to keep in- quisitive German patrols out. To get back to Meep and the pig. Meep was disguised as a Canadian soldier, to avoid trouble with wandering offi- cers, should we come across any. Once she nearly spilled the beans by blowing a kiss to a passing major; he looked back at us rather oddly, I thought. Meep directed us to the farm of a Dutch collaborator, who had a trunkfull of worthless TLIGHT German marks stashed away and viewed our ‘Eisenhower funny money” sourly. He was probably hoping for a turn in the tide of fortune and the re- = turn of the Nazis. He demanded an outrageous- ly high price for a fat little porker, and Meep countered by quoting a ridiculously low one. We acted as arbitrators and settled on Meep’s price. Then began a wild dash back to our village with the squeal- ing pig in the back seat. The cook welcomed us with open arms, and a gleam in his eye. On Christmas day we had a — feast, roast pig a la Army, washed down with tots of rum (we’d been saving our rum ration for weeks). The cook stood stiffly at attention receiv- ing our compliments and hand~ fulls of Dutch cigars, then passed out cold on the floor. Firecrackers began popping off all over the joint, adding to the gaiety of the occasion, and it was some moments before we became aware that Jerry was laying down a barrage. A memorable Christmas. Pacific Tribune plans conference of readers The Pacific Tribune is planning a readers’ conference late in January or early in February to discuss with its active supporters questions concerning content (and how improvements can be made), the paper’s financial situ- ation (which has bettered considerably during 1959) and the problem of circulation (just holding its own at present). Recently in Toronto our sister ter paper, the Canadian Trib- une sponsored a_ discussion with its readers at which many interesting suggestions for| & making the paper more popu- lar were advanced. A lively discussion from the floor stressed the desire of many readers for more “‘light- | & er material,” more humor in PROVINCIAL VIVID LV EVILEDV LED GEV LEV LEV OEY PE ae RENIN IED EY ED EDAD ED LEY OD ENED EY ED EV LN LED EN GED TED TEED IED REY GREETINGS OF THE SEASON TO OUR MEMBERS AND ALL WORKING MEN & WOMEN | OF BC” °° May our joint efforts bring us closer to peaceful co-existence and Socialism in 1960. COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA Bt OB GREE CEA CNEL OALECE CHET December 24, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2 7 COMMITTEE seater * the paper. Some expressed the ~ view that the Canadian Tri- bune “lacked spark,’ and was not sufficiently exciting. * dseinahaliaheahenelamaliti 8 HOLIDAY GREETINGS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS & & : from 2 Jim, Barney. and Allen Blakey - & SS § HOLIDAY GREETINGS ¥ TO ALL OUR FRIENDS Columba Smith - Don Cox RP AED AED ERED ED LED RED BED EDS With Best Wishes for a § Happy Holiday Season, ; ‘Peace and P¥ogress in thes New Year = from Sam English and © PREV ED Ie: Seba menace ene