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A threat to humonity

HE incalculable effects of the

Yankee H-bomb experiments
are now on our own doorstep.
Today it is grey ash which eats
into glass. Tomorrow it can be
death. So far we have been more
fortunate than were the Japanese
fishermen who suffered radio-
active burns hundreds of miles
outside the Bikini testing grounds
“safety zone.’ At least, we hope
we are more fortunate, though no
one at the moment can say for
certain that we are.

The grey ash that has been fal-
ling over large areas of the prov
ince during past two weeks and
the thousands of dollars worth of
damage done to auto windshields;
the contamination of the Pacific
ocean to an extent which cannot
yet be determined; the danger to

seamen and fishermen and the
threat to the fishing industry—all
this is more than cause for the
people and government of our
country to demand an immedia-
ate end to this Yankee H-bomb
madness.

How puerile are the excuses,

RE moO

Tom
McEwen

JOHN BLACKMORE, Social Credit MP
for Lethbridge, wants war against the
Viet Union—now! The horror of H-

mb warfare, the very threat to civiliza-
RQ itself, holds no terrors for this

Tange-bred warmonger. Nor is it a co-

‘ncidence that he has donned the mantle

te ilfred Lacroix as parliament’s most

abid red-baiter and is one of the fascist
ee trying to promote a visit to Can-
ada by Senator Joe McCarthy.
Blackmore has:some novel ideas on this
ees of war on Russia which com
itute a very poor return for the $8000

Per annum his sitting in the Canadian
Suse of Commons costs the taxpayers.

Re idea is that Canada should “use
as and Chinese” to do the fighting

ziapving. Naturally this Socred “strate:

Chi is not too clear on just how the
ese, Korean, or other peoples of

thes or Europe are to be convinced that
¥ should step into the H-bomb furn-

pick out Blackmore chestnuts.

the his parliamentary contribution to
By. 4. OMotion of war and national hatred
eaten pre qenve Voice to another moth
mega} slander currently peddled by his
“Req cutnlac tribe, that when all the
wher Spies” are chased out of every-
tion’, ise “they go to the United Na-
Politi, Even that versatile master of
Mor, cal and philosophical twaddle, El-

© Philpott, felt called upon to brand

Bla
¢kmore’s ranting as “nonsense.”

at be it for us to lecture the people
but thbridge on their choice of an MP,

Since this provocative nonsense af-
“situa of Canada as well as the con-
tha ae of Lethbridge, it seems to us
of BI Wouldn’t be a bad idea if some
ents ackmore’s long-suffering constitu-
€t it be known publicly that he is

the explanations, advanced by
some of our alleged physicists and
security officials, as for instance,
the explanation that the pitted
damage to windshields is caused
by “gravel.” According to Dr.
Gordon Shrum of the UBC, who
poses as a scientist, the best cure:
all for the pitted damage is to
‘stay off gravel roads.’’ This in
face of evidence from people who
have seen the ash falling on wind-
shields and have noted its effects.

The purpose of such excuses is
to minimize the growing fear
among people everywhere at these
H-bomb experiments, and to
throttle their rising indignation
against the Yankee atomaniacs
who have turned the Pacific
ocean into’ a US. “testing
ground” heedless of the other na-
tions whose shores form its vast

nm.

Let the people of Canada call
a halt to this H-bomb madness,
and to the infantile guessing at
initial effects which are now
too apparent, and begin to speak
in united and unmistakable lang:

not representing them or voicing their
interests in the House. ’

Any MP, regardless of his political
label, who publicly defends and lauds
a fascist leper like Joe McCarthy; who
permits his parliamentary franking privi-
leges to be used in the spreading of
anti-Semitic poison; who blatantly calls
for H-bomb' war on the Soviet Union or
other nations, should be hustled out of
the House of Commons with all the statu-
tory power his constituents can muster.
Both Lethbridge and Canada would bene-

fit.

We'd have let the matter Dass had not ©

the Vancouver Sun bust loose with an-
other of its editorial hozannas on the
subject. In a recent issue, the Sun has
Dr. Barnett Savery of the UBC stepping
forward as a hero and SH otdly.. . < beard-
ing the left-wingers in their den.” This
is the first time we have ever heard of a
public platform and an audience of eight
or nine hundred people being defined as
a “den,” but then, we’re never too old
to learn.

A couple of weeks ago we heard Pro-
fessor Savery expound his views on Mc-
Carthyism asa “suest” speaker of the
League for Democratic Rights (LDR). It
appears that the learned doctor had ac-
cepted the LDR invitation on condition
that he would be able to air his views
on the LDR as well as upon McCarthy.
This the professor did with the aid of a

~ prepared script, sometimes leaving the

audience little to distinguish between
himself and McCarthy.

Speaking for ourselves we felt a good
deal of pity for the professor and mar-

yelled that he was a professor of any-

ing. On the controversial clauses of
eae (new Criminal Code), which has
just passed parliament (with nearly 200
MPs absenting themselves when the vote
was taken) and is now before the Senate,
Professor Savery opined that “if they
(meaning all those opposed to Bill 7)
“abide by the rules of the game, they
haven’t much to fear.” This, despite the
fact that with the exception of a mere
handful of professional labor fakers who
occupy the swivel chairs in labor’s top
offices, the entire Canadian trade union
movement has opposed the repressive and
undemocratic clauses of Bill 7.

: a4 yee? /,
gost 3 pee Niely

“WAR IS AWFUL Clos

Massive Retaliatio,, :

CPE

uage by demanding:

First, that the St.. Laurent gov-
ernment, expressing the will of
the Canadian people, demand an
immediate halt to further H-bomb
tests at Bikini or elsewhere.

Second, to demand that Wash-
ington underwrite the cost of all
damage sustained in Canada to
date—and all that may yet ensue
from atomic ash or other phen-
onema of similar origin.

Third, that Canada take the

On the equally vital topie of the spread
of McCarthyism in Ganada, the professor
stated that “it is very difficult for me
to see any great danger on this count.”
There is perhaps nothing more pitiable
than an alleged Doctor of Philosophy
doctoring up his own philosophy to con-
form to prejudiced. tastes. :

Had the learned doctor taken a glance
at what is happening to leading profes-
sors, educationalists, scholars and scien-
tists in scores of U.S. universities (and
spilling over into this country) it might
have been less “difficult” for him to see
the difference between McCarthy and
democracy. Not being called upon to
endorse in foto the organization under
whose auspices he spoke, the professor
could at least have been honest with

himself—and the science of Reason he

presumes to teach.

While. we were happy to see Dr. Sav-
ery defending democracy along with the
rest of us, his philosophical “defenses”
were weak, to say the least. He remind-
ed us of a great “democrat” who once
roared at us: “I believe in democracy—
but we’ve got to keep certain people in
their place.” And that, of course, is the
end product sought by Joe McCarthy, by
those who promote him, those who ape
him and those who apologize for him.
Ss .

The valiant Dimitrov once said that
workers must choose whether to be “the
hammer or the anvil” in the struggle for
socialism. An old timer in the B.C.
socialist movement who ekes out the
evening of his life on a miserable old
age pension wrote us a very fine tribute
last week, and clinched it with a dollar
to help’ along.

“Scotty, as a blacksmith you’re a damn
fine editor because you’ve never lost the
knack of bringing the hammer down hard
on the anvil to pound the iron into shape.
Keep hammering lad, she’s coming our
way.” :

The figures on our campaign score-
board, the cheery smile of our business

manager Rita Whyte and the tireless .

work of our hundreds of press builders
and supporters, proves the old timer ab-
solutely right.

But—we’ve got to keep on hammering
to keep the PT rolling. We not only
want to reach the top, but to go over it.

THE EISENHOWER-DULLES AXIS

lead now in the promotion of an
international - covenant between
civilized nations—a covenant de-
signed to outlaw atomic weapons
forever.

What is falling from the skies
today as a result of the acts of
power-drunk madmen, is an out-
rage upon Nature and humanity.
What can yet follow if this mad-
ness goes unchecked, can mean
the destruction of all life upon
this planet.

wT TTC Nee Cee aR Nee

Forty years ago

(From the files of the B.C. Federationist,
April 24, 1914)

Organized labor in a number of B.C.
centres was making preparations to cele-
brate May Day. In Nanaimo, striking
coal miners planned to make the tradi-
tional May Day parade a mass demon-
stration for settlement of their demands
in the two-year-old strike.

Fifteen years ago
(From the files of the People’s Advocate,
April 21, 1939) :

Sir Frederick Banting, world-famous
Canadian scientist and co-discoverer of
insulin, announced that he had severed
all connections. with the Leadership Lea-
gue. His repudiation was a blow to the
plans of George McCullagh, publisher of
the Toronto Globe and Mail, to win
popular support for his reactionary aims.

* * *

A bylaw for continued operation of
streetcars was defeated in Victoria, fall-
ing 83 votes short of the required three-
fifths majority.

Ten years ago

(From the files of The People,
April 22, 1944)

Charge that there were 51 company

_ unions in B.C. was made by Dick Osman,

business agent of the International As-
sociation of Machinists, in Vancouver
Trades and Labor Council as a recom-
mendation asking the Trades and Labor
Congress of Canada to press for aboli-
tion of company unions was unanimously
endorsed.

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