FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1966
BOL. 27,NO. 1 ;

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LBJ’s pious

Education top need,
Says Council report

The Economic Council of Ca-
Nada, in its second annual re-
Port, has stated the main task
facing Canada is to educate and
Te-educate the labor force as we
enter the technological age. Main
Points made by the report are:

(1) The Canadian people them-
Selves are the nation’s most un-
derdeveloped resource,

(2) Twenty years of hit-and-

- Miss policies affecting areas of
Poverty in ‘the nation have left
the poor parts of Canada every
bit as far behind the more af-
fluent as they were in the be-
ginning,

Pointing to the importance of
education and trades training in
this era, the council declared:
“We recommend the advance-
Ment of education at all levels
be given a very high place in
Public policy and that investment
in education be accorded the
highest rank in the scale of
Priorities,”

The report then went on to
Make several specific recom-
Mendations for measures to
Make schooling available to all
Canadians—no matter where they
live or how little money they
have, to expand retraining pro-
&rams, to cut the number of high
School dropouts, upgrade teach-
ers, ete,

BCFL goes

The B,C, Federation of Labor,
in its annual submission to the
Provincial government, has
Closely paralleled recommenda-
tions of the Economic Council
of Canada in calling for a joint
federal-provincial manpower
agency which would look after
workers displaced by automation,

Under the federation’s plan the
joint agency would co-ordinate
manpower programs, placement,
training and retraining, reloca-
tion of workers, vocational guid-
ance and research,

According to the brief pre-
Sented to the provincial cabinet
on Thursday, such an agency

JOHN DEUTSCH

The 26-member council criti-
cized the Pearson government
for slowness in setting up man-
power policies which it recom-
mended in its first report last
year and for failure to make re-
training programs effective.

Council chairman John J,
Deutsch stated “unnecessary
manpower bottlenecks” have re-
sulted from the delay in putting
into effect a plan to help work-
ers moving to new jobs and “it
is difficult to understand the
delay.”

to Victoria

would look into such things as
finding out how much skilled la-
bor there isin B,C., how adequate
that labor is to meet changing
conditions, what labor require-
ments will be in the next five
years, etc,

The next step of the agency
would then be to take measures
to ensure that the required labor:
is adequately trained,

To accomplish this, the brief
stated, vocational and technical
training would be greatly ex-
panded and made free to all wor-
kers, While undergoing such
training, workers should re-
ceive living allowances,

unpopular legislation.

of Finance, Mitchell Sharp,

During the November 8 election campaign
this newspaper—along with candidates from
the Communist Party and some New Demo-
crats—warned the people of B.C, that the
Liberals were out to get a majority govern-
ment because they wanted to enact tough,

Although their majority bid failed igno-
miniously and Parliament has yet to as-
semble, the first get-tough hint has already
been broadly dropped by the new Minister

Get-tough hint by Sharp

In his first public utterance since being
handed the finance portfolio, Sharp told the
Canadian Club of Toronto last Monday that
he expects government expenditures to goup
this year and clearly implied that a hike in
the income tax paid by Canadian workers
would be necessary to balance the budget,

Thus, although new inthe finance ministry,
Sharp seems to already have mastered the
traditional Liberal attitude toward personal
income taxes: cut them before an election,
then raise them immediately after,

peace campaign
is gigantic sham and hoax

Cover for new escalation of dirty war

President Johnson's so-called “peace offensive’’ of recent days is nothing
but a thinly veiled ultimatum to the Vietnamese people to cease fighting for
their national liberation or face the increased fury of the enraged madmen
of the Pentagon. No clear thinking person will be lulled into believing his

empty gestures are even rem

This is not the first time LBJ
has spoken of peace while pre-
paring to escalate the war, Some
examples:

@ On April 7, 1964, he madea

speech at John Hopkins Univer-
sity during which he unveiled his
offer of “unconditional discus-
sions,” The speech was promptly
followed by intensified bombings
and the landing of 3,000 more
Marines,

®@ Between May 13-18 the U.S,
temporarily halted its bombings
of North Vietnam, but within days
huge contingents of troops were
being shipped into Vietnam, At
the start of the May **hombing
pause” the U.S. had 46,000 troops
there; today the number is al-
most 200,000,

@ Even while the latest propa-
ganda ploy about the so-called
peace offensive was being
trumpeted by most news media,
preparations for expanding the
war forged grimly ahead,

Thus the Vancouver Sun of
Wednesday, December 29, re-
ported that “despite the talk of
peace feelers the U.S, beefed up
its muscle in Vietnam” by flying
in another 4,000 men,

And the Vancouver Province
of January 5 in a by-lined New
York Times story, announced that
LBJ was pressing Congress fora
supplemental appropriation of
between $12 and $13 billion with
which to carry on and, in fact,
greatly increase the war,

The way to a lasting peace in
Southeast Asia was pointed out on
New Year’s Day by President
Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam,
In his New Year’s message to
the American people, in -whichhe
wished them peace, prosperity
and happiness, he delcared:

“The Vietnamese people are
striving persistently for peace,
But peace cannot be real without
real independence,

“The_U.S, rulers speak of
peace, but actually step up the
war, Let American imperialists
cease aggression, end all mili-

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quer the Viet

U.S. aggressors, thousands of miles from home andi

otely connected to peace.

in hostile jungle, can never

people, who are determined to win their national inde-

pendence as provided by the 1954 Geneva Agreements. (More on Vietnam on

Pages 2, 4 and 10.)

tary operations against North
Vietnam and withdraw U.S. troops
from South Vietnam so that the
Vietnamese people could settle
their affairs as laid down in the
Geneva Agreements, and peace
will at once be established, . .”

His statement met with the full
support of Soviet Premier Kosy-
gin, who told a group of Japanese
correspondents: “The Soviet
government fully shares and sup-
ports the stand ofthe Democratic
Republic of Vietnam and the NLF
on the settlement of the Vietnam
problem,

“We also actively support the
liberation struggle of the people
of Vietnam,” Kosygin continued,
“being convinced that they have
as much right as anyother people
to determine their destiny and

_their future without any imperial-.-

ist interference,” :
There is only one road to peace
in Vietnam, the Soviet Premier
reiterated. The U.S. must stop
its aggression and genocide
against the Vietnamese people
and send its troops back home,

Johnson’s hypocrisy was thus
being exposed by world socialist
leaders for what it is — an al-
most exact replica of the de-
mented Hitler who spoke of peace
while his jackbooted storm
troopers were marching into
Austria and Czechoslovakia and
raining bombs down upon the
people of Poland,

Ottawa has been almost com-
pletely silent while events race
on and mankind plunges on toward
the nuclear abyss, It is to be
hoped the Canadian people will
not follow suit,

oY,

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