Review CHART OF - EDITORIAL PAGE Rags to riches Se : a 4g ; fT & > ay bh rd 18 re D ‘ 7] rape rire? — QO df Yr) & e ” ) O a (i ia | : 4 oe ‘ : HePR : ciate! pave ayenta Paneer : i Hrs ! : | #1 Two peas in a p his week the people of Vancou- ver will have had an opportun- ity to weigh up the “differences” between Tory John Diefenbaker and Liberal “Mike” Pearson. Insofar as policies detrimental to the peace and wellbeing of Can- ada are concerned, the “differ- ences” between these two political stalwarts and their respective par- ties could be weighed upon a very small apothecary scale. As stated, the “differences” are lost in similarities. Both are the bipartisan spokesmen for big U.S. — Canadian monopoly. Both have amply demonstrated their capacity for taking orders from Washing- ton. Both have contributed to- wards selling Canada’s independ- ence, peace, resources, markets and jobs down the river to U.S. imperialism. Both are committed to nuclear arms in Canada and both equally ready (following the June 18 elec- tion) to comply with U.S. insist- ence on this score. Both are staunch devotees of NATO- NORAD and both have already de- monstrated their ability to pour billions of the taxpayers’ dollars down the arms drain. The claim therefore, that there are “differences” between Lib- eral and Tory or their respective chieftains now engaged in a wordy bout of political shadow-boxing, is purely imaginary, having no foundation in reality. Pacific Tribune _ Editor — TOM McEWEN Agsociate Editor—MAURICE RUSH Business Mgr..-OXANA BIGELOW Published weekly at: Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouer 4, B.C. | . Phone MUtual 5-5288 Subscription Rates: One Year: $4:00—Six Months: $2.25 Canadian and Commonwealth coun- tries (except Australia): $4:00 one year. Australia, United States and ‘afl other countries: $5.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post .Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Se eae a 7 Fd od’ What, then, is the alternative to these political Charlie McCar- thys of U.S.-Canadian monopoly and coldwar? Elsewhere in this paper is a leading editorial from the Cana- dian Tribune posing the question; “Will the NDP face up to the chal- lenge?” This editorial speaks for itself, but the question it poses is vital to the basic sections of the Canadian people; the need to dis- pose of the Tories, Liberals and Socreds and their mythical “dif- ferences” and elect ‘a Parliament of NDP and Communists to speak and act for the people. x uring recent weeks we have been receiving not a few cir- culars from various stock broker and “securities” firms. The latest of these is from the “Argus Se- curities Limited.” wt These circulars, pointing the way to speedy affluence and rich- es, are not unrelated to the cur- rent Dief-Pearson “visions of prosperity”, now being tossed. around the hustings in reckless abandon as a “come-on” for votes. This ASL firm tells us right off that “Canada is one of the few countries where millions of dollars can be made in the stockmarket without paying a cent (emphasis theirs) in Capital Gains Taxes.” - According to the formula for making “king-sized fortunes” al- most overnight, the vital factor is “Timing”, (again their emphasis). To have someone “on the spot” who can advise on the exact “tim- ing” when a 12-cent share can be turned into a possible $86,960 — an 8-cent share into $21,375, or a 10-cent ditto into $35,750, and so on. Someone who can. show that “. .. easy way to get that ‘extra cash’ you are looking for . . . tax _ free” ... Anything “tax free” nowadays is always a good sell-: ing point by those who make a business of tax evasions. At some risk of being labelled “subversive” ASL makes a point on U.S. domination of Canadian economy; “American investment capital, (estimated at $15-billion) has literally poured across the border seeking a foothold in this fastest growing nation on Earth”. From ASL’s big prospectus of “low” purchase and high “possible; Comment gains” it) would seem that oi and mining are the big profit ™ ers in B.C. Recalling the m like rise of tycoons like oil ™ nate Frank McMahon from rae riches and similar profiteé buccaneers, we have no caust question ASL’s “Why . . What and When.” That’s the so stuff the Diefs and Peal® weave their “unparalleled “4 dian prosperity” political g of. But somebody, not mention the ASL prospectus pays for 4 $15-billion Yankee invest plus all the “capital gains” ? ed by ASL, and we don’t have look too far afield to find out W" The Canadian people, W™ sovereign independence, resou™ industries, jobs, markets, nati0 birthright and peace — all ® with ASL’s “King-sized” PA FITS. EDITORIAL COMME Fo" years ago, to be exact ¥ March 7, 1958, the Vanco! Sun ran a headline; “Pearson Tory Job ‘Phoney’”. oe Two days later the same P# ran another headline; “Tory ~ ister says Jobless Peak Pass© with Tory labor minister boas! “we’re over the peak”? Four years later what 40 hear? The same old scratched cord with the Dief ensemble ¥ elling “we’re over the peak”, 4 the Pearsons wailing “we’re ¥™” it.” i Times may change, but old- political hucksters don’t. They’ got to be “changed”. : here is a Number-12 step on the Diefenbaker “11 Steps to Sur- vival.” It can be seen tucked away In a quiet corner of the B.C. Build- in at Exhibition Park in Vancou- ver. For a family coffin in which stark madness can be the prelude to a kind death in a nuclear holo- aust; it Is a “homey” looking tomb. This “12th” step for “survival” is a fallout-shelter, with life-sized dummies of Pop lounging in bed, Mom at the table reading the Post and Junior and sister Sue engross- ed in their favourite ‘“comic” pulps. : All the fixings are there for a pre-death burial. Three cans of kerosine, the — essential garbage pail, a dinky toilet bucket with a possible 12-hour capacity, concen- trated foods, lamps anq other es- sential supplies. In fact everything pleasing to the eye is there — ex- cept the sanity of reality. That has to be imagined — even when science has already given its ver- dict on the insane stupidity of thinking survival is possible by any other means save by general which the deluded victim is urged to build at his or her own expense. In the peace and quiet of every- day humdrum life most mothers experience some-difficulty keeping Junior in the house all day, and | since Junior is invariably equip- ped with the staying powers to in- sist, “‘Mom, why can’t I go out’, : Mom generally breaks down and shoos him out. On such matters it is generally recognized that Pop is much less patient, and therefore inclined to boot his protesting off- spring out at a much earlier stage of the debate. But ‘“‘patience” in a Diefenbaker family fallout coffin is a far cry from the patience (or lack of it) in a normal family household. In this case death and destruction is outside. The atmosphere is poison- ed, the life-giving air contaminat- ed, all life is in smoldering ashes. Nature has been criminally out- raged and has ceased to be. Some nuclear maniac somewhere push- ed a button and Earth has become a burning Hiroshima. i Twelve hours, twenty-four hours. forty-eight . . . Time becomes a trip-hammer, pounding on the liv- ing brain of the tomb-dwellers, driving home the stark realization that what they accepted from the Diefenbakers and Pearsons ag “survival” has become a_ night- mare of claustrophobia, merging into stark madness — as a pre- lude to protracted death. Perhaps that is why the Diefs, subject with a flow of oratorial humbug. Why they pretend to ~" against the horrors of nuclear ' ee struction — if “conditions” P® mit? ; ae And these “conditions”, what 2% they? That the world bow and worship at the feet of 1 Street and its Canadian monopo : devotees. Otherwise, the H-bom and its accompanying monstro™” illusion of “survival” via the Die™ enbaker family tomb. a o “Who knows,” they .say, pe haps sixty, fifty, forty million ° of hundreds of millions will 5 vive, if only they build themselV® a fallout tomb,” with all bluepri? and _ specifications supp me “free’’; that is if $48-million of | victim’s money down the CD “S¥ vival” drain can be termed ‘“‘fre® By all means take a run UP the Ex. and see Dief’s family fin. It would be a cosy set-uP a cyclone belt, or for a placé quiet relaxation after a hectic © in the stockmarket. But a5 stands, it is the epitome, the ap the crowning achievement of years of Tory, Liberal and Sof rule since Confederation; the © result of policies which lead ectly to nuclear war and desttl¥ tion — from which there is no § vival. pe th al “No Junior, you can’t go 0U In the Diefenbaker “survi¥ tomb, one parental hope will st gle desperately for survival; | é i th disarmament and peace. a ae : Fee, oe death comes to all before hee But let’s get back to this Dief- aie a nae a. on ie thread between Reason and i -enbaker enlarged family coffin, — ustings. ly. they obscure e ness —— breaks. .¢ .