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‘Lest We Forget’

uae ss years’ have passed
since the bright morning of
August 6, 1945, when, on the order
of ex-president Harry S. Truman
of the United States of America,
the first atom bomb was crimin-
ally dropped upon the city of
Hiroshima, Japan, wiping out a
city and its teeming thousands in
one blinding flash of searing
flame.

Thus did the “atom age” break
upon the world, in the hands of
madmen, for domination and
destruction.

The first atom bomb that de-
stroyed Hiroshima had little or
nothing to do with the succesful
waging of war upon Japan in
World War II. Japan was already
defeated before Hiroshima. But it
had everything to do with the

Editorialcomment ...

There’s a timely reminder for
Canadians in the current demand
of U.S. lumber tycoons, senators
and others that Canada’s lumber
exports to the U.S. be “cut back”
fifty percent or more.

First, a sharp reminder of the
oft-repeated dangers inherent in
Liberal-Tory policies of U.S. “in-
tegration”; of having all our trade
eggs and national aspirations con-
tained in a Yankee basket with a
phoney bottom. Secondly, the need
to get out and win the vast mar-
kets still open to Canada in the
world of Socialism and indepen-
dent emerging nations, regardless

of whether Washington “ap-
proves” or not.
If this is done Canada can

weather this or any other econo-
mic “blow” with some semblance
of independence and stability.

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Mr. Nat Cohen, often mistaken-
ly referred to as an “authority”
on literary and cultural matters,
and for some time the key pooh-
bah on CBC-TV’s misnamed pro-
gram “Fighting Words”, was a
recent visitor in Vancouver.

This weighty individual who
runs heavily to suet, and one-time
member of the Communist Party
which he deserted because, on his
‘own sayso Tim Buck once tried
to “get him on a soapbox” (Tim
how could you?) had the gall to

{describe Vancouver as “culturally
‘backward” and far “behind” Tor-
onto’s cultural attainments:

Aside from this insult to our
civic pride the question naturally
arises: why does an alleged pub-

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emergence of a new and dominant
world imperialism, entertaining
the mad dream of “A-bomb mono-
poly” in the destruction of the
nations and peoples of a rising
Socialist world, and bringing them
under the jackboot of a new Am-
erican tzarism.

History has broken the U.S.
“monopoly” of “the bomb”, but
its standing threat against all
humanity, now grown to a _ mil-
dion times more destructive than,
that first A-Bomb which destroy-
ed Hiroshima, spurs new millions
of the world’s peoples on this
Seventeenth anniversary of Hiro-
shima to say with ever-growing
unity and determination: “No
More Hiroshimas”, “No More
War”.

lic utility like CBC-TV, which cost

the taxpayers a “pretty penny”

annually to keep going, pick up

such characters as Mr. Nat Cohen,

and make them “experts” on
_ anything?

The answer to this and similar
queries may be found in the most
'recent CBC-TV “Close-Up” pro-
grame on the Communist Party,
or its earlier Mine-Mill fantasy.
These were genuine super-duper
stinkers in which the Cohen-Wil-
lis et al “expert” abilities excelled.

Canadian (or Vancouver) cul-
ture would sure be in the dog->
house if Nat were its “lodestar”.

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Stamp it out now

Ww" it not for the fact that
the current McCarthyite
witch-hunt now boiling up at City
Hall against a long-established
trade union is being staged to
serve as a cover-up for “Non-Par-
tisan” (NPA) civic maladminis-
tration,the matter wouldn’t be
worth two lines in any reputable
newspaper.

When monopoly and its yesmen
in government at all levels seek
the disruption or destruction of a
trade union organization, they
invariably resort to the weapon of
slanderous anti-Communism to do
the job. In this, and regrettably
so, they are often aided by mis-

guided right-wing elements in the

ranks of labor itself.

NPA record at City Hall for
over two decades has been one of
serving monopoly, rooking the
taxpayer, and transforming Van-
couver into a “protected area’ for
real estate and financial sharks.
Citizens need only: look at their
most recent tax bills to verify
that sorry record.

During recent times much ald-
ermanic “disunity” has been in
evidence at City Hall, primarily
around the insoluble problem of
how best to serve monopoly, diddle
the taxpayers, and keep both tol-
erably quiet on the end results?

But let the class issue of wages,
jobs, tax cuts, civic facilities in
derelict areas break into the pic-
ture with some mass pressure and,
“presto”; our NPA McCarthyites
and their political piebald mayor-

Comment

ality incumbent snap into it
unprecedented “unity”, n0
waving the old “red bogey
anti-Communism meantime.

This, they hope, as does
Tory, Liberal and Socred react
will serve to take the eyes of
people off the real issues, ©
up their own collective and ind
dual administrative bankrup!
and provide the opportunit
vieing with each other as to
or which are the “best figh
against what they are pleased
describe as “communism”.
while the monopoly sewer P
whoops it up from the sidel
as they cook up new “Comm
ist conspiracies to control” Ss
thing or other?

As employers it doesn’t w?
these NPA McCarthyites ©
their attacks upon the civie
any other union under their j¥
diction, is a flagrant breach
B.C. statutory labor laws, W™
specify the “non-interference”
any employer or group of emp!
ers in the internal affairs of
trade union. Their main cone
is to turn the “anti-Communs
heat on, — in order to turn
heat off their own monopy
dominated political chicanery:

McCarthyism at City Hall
new, nor does its foul stench
prove with age. But the cull
NPA spate should serve 4
warning to all labor to stam?
out before this destructive
ease spreads to wider circles
the people.

mong the many Asian and
A other foreign newspapers and
bulletins which come to the PT
office there are frequent ‘‘news”
items which spell out a distinct
and uniform pattern. The area de-
tails may differ somewhat, but the

“sameness” reflects a_ sickening
psychological similarity.

These incidents have to do with
American military personnel
abroad, obviously steeped in the
ideology.that ‘life is cheap’’, that
morality has no place in the mili-
tary manual, and hence a “law
unto themselves’ -in destroying
life.

Newspapers from South Korean
cities wherever large numbers of
U.S. occupational troops are sta-.
tioned, frequently report reckless-
ly driven U.S. cars or jeeps kill-
ing pedestrians on the streets and
never even bothering to stop to
give any assistance or, concern for
their hapless victims.

Since these hit-and-run GI’s are
apparently immune from the jus-
tice of native courts, the killing:
of Koreans on the streets would
seem to be of less moment than
a Vancouver driver accidently
killing an alley cat. In all the
Korean papers. we still haven't
found one of these U.S. “super-
men” faced with the merited pen-

alty for this form of manslaught-
er?

Tokyo and other Japanese news-
papers report numerous similar in-
cidents from areas where U.S.
military forces are stationed, often
with appropriate journalistic in-
dignation, but rarely with any
mention of the guilty persons hav-
ing been apprehended or punished
for such wanton crimes

In South Vietnam where the
U.S. has literally been at war with
the Vietnamese people, (as could
be seen in quite recent CBC-TV
“news” programs), the incidence
of manslaughter on the streets of
Saigon and other South Vietnam
centers is legion. While the U.S.
is now publicly implicated with
the barbarous tortures and cruel-

.ties now being inflicted upon al-
leged Vietnam “Communists” in:
the slave camps or “fortified ham-

. lets” being operated under Penta-

gon direction, the traffic death
rate on the streets by U.S. mili-

_ tary vehicles driven by U.S. per-

sonnel takes its mounting daily
toll, sans apologies, concern, re-
gret or retribution by or for the
victims,

A recent edition of the Hsinhua
Daily Bulletin, (China) reports
“reckless driving by U.S. troops
has killed many residents in Tai-
wan” (Formosa), and notes that
“these killings have aroused great
indignation among the people.”

In one case the killing of a
woman by a car driven by a U.S.
“advisor of the US. military as-
sistance group” the car occupants
didn’t even stop to express any re-
grets. When the woman’s family
carried her coffin to the office of
his U.S. “advisory” gang to lodge;
a silent protest they were driven.

cheap”. —
lands where the pigmentation 7

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is, with insane ambitions for wo!

cast in its own image, wantonly ;
destroying life on the streets

off by Chiang Kai-shek’s police.
Another case was that of a U.S
jeep knocking down and running
over an expectant mother, Che?
Yi-feng and another woman 4°
companying her. As Hsinhua brief
ly puts it, “the jeep went on wit!
out stopping, leaving the dead 0
the road,” :
“Liberators” or libertines
Schooled in the arts of violence
and aggrandizement, well-heeled i
with Yankee dollars to buy what
they can’t take, and “superma?
arrogance to take what they cai
buy, these street killers of U.S. iM
perialism, so far removeg and iM
munized from the traditional dee
ency, honor and humanity of th®
great American people which gave i
them birth, wantonly kill an®@
maim, because to them ‘life
and dirt cheap in thos.

the human skin differs from the!
own. ae
It may be argued jby some —
people that many if not all of thes®
reported hit-and-run killings by
U.S. military personnel over SU
wide areas abroad, are either “€*
aggerated” and or have no rel@
tion to each other in the emerté
ence of a_charactereistic “pat
tern’? a4
U.S. imperialism being what

domination either by the bribery
of “dollar diplomacy” or its oW?
boast of nuclear annihilation for
those peoples and nations reje
ing its dictums, it is not difficU™ —
to imagine its military machine —

its “occupational” areas — and oe
. . . : . 3

ing its killing in the name of “£f
dom from Communism’’?

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