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Build our own NHL
> geonagorkeaedestet ss recent times has served to
_ bring more Canadians from all walks of life together
in common protest and indignation, than the decision of
the big monopoly tycoons who control the National Hoc-
key League (NHL), to bypass Vancouver in the matter of
handing out NHL franchises; to limit Canada to two
teams while giving the US. ten.

Trade unions, businessmen, civic, provincial and fed-
eral government leaders, all have protested this arbitrary
NHL Board of Governors decision; an act which literally
deprives Canada of any say or control of its national game,
hockey. 2

Labor spokesman VLC President Ed. Sims, one of
the many prominent speakers at last week’s Exhibition
Gardens rally, pointed out clearly that this NHL decision
was a typical example of how Canada’s independence and
all that goes with it, is being whittled away by U.S. mon-
‘opoly; “now they are taking over our hockey in much the
game way as they've taken over our resources!

In the realm of hockey Canadians have won an envi-
able recerd. Evea on a U.S.-monopoly contro! of Canada’s
national sport, almost every player on the U.S. teams are
Canadians, t up like indentured slaves for the gate-
SS. : these U.S. and home-grown “sport” mon-

Vanceuver would certainly welcome the winning of an
NHL franchise even at this late date, and regard it ase
decided victory in response to mass protest and indigna-
tion. Whether however such a franchise is won by a Mc-
Mahon-Bell group or from the NHL McLean group, it will
o little to alter the nature of U.S. - domination of the
NHL in Canada. And that domination is of prime concern
to Canadians in what the future holds for their national
game.

The answer to the NHL issue will not be found
among the millionaire tycoon set, but only with the people.
It cam be found in the creation of a National Hockey
League in Canada, establishing its own rules governing
national and international games, and in the repatriation
ef its own historical Stanley Cup, as the highest award
and recognition of its native hockey talent

-. Such a distinct Canadian NHL would also serve tc
develop and promote Canadian hockey, and to keep Can-
ada’s top hockey stars, as the pride of their own country—
playing on their own country’s teams. Be

Tom
McEWEN

he high tmuck-a-mucks of se2

the American Bar Assoc-
jation (ABA) have decided that Hats off to the Rev, William
H, DuBay, chaplain of St, John’s

“the position of the United States
in Vietnam is legal under inter-  ospital of Los Angetes, whohas
come up with the ides of a trade

national law.” Weill, if piracy qtr
and brigandage on the high seas, union and the right of collective
bargaining for the tens of thou-

armed benditry, property des-

trection, mass murder and geno- sands of Romen Catholic priests
cide in countries other thaatheir 12 the U.S.A.
own is ‘‘legal,” cae may well
wonder what the Nuremberg Nazi
war crime trials were all about.

The idea raises some thought-
provoking questions, Just imag-
ine a good solid picket line of

Having apparently stutied
“jaw’’ under the Pentagon tutelage
of Herr McNamara, Bundy, John-
gon et al, as & what is now
“Jegal® im international banditry,
it is now quite possible the
“jearned® morons of the ABA

products of the legal profession
as “a conscience for hire.” lt
certainly fits the Grand Kleagles
of the ABA,

Local 1, American Federation
of Priests, demanding 2 modest
wage increase to keep bedy and
soul together in order to carry
on their duties; and some two-
dy-four “earthy-of-the-earth®
judge handing down an ex-parte
injunction prohibiting the labor-
ers in *God’s vineyard” from
seeking to improve their material
needs,

We can even imagine AFL—C1IO
president George Meany, who
boasts of never having been on 2
picket line, getting into that one,

2
TING (leaden Free Preis)

“A CANADAAA, we stand en guerd fer thee...”

They ‘got’

Nkruma

Nise of Iut week's military coup in Ghana and the
ousting of the Nkrumah government was hailed with
whoops of glee in the so-called “Free World” camp. That
fact alone is the best indicator of who engineered the coup

and whoee interests are best
the people of Ghana.

served. Certainly not those of

A “bloodless coup” the news media describes it as
they vent their hate upon “dictator” Dr. Nkrumah. There
is no doubt about it Nkrumah has been a thorn in the side
of British and U.S. reaction ever since he won independ-
ence for his country and people in 1957. A key figure also

ing” states of Africa, that in itself was enough

“free world” enemies to violence and bring their wrath

down on his head.
Could

Washington’s CIA and British ‘Intelligence’ be

-the real conspirators?

Maving ‘emancipated’ Nmself
materially with 2 $70,000 annual
salary — plus a dandy expense
sheet, George might fee! that his
presence en such 2 picket line
would give him a good stand-in
with St, Peter. And George was
never a lad to miss a bet —
for George. Anyway we wish
Father Do Bay ané his unton-
minded priests ali the success
pessibdie,

see

How does one assess the rare
kernel of wheat which is some-
times discernable in the moun-
tain of chaff that emanates from
the Tory mentality? Speaking
im Edmonton recently, Van-
couver’s veteran Tory Howard
Green gave his audience a real
braiatwister, all in one short
spiel, —

On the vital question of Can-
ada’s independence, Green isre-
ported to have placed the matter
thusly. ‘'R would be in the best
interests of the United States to
help keep Canada independent,”
Not im the “best interests® of
Canada mind you, but in the “best

interests” of the mortgage shark |
to keep his victim edible — bat.

not quite devoured,

On Canada’s ‘defence’ Green
scored a tory block-buster, Why

ONT SN RS

does Canada oppose China’s
claim to Formesa (Taiwan), a
claim the allies of World War TI,
the United Nations, and Green
himself once declared valid? * Be-
cause,” says Green, “Formosa
is a key part of the defence of
Canada’s West Coast.”

Perhaps one should leave such
Tory inanities to a competent
‘psychtatrist and get on with more
fruitful pursuits,

**x*

When is a “collector” not a
collector? The answer to that
one would seem to repose in one
Seered ‘sugar-deddy,” to wit,
Eimer Gunderson, According to
one Socred MLA, Gunderson
“accepts” Socred slush funds

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{of the rice ration ln Coba—Ed.) The
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the Yenkee imperialists who imposed

. the economic blockade on us; in the

.» second place, on the Government of
Chine fer having in fact joined this
bleckede; end in the third plece on
ourselves, for haviag believed in the
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peverament.

—MiBR CASTRO, in © repost
te the Cebea pesple.
x

Fellew citizens, open your eyes, ears
end heart while there is ye! me. Be-
coms ewase of the grec? vase? nesd
of miifisas ef cur chlidres new living
tn peverty, discimizaiion, cad aliens
more living under the three! ef ay-
cleer destruction. Listea te the cries of
the inneeent children of Vietaem whe
this dey ore being reested olive in
their medes? hemes. H wo, es Amesi-
can ciizeas, continue te fall suffering
humeaity, we will ve te beer the
exes? seme cries of our own children.

—AMERICAN SOCIETY TO
DEFEND CHILDREN bulletia,
Feb. 1964.

Sf

Tho US. Central latelligsace Aganzy
{ClA) b cemblag 168 college camspaves
far vecreita, B wes revealed by Cel.
Seley J. Gregen, eslstsat to Adz.
- William f. Rebuen, the CLA heed. Cal.
Grogea was en the pich-
_eting of « CIA recruiter revently of
‘Grlaszel Collage ia lowe.

—NEW VORK WORKER,
Feb. 27, ‘66.
®

The questien of werld Communion
cases} be raselved wih elem weap-
eas or fepdregon howks, Comecno
thould tad? President Jebasexn muni
Cocemualem te nel « cowsa, byt Geo
effect af poverty, disewcs, igearcace
end ingusiice. Mis wer ealy eggravetes
pete :

—U.S. FARM NEWS, Bob. 1966.

x

Dont ferget, Your Worship, thet
there ere @ fet of nice old fadles
orsund, c¥@ eplnctores, whe woulda?

from well-heeled businessmen,
bet “someone else collects

them,” & fact Gundy himself,
a director in the province’s three
Crown corporations, the PGE,
B.C. Hydro and B.C, Ferry
Authority, admits quite blandly
he “gets” and *distributes® the
dough, but doesn’t coliect tt. A
most brilliant exercise in Socred
semantics,

But, says our Socred MLA,
in his super-virtuous defence of
non-collector Gunderson, *Peo-
ple concerned with the future of
this province are putting money
(ato the Social Credit party as a
disaster insurance,”

That poses another question for
the Quiz Kids: When is Socredia
not a disaster?

Mtbune

ee

March 4, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Poge 4

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