| | | | | | P| __IR weike 4 Review jt IS customary at this season of the year to wish all our readers, Supporters and friends a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous and happy New Year. This we do whole- heartedly, and extend these seas- nal greetings to the great family of Labor everywhere. It is one of the permanent evils of our society that periodically hun- dreds of thousands of wage earners are thrown out of their jobs, while an’ equal number of farmers, who have produced food in abundance, are literally destitute.- To those asic sections of our working peo- ple the words “a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” are too often an empty and meaningless il- lusion . . . .unless some other fu- ture, vastly different from a Dulles missile-launching “brinkmanship”, te-echoed by Liberals, Tories and Social Credit alike, lies ahead of us. The year drawing to a close has een a very momentous one for all humanity. In the capitalist world It has been one of recurring and Sharpening tensions and threats to Peace; of growing economic hard- Ships for workers and farmers alike — of vast profits for the few, and growing poverty for the many. A year of governmental pen- hy-ante paliatives for the people, Meantime squandering the nation’s tich resources for high monopoly Profits and nuclear war prepara- tions, as prescribed by the suicidal Policies of Dulles “brinkmanship.” Nevertheless and despite these Man-made evils, 1957 has also been @ year of great achievement and Will be so recorded by future histor- fans. The successful launching of farth. satellites by the USSR as ®ne of its great contributions to an International Geophysical Year (GY), is not only a tremendous *« Our tasks for 1958 ~ boon to world science in its con- . (est of outer space, but opens the Way for all mankind to harness sci: *nce for health, happiness and Peace of humanity, rather than let- ting it become its destroyer. —. Pacific Tribune Phone: MArine 5288 Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — HAL GRIFFIN Subscription Rates: One Year: $4.00 Six months: $2.25 Published weekly at Room 6 —. 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. Canadian and Commonwealth °Ountries ‘(except Australia): $4.00 ne year. Australia, United States nd all other countries: $5.00 one year, EDITORIAL PAGE The prime job before all of us in 1958 is to call a decisivé halt to the plotters of nuclear warfare, to relegate their coldwar propaganda and hates to the ashcan. To open wide the channels of trade and friendship between Canada and the peoples of all lands. To begin the development of the vast natural re- sources of our country for the bene- fit (first and foremost) of our own people. To free our country and its people from the baleful dollar- domination of U.S. atomaniacs, and to take our place in a great and growing world fraternity for peace and. progress. To have done for good with the trickery, double-talk and demagogy the stock-in-trade of Liberal, Tory and Socred misleaders, and to re- place it with the true voice of the people from factory, farm and of- fice, banded together to promote peace, brotherhood and _ progress. With that job as our prime reso- lution for 1958, then we can say to our fellow workers and to the whole world, without commercial cynic- ism or pretense, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! So Comment The stakes are big international behind-the- scenes chess game is going on. It ran all through 1957 and before and will undoubtedly become more intense during 1958. The stakes are big; to be precise the vast BIG potential hydro-electric resources belonging to the people of B.C. Sitting in on this game and tak- ing an active part in pushing Tory, Liberal and Socred pawns around, are the big electric power trusts of the U.S., the B.C. Electric, the Wenner-Gren interests and other hydro-power ‘free enterprisers”” (read freebooters)). The U.S. hydro chess players, with Senator Richard Neuberger as their cheer leader, so engrossed with the idea that they own Canada any- way, just cannot understand why there should be any opposing “squawks” against their damming up B.C.’s Columbia River for their particular needs, especially, with a lineup of Socred pawns ready to “cooperate.” Then along came the Liberals last summer ‘with their offer (in their own partisan interests) to help Columbia power development as a “public” undertaking, presumably under B.C. Power Commission aus- Pices. That strategic move put Socred Bennett in a difficult position. But the Socred merchant from Kelow- na hadn’t studied political chess for nothing. He promptly switched strategy and shifted from the Col- umbia River side of the board to the Rocky Mountain trench. Here he could win by an out-flanking movement and assure British Col- umbians that the genius of Wenner Gren (in exchange for a chunk of their province) would give them all the electric power needed — and wouldn't endanger our rivers or their finny treasurers A good New Year’s resolution for 1958 would be for the people of B.C. to keep a close eye on this U.S.-Canadian monopoly chess game, and to cut in somewhere be- fore the end of the play with a combination play of their own; a play designed to keep the develop- ment, control and preservation of hydro and fisheries resources in the hands of the people, and out of reach of the monopolists and their political pawns. Tom McEwen EACE On £arth, Goodwill To Men. Propaganda; Pure unadulter- ated propaganda. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker has said so, and who are we to question the wis- dom of this Tory custodian of all the verities? The leaders of the Soviet Union and the Socialist sector of this world, representing.over one third of all humanity, say, “Let us talk peace.” Leaders of the so-called Western “free world,” represent- ing all the monopolists, cartels banking institutions, exploiters, gangsters and pseudo Christians, hell bent on fomenting atomic war, fall back on the lame ex- cuse: “Propaganda!” To all Soviet propositions for peace the West has a series of stock replies: “propaganda”, “mas- sive retaliation,” “brinkmanship”, ‘vou can't trust . tem,” - ete) “A: small-town lawyer with an over- developed ego and a flair for blue-ribbon tory demagogy, pre- suming to speak for Canada, joins the “free” West chorus with rau- cous shouts of “propaganda.” Seemingly everything the spokes- men of the Soviet Union or other peace-loving nations have to say on behalf’ of peace is “propagan- da” while our Liberal and Tory virtuosos, under the baton of Washington’s cold-war choir lead- ers pose as injured patrons of “peace” while they scheme and conspire for devastating war! “Most everyone remembers that charming nursery tale of the dis- astrous fall of Humpty Dumpty and of how all the “pooled brains” of that period just “couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.” An impresive conference of Western “statesmen”, some of them from as far “west” as Greece, Turkey, Israel, Thailand and other “western nations” are gathered this week in Paris