LMOST at the precise moment
when Dief was holding forth

at a big business gathering in
London and bombastically telling
his audience that Canada is “able
to welcome and absorb into em-

- ployment many tens of thousands

of immigrants,” another scene was
being enacted in Ottawa. . There
Tory government spokesmen were
giving a BCFL delegation a cyn-
ical brushoff on the burning issue
of unemployment and its resultant

distress.

The conclusions to be drawn

-from these Tory exhibitiens of

callous unconcern should now be
very clear: viz., that from now on
in it requires, more than finely-
worded resolutions and_hat-in-

-hand representations to compel

this Tory cabal to face up to its
responsibilities to the working
people of this country.

Jobless workers cannot subsist
on “seasonal unemployment” ex-
cuses, especially. when for thous-
ands the “seasonal” is becoming
12 months per year around, with
nothing between them and desti-
tution save “charity” handouts
and supplementary insurance ben-

efits, which latter terminate this

week for the rest of 1960. More-
over in many key industries in-
creasing automation is making
human displacement permanent,
with neither policy nor perspective
in sight to fake up the slack.

(The recent CLC convention

expressed itself in favor of “re- .

duced working hours,” but since it
didn’t specify a 30 or a 35-hour
working week on which the trade
unions should conduct a_nation-
wide struggle to offset growing
unemployment, its “resolve” on
this score is about as valuable as
Dief’s pre-election promises.)
With a few rare exceptions the
trade union leadership here and
nationally, have confined their ac-
tivities on behalf of the unemploy-
ed, to finely-worded resolutions
and “programs.” Any and all pro-
Posals to mobilize the unemployed
for demonstrative action in sup-
port of such resolutions before

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An act of banditry

governments at ail levels, have
been frowned upon and branded as
“communistic” by the trade union
burocracy and their top brass CCF
running mates.

Such a policy of “respectability”
has enabled the monopolists and
their subservient governments,
whether Liberal, Tory or Socred,
to step up their attacks upon trade
union standards, and to relegate
an army of almost one million
jebless workers to the status of
“charity” recipients, their united
strength dissipated and their dig-
nity as human beings trampled
underfoot to serve political ex-
pediency. To suffer and starve un-
til some mythical “new party”
on them into a CCF “promised
and.”

What is needed, and badly, is a
return to the demonstrative and
militant action of the Hungry
Thirties; for the unemployed to
mobilize in their thousands at city
halls, provincial legislatures, and
on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Fine resolutions, with the jobless
kept hidden behind a “charity”
curtain of a flop-house mission,
destroys dignity, worth and fight-
ing elan.

To win, mass action must ac-
company resolutions.

HE shooting down of a U.S.
espionage plane on Soviet ter-
ritory last week by Soviet defence
forces has shocked the entire
world.

That such a provocative mission
could be ordered by U.S. war con-
spirators on the eve of the Summit
meeting is almost incredible, but
the hard facts of this imperialist
banditry speak for themselves.

Following a few days of “virtu-
ous” denials by Washington, dur-
ing which sundry U.S. govern-
ment heads, bombastic senators
and a kept monopoly press reached
a new high in anti-Soviet slander
and canard, the U.S. state depart-
ment reluctantly and_ belatedly
admitted that Soviet Premier Nik-
ita Khrushchev’s charges were
true.

They could hardly do otherwise
since the Soviet Union had all the
incriminating evidence, including
a live pilot who had neglected to
kill himself as ordered, rather
than risk capture — and exposure.

Caught red-handed, the U.S.
war provocateurs and their pliable
. Satellites in Britain and elsewhere,
are now brazenly boasting that
they have been doing this sort of
thing right along, mainly with the

‘hope of “playing down” Soviet

vigilance against the war conspir-

ators of the U.S. and its NATO
henchmen.

Even our own Tory spokesmen |
in Ottawa chime in with their
ten-cents’. worth in an effort to

help U.S. imperialist banditry “off
the hook.” External Affairs Min-
ister Howard Green “thinks Soviet
planes may have flown on missions
over Canadian territory.”

For the Canadian people and the
people of the whole world, the U.S.
espionage plane incident contains
a salutory and grave warning.

That is the menacing danger of —

nuclear war, launched by trigger-
happy adventurers, who are brain-
washed, bribed and guided in their
nefarious missions by “hidden”

authority, whose aim is to destroy -

peace.

A grim warning to the common
people everywhere on the eve of a
summit meeting, pointing up the
urgent need for greater vigilance,

unity and determination that the

Summit must achieve its aim.
The U.S. espionage plane, like a

foraging vulture, foreshadows the —

terrible alternative to peace. That —

is why the Summit must triumph
over imperialist war conspirators.

Tom
McEwen

HE big monopoly news agencies

which specializes in manufac-
tured “news” invariably operate
on the Goebbels’ principle, namely,
that if they lie long enough and
often enough, a goodly portion of
the coldwar pablum they dish out
as ‘“‘news’ will be accepted as

idea. ; .

Back in the closing days of April
these “news” pablum manufac-
turers told us in a score of big
monopoly journals that countless
thousands of East Berlin citizens
_ were “fleeing” into West Berlin,
“refugees from Communist terror.”

With slight variations all the big
news agencies like Associated
Press, United Press,-and so on
supplied the same coldwar diet.
The Vancouver Sun in its April 22
edition gave front-page promin-
ence to a U.P. blurb, headlined
“Berlin Refugee Trek Hits Six-
Year Peak.” Similar papers across
Canada served up the same pre-
digested pablum. |

A touching ‘picture indeed.

gospel truth. Thus the “Big Lie” —

“Thousands fleeing East Germany”
and West German Chancellor Kon-
rad Adenauer urging that these
“slaves of Communist agriculture,
business and industry, be wel- _
comed with open arms,” etc., and
so forth.

John Peet, editor of Democratic
German RepOri throws some light
on this “refugee flesh creeper”
from the coldwar pablum factories.

Of course there is a migration
from the East Zone of Berlin to
the West Zone and vise versa, just
as there is migration to and from
other countries, and for a great
variety of reasons, probably ~in-
cluding some who don’t like the
system of socialism or capitalism.

Editor Peet draws attention to
the Manchester Guardian of March
18, 1960, to an item which shows
that during 1958-59 some 372,000
Britons, professionals and others,
left their homeland for residence
elsewhere.

“Tf I wanted to be nastly,” writes
Peet, ‘I could slap a headline on
this story, stating Terrorized Refu-
gees Flee Macmillan’s Britain, but
that of course would not be ex-
actly true.”

Perhaps if we took a gander at
emigration from Canada over the
past decade we would see ten times
the number leaving Canada for
other pastures than the “trek’’ be-
tween East and West Germany.
And it certainly wouldn’t be the |
“whole truth” if we headed emigra-

‘movements (from West to East

tion from Canada as ‘Canadian
Refugees Flee Diefenbaker Dema-
gogy” although we could sympath-
ize with them if they did. ;
People emigrate for many
reasons. Some, as Editor Peet says,
because “the apples on the other
side of the wall look sweeter,” or
because of other governmental en-
ticements and promises, which can-
not, and were not intended to be
kept. :
(Only last week while the BCFL ~
was pleading with hat-in-hand that
the Dief government do something
about chronic unemployment and
its consequent distress, Dief was
sounding off in London with “‘in-
vitations” to thousands of Britons
to come to Canada and share our
“great wealth and employment
opportunities.” This while nearly a
million Canadians are jobless, and
tens of thousands of university and
high school students tramp the
streets, looking for that non-exist-
ent job upon which the continua-
tion of their education depends).
There is the other side to the
“Berlin refugee” picture which the
pablum manufacturers are silent
upon. In the back pages of the
voluminous New York Times it
may be noted that the. “Eastward

Berlin) may have reached 50-per-
cent of the reduced Western
flow.” :

Moral: to get the truth firsthand,
read the Pacific Tribune.

May 13, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4

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