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Ween the powers-that-be decide from time to

“time that some new skin game or other skul-
duggery has to be put over on the people, they

What means some of these birds became or are
_ Considered “experts” is beyond us. Possibly has
_ Something to do with their readiness to say “Yes,
Sir” at the right time and on behalf of the right
‘Interests, At least the weight of evidence, as the
legal sharks Say, supports that viewpoint. Nine
_ times out of ten on a similar number of issues
affecting the welfare of the people generally, the
advice, testimony, views or whatever one likes to
_ Call it; of these alleged “experts” is at variance
With the interests of the people.
= Take a look at the Public Utilities Commission
_ of “experts” going to bat for the BCElectric. As
_ far back as we have been able to delve into the
_ yellowing pages of B.C. labor journals, we cannot
find a single instance of the PUC or similar
Stoups of “brain trusters” experting on behalf
Of the people. If we have slipped up on one lone
instance we'd like, someone to tell us about it.
_ How often during the past 25 or 30 years
ave the city fathers hired some “expert” or other
_;8t a nice fat 'fee) to bamboozle the people into
lieving that the BCElectric is god’s gift to
, *neouver? What these “experts” have collected
_ = cash, while BCElectric tariffs have tripled and
Services have gone down, would provide all the

five years or more. .
¢., We've had “experts” on milk, “experts” on
freight rates, “experts” on how to live on a dollar
& day, and “experts” on how to streamline mass
lisposal in case of atomic attack! (Acting on
© advice of the latter category of “experts,”
_ Me St. Laurent government is said to be ready
to provide sturdy (built coffins in carload lots to
‘ny municipality in Canada, at $5 per box, f.o.b.
Ottawa.) Then there are “experts” on how to
Safeguard the people from ideas of high living,
thus Providing added safeguards to monopoly
Profits, and “experts” on how to shovel them off
~ Masse in the event of our way of life blowing up.
._ Among military top brass circles “experts”
_ re'always in heavy demand. The columns of
Sur daily press boil over with the views of “ex.
Derts” on Russia, ‘China, the war in Korea, how
communism” and how to export democracy
0ca-Cola containers and long-range guns.

_The Yanks have produced a school of “ex-

to ee
in Coe.

seit Union, China and the New Democracies
,, Urope, and ‘have the ‘business completed by
the next Fourth of July. When the plans of one
“experts” go haywire (and they invariably
es ‘because of the sheer cussedness and determina-
oe uke Of people to run their own affairs in their

1 Way) a new ‘batch of “experts” is brought
*® to pore over the debacle helped along by the
Previous platoon of “experts.” And so on it goes.

*

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As We See It
by TOM McEWEN

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bring up their “experts.” Just how, when, or iby.

ildren in Vancouver schools with free milk for

. paign,

Sa able to ‘blueprint the destruction of the

Despite the dialectics of history and society, it
seems to be a peculiarity of the “experts” to
insist on battering their addled pates against the
granite wall of the people’s logic.

While on the matter of “experts,” a local
case caught our eye a couple of weeks ago which
serves to illustrate how abysmally dumb these
“experts” can be. It appears that a bevy of “ex-
perts” has been working hard on British Colum-
bia’s perennial Doukhobor problem (we might
add that it would be no problem at all under a
sane’ social system) and came up with some
bright ideas. At least, that’s what the “experts”
thought!

After the “experts” had delved long and
deeply into the matter, they assigned one of their
number to tell the Doukhobor community at
‘Hilliers all. about it.”

The “expert” sociologist assigned to the job
was a lady “expert,” and while she was elucidating
‘the “problem” of the Doukhobors to the Doukho-
bors, as seen through the eyes of “experts,” the
audience was.so moved by such profound wisdom
that it stripped right down to minus the pro-
verbial fig leaf. Press reports have it that the
lady “expert” fainted and had ‘to be rushed home
suffering from nervous shock. It’s a pretty safe
bet that not one of these “experts” would be
able to relate a unique form of protest with the
“expert” nonsense they spout, which has already
cost the B.C. taxpayers a pretty penny—including
tthe Doukhobors.

e

The role of this paper is not only to help
the people see the “experts,” but to see through
them, and thus see the class they are “expert-
ing” for. ;

Ol Bill ‘Bennett, to whose memory this ¢ol-
umn is dedicated during the PT financial cam-
had these “experts” properly tagged.
“These apologists for capitalist exploitation,”
he once said, “are low-grade jobbers who contract
whitewashing jobs !for any price. Their price and
ability to lie corresponds with the job on hand.”

. Working men and women who appreciate

Ol’ Bill’s definition, say it this way: “Please find
enclosed $10. In our lifetime they have made a
‘thousand million Communists, and are well on
the way to making another thousand million.

- That will ‘be it. Yours for ‘the day, E.B.”

A Victoria reader is even more sparing with
words, but backs up his opinion of the Pacific
Tribune and the job it does with a cheque for
$100. That is the kind of support which leaves
the “experts” hanging on the ropes. —

_ To date, as a tribute to Ol’ Bill and a fighting

paper, this column has run up a total of $255.15.

We are grateful to all those who have written
us and sent their donations along. But the total
of the campaign is still a long way short of the
minimum objective needed to keep the Pacific
Tribune rolling. e

How about it for today’s mail?

=)

A cartoonist looks at Truman,

‘from Combat ef Quebac 1

BY MIKE GOLD —

Pace 10 of the New York ‘Times of Tuesday,
March 11 might almost be called a sample
“ new United States journalism. It is a bulle-
tin

: paading ‘on eight stories that almost fill the

4,1) AntiRed Witness in, Los Angeles Trial
4zy on Dates; 2) Jury Selected in Baltimore
“d Trial; 3) Michigan ex-Senator Called a Red

eee Un‘American Committee; 4) Reds Burned
Secret Papers — FBI Informer Testifies at
Washington Hearing: 5) United States Wins
Ruling in Th

‘in Trial of 16 Reds; 6) Court to Rule

| The new US. cold war journalism

of cold war news. The following are the —

tisement shows,a naked female figure in a long

saying, “I never knew I could take inches off
. my hips — years off my figure — that my mid-

on Oklahoma Loyalty Laws; 7) 30 Reds Protest —
Ouster of American Woman Red.

Surrounding this lush display of witch-hunt-
ing’ and book-burning cases, are the usual com-
mercial advertisements. The principal adver-

corset. She is reaching towards the stars and

dle could be so little — that my silhouette could
look so sleek, so smooth — until I wore En-
hance” (Enhance is a new corset that sells for
$25 in white, pink, blue, black and navy).

\

t

Wl bales

Crime. against humanity

DURING recent weeks North Korean governments military and oor
civilian spokesmen have charged that the American armed

‘forces in Korea are using germ warfare against the heroic people
of that ravaged and tortured land=

As was to be expected, the Truman administration got its
billion dollar propaganda machine into high gear to deny this
latest crime, outlawed by all civilized humanity. The Men of Wall
Street say the Korean charge of germ warfare is “a Communist |
plot,” an “invention of the Kremlin.”

It cannot ‘be denied that the “red bogey” has served the Ameri-
can aggressors well, as a cover up for many of their crimes against |
the Korean people. But there are some crimes committed (at
home and abroad) which cannot be covered up by anti-Communist
falsehood and slanden These might include crimes Such as geno-

cide (the lynching and judicial murder of the Negro people of the
United States)

; the wilful bombing of hospitals, schools, truce

areas and POW camps, and ‘the diabolical spreading of deadly
(bacteria.

The Men of Wall Street should know that deadly plagues
spread by germ weapons have a habit of crossing political fron-
‘tiers. That is basically why germ warfare is outlawed by all
civilized peoples. ;

Despite the “denials” launched by the propaganda machine
of the Pentagon, we prefer to lbelieve the Korean people. The

weight of evidence is already too apparent to be obscured by the
frothings of professional anti-red bogeymen.

In the firm belief that we express the sentiments of every
decent Canadian who abhors becoming an unwilling accomplice
in this latest crime of germ warfare—doubly criminal since it is
carried on under a UN flag, dedicated to peace, let us shout from
the mountain tops and ‘from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Withdraw
Canadian Troops From Korea.

This is the only course that can be taken, if Canada is to be

saved from the shame and stigma of a horrible crime against
humanity. ' 3 ges

Canada must speak out

A LITTLE over two years ago the racist policies of South Africa’s

Malan government were placed before the United Nations.
That body, already under the tutelage of Yankee imperialism,
Saw fit to sidestep 'the necessity of coming to grips with the racist
ideologies of a-member nation. :

Malan’s “aryan” stooges in the UN took the position that their
government’s treatment of South Africa’s colored peoples was
“an internal affair,” and thus outside the jurisdiction of the UN.

During recent months the Malan government has ‘been ruth-
lessly driving ahead with its racist “apartheid” (segregation)
policies, designed to transform South Africa into a huge ghetto,
a “prison-house of nations,” in which a small minority of whites,
imbued with fascist ideas, impose their dictatorial rule upon a
vast majority of bitterly exploited colored people. oes.

The Supreme Court of South Africa has ruled the Malan. _
planned ghetto to be unconstitutional. In retaliation, the Malan
government is now proposing to strip the Supreme Court of the
power to decide on matters involving government policy. It is an
abject lesson on who destroys democratic institutions when ‘these
become an obstacle to naked class rule. ’ Sy

Some rumblings of opposition to the Malan racist dictatorship
have been heard in the Canadian House of Commons and in other —
parliaments of the British-Commonwealth. But these murmurs of
Polite “disapproval” will not deter the racist Malan. Only stern
and universal protest, statéd in the strongest of terms, will halt —
the “white-supremacy” maniacs, who would turn the clock back
to Hitlerism in the Union of South Africa, and. do it in the name
of “British democracy.” ;

“No nation can survive,” said Abe Lincoln, “that is half slave, _
half free.” In this age that can be applied to commonwealths —
equal force. Canadians cannot be free if South Africans are held
in racial bondage. Ce : ees

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