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TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associate Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager.

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Tom
McEwen

Jestice Minister Stuart Garson’s an-

nhouncement in the House of Com-
Aone that there are an “estimated 50,-

Communists and fellow-travellers in
Canada” left us a bit groggy. This “esti-
Mate” came during a discussion on the
30vernment’s McCarthyite “security
Screen” operations which have eliminat-
€d quite a number. of Canadians from the
armed and civil services as “security
fees Security” being the polite par-
‘amentary term for McCarthyism in gov-

_*thment circles.
However, the thing that disturbed us’

Most in the “estimate”: wasn’t the num-
“er of Communists in Canada, real or
™agined, nor the realization that Mc-
_irthyism operates in-a big way in Ot
“wa. Our problem was this: Is govern-
tent by spooks, or by stoolpigeons the
est we in Canada could do in this en-
htened age of H-bombs and Billy Gra-
am evangels? ;
Rat is public knowledge now that when
fe late Willian Lyon Mackenzie King
Was confronted with vexing problems of
State, this canny offspring of an illustri-
US grandsire was wont to call in the
‘Pooks from the past for consultation
a advice. The problem settled in
Shostly seance, the Chieftain of Kings-

Mere would then get his cabinet fin

&Sled into line — and Canada was

S€cure” until the next seance.
ae it appears that the custom in high
2 beral circles is to give the spooks the
> by and gear its “security” calculations
st estimates” supplied by professional
olpigeons. Ex-RCMP inspector John
in pold, alias Jack Esselwein, still wear-
§ his tattered halo as an “expert” on
Tmunism, supplies a lot of fantastic
oes and fiction in his rare moments
Sobriety. These in turn are picked up
Justice Minister Garson and given out
the ee Nas with a straight face — ape

ority. weight of parliamentary au
This latest Leopold-cum-Garson “esti-
mate” is designed to cover up the Liberal-
cine thyite “screening” in army and
r , Service circles. The civil servant
do army man who holds opinions which
forct conform to the Leopold-Garson
mula for “loyalty” gets the axe —
hia Sate McCarthyite guillotine must be
itersn Pehind the fiction that Canada is
f ey. swarming with “communists and

ellow-travellers.” :
tw It was purely a matter of choice be-
“fae Zovernment-by-spooks or govern-
h nt-by-stools, our preference would be
ats former. Spooks at least, as demon-
tated in a recent CBC program, draw
her line at having McCarthy either “up
€" or “down there.”

Be 3 bos 5g :
Ne widely known U.S. columnists,
€ntin Reynolds and Westbrook Pegler,

the Usy conducting a public contest in
Re, art of heaving abuse at each other. -
& Raclds is suing Pegler in a $500,000

” for describing him as “a yellow
ent» .*,* + an absentee war corespond-
on hi and sundry other remarks bearing
1S Moral and ethical behavior.
co Ctions of the U.S, press describe the
“rtroom circus as “a landslide of
Swe From where we sit we would
cal 4 /at in their moral, ethical and politi-
€scription of each other, both these
De er press gladiators are one hundred
Son ct. correct. As for the possible
000 “award,” we would suggest it
Ne “Oscar” for high-class journal-
alm Muck-raking, rather than as heart-
to either press hawk. We are sure
appr decision would meet with the
D ee of a majority of the American
Sept ©. Canadians have an aversion to
ove lc tanks, especially when they spill
T into Canada!

Cowa

Forty years ago

(From the files of the B.C. Federationist,
June 12, 1914)

Appalling conditions in the U.S. gar-
ment industry have been uncovered by
a commission on industrial relations in
New York. Mrs. Mary Minora, a 14-year-
old mother who appeared before the com-
mission with her six-month-old baby in
her arms, testified that she worked as
a pants finisher from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
for 60 cents a day.

Fifteen years ago

(From the files of the People’s Advocate,
June 9, 1939)

Judgment of Chief Justice Green-
shields in upholding the Padlock Law
as “constitutional” was challenged by
the Canadian Civil Liberties Union,
which announced in Montreal that it
viewed the Duplessis government’s
notorious legislation as “an undemocratic
enactment that violates civil liberties
long regarded as fundamental in this

country.”

Ten years ago
(From the files of The People,
June 10, 1944)

Allied invasion armies, smashing into
Nazi defenses in France, were being aid-
ed by thousands of French partisans who
were harassing German lines of com-
munications and conducting guerilla

attacks in the enemy rear.

St. Laurent in Pakistan

Villain's assistant

ISMISSAL of the United Front govern-
D ment and imposition of arbitrary rule
in East Pakistan is widely commented on

. in the Indian press as the first bitter

fruit of United States domination of
Pakistan.

(In the elections, the United Front co- .

alition of parties won 223° of the 309 seats

in the East Pakistan legislature, ousting

the Moslem League government and re-

ducing its representation from 217 to
ine seats.) :

ae United Press of India dispatch nam-

ed the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan as the

villain of the piece.

report said that until May 29
Besar Rehannica Ali hesitated to
take the drastic step, fearing serious re-
percussions. It was then suggested to
him to replace the present government
with a strong man with unlimited pow-
ant is no accident that the choice fell
on Defense Secretary Iskander Mirza.
Tt is he who negotiated the military pact
between the U.S. and Pakistan. :

A factor in bringing Pakistan into the
U.S. military orbit, against the will of its
people, was Canadian Prime Minister
Louis St. Laurent, shown above review-
ing Pakistani troops on his globe-girdling
trip’ earlier this year.

CANUEK

Dulles eager for Asian war

Pete the trying weeks of
the Geneva conference the
issue of ““Western unity” has hit
the headlines frequently. The
many announcements that this
“unity’’ must and would prevail
was perhaps the best indicator
that Dulles’ plans for extending

. the war in Asia and elsewhere

“were creating new rifts in the
Western lute almost as fast as
old ones were being patched up.

Last week Dulles jarred this
Western “‘unity’”’ again, this time
by warning France and Italy that
if they didn’t get busy and ratify
the European Defense Commun-
ity (EDC) and permit the arm-
ing of Naziled West German

.

forces they “‘may lose U.S. mili-
tary aid funds.”’

Dulles also told Britain that the
US. will “not allow’ Downing
Street to ‘‘veto’’” U.S. plans for
“collective security’’ in Southeast
Asia (read U.S. war in Indo-
china), and that “‘if necessary the
U.S. will take whatever action it
sees fit, with or without Britain.”’

In that sort of big-stick ‘‘unity’’
the participants have the limited
choice of ‘‘hanging’’ together —
or separately. Millions of people
in Britain, France, Italy and’ else-
where, are determined to do
neither, hence Dulles’ sour notes
on the “Western unity’’ lute.

Class struggle goes on

A few weeks ago the Vanco
ver Sun reprinted a British

that the
“class struggle’ had ceased to ex-
ist in Canada and that all Cana-
dian workers were ‘‘capitalists’’ in
their own right. |

writer's observation

A few days later, as if by sheer
coincidence, the Vancouver Board
of Trade invited Tom Alsbury,

R. K. Gervin and George John-
ston of Vancouver Trades and
Labor Council to’have the TLC
affiliate with the Board of Trade.

In quick succession came fur-
ther proof of this new proletarian
status with the spectacle of trade
union “‘leaders’’ and the heads of
big monopolies “united” in a
common effort to scuttle the 40-
hour week in the retail trade,

, thereby opening the door to scut-

tling it everywhere. And all done
in the name of a spurious “‘identi-
ty of interests.”

The 45,000 or more unemploy-
ed’ in this- province who have
been waiting for the “‘seasonal
upswing’’ which would permit
them to earn a livelihood, and
who experience plenty of diffi
culties collecting their miserable
pittance of unemployment insur-
ance “‘benefits,’’ will be happy to
know they are now “‘capitalists’’
and in line for a dividend cut.
The only remaining question to

be solved will be, ‘“When do we

collect?”’

That being the case, it would .
seem that the class struggle is
still with us. —

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 11, 1954 — PAGE 5