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Peace on earth

To all peace loving humanity,
transcending all religious beliefs.
and denominations, to the believer:
and non-believer alike, the passing
of Pope John XXIII is a sorrow-
ful and grievous loss. To all, as to
the million-fold family of the
Catholic faith, the world was en-
riched by his life-long work for
humanity and peace, and now
rendered infinitely poorer by his
death.

Pope John possessed that rarest
of all human qualities, the ability
to crown his high office with the
imperishable gift of human toler-

ance and charity—the foundation
stone for a world yearning to live
in peace and harmony.

In his great “Pacem in Terris”
(Peace on Earth) he urged nego-
tiations in order that mankind
“may come to discover better the

bonds that united them”; a deep

and stirring plea for an end to
coldwar with its ever-present
menace of the nuclear destruction.

May the memory of Pope John
XXIII continue to strengthen the

will and determination for unity

and peace—the goal for which his
life’s work so courageously and
devotedly epitomized.

Bombs before jobs?

A correspondent in the latest
edition of the Vancouver & Dis-
trict Unemployed Council “News-
letter’ poses a very timely re-
minder;

“Instead of our new Prime Min-

ister hurrying to Washington to
discuss the acquisition of nuclear
‘weapons, he should stay at home
and solve our unemployment
problem, as no armaments are as
reliable as a secure and contented
people.”

Well spoken, particularly since
we have an army of jobless work-
ers nearing the *%4-million mark,
applying for or on unemployment
insurance benefits. And that we

may say does not include the tens
of thousands who no longer
“qualify” and are reduced to sur-
viving on “‘welfare” handouts.
Common sense should dictate

that the needs of Canada’s job-

less workers and their families
should have precedence over nu-
clear bombs for useless Bomarcs
or worse. But common sense is a
very rare phenomena among Can-
ada’s U.S.-yesmen of the Pear-
sonian vintage?

Meantime as the Pearson “60-
days of decision”’ runs out, the
plight of Canada’s growing jobless
army runs ‘,up”, with nothing in
sight but more “promises.”

Editorial comment...

When last week’s “kite” flown
by Liberal M.P. Jack Davis,
(Coast-Capilano) on the need to
head-off “socialism” by turning
all public-owned Canadian utili-
ties over to “private enterprise”
failed to soar aloft in a breeze of

We can just see the Old Lady
of Cambie Street, wiping away a
tear of regret as she mutters un-
der her breath a line from that’
old ditty about “better to have
tried and failed . . . than not tried
at all,” etc. and so forth.

Cc omment

Any way -- it figures

Considered against the back-
ground of the recent Norris Com-
mission hearings on the notorious
Hal Banks’ administration of the
Seafarers International Union
(SIU), with its long history of
inter-union violence, racketeering,
blacklist and hooliganism against
Canadian seamen, the recent
shotgun assault on Rod Heinekey,
Vancouver port agent for the
SIU, undoubtedly stems from the
same setting.

While no arrests have as yet
been made of any alleged assail-
ant who sprayed Heinekey with a
charge of buckshot, there are al-
ready attempts being made to
place the blame on“rival seafar-
ing unions,” an art in which some
of our labor-hating press excel.
Nothing like utilizing every unto-

ward event in the ranks of labor

to stir up a new round of inter-
necine union warfare?

While the Norris Commission
report on SIU administration is
not yet released, the mass of
dames evidence entered against

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Platform for democracy

the Hal Banks leadership of the
SIU, and used by labor-hating
monopoly to discredit trade un-
ionism in general, is overwhelm-
ing. An unsavory picture of a
ruthless and unprincipled union
dictatorship.

It is one of the ironies of Cana-
dian labor history that it was the
Liberal government of Mac-.
kenzie King, the Canadian Ship-
ping Federation, and the top
leadership of the now Canadian
Labor Congress, who combined
to bring Hal Banks, the U.S. ex-
convict and his SIU to Canada—.
to smash the Canadian Seamen’s
Union, in an orgy of SIU-RCMP
violence against Canadian seamen
seldom equalled in the annals of
Canadian labor history. For the
King government the smashing
of the CSU by the SIU also
served as the prelude for the gov-
ernment’s scuttling of Canada’s
famed Merchant Marine.

Thus we find the Heinekey
shooting affray being tagged onto
the “rival union” alibi instead of
the much more likely probability
of one of his own SIU victims:
taking a pot-shot at his erstwhile
chief. That conjecture at least,
short of a Heinekey publicity
set-up, fits fully into the pattern
of the Hal Banks SIU “leader-
ship”?

No wonder many trade union-
ists see the Heinekey shooting |
affair and the early tabling of the
Norris report as something more
than a mere “coincidence.” As
such it could well serve as a “di-
version,” to distract attention
from the strong Norris condemna-
tion of SIU methods of union |
domination?

Either way—it figures.

public approval, Prime Minister
Pearson hastened to assure the
country that Davis’ idea “wasn’t
government policy”?

All of which goes to show that

there’s still many a slip between
pro-U.S. Liberal “kites” and
“policies.”
Nothing like a spot of the old
Communist “Red Bogey” when
the end sought is to destroy or
disrupt a democratic organization,
be it a trade union, a Mothers
Council, or a PTA branch.

Recently a small elique of local
U.S. - brainwashed Liberals at-
- tempted such a job on the Van-
-couver P-TA with the help of

well-stuffed gossip-filled “Red
‘Bogey.” But alas, as The Province
was compelled to dolefully an-
nounce, the “Pro - communist
moves in P-TA fail to appear”?

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in the

. Toronto Globe & Mail adds
weight to a long-held suspicion that
the export of Canadian babies for

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adoption in the U.S. is reaching

_ quite substantial proportions.

A US. “child welfare’ poobah
explains that “Roman Catholic
children have been sent from B.C.
and Alberta” for adoption in the
U.S. “because few Roman Catholic
parents are available here.” That
is, in Canada?

This traffic in the “export” of
unwanted babies is a disgraceful
business to’ say the least, made
more so by fixing a denominational
tag on a small bundle of Canadian
humanity to “legalize” its give-
away to the US.

If as the bourgeois politicians |
and moralists yelp ‘the youth are

our greatest asset,” why not keep
it that way by guarding their birth-
right of citizenship? First by find-
ing foster parents in Canada for
Canadian babies; and there are
plenty of such (of all religious
denominations) who would give al-
most anything to have the oppor-
tunity of providing love and care
to an adopted child.

_ And second to make sure that

when all our children do grow up _

they will have every opportunity
to become talented and useful citi-

zens, able to remain if they. so
desire, in the land of their birth.
Or is that a too “long-range per-
spective’ for the political baby
traders of this give-away era? _
To cut it short, this odious traf-

fic and export of Canada’s child-

hood should be stopped — regard-
less of the pretexts avanced to
cover-up a disgraceful business.

* * *

The warm hospitality so char-
acteristic of Canadians can thaw
out the coldest of coldwar hostility.
This was confirmed once again dur-

‘ing the recent visit of three Soviet ©

naval hydrographic ships in the
port of Halifax recently.

Some naval understrapper hai
issued a 5-point coldwar “Memor-
anda No. 3” which we published in
this column in the May 3 edition;
a “memo” to naval ratings in Hali-
fax instructing them how to show
hostility and suspicion towards the
crews of the visiting Russian ships.

‘From the Halifax press and the
Canada-USSR Association we are
happy to note that ‘Memoranda
No. 3” went as flat as stale beer,
and that Halifax, navy and all
“opened their doors and hearts to
the friendly Russians and turned
out to visit the ships in such large
numbers as to create serious traf-
dic jaws <<.) ete,

The Bassian Commanding of-
ficer Captain G. Bochokobsky was
officially received by Halifax
Mayor Lloyd, and the Canadian
navy arranged a sports program for

tensive sight-seeing tours and other
recreation. Lieu-Col. K. Yermolen-
ko, chief scientist of the Soviet
hydrographic fleet gave a 14-hour
lecture to the student body of Dai-
housie University on the work of
his expedition.

‘Even Halifax children got into
the visiting celebration, using thé
generous supply of ten kopec
pieces they got from the Soviet
seamen to keep the waterfront’s
numerous candy machines operat-
ing fulltime.

Rear-Admiral K. L. Dyer of the
Canadian Navy expressed the
warmth of Canadian hospitality
and friendship when he said: “It
has been a pleasure to have you
and your fine ships visit the At-
lantic Coast Command.”

On the whole, a very fitting re-
ply to the coldwar authors of |
“Memo No. 3”’, :

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Toilet facilities at UIC offices are’
not permitted to John Doe. Hense
when somewhere in the middle of
a long queue-up Nature calls for
relief, John must dash off in search
of the nearest garage or ‘“‘some-
place.’ On his return he has to

start back at the end of the line-up.

A very legitimate ‘‘beef.”’
One complainant put it this way:

-“There should be toilets available

at UIC. When you do get wp to the
wicket after hours of waiting, the
malarkey you get has often the
same effect as a heavy dose of
Epsoms salts, enough to give you
+. Well it gives you? Sure these |.
UIC toilets should be os to the —
daily line-up.” at

the visiting seamen as well as ex-

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