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want, and they want it NOW,

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by the people concerned.

Enthusiasm,

case in particular,

EDITORIAL

2 Bee last weekend’s visit to Vancouver, Prime Minister
‘Pearson did a great deal of talking, but, said very little;
an art which most politicians of the Pearson vintage are experts

The PM added his quota of wordage to the need of a new
Burrard crossing tothe North Shore, toured Vancouver’s super-
neglected harbor, packed away a few banquets thrown by the
faithful, then took off for California.

In Vancouver he ran afoul of what the kept press now
cynically refer to as “Vietniks,” declaring (among other
things) that ‘‘it is not nice to be called a murderer, but then
‘this is a free country.” Or that they should “take their com-
plaints to Washington,” conveniently forgetting that that’s what

However, the PM did make one vitally important admission
during his brief tour, even if a bit belated: “That Canada
has the right to end its ‘defense-sharing agreement’ with the
U.S. if it wants to over the Vietnam war.”

Well Canada very much “wants to,” as the PM himself
should know very well from the volume of protest from Can-
adians in all walks of life which reachesthis office almost daily,
Perhaps much of this protest never reaches the PM’s desk,
or perhaps he is so engrossed in the “quiet diplomacy”
which provides U.S. war criminals in Vietnam with Canadian-
made armaments, that he prefers to remain studiously deaf to

They want peace in Vietnam and an end to the murder of
women and children, and they want an end to any and all U.S.
Canada “defense” treaties which makes Canada a U,S, wal
criminal accomplice in Vietnam,

Now have you got itclear Mr. PM? That is what Canadians

2 e = ©.
Get it in orbit
Eeaia books, pledge cards, all the essentials except

one went out some time ago to press clubs, readers
and supporters in order to get the April-May PT financial drive

All essentials except one: and despite all modern methods
of high-pressure advertising, that basic one can only be decided

The determination of press clubs, readers,
supporters, individuals who know the value of a paper like the
Pacific Tribune in today’s many-sided struggles, to get their
supporting drive effort “off the ground” and keep it soaring,

A good start has been made by a few, but success in
reaching the minimum target of $17,000 by May May 31, will
only be achieved by the many, all pulling in unison for that goal,

In this as in all worthwhile objectives, a united effort off —
to an early start isthe only wayto get things done — and in this
the only way to keep the PT rolling.

‘want to’

Tom

McEWEN '

“ gt was long ago but the event

| still points up the distinc-

tion, At the turn of the century
an English king was born. Mark-
ing the natal event, a resolution
of congratulation was moved in
the British House of Commons,
Speaking in that spate of fulsome
adulations, Jamed Keir Hardie,
M.P., coal miner, and founder
of the British Labor Party, said:

“We are asked to rejoice be-
cause this child has been born,
and that one day he will be called
upon to rule over this great em-
pire. Up to the present we have
no means of knowing what his
qualifications or fitness for that
task may be,

“From his childhood onwards
this boy will be surrounded by
sycophants and flatters by the
score (cries of Oh, Oh.) and
will be taught to believe himself
as of superior creation.

“A line will be drawn between
him and the people whom he will
be called upon some day to reign
over. In due course, following
the precedent which has already

been set, he will be»sen’ on a
tour around the world, and prob-
ably rumors of a morganatic
marriage will follow, (loud cries
of Oh, Oh, Order and question),
and the end of it will be the country
will be called upon to pay the
bis:

Keir Hardie was the lone dis-
sident in that debate. Being acoal
miner, with the stark reality of
tens of thousands of the starved
and poverty-stricken children of
British coal miners in his mind,
to him silence would have been
a crime,

Now well over the half-way
mark of the century, which has
seen Kier Hardie’s Labor Party
attain power-on three occasions,
that silence which he would have
regarded as a crime, his suc-
cessors of today regard as ‘vir-
tues’,

Mr. George Matthews, editor
of the London ‘Morning Star’,
speaking recently on the policies
of Britain’s Labour Prime Min-
ister Harold Wilson, says in
part;—

“STOP THE BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM"

. .. youth tell Pearson.

-G. Legelel I

YOUTH TO PEARSON:

‘How many kids killed today! §

“Pearson, Martin, LBJ, how
many kids did you kill today,”
was the chant of over 100 youth-
ful peace marchers as_ they
demonstrated their opposition to
Canadian complicity in the war
in Vietnam in front of the Hotel
Vancouver last Friday evening.

The occasion was the B.C,
Liberal Association fund raising
dinner at which Prime Minister
Pearson was the principal
speaker. The demonstration was’

called by the Ad Hoc Committee ~

of Youth for peace in Vietnam
and the Vietnam Day Committee.

Pearson was visibly shaken by
the protest both at the Vancouver
Hotel and at the airport where
he was greeted by placard-
carrying young people con-
demning the sale of Canadian
arms to the U.S, for use in Viet-
nam, The demonstrations re-

ceived nation-wide TV coverage.

“Mr, Wilson speaks of ‘a gov-

ernment with guts’, butindealing .

with Big Business this was the
most gutless, boneless, spineless
Labour Government ever.

‘©All the toughness is reserved
for its own supporters, not for
the bankers, financiers and gen-
erals who are ruining Britain.

“Mr, Wilson has told his Par-
liamentary Labour Party that
‘every dog is allowed one bite’, .
but as Mr. Johnson’s toothless
poodle he would not even bark,
let alone bite, whatever crimes
were committed in Vietnam,

‘CAs Dr. Kiesinger’s dachshund
he lets the West Germans insult
and humiliate Britain over the
issue of the Rhine Army costs,
and doesn’t even whimper.

“When the bankers beckon, he
rolls over on his back like a
spaniel.”

Looks like a bad case of the
political bow-wows, with all the
“srowls” reserved for the fight-
ing Kier Hardies of today’s
British labour,

* OK

Next to Socred “A-G” Bonner
one Col, Donald McGugan, chair-
man of the B.C. Liquor Control
Board is the lad who has the
final say on who, what, when,
where and how the citizenry of
this Socred-stricken province
may quaff a glass or two of LCB

Placards carried by the
demonstrators said: “Pearson,
Accomplice In Mass Murder;”
“Mr, Pearson: Over One Mil-
lion Vietnamese Children Have
Been Killed or Wounded;” “Mr,
Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Stop
Shipment of Canadian Arms;”
“Mr. Prime Minister — Speak
Out Now Against Bombing.” A
huge three-foot-high paper
mache head of Pearson, com-
plete with bow-tie was carried by
one demonstrator.

A leaflet issued by the Ad Hoc
Youth Committee recalled that
Prime Minister Pearson had said -
he would not disengage Canada
from the “Defence Production
Agreement” with the U.S. where-
by Canada supplies materials for
the war in Vietnam, Itdemanded
that the Pearson government
reverse its policy.

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adulterated Capilano water. An
archaic Liquor Act which would.
do credit to the witch-burners of
the -early eighteenth century
serves as the Colonel’s “rule
book”, Needless to say both Bon-
ner and the Colonel°possess a
mentality to match.

Vancouver police have a tough
job on their hands enforcing this
archiac “law”, A few of Vancou-
ver’s “finest’? may like the job
of barging into beer parlors,
brow-beating waiters or giving
the suds patrons the old heave-
ho, but most cops don’t like the
job at all at all,

Recently the Beverage Dis-
pensers Union (BSU) brought this
sorry state of affairs to the at-
tention of the VCL and sundry
other bodies. The BSU have the
job of protecting their members
from all such police intimidation
and threats — the end result of

The leaflet headed,” of
Blood Money!” reproduced®
paper clippings to showte caelin
increase in Canadian ars ing
to the U.S. which amoul dl
$300 million in 1966. AO cit
the report of arms salé ee
picture of a wounded, ~ (fh
Vietnamese child, 2 fp
the U.S, bombings. if

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“Who gets the gravJ ni
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spending of the $300 ™” gf?
asked the leaflet. «Gener :
namics, Standard Oil, Mas
Aircraft, Bell Telephon® rat
T, Lenkurt) Bendix corp? teh
Westinghouse, Lytton sy MI
all giant U.S. monopolie®:

xo! I,
A halt to the bombing

Vietnam is also urge wit? ;
leaflet, The Ad Hoc CM gil,
of Youth for Peace i" ii,
has called on young pe? a ri |
in the April 15th march
test rally in Vancouve! alk

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cole

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a Liquor Control Act
tered by the Bonnet
hierarchy.

Only a week ago the ve [
Colonel’s letter writiN® (gg!
topic of discussion in Cl vey |
cil, With a generous exP

iff
of ‘‘sympathy’”’, andere i
Rankin opined the Colon dt
be suffering from 4 na
aging problem’’, while B of!
Reg. Atherton was of the” gt
that city fathers “do 2) a!
ciate studied insolencé ite”
man because he may be vet
from hardening of the aa
I object to a beaurocl®
am the law.’’

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Those opinions, uns
back the Beverage Dy at!
Union up to the hilt; Vi" wut
not a job for the polic®
to get rid of a tone
Act — and its equally °
Socred sires, “Skol”s

Editor—TOM McEWEN

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