Stop the sellout

HAT FLOWS from the fate-
ful decision of the Diefenbaker

/ B0vernment to scrap the CF - 105

Ow jet interceptor, on which

/ Wer $400 million of the taxpayers’
Money has been squandered, and
» © adopt the U.S. Bomare guided

Missile as a key weapon of Cana-
dian “defense?”

* The immediate result is already
Parent in lost jobs; the larger re-
“sult is a further surrender of Cana-

an independence to the atomic

War lords of Washington.

Tn a recent address to the student

body, UBC president Dr. Norman

-*cKenzie pin - pointed these in-
titable developments. Our “‘best
Tans” would have to turn to the
= for employment since, in the
« “PPing of the Avro-Arrow jet
We buy their (U.S.) weapons, we
‘te trained and directed by them,

a. We provide their forces with
bases

+ +. across our country.”

- MacKenzie expressed his

“SNcern that this decision of the

lefenbaker government not only

Pts Canada in the position of “be-

ming a northern projection of
nS: defenses,” but marks the “end
Soa era of 300 years of history in
, Ich Canadians . . . have struggled

“tile ¢

0 :
a. free and to create a nation of
Ich th H
hey can be proud.

Tn Short, Diefenbaker’s decision
Substitute the U.S. Bomarc mis-
or the Avro-Arrow is not only
Urther surrender of Canada’s in-

e :
+, Pendence as a sovereign power,

uy ; Re oes :
t places its fate inevitably in the

% Bee of the U.S. merchants of
» Melear death.

B
Bi ut that is not all. As a “conces-

Bet what little is left of our in-
Soo ence, and aS a sop to some
Se Workers in the Avro produc-
of Program who will be deprived
* €lr jobs, U.S. war industry is
Planning to move into Canada
*xtend Bomarc: ~ production.

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Democratic Congressman Frank
Coffin (the name is appropriate)
is presently touring Canada’s “de-
fense” centres (closed to Canadians
without U.S. permission) and as-
suring us of “the right of Canadian
manufacturers to bid on U.S. de-
fense contracts,” a move considered
neéessary to offset the high jubila-
tion. expressed in Boeing-Bomarc
plants in Seattle when it became
known that the Bomarc, aided by
Diefenbaker, had blasted the high-
performance and high-priced Avro
into the ashcan, along with millions
of edollars which could have beén
used to better and peaceful purpose.

The time has come for all Cana-
dians to call'a halt to this Tory
defense policy of national surrender
and suicide. Canada’s strongest and
only defense lies in peace and the
production of aircraft or other

needs designed for peace — not as
the “northern projection” of push-
button nuclear war, with U.S.
atomaniacs at the switchboard.

Support these strikes

Bao GREAT strike struggles for

fully justified wage increases
now being waged in Ontario are of
vital importance to labor across the
country.

Two giant monopolies, the Inter-
national Nickel. Company and the
Steel Company of Canada, are now
taking a leading role in the Cana-
dian Manufacturers Association’s
“get-tough-with-labor” policy. Need-
less to say, it is this provocative role
which caused these strikes.

With these two giant corporations
it is not a question of “‘ability” to
pay needed wage increases at this
time. Profits of both continue at an
all-time high. During the years
1950-57 Inco profits (after pay-
ment of all taxes) reached the stag-
gering total of $563,255,414. It is
worthy of note that John Foster
Dulles is one of the kingpins in
Inco.

In Sudbury and Port Colborne,
15,000 Inco workers, members of
Mine-Mill union, are on strike. They
seek a modest wage increase, which

Inco profits show the company well
able to meet.

In Hamilton, 8,000 steelworkers,
members of the United Steel Work-
ers similarly have been on strike
since the middle of August for a
like demand. And again the profit
balance sheets of Stelco show the
company well able to pay.

While many unions and other la-
bor organizations throughout the
country have given moral and fi-
nancial evidence of their solidarity
with Mine-Mill and ‘Steelworkers’
members in their struggle to win
wage increases and improved work-
ing conditions, this unity has not as
yet reached the nation-wide .pro-
portions required to compel these
two giant monopolies to call a halt
to their “get - tough - with - labor”
provocations, and to meet with the
bargaining fepresentatives of their
employees in good faith to effect
a settlement!

Greater trade union support is
needed to win a victory for Inco and
Stelco workers—in the longer view,
a victory to all workers.

Tom
McEwen

ai AR is the statesman’s game,
Wine priest’s delight,

The laywer’s jest, the hired as-

sassin’s trade...”

That’s how one of England’s
great poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley,
described it in his immortal
Queen Mab. It is also recorded
that the courts of the money-
changers of his day howled for
his blood.

The Cronenberg Report on
stocks and bonds as featured in
the August 20 edition of the
Financial Post puts it another way.
It sees Dulles’ “brinkmanship” in
Formosa as a real godsend to
those who amass great fortunes
out of war.

’

“The timing was masterly,” says
this guide to investors who don’t
mind their dividends smeared
with blood. Dulles has provided
another “brink” and there are
fortunes to be made in metals—

when processed into destructive
engines of war.

Men who lust for wealth and
power see war as the most profit-
able of all games. For them the
“masterly timing” of the US.
atomaniacs in a world “plagued
with peace,’-as the Cronenberg
Report puts it, is the promise of
new fortunes from the devastation
of new Hiroshimas.

x sos x

Charles E. Lindberg, Jr. be-
came a national hero after his his-
toric trans-Atlantic solo flight in
1927. So much so that he, the son
of a dirt farmer, was allowed to
marry into the House of Morgan.

In his new environment Lind-
berg literally disowned his own
father. The old man was a radi-
cal, a poet, an ihveterate war-
hater; a man whose outlook on
life just wouldn’t fit into the
realm of stocks, bonds, mortgages,
wars and high profits, which had
embraced his son.

It is said that son Charles at-
tempted to burn all the pamph-
lets, articles, poems and other ma-
terials the old man had written
as a fighter in the ranks‘of debt-
ridden farmers. Probably Wall
Street’s newest protege hadn’t
yet learned that ideas are not so
easily disposed of as gasoline.

Here’s one of the senior Charles
E. Lindberg’s poems which sur-
vived the flames, written in pro-
test against the First World War:

“This is the war stocks soaring
high

That brings all the joy to Wall
Street;

This is the gambler, wild of eye,

Who shares with his broker, brisk

and spry

The profits in war stocks soaring
high,

That brings all the joy to Wall
Street.

“This is the list of what they buy:
An orphaned infant’s feeble cry
A widowed woman’s sob and sigh,

A field of graves where the dead
may lie

A shambles where thousands
daily die.

A billion shells that in battle fly—
The profits of Wall Street soaring
high,

That brings all the joy to Wall
Street.” ,

From these verses, which are
only a brief excerpt from Lind-
berg’s castigation of the Wall
Street warmakers of 44 years-ago,
and as timely today as they were
then, it is obvious that unlike his
son Charles E. Jr., the old man
just didn’t bring any “joy to
Wall Street.”

Neither for that matter does
anyone else who dedicates his or
her time to the winning of a
world “plagued with peace.” So,
let’s have more of the “plague.”

October 10, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5