TOM McEWEN

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RE you one of those citizens or groups of citizens who are —
continually “disturbing the orderly processes of democratic —
procedure behind a screen of apparent respectability”? | fo Ne

If so, you had better come out from behind that flimsy curtain —
and pay your daily tribute of dimes to the BCElectric without
more ado. So says T. G. Norris, KC, president of Vancouver Board
of Trade, top bencher in the B.C. Law Society, and “democrat
extraordinary.

It would appear that organizations like the Trade Union Rei
search Bureau, Civic Reform Committee, and B.C. Housewives Com
sumer Association should not protest the ten-cen
fare hoist (“interim” of course!) which the Public —
Futilities Commission not-so-recently granted the:
BCElectric. Such protests, in the opinion of
bencher-president Norris, “disturbs the democratic ,
processes ... to further Communistic ends.5) 3
From where we sit it would seem that the —
“democratic processes” employed by the PUC, the
“experts,” and sundry other Coalition and “Nom
Partisan’ interests, in granting the BCElectric
monopoly the “interim” (read ‘“‘permanent’”) right
to rook the public, need a bit of overhauling.
The barring of RCAF veteran Gordon Mart
from. admission to the bar on the grounds of
“communism” igs part and parcel of the same

“And after we have destroyed the world — what then?”

iw any doubts exist as to the validity or sincerity
of Liberal. pre-election promises, the parlia-
mentary score-board as of to date should end
them. These Liberal promises, in the total ab-
sence of deeds to give them substance, are now
exposed to those who, last June, wanted to
believe them as a lot of “sound and fury, sig-
nifying nothing.””

That fact is what makes the New Westminster
byelection—and the other seven across Canada
on October 24—so vitally important at this

the people of that important British Columbia
constituency an opportunity to register their con-
demnation of the political chicanery and betrayal
of the St. Laurent government.- :

: In place of jobs, homes, markets and greater
social security for mill-workers, fishermen, farmers
and small business people in the Fraser Valley,

~ St. Laurent has given them—and the rest of

Canada—a new injection of Wall Street’s for-
mula for unemployment, loss of markets, lowered
living standards, higher prices . . . and. a greater
assurance of war instead of peace.

To the wage earner in Canada and Britain,

St. Laurent’s Wall Street-dictated “‘devaluation”
(which he promised wouldn’t happen) means
clipped pay envelopes and lowered purchasing
power. To New Westminster fishermen, farmers,
small lumber operators and others, it means loss
of markets, economic uncertainty and ruin.

Defeat the betrayers

time. The New Westminster byelection gives —

The recent anti-Soviet warmongering haran-
gue of External Affairs Minister L. B. Pearson
in the UN Assembly shows only too clearly
that the Liberal government has tied Canada
more securely than ever to the atomaniacs of
American imperialism.

The issues in this New Westminster by-
election are much more clear today than they
were on June 27. For the people they are also
much more pressing—and no longer so easily
sidetracked for an empty promise.

The outcome of any or all of these byelec-
tions cannot materially alter the preponderant grip
the St. Laurent government has on Canada.
They can however serve the dual purpose of a
rallying ground for the masses of the people
desiring economic and social security and peace,
and as a warning to the totalitarianism of a so-
called Liberal government that it will not be
successful in “fooling all the people all the time.”

The LPP will bring forward those issues
that are still top priority with the great majority
of Canadians, the right to a job, a home, and
the security that flows from genuine peace policies.
The people of New Westminster have had the
“promises.” Now they want the substance.

Support the LPP in this important fight.
Election workers can get going at once by calling
at LPP Election Headquarters, 53 Alexander
Street, New Westminster. »

ae

 Wringer and mangle

couver citizens taken for a dime ride will argue
they didn’t*-the BCElectric “would have paid”
around $214 million income tax. Whatever the

UREKA, we have found it! That is, they,
our Non-Partisan city fathers have found it—

Je cure for BCElectric “‘interim’’ fare hikes.
A special civic utilities a eS city
‘council, supported by its transit “experts,” has come
up with the brilliant idea that the BCElectric should
be exempted from paying federal income tax, “as
one step towards reducing transit fares,” and have
so requested Ottawa.

Had the BCElectric made the ratio of profit
“allowed it” by the PUC—and a very few Van-

a

difference between what the BCElectric “‘would
have paid,” or what it did pay in income tax, our
Non-Partisan city fathers want to see the BCElectric
able to pocket that too, as a sort of “‘interim’” *in-
ducement for reduced fares!

___As our old friend, Mr. Dooley, so neatly puts
it, “What they miss wit th’ wringer they take out
wit th’ mangle.” ‘

gag-rule which Bencher Norris, in his capacity
president of Vancouver Board of Trade, would now impose upon

as
all

citizens and organizations who object to being taken for @ dime

ride by the BeastlyElect

vic.

However, Norris’ blast has one value at least—it puts every- citizeD
who protests BCElectric or other monopoly raids upon the livin’

standards of the people, in the category of “disturbing (the

Norris)

democratic processes,’ or in other words, of being a Communis

And that,
reasoning.

we might remind our

readers,

is standard Hitlerit? —

In the fabulous land of the free and Jim Crow, the brave and —

rock-hurling “patriots” of Peekskill, a new fad is taking hold
wearing. of rubber masks to give inferiority complexes a face

—the
lift.

For one dollar each homely John Doe can now transform hims®

into Julius Ceasar, Clark Gable,

or J. Rockefeller,

possession of atom-bomb “know-how’—or perhaps because of. it—

Jr. Despite

with its “U.S, Uber Alles” psychosis, otherwise normal Americans —
are rapidly becoming dissatisfied with their ‘personalities,’ ang.
aspire to become someone else in a “big-shot” way of life. :

Psychiatrist Dr. J. L. Moreno, commenting on this new rubber

mask fad, which is sweeping !U.S. centers like New York,
this to say: “Many people are dissatisfied with themselves,

with

their personalities. Wearing a mask does two things for them™
First, it hides their faces and enables them to become ano Oe

Second, it enables them to play at being someone else . . .

more glamorous perhaps.”

When this mask industry gets
expect a stepping-up’of the “cold-war” under more favorable £
Truman may well set aside his small town commerci®,

roundings.

traveller-haberdasher face and don the mask of Jefferson.

into. full production we

someone

may
sur-

such Ay

a change would give emphasis to his daily orations on “democracy: 4
The Marshall planners could well emerge in the various mask® ;
of Faith, Hope or Charity. For one thing it would help soften th

Scrooge-like manipulation of sterling devaluation.

The British

housewife wouldn’t be so incensed at having to pay sixpence— ie
a four-penny loaf if she saw the benign face of Charity in place.
of a prominent Wall Streeter leering at her from the wrapper !

The two Hoovers, J. Edgar of the FBI and “hunger expert”

Herbert, can now masquerade as Paul Revere and the gre

nil-

anthropist. The rubber-mask fad definitely has advantages:
Dorothy Thompson could appear as Florence Nightingale—w? Ate

calling for atomic war
r

“Labor expert’? Ron Williams of the Financial Post hit.
In the past, according to the
the Communists got all their “gold” from Moscow. This
eaten theme is now apparently quite dead. Now all that ©

angle in ‘that sheet recently.

on Russia NOW.
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from Moscow is “orders.” ae
“Expert” Williams tells in a recent Post story what a ait

time the Communists are having to raise money, and how ©

“local comrades had to turn on the heat to finance their part

Moscow’s world-wide peace campaign.”
tions to the Mexico Continental Peace Congress, the

dele,

a new Ae
moth-
omes

What between the

elections, the CSU strike and other issues, “expert” Williams |
the “faithful” with their hands in their pockets all the time

keep things going. Nor does he ‘omit this necessity to keeP
‘Canadian Tribune going. :

For once in his mottled career,
ly stumbled upon a self-evident truth, that,in the struggle t? |
peace, to secure better living standards for Canadian workers: 16
xeep the Canadian or Pacific Tribune going as an antidote tO a
CMA poison propaganda of the Financial Post, the Communists | ake :

“expert” Williams has accident ;

to

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others do dig deep into their own scanty means in order to

such efforts possible.

That is the essential difference between the Pacific
and the Financial Post. The “Reds” dig into their own
to advance the people’s cause of peace and socialism, where
gang of exploiters the Financial Post speaks for, digs, int

qribune
pocke

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pockets of others to advance the cause of digging into the PON vs

of others.

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