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. Sune to a popular kindergarten

tune, U.S. President Kennedy’s
recent press conference ditty on

nuclear war should appeal to the

disc jockeys. “If the ‘free west’

keeps its head, we won’t be Red
and we won’t be dead”, pop goes
the weasel. :

Aad from the same
never” land of bovine byproducts
comes U.S. State Secretary Dean

“never-

Rusk with a “we will never accept .

peaceful co-existence with Fidel
Castro’s Cuba”. Of course the
Dean of state department duds
hastens to add that the U.S. was
“not contemplating” another in-
vasion of Cuba, but that’s what
the Pentagon “peace” doves said
the last time — after their Cuban
invasion blew up in their faces.
Foreign Minister for Nigeria,
Jaja Wachuku stated in the UN
Assembly the other day that the
great powers “are falling from the
pedestal of greatness to one of
insanity”. That is an estimation
with which most Canadians, short
of their own U.S.-dominated lun-
atic fringe, will heartily concur in.
People who conspire, scheme and
lie to further the thermonuclear
destruction of humanity, are not
only insane, but criminally so.
When the UN General Assembly
passed its overwhelming vote of
censure last week upon South
Africa’s racist foreign minister
Eric Louw for a speech in which
he insulted every Afro-Asian and
decent white delegate, four “free

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west” outposts of “Christian”
democracy — the United States,
Britain, France and Canada, ab-.
stained from voting.

Dief, it may be recalled at the

last Commonwealth conference in
London, orated long and frothily
on the evils of South African
“apartheid” (race segregation and
oppression). But under the watch-
ful tutelage of Yankee imperialism
in the UN, Dief lined Canada up—
as usual—in support of the racists
—by the cowardly silence of ab-
Stention from voting.

No wonder Canada is gaining an

* EDITORIAL PAGE. *

Trade-bridge to peace

HE arrival last week in Canada
of a trade delegation from
the Peoples’ Republic of China is
an event of major importance; an
event which could mean a vastly
expanded market for Canadian
products, the creation of thousands
of jobs, and the normalization of
Canadian-Chinese friendship and
mutual relations.

But Dief and company are said
to be “embarassed” by the visit
of this trade mission. The snide
and slimey comments of some of
those so-called “sources close to
the government”, echoed by see-
tions of the press and TV, would
indicate that the U.S.-Canadian
monopoly oligarchy which domin-
ates Canadian affairs through the
media of a Tory government in
Ottawa, do not look with favor
ujon the China trade mission.
Hence the Tory “embarassment”.

The gigantic purchases of Can-
adian surplus wheat by China cer-
tainly saved Dief and Co. from a
lot of “embarassment” at the
hands of Canadian wheat growers,
as well as providing a lot of jobs
which otherwise would have been
non-existent.

That of course also didn’t meet
with Washington’s approval nor
its U.S.-Canadian monopoly olig-
archy in Canada, but they were
unable to block it as they have
other potential Canada-China trade
negotiations. Now again they are

international reputation as U.S.
imperialism’s “Man Friday”, with
Liberals and Tories both demon-
Strating they like the job.

hoping to, hence our “official”
embayassment.

Extended trade between this
country and China, with the tre-
mendous potential of an ever-
growing China and Asian market,
could change the entire picture of
the Canadian economy from that
of a' precarious dependence upon
the U.S. to that of economic, and
hence political independence in
Canadian domestic and foreign
policies. ;

With this trade bridge to peace
and friendship with People’s China,
the sovreign independence of Can-
ada would emerge, and Canada’s
spokesmen would find no “em-
barassment” in establishing diplo-
matic recognition or extended
trade relations with China, nor
standing up to be counted in favor
of the Peoples’ Republic of China
being accorded its rightful seat in
the councils of the United Na-
tions. sale

At the conclusion of their trade
talks in Eastern Canadian centres
it is reported that the Chinese
trade mission will spend’ some time
in British Columbia. This should
provide an opportunity to B.C.
industry and labor, not only te
extend a warm and friendly wel-
come, but to explore every avenue
whereby mutual trade negotiations
can be highly beneficial to both
countries. The opportunities are
limitless. Soa

With these great questions at
issue, the trade delegation from
Peoples’ China are doubly welcome
in Canada, despite a made-in-the-
US coldwar Tory “embarassment.”

Tom |
McEwen

ICK’S Rainier Brewing of Seattle

S are not only in the business of
selling beer. At the moment they
are engaged in a campaign to turn
back the clock, also of course
coupled with the business of sales
promotion.
. During recent weeks every case
of Rainier sold contains a clip of
“ballots” promoting repeal of the
“Nineteenth Amendment” of the
American Constitution.

An American Magazine, mis-
named Truth and claiming the dis-
tinction of being “The Man’s Maga-
zine”, pinch-hitting for Sicks, in-
forms its readers that “In case
your memory fails you men, the

Nineteenth — God forgive the
democratic process — gave females
the vote.” :

According to Truth, 1,200 men
responded to the Sicks’ “ballot” in
the first 24-hours of the campaign,
with “a 9-to-1 in favor of Repeal’,
and now oodles of votes are “now
clogging the brewery with mail
sacks.”

Nor does such efforts go unre-
warded by Sicks for such co-opera-
tion; a “big bold” lapel button is
forwarded to those he-men who
“vote” to disenfranchise women,

_while a “cute little pink” lapel

button goes to the negative voter,
the latter classed as “women” by
the beer barons’ Truth sheet.

This Truth editorial reeks with
anti-feminine filth and male

chauvinism. Women are referred

to as “broads” “harpies”’, “dames’’,
etc. and ad nauseum, and possessed
of a “split-level” mentality.

Far be it from us to lecture
American women on how to defend
their hard-won right of franchise.
But if the good Seattle housewife
puts her foot down and says, ‘not
another case of Rainier in the house
until this dangerous nonsense
stops’, it could produce startling
results. Beer barons, like others
of their monopoly ilk, are highly
Sensitive to cash register returns.
In fact that is about the only thing
they are sensitive about. :

Gloating that Sicks “ballot” on
the “Nineteenth” has already put
Rainier “back on the top shelf” of
the domestic fridge, Truth ignor-
antly chortles, “Like the Russians,
women respect strength.”

So do the big monopolists,
whether in the beer or H-bomb
business — when. people apply the
trusty and time-honoured weapon
of unity to block their machina-
tions.

In the epic struggle to win
equality, dignity and the right to
vote, women suffered much _ too
much to allow it all to be under-
mined and swept away in the froth
of a reactionary beer sales promo-
tional stunt, which Truth ignorantly
describes as “a brisk rekindling _

of traditional male authority.”
* * *%

Here’s a tip from U:S. author
Inez Robb as quoted in the Ameri- -
can magazine, Financial Post, on :
how to make money almost as fast
as the beer barons. “If I still had —
my sights on becoming a million-
aire, I believe at long last I know
how to make it. The trick is to
start a wild-eyed anti-Communist
movement, start levelling the most
implausable charges at persons,
both in and out of public life, the
more implausable. the better. Then
sit back and collect dues from the
lunatie fringe.”

And another lad, this time a
New York sky pilot is reported
in the Sydney Sun, (Australia) to
be “earning $1,500 dollars a week
by singing love songs while sur-
rounded by  scantily-clad show
girls”. As the minister himself puts
it, “I think a minister who has no
sex appeal is out of business.
Eighty-five percent of church mem-
bership is female. I think they go
to hear a dynamic, dominant, virile
man.”

Hallelujah! Sounds like the
brewers’ sudsy version of the “tra-
ditional male authority”, only in
this case using a balanced mixture
of sex and “christianity” to turn
a fast buck.

This is what Kennedy, Dief and
company call our “free way of
life’, No wonder a good half of
the world views it with justifiable
Suspicion, and wonders at what
point the magnetism of the mighty
$ hits bottom?

October 20. 1191. RAcmee oepmorde

TD incre