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S featured in this edition, wage
negotiations in 1961 will in-
volve many of British Columbia’s

major unions. This is also general
across Canada.

In the majority of cases the
unions are pressing for substantial
wage increases, plus the rentention
and extention of ‘fringe’ benefits.

With respect to wage demands
the unions have little choice other
than to seek wage hikes, since
living costs, specific and general
are steadily skyrocketting, while
taxes of all sorts, direct and in-
direct are daily eating into in-
adequate pay envelopes.

The long-sustained and consist-
ent attacks upon labor’s standards
by combined government-employer
agencies, buttressed by vicious
anti-labor legislation and mon-
opoly-inspired propaganda, points
up two important essentials for
union gains in 1961.

These are a maximum of labor
unity and coordination in the wage
struggle, and the fullest use of all
the facts exposing monopoly’s
phoney propaganda about “pricing
ourselves out of the markets,”
“holding-the-line - on - production -
costs,” “the public interest,” etc.,
etc.

Wage earners must also make it
clear that government taxation
policies (new and promised) con-
nived at with the agreement of big
business, who talk loudly about
‘holding-the-line, are primarily

concerned with loading the full

burden of the economic crisis upon
the backs of the people, while

maintaining their own maximum

ng of profits and excessive taxa-
ion.

Government refusal to do all the
business. possible with Socialist or
other countries, as for instance
Cuba, has nothing to do with “pric-
ing ourselves out of markets,” but
has. everything to do with suicidal
and costly coldwar policies. A gov-
ernment which squanders clese te

_ two_billien dollars annually in a

suicidal arms race, but has little or
nothing. for three-quarters of a
million jobless workers can - not
expect its lying ‘hold-the-line’
demagogy to be taken seriously.

‘As these big wage struggles with

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wage hikes

their political accompaniment gets
under way, trade unionists in the
province will find the Pacific Trib-
une an invaluable weapon, both in
helping to forge all-in labor unity
as a guarantee of victory in the
struggle, and as a fearless medium.
in exposing government-monopoly
propaganda and trickery, aimed at
dividing labor ranks, stripping or-

TORIA

ganized labor of hard-won rights, _

and robbing the workers’ pay
envelopes under the Tory or Socred
pretext of
public interest.”

This paper. unreservedly -sup- -

ports organized labor in its 1961
wage‘ demands; in its determina-

tion that there shall be no “cut- |

backs” in working standards or

conditions; for the shorter work-~

ing week without any reduction in

wages—as.a_ prime essential to.

alleviating unemployment and the
rising hazards of. increasing auto-

mation; and against any and all
to --hogtie .

legislation — designed
labor..

“Safeguarding the -

L PAGE *

UR fears expressed in last

week’s editorial on this page
anent Diefenbaker’s trip to Wash-
ington for futher U.S. orders, has
been confirmed.

Disregarding the growing fears
and. opposition of the. Canadian
people to the storage and use of nu-
clear warheads on Canadian. soil,
Diefenbaker has “assured’’ Presi-
dent Kennedy that Canada will not
only assume its full NATO-
NORAD ‘defense. responsibilities’,
(which means more billions of the
taxpayer’s dollars down the arms

drain), but that nuclear warheads

. for the Bomarce - missile

_ For big wage victories in 1961

through a united ‘hold-the-line’
struggle against government-mon-
opoly attacks and trickery.

installa-
tions at North Bay and Mont Lau-
rier may. new be piled up in readi-
ness at these target sites. = *
In Washington this abject sur-
render of Diefenbaker.to the U.S.
nuclear war maniacs is hailed as “a

clear-cut defense policy” for Cana-—

da; a Vindication of Canada’s De-

fense Minister Douglas Harkness’

recent anti-neutrality blasts and
incitement of Canada’s armed
forces to “actively combat” all who
speak for neutralty, independence
and peace. ~

It is also intended as a reminder

Treason to Canada

to the well-meaning External Af-
fairs Minister Howard Green t?
soft-pedal on his disarmament and
‘no nuclear arms for Canada’ ideas.
While Green accompanied Dief ot
his latest Washington safari, it ©
now clear that Dief, in his anxiety
to kowtow to the dictates of U.S
imperialism, is not only ready t@
turn Canada into a nuclear target
inferno, -but- to heave his minis-)
terial associates to the H-bomb)
wolves, if they don’t keep thei)
mouth shut on matters of nucleat)
bans and disarmament. - - 7

So far, from. his silence on this”
latest Tory betrayal of Canadial
independence, neutrality and peac&
it would appear that Green has’
submitted to the Diefenbaker
Harkness-Kennedy silencer...

Not so the people of Canada
They at least are becoming it
creasingly aware of _ the dangers
implicit in such suicidal policies:
for themselves and for the peoples
of the whole world. a

That much the Diefenbaker go
ernment must: be compelled to T@
spect—by an ever-increasing vol
ume of active protest against Tory
treason to Canada.

—_—

Tom
McEwen

WO headliners in recent edi-
tions of our “free” press bear
eloquent witness to our exalted
“way-of-life.” One recites the sor-
did details of gq number of young
women “living off the avails of
prostitution” . and given varying
terms in the hoosegow,. for their
presumed lapse from “virtue.”
The other is a fullsome euology
on “the amazing virility” of King
Saud of Saudi Arabia( one of our
oiliest. “free world” allies), who
-Jately established a new “palace
record” by “fathering” his 40th

son, thereby upping the connubial .

score of his old man, Ibn Saud,
whose “official” count hit 39.

Under the rules governing this
oily potentate’s warren, dead sons
and living daughters don’t count in
the “palace” virility marathon. The
rules are simple. The Saud boys
get an official start at the tape
with four “legal” wives, but the
sky’s the limit in the number of
“concubines” they may preempt in
the course of the marathon.

The palace garbage collector
also informs us that in order to
keep “peace” among his scores of
lesser sheiks, Saud “marries” a
comely daughter of this or that
sheik on a one per month basis.

In this business of keeping “‘peace
among the tribesmen” we are fur-
ther informed that Saud “has fath-
ered at least twice as many more
children from concubines,’ but
these of course don’t count in the
official palace tally.

But then as we have said, Saud
--is one of our strong ‘free world’ —
- allies, and if his method of-attain- -

ing ‘‘peace through strength” dif-
fers slightly from Diefenbaker’s,
that merely illustrates the vast
scope of our “freedom.”

Now about our own unfortunate
girls. Ignoring the fact that pros-
titution: of all sorts, physical, fin-
ancial, moral, literary, ad infini-
tum, is characteristic of bourgeois
society, some very: “virtuous” -peo-
ple may retort our “call girls” de-
serve all they -got.: i

- Of course there are many. angles
. to this “living off the ‘avails of

prostitution”: not encountered. by
U.S. Oil. King Saud. Some of -our
“best” -people: politicians, - police. -
chiefs, ward bosses, parsons and
so on, get a rake-off for their ser-
vices in providing “protection” to
prostitution. Too much objection
to this “protection” checkoff (not
included in Bennett’s Bill 42)
brings prompt reprisals; a periodic
civic “clean-up” raid or two, just
to confirm ourselves in that happy
state of Caesar’s wife — that of
being “above suspicion,” and emin-
ently “virtuous?”

Sending young women to prison
because (in the majority of cases)
they are driven to prostitution by
economic reasons, is simply com-
pounding an injustice. Like unem-

ployment, common prostitution is

know it, so what folly-is this 1°

_are the jumping-jacks, they pull

" March 3,_1961—-PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page

a social evil with its roots in
capitalist society. If anyone should
go to jail it is not the victims of
these evils, but those who, like the
Sauds, revel in the staggering
capacity of their own immorality.
Some years ago the noted New ~
York editor John Swinton, during |
a banquet given in his honor by ~
his fellow editors, gave some |
classical observations on how
modern ‘capitalism lives off and
by the “avails of prostitution.”
“The business of the New York.
journalist’ said Swinton, “is 10 |
destroy the truth, to lie outright
to pervert, to villify, to fawn at —
the feet of Mammon, and to sell —
his race and his country for his |
daily bread. You know this and I _

be toasting an ‘independent press: ~ y
We are the tools and vassals of —
rich men behind the scenes. We —

the strings, we dance. Our talents, —
our responsibilities and our lives —
-.. all the property of other men: ~

We are intellectual prostitutes.”

What Swinton said applies with —
equal force today to all the “in-
tellectual prostitutes” of monopoly
journalism, trained and paid to
portray the “virile” filth of the
palace as a “virtue” ... and the
unfortunate victims of a hypocriti-
cal and decadent system as an ul
related “vice.”

But then, as a Socred ministe!-
without-portfolio (or much of any-
thing else) might say to a campus
alumni, “we must preserve our
chastity”; with King Saud pausing
in his labors for “peace” to shout
a lusty “Bon.”

FF