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Dief’s empty barrel Fascism’s ugly face

a “advisory committee” -has
warned the Dief government
that the Unemployment Insurance
Fund is due to “go broke” soon
unless some financial aid is pump-
ed in to keep it solvent. {

It didn’t require any “advisory
committee” on a fat salary to
make that discovery. Any half-
dozen jobless workers waiting
around UIC to be argued out of
the jobless “benefit” pittance
coming to them, could have given
Dief the same advice gratis.

This fund, now a mere $58.8
million at the bottom of the barrel
as of August 31, is a fairly accur-
ate barometer of the bankruptcy
of government policies in respect
to employment. Liberal-Tory “in-
tegration” in the U.S. monopoly
orbit has not only brought Canada
under the political and financial
domination of U.S. imperialism,
surrendered much of Canada’s
great potential resources to U.S.
monopoly, but with this surrender,
the jobs of Canadians as well.

Peak unemployment during the
past several winters, ranging from
one half to a million jobless, bids
fair to surpass all previous records
during the 1962-63 winter “peak”.

Consequently, unless some emer-—

gency measures are not speedily
taken, another couple of months
will see the complete exhaustion

of the Unemployment Insurance
Fund.

Moreover, were it not for the
fact that tens of thousands of job-
less workers are now: regarded as
“ineligible” for UIC “benefits”, or
that other thousands are being
“diddled” out of their legitimate
benefits by specious arguments
about “unwarranted _ benefits’,
etc., the bottom would have been
out of the Fund barrel long before
now.

While this ‘advisory commit-
tee” recommends the Fund be kept
“solvent” by government grants,
it also proposes more of these
“corrective measures”; that is,
clip the recipient wherever and
whenever possible. —

The solution to the UI Fund
solvency can be spelled out in four
letters — jobs. Not “winter work”
panaceas, Tory “promises” or
“why-wait-for-spring” claptrap —
but jobs.

Jobs at socially useful construc-
tive work, utilizing the billions
now being wastefully poured down
the armaments-NATO drain to
finance such projects — and refill
the Fund barrel at the same time
in order to provide full jobless
benefits — between jobs.

That way lies prosperity, in-
stead of “austerity” and an empty
UIC Fund barrel.

Editorial comment . .

wr the Speech from the
Throne and all other prelim-
inaries of the 25th Parliament of
Canada duly cleared away, Liberal
leader Lester B. Pearson finally
unlimbered his long-promised as-
sault on the Difenbaker govern-
ment’s “fitness to rule.” This as
a three-hour preamble to a one-
minute “no confidence” resolve,
which none of the political parties
in Parliament, including the Lib-
erals, were particularly anxious
to see “carried.”

Generally speaking the Pearson-
ian oration was a moderately ac-
curate portrayal of the Diefen-
baker political fraudulence and
doublecross, prior to, during, and
since the June 18 general election;
an event which, if nothing else, cut
-Dief down to size.

There was just one key ingre-
dient missing in Pearson’s lam-
poons on Tory deceit, demagogy
and doublecross, viz.: that it could
apply with equal force to the Lib-

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erals and their histrionic careerist,
Lester B. Pearson.
Between Pearson and Dief the

“difference” is exactly nil: two
peas from the same monopoly pod.

EDITORIAL PAGE *

tes in Mississippi over the
“de-segregation” enrollment of
one Negro student, James H.
Meredith in the 114-year “all-
white” University of Mississippi,
have shocked the entire world:’

South Africa’s “apartheid” [race
segregation] disgrace has been
eclipsed by Mississippi’s white
supremacists. The Civil War of
1861-65 to abolish slavery now pro-
vides an historical backdrop to the
centuries-old struggle and concept
that “all men are created equal’.
But not down in “Ole Miss cam-
pus.”

U.S. federal authority, under
the impact of enlightened world
opinion, and moving with reluct-
ance over the years to end racial
segregation and all its manifest
evils in the Southern states, is now:
compelled with the necessity of
imposing its de-segregation laws
in Mississippi; of enforcing the

Comment

enrollment of the first Negro st
dent in the University of Missi
ippi by massed U.S. marshals, ™
tional guardsmen and_ fede
troops. :

It is an ugly and degrading
picture, particularly for a nati0
al ruling class which boasts
self-proclaimed “leadership of ¢
free world.”

As in South Africa’s “apa!
theid”, the “all-white” rulers”
Mississippi and _ their ignorant
dupes, arrogantly flouting fed
authority, wear the foul mask
Hitler fascism on their faces *
they resort to. hooliganism, V!°
lence and worse in their rae
“defense” of Mississippi “tr
tions”; traditions which ha”
their diseased and bigoted roots in
the infamous institutions of S!#
ery and race “supremary.”

Those who get a glimpse of th
Mississippi nightmare on TV @
not but be appalled at the “ima’
of a young American on a univé
sity campus; an “image” of ™
dering Brownshirts. An “image
instilled by the white racist PS
chopaths who rule MississiPP?
and bring dishonor to the gre
American people, Negro ™
white alike. ee ‘

Whatever the final oul
in Mississippi, one undisputab 4
fact will stand out in all the Y
to come; the matchless cours”
the great dignity, and the dele
mination of a great son of the ay
erican people, James H. Meredit!
to win recognition of a basi¢ PF
ciple of enduring peace — “that:
men are created equal.”

Tom
McEwen

“pnvited” to speak at the New

York State College of Education
in Buffalo, Britain’s top fascist
Sir Oswald Moseley had no diffi-
culty in getting his entry visa ok-
ayed by the U.S. embassy. “There
was no reason not to grant him
one” said Uncle Sam’s unterbahn-
feuhrer, “he has committed no
crime.”

And that dear reader explains
Washington coldwar policies bet-
ter than ten volumes could. Those
who do not regard nazism as a
crime are those who have need of
its germ-carriers to advance their

own crimes against humanity.
* * *

A recent edition of the Peking,

Review features a revealing vers-
ion of the long-established ‘Pot
and the Kettle’ feud.

Two holy men, both ‘“mission-
aries” in the Portugese African
slave-compound of Angola, one
Father Mendes representing Lis-
bon and the other, the Reverend
Edwin  Lemaster representing
Washington, took a few “unholy”
swings at each other recently.

It appears that Rev. Lemaster,
indignant at being booted out of

Angola by dictator Salazar, wrote
an uncomplementary epistle in a
U.S. paper accusing the Portugese
of “unchristian practices” in its
colonial slave compounds. Round
one for Washington’s man.

Smarting under the Reverend’s
frontal attack, -Lisbon’s Father
Mendes, who evidently knows how
to punch where it hurts most, re-
torted that ‘American missionar-
ies weren’t bona fide missionaries,
but agents of American imperial-
ism, carrying the Bible as a dis-
guise .. . to implant U.S. material-
ism and temporal interests in An-
gola, in opposition to our own
(Portuguese) civilizing and hu-
manitarian work.”

If ruthless oppression and mass
killing of the Angola people is Fa-
ther Mendes’ idea of “civilizing
and humanitarian work,’ then
round two certainly goes to Lis-
bon’s man.

On the other hand Washington’s
eccelesiastical lightweight, in
throwing his punch about Portu-
gese “unchristian practices,”’, inad-
vertently overlooked the fact that
Washington had been (and still is)
underwriting a goodly chunk of
Salazar’s  “unchristian” military
oppression in Angola, “including
the supply of napalms and other le-
thal weapons used to massacre An-
gola patriots” fighting for their
freedom and independence.

Truly the Devil “sups with a
long spoon,” and especially on those
occasions where the ‘Pot’ accus-
es the‘Kettle” (or vise versa’ of be-
ing ‘“unchristian.”

Closer to home this classical
“Pot and Kettle” duel may be ee
at its best (or worst) in the curren” |
Dief - Pearson political jousting
the main aim of both being to W”
the electorate to the erroneous 2
tion that the ‘Pot’ is less dirty
(or vise versa) than the “Kettle

2
and consequently more preferable:

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Another of those numerous oo
amples showing how the “new
manufacturers of the monop?
press dish up their daily

Rescued from the ditched
ing Tiger Line’ aircraft 1
Atlantic, the first question 4
major’s wife is alleged to have
ed was not “how many of mY ae é
low-passengers have been ee
ed”, but “has anybody got 9 ——~
stick?”

Vancouver Sun, Sept. 26:
Canadian aircraft carrier
venture rose above and beyo? 300°
call of duty .. . the ship’s 1, od
sailors and airmen rummage
through sea bags and came uP nif
23 tubes of lipstick — all bOuE
for wives and girl friends 1”
ada.” oe é

British Daily Worker, SePt- fof
To the major’s wife’s request M
lipstick, Bonaventure Cmdr.
MacLeod answered wrily, ~
don’t carry such stock ..- ‘
@n appeal to the carrier's compa”
preduce one.”

Not a world-shaking illus :
of the gap between fiction a” ae
but typical of the monopoly P*
lum manufacturers, ee

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