Our need, a new one oO the constitution issue, now gathering momentum in Canada, the 18th national convention of the Com- munist Party of Canada held March of this year, put the issue clearly and simply: “The only possible basis for a new unity between the two nations in a new Constitution, adopted in a Constitu- tional Conference where English and French Canada will sit down together as equals, as two nations, and not as nine English-Canadian provinces as against one French-Cana- dian province.” That, of course, implies among other things, that the burning issue of a new constitution for Canada is much more than a matter of “political convenience” for Messrs. Pearson and Lesage; a constitutional! “deal” concocted in the back rooms of these Liberal “strategists” and touted publicly under the fine-sounding label of “cooperative fed-- eralism.”’ ___The constitutional issue must be brought out from be- hind the closed doors of these top Liberal schemers, and into the clean air of wide public debate. This requires an all-party Constitutional Commission, endowed with broad “terms of reference” authority, in order that the voice of the Canadian people, French and English can be heard. Not a carbon-copy of Pearson’s pho- - ney “Bi-Bi” commission, but one assigned the prepatory work of incorporating the will of the Canadian people into the drafting of a new Constitution, instead of a Pearson- Lesage patched-up BNA Act. Only last week Leon Balcer MP (Trois-Rivieres) and deputy leader of the Tory party declared in an address to the Empire Club of Canada, “that Canada should adopt a completely new constitution which would ensure complete equality and partnership of French and English-speaking Canadians.”’ The Tory MP urged that the “BNA Act of 1867 should be scrapped” because it has been productive of little else except “boredom and embarrassment”. He could also have added that it has served monopoly and Liberal and ~ Tory hacks in Parliament as an effective obstruction to so- cial progress for far too long because of its deliberately de- visive provisions. Whatever the form such a “commission” may take, it has one prime objective; to assure the voice of English and French Canada be heard in the drafting of a NEW consti- tution in which the equality, independence and sovereign freedoms of both will be paramount within a united Cana- dian Confederation. Tom : SPACIFIC TRIBUNE Sys , : SOE wry eae a you LIKE, 4 2] WE'LL TAK | ENE THE ‘WoIks;EH JoE! 4 WE GOT Ti veer ‘Water boy’ calling Soares in the Columbia River giveaway not a few of our Liberal ‘water boys’ for U.S. monopoly were noisily fulminating against that infamous steal. Yet when it came to the showdown these ‘water boys’ like Jack Davis MP (Coast ‘Capilano), Arthur Laing MP, {Vancou- ver South) and others like them, meekly voted away one of B.C.’s great river systems. Now with the U.S. power trusts again looking en- viously towards coralling other vast areas of Canada’s great water resources, including the mighty Yukon River, the whole grab already well documented in the so-called U.S. “Parsons Plan,” we find these same Liberal ‘water boys’ again yodelling about the need to “hold tight” to our great water resources;a plea highly suspect when their role in the Columbia River giveaway is re- membered! With that experience gained at a high price, the lesson should be obvious—don’t again leave the “defense” of our water resources to these Liberal ‘water boys’. be completely blind and silent about press gag-rule and -sup- pression in other U.S.-dominated countries, shameful racism is permitted to exist. As for the smaller papers of the Negro and Colored peoples, It has been pretty well estab- these are banned or stamped Worth : Quoting we While we as Canadians tend to look” at the antics of Barry Goldwater and the radical right in the U.S. with smug- ness, we have nothing fo be smug — about. The same factions that suppot ‘soldwater for the presidency of the . US. also exist here in Canada. “‘Dress-shirted Fascism” in Canada is well-fed and smiling. But behind that facade lies a danger every bil % great as that posed in pre-war Germ any. Right wing extremists in Canada are active and such anti-labor group? as the Christian Action Movement, aii ed and abetted by the Canadian Intel’ ligence Service, require careful wate ing. Recently, Robert Thompson, leader of the Social Credit Party gave thes people his blessing. He said: ‘I am personally very well acquainted with those individuals who are responsible for the movement . | am doing @ that | can, not only to fight for the principles which are represented in the Christian Action Movement, but 1 make sure that freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom 10 make one’s own choice are preselv ed-nd We (in labor) want nothing 1° do with any party whose members advo cate the destruction of the union shoPr the enactment of right-to-work legislo- tion, who deal in anti-Semitism of ine 5 worst sort. Mr. Thompson and his friends should be exposed for what they are... : B.C. Federation of Labor report 0” right-wing forces in Canada.- * Sleep soundly in your bed at nian : The US. Navy recently announced ye its 11 Polaris sumarines, which oper mostly from Scottish waters, can kill ' oy 25 to 35 million Russians. nae A {m The well-known American journal {Da ist Clair Booth Luce has pointed oe Adi that the U.S. today has an afomlt , overkill which can wipe out Europe and Asia 35 times. ‘I favor reducing). our overkill capacity to 25 — eventu- ally to 20-times.”” —SCOTTISH MINER, Oct. 1964. prison-house of elementaty human freedoms, A columnist in the Ceylon ‘ ip “Tribune” of July 25 well illus McEWEN ne of the prime functions of the “International Press In- Stitute” from its posh head- quarters in Zurich, Switzerland, is to regard itself as a sort of world watchdog for the pres- ervation of that grand illusion commonly called *freedom-of- the press.” Just recently the I.P.I. got off a protest against the government of Ceylon for its “taking-over” of some of the country’s big monopoly newspapers, This, the I.P.I. opines, is a move “to silence criticism and curb free- dom of expression.” Sounds fam- ifiar. * As is known the Ceylon govern- ment of Madame Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, (the only woman in the world to occupy such a post) has been and is engaged in a long and bitter struggle to break the strangle- hold of U.S, monopoly upon the economy of her country. This struggle, begun by her assassin- ated husband, the late Prime Minister Bandaranaike, has been consistently and courageously carried forward by his widow, now prime minister, particularly as it relates to the big U.S. oil trusts, Esso and Standard Oil. As spokesman for these big U.S. monopolies, the monopoly press of Ceylon have carried on a long and vicious vendetta against the Bandaranaike govern- ment and its progressive policies, invariable at the gutter-press Goldwater level. Hence, the de- cision to “take-over” some of these powerful organs, in order that they might better serve the interest of the Ceylonese people, That is the change which is now giving the I.P.I. its latest “free- ‘dom-of-the-press” delirium tremens, It is remarkable, however, that on this vital democratic issue the I.P.I. can only see press “free- doms” in danger in Ceylon, but lished that in South Vietnam for instance, the present U.S. stooge government of “premier” Nyugen Khanh has suppressed no less than thirteen newspapers of var- ying influence and circulation since his regime began, while his preceeding U.S, stooge “premier” Minh only managed to rack up a score of four newspaper sup- pressions, On that sizeable score of banned journals in South Viet- nam the I.P.I, voice for press “freedom” has been discretely Silent, Similarly in South Korea, an- other bastion of U.S,-stooge press “freedoms.” There numerous journals, large and small, which dared to voice the hopes and as- pirations of the South Korean people have been ruthlessly sup- pressed, put out of business, or put under the “control” of well- brainwashed selectees of Wash- ington’s C.I.A., with never a peep about “freedom-of-thepress” from the 1. P.I1. And in Premier Verwoerd's racist South Africa where “apart- heid” (race segregation) holds top priority in S.A. “govern- ment” policies, no paper offer- ing the mildest criticism of this ‘out with a ruthlessness which has no equal in the modern world, even surpassing the press and book-burning days of Adolph Hit- ler. s But no protest is heard from the I. P.I. bewailing South Africa’s curbing of ‘freedom-of-the- press’”, That, of course, is not difficult to understand, The Ver- woerd policies of “apartheid” with its kangeroo courts and death penalties, is directed against the African peoples with dark skins and for the protection of South African and foreign monopoly which “rules-the-roost® in that | aD trates the problem in that coURy IM try, The big Ceylon “Daily Bee ror” has recently established 2 League for the Defense of Huma? 2 yn Rights and Civil Liberties, ees which this columnist cryptic comments: — “it will be inte™ — esting to witness the manner ‘ which this hoax upon the pu? unfolds itself,” ice Obviously the government r “take-over” of this and othe’ monopoly newspapers is desig" e specifically to end such hoa% — ce upon the Ceylonese people. Hem” ithe I,P.I, crocodile tears ante «freedom-of-the-press.” Editor Associate Editor Vancouver 4, B.C. of postage in cash. — TOM McEWEN — MAURICE RUSH Circulation Manager — JERRY SHACK Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Street Subscription Rates: ie Canadian and Commonwealth countries (except Aust $4.00 one year. Australia, United States and all o pe countries; $5.00 one year. Authorized as second class ee by the Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payme™ Phone MUtual 5-5288 ee October 30, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P4 ge4