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what Congress can
Canadians generally
tic oy f Rot accept the apolo-
ing - ’nations offered by sec-
Pes, Sur monopoly-controlled
Mahut off Congress has no power
teh, the slanderous activities
ie. S. Internal Security Sub-
¥ ig (better known as the
Cana ;8ton Witch-hunters) against
Citizens,

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boy, Sup of Yankee politicians
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‘ey, th _ this country, readily

fens fse “assurances” and in

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tha Nadians to overlook the

“ttagedy,

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Beton. an accusing finger at
bry, P-ranking Canadian, Rob-

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“Oh, we had to do that because
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affairs as demonstrating that Can-
ada’s policy had been one of “mis-
placed confidence.”

That is probably the understate-
ment of the year, particularly if we
remember that the same govern-
ment for which Smith speaks for
is ready to turn over our northland

ace and independence

and give control of our skies to the

nuclear maniacs of Washington,
who draw their war propaganda
sustenance from a _ witch-hunting
machine of their own creation.

Wo th. tt

Thus we come to the questions
posed: can the U.S. Congress or
administration shut off the slanders
and fabrications of its witch-hunt-
ers, if it wanted to?

The answer is, definitely and de-
cisively, yes, if it wants to.

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The other question, implicit in
the activities of Congressional
witch-hunters, is the all-important
one for survival. Can Canadians
halt the Tory agreement to allow
the U.S. to dot the Canadian Arctic
with nuclear-rocket launching sites
aimed at the USSR, and use Cana-
dian skies as aerial routes for nu-
clear-laden U.S. bombers—actions
which derive their being from the
lying propaganda of all such ag-
gregations as the Washington witch-
hunters?

The answer is elementary, and
backed by world science. Obviously
to survive, we can and. must.

HE labor press in this province
has a long tradition. From the

Industrial News of 1884 to

Pacific Tribune of 1958, it is 74
years old. And of all the labor

papers that have appeared,

Pacific Tribune has the longest rec-
ord of continuous publication—16

years.

Time is running out for our sus-
taining fund. drive. In this centen-
nial year, will you help to uphold
the tradition—to ensure the life of
the paper that speaks for the social-
ist future—by helping to put that

fund aver the top?

Tom
McEwen

|, jetperieey some strike occurs,

be it big or small, and re-
gardless of the issues in dispute,
certain government departments
promptly get busy compiling sta-
tistics. A whole battery of politi-
cal pen-pushers is put on the job
(at the taxpayers’ expense) tabu-
lating “losses.”

From such slide-rule labors
these statisticians can figure out
right down to a fraction just how
many “man hours” have been lost
in production, the total “payroll
loss” and relative data.

When such tabulations have
been completed and the Queen’s
Printer does them up in neat dry
reports, it may also be noted that
they always leave the inference
that organized labor and the
working man generally, are lack-
ing in a sense of “responsibility”
to the nation, the public, the in-
dustrial tycoons, and even to
themselves, for being so foolish
as ta go on strike and incur such
“losses.”

This juggling of figures is quite
an art. There is a well-known

cliche about “figures don’t lie,
but liars figure.” It isn’t quite
that simple. What any given set
of statistics may be used to
“prove” depends largely on who
is “proving” what.

For instance, one government
department says there are “only”
500,000 jobless workers in the
country. “Seasonal,” you know.
Another department increases
this figure considerably. A third
department manages to juggle its
figures well below both.

On the other hand, the labor
movement says the figure is close
to one million, and being the one
segment of society most vitally
concerned, has every claim to
being closest to the stark truth.
Naturally, each of these bodies
reaches its conclusions by various
routes. A 3

Then there is the “optimistic”
Tory politician who draws his
figures. out of the most likely-
looking hat and tells us that he
“sees the peak” being passed, with
so many thousands returning to
work. What he doesn’t see or
doesn’t want to see—the addi-
tional thousands who have got
their “seasonal” layoff slips in
the meantime.

gO Te OnE ie 8:

Whatever the exact jobless
figures, one fact stands out: the
statisticians who tell us all about
the “man hours lost” in strikes,
haven’t a figure to offer on the
man-hours lost through mono-
poly- created unemployment: Nor

do they tell us (with all the com-
puting machinery at their. dis-
posal) just what is the payroll
loss of one million workers con-
demned to enforced idleness,
A “seasonally” jobless army since
September 1957 or earlier down
to last week?

Those questions would keep
our political figure jugglers busy
for quite some time, but, as Prime
Minister _Diefenbaker might say,
the totals arrived at might “not
be in the public interest.”

However, the general board of
the AFL-CIO attempted this very
thing and came up with the stag-
gering result that “between Au-
gust 1957 and March 1958... .
wage and salary income dropped
at a yearly rate of $8.7 billion—
and less than one-quarter of this
was offset by payment of un-
employment compensation.”

In other words, 5,500,000 job-
less U.S. workers took-a cut of
roughly: $6 billion in their living
standards. By the same yardstick,
one million Canadian workers
and their families over-the past
nine “seasonal” months have
taken a cut of approximately $1.5
billion in their living standards,
in order to keep monopoly pro-
fits in “peak” condition. And
there is not one peep. out of any
Ottawa figure juggling. depart-
ment about “man hours” or pay-
roll “lost”!

Figures don’t lie... but they
can be used to emphasise — or
obscure the truth!

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