Review

A ‘one forest’ deal

0 one sincerely concerned
with the problems of U.S.-Canada
urade, or for that matter trade
with any country, can look upon
artificial trade restrictions, bar-
riers, or other political obstruc-
tions with any feeling other than
dismay.

While we want all the mutually
advantageous trade possible with
the U.S., most Canadians would
prefer to see the bulk of our rich
natural resources processed at
home and the inter-flow of trade
between the U.S. and Canada
geared more closely to maufactur-
es. Then we would know that our
jobs and our potential industries
don’t go south with our resour-
ces.

But unfortunately, for Canada,
our political pundits, whether
Tory, Liberal or Socred, don’t see
it this way. These resources “give
away’ brokers, interested primar-
ily in the fast buck and kowtow-
ing to insatiable U.S. demands,
are ready to surrender Canada
lock, stock, and barrel to Wash-
ington, with our new Liberal gov-
ernment setting the tone.

It was therefore, no great sur-
prise to hear provincial Liberal
leader Ray Perrault advocating
last week that “the forests of the
West from Alaska to California

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should be considered one forest

. to meet the needs of the total
North American market.”

Perrauit adds that “once the
concept of total forest use, disre-
guarding artifical borders, is ac-
cepted ...”’, B.C.s forest industry
would expand?

This is the new Liberal version
of “Custom Union”’ applied to the
forest industry of B.C., a fitting
twin to the upcoming Liberal-
Socred give-away of the Colum-
bia River to the U.S. power trusts.

Now Perrault wants to declare
the whole Northwest a“one for-
est”’ area, in order that the U.S.
lumber trusts, already deeply en-
trenched in B.C.’s forest industry,
will be relieved of restrictive
across-the-border trade encum-
berances?

To his “‘one forest” gesture to
the U.S. lumber barons, Mr. Per-
rault added his classical punch-
line; .“This is one of the reasons
why we welcome Mr. Pearson’s
initiative.”

Such “initiative” which cost the

U.S. trusts quite a few millions in .

Liberal election slush funds, will
prove a much more costly item to
Canadians if Perrault’s “‘one for-
est” ever gets going, as a substi-
tute for legitimate U.S -Canada or
other foreign trade?

Editorial comment...

When Uncle Sam brought
thousands of Cuban “refugee
heroes” to Miami, Florida to act
as counter-revolutionaries, the
Holy Willies piously “thanked
God” for this “Christian nation.’’-

But monopoly is primarily in-

terested in profit, whether it be
from refugees or rotten eggs.
- Miami AFL-CIO unions are
now stripping away the “‘christ-
ian’’curtain. Prior to the coming
of the Cubans, the Negro workers
in Florida were the chief victims
of low-paid and discriminatory
hiring practices.

Now however, the down-grad-
ing is still going down. The bosses
~ are replacing Negro workers with

Cuban “refugees” and at wage
levels below that paid to the Ne-
~ groes. The result—for the Negro
people, mass destitution, hunger
and want; for the Cuban “heroes’’
a starvation level, and for the
bosses bigger profits.
Truly a dollar “christianity,”
with a low premium on Cuban
“refugees.” *

“Free West’ gabblers make
much ado about the Soviet people
being “uninformed,” “kept in the
dark’ and so forth, eas world
events.

Today daily newspaper circula--

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million. Ot her periodicals at
around 1000-million circulation.
Last year’s output of book titles
was 78,000, with a 1,200-million
circulation in 93-languages. Nor
does the above complete the tally.
And no pages wasted on high-
pressure advts or “‘funnies.’’ How
terrible?

Better revise that “‘kept in the
dark” gag?

Crush this

The long-sustained and mount-
ing attacks of big monopoly against
the economic and social stand-
ars of labor and the people, coupl-
ed with its intensified drive to
nuclearize the cold war, is now
being agumented by another “al-
ly”’; that of fascist-diseased rats
emerging from their holes to
spread political and race hatreds
under cover of reaction’s attacks.

History provides us with a grim
reminder of this swastika-bedeck-
ed product of capitalist reaction.
For too often however, we shut
our eyes, attempting to pretend it
doesn’t, and just couldn’t happen
here?

In last week’s edition of this

paper we reproduced a section of

the U.S. Nazi party’s “program”,
now circulating in the Canadian
mails; a “program” promoting
race hatreds, anti-Semitism, gen-
ocide and organized violence again-
st every expression of democracy
and human wellbeing.

With this foul literature are
threats against individuals and
wanton acts of vandalism and de-
secration upon Jewish places of
worship and -culture all across
Canada.

It is also noteworthy that while

‘Canada’s political police, the RC

MP are busily engaged ‘“‘investi-
gating”’ student activities in uni-
versities, plus the progressive
views of university faculty per-
sonnel, in addition to their “nor-
mal” chores of snooping on all
segments of progressive labor, cul-
tural and educational organiza-
tions, the emergence of Nazi race
hatreds and incitements in vio-
lence, goes unheeded.

This “oversight” is not acciden-
tal. In this coldwar era, directed
against the countries of Social-
ism and all progressive ideology, .
the ‘forgive and forget” formula
of reaction in seeking to make the
dregs of Hitlerism who now rule

®
reptile
West Germany our closest “ally”,

seeps down into every political fa-
cet of our boasted “‘way-of-life.”

Hence we find numerous of the
political spokesmen of monopoly,
be they Tory, Liberal or Socred,
who “patronize” peoples who are
the targets of Nazi hate, and in
doing so expose that inherent ide-

ology of “superiority” on which

Hitler and the nazi scum who sur-
vived him, build their infamous
“master-race”’ hate theories.

In The Province of May 15 is a
story about Socred Highway Min-
ister Gaglardi as the guest speak-

er at a prominent J p88 organiz- ~

ation dinner.

We don’t know if all the jocular
cracks made by “Flying Phil” are
correctly reported or not, but
when one boasts of having a “big
curving nose and _protruding
eyes,’ and how his young son
managed to “bargain” in a Jewish
store” and talk the proprietor “in-
to selling him a $55-suit for $25,”
that is a typical brand of “patron-
age’ and philosophy upon which
anti-Semitism feeds and grows. If
the Province story is authentic,
then the most charitable thing
that can be said of the minister is
that he is deplorably ignorant.

It is this kind of ignorance on
which anti-Semitism and race hat-
reds feed; the kind of “patronage”’
that is only a couple of jumps
away from U.S. nazi Lincoln
Rockwell’s Jewish “extermina-
tion”’ insanities. :

We “deplore” the events in Bir-
mingham, Alabama, the racist
persecution against the Negro peo-
ples in Africa. We also “‘deplore”’
the persecution, vandalism and
violence against the Jewish peo-
ple—anywhere.

What we have to remember is
that it all stems from the multi-
arsenal of capitalist reaction—and
take these steps to end it—before
it is too late.

and for Sarwar: of postage in ¢ash —

Tom
McEwen

orkers who get chewed up by
police dogs on picket lines
will have to adopt more of a sport-
ing attitude from now on. Over in
Norfolk, Merrie England, according
to a British Daily Worker editorial,
it seems a bunch 9f ban-the-bomb
demonstrators stuck a few buns
and butter rolls well dipped in ani-
seed oil in their lunch bags, to feed
the police dogs with. At one ban-
the-bomb demonstration there were
some 30 to 35 of these ‘“‘man’s best
friend” on patrol to maintain “‘lor’n
order”’.

Now is there is anything a pooch
cannot resist it is an aniseed tidbit.
In addition to its being appetizing
it has a tendency to gum up the
canine scent sense. Hence, accord-
ing to a young rookie spokesman
for the cops, the “dogs tackle the
aniseed instead of the intruders”.

In fact the cop waxed real patri-
otic on the subject, pointing out
that this sort of business “‘is not
playing the game. It is more or less
tantamount to putting marbles un-
der horses’ feet. Aniseed would
lead the dogs on a false scent. It

just shows how low some people |

‘bama,

Eugene
ders to his police captain: “Look at
‘em run. Bring the dogs. Let these

will go”.

The the Daily Worker adds the
punch-line to this ‘new look” on
British sportsmanship and _ fair
play;

“Gad, sir, you've hit the nail
right on the head. These anti-bomb
types are utter cads. Any gentle-
man would be proud to be bitten by
a patriotic police dog.

“But these rotters are no better
than the Negroes in Alabama, who
also object to being set on by dogs.

“If every Tom, Dick and Harry
is going to carry around his own,
Independent Aniseed Deterrent and
turn police dogs into the nuclear
disarmer’s best friend, we might as
well send all the captivated canines
to the Battersea Dog’s Home.

“Britain will never tolerate sub-
versive propaganda saying ‘Police
dogs of the world unite; You have

nothing to lose but your chains-

you have an aniseed bun to win”.
.."We shall march forward into
the future with our fighting slo-

gans: ‘Play the game — Keep the

ou

Bomb — Dog bites man
By Gad, sir, this aniseed just
isn’t cricket. What sort of ‘‘patriot”

' is it who resorts to such low tactics

to avoid being bitten by a “‘patri-
otic” dog?
% * *
And down in Birmingham, Ala-
racist police commissioner
“Bull” Connor shouts or-

people come to the corner, serg-
eant, I want to see the dogs work”.

In addition to savage police dogs
tearing at Negro-American flesh,
“Bull” Connor and his segregation-
ist forces of racist “law and order”
have another terror weapon. This
is an electrically-charged prod,
known as a “cattle shocker”, which
inflicts a severe electric shock
when jabbed on the body of a
Negro-American demonstrator.

To the peaceful pleas and demon-
strations of the Southern Negro
people for equality and the simple
elementary rights of citizenship, im-
plicit in the Constitution ang Bill.
of Rights of the United States of
America, the Ku Klux Klan racists
and segregationists have one reply,
and one only wherever the foul
mentality of ‘‘white supremacy”
dominates.

Powerful fire hoses, savage po-
lice dogs, electric-charged “cattle
prodders”, inhuman police savag-
ery, bombing of Negro homes, cold-
bloodeq murder and lynching of
Negro people. In one word, the
ruthless barbarism of the _ Bor-
gias in a 20th century setting?

' This in a land, governed by a bil-

lionaire cabal, which presumes to
“lead” the world to a way-of-life,
which boasts its civilized achieve-
ments — and seeks to hide :its in-
famous barbarities behind the spe-
cious and meaningless words of
“peace”, order and good govern-
ment’’?

S cad

May 24, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4

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