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: EDITORIAL
Another ‘R’ added

he B.C. school trustees convention last week added
another “R” to our educational set-up — “Retro-

This was accomplished by a resolution which carried by a
mere thirty-three majority vote of 162 to 129 on a proposed
amendment to the Public School Act, barring teachers from
holding office as school trustees in British Columbia.

With the fine hand of the Socred Government prodding them
along this reactionary course, the specious argument of “a
conflict of interests” was advanced as a pretext as to why
school teachers should not serve in the capacity of school
trustees. That is like saying that the menand women entrusted
with the responsibility of the education of Junior are not
qualified to deal with the economic, social or other conditions
under which such education shall be carried forward,

The real reason undoubtedly lies in another direction; viz.,
| that the professional school teacher is perhaps too well
qualified, and might present an added embarrassment to a
Socred-supervised educational system in which the defects
are as yet more prominent than the successes,

Moreover, such a resolution strikes at the very root of
the democratic process, by the prohibition of qualified educators
to more fully serve the interests of their profession — which
are also the interests of B.C.’s public school student body.

ast week Liberal finance minister Mitchell Sharp
delivered another of his “economy” dissertations on
the need to put “restraints” on government-spending, wage
increases, and excess profits — the latter strictly “for the

The nub of all this so-called anti-inflationary budget-
pruning guff peddled by Sharp and designed to cover up some
unpalatable truths, is primarily directed at organized labor and
+ the people — to put a damper on wages and all social improve-
ment demands, In the Sharp formula for stability, as every-
one knows, “high wages are the main cause of inflation”, so let

As a clincher to push his economies down the throats of the
Canadian people (monopoly excluded) Sharp threatens to slow-
down the economy, increase unemployment, slash wages, in-
crease taxes, and cutback social needs to unload the full
burden of his government’s economic shambles upon the backs
of the people . . . which his kind call “stability”.

MARTIN AT UN

on way?

Tom

McEWEN |

egally, if we use that

term in respect of law
and the right of the citizen,
Vancouver Mayor Tom Camp-
bell, city licence inspector Milt
Harrel and the bigots on city
council who voted approval, had
no legal right whatsoever to sus-
pend the weekly hippie paper,
Georgia Straight.

The fact that certain people
may dislike a paper does not con-
stitute legal grounds for prohibit-
ing its sale or distribution, Nor
does the alleged receipt of
“scores of letters” from similar
minded “outraged citizens” give
added authority to burocratic cen-
sorship,

Freedom of the press, in prin-
ciple at least, covers a much
wider field than that commonly
assumed by a highly-monopoliz-
ed commercial press to be their
own exclusive freedom. It also
covers Georgia Straight whether
Campbell and company know it
or not, A growing circulation to
some 70,000 in the course of four
or five issues would indicate a
body of opinion not entirely
adverse to Georgia Straight.

So much for the legal aspects
of the Campbell-Harrel diktat,

Morally, if we use that term.,

with respect to the “moral” stand-

ards of the Victorian era of the
bourgeois world of today, it be-
comes immediately obvious that

_Georgia Strait has committed an

unforgivable faux pas, It has,
as it were, created a mirror into
which the Holy Willies of our
modern bourgeois society can
take a peek — only to see a
startling picture of their own
moral degeneracy: A corrupt and
rotting bourgeois society which
not only destroys its young, but
as Karl Marx noted in the Com-
munist Manifesto of 1848, “holds
nothing sacred” and takes the
greatest pleasure in seducing
each other’s wives”. Certainly
since Marx’s day this character-
istic by-product of bourgeois
morality has lost nothing of its
“moral” flavor over the years!

A’ UBC reference book for
today’s student studies on the
“Rising Standard of Living in
England, 1800-1850”, by R. M.
Hartwell, a work obviously wide-
ly-researched in an effort to
down-grade the incisive views
of Marx and Engels on the Brit-
ish workingclass in the era of
the Industrial Revolution, has
this to say about morals,

“It cannot be assumed that the
moral standards of the working-
class had deteriorated, or,.in-
deed, that they were worse than

Canada shifts stand

“Paul Martin’s statement, call-
ing for an end to bombing of
North Vietnam as the first major
step in ending the Vietnam war,
was welcomed by all Canadians
concerned with the present U.S,
policies of escalation of the war
in Vietnam,” said William Kash-
tan, General Secretary of the
Communist Party of Canada.

“The movements of Canadians
against the war in Vietnam are
beginning to have some results
on the Canadian government’s
policy,” Kashtan said. “The fact
that Martin said what he didisan
indication that the action by thou-
sands of peace workers has paid
off.

“The disgust and widespread

“disquiet which prevails among

large sections of the Canadian
public has forced the Liberal
government to begin to revise
their policy of complicity and
“quiet diplomacy” in the Vietnam

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those of their betters, The Webbs
were certainly shocked by the
morals of the eighteenth century
where they discovered “a hor-
rifying mass of sensual and sor-
did delinquency and private
licentiousness”, but in any case,
immorality in the slums was no
worse, in quantity or kind, then
immorality in high society”, to
which a _ sophisticated student
(probably a hippie) added an ap-
proving “Tut Tut”,

What our aspiring mayorality
rat-catcher and his holier-than-
thou moralists seem to have
overlooked in their crusade
against Georgia Straight is the
tons and tons of pornographic
and sexy literature in city book-
stores, book stalls, drug stores,
etc, A tonnage supplemented and
projected on TV, in theatres, on
the pages of a monopoly press;
all designed to commercialize
sex as a “come-on” to boost
sales, A multi-million dollar en-
terprise with highly-trained high-
pressure salesmen, well versed
in the art of utilizing the “body
beautiful” to put the sale across;
and our children are the bulk-
buying customers!

Our “moralists” of the Camp-
bell vintage have even legalized
the depravity of homosexuality to
satisfy the jaded morality of
a decadent uppercrust society.

Why then gripe if Georgia
Straight lays out its advertising
columns in similar vein — only
more forthrightly, more honestly
and openly?

as 4

For example, a highly “re-

issue, We would hope this marks
an end to Canada’s policy of be-
ing quiet and heralds the begin-
ning of an active and independent
foreign policy for Canada.

“Canada has now joined with
the voices of Denmark, Sweden,
France, Somalia, Indonesia, Ken-
ya and the Sqgéialist states, in
‘demanding an immediate and un-
conditional end to the bombing of
the Democratic Republic of Viet-
nam as the first and foremost
step in bringing about legitimate
and useful negotiations for an
end to the Vietnam war.

“We think it would be of great
advantage for Canada to develop
cooperation with other countries,
who have condemned the U.S.
aggression in Vietnam, to bring
about a peaceful settlement of that
conflict, Canada needs to go much
further and advise the United

States government that we in

spectable” Liberal cabinet min-
inter, a “family man” and all
that, climbs into bed with a
glamorous trollop. Bourgeois
society looks down its smug“ re-
spectable” nose, seeks excuses
_for the“ marital lapse”, and pass-
es it off as “as a momentary
indiscretion.”

When Georgia Straight adver-
tises for a “Hot Chick” amenable
to cabinet-rank “indiscretions”,
that, in the moral vocabulary of
Tom Terrific and his virtuous
entourage, is “filthy”, “obscene”,
etc and so forth, and hence must
be suppressed, Bourgeois society
doesn’t like seeing itself and its
morals satirically reflected in a
mirror of its own making; so
break the mirror.

We note some church leaders,
who, in recent times have also
sought to “jazz up” their own
youth activites with a bit of sexy
rock-and-roll in an effort to
keep the minds of their dwindling
congregations on the “here” and

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we should also call for
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is even more necessary at atm
as now, when Johnson makes a
quite clear that he intend
escalate the war, with all} "
horrible consequences. Be

lieve, further, that such cece
would stimulate the growin a
position in the United State® i
self, against the war in vietn

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tion to any negotiations.

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in moving towards
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“hereafter”, are a1s0 ei and
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on the anti-hippie Ga i
voicing their indign@ ent : ;
composition, tone an or chil”
Gerogia Straight. “Our por neat
dren,” they moan. © t
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than subject them 40 4
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