a As We See It E READ a short news iitem last week in the Williams Lake Tribune (no relation to the PT) to ithe effect that big radar installations in that area (as part of a gigantic North American Tadar system) are ‘to be manned by USAF personnel, and under exclusive US. ‘command. Canadians are getting accustomed to these little news items in our small Weekly journals from ‘Newfoundland to Vancouver Island. What would un- doubtedly stagger most ‘Canddians however, would be the sum total .. - to know just how much of their coun- try, its iterritory, independence, re Sources and birthright, has been given Over to exclusive U‘S. command. Such khowledge isn’t considered “in the public interest” by the Liberal poli- ticians in Ottawa who play lap dog to the Pentagon, so the business of Selling out ‘Canada, lock, stock and barrel to the Yankee war trusts is largely conducted on: a hush-hush basis, Tt might cut the tenure of office of ’ these Liberal politicos very short, were Canadians to know the full extent to Which Canada has been transformed into a “Belgium” for Wall Street's contemplated third world war. e We live in an age of “new wonder drugs” indeed- The latest of these is 2 “True-Word Medicine,” invented by the Chinese to extract the truth out Of Yankee diversionists and counter- revolutionaries operating in ‘that coun- try. After two spinal injections of this marvellous “medicine” an Al Ca- Pone takes on the halo of a Washing- ton and the legend of the e chopped-down Cherry tree. One Robert T. Bryan, @ Yankee lawyer residing in China, was recently arrested and deported to that last bastion of “democracy,” Hong Kong. Before deportation, according to Ro- bert, the Chinese took ‘him into a spec- ial clinic, gave him a couple of spinal injections - of their “True-Word {Meri- Cine” and out rolled the “true” words. ‘According to his own statement, as €mblazoned in 'the columns of the San Franeisco press, Robert remembers “sleepily writing what somebody dic- tated and signing a statement without Temembering its contents” before being booked | out of China proper. ‘On an- Other occasion, June 7 it was, accord- ‘ing to Robert’s reckoning, the Chinese 8ave him an extra large shot of their Spinal “TrueWord” fluid, and told him to write a critique on the US. State Department. To an intelligent man, With or without benefit of medicinal Stimulants, that shouldn't be a difficult assignment. One need only analyze Some of the hot air that swirled around the corridors ‘of tthe recent Republican Convention. When Robert woke up in Hong Kong, he “sleepily remembered. Signing some sort of criticism of the US. State Department,” and that was that, , When we in Canada manage to re- “stablish normal friendly relations and © with People’s China, we should Rive top priority tto a cargo or two of by Tom McEwen this “True-Word Medicine”; set up a big central clinic, and make it com- pulsory for editors, lawyers, policemen, columnists, politicians and others of our social fauna to take a couple of shots or more annually of the ‘True- Word” spinal fluid. The direct and in- direct benefits to the common man would be terrific. Just think what a goodly shot of this “True-Word” medicine would do for Ronald Williams of the Financial Post, to cite only one case. Back in the June 14 issue of that versatile organ of monopoly capital, Ronald outlines the plight of one of our “New Canadians” (sometimes called DP’s), who had ’ “escaped” from behind the “Iron Cur- tain” to get away from “Reds” and trade unions — only to run smack into them in ‘Canada. The case was heart- rending ‘to say the least. Here was a - lad who hated Communism and trade unions with a fervor that would warm the heart of any Duplessis. ‘Landing in Canada he got a job — and of all places, in an industry where 2 union contract prevailed, and a union where Com- munists, ‘OCF’ers, Liberals and what not, maintained their trade union in democratic harmony. No sir, on no account’ would‘ ‘this “New Canadian” have anything to do with unions where political ideologies. avere the privilege of ithe individual members. What to do? . According to Ronald’s fiction it wasn’t a matter ‘of union dues. “Tiook,’ says his mythi- cal DP, “I will give a year’s dues — $24—to the Salvation Army.’ But that didn’t solve the problem either. The straw boss, the “super” and others of the managerial staff told ‘him’ he’d better “join up.” “This,” Ronald has his mythical DP saying, “is hard for me Ito understand. Why do Canadian firms let ‘Communists pass out Com- munist Icaflets—propaganda for peace —in ‘their plants? Why do they say nothing when people like myself, who don’t want to join ‘their union, are hounded from morning till night?” The whole Ronald screed is a cheap fabrication ‘from beginning to end. We can understand the Nazi mentality of many of our “New Canadians” having an ‘ayersion to tthe democratic tradi- tions of Canadian trade unionism. ‘We can even understand their reluctance to join unions of any sort. But the Ronald Williams fabrication of a mythical “New Canadian” going to the editorial sanctum ‘of the Financial Post for “advice” on what to do in the mat- ter, is a cheap lying invention, prim- arily designed ‘to promote the Financial Post’s anti sunion blitz, and incidently of course to keep the Post’s publishers feeling that “laborer” Ronald Williams “is worthy of, his hire.” We have only US, attorney Robert nt Bryan's word for ft, but from this distance it would appear to us .that columnists and others so. chronically affected as the Financial Post’s “labor expert” would require numerous spinal injections of OChina’s “True-Word Medicine” before a lasting cure could ibe effected. But, as the family doctor says, “it’s worth a try.” North Shi l deci soa orth Shore people must ecide aa HEORETICALLY speaking, when the ‘Canadian National Railways considers ea taking over any privately-owned enterprisé} people of a public-ownership turn of mind should feel ‘highly gratified. In practice however, it is best to withhold the “socialistic” hallelujahs until all . the facts are known. That is precisely what the majority of the people of North Vancouver and district are doing on the proposition that the Second Narrows Bridge be leased to the CNR for a minimum 20-year period. This bridge, ofificially opened on November 7, 1925, is (theoretically) owned and operated by Burrard Inlet Tunnel and Bridge Company, but North Vancouver it wp most if not all of the cash to launch the initial city and district taxpayers | * ‘project. \ True, the bridge is an engineering monstrosity, but it has rendered good service at a modest cost to the communities on iboth shores of Burrard Inlet for the past 25 years. * Those Liberal politicians who are now busy as beavers (and twice as secretive) in an effort to hand the Second Narrows Bridge over ito the ‘CNR, resort to two main arguments in their projected give-away. First, how much money can be “saved” _ by the CNR taking over, and second, that enly under CNR administration can the “industrial development” of the North Shore be assured. Both these arguments Ale a are so much eyewash. The secrecy with which negotiations have proceeded between uy Fe the company, the CNR and the Liberal politicians would indicate that, like the et 2 kee typical bootlegger, ithey have no great faith in their own propaganda brew, During tthe most recent innerdiscussions on the bridge deal, M. E. Sowden, Liberal MLA-eléct, with characteristic stupidity, boomed out: “I do not feel it neces- sary to hold another plebiscite regarding the bridge ‘transaction. sabe Cs other words, Sowden and his Liberal horse-traders don’t want the people to voice their opinion on the matter. The people can foot the bill on bond Principle and interest, on tolls or other costs, but the Sowdens want a free hand in Swinging the deal. “Thar’s lots _ of pork in that thar North Shore real estate pork barrel. ef . Get ‘Big Shots’ of dope traffic 'ANCOUVER Police Chief Walter * Mulligan has publicly appealed to all parents who may sense or Suspect that their’ children are in any way, directly ‘or indirectly, mixed up in ‘the current juvenile drug traffic, to help the police clean up this evil. The mat- ter, says the chief, avill be treated with the utmost “confidence. ‘¢ That is all right as far as it goes, but. obviously it’ doesn’t go very ‘far. Only last week the courts had to throw out some eight drug peddling and ‘ad- dict cases for lack of evidence. The youth the police ‘were relying upon, to. clinch their. case retracted his state: ment. ‘Caught between the rather ‘heavy “confidence” of police methods and the fear of reprisals” from the “trade,” this youth pulled the props from under the police case in much the same way Detective ‘Archie Plummer’s famed “bookie” blitz folded up like a punctured , balloon. What “we are primarily concern- ed about, aside from rounding up the “pushers” — tthe vermin who peddle drugs to our young people, is ‘the ap- parent unreadiness of the police to “go all the way” ‘in rounding up the “res- pectable” citizens — the big shots at ‘the top who supply the “pushers” and rake in ‘the real profits from the de- struction of young lives. We suggest Mulligan re-word his ap- peal ‘to Vancouver parents and take a look on the other side of the tracks for the real “pushers. ily PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 25, 1952 — PAGE 5 word on its disposal! “~~ subject, with * some major modifica- tions; to demand in this brief that. all correspondence, minutes, or other materials relative to the projected transfer be made public property. Also, and equally important, ‘to ascertain just what are the actual perspectives for industrial development in the ‘CNR prospectus. ‘When these facts are {fully accessible to. every interested taxpayer, the issue should ibe submitted to a popular vote. Tt is the people who have footed the bill. for the Second Narrows Bridge since 1923. 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