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HE rising wave of protest in

Canada and throughout the
civilized world against the South
African Verwoerd government
atrocities upon the Negro people,
is apparently not yet sufficiently
strong to halt this savage re-
pression. New atrocities against
the Negro people over the past
few days make that abundantly

clear.

Under cover of new “emergen-
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cy” and martial law: ordinances,
the white race-supremacists who

rule South Africa are increasing

their terror and killings of the
African peoples.

World labor is calling for a boy-
cott on all S.A. goods as a means
of halting this racist Savagery, a
call which should have the united
approval and support of every

Canadian working man and
woman.

Monopoly exploitation in South
Africa or elsewhere is highly sen-

sitive in one nerve centre — its

profits. The race segregation and

- “pass laws” of the Verwverd gov-
ernment are primarily concerned
- with profits; to keep a vast nation

of Negro and colered peoples
under the rule of whip and gun, to
supply the cheap labor required
for garnering huge profits.

A united Canada and world-

-. wide boycott against purchase or

use of S.A. products, stained with
the blood and tears of a subjected
Negro people, would do more to

_ bring the neo-Nazi Boer racists in

line with civilized thinking and
usage than a thousand resolutions

protesting their uncivilized ac-
tions.

All ‘the history of great labor
struggles show that when the
monopoly exploiter (and the gov-
ernment which serves the exploit-
er) is hit where it hurts most —
in the pocket, he begins to take
heed.

In this the Canadian housewife
can strike a mighty blow for free-
dom, equality and dignity for the
Negro people of South Africa. To
avoid South African products as
one would avoid a deadly pest-

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ilence. To make doubly sure that
no product smeared with the blood
and tears of struggling Negro
people contaminates the family
table or household. To scan closely
every product for the trade name
of a racist origin, and let the chain
stere manager, the Verwoerd govy-
ernment, and Prime Minister
Diefenbaker know that Canadians
are not cannibals.

A boycott of S.A. products,

effective at the point of sales and
distribution, can be extended to an
embargo: on shiploads of such
gocds; an embargo which would
leave such goods to rot in . the
ship’s hold until the South African
racists came to their senses and
adopted civilized forms of commu-
nity life and government.

A nation-wide boycott of S.A.
products is an expression of inter-
national solidarity with a noble
African people, who seek only the
right to be treated as human
beings; to be accorded the sree-
dom and dignity which is theirs by
right of race, and a voice in the
affairs of their own country,

which is theirs by right of nation-
hood. -

Make the boycott of S.A. racist-
produced goods united and de-
cisive; hit the “apartheid” racists
in the pocket book.

, CA]. =
Tory Austerity Week
ANADA’S minister for foreign
affairs, Howard Green, has
announced that the last week in

’ April shall be observed on ai
-Nnation-wide scale as “Austerity

Week”. Mayors and reeves
throughout the country are said
to be in accord with the idea. That
is understandable since there is
scarcely a municipality in the
country that isn’t feeling the pinch
of “austerity” through high taxa-
tion and reckless armament spend-
ing.

During this “Austerity Week”
Canadians are expected to cut
down on their gastronomic, social,
recreational or other activities,
with the savings from such self-
imposed “austerity” going to aid
the “refugee”. problem. :

Just where or who these “refu-
gees” are that are to be so assisted
is not made very clear in the
ministerial |ukase, probably in
Tory language, behind some myth-
ical curtain or another.

Over three-quarters of a million
jobless have been subsisting on an
“austerity” diet for some consider-
able time, a fact which fully
qualifies them tobe included in
the Green “refugee” aid. Dis-
possessed of their homes and
belongings as a result of unem-
ployment, and in some cases, as

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in Surrey last week where the
destitute father of four children
was driven to suicide by worry,
this “Austerity Week” and its
alleged purpose becomes some-
thing of a cynical mockery.

Most people will agree, however,
that a goodly slab of “Austerity
Week” savings could be extracted
from the government’s annual

arms spending of $114 billion or
more, and applied to “re:ugee

needs in Canada in terms of ne Pe
homes, schools, hospitals, jobs an@

so on. Such a saving would make
an “Austerity Week”, or a dozen”
of them, really worthwhile. = s.

If Howard Green or the Tory
government’ in which he is a lead-
ing cog were genuinely concerned
in aiding refugees, either at home
or abroad, they would enact pol-
icies which would provide Cana-
dians with remunerative jobs and
expanding markets, while at the
same time extend unlimited aid —
from our rich natural resources to
under-privileged and hungry peo-
ples in other lands. But Tories are
not made that way.

The launching of an official —
“Austerity Week” ¢an serve one
good purpose — to jolt Canadians
into the realization that under
Dief’s demagogy we will soon have
52 such weeks — annually.

Tom
McEwen

O one should get the idea that
the Toronto Globe and Mail's

ernment ‘‘defense”’ spending is be-
cause that organ of Tory reaction
has developed a sudden ‘“sym-
oathy” for: the overloaded and
under - serviced taxpayer. (This
Globe and Mail blurb was reprint-
ed by The Province in its April 7
edition).

Far from it. The prime concern
of the Globe and Mail is that dur-
ing the past ten years of anti-soviet
hysteria by Liberal and Tory gov-
ernments alike, directed and in-
spired by Washington, Ottawa has
poured the staggering sum of
$15,826-million dollars down a
“peacetime” war drain, with noth-
ing to show for it.

Well, not exactly nothing. We
have a made-in-the-USA Bomare B
short-range missile which its pro-
moters have difficulty getting off
the ground, and no assurance when
and if they do as to what direction
it may go.

concern over the enormity of. goy- —

At the moment, according to

G&M estimates Ottawa has sunk
some $15-million on the Bomarc,
while its U.S. promoters are .al-
ready writing it off as useless. So
that $15-million (or more) goes
down the drain along with the
$400-million Dief sunk on the
Avro-Arrow jet interceptor, which
also “never flew.”

Then there is Canada’s ‘invest-
ment” of $312-million in U.S. ra-
dar lines on Canadian territory,
now also rendered useless by long-
range guided missle development.

In our ‘‘defense’” museum under
the able management of. Curator
“Blimp” Pearkes, we have a vast
amount of antique armament
equipment purchased from Britain

_ and the U.S., now publicly labelled

as “junk,” but exceedingly costly
junk to the Canadian taxpayer.
Just to repeat the Globe and Mail's
figure, and it is probably away
above that, all this junk has cost
the taxpayer some $15,826-million
bucks. |

Just total that figure up in terms
of new homes, hospitals, schools,
universities, pensions, social ser-

vices, national health and recrea, —

tion, all the things every muni-
cipality in Canada needs in greater
or lesser degree — but ‘can’t af-
ford’ because Ottawa is in the
“defense” junk business with the
coldwar armament manufacturers.

The basic difference between the

viewpoint of this paper and the

Toronto Globe and Mail is not, (to
give it a Churchillian flavor) never-
Was-so-much-spent-for-so - little, but
that it was spent at all while so
many other things of lasting bene-
fit to the people needed doing.

Therefore, unlike the G&M, we
don’t give the proverbial “tinker’s
damm” that we. have nothing to
show for. our Liberal-Tory ‘“de-
fense” extravaganza. Our only in-
terest is that the Globe and Mail,
having belatedly got around to say-
ing what papers like the Pacific
Tribune has been saying for years,
to venture the hope that having
,got around to totalling up the ac-
count, it will now have the guts
to call for an immediate end to
this costly and suicidal “defense”
farce. :

-As we have emphasized many
times in these columns, Canada
possesses the greatest ‘defence’
potential known to man—the po-
tential of friendship and peace (co-
existence if you like), expressed
in terms of goodwill and mutual
trust in its relations with all na-
tions and peoples, whether capital-
ist or socialist.

This way the common people
reap the benefits in economic pros-
perity, social advancement, jobs
and peace. The other way; well,
even a Tory organ admits the arms
drain a bottomless sink hole, with
nothing to show for it.

April 14, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4