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E EBRUARY 16-23 has been
proclaimed Brotherhood Week
“Way down in Dixie,’ and other
notorious U.S. segregationist areas,
they celebrate it with guns, elec-
tric-charged cattle “prods, ’ savage
police dogs, loaded clubs, the
KKK, mass jailings and brutal
terror, all ordained to keep ‘“‘broth-
erhood’ from getting too brother-
ly.
The terror now raging in Ala-
bama, Georgia, Mississippi, and ©
moving into the Northern states,
speaks more eloquently than words
on this sham “‘brotherhood”. In
words, constitutions may speak
about it ‘‘all men being created
equal,” but all the forces of white
“superiority” and .‘segregation”
are mobilized to see to it that this
“equality” and “brotherhood”’
does not include the millions of
American Negroes. An “equality”
which prohibits Negro people,
men, women and children from eat-
ing, studying, or mixing in the
same community of daily life with
their white brothers.

Up here in Canada we take our
“brotherhood” less spectacularly,
much more smugly, but equally
discriminating against our fellow-
men with Colored skins.

We have all but oblitered our
Native Indian people, but insist
as Liberal MP Ron Basford (Van-
couver-Burrard) did, that our In-
dian people should not take their
case to the United Nations, be-
cause if they did so “the Com-

Real big

THE 15th B.C. provincial con-
vention of the Communist Party of
Canada will convene in Vancouver
this weekend. Some one hundred
and fifty delegates or more from
all over B.C. will be in attendance.

Unlike the conventions of most
political partiesin this banner
province, the Communist conven-
tion will be a series of hard-work-
ing sessions, facing up to the re-
alities of big issues. -

How to keep U.S. nuclear dumps
and warheads out of Comox and
out of Canada; to greatly strength-
en the growing peace forces in this
province?

_ How to win the mass opposition

required to halt the Bennett-Pear-
son Columbia River sellout of U.S.
monopoly, and make the great
hydro and other resources of this
province the sole property of its
people?

How to advance the cause of
labor unity, an urgent need for
economic and political victory
against the monopoly forces of ex-
ploitation and reaction?

How to secure the benefits of
automation and mechanization of
industry to and for the working
people of this province?

These are only a few of the
many vital and pressing issues
which will come before the Com-

Pacific Tribune

Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH
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EDITORIAL

od week?’

munists would make propaganda
out of it.” So better to die on the
reservations and in disease-ridden
slums than let that happen!

When a family with Black or
Colored skins seek a dwelling

’ place, we turn them away sweetly
with the excuse that the place is
already “rented,” or that the
“other tenants might complain.”
Real “brotherhood” with a lower-
case “b”’.

Just a few days ago that great
crusader for “brotherhood” and
“freedom,” John Diefenbaker,
“nledged” a handful of warmong-
ering Ukrainian nationalists, that
he wouldn't rest until he had
“liberated” the Soviet Ukraine,
and he didn’t give a hoot what Mr..
Khrushchev thought about it?
That’s the kind of “brotherhood”
that leads directly to atomic war.

And as is already well known,

KESTRIC
CUENTE

* gE NEWS SERVICE
Drawing by -Fred Wright

“Mr. Pearson is also an ardent
booster for “brotherhood” (with
nuclear warheads attached) as
prescribed by Washington and the
southern Dixiecrats.

However, independent of such
phoney “brotherhood weeks” there
is the emergence of a real human
brotherhood stretching from Dixie
to Johannesburg and throughout
all Africa, Asia and Latin America.
A brotherhood cutting across all
barriers of race and color, striking
terror into the craven hearts of the
“white segregationists,”’ and pro-
claiming the multi-racial equality
and brotherhood of Man.

job ahead

munist convention demanding an-
swers. Not an easy task, but if the
working people of factory and farm
are to survive the “challenge of
the 60’s,”’ answers must be found.

To all the delegates and visitors
to this historic 15th provincial con-
vention of the C.P. the Pacific
Tribune extends warm fraternal
greetings and best wishes for vic-
tory on all counts. .

‘Getting their man?

Tur RCMP killing of 65-year-
old Cyriel Du Pre at Courtenay on
January 22 must not be permitted
to remain embalmed in the sticky
whitewash of a coroner’s jury ver-
dict—a verdict which exonerates

_the RCMP and local game warden

of all responsibility in the killing
of Du Pre.

This is now a case for the
attorney-general’s department,
which must launch a full-scale in-
vestigation, not only into the cold-
blooded killing of a harmless old
man, but an investigation that will
probe the long months of intimida-
tion and persecution of Du Pre by
the RCMP which preceeded the
fatal shooting.

Armed with a warrant for Du

- Pre’s arrest issued under the Men-

tal Health Act, RCMP Set. E. H.
Fleetwood with a detail of nine
policemen anda game warden
went to Du Pre’s home, forcing
the occupant outside with a bar-
rage of teargas bombs. Coming

outside with a rifle, its butt on the
ground and not pointed at anyone
the RCMP officer gave the game ~
warden orders to shoot the rifle |
out of Du Pre’s hand. This shot |
discharged Du Pre’s own rifle, the _
bullet killing him instantly.

At the coroner’s inquest loca.
Courtenay residents booed th
doctors giving evidence, describin
their statements regarding th
mental condition of Du Pre as
“rubbish.” Close neighbors of D
Pre testified that he was an hones
and peaceful man and should no
have been committed. To man
citizens in and around Courtenay
knowledge of RCMP intimidatio
of Du Pre long before the fata
shooting ‘accident’ is widel
known.

Under such circumstances, noth
ing short of thorough inquiry D
the attorney-general’s departmen
will allay public disquiet over th
trigger-happy RCMP killing of
harmless aged citizen.

Tom
McEwen

eresa is a 29-year old Hungarian
ees probably one of those
we ‘‘welcomed’’ to Canada a few years
-back as a ‘*‘freedom fighter’, Teresa
has two little youngsters and another
3 on the way, The information has also
been trumpeted around, in legal jargon
of course, that Teresa is just a ‘‘com-
mon law wife’’ of somebody or other,
As though that made the hunger of her
little ones any less real,

Canada, not being quite the land of
**milk and honey" it is often portrayed
to be to immigrant ‘‘freedom fighters’
or others, Teresa needed social wel-
fare help, and needed it badly for her-
self and little ones.

As most people know who have ever
had the unhappy experience of pleading
with social welfare dispensers, there
are two distinct types; those who them-
selves suffer the deep agony of sym-
pathy pain and frustration, when some
unfortunate comes seeking help in their
destitution.
species: the tin-horn, sadistic and of-
ficious bureaucrat, who imagine them-
selves to be the Diety, or at the very.
least an exact carbon-copy of a Socred
minister of finance, standing guard
over the taxpayer's ‘‘interests.”’

Then there’s the other:

Obviously, Teresa had the misfor-
tune to meet up with one of the latter.
Those who prefer to offer insult instead
of sympathy. Being a spirited woman
(the kind we greatly admire) Teresa
allegedly hauled off and fetched this
vest-pocket guardian of the ‘‘public
purse’’ a smart smack on the kisser.

From there of course it was only a
short journey for Teresa up before
the ‘‘beak’’, anda ‘‘judicial’’ tirade that
has few equals in the annals of Cana-
dian jurisprudence,

Highly incensed that a low-brow like
Teresa should even hint that there was

such a thing as ‘fone law for the rich.

and another for the poor’’ (shades of
Anatole France), this dispenser of
‘*justice’’, Herr Magistrate Les Bew-:
ley, peering down at Teresa from his
lofty bench, unburdenea himself thus:—

*‘She is not badly dressed and she is
well-fleshed. I do not think she has
suffered much, She has enough fat on
her to live for aweek. She won't starve,

‘She .could go to a store and ask for
bread. She can go to the garbage can.
There is food about.’’

It is doubtful if any language can be
fittingly descriptive of this **judicial’’
outburst of ignorance insolence and
class prejudice. But one all-compel-
ling conclusion does emerge; the urgent
need to uncerimonously kick such mor-
ons out of the halls of justice - in order
that justice, decency, and respect for
humanity may survive. :

E * * *

Well it looks as though we hit the

jackpot. No wonder Wacy wears a
_ built-in ‘smile’. Last year we here in

purchase, at the point of consumption,. q

British Columbia gulped down a neat
$109.6-million worth of alcoholic mix-
tures, all well diluted with Capilano |
water by an all-wise LCB before it hit |
our gullets. Out of this gross down-
pour the Socred alcoholic-synonomous
netted an easy $31.3 million in clear
profit boodle, Thus we upped our 1963 |
intake over 1962 by some $6.5 million, |
and our net profit by some $2.5 mil-: |
lion. Figures, even if one is addicted ‘|
to sneezing, ‘‘not to be sneezed at.’
But that’s probably only half the re-
venue tale, although the other half can
only be guessed at, It comes from the
fines, court costs, legal fees andsund- | _
ry other “‘lawful’’ extractions for not |
adhering strictly to the ‘lawful’ con- —
sumption of this $109.6-million bucks —
worth ‘down the hatch’. We would set |
that figure at $1-million more or less |
to illustrate the high revenue value of |
our archaic drinking laws, designed to
penalize the consumer at the point of |

and at the point of a magnificent *‘hang- 4
over’’ should he (or she) stage itin any —
locale not designated as a ‘dwelling |
place.” : 4
If we've estimated the cost of the —
drinking (not the drinks) to high or too
low we are ready to‘ stand corrected’. 4
Our main point is that with some sane
and intelligent liquor laws, in place of |
Socred ‘‘virtuosity’*, the sum total of
both could be greatly reduced. So also
would the incidence of drunkeness.
Socred ‘‘prosperity’’ might drop 2
bit, but since so few of us ever sample
that mythical delicacy, we’d never —
miss it, a

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