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By MILLER WOODS |

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NCE upon a time when |
Canada was almost com- |
pletely controlled by big |
American Monopolies, there |
lived a man who went by the
Name of Elmer Bendover. He |
Was a writer and lecturer and |
Spent his time touring the |
country, pointing out the |
great benefits of being truly |
free,
“The freedom to quit your |
job! The freedom to ride on |
freight trains looking for an- |
Other! All these things help to |
build that rugged individual-
ism of which we all are so
proud,” he roared. He was
Speaking to a meeting of the
Chamber of Comerce, and he
Was cheered to a man by the
audience of bankers, bailiffs,
brothel owners and_ loan
Sharks. They were impressed
With his sureness, his great
Oratorical ability. “Tell us
more!” they pleaded with tears
as big as pancakes in their
fish-like eyes. Bendover was
Only too happy to do so.

“Socialists monsters!”
“Karl Marx was deluded!”
“Communists won’t work!”
“The B.C. Electric is wonder-
ful!” “Bankers, bailiffs and
brothel owners are the salt of
the earth!” “There should be
a picture of a_ bailiff on the
Canadian flag!” (“if we had
One.”’) After he had talked for

are

three hours, he ended his
Speech with a _ reference to
Capitalist unity. “Bankers,

| ists had begun

‘spreading all this trash .. .?”

Fables |

bailiffs, money lendérs, unite!
You have nothing to lose but
your gains.” Bendover knew
he’d made a good speech. |

Some faint-hearted capital-
to lose faith
in the power of Free Enter-
prise, but now they were com-
ing out of the darkness into
the shining tomorrow so-vivid- |

ly portrayed by the great! %
leader and_ teacher Elmer |
Bendover. Many a bailiff

shook his hand and was in- |
spired to carry out his great |
task of evicting unemployed |
workers from their homes with |
renewed vigor. |
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“T'd like to ask you.a ques-
tion,” said a quiet looking man
at the back of the hall. ““Who
in Hell is paying: you for |

After the quiet man had been
tossed out of the hall, the
handshaking continued. Some-
thing was missing, however,
for a feeling of dark forboding
spread among the assembly.

They had good cause for
misgivings as you all know,
for the people were soon te
get rid of such octopi as the
BC; Colléctric, “BG. — Pele:
phone, and Doofenbtinker and
his whole gang of sell-out
artists. \

As for Elmer Bendover, the
great writer and teacher, he
was soon to be. ‘petrified by
some scientist who didn’t like
him and put in a Vancouver
park—although I can’t remem-
ber which one.

NATIONALIZATION

(Cont’d from pg. 6)

jectives on which the struggle
of the basic social forces of
contemporary capitalist society
how hinges.”

MAKES POSSIBLE MORE
POLITICAL PRESSURE

It should also be said that
the workers in a nationalized
industry have particularly fa-
Vorable opportunities to im-
Prove their wages and condi-
tions of. work. The capitalist
fovernment .can be brought
under the kind of political

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pressure which makes it very
difficult for the management
of a state-owned enterprise to
refuse necessary concessions,
and to adopt an all-out anti-
labor policy.

To sum up, the program of
nationalization of the U.S.
monopolies which has been
advanced by the Communist
Party provides the basis for
wide united struggles to make
it possible for. Canadians to be
masters in their own house. It
projects the road towards far-
reaching changes in the struc-
ture of Canadian society even
before capitalism is finally
done away with.

At the same time, these
democratic advances which
would more and more break
the power of the great U.S.
monopolies which: dominate

us, would create the most fa-
vorable. conditions under
which the struggle for a social-
ist Canada can go forward to
victory.

“A
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@ A 10 megaton H-bomb h

all the bombs dropped
during the last war.
@ A 15 megaton bomb—th

heaviest of the German
London.

jured.

one attack.

tive power equal to five times that of

by the Americans in 1954—would be e
3,000 times as destructive as the

@.The American Civil Defence Admin- e
istration estimated four years ago
that in the first day of a nuclear
attack on America, 36 million people
would be killed and 57 million in-

® A later estimate by a Congressional
Committee in June, 1959, assumed
that 49 million people would die in

as a destruc-
on Germany shima

e type tested

air raids on

FACTS ABOUT THE HELL BOMB

© Some 200 people still die every year
as a result of the bombing of Hiro-
and
only 1/75th the power of a 15 mega-
ton H-bomb.
Of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki sur-
vivors, 10,000 still need regular medi-
cal treatment and 140,000 periodic
medical attention.
The Nobel Prize-winning American
selentist, Dr. Linus Pauling, ealeu-
lates that continued H-bomb testing
could cause 200,000 defective births
a year and 420,000 pre-natal deaths.

These facts are taken from a recent
book, “Assault at Arms,” written for
the United: Nations Association by Gen-
eral Sir Ronald Adam and Charles Judd.

Nagasaki with bombs

AFTER THE GREY CUP:

What Future For Can. Football?

By WILLIAM STEWART

HE Grey Cup has gone east
for another year -leaving
behind evidence that the sec-
ond best team in the west was
not good enough to stand up
against the best from the east.
Ironically enough Edmonton,
which began the western reign |
over the Grey Cup by proving
to Montreal that you cannot
throw your way into football
fame, were knocked off this
year because they tried to steal
the Grey Cup through the air.
This article is not intended
to make any estimation of the
game. Bigger problems con-
front Canadian football].

For the last month sport
pages of Canadian dailies have
been full of prognostications
by the scribes on the outcome
of the Grey Cup and what lies
ahead for Canadian football.

Speaking from -his lair in
the USA where he is coaching!
a college football club, fling-|
ing Frankie Filchock informed
the Canadian football public
there was no sense Canadians
deceiving themselves that
there was any future for Can-
adian football as we now know
it. The solution was for Can-

ada to intergrate its game with
that of the USA and field four
teams, one in Montreal, Tor-
onto,
ver.

The battle that errupted in
Vancouver a short while back
on the request of the new Na-
tional Football League (USA)
for use of the Empire stadium
indicated the scope of the
problem. If the NFU is granted
a franchise in Vancouver it
would be linked with a new
network of American football
clubs, introduce American
football (which is of course a
different game than the Cana-
dian game) into Vancouver and
begin to eliminate Vancouver
from the CFU.

Vancouver is not a big
enough city toe support. two

professional football clubs: The |

only logical outcome of setting
up another franchise in WVan-
couver is for one of them to
go out of business. Obviously
in the minds of those pressing
for a NFL franchise the Lions
would be the: ones to go out
of ‘business. -It is not the -inten-
tion of this correspondent to
defend the present set-up: in
Canadian football. There

Winnipeg and Vancou-!

much room for improvement.

However, the. salient fact is
that the Grey Cup represents
the only all Canadian east-west
playoff in any major sport.
There is no doubt that the mass
Support accorded to the game
is in no small measure due to
this fact.

There has been a growing
movement in Canadian foot-
ball circles for an interlocking
schedule between the east and
west teams which would un-
doubtedly serve to tighten up
and improve the calibre of
Canadian football. This ques-
tion, however, and for that
matter any improvements in
the Canadian game requires a
decision that Canadian foot+
ball stand on its own feet, rely
less and less on American im-
ports, drawing what is good
from the American game ‘and
holding onto the . Canadian
game, which in the opinion of
most Canadians is a superior
brand of football.

In the opinion of this writer
Canadian football hangs in the
balance. If those: who shuck
out the long green at the gates
don’t get into the fight with
both feet soon, it might be too

isl late.

December 2, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7