Low note sounded

= rom his customary high notes on boundless “‘prosper-
ity”, limitless “expansion”, financial “debt-free”’ afflu-
ence, “our dynamic society” and sundry other blessings
rained down from a Socred “horn-of-plenty”, Premier W.
A. C. Bennett last week slid down his doh-rah-me “‘pros-
perity“ scale faster than a fireman coming down the
station slide pole.

The gist of the premier’s low note was that B.C.
should not take this “‘prosperity” for granted nor perman-
ent; that if it was to continue some “belt-tightening”
should be applied, but he didn’t have to.

This “optimistic” low note was directed first and fore-
most at labor’s wage struggles; a veiled warning that con-
tinuing demands for higher wages could endanger “pros-
perity”. Just how a wage earner is to share in this “pros-
perity”’ in face of steadily rising living costs and monopoly
profits without a fuller pay envelope, the premier didn’t
say.

His recent appeal to U.S. monopoly to come and get
more of B.C.’s raw materials and resources (and jobs), plus
the fact that there has been a slight slackening off in Soc-
red sales of B.C. to the U.S. trusts, may have had some
bearing on WAC’s low note on the “prosperity scale.

But as an unfaltering voice for U.S. and home-grown
monopoly, the premier’s low note was primarily for labor
consumption, since there was no hint of monopoly having
to do any belt-tightening to keep our “dynamic society”
solvent.

To students of economics the preme’s low note pre-
sents a question worthy of a lot of study. viz, do short-
range short-sighted fast-back economic give-aways make
for permanent “prosperity”, or does Bennett’s low “doh”
reveal a ‘bust’ in the Socred flute?

Uninvited ‘mediator’
ninvited ‘mediator |
T here is something disgustingly cheap in Prime Minis-

‘ter Pearson’s offer to “mediate” the India-Pakistan

conflict, more so since neither country has sought his aid
in that capacity.

Moreover, since Canadians in every walk of life have
been urging Pearson to voice Canada’s opposition to U.S.
naked and barbaric aggression in Vietnam, and which our
gutless Canadian “image” has failed to do so far, his “med-
iation” attempt to recapture the image of a Nobel Peace
Prize winner is a cheap political gesture, more designed to

_catch votes than to advance the cause of peace.

This man who sold Canada’s sovereignty to U.S. mon-
opoly for an election victory, who put U.S. nuclear war-
heads on Canadian soil on the orders of Washington, who
covertly supplies war materials to the U.S. warhawks for
their aggression in Southeast Asia, who has no voice to
protest U.S. barbarities abroad or at home against Negro
Americans, who even refused to accept a letter from a
group of Vancouver students asking that he speak up for
U.S. withdrawal and peace in Vietnam; such a spineless
caricature of Canada isn’t likely to star in the role of a
“peacemaker” in Kashmir, or anywhere else. _

On that frontier, as on others, the people are much
more likely to settle their own disputes more speedily if
the Pearson brand of “mediator” and “peacemaker” stays
away from where they are not invited, or as in the case of

’ the U.S. in Vietnam, “invites” itself.

699

If Pearson wants to ‘mediate’ for peace, he can start
right here in Canada by demanding the U.S. get out of
Vietnam, and by removing its nuclear warheads from
Comox and La Macaza. Short of that, both India and
Pakistan will be much better off—without his “mediation”
services. :

Editorial note

The Company of Young Canadians,
conceived by LBP in deference to LBJ,
(how else could Mr. Pearson conceive
anything?), has already hit a snag.

It seems quite a number of these
CYC's have some ideas of their own
about peace which don’t harmonize
with official parodies. Hence the snag
in CYC construction.

“COME ON, DAMN IT!??.s ase)

THE
WARFARE

“U.S. Worker

Worth

“Viet Booms Bay Shipping” says 6

Quoting

These Americans who volun
the ‘‘Peace Corps’’ have to fa
employment when they refurA ho!
At a conference of 850 forme! ™™
teers held on the fourth annivel?
of the Corps, many instances
cited of bureaucraticindifferen©
private businessmen’s suspi
against them. One former Corps
teer said: ‘We are regarded %
reliable persons.”’ :

CEYLON TRIBUNE NE
June 15, 65. ;

It was open season on Negroes
the Los Angeles police depar'™
This is becoming increasingly ee
with each passing day. Still the
Angeles press continues, day in
out, to print almost exclusively
police department version ©
happened, a version that is a5 "0
the truth as Fredrick Hendricks
Aubrey Griffin (among others)
from life itself. (The two names ™
tioned are among the 38 Negroeé
to death in the Watts “riots”. Fd.)

"= 3am Kushner in PEOPLE
WORLD, August 28, °*

The role of the OAS (Orgam™ A
of American States) in the Dom
civil war remains the same 9%"
the UN earlier in the Korean civ
Neither has or ever had ony
power of decision or contro i
course of events. Both served oF
as a cloak for U.S. power mane
tion. Both organizations are
tensions of U.S. power.

—U.S. FARM NEWS, ei; 45

Moines, lowa, July '7~

streamer inthe San Francis?
Call Bulletin and the story "@
military shipments to the Far East
the San Francisco area have he
in recent months. 7
“Viet War Good for Business
a headline in the Oakland Ti
Wall Street Journal reports 0 te

firms, ranging from the
ducers of highly sophistic
ments of death to lesser
boots and helmets.
Morally, this is bloo
course. But even economic
fools gold. The short-range stim
a long-range depressant.

114
—PEOPLE'S WORLD, August !

for the sake of the striking? :

Tom

hile some 550 workers at six

big B.C, brewing companies
“pound the bricks” since mid-
night of August 22 in support of
a long-overdue wage hike, and
another 2,000 or more beverage
dispensers in scores of city and
lower mainland hotels are “laid
off” because the source of supply
is cut off because of the brew-
ery strike, some pertinent ques-
tions haunt the thirty and non-
thirsty “man on the street:”

The Hotelmen’s Association
raised the first of these ques-
tions some days ago, Caught with
only a normal supply of suds in
stock, and “assured” by the
brewers “there would be no
strike,” the beer taps, and the
prime source of hotel revenues
soon ran dry.

There is now a growing sus-

picion that the “assurance =
given the hotelmen by the brewery

spokesmen were part of anover- -

all beer baron squeeze-play
strategy to facilitate a longer-

range objective; viz, the extrac-
tion of still higher beer monopoly
profits, A cursory look at the
picture to date confirms that sus-
picion, :

Currently there appears to be
no further “negotiations” between
the brewers. and the striking
Brewery Workers Union, Cer-
tainly it cannot be said that the
union doesn’t want or is evading
resumption of negotiations, On
the contrary it has sought and
still seeks for every opportunity
to get negotiations going for the
settlement of its wage demands,
No such desires, however, arein
evidence on the part of the
brewery spokesmen, They ended
negotiations with a flat “take-it-
or-leave-it” finality, thereby
precipitating the strike they “as-
sured” their beer retailers would
not happen,

Thus a few “ifs” present them-
selves: “If” their “assurances”
were made in good faith they
would be clamoring to get nego-

tiations underway and the beer
taps flowing again. Ditto, “if?
they were prepared to bargain
in good faith with their certified
union employees, the road-block
to renewed negotiations would be
immediately removed,

That, however, is obviously
not included in the beer baron
strategy for the promotion of
a “long dry spell,” with sub-
stantially increased profits at
the end of the drought,

In our monopoly-bedevilled
way of life one of the largest,
most powerful, most ruthless,
and most influential in the making
and breaking of governments and
people, is the Beer Baron mon-
opoly, This monopoly may permit
or promote a big head of froth
on its beer product as an addi-
tive to enhanced profits, but it
permits no froth on matters of
policy affecting its vital inter-
ests or its.profit balance sheets.

Beer Baron E,.P, Taylor, who
draws his annual multi-million
dollar sustenance from every
glass of beer “down the hatch”
irrespective of “brand,” and who
spends it chaperoning race
horses, royalty or other social
trivia around the globe, is Can-
ada’s most scintillating example
of the specie, The type which
tells governments what to do,

_ ernment, The same McCutcheon

and places its henchmen in key
positions to see that the job is
done, (Case'in point, the “ap-
pointment” of non-elected Sen-
ator Wallace McCutcheon as cab-
inet watch-dog of Canada’s fiscal
policies in the Diefenbaker gov-

ery workers and the thou é
of enforced jobless peverag® ;
‘pensers if they are. In the
however, that this strike ©
dragged out to the sati

of the beer barons, tim@
that is, a small increase
price of beer per glas*
pint or per case woul

this strike the best profit ©
moter the beer baro®
schemed up for a lone 4

I would have Esso’s “tHe
the-tank” skinned to afar@
well, since the union’s wl
wage increases if won, ©° \
“recouped ten times ovel -
substantial profit retur?

beer baron monopoly.

who now warns the Pearson gov-
ernment has gone “Socialist”),

From the E,P. Taylor beer.
baron strategy in the current
B.C. brewery strike, and its
rumblings in Eastern Canada
plants ofthe same brewery firms,
plus a growing opinion of a long
protracted “dry spell” here,
some possible conclusions may
be drawn,

These of course could be

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