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By V. VICTOR

THE RIGHT-ist EDUCATION:
While in Blaine a few days ago
at the annual celebrations at the
International Peace Arch, our
own Education Minister from
Victoria, Mr, Peterson, told an
audience of many thousands that
Canadians should stop plucking
feathers from the great Ameri-
can eagle,

The Americans even now are
fighting our battles in such places
as Vietnam and the Dominican
Republic, and all this for liberty
and self-determination for Cana-
dians generally.

This type of talk while stand-
ing under the International Peace
Arch, is ironic, It must have
caused many to wonder about
liberty and self- determination
for the Vietnamese and Domini-
cans, The only person the aver-
age North American ever saw
or heard of from Vietnam is that
hussie whose husband once held
the reins of government until he
was neatly assassinated by the
very people he puppeteered for,

Never has a Vietnam ship or
plane been within hailing distance
of these shores, it hardly seems
they posed much of a threat to
Canadian liberty and self-de-
termination, All things consider-
ed it seems an odd manner the
Education Minister has of edu-
cating young. people,

It cannot be said the speech
was not educating, for no onecan
now doubt the man is a true’
Socred, Mr. Peterson also said
we should have free trade with.
the Yanks, He must have for-
gotten how the Socreds gave the
Columbia away, and it looks like
the Americans are now fighting
our battles in return for that
gift. He sounds like the original
absent-minded professor?’

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PONDERING THE PAYMENTS;
Nanaimo’s Gordon Street park-
ing development which was built
by taxes, for the benefit of down-
town merchants, is now a bit of
a headache to city council. They
can’t devise a System for further
gouging of taxpayers’ money in
order to charge for time parked,
A half million dollars is a lot of

money to spend for the benefit
of merchants who didn’t have
the good sense to have the city
add a restroom on the parking

lot for public benefit.

Nanaimo is probably the only
city of comparable size in this
Dominion without a public reste
room, it’s ludicrous, Of course
one city can’t have everything,
Nanaimo can boast of 12 mem-=
bers of the Christian Action
Movement, and all are men in
prominent positions,

AMBIGUOUS ANTHOLOGY; At
the opening of the new Central
Island Health Unit in Port Al-
berni, Eric Martin, the Minister
of Health, made the understate-
‘ment of the year (for his de-
partment, that is) when he strayed
from his prepared speech to state
if he lived in the shadow of a pulp
mill, as in Port Alberni, he would
say there was a health hazard,

He further said his colleague,
Mr, Kiernan, would make astate-
ment concerning tests of pulp
mill contamination “in due time.”
The Socred dictionary edited by
Flying Phil can have few pages
left for all the big wigs aretear-
ing out pages to use in prepared
statements, It must be rather
annoying to the little man who is
so adept at Socred hackneyed
phrases. No one likes to have
someone steal their thunder: even
if he is a political bed-fellow.

AS RUMOR HAS IT: There is
more laughter at the engineers
of Nanaimo’s Heated Swimming

‘Pool than the kids are liable to

create in fun. It seems the pool
has had to be dug up three times
since the cement set, Seems they
had to add equipment that should
have been incorporated before
pouring the concrete,

Looks like there could be an
investigation for the project was
built from public subscription
with Federal aid under Winter
Works Program, He who laughs
last laughs best, ’tis said: so the

-kids might have a bit of fun there
“yet,

Jubilee summer camp
season opens July 5

The Children’s Jubilee Sum-
mer Association has announced
the sessions for summer camp
during July and August. The
camp which is situated on the
northern arm of Burrard Inlet,
is run for the children of workers,

Sessions for girls will be July
5 to July 16 and July 19 to July

. 30,

Sessions for boys will be Aug-
ust 2 to August 13 and August
16 to August 27,

The camp is only about two
hours from Vancouver via Har-
bor Navigation boat. Campers-
will leave the Harbor Navigation
Wharf (foot of Gore Ave,,) for
camp at 10 p.m, on each of the
session starting dates,

The fee is $27,50 and includes

campers’ insurance and the boat

fare, A competent staff and

nurses are in attendance at the
camp, For further information
write 307 W. Broadway, Box 1,
Vancouver 10, B.C, or phone
LA 1-2461, HE 4-1759, or AL 3-
1951,

A special project is being
undertaken this year to erect a
new building consisting of a
recreation hall, water tank and

-washrooms. The project will be

undertaken by volunteer labor,
including members of fraternal
organizations, trade unions and
members ‘of the Jubilee Camp
Association, :

Anyone willing or able to help
is urged to contact the Associa-
tion, Speakers are available for
any meetings to outline the pur-
poses and needs of the children’s
camp,

Meany wants the ICFTI
to get in line with U.S

George Meany acting as the
“labor front” man for the U.S,
State Department, has issued a
call to all affiliates of the Inter-
national Confederation of Free
Trade Unions in which he at-
tacked unions for lack of vigor

against. what he calls “Com-.

munism,”

His fire was also directed at
the leadership of the ICFTU,
against whom he has been waging
a fued, and from all indications
a splitting policy, on the ground
that they have not shown vigor in
fighting Communism, especially
in fast developing Africa,

The letter, reportedly a lengthy

_ document that ‘went to each ofthe

110 ICFTU affiliates, is Meany’s
latest move since last March,
when following an AFL—CIO Ex-
ecutive Council meeting, he
charged at a press conference
that the ICFTU had -been “going.
-downhill,” - Se

GREET CUBA

The National Executive of the
Communist Party of Canada has.
wired Cuba’s Premier Castro
congratulating the Cuban people
on the “magnificent harvest of
six million tons of sugar.” :

_ The wire says collective re-
volutionary inspiration and
democratic mobilization of the
people to increase the harvest
‘by 40 percent in two years are
guarantees of rapid advance in
the building of socialism.

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cut of 25 percent in the AFL—
CIO’s contribution to the ICFTU
“Solidarity Fund.” Meany’s
present attacks are pitched to-
wards the next convention of the.
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To strengthen his hand within’
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