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End CPR hold-ups

es by the CPR that
it will discontinue its Van-.
couver-Nanaimo ferry _ service,
blaming the provincial govern-
ment-operated ferry competition
for the “necessity” of doing so,
has an old familiar odor.

Particularly is this so when it
is remembered that it was a simi-
lar curtailment of CPR ferry ser-
vices between Vancouver and
Victoria which spurred the pro-
vincial. government to get into
the coastwise ferry business in
the first place?

With its coastwise shipping as
with its rail services, the CPR
has been the recipient of vast land
grants, subsidies and other gov-
ernment handouts (at the tax-
payers’ expense), in return for
“assurances” to provide these ser-
vices, and which over the years
have paid fat dividends to CPR
bondholders.

Now, having skimmed off the
cream, down-graded its services
(while steadily upping its transit
tariffs to enhance its’ profits), the
CPR now reneges on its original
“assurances” and, as in the case
of its Vancouver-Penticton rail

run, announces its termination of
the Vancouver-Nanaimo ferry ser-
vice, because it “doesn’t pay”?

There is only one decisive solu-
tion to this sort of thing; not
submission to continued CPR,
monopoly blackmail for more sub-
sidies and- handouts in return for
highly dubious and inadequate
transit services, but nationaliza-
tion of Canada’s top transport
octopus.

Moreover if all subsidies, land.
grants and other concessions to
the CPR over the past three-quar-
ters of a century were totalled up
and charged against the “take-
over” price, the undertaking
would be highly beneficial to the
Canadian people. Such a solution
would solve the transit and land
problems in many Canadian com-
munities, not the least of these
would be the current CPR hold-up
on Shaughnessy golf course, one
of Vancouver’s much-needed park
areas.

Nationalize the CPR and- thus
effectively put an end to this
monopoly’s stranglehold upon
Canada.

Editorial comment. .

Fen national Socred leader
Robert Thompson’s overnight
transformation from a strong ad-
vocate of Britain’s entry into
ECM to an equally strong advo-
cate against, it looks as if Quebec
Socreds have scored again in the
art of “leadership” jousting?

Thompson quick-change “re-
verse” on ECM reminds us of the
chamelon characteristics of bour-
geois politicians, best expressed in,
the old cliche: “Gentlemen, if you

“don’t like my politics—I’ll change
them.”
* * *

“Uneasy lies the head . . .” that
caters to royalty. Rumblings of
discontent by the servants in
Buckingham Palace; reported to
their Civil Servant’s Union herald
a Palace uproar.

Low wages, too much overtime
and an excess of “spit and polish”
appear to be the main beefs. With
Palace wages averaging from $20
to $30 a week British royalty sets
skinflint bosses a fine example in
applying “austerity” to the Palace
proletariat.

* * *

The author of the American

anthem must have had some pre-

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Pacific Tribune
Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH
Business Mgr..—OXANA BIGELOW
Published : ly at:

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the Post Office Department, Ottawa,

August 24, 1962—PA\

monition of Washington’s chronic
coldwar psychosis when he posed
those inspiring lines as a query
rather than a fundamental truth?
“Oh say, does that Star Span-
gled Banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free, and
the home of the brave?”
A moot question.

EDITORIAL PAGE *

he projected U.S.-Canada con-
ference at federal govern-
ment level will be no answer to
U.S. demands for a drastic cut-
ting down of Canadian lumber.
exports to the USA. In the end
any settlement reached will be at
Canada’s expense, since such a
conference can see only in one
coldwar direction; we'll be “ask-
ed” to cut down exports to the
‘U.S. in order to “safeguard” the
American economy, and told not
to avail ourselves of existing Soc-
jalist or other markets not
“approved” by Washington.
Such is the high cost (to Cana-
dians) of Liberal-Tory engineered.
“integration”.

In this U.S.-monopoly “first
and the devil take the hindmost”,
B.C. is in the unenviable position
of being the greatest single Cana-
dian loser in this “integrated”

Hit nail-on head

peaking on the coming Revel-

stoke byelection, CCF-NDP
leader Robert Strachan is quoted.
as saying the “central issue is the
Columbia”.

To most British Columbians
concerned with the future welfare
of their province and the Tory-
Socred giveaways of their rich
resources heritage,
lighted in the Columbia River
Treaty sellout to U.S. monopoly,
Mr. Strachan has hit the nail on
the head with all the professional
skill of a master craftsman.

‘Integration’ log-ja

now high- —

lumber log-jam, since appt
ately 45 percent of B.C.’s ec?
is based on lumber export
The coming IWA-B.C. V
Convention scheduled t0—
September 21 should tackle
problem in a big way, sim
ber export cutbacks by the
strikes at the jobs, wag®
living standards of all B.C:
berworkers. -
The only practical solution
call a halt to U.S.-Canada
gration” with all its evil cold!
consequences: in the eco”
social and political dominatt
Canadian affairs by Wash
That way there will b
markets for Canadian lumb
ducts, jobs for Canadian
workers, plus the consci0l
of becoming once again “™
in our own house”, free
with our neighbors withol!
dictation or censorship. __

The “issue is the Columbia»
Revelstoke, for B.C., and for
Canada. With Socred Bent
announced safari to Ottaw? |
speedup the Columbia Treaty
out, a major victory for NDP
didate Mrs. Margaret Hobbs
Mr. Strachan’s party would §
as a fitting reminder that
dians want Columbia pow! ~~
oped — not for U.S. power"
monopolists, but for Canadia

Bravo Mr. Strachan, the a
is the Columbia”, and on t
NDP victory in Revelstok
be a victory for the people

Tom
McEwen

n an age of imperialist crisis
[ana decay, the ‘lumpenprole-
tariat” of capitalist society also
reflect the impact of change.
This is possibly best illustrated
by the elevation of dregs of the
Nazi and capitalist gutter to the
status of “patriots” or ‘national
leaders” by the ruling powers
of the Western world.

In the Communist Manifesto
of 1848, written by Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels, the auth-
ors described the nature and
uses of this ‘“lumpenproletariat”’
with prophetic clarity and fore-
sight.

“The ‘dangerous class’, the
social scum {Lumpenproletariat),
that passively rotting mass thrown
off by the lowest layers of old
society, may, here and there, be
swept into the movement by 2
proletarian revolution; its con-
ditions of life, however, prepare
if far more for the part of a
bribed tool of reactionary  in-
trigfue’’.

One hundred and_ fourteen
years later that fundamental truth
has been underscored millions of
' times in every land (including

Canada) where capitalist exploi-
tation, periodically challenged by
labor and the people, enlists the
‘services’ of the scourings of its
social gutter to do its dirty work.

In the era before Hiroshima,
grim harbinger of the atomic age,
this ‘“lumpenproletariat” were
used as professional strike-break-
ers, provocateurs, ‘special police’,
police agents and stools against
organized labor and popular peo-
ples’ movements, (and still are).
Even coldblooded murder was
not excluded in the tasks assigned
the “lumpen” by their imperialist
paymasters.

It was no idle boast which once
prompted the notorious U. S. rail
magnate Jay Gould to declare he
“could buy one half of the work-
ing class to kill the other half”,
He may have been a bit out on
his percentages but not in the
“lumpen” recipients of his brib-
ery.

In his historic radio-TV address
on the Cuban revolution on De-
cember 2, 1961, Fidel Castro
‘coined a phrase’ when he refer-
red to the U. S.-Batista elements
seeking to destroy the revolution
as the “lumpen bourgeoisie”.

Perhaps the Cuban _leader’s
definition is not so far-fetched as —
some might think, since the role
of the “lumpen’” in this coldwar
nuclear age differs very little. The
one provides the bribes, the moral
corruption, the fictitious ‘prestige’
to gutter scourings, in order to*
safegaurd its class interests. The

Europe, and (as they hoped) ~

‘other accepts the bribe and ©
assignment without conscienc® —
regret, and thereby become’
‘patriot’. Reminds us of the 10”
ious U. S. gangster Al Ca
who once declared at a New
businessman’s fete, “we A™
cans must stand together 283”
the threat of international ;
munism’’? '
During the French reyoluti ot
Louis Bonaparte made full US
the “lumpen” dregs of Fre?
society in his “Society of De ak
ber 10th” to strangle the aw!
ening of democracy and freed”
Nearly a century later Hitler
brown and_ black-shirted
hoodlums were dredged UP ~ 4
the same capitalist gutter to
the German people, the peoP” th

world. :
In the gripping social panoram
of today, in which all decent
manity struggles for peace,
dom and independence, W® —
the ‘John Birchers’, the KKK,
race segregationists, the Pr?
ional McCarthyites, t
wrecking cannibals,
maniacs, ad infinitum, 4 { j
cross-section of the ‘‘lumpe?
our atomic space age, striviN® —
block the march of progress. | |
A “rotting mass ., . a bile
tool of reactionary intrigue’ pe
signed the job of “saving” ~~
which they so well represe? i
a dying social order at odds
its historic grave-digger - -
munism. :