Keep on the beam

arene by a UBC Campus group to speak on the
Harlem race riots of last summer, Negro speaker Wil-
liam Epton of New York did the epic struggle for the
rights of the Negro people of the U.S. an ill service.

Declaring himself a “Communist” wherever opportun-
ity drose, Epton advanced super-leftist. policies which are
not only alien to those advanced by the Communist Party
of the USA, but are specifically harmful to the cause of
the Negro people.

In his ultra-leftist exhortations about the aims of “re-
volution’”’, Socialism and Communism, which no respons-
ible Negro leader or organization in the U.S. presents as a
condition for winning elementary democratic rights, Mr.
Epton omitted to mention to his audience and press inter-
viewers, that he had been expelled from the Communist
Party of the USA for just such ultra-leftist activities.

This kind of speech-making plays right into the hands
of the Wallaces, the Goldwaters, John Birchers and other
of that ilk, who would like to turn all Negro efforts and
demonstrations for basic freedoms into a “Communist
plot”. Such pretexts serve to cover up U.S. aggression in
Vietnam, so why not against their own Negro people at
home? . ca

The issues facing the Negro people is not “Commun-
ism”, but the common rights of citizenship.

More action needed

T here is scarcely a country in the civilized world, East or
West, where millions of people have not protested
with indignation and horror, the cruel war of aggression
being waged today by the U.S. government against the
people of North and South Vietnam.

The pretenses and excuses being advanced by Wash-
ington for this bestial aggression insults the intelligence of
all decent people, including millions in the U.S. itself. It is
also an arrogant mockery of the United Nations’ Charter
of civilized behaviour and organization.

The Nazi war criminals of 20 years ago, in hiding
from a well merited justice, must find a grim satisfaction

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in the knowledge that U.S. war atrocities in Vietnam
equals, if not surpasses their own foul deeds.

Yet in Canada the Pearson government, in its slavish,
kowtowing to the demands of Washington, accepts the
“minority report” of Canada’s “representative”, J. Blair
Seaborn, on the Geneva Commission of the UN; a report
which could well have been dictated by the U.S. State De-
partment or its CIA war instigators in Vietnam (and prob-
ably was), branding North Vietnam as the “aggressor,”
thereby giving its “moral” support to U.S. atrocities.

~

Defense Minister Paul Martin said as much in publi-
cizing this phoney “report”, while scorning and ignoring
the factual majority report of the Indian and Polish repre-
sentatives on the Geneva Commission. ~

Two prime responsibilities face all peace-seeking Can-
adians; to help in every way possible to end the U.S. war
of aggression in Vietnam, North and South; and to work
towards cutting Canada loose from the war conspiracies
annd violence of U.S. neo-facism — well illustrated at this
moment in Vietnam — and in America itself.

Those who set out to destroy democracy and human
dignity at home, are not likely ever to become its defend-
ers abroad.

This delegation of Canadian ing, domestic and foreign, each

| Tom

_ McEWEN

ot too many of us folksinthe

so-called “low income”
brackets read “The Canadian
Banker”, a quarterly bi-lingual
journal of some substance, deal-
ing primarily the cent-percentum
of banking and high finance atthe
national and international level,

Perhaps that is why our know-
ledge of , and interest in banks

and banking has never got much

beyond the scope of the popular
folksong, “The Banks are Made
of Marble”, etc and so on.

In the “Winter 1964” edition
of “The Canadian Banker” which
a PT reader kindly forwarded
us, there is an article entitled,
«A Business Visit to Russia,”
by Mr. C.B, Neapole, Vice-Pres-
ident ofthe Royal Bank of Canada.
Mr, Neapole was one of a Cana-

dian businessmen’s group of 40°

which visited the Soviet Union in
the summer of 1964,

This article provides a good
lesson in objective writing, a
lesson which many Communist

and non-Communist writers
could follow with considerable
credit to themselves, and cer-
tainly of benefit to their readers,

®J think one of the difficulties
which must be faced in any visit
to Russia” begins Mr. Neopole,
“is that of finding the exact cor-
rection for one’s preconceived
ideas. Upon visiting there, oneis
more than ever impressed by the
inaccuracy or deliberate slanting
of press reports--and, for that
matter, of some of the more ser-
ious books and articles which
have been written--and not just
about Russia. As so little traffic
has taken place it seems most
important for an unbiased person
to come as close as possible to
correct conclusions about this
enigmatic land,”

_ For a banker, trained in the
science of the extraction of
interest and profit, that isindeed
a very frank and refreshing intro-
duction to a 19-page article
equally so,

business men took in the usual
visits to factories, trade insti-
tutes, foreign and domestic, the

. theatre, the ballet , the world-

famed Moscow Circus, cultural,
educational. and other central
institutions of Soviet life.

They showed a keen interest
in Soviet housing, health, transit
etc, and considerable space in
Mr. Neopole’s article is given
over to these vital issues, and
which in the main, leaves Canada
far behind.

On housing and health the
author has this to say; “So, though
Ivan and his wife and three
children have only two rooms in
an apartment building and no
doubt share a bathroom and
kitchen with another family, he
pays five roubles (about $4.50
Ed.) or less per month(rent), His
wife can purchase essentials of
food and clothing within a few
blocks, and there is virtually no
charge for anything associated
with health or education. The
opportunities for sport--swim-
ming, hockey, soccer, basketball,
tennis and even horse racing,
in fact almost anything but golf

and motor-boating--are. avail- .

able in quantity.”

As could be expected from such
a delegation, much of Mr,
Neopole’s article is givenover to
Soviet forms of credit and bank-

serving in a given field of the
Soviet economy.

On Soviet automobile sales the
Canadian banker has this to say:
“When we asked if loans were
made for the purchase of auto-

‘mobiles, they said, ‘No, thisisno

problem as everyone who is on
the waiting list has cash.’ It
is said that there are always
150,000 to 200,00 on the waiting
list. Consequently, it seems
altogether likely that no one gets
on the list without cash.”

In his concluding paragraphs
the V-P of the Royal Bank of
Canada draws some very positive

Vancouver 4, B.C.

of postage in cash.

Worth |
Quoting |

There was a brief announcement of
the radio the other night that sho
have raised the hackles of ev
northerner. It was to the effect t
B.C.’s bandit premier was now pi
posing to dam the waters of the Lia
River as a further supply of powel
and water for B.C.

He has, so far, gotten away with
stealing the waters of the Peace, %
has spent so much in preparing for tht
theft,. that it’s not likely any fede
government will stop the pillage

this going to be repeated on the Liard’

It’s high time someone put a sfop
Mr. Bennett and his brigandage °
our resources. He even talked
about taking over the Yukon and part
of the N.W.T., talking about a go
sized bribe to the Yukon for their ap"
proval of this wedding. The nuptial
are still some distance off.

—NEWS OF THE NORTH,
editorial extracts, March 4, ‘65

The relics of the famous outlaw, Ned
Kelly, have been moved to the base”
ment of Australia’s National Museum
Commented one Aussie worker:
guess they did the right thing. Com
pared fo Pig-Iron Bob, Tory Prime Mi
ister Menzies, old Ned was just
amateur.”

—PEOPLE’S VOICE, ‘
New Zealand, Feb. 10, ’65

The espionage work that we W'
able to do for the Americans at #
team outposts, International Comm!
sion, Ed., in North Vietnam was '
insignificant to justify the role
frustrated Canadian soldiers, after ©
‘don’t make very good spies. :

—PROVINCE, Charles Lynch
column, March 6, '65

Members of our Union deeply
ed by police brutality in Selm
Negroes should have full civil rig?
and your government should use 1° —
police to guarantee their rights, ro™
than to savagely attack peace
demonstrators. :
—Civic Employees Union, Vancov
in letter to Governor G. C. Wallace:
Alabama. a

conclusions, “The Russians:ha
a fabulous future if someone do
not spoil it, and one gets the im
pression that they want noth!
but peace, Of course they say
but there seems to be amp?
justification to believe them.
with material progress at home
and people working for an 25
sured future, who would want
push the button?”

On the whys and wherefores
Nikita Khrushev’s resignati0
Mr, Neopole’s concluding obs®)
vation confirms a conviction
have held for a long time;*.
but I am certain again that th
whole thing has been overpla
by OUR PRESS!”(emphasis our

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