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NEWS ITEM: Paul Robeson, world famous American singer, is to be
_cited for contempt of Congress. “You are bad Americans,” he told the
orious unAmerican Activities Committee. “You belong with the Alien
i Sedition acts. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.”

up ‘staph’

chewan from the kind of govern-
ment that province prefers, let
Health Minister Eric Martin and
his ministerial colleagues put
their’ resources and energies at
the disposal of Vancouver's hos-

pitals for an attic-to-basement
cleanout of the “‘staph’’ infec-
tion, now menacing the health of
all hospital patients. That would
be time and money well spent.

THIS Sunday, July 1, our two

nations, English-speaking and
French, will celebrate their 89th
birthday.

We entered upon Confedera-
tion in the era of steam, at the
beginning of the era of electricity
and 89 years later we find our-
selves on the threshold of the
atomic era, in which by virtue
of our resources we hold a com-
manding position for good or
evil.

We are a militant people but
not a martial one. We cherish
our independence, for our foré-
fathers took up arms to secure
it, and our peoples of many
origins have contributed to our
traditions of liberty and justice.
But we threaten no one.

If there is a cloud across this
Canada Day it. is because all
that we hold dear — our eco
nomic and_ political independ-
ence, our cultural heritage — is
itself threatened by United
States encroachment and domin-
ation.

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On this, our 89th birthday, it

is good to know that throughout °

Happy birthday, Canada

Comment

our country men and women are
speaking . out against U.S.
domination and that the “cry,
first raised by the Labor-Progres-
sive party, for new national
policies to restore our indepen-
dence and reaffirm our peace-
ful aspirations is now , being
heard everywhere. For this is
the voice of the Canada of the
people, not the voice of those’
who are betraying our national
interest.

On this, our 89th birthday, we
salute all those, the men and
women of the arts and sciences,
the men and women in all walks
of life who strive for peace in
many ways, the workers and the
farmers whose endeavors have
built a country and whose strug-
gles will lead it into a finer age’
for mankind when the power of

the atom shall be harnassed for

good, not evil.

So we say, Happy Birthday,
Canada — “Thou land of hope
for all who toil,’ land of the in-

land seas, the rolling prairies
and the rugged mountains. To-
gether your peoples shall fulfil
your proud destiny.

| Tom
McEwen |

necessities in the process.
As is

the cry of “communism.”

Tete November the Farmers’
Union of B.C. held its first
convention in Mission. It wasn’t
a world-shaking event, just a few
farmers getting together in an
organized effort to make life a
little easier and better for the
primary producer, who fills the
nation’s food basket — and often
finds himself going short of life’s

generally the _ case,
whether it be in the field of farm
or labor organization, when the
effort reaches a certain point of
collective strength, someone raises

A news item in local papers last
week tells the story all over
again. The handful of Chilliwack
farmers who howled “commun-
ism” at the November convention
of the Farmers’ Union of B.C.,
-and set up their own splinter
group — the “Agricultural Union
of B.C.’ — want ‘the Farmers’
Union “investigated” for alleged

“subversive communist  influ-
ences,’ and have enlisted the ser-
vices of Jake Shultz, chairman of
the Interprovincial Farm Union
Council, to sniff out this “com-
munism menace” which threatens
our “free” way of- laying eggs,
growing grain, producing fruit,
milk and honey, amid the welter
of low farm returns and high pro-
duction costs. <

Shultz hails from Grandview,
Manitoba, and has promised the
breakaway group in the rich
Chilliwack area that he will “root
out the subversives.” A most
laudable objective indeed — pro-
vided Shultz knows who the
subversives are. In this a few
words of friendly advice should
not come amiss.

* * *

When the old Farmers’ Union
of Canada, forerunner of the
United Farmers of Canada was in
its heyday, fighting for parity
prices, fighting against 25 cents
a bushel wheat and for creation ~
of the great Canadian Wheat Pool,
we cannot recall Shultz being
around, but we do. remember
some terrific howls about “com-
munism.”

On July 4, 1925, the Regina
Leader-Post wrote: -

“While it (the Leader). has al-
ways recognized that there are
many intelligent farmers in the
Farmers Union of Canada, and

while it has always been sympa-
thetically disposed towards any
organization which gave promise
of bettering conditions in this
province, the Morning Leader

~has long suspected that the men-~

tality behind the Farmers Union
of Canada was communistic and
promised nothing but evil...”

The July 7, 1925 edition of
the Saskatoon Daily Star dwelt
on the same editorial theme.

“It is not generally understood
to what extent the (Farmers)
Union is already permeated with
communism and dominated by
men of communistic tendencies.”

If he cares to _ investigate,
Schulz will find that whenever
and where ever the farmers —
and workers — of our country
have acted in their own best in-
terests, the cry of “communism”
has been raised. The source is
not hard to discover. And-in this
connection I would draw Schulz’
attention to an editorial in the
February 19, 1952 edition of the
Western Producer telling the
farmers that “ . .. there is no
propaganda in any part of the
world today that is so much
opposed to their best interests
as the propaganda of the Regina
Leader” ! :

Let’s try again Chilliwack,
with something bettér than a 30-
year old red herring. Schultz
will fare no better than McCarthy!

June 29, 1956 —

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