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hen the June 18 federal elec-

.tion returns were all in,
editorial comment in the nation’s
newspapers was, to say the least,
varied. Some opined that while
the country had been unable to rid
itself of the Diefenbaker govern-
ment, it had “cut it down to size’.

Less charitable on the subject
of collosal Tory deceit and double-
cross, the Vancouver Sun voiced
the popular opinion that “for this
deceit — and that is the only name
for it — Mr. Diefenbaker has lost
all moral right to govern’.

That is eminently correct. But
what the Sun ‘forgot’ or didn’t
care to mention is that ‘morality’
among capitalist politicians has
little to do with the class interests
they speak for and diligently
serve. :

Nothing underscores that better
than Dief’s cabinet “reshuffle”,
designed primarily to strengthen
the hand of reaction and subser-
vience to U.S. imperialism and the
continued domination of its U.S.-
Canadian monopoly oligarchy in
Canada.

The appointment of Wallace
McCutcheon to the Senate in order
to have him weasled into the Tory
cabinet to serve as virtual ‘finance
minister’, is not only an affront
to the electorate, but a strength-
ening of monopoly’s hand in the
government of Canada.

Vice-president of the Argus
Corporation and key man in the
E. P. Taylor interests which in-
clude Canadian Breweries, Domin-
ion Stores, Hollinger, Mines
Massey - Ferguson, B.C. Forest
Products and others, McCutcheon
brings to the Tory cabinet the
real voice of Big Business direct.
(A big poohbah also in the B.C.
Forest Products, one of the con-
cerns involved in the Socred
Sommers bribery case, McCutch-

.eon starred as key witness in an

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Not to be left out in the cold,
ex-U.S. president ‘I’m from Mis-
souri’ Harry S. Truman, dean of
Uncle Sam’s [- don’t - believe - it -
school also voiced his “congratu-
lations” on the epic feat of Soviet
cosmonauts Nikolayev and  Popo-
vich.

“If it’s true,” piped Harry, “and
you'll have to prove it to me...
I congratulate them if it is so...”

With such ‘statesmen’ no won-
der America is a bit behind in the
space age?

Pacific Tribune

Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH
Business Mgr..OXANA BIGELOW

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effort to get his company and the
convicted Socred Lands and For-
ests Minister Sommers off the
bribery hook:)

As one of Dief’s reshuffled cab-
inet “advisers” McCutcheon will
serve as “ghost” finance minister,
with the specific job of tightening
Dief’s “austerity” belt upon the
Canadian people, thereby enhanc-
ing the super-profits of the mono-
poly interests McCutcheon so well
represents, and for whom the
‘minority’ Dief government serves
as official] parliamentary janitor.

Little time need be wasted in
idle speculation as to whether

Donald Fleming’s transfer from
the finance ministery to that of
justice is a “demotion” or what?
As finance minister Fleming did
a fine job of work for the mono-
polists, if not for the people. As
‘justice’ minister he also possesses
all the class capabilities for put-
ting an ‘austerity’ clamp on citi-
zen’s rights if called upon by
Washington or his Tory colleagues
to do so. And with Madame Fair-
clough in the post office instead
of immigration, the underpaid
and harassed postal workers rath-
er than the prospective
grant with a dark skin, will now
bear the brunt of her snobbish
Tory ire.

Hence the Dief cabinet re-
shuffle is a continuation of the
June doublecross, sans ‘moral’
responsibility to the people of
Canada. Big Business is the prime
beneficiary — now cashing-in on
its election slush-fund ‘gratuities’.

immi-_

TT recent provincial premiers’
conference in Victoria labour-

ed heavily and brought forth the
proverbial ‘mouse’, a_ typically
mangy Tory one at that. The;press
reported the chatting premiers
having reached a high degree of
“mutual understanding and co-
operation” on the economic and
other ills facing Canada.

Well, that’s something? The
nub of their labours however,
which got the best press hoopla,
was the moth-eaten Tory idea that
all unemployed ‘employables’
should be made to work for the
miserable welfare pittance allow-
ed to keep body and soul together.
That a job must be found for
them which would remove the
‘stigma’ of getting ‘something for
nothing’, etc., and etc. —

Welfare vs. wages

Comment;

To that we are sure no unél
ployed worker will object, pré
ing a proviso is attached (whi
our doughty premiers seem
have overlooked?); namely,
the work provided shall be reg!
ed as ‘socially necessary’ and
trade union scale of wages
working standards, approvet
organized labor generally.

Otherwise; well the prem:
happy thought is just a revel
to the R. B. ‘Iron Heel’ B
mentality of the Hungry Thirl
with its 20-cents-per-day s!
camps as a “solution” for U
ployment and welfare? ‘

By all means let us create J”
lots of them since there is ple™
needs doing, but under Canaé
trade union wage rates and 5
dards. Nothing less.

Editorial

he watchdogs of capitalism
have no end of costly and.
crazy “solutions” for “curing” un-
employment. Already some of
these are being taken out of the
tory mothballs and dusted off in
preparation for the “do-it-now”
months of 1962-63.

Last winter Dief launched a
‘nuclear survival program” which
eased unemployment a mite, clip-
ped the taxpayer some $40-million
dollars, but contributed exactly
nothing to or for “survival”. As
the Toronto Star put it, it was a
“Costly, Useless Fizzle’ with
Dief’s stand-by ‘survival’ army

comment

“sunk without a trace”.

The question is, how long
the Canadian people put up °
such costly “solutions” |
solve nothing?

Premier Bennett has let
known that anyone criticizi™
sleight-of-hand fiscal polici
his government, is a real or P©
tial “fifth columnist”. i

That ought to hold those”
ing Thomases like ourselves;
just cannot figure out how
beloved province can be —
free” and still owe million®
dollars to U.S. bondholders? |

But oohhh — WAC has SPU

Tom
McEwen

n old friend of ours with a

keen nose for coldwar propa-
ganda stinkers called our atten-
tion to the CBC Times for August
11-17 which gives advance notice
of a big “documentary” film com-
ing up, The Titans, featuring the
rise of two world powers over the
past 60 years, the USA and the
USSR.

The section dealing with how
the ‘documentary’ films on the
USSR were acquired has an old
familiar odor. According to the
CBC Times it appears that over
the years the U.S, Customs have
accumulated a lot of Russian film,
some ‘200 cans of it’ and, get-
ting tired of “giving it house
room” any longer, decided to auc-
tion it off to an enterprising bloke
named Johnnie Allen “for next
to nothing’’?

Then, zowie, what a find; ‘‘his-
tory coming alive .. . before your
eyes” and the versatile Malcolm
Muggeridge filling in the commen-
tary. So keep the eau de colonge

~ handy in case “The Titians” turn
out to be one of the best anti-
Communist smellers of 1962.

Speaking of smells, we found
some good homely advice in the
speech of Nikita Krushchev last

week to the farm workers of the

Kursk region. Said Mr. K: “If you
have to keep a goat at home, you
must learn to live with its smell.
Take imperialism to be the goat
and this whole planet as our home.
Who wants war? Better to live
with the goat, bear its unpleasant
smell, but keep him out of the
kitchen garden’’.

Fortified by this sage advice
we can view The Titans even if it
smells a bit with equanimity, If
the smell is too ‘high’ one can al-
ways turn the knob ‘off’ or ‘out’.
While we do not question Mr. K’s
views on the pungent odor of
goats (genus, capra hircus), we do
hold that the average goat mani-
fests a much higher intellect than
the imperialist specie inhabiting
the Pentagon and environs and

doesn’t smell any worse.
For example just take the most

recent anti-Soviet stinker unloos-
ed by U.S. Maj.-Gen. Edwin A.
Walker, who noisily brayeq last
week that the months-long epic
seige of Stalingrad in World War
II “. . . was a farce .. , that there
was no. seige at all” but just a
mere handful of Nazis who ‘made
no more than three assaults upon
the city .. . that Stalingrad was
all a Communist propaganda
build-up to make us feel sorry
for the Russians”? And just to top
it off we are told that other Pen-
tagon goats have voiced their
“confirmation” of this version of
the world’s most epic battle for
human freedom and dignity?

Or let us take a whiff of an-
other smeller, that of U.S. Sena-
tor Thomas Dodd with his eyes on
British Guiana, bellowing into the
radio-TV mike “with Jagan in-the
driver’s seat down there, I. say. look

- out. We have another Castro on

-ment. Moreover it may be ™

our hands.”

This noisy Klaghorn, like
frightened skunk warding off a
imaginary danger, squirts his fow,
smelling diatribes at a governme’
and people who seek nothing mo a
than the right to live in peace an
determine their own affairs.

E Pluribus Unim — Goats
limited, Mr K’s homily on 1e4 et
ing to live with smelly impere
ist goats is most certainly pref a
able to nuclear destruction.
that score there can be no 4 a

than a mere coincidence that est
mediately following most of thi th
goatish stinkers blared over Nor
American TV and radio syst® ap
there comes a heavy spate of ihe
opera “commercials” laudir’ h
astounding efficasy of this oF t
surefire “deodorant” and whi¢ K's
to speak, underscores MI.
down-to-earth advice on co-e*™ |
ing with ‘goats’.
Anyhow smells or no smells
still prefer the worldly arom!
‘Capra hircus’ to the Penta
specie. And we hope we are :
on The Titans? eo
(The section of this column det
ing with ‘The Titans’ was W*

several days before we hae Me
opportunity to view this ie

odorous ‘documentary’ on
TV. Any omissions in our ‘previ
stems from our under-estim

of CBC's abilities to cook UP
historical distortion which °
rages every concept of hh

decency and truth. And this, "S
it demands of the taxpayer #7"
er $87-million ‘subsidy’ 1°

tinue producing such pilge?)

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