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COMMENT ON U.S. ELECTION

EDITORIAL -

Make it a final NO
Eke Organization of American States, better known as,
the OAS, is a U.S. State Department adjunct, created
for the specific purpose of advancing U.S. imperialist aims
and interests in the countries of Latin America.

Its member states in Latin America are represented by
puppet dictatorships, politely called ‘‘governments’’ which
rely exclusively on U.S.. dollars and Marines to hold their
dictatorial-fascist powers over their own bitterly exploited
peoples. © :

Since the emergence of the Socialist Republic of Cuba
however, the job of holding the exploited millions of Latin
America in check in their rising struggles for independence,
freedom and progress is becoming much more difficult for
the U.S. and its OAS State Department collection of Latin
puppets.

Hence the oft-repeated and renewed efforts of the U.S. to
' inveigle Canada into membership in the OAS. It is reported
that the OAS secretary-general is coming to Ottawa soon to
make another go at it, and if possible con Prime Minister
Trudeau into membership in this U.S. conspirator’s den.

When the OAS was first established as an appendage of
the U.S. “‘open door’’ policy for the pillage of Latin America,
there was a ‘‘chair’’ set aside for Canada, but at that time
there was no great urgency, encouragement or need, as far
as Washington was concerned, for Canada to fill that OAS
“chair.”

Now however, times are changing. The peoples of Latin
America are on the march, and the U.S., now hated as never
before in Asia, Africa and Latin America, is badly in need of
a “‘Charlie McCarthy,”’ a ‘‘Man Friday,” to serve as a “‘re-
spectable’’ stooge, to pull its hot chestnuts out of Latin
American fires it has lit. In short, to do its OAS dirty work
with Canada a selected favourite for the job.

Canada can play a very great role in Latin America,
for peace, extended trade, cultural and educational ex-
changes, etc. But Canada can not play that role and hold the
respect of the peoples of Latin America as a member of
Washington’s OAS subversion squad, to say nothing about
the additional damage to-our independence as a so-called
sovereign nation. :

Even the little trade arrangements we entered into re-
cently with the Republic of Cuba came under Washington’s
official disapproval, proving as it did and does, the political
and economic straight-jacket Canada would be in with re-
spect to all of Latin America as a member of Washington’s
OAS.

Whether the OAS secretary-general comes to Canada ‘or
not is of little importance. What is important is that to
maintain our dignity, honor and decency to ourselves — and
to the peoples of Latin America, Canada wants no part of
OAS, and must give a final and decisive NO to Washington
and its high-pressure OAS salesmen sent here to pressure
Canada to accept a U.S. stooge job. Many people in our own
and other countries think Canada has already been dragged
in that direction too far already for its own good.

It’s time to call a halt, and a firm rejection of the OAS

would be a significant start, both for the peoples of Canada
and Latin America.

—U.S. Daily World

Editor—TOM McEWEN Associate Editor-—MAURICE RUSH
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Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288.

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‘Sun’ suddenly discovers ©
Columbia River sellout

By MAURICE RUSH

The Vancouver Sun, B.C.’s
largest Liberal newspaper,
made an amazing discovery in
its leading editorial on Saturday,
August 3.
says the opening lines of the
editorial, ‘‘that Premier W.A.C.
Bennett misled the people of
B.C. about the Columbia River
development.”’

What is so amazing about the
Sun’s sudden discovery is that
leading engineers, economists —
and this paper — have warned
for years against the sellout
terms of the Columbia River
treaty and its consequences for
B.C. If one looks back over the
,pages of the Pacific Tribune they
will find many columns of space
devoted to exposing the same
state of affairs about which the
Sun’s editorial now writes.

What makes the Sun’s editorial
doubly amazing is that it was one
of the leading Canadian
newspapers supporting the
treaty and its terms, which have
now been proven so disastrous
for B.C. But not one word of this
in their editorial.

The Sun was not alone in
supporting Premier Bennett and
the Socred government on the
Columbia treaty. The treaty was
made possible by the
wholehearted support given to it
by Liberal Prime Minister
Lester B. Pearson and External
Affairs Minister Paul Martin.
Without federal approval the
treaty could never have passed.

And without the backing and :

public approval of Liberal MPs
like Jack Davis and Arthur Laing
it would never have become law.

It should be recalled that the
last act of Ottawa before
ratification was to re-negotiate
some final unimportant changes
in the treaty which left intact all
the terms which the late Gen.
A.G.L. MacNaughton warned
against — and which are:now the
subject of editorial criticism by
the Sun. :

The PT does not want to take
the sting out of the criticism the
Sun now makes of Premier
Bennett’s handling of the
Columbia treaty negotiations

“It is now obvious,”’ -

and final terms. But what we do
want to emphasize is that the
hands of the Liberals are not
clean on this issue either. And
that includes the Sun. They bear
equal guilt with Premier Bennet
for saddling British Columbians
with a treaty which history will
record as a major betrayal of
this country.

The Sun’s editorial makes the
following points which this paper
has made repeatedly since the
treaty was signed:

e “The cost of building the
three dams, according to
elementary arithmetic based
upon B.C. Hydro’s own reports,
will exceed the money obtained
for the purpose from the U.S.
There will be nothing left over in

the Columbia kitty for installing ~

generators at Mica Creek.
There will be no ‘free power!’
The taxpayers, contrary to Mr.
Bennett’s pledge that the
Columbia will not cost them a
nickel, are already having to put
up hundreds of millions of
nickels to bail out the premier’s
commitments.”’

e ‘As far as may be
calculated there remains
something over $300 million to be
spent on the Columbia dams,
excluding the Mica generators.

CPR wants to
end service

The Canadian Pacific
Railway announced this week
it will apply to the Transport
Commission in Ottawa for
permission to drop its
passenger service on
Vancouver Island between
Victoria and Courtenay by
Oct. 12.

Earlier attempts by the
CPR to cancel services it
undertook to provide when-it
acquired the charter of the
Esquimalt and Nanaimo
Railway, were defeated by
strong public protests. In
1886 the E & N railway was
granted a vast empire of
forests, lands and mineral
resources in return for
building the short railway.

The most that can be expected in
self-liquidating revenue to cover
these costs, in U.S. payments,
investments and_ bonuses,
appears to fall short by more
than $100 million.”

@ The editorial points to ‘‘the
very serious failure of the
provincial government to
provide adequate public service
because of an over- commitment
to B.C. Hydro’s monstrous
appetite for borrowing. Schools
and hospitals are the most
aggrieved victims. This is even
more disturbing in the certain
knowledge that future
generatons must somehow repay
the debt.”

e ‘Any shortage of funds must
be made up by British
Columbians, perhaps through
their B.C. Hydro light bills, or

_ through general taxes. There is
- already evidence of the latter . .

The editorial calls on Premier
Bennett to give the public “‘a full
and clear account,’ which he
must certainly be compelled to
do by the people of B.C. The
sorry state of affairs outlined
in the editorial are unfortun-
ately true. The labor and
people’s movement must hold
Premier Bennett and his gov-
ernment to account for this
betrayal of public trust.

At the same time the Liberals
in B.C. and federally, who
supported the treaty, must: not
be allowed — as the Sun is now
trying to do — to get out from
under and emerge as the chief
critics of a treaty for which they
share major responsibility.
Perhaps the timing of the Sun’s
editorial has something to do.
with the upcoming B.C. Liberal
Party convention, and the hope
of the Liberals to emerge as the
alternative to the Socreds in the
next provincial election.
Otherwise, why their silence
when other voices, such as the
Pacific Tribune, were exposing
the treaty and pointing to its
negative results?

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