‘Canada dug up,
chopped down,
_ shipped to U.S. 2

—TIM BUCK

“The policy of the federal government is to dig up and chop

down our country, load it onto

freight cars and ship it to the

United States,” said Tim Buck, Labor-Progressive party national
leader, to an audience of more than 2,500 in Exhibition Gardens

last Sunday night.

“This policy of sacrificing our
British Commonwealth markets
and refusal to develop markets in
the Far East, while selling our
raw materials to the United States
and buying finished products back
from that country, is not an acci-
dent but a carefully worked out
technique,” continued the LPP
leader. ‘‘The basic issue facing
Canadians is: shall we control
our own country, or sit idly by
while big business interests squan-
der it away in order to win junior
partnerships in U.S, imperialism?
What path will the people of this
country choose?

“The LPP brands these big
business interests as traitors to
their country, agents of a for-
eign power. For they are be-
traying our country as surely
as if they were opening our
frontiers to the imvasion of a
foreign army—as, indeed, they
have already opened the gates
to an American occupation
army, “H

“And this happens because the
Canadian capitalist class has no
confidence in its own country. It
has chosen the quick road to per-
sonal wealth—sell Canada as she
stands to the United States.

“The Canadian people have an
alternative—to rise and fight for
the independehce of our country,
for control and development of
our natural resources. We are
reaching that stage in politics
when movements of the people
‘are becoming decisive, when the
camp of peace and Canadian in-
dependence will be represented
in action at the polls. :

“We can do it. We are going
to build the unity of the people of
Canada step by step and stage by
stage in the fight to win Canadian
independence. And in this battle
to defeat the U.S. policy to make
us a satellite in Washington’s war
plan, in this fight for peace, we
have the key and cornerstone of
the fight for socialism in Canada.”

Dealing with the June 12 elec-
tion in B.C., Buck said:

“The Johnson-Anscomb gov-

TIM BUCK |
Movements of the people are
becoming decisive.

ernment agreed on the alterna-
tive vote because it works to the
advantage of the Liberals and
Tories. At the same time,
however, the alternative vote
gives an advantage to the work-
ers’ parties provided the people
who support labor give only
their last votes to the capitalist
‘parties,

“This talk of ‘splitting’ the
labor vote loses much of its sig-
nificance and meaning if a work-
er gives his Number One vote to
the candidate of his choice and his
Number Two vote to the candidate
next in line with his choice. We
must not let differences prevent
us from uniting on points we can
agree on to defeat the monopoly
old line parties.”

Other speakers included Maur-
ice Rush and Steve Endicott, LPP
candidates in Vancouver Hast.
The meeting was chaired by Tom

McEwen, Lr¥ candidate in Van-
couver North. Harvey Murphy
made the appeal, which resulted
in a collection of more than
$1,200.

TIM

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NANAIMO

ROBINS PARK
5th St. and Park Ave.
NANAIMO, B.C.

SUNDAY, JUNE 8

BUCK

p.m.

‘My wife is a heroin addict’-- _
reader tells grim story to PT

By. BERT WHYTE

There are between 1,500 and
2,000 heroin addicts in Vancouver
—and there is no known curé for
the heroin habit. This presents
a grave social problem which to
date has defied solution.

A-.man walked into the Pacific
Tribune: office this week who
thinks he has the answer. It’s
simple, but well worth consider-
ing. 5

“My wife is a drug addict,’ he
said, ‘‘and that’s fjwhy I’m here.
There’s no known cure for a vic-
tim of heroin. But there is a
way to stop the drug evil from
spreading.

“Take the profit out of any, busi-
ness and it’s beat. Take the pro-
fit out of dope’and that’s the
end of dope rings.

“Drugs should be sold under
government supervision. It has
worked in other countries—why
not here? Along with this the
government should operate a fac-
tory and farm where victims of
the drug habit could work and
earn money to buy their shots
right there. Because just giving
addicts permits to buy drugs
won’t solve anything, You must
make it mandatory that they work
and earn their own living, other-
wise they’ll drift into crime to
raise the money,

“At such a factory and farm
the workers would be free to go
home at nights. Addicts could be

“This would take the profit
out of the drug peddling for Mr.
Big in Vancouver, whoever he is
—probably' some business man.
And it would put an end to the
small-time ‘pushers’ or peddlers
who now must introduce new vic-
tims to the drug in order to get
the money to pay for their own
shots.”

“Do you consider that it is im-
possible to cure victims perman-
ently?’”’ I asked. :

“7 do,” he said, ‘and the re-
cords bear me out. The most
famous cure centre in North
America is located at Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, but they admit
that less than two percent of
their patients stay off the stuff
permanently.”’

“Tell me about your own Case,”’
I suggested.

““My wife started to take heroin
before we were married in 1948,”
he said. ‘‘Fool that I was, I
thought I could cure her of the
habit. Listen, I could tell you
stories .... well, never mind,

“In 1947 my wife—that was be-
fore we got married—took a cure
iat Chatham House, a private Hos-
pital. She was taking about three
caps of heavily-cut stuff a day
when she went in. They cut her
down to zero. She came out and
went right back on the stuff,
starting with a quarter-capsule
and building up again fast, as
they all do.

weeks. No sooner out than back
on the stuff. In Chatham House
again that fall for a month. It
did no good, :

“Well, in 1950 she went to
Hollywood Sanitorium, The same
old story—as soon as she Was
out she started on the heroil-
again,

“I forgot to say, the year be
fore police picked her up and
she did six months in Oakalla,
where she got the ‘cold turkey’ —
treatment—complete withdraw- —
al of all drugs. Do that to an
addict and you nearly kill the
victim—but it’s no cure.

“Now she’s doing time agai0—
one year. But drug addicts cant
be cured. There’s no cure.
only solution is to keep the thins
from spreading. That’s why !
say, take the profit out of peddline
the stuff and (Mr. Big will fold uP:

“And believe me, it is spread
ing. You could throw a stone
from this office and hit a drvé
peddler, some little guy on the
habit trying to find new custom
ers in order to get the cash '
satisfy his own craving.

“There’s only one solution, m=
ter—take the profit out of thé
dirty business and like any othe

given a reduction cure once or “Then in the spring of 1948 | capitalist enterprise, it will ¢o}
twice a year. she went to St. Paul’s for two ! lapse.”
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