Review

Several factors combined. to
provide British imperialism with
a. pretext for sending armed
forces to British Guiana to “main-
tain law and order”; to delay
full independence to British Gui-
ana, and to discredit the govern-
ment of Prime Minister Cheddi
Jagan.

First, the anti-Jagan rightwine
“United Forces Party” which in-
cited the rioting and -property
destruction, and by which it hop-
ed the Jagan government would
be toppled. Secondly, the treason-
able role of the Confederation of
Free Trade Unions .ICFTU lead-
ership, which, in the interests of
British imperialism and Guiana
réaction, authorized and incited
a general strike movement against
Jagan government policies.

‘Thirdly, the role of U.S. im-
perialism which regards British
Guiana under the Jagan govern-
ment as “standixg astride north-

Survival
‘Nuclear arms will be available
to Canada in “half-an-hour in the
event of war.” That is reported
as Diefenbaker’s latest on the
matter. Defense Minister Hark-
ness has also let it be known, de-
spite streng public. opposition,
that Canada’s forces will be nuc-
lear armed in the event of hos-
tilities. And External Affairs
Minister Howard Green, whose
consistency is not enhanced by
age, manages to say “yes” and
“no” simultaneously on the sub-
ject of nuclear arms for Canada.

Were it not that such political
evasions, inconsistencies and
downright lying threatens the
very survival of Canada by nuc-
lear destruction ,the mouthings of
these Tory yesmen of U.S. im-
perialism could be treated as a
low-vintage cynical joke.

When the same gang (and the
Liberals before them) agreed to
U.S. demands for Bomarc missile
launching bases in Canada, they
also agreed on nuclear warheads
for these missiles. All their mut-
tering and mumbling about “joint
US.-Canada control’ doesn’t alter
the issue one iota, nor does it ob-
secure a well-founded’ suspicion

Pacific Tribune

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‘Law and order..?

EDITORIAL PAGE *

so: blind...’

to-south communications”, and
therefore a “threat” to the “Am-
erican- System” of Hemisphere
domination. Hence Washington’s
repeated urging upon London to”
“oo slow” with any. measure of
independence to British Guiana.

This “united front” of reaction-
ary big business and the ICFTU
with British imperialism resorted ©
to every trick in the. calendar in
order. to’ promote disorder, vio-
lence and bloodshed, including the
stirring up of racial animosities
between Negro and Indian peoples
which make up the population of
British Guiana; all in an effort to
turn back the clock of indepen-
dence and perpetuate colonial rule
in British Guiana.

Nine years ago British gun-
boats rushed to British Guiana to
crush the newly elected govern-
ment of Cheddi Jagan. In this lat-
est mission of “law and order”
they hope to acheive a similar
“victory”?

vs liars

that while they have been busy ly-
ing to the Canadian people and
trying to evade the issue by cheap
political subterfuge, nuclear war-
heads may now be stockpiled

upon Canadian territory and
“available in half-an-hour.” <

The coming federal. election
must be (among other things) an
election for “survival”; an elec-
tion to keep nuclear bombs out of .
Canada.

‘None
Premier Bennett flatly refused
to meet the unemployed lobby
which visited Victoria last week.
His customary disarming Cham-
ber-of-Commerce smile was ab.

sent. In its piace was the grin of *

a ‘smug politician who sees only
what his monopoly mentors want

him to see. Hence, with Bennett :

and his ilk; unemployment in B.C.

~ is practically “ended”, so why see:

anybody concerned about jobless
workers?

Of course, when it comes to
giveaways to U.S. and home-
grown monopoly, Bennett is right
up in front. Our rich natural re-
sources, potential new industries,
and with it thousands of B.C.
jobs, all bartered off to U.S.-Cana-
dian monopoly for a fast buck.
“Debt free” and “prosperous”.

Editorial c

URING the “Hungry Thir-

That’s W. A. C. Bennett, so:;why
see, the unemployed?

“Clear the House” if they make
too much noise about jobs. “Don’t
talk to me in that tone of voice,”
snarl the Bennett-Bonner twins .
to the: men who have:built B.C.,
and’ are’ now cynically deénied
from sharing its benefits in terms
of a job.

Twenty-four years ago on Dom-
inion Day in Regina, another Ben-
nett had flatly refused to “see”
Canada’s jobless thousands, . and»
underscored his “blindness” by
shooting them down in cold blood
on Canada’s 7ist birthday. Is
Premier Bennett of B.C., in the
service of the same gluttonous
monopoly, aiming for a similar
“solution” to a chronic and ‘per-.
manent social evil?

omment... —

in Vancouver, but who doesn’t

ties” the common cry of actually reside in this tax-ridden

municipal pundits in Vancouver
and elsewhere to Canada’s jobless
army was “keep away from here’’.
The late Gerry McGeer, then

mayor of Vancouver, used to sing
it from the housetops, morning,
noon and night.

metropolis.

In this era of high citizen taxa-
tion and low returns, the principle
concern of some of our alder-
manic misfits seems to be “who”
or what else can be “touched” to
bring in the tax boodle? .And
please don’t mention our $214-

Thirty years later we still have billion annually for war purposes.
aldermanic geniuses at City Hall That is strictly taboo., Better a

singing the same tune but with a

$5 “bounty” on the non-resident

new variant; the proposal to clap workers who didn’t “keep away

a $5 “‘head-tax” upon every work-

from Vancouver”, but who does

er fortunate enough to have a job not live in it.

Tom
McEwen

FRIEND of ours sent us a

book last week, nicely bound
and profusely illustrated, entitled
“The Guiding Light... The Bible
in Pietures”’.

Contrary to current beliefs
mainly founded omignorance and
coldwar propaganda, the Commun-
ists are always featured as a “god-
less” sort of people, Just to put the
record straight it may be said that
“atheistic communism” has no
quarrel with anyoue who sincerely
seeks to pattern his*or her life ac-
cording ‘to the ‘moral. precepts of
the Bible, illustrated or otherwise.
Who would want to quarrel with

eo, Leonardo Da Vinci or other
great masters who have made it
eternal by their great paintings?
Our quarrel is with those holier-
than-thou ‘Holy Willies’ and Phari-
cees with their collars in reverse,
who presume to teach what they
aré incapable of practicing; who

the same) to big business monopoly
much the same as Judas did, but
at a much higher figure.

The latest of these specie to come

Rembrandt, Michelangelo, El Gre- -

~ sell their soul (or°what passes for

to our attention is the ‘Reverend’

James R. Mutchmor, general sec-
retary of the United Church of
Canada’s Board of Evangelism and
Social Services.

This “holy man” likens the so-
called “East-West” suicidal nuclear
arms race to a “poker game’ and
designates Canada, its territory and
its people as an “ace-in-the-hole’’,
which should be “rented” to Wash-
ington when the atomaniacs of
U.S. imperialism decide to trigger
a nuclear war. And for “a price”
of course, in terms of dollars and
cents.

Flowing from this “Christian”
logic, the “Reverend” Mutchmor’s
answer to the vital question,
“should Canada have nuclear wea-
pons?” is a definite: “yes”. This
“yes” will assure that we ‘“‘can stay
in the poker game-... and)...
some of the chips will come our
way”. Ashes, not ‘chips”, Reverend!

What. the United Church does
about its “evangelistic” nuclear
poker player is strictly its own
business. There is the precedent cf
Christ taking a hefty bullwhip to
crive those vermin out of His tem-
ple who attempted to transform it
into an adjunct of ‘the monopoly
oligarchy of His day. Then of.
course there was no H-Bomb for

‘the “holy” men to gamble with, or

18-million Canadians to serve as
“chips” in the deadly “poker
game’’, now offered as the way 19
“salvation” by “Evangelist” Mutch-
mor.

2 better Christian than a poor

and their well-fed Rasputins. For

a Co

Elsewhere in this edition is a
short story of the billionaire news-
paper magnate Roy Thompson.
This mass moulder of “public opin-
ion” depicts Heaven as strictly a
year-round summer resort for rich
men only.

Why? The answer is simple. Ac-
cording to the Thompson ‘“scrip-
ture”, much like the Mutchmor H-
Bomb version, a rich man “can be

man” by the very fact that he can
“do more for humanity than is pos-
sible for a poor man.”

It is quite possible this lord-of-
the-kept press never heard about
“the -widow’s mite’ which rates
higher in spiritual and material .
values than all of Thompson’s mil-
lions, and upon which papers like
the Pacific Tribune find their bed-
rock of sacrificing support.

As such books go, ‘‘Thée Bible in
Pictures” is a fine production. But
it should be exclusively addressed
to these nuclear-mad monopolists

ourselves, the branding reproath
of “athiestic communist” is. still
an honorable rating when meas-
ured against such “christians” as
Mutchmor, Thompson et al.

And if Heaven is to be full of
such “‘christian” species,. that’s the
last place we want to go to, particu-
larly since we’ve already had more
than a gutful of them during our
brief sojourn here.

March 2, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4