‘Patronage’ victim

hen the Vancouver Times was born the PT stated in
an editorial on that auspicious occasion that too many
factors surrounding its birth predicted an early demise.

To successfully be a competitor to the “free enter-
prizer” barons of the Pacific Press, with their “Liberal”
Sun and “Goldwater” Province, a daily of the Times’ stan-
dard requires a few million instead of a few thousand dol-
lars in the “kitty” to start off with; either that or the
whole-hearted backing of the big multi-million dollar mon-
opoly advertizers.

The Times had neither, and least of all the “patron--

age”’ of the big advertizers. Their advertizing patronage,
the life-blood of the other two Vancouver papers, is the
price paid for the prompt delivery of the “policy” tune
called for. :

We believe the Times was sincere in its initial outlook
to give Vancouver and other readers something more than
pre-digested monopoly pablum for their daily newspaper
fare. But it obviously didn’t take into account the news-
paper-killing power of big monopoly “sabotage”, which can
only be outweighed, not by a few thousand subscribers,
but only by hundreds of thousands. .

To win those hundreds of thousands a paper like the

Times must project a specific policy, rather than periodic.

excursions “‘left-of-center” or “something for everybody”’.
It was (and is) a nice thought, but a daily newspaper can-
not survive on such illusions. Others before the Times have
tried it, and met an early demise.

Nevertheless, we hope the Times can weather the
storm.

Insult to injury

.S. President Johnson’s recent “appeal’’ to the USSR

to “work together for peace” serves to illustrate how
far hypocritic insolence can go in an effort to cover up
crime and appear “virtuous”. It also serves to illustrate
the low opinion the spokesman for aggressive U.S. imper-
ialism hold for the intelligence of the common people, in-
cluding those of his own country.

President Johnson speaks as though it were the Soviet
Union or the countries of the Socialist world who had their
armed forces and their war instigators in Vietnam, the
Dominican Republic, the Congo or other areas of the world

aS o

oes

THE EVIL OF POWER

—The Dispatcher

where people strive for colonial liberation and the right of
self-government.

~

“‘We want peace” says President Johnson, while U.S.

air and ground forces rain death and destruction upon the.

- people of Vietnam, North and South. ‘We want peace”,

while U.S. Marines seek to deprive the people of the Dom-

inican Republic of their right to their own democratically-

elected government. “‘We want peace”, and the murdered

people of the Congo, including their first Premier Patrice
Lumumba are mute evidence of the kind of “‘peace”’.

It is U.S. and not Soviet troops which are committing
these atrocities and aggression against humanity and
against world peace. Johnson’s “appeal” is directed to the
wrong address. It should have been marked “for home de-
livery” only. It is the old ruse of the thief shouting “stop
thief’ in order to facilitate his escape from outraged
society.

somewhere along the “ravelled
skein” of the “Dear Hal” con-
spiracy that another unelectable
Socred pillar of propriety and
-high. finance, Einer Gunderson,
would feature in this unsavoury
stew.

preference to unelected “ex-
perts” of the Williamson-
Gunderson vintage to shape the
destinies of B,C, and its people,

Evidence at the Williamson
trial also brought out another

' being rooted out of our statute bi

‘policy of unconditional alliance

‘ power, unleashed the Second Worlt

“There’s an old- saying that
when “thieves fall out...
etc.,” honest men get a close-up
look at well-concealed shenani-
gans, The “Dear Hal” letter
episode and its principals, (not
to be confused. with “principles”)
now before the courts, gives
added confirmation to that
sterling homily,

While we do not suggest that
the Socred circus barkers who
concocted the “Dear Hal” billet
doux to assist a shady million-
aire become a “landed immi-
grant” in B.C.’s “dynamic”
society are all thieves, let’s just
be charitable and say that honesty
is not one of their chief virtues,

Millionaire Harry Stonehill,
whose business “ethics” were
evidently too much even for the
case-hardened stomachs of
Phillipine business tycoons, (who
booted him off their Islands)
looked like a real “asset” to
Socredia’s “dynamic” empire
builders and fast-buck artists,

Thus while some RCMP opinion
held that “Stonehill was clean”
Ottawaapparently took a dim view

of the Stonehill bona fides, with
Washington probably setting the
tone, At that point the technique
in modern capitalist politics,
which the vulgar define as “ wire-
pulling” got into high gear. Hence
the “Dear Hal” letter from Ben-
nett’s “Man Friday” Al William-
son to Prime Minister Pearson’s
“Man Friday” Hal Dornan,
“pleading” the case for million-
aire Stonehill, and signed *W.A.
C, Bennett,”

The court has decided William-
son guilty of forging the signa-
ture of our “dynamic” premier,
But in face of all the sordid facts
dredged up in the Williamson
trial, that worthy could be readily
excused if at times he considered
himself a sort of “ex-officio”
premier, one of WAC’s indispen-
sible factotums for “getting
things done,” Unelected by the
people of B,C., but endowed with
an apparent limitless “authority”
in shaping their affairs; to call
the political shots and move the
“pawns” on the political chess
board of Socred’s “dynamic so-
ciety.”

It was a lead-pipe cinch that

It now appears from the evi-
dence that this select pair of
courtiers in the Socred political
harem notinfrequently exchanged
“inspiration,” confidences,
cheques and other political bric-
a-brac for the good of “the
party” (Williamson), and for the
good of “the province” (Gunder-
son, )

Now, as always in such political
skulduggery, when the “jig is up”
as a British bloke would say,
we find these erstwhile cronies
“rejecting” and denouncing each
other’s “integrity” no end,

At that point, as we have said,
the common man not only gets a
good whiff of the inner stench of
Socred politics, but a close-up
look at the intricate and corrupt
machinery in which Socred
“policies” so-called, are brewed,

During the last years of his
government the late and unla-
mented Liberal chieftain Mac-
kenzie King went to the “spooks”
for advice on how to govern
Canada, The Williamson “Dear
Hal” letter conspiracy shows the
Socreds more earthy in their

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attribute in the make-up of
Bennett’s “Man Friday,” who ap-
parently handled everything from
the Wenner-Gren give-away to
the PGE Socred election cam-

paigns, financing and so forth —

a long-time membership in the
RCMP and one of its promoters
for the setting up of a “special
reserve unit” in Vancouver, also
one of its ten members “assigned
to the security and intelligence

pled

Worth
Quoting

The recent Supreme Court decis
(U.S.) holding that it is unconstitutionl
to prohibit or restrict the delivery of
so-called Communist material in M*
U.S. mails, is an obvious strength
ing of civil liberties and a guarante?
of the invoilability of the mails. :

Thus it is that, little by little, the
vast array of what was suppose? ©
be anti-Communist legislation pass?
during the McCarthy era is gradv

There remains now the clearly ¥
constitutional actions of the Hou:
Committee on Un-American Actit
Control Board — established under
McCarran Act — to be cleansed from
the American conscience.

_—THE WORLD, Coos Bay,
Oregon, May 29, '65.

*

Tony Boyle, president of the Ameri-
can Miners’ Union (UMWA) declare?”
recently: ‘‘Our opponents today ore
the same type of men who opp?
us three-quarters of a century 99!
They are men of greed and selfishnes>
who profit at the expense of the lives
and welfare of coal miners and the!”
families. It seems to me there’s a"
God’s amount to do in establishing”
human rights in America’s own ba
yord,..3. ;

—SCOTTISH MINER, May, 196%

*

In his speech, as in his other recent
addresses, President Johnson trié
justify his government's aggres*'¥
policy towards other countries, the

West German militarists. He repe® I
that the NATO countries, and the
German Federal Republic in particulaty
have a right to participate in a colle
tive nuclear force.

Which is only a diplomatic circu™
locution for the intention to prov
nuclear arms to the very generals |
the same forces that brought Hitler ig

War, and which now, in an adver
turous effort to change its outcome
are willing and ready to hurl Europe
and the whole world into a "®
catastrophe.

—PRAGUE NEWS LETTER,
May 29, '65
sete

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matters and espionage,”

What working men and womel
generally refer to asa comm
RCMP stool pigeon, but in
case one endowed by the soc!
government of the province
an almost unbelievable limitles?
authority to diddle the people of
province who, had they been sl¥
the opportunity, wouldn't hav?
elected him to the position 9
dog catcher,

ed

The court’s verdict was
«“suilty” — but the people of BC+
are justified in feeling that
verdict should also have include?
the Socred government of By

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