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lagee d class have constantly
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the Polic; 1g business (through
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trast 5 oe S0vernments). In con-
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Seemin & Prices — have declined.
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plo the relatively high level
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of the credit structure
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if the. “orkers’ future earnings
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Nar. the Commonwealth and
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the te “ompetitive markets. But
ind the market snag facing B.C.

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condition known in Liberal and
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Tory parlance as “integration .- +

or all our economic eggs in the

Yankee basket.

The immediate and long-range
effects of this “integration,” car-
ried through with the full agree-
ment of Tory, Liberal and Social
Credit parties alike, is now readily
apparent. Our industrial, financial
and political leaders, having sub-
ordinated Canada’s resources, in-
dependence and markets to US.
dictation, now find themselves cut
off from the great potential mar-
kets of Asia, Europe and the Soviet
Union; cut off from almost half
of the world’s peoples, and all for

: : ;
a fast Yankee “integration” buck.

In People’s China alone there is

a ready market for a great portion

of this country’s
lumber, fish, fertilizer, farm mach-
inery and other commodities. But

surplus grain,

until now Washington has ada-

mantly maintained that we must
survive a while longer by taking
in each other’s washing with a ris-
ing tariff around the Yankee bath-
tub!

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Caught in a dilemma of their

own creation, big business and its
propaganda agencies have a “solu-
tion.” That “solution” is to put
the blame on “high wages,” to
force “a critical adjustment,” which
in Sun-cum Chamber of Commerce
language means to put the burden
of the crisis on the working people
and begin an all-out attack upon
the wages and standards of B.C.
labor.

The “high wages” of B.C. work-
ers don’t bar us from the: great
potential markets of People’s
China and other Asian and social-
ist countries. Nor have they closed
off much of our British Common-

Comment

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on labor

wealth markets. Can it be that the
Sun and J. V. Clyne have never
heard of sterling and studied its
strangulation by Wall Street's
mighty dollar?

The factors which have closed
off Canada’s markets are not in-
cluded in the Sun’s editorial, nor
do they get much attention on the
hustings, except from CCF and
LPP candidates. The real factors
are the cold-war policies of U.S:
imperialism: which have meant the
export of guns instead of food, the
export of hostility instead of
friendship, the export of nuclear
‘war psychology instead of peace,
bringing maximum profits to big
business, but mass unemployment

and economic hardship to
people.

Small wonder the industrial  ty-
coons of B.C. praise the Sun’s edi-
torial. Nowhere is there any sug-
gestion of cutting profits. Only

wages!

Tom
McEwen

FEW days ago the West Ger-
A man consul in Vancouver, 1D}
Heinrich Liebrecht, publicly pro-
tested CBC-TV’s showing of
anti-Nazi films on CBUT Chan-
nel 12.

On the surface the Herr Dok-
tor’s argumentation soun ded
reasonable. “We don’t object to
‘films showing the Nazis as they
really were,” he said in effect,
“but to the showing of the whole
German people as a nation of
criminals.”

The films in question were
Lifeboat and Edge of Darkness,
typical Hollywood productions,
neither of them more excessive
in their presentation of Nazi kul-
tur than the current U.S. “gang-
ster” variety.

From the Doktor’s rather ram-
bling remarks on TV anent his
protest, it would appear that he
is pressuring Ottawa and Wash-
ington to apply the censorial
pressure on anti-Nazi TV and
movie features, and not purely
because of their Nazi stigma on
the German people as a whole.

This Teutonic consular sensiltive-
ness has other roots.

it is known that by far the
great majority of cabinet min-
isters, the judiciary, military
brass, police and other state
functionaries in the West Ger-
man government are ex-Nazis,
many of them convicted war
criminals restored to official pos-
ition by the intercession and in-
fluence of the ‘Free West.”
Doubtless the “kulturbund” of
the Adenauer. government, at
home and abroad, is a bit sensi-
tive when. some of them see
themselves as “they really
were,” since it cramps their style
in trying to be what they really
are not.

It is also known that thous-
ands of the finest German work-
ers, Communists, Social Demo-
crats, trade unionists, intellect-
uals, were brutally. murdered in
Hitler’s prisons and concentra-
tion camps; the the country
which gave the world Marx and
Engels, Goethe, Schiller, Wag-
ner and Heine, could only pro-
auce such genius from the loins
of a great people. In this the
Doktor is partially correct. No
films, even the most extrava-
gant of Hollywood's super hys-
teria, should be allowed to brand
the German people as a “nation
of criminals.”

The essence of Herr Doktor
Liebrecht’s protest is not the
branding of the whole German
people with the stigma of Naz-
ism, but the keen sense of guilt

, ond embarrassment of the gov-
ernment jhe represents, which,
like the golf-playing occupant
of the White House, yearns to
“let bygones be bygones” while
it revives Nazism’ (with U.S. ap-
proval and aid) -for a new
“Drang Nach Osten.”

In Bonn the Doktor’s protests
may be regarded “richtigkeit.”
Here it is a crude attempt to
instruct us on what we should
see on TV.

tee oh eet

At the recent Canadian Con-
ference on Education, one of the
great positive results of Sputnik,
many splendid ideas were writ-
ten into the record for progress.
There were also a few note-
worthy exceptions in this epic
job of (educationally speaking)
“catching up with the Russians.”

It was unavoidable that the
spectre of mass unemployment
should also inject itself in. the
deliberations of such a confer-
ence. Education as a preparation
for life can never be divorced
from the right of life itself —
the right to work. And here we
reach for the aspirins.

An Ottawa press item. reports
UBC president Norman A. M.
Mackenzie, as chairman of the
“higher education workshop,”
advocating setting the “bull-
dozer” aside and reverting to the
good old pick-and-shovel tech-
nique in “landscaping” this Can-
ada of ours.

Back to the horse and buggy
days, boys. Giddap! —

March 7,

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