ieee See et ee a eS ee

THs Canada Day, marking our

country’s ninetieth birth-
day, comes at a time of momen-

tous change, both at home and
abroad,

At home, the change is re-
flected in the ousting of a Liberal

Sovernment grown fat and ar-

Togant in 22 years of office and

the coming to power of a min-

ority Conservative government
Whose promises have yet to be
tested. But there is no doubt
about the people's desire for
Change. Their vote was more
anti-Liberal than it was pro-Con-
setvative, and they are not like-
ly to tolerate for long any Con-
Servative continuation of the
Liberal policy that shaped this
country’s course to U.S. com-
mand.
~The change the people want
and compelled all parties to
Speak upon during the election
campaign — is one that places
their own needs and the coun’
try's true interests foremost.
‘They want an end to all nuc-
lear bomb tests. They want an
end to the giveaways to the U.S.
trusts. They want this country
freed from U.S. political and ec:
Onomic domination.
_ They have spoken in their ma-
jority for the removal of trade
barriers, erected at U.S. demand,
€tween this country and China,
the Soviet Union and other so-
Clalist countries. They have been
no less emphatic in demanding
the restoration and expansion of
trade with Britain and other
-Ommonwealth countries.
_ The change the people want
'S One that places security in its

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People voted for a change
—to peace and security

proper perspective — the secur-
ity of the individual in his home
and his job, in his rights as a citi-
zen and, in his old age, to a de-
cent pension. But such social se-
curity requires a policy of peace

and friendship with all countries

a positive approach to disarma-
ment so that arms spending can
be curtailed and the burden of
taxation eased.

Ke

Already Prime Minister John
Diefenbaker and his aides are
in London, attending the Com-
monwealth conference. Their ac-
tions will give Canadians their
first answer to a widely voiced
question: Will the Conserva-
tives live up to the promises they
made on the hustings? The peo-
ple are alert, anxious, and wait-
ing for the answer.

British Prime Minister Harold
MacMillan has let it be’ known
that he would like to supply
other Commonwealth countries
with nuclear bombs. That is def-
initely not the kind of trade Can-

Review. * EDITORIAL PAGE +*

_ Comment

REMEMBER WHEN .. .

century.

adians voted for on June 10. It
is a sorry substitute for the in-
creased flow of goods and ma-
terials that means jobs and se-
curity for Britons and Canadians
alike.

Canada’s birthday can only be
celebrated in keeping with the
true interest of its people when
those who represent her speak
out as loudly in the Common-
wealth or other world confer-
ences as they did on the hustings

7 7 1
his could still be seen

t
outside the famous Clinton Hotel, somewhere before the turn’ of the

for a change—and one that will
promote peace and friendship.
On thjs Canada Day the peo-
ple of this country have much to
be joyful about. They have also
good reason, not to be fearful,
but to remain alert, working
steadily to build that farmer-la-
bor unity which must inevitably
sweep out all the old-line politi-
cal spokesmen of monopoly capi-
tal — and restore Canada to
her own people — the builders.

holding our own existence.

beaks

mately 468,000.

HERE'S no point in blinking at

the fact the circulation of this
paper is neither what it should
be or could be. For the past three
years or so it has remained much
too static to be healthy, a sort of

With revolutionary labor papers
(and I use the term dialectically)
as with all labor activities, there
can be no standing still. The
struggle must advance or (some-
times) retreat, but never stand
still too long. When that hap-
pens, stagnation and worse sets

In’ the current Labor Gazette
our country’s total labor force is
estimated at some 5,750,000. for
B.C.—and the Pacific Tribune is
primarily a B.C. labor paper—
the total labor force is approxi-

Needless to say, our reader per-
centage in that great potential is
so small it would require an ex-

pert slide-rule mathematician to
figure it out.
Se 3 % es

Together with the editorial
staff, our readers and supporters
must, pose a question to them-
selves. Does our present circula-
tion represent the maximum of
readers and supporters that can
be secured among the labor force
of our province—or are we just
too damn satisfied and complac-
ent, in leaving things as they are?
as suggest that the latter holds
true for an awful lot of us. Poten-
tial readers are around us in
abundance. In the recent federal
election they may have voted
Liberal, Conservative, Social
Credit or CCF.

What ‘all the “experts” who
have analyzed, dissected and ex-
pounded on the Liberal, upset
haven’t told us, is that basically
the Canadian people voted for
radical social change; for a pros-
perity with genuine props under
it; for peace and an end to H-
bomb politics; for a land whose
wealth is used to meet the needs
of its people — if given a genu-
inely people’s government with
the socialist vision and. courage
to make the equation. For these
things the Pacific Tribune has
fought consistently. :

The readers are there — only
we don’t go after them. Even the
daily press (well monopolized in
Vanrouver now “with the back-

room elimination of the Herald
and the merger of the Sun and
Province) has to keep its high-
pressure circulation machinery in
operation to keep going. Yet it
seems that we, like the famed
Micawber, “wait for something to
turn up”, unmindful that becaus¢
of static circulation, it could well
be the “toes” of the Pacific
Tribune.

There are new readers all
around us, but we've got to go to
them rather than wait for them
to come to us.

In one constituency alone, Van-
couver-South, despite all the
flood of Liberal, Tory and Social
Credit propaganda poured out
through the daily newspapers,
radio, TV and platform, 813 stout-
hearted men and women voted
for this writer — and = social
change. Not a change from Lib-
eral to Tory or Social Credit,
but a change from these political
triplets of monopoly capital to the
concept of a Canada - governed
by and for the common people.

This is only one example.
There are many others; in the
factories, among the farmers,
among all sections of the people.
Readers are there, if we go out
and get them.

What better time to begin the
job than around the time of Can-
ada’s 90th birthday, and what
better way to win a peaceful and
happy future for Canada?

JUNE 28, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7%