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['s an old trick in politics to
a distract attention from the real
tie by staging mock diversions.
ih © current “‘debate’’ between
‘Me Liberals who are ‘‘out’’ and
at Socreds who are ‘“‘in’’ as to
',_ © fteduced the provincial debt
“div y how much, is just such a
version.
aa € Victoria byelection to se
“ieee for Finance Minister
Ve. underson takes on some
£0

nm, in that the policies
toresen government the minister
tiny ts come under public scru-
tig debate. The burning
Mono ms facing B.C. — markets
d ur produce, jobs for our in-
‘People ECERErS, security for our
Of ee Sainst the growing threat
ej nomic depression — receiv-

: ee attention from the Social

. ~ 80vernment during the past
: Hence the need for a
Cal diversion.

Premier “‘Boss’’ John-
fall in claiming that his

es eae by Karsh” credit line
: SN ae Paper couldn’t make
“tyet Hoy er One Witch-hunter J.
ian, AY er, chief of the FBI, look
e facsimit est the picture was a pass-
Pone and a qot.2 cross between Al
Stanley Park chimpanzee.
mee” ‘gee Picture was Hoover's “mts-
Pon a} fe American Nation, urging
ty Stee mmunists who love Am-
§ to be p> forward and be counted,”
Specific, to offer their
“se McCarthy smear produc-

Deg ; :

Pite ‘
Pgh price a Myriads of FBI agents,
of 1 MOfessign os, Pimps, provocateurs
“ingt®eving they liars assigned the job
Wein Titinis Character assassination
eee tales rau} at full capacity with
nity o raw peed Plots,” a growing
dyin W Material (good and raw)
. a This odiferous in-
ali? Plant in pels Worse than a fer-
ae ts a lar umid Weather, periodic-
m™m broag h P in new talent, Imports
. ‘ave been falling off, both
U some of wey? hence the need
Hoovers NS poe old stuff, together
tession to Bel inte the 3, Six American
ee pigeon “pro-

bunt Ntly one

» CO
y tttene With y me to the U.S. to re-

thumba stan ©n Gooey. Canada’s
S down €partment tur nau

Use On both Sy e
St d Propositions—not
Untine foe approve of
§, but because the
rthy ‘smear factory
t Produce disas-

Liberal government reduced the
provincial debt in the process of
giving away most of our natural
resources to the Yankee war trusts
is only equalled by the Bennett
government’s sanctimonious con-
tention that it ‘‘reduced’’ the debt
— while doing little or nothing
about the evil after-effects of Lib
eral policies.

The Victoria byelection cam-
paign must focus attention on the
vital issues affecting the welfare

of the people of B.C. and of Can-
ada. The program advanced by
Mrs. Doris Blakey, LPP candi-
date, demanding immediate atten-
tion to the market problem, do-

‘mestic and foreign; the fight for

‘full employment, against the mass
layoffs now taking place, and for
full pay envelopes, is of much
more importance to every farmer,
worker, profession and small busi-
ness man, than is the windy froth
about who “‘reduced’’ the pro-

let's debate real byelection issues of jobs, markets

vincial debt, by a political stroke
of a partisan pen!

Jobs, markets, reduced taxation
and greater economic and social
security are the vital issues affect-
ing the great majority of people.
Any attempt to sidetrack or by-
pass these issues by phoney de-
bates on the provincial debt is a
gross betrayal of British Colum-
bia. The Johnson-Anscomb gang
tried it — and lost. The Socreds
should not disregard history.

eect

trous political consequences for “Uncle
Louis” and his Liberal cohorts. So,
“Gentlemen, please, we give you all our
uranium but don’t ask us for Gooey!
No one knows better than those run-
ning the Yankee smear factory that if
Igor Gouzenko (as a private protege of
the RCMP) had anything “new” to relate
which would help take, up the slack in
raw materials for “spy” - thrillers,
he has had ample time to make it known
to his benevolent guardians in Canada,
in which case such “new” information

would have been relayed post-haste to’

our Washington bosses by Ottawa.

J. Edgar Hoover’s “message” for the
promotion of a new crop of stoolpigeons
to keep the McCarthy inquisition rolling,

‘ periodically spills over into Canada.

Just recently, when students on the
University of Toronto campus burn
McCarthy in effigy, the Chicago Tribune
ranted about Canadians being illogica.
and depraved” and in the course of te
lengthy editorial on the subject, vara
to do a smear job on Canada’s minister
of external affairs, Lester B. Pearson.
“Canadians would undoubtedly be re-
sentful,” raved Col. R. R: (Bertie) Mc-
Cormick in his smear sheet, if a group
of Americans should choose to hang in
effigy Canada’s minister 0

i ici of Pear-
many Americans are suspicious :
son’s outlook, his activities in the pene
Nations, and his demonstrated nai
spot towards Soviet and .Red Chin

communism.”

That is just a sm
Carthy product. Li

‘sample of the Mc-
me a tencent mete
i Jown up to vast proportions.
Right ae the McCarthyites are maak
“proving” that ex-president ened ia
mar spent his time at the White =f
promoting “spies” for Russia, SO pes
needn’t be surprised if we wake re os
morning to find the McCarthy gies
“discovering” that debonaire ge a
son (is or was) a member of the 8
Yorks LPP. In an industry bee are
hoods are the chief product, anyt ing

possible. oe Re
f “missionary
Two hundred pounds 0 earth the

recently held forth in Vaneou
“evils of communism,” 2 Mrs. Helen

the “call”
Birnie who must have heard é
rs J. Edgar Hoover much more audibly

f external af- .
’’ fairs, Mr. Lester Pearson, though a great

than the one to preach the gospel. Mrs.
Birnie’s claim to fame appeared to have
been her ability to relate to the McCarthy
‘inquisition her alleged three years as a

member of the U.S. Communist party.

What this female Billy Sunday told
the Yankee witch-hunters is no longer
news. Her line of tripe can be bought
for a dime-a-dozen at any newstand. It

“is the story of the Judas cult elevated

to the highest “patriotism” by way of
the well-greased smear route. ~ °

What “missionary” Birnie told the

McCarthy smear producers can be judg- .

ed by what she told the Vancouver Sun
as quoted in its November | 4 edition.
Gushing with “anti-Communist” fervor,
our star performer for. McCarthy tells
how she attended meetings “with LPP
chieftain Tim Buck to work: out plans
for the Communist domination of Can-
ada ... and heard all the party’s objec-
tives in this country outlined.”

It so happens however, that at the time
this female sample of J. Edgar Hoover
“patriotism” was supposed to be sitting
cheek-by-jowl with Tim Buck working
Nout “plans for the Communist domina-
tion of Canada,” Tim Buck was “sitting
in Kingston Penitentiary! Whatever else
that notorious institution ‘provided for
its inmates (and the routine was varied)
visits from female “missionaries plan-

ning the “Communist domination of

Canada” weren’t one of the “privileges.”

Jj. Edgar Hoover, appealing for more
grist to the McCarthy smear mills, drap-
ing himself with a sanctimonious mantle,
tells us that “all great religions teach
that a sinner can always medesn him-
self” and that the road to ‘redemption
in the Hoover-McCarthy “religion” 1s
very simple; just stool on your fellow
man and win a guarantee of a box seat
in a McCarthyized heaven. :

“Missionary” Birnie’s forgery on Tim
Sh Cai bee role as a stool ae:
U.S. Communists is the hallmark o
her “redemption.” :

Personally, with the poet Shelly, we

prefer “hell’s freedom to the servitude

+ “ »” run
of heaven,” especially a “heaven

i ing the
FBI, with McCarthy holding
alti for St. Peter (having ae
that the apostle was connected with one

of the churches he is now smearing).

Ten years ago

(From the files of The People,
November 13, 1943) 2

The Red Army recaptured the great
Ukrainian city of Kiev, announced in a
special order of the day issued by Pre-
mier Joseph Stalin on November 7, and
pursued the battered Nazi armies in their
disorderly retreat towards the Polish
frontier.

kek *

Vancouver Labor Council passed a
resolution calling on the attorney gen-
eral to investigate Col. C. G. Edgett and
his company union-promoting Industrial
Association of B.C.

~ * x.

The Canadian Congress of Labor
agreed to lift its suspension against the
15,000 Canadian members of the Inter-
national Woodworkers of America im-
posed last January 4 as an outgrowth of
the dispute between the CCL and the
Boilermakers Union. The IWA_ was
ordered. suspended for “interfering” in
the affairs of another CCL union when
Harold Pritchett spoke at a Boilermak-
ers meeting in support of the member-
ship’s fight against an administration
board appointed by the CCL executive.

Fifteen years ago

(From the files of the People’s Advocate,
November 11, 1938) ;
Despite Liberal Premier T. D. Pattul-
lo’s assertion that “this whole House
would rise in a body to acclaim Cham-
berlain if he were here,” Tom Uphill,
Labor MLA for Fernie; dissociated him-
self from “the compliments paid to
Neville Chamberlain in the speech from
the throne,” stating to the legislature:
“The Munich pact is the greatest sellout
to a bunch of murderers, tyrants and
sadists the world has ever known.”
* x ~
The first annual convention of the
Housewives League of B.C. was opened
in Vancouver’s Belmont Hotel by Ald.
Helena Gutteridge, representing Mayor
George Miller. “It is very fitting that
the largest group of people carrying on

ganize,” said Ald. Gutteridge.

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