CANADIANS NEED A SENSE OF HISTORY . By LESLIE MORRIS . HE instinctive sympathies of most Canadians lie with James 1 _E. Coyne, His battle against John Diefenbaker and Donald ‘Fleming is flavored with that “orneriness” which is woven into the Canadian national character and comes from generations of ¢elearing-the land of stubborn tree stumps, .fighting drought, 2% _mosquitoes and black flies and putting up a scrap against penny-}. pinching bloodsuckers, officials and - the produce of honest men’s labors, E Canada is a hard country and produces a tough character. People had to be hard to survive in the early days of settlement. hey must be harder now. : Recently we were reading a book about the martyrs of 1837, and particularly about those who were rounded up in the London, Ontario,. district and banished to Van Diemen’s Land (now: Tasmania), those, that is, who were not hanged by the ‘magistrates. It isa-story of the quiet bravery of the martyrs and the inhuman cruelty of the Family Compact and its servitors. Some of the letters home survived, and they are in the &reat tradition of letter-writing, that lost art, : From. 1837 to 1937, and to 1961, the qualities of rebellion wersist, even if the letters die out. % a Pd HAT Coyne is fighting is the New Family Compact. j Instead of Bond Head we have Diefenbaker. Instead of -Robinson we have Fleming. Instead of British oppressors, we have American, True, Coynefs no William Lyon Macknezie, the man of the flaming pen and the incorruptible soul, the consistent democrat, :the nine-times-expelled and nine-times-re-elected member of ‘the Upper Canada Assembly, the traveller through the Niagara night after night after the defeat at Montgomery’s Tavern, the @xile in New York. and the colleague of Lount and Matthews, the blacksmith and the farmer, who were hanged by the Com- Pact and are our great plebian martyrs. bureaucrats who feed on 3 % * me 40. Mr. Coyne was the Governor of the Bank of .Canada until the other day. when a supine majority of Tory MP’s fired him by a special Act of Parliament, not an impoverished ‘Scot- tish immigrant ‘editor. Coyne was a highly-paid civil servant, the intimate of bank presidents and a mover in the highest financial circles who dealt with matters beyond the average - ken, such as the “liquidity” of banks and “imbalancés of trade”. But- the essential conflict is there in both cases, just the same. The capitalist state is just as sensitive of its authority, and just as jealous of its rule, and just as merciless and ‘un- scrupulous as was the British administration of 1837 and the puppet. regime which did its bidding, as Ottawa does the bidding’ ef Washington today. F COURSE, this is because Coyne put his finger on the sore O spot, on the truth, as Mackenzie did, and the Conservative cabinet jumped as if it had been stung by a thousand black flies, just as the Compacteers pounced on Mackenzie. . The ‘sore spot and the truth that James Coyne touched ‘was that this country’s patrimony is being given away by the big Canadian bourgeoisie to the big bourgeoisie of the U.S.A., and ‘the Canadian people are being forced to suffer for it. The basic issue which William Lyon Mackenzie raised it 130 years ago. A. ND so you have the brawling House of Commons, the pious and sickening hypocrisy of the Liberals (who would have fired Coyne just as unceremoniously as did the Tories, were they in government and would Coyne have acted and written. 88, he has done), the blustering: of an election on the Senate issue,.as if the Senate could not have been reformed long ago, er abolished, as the Tories promised they would, and the Liberals before that, and the Tories before that again. Meanwhile, the Yankee grip on Canada gets tighter. Flem- ine’s chéaper Canadian dollar (cheaper, that is, as compared to the U.S. dollar) enriches the “steady U.S. investor” but only the financial speculator who is abandoning our dollar; the “steady” U.S. investor will take more out of Canada because of Fleming’s budget and will continue to make a higher rate of profit on his dollars here than his dollars in the U.S.A. because of. our lower wages and the preferred conditions he enjoys, handed to him by the Canadian government, * *% Pg ACKENZIE is long dead, and so are Lount and Matthews M and the transported heroes of the fight for Canada in. 1837. Coyne is fired. The Tories have had their pound of flesh, and: the Liberals have again wallowed in their messes of humbug... ; : But the soul of Canadian independence goes marching on, Neither transportation to Van Diemen’s Land nor the gallows nor the distortion of history nor acts of Parliament, will lay it or-blow it away. — Canadians need a sense of history, Russia’s and France’s and China’s. They these. days. 3 Ditencttiiice as vivid and alive as eRe Bi bes Coyne raised was Canadian independence, just as are quickly getting it, ‘We will settle our own | atfairs', say Laotians By BERT WHYTE Pacific Tribune Staff Correspondent °— ; _ PEKING — “The task of the International 8 i visory and Control Commission in Laos is only to , in the execution of the cease-fire agreement. and supe the withdrawal of foreign troops. and foreign ™ personnel,” said Prince Souphanouvong, chee d BOWKLD pre xy tie ee Haksat party, at a press conference he GREENWELL, ‘candidaté for Vancouver Parks Board in the recent by-election and prom- inent community wo rke zr stated this week that City Council bungling of the Shaughnessy Park purchase is but another example of their ‘fire brigade’ approach to parks development in Vancou- ver. Prince Souphanouvong was | — replying to a question from this correspondent, asking him to present his views on the Scope of the ICC. He said that some delega- tions at Geneva wanted to give the commission broad powers and turn it into a Super state organization. “This runs counter to our Sovereignty and tramples upon our independence. He shall never agree to it,” he added. During his two-hour inter- view with some 50 Chinese and foreign correspondents, the prince made these points: ® The Savannakhet group, with all its procrastination, had SS en eee to affix its signature ai joint communique of ae based essentially on the’ ical program of Prince, Vanna Phouma suppor the Neo Lao Haksat Pé ¢ The Zurich age proves that the Laotia? tion can and must be solve the Laotian people them® 7 without any foreign 1)¥—” ence. nae p fe ¢ The future coalition | it ernment which should & rth | the political’ program iid: lated at Zurich, in our OPP jie” can be none other tha? 5. present government © Sow Royal Highness Princ® ay vanna Phouma, to be br? vio) ed to include representatly orl the three forces, part ial those of the Neo Lao He oft» in an adequate propor pve of - forming to the primaty ™ jie our party in the politic® of our country. : we © The day following tn a P rich meeting Phoumi Noe was invited to Washingto” iy After his interview He President Kennedy he 4 ail? ed his intention to opp, the © equitable representation ‘ott patriotic and democratic +7 19 | e0 Ye N itio® “What is needed is an Over- all park developmen: pregram which makes Provision for the acquisition of Langara and Breniwood Parks as well as Shaughnessy,” Greenwell stat- ed. of Laos, especially the Haksat, in the future ¢0 government. This shows clearly. that U.S. imperialists are DOUN ig.” ciled to the failure of HO ay” tervention in Laos and Wig” their utmost to obstrue’ al formation of a genuine H¢™— coalition government. | 4 ‘LARRY HICKS The labor moveme! pit the cot” WHO WILL BE MISS B.C. , ture was taken were Miss LABOR? This group shows Waterfront, Lynne Pritchett; | robbed of a champion % i of some of the Greater Vancouver | Miss Edmonds, Beth Chobo-|by the untimely dea ate | contesiants in the Miss B.C. ! tuck: Miss Norquay, Mary Ann | Larry Hicks of North S) %s Labor - Farmer contest which will wind up at the big Labor- Cgniniek Picnic at Bear Creek | Park August 6. Front row, left to right; Miss Drydock, Annie Beynon; Miss North Vancouver City, -Mon- ique McDonald: Miss North Vancouver District, Paulette Murphy; Miss Cedar Cottage, Jill Stewart. | An outstanding event at the Picnic will be the sports pro- gram. Four trophies are to be awarded in the evenis. These trophies will be awarded to the girl and boy obtaining the highest Score after three irack last week. Ce | Mr. Hicks, a Pacific i line driver, was killed King two car collision on the ~~ George Highway. da He was a Labor cand in the municipal electiO? fy Surrey last year and was pro known in trade-union and ie | Desnayer. and field events, gressive circles. pet Standing, left to right: Miss Anyone wishing to prepare | - Larry Hicks was 2 mer ae : North Burnaby, Hattie Dove:! for the competition is invited|of the CCF and: camp?! ad | Miss Point Grey, Lorna Chunn;:| to attend training sessions at| within that organizatio? 2 5 Miss Grandview, Jane John-|the Vancouver Tech School, | the labor movement for May _ ;Son; Miss Hastings East, Shir-| 2600 block Broadway East, | of all labor in the strusele od e | ley Gavorchin. each Saturday at 6 p.m., or better working-condition® © Not available when the pic-! phone Henry Lahti, CY 9-6149. | socialism, ig Ge | July 21, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pae?