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‘Eight great years

PROVINCIAL election ts in

the offing. That much is made
clear by Eight Great Years, a 48-
page bookle setting forth
“Achievements for You, by the
Government That Things
Done.”

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We must admit right off that
Eight Great Years is almost a
work of art. Pleasing to the eye,
its profusion of picture illustra-
tions, technical make-up and lit-
erary effusions, rates it top billing
in political lah-de-dah.

It is easy to read, but to other
than a Socred, extremely difficult
of digestion. For the Socred of
course it dishes up a grand multi-
course repast. To the citizen who
wants to dig a little behind the fine
pictures or the headlines of its
wordy salute to Socred “achieve-
ment” for some small morsel of
Secred giveaways to grasping
monopoly, Eight Great Years will
be a bit disappointing. Everything
in it shines with the Simon-pure
halo of smug perfection.

In this Socred election parody
of “Home on the Range’, never a
disturbing word is heard on such
mundane matters as forest licences
and grafting Socred ministers; of
B.C. Electric - Wenner-Gren power,

gas, mineral or other monopoly
grabs and giveaways.
The fine illustrations of big

power dams and gas pipelines are
there, as are the glowing prospects
of another eight years of “achieve-
ment”, but what the monopoly
buccaneers have pocketed during
these Eight Great Years (or what

they still aim to pocket), isn’t
stated.
Even in our most charitable

mood of giving credit where credit
is due in Socred accomplishment,
we just cannot regard the above
omissions as an editorial oversight
by the B.C. Social Credit League
publishers, and we certainly can’t
blame it (as is often done) on the
boys in the print shop.

It will certainly be “news” to

Pacific Tribune

Editor —- TOM McEWEN
Associate Edixor — MAURICE RUSH
Business Mgr. — OXANA BIGELOW

Published weekly at
Room 6 — 426 Main Street
Vancouver 4, B.C.
Printed in a Union Shop
Subscription Rates:
One Year: $4.00
Six Months: $2.25
Canadian and Commonwealth
countries (except Australia): $4.00
one year. Australia, United States and
all other countries: $5.00 one year.
Phone MUtual 5-5288

100,000 trade unionists in B.C. to
learn that Socredia has provided
us with labor legislation (includ-
ing Bill 43) described as the “fair-
est in Canada,” while another
80,000 or so jobless workers in
B.C. haven’t even got “sympathet-
ic’ mention in this Eight Great
Years. Probably just an oversight
by an editor with a “leave it to
Dief” complex?

And the farmers? Why, So-
credia “assists farmers in every
field”, a fact well substantiated by
the large number of B.C. farmers
who have been “assisted” off the
farm during these Eight Great
Years.

To the student of economics and
political skulduggery, Eight Great
Years contains a plethora of rich
material for factual analysis, study
and expose.

To John Taxpayer as a whole,
who will undoubtedly foot the bill
for this fine tribute to Eight Great
Years, it will amount to a tidy
sum. But that is one of the “demo-
cratic” advantages of the party in
power; to delude the electorate and
make the latter pay for its own
delusion.

In this, Eight Great Years is
truly a masterpiece.

SPE

Bal

VIDENTLY the rising voices
for disarmament and peace
are disturbing The Province edit-
orial sanctum. According to a re-
cent editorial in that journal “our
backyard Communists have long
been trying to undermine the West
by prating about disarmament and

peace.”

Some little while ago The Prov-
ince was ladling out commendable
editorial opinion on the urgent
need to find a media, other than
nuclear bombs and the devastation
of atomic war to solve inter-
national problems.

Now, it seems, the Old Lady of
Cambie Street has had a change of
heart, during which she discovers
that disarmament and peace are
“dangerous” to the West, hence
the Communist and other “pra-
tine” on the issue. An unknown
Yankee scribbler from the New
Yorker is dredged up to’give em-
phasis to the ‘danger” of peace.

From The Province editorial
maunderings we gather that the
only sure path to “peace” is
through building up a “balance of
terror’; that is, by each side piling
up enough H-bombs to blow them-
selves and everyone else to Hades.
Such a “balance” is calculated to

of terror

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stop either side from doing any-
‘thing, other than “stand poised
“and quiet’, thereby preserving
“peace”’.

Studiously ignored is the basic
lesson of previous world wars, viz.,
that the more explosives stacked
up, the greater the danger of an
explosion, whether by accident,
design, or both.

There is little doubt that The
Province’s hoary wisdom on its
more - bombs - the - better path to
“peace” is gratuitously tendered
at this time in an effort to “play
‘down’ the big Hiroshima fifteenth
anniversary rally at Kerrisdale
Arena on August 5. To put a
damper on the. hopes of people
everywhere who seek an end to a
suicidal arms race with its men-
acing threat of nuclear destruc-
tion.

In remembering Hiroshima the
12 prominent guest speakers will
“prate” on disarmament and peace,
not to “undermine” the West, but
to save it from the insanity of
nuclear destruction. In this they
will express the fervent hope of
millions of peoples everywhere.
Vancouverites should make this
the biggest peace raily ever held in
this city.

Tom
McEwen

HIS is not a pleasant theme to
T write about, or to read. But
then much of the stark truth of
capitalist exploitation and degen-
eracy: never is.

In the bitter struggles of the
Negro. people of the Congo to cast
the yoke of Belgian imperialism
from their necks, a simple truth
emerges. Having “sowed the wind”
the exploiting parasites are now
“reaping the whirlwind.”

This is equally true of other vast
areas of Africa where British,
French, U.S. and other white im-
perialist vultures are desperately
trying to erase the “handwriting
on the wall’ spelling out the end
of colonial oppression, and releiv-
ing the white man of his profitable
“burden.”

It naturally follows as day fol-
lows night, that the white parasite
in exit, should portray the African
peoples as “savages,” “barbarians”
and what not, with a penchant for
raping white women, and horror of
horrors, nuns.

In the first place this sort of
stuff makes good newspaper copy,

especially for the gullible, and of
course proves the point that the
Congolese and other African
peoples are not yet “fit to rule,”
not yet “ready”’ for our democratic-
way-of-life. So imperialist “civiliza-
tion” must continue to carry its
heavy “burden” —of profits, and
stave off the day when the African
peoples will govern themselves.

Rape! Ninety-nine percent of the
brutal lynchings of innocent Negro
people in the so-called ‘“‘enlighten-
ed’”’ United States is committed be-
hind this phoney pretext. And
we've yet to hear of any white-
supremacist Klu Klux Klan lynch
mob brought to justice for such
crimes. It just isn’t done.

On the other hand it is well
known that the white man may
(and does) despoil, rape and abuse
Negro and Colored womanhood to
his heart’s content, but being of
the “master race,” is held immune
from the retribution of race
justice.

In the African ranch house, be
the big “Bass” Belgian, French,
British, Yank or other, a swarm
of cheap native labor (and how
cheap) is maintained. “My lady”
of the house doesn’t soil her lily-
white hands changing the diapers
on her spawn, or stoop to the
menial task of emptying her own
slop pot. That is what colonial
chattel slaves are for, with the
pittance between chattel slavery
and. wage labor held down to a

token minimum.
Any demur from the Negro
worker, be it from the ranch

house the mine, plantation or slum
hovel, is “corrected” by whip
lashing, beatings, enforced starva-
tion, death by violence and other
forms of white “civilized” rule.

Now an era is nearing its end
and with it comes the jackal howl
of “rape.” The white imperialist is
sensitive about “rape.” He has
been raping Black Africa for a
century or more. It has been one
of his vested “rights,” upheld by
armed might, ‘“‘christian” missions,
and stout bullwhips.

If the white man in Africa now
find himself paid a small re-
turn “in kind” it may be cause
for regret, but the shame remains
ours alone. If this is kept in mind
the imperialist howl of “rape” will
be less disturbing, and its purpose
better understood — to inflame
white prejudices and hatred against
Negro people fighting for their in-
dependence, their land, their free-
dom, and. their dignity as ancient
and proud race.

A race which once knew com-
munal freedom and dignity under
their own rule, before the advent
of the white man and will
level when they have shaken him
from their backs and stand beside
him as an equal. A bit. difficult
zeysIy yonur e UO UlIese JI MOU
for the bullwhip racist to accept,
but history leaves him litle choice.

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July 29, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4