Onte Again Stalled Hold rm

se week’s

blast by IWA regional presi-
dent Joe Morris against this
paper, is worthy of more than
passing note.

T "| T the Organization of Ameri-
can States (OAS) conference
in Punta Del Este, Uruguay, U.S.
imperialism, dangling the bait of
a multibillion dollar bribe to the
countries of Latin America,
sought to impose a virtual emon-
omic blockade against the Re-
public of Cuba and the Fidel
Castre government.

Such a sweeping economic
blockade and the application of
“sanctions”, had it been success-
ful, would have facilitated Yankee
imperialism’s attempts to in-
volve the Latin American coun-
tries in another of its shameful
military aggressions upon Cuba.

In Pentagon lingo, as expressed
by U.S. Foreign Secretary Dean
Rusk, the Castro government “
incompatible with the _inter-
American system.”

True, it is; the “inter-American
system” as dictated by U.S. im-
perialism in Latin America, was
well illustrated during the long
years of the Batista terrer and
oppression in« Cuba, before Fidel
Castro and the Cuban people put
an end to it. It is also well illus-
trated in other Latin American
states where U.S. military inter-
vention, bribery and “dollar-aid”

corruption aa ruthless and
unpopular regimes, bribed to hold
their own people in subjection,
poverty and degradation for -the
greater profit of U.S. monopoly.

Having written finis to such
a regime in Cuba, the Castro gov-
ernment is now branded “incom-
patible with the “American sys-
tem’, while Rusk and company
seek to use OAS as a springboard
for open aggression against the
Cuban people and their govern-
ment.

For ‘Canada the OAS confer-
ence has two main lessons; the
need to resist U.S. pressures for
Canada’s «membership in OAS,
where we would undoubtedly end
up by becoming another stooge
for Yankee imperialism in Latin
America, and second; for Canad-
ians to express in greater measure
than ever before, their warm
friendship, solidarity and ex-
panded trade between the peoples
of Canada and Cuba.

To make the “inter-American
system” between Canada and all
Latin America an avenue for
peace, democracy and progress,
rather than.a.Washington excuse
for launching an aggressive war
upon the Socialist Republic of
Cuba.

Throne smorgasbord

WO Throne speeches, one in

Ottawa and one in Victoria,
ran close to customary form; a
plethora.of wordy promises coupl-
ed with a conspicuous absence of
solid substance.

In Ottawa the Diefenbaker gov-
ernment got in a few good pre-
election licks with its “promised”
$10 boost to old-age pensioners,
with .cerresponding increases to
other pension categories; an old-
style Tory bribe to:garner votes.
The Canadian Tribune termed the
“bits and pieces” of the Speech
“a smorgasbord”, which just
about sums it up.

Over in Victoria the provincial’

Speech indicates (as ‘in Ottawa)
increased grants to universities,
some tinkering with an_ out-
moded Workmen’s Compensation
Board, further consolidation of
B.C.’s_publicly-owned power re-

sources administration, plus the _

“promise” of -a “substantial” re-
duction in the common man’s
electricity bills.

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Taken together by and_ large,
both Throne speeches are “more
honoured in the: breach than the
observance”. ‘of the peoples’ basic
pearls,

anti-Communist

In its December 15 edition the
Pacific Tribune published an
article prepared by a group of
Communists in the lumber in-
dustry; an article setting forth
the need of new union policies
for rank-and-file unity and strug-
gle to win wage gains, a shorter
work week, and other long-over-
due demands of the lumber work-
ers.

No one knows better (or should
know) than IWA president Joe
Morris, that the demands feat-
ured by the PT are widely held
among IWA members; that they
are basic to all unions entering
1962 wage negotiations. But like
every pie-card phoney who fears
‘rank-and-file unity in struggle
more than the bosses, Joe Morris
attempts.to sweep these demands
aside in a splenetic outburst of
anti-communist ‘red-baiting. And
does so in the bosses’ press.

As could be expected, the Van-
couver Province of January A
was one of the first to congratu-
late Morris. In-an- editorial -en-

titled ° “Hold the Fort, JOG 5 ss

the Province seized upon the op-

fort

portunity to bestow high praise
on Morris, and to read Mines
Minister Kenneth Kiernan “a
badly needed lesson” on hew -to
treat the Communists, a la the
Morris example.

(While addressing the recent
Mine-Mill convention it appears
Mr. Kiernan told the delegate
body they are “good people to
deal with,” which upset the Pro-
vince no end. Hence its lauditory
praise of the Morris red-baiting).

Mr. Morris, according to the
Province, doesn’t like the Com-
munists “attempting .to sway.
IWA attitudes towards a 1962.
contract. with the employers,”
and which, in the language of the
Province ‘could lead the way to
a ghastly amount of economic —
turmoil in B.C.”. Better no wage.
increases, no shorter work week, :
no nothing, etc. than changed —
“attitudes” of IWA membership
towards a bigger share of the vast
wealth they produce?

At the weekend conference of
the B.C. Federation of Labor,
called to co-ordinate and- unify
the wage struggle for 1962, the
incidence of Joe Morris and the
RCMP both speaking the same
McCarthyite language on the
same Province page,should not be
lost sight of. To “Hold The Fort”
a “maximum unity is needed:
Where anti-Communism is of-
fered as a substitute for united
struggle, the “Fort”, together
with the workers’ standards, will
fall. :

Tom
McEwen

of

OLLOWING long months

ecclesiastical debate on Church

of ‘England dogma, ‘the theological

bigwigs of that denomination have

finally decided to ‘Yeinstate’’ the
Devil.

It:may-berecalled that some time
ago in their plans to revive the
denominational catechism, the
bishops. strongly urged that Old
Sooty be disposed of. Even .now
they are split.right down the mid-
dle, with a bare 12 to 8 vote to
give Old Nick another ee term
in office.

Perhaps few ‘lay pedbte outside
those eeclesiastical geniuses “who
pose as “experts” on the subject,
ever gave the matter of bouncing
Old Nick a‘second thought. For
ourselves:we were just on the point
of repeating ‘that old cliche.about
not “caring Iess” when.an appeal-
ling ‘thought struck us — how
eould capitalism function at all
without Old Nick?

It just can’t be done. One might
as well expect capitalism to get
along without the Bankers Associa-

_ tion, the big monopolists, the “tear-
ful’ tyeoons, Diefenbaker or the
atomaniacs of Washingion, as to

expect it to operate without Old manity’s blood, sweat and ‘super-

Sooty. :
=. Under Socialism, yes, as the late
& Bishop Montgomery Brown said‘in

his book, “Banish Gods “From The
[2° Skies and Capitalists From. -The
“Barth”,
“"g’boar’s mammary glands.

“Old Nick is‘as useless as
But
under capitalism, not a_ chance.
There ‘the Old Boy rates an ‘im-
portance with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer in his juggling of
the “here” and the “hereafter.”
In the “Christian morality” of the
exploitation of man by man, Old
Nick plays a key role.

“From our earliest years the pun-
gent odor of a fiery brimstone lake
still lingers, and -with it the -pic-
ture of Old Nick and his devlish
horde of stokers shovelling us. poor
mortals in, dared we protest the
misery (and the ruling class) which
“Providence” was.alleged to have
chosen for us. Without Old Nick
and his brimstone furnace, capital-
ism would probably have taken its
final nose-dive long before now.

But times change. In our more
modern world the brimstone lake

-is rapidly. being replaced by the.

stition.

dress To The Deil to our readers,
which, among other things, out-
lines Old ‘Nick’s ‘vast’ services in
keeping mankind in check by sheer
‘devilishness, we ‘were indeed am-
azed at the bishop’s: revolutionary
courage in even suggesting that His
Satanic Majesty could or should
be thus deposed?

giving Old Sooty another 7-year
term in office went the other way,
there is no doubt he would have
had had these bishops, or others
harboring
thoughts’ promptly .hailed. before
the Un-American Activities Com-
mittee or some such tribunal, where
not even Diefenbaker’s Bill of
Rights could save their> ecclesiasti-
cal bacon.

“T_year experimental”
By that time the program for
building Communism in the Soviet
Union will be well on the way to
completion,
Nick works best for hate

-Commending Robbie Burns’ Ad-

Had the narrow marginal vote

such ‘dangerous

Anyhow Old Nick is now. on a

probation.

and since those Old
Com-

thermonuclear barbecue pit, with

Old Nick attired in the diplomatic

regalia of the “Free West’, and
armed with a “big stick” H-bomb
instead of his outmoded three-
pronged fork. His job however, re-
mains substantially the same; to
keep humanity obedient to the dic-
tates of an all-powerful monopoly
oligarchy — which fattens on hu-

munism as much as he is-said .to
hate “holy water’, ‘it looks as
though both are-on the “last mile”
on their way: out. }

Alas poor Yoriek, and three.
rousing cheers for the bishops. Had
the Communists made such a pro-
posal they would have been “ac-
cused of “undermining constituted —
authority.” :

February 2, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page