Good move—bad aim Barris Columbia fishermen, and we have no doubt Atlantic sea- _ board fishermen too, welcome the ' Liberal government’s projected “12-mile limit” provision for the protection and conservation of Canadian fisheries resources. If however, Fisheries Minister H. J. Robichaud’s interpretation of this long-overdue measure can be taken at face value, only one con- clusion can be drawn; that it has not been projected to protect Can- adian fisheries resources, but rather to “hot-up” the coldwar against the Soviet Union? Studiously avoiding the plight of Pacific Coast fisheries, and the mounting encroachment of these Canadian waters by American and Japanese fishermen, Mr. Robi-. chaud sees only Russian fishing fleets in Atlantic coastal waters and announces his readiness to - “call on the navy” to blast these: Soviet fishermen off the Atlantic Coast? This should make Washington intensely happy, particularly since the Minister has “assured” his U.S. bosses that as far as U.S. fishing is concerned our “12-mile limit” won't restrict their continued large-scale poaching in Canadian territorial waters? - Thus what should be regarded asa highly-desirable protective EDITORIAL PAGE measure for our Atlantic and Pacific fisheries and fishermen, is reduced by Mr. Robichaud toa tub-thumping instrument of anti- Soviet coldwar with “gunboat” accompaniment? It would be reasonable to expect that if the protection of Canadian fisheries were the government’s prime motive for the ‘“12-mile limit”, that further effective steps are vitally necessary, and first and foremost the scrapping of the Washington-Japan coldwar North Pacific Fisheries Treaty, to which | the Liberal government of Mac- kenzie King also gave ‘““yesman” accent. | Instead we see the Pearson gov- ernment giving accent to treaty amendments, regardless of the al- most solid opposition of B.C. fishermen, to permit Japan to raid B.C.’s herring and halibut grounds at will. -As a corollary to the 12-mile limit provision, a new treaty is re- quired, a treaty which includes the Soviet Union and which commits the four principle Pacific countries to a policy of fisheries conservation and safeguards. A treaty not designed as a bribe- to hold Japan in the U.S. coldwar - orbit—and a “12-mile limit” witha . purpose other than to serve as a- Liberal “gunboat” threat to Soviet fishermen. Editorial comment... Some sections of the kept _ press are making a valiant effort to extricate Britain’s flapable Tory Mac Millan from the moral filth and slime in which some of his top ministers have been wallowing of - late. The boys in the editorial back rooms tackle this herculean job by attempting to focus attention and emphasis upon an alleged Russian “spy” and “playboy”, rather than upon the Tory ministerial brothel. Thus, if we must admit the guilt of a British minister in a “red- head” chicken coop, we may even get brainwashed into the idea that he was there “‘in the line of duty” —to catch a “spy” in the same chickencoop? __ In the old days the “mission- ary” preceeded the colonialists to do a “softening-up” job on the na- tive peoples. In this era with the native peoples in revolt against a ruthless exploitation, the “mission- ary” is being replaced bya U. Ss. A Basutoland Paper puts it this way. “The U.S. ‘peace corps’ is, in fact, an espionage organization, carrying on subversive activities in Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM._McEWEN Editor—MAURICE RUSK Business. See RA gues ce “kai — rg - Canadian ahd. Commonwealth coun tries (except: Australia): -$4.00 ore year. Australia, United States and all other- countries: $5.00 one year: Authorized as second class rail by various countries of Asia, NEES and Latin America... role of neo-colonial missionaries . -. to undermine the people’s strug- — gles...” playing the. 3 false ‘security’ ¥V ITH some slight variations, every Canadian secretly hounded, presecuted or otherwise denied the elementary rights of citizenship by the RCMP for his or her political opinions and ideals, is done under the specious pretext of ‘“‘security,” of “safeguarding the public in- terest.” " That word “security” serves to - cover up a lot of evils. RCMP snooping on the activ- ities of a strictly legal political party—the Communist Party, on sections of the Canadian trade un- ion movement, on peace groups, even on the activities of certain Members of Parliament; all are done under the pretext of “‘secur- rh as When an M.P. places a question on the order paper or asks direct the responsible minister how many U.S. aircraft fly over Canadian territory daily loaded with deadly atomic warheads, the “‘security” gag is trotted out. “It would not be THE “FREE WORLD” ‘We're all workers now! It’s just that some have more work than others!” Hirst in the weekly Tribune (Britain) Comment in the public interest,” recites. the minister in well-rehearsed liturgy, and that is that. The only logic of this sort of “security” is that the “‘public in- terest’ is best served by having such death-dealing weapons poised over Canada? When some major bourgeois gov ernment scandal involving financal graft, straight sellout, or sordid de- generacy forces its way into the- open (the latter highlighted in the present British Profumo-Keeler war cabinet brothel), the “secur- ity” stunt is brought into play and the “‘public interest”’ is deemed _ best served by flat refusal to fill in the detail. _ It was ex-U.S. president Wood- row Wilson, imbued with the ideal that peace and amity could be best served by “open covenants openly arrived at.’”’ Today that concept is regarded as a decided handicap to the modern techniques of imperial- ‘ist criminal war alliances and con- spiracies, which originate, feed and grow in a tightly-guarded atmo- sphere of alleged ‘‘security” and the “public interest.”’ In fact it can be said that every conspiratorial move against the people’s best interests by the man- ipulators of coldwar and nuclear bomb “defense” (read monopoly contracts), is carried on under the false pretense of “‘security”’. And so on all down the line. Obviously the real “security risk” is a pro-U.S. Liberal minority government inOttawa; a govern- “ment whose performances and give-aways to U.S. imperialism during its few weeks in office come closest to fitting that classical-re- tort—“not in the public interest’’? espite all good advice on the D subject, it would appear that Commissioner -C. W. Harvison of the RCMP just can’t help getting himself all “tied up in Knotts” as a result of RCMP “security” sleuth- ing? Without wasting too much space speculating. on how big a hand the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion (FBI) have in all this ‘‘anti-sub- versive” cloak-and-dagger binge of the RCMP in recent times, it is becoming painfully obvious that something more than wordy apolo- _ getic platitudes from the Justice Department on the extra-legal ac- tivities of its political police is re- quired in defense of the rights of the citizen, his integrity and his “ livelihood. — -The Lake Cowichan Knott fam- ily case is just another disgraceful | example in a long list of citizens being hounded, persecuted and pen- © alized on the strength of false ‘“evi- dence” gathered (or concocted) or _ both by RCMP personnel; by a so- called “Security & Investigation branch which obviously substitutes coldwar anti-Communist brain- washing for knowledge in a desper- ate effort to “get their man” variably the wrong one? Not long ago there was the Win- nipeg “Orlikov case,” then the Win- =——AT= :nipeg school boy. One happened to visit the local Communist offices in that city, the other to describe San- ta Claus as a ‘““Communist” because of his traditional generosity to mankind. That was enough for the RCMP’s “S&I” snoop brigade to brand both suspect; to turn on the intimidation and penalizing screws. Then, of course, we had ex-Tory ’ minister of justice Davie Fulton tendering profound “regrets” and apologies for the actions of his de- partmental Gestapo, just as the lib- eral ditto-ditto has now been com- pelled to do in the Knott scandal. And here we might pose another _ question stemming from this offi- cial departmental apologia’ and which, it may be added, is only forthcoming when there is no other way to weasel out of this police state methods; why the need to “apologize” altogether for alleged or factual association with a legal Canadian political party? Why not instead, declare an end to this Ges- tapo-like infringment of elementary rights of citizens? Some time ago RCMP Commis- sioner Harvison got very hot and bothered over the Sidney Katz art- icle in Maclean Magazine of April 20, entitled ‘Inside Canada’s Secret Police’ = From our own observation based on not a little first-hand experience with the RCMP’s “S&I’’ sleuths, Katz’ had, if anything, greatly understated the case. According to an Ottawa press story the Commis- sioner branded much of the Katz material as ‘‘misleading and con- fusing, containing fabrications and half-truths’? : While we don’t agree with the Commissioner’s analysis and des- cription of the Katz article, we bow to the superiority of his adminis- tration in the production of “mis- leading . . . fabrications and half- truths”. That is unasailable and every recurring “apologia’”’ from the justice department confirms it. In his reply to the Katz broad- side Commissioner Harvison went into some detail on the ‘‘training” in his “S&I’ snoop school, where a class of budding stools must master “Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin and Trots- ky, as well as the Canadian and Australian ‘royal commission’ re- ports on espionage.” Frankly, we can even feel a twinge of sympathy for those poor devils cooped up with Bukharin and Trotsky, then sent out in a tax- payer’s car to “tail” what they think is a reasonable facsimile of the same. And no one should know better than Commissioner Harvison that the “evidence” recorded in the “royal commission” “text books’ wouldn’t be admissable in any Can- adian court of law. They are “text books’”’ of coldwar, built upon anti- Soviet hysteria, and highly embel- lished’ with RCMP “fabrications and_ halftruths.” Hence the end result of such “education” _is inevitable; more citizens defamed, slandered and persecuted by a coldwar Gestapo mentality—more. “apologies”, and more “explanations” that explain’ nothing—except the self-inflicted degradation of a once fine police — force. Perhaps a partial solution could be found in a new RCMP chief not handicapped with a ‘John Leopold alias Jack Esselwein' men- tality? "