“In America everyone has the opportunity to reach the highest positions in the

land — the graveyards are full of them!”’

EDITORIAL
Violence-product of USA

N: laws to restrict or abolish the sale of guns, mail-order or:
other retail forms, following the tragic murder of Senator
Robert F. Kennedy, will not eliminate or cure this terrible sickness,
deep-rooted in U.S. society. This cancerous disease does not origin-
ate from a gunsmith’s display counter but from the sick mind of a
society which bases its survival and power to dominate by resort
and appeal to violence and killing rather than upon reason and
morality.

Last week’s dastardly assassination of Robert F. Kennedy has
once again in all its stark and hideous reality, pointed up the savage
truth that the killers are not mere individuals with a homicidal-
political grudge against their intended victims, but a cog in a sin-
ister network of conspiracy involving the top circles in a sick society
which seeks to ‘rub out” opposition, whether it be a prominent
citizen or a whole peoples as in Vietnam.

The killers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy were carefully
hidden away by the report of the Warren Commission investigators,
the FBI, the Dallas police and other governing circles, who selected
a psychopath for a “fall guy,” then saw to it that he too was
‘bumped off’? (while in police custody) before he could speak his
piece.

Then there was the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King,
(whose killer is now allegedly apprehended) which points up another
foul conspiracy, (even reaching into Canada), for the murder of
one of America’s and the world’s greatest Negro leaders and advo-
cates for peace; both ideals highly detrimental to the genocidal
class rule of a sick society — in the Negro ghettos and the Deep South
of the U.S., and to the escalation of its murderous genocide in
Vietnam. ;

Now it is Robert F. Kennedy, the latest victim of the assassin’s
bullet, adding to a heavy burden of tragedy upon a prominent U.S.
family — but a still greater tragedy for the U.S. itself: a grim re-
minder of the narrow margin between its boasted democracy and
civilization, and its inherent reliance upon violence in every con-
ceivable form, rather than to civilized norms of tolerance, reason
and morality.

An enlightened U.S. Communist press describes these assassin-
ations as ‘*. . . a reflection of the violence and brutality and decay of
human values that result from policies of wars of aggression and
racism . . . and which will continue as long as the U.S. follows this
dead-end path.”

This doubly confirms that no one in the upper circles of U.S.
society had any designs on the life of Robert F. Kennedy when he
served as U.S. attorney-general and used the full force of the U.S.
Department of Justice to promote and advance the notorious Mc-

Carthyite coldwar witch-hunts, relentlessly prosecute all Com-

munists or other progressives, or railroad trade union leaders like
Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters Union to long prison terms.

Only when Robert F. Kennedy, responding to mounting public
pressures, took up the banner of peace:and challenged the reckless
and aggressive foreign policies of his country’s government in Viet-
nam and elsewhere: only then was the assassin’s bullet directed
against him, with the silencing finger of a sick society on the
trigger.

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LABOR SCENE.

Lumber bosses threaten)
coast IWA with lockout

Any ‘‘selective strike tactics’’ that
may be attempted by the IWA in the
present wage dispute negotiations
with Coast operators will be met by
the latter with an industry-wide
lockout. This was announced this
week by Forest Industrial Relations
(FIR) representative John Billings
in order to head-off what the big
lumber monopolists term the IWA’s
“divide and conquer”’ strategy.

While many of the smaller Coast

lumber operators are in a mood to

meet IWA wage and other fringe
benefits in a new contract, the big
MacMillan-Bloedel and similar
lumber giants are determined to
force a show-down with the union,
quite regardless of the cost or loss to
the B.C. lumber industry.

MacMillan-Bloedel chairman J.V.
Clyne (now joined by Socred ex-
attorney-general Robert Bonner)
recently made the public threat ‘‘to
close down the industry’’ should the
IWA persist with its wage demands.
This threat, coupled, with a strong
reliance of provincial government
backing via the Bill 33 compulsory
arbitration provisions, plus the
realization that the IWA strike fund

was greatly depleted by the 7-month

Interior IWA strike are strong
contributing factors to the M-B big
operators’ “‘tough line’’, prefaced by
threats of a “‘close down’’, and now a
lockout. :

As is known, J.V. Clyne was the
prime mover and ‘‘ghost writer”’ of
the government’s Bill 33 and its
‘mediation commission’, now filled
with the inclusion of a socalled
“labor representative’’ in the person
of Steel Workers’ Union
representative, Pen Baskin.

While it is known that the IWA
leadership had been considering new
methods of struggle for its wage
demands should strike action
become necessary, FIR has now
seized onto this to announce its
repeated threats of an industry-wide
shutdown, an action not only directed
against the IWA, but against the
economy and well-being of the whole
province.

IWA negotiations to date indicate
the possibility of the necessity of a
supervised government strike vote
beforé any strike action may be
taken. The union has already
conducted its own strike vote to back
up wage demands, showing a 91.9
percent in favor. The vote in the
loggers section of the union averaged

close to 95-percent in favor. A total
of some 28,000 lumber workers are
involved in the Coast dispute.
* KOK

Postal workers across Canada
have voted 91.2-percent in support of
strike action to back up their leaders
in current wage negotiations should
these prove unsatisfactory. The
recorded vote showed a total of
19,368 in favor of strike action and
1,635 against.

Many postal union members claim
that wage contract negotiations by
Liberal government representatives
have been dragged out to the point of
exasperation, and Canada’s
“‘posties’’ are in no mood to delay
action much longer.

New Westminster civil
employees, members of the
Canadian Union of Public Employees
(CUPE) will conduct a government:
supervised strike vote Wednesday of
this week. CUPE has asked for a 1
percent base rate wage increase
while a conciliation board had
recommended a 9-percent award in @
one-year wage contract. This wae
rejected by the City Council while
the union recorded a 97-percent
favor of the conciliation board
recommendation. Royal City mayor
Stuart Gifford says the city is trying
to ‘“‘hold the line”’ at 6-percent.

Sessions of the B.C. Division of the 9
Canadian Union of Public Employees]
are scheduled to open in Penticton ©

this weekend, June 14-15.

Retire Board
af SFU, says

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

There’s not much wrong at Simon
Fraser University today that
couldn’t be cured with a good dose of
reform applied to the university’s
Board of Governors.

The present Board has been found
wanting on two counts.

It stands accused of administering
the university in an increasingly
bureaucratic manner. Interference
in academic affairs, refusal to
communicate with the faculty or
students are only two of many
criticisms levelled against this
Board. :

This is why the 10,000 member
Canadian Association of University
Teachers took the unprecedented
step of censoring the Board of
Governors and the university’s
president.

Secondly, the composition-of the
Board is not representative of the
community. As presently constituted
it is composed of business men and
lawyers representing large
corporations. In short the Board
represents only the Establishment, a
tightly closed and powerful but
numerically small segment of our
population. :

Those who are governed (the

faculty and students) are excluded; .

so are the 210,000 member B.C.
Federation of Labor, the 19,000

HEAR

TIM
BUCK

NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, CPC

@ PORT ALBERNI

@ BURNABY

Sun., June 23 - 8 P.M.
Longshoremen’s Hall

Mon., June 24 - 8 P.M.
Nordic Hall, Burnaby

of Governors
Ald. Rankin

member B.C. Federation of
Teachers, the Council of Churche5; —
the B.C. Civil Liberties Association
and other community groups.

The faculty at SFU is seeking 7
fair and democratic universilY
administration, security of tenure
with a proper system of hiring 4"
promotions, and_ serious
consideration by the Board of its
views.

The students back them up and 6°
a step further. They want a new tyPé
of University Board of Governots —
and Senate where faculty, students
and public representatives W!
determine policy.

These demands are hardly radical ;
or revolutionary by today *
standards. Yet they have met with4 -
solid wall of opposition by the Board
of Governors, and both students am
faculty have been angered by what it
they considered distortion of the! —
position by the Establishme®!
controlled news media of our city.

Only last Saturday, June 8, f°
example, one of our da! y
newspapers editorially labelled ie a
students ‘‘boors and wastrels
guilty of ‘‘tarmoil and disruptio?
and putting forward ‘preposterous
demands’.

In my contact with SFU students!)
have found them serious 2?
responsible young men and womel ay
Far from being out to ‘raise hell
just for the fun of it and at public \\
expense, their concern is to improve
the quality of education at simon
Fraser which at this stage requires #
more democratic administration.

I think the whole University A¢t

whould be overhauled to make © |}

progressive and democratic. In the

meantime the provincial cabine I

could retire about three quarters ae
the present Board and replace them An
with public and univers}
representatives.

The universities of our province do
not belong to the Establishment! Ay
they belong to the people who pay the
bills. It’s only fair and reasonab!
that the people should have a saY ite
their management. :

If you belong to a union, ratepaye
church, PTA, veteran or othe
community group, why not invite”
Simon Fraser students to se?
delegates to your next meeting?
them explain what is going on 2?
what they want; and you in turn !
them how you feel about reforms a

SFU. Sik ees ae