FE A eee 5 ponent ya a a oe, ee \) se xk VER a century ago in one of his historic addresses to the electors of York, William Lyon Mackenzie warned, “never trifle with your rights.” Current attempts of city prose- cutor Stewart McMorran and an NPA-dominated city council to make any traffic policeman prose- cutor, judge and jury (via ‘regis- tered mail’) against any erring mo- torist running foul of our parking meter tax collection agency, and who may fail to ante-up with the promptness demanded, shows that Mackenzie’s sterling advice is still far from being outdated. : Despite an elaborate tax collect- ing machinery which has evolved with this motor age, hitting an an- nual ‘take’ of well over. $1-million in Vancouver alone, and which has much more the appearance of a gigantic racket to rook the car The voice of Africa NE of the most significant con- ferences of heads-of-state in this era, certainly insofar as its deliberations may have far-reach- ing consequences for the so-called “free”. Western nations, was the meeting of six African nations in Casablanca last week. Keynoting the conference, King Mohammed V of Morocco proposed a Pan-African Union that would put an end to foreign imperialists exploitation, intervention and in- trigues on the continent of Africa. The king urged that a perma- nent African Council and an Afri- can Consultative Assembly be cre- ated to render all aid to African states and peoples fighting for their freedom and independence. The conference Pan-African pro- gram calls for the “unification of the African continent, politically and economically,” and the expul- sion of all foreign intervention in African affairs. Looks from now on in the Black man is getting set to take up his own “burden” and dispense with the White man‘s load? More power to his arm. Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN:- - Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH Business Mor. — OXANA BIGELOW: Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Stree Vancouver 4, B.C. = Phone MUtual 5-5288 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. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa. Economy ight owner than a ‘law enforcement’ agency, it would appear that those running the show are irked at the slowness and “expense” of raking in the boodle. Thus when John Doe is ticketed for 3-minutes ‘overparking’ and fails to show up at the ‘pay’ wicket pronto, instead of receiving the usual summons entitling him to his inalienable right of “due process of law,” he will get a registered let- ter ‘virtually telling him of his guilt’ (traffic cop’s deposition), and adding another $500.00 fine or six months in the jug if “he doth protest too much.” He may be an- other John Doe entirely, but ‘mis- taken identity’ is not the concern of the knights of the parking meter. Vancouver citizens would be well advised to keep a sharp eye on city hall; to assure that such NPA in- fringements upon the. civil and democratic rights of the people, motorist or non motorist, are halt- ed before they get started. Filling city coffers at the cost of civil lib- erties is too costly in the long run. ' EDITORIAL PAGE * N January 6 in the year 1891 in the heart of one of Eng- land’s famed beauty spots a boy was born. Nothing extraordinary ~ about that. It was happening every day by the thousands; some wel- comed into the world with parental longing and-love, others with a ‘bli’’me, another mouth to feed’. But this particular addition to a, respected Suffolk family, in which daughters predominated and where politics was as British as the after- noon ‘spot of tea’ was one of those historic events, destined to put the stamp of its being, far beyond the environs of a quiet English count- tryside home. - The years of his early schooling completed, his trade as a skilled - machinist mastered, this young lad chose Canada as his adopted. - land, here to fulfill his destiny as one of its foremost pioneers, car- rying forward the message of a new social science; the science of Marxism-Leninism in the hands of the Canadian working class by which it would build a new human society—Communism. Happy birthday, Tim ey eae Tim Buck, fearless. fighter for Socialism, educator, agitator, prop- agandist; champion of human rights, equality and brotherhood; pioneer fighter. for Communism and the end of ‘man’s exploitation by man.’ Veteran Communist lead- er and Internationalist, whose ap- plication and enrichment of Marx- ist-Leninist ‘science in his adopted, Canada and in the advance sectors _of a new Socialist world, has be- queathed great riches to his fellow men and women everywhere. Tim Buck, loved by countless millions of his-° comrades - and friends, within and beyond the bor- ders of Canada, because of his matchless integrity, warm person- ality and devotion to their cause; and hated but respected, by the en- emies of the class he has served for close to 50 years. On his 70th birthday the Cana- dian workingclass and the Marxist- Leninist Communist Party that his devoted efforts has built from its ranks greets Tim’ Buck with ad- miration and pride as they say: Happy birthday, Tim.” Tom McEwen HE voluminous Chant report on T education and what should be done about it is the third major effort of its kind submitted for Canadian public digestion in re- cent times. Similar commissions in Alberta and Manitoba have also added weighty volumes: on the subject. It may be noted that a similar problem exists in other capitalist countries, Britain and the USA in particular, where government com- missions of one sort or another have been filling additional vol- umes on the subject, and strangely enough, (or perhaps not so general set of fire-sale “solutions.” It. all ‘began one nice sunny day away back .on October «4, 1957, when ‘Sputnik,’ the first man- made satelite took off into orbit from a Soviet launching. siation. That sputnik just about blew all , our illusions, our, smug complacen- ey, and our vaunted ‘“know-how”’ plumb to’ hell. _ 3 Twelve years before Sputnik 1 »the atomic age broke upon man- kind, ‘symbolized: by: a U.S. mon- ster standing astride two Japanese cities, reduced to ashes in on blind- ing flash, and ‘threatening the world with like destruction if it didn’t: come to heel. strange?) putting forward the same ~ . sent day standards, while converse- This monster didn’t. call forth the need of more or “better’’ edu- cation. On the contrary, it stimu- lated the colossal stupidity of all time — that the atomaniac knew it all, that his ‘know-how’ sur- passed all the ages. On this we rested, smug, complacent, com- piant, cocksure and _ criminally inept. Then a succession of “Sputniks” and spaceships, each marking a new advancement in_ scientific achievement, and man’s knowledge. of the vast universe in which he lives for a brief moment as an infinitesmal speck. Worse, all the little Ivans and Ivanovas, who not only know their three “Rs” and the meaning of true culture, but have the opportunity to take up the tools of all the sciences, “‘voca- tional’ and “academic” almost as soon as they set aside their teeth- ing rings were away out in front with Sputnik. Clearly that would never do. 2 Now the problem: how to “catch up”, hence our multiplicity of com- missions and our wide variety of class-encrusted ‘‘solutions.” The battle of the bourgeois ‘‘egghead’”’ titans is on, those sages who “talk about it and, about, and evermore go in the same door as they came out,” each with their bright-child- dull - child - more - work ~- and- less-frills formulas all neatly fold- ed in place, and oblivious to a great universal truth; viz, that not a few of the world’s greatest men have been rated illiterate by pre- ly, many of the world’s. most. high- ‘ly educated men (past and present), are also our most . scintillating ignoramuses. ignoramuses -achieved this emin- ence by adhering strictly to the idea that academic education was the property of a ruling caste, and not to be confused or ‘associated with the “vocational” lower orders. we read from Canada, Britain, - France, there is no’ suggestion or recom- mendation that we should begin to spend a nation’s wealth on books instead of H-bombs,.on schools and universities in place of armories and bomb bases, stead of nuclear what little they do recommend that would be of some use in their turtle-like. marathon to ‘“‘catch up” is stymied by their funereal silence on educational financing. understood by working people, that great mass generally desig- nated by inference as mic”, it is remarkable that the “intelligensia’” who presume to in- struct us on how to suck eggs, shouldn’t also be able to grasp it quite readily. Rest assured they will—tiater. The “industrial revolution” requir-: ed that wage earners must know the rudiments of the three “R’s” to operate the spinning jenny. The ‘atomic age demands that knowl- edge and property and right of the common people. The Soviet peoples and the countries of Socialism ,have won this right. That’s why they’re way -out ahead.. We’ll win ‘it too, not -- by reports which evade the issue, but by a united people facing up to it. - Doubtless these “educated” So far in all the Chantic reports the U.S. and elsewhere, on science in- suicide. Even Since that opinion is readily “‘unacade- . ‘< : Meantime history marches on. science become the Pe an Oh awd (2 ee ee oe es oe nl me a Kn Aa we AD ® £4 get bed cn et bet fel OC A!