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Jobs vs. jails

Working men from other areas of Canada are said to be
“flocking” to Vancouver-and other B.C. centers in
search of the illusive job. If true, the cause is clearly ob-

vious.

For years now, from one end of the country to the
other, Premier Bennett and his Socred crew have been
whooping it up about B.C.’s most fabulous “prosperity”.
Just nothing to equal it anywhere, according to smiling

Wac! ;

No doubt, from Big Business and monopoly’s point of
view, this “prosperity” is very real, as the MacMillans and
the U.S. trusts will verify. Their profit intake has never
been more lucrative, as under Socredia.

So, under the illusion that B.C.’s much-touted “pros-
perity”’ means jobs, the jobless are said to “flocking” in,
and swelling a permanent jobless “Skidroad”, an area rare-
ly touched by this lop-sided “prosperity.”

The powers-that-be, alarmed by this Skidroad “boom”
are donning their “thinking caps” and coming up with
some 1930-vintage “solutions ’to meet this alleged influx,
motivated largely by Socred bombast.

“We need more policemen,” say police top brass, or

words to that effect. More cops to take care of this grow-
ing segment of “prosperity” seekers. And from another
quarter comes the hoary plea for “bigger and better jails”
—to safeguard those who hold the substance of “prosper-
ity” against the jobless who may be lured by the shadow.

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leaders!”

Whose ‘banner’?

Be anything more were needed to underline the splitting
and divisive role of the so-called “Progressive Workers
Movement” (PWM), it is the big spread given their “Pe-
king Line” in the November 14 edition of “The Province.”

This typical Goldwater sheet, long notorious for its
anti-labor policies on all matters pertaining to organized
labor, projects “PWM” leaders Jack Scott and Jerry Le
Bourdais the true standard-bearers of “the proud banner
of proletarian struggle,” with the Goldwater sheet writer
Tom Hazlitt adding punch to this characterization with
a lengthy quotation from the preface to the “Communist
Manifesto” of 1848. :

Whatever “ideological” or other differences the
“PWM” and its leaders may presume to have with the
Communist Party of Canada or other sections of the world
Communist movement; differences largely stemming from
the “Peking Line” as illustrated in “The Province” blurb,
it would appear that these leaders must now lend them-
selves and their “views” to this notorious anti-labor sheet,
as a media for furthering their ultra-leftist views.

From long experience we have invariably found that
when anti-workingclass sheets like “The Province” find
favor with our ideals or actions, it is time to take a good
long hard look—at ourselves. In this case the Goldwater
sheet.is running true to form to utilize the *P WM” to
attack and attempt to disrupt the Communist Party, and
to defile the historic Communist Manifesto in the process.

For the “PWM” leaders it would seem to be —

: any
port in a storm.

Statesman” which a “PT”
reader left on our desk contains
two revealing articles, each in
their widely separated domain,
but both vividly illustrating how
monopoly, “private enterprise”
or “vested interests,” call them
what one may, ravage and de-
stroy the human and natural re-
sources wherever their blight-
ing hand touches,

One article poses the question,
“Who Owns Scotland,” the other
“America, the Sick Giant.” Back
in our younger years one of our
most cherished books bore the
title “Our Scots Noble Families”
by Tom Johnstone, The author
has long since “passed to his
reward” but this parasitic “no-
bility” who won their “inheri-
tance” by pillage, robbery, trea-
son, mass murder, spoilation
and bribery, plus every other
crime in the calendar, are still
very much to the fore in Scot-
land’s “noble families” of today,

Space does not permit a full
breakdown of the total area

Tom
- McEWEN

he July 14 edition of the “New

“owned” by this parasitic “nobili-
ty” of the 30,405 square miles
which constitutes Scotland, but
according to the “New States-
man” a score or more of these
titled parasites “own” individual
estates ranging all the way from
500,000 to 40,000 acres,

Britain’s ex-premier*Sir” Alex
Douglas-Home “owns” some 60,-
000 acres, which,-as the “New
Statesman” points out “have been
in the family since the 13th cen-
tury,” Elaborating on this “own-
ership” the author tells us that
“less than 50 years ago, on their
Angus estates, thepremier’s
forebears levied twopence on
every pound of butter, and four-
pence on every dozen eggs sold in
Kirriemuir market place,” This
was easy since Sir Alex “owned
the ground on which the market
stalls stood.” Such feudal “levies”
help to explain whyScottish weav-
ers and textile workers lived
their lives in abject poverty and
want, and why butter and eggs and
other foods were for the “well-
to-do” only,

But this “hereditary” or “noble
ownership” is not all confined to
parasitic “dukes,” “lords” and
the like, Big British and Ameri-
can monopoly in the realm of
finance, industry, drugs, auto,
real estate, etc., are also big
“landowners” with areas ranging
from 100,000 to 60,000 acres
each, Even the modern * industry”
of tourism, and all the natural
beauty and history whichScotland
can boast, is frowned upon by
these “noble” parasites who

“own” the bulk of the country,

They don’t want the tourist hoi
polloi encroaching upon their vast
feudal-monopoly domains,

“America, The Sick Giant,” as
seen by the “New Statesman,” is
afflicted with a slightly different
disease than the “nobility” blight
of Scotland, but the end result for
the common people is much the
same,

“America has never been so
prosperous, , . , On the eastern
seaboard the three-car two-
house family is now a common
phenomenon , , , never have cor-
poration feet been planted quite
so. firmly under the White House
dining table, Yet on the adminis-
tration’s own admission, one-
fifth of the nation, , , nearly 40
million people . .. live below
the poverty line ... perhaps as
many as six million are, in fact,
unemployed, ,. .”

And so on, a Statistical index

of wealth and poverty, of auto-
mation and jobless wage earners,
agriculture in “catastrophic”
ruin, and the Appalachian re-
gions of the Eastern UnitedStates
“A Dante’s inferno of submerged
classes, each worse off and less
protected than the last,”

‘The “New Statesman” says—
“Let us begin our grisly descent
with the Appalachian miners , , ,
deep mining now finished, as
uneconomic . , , and succeeded

in turn by strip-mining, which

can only be described as acrime

against Nature and mankind, ..as -

for the human beings who live
there, they are conscripted by the
companies, work for non-union
wages in conditions which make
enforcement of safety regulations
difficult, and are then cast aside
like the debris of their hills , , ,
here unrestricted free enterprise
is engaged in the systematic de-

Worth ©
Quoting
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What worries some people, myself
included, is that so much of the foreign
capital invested in Canada _ . . is in the
form of equity investments that can
never be paid back if the foreign own”
ers do not wish to sell.

The most recent figures availab!
show that at the end of 1961 our total
foreian liabilities had reached $278
billion, and nearly half of that amount!
$13.7 billion, was in the form of direct”
investment in foreign-controlled bran
plants and subsidiaries.

This means that much of Canadian
industry—certainly a very great deal 4

our big industry—is controlled by 0 —
sentee owners and could continue {0 ?

controlled by absentee owners more
Jess indefinitely.

I do not believe this to be health
(because) no nation, including Can?
can pretend to be independent }
ally if it surrenders too much econom
Power to the residents of other cou”

= ies. —WALTER GORDON,
Minister of Finance

*

The Chinese who really count. i
spite of all the propaganda the westemm
world has endured in recent years, age
the 700 million mainland Chinese, 1
the 12 million people on the island ©
Formosa. The mainland Chinese - -
probably better off and better educat-
ed than ever before in their thousan@
of years of history.

We can perpetuate the hypocrisy %
recognizing the discredited Chiang Kai
shek as the ruler of China, when all he
actually rules is little Formosa, and this
solely because he is propped up by the
U.S. and has killed, jailed or exiled his

Formosan opponents.

.. . So let us use whatever influence
we have to get 700 million Chinese
info the UN and to cancel Chiang's U
veto privileges. And let us have 4 for
eign policy that doesn’t consist of say”
ing ‘‘me too” whenever the U.S. lays
down the law
_ —MACLEAN'S,
Canada’s National Magazin®

struction of a countryside . «
trees and fields, rivers and fish,
land and subsoil, animals, birds,
men, women and children,.++ —

Not a pretty picture, in scot-
land or in“prosperous” Americ)
but highly reminiscent of the Irish
poet Goldsmith’s condemnatio® —
of a social system, when
wrote:

“Ill fares the land, tohastenine
ills a prey, a

Where wealth accumulates; —
and men decay,” ;

The parallel could also apply
to our own country—Canada, we
our natural resources, our indUr”
try, and our historic right © ‘eg é
dependence, is largely ‘owned We
foreign and home-grown monop? -
These at least are eminent oe

“prosperous” !
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