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The Liberal

HATEVER else it may have

achieved, the Liberal rally

held in Ottawa last week served to

pinpoint the growing upsurge of

political opinion in Canada against

continued U.S. domination of Can-
adian affairs.

Liberal leader Lester Pearson
and his top brass hierarchy, their
noses upwind for votes in the next
election, appeared to give tacit ap-
proval to a conrerence resoiution
calling for Canada’s withdrawal
from ‘integrated’ North American
Defense (NORAD). At the birth
of NORAD Pearson served as Can-
ada’s top midwife for the St. Laur-
ent government.

The plight of Canada’s jobless,
a national health scheme, a ‘square
deal’ for the farmers; there was
nothing the Liberal rally didn’t
promise, so finely was its vote-
cadging ear attuned to the rising
protests and demands of the Can-
adian people.

But Pearson and his top brass
backed away from one vital es-
sential to world peace; the seating
of People’s China in the UN. The
demand, raised by the young Lib-
erals at the rally, showed Pearson
wasn’t going anywhere so fast that
he couldn’t still do a spot of cold-
war service for U.S. imperialism,
and managed to have the China

resolution defeated by 216 to'116.

Pacific Tribune

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votes.

What Pearson and his vote-
angling Liberal brass failed to
grasp- was. that, among other
things, his coldwar | demagogy’
won’t: keep People’s China from its
rightful place in the UN, nor stop
the growing demands of the Can-
adian people for an end to coldwar
U.S. domination, by which the in-
dependence, prosperity and peace
of Canada is subverted.

Thus, fresh from the plastic
surgery of Liberal political ex--
pediency, it is doubtful if ‘Mike’
is going “leftward ho” .. . except
to jeok for votes.

Legislative issues

HEN the British Columbia

Legislature convenes this

month it must face a full. docket
of vital and pressing issues.

Sixty thousand jobless British
Columbians and their families are
looking for something more than
ministerial ‘sympathy,’ “prom-

ises” and Socred oratory about.

some vague and distant ‘bright
future’. To the jobless the leg-
islature’s obligation :can° be ex-
pressed in two short, simple words:
work.and wages Now!

And, in case it should be thought
otherwise by a monopoly-domin-
ated Socred administration,. “work

and wages’ will not be attained by

additional anti-labor legislation,

designed to put.a tighter dog-collar
on organized labor in order that -

monopoly profits remain at an all-
time high.

Of vital concern to the people
also is the shameful sellout by
Messrs. Bennett and Diefenbaker
of the Columbia River Develop-
ment deal, with U.S. imperialism
the prime beneficiary. This vital
issue requires a full-dress debate

ing this infamous deal and ©
veloping the Columbia River

sources for its rightful ownel®
the people of B.C. 1

in the legislature, aimed at ~

municipal. financing,

of adequate educationa }
and opportunity for every Bri
Columbia child and youth; no ¥
of pressing issues. The only pl
lem disturbing the minds of W
sections-of the people is: cam!
will a top-heavy and smug Sod
legislature face up to these issuf

One way to assure that a nU
ber of these pressing problems 1
not be swept under the Sod
carpet, and particularly those 4
mediately. affecting the: wellbéf,
of working people from factl,
and farm, employed and uné
ployed: alike, is to see to it #
large delegations and demons!
tions are on hand to remind 't
legislators that. buck-passing 4
political juggling is no longer!
garded as a substitute for Py
gressive and decisive measures

The year 1961 demands that
stead of Bennett and comp4
“telling” the people of B.C.,—
people will tell Bennett, and
Legislature is the place to do }

Tom

| McEwen

OME views on 1961 by old-time
S youngstere upon whom the
years may weigh, but whose vision
and hope for a socialist world re-
mains undimmed as they pass
Time’s milestones.

“Well Tom I am sorry to say old
age is catching up with me. I am
now 84 and can’t get around the
way I used. to, but I don’t think
it will be long. now before capital-
ism is finished off for good.”

That was Bob Kydd of Prince
Rupert, greeting 1961, and-worry-
ing because he couldn’t remain
what he once was, one of the most
outstanding = workingclass ~ press
salesmen in Canada ,bar none.

another youngster of 85 summers

young rebel. “I think the jig is
up for Yankee impertalism. They’re
getting desperate and that’s never
a sign of strength. When the people
unite and pull tgoether the day of
the exploiter and warmonger is
over. I think 1961 will see big vic-
tories-for socialism. Anyway I’m

Joe Ivens of Okanagan Mission, °

greeted 1961 with all the fire of a’

going to be-around to see it.”

It should be said that Joe is also
one of those youthful pensioners
who regularly cut a goodly slice
from their meagre income every
menth to assure that a working-
class press keeps rolling. And Joe
is “only” 85 years young.

Then we have some greetings
for 1961 from the rebel poet of
Whonock, Allan Grant, who has
just passed his 84th milestone.
Allan. invariably expresses his
hopes for socialism in verse. Here’s
a stanza from one of -Allan’s
lengthy ditties on Uncle Sam’s
grabbing -habits:

“You do not play along with Hoyle .

You plant your warriors on our
soil,

And. pay the boring brothers
Doyle

To drill and. grab up all our oil.

This really makes: a-patriot: boil

To see our Diefs so-dammed dis: .

loyal...”

This coming Friday John Bing-
ham will celebrate his 86th birth-
day, while his lifelong companion
Mrs. Bingham has just passed her
85th milestone.

“Between the wife and I” says
John, “we have 171 years of hope
and effort. I think 1961 will see
us much closer to socialism. Any-
way the working people can’t lose
now in a world already half social-
sti

These two grand veterans of

socialist effort and hopes, despi
the infirmities of advancing yeas
rarely miss any gathering or
fair where workingclass strugg}
are the theme. With them a
burns the unquenchable determi
tion to leave the world a bettf
place than they found it.

Another youngster who j (
passed his 82nd milestone a
weeks ago, veteran of the BO
war of 1899 and lifelong socialist?
Henry Vigor. In terms of prodi®
tion Comrade Vigor is probalt
the most vigorous and versalh
correspondent this or any workil
class paper ever had.. Rarely}
week passes without a _ lengt)
letter or article on current, lo@
or internationa: events. by corr@
pondent Vigor. Much of it, due |
space limitations can not be us@

‘but-is- always appreciated. Thé,

however, doesn’t stop this gral
socialist veteran. from. ‘getting;
off his chest’ and sending it alot
Youngsters like Joe Ivens, be
Kydd, John Bingham, Allan Grat
H. Vigor and others could proba)
tell us that the “secret” of th
years is not simply in “living
but living with a purpose. That
probably why they regard 1961 #
a decisive year for socialist 4
vance. And, as John Bingham s@

‘on the evening of Tim Buck’s 74

birthday banquet in Vancouvé
“the working people can’t lose n@
in a world already half Socialis¥

January 20, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE Pah

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