The current edition of the NDP
organ “The Democrat” comment-
ing on the present upsurge of
organized labor in B.C. to meet
the evil effects of Socred anti-
labor legislation. places emphasis
on the urgent need of united labor
political action and through - the
NDP to end this intolerable situa-
tion. 2

This emphasis will be welcomed
by large sections of organized
labor who have long stressed the
need of ce nbining political action
with economic struggle, and par-
ticularly where such struggles
are precipitated by vicious restric-
tive legislation, which has as its
prime aim the smashing of al!
unions daring to strike.

Thus, if followed up boldly by
the NDP and with the undivided
support of organized labor to com-
bine such political action through
the NDP, with the same high de-
gree of unity as is now manifest-
ed on numerous picket lines, the

outcome will not remain long in.

doubt; the elimination of a Socred
boss-contirolled government from
the B.C. legislature, and with
it! Bills 42-43.

Socred attorney-general Robert
Bonner has let it be known that

he is greatly “disturbed” at la-

EDITORIAL PAGE
Oust the ‘hoodoos’

bor’s determination not to be
smashed by Bills 42-43. The A-G
is now talking about an “investi-
gation” to discover what he calls
this “labor hoodoo’’.

The “hoodoo” he pretends to be
looking for can be readily found
in Bills 42-43, as can the violence
such restrictive measures incu-
bate. Surely the A-G hasn’t the
gall to argue that. police dogs on
a union picket line are manifesta-
tions of “peacefull’’ Socred con-
cern for the wellfare of labor. Or
has he? :

These anti-labor ball-and-chain
bills and those who sired them
have got to go. A united labor
movement, on the picket line and
through the media of united labor
political action. regardless of So-
cred restrictions or NDP right-
wing reluctance, in support of the
election of an NDP government
come the next election, can assure
a resounding victory on _ both’
fronts, and end this Socred “hoo-
doo” for keeps.

On the picket line labor’s strug-
gle for its basic rights is gaining
momentum. That must now be
complemented by united labor
political action, with the NDP in
the forefront as labor’s political
alternative to Socred “hoodoos’’.

Editorial comment ..

outh Africa’s minister of “Jus-
tice” Herr Vorster has issued
a 27-page list containing the nam-
es of 437 people “whose words
must never be repeated”. In the
minister’s opinion all are “Com-
munists,” and since he has also
declared that “Liberalism in
Seuth Africa is more dangerous
than Communism”, the political
composition of his gagged “Com-
munists” is pretty wide.

These include professors, trade
unionists, lawyers, doctors, jour-.
nalists, housewives, etc. They
even include a prominent S.A. Lib-
eral party leader and Nobel Peace
Prize winner, ex-chief Albert
Lutuli. A Durban attorney has
been sentenced to a 13-hours-a-
_ day “house arrest” for five years.

Obviously, “whom the gods
would destroy, they first make
mad.” : :

A recent meeting of Nanaimo
and district citizens who have
much more than a property inter-
est in the Horne Lake area, pro-
testing the sale of this holiday
and sports paradise to some un-

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known “German prince,” raises a

very interesting question; —
How much of B.C. territory,

Gulf Islands, beauty spots and
all, are being quietly sold to
“German princes” or other for-
eign “nobility”, magnates and so on?

Comment}

Act for peace - no

he pledge made by Chairman
Nikita Khrushchev to with-
draw Soviet missiles from Cuba
has been carried out. In return,
U.S. President Kennedy pledged
that neither the U.S. nor any of
the countries of the western hemi-
sphere would invade Cuba.

In these historic pledges of
that fateful October week the
world got a “breathing spell’. But
only a breathing spell?

The Cuban crisis is by no means
over. U.S. imperialism, thwarted
by Soviet statesmanship in the
interests of peace, seeks out new
pretexts, new provocations, new
acts of aggression to cancel out
the Kennedy pledge and launch
open warfare upon Cuba. Trigger-
happy U.S. spokesmen and U.S.
generals at their Guantanamo mil-
itary base on Cuban territory,
openly boast of what they are

“going to throw at Castro when
the time comes’.

Tragically enough none of the

gratitude felt by millions of Can-
adians for this “breathing spell”
could be credited to their own gov-

: Yardley in Baltimore Sun
“He’s not the. biggest threat te the
'. Hemisphere, senor!” .

ernment. Its role in the Cuban
as in other war crisis precipitated
by a bellicose U.S. imperialis
was that of a snivelling US
stooge, whining it hadn’t beel
“consulted” but ready at Wash:
ington’s bidding to turn Canada
into a nuclear graveyard, in ac
cord with its NATO-NORAD wa
alignments, and which have re
duced Canada to the status of
expendable pawn in U.S. war ad:
ventures.

Yes, we’ve had a “breathing-
spell” but that it all. And while
should now be self-evident t
the Soviet Union will make ever
sacrifice to preserve world peace,
it should also be self-evident tha
instead of generating complac'
cy, such a “breathing spell’ m
be the warning signal for the
mounting of ever greater peace
efforts if the world is to avoid

a “repeat performance”, alread

in the making.

In the final analysis it must ©
the Canadian people themselves
through their multiple organiza —
tions and efforts, who will am
can compel a break with U.S. wa
alliances and dictates; thereby &
tablishing Canada’s independent
to speak and act for peaceful né
gotiation and co-existence, insteaé
of a Liberal-Tory “Charley M
Carthy” for Pentagon war inc
diaries. :

We've had a “breathing spell
but the arsonists are still itchit
to set’ the world alight by applyim
the war torch to Cuba. Let’s
the “reprieve” to build peace. I
too late when humanity is [e
back to the brink, '

e South African newspaper

New Age reports the sweep-
ing demolition of homes (kraals)
and the eviction of great numbers
of Zulu peoples from Natal to
make way for the extension of
game preserves, and particularly
the breeding of white rhinos. Am-
erican and British “Sportsmen”
consider it something of an achiev-
ment to “bag” one of these rare
animals. And, of course, to the
Verwoerd racist government of
S.A. it also means “tourist” dollars
galore. So out with the native
peoples and in with the white
rhinos.

This news brought to mind a
bit of our own Scottish history of
the mid-eighteenth century, during
which the poverty-stricken Scot-
tish peasantry (Highland crofters)
were evicted holus-bolus from their
ancestral lands under the infamous
“Enclosure Acts’ to provide vast
game preserves and_ hunting
grounds for English ‘nobility’ and
Scots traitors.

Now two centures later we see a
similar drama being repeated, with
the stage and the actors changed,
but the play itself unchanging;
the oppression of the poor to pro-
vide “sport” spoils and profits for

the rich.
* * *

While the white rhino of South
Africa gets all the ‘lebenstraum”
(living space) the Verwoerd gov-
ernment can grab from the African
people along with their most ele-
mentary rights, a white gentlewo-
man, Mrs. Helen Joseph of Johan-
nesburg has been sentenced to five
years “house arrest’.

For the next five years Mrs.
Joseph must report to the Ver-
woerd police daily between the
hours of 12 noon and 2 p.m. She
must not leave the city of Johan-
nesburg, must not write letters to
friends or to any publications, must
receive no visitors or friends in
her home, and may “not be quot-
ed” in anything she says by any —
newspaper or publication. Even
Hitler in his heyday of crime never
dreamed up anything comparable
to this Verwoerd “house arrest”
outrage.

Mrs. Helen Joseph’s ‘“‘crime’”’ is
that she sympathized with and ac-
tively participated in the struggles
of the African peoples against rac-
ist oppression and the multiple
evils of race segregation (apar-
theid). For Mrs. Helen Joseph
there wasn’t even the semblance
of a “trial’’, just a racist govern-
ment edict of “house arrest’.

It might help Mrs. Helen Joseph
in her struggle against a racist
tyranny for peace and human bro-
therhood, were some of our grand.
Canadian women who fight for a
like cause, to address a brief letter
of strong protest to Herr Prime
Minister Hendrick Verwoerd, Jo-

_ hannesburg, South Africa, express-

ing their indignation and demand
ing the freedom of. her home, he? |
person and her cause be restored
No use asking Dief and company
to do it?

Standard rules governing sewer
press coverage of a_ strike—any
strike.’ First, always portray labor
on the picket line as ‘unreason-
able’, a “mob”, “lawless”, “inst |
gators of violence’, etc. and 50 |
forth. The more uncompliment
ary epithets the better. :

Next the boss, individual or cor
porate. These must be portraye?
ever and always as well-meaning
“saints”, with nary a thing of
their» mind but the public weal
investing their money, time and
talents for the sole purpose of pra
viding jobs to ungrateful workers:
A most “reasonable” individual (or
corporation) beset by an ‘“unreas*
oning mob”, with only the courts
police and police dogs to support
his ‘‘reasoning”’. Tch, tch. :

Then that crawling specimen of |
humanity turned rodent, the sca
elevated to the status of a moder?
“hero”. His “right to work”. vi
orously defended, and his “I’ve got
to eat” excuse for scabbing loudl)
applauded. '

Vancouver Sun scribe Tom At
dies did a fine job of lionizing sca’
in the November 6 edition of th?
paper, thereby confirming an 0”
truth; that only the bosses’ pre
can put a real glossy veneer ®
dirt. :

Union men “a mob”, the b9
a “saint”, the scab a ‘‘hero’’?

smelling salts please.