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Behrends in the New York Herald Tribune

Get him out, fast!

Tue government - imposed
“trusteeship” covering all Cana-

dian maritime unions, based up-
on the recommendations of the

Norris Commission respecting

the SIU-Hal Banks job racketeer-

ing, union dictatorship and vio-

lence, particularly as these evils
affected Great Lakes shipping,

would appear to be “hard

aground.”

This “trusteeship” it may be re-
called, was strongly opposed by
most Canadian unions which felt,
and correctly so, that the trade
unions of this country were quite
able to democratically run their
own affairs, without outside inter-
ference from government or other
sources. .

From all the evidence, already
well known before the advent of
the Norris Commission report,
the first duty of a responsible

‘government was to return forth-

with the union racketeer and
gangster Hal Banks to his coun-
try of origin, the USA.

This duty, however, was ob-
viously too difficult for the U.S.-
dominated Pearson government,
whose Liberal predecessors had
brought this undesirable charac-
ter to Canada in the first place,
for the prime purpose of smashing
a legitimate Canadian Seamen’s
Union. All the powers of the state,
courts, police, the shipowners
and imported U.S. goons were
placed at Banks’ disposal to do
just that.

Now we learn after months of
“trusteeship” that the Banks-
SIU leadership are “co-operating”’
with “trustee” administration;
that Banks is still enjoying his
Canadian “citizenship’’, while his
SIU membership are going
through a “survey” quiz by the
“trusteeship” to determine their
“opinions.” A sort of SIU mental
“‘de-lousing” to brainwash Banks

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out of their system.

We were of the opinion that
this was precisely the job of the
Norris Commission, and the in-
tent of its key recommendation
following its lengthy inquiry, was
to free the SIU—and Canada, of
its hoodlum and gangsterized
Banks leadership.

We noteina current edition
of the Canadian Brotherhood of
Railway Transport and General
Workers’ journal that a similar
query is being posed; why the
“trusteeship” delay in ridding the
SIU—and Canada of Hal Banks?

The Banks’ continued residence
in Canada and his “‘co-operation”’

-with the “trusteeship” adds insult

to the injury already inflicted up-
on Canadian unions by sucha
trusteeship, and exposes that
body as nothing more than a
Liberal pawn in the dirty game
of power politics as it is played
between Washington and Ottawa.

B RITAIN’S Tory Prime Min-
ister Sir Alex Douglas- Home and
foreign-secretary “Rab” A. Butler
were in Ottawa early this week
for “talks” with Prime Minister
Pearson. From there they will
hi-tail it to Washington for simi-
lar .‘talks” with President Lyndon
Johnson.

Like the fabled “Walrus” they
will “talk of many things,” but the
prime concern of Sir Alex and
“Rab” is how to get Britain “off
the hook” in the mounting Cyprus
crisis. Whether to seek the ser-
vices of the United Nations or
NATO to do the job — with all
emphasis and “‘preference”’ for
the latter.

While Sir Alex, Pearson and

their Washington counterparts
make numerous and eloquent
speeches about the UN asa great
force for the “maintenance of
peace,” in international affairs
such as Cyprus, which they re-
gard as their “own affair” and
their ‘“‘own”’ special imperialist
interest, they prefer to bypass
the UN and make NATO their
prime instrument in determining
the outcome.

Hence, while these “talks” may
touch upon trade “‘balances” and
with whom and what to trade,
the decrepit Tory watchdogs of
British imperialism are beset with
a greater urgency; how to recruit
the support of Canada and the
U.S. in foisting a NATO “peace”
force upon the Cypriot people, and
keep the UN out of Cyprus?

While Greece is also one of our
“North Atlantic” (?) ‘‘Free
World’ NATO powers, President

Makarios of Cyprus has rejected ©

the proposal of NATO forces on

Cyprus. Nor do the peoples of

Cyprus, of both Greek and Tur-
kish origin, look with any less

NATO thands of?

Comment.

suspicion upon a proposed British:
U.S. military intervention, unde
the guise of “keeping the peace
in Cyprus. The Cypriot peopl
would welcome a UN force, but
no other.

British imperialism is determi”
ed (if it can) to retain its grip 0?
Cyprus as its Eastern Meditet
ranean NATO base, despite th?
opposition of the Cypriot peoples;
hence the hurried .‘visit’ of Si!
Alex and “Rab” to enlist the aid
of their NATO partners, Canada
and the U.S.

These NATOized gentlem@?
have another fear, Cyprus a8#
NATO base against the Soviel
Union could become an addition
headache were the UN brought
in to serve as a conciliator fol”
Cypriot unity, independence a
peace. Through the media of tht
UN the Soviet Union would als?
have a direct voice in the estab:
lishment of peace and peacefll
“co-existence” in Cyprus. Thus)
the Home-Butler clamor for#)
NATO “police force” to help pull
the “hot chestnuts” of decadent
British imperialism out of a!
equally hot Cyprus fire _kindled
by the same NATO war ince
daries.

There is only one sane and
honourable course for Canada @
pursue; that isif any outside pow |
is required to “restore order
Cyprus—that power must be th?
United Nations and not a wal”
mongering NATO cabal. Whil@
the Pearson Liberal government
has pretty well stripped Canad#
of all semblance of “honour,” thé
Canadian people can still re-ech® |
the demands of the Cypriot people

—Keep NATO’s bloody hands of
Cyprus!

Tom
McEwen )

ancouver’s Magistrate Bewley un-
2 eae an odorous brew with his
‘judicial’? observations on the ‘“‘mor-
al’’ whys and wherefores of Mrs, Ter-
esa Koszis’ sex life. ‘‘Judicial’’ ob-
servations which scarcely rose above
barnyard level.

Admittedly the subject of ‘‘morals’’
and sex is not an easy one to dissect
with so much garbage around, but it
does deserve a more dignified treat-
ment than the Bewley rabbit-warrenap-
proach.

What with a multiplicity of population
‘‘explosionists’’, birth control advo-
cates, ‘Contraceptives Inc.’’, tons of
sexy pulp magazines and books, royal-
ty’s prolific reproductive capacity,
Hollywood’s glamourous glorious glit-
tering whorehouse, (ofter referredtoas
‘‘culture’’?), The Ubyssey and Magis-
trate Bewley, the ordinary John Doe
does tend to get a bit confused on the
subject of ‘‘morals’’ and sex. Nor is
the confusion lessened by numerous
and varied sky pilots who insist inget-
ting their spoke in on this intriguing
subject of ‘‘proper’’ sex relationships.

(Just last week it was reported that
over the past two years British Cus-
toms has ‘‘seized’’ no less than1,154,-
938 books and magazines from the fac-
tories of American- produced porno-
graphy). Must have been pretty strong
stuff to gagan equally Profumo-Keeler-
ized Tory ‘‘morality’’. No wonder the

ordinary John Doe is confused - and
skeptical when the Bewleys embark on
the subject of ‘‘morals’’.

*‘Nobody asked her to go to bed with
a man and conceive a child by somebody
she wasn’t married to’’, quoth the
*‘learned’’ beak. Aside from the hy-
pothetical question as to whether Ter-
esa would have fared any better in her
plea for social welfare, had she been
officially tied to some male in the ‘holy
bonds of matrimony’’, this ‘*moral of-
fense’’ Bewley twanged upon hasa very
historic evolution.

It could be said to have began when
Eve tossed a Macintosh ‘‘apple’’ (or was
it a ‘‘Delicious’’?) at Adam, right down
to the latest ‘‘affaire la amour’’ from
the Hollywood hatcheries, or the‘‘res-
pectable’’ bourgeois Madame doubling
in the role of ‘‘call-girl”’ prostitute,”

“T’m not going to inquire into whether
she ever heard of birth control, or the

-use of prophylactics’’, rambled our

‘‘learned’’ beak, ‘‘but it seems to me
in this day and age she ought to know
that...and if she thinks she’s going to
reproduce children without fathers (?)
and ask the taxpayers to support her
and her follies. ..1 think she has
ee : ee coming, and all people

Now there’s a double-barelled “leg.
al’’ mouthful that can stand a second
look—the ‘‘morals’’ of reproduction and
the long-suffering ‘*taxpayer.’’

‘Can we afford to have a baby,’? in-
quires John Doe of his loving better
half. In John’s workingclass house-
hold the answer could be and quite
commonly is, “‘no, we can’tafford it?’
but Mother Nature, despite al] pre
cautions and ‘‘legal’’ homilies on birth
control, often determines otherwise!

Of course, among our royalty and |
nobility it is not a case of ‘*can we af-
ford it’? but can the inevitable taxpayer!
“afford it??? In the steady increase of
royal bluebloods, the royal bedchambe!
is not lectured on the virtues of birth
control as was poor Teresa, nor is the
taxpayer asked whether he can ‘‘af-
ford’’ a brand new princeling or not. It
is taken for granted he can—and will.

Like unemployment, and largely
stemming from the same social causes
(in this era at least) the percentage of
So called illegitimate births are stead-
ily increasing in our ‘free world’’
The basic root cause for this increase
is economic rather than ‘‘moral’’.
Among the ‘upper-crust’? of course
the opposite is the case, as Marx and
Engels noted in the ‘‘Communist Mani-
festo’’ of 1848, that the bourgeoisie
‘*,..take the greatest pleasure in se-
ducing each other’s wives’’.

Or as Tom Johnson says in his book,
“Our Scots Noble Families,’”’ a rare
old literary treasurer with a foreword
by the late J. Ramsay MacDonald, that
well over two-thirds of Scots (and Eng-
lish) ‘‘nobility’’ were born‘ ‘out of wed-
lock”; in other words, to use the vena-
cular of those halcyon days (and broad-
ly appropriate today) just plain ‘‘baS-
tards,’’ eer.

So, Noblesse Oblige’, if we must de-
liver lectures on ‘morality’? and the
poor ‘‘taxpayer’’, let’s beam them if
the proper direction. Not at the poor
Teresas who needs aid much more that.
*‘moral” lectures, but at the rotting
Philistine layers of bourgeois society;
whose ‘‘morals’’ would shame that of
back alley tomcat!

And, oh yes, the ‘poor taxpayer?’? |)
Well we’re him too! Ji

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