— Low key—high stakes Sag oats with some of the gravest issues facing Can- ada since Confederation, the current election cam- paign (now a mere ten days to “curtain”’), is running very much like an old-time “Punch and Judy” show, but, if anything, with an inferior performance. Already committed to deliver the ‘bulk of Canadian resources (including water), a sizeable batch of cannon fod- der to help the U.S. war incendiaries in Vietnam, or any- thing else the American financial royalists may demand, Liberal “strategy” is to “play down” these vital issues. To campaign in “low key” in its sneaky attempt to wina “majority’’ government by which to carry through its “commitments” to Washington. - Similarly the Tories, already ‘‘approving”’ U.S. mur- der and pillage in Vietnam, are equally “quiet” on the vital issues of war and peace, but highly vocal and rabble- rousing on Liberal corruption, scandal and graft in govern- ment. This noise, shored up by a “promising” extravagan- za, helps distract the attention of the electorate from the key issues, and fosters the illusion that somehow or other a Tory “majority” for Canada would be better thana Liberal one. : In this historic contest, virtually on the eve of the centennial of Confederation, the common people have one major duty to Canada—and themselves: to see to it that neither gets a “majority” to facilitate the sellout of Can- ada, to sacrifice our resources heritage, real and potential for a fast U.S. buck. Nor to involve our young manhood in shameful wars of aggression in Vietnam or elsewhere for the greater “glory” of U.S. monopoly domination, at home or abroad. This can be done—by returning a majority of NDP, Communist and other progressive-minded MP’s; people de- dicated to the principle that the Parliament of Canada shall not become an auction block for the bartering away of Canada’s independence, bi-national unity, and peace. Only one road open hat Premier Ian Smith of Rhodesia and his white minority government want is now quite clear: an- other racist “apartheid” State on the continent of Africa— PACIFIC TRIBUNE 3 - ae ———— ees Z cd ee ‘ > ~ ~ S the tyrannical “legal” rule of a white minority over four million Negroes. That is the sum and substance of Smith's “unilateral declaration of independence’ (UDI) threat. In Rhodesia this week to find a “compromise”’ (short of UDI) Britain’s Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson occupies the centre of a world spotlight. How to “recon- cile” the racist ambitions of a handful of white segrega- tionists with a preponderent native majority demand for equality, justice, freedom—demands compressed into four simple words—“One man—one vote.” Any tinkering with this grave problem, which would leave the white minority in power and a native majority in continued slavery and worse, presents an awesome al- ternative, well defined in the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln: “No nation can survive, half slave and half free.’ Wilson has one choice: suspend the 1961 constitution “granting” a phoney “independence to Rhodesia, and pro- vide for genuine self-government, in which the man with a black skin will have the same rights and privileges as the man with a white skin. That, or the chaos, tyranny and bloodshed of UDI. Worth - Quoting ,House of Representatives adopted ‘fight the employer in negotiations aclean’s Magazine of No- vember 1, (predated) takes an editorial gander at the politi- cal “slobs” and the scandalizing slobber that has deeply marred our parliamentary “image” in recent times, “Let us hope” says Maclean’s **the voters will use this oppor- tunity to elect the gentlemen and defeat the boors of all five parties,.’’ Despite this laudable advice however, the average vo- ter may encounter some consid- erable difficulty in determining which is which, Particularly in the realm of old-line politikers, where “gentlemen” and ‘‘boors” are as closely related as Siamese _twins, En passant, as the liberati say, it should be noted that Mac- lean’s omitted to mention the existence of a sixth party in this. election campaign, the candidates of the Communist Party of Can- ada, Perhaps Maclean’s is of the opinion (happily so) that the Communist Party contains neither “gentlemen” (in Ye Olde English definition) nor “boors,” in which case we can graciously skip the omission — for the moment, Maclean’s poses a ticklish but not unanswerable question: *We have an old complaint against Canadian party practices, Why do they persist, so often, in giving the voter a hard choice? In too many ridings, it?’sa choice among -several nonentities — harmless but faceless characters, whose own mothers could scarcely tell them apart.” Exactly, right on the bullseye, Not only their own mothers couldn’t tell them apart, but as numerous past elections have underscored, neither could the electorate, faced as it is with the “hard choice” between the “nonentities” of Tweedledee and Tweedledum and/or their piebald Socred offshoots, : The great majority of candi- dates chosen by Liberals, Tories or Socreds to carry the party alms basket in search of votes, are not selected because of any special or note- worthy knowledge of national or international af- fairs, but purely because of some local personal or political “pres- tige” which the partisan hier- archy feel may bring some grist to the party mill! Sometimes the old-line parties come up with a bevy of similar nonentities in a given con- stituency, all burning to “serve the country,” to add an *“MP® handle to their moniker, to pocket an eighteen or twenty thousand smackers plus — probably three times or more their worth inany currency. Armed with a bagful of party “promises” in lieu of any knowledge of the nation’s problems, they sally forth to seduce a long-suffering and: super-patient electorate, Sometimes too, as Maclean’s observes, *when a party does run a straw-man against a giant, the public will vote to defeat the giant and the straw-man will win,” proving, if it proves any- thing, that the electorate may have its own political sense of smell, be the package “giant” size or just run-of-the-mill, Right smack in the middle of a federal election campaign that is stagnating by the hour, Mac- lean’s gingerly puts its finger on a sore spot — then hastily nips it off to offer a platitude; “Nevertheless, we think Canad- jan democracy would be better served if all parties paid more deference to excellence in oppon- ents and more concern for the quality of parliament asa whole.” That’s a new way of parodying an old cookhouse wisecrack, *if we had ham we’d have ham and eggs, only we ain’t got no eggs,” Nor does Maclean’s Blair Fraser add much in his lengthy disser- tation on “pollster” opinion onthe possible fate of Pearson and Dief “after the election.” A growing number of Canadians would like to see the “fate” of these old- line *gold dust twins” decided for keeps on November 8, not after! In the interests of Canada, its unity as a two nation state, the s wae ol 19 Gar : , : 3 , er A fh am n tl Pg Cyl Cus: Paar, AE: sya INISES BUN: ILENE | ne ume ee eae RETR h ti Mm eeTele On the occasion of the Pan Amefi- can Conference called in 1829 by Si mon Bolivar, the Father of Latin Am erican Independence said: ‘‘The Unit: ed States appears to have been chose" by Providence to devastate Latin erica with misery in the name of erty.” On September 20, 1965, the U.S resolution by a vote of 312 to 52 with 65 abstaining, which, in the words of the New York Times calls for the use of force if necessary... !0 prevent a communist takeover in any nation of the Hemisphere. Translated into plain English, this means that the U.S. armed forces co” intervene in any Latin Americal country without even observing thé formality of referring the question f0 such organizations as the OAS (OF ganization of American States). —PEKING REVIEW L. A. Historical Record): * An electronic computer in Ottaw’ produces 3-million Family Allowanc cheques monthly, employing only tw? clerks instead of 120 formerly. $28%-million petrochemical plant in Sarnia, Ontario runs on shifts of 10 workers. One factory makes 90-percent of all glass bulbs for lights in the united 3 States with a staff of 14 operatol Two workers now turn out 1, radios a day which required workers only a few years ago. ; —UE GUIDE, Sept., 1965" * It is the height of foolishness 1 then turn around and support his poli- tical servants in an election campaig™ —THE BARKER, Local 1-127 IWA, Sept., 1 This ‘‘freedom”’ is the most wort out word of our country. Johnsol offers the peoples of Asia an attro® tive package, wrapped in glory and be-ribboned with “freedom” and “d# mocracy’’—but the package con' antagonism, hatred, power-stru: and war. —U.S. FARM NEWS, lowa, Aug., 1965 retention and development of i¥ resources for its own peop. its peace, overshadowed by Tory and Liberal readiness, as Washington’s orders, to send Canadian troops to Vietnam; these and similar vital issue Maclean’s joins in the studie® silence of the old-line politikel® of Big Business, ; Only the candidates of the Com munist Party, the “sixth” par!’ Maclean’s omitted to mention its “deference to excellence in opponents” dithyramb raise® these issues, because they are the determinant for the equality” of the next Parliament of Canad whether it shall be the voice the Canadian people—or’a “mi jority” rubber stamp for US resources grabs and ruthles® wars of aggression, : nt Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — Circulation Manager — JERRY SHACK Published weekly at _ Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. 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