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‘Toys for the dead’

| n these days of shock-promoting atrocities inflicted

upon the peoples of North and South Vietnam by the
war psychopaths who direct U.S. aggression in that tor-
tured country, a new dimension has been added.

With much fanfare and publicity we learned last week
of another extensive U.S. “bombing” of North Vietnam; a
bombing raid which rained down children’s toys instead
of napalm, poison gas and other deadly “deliveries”. This
was the kind of a raid the Pentagon psychopaths describe
as “psychological warfare”. r

Decent people everywhere stand appalled at the sick

and twisted mentality that can think up such a travesty ©

of every human morality; moreso because such psycho-
paths are endowed with terrible powers of death and de-
struction. As the British Daily Worker so urgently put it,
“they should be pronounced insane immediately and lock-
ed up where they can do no harm.”

Today, U.S. bombers loaded with high explosives, na-
palm bombs, “Lazy Dog” bombs, every conceivable
weapon short of THE BOMB, to rain death and destruc-
tion upon the people of Vietnam, including un-numbered
thousands of mothers and little children, their bodies
burned to a crisp by U.S. napalm or torn to mincemeat
by U.S. high explosives.

Tomorrow, “gifts” of toys, delivered by the same U.S.
bombers with a forged U.S. label, “from the children of
North Vietnam”. Obviously the Pentagon madmen recog-
nize a common identity, but in their growing schizophre-
nia, unable to comprehend the monstrous indecency of
their actions.

It is not likely however, that the people of North or
South Vietnam will surrender their liberties or their land
for a “handful of beads” from a gang of Pentagon killers
who make Al Capone look like a fourth-rate amateur in
the murder business.

Our insane asylums are full of unfortunate humans a
million times less dangerous. Why make exception. of the
Pentagon brand of psychopath?

— McEWEN og,

Public a good

—U.S. Worker

ally

| t is an elementary rule, when organized labor is com-
pelled to take strike action to win its just demands,
that the widest public support is a vital factor to ultimate

victory.

The old concept of the “‘the public be-damned”, and
especially in those industries immediately affecting public
service or convenience, can mean disaster. The anti-labor
monopoly press, which always presumes to speak for the

“public” will see to that.

To win this vital public support the union involved
in struggle must take the public into its confidence, keep-
ing it fully informed, as well as its own membership, on

all the issues involved, the progress of negotiations, if any
—and if not, what and who is responsible for the deadlock.

By doing so the evils of idle speculation, anti-labor

propaganda,

dissention and distrust, is held down toa

minimum. The facts, when fully known, invariably speak

for themselves.

John Q. Public, deprived of his beer because of the
current brewery strike, is becoming resentful at being de-
prived of the facts as to the whys and wherefore of his
continuing “no beer” dilemma.

A spirited “public relations” campaign by the union
involved in the brewery struggle could win John Q’s valu-
able support, and turn his growing resentment in the right
direction—against the Beer Baron monopoly.

their part that a good militant
union and good union leadership,
regardless of political ideals or
affiliations, is very essential in
today’s monopoly - dominated
world to provide this indis-
pensible “material” sustenance
for their “spiritual” continuity on
earth,

seek to cloak their anti-labor,
anti-peace, anti-social and anti-
human practices with “script-
ural” distortion, humbug andpre-
tense,

The precedent set by the Ang-
lican minister Neil Robinson in
having Mine-Mill leader Harvey

rom the Trail Times of Sep-
tember 4, we note where
Harvey Murphy, national vice-
president and Western District
representative of the Mine- Mill

In his pioneering effort to
bridge a long-established gap be-
tween organized “religion” so-
called, and organized labor, the
incumbent minister of these Ang-

Murphy preach a Labor Day ser-
mon to his congregation is worthy
of wide emulation,

This “precedent” set by the
Anglican minister of Fruitvale
and Salmo is in keeping with

Union was the guest “minister”
at the Labor Day Sunday ser-
vices of the Anglican churches
in Fruitvale and Salmo.

lican parishes is to be congratu-
lated for having Harvey Murphy
deliver the Labor Day message to
his congregations. :

Echoing the incumbent min-

ister of these parishes, the Rev,
Neil Robinson, we can repeat
“what better man to speak to
the people on the Sunday Labor
Day weekend?”

The Times news item led off
by saying that “Labor Day in the
West Kootenay is to be cele-
brated in a manner not likely

to find a parallel elsewhere on -

the continent,”

That is not only too true but
also highly regrettable, for the
simple reason that a great seg-
ment of Canada’s church-going
people, regardless of denomin-
ation, are also good union men and

No doubt there were perhaps
a few in Salmo and Fruitvale,
as there are in every church
congregation across Canada and
the Christian world as a whole,
who shudder at the idea of having
a militant trade union leader and
Communist occupy their pulpit,
on Labor Day or any other day,

Their fears however are in-
variably soothed by the total
absence of horns, the long forked
tail and cloven hooves of their
centuries-old Beelzebub, And
perhaps even a greater surprise;
a dawning realization that while
“man does not live by bread
alone,” a growing awakening on

strong trends already evident in
the body politic of a multi- denom-
inational church in a rapidly
changing world; its desire for a
greater inter-denominational
unity and purpose; the necessity
for the organized church to
recognize organized labor as an
ally, rather than as an “enemy”
to be “spiritually” blasted from
press and pulpit every time the
Big Business “patrons” of the
Church crack the whip,

And most important perhaps,
the realization, if albeit slow,
that the “godless athiestic Com-
munist” is not antagonistic to
Christian precepts as such, but
definitely antagonistic and con-
temptuous of “Christian” Philis-
tines who seek to justify their
multiple crimes against Hum-
anity by claiming “divine” sanc-
tion and blessing on those crimes,

Those abomnible Parasees who ~

It promotes mutual under-
standing and helps to lessen the
greatest evil of our times, that
of anti-Communist propaganda
and its horrible end results for
mankind, well illustrated during

Quoting | —

Conrad J. Lynn, defense counsel in
the (U.S.) Mitchell draft refusal case,
today moved to dismiss the indict
ment. In his 37-page brief on the
motion, Lynn asserts: ‘‘The accused has
not been charged with a crime, but
rather with obstructing crimes,” Lynn
details U.S. crimes against peace
crimes against humanity, and war
crimes — as defined in the Charter of
the International Military Tribumal at
Nuremberg. He thereby challenges the —
courts to grant that the individual has
the right to dissassociate from the war
crimes of his government.

—U.S. FARM NEWS, August, 1965

All ILWU (Longshoremen) families
were urged fo join forces Labor Day
weekend in the Hawaiian Islands.
Parade slogans and picnic speeches
will emphasize ‘‘Peace and Pork
Chops” in preparation for tough nego
tiations in sugar and longshore due in
1966, and the highlight the ILWU’s
demand for peace in Vietnam.

—THE DISPATCHER, Sep. 3, '65: ;
Not a bone in his body doesn't ~

ache of the man who has put 40 to 50
years in the pits. a

—SCOTTISH MINER
August, 1965 edition.

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“| do not find power impressive. The —
guns and the bombs, the rockets and
warships are all symbols of human
failure .. . witness to human folly.”

—President Lyndon B. Johnson in
his John Hopkins University
address April 7, 1965.

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“What would you like to see before
you leave Spain?” ;
“Franco’s funeral.”

—TIhe late Brenden Behan, inter-
viewed on Spanish radio at ¢
of his last visit. Australian
Tribune, June 30, ’65.

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and atrocities in Vietnam, the

Congo, Latin America and else |
where in the colonial and cold
war world,

It also helps promote that state
of mind so sadly lacking in the
so-called “free world” a
already well advanced in all the
countries of Socialism, viz; thé
non-conflicting affinity betwee?
Man’s material and spiritua’
needs and well-being,

If we recall rightly, a humble
Carpenter took a whip and chas
the “money lenders” out of His
Temple, United, the Church ant
organized Labor can emulate this”

sterling example, with great ma~
terial and spiritual gains
both and for all mankind,

the Hitler regime and World War
Il, and now more appallingly
demonstrated by U.S. savagery

fy ti)

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