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the only absentee,

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longer champion,

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humanity.

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EDITORIAL |

Not a coincidence

o doubt Premier W; A. C. Bennett has a plausible
explanation handy for his failure to attend the official
opening of Expo last week, From all ten provinces WAC was

Moreover it is already known that while the Pavilion rep-
resenting our Western provinces scarecely matches with the
brilliance and achievement of other pavilions of “Man and
His World’’ surrounding it, opinion is already widespread that
the British Columbia “exhibit’’ is the shabbiest and poorest

Taken together these two factors spell out morethan meets
the eye, They serve to point upthe Bennett government’s ‘‘sep-
aratist” attitudes in its relations with Ottawa and the rest of
Canada; its oft-repeated insistence that B,C, would be better
off to ‘‘go it alone.” This, plus its eager readiness to serve
in the role of a broker for U.S, monopoly in the surrender and
alienation of B.C,’S rich natural resources andheritage— for a
fistful of Yankee dollars — are policies which undermine the
independence and unity of Canada, and betray the economic,
social and cultural heritage of its people.

The creative labor of British Columbians appliedtoits vast
natural wealth and resources, could have produced one of the
finest exhibits at Expo, Obviously Premier Bennett didn’t want
it that way. His absence won’t makenor mar Expo — but it does
emphasize the reality that all the ‘‘separatists” are not in
Quebec, We have still a few U.S,-minded “annexationists’’ left
in B.C, whom the Canadian patriots of 1871 failed to clean out

when B.C, entered Confederation,

His greatest bout

he World Boxing Commission, the N,Y, State Athletic

Commission and sundry other similar outfits in the U.S.,
Britain and elsewhere, have decided that undefeated world boxing
champion Cassius Clay, having refused to be conscripted into *
the U.S. Army to kill women and children in Vietnam, is no

These boxing promoters, the big shots of Big BusineSs,
who rake in millions of dollars racketeering on the broken
bodies of aspiring “champions,”
to strip Clay of his title a little more than they bargained
They didn’t win it for him,
lion’s share of the gate receipts winnings.
won it himself — in the ring, and in the final analysis that is
the only place where it can be contested,

Millions of people in the U.S,, in Canada and elsewhere
will feel that this is really the Champ’s greatest fight of all;
that his refusal to be conscripted for a U.S, war of genocide
in Vietnam, is a championship bout of the highest order — for
the highest stakes attainable — peace and freedom for all

Stay with it Champ, whatever the “pay-triot” racketeers

DEMOCRACY KEY ISSUE

may find their decision

They only collected the
Cassius Clay

Tom

‘McEWEN

ancouver’s Mayor Tom

Campbell, now in office
four months, is obviously one of
those political pundits who hold
strongly to the old belief that “the
wheel that squeals the loudest
gets the grease,”’

Be that as it may, Mayor
Campbell would be well advised
to keep in mind that when the
same wheel squeals too much and
too often it generally marks a
defective hub—with the scrapheap
the ultimate remedy.

Some public-minded Vancouver
citizen could well undertake his
own centennial project by com-
piling a small brochure listing a
few score of “dos” and “don’ts”
for civic guidance of Mayor Tom
Campbell.

Such a booklet could be made
available to all citizens coming
within Mayor Campbell’s orbit
at a low nominal cost, Its prime
aim would be to assist weaning
the Mayor away from that all-
to-common frailty of the modern
politician, best described in that,
highly descriptive observation:

OOO oreo!

“Every time he opens his mouth
he puts his foot in it.”

Mayor Campbell is rapidly be-
coming a top-notcher at this
“foot-in-mouth” performance,
Not only does he get his “foot
in”, but invariably gets it stuck
in a vertical position, thereby
increasing the difficulty in get-
ting it out, :

A few short examples might
serve to illustrate the dilemma,
First, when on one of his innum-
erable TV political rhapsodies,
the Mayor should try to avoid
looking directly into the camera
eye with that slap-happy pose as
though he were asking, “How’m
I doing boys?”

A limited poll on this “don’t”
shows many citizens suddenly
seized with a violent urge to pitch
a shoe though the TV when this
“personality” commercial comes
on.

In its edition of April 21, The
Province editorialized under the
caption ‘‘Vancouver’s Centennial
Blunder”, which, believe it or

Fresh approach to unil
urged for woodworker

The Labor Committee of the Communist Party in B.C. this
week released the following statement appealing for unity of

workers in the forest industry:

The dispute in the woodWork-
ing industry, involving the Inter-
national Woodworkers of Amer-
ica, the International Pulp and
Sulphite Workers Union and the
Canadian Union of Pulp and Paper
Workers, is causing serious con-~
cern to the entire labor move-
ment, ;

The Labor Committee of the
Communist Party believes that
the solution to the problem of la-
yor unity in the woodworking
industry lies elsewhere than in
the direction taken by the unions
affected.

No solution will be found
through a jurisdictional war be-
tween the pulpworkers and wood~
workers, or in the gang-up
against the Canadian union as
contemplated at Gold River, nor,
in this instance, by going to the
law courts seeking court action
and counter action between work-
ers, as was done at the Harmac
and Gold River plants.

There is need for a fresh start
if a settlement is. to be found
to the problem of disunity in the
industry, We propose the follow-
ing as contribution towards es-
tablishing unity among B.C,’s
woodworkers.

1, The starting point should
be recognition of the traditional
jurisdiction between the pulp-
workers and lumberworkers,

2. The next step isto establish
through a democratic vote which
of the two unions, the Interna-
tional Pulp and Sulphite Workers
Union, or the Canadian Union of

Pulp and Paper Workers the
pulp workers wish to be repre-
sented by at the Gold River oper-
ation,

8. Having settled that matter
the workers can then decide whe-
ther they wishto be aparty to joint
certification with the IWA based
on the traditional jurisdiction.
We favor joint certification on
that basis asa step towards unity,

4, It is necessary that there be

“a “no raiding” pact involving all

Police state oppos!

Cont'd from Pg. 1

to do with the treatment of crime
which arises out of the very
nature of capitalism? ~

These proposals are not only
obnoxious and outdated; they reek
of a police state mentality which
can do nothing but harm to Can-
ada, What we need todayis more
not less democracy.

«It is high time public opinion
scrutinized the mentality of some
of these police officers who are
supposed to uphold the law,
Those who show a lack of re-
spect for democracy and the
democratic rights of Canadian
citizens and of the labor move-
ment ought not to be in their pres-
ent positions of authority and
should be replaced by men with
a truly democratic outlook.

“This development coming on
top of a previous effort in On-
tario to impose similar type
legislation, and the increasing
restrictions imposed on labor

unions in the lumbe!, pulp
paper industry. such
could lay the basis for #
front in the 1968 wage @
negotiations,

between the unions in P
lumber looking towards
pect of one union in the

Labor unity is of P
importance for the work
they are to cope
lems arising out of the
dominated woodworking !
in B.C. :

seen in recent strikes) i
the need for a strene®
of Rights for Canaday
Rights which would
antee the basic democt®
of Canadians and of 12°
Bills of Rights need f
statute books in all
legislatures as well,

a

“Bternal vigilance 1§ o
of democratic libertY-
movement ought to UM
country-wide campaig™’ a
Bill of Rights without
delay.” i

Alex Macdonald, —
and a prominent vane
yer, said the changes”
in the brief would “8° “if
towards turning this oe
a police state.” He alts

«If these proposals ”
cepted, they would 47

back to the Dark Agee

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not, turns out to be Mayor Tom
Campbell, We seldom quote from
The Province except during one
of its rare moments of truth which

. are few and far between. On this

occasion however, it did have a
close brush with reality.

It had the Mayor in the record
time of four months or less,
sparring with the Police Commis-
sion, getting the Park Board all
hot and bothered, insulting North
Shore municipal heads, branding
the Vancouver centennial com-
mittee as “the blunder of the
century,’’ and generally raising
an uproar with most of his own
aldermanic colleagues, One won-
ders why The Province from the
virtuous sanctity and seclusion of
its editorial boudoir, didn’t in-
clude political mayhem or worse
in its editorial docket on Mayor
Tom Campbell,

All those incidents happened
of course, and in such a way as
to give some budding author on
‘¢dos’?, and ‘‘don’ts” for Mayoi
Campbell plenty of material to
work on, In the main, of course,
on each issue raised, the Mayor’s
prime error was in opening his
mouth wide when he should have
kept it shut — and vice versa,
whereas The Province editorial
bellyache stems from the fact
that the Mayor raised the issues
at all.

Having got the Police Commis-=:
sion by the tail, the Mayor should

have twisted with such vigor as to
assure that the next time the
taxpayer is called upon to pay for
an “inquiry” into police adminis-
tration, he will get the full re-
turns from that inquiry.

Vancouver citizens, having also
elected a Park Board, the au-
thority of that body, as long as it
is working in the citizens’ inter-
est — and on the issue of safe-
guarding park land for the citi-
zens instead of the real estate
sharks, it was, its authority and
responsibility should be challeng-
ed by no one, including Mayor
Campbell.

As to our Centennial Commit-
tee, the end result of its labors
is still what might be termed “a
moot question’, but still a bit
short of the alleged Campbell
definition as “the blunder of the
century.’’? True, we Canadians

have no end of colossal “blunders”,

‘leaves the Mayor's %

to our credit — which
on exhibition at EXPO? oct

down on the list. -

The prime virtue otf
public figures in socle”,
iably rests upon thei?
now when and whake
real noise about —
soft-peddle. with Me
Campbell it is not th?
too much noise,
makes it at the Wille
the wrong setting
wrong issue.

eady 1
With some © ea at }

lish himself in the vail
electorate as 4 decid os:
ment over his prede? u
that shouldn’t be #0?

strain.

Editor—TOM McEWEN

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