il ee Shipyards reduced to skeletons by Liberal policies, says McEwen NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. “T£ Canada’s government poli- Cles were geared to a genuine ef- fort towards the advancement of World peace, this country could Write off its market, jobs and so- Cial security problems almost Overnight.” This was the opinion €xpressed by Tom McEwen, Labor- Togressive candidate for Coast- -apilano, in a series of house meet- tgs held in North Vancouver dur- ing the past two weeks. “Take the shipbuilding indus- try,” said McEwen. “If the gov- ernment were honestly interest- ed in advancing genuine peace, rather than the- spurious cold War ‘peace’ promoted by Wash- 'ngton, our local shipyards could e turning out a high tonnage of freight and passenger vessels, thus Providing thousands of pay Envelopes instead of the present hundreds, Not only workers, but business and the whole com- tunity would benefit.” A live-and-let-live attitude to- ners the rest of the world, free Tom U.S. market and dollar re- i strictions, would immediately be reflected in extended trade agree- ments, sufficient to tax this coun- try’s capacity to build the ships needed to meet the demands for its products, said McEwen. In- stead, the St. Laurent govern- ment’s policies had served to drive Canada’s merchant marine from the seas, and turned its shipyards into gaunt skeletons.” “Key industries like lumber and fishing are stagnating,” declared McEwen.” The reason is that the Liberals, with the aid of the Tories, Social Credit and CCF leaders, are pursuing a short-sighted and sui- cidal policy, dictated by the Yan- kee war trusts, which imposes un- necessary hardships upon Cana- dian workers, farmers and small business people. “Obviously,” observed the LPP candidate, “if one is to judge from the election literature sent out on behalf of Minister of Fisheries James Sinclair, the Liberals seem to be proud of this sorry picture. One of these circulars gives Sin- clair great credit for some trade achievements at Geneva in 1951, for ‘banning’ price-fixing by manu- facturers, and for being one of the six members of the Federal Treas- ury Board in control of govern- ment spending. “Tf Canada received tremendous benefits at Geneva, very few peo- ple .outside of the Liberal cabinet know anything about it. Even the Canadian press of the time was hard put to it to chalk up any special benefits to Canada from the Geneva conference. And faced with another hoist in the price of bread, Canadian housewives will be justly sceptical of Sinclair’s ‘ban’ on the monopoly price fixers. “But on the wanton squander- ing of the nation’s wealth and re- sources for war purposes, most people will agree that the Lib- erals and Sinclair have done a good job — for the U.S. and Canadian war profiteers. The Petawawa military expenditure scandals are only a small item in the costly kind of control Sin- clair and his Liberal colleagues have given the Canadian peo- ple.” ee GERRY McNAMEE .. . Canada’s top male swimmer THE a TIM BUCK LPP national leader Help to send LPP candidates to Ottawa The LPP campaign is financed by your dollars--and only your dollars WE NEED $7,500 SEND YOUR DONATION TODAY LABOR-PROGRESSIVE PARTY FEDERAL ELECTION FUND 503 Ford Building - 193 East Hastings Vancouver 4, B.C. Heptien S have long repeat- ed a legend that British Col- umbians develop web feet as a result of. our climate. Splashers from the dry belt (Alberta to Quebec) who participated in the 1953 Canadian swimming cham- pionship meet in Winnipeg last week are convinced that the leg- end is nothing less than the plain truth. 3 B.C. swimmers, web-footed or not, swam away with 18 national titles, as compared to four for Montreal, three for Ontario and two for Manitoba. Percy Norman’s gang from the Vancouver Amateur Swimming Club picked up a bucketful of medals, with Gerry MacNamee, Ted Simpson and Bob Gair lead- ing the parade. Gerry MacNamee, a member of Canada’s 1952 Olympic team, was in fine form gnd sparked the B.C. contingent “from begin- ning to end of the three-day meet. At 19 MacNamee is Can- ada’s most promising swimmer, and should collect plenty points for our country at the British Empire Games here next year. * Fitba’ filberts aren’t too happy about New Westminster Royals chances in the Western Canada semi-finals, especially after watching the spiritless Royals lose to Vancouver City, with the provincial cup at stake. The Royals without - Gogie Stewart are like ham without eggs. When Gogie left for Eng- land to try out with Liverpool’s Everton club, the Royals lost their oomph. * ‘There’s at least one soccer fan. reading this column who will dis- agree with my remarks about Gogie, for he doesn’t believe there are “stars” in the game. His thesis, contained in a long letter which reached my desk this week, is (briefly) that no other sport of the team charac- ter depends so much upon col- lective work as football. He says, in part: “Individual stars (in many team sports) can, through their superior height, weight, strength, skill, age, ete, bring victory. This applies to soccer as well, but to a far less extent, because SPORTLIGHT — By BERT WHYTE “room for victory or defeat depends 100 percent on the players’ ability to pass and accept passes from others.” . “Baseball is more or less a star-studded activity, such as a pitcher-catcher combination or the individual work of the home run king. Basketball has lots of individualism. La- crosse and hockey and rugby al- so — but soccer needs every player as a team player. It is what makes soccer the game it is. Everybody who has played in a regular game knows there are no stars as such... .” Lots of room for debate here, I believe. Hockey and basket- ball followers will probably re- sent the statement that those sports do no require as much col- lective teamwork as soccer. I recall the praise heaped up- on the first Soviet football team to visit England after the war. Sports writers lauded the Rus- sians for their superb teamplay and flawless passing. It is interesting to note, how- ever, that Soviet hockey and bas- ketball teams are outstanding because of the same quality in their play — unselfish teamwork, smooth passing plays. In socialist countries, where teamwork in all phases of life is the outstanding characteristic, it comes as no surprise that’ it is also a key feature in sports. Nor should it be any surprise that in our own capitalist, dog- eat-dog society the “star” system should be so assiduously develop- ed. Soviet sports, of course (in- cluding team sports) develop “stars” too. But the star is never developed at the expense of the collective teamwork, as so often happens here. 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