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reduction

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«opposing inflation with fiscal rather
than monetary measures ztaking in
the unlocked for effects of differentials
offset by the intervention in the
forward exchange markets to meet any
current deficit, plus the stimulus of

by tightening money aiming to

restrict stock behaviour at the same
time as We maintain our differentials.

or in other words you cant have a

wage increase |

—ECCLES in the British Daily Worker

VERY so often some hitherto
‘unheard of individual emer-

ges from his obscurity to “‘indig-
nantly” demand that “people on
welfare should be made to work
for what they receive.” Just last
week one of these characters
sounded-off on this moth-eaten
theme. Invariably the daily press
plays-up this sort of tripe, with
“sympathetic” editorial comment,
and with the implication that
there’s lots of jobs around if those
“welfare” so-and-sos weren't so
“lazy.” #

Perhaps we’d better set the rec-
ord straight once again. If there
are jobs around, at.trade union
conditions and rates of pay for
able-bodied workers now on a
“welfare” pittance by no choice or
desire of their own, by all means.
That is precisely what every sec-
tion of the organized labor move-
ment and the unemployed have
been demanding for years. Jobs, at
trade union wages in lieu of ‘“wel-
fare’ pittance handouts, or sub-

- standard unemployment insurance
“benefits. Jobs, at productive
work and at decent wages.

The other side of the coin of
these “work or no welfare” addicts
is equally false and cynical. Thou-
sands of individuals and families,
incapacitated by ill health, acci-
dent, or family tragedy, are recipi-
ents of “welfare,” not by choice but
by misfortune, with little or no
help from any source to extricate
themselves from its deadening

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Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH
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Work vs ‘welfare’

grip. They too are the targets of
the ‘“‘no work, no welfare” ignor-
amuses.

By all means let's have “work’’
instead of “‘welfare” for all those
able to work, instead of a miser-
able ‘‘welfare” subsistence. But let
this work be done under conditions
and standards set by labor, rather
than replacing a bulldozer by a
pick and shovel, just to prove to
some pint-sized publicity seeker
that the jobless on or off “‘welfare”’
are all “lazy. °

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A lion or a lamb? |

f ANCOUVER is to have a new
daily evening newspaper,
“The Times’. Booster literature
heralding its birth is now in wide
circulation. Its promoters are con-
fident (if the public “‘divvy up”)
that it will be a lusty addition to
the “Fourth Estate.”

Shares in $100 units are being
offered the public, “enabling you
to purchase a voting partnership in
your own independent paper...
the type of newspaper you will
want to read in your home,” etc.

“The Times” promoters have
left out some important items in
their ‘“‘sales’’ literature and pros-
pectus. First, that the publication
of a daily paper, and particularly
in this era of monopoly rule, is Big
Business. Not only in terms of
capital required, but in terms of
policy. If “policy” conforms to the
special interests of Big Business,
advertising, the life-blood for con-
tinued publication, is assured. .

If, however, the “policy’ isin
conflict with those interests, its
early demise is inevitable, regard-
less of its lofty “dedication” to be-
come “‘an edifice dedicated to fair
play, truth and tolerance.’ Noble
sentiments, but seldom if ever
practiced by journals which get
their “political line’ together with
their advertising subsidies from
Big Business.

On its editorial masthead “The
Sun” claims to be “politically in-
dependent”, a claim torn to shreds
by its own editorials, syndicated
“canned news and “slanted” re-
portage. Similarly with “The Pro-

vince’, which many moons ago dis-"

pensed with “dedications” and
applied itself to “doing what comes
naturally, the promotion of mon-
opoly ideals—and Southam pro-
fits. Both “good” papers, if one
remembers that different words

have different meanings to differ-_

ent people.
It follows that another Vancou-

‘pioneer for people’s progré

_nership with.

ver daily newspaper, morning?
evening, will require cometh iF

more than a lofty “dedication | i
justify the public interest and SUP
port it seeks in “share” capital am ‘
subscriptions. aa p
Any more newspapers similat? cS
what we already have more tha wig
enough of, will be about as US@™
to progress and human enlighten ‘
ment as a boil on the back oft t
neck. i: —u
But a good fighting daily news t
paper, unafraid to print the tr) I
regardless of who or what interes i
are implicated oy involved, by ® e
means, yes. Such a daily pape! ;
badly needed, in Vancouver 4% :
throughout the province. A paP® ‘
that’ would stand foursqué
against resources giveaways t
monopoly - dominated go tl
ments, against the sellout of, a
ada’s independence, soverelg™ d

and peace to a U.S, war-mad *
ancial and military oligarchy-
paper that would stand out 36

rather than an apologist for th

status quo.
For that type of a newspaP
we'd become a booster for “
Times” ourselves. But theré
nothing in “The Times” prospect”
or the identity of most of i
known promoters (and some of!
unknown ones) to indicate that™
will differ in any respect fro
those already too well entrench
And while plain John Doe’s hu
dred-buck “share” may assist hi?
into a voting partnership in somk”
thing as yet not too clearly define
at least he is entitled to kno
whether he is being played for®
sucker — or a pioneer in fearle®
journalism, dedicated to th®
“whole truth” and nothing less:
We’d suggest going slow
buying-in on such “voting part:
nerships” until it becomes clea!
just who and what we’d be in part

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Tom
McEwen

verything in South Africa that

E comes under the broad heading of
freedom of speech, of association, of
press, worship, residence, etc, is ban-
ned. This ban applies rigidly to the
135-million native peoples whose skins
are Black or Colored, and to any one
of the 3-million whites who believe in
the ‘‘cignity of man’’ regardless of
the pigmentation of his skin.

All opposition to ‘‘apartheid’’ (race
segregation) is banned, and should
there be any who are ignorant of what
‘‘apartheid’’ in South Africa means,
let Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd
explain;— :

‘Reduced to its simplest form the
problem is nothing else than this.
We want to keep South Africa white.
Keeping it white can only mean one
thing, namely, white domination. Not
leadership, not guidance, but control,
supremacy.”’ :

That is simple enough. No words
wasted in idle chatter about native
‘‘emancipation,’’ gradual or otherwise,
but iron-fisted ‘‘control, supremacy.’”
Two million whites or less, imposing
their ‘‘supremacy’’ over 13}-million
Negro and Colored African people.
The weapon of this white supremacy
is ‘‘apartheid’’. Broken down into its
component parts this means mass exe-
cutions, mass imprisonment, sadistic
tortures which make the notorious

Torquemada look like an angel of mer-
cy. Restriction of movement, ‘‘house
arrest,’’ separation of husband from
wife or children or from both through
banishment and exile. ‘*Pass books”
which record the bearer as ‘fan in-
ferior person,’’ and which compel an
African worker to report to police if
he so much as moves half-a-block
out of his designated ‘‘restricted’’ area,
A 90-day-no-trial Act, which permits
‘Jaw enforcement’’ officers to torture
and extort ‘‘confessions,’’ which endin
**court’’ with savage sentences, aver-
aging around 20-years imprisonment.

At the termination of a recent ‘‘trial*’
of 18 Africans for protesting ‘‘apar-
theid’’, the Johannesburg ‘‘Star’’ wrote;
‘Nearly all the men sentenced were

arrested in and around July and Aug- :

ust of 1963 and kept in solitary con-
finement under the notorious 90-day-
no-trial-Act, Although they appeared
exhausted in court, they immediately
announced that they were going on a
5-day hunger strike, because their
counsel was refused permission to at-

tend the trial. . .’’ This and numerous
other ‘‘judicial’’ farces are staged
under the government's ‘‘Suppres-

sion of Communism Act.’’ In all cases
the sentences range from 20-years to
10-years. Only one man drew the mini-
mum penalty of 5-years,

African women in this ‘‘apartheid’’
court who wanted to be near their
loved ones, were ruthlessly ejected
because they ‘‘ wept.”

Under ‘‘apartheid’’ South Africa has
become the ‘‘prison house’ of its
own people, a prison house in which the
excesses of Hitler fascism are ruth-
lessly applied. In their appeal to the
outside world the thousands now lan-

guishing in South African dungeons add
these warning words:—‘‘Please T@
member that in the various trials, th®
death sentence may very easily be
invoked. Please help us.’’ a
The Johannesburg press have als?
announced a government decree to all
white ministers of churches—‘‘no Se!”
vices in churches for Africans’. Pol |
ice visit ministers in their homes 2
give them an ‘‘ultimatum,”’ either th@ |
church services stop for Africans—0
the church will be closed.’’ South Af
rica’s ‘‘God’’ is an ‘‘apartheid’’ God.
The governing body of the Intern
tional Labor Office on Fecruary 14
voted in favor of ‘‘suspending south
Africa’ from its deliberations. :
The UN ‘‘Special Committee on Apa!”
theid’’ has also indicated it will ‘‘diS~ |
cuss grave new developments in south
Africa’’ during its 1964 sessions. Bet-
ter not delay too long. Genocide does?
wait. / eS i
Organized labor the world over, thé |
World Federation of Trade Union? |
(WFTU) and the International Confed-
eration of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU
have both called for decisive actioM: |
boycott and other, against the fasci®
horror that is South Africa under th@
Verwoerd government, as have the a
filiates of both.
But our big chain stores are still
loaded with South African goods, 0U
trade still flourishes with this blood
tyranny, and our Pearsons, Dief
enbakers, Bennetts and their kind still
noisily chatter about ‘‘freedom al
democracy,’’ while those monopolié? |
they represent count their blood-money |
profits from S.A. in the millions
Don’t YOU think it is time to mak@
the boycott of S.A. goods EFFECTIV :

est EO OOS BS er ia Oo Ee

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April 3, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pa