4 q a ; 4 Stop foreign grab Cont'd. from pg. 1 call for measures to compel all foreign companies in Canada to obey Canadian laws. In B.C. Communist candidates have proposed federal action to curb the They have advocated strong action to restore public control on the pacific coast over alienated Crown forest lands. They urge nationalization of major U.S. and Japanese forest and mining companies, along with natural gas distribution companies, and the setting up of Crown corporations, with federal aid, to export of raw logs and ores from B.C. by imposing. quotas. establish a steel industry and copper smelter on the pacific coast. Only the Communist candidates have put forward this program. A vote for them would be a vote to stop the foreign grab of our resources and to restore Canadian control. On June 25 vote for Charles Caron in Vancouver East, Robin Smith in Vancouver South, Robert McLaren in New Westminster, and Mark Mosher in Comox-Alberni. EDITORIAL Vote Communist June 25 our days from now Canadians will go to the polls to elect a = new government. They have done so 27 times since Confed- eration, alternating between a Tory or Liberal administration. and in each switch clung to the illusion they had voted for a ‘change. © In actuality they have merely swapped one set of discredited party janitors for another of the same to operate a monopoly- dominated Establishment, which (to date) makes sure it wins re- gardless. by virtue of its dominating class and financial investment in both. baer ioe Basically this federal election campaign is no different from those of past years. The ‘‘new’’ that has been injected into it by Tory and Liberal ‘‘image™ makers is primarily designed to hoodwink and sidetrack the electorate, not to face up to the basic issues con- fronting Canadian unity, peace and the ecdhomic well- -being of the people. Thus Prime Minister Trudeau's ‘just society” or Robert Stan- field's “‘one Canada based on sound government policies.” constitute nothing more than a double-distilled demagogy required to sugar- coat the “hard sell” of the status quo in the continued interests of big monopoly capital. In this election the voters have only one opportunity to cast a vote that isn’t fundamentally ‘a ‘lost vote:”: that.in every _riding where there is a candidate of the Communist Party, to vote Com- + munist. By. doing so that will-ensure those voters who do have the opportunity to vote for what they want — but may not get it, in preference to voting for what they don’t want — only to get more of it. Every vote for a Communist candidate is a vote for that chang- ing Canada, which the old-line images’ orate about. but spend millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money, plus Big Business “slush funds” to hold back and obstruct. Every progressive issue and change that would benefit the people, the Trudeaus and Stanfields seek to bypass, obscure and confuse. Only the Communist candidates in- sist that. these issues ibe raised for debate on- the hustings.. Moréover, as far as thése basic issues facing Canada and intro- duced by the Communists. these will still confront the Canadian people after June 25, In other constituencies where there are no Communist candi- dates, the objective of the electors should be to see to it that the Liberal and Tory clamor for ‘‘a majority government” meets a re- sounding defeat on June 25 — either by the election of a broad. demo- cratic and progressive alternative to both old-line parties, or con- fronting either in Parliament with a powerful and growing demo- cratic Opposition. Given that outcome, some of the burning issues, facing.Canada’s common people in city and countryside will have a chance of partial solution. On June 25 vote Communist wherever the opportunity provides. That is the ultimate road to Canada’s future in the changing world of today. The “hints” and “promises” of change coming from the old-line political hucksters are not intended to facilitate or advance that change, but like King Canute of old, to halt the advance of progress. One hundred years of double-talk, even when it is glamorized. should be enough. Let’s begin the turn on June 25 with a big Com- munist and genuinely progressive vote — the one and only ingredient that can give meaning and content to ‘‘a just society.” es Editor—TOM McEWEN Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for eet of i pasaet in cash. ___ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 21, 1968—Page 2 - Tribune “West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune LABOR SCENE: CUPE meet pledges full support against Bill 33 — The B.C. Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) ended its convention sessions Sunday of last week in Penticton. Two of the main highlights of the CUPE convention discussions centered upon the issues of anti-labor legislation and ending the war in Vietnam. On the issue of Bill 33 and its standing threat to free collective bargaining by the imposition of compulsory arbitration when the government decides it is “in the public interest’’ to do so, the CUPE convention delegates voted ‘‘to come to the defense of any of its local unions being prosecuted under the . penalty clauses of Bill 33”’. This resolution also authorized the incoming provincial: executive of CUPE to levy an assessment when considered necessary under the existing defense fund formula. It also pledges support to those candidates in the fortheoming British Columbia by-elections who are unalterably opposed to Bill 33. The convention delegate body also pledged full support to the British’ Columbia Federation of Labor on the latter’s declared policy of supporting any union so victimized by Bill 33. (At its April 7 all-union rally at Exhibition Forum, the BCFL publicly pledged, in a statment read to the rally by. BCFL president E.T- Staley, that ‘‘the first. time the Lieutenant-Governor in Council imposes compulsory arbitration or the penalties as set out in the Bill on free men and women of this province, then the full resources of the Federation will be mobilized to support those persons whose freedom is jeopardized.’’ Ed. ) A resolution was also adopted calling upon the Canadian government ‘‘to use its influence to assist in bringing about an end to the war in Vietnam on the basis of the 1954 Geneva Accord, and recognition of the right of the people of Vietnam to self-determination. On the vital issue of taxation the convention voted in favor of ‘‘im- plementing the recommendations of the Carter Commission report. The convention also scored the government ‘‘practice of altering existing boundaries of public parks to accommodate industrial interests.”’ * KOK Highlight in this week’s Vancouver and District Labor Council (session was the strong condemnatior: of the acquisition and possible use of Mace gas by Vancouver police. (See Alderman H. Rankin comments). VLC secretary Paddy Neale stated that since the police now resort to “Pensions at 60, including generals.” the use of dogs, clubs, tear gas, etc. to break up picket lines; he was sure that given the opportunity. the police would use their Mace gas also. ‘‘Any police force that uses this gas now, in light of the public knowledge already available of its detrimental effects to health,” stated Neale, ‘‘must be living in the 17th century.’ The VLC body unanimously protested the Vancouver Police Commission decision. to acquire and/or use this £aSsae -A letter was received by the VLC from imprisoned UFAWU secretary Homer Stevens, thanking the ‘LC for its work in the amnesty _campaign for UFAWU President Steve Stavenes and himself, and advising that application for parole had now. been filed. -Steven’s letter expressed satisfaction at the defeat Social ~~~ Credit had experienced recently in. the Vancouver-South byelection, - emphasizing the urgency of labor ~ unity as the key to further successes. _ In his letter Stevens-also appealed to ' the VLC to ‘‘rally solidly behind the IWA”’ in their present struggle for a new wage contract. Following receipt and approval of the Stevens letter, VLC delegates gave unanimous support to. the - UFAWU efforts ‘on: behalf ~ of Canadian tuna fishermen manning _ three Canadian boats, who had been. _ removed from their boats in Panama and replaced by U.S. skippers and other foreign crews. The VLC approved a decision that its officers take the matter up with Manpower Minister Jean Marchand on behalf of the UFAWU crewmen. CENSORSHIP & MACE Civil rights takes beating at City Hall By ALD. HARRY RANKIN Civil rights took a beating’ in Vancouver last week. refused to even hear four public delegations on a civil rights issue involving civic owned property. At the same time Vancouver’s deputy chief of police announced that the Vancouver polic force will be equipped with the deadly chemical gas Mace. The civil rights issue arose when PNE officials barred four groups from booth space at the PNE this year — the Co-op Book Store, the Canadian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the B.C. Peace Council and the Communist Party of Canada. Apparently the PNE Board of Directors adopted a clause earlier this year, made public only now, barring all political parties and all political views ‘‘of any nature whatsoever and either of.a local, national or international nature”’. This arbitrary decision was made by the small group of business men who haye complete control of. the PNE, without any consultation with City Council or the public. In.so doing it went far. beyond its. jurisdiction. The -PNE is a publicly-owned 325407 In-‘an : unprecedented action City Council - enterprise, it does not belong to these business men, it was built and paid for by Vancouver taxpayers. The bias of PNE officials against labor, co-operatives and anyone advocating peace rather than war in Vietnam is so great that they exceeded even their own instructions. Only. one. of the- four banned groups is a political party. Two. are respected peace’ groups. One is a flourishing bookstore registered under the Co-operative Associations Act. This ban will not, of course, apply to firms and organizations advocating views with which PNE officials -agree. It is’ intended only against those who are suspected of having views unacceptable to the Establishment. In these circumstances for City Council to refuse to even hear delegations from these banned groups is aiding and abetting PNE officials. in their denial of long established civil rights. Not unrelated to this dictatorial action by PNE officials was the decision ‘about the chemical gas Mace which police heads want for ‘erowd control”. F Mace has been widely used in the. 3 he - U.S. against. pickets during: strikes, against peace demonstrators and of course against Negroes on every ~ possible occasion. The gas is composed of chemical solvents and tear gas. It isn’t spread in the air like tea gas, it is squirted out of cans by ,- ‘the individual policeman right into: . the face.and eyes of the victim. It: paralyzes and blinds. - Experience in the U.S. has shown’ that the person does not recover in 30 minutes as claimed by police and newspapers advocating its use. Unless the victim is promptly treated, and this hardly ever happens, severe burns leaving permanent scars and permanent injuries to the eyes result. Surely we in Vancouver have no need for such a brutal and dangerous form of chemical warfare against the public. The Deputy chief of police himself admitted this last year. Then why was the gas ordered now and on whose instructions? Mace: gas’ is one of President Johnson's ‘‘solutions’’ to Negro ghettos and opposition to the war in Vietnam. Are Canadians. now to be subjected to the same. forms of violence to-silence opposition, to protests against poverty and war?