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A threat to humonity

HE incalculable effects of the

Yankee H-bomb experiments are now on our own doorstep. Today it is grey ash which eats into glass. Tomorrow it can be death. So far we have been more fortunate than were the Japanese fishermen who suffered radio- active burns hundreds of miles outside the Bikini testing grounds “safety zone.’ At least, we hope we are more fortunate, though no one at the moment can say for certain that we are.

The grey ash that has been fal- ling over large areas of the prov ince during past two weeks and the thousands of dollars worth of damage done to auto windshields; the contamination of the Pacific ocean to an extent which cannot yet be determined; the danger to

seamen and fishermen and the threat to the fishing industry—all this is more than cause for the people and government of our country to demand an immedia- ate end to this Yankee H-bomb madness.

How puerile are the excuses,

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Tom McEwen

JOHN BLACKMORE, Social Credit MP for Lethbridge, wants war against the Viet Union—now! The horror of H-

mb warfare, the very threat to civiliza- RQ itself, holds no terrors for this

Tange-bred warmonger. Nor is it a co-

‘ncidence that he has donned the mantle

te ilfred Lacroix as parliament’s most

abid red-baiter and is one of the fascist ee trying to promote a visit to Can- ada by Senator Joe McCarthy. Blackmore has:some novel ideas on this ees of war on Russia which com itute a very poor return for the $8000

Per annum his sitting in the Canadian Suse of Commons costs the taxpayers.

Re idea is that Canada should “use as and Chinese” to do the fighting

ziapving. Naturally this Socred “strate:

Chi is not too clear on just how the ese, Korean, or other peoples of

thes or Europe are to be convinced that ¥ should step into the H-bomb furn-

pick out Blackmore chestnuts.

the his parliamentary contribution to By. 4. OMotion of war and national hatred eaten pre qenve Voice to another moth mega} slander currently peddled by his “Req cutnlac tribe, that when all the wher Spies” are chased out of every- tion’, ise “they go to the United Na- Politi, Even that versatile master of Mor, cal and philosophical twaddle, El-

© Philpott, felt called upon to brand

Bla ¢kmore’s ranting as “nonsense.”

at be it for us to lecture the people but thbridge on their choice of an MP,

Since this provocative nonsense af- “situa of Canada as well as the con- tha ae of Lethbridge, it seems to us of BI Wouldn’t be a bad idea if some ents ackmore’s long-suffering constitu- €t it be known publicly that he is

the explanations, advanced by some of our alleged physicists and security officials, as for instance, the explanation that the pitted damage to windshields is caused by “gravel.” According to Dr. Gordon Shrum of the UBC, who poses as a scientist, the best cure: all for the pitted damage is to ‘stay off gravel roads.’’ This in face of evidence from people who have seen the ash falling on wind- shields and have noted its effects.

The purpose of such excuses is to minimize the growing fear among people everywhere at these H-bomb experiments, and to throttle their rising indignation against the Yankee atomaniacs who have turned the Pacific ocean into’ a US. “testing ground” heedless of the other na- tions whose shores form its vast

nm.

Let the people of Canada call a halt to this H-bomb madness, and to the infantile guessing at initial effects which are now too apparent, and begin to speak in united and unmistakable lang:

not representing them or voicing their interests in the House. ’

Any MP, regardless of his political label, who publicly defends and lauds a fascist leper like Joe McCarthy; who permits his parliamentary franking privi- leges to be used in the spreading of anti-Semitic poison; who blatantly calls for H-bomb' war on the Soviet Union or other nations, should be hustled out of the House of Commons with all the statu- tory power his constituents can muster. Both Lethbridge and Canada would bene-

fit.

We'd have let the matter Dass had not ©

the Vancouver Sun bust loose with an- other of its editorial hozannas on the subject. In a recent issue, the Sun has Dr. Barnett Savery of the UBC stepping forward as a hero and SH otdly.. . < beard- ing the left-wingers in their den.” This is the first time we have ever heard of a public platform and an audience of eight or nine hundred people being defined as a “den,” but then, we’re never too old to learn.

A couple of weeks ago we heard Pro- fessor Savery expound his views on Mc- Carthyism asa “suest” speaker of the League for Democratic Rights (LDR). It appears that the learned doctor had ac- cepted the LDR invitation on condition that he would be able to air his views on the LDR as well as upon McCarthy. This the professor did with the aid of a

~ prepared script, sometimes leaving the

audience little to distinguish between himself and McCarthy.

Speaking for ourselves we felt a good deal of pity for the professor and mar-

yelled that he was a professor of any-

ing. On the controversial clauses of eae (new Criminal Code), which has just passed parliament (with nearly 200 MPs absenting themselves when the vote was taken) and is now before the Senate, Professor Savery opined that “if they (meaning all those opposed to Bill 7) “abide by the rules of the game, they haven’t much to fear.” This, despite the fact that with the exception of a mere handful of professional labor fakers who occupy the swivel chairs in labor’s top offices, the entire Canadian trade union movement has opposed the repressive and undemocratic clauses of Bill 7.

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“WAR IS AWFUL Clos

Massive Retaliatio,, :

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uage by demanding:

First, that the St.. Laurent gov- ernment, expressing the will of the Canadian people, demand an immediate halt to further H-bomb tests at Bikini or elsewhere.

Second, to demand that Wash- ington underwrite the cost of all damage sustained in Canada to date—and all that may yet ensue from atomic ash or other phen- onema of similar origin.

Third, that Canada take the

On the equally vital topie of the spread of McCarthyism in Ganada, the professor stated that “it is very difficult for me to see any great danger on this count.” There is perhaps nothing more pitiable than an alleged Doctor of Philosophy doctoring up his own philosophy to con- form to prejudiced. tastes. :

Had the learned doctor taken a glance at what is happening to leading profes- sors, educationalists, scholars and scien- tists in scores of U.S. universities (and spilling over into this country) it might have been less “difficult” for him to see the difference between McCarthy and democracy. Not being called upon to endorse in foto the organization under whose auspices he spoke, the professor could at least have been honest with

himself—and the science of Reason he

presumes to teach.

While. we were happy to see Dr. Sav- ery defending democracy along with the rest of us, his philosophical “defenses” were weak, to say the least. He remind- ed us of a great “democrat” who once roared at us: “I believe in democracy— but we’ve got to keep certain people in their place.” And that, of course, is the end product sought by Joe McCarthy, by those who promote him, those who ape him and those who apologize for him. Ss .

The valiant Dimitrov once said that workers must choose whether to be “the hammer or the anvil” in the struggle for socialism. An old timer in the B.C. socialist movement who ekes out the evening of his life on a miserable old age pension wrote us a very fine tribute last week, and clinched it with a dollar to help’ along.

“Scotty, as a blacksmith you’re a damn fine editor because you’ve never lost the knack of bringing the hammer down hard on the anvil to pound the iron into shape. Keep hammering lad, she’s coming our way.” :

The figures on our campaign score- board, the cheery smile of our business

manager Rita Whyte and the tireless .

work of our hundreds of press builders and supporters, proves the old timer ab- solutely right.

But—we’ve got to keep on hammering to keep the PT rolling. We not only want to reach the top, but to go over it.

THE EISENHOWER-DULLES AXIS

lead now in the promotion of an international - covenant between civilized nations—a covenant de- signed to outlaw atomic weapons forever.

What is falling from the skies today as a result of the acts of power-drunk madmen, is an out- rage upon Nature and humanity. What can yet follow if this mad- ness goes unchecked, can mean the destruction of all life upon this planet.

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Forty years ago

(From the files of the B.C. Federationist, April 24, 1914)

Organized labor in a number of B.C. centres was making preparations to cele- brate May Day. In Nanaimo, striking coal miners planned to make the tradi- tional May Day parade a mass demon- stration for settlement of their demands in the two-year-old strike.

Fifteen years ago (From the files of the People’s Advocate, April 21, 1939) :

Sir Frederick Banting, world-famous Canadian scientist and co-discoverer of insulin, announced that he had severed all connections. with the Leadership Lea- gue. His repudiation was a blow to the plans of George McCullagh, publisher of the Toronto Globe and Mail, to win popular support for his reactionary aims.

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A bylaw for continued operation of streetcars was defeated in Victoria, fall- ing 83 votes short of the required three- fifths majority.

Ten years ago

(From the files of The People, April 22, 1944)

Charge that there were 51 company

_ unions in B.C. was made by Dick Osman,

business agent of the International As- sociation of Machinists, in Vancouver Trades and Labor Council as a recom- mendation asking the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada to press for aboli- tion of company unions was unanimously endorsed.

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