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U : J ST under hine months since the

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issue eo the polls. The central

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& the Tories for the crisis.

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fenbaker is full of plans for solv- ing unemployment if his govern- ment is returned. What has prevent- ed his government from putting those plans into effect now, with- out resorting to the expense and delay of another election? Noth- ing! Popular demand for action was all the mandate he needed.

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On the basic issues of war and peace, Diefenbaker has deviated a little from the St. Laurent-Pearson- Dulls policies.

For a steadily growing army of unemployed there has been little else except demagogic “promises” and Micawberean hopes that “some- thing will turn up” to solve the problem. Labor Minister Starr’s re- cent Why Wait For Spring leaflet on unemployment well illustrates the utter bankruptcy of such Tory

. hopes.

On measures to open up the great potential markets of Asia, and es- pecially China, there has has been much talk but little action. Diefen-

baker was scarcely one month in

office before his government plac-

ed the RCAF under Yankee com- mand. At the recent NATO meet- ing in Paris Diefenbaker gave un- divided support to the U.S. cold wat policy of constructing nuclear- rocket launching platforms in all NATO countries, including Cana- da. Today, because of Liberal and Tory agreement, U.S. bomber planes range far and wide over Canadian territory, loaded with H- bombs, threatening the peace and carrying the ever-present danger of disaster.

When the Tories took over where the Liberals left off “defense” spending of an annual $2.5 bil- lion of the nation’s revenues did not lecsen. So how does Diefenbaker expect to fulfill his new promises to “solve” unemployment?

Not to be outdone in this prom- ising marathon, Liberal leader Les- ter B. Pearson pledges to do even better, if only the voters will not

- “follow John” this time and dem-

onstrate that “we like Mike”

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Demagogy may be expected to loom large in ‘this election cam-

e

worthless

paign. Both Diefenbaker and Pear- son are past masters at the art. Both will “promise” the unemployed any- thing before election day. After- wards ... it will be the same dreary routine of buck-passing and delay.

Despite Diefenbaker’s timing of the election to limit his opposition at the polls, a concérted effort to mobilize a wide measure of farmer- labor-CCF-LPP unity even at this late date, could upset the Diefen- baker-Pearson reckoning. The elec- tion of 50 or more progressives from the ranks of labor and farm organ- izations, could put a crimp in Tory candidates across the country from and Liberal attempts to cash-in on an economic and political crisis of their own making.

The prime lesson for the people before March 31, with the example of the recent Tory-Liberal parlia- mentary burlesque before them, is that the issues of trade, jobs and peace can no longer be left to the political careerists in either camp. That much is obvious. Promises based on bankrupt policies won't provide jobs.

Tom McEwen

N OUR everyday language the

term /‘accessory” covers a lot of territory, being generally pre- sumed to mean something which belongs to something else. Car owners for instance, get well versed in the meaning of ‘‘acces- jsories” when paying garage bills.

In legal and political jargon the term has a more sinister and direct meaning. Whether an indi- vidual be an “accessory” before or after the fact of a crime, makes little difference to the degree of guilt involved. As Gertrude Stein would say, an “accessory” is an

* accessory because it is an acces- sory.

The $64 question is who the “accessory” is and what he is “accessory” to. Some “accessor- ies” to felonious crimes we quite frequently elevate to the Senate or other high office. Others less for- tunate are handed a good stiff term in the local hoosegow.

All of which brings us around to the problem of the Social Credit government and its triple

plated “accessory” triplets, Ben- nett, Bonner and Gaglardi. All three are known to be powerful “economists,” always “spending” or “saving” for the public weal and the greater glory of Social Credit.

Thus Premier Bennett is full of “sympathy” for the 90,000 job- less workers in this province and proceeds to prove it by ordering sweeping layoffs in an under- staffed provincial civil service. Meantime Gaglardi’s airborne ex- pense” sheets rise higher than the hallellujahs from his brand new Kamloops Temple, built to. the “Glory of -God” and Social Credit, which, in the Gaglardi text book, are one and the same thing.

These civil service layoffs in already understaffed provincial institutions not only contribute to the crime of mass unemploy- ment. That phase of Socred “ec- onomy” is compounded by the greater crime of destroying the great rehabilitation work of such institutions as the New Haven Borstal, and the Socred proposal to move youthful law offenders probably getting their first train- ing in useful citizenship in Bor- stal, into a “corner” of Haney or Oakalla.prison. That kind of “ec- onomy” will eventually pay high dividends. ...in rising crime indices.

Such a “move” will not only destroy the magnificent efforts made by the B.C. Borstal Asso- ciation and the John Howard

Society in helping to eliminate the social evil of juvenile delinquen- cy, but it will help open the door to new paths leading to a crim-. inal career.

It is known that all ““accessor- ies” before or after the fact, al- ways produce plausible alibis. Thus in the name of “economy” and amid loud Socred chants of “sympathy” for 90,000 jobless workers, Bennett adds to the grand total by drastic civil serv- ice layoffs .... tosses Borstal to the wolves, and deprives the sick and erring in our province the services needed to win back health, dignity and social con- ciousness.

Here are some “economies” that our Socred “accessory” triplets could well look at with some- thing more than a beatific smile:

The cost to the people of B.C. of one Sloan forestry czar; of the New Denver “school” compound for Doukhobor children; of the natural resources given away to monopoly interests, foreign and domestic; of the cost over and above the $57,000 paid in com- mission fees to aid one abscond- ing criminal ex-police chief get away with $35,000 or more; the the cost of a responsible account- ant to keep tab on Gaglardi’s expense sheets . . . as a safety measure against a “crash” land- ing?

And not the least, the cost to the people of B.C. in keeping the “Sommers case” from tarnishing Socred halos?

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