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By MILLER WOODS |

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NCE upon a time when | Canada was almost com- | pletely controlled by big | American Monopolies, there | lived a man who went by the Name of Elmer Bendover. He | Was a writer and lecturer and | Spent his time touring the | country, pointing out the | great benefits of being truly | free, “The freedom to quit your | job! The freedom to ride on | freight trains looking for an- | Other! All these things help to | build that rugged individual- ism of which we all are so proud,” he roared. He was Speaking to a meeting of the Chamber of Comerce, and he Was cheered to a man by the audience of bankers, bailiffs, brothel owners and_ loan Sharks. They were impressed With his sureness, his great Oratorical ability. “Tell us more!” they pleaded with tears as big as pancakes in their fish-like eyes. Bendover was Only too happy to do so.

“Socialists monsters!” “Karl Marx was deluded!” “Communists won’t work!” “The B.C. Electric is wonder- ful!” “Bankers, bailiffs and brothel owners are the salt of the earth!” “There should be a picture of a_ bailiff on the Canadian flag!” (“if we had One.”’) After he had talked for

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three hours, he ended his Speech with a _ reference to Capitalist unity. “Bankers,

| ists had begun

‘spreading all this trash .. .?”

Fables |

bailiffs, money lendérs, unite! You have nothing to lose but your gains.” Bendover knew he’d made a good speech. |

Some faint-hearted capital- to lose faith in the power of Free Enter- prise, but now they were com- ing out of the darkness into the shining tomorrow so-vivid- |

ly portrayed by the great! % leader and_ teacher Elmer | Bendover. Many a bailiff

shook his hand and was in- | spired to carry out his great | task of evicting unemployed | workers from their homes with | renewed vigor. | | | } |

“T'd like to ask you.a ques- tion,” said a quiet looking man at the back of the hall. ““Who in Hell is paying: you for |

After the quiet man had been tossed out of the hall, the handshaking continued. Some- thing was missing, however, for a feeling of dark forboding spread among the assembly.

They had good cause for misgivings as you all know, for the people were soon te get rid of such octopi as the BC; Colléctric, “BG. — Pele: phone, and Doofenbtinker and his whole gang of sell-out artists. \

As for Elmer Bendover, the great writer and teacher, he was soon to be. ‘petrified by some scientist who didn’t like him and put in a Vancouver park—although I can’t remem- ber which one.

NATIONALIZATION

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jectives on which the struggle of the basic social forces of contemporary capitalist society how hinges.”

MAKES POSSIBLE MORE POLITICAL PRESSURE

It should also be said that the workers in a nationalized industry have particularly fa- Vorable opportunities to im- Prove their wages and condi- tions of. work. The capitalist fovernment .can be brought under the kind of political

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pressure which makes it very difficult for the management of a state-owned enterprise to refuse necessary concessions, and to adopt an all-out anti- labor policy.

To sum up, the program of nationalization of the U.S. monopolies which has been advanced by the Communist Party provides the basis for wide united struggles to make it possible for. Canadians to be masters in their own house. It projects the road towards far- reaching changes in the struc- ture of Canadian society even before capitalism is finally done away with.

At the same time, these democratic advances which would more and more break the power of the great U.S. monopolies which: dominate

us, would create the most fa- vorable. conditions under which the struggle for a social- ist Canada can go forward to victory.

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all the bombs dropped during the last war. @ A 15 megaton bomb—th

heaviest of the German London.

jured.

one attack.

tive power equal to five times that of

by the Americans in 1954—would be e 3,000 times as destructive as the

@.The American Civil Defence Admin- e istration estimated four years ago that in the first day of a nuclear attack on America, 36 million people would be killed and 57 million in-

® A later estimate by a Congressional Committee in June, 1959, assumed that 49 million people would die in

as a destruc- on Germany shima

e type tested

air raids on

FACTS ABOUT THE HELL BOMB

© Some 200 people still die every year as a result of the bombing of Hiro- and only 1/75th the power of a 15 mega- ton H-bomb. Of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki sur- vivors, 10,000 still need regular medi- cal treatment and 140,000 periodic medical attention. The Nobel Prize-winning American selentist, Dr. Linus Pauling, ealeu- lates that continued H-bomb testing could cause 200,000 defective births a year and 420,000 pre-natal deaths.

These facts are taken from a recent book, “Assault at Arms,” written for the United: Nations Association by Gen- eral Sir Ronald Adam and Charles Judd.

Nagasaki with bombs

AFTER THE GREY CUP:

What Future For Can. Football?

By WILLIAM STEWART

HE Grey Cup has gone east for another year -leaving behind evidence that the sec- ond best team in the west was not good enough to stand up against the best from the east. Ironically enough Edmonton, which began the western reign | over the Grey Cup by proving to Montreal that you cannot throw your way into football fame, were knocked off this year because they tried to steal the Grey Cup through the air. This article is not intended to make any estimation of the game. Bigger problems con- front Canadian football].

For the last month sport pages of Canadian dailies have been full of prognostications by the scribes on the outcome of the Grey Cup and what lies ahead for Canadian football.

Speaking from -his lair in the USA where he is coaching! a college football club, fling-| ing Frankie Filchock informed the Canadian football public there was no sense Canadians deceiving themselves that there was any future for Can- adian football as we now know it. The solution was for Can-

ada to intergrate its game with that of the USA and field four teams, one in Montreal, Tor- onto, ver.

The battle that errupted in Vancouver a short while back on the request of the new Na- tional Football League (USA) for use of the Empire stadium indicated the scope of the problem. If the NFU is granted a franchise in Vancouver it would be linked with a new network of American football clubs, introduce American football (which is of course a different game than the Cana- dian game) into Vancouver and begin to eliminate Vancouver from the CFU.

Vancouver is not a big enough city toe support. two

professional football clubs: The |

only logical outcome of setting up another franchise in WVan- couver is for one of them to go out of business. Obviously in the minds of those pressing for a NFL franchise the Lions would be the: ones to go out of ‘business. -It is not the -inten- tion of this correspondent to defend the present set-up: in Canadian football. There

Winnipeg and Vancou-!

much room for improvement.

However, the. salient fact is that the Grey Cup represents the only all Canadian east-west playoff in any major sport. There is no doubt that the mass Support accorded to the game is in no small measure due to this fact.

There has been a growing movement in Canadian foot- ball circles for an interlocking schedule between the east and west teams which would un- doubtedly serve to tighten up and improve the calibre of Canadian football. This ques- tion, however, and for that matter any improvements in the Canadian game requires a decision that Canadian foot+ ball stand on its own feet, rely less and less on American im- ports, drawing what is good from the American game ‘and holding onto the . Canadian game, which in the opinion of most Canadians is a superior brand of football.

In the opinion of this writer Canadian football hangs in the balance. If those: who shuck out the long green at the gates don’t get into the fight with both feet soon, it might be too

isl late.

December 2, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7