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“Those Russian barbarians! What a way to get rid of one’s

Jobs vs. jails

Working men from other areas of Canada are said to be “flocking” to Vancouver-and other B.C. centers in search of the illusive job. If true, the cause is clearly ob-

vious.

For years now, from one end of the country to the other, Premier Bennett and his Socred crew have been whooping it up about B.C.’s most fabulous “prosperity”. Just nothing to equal it anywhere, according to smiling

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No doubt, from Big Business and monopoly’s point of view, this “prosperity” is very real, as the MacMillans and the U.S. trusts will verify. Their profit intake has never been more lucrative, as under Socredia.

So, under the illusion that B.C.’s much-touted “pros- perity”’ means jobs, the jobless are said to “flocking” in, and swelling a permanent jobless “Skidroad”, an area rare- ly touched by this lop-sided “prosperity.”

The powers-that-be, alarmed by this Skidroad “boom” are donning their “thinking caps” and coming up with some 1930-vintage “solutions ’to meet this alleged influx, motivated largely by Socred bombast.

“We need more policemen,” say police top brass, or

words to that effect. More cops to take care of this grow- ing segment of “prosperity” seekers. And from another quarter comes the hoary plea for “bigger and better jails” —to safeguard those who hold the substance of “prosper- ity” against the jobless who may be lured by the shadow.

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leaders!”

Whose ‘banner’?

Be anything more were needed to underline the splitting and divisive role of the so-called “Progressive Workers Movement” (PWM), it is the big spread given their “Pe- king Line” in the November 14 edition of “The Province.”

This typical Goldwater sheet, long notorious for its anti-labor policies on all matters pertaining to organized labor, projects “PWM” leaders Jack Scott and Jerry Le Bourdais the true standard-bearers of “the proud banner of proletarian struggle,” with the Goldwater sheet writer Tom Hazlitt adding punch to this characterization with a lengthy quotation from the preface to the “Communist Manifesto” of 1848. :

Whatever “ideological” or other differences the “PWM” and its leaders may presume to have with the Communist Party of Canada or other sections of the world Communist movement; differences largely stemming from the “Peking Line” as illustrated in “The Province” blurb, it would appear that these leaders must now lend them- selves and their “views” to this notorious anti-labor sheet, as a media for furthering their ultra-leftist views.

From long experience we have invariably found that when anti-workingclass sheets like “The Province” find favor with our ideals or actions, it is time to take a good long hard look—at ourselves. In this case the Goldwater sheet.is running true to form to utilize the *P WM” to attack and attempt to disrupt the Communist Party, and to defile the historic Communist Manifesto in the process.

For the “PWM” leaders it would seem to be —

: any port in a storm.

Statesman” which a “PT” reader left on our desk contains two revealing articles, each in their widely separated domain, but both vividly illustrating how monopoly, “private enterprise” or “vested interests,” call them what one may, ravage and de- stroy the human and natural re- sources wherever their blight- ing hand touches,

One article poses the question, “Who Owns Scotland,” the other “America, the Sick Giant.” Back in our younger years one of our most cherished books bore the title “Our Scots Noble Families” by Tom Johnstone, The author has long since “passed to his reward” but this parasitic “no- bility” who won their “inheri- tance” by pillage, robbery, trea- son, mass murder, spoilation and bribery, plus every other crime in the calendar, are still very much to the fore in Scot- land’s “noble families” of today,

Space does not permit a full breakdown of the total area

Tom - McEWEN

he July 14 edition of the “New

“owned” by this parasitic “nobili- ty” of the 30,405 square miles which constitutes Scotland, but according to the “New States- man” a score or more of these titled parasites “own” individual estates ranging all the way from 500,000 to 40,000 acres,

Britain’s ex-premier*Sir” Alex Douglas-Home “owns” some 60,- 000 acres, which,-as the “New Statesman” points out “have been in the family since the 13th cen- tury,” Elaborating on this “own- ership” the author tells us that “less than 50 years ago, on their Angus estates, thepremier’s forebears levied twopence on every pound of butter, and four- pence on every dozen eggs sold in Kirriemuir market place,” This was easy since Sir Alex “owned the ground on which the market stalls stood.” Such feudal “levies” help to explain whyScottish weav- ers and textile workers lived their lives in abject poverty and want, and why butter and eggs and other foods were for the “well- to-do” only,

But this “hereditary” or “noble ownership” is not all confined to parasitic “dukes,” “lords” and the like, Big British and Ameri- can monopoly in the realm of finance, industry, drugs, auto, real estate, etc., are also big “landowners” with areas ranging from 100,000 to 60,000 acres each, Even the modern * industry” of tourism, and all the natural beauty and history whichScotland can boast, is frowned upon by these “noble” parasites who

“own” the bulk of the country,

They don’t want the tourist hoi polloi encroaching upon their vast feudal-monopoly domains,

“America, The Sick Giant,” as seen by the “New Statesman,” is afflicted with a slightly different disease than the “nobility” blight of Scotland, but the end result for the common people is much the same,

“America has never been so prosperous, , . , On the eastern seaboard the three-car two- house family is now a common phenomenon , , , never have cor- poration feet been planted quite so. firmly under the White House dining table, Yet on the adminis- tration’s own admission, one- fifth of the nation, , , nearly 40 million people . .. live below the poverty line ... perhaps as many as six million are, in fact, unemployed, ,. .”

And so on, a Statistical index

of wealth and poverty, of auto- mation and jobless wage earners, agriculture in “catastrophic” ruin, and the Appalachian re- gions of the Eastern UnitedStates “A Dante’s inferno of submerged classes, each worse off and less protected than the last,”

‘The “New Statesman” says— “Let us begin our grisly descent with the Appalachian miners , , , deep mining now finished, as uneconomic . , , and succeeded

in turn by strip-mining, which

can only be described as acrime

against Nature and mankind, ..as -

for the human beings who live there, they are conscripted by the companies, work for non-union wages in conditions which make enforcement of safety regulations difficult, and are then cast aside like the debris of their hills , , , here unrestricted free enterprise is engaged in the systematic de-

Worth © Quoting ve

What worries some people, myself included, is that so much of the foreign capital invested in Canada _ . . is in the form of equity investments that can never be paid back if the foreign own” ers do not wish to sell.

The most recent figures availab! show that at the end of 1961 our total foreian liabilities had reached $278 billion, and nearly half of that amount! $13.7 billion, was in the form of direct” investment in foreign-controlled bran plants and subsidiaries.

This means that much of Canadian industry—certainly a very great deal 4

our big industry—is controlled by 0 — sentee owners and could continue {0 ?

controlled by absentee owners more Jess indefinitely.

I do not believe this to be health (because) no nation, including Can? can pretend to be independent } ally if it surrenders too much econom Power to the residents of other cou”

= ies. —WALTER GORDON, Minister of Finance

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The Chinese who really count. i spite of all the propaganda the westemm world has endured in recent years, age the 700 million mainland Chinese, 1 the 12 million people on the island © Formosa. The mainland Chinese - - probably better off and better educat- ed than ever before in their thousan@ of years of history.

We can perpetuate the hypocrisy % recognizing the discredited Chiang Kai shek as the ruler of China, when all he actually rules is little Formosa, and this solely because he is propped up by the U.S. and has killed, jailed or exiled his

Formosan opponents.

.. . So let us use whatever influence we have to get 700 million Chinese info the UN and to cancel Chiang's U veto privileges. And let us have 4 for eign policy that doesn’t consist of say” ing ‘‘me too” whenever the U.S. lays down the law _ —MACLEAN'S, Canada’s National Magazin®

struction of a countryside . « trees and fields, rivers and fish, land and subsoil, animals, birds, men, women and children,.++ —

Not a pretty picture, in scot- land or in“prosperous” Americ) but highly reminiscent of the Irish poet Goldsmith’s condemnatio® — of a social system, when wrote:

“Ill fares the land, tohastenine ills a prey, a

Where wealth accumulates; — and men decay,” ;

The parallel could also apply to our own country—Canada, we our natural resources, our indUr” try, and our historic right © ‘eg é dependence, is largely ‘owned We foreign and home-grown monop? - These at least are eminent oe

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