] ee a Review * Boycott the racists oO" the question of race perse-. cution, discrimination and prejudice, we are a smugly “virt- uous” people. Wherever race hat. reds and discrimination breaks out in the open, we feign a polite “dis- approval” and take refuge in the smug illusion that it “doesn’t hap- pen here’? When Dief made his Icud noises about ‘“apatheid” in South Africa: it helped obscure the fact that in Canada we had all but destroyed our Native Indian people, or that there were plenty of “Little Rocks” in our own communities, ready and capable of excluding those. races falsely regarded as “inferior” or “undesirable.” Current editions of the UBC pa- per “The Ubyssey” have done a bang-up job in recent days explod- ing our “virtuosity” on racial questions. In relating the experien- ces of Negro, Chinese, East Indian and other Colored students seek- ing rooms in the Point Grey area of Vancouver, the’ UBC house- hunters have rendered a valuable public service. With follow-up ASS of white students seeking to “rent” rooms already denied to Negro and Col- ored students with-all kinds of specious excuses, pretenses and bare-faced lies by landlords, “The Ubyssey” has unearthed “a Little Rock on UBC’s doorstep.” The Ubyssey” is to be congrat- ulated on this timely expose. It may help to wipe the smug com- placency anent this vicious Hitler- ite evil off the face of our preten- tious “democracy.” But the job needed to be done now is a follow. up one; to classify the racist land- lords in order that the “accommo- dation” they want to rent stays empty of White, Black or Colored tenants. Nohing like a good smack in the pocketbook for such “discriminat- ing”: elements. It has Dief’s Bill of Rights beat a mile. Editorial comment . |' was a haughty Louis XIV of France (1638-1715) who re minded the eminent judges of his day “L’etat c’est Moi’ (I am the State). This particular Louis, it may be recalled, ended his career , on the guillotine. Down in Mississippi, in the struggle to get the first Negro student, James H. Meredith into _the “all-white” University of Mississippi, with all the power of a U.S. Federal court ruling to as- ‘sist him break through the segre_ gation barrier, new Bourbons cf the Louis XIV vintage hurl defi- ance at federal] authority with the cry “I am the State.” Mississippi governor Ross Bar- net who recently fouled the air of Vancouver with his racist ideolo- gies, has issued an executive order to Mississippi State Police, auth- orizing them to arrest any and all federal or other authorities who have arrested or fined any Missi- issippi officials concerned with the Meredith case. e fi ibi : Pacitic Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN_- Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH ‘Business Mgr..nOXANA BIGELOW Published weekly at: Room 6 — 426 Main Street . Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone MUtual 5-5288 _ : Subscription Rates: One Year: $4:00—Six Months: $2.25 ‘Canadian and Commonwealth coun- tries (except Australia): $4:00 one -year. ‘Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office bat Ottawa, _and for payment of, DOSARE in cash, It will be interesting to follow this unique duel, in which a state within a state insists with arro- gant effrontery, “L’etat c’est “Moi”. For once at least, we find ourselves backing’ Washington. EDITORIAL PAGE ‘Dynamic’ he Chamber of Commerce convention held last week in. Vancouver resembled nothing so much as a gathering of quack doc- tors, concocting new nostrums, and revamping old ones to “cure” a‘cri- sis-stricken patient—Canada. Having financed Liberal and Tory governments primarily res- ponsible for the sellout of Canada to U.S. imperialism, with its dis- asterous economic and political consequences now emerging in a big way, the COC now calls for “dynamic leadership” to step up the process, the while scheming to place the whole burden of a crisis of their -own making upon the backs of the common people. __ “Dynamic leadership” indeed? Not a word about cutting down or collosal arms spending in their “virtuous” concern about govern- ment “spending.” The spending’ these monopoly “fast buck” art- ists would like to see eliminiated or drastically cut down has to do with present inadequate unem. U.S. Ce have good reason to question this week’s CBC-TV presentation of “Cuba Si’: of who ordered it withheld in its original documentary form, and who had it transformed from a relatively fac- tual narrative on life and events in Cuba, to a shameful U.S. State Department. provocation for econ- omic and military aggression against the people and govern- ‘ment of Cuba? censored CBC deceiver ployment insurance benefits age pensions, social and hi welfare, etc. ye Spelled out, the COC quack | mula for “dynamic leadership” work harder, produce more, hd the-line on wages, cut all S$? welfare to a new bare minimum accept “austerity” as a way-Of in order that monopoly sup fits may prevail. And to top it speed up the process of the plete sellout of Canada to t monopoly through the media © U.S.-Canada —_“customs wil! thereby ailowiny US. monope year-round “open season” 00 Canadian economy. Mix the with COC’s “Operation Freed0 and presto, “dynamic leadersh The prize achievement of year’s COC confab over years was well put by “The Fi man”: “To give the ring of V to their collosal deceit.” In ° words, to pose as the “savi? of Canada in order to hide real role as its profiteeriNs economic executioners. : Who gave such orders for ~ sorship, or that the CBC show" serve as a media to bring US. hysteria against Cuba into — ada? Since the CBC is a “public” stitution, maintained by Cana” taxpayers, the public are entil to know why they were the © victims of a CBC “Cuba Si’ prail wash, designed for war instead 2 mutual understanding, frien and peace? learned: “i yrecedent,” as any . Ps. or legal expert would insist, plays an extremely import- ant part in determining “the law.” Whenever a real knotty problem crops up the legal beagles delve into their musty tomes in search of “precedent.” Sometimes to crush a popular movement, toss a trade union leader into the hoose- gow, or speed some poor devil’s early demise at the end of a ‘“pre- cedent”’ tested rope. During the Washington State Bar Association convention in the Hotel Vancouver quite a few em- inent lawmen of one sort or an- other held forth on the finer (and not-so-fine) points of “the law’. For instance the racist governor - of Mississipi defies U.S. anti-seg- regation laws with a “precedent” which has its roots in slavery, with white-robed, hooded Klansmen as the symbol of this ancient “law” —the “supremacy” of the White man over the Black man. Then there were others who, misreading Antole France’s fam- ous classic about ‘the majestic equality of the law” forbidding the rich as_ well as the poor to public property, engaged in learn- ed harrangue on penniless Joe Doakes and the president of some multi-million dollar monopoly _be- ing “equal before the law,” etc. . and etc.; an ‘‘equality” well ill- ustrated in the recipe for horse- and-rabbit pie, viz, one horse-one rabbit. To this writer the most charm- ing legal bon mot to come out of this U.S. shysters serenade was the “precedent” sketched in the ad- dress of B.C.’s Mr. Justice J. O. Wilson, as reported in the Vancou- ver Sun of September 8. The learned judge began by giv- ing his audience a brief sketch of B.C.’s early history and the role played by two of its early legal! pioneers, the ‘Hanging Judge” Sir Matthew Begbie and Sir James Douglas. Referring to those historic days when Yankee annexationists were scheming to grab off British Col- umbia (without benefit of a Soc- red government) Judge Wilson ob- served that ‘‘without these men it seems almost certain this area would: have become part of the United States.” Begbie, the first judge in the in- terior of B.C., according to Justice Wilson, was a stout-hearted Brit- isher who firmly believed the Brit- ish had been born to rule the world. Up in the Caribou country he found a lot of American ‘“‘pio- neers” who were equally certain they were the ‘‘chosen” people. Without bickering with the learned judge on some points of his- Begbie meandering virgin B.C. interior 80’s_ on his trusty nag, court sessions here and there: pensing justice and establish “precedents.” : “Whenever he could get 2? yt to agree,’ said Justice Wilso™ yy hanged people, particularly ericans, in very considerable 7” bers.” (emphasis ours.) While we do not recommend “precedent” as a popular me of winning Canadian indepe?™ from the domination and ©? of U.S. imperialism in all its 0 fest and obnoxious forms 1? domestic and foreign affair: trust this “precedent” recalle ‘| the learned judge was not lost on his audience? * * Ed “Austerity” here we come: cording to Dun and Bradstreé Canada, business failures 12 da for the first eight month 1962 hit a new high of 1,418; “slightly” from 1961. : August figures however, Be the optimistic “slightly” some”, by showing a 27-percent in in failures over the same ™ |, a year ago. The August risé af heaviest among small retailers ml construction ccntractors. liabilities of these August failures hit a $1214-million up 20-percent from a year # ‘te If it makes us feel any = business failures:in the U. S$. 408 same month were 1,319, wit lar liability record of $146; 80 Boom or bust, the ‘little man pid on park _ benches or other _ ee we liked his portrait of Judge ways gets it in the neck.