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REMEMBER WHEN .

End H-tests

HE choosing of a new govern-
ernment on June 10 imposes
upon. the people of this country
One great compelling responsib-
ility, that of choosing a govern
Ment made up of men and
Women determined to outlaw the
production, testing and use of
H-bombs.

The world’s men of science
who harnessed the atom for
human use are now speaking
Sut against the tests.

The common people, as at
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are
and will be the H-bomb million-
fold victims. Those who refuse:
ho matter what their pretext, to

eed the common people’s plea
for ending the tests and outlaw-
ing the bombs range themselves
“igainst the people. -

Vote for candidates pledged
to outlaw H-bomb horror. That

is the pardmount issue of June
10. All else is secondary. :

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there were, ducks and en along Sen se C reek and trout in its clear streams.
But that was back before the turn of the century, before industry reclaimed its marshes and polluted its waters.

No slush fund for LPP

OLLOWING the federal elec-
tion it is expected there will
again be a hue-and-cry about the
source of election funds. Liberals,
Tories and Socreds do not ap-
peat to be hampered by any
‘tight money’’ limitations.

Only genuine working class

parties and their candidates su
fer from lack of funds.

This is not an appeal for funds
— but a dollar donation from a

few hundred workers would help

put the LPP program into the
hands of more people, thereby
counter-balancing the slush funds
of big business.

It'sa fraud

Ee St. Laurent government's

tight money’’ disguise should
be hung out on the hustings like
2 badly soiled wash, just so the
people can see what a fraud it
iS se,

‘Tight money’ is nothing new
to the average worker and his
family.

The pensioner, condemned to
subsist on a Liberal handout of
$46 a month is no stranger to
‘tight money.’ Nor is the aver-
age small taxpayer who gets
mulcted coming and. going
the St. Laurent government can
blow a billion and a half annual-
ly on war preparations, and less
than quarter of that amount on
all the other eSsentials of civilized
living.

Finance Minister Walter Har-
ris says that despite his “‘tight
money” cure, which has reduced
low-cost home construction by
at least 35. percent, “‘all the
houses that have to be built will
be built.”” . There are tens of
thousands of people across this
country whose lack of decent
homes proves the minister's fin-
ancial policies, and his predic-
tions, pure electioneering balder-
dash. A good thing to keep in
mind on June 10.

Tom
McEwen

East against Communist invasion.’

withdrawal.”

LMOST every issue of U.S.

News and World Report comes
up with some new knockout blow
again “communism.” 131s.
April 5 issue one reads of the
U.S. Sixth Fleet steaming - into
the Mediterranean with the “Eis-
enhower Doctrine” flying at the
masthead. Loaded with A-bombs
and similar “peaceful gadgets,
this Yankee armada is ‘a first
step under the Eisenhower Doc- —
trine for protecting the Middle

Another pretext for the U.S.
Sixth Fleet in the blue Mediter-
ranean, one containing some les-
sons on imperialist contradictions
and rivalries, is to “fill the mili-
tary vacuum left by Britain’s

“Saving” the Middle East from
communism is primarily a ques-
tion of oil. A century or: more
ago British imperialism “saved”
the Middle East from pagan in-
fidels and unbelievers, all for the

sake of oil. It is strange that a
journal like U.S. News and World
Report should make no mention
of oil while rhapsodizing on the
Sixth Fleet’s voyage for “free-
dom.” é

This is the new “Bagdad Pact”
in action. A military provocation
of the first order, and one which
can put all the pact members,
Britain, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and
Pakistan right behind the U.S.
eightball. All that is needed is
for some U.S. brass-hatted idiot
to give the order for unleashing
the. A-bombs.

According to the above journal,
which is universally recognized as
a political sounding board for the
Pentagon, full scale battle con-
ditions are to be periodically con-
ducted in the countries of the
“Northern Tier” (Turkey, Iraq,
Iran and Pakistan) with the U.S.
air and ground forces running
the show from numerous Middle
East bases acquired through dip-
lomatic bribery, graft and cor-
ruption. War manoeuvres right
on the Soviet borders, with nuc-
lear’ weapons, as a demonstration
of U.S. “peaceful intent.” The
Eisenhower Doctrine “filling a
vacuum” in order to keep the
tanks of American oil trusts full,
and using the communist bogey
to obscure the steal.

. we Se 503
Those politicians now stump-

“economic aid to undeveloped
countries” should take a look at
some of the figures supplied by
U.S. News and World Report. The
billions of U.S. dollars in arma-
ments and military personnel
soured into the countries of the
Middle East to bolster up the rule
of the American oil trusts and to
stem the tide of colonial revolt
against imperialist*exploitation.

of these Liberal, Tory and Socred
spellbinders around to asking
themselves, “What is my respon-
sibility as a Canadian in this
Middle East U.S. oil-tank ‘vacu-
um’ filling business?”

eign and domestic policies and
the swiping of our natural re-
sources by the U.S. trusts and
their government (made possible
by the kowtowing of the St.
Laurent government) doesn’t only
mean that our independence and
birthright is subordinated to U.S.
dictates. It also means that at
a given stage of “Eisenhower Doc-
trine” war provocations, Cana-
dians may also find themselves
“filling a vacuum” in the North-
ern, Tier for the oil barons of
America!

cause it has been labelled “stem-
ming communist invasion.” No
wonder our politiciz ans are noisily
silent.

ing Canada and chattering about

Such a study might bring some

Domination of Canadian for-

Nor. will it be less oily be-

MAY 24, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7

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