The ‘Watchdogs’ bay

WO of Canada’s best-trained watchdogs bayed loudly
last week about the “dangers” of the “welfare state’
and government social spending.

Tory senator Wallace McCutcheon, ex-minister in the
Diefenbaker cabinet (by appointment), sounded dire
“warnings” against government spending on such social
services as health, social insurance, medicare, etc., declar-
ing that such spending and the “reallocation” of public
funds for such purposes could “upset Canada’s economy.”

In his “warning” growls this monopoly watchdog
urged us to be “‘see where we re going and to count the
cost.’ ’Strangely enough, he never once mentioned our an-
nual $1-billion arms spending, nor to caution where we
might “‘be going” on that road. But social wellbeing, g-r-r-r!

And at the annual Chamber-of-Commerce convention
in Winnipeg last week, C-of-C president Howard T. Mit-
chell, Vancouver’s No. 1 anti-labor devotee, conjured up
the ghosts of Hitler and Mussolini “totalitarianism,” now
appearing on the Canadian scene in the guise of “govern-
ment paternalism.” Or in other words, excessive govern-
ment spending on the “taxpayer's behalf,” thereby nar-
rowing the field for the “investors” of private enterprise.

Both these doughty watchdogs of monopoly, the Sen-
ator for the billionaire E. P. Taylor empire and the labor-
hating C-of-C tycoon, were baying at the same thing; the
“danger” to the ‘economy” by the promotion of medicare,
national health, pension plans, etc., and the “dangers” im-
plicit to private capital for profitable investment because
of these.

In short, they found an old and common bone to bark
about—whether peoples’ health and welfare or monopoly
profits should take precedence in the scheme of things?

Depend’s who’s ‘lost’

THE notorious Hal Banks, ex-SIU boss, bail jumper,
convicted union gangster, etc. ad infinitum, just can-
not be “found.” All the combined “efforts” of the FBI

and the RCMP just cannot “get their man” no-how.

Not even when aided by such “leads” as a big gleam-
ing white Cadillac, a salubrious SIU yacht, both parked at
a New York dock, with Hal sprawled on a deck chair
lowering king-sized pepper-uppers. Some newspapermen
just couldn’t help almost tripping over Hal, but not the
FBI or the RCMP. For them his ‘‘whereabouts are un-
known.” :

How different had the ‘wanted’ man been a militant
unionist, a Communist, or a Negro fighting for the ele-
mentary rights of human dignity and decency? Then they
would sure get their man.

No wonder the law is sometimes “held in contempt”
by workingmen.

Tom
McEWEN

he Warren Commission re-

port, a book of some 900-
pages on who assassinated U.S,
President John F. Kennedy, is
now on sale, In the U.S. it bids
fair to becoming a “best seller”,
But, as is sometimes happens,
and this seems to be one of
those times, “best sellers” are
not:always good books,

_ The prime aim and purpose of
the Warren Commission was to
ferret out the facts, and only
the facts, in order that the Am-
erican people, first and foremost,
would know the real truth of
events leading-up to this foul deed.

Less than twenty-four hours
following the release of the War-
ren Commission report, U.S, and
world opinion were already re-
cording an almost unanimous
view: that the 900-page book
contained little more than what
was generally alleged when the
commission began its work ten
months ago.

In many quarters, public and
judical, the Warren report is
already appraised as little else
than a semi-judicial “white-
wash”, designed to obscure the
truth rather than expose it to the
“light of day”.

Early in the commission pro-
ceedings it will be recalled that
Chief Justice Warren told news-
men that, because of “security”
considerations, all the facts *may
not be known in our lifetime”,
which could only mean that there
were forces involved whose iden-
tity, it would “not be in the
public interest” to know. Later
J. Edgar Hoover of the F.B.I.
added that investigation of the
Kennedy murder would continue
“for many, many years” after the
issuance of the Warren report.

These two statements contain
a damning logic; first, that *facts”
were known to the commission,
but because of “security” con-
siderations, it would not be

_“sympathetic” backdrop for the

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Keep the heat on
Aree from the growing demand for public owner-
ship of the B.C. Telephone Company, with a corres-
ponding demand in relation to the Bell Telephone in the
east, the Canadian Board of Transport Commissioners has :
been compelled to order a public review of the financial '

structure and operation of these two public communica-
tions monopolies.

This is all to the good and long overdue. In order,
however, to make such an investigation effective from the
public point of view, a steady pressure must be maintain-
ed to ‘“‘get.on with the job.” ~

The rooking that the B.C. public has taken at the
hands of the B.C. Telephone during recent years is prob-
ably best illustrated by the company’s annual spiralling
profits, its capital expansion, and the sweeping displace-
ment of labor by computer and automation techniques.
This, plus a steady increase in phone rates, now the
highest in any Canadian province.

Closely tied in with the powerful U.S. General Tele-
phone & Electronics Corporation, the B.C. Telephone con-
trols well over 94-percent of all phones in B.C., and writes
its own tariff rates, regardless of public opinion or quality
of service.

These hearings ordered:by the Board of Transport
Commissioners, if accompanied by active public participa-
tion, can open the door to the next essential step towards
better and cheaper telephone communication—the public
ownership of the B.C. Telephone.

All deliberations of the Com-
mission in its search for the
“truth” were held in secret, with
the public barred; a “star-cham-
ber”? procedure conducted in
close collaboration with the
F.B.I., Dallas city and state pol-
ice authorities; never the best
atmosphere for ascertaining the
“truth” under any circumstances.

“good” for the people to know
these facts, And second, that the
F.B.I, would still be working on
the case many, many years” after
the commission had completedits
900-page compendium of alleged
*truth”

Obviously had the Warren
Commission fulfilled its pres-
idential assignment of “bringing
the truth” to the American people,
there should be nothing further
for the F.B.I. to “investigate”
for “many, many years” tocome,

The failure of the F.B.I, to
include the alleged assassin Os-
wald in its Dallas list of “sub-
versives”; the question of a very
damning photograph, taken by a
by-stander at the precise mo-
ment of the shooting andprompt-
ly seized and suppressed by the
F.B.I. The “doctoring” and “re-
writing” of socalled “evidence”,
photographs and statements by

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It is well known that prior
to President Kennedy’s visit to
Dallas, Texas, a veritable cam-
paign of anti-Kennedy hate had
been whipped up. The local press
was full of itand the John Bircher
~KKK-Goldwater segment of two-
gun Texan monopoly were baying
like a wolf-pack against the Ken-
nedy administration. Hence the
atmosphere of presidential char-
acter assassination provided a

Pesrill

Because it marks a hall m
American jurisprudence, ! have [aun
ed a thorough study into the les
ramifications of the whole matter:
speaking, of course, of the histo
Fink case.

You remember the details. A i
lady declined to answer @ quest
posed by the House Un-American” |
tivities Committee because, she 4
“1 do not want to be a rat or HME

any of my friends ”

After due deliberations, the che
man of the hearings, Congres”
Richard Ichord, issued his now-fam’
ruling: ‘‘The fact,”’ he said, “that
do not want to ke a rat or 0 fil”
not sufficient grounds,”’ to decline
be a rat or a fink So the young”
copped the Fifth. Which says
don’t have to rat on yourself. —

But the crucial issue remainy
you have to be a rat fink if yoU
want fo be a rat fink? And ® ns
exhaustive search of the U.S..C°
tion. ., one can only concl¥
Committee is absolutely correct:

Sol say what we need.is a 230
Amendment. Which would simp! f
“It is not the function of Govern
to compel a man to rat fink i

‘friends.’ And if you think this
versive, | trust you won't say yon
it from me. You want fo be “
fink? i '

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—ARTHUR HOPPE, colymnsé le
Francisco Chronicle in wit

headed, “I'd rather fig

snitch ”
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mination; that your country § ;
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trust the word “peace.” They |, too
reduce the word “compassion.
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PRES, L. B. JOHNSON, 04478
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key personnel on the tra

of that day; factors which
not towards the “truth”,
from it, And these are
“few of the glaring omm
of the Warren Commis
its “search for truth” he

Thus the key questio® de {o
from that dark Novembe i
Dallas, Texas, and a si
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authors in shame.”

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evil deed that followed, Associate Editor

This “hate” stage-setting re-
ceived little or scant attention
by the Warren Commission,
which probably explains why it
was not considered “good” that
the American people should now
know all the facts in their “life-
time”,

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