Fine he got the = Defend te Jchoelastt

HEN cabinet ministers give

voice to oppesing opinions

on the vital issues of peace and

war, it may generally be concluded

that the government for which

they speak has no definite policy
on either issue.

Thus out of one side of its
mouth the government is all for
peace, for a ban on nuclear weap-
ons, and opposed to war in any
form. .

From the other side of its mouth
it blasts all who: suppert such
peaceful endeavours, and~ calls
upon the armed forces to actively
‘combat’ all who speak up —for
peace.

Hence we see the spectacle of
External Affairs Minister Howard
Green, publicly urging a ban on
nuclear weapons, expressing his
iy avowed opposition to war, and giv-
es ing his. ministerial approval to all
ki Canadians dedicated to and work-
ing for this sacred objective.

On the other hand, at precicely
the time External Affairs Min-

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=y"HROUGH outside pressures the

Retail Food and Drug Clerks
Union has voted to return the
‘fines’ for non-attendence of mem-
bers at local union meetings. In
this case’ however. many of the
non-attending members were stu-
dents, working to augment. educa-
tion costs and engaged in after
work hours in their studies.

"ee Two issues are involved: one,
iss the right of a union by vote of its
| | membership to impose fines upon
sf non-attending members. That right
is strictly the prerogative
business of the union -alone.

The other, to clap a ‘fine’ on
student members is short-sighted
and discriminatory at best, which
the union in question is now taking
steps to correct.

Buta union’s right to ‘fine’ its
non-attending free-loaders must
remain inviolate. If Joe Doakes
doesn’t want to help pull the union
train, he has no grounds for com-

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ister Green is giving voice to a
universally desired objective, in
Ottawa Defense Minister Harkness
is exhorting the armed forces of
Canada to actively: oppose all such
‘peace-mongers.’ All “pacifist and
neutralist propaganda,’ declares
sabre-rattling Minister Harkness,
should be “combatted,” and, quoth
the minister, the armed forces
“should go out and fight it.”

The Harkness incitement of
the armed forces to “go out and
fight” all who may fae different
opinions is an appeal which could
be open toa very wide interpreta-
tion, ranging all the way from
noisy Colonel ‘Blimp’ sabre-rattl-
ing in public, to uniformed ‘vigil-
antes’ directing their strongarm
opposition against all who advocate
peace and an end to the mount-
ing threat of nuclear horror.

It is high time for the Diefen-
baker government to end political
doubletalk, and speak with one
voice—for peace.

please’

plaint if his union democratically
decides he pay for the ride.

HEN the Bennett government

- cancelled the union dues
checkoff of its employees in the
Government Employees Associa-
tion, on the phoney pretext that
such dues. might be used to fin-
ance labor political action against

Socred rule, it not only set a pat--

tern for other employers to follow,
but arbitrarily violated an element:
ary trade union right; that of the
right of unions to spend their own
money as they see fit, and/or sup-
port a political party of their own
choice.

Numerous Chamber --of - Com-

merce-and other monopoly inter- -

ests, determined to intensify their
attack upon union standards, have
‘lobbied’. the Socred cabinet, de-
manding new ‘curbs’ and restric-
tions upon organized labor.

That they found a sympathetic
ear is no longer in doubt, as wit-
ness the ‘hints’ handed out by
labor minister Leslie Peterson on
‘new’ labor legislation being pre-
pared by the Socred cooks, and in
keeping with employer recipes.

Unless we miss our guess, (and
we will be happy to be wrong in
this instance) cancellation of the
union dues checkoff is going to be
the club handed to the employers

by a subservient and corrupt gov-) |
ernment to bring the trade union) ~

movement of British Columbia to

heel. .
Aided and abetted by the So

creds, the bosses will be able to.

demand cutbacks in wages and

working standards, with an ‘of
else’ ultimatum — no checkoff. (>

Labor must prepare to meé

such retrogressive attacks, first)

by defending its checkoff right
with every united effort it cal
command, and secondly,
the worst happen) by establishin|

union machinery which~ will no

only safeguard union revenues a

(should

union democratic rights, but will”
effectively smash this latest threat

of a graft-ridden monopoly-domin=
ated Secred government. .

The union dues checkoff cancel

.

lation threat challenges a hard
won right which must not be sul

rendered easily. But equally im:

.

portant is the issue closely tied up
with this threat; the attempt of
government. to dictate to working
people who and what party they A

must, or must not support.

To defeat this Socred- monopoly
threat labor must be united, vig-
ilant,.and fully prepared to- "meet

it with the ‘gloves off.’

and

Business Mor. — OXANA BIGELOW °

countries (except Australia): $4.00 —
all. other countries: $5.00-one year. |

Tom
McEwen

Awa the myth that royalty
can ‘do no wrong” the public
criticism of Prince Phillip’s tiger
hunt in India has brought a few
of the old pukka _ sahib “India
Hands” out of the mothballs in
spirited defense of this allegedly
“royal” sport. Most recent of these
is Colonel M. E. Dopping-Hempen-
stal, late of the Gurkha Rifles (re-
tired), now resident of Victoria.

“Bally rot and all that,’’ snorts
Old Dop, ‘‘all these dashed sissies
protesting the prince’s tiger shoot.
Why, back in~1911- when I was
out with the king he got.19 out
of a total bag of 39 tigers. Jolly
good hunt, what? Pip pip. Why, I
remember one royal sportsman
who missed his tiger several times.
I said, you carry on sir, and you'll
-get it eventually. By gad - sir, he
never did, what? Pip pip: sCan’t

see what those dashed newspapers’

“are erying about. ‘Bloody nonsense.

= ‘Harrumph. is
F Never having “hunted: tigers we ©
no matter how’

wouldn’t . know,
many Blimp ‘pip pips” were: add-
ed. But there are definite elements

of wanton cruelty, in: these: yikes’ <

ty? tiger Ihuits:- i227 fs

The tiger, wach like an unem-

é plebian. 3

ployed plug before a belly-robbing
welfare committee asking for
something for his family to eat,
has about a 1000-to-1 chance for
survival.

Just figure it out for yourself.
A high staging platform is built
on which the “sportsman”’ is safely
perched. Close by, within easy
shooting range, a succulent goat or
pig is staked out to serve as “‘bait.”’
The beaters are then strung out
in a wide circle to chase the hunt-
ted animal into the clearing
around the ‘“‘sport’’ stage. Then the
royal “hunter” safe on his high
platform just blazes away. “By
gad Sir, carry on. You'll get it
eventually”. And of course he
does. The “bag” is duly measured,
weighed, admired, and together
with the royal ‘‘cool-headedness’’
duly publicised in a thousand
column-inches of the daily Blurb.

This type of “hunting,”
or otherwise, aside from its
definitely cruel aspects, very
much resembles a locoed poultry
farmer opening the henhouse door
on a Monday morning and letting
the rooster have it with both
barrels before that royal fowl can
give forth with his morning. “cock-
a-doo-del-doo.”’ No wonder sections
of the British préss are critical of
such - ceportamnen, ” princely or

royal

* *- *
News of the North, a weekly
‘journal published in Yellowknife,

NWT, "is looking for 4,000-miles

.of new-roads up. in that. country

which Dief,

in a recent nation-

wide TV broadcast said had been _
built. The MP for the NWT also
asked to be informed (on a ques-
tion of privilege) just where those
4,000-miles are. Seemingly no one
in Canada’s northland can locate
them.

Dief bristled that the ‘hon.
gentleman” was using House
“privilege” to imply that his yarn
about the roads. were ‘‘mislead-

ing.” But Dief never got around . .

to telling the “hon. gentleman”
nor the people of Canada just
where those roads are. Even the —
tourist bureaus of the Yukon and
NWT haven’t the ‘faintest

ing (completed or “visionary’’) is
taking place.

News of the North has asked
the PM to “indicate on a map”
just where they can be found, and °
made the sporting proposition that ©
if no such a map is available in
Ottawa; that enterprising journal ©

is ready to pay the engraving costs |

of having one made. The paper
also stipulates that since Dief had
been very positive in his TV ‘ora--
tion’ that such roads were: far-ad-:
vanced from the “visionary” stage,
on any: map it pays for, ‘‘vision-*
ary”” roads’ won’t count.* Only a
real McCoy. : :

Political “road-building” ‘has ‘al-’
ways been a hardy perennial with”

. Liberal and Tory politicians,

which probably explains why’ ‘the’
good people of the NWT just. can’t’

locate this latest 4,000-mile stretch? '

idea *-
where Dief’s prodigious road-build- +

da

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