EDITORIAL PAGE.

Er clters’ or cursive?

hould The Province continue its
S editorial defence of radiation
shelters along the lines of its Aug-
ust 12 editorial, the public may
abandon its total disregard of
Socred-Tory “backyard shelters”
stupidity, and begin erecting some
sort of ‘shelter’ from Province ed-
itorial ‘fallout’.

While most scientists worthy of

the name have repeatedly warned
that such ‘shelters’ from nuclear
radiation are ety useless, not
only in the immediate target area
but scores of miles outside its
wide radius, The Province charges
the Canadian Communist party
with launching “a campaign of
ridicule which can only have one
objective; to embarass and dis-
courage those contemplating build-
ing one. Anyone who disagrees is
to be branded a “nuclear maniac.’

Of course The Province scribes
know such a charge to be pure
editorial swill.

The Communists simply say
what every honest scientist and
citizen says: that fallout shelters
are totally useless for the purpose
suggested, and don’t even hold out
The Province’s “bare hope of sur-
vival.”

Entirely aside from the futility
and cost of these so-called ‘shelt-
ers’, they do serve a purpose how-
ever; that ef creating and stimul-
ating the mass hysteria essential
to the launching of nuclear war;
to stampede the people into accep-
tance of its ‘inevitability’.

If opposition to such criminal
illusions be “the Communist cam-
paign of terror being waged
throughout the world over_radia-
tion hazards,” let’s have more of
it, since Communists like other
mortals don’t look forward to be-
ing barbecued alive with equan-
imity, not even in the august
company of The Province. 4

The fact that Prime Minister
Diefenbaker should use the closing
hour of Parliament to urge “4,-
000,00@ Canadian householders. to
build fallout shelters,” but had

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nothing to say on what a million
or more jobless workers were go-
ing to live on or build with, merely
compounds the crime of the Pen-
tagon atomaniacs and their Tory
stooges here and elsewhere.

There is a much better solution
to the problem than _ backyard
shelters, no matter how elaborate
in construction some of these may
be. That is through total disarm-
ament and an immediate end to

nuclear bomb production and
testing. To eliminate the menace

upon which the stupidity of fall-
out shelters grows. To win neut-
rality and independence for Can-
ada, free from the evil domination
of U.S. imperialism and its Tory,
Liberal and Socred pawns in this
country, who are leading human-
ity to the ‘brink’ of an abyss, from
which there is no ‘shelter’ or sur-
vival.

The Provinces “bare hope of
survival” is bare indeed. So bare
that it is not difficult to detect
the sinister hand of U.S. and
home-grown nuclear maniacs in its
urging upon Canadians to conform
to suicide — and blaming the
Communists when they don’t.

Stamp out this evil

years ago a Vancouver

eae
court sentenced one of Oswald.
‘immigrants’ in.

Mosley’s nazi
Canada to a brief prison term and
prompt deportation. His crime:
using the mails and other media of
distribution to spread vicious anti-
Semitic propaganda.

During recent weeks the “Am-
erican Nazi Party of the World
Union of Free Enterprise National
Socialism” (quite a mouthful),
over the signature of its swastika
bedecked feuhrer, “Commander”
Lincoln Rockwell, has been flood-
ing the Canadian mails with some
of the most vicious anti-Semitic
and racist literature ever to ap-
pear in print since the days of
Hank Ford’s Dearborn Press and
the Hitlerite “Protocols of Zion.”

These materials, entitled “The
Troopers’ Manual of the U.S. Nazi
Party” promises new gas cham-
bers for all Jews in North Amer-
ica, and “equality” for the Negro
people, providing they keep in
mind that the “white man is his
superior.”

While the Pacific Tribune will
carry a full expose of this U.S.

nazi resurgence in an early edit-
ion, some facts should be carefully
noted and immediately acted upon.

First, the American Nazi Party
and its ‘Feuhrer’ Rockwell have
already been recognized and given
a licence to operate by the U.S.
state department and the F BI.
(The ‘Troopers Manual speaks
very highly of the latter in its pro-
gram for mass extermination of
the Jews.)

Secondly, that this nazi filth is
already flooding the mails in Can-
ada, with no known action or pro-
test of any kind by the Diefen-
baker or any provincial govern-
ment. (And_ please gentlemen,
don’t tell us you ‘didn’t know’, oF
that such incitement to anti-Jew-
ish violence is implicit in the
Diefenbaker ‘Bill of Rights’.)

Thirdly, that this nazi bilge al-
ready spilling over into Canada
with U.S. state department appro
val, is not the work of “crackpots”
but an organized center of nazi
terrorism and_ violence against
Jewish and other racial minorit-
ies — to the detriment and shame
ofall decent Canadians.

Tom
McEwen

EVER at a loss for words to
N string together in flowery
array, the _ venerable Winnie
Churchill described him as “this
most distinguished Canadian states-
man.”

Reminded us of the late Bob
Edwards of the famed Calgary
Eyeopener. Bob had just attended
the funeral of a local Calgary
politician. The officiating minister
had been most profuse in his praise
of the departed, referring to him
often and anon as “this great
statesman.”

“Now I know what a statesman
is’ Bob told a few of his cronies
over. a beer; “a statesman is a
dead politician. We need more
statesmen.”

When this “most distinguished
statesman” of our story cashed in
his checks last week at the ripe
age of 86-years, the kept press
which had fawned at his feet
while he lived, found it difficult to
exceed a six-column- inch euology
on his ever having existed.

That is as it should be. The
“Right Honourable’ Arthur Meig-
han, one of Canada’s top monopoly

exploiters and  labor-haters left
nothing for the most slobbering
press hawks to write about.

tf Arthur Meighan is remember-
ed at all, it will be by one tory
“achievement” only in his short
1714 months split-shift regime as
prime minister of Canada; an
order-in-council decree, Known as
Section 98 of the Criminal Code,
to break the Winnipeg General
Strike of 1919 and railroad the
strike leaders to the penitentiary
on trumped-up charges of “sedi-
tion,” (The late J. S. Woodsworth,
founder of the CCF was one of
those imprisoned by Meighan’s de-
cree. Twelve years later Section
98 was used by another tory
“statesman,” the late R. B. “Iron
Heel” Bennett of the Hungry Thir-
ties, to railroad leaders of the
Communist Party of Canada to
prison the Bennett way of
“solving” unemployment).

Aside from Section 98, Arthur
Meighan left nothing to be re
membered by or for, other than
the vast wealth he extracted out
of the sweat and poverty of his
fellow Canadians. And that is poor
material to construct glowing
tributes upon.

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The big Koumingtang - Chiang
Kia-shek boys across Canada and
in Vancouver’s Chinese community
are badly worried these days. The
Chinese “immigration” racket,
through which some of them have
pocketed considerable poodle in
recent years, looks as though it
might catch up with them. Tet

doesn’t it will simply show that
these Koumingtang “squeeze”
racketeers, who have extracted
countless thousands of dollars
from their poorer fellow country-
men, for forged passports, etc.,
have got themselves pretty well
entrenched in the Liberal and
Tory machines...asa “safeguard”
against expose and retribution!

Meantime to emphasize their
“natriotism”’ they are attempting
a nation-wide ‘boycott’ of the
visiting Peking Opera company,
playing to packed audiences in
Vancouver last week.

With a non-descript ‘‘picket” at
the Queen Elizabeth theatre,
coupled with scurroulous press for-
geries and leaflet distribution.
these Kuomingtang  racketeers
hope to “save face” in their ‘“im-
migration” ventures.

Rumors are widely circulated in
the Chinese community that any
and all who attend the Peking
Opera performances will be singled
out by the watchful RCMP and
promptly deported to Communist
China, where a dire fate is prom-
ised them by these Koumingtang
racketeers.

But all to no avail. The vast
audiences which came nightly to
enjoy the talented Peking Opera
ensemble, including thousands of
Canadian-Chinese, paid less heed
to the Koumingtang ‘‘picket line”
or their published forgeries and
slanders against Peoples’ China,
than we pay to Socred, Tory or
Liberal pre-election promises —
which is exactly nil.

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