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enough to sell to a ready market
in China. The disastrous con
sequences of this policy are
apparent to the 3,000 Massey’

Harris workers who have been:

laid off.

It is to the advantage of both
nations that: all obstacles be re-
moved to opening the freest in-
tercourse of trade and cultural
exchanges between Canada and
the USSR, and not only the
USSR but China and all coun

tries of the socialist world.

,

JF Premier W. A. C. Bennett
expected to dazzle the voters
with a brief spectacular election
campaign, it must now be ap-
parent to him that he has mis
calculated. °

His first miscalculation was
his recent invasion of Saskatch-
ewan where revelectioneof the
CCF government dimmed his
hopes of leading a Social Credit
‘‘crusade’’ to Ottawa and made
it imperative that he try to get
another mandate in this prov-
ince before the consequences of
his policies dislodged him from
Victoria.

His second miscalculation was: -

in believing that he could evade
discussion of the issues by cry-
ing “‘smear’’ and sweep back to
office over a crushed opposition.

He is still crying ‘‘smear’’ but
his cries are unconvincing.

He has been tripped by his
own politics. By calling the
election now he hoped to silence
the opposition parties. But the
opposition parties refused to be
silenced and now he cannot dis-
cuss the fact’ without revealing
the extent of his government's

End the giveaways

: Comment

giveaway af the province's tim-
ber, gas and oil tesources.

While other parties have con
centrated on the Sommers case,
the Labor-Progressive party has
brought forward the greater
issue of the government's give-
away policies, of which the Som-
mers case is only one expression.

This coming Wednesday the
people have an opportunity to
halt these giveaways. They have
an opportunity:-to rid themselves
of a clique of politicians who,
discarding the threadbare gar-
ments of the old-line parties, have
donned the mantle of Social
Credit to carry out essentially
the same giveaway policies as
the old discredited Liberal-
Conservative Coalition — but
on an even greater scale.

They can do it by voting for
LPP candidates, who'are leading
the fight against the betrayal of
our heritage, for CCF candidates
in other constituencies which
the LPP, in interests ef unity, is
not contesting, and for Labor in
the single instance of Fernie.
This, and this alone, is the only
way to advance their real in-
terests.

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done. Vote Bryan and Stacey.

nd at the Second. Narrows,
Ae the pillars for the new toll
bridge march across the flats: to
the water’s edge, @ similar sign
welcomes you to North Vancou-

ver.

‘haps North Vancouver 1s
Se varies choice for these
signs. Social Credit has repudi-
ated the member who might
boast that he got the new Lion's
Gate approaches built. To suc-
ceed him it has nominated a man
who can only boast that his father
was a member of the Liberal
government which built the

bridge itself or, more accurately,

its construction. And
apr loath to

Premier Bennett is :
admit that anyone did anything

i i fore his
around this province be
government took office. He can,
however, point out that Social
Crediters :are so eager to “get

them are contesting the two
North Vancouver seats.

Although Social Credit admits
to every other virtue, it makes
no claim to modesty, presumably
because it does not want to place
too great a strain: on public
credulity.

Social Credit boasts fill the
billboards, the radio and the
newspapers, everything, in fact,
except the political rallies organ-
ized to hear the men who make
them. There are even . some
political opponents of the-govern-
ment who maintain that the land-
slide which delayed the inaugural
run of the PGE was caused by
all the hot air of Social Credit
boasts loosed at the opening cere-
monies.

I, for one, am not averse to-the
government boasting about its
achievements provided it is con-
sistent in its boasting. I believe
the signs should be left where
they are in North Vancouver —
we'll be tired of seeing them
long before we have finished
paying for the bridges. But why
stop there ? :

* * *

_Why can’t the government have
a card placed on the counter of
every store in the. province so
that everytime we buy some-
thing we can read, “Your Social
Credit government gets 5 per-
cent’? Inevitably the card would
carry a picture of Premier Ben-
nett smiling and, to give his smile
greater meaning, he could have
his hand stretched out.

Again, we have all admired

Highways Minister Philip A.
Gaglardi’s autographed apologies
along our roads. But why should
he get all the publicity ?

Let’s have a few signs along
the route of the new natural gas
pipeline. I can appreciate the
difficulty Social Credit publicity
men have in identifying the Ben-
nett government with the B.C.
Electric slogan, “Natural gas is
coming soon.” People: might get
the wrong idea. All that’s needed
is a simple sign reading, “Donated

by your Social Credit govern-
ment to the B.C. Electric.” And
if the government wants to salve
its conscience it can add, in small
print, “Down with the monopol-
ies.”

I’m not sure whether the signs
along the main pipeline to the
United States should be signed
by R. E. Sommers or Frank Mc-
Mahon, but in any case Can-
adians won’t draw any sharp dis-
tinction and U.S. tourists, es-
pecially the kind we have had
along the pipeline, wiil soon
get the point.

Social Credit’s greatest boast
of all, “Progress — not politics,”
with which the government is
fighting this election, cannot be
improved upon. From Premier
Bennett (an unsuccessful Con-
servative) to Asselstine (a former
Liberal minister of mines) the
Social Crediters are not politic-
ians. No, they’re businessmen—
big businessmen.

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