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pNX the America of the money-
changers, in the West Ger-

many of resurgent Nazism and the

~ death ovens, in the countries of

racist oppression, and even in the

“enlightened Free West” cursed by
- Tory rule and bigotry, the outlaw-
ing, repression and distortion of
Communist ideology and organiza-

» tier fellews a uniform patern.

Those who seek to impose their

-demination abroad always begin

- by destroying or restricting civil
_ liberties at home. That is one of

the fundamental “laws” of pre-

' datory imperialism.

It does seem ironical however,

- to see the Ben Gurion government

_ of Israel following a like aim. Dur-

: ing recent weeks mass raids and .

arrests upon the premises, homes
‘and members of the C.P. of: Israel
_ have been the order of the day:

_* In Haifa, Nazareth, Acre, Jer-
- uslam and other centres, many
- scores of Communists have been .

arrested, including members of the
Central Committee, under the

. trumped-up charge of publishing

“literature inciting against the

* state”

Thus in their totality, so well

defined by Kol Haam, organ of the -

’ C.P. of Israel: “such fascist meth-
eds . . . endanger every political

party and group in the country.”
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We sympathise with Editor Bob

Clair of The Barker in his current —

“Compensation. Corner” article en-
titled “Is This Justice?”

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From where we sit the only kind
of “Justice” that can be wrung out
of the WCB for an injured worker,
is that won by a united and de-
termined labor mevement. Almost

‘single-handed, Mine-Mill has prov-

ed that poirt many times. over.

We agree with Brother Clair
that the solution (partial) is to
“vote” the Socreds “out of office
... and end... the employers’
stranglehold on our legislators.”

_ Fine. But we must ask our
Brother Editor, with what or
whom shall we “vote” monopoly
out of office?

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cae in the long history of
emankind has the fulfillment
of a centuries-old cherished hope’
been more earnestly sought than
on this Christmas of 1961; the
realization of “Peace On Earth,
Goodwill To Men.”

With the horror of nuclear an-
nihilation and destruction hanging
over humanity like a menacing
“Sword. of Damocles,” a threat that
has now reached the apogee where
an error or miscalculation could
unleash it, the cry for “Peace On
Earth, Goodwill To Men” becomes
the sole path to human survival.

Thus while a mere handful of
powerful and evil conspirators in
our so-called “Free West” alter-

HIS week in an Israel court,

_ the Nazi war criminal and
murderer of six million Jews dur-
ing the Hitler era, neard the read-
ing of a long verdict of guilty by
his eminent judges. Guilty of un-
speakable crimes against a helpless
humanity, the final sentence
against this monster in human
form will probably be rendered
later this week.

-The grim lesson which all man-

kind should learn from the Eich-

mann trial in Israel will be lost
however, unless others of his kind
are brought before a similar bar

of justice, and sternly dealt with —

for the Nazi criminals they are.

_ While the Eichmann verdict was
being read, the Soviet Union in a
note to Washington demanded the
handing over of Nazi General

Comment-

greetings

nately hide and boast of*their abil
ily to “destroy” by engulfing the
world in nuclear flames, the age-
old slogan rings from the lips and
hearts of countless millions of the
world’s multi-racial peoples, united —

in one clarion call—Peace. All —

seek Peace as their right, their
heritage, and their destiny — to
live and work in peace and brother-
hood. For themselves, and for the
generations to come.

To all our readers and devoted
supporters the Pacific Tribune
staff extends hearty Christmas
and New Year’s 2reetings. To all
we pledge, and seek their support —
in a sacred cause: to make 1962
the year of victory for “Peace On
Earth, Goodwill To Men.”

Hold the scales even

Adolf Heusinger, now West Ger- —
man NATO chief, to be tried as #
war criminal for crimes against —
the Soviet people.

Heusinger’s record for
blooded murder and mass annihila- —
tion of defenseless peoples is in no —
way less than Eichmann’s. q

But the Israeli verdict against
Adolf Eichmann fits Adolf Heus- —
inger in every detail. And with —
Heusinger, the hundreds of nazi —
generals, judges, feuhrers and

“unter-feuhrers who now constitute —
the revanchist state apparatus of —
Herr Adenauer.

Why hang one nazi eriminal— q
and provide hundreds of unhung —
criminals with the power and arms —
and authority to ‘commit similar
or greater crimes against human: —
ity?

United States and ~

Tom |

McEwen.

than customary vigor.

. “Old Lady” of Cambie Street
acquired the services of an alleged

Canada;
sewer journalism.

worthy item into a “Kremlin plot”

tims may say,

’ Mr. Khrushchev.

and who is a ‘“‘Communist’’?

“Communist”

URING the current civic elec-
D tions in British Columbia the
monopoly press witch doctors have
been shaking out their. coldwar
anti-Communist bogey with more

’ This has been especially notice-
able with The Province. Since the

“Jabor expert” from the Financial
Post, organ of Big Business in
“something new has been
added” to her fine technique of

The art of turning: any news-

via the smear touch is’ @ specialty
with The Province. This is done
by garbling and twisting anything
which the ‘Old Lady’s’ selected vic-
then by some alch-
emy of political misrepresentation,
trace the said victim’s antecedents
straight back to the “Kremlin” and

How to tell which civic candidate

Very simple. The “Old Lady’s”
smear expert brings out his spec-
ialized slide-rule and presto, the
identity is exposed

for all to see in a lead editorial
which recited: “it quacks like a
duck, it walks like a duck’,, by gad
sir, “it is a duck.”

Magnificant. .Such profundity.
No wonder we are away out ahead

of the Russians with our “free
press”: :
To reverse the process, (without

aid of the old gal’s editorial slide-
rule) one could pose the question:
are all the “Old Lady’s’’ editorial
spawn sired by Joe McCarthy?
Well, by the same formula, ‘‘they
quack like Joe, they act like Joe,”
by gad sir, “they are Joe.”

A horrible thought, particularly
to those good souls who harbored
the illusion that Joe was dead, but
forgot that Hell had refused him
admission and sent him back to his
old haunts to wallow in new edi-
torial lecheries. Sounds like an
“Aesop Fable” but it isn’t.

Any doubts on that score can be
set at rest by a gander at the De-
cember 6 edition of The Province.
There, nearly a whole page of it,
and fittingly under an alleged
quotation from Lenin, (an obvious
forgery), are all the ‘‘Red-backed
candidates” in the Greater Vancou-
ver civic elections. Communists, al-
leged Communists, etc. all lined
up like a jolly “Rogues Gallery”,
and with the poor unwitting elector
totally ‘unfamiliar with, or mom-
entarily unconscious of these can-
didates’ basic revolutionary politi-
cal motivation”’.

Trade unionists, lawyers, P-TA

“are civic. problems

workers, teachers, etc., all loaced
with ‘a preponderance of Com-
munist Party line propaganda’, all
followers of ‘Mr. Khrushchev . . -
the real boss” in B.C.’s municipal
elections?

In face of such a ‘‘menace” what
like. schools,
transit, welfare, the people’s heaith,
the plight of the jobless? Bah, can’t
the electorate see that such issues
are just a flimsy pretext to enadle
Nikita Khrushchev to take-over the
City Hall?

We can readily imagine many
of The Province readers having to
reach for the smelling salts ‘+o
fortify themselves against tnrat
heavy whiff of the “Old Lady’s”’
McCarthyite halitosis.

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_ According to the Tor. ato Gisbe
& Mail getting into jail will prob-
ably .be the best safeguard against
nuclear attack since ‘‘the walls are
unusually thick.’ But this saicty-
first prospect, laments the G&M,
has one drawback: ‘‘a new genera-
tion sired by lucky cattle:
rustlers, cheque forgers, hold-up
men and the like,” will result?

Looking over most of the mon-
opoly tycoons we now have, 2ny
one of which is highly qualified in
any of the above “professions” the
G&M worries can be readily set at
ease. All that is needed to assure
that “new generations’, as well as
present ones will survive, and that
there will be no nuclear war — is
to put the right people in jail.

December 15, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4

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