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graft and corruption. On this score
there is undoubtedly a goodly ma-
jority of B.C. people who will agree
with David Sturdy and his newly-
formed PVA.

There however, the
ends. In this era of the moral de-
cay of capitalism and capitalist
parties, the job is not to provide
a refuge for disgruntled Tories,
Liberals and Socreds and re-estab-
lish them in political life to con-
tinue their betrayal of the people’s
interests under a new guise.

The urgent need is for a people’s
alternative of farmer-labor-CCF-
LPP and other progressives, deter-
mined to legislate for the people;
to have done entirely with monopoly
domination in government with its
corruption and
Provincial

agreement

attendant graft,
moral decay. Sturdy’s
Voter’s Association cannot pro-
vide such an alternative because

its avowed purpose is to prevent it.
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Support this resolution

[Per week Cedric Cox (CCF-
Burnaby) placed on the order
paper of the legislature a resolution
of vital importance to every citizen
regardless of social or political sta-
tus. This resolution, which may
come before the House any day

reads:

“That this assembly urge the gov-
ernment of Canada to intensify its
efforts to promote relaxation of in-
ternational tension, aiming towards
world disarmament by international
agreements, and that it urge the
United Nations Organizations to
explore every means to this end, in-
cluding its support of holding a
summit conference.”

This resolution merits the unqua-
lified support of every citizen inter-
ested in preserving peace, easing
world tensions, and helping to end
the manufacture, testing and use of
nuclear horror weapons. And hun-
dreds of scientists in every country

have already voiced a grave warn-
ning of the fate that can befall hu-
manity if the testing and use of

nuclear weapons is continued.

While all CCF members, together
with many Socred back-benchers
fully support the objectives set
forth in this resolution, there is
only one assurance that it will
meet with the majority approval
of the legislature: Your instruc-
tions to your MLA and to govern-
ment members, demanding that the
resolution be given the unanimous
approval of the House.

The issues implicit in the CCF
resolution stand above partisan in-
terests; they are the concern and
the duty of all. To win peace for
British Columbia by having the leg-
islature voice the desires of the
people it represents.

Write or wire your MLA today,
instructing him to give his unqua-
lified support to Cedric Cox’s reso-
lution on peace.

Tom
McEwen

CANADAS chief electoral of-
ficer, Jules Castonguay, has
estimated that the March 31
election will cost the taxpayers
a trifling $9,000,000. The federal
election of June 10 last year,
which visited a Tory blight on
the country, nicked the tax-
payers for some $8,500,000. Thus
inside of one year Canadians
will] have blown in close to $18,-
060,000 for something they didn’t
want and don’t need. As the
famed Mr. Dooley might observe
to his friend Mr. Hinnisey, “Be-
jabers, we moight be suckers,
but we ain’t pikers.”

During the next six weeks the
ordinary people of factory and
farm will receive approximately
nine million dollars’ worth of
political manure delivered in
bulk (sometimes vulgarly re-
ferred to as “bull’), plus one or
the other old-line party gang to
rule the roost until their
political “promises” catch up
with them again.

One of the really bright spots

in this election, greatly illumi-
nated. by Sputnik, is that both
main contenders, Liberal and
Tory, have just about had it;
this despite the gargantuan ef-
furts of the hack editorial scrib-
bies of the monopoly press to
“prove” that the old two-party
system is still the best in this
best-of-all-possible worlds?

The “best” for whom?
eral Mike there isn’t one iota of
difference. Both are the political
tools of big monopoly; both get
their slush funds from the same
monopoly pot; both take their
orders from the same source;
and both will “promise the
people most anything before
election day ... and renege on
their promises the day after.

Without a doubt our two-party
system is by far and away the
“best” . for the monopoly
and financial buccaneers who
loot the nation’s resources
(physical and material) who by
the simple process of having
paid the piper also call the

‘political tune.

Ten years of Liberal cold war
policies and of following John
(Dulles not Diefenbaker) went
into the present -“recession,” in
which Canada’s markets, jobs
and peace were blatantly
squandered. Nine months of
Tory bombast and evasion and
following John (Dulles and Die-
fenbaker) has compounded the
mess. Now Tory John wants a
“mandate” to do what no party
in parliament would dare ob-
struct him in doing, were he

so minded to do it, legislate for
jobs, markets and’ peace.

parent. What Tory John really
seeks is a majority which wili
enable his Conservative party
to heave its pretenses at “re-
form”’
and to rule in the traditional
Tory “iron heel’ style.

raarathon,

Such trickery is patently trans-

government overboard

In this present “promising”
debonaire bow-tied

Liberal Mike is no slouch either.
He cah hand them out as fast
and as large as Tory John, and
equally as phoney. Mike’s prime
concern is that the people will
see him only as a Nobel Peace
Prize winner, a new Liberal
Moses, and not as the weasel-
worded fair-haired boy of John
Foster Dulles.

The nub of the problem is
simple. Instead of an endless
round of high-priced promises
and low-grade performances by
a John or Mike gang, why not
a united movement of farmers,
trade unionists, CCF, LPP and
other progressive organizations,
ail determined to send enough
good progressive MPs to Ottawa.
Such a bloc of progressive MPs
would put a lasting crimp in
this Tory-Liberal trickery; turn
a very deaf ear to the endless
clamors of big monopoly; and a
very alert ear to the urgent needs
of the people in the year 1958.

With such a bloc of progres-
sive MPs in parliament, the $9,-
000,000 would be well spent. Oth-=
erwise, it’s both money and
promises down the drain,

February 14, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5