ne | | Review © \ 0 Nee ea x EDITORIAL PAGE «x Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associate Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager. Published weekly by the Tribune Publishing Company Ltd. at Room 6, 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. — MArine 5288 Canada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia), 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.60. Australia, U.S., and all other countries, 1 year $4.00, 6 months $2.50. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Comment NPA and civic voters’ list . Se extention of the civic franchise in 1954 to all Can adian citizens of 21 years and Over resident in Vancouver since January was no small achieve ment of the democratic and pro- gressive minded people of this . City, : Now however, it appears that certain Non-Partisan interests at ‘the city hall, with Alderman Bill Orr-in the lead, would like to Scuttle this democratic extension of the franchise. _ As is usual in such efforts to short-circuit progress, the old howl about “‘economy’’ is sound: ed. Instead of having a large Staff of paid enumerators to regy ‘ister eligible citizens, Alderman Orr would have all enumerators dispensed with and the onus plac: ed upon the voter to get’ himself or herself.on the voters’ list. Al derman Orr's proposal would ‘Mean that every voter would have to make one or more trips to the city hall, with a lot of valuable mT Tom McEwen A FEW weeks ago Dr. W. G. Black, who holds the high sounding title of Director of Citizenship for the Immigra-- tion Department, in an address to the Young Men’s Christian Association, told that body “Canadian workers are show- ing a growing tendency to be satisfied with shoddy work.” In case anyone may have. had any - doubts on just what he really meant, the 800d Doctor elaborated: “As well as asking for more money, shorter hours and pension plans, they (the workers) Should want to give more in return.” At the moment there are approximate- ly three-quarters of a million Canadian Workers — citizens to you, Dr. Black — who have been shoddily deprived of the opportunity of working at all. _Another three million or so who are working ad- here to a well-founded belief that since they have produced all the wealth, they are entitled to a greater share of it in terms of more money in the family pay envelope, a shorter working day based ©n capacity to produce, and pension plans meet the .exigencies of — industrial zards and advanced age. These things, Tather than the “shoddy” prescription ‘handed out by Dr. Black to the YMCA, are the most important. “seven measur- ‘ng rods” of good citizenship. _It seems to us that the first qualifica- tion for a “Director of Citizenship” is to - have a wider concept than a Chamber of Commerce more-work-and-less-pay ver's- ton of “citizenship.” There is nothing more shoddy than a Liberal politician with his pockets well lined, handing out thrift-and-hard-work” homilies to his less fortunate fellow men — and labei- 8 his cure-all bilge as ‘citizenship. time wasted, and a hundred-to-one chance that thousands of voters would be left off the registration list. This is precisely what Alder- man Orr and those NPAers who back him are hoping for. Citizens should demand that the provision for enumerators ‘as originally planned by the city council be retained, and that the number of enumerators be in- creased to ensure that every elig- ible voter is on the list. Further, there is a need for central regis tration points to be established where citizens can register with- out inconvenience to themselves. The Civic Employees Union (Out- side Workers) has already pro- posed to the city council that such registration centres be located in all main schools during the month of AAgust so as to ensure a com- plete voters’ list registration. Tt is unavoidable that the enu- meration staff now engaged in compiling the new lists will miss —EEUUMuZ2w#£eEZz i___EUMC_UTCQQ& «cic KANNAN RR Even in a YMCA such concoctions have a strong unchristian odor! Justice Minister Stuart Garson declar- ‘ed recently that his “investigation” ot the RCMP “leak” which sparked the dis- missal of John Marshall from the Great- er Victoria Library staff, has shown that there was no “leak” at all. As any competent plumber will tell you, there are many and varied kinds of leaks, The remarkable feature about Garson’s “investigation” into the subject of leaks is that one of the principles in the Victoria witch and book-burning inquisition, Reeve Joseph Casey of Saan- ich, was not included in these ministerial- RCMP “investigations.” ‘ * Reeve Casey was one of those in the, Victoria book-burning smudge who was insistent that the Victoria Library Board divulge the source of its information, upon which it based its arbitrary dismis- sal of Marshall. In fact, Casey himself .claims he was “tipped off” in the Douglas Hotel (a house operated by the Victoria Library Board chairman) by a confidence gent flashing an RCMP “credential” and volun- teering the information from RCMP sources that Marshall was a “Red.” Just how Garson could carry through an “investigation” for RCMP “leaks” and leave Reeve Casey’s experience out of the picture is beyond us. Perhaps it was : ‘to cover up something more sinister than Casey’s cloak-and-dagger tete-a-tete in a hotel room with an RCMP stooge; to hide the role of the RCMP in the promotion of McCarthyism in Canada, almost an ex- act carbon copy of the FBI-McCarthy smear and discrimination technique in ‘the U.S., where countless thousands of Americans in all walks of life, from presidents down to janitors, are branded’ U.S: Grabs Wheat Order CANADA LOSES BIG BRAZIL CONTRACT many of the eligible voters at their homes. Registration centres would Hee in compiling a full voters’ st. The scheme Alderman Orr and his NPA colleagues have in mind, if they get away with it, would disfranchise thousands of voters in Vancouver's civic election, by the simple ruse of making regis tration for the citizen as difficult as possible. by FBI “dossiers” compiled by stool pigeons, then ‘properly smeared and smothered by the McCarthy witch-hunt- ers, to whom the FBI supplies the fag- ‘gots. Of course, we’ll admit they are a bit ahead of us in the good old USA when it comes to material and spiritual lynch- ing. Unlike the Victoria book-burning ‘devotees and their kind in other parts of Canada who just want to burn “some” books, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey takes time off from juggling finances for the enrichment of his fellow bankers to join McCarthy in a _ real bonfire. : Being one of those one-hundred per- cent Georgia-born racist bankers, Humph- rey doesn’t want to be piddling around just burning a few books. He wants to _ do the job wholesale, on a big scale. In fact this McCarthyized git-up-and-go treas- urer watchdog for Yankee imperialism would like to burn the whole damn book- store. Humphrey is currently giving his at- tention to the New Frontier Bookstore in Seattle, Washington — the only book- store in the U.S. Northwest which main- tains a lifeline of literature between the workers of the U.S. and other lands. Humphrey doesn’t like any literature coming into his USA from Europe or Asia which not only tells of the great socialist and working class achievements of the people of other countries, but also tells — from firsthand experience — the truth of the role of Yankee imperialism abroad.. Hence Humphrey’s prime con- cern at the. moment, aside from looking after the financial interests of the billion- airé cabinet of which he is a member, - is to join hands with Senator Joe Mc- Carthy in putting good boooks to the ' torch, and those who sell, distribute or advocate the reading of good books, on _ the smear rack. THE TELEGRAM, Friday, Feb. 19,1954 While Uissimposed restrictions shut off markets for surplus Canadian wheat. ante PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 19, 1954 — PAGE 5 / The popular demand should be for more enumerators and the opening of numerous registration centres as a safeguard to the fran- chise’ extention won by the peo- ple. The Orr “plan’”’ for strang- ling registration under the guise of ‘‘economy’”’ is designed to serve ‘NPA interests, and by that token is against the interests of the peo ple of Vancouver. Forty years ago (From the files of the B.C. Federationist, March 20, 1914) - “At this time of appropriation of pub- lic lands (better known as land grabbing), distribution of subsidies to the favored few and the rapidly growing concentra- tion of industrial concerns, the issuance of a volume entitled History of Canadian Wealth, by Gustavus Myers, is of more than passing interest,” the B.C. Federa- tionist wrote on the book which was to be widely read and quoted in suceeeding years and to have considerable influence onthe labor movement. Fifteen years ago (From the files of the People’s Advocate, March 17, 1939) Warned that single unemployed would be utterly destitute when forestry camps closed down, Mayor Lyle Telford of Van- couver wired Labor Minister Norman Rogers, “Now is the time for action, not after trouble has broken out.” Telford vasked federal financial assistance to prevent a repetition of last year’s sit- down in Vancouver Post Office and sub- sequent violence when RCMP teargass- ed and clubbbed unemployed single men | who had been cut off relief rolls after forestry camps closed down. Ten years ago (From the files of The People, March 18, 1944) The legislature this week gave unani- mous approval to a motion introduced by W. T. Straith (Coalition Liberal, Vic- toria) and seconded by W. J. Asseltine (Coalition Liberal, Atlin) opposing estab- lishment of any more company towns in the province. -At the same time, the legislature urged on the government abolition of restrictions on “business, cultural, religious and other institutions and the free movement of citizens” in present company towns. : ® Mine-Mill recently charged that the Aluminum Company of Canada “is vio- lating Canadian and provincial laws to set up a feudal empire at Kitimat com- plete with immigration barriers, com- pany unions, police and inhuman condi- tions of work.” ee Men Se