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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.

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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

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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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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-

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‘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 ? :

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_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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