Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights printed and published daily except sunday by the Winnipeg free company limited 300 car too Street Winnipeg authorized As second class matter by the Post office department Ottawa and for payment of postage in Cash. A John Sifton president r. S. Malone Shane Mackay executive editor publisher and vice president associate Western Peter Mclintock Winnipeg monday August 5, 1963 a City celebrated thousands of Winni Eggers have had a three Day holi Day this weekend because of a tradition that data Back to 1874. On september 8 of that year the City fathers in a mood of great Benevolence authorized september 16 to be observed As a civic Holiday. It is a Holiday that has continued to be observed every year since though the Date has not always been the same. Before 1938 a motion had to be passed by Council each year to name the Holiday and to set the Date but on june 13 of that year a motion was passed that set aside the first monday in August every year As a statutory Holiday until further notice. Thus was established the civic Holiday As we know it today. But the history of Winnipeg s civic Holiday goes Back beyond 1874 and the idea that gave birth to it was not original with City Council. Although it May be hard for most Winni Eggers to accept it All started in Toronto in 1869, Only two years after confederation and one year before the postage stamp province of Manitoba was formed. That year a group of festive Toronto citizens convinced the members of their City Council that the workers of the Day deserved a Holiday As a respite from the mid summer heat. The idea appealed to citizens of other Ontario towns and in due course to people in towns beyond Ontario including the City fathers of Winnipeg in 1874. The first monday in August is of course a Fine time to have such a Holiday. It is nicely spaced Between the National holidays in july and september that Mark the beginning of summer and the be ginning of fall. As the Toronto citizens in 1869 pointed out it is an appropriate time to have a respite from the mid summer heat. It is a Holiday moreover that is especially appreciated by the City s growing army of cottagers in summer resorts throughout the province. Long weekends in late May and Early july seem to be taken up largely by getting cottages opened the september Long weekend is a time for getting cottages closed. But there Are no such cares hovering about As a threat to spoil the Long weekend in August. The civic Holiday Only a Holiday from town and from toil it is a Holiday from summer cottage chores As Well. But the civic Holiday is More than an occasion to pro vide respite from toil and from summer heat. It is or should some sense a Celebration As is the Case with other holidays. On january 1 or Dominion Day for example to not Only take a Day off work we celebrate what these Days stand for the beginning of a year the birth of a nation. And so it is with All the special Days in our Calendar. What do we celebrate on the first monday in August we should City. We celebrate the fact that Here at the Junction of the red and Assiniboine Rivers men and women of a former generation built a settlement of human habitation. We celebrate the origin and history of that settlement and its growth to become the metropolitan Complex that we know today. We celebrate the fact that in this City we have found Home and employment and a sense of belonging. We celebrate the freedoms we Rah we enjoy Here As part of the larger Community which is the nation. Even if we use the Long weekend that the civic Holiday makes possible to escape from the City it is still the City we celebrate. It is the City from which we come and to which we return. Here our lot has been cast and Here our lives Are lived. Fatuous an article in the latest Issue of Canada month pays the Toronto Globe and mail a mighty compliment. Unfortunately it is As undeserved As it is fatuous and must be causing the editorial offices of the Toronto paper consider Able embarrassment. The theme of the article is that the Globe having supported the liberals last april is now having second thoughts. One paragraph says the Globe has this year demonstrated its Power to immense effect. It threw a bad government out of. Office by its intensive criticism and it elected the government of its own in fact the Globe and mail fell Over on the Liberal Side of the Fence on february 6. Then when the conservative government was in the pro Cess of disintegrating it Sud Denly discovered that or. Diefenbaker was less something that Many other newspapers had discovered Iong years before and had continuously said. What effect did the Globe and mail s editorial policy really have on the election re sults four Days before the paper s first anti Diefenbaker editorial appeared the Gallup poll asked if a Federal election were being held today which party s candidate do you think you would the results of the february 2 poll gave the conservatives 33 per cent of the vote the liberals 44 per cent with the balance going to the nip and social credit. On election Day 33 per cent of the votes cast went to the conservatives 41 per cent to the liberals with the rest to the other parties. In other words Between the time the Globe and mail s pro Liberal and anti conservative v Campaign started and election Day itself the conservatives popularity remained unchanged while the liberals dropped three percentage Points. In Light of these Fig ures it is a trifle difficult to today s scripture inasmuch Asye have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren be have done it unto me. Mat thew believe that the Globe and mail was entirely responsible for the defeat of the Diefenbaker government. Crowing Trade if there were any doubts about the economic interdependence of the United states and. Canada Canadian Trade figures for the first half of this year should dispel them. Canada s Trade Export and import in this period involved a total of Mil lion. Of this amount Trade with the United states accounted for milion. In other words exports to and imports from the . Account for about two thirds of can Ada s total Trade. In some ways the Trade Fig ures for the first six months of 1963 Are encouraging. Exports Are up by More than 6.5 per cent Over the same period last year and Canada must Prosper. Imports on the other hand fell off slightly by some .7 of one per cent the result was that can Ada a favourable balance of Trade of around Mil lion in the first half of 1963, compared with an unfavourable balance of million a year earlier. So far in 1963 we have sold More than we have bought where a year ago we were buying More than we were Selling. But within the total figures there Are some disturbing sub totals. Although our imbalance of Trade with the United states was lower in the first half of 1963 than in the same period of 1962, it still stood at million for the six months. On the other hand while our exports to the United kingdom Rose by nearly 11 per. Cent imports from that nation dropped by nearly 15 per cent this resulted in an unfavourable Trade balance for the United kingdom of More than million a situation which the . Can not allow to continue. It is a Long time since or. Diefenbaker s Promise that Canada would buy less from the United states and More from Britain. But if our Trad ing House is to be set in order then clearly some Atten Tion must be Given our. Trad ing relations with the United kingdom. West Hawk Lake is. Borie uneasy speculation in Spain who after Franco by Richard Scott Mowrer Madrid As general Francisco Franco and his regime grow problem of the Franco sue cession looms larger. More and.-. People speculate uneasily about what pen after Franco the Generalissimo will be ,71 in december. His regime born of a military coup d eat that degenerated into civil War has lasted a Quarter of a Century. Can it survive after its creator and Strong Man disappears recently a trusted Lieuten ant of the aging Caudillo Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco sought to dispel uncertainty on this score. Addressing the july plenary session of the Cortes Spain s tamed and acquiescent parliament the Admiral brought the problem into the open. He did so father surprisingly inserting his remarks in the body of a speech on an unrelated subject a new civil service statute requiring the China s splitters at work cracks spread in the communist world cracks stemming from the deep doctrinal rift Between the soviet Union and Hina Are spreading in communist parties in Many parts of the world. Moscow in its denunciation of peking has sped Mically accused the chinese readers of organizing and supporting a number of anti party groups of splitters com ing out against communist parties in the United states Italy Australia India Bel cum and apart from the United states where the Impact of the communist party As a whole is minimal there is in dependent evidence to sup port Moscow s charge in the countries named. Rifts open in Brazil Henry Hogg cables from Iio de Janeiro although the brazilian communist party Vas banned in 1947, Maine intact underground and for some years under the leadership of Luiz Carlos 3restes, it was the Best Organ Zed and most closely knit political party in the country Vith an electoral potential of votes. Today the situation is completely different the outlawed party has been split wide open with " restes still leading about half of not More than card carrying communists. Prestes is a frequent visitor o Moscow. He scrupulously allows the More moderate line. Heading the remainder of he party is Maurico grab Pis. Be is a frequent traveller to he is bitterly anti United states and hands but invitations to make trips to China which Are mostly accepted by intellectuals and Eft Wing politicians. The split has been largely responsible for the diminished great of the founded in by Francisco Juliao a soft spoken disciple of Cuba s Fidel Castro. Juliao s the take 9ver of land by peasants i poverty stricken North East Ern Brazil where the Feudal Stern has scarcely changed tace colonial Days. On his return from China ast year Juliao said he thought the soviet Union had a tremendous amount to earn from. And de cried Mao tse Tung As the greatest living human wide distribution of the portuguese language ver Ion of Mao. Tse Tung s bobs it guerilla warfare the cover bearing a picture of a brazilian peasant carrying a gun caused the brazilian government to take action against the league. It oper ites Only stealthily now and without a United command. Australian envoys to Khrushchev William fitter cables from Sydney chinese organization f a communist splinter group in Australia has not ret produced a Clear break away movement but a wave f defections and expulsions rom the comparatively Small party the total member hip is secret but is believed o number began Early in june. 45 members Are mown to be involved. The first to go1 was Rex Chiplin who resigned from the party on june 13 immediately on his return Moscow where he had spent two years As correspondent for the Syd Ney communist weekly news paper Tribune. Two leading Trade Union officials in the. State of Vic Toria p. Malone Secretary of the building workers and c. L. O Shea Secretary of the Tramway and omnibus work ers resigned1, a week later. Malone had been a member of the party for 22 years and a Central committee member for seven. O Shea had been a committee member for 20 years and is the Only Mem Ber to give the reasons for his resignation publicly. He said he resigned because for eighteen months the australian communist leadership has followed russian policy in ideological matters and i do not think they Are in the Best interests of the workers of this or any other the Central committee an swered by sacking other Mem Bers for factionalism breaches of ithe party Constitution arid the rejection of demo cratic among them is e. F. Hill a lawyer and former party Secretary in has been Dis missed from the Central com Mittee but not expelled pos Sibly because he is so influential and it is hoped he May recant. But he stands accused of organizing a group to Fol Low a left Wing opportunist he left Sydney for China Japan and Hong Kong on june 30, ostensibly on Holiday but he is widely believed to be seeking instructions and Fin Ance in peking to form a breakaway pro chinese australian communist party. Meanwhile Australia s Lead ing two orthodox communists Richard Dixon president and Lance Sharkey general Secretary have struck Back. Out of Sydney on july 3 bound for Moscow. Unlike Hill they shake no pre tence about their missions it is to get Khrushchev s directions for countering the threat to the australian party s Unity. Belgium expels chinese wingers Gavin Gordon cables from Brussels a splintering in Bel Gium s communist party advanced another step on july 15 with the expulsion of former senator. Henri Glineur chairman of the society of b u Chen w a id concentration Camp survivors. This was the fifth expulsion this year connected with the Russo chinese doctrinal Dis Pute. Four1 comrades expelled by a rigged vote at the Bel Gian party Congress at ant Werp in claim they rep resent the real doctrine of the communist party As Laid Down in the Stalin tradition. They Are known As the Chin Ese Wing of the party. They condemn Khrushchev s co existence tendencies which the belgian politburo with the italian was first to accept after the Moscow con Ference of october 1961. Observers believe the Chin Ese Wing comprises anything Between 10 and 30 per cent of the belgian communist party which itself has five out of 212 seats in the belgian chamber and one of the 106 in the sen ate representing under ,3 per cent of the electoral votes. There is no ostensible connection with the Hsinhua news Agency but noted the ample propaganda funds of the dogmatism group seem to Date from this chinese Agency s with belgian personnel in Brussels last february. Jacques Grippa sacked from the party s Central commit tee in 1961, was the ringleader in the revolt he seized the Opportunity offered by the party newspaper Drapeau Rouge in its free opinion column to contribute a word article covering four closely printed pages. His denunciation of the party s revisionist tendencies was sit once stigmatized Serror by the leading removal from the Central com Mittee two months later. This year in a irregularly convened meeting of the Sels party he secured a snap majority for a stalinist Resolution which got into print but was quickly smothered by editor Ial and party disclaimers. The splinter group tines under the leadership of Massoz issuing abundant propaganda including a 200. Page manifesto which contains virulent attacks on revisionist party leaders. This supplements the flow of Hsin Hua propaganda most of which consists of French translations printed in China of the material issued in London in English. . Marxists favor China Godfrey Hodgson reports from Washington a spokes Man at communist party Headquarters in new York re fused to comment on the rus Sian allegation that splitters Friendly to peking had infiltrated the party but. He did say that the party s official Organ the print the full text of both the. So Viet and the chinese letters together with an editorial1 which is now being prepared though official students of. Communism in Washington informed about the slightest detail of the Impact of the soviet chinese split on communist parties in Asia Europe and South America All admit that they have no definite idea of the ideological state of the american party. They dismiss the Amer ican party As a tiny faction deeply penetrated by Fri Stool pigeons. There is however consid Erable evidence of chinese sympathies among old line american marxists. The monthly review for example has taken a somewhat pro chinese line recently. And there Are Many of the tiny and persecuted band of Amer ican marxists whose sympathies originally attracted by anti colonialism to the party s line Are naturally drawn to the chinese Side in the pre sent dispute. Homer Chase the elderly new England communist who was named by russians As a chinese sympathizer is not a person with any great influence in but he has been putting out a dissident Sheet which has attracted some attention among marxists. One tension in the american communist Parry is that the big marxist Bookstall in new York gave up handling Chin Ese official publications at least a year ago and now angrily denies that it Ever did carry them. The ideological splits of american communists take place in a almost total vacuum since the party harassed in various ways by the Law and the Congress and totally out of sympathy with the major Ity of americans has almost no Contact with american life. A handful of Brave and mainly elderly people keep the flame alive in discussion and altercation among them selves. Preparing for showdown in India _ James cables from new Delhi both the pro rus Sian and pro chinese factions in the Indian communist party Are preparing for showdown. The faction controlled by the. Pro chinese has. Established footholds in the Indian states of Assam Andora Pun Jab Kerala and the More serious situation for the official leadership is in Calcutta and the state of West Bengal which has always been a party stronghold. Despite the fact that hundreds of the most influential communist workers in Cal Cutta arrested when the Chin Ese invaded India Are still in prison that the right its have taken control of the local the rank and file remain solidly opposed to the present party leadership. The opposition group in West Bengal which is Esti mated to include nearly members out of a total membership of in this state is holding meetings at which National the party Are attacked for Tail ing behind Nehru and his a tinal this group prints pamphlets on a secret press. It has num Erous underground Cour seemingly abundant funds and a wide network i for distributing its m essay in. The quarrel Between nationalists and pekingese within the party was brought into the open last autumn when the patriotic storm sub merging the country compelled the leadership of the party to denounce chinese and since then the situation in Tine higher echelons of the party has remained chaotic. While half the members of the communist National cout Jicile have been sent to jail by the Nehru government several Promin ent members of the Central secretariat have resigned their posts As Well Gen eral Secretary of party e. S. Namboodri ipad since then the party has been unable to a new general Secretary and has left the leadership in the hands of the pro russian chairman s. A. Hold on the members becomes every Day More confronted demands that should1 hold its already overdue Congress Dange firmly1 refuses the music of the file. _ thes present rightist Leader ship has been coerced into several actions by the pres sure of "the1 underground party. Dange and his friends Are trying to regain lost ground by launching a mass Campaign against High prices and High taxes. They have also Given some satisfaction to the pekingese faction by asking that India and China should sit Down at the Confer ence table along with the six Colombo Powers to Iron out their differences but it is doubtful whether these con Cessions will be enough to Al Low the official leaders to re gain Complete authority Over a party which is now in Dan Ger of being split wide open by the Moscow peking Contro Versy. Italians quell dissidents Ninetta Jucker from Rome the italian communist party s secretariat has met to discuss the implications of the Moscow peking breach. A number of pro chinese dissident groups have cropped up in Italy. One was mentioned on july 14 in a. Note from the soviet Central com Minfee published by pravda. This said chinese agents were encouraging a group of former party officials who were distributing insurrectionary pamphlets in Padua. The Padua dissidents have denied . They say their movement Aims to re Vive Leninist marxism and was formed a year ago when they were expelled from the party for. Criticizing italian communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti. But they said Ideo logically they stand in the same position As China. More serious signs of disaffection appeared this week in Milan where slogans in Praise of Mao and chinese communism have been chalked up on factory Walls and on houses in working class districts. One slogan says user equals criticizing Khrushchev and Prais ing Mao Are circulating in the factories in Milan. These signs of unrest Evi Dently communist leaders Here to Send the party s Deputy Secretary talk to the milanese activists on july 15 about the Unity of the International communist movement. Signer Longo is a Veteran whose1 reputation for Tough Ness is sometimes used As a. Foil to the subtlety of Togli he told the Assembly in Mil an that the chinese Are using elements in Italy that have been expelled from the ital Ian communist party or who never belonged to it. In the last few weeks the party has taken severe disciplinary measures against dissidents in Bologna Savona and Rome. Two party officials in Rome were expelled recently for joining the Italy China association an organization once favored by the party which Lias branches in 12 italian cities. And issues information directly Froin peking not vet Ted by the soviet or italian communist press. Chinese dissidents com Plain that the italian communist party leaders Are trying to prevent an open discussion of the ideological dispute. The party leaders seem not yet seriously v worried about local manifestations of they can hardly be pleased to learn that the chinese intend to set up a new comintern at a Obieme fore Lin formality of ratification by the Cortes. But what Carrero Blanco had to sri captured every one s attention for despite his lacklustre title of rotary of the presidency the Admiral is rated third Man in the regime s Hierarchy. A confidant of Franco for Many years and influential in a Hind the scenes capacity he is regarded As almost equal in importance to Spain s num Ber Deputy Premier general Agustin Munoz Grandes chief of the High general staff. The regime Carrero Blan co assured the Cortes is Here to Spain s fundamental Laws conceived by Franco Are the basis of the regime and they cannot be changed because no regime can per Mit its own the Laws could conceivably be modified with an Eye to improvement but it s quite another thing to seek to dilute the ideals which Are the heart and soul of the to do this would be Tanta mount to staging a coup and naturally nobody is going to provide a Legal Way of pulling off a coup d eat. It is impossible legally and even physically to change the basis of Spain s authoritarian state Carrero Blanco said. But in the opinion of questioning spaniards Franco s third Man did not go far enough and the succession Issue remains blurred. For instance will the monarchy be re stored As Franco s Law of Suc cession of 1947 seemed to imply or will a presidential re Public succeed the present regime As has been strongly hinted in the past year the Law of succession de clares Spain to be a kingdom though without a it pro Vides that a King or Regent will succeed Franco As chief of state. It had been assumed that the Spanish pretender in exile 50-year-old Don Juan de Bourbon or his 25-year-old son Juan Carlos would eventually mount the vacant throne. But since a year ago doubts have been allowed to develop on this score. While anti monarchist sentiments among the falange the country s Only authorized political movement Are aired freely the monarchists have been impeded by censorship and other obstacles in Public izing their cause. According to a statistical Survey Only 22 per cent of Spain s younger generation aged 16 to 30, favor a restoration of the Mon Archy. As of the moment the Crux of the succession Issue rests on the fact that whoever succeeds Franco As chief of state will have to swear to uphold the fundamental Laws of the regime to swear such an oath would pledge him to perpetuate the Franco even after Franco. Neither pretender Don Juan nor his son Juan have indicated that they will accept to swear an oath. Some spaniards interpret Carrero. Blanco s statement to the Cortes As a reminder to the monarchists of this obligation As Well As a message of reas. Durance to the regime s hards. The Only Way the basis of the regime could be Carrero Blanco told the Cortes would be by Dum. He said and Here is the hitch Only the chief of state can Call a ref and since the chief of whether King or. Gent would not have attained that High office without swearing uphold the re. Gime he could not Call a referendum for the purpose of destroying it there the succession Issue rests. A remembered from the deserted Villate by Oliver Goldsmith still let thy voice prevailing , redress the Rigours of the in a Clement clime Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive Strain teach erring Man to spurn the rage of gain teach him that states of native strength possess though very poor May still be very Blest that proud Empire tastes to Swift decay As Ocean sweeps the Laboured mole away while i self dependent Power can time defy As rocks resist the Billows and the sky ;