CAUSE FOR PRIDE
You (Soviet people) have
feason to be proud of your
Country . . . | have long been
reader of the works of Lenin
In the many areas in which he
€xpressed himself with clarity
Gnd profoundness. While |
[Ppen to live under a differ-
Ent political system | feel
Strongly that every nation has
Q tight to adopt its own form
oF Government and the econo-
Mc policies which it considers
ne for its society. | recognize
the Principles enunciated by
a great statesman and lead-
Cyrus Eaton,
Canadian-born
industrialist.

GET IN LINE
: hey’re playing a new game
a Toronto—cops and cops. The
Police are so busy investigat-
ing themselves and squealing

~ ©" each other they don’t have

much time left to devote to rob-

Ers. If a sex offender or bur-

S'ar wants to spill the beans,

ne Os to stand in line, behind
omebody wearing a badge.

Gary Lautens,

in Toronto Star.

JOBS AND PEACE

Bass Say that millions of Ameri-
Miyit 'N defense plants want
we And steady income is not
Wh ay they want perpetual war.
a they really want is peace
Na full employment.

Walter Reuther,

in Solidarity.

Editor—TOM McEWEN .
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€ devotion of your people to.

IS THAT PURITANICAL?

In Russia, | understand, pub- -

lic necking is a minor offense
and pornography a major of-
fense. There is a lot to be said
for this attitude because sexual
exhibitionism represents an im-
position on other people, while
pornography is a form of ex-
ploitation very similar to the
drug traffic in essential moral
quality. (Another reason for the
puritanical Russian attitude, of
course, is that the state values
the efforts of its young people
over a wide range of endeavor,
while our own society prefers to
stimulate its youth to consume
and to engage in sex play be-
cause it has no particular use
for them except as objects of
prurient interest.)

Philip Belgrave,

in Globe & Mail.

ONE SPORTSMAN’S VIEW

As a competitor for Canada
at the Olympic games for the
last decade, | proudly repre-
sent this country, a country with
the potential to be a world
model, with the knowledge that
our athletic contingent has, by
far, the most sportsmanship at
the Olympic Games.

However, | condemn this
country’s apathy, narrow-mind-
edness, northern ‘hickishness,
lack of any real concern for the
preparation of an Olympic
team, as is clearly echoed in
the results. Canada got one
gold medal in Mexico; Outer
Mongolia got four.

Norman Elder,
in Toronto Telegram.

Associate Editor —MAURICE RUSH

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GUEST EDITORIAL

It is no more than fitting and proper
that all citizens of the United States
should pay tribute to one of their num-
ber who paid with his life for his efforts

to unite white and black Americans in -
* militant struggle for the realization of

truth, equality and justice.

Nowadays the racists and _ syco-
phants, always full of praise for revo-
lutionaries once they are dead, want
to distort Dr. King’s example into that
of a supine and innocuous conciliator
of the status quo.

But the dream of Martin Luther
King, imbued with the universal aspira-
tions of the world’s deprived and op-
pressed, remains a call to militant

‘struggle to change the world. He was

unyielding in this resolve, and we salute
his widow and his followers, Dr. Ralph
Abernathy in particular, for holding
high the torch the hired assassin struck
from his hands.

In his own person Martin Luther
King linked the struggles for peace,

civil rights and economic welfare. He -

fought the racists, the warmakers and
the exploiters of labor. It is not acci-
dental that he was struck down in Mem-
phis while aiding striking garbage
workers. It is therefore especially
meaningful that progressive trade
unionists stopped work for a day to
honor his memory. Daily World

THE WAY TO PEACE

The European socialist countries re-
cently announced that Canada would
be welcome to participate in an all-
European security conference. After
all, in this century Canada has been
drawn into two world wars which ema-
nated from the soil of Germany, and
whose main theatre of operations was
in Europe. There is a growing convic-
tion among all peoples that it is pos-
sible to solve the question of a stable

European security.

The Warsaw Pact countries first
made the proposal to convene an all-
European conference. It immediately
became obvious that efforts were being
made to block the conference, to delay
it for an indefinite period of time, by
talking about the need for careful pre-
parations, and by making proposals to
place before the conference questions
that it could not decide—thus dooming
it before it began.

The recent NATO meetings also indi-
eated fear of the proposal. NATO
wanted to limit the conference to talks
between two military groupings.

The position of the Warsaw Pact.

countries is the reasonable one. It pro-
poses to discuss questions concerning
European security, the renunciation of
the use of force, or the threat of it, and
the extension of trade, economic, scien-
tific and technical relations. _

The capitalist press tells us that Can-
ada and the United States are skeptical
and suspicious of the proposals of the
Warsaw Pact countries. Everyone
knows, of course, that the test for sus-
picion is to try it out. Refusal to nego-
tiate is a transparent device to prevent
the conference from taking place.

The lack of sincerity is on the Cana-
dian side. It takes a made-in-Washing-
ton position—one not in the interests

of Canada. The possibilities of expand-

ed trade and new relations with all
European countries are enormously
promising for all the Canadian people,
and at this time could particularly
benefit western Canada.

We call upon the Canadian govern-
ment to adopt a position favoring the
convening of an all-European confer-
nce. It would be an important step in
aving the lives of young Canadians,
and in opening the door to a new, inde-
pendent development of Canada in the
interests of all its people. Ottawa’s
bootlicking relationship with the US.
imperialists endangers our security
and our independent existence.

PROFITS vs CHILDREN

The news media goes on, and on
about starvation in Biafra which, in
light of the truth now beginning to
seep through, is mainly an exercise in
camouflage, the real purpose behind all
the tear-jerking. No one who is truly
human can ignore suffering anywhere.
But, it is sad to relate, the pictures
of small Ibo children, bellies swollen
with hunger, were drawn to obscure the
fact that the big capital of monopoly
was involved.

The fact is that oil played an impor-
tant part. Biafra was where the Shell
Refinery was installed. Nearly. 10 per-

cent of Britain’s oil supply came from

Nigeria. Nigeria was the third biggest
oil producer. It is of interest to note
that Major-General C. Odumegwu
Ojukwu, who proclaimed “Biafra’s in- ~
dependence” on May 30, 1967, is the son
of Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu, one of the
directors of Shell-British Petroleum
Development Corporation. «(Nigerian
Shell).

The date of the proclamation is of
interest because it was less than a week
later that the war in the Mid-East
broke out, which closed the Suez Canal,
an act which created a terrific demand
for oil from areas like Nigeria.

The needless loss of life in Nigeria
arises from the struggle of these
greedy interests. The defeat of “Biaf-
ra” is a defeat for the forces of im-
perialism, which is always acting to
protect its profits.

NO WAGE CONTROLS

The other day the Toronte Star car-
ried an article written by a Hamilton
steelworker who, as a result of three
months’s strike, now makes $10,000 a
year. Still only a minority of the work-
ing class get that much. But, says the
steelworker, $10,000 ain’t what it used
to be. He’s right.

With increased deductions for Onta-
rio’s Tory medical plan, and his new
car payments, he’s right back where he
began. “As I’m moving up to $10,000
others are moving up to $15,000. I
haven’t seen any destruction of the
class system in this country,” he says.

The workers get what they think is
a good contract—but in 18 years the

_price of homes has tripled in Hamilton,

and all prices are up. And, says Mr.
Steelworker, during the last year of
the iast 3-year contract the workers,
with increased taxes, actually lost two
cents an hour in take home pay.

That’s why the workers turn down
Mr. Trudeau’s wage freeze — and it’s
why they keep asking for mere. «:

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