blow this thing up.”

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“DAY WORD

“Okay Lord, now make a 180 degree turn to the right or we'll

The saint and the sinner

Mary was born in a little farm
community. When I got to know
her:she was the mother of four
small children.

She was active in the Party
club in the town, and told me of
an interesting experience when
she was petitioning for the
Stockholm Appeal. It goes like
this:

I went from door-to-door. Each
place I met a different response.
There were arguments and dis-
cussions. That, I liked, because I
had to find answers to many
questions. Finally I got to the
home of Father . . . Should I
knock and ask him? Why not?

So I knocked, and his house-
keeper ushered me in. I told
Father that I'd like him to sign
the petition, and handed it to
him.

As he read it, has face became
red and mottled. He roared,
“Take this! It’s.a bunch of Com-
munist clap trap. Get out!, Get
out!” He bellowed like a mad
bull to the front doorstep, for all
the people on the street to hear.
He enjoyed doing that!

A long time later he came to
my house. One afternoon I heard
a knock at the door, opened it,
and there. stood Father... I
stared, silently.

“I’ve come because the Bishop
has told us to see every parish-
oner,” he told me.

I invited him in, sat him down,
and quickly got lunch ready. I
sat him down at our table, shoo-
ing the children away, with cake,
cookies, tea and all the res* of it.

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He ate a lot, and drank lots of
tea, and we talked about this
and that, sometimes laughing to-
gether.

“Well, Father,” I said, when
he was finished, “I want to tell
you something. You yelled and
shouted and tried to shame me
in front of everyone when I
came to your house. You even
threw. me out.”

He tried to interrupt, but I
held up my hand.

“TJ want you to know,” I said,
“that this is the way Civilized
people do things. Civilized peo-
ple are reasonable people who
sit down together, and listen to
each other, and are kind and con-
siderate of each other.”

He flushed. “Well,” he stutter-
ed, “You know, I am concerned
about what the people of the
town think. If they saw me talk-
ing to a Communist they’d start
talking about me. They’d say I
was ..

“But they’re already talking
about you Father,” I interrupted,
“But I don’t let that make any
difference.”

“What do they say?” he asked,
full of curiosity.

I leaned over and whispered
to him “what they say” so that
the children wouldn’t hear. He
got flustered, turned white and
red, and white again. Finally he
rushed out.

The townsfolk had taken note
of the Monday morning clothes-
line, and had drawn their own
conclusions. —W.B.

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GM workers’ cause

The strike of General Motors work-
ers in the U.S. and Canada was hardly
decently underway when sob sister
stories and editorials began dotting
daily papers, lamenting the great tra-
gedies invading countless U.S. and Can-
adian communities as a result of the
UAW action.

General Motors is in print itself with
an hour by hour account of the losses
GM workers are suffering. Behind it
all is a carefully calculated public rela-
tions campaign to convince the public
that this strike is only hurting the
community at large and General Motors
workers in particular. .

There is no weekly toting up of how
much in profits GM loses as a result of
the strike. However if one recalls that
over the past 22 pears GM has increas-
ed its net worth from $1.4 billion to
$8.8 billion—91.3% of which was taken
out of profits after large dividends to
stockholders and $800,000 a year ‘sal-
aries to top officials—they would get a
measure of the reason for GM tears.

The responsibility for whatever hard-
ships arise rests directly with the Gen-

eral Motors Corporation. That is the

corporation which down through the
years has expropriated a great propor-

tion of the wealth produced by auto—

workers, and now directs this vast ex-
propriated wealth in its own interest
and not in that of its employees or of
the community at large.

Striking GM workers speak for the
community when they withhold their
productive labor to ensure that a lar-
ger proportion of the wealth they are
producing should fall into their hands
and from there into the communities
of which they are an integral part.

They also speak for the community
when they, head an economic battle
which rejects the U.S. and Canadian
monopoly and government conspirac
to attempt to dig itself out of its. self-
inflicted crisis by making the working
people the goat.

Full support to the GM workers!
May they win their full demands quick-
ly and return to plants which will be
governed by regulations lifting the in-

human burdens of speed-up and 56-

hour work weeks from their backs.

Luna 16—Big Success

The latest Soviet space feat is a
scientific break-through. An automatic
space vehicle, Luna 16, soft-landed on
the moon in the area of the Sea of
Fertility where it performed a series
of complex technological operations,
which included drilling into the moon’s
surface for'a depth of 18.7 inches.

The moon material was recovered,
placed in a spacecraft, lifted off the
moon for earth, where it was success-
fully recovered. All of these operations
were directed from earth.

True, the space station did not make
a speech. Nonetheless, it is a spectacu-
lar break-through, as important in all
its implications for man’s future scien-
tific advance as the landing of a man
on the moon by the Americans — no
mean scientific feat.

Thus differences in trends of re-
search between the Soviet Union and

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_gion of exploration for the

the United States are clearly revealed.
The emphasis of the Soviet Union 8
on the exploration, study and use ®
space for the benefit of man. Neal
earth ‘space is presently the main 1®

Sovle

Union. ee
* Undreamed of vistas and achievé

ments are before us. Space exploratio?

has already advanced the most divers

fields of human knowledge. an
All of this means that internation@

cooperation is tremendously significa”

as the struggle to master space grow |
more and more costly and intricaté

The USSR and the socialist countries

and France, are all cooperating :

sions would make it possible to expand

space efforts. The easing of worl

that cooperation to include the Unite

States and other advanced capitalist

countries. Then mankind would tru
take a giant leap.

Fight for more federal |

funds for cities

Municipal election time is here 1°
many parts of the country. It is in ths
arena where, increasingly, basic strug”
gies for people’s needs are being wag”
e

_ At the centre of municipal politics is

the fight for more money from Ottawé
without increasing taxation. That %
possible if the Trudeau administratio?

ean be compelled to divert the moné

(taken out of the taxpayer’s pockets)
now funneled into the hands of b!
monopoly via war spending, to spen?
ing-on people’s needs. :
Just one-third of the 30 to 40 billio?
dollars of war spending in the last

years could have built one millio?

omes which could have been give
away, and could have built three 50-m!
lion dollar hospitals in each provincé
in Canada. The balance could have 1”
creased pensions, taken care of educa
tion costs, with money left over fo

nation-building projects.

In addition, as part of the tax refor™
needed by the people, is the fight ' |

make those who’ve got the money pay
—that is, big business.

The essence of the question is that
the big automobile companies need
highways in order to market thei!
products. The educational system sup”
plies business with trained employee
equipped to make profits for the capi
talist owners. The hospitals keep thé
working force healthy and therefore
“profitable.” Public transportatio#
takes workers and customers to and
from businesses. All these services
play a double role. They are not only
service big business, but their construc”
tion and maintenance provides a lucra
tive income for big business. ;

A third important area in the mun!

cipal election scene is the struggle 10 |

widen the democratic processes — thé
struggle to give cities a bigger voic?
in the affairs of the nation, and thé
people within the cities a bigger voicé
in the running and operation of the city
state.

To make this a reality requires pe0-
ple’s candidates, the full participatiot
of the people’s organizations, particu-
larly that of the trade union movement;
behind a program of reform.

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