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tion tity to the incorrect posi-
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Tawal of U,S, military-

On the left is Emily
Carr’s painting, Totem
Mother Kitwancool, on
display at the Vancou-
ver Art Gallery. The
Gallery has an out-
standing collection of
Emiiy Carr’s works.

Known as one of
Canada’s outstanding
artists, the Toronto
publishing firm of Mc-
Clelland and Stewart
have asked curator
Doris Shadbolt to do a
book on Emily Carr as
one of their ‘Gallery
of Canadian Art
Series.”

The Vancouver Art
Gallery plans to high-
light Emily Carr’s
work as part of a cen-
tennial project in 1967.

danger of a world nuclear war
leading to the greatest set back
mankind has suffered in human
history.

Who’s next

SIIRI POUTANEN, Vanccou-
ver, sent the following poem:

To You! Slave drivers,

Every tortured slave

Will always speak from grave,
You satisfy your blood thirst—
Jesus was the first,

The last was Malcolm X,

Who will be the next?

The Dead: can’t make a fuss,
The world belongs to us,

We know how to use the slaves,
Only hunger, what we gave

We know how to defeat—

Who don’t wash our feet,

‘Even the ones who did it—

We don’t like to lose them,
We just want to — use them,
But invisible.

Fight poverty

D, JOVANAREH, Vancouver,
writes: Mr, Pearson’s promises
of intention to work out a far-
reaching plans to fight poverty
in Canada, were pronounced with
high fanfare through the Throne
Speech, during the opening of the
third session of Canada’s 26th
Parliament on April 5, 1965.

The move was greeted whole=-
heartedly by the apologists of
political democracy, aS it was

understood to be another very |

strong prop for monopolistic cor-
porations.

Those supposed to benefit
the most, the poor of Canada,

New. Age (Delhi)

“and remember, it took us 3,000
years to build our white civiliza-
tion.”

Picture shows a beaming Paul
Robeson surrounded by friends at
the giant salute to the great Negro
artist on his 66th birthday in New
York recentiy. Artists from many

fields, literature, stage and music
paid him tribute.

have not got a chance to speak
their minds yet, if they ever will.

Let us see why Mr, Pearson
is so concerned about this war on
poverty in Canada, that he even
wants to direct it personally?

We very seldom admit that this
society has inits midst asegment
of people with little or no means
to support itself, We talk mostly
of prosperity and high standards
of living, And when the admission
comes from the highest post of the
executive of a “free society,” the
poverty in Canada.must be very
serious indeed, Of course it is
and has been with us all this time,

From the Atlantic region across
to Pacific Ocean, there are hun-
dreds of thousands of poor Ca-
nadians, In some areas like the
Maritimes, industrial centres
like Hamilton and Windsor, On-
tario, on the prairies, tomention
few among many, there are per-
sistent pockets of destitution,
where the people live from hand
to mouth,

In his promise, Mr, Pearson
says that the war on poverty will
include:

—Improved measures for re-
gional development;

—Re-employment and training
of workers;

—Assistance to needy persons;

—Renewal of blighted and con-
gested areas;

—New policy to assist farmers
in getting larger incomes; and
special assistance to family
farms,

To make it sound more con-
vincing, the speech said the gov-
ernment was developing a pro-
gram “for the full utilization of
our human resources” aimed at
eliminating poverty?

Even a few consoling words
about automation were said, elab-
orating the government’s inten-
tions to tackle the job-killing
potential of man’s latest way of
mass production,

Mr, Pearson has been promis-
ing us many things all along, We
remember his “sixty days of ac-
tion” at the beginning of last elec~
tion and after coming to power,

But it is very doubtful that one
can live on these promises, eS~
pecially our poor, They and all
of us need immediate deeds,

Salute to

Robeson

on 66th birthday

he man who is one of the

best-known Americans inthe
world, and one of the most be-
loved, Paul Robeson, received
the homage of some 2,000 men
and women at a giant tribute in
New York recently to mark his
66th birthday,

Organized by the Negro maga-
zine, Freedomways, the cele-
bration brought together a rep-
resentative audience including
some of the most prominent
artists from stage, music and
literature, as well as leading
members of the civil rights
movement,

Included among the artists tak-
ing part were James Baldwin,
John O, Killens, Hope Stevens,
Dizzie Gillespie, Pete Seeger,
Morris Carnovsky, Howard Da
Silva, Earl Robinson, Loretta
Pauker and Robert Nemiroff,

Many speeches paid tribute to
Robeson’s great qualities as an
artist and man, in whom they
saw the embodiment of the uni-
versal dream—that one man is
the brother to all others, equal
in stature, in rights and in dig-
nity,

Negro Artist John O, Killens
said, “He taught us the meaning
of freedom that there was no
price too high to pay for it....
He is the big daddy of all Negro
artists,”

Famed Negro author James
Baldwin expressed the sentiment
of all whose present when he
said: “In the days when it seemed
that there was no possibility of
raising the individual voice and
no possibility of applying the
rigors of conscience,. Paul Robe-
son spoke in a great voice which
creates a man,”

Hope Stevens, a lawyer and
friend of Robeson’s, said, * Paul
linked the struggle of black
America with the struggles of
black Africa, India, Asia, the
blacks of Brazil, the peons of
Mexico and South America—all
seeking justice and freedom from
exploitation and degredation,
This made him dangerous,”

Stevens said that was why the
powers-that-be tried to destroy
him as an artist, but “the ever-
rolling stream of time , , ; has
seen many of the changes come
about for which Paul labored,”

John Lewis, chairman of the
Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee, paid tribute to Robe-
son’s contribution to the struggle
for Negro rights,

Thunderous applause greeted
Robeson when he rose to speak,
and interspersed his words with
songs of peace and brotherhood,

He said: “Today hundreds of
millions of peoples are living in
socialist countries, The newly
emancipated nations of Africa
and Asia are seriously consid-
ering the questions, The most
outstanding leaders agree that
the best road to the people’s
goals is through socialist de-
velopment,

“The large question as to which
society is better for humanity is
never settled by argument, Let
the various social systems com-
pete with each other under con-
ditions of peaceful co-existence
and the people can decide for
themselves,

“It is clear,” said Robeson,
“that large sections ofthe Amer-
ican people are feeling and ac-
cepting their responsibility for
freedom and peace,”

PETE SEEGER, known as the American Pied Piper of folk music, will
perform at Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Monday, May 25.
Photo above shows him in Moscow during his last tour of the Soviet Union.

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