stab in the back By NELSON CLARKE “No Bomarc Death Base in Ontario,” was the slogan car- ried by 35 cars as they rolled out of North Bay on the after- noon of Sept. 3 to the site of the missile base. The impres- sive demonstration was organ- of the Communist Party. It was about three times larger by the party a little over a year ago. Returning to the city, 150 men, women and children ¢car- rying placards marched from the park on the shores of Lake Nipissing through, the leaflets to the large Saturday afternoon shopping crowds. All teld about 200 people took part. ed with a short conference which adopted a statement of protest against nuclear rearm- Latest’ development in the) Frank, written prior to the fase of Alexander Laak Of] news of Laak’s death, which Winnipeg, who last week loutlines the details. of the Committeed suicide following!” t statement: disclosure from the Soviet Un- | Sovie : ae ' ity agen- en otihe he was. a War orl Soviet state security inal, was a statement by two Czech- American women in New York. The women, Mrs. Gisela Herzl and Mrs. Susan Spalter, Said aftér seeing pictures of cies revealed these World War [II crimes in statements re- leased Aug. 29.. They tell how in the years 1942 and 1948, fascists. near Tallin savagely tortured to death over 3,000 << ; ientists Laak, that he was command- | citizens, Hat net Sag ant of Jagal camp in Estonia. doctors, cater deren Both women were imprisoned | executives, ban : Among the victims were Jews, Czechs, Slovaks and Germans. Traces of the crime were discovered 30 kilometers from at the 19492, Following is a story by our Moscow correspondent Mark camp ‘in September, PUBLIC MEETING HEAR DR. J. ENDICOTT Report from Berlin GERMAN RE-ARMAMENT FRIDAY, SEPT. 23 — 8:15 P.M. STRY CO-OP HALL 125 East 8th Ave. EVERYONE WELCOME Sponsored by B.C. Peace Council Tallin, in the unpopulated lo- cality of Kalevi-Liiva, the for- mer Jagala concentration camp firing range. The crime was committed by Nazi and Esthonian SD se- curity police. Directing the shootings was Alexander Laak who participated in the kill- ings himself, Investigations here have re- vealed the following details: On Sept. 5, 1942, a train load of Czechoslovak citizens arrived at station Raazika. Here they were divided in two. The smaller group, most- ly healthy and _ able-bodied, were sent to Jagala. The oth- ers, mainly children, old peo- ple, and the sick and physic- ally weak, were taken in bus- es to Kalevi-Liiva, told they were going to work, were forced to undress. All valu- ables ‘were taken away and their gold teeth and dentures torn out of their mouth. One of the accused, who served at the Jagala camp, testified. “The shootings. were car- ried out.in a ditch, to which prisoners were driven in small groups of three to five each, A special. firing squad and Alexander Laak ordered i them to lie face down and then killed them by shooting them through the base of the to protest ized by the Ontario committee | than a similar trek organized | main | street while others distributed | The demonstration conclud-} ament and for Canadian néu-' ~ | trality. a. ' - There is not much to be seen Nazi prison camp commandant was made.a Canadian citizen % | clearing in the bush, a few in- nocent looking buildings. ~The crews were not working that day. , As we stood by our cars on | the highway, we could not but contrast the bustle of the busy little city we had just left, with the foreboding silence of the trast between life and death. And surely it is true that this base and the other at Mont Laurier, Quebec, sum. up the whole fatal Tory policy of nu- clear armament, of subservi- {ence to the Pentagon which places every Canadian under the shadow of death. It was with these thoughts that the Communists marched on the streets of North Bay, | proud in the knowledge that they were strongly and firmly chalienging the policies of death. They had come from many parts of Ontario, two carloads all the way from the Lake- head, five cars from Hamilton one from the Niagara Penin- sula, two from Oshawa. one base. It seemed like the con- | Domarc base yet at the missile base — a,from the nation’s capital, Ot- tawa, the rest from Toronto. There were those in North Bay who laid plans to violent- ly disrupt the demonstration, by making use of .a few delud- ed young boys to do the dirty work. The size of the demon-= stration soon dissuaded them. One was heard to remark to another: ‘I never thought there would be so many of them.” After prolonged debate, the North Bay police commission decided to provide motorcycie escorts for the demonstration. In a short speech to the eon= ference which assembled after the parade in the St. Regis Hotel, Ontario Communist Party leader Bruce Magnuson thanked. all those -who took part. “We are here,” he said, “pecause we believe in Cans ada, and because we believe in peace.” He called for the laying aside of all ideological differ- ences in the struggle against the Bomarc bases, and for « new policy of Canadian neu- trality. Buck urges greater fight for new policy “What is needed is a grass roots struggle at a pro- Vincial level in every province in Canada for a new national Folicy of peace, neutrality and disarmament,” stated Tim Buck at a wind-up election rally in Vancouver attended by a cheering crowd of 1,000. “Any politician that claims | a solution for the urgent; Out within the framework of problems of the people such | Present Canadian government as unemployment, high taxes, | soaring school costs, and in- | adequate ~ faciilties, without | recognizing that present Can- | adian foreign policy stands in the way of their solution, is | deceiving the public.” While Canada is spending one billion seven hundred million dollars a year on use- less armaments”, continued Buck, “and tagging along with United States policies of restricting’ trade with hund- reds of millions of people who are prepared to buy Canadian goods, there can be no real so- lution to the deepening crisis into which we are sinking.” “The C.C.F., along with the other old line parties, is guil- ty of deceiving the people on this key question. Mr. Strach- en and his colleagues have put before the people of this pro- vince a string of promises that skull. they could not possibly carry September 16, 1960—P policy.” Only the communists have placed the matter hon- estly before the people. ~ Tc those who ask why the com- munists are running in this election, that jis the answer,’ said Buck. Provincial leader Nigel Morgan lashed the daily press for the campaign of “silence, lies and slanders.” Pointing ic the privileged position enjoy- ed by big business in B.C Morgan showed that through. the medium of sales, liquor and amusement tax the peo- ple pay more than double the amount paid by the big mon- opolies who plunder our nat- ural resources. He criticized the CCF for remaining silent on the peace issue and for not having said a word about the frightfui war games being conducted over our cities by the US. military. ACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3