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A television film on Cuba, estimated to have cost $40,000,
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from syndication in the U.S. because, according to CBC
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The hour-long documentary, produced by Eugene Lawr-
ence of Toronto, was to have been the CBC's first contribution
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| Toronto Daily Star writer Jeremy Brown, stated that
rr _| “There can be no question the cancellation of the show was
DM) | motivated by political considerations.

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* | “F=HE presentation of Gener-
; ations Sing by the Van-
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‘|| the United Jewish Peoples Or-
der and the Association of Un-
ited Ukrainian Canadians or-
chestra in the York Theatre on
Saturday and Sunday last
| Week, was an outstanding cul-
‘} tural achievement.

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4 aS top cultural event

The theme of Generations
Sing was written by Ben Chud-
novsky and Louis Basman, and
the musical arrangement by
AUUC orchestra’ conductor
Karl Kobylansky and Searle
Friedman. In its fine accom-
paniment the AUUC orchestra
not only managed to capture
the Jewish “flavor” of Gener-
ations Sing, but leading AUUC
chorus members like Jerry
Shack, Eugene Komas_ and
others to sing with their Jew-
ish colleagues in the Yiddish
language. This fact speaks
very highly of the painstaking
work and cooperation between
the UJPO and the AUUC in
the production of Ben Chud-
novsky’s Generations Sing.

In such a_ presentation as
Generations Sing it is idle to
try and _ single out those who
made outstanding  contribu-
tions. Soloist Claire Klein won
high acclaim from the aud-
ience, as did Ben Chud, Bernie
and Esther Frohman, Don Sa

vien, Marlene Kobylansky and :

others.
The whole collective present-

ation of Generations Sing was};

simply another reminder of

the great reservoir of fine tal-| ;

ent abounding in the ranks of
the people, when tireless effort
and cooperation give it an op-
portunity for expression.

Generations Sing was a gold-
en-page from the cultural his-
tory and struggles of a people,
epitomized in its dramatic reci-
tation from the Warsaw Ghet-
to, to the full chorus rendition
of Ben Chud’s dramatic crea-
tion, “Generations Sing.”

‘CASE OF CANADA’S STEPCHILDREN’

Ugly pattern of police
state bared in booklet

“THE CASE OF CANADA‘S
STEPCHILDREN”. By John
Weir. Published by the Can-
adian Slav Committee. 10
cents. Available People’s Co-
Op Booksiore.

This challenging and well-
documented pamphlet is a very
short one, taking only a few
moments to read, but it des-
erves the attention of every
Canadian.

Steve Kolach of Montreal,
past 75 years of age, came to
Canada in 1925, gave 35 years
of his life and labor to our
country, but can’t be a citizen.

During the war, as chairman
of a public meeting he signed
a resolution of support to all
Allied governments, including
the USSR. When he received
an acknowledgement signed by
M, I. Kalinin, then president
of the Soviet Union, he was
visited and interrogated by the
Mounties.

“Was he supposed to Heil
Hitler?” asks John Weir in his

pamphlet. “Quite a number of

those that did, got their citizen-
ship papers without any
trouble at all...”

Alex Laak, the Estonian
nazi who was the command-
ant of the Jagala eoncentration
camp where thousands of Jews
and others were tortured and
murdered, was indicted at a
trial in Soviet Esthonia, but
Canadian government spokes-
men called it “propaganda”? —
“until seven women who had
survived the concentration
camp, six in New York and

one, Greta Zarkower, in Tor-
onto, recognized him from the
press photos and told the
newspapers.” Laak hanged
himself in the garage of his
Winnipeg home.

These two, of dozens of ex-
amples used in Weir’s pamph-
let, illustrate the deliberate,
discriminatory policy of Cana-
da’s department of citizenship
and immigration in handing
out Canadian citizenship.

e

In 1959, this department

stated that: Canadian law ap-|: :

plies equally to ail residents
of Canada without regard to
country of origin or citizen-
ship.” 2

“But it is not true,’ charges
Weir.

“The list of rejectees is a
long one. It contains the name
of William Hunka, a respected
businessman of Welland, On-
tario, who fought in the Cana-
dian armed forces in World
War I, and Nicholas Sirsky of
Toronto, who served in the
Canadian Army in World War
1h

“Since no formal charges
have been made, they can
judge only from the questions
asked them by the RCMP and
the court that the true reason
why they are denied citizen-
ship is that they are suspected
of holding thoughts, belonging
to organizations or supporting
causes which, although fully
legal and admissible for Cana-
dians, are not approved by the
ruling party in Canada.”

Headache pill companies hit

for misleading

_ WASHINGTON, D.C. — The
makers of Anacin, Aspirin and
Bufferin got a real headache
recently when Federal Trade
Commission jolted them with
complaints avout phoney ad-
vertising, Regardless of claims
of “fast, fast +>... ..°-*twite-as
fast . . .,” “‘relieve pain faster
. .., ete., the facts accord-
ing to studies made by FTC
add up to:

“. . . there is no significant
difference in the rate of speed
with which these, or any other
analgesics relieve pain.”

The FTC also took a slap at
Anacin that it will neither “re-
lax tension,” nor “help over-
come depression” as adver-
tised. :

Execedrin, highly advertised
by Bristol-Myers, is not an

advertising

‘extra strength pain reliever.’
Nor will it, says FTC, reduce
the swelling of tissues or other-
wise combat the cause of pain.

And for all of the lies, half-
truths and deliberate misrepre-
sentation made by the head-
ache pill companies the con-
suming public ultimately pays
the bill.

American Homes Products,
who make Anacin, spent $52,-
184,538 in 1959 on ads in
newspapers, magazines, radio,
TV. It was the sixth largest
advertiser in USA.

Bristol-Myers was 15th larg-
est with $28,377,706 spent
ballyhooing its products. Sterl-
ing Drug, makers of Aspirin,
ranked 18th with a total ad-
vertising outlay of $22,039,507.

No wonder the consuming
public has a chronic headache.

Photo shows a view of the research institute in Peking
for sport sciences. Here studies are carried out on sport
sciences. Young women strolling outside are members of
the staff.

Section 10 of the Canadian
Citizenship Act lays down the
conditions under which immi-
grants are granted citizenship.
It begins as follows: “The min-
ister may in his discretion,
grant a certificate of citizen-
ship to any person who is not
a Canadian citizen and whe
makes application for that pur-
pose .. .” There follows.a list
of straightforward require-
ments. e :

“The ‘joker’ is in the first
words: ‘The Minister may
.,” writes John Weir, “‘Be-
cause that also means:
Minister may not’,” he charges.

“The Minister, ‘at his discre-
tion’, denies ‘certificates of
citizenship to applicants who
fulfill all the requirements of
the Act solely because _ their
political views, organizational
affiliations or public activities
do not conform to what the
Minister, the court or the
RCMP officers approve, al-
though they are perfectly legal
and permissible to Canadian
citizens.” :

This is contrary to the Cana-

dian Bill of Rights. It makes ,,
a mockery of Dtefenbaker’s ,,
speech in Parliament July 1,

1960, when, in piloting the Bill
of Rights through, he stated,
“T am a Canadian, a free Cana-
dian, frée to speak without
fear, free to worship God in
my own way, free to oppose

what I believe wrong, free to .

choose those who shall govern
my country. This heritage of
freedom I pledge to uphold for
myself and all mankind.”

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“What emerges,” says John
Weir, “is not a picture of some
faults in legislation and mal-
practice by one department,
but of a deliberate policy fol-
lowed by the Conservative gov-
ernment (as it had been by
previous Liberal
ments).”

Witness the threat of deport-
ation for participation in
strikes; large government sub-
sidies for frankly pro-war and
pro-fascist publications in the
form of paid ads, which are
denied left-leaning newspapers;
refusal of visas to delegations
from socialist countries invited
by progressive groups in Can-
ada; racism which bars Neg-
roes from.the West Indies (des-

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pite camouflage about ‘“geo-
graphical ban” rather than
“color ban’’) and also Orientals;
the development of the RCMP
into a national secret police
force, often acting as a force
beyond the law and govern-
ment, raiding and searching
left - wing workers’ homes,
using paid informers and pro-
vocateurs.

“What we see emerging,”
charges John Weir, “is the
ugly pattern of a police state.”

With these words, John Weir
ends a fact-charged pamphlet
with an appeal to all Cana-
dians to struggle for the repeal
of authoritarian powers grant-
ed to the minister of citizen-
ship and immigration, to the
court or the RCMP.

These methods must be re-
placed by democratic proce-
dure such as fair hearing, op-
portunity of defense against ac-
cusation, confrontation with
witnesses, right to appeal.

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October 27, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

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