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The Toronto Daily Star of Nov. 14 published the above samples of
» textbooks in the city’s school libraries.

| take

|Ryerson Press sale

| CP condemns governments

The Central Committee of the

Communist Party of Canada,

Meeting in. Toronto, November

x 14, 15, 16, 1970, passed the fol-

Owing resolution:
_, This Central Committee meet-

7 28 condemns the Ontario and

| -deral levels of government for

| Biling to intervene to prevent

€ sale of two major textbook
Publishers, W. J. Gage and Son
Ryerson Press to United
tates owners located in On-
0. We demand:
at the Ontario government
into public ownership the
€xtbook divisions of these two

| “Mpanies under ‘democratic
Mblic control and that all work-
- . Who have been laid off as‘a
a Ult-of these sales be assured
} ;"Ployment in the new publish-

§ structure with adequate

| “Mpensation for losses suffer-

and the re-establishment of
Ughts prior to such lay-offs. -
That all future sales of Cana-

| dian textbook and book publish-

‘Ng industries to foreign owner-

‘ aD be prohibited by law or
| *Pecial government order to bar

Nreasing U.S. domination of

| life social, cultural and political

Ve

} attity
BD Salass
le Is indefensible. It is how-

x eer amy
jaja
OQ

a That an immediate confer-
Nee of ministers of education

} *Md the federal government take

Place to discuss the plight of

t the (Gt . .
| With anadian textbook industry

a view to assuring ade-
Wate orders to Canadian-owned

Bete Ontario government must
R compelled to block the sale of

Qetson Press to the U.S. Mc-

Taw Hill Company, the On-
4T10 executive of’ the Commu-
‘St Party declared this week.

© statement continues: .

Bb hat is involved here is much
xs Té than yet another Canadian
Mpany being gobbled up by

| *-Monopoly. — -

As has been pointed out by
“ered individuals, the future of
we Canadian’ publishing indus-
te IS at stake, as well as the

cae of total elimination of

‘teatdian content from school
®xtbooks.

The refusal of the Robarts ad-

cent Gage Company sale to
: Interests, and its present

[irene to intervene in the

de towards the Ryerson

‘r completely in keeping with
is €ntire policy of continental-

"dependence.

Only the greatest public pres-

Te can compel Robarts to act,
© demands of the Emergen-

Shing Industry provide an

® .
Xcellent basis for uniting the

‘| “jority of Canadians. They call

@ny organizations and con-:

and betrayal of Canadian

~Y Co proeaaEN ree.
Publi mmittee of the Canadian.

publishers to make it possible
to economically produce Cana-
dian textbooks.

That the various Departments
of Education make an immedi-
ate block advance purchase of
Canadian books—textbooks and
books on general topics with a
Canadian theme, authored by
Canadians and published and
printed in Canada — and that
these books be distributed free
of charge to public, high school
and university libraries through-
out the provinces to meet the
alarming absence of Canadian
books in these libraries.

That the Department of Edu-
cation in all provinces make
mandatory that 70% of text-
books and recommended read-
ings be by Canadian authors,
and: published and printed in
Canada by Canadian-owned pub-
lishers.

That the Canada Council and
various government agencies
step up their grants to Canadian
publishers and Canadian authors
for the publication of works on
worthy Canadian themes includ-
ing the real history of the Cana-
dian labor movement, French
Canada and the Indian and Es-
kimo people.

That a federal Royal Commis-
sion be established to study the
present and future of a distinc-
tive Canadian publishing indus-
try, with recommendations for
legislation to this end.

What is church interest -

for: a provincial law to disallow
the Ryerson sale; a law prohibit-
ing the sale of Canadian publish-
ing firms to foreign interests; a
federally constituted public pub-
lishing development corporation
to help Canadian firms meet for-
eign competition; a federal-
provincial emergency conference
involving governments and the

Canadian ‘book publishers to

work out additional steps to pre-
serve the Canadian book pub-
lishing industry. 5

Added to this must be the de-
mand for action by members of
the United Church, which owns
Ryerson Press and whose lead-
ers have acted in a disgraceful
manner not only in the sale of
the firm to U.S. interests but in
having syphoned off the profits
of the firm over the years for
church use, which precipitated
the present crisis.

This is not the first time that
the church’s property interests
have dictated a policy in oppo-
sition to all-of the ethics upon
which it rests. It places a serious
obligation on the membership of

the church to demand that the _
church act in the interests of~

Canada — that it reconciles its
dollar interests with its ethical
responsibility to the people.

Canadians must

A former editorial worker for
Ryerson Press told a Toronto
public meeting Nov. 12 called to
protest the sale of the Canadian-
owned plant to U.S.-controlled
McGraw-Hill of Canada that ap-
plicants for jobs with McGraw-
Hill must sign a “loyalty oath”
that surrenders their private
lives to police or private investi-
gation.

Tim Reid, Liberal MPP for
Scarborough East, attending the
meeting, shook his head in dis-
belief as he read the sample ap-
plication form, which contra-

venes Ontario Fair Employment —

Practices legislation.

Prospective employees of this
U.S. branch plant of a giant pub-
lishing empire south of the bor-
der sign their names to a printed
form issued by the company
which declares in part “permis-
sion is granted to investigate my
personal history and solicit in-
formation” from all parties re-
specting the applicant’s member-
ship in organizations, etc., with-
out making McGraw-Hill liable
for such snooping into a job-
seeker’s personal life.

What is involved is not only
organic takeover of Canadian
publishing plants, but part of the
price of U.S. takeover is to be
paid in a surrender of basic hu-
man rights and the importation
of U.S. legislation of a reaction-
ary kind—born of McCarthyism
and meant to muzzle those who
speak up for their ‘rights and
for a democratic way of life.

Pledge support
to Angela Davis

The Central Committee of
the Communist Party of Can-
ada extends its full support to
the demand for the release of
Angela Davis from jail and the
dropping of the trumped-up
charges against her.

Angela Davis exemplifies
the best in American democ-
ratic and working class tradi-
tions. She is an outstanding
representative of the Com-
munist Party and the mighty
U.S. Black community.

Her frame-up is aimed at
the U.S. anti-war movement,
the struggle of her people for
economic and social equality,
the struggles of millions of
Americans against poverty.

Her cause is our cause and
Canadian Communists will
work to rally the democratic
forces in Canada to her sup-
port.

We pay tribute to her cour-
age and heroism and want
her to know that our thoughts
| and affections are with her as
she is incarcerated in U.S.
jails.

Police state law

New shackles in Que.

MONTREAL — Democracy in
Quebec, crushed under Ottawa’s
War Measures Act, with army

troops and tanks in its cities’

streets and with the Quebec
1969 Special Police Act simul-
taneously in effect, now faces
sinister new permanent police
state measures, according to the
announced intentions of the Min-
ister of Justice in the Bourassa
Liberal government.

Samuel Walsh, president of
Communist Party of Quebec,
described in a Canadian Tribune
interview what is involved in
this latest attack on democracy
in Quebec:

_ “The new measures centre
around the proposal to introduce
identity cards for all Quebec re-
sidents, not just citizens, prob-
ably including photos and finger-

prints in addition to address,

date of birth, etc.

“The Minister of Justice,
Jerome Choquette declared in
one and the same breath that
this was not to introduce a police
state of Quebec, but simply to
give the police more control of
the residents of Quebec.

“He is, of course, aware of the
fact, that even when the group
of the FLQ responsible for the
recent kidnappings are arrested
and dealt with under the Crim-
inal Code and either the War
Measures Act or the Public
Order (Temporary Measures)
Act, the problem of ‘the control
of the residents of Quebec’ by
the police will still be very urg-
ent from the standpoint of mon-
opoly and its government.

““The attack on the civil rights
of the people of Quebec, in par-
ticular, is a reflection of the
undoubted fact that it is in Que-
bec where the struggle for de-

Theatre Review

A YARD

A St. Lawrence Centre Thea-
tre program note for A Yard of
Sun quotes the author, Christo-
pher Fry:

“. . not only the personality
but the whole nature of man
must go on changing and break
through its limitations . . . To
suppose that the creative will
has exhausted its powers is un-
realistic.”

The action of Fry’s play,
whose North American premiere
opens the Toronto theatre’s sec-
ond season, occurs during the
revival of an ancient Italian tra-
dition, the Palio horserace, in
Sienna, in 1946. The disastrous
war is over and people must turn
in hope to a new life.

In a broken-down mansion

which has served as wartime
quarters first for the Germans
and then the Americans live a
man and his two sons (one a
left-wing doctor) and their neigh-
bors, a woman and her. daugh-
ter. The district is caught up in
the excitement of the race, sym-
bolic of a new affirmation of the

. human will.

At this point the third son,
long absent, arrives with his
wife. He has made a fortune as
a war profiteer. His credo is

_ money, success at any price and

to hell with ethics. :
Fry’s new stage work is a
gentle comedy stubbornly assert-
ing a passion for life. It has hu-
mor, warmth and sincerity. One
must be very hard indeed not to
be attracted to its appeal. The
play’s verse form achieves a
rhythm that on occasion be-
comes poetic, even lyrical.

mocracy against widespread un-
employment, poverty and dis-
crimination is at its sharpest
point, precisely because of their
intimate connection with the
struggle for national self-deter-
mination, which has become the
aspiration of a very large part
of the French-Canadian nation.

“The fact that the organized
working class, and particularly
its leadership, have now entered
into this struggle, proposing’ to
do so with an independent work-
ing class political program and
form of organization creates a
qualitatively new and favorable
situation in Quebec, which Cho-
quette & Co. are trying to crush
at its very birth with their ex-
tension of police state legisla-
tion.”

Hawks resume
US witch hunt.

By CONRAD KOMOROWSKI
NEW YORK—lIn line with the
‘Nixon administration's efforts fo

repress peaceful protest and dis-
sent, Attorney General John N.
Mitchell announced a Federal
grand jury indictment of Arnold
Johnson, public relations direc-
tor of the Communist Party of
the U.S.A., for “contempt of
Congress.”

Leading activists in the peace
movement are gathering signa-
tures to a statement to Mitchell
urging him to take no action on
the indictment. as

The Communist Party of the
U.S.A. issued a statemertit in
which it said the indictment “is
a calculated step of intensified
repression and intimidation of
the peace movement.”

The playwright’s religious con-
cepts make themselves felt and
he appears to question the doc-
tor’s political outbursts, yet A
Yard of Sun is ardently human-
ist. It reveals deep insight into
character and a sensitivity to
the subtleties of personal rela-
tionships.

The ‘setting by Les Lawrence
is a sun-drenched courtyard that
reaches right up to the audience.
Michael MacOwan, British di-
rector and teacher, has guided
the company into one of the
most effective ensemble efforts
seen here in some time, uniting
the individual skills to achieve
extraordinary expression.

Students of theatre arts, apart
from the general public, ought
to study the sensitive work of

_ Paul Soles as the father, a man

of patience, many defeats and
humor; of Len Birman as the
pent-up doctor devoted to his
moneyless patients and angered
by the exploiters of his country;
of Marilyn Lightstone as the
magnetic one-time slum-dweller
who has married into luxury,
who has no illusions about her
money-oriented husband but who
is decent and has learned a new
faith in mankind; of Anna Reiser
as the unchurched widow and of
Tedde Moore as her guilt-
bothered daughter; of Norman.
Welsh as the concentration camp
victim who still believes fiercely
in humanity; of Ken James as
the brash millionaire; and indeed
of just about every member of
the company. ~

—Martin Stone
PAGIFIC TRIBUNE +—-NOV. 20 +! PAGE 9”