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By PEGGY CHUNN

We are closer to all-out war
today than we have ever been
since the defeat of fascism 20
years ago,

Lyndon B, Johnson, (as the
feuhrer of Germany did not so
long ago), is following the same
pattern of events... ‘‘guns
before butter’? . . . undeclared
war — just blitzkreig in and mop
up . . . move on to other coun-
tries and do the same if you can
get away with it; (remember
Guatemala, Korea, Cuba, Greece,
Turkey, Berlin, etc.)

of a country were moving to es-
tablish their independence and
run their own affairs, the US
State Dept, has been there with
its big feet trampling on the rights
of the people, and its big mouth
at the same time spewing out
lies about the “threat to Amer-
ican security” and “we really
want peace, but ‘they’ won’t let
us be peaceful,”

An ever-growing number of
Senators of the U.S, government
are concerned: enough as to the
inevitable outcome of this policy
to be leading a revolt against
the policies of their own leader
and Party,

And that is good — but it’s
not enough; everyone who has
been revolted and horror-struck
by the brutality, wanton killing,
and the obvious intention of the
Pentagon madmen to massacre
a people and a country to com-
plete extinction, must take a
stand to stop this war,

Not one of us can afford to sit
back and do nothing; if the U.S.
military and psychopaths in gov-
ernment succeed in their ghoulish
efforts to wipe out the people of
Vietnam, then no one person, and
no country will be safe from
aggression,

Let’s swing into the support of
committees work..ig for material
aid to Vietnam, avd, equally im-
portant, make sure a flood of
letters, resolutions, wires go to
President Johnson, and to our own
government and provincial MLAS
demanding an end to war!

* * *

Last November, the Profes-
sional and Business Women’s
Club of B.C, and the Yukon, pre-
sented a brief to Premier Ben-
nett, in which they stated * 188,000
women workers in B.C,, com-
prising 29% of the labor force,
look to the government for pro-
moting an intelligent approach-to
the needs of working women” ...
and they called for the establish-
ment of a women’s bureau within

unions and others,

day, Jan, 27/66 that .

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In situations where the people ;

the Provincial Labor Dept, Such
a demand has been made for many
years now, by a number of labor

It was pleasant to read in the
Speech from the Throne, Thurs-
core
recognition of the increasingly

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important role of women in the
labor force, a women’s bureau
will be established within the
department of labor.” This can
be of great assistance to seeking
solutions to many problems of
working women — child care,
maternity leave, equal pay for
equal work, automation and so
on, Let’s keep it one of the
busiest bureaus in the govern-
ment!

Just very recently, through
this column I conveyed our sym-
pathy to Mrs, Robert Thompson,
wife of one of the leaders of
the American Communist Party
in the loss of her husband,

The Sun of January 25/66 car-
ried an item which points up the
callousness of the present U.S.
government to its own people,

Thompson, who was one of the
most decorated men in the U.S.
Forces in the Second World War,
and “winner of a medal for ex-
traordinary heroism in action,”
was scheduled to be buried in
Arlington National Cemetery
January 31st,

t

The Pentagun has announced it
is holding up burial, “pending
legal opinion on his eligibility.”

Hounded, harassed, and cruelly
beaten while in jail, Thompson,
as a member of the Communist
Party of the USA, served a five
year jail sentence rather than
betray his political beliefs, This,
according to the top brass, “casts
doubt on his eligibility.”

Whatever the outcome of the
present probe, if Robert Thomp-
son does not find a resting place
in Arlington now, he surely will
later, when the American people
have established a socialist so-
ciety in their mighty land, and
they pay honor to the pioneers
and native sons who paved the
way so this could take place,

Darn those costs!

Should any ‘PT’ reader, sup-
porter or ‘investor’ decide’ to
renew their membership fee for
a seat on the New York Stock
Exchange, please be advised that
the aNnual fee has been increased
from $210,000 to $235,000, Just
seems there’s no end to rising
costs!

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by NIGEL MORGAN

Maclean’s ‘reporting’ hit

The February 5 edition of Mac-
lean’s magazine contains an article
about a recent demonstration
against the presence of German
troops at Camp Shilo in Manitoba.
The article, by Per Holting, is
about as ’’slanted”’ a piece of re-
porting as it’s possible to produce.

Don Currie, Manitoba organizer
of the Communist Party, has writ-
ten a letter to the editor of Mac-
lean’s in an attempt to set the
facts straight. The PT is pleased
to publish the text of his letter:

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The item by Per Holting in
your February 5/66 edition er-
titled ‘*How Ottawa Hid the Ger-
man Army” is inaccurate on sev-
eral points of fact and omissions
of fact.

I was a participant in, but not
the leader of the demonstration
at Camp Shilo on December 16th,
The reporters and TV camera-
men chose to make my presence
the focal point of the reporting of
the event in an effort to dub the
protest movement that was de-
veloping against the German
troops at Camp Shilo as com-
munist-inspired,

One does not have tobeaCom- ,
munist to realize the danger of
another re-militarized Germany.

Those who have expressed dis-
approval of the German weapons
testing at Camp Shilo besides
the Communist Party and the

JAMES E. JACKSON has left the posi-
tion of editor of the (U.S.) Worker,
but his iation with the
paper by becoming its publisher.
New editor is veteran newspaperman
Carl Winter of Detroit. Jackson will
devote his energies to certain ques-
tions of theory.

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groups mentioned by Mr, Holting,
include a local of the Manitoba
Farmers Union, the NDP — Com-
monwealth, the Canadian Jewish
Congress (western division), and
the many citizens who have
written letters to the editors of
both Winnipeg papers, all of which
reflect the growing concern about
the Canadian government’s
pandering to a resurgent West
German militarism,

I am sure youand your readers
must wonder why the Army, as
Mr, Holting implies, wouldinvite
a Communist into Camp Shilo,
The Army did not invite me but
was ordered by the Defense De-
partment to admit me as anews~
man for the Canadian Tribune, a
labor weekly printed in Toronto,

Originally the Army barred me
from the press conference and
only after a protest was lodged.
with Ottawa was I admitted, I
received news of the Defense
Department’s decision while on
the picket line, the morning of
December 16th,

All of this Mr, Holting knows
from personal conversation with
me and because he was present
during the entire event,

After demonstrating my whole-

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hearted opposition to ex-Hitler-
ites on Canadian soil, not once,
but several times, it is ridicu-
lous to twist the facts to suggest
I would turn around and socialize
with them,

The only time I spoke to the
Germans was at the press con-
ference in my capacity as anews-
man,

I was on the picket line because
I agreed with the aim of the
demonstration, I participated in
the press conference because I
had fought for the right to be
there,

Mr, Holting is concerned about
how the government could have
saved the Germans from em-
barrassment, Noamountof Mad-
ison Avenue public relations
could have avoided the protests.

Every German officer at Camp
Shilo openly admitted that he was
a veteran. of either the Polish,
French or Soviet fronts, The
facts are that German troops
under any circumstances are un-
welcome in Canada,

There are too many victims
of German militarism and
fascism to forgive and forget
or remain silent.

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