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a ada’'s leading — self-pro-
Sie nazi, William John
pS who lives on social wel-
. eS in London, Ontario, has
ie very active in anti-peace
; lonstrations, and in actions
pane meetings and  exhibi-
- 48 in the Lenin Centennial.
During the _ recent. peace
*Monstration in Ottawa in
a he, and his two hench-
ae Walked through the as-
ae y grounds in an obvious
eon. Later they were
mi talking and joking with a
ae of Ottawa's police. The
Cadi drove away in a 1969
on ac, license H23121, listed
ith Wned by London Motor Pro-
Cts, 1968, Limited.
meat three were seen at Parlia-
@RCMp euldings talking to an
hee guard who “allowed”
While to enter the East Wing,
ists Police were battling Mao-
% tet far away in front of
Shington’s Embassy.
and Pep edom of the streets,
: a Obvious cosyness with
5 Bean is a cause for con-
oie e concern. It appears as
fee] 4 some businessmen may
curh bed need these elements to
the € labor and farm unions,
le pace movement, the strug-
Moy T jobs—all the democratic
means of the people.
ae letter. addressed to the
Pal of Richview Collegiate
Sronto, Alf Dewhurst, chair-

ri

aie of the Metro Toronto Com-

he of the Communist Party,
con aed Objected to activity
ats ee in that school by the
low; lan nazi party, in the fol-
“we words,
5 eed concerned to dis-
in Doli nat this healthy interest
is cal affairs by students
atty © exploited by the nazi
thing Which | personifies every-
eople Tepulsive to democratic
ism pee where, i.e., militar-
Semitinn war, racism and anti-
Presgi ™, colonialism and op-
10n of other peoples, and

The
men Co
"eligi

h ngress of Canadian Wo-
4s issued an appeal to all
Sus leaders to bring before
Ac ustegations and classes
ion Ppeal of the Women’s
f the “ Vietnam to the Women
ow m hole World, which says,
all One Ore than ever, give your
and mm Support, both material
People Cral, to the women and
i in their struggle to wrest
the » /“F Sacred rights, so that
Nam omen and children of Viet-
Benuine soon enjoy peace in
€ independence.”
40,009 letter points out that
States Mothers in the United
of + eral grieve over the loss
nd’. Sons killed in Vietnam,

ets wi eet 300,000 U.S. moth-

| lUreq a eee upon their war-in-

n .
Out, pictnam, the letter points
lion €re are more than a mil-
the “Mputees, and it refers to
dus ¢ \despread use of poison-

€micals.
Deals getter ends with the ap-
peat + this Mother’s Day we
the g to the Christian church,
Of aj) 280gues, and the leaders
Peonie €nominations and to all
Bainge 8004 will to speak out
the gi, Yar and to remphasize

Tuggle for peace.”

Twenty-five years after the defeat of Hitleri
brated this week with its terrible cost in lives,
tin soldier, nazi W. J. Beattie shown here in his London,

sm which is being cele-
(See page 6-7) we find
Ontario of-

fice. The pictures on the wall, framed by the Maple Leaf and swastika,

are Queen Elizabeth Il, Hitler,

suppression of democratic free-
doms and the rights of labor.”

Mr. Dewhurst stated that he
had been informed that W. J.
Beattie, leader of the nazi party,
was to address the students, and
that Don Currie, national organi-
zer of the Communist Party,
who had spoken to the students,
saw students of Richview Colle-
giate carrying swastikas and ad-
vocating nazi positions.

Mr. Dewhurst outlined the

record of Hitler fascism, and its
terrible cost to the world’s

Jesus Christ, and George Rockwell.

people in lives and destruction.
He reminded the principal of
Canada’s wartime democratic
alliance with the Soviet Union,
and Canadian losses in the bat-
tlefields.

“As Canadian citizens,” he
concluded, “we object most
strongly to this attempt by the
nazi party to misuse our demo-
cratic institutions to turn our
young people into enemies of
democracy. And we appeal to
you to give this vital question
your earnest consideration.”

Equal pay for women—law

Equal pay with male orderlies
for 135 women nursing aides in
a home for the aged operated by

Metro Toronto was ordered in a

ruling by the Ontario Court of
Appeal.

As a result, salaries of the
nursing aides in the Greenacres
Home for the Aged in New-
market have. been raised 40
cents an hour to $2.66, the rate
paid male orderlies. The Court
also ordered Metro Toronto to
pay the Women back-pay.

Wally Higgins, president of
Local 79 of the Canadian Union
of Public Employees which re-
presents Metro Toronto employ-
ees, said he expects the Court’s

ruling will result in wage in-
creases for some 500 nursing
aides in the city’s other homes
for senior citizens. An official of
the provincial government went
further, declaring the “equal pay
for equal work” ruling uphold-
ing legislation introduced in Jan-
uary, 1969 could affect “thou-
sands of women workers in Ont-
ario.”

The Appeal Court held that the
women nursing aides had skill,
ability and responsibility equal
to that of the men doing that
same work. The court’s decision
dismissed the contrary opinion
advanced by counsel for the em-
ployer, Metro Toronto.

St. Kitts city fathers
won t back free speech

By DON CURRIE

ST. CATHARINES — A dele-
gation of the local committee of
the Communist Party called on
City Council to take a stand
against the intimidation tactics
of an ultra-right faction in the
city.

The previous week anony-
mous phone calls to the man-
agement of the Queensway
Hotel led to the cancellation of
a meeting, film showing and
book -display on the life of
Lenin.

The Committee. sponsoring
the meeting had also been
turned down by other establish-
ments in the city, and decided

- to appeal to the City Council to

stand up to the rightist forces,
and make available civic pre-
mises for a meeting.

The Liberal and Tory mem-
bers of the Council were joined
by NDP aldermen Halushka and
Martin in red-baiting.

The NDP-ers moved to have
the matter referred to a com-
mittee, but were voted down,
when the old-party councillors
carried an amendment: to turn
down the Communist request
outright.

The Communist brief pointed
out that a fundamental prin-
ciple was involved in the inci-
dent: “If three anonymous

Ontario CP call:

phone calls can result in the
cancellation of a public meet-
ing sponsored by the Commu-
nist Party, then we must all be-
come alert and vigilant. Who is
next? What other groups may
be barred from assembling and
holding a public meeting be-
cause the ultra-right doesn’t
like them? Who are the forces
behind these people that give
them such influence? The nazi
Beattie and his thugs, the Ed-
mund Burke Society, those in-
dividuals who are prepared to
see Canada embroiled in a war
with the Soviet Union and other
socialist countries, so they can
be restored to their old posi-
tions of privilege and power.
All of these forces and their
anonymous backers will be
greatly encouraged if their
threatening tactics succeed...

“All citizens, irrespective of
their views on Lenin or of the
Communist Party have a stake
in upholding these rights and
in preventing such irresponsible
groups from interfering with
public meetings.”

This is a principle that even
the NDP members of council
failed to uphold. The St. Cath-
arines committee of the CP is
meeting to decide what further
moves to take in the fight for
democratic rights.

Stop neo-fascism now

Ontario leader of the Com-
munist Party William Stewart,
has written provincial Attorney
General Arthur Wishart, de-
manding an end to the neo-
fascist activities which have re-
cently been taking place in On-
tario.

Mr. Stewart details the story
of the rowdy demonstration in
Toronto on Friday, April 3, at
a banquet of the Canada-
U.S.S.R. Association, the physi-
cal attacks on the guests,. and
the attempted disruption of the
friendship meeting.

He also details the description
of a similar “picket line” in
London.

“In London, Ontario, on April
16, at a public meeting called
by the Communist Party to mark
the Lenin. Centenary, a picket
line mobilized from all parts of
Ontario completely blocked the
entrance to the library, subject-
ing anyone who wished to at-
tend the meeting to abuse. The
local police made no effort to re-
move the mob or force it to give
proper access to a public meet-
ing place. Inside the meeting
members of the Edmund Burke
Society were working hand-
in-glove with a local TV station
to disrupt the meeting and pro-
vide the news media with the
kind of footage they wished to
get to downgrade the celebra-

tion.”

Mr. Stewart also detailed for
Mr. Wishart the stary of the
cancellation of a meeting and
book exhibition in St. Cathar-
ines, reported elsewhere in this
edition of the Canadian Tribune.

“Of all these events, the St.
Catharines incident is by far the
most flagrant breach of. demo-
cratic rights and free speech,”
he wrote. “But coming as it did
on the heels of the other events,
it can only be regarded as a

logical conclusion to a chain of
events which are abhorrent to
the entire democratic tradition
of our country.”

Mr. Stewart stated that the
actions of the manager of the
Queensway Hotel in St. Cathar-
ines contravene the Canadian
Bill of Rights. He called on Wis-
hart to investigate the events
and to “see that the residue of
fascism which has been smug-
gled into this country by the
Canadian immigration authori-
ties is not allowed to trample -
on the democratic traditions of
our country.”

Mr. Stewart pointed. to the
large number of Lenin centen-
nial displays that had been held
in other places, such as Toronto,
in spite of right-wing intimida-
tion. He warned that these at-
tacks are “a screen behind
which the entire democratic
structure is assaulted.”

Fighting pollution

in the Soviet Union

SYDNEY — Australian trade
union leader Pat Clancy recently
visited the Soviet Union where
he particularly studied mea-
sures taken there to combat
pollution. ”

Among _anti-pollution mea-
sures he reported is a proposal
to build joint power station and
industrial enterprises in which
the enterprises would make use
of the pollution-producing waste
product of the brown and low-
grade coal-burning station.

Sulphur by-products would be
used to make fertilizer and the
dust to make building materials,
he said.

Mr. Clancy added that in
Soviet cities all diesel. engines
are prohibited, as is the use of
gasoline with additives.

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