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ete a few days short of his
th birthday, felt he ought to
© something about the OUT-
Nw petition. But how to get
Raned? Sylvia, an old hand, in-
-Yited him to go with her to the
ariposa Festival on Toronto’s
entre Island.

Somehow they. got separated.
ae Peter watched Susan
oe people to sign, and then

Out on his own.
The phone rang.
_ “This is Peter,” he said. “I’ve

80t a quite a few sheets filled.
aS been getting names ever
ce I started. I’m so hungry!
all going to eat now and then
h up a few more sheets. I'll be

Ome later on.”
oll of it said in the most
sual way. It must be different
ees we thought, compared to

€ Stockholm Appeal days. In
tin evening Peter came home,
te and happy. We all sat
ae the kitchen table talk-
: “About 80% signed,” Peter

Xplained. “They were mostly
zine people because there

€re mostly young people there.

Tactically everyone I asked
Signed.”

“What about those who didn’t
Sign?”

j “Oh, some of them smiled and
aid they didn’t want to sign.

‘Out for the first time ...

And then there were some of
those guys. You know. There
was one guy who said he fought
against both Hitler and the
Communists. I asked how he
had managed that. He didn’t
seem to make much sense.

“Another guy talked for near-
ly an hour. He tried to convince
me that ‘armed’ revolution was
the only way and that I was
wasting my time. And after all
that, he didn’t sign anyway.”

“There was a university- stu-
dent, too. He didn’t sign, either.
He said there’d be a revolution,
and after it was Over, they’d
clean things up. He said getting
signatures wouldn’t get you
anywhere.”

“Oh, I met some visiting Ame-
ricans. Some were friendly. I
met one lady who said she was
a Daughter of the American
Revolution. She said she’d ra-
ther have her son die in Viet-
nam than be a hippy, and that
we should have used the H-
bomb long ago. People like that
prove the need for petitions.”

There, on the kitchen table,
lay 420 signatures on the OUT-
NOW petition. Peter’s first ex-
perience had uplifted him, No
doubt about it, he had grown a
bit. The future of Canada lies
in the ideas and in the work of
young men and women like
Peter. —W.B.

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Who henefits?

The Globe and Mail has been carry-
ing a series on the Internationalists,
one of the small Maoist sects in Canada.
It goes by the name of Communist Par-
ty of Canada (Marxist-Leninist). The
fact that it chose that name should be
indication enough of its disruptive
aims.

The attention the capitalist press is
giving this particular group makes one
wonder at the purpose behind it. Bour-
geois ideologists understand that dis-

unity within progressive circles bene-_

fits capitalism.

The Internationalists have been par-
ticularly harmful. The capitalist press
plays up their adventurist antics. The
Maoists always try to get ahead of
other movements. When the peace for-
ces plan an event, you can be sure the
Maoists will haye a planned disruption
going.

Bourgeois ideologists and tacticians
are past masters in taking advantage
of anything that will help to smear the
Communist Party of Canada and the
socialist system. Canadian students
have cut their eye teeth on anti-Com-
munism. Anti-Communism permeates
capitalist propaganda. It is the main
form of attack on the working class.

The actions of the Maoists seem to be
deliberately designed to give credence
to this whole anti-Communist system.
Their actions, and the line of their
newspaper, Mass Line, dovetails so con-
veniently with the desires of the police,
one wonders who really works out their
strategy and tactics.

The latest series in the Globe and
Mail has been written to cast doubt on
the idea that the Internationalists are
receiving money from the CIA. All we
ean say is that there has been a switch
from the very primitive, often discred-
ited, crude and rough anti-Commun-
ism, to subtler versions.

Bourgeois theoreticians have encour-
aged.and developed the ideas of oppor-
tunism — Trotskyism, Maoism, Mar-
cusianism, and other anti-Leninist the-

ories. The aim is to discredit and falsify .

the movement for Communism. Paid, or
unpaid, the Maoists, Trotskyites and
their ilk do the job the RCMP and the
CIA want done.

Fruits of peace work

As we go to press the news comes
that West Germany’s Brandt is flying
to Moscow to sign the treaty already
initialed. The treaty calls for the re-
nunciation of the use of force to settle
differences, and the recognition of exist-
ing post-war boundaries in Europe.

As this historic treaty is being nego-
tiated, a ceasefire has been achieved in
the Middle East, and preliminaries to
negotiations are under way in that
area. =

The successful conclusion of the
treaty between Moscow and Bonn is a
triumph for the USSR’s consistent pol-
icy of peaceful co-existence. So is the
ceasefire in the Middle East. While re-
vanchist ideas are by no means dead in
West Germany, the treaty reflects the
growing sense of world reality in the
top capitalist circles in West Germany.

The achievements in the Middle East

and the Moscow-Bonn treaty are trib-
utes to the strength of the forces for
peace around the world, and the efforts
of the peoples to overcome war. :

The signing of the treaty in Moscow
should make it possible for West Ger-
many to reach an agreement. with
Poland to recognize the Oder-Neisse

- boundary, and for the recognition of

the German Democratic Republic as an
independent state, and should help
move closer the negotiations for a
European Security pact.

The forces for war are in retreat.
These achievements are the most ex-
tensive. breaks in the Cold War for
many-a year. It opens the door to fur-
ther victories for peace. However, at
the same time, it drives smarting Im-
perialism to more desperate actions.

Intensified efforts now by Canadians
for the widest endorsation of the Out-
now campaign, for’an end to the war in
Indochina, will be our contribution to
those victories for peace.

Trudeau’s economics

Prime Minister Trudeau has out-
experted the experts. Some of capital-
ism’s top economists have spent years
studying in universities, with the re-
sult that there are as many economic
theories as there are economists. Tru-
deau has now entered the field by stat-
ing that prices have risen more slowly
than wages for this past six months.
Therefore it is now proven, according
to him, that the trade unions are re-
sponsible for inflation. :

All of which. goes to. prove the old
adage that even fools can figure. Or is
it liars?

But here’s one example of inflation
we bet Trudeau will try to keep quiet
about. It’s typical of capitalism.

The Canadian Government bought
some trucks for $7,200 each in the early
1950’s, of which 551 were not used. Pri-
vate dealers have now paid $340,000 to
buy them. They cost Canada’s working
people $4,000,000 when the government
bought them. Now the private dealers
are selling them for approximately
$1,653,000—a gross profit of very near-
ly 400% (somewhat above the 6%
guidelines).

This, however, is considered to be
good business. The gross profit would
keep 250 or so unemployed workers for
a whole year on $100 a week. Notice
how silent the Incomes and Prices Com-
mission is?

What's wrong with work?

A Judge Graham is reported to have

said, in ordering a 16-year old youth
convicted of theft to join the Army
Militia Summer Training, that 16-year
olds who refuse to work or go to school
should get a taste of arin tite:
_ The capitalist army cures very little,
if anything. For the average soldier, it
aims to brutalize his human instincts,
to end his processes of creative thought,
to justify imperialism, and to turn him
into a willing automaton to follow ord-
ers unquestioningly. Song My is an end
result. Some punishment for stealing 9
gramophone records!

What’s wrong with good honest work
at a paying wage and the discipline of
labor? That, alone, can make a useful
citizen.

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