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by ,
Ronald Liversedge

PRONT PAGE OF THE NEWLY-PUBLISHED BOOK, ‘'‘RECOLLEC-
ONS OF THE ON-TO-CTTAWA TREK, 1935,"’ BY RONALD
LIVERSEDGE.

‘On-To-Ottawa’trek
recalled in book

and violence against homeless,
jobless and destitute young Can-
adians. The days of “Section
98”? and prison—the Tory “cure”
for unemployment.

The author of this stirring saga
of those hectic times, Ronnie
Liversedge of Lake Cowichan,
was himself an active participant
in those jobless struggles, strikes,
and nation-wide ‘‘On-To-Ottawa”’
trek, an event which gripped the
nation as no other has done in
Canadian labor history. ;

And from the ‘‘On-To-Ottawa”’
trek, Ronnie Liversedge, as did.
many hundreds of other young
Canadians, embarked on a much
longer trek; to the olive fields of
Republican Spain to join in the
ranks of the famed International
Brigades, standing as a bulwark
against the onrushing tide of
Franco-Hitler-Mussolini fascism,
seeking to destroy Spanish de-
mocracy as a preliminary {o de-
stroying democracy on a world
scale.

Mack-
of the
and a

A proud member of the
enzie-Papineau Battalion
International Brigade,
fighting member of Canada's
“lost. generation” of the 30's,
Ronnie Liversedge now renders
a new service to young Canadians
of today with his epic story of
the ‘On-To-Ottawa”’ trek.

To the old-timers who were
“young” with Ronnie in those
days the book will evoke warm:
s of a common struggle

memorie
red and

and comradeship in a sac
imperishable cause.

To young Canadiar
generation it will serve as an 1n-
spiration in the struggles yet to
be won before the right to a
job by every Canadian in his or
her chosen vocation is fully rea-

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The Yank’s‘dirty war’
in Laos and Vietnam

THE FURTIVE WAR—The United
States in Vietnam and Laos, by
Wilfred G. Burchett. Interna-
tional Publishers. Available
People’s Co-Op Bookstore.
Price $4.50.
etween February 16 and March

3, 1962, in a large village
which must be nameless as long
as U.S. bombers patrol Vietnam-
ese skies, a congress of more
than 100 delegates formed the

South Vietnam National Libera-

tion Front.

The Congress set its sights on
peace and neutrality, not only
for South Vietnam, but for a
zone comprising Cambodia and
Laos too. But it warned that the

- Vietnamese would use ‘every

means to resist the present
“bloodthirsty aggression.”

Highlights of the unusual. con-
gress are reported in The Fur-
tive War, where the author, a
seasoned newsman, widely - tra-
velled in Southeast Asia, recalls
that “if the German and Italian
people had been able to rise in
revolt against fascism and smash
it, the world would have been
spared the horror of World
War II.

“The people of South Viet.
nam,” he emphasizes, ‘are fight-
ing with arms in their hands
against an Asian neo-fascism no
less dangerous for world peace
than was European fascism of
the 1930’s. Their leaders are
quite conscious of this.”

e

Wilfred Burchett’s penetrating
interviews with princes, gene-
rals, peasants, men and women
of all walks, lend exhilarating
authenticity to his report. His
conclusions are based on incon-
testable evidence from a host of

people. as
“One of the most. beautitul

-concentration camp

young women .. . by any coun-
try’s standards,’’ whose satiny
skin ended in small cauliflower-
like eruptions where the flesh
had been torn out with red-hot
pincers” by Diem government
tortures, is. the subject of one
of the ‘‘average’’ true stories he
tells. ;

One of the main schemes. to
overcome resistance was concoc-
ted by Dr. Eugene Staley of the
USA. The Staley Plan, named
for him, was launched with
President Kennedey’s stepped up
millions in ‘‘aid’’ for South Viet-
nam.

Increased army and_ police
(plus 1,000 vicious dogs); con-
centration camps (called strate-
gic villages) into which whole
populations are moved forcibly;
and military control by the USA,
were the plan’s.main parts. (One
dog eats $1.20 worth of meat
daily; one government soldier
gets 19 cents worth of rice).

e

Stories of the victims form a
pattern. Peop!e are herded into
villages,
away from their fields and crops;
their villages are burned to the
ground; those who protest are
arrested, tortured or murdered.
All is in the name of protecting
them from the ‘Viet Cong”
guerillas. Any who resist are con-
sidered ‘‘Viet Cung”’ agents. Thus
a picture of a burning shack be-
comes ‘‘destruction of a Com-
munist stronghold.”

Staley called for no man’s
lands to make for easier control
of the people. Next time’ you
hear U.S. appeals for food for
Asian children, remember this:

Pete Seeger returns
—rafters ring again

ete Seeger came to town last

Sunday night and as usual he
made the rafters ring. Only this
time the rafters were in the Queen
Elizabeth Theatre and the tickets
cost more. That was all that was
different, though.

There was the same tall, rangy
boyish looking figure getting
some new sounds from his new
banjo (this one has no frets, he
explained, which makes it a little

harder to play).
*

* *

He talked and he sang and he
made everyone else sing, and he
played and he wove it all into a
fabric of the old and the new,
the familiar and the unfamiliar,
the poignant and the ribald. He

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poked fun at the conformists in a
wonderful song about the busi-
ness men and the lawyers and the
doctors who live in ticky tacky
little boxes and he chided the
purists who think that folk music
is a romantic excursion into the
past.

He sang Viva La Quince Brig-
ada, taught to him he said, by a
man who was fighting Hitler and
Mussolini long before it was fash-
ionable to do So.

He sang about peace and broth-
erhood and racial equality and
love and children and old men
and women and birth and death,
and he put Ecclesiasticsto music
and sang that too.

* * *

There was something there for
young and old but all of it was
for the young at heart. It was for
those who, like Pete, believe
passionately in the human race
and its future.

His last song was ‘‘Which Side
Are You On’ which he told us
he had sung on his first visit to
Vancouver 17 years ago. There
must have been some in the aud-
ience who recalled that first con-
cert of his and thought about the
long, hard road he has travelled
since. Thought too, about . the
thousands of young folk singers
from the Deep South to the Arctic
Circle he has inspired and en-
couraged.

Now he is off on a world tour
to sing and teach and learn and
when he returns he will have new
riches to offer us.

“Folk Music” says Pete, “is
an ever flowing stream — and

long may it flow”. RR. 6.00... :

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The USA has carried out sys-
tematic, crop - killing chemical
spraying since 1961.

On two days alone — Jan. 14
and 15, 1962 they destroyed
“along strategic Route 15 ~
230 acres of rubber trees — two
whole plantations — 50 acres of
citrus trees, 190 acres of other
fruit trees, 35 acres of coffee,
287 acres of rice fields, and 87
acres of vegetable gardens.”’

The choking, bleeding, vomit.
ting, paralyzed Vietnamese peo-
ple caught in this U.S. ‘‘exper-
iment,” watch in anguish.

“Thousands of days of work
and many. years of growth des.
troyed in two days by American
planes,” said a former function-
ary.

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' Thousands of square miles of
crops have been wiped out in
such sweeps. °

“The battle to fill the family
rice bowl is too intense for any
Vietnamese peasant to feel any-
thing but raging fury towards
those who perpetrate such acts,”
Burchett asserts.

The fact that the thoroughly
rotten regime of Ngo Dinh Diem
and his family is hated by al-
most the entire population does
not deter American support. ‘‘The
short answer,’’ says Burchett,
“seems to be that in Asia at
least it is only such anti-national
elements that can be relied on to
serve U.S. interests‘’’

In a postscript written in 1963,
Burchett comments on persis-
tent U.S. schemes to win on pa.
per what they failed to win in
battle.

¥ . the National Liberation
Front leadership does not see in
these schemes any evidence that
Washington now wants a realis-
tically negotiated settlement.

“They (the NFL) are prepared
to continue the resistance strug-
gle until the United States finds
it necessary to negotiate serious-
ly for withdrawal.”

“The terror and brutal repres-
sions have driven everyone into
resistance,’’ Prof. Nguyen Van
Hieu, secretary-general of the
liberation front, told Burchett.

Has the liberated North for.
gotten the South? Burdett
learned, to his ‘‘astonishment’’
that “every province and town
in North Vietnam has ‘adopted’
a province and town in the
South. We put something by for
them,’”’ he was told, ‘‘to hand
over after reunification.’’ Even
factories have adopted this plan.

In the North, soldiers have
become farmers; 80,000 demob-
bed army men did all prelimi-
nary work in creating the now
exemplary industrial city—Thai
Nguyen. Burchett calls it a
“slimpse into the future.”

Some of the most engrossing
pages are contained in the few
chapters on Laos, where U.S.-
backed strongman, Gen. Phoumi
Nosavan, strives to extend his
fascist rule.

“Much Laotian blood has been
spilt by the American attempts
to overthrow them
governments), says Burchett.
“A question in everyone’s mind
now is whether the United States
is prepared to permit the Lao.
tian people to shape their own
future, or whether the 1962
Geneva Agreements are regarded
in Washington only as a means
to gain time for fresh outrages
in this corner of the world.”

Obviously, no last word can be
said on these struggles, for they
are still going on.

Yet, Burchett’s authoritative
book is a valuable guide to the
forces at work there, and their
motivations. ....

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