Big colleges favor
TUS as peace tie

Efforts of Grant Livingstone, former UBC students’ council
president and Tory campus leader, to use Canadian universities as

a base for a “Marshall Plan’”’

recent conference of the National

Campus vets
ask increase”

Many student veterans will she
to scrap the balance of their uni-
versity training unless their al-
lowances are increased.

This was the almost unanimous
opinion of the National ‘Conference
of Student Veterans held at King-
ston during Christmas week.

With only Alberta opposed and
B.C. abstaining, delegates from all
other universities voted to demand
a boost for both single and mar-
ried vets.

Other motions proposed:

1. Extension of rent controls
till “the housing situation material-
ly eases.”

2. Approval in principle for con-
tinuance of the DVA (Department
of Veterans’ Affairs) educational
scheme in the form of subsidies for
qualified but needy students.

8. Affiliation of NCSV to Cana-
dian Legion, subject to the condi-
tion that negotiations be delayed
till after this term's campaign for
incerased allowances.

_. LPP national students’ comtmit-
_ tee chairman Ken Morrison com-
mented, “The unanimity of the con-
ference on the increase answers
reactionary student leaders who
have been attempting to divert
vets from the real issues by. an or-
sy of red-baiting.

“It is unfortunate that there was
confusion on the question of Le-
gion affiliation, a move designed to
choke off any fight for student
needs.

: “But the main job now is to mob-
ilize on the campuses for a hard-

hitting campaign to get the basic
increase,”

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of students met defeat at the

Federation of Canadian University
Students held in Montreal.

NFCUS decisions show most stu-
dents, favor international friend-
ship for peace through the Interna-
tional Union of Students.

Proposals were laid down to cope
with rising fees and textbook
prices, and to meet the sharp need
for more scholarships.

NFCUS delegation, led by Grant
Livingstone, last summer went to
Europe with the announced pur-
pose cf seeking IUS affiliation. In-
stead it concentrated on attempts
to build a “western bloc” of stud-
ents opposed to IUS executive.

This so discredited the delega-
tion in the eyes of the IUS, in-
cluding the national student un-
ions of Britain and France, that
IUS referred the affiliation ques-
tion back to Canadian students.

NFCUS conference found itself
confronted with the choice of whe-
ther or not to affiliate. Led by
University of Montreal and Laval
University, the conference brushed
aside Livingstone’s proposals for
an alternative “Marshall. Plan”
union of students.

Plenary session finally voted on
a resolution proposing immediate
full affiliation to IUS.

The motion “lost 7-10, but the
seven affirmative delegations rep-
resented the majority of Canadian
students. They Were Saskatchew-
an, Toronto, Western Ontario,
McGill, Laval, University of Mon-
treal, Bishops. Negative votes came
from UBC, Alberta, Ottawa, Mc-
Master and five Maritime univer-
sities. Manitoba split with the pre-
sident casting the negative vote.

As a result of the powerful sen-
timent expressed in the positive
vote, conference decided to hold
the door open. A group of obser-
vers headed by Henri Schmidt will
attend the World Student Con-
gress.

Conference’ gave short shrift to
Livingstone’s proposal that the del-
egation should haye power to nego-
tiate and maneuver.

Schmidt, a Laval student, stated
that “their only job is to bring
back a fair report.”

Delegates will be financed by
voluntary contributions, enabling
interested students to participate
as evidence of their desire for:
world student friendship and
peace,

Increased Canadian interest in
IUS is considered by progressive
students to be a likely result.

‘Annual conference of NFCUS
comes in September, following the
world gathering.

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They all hate Taft-Hartley

RCA workers in Lancaster, Pa.,

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sign petitions urging repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act at tables
set up by the plant entrance by Local 124, United Hilectrical Radio and Machine Workers (CIO).
Half a million signatures have already been collected in the UE petition campaign nationally,

“For this purpose,”
the so-called ‘Atlantic Security
Pact”—a western war alliance of
the imperialist states against so-
cialism and democracy in Europe
and Asia. ;

“Half a billion yearly for re-
armament, production of atomic
bombs, U.S. bases on Canadian ter-
ritory, orders from the U.S. War
Department-—this' is the cynical,
suicidal “foreign policy” of the
three major parties —-a _ policy
which has surrendered Canadian
independence and can lead only to
disaster.

“In foreign trade, Canadian agri-
culture and industry are in pawn
to the Marshall Plan. It establishes
the dictatorship of the U.S. dollar.
Its consequences are being felt in
falling farm markets, layoffs in
auto, electric and lumber, crisis in
fishing and fruit growing. In the
interests of Big Business profit the
three major parties ‘are selling
Canadian workers and farmers
down the river. Canada is being
crucified on the golden cross of the
Marshall Plan. -

“At home, social security mea-
sures are only a shadow of what
the people demand. Old age pen-
sions are at starvation levels; real
wages have fallen due to price in-
creases; there is no national health
insurance; income taxes weigh
heaviest on the producers; a pun-
ishing 8 percent sales tax bears
down on every family purchase.
Every labor and farm family is
haunted by a sense of impending
calamity.

“For the rich, 1948 was the big-
gest profit year in history. The
capitalists are sucking the country

the trade unions and cut wages
with the help of the new labor
code, and to launch attacks on the
legality of the LPP.

Not only is Parliament preparing
to launch Canada into a criminal
war when the U.S. gives the word,
but it is making the people pay for
the last war, and the war that is
now planned, through lower living
standards: Madly, the monopolist
parties, with the CCF leaders, try
to avoid the crisis of capitalism by
adventurist imperialist schemes for
which the people are expected to
pay the cost.

A deceitful sham is being pre-
pared by the St. Laurent govern-

ment. Aided by the Drew Tory
Party, Duplessis, the pro-fascist

he said,- ‘

dry. They are preparing to smash |

‘agreement upon a_ policy

wing of Social Credit and, in all
essentials by the top leaders of the
CCF, they are trying to create a
favorable electoral situation for
themselves. They are working fev-

Relates murder of
Ernst Thaelmann

’ The Czechoslovak Catholic Min-
ister for Health, Father Josef Plo-
jhar* writes in the newspaper
Bojovnik that testimony of former
Buchenwald inmate M. Zgoda has
cjarified circumstances surround-

ERNST THAELMANN

ing the murder of German Com-
munist leader Ernst Thaelmann.

Zgoda managed to leave his bar-
racks in Buchenwald and hid near
the entrance to the crematorium.
Shortly before midnight an auto-
mobile drove up. Three civilians,
one of whom was a prisoner, enter-
ed the crematorium.

Four shots were fired. Later two
German officers emerged from the
crematorium and Zgoda heard
their conversation.

One asked the other whether he
knew who had been shot and was
told, “It was Thaelman, the Com-
munist leader.”

This testimony has been con-
firmed by the testimony of Bey era
SS men.

Tim Buck asks Canadians to turn heat
on parliament against crisis and war

—TORONTO

With parliament due to open January 26 for its final session before general elections, LPP na-
tional leader Tim Buck this week called on Canadians to let the MP’s know in no uncertain terms their
demands for a halting of the present policy of crisis and war.
f Outlining a line of action calculated to build peace and progress, Buck sharply exposed the
trickery being used by the three major parties in the house—Liberal,
Tory and CCF—and charged them with *
of preparation of war against the Soviet Union.” ‘

‘they are unanimous in support of

erishly to make “communism” the
issue, to conjure up the “big lie” of
“Soviet aggression,” in order to
camouflage their real policies of
rearmament, atomic aggression
and the wrecking of the wartime
agreements and the very spirit and
letter of the United Nations. 5

“This horrible deception must
be exposed. Canadians don’t want
war. They want peace between
the powers, based On wartime
pacts and the UN Charter.

“They are against high profits
and declining wages and farm in-
come. They want civil rights and
more democracy. They want a
Canadian Bill of Rights. They want
social security—health insurance
housing, lower income taxes on
the. workers and farmers, an end
to the sales tax, the return of the
excess profits tax, a decent labor
code, a 40-hour week, security of
employment, a floor ‘under farm
prices.

“Canadian labor and farmers
must fight for these things. The
forces of peace and progress in
Canada and the world are all-pow-
erful if organized, active, mn tged
and clear-minded, .

The LPP asks you:

—Make your views known to
your MP, and demand that Parila-
ment listens to the voice of the
people, for peace, security, demo-
cracy.

—In your unions, farm organiza-
tions, everywhere, tell the MP’s
that the needs of the people come
before the greedy ambitions ‘of
profiteers.

-—Tell the MP’s that you oppose
rearmament, atomic warfare and
peacetime conscription; that Cana-
dian national security and integ-
rity can be secured by a truly Cana-
dian people’s policy, free from Wall
Street domination, which. will re-
build the unity of the U.N. and
work for BRACE? and world disarm-
ament,

—Fight for the unity of labor
and the people, against the be-
trayal of the CCF leaders, for solid-
arity among union members, LPP
and CCF members, on the basis of
the people’s needs as against the
big business program of economic
crisis and war. :

—Discuss and prepare fér the
coming federal election now, so
that whenever the vote is called,
candidates will be elected to the
House of Commons who will fight
for peace, security, democracy, and
our country’s independence!”

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