beware of the label

25 years ago...

IMPROVE GAG LAWS,
_U.S. TELLS CANADA
The new legislation dealing
With sabotage and espionage
Which the government will ask
“Parliament to pass is being in-
'foduced here at the request
Of the U.S. government, says
the Montreal Gazette. It
Continues: :
“During the negotiations for
€ased bases agreement, the U.S.
Made it clear that Canadian sec-
Urity restrictions were not consi-
€red adequate. Accordingly,
and at U.S. request, the Domin-
'On agreed to seek legislation
Which would provide better pro-
tection for U.S. interests.”
_, hat is something which
j Prime Minister St. Laurent did
Not make clear when he made
1S announcement of the
*mendments to the Canadian
Criminal Code.
Tribune,
‘July 9, 1951

50 years ago...

STING OF LASH
IS ‘EDUCATION’

The*sting of the lash on the
bare back of a young boy is sup-
posed to have educational value,
according to a Toronto judge
who passed this sentence on a
13-year old last week. “You
wouldn’t bring up an animal as
you have your son,” he told the
boy’s mother.

The lad was charged with
stealing cigarettes and smoking
them.

This follows another case of a
boy in his early teens some weeks
ago sentenced to be lashed by a
police officer for stealing a bottle
of milk. The boy’ testified his
father was out of work and that
food was scarce at home. In the
eyes of the court his offense

.towered up to heaven and the
lash is recognized as the meanest’

and most humiliating form of

punishment. Worker,
July 10, 1926

” Smile! You’re on Candid Camera! Y

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EDITORIAL
COMIMIEINT

Appeal unites millions
who oppose arms build-up

The Stockholm Appeal 1975, express-
ing the highest aspirations of humanity,
is now soaring on a tide of support from
widely separated parts of the globe. ,

An end to the armaments race, the
calling of the United Nations world dis-
armament conference, and introduction
of a new international economic order
are the Appeal’s major aims. .

Today, public opinion wields force as
never before. If the 500 million signa-
tures on the first Stockholm Appeal in
1950 helped to prevent the use of nuc-
lear weapons, the many times greater
roll-up of signatures to be presented to
the United Nations at the end of this year
can exert inestimable influence on the
member countries. Those millions of
“votes” for peace can serve as a stern
warning to the would-be war-makers, to
the corporations which grow fat on
military profits.

Vietnam --

again united

A united Vietnam, the achievement of
decades of struggle against imperialism,
began conducting parliamentary ses-
sions as its 492 elected deputies assem-
bled in Hanoi, June 24.

Democratic, progressive and peace-
loving people everywhere can rejoice
that the cruel ordeal inflicted on Viet-
nam by the U.S. militarists and their cor-
porate backers has been ended by the
victorious Vietnamese people bef-
riended by the socialist countries, and by

- progressive people on all continents.

The meeting of Vietnam’s National
Assembly is a milestone to be hailed and
applauded as a move toward overcoming
the horrible scars of U.S. aggression, and
as a further strengthening of mankind’s
ability to forbid such aggression in
future. :

Long live free, united Vietnam!

Over-flying

the issues

The fact that the pilots and air con-
trollers are back at work is gratifying for

the mobility of the country. The |

ceasefire, however, has not solved basic
problems involved — not of the phony
safety versus bilingualism, but questions
which go to the heart of Canada’s consti-
tutional requirements.

In an article in this issue, Communist ~

Party leader William Kashtan points to
the kind of deep and far-reaching
measures needed to come to grips with
the realities of a two-nation state.

The inconclusive “settlement” which
got the planes flying again serves to
underscore the need stated in the article
to face up to the. real issues, and at the
same time to recognize the inciters
against French Canadian workers as the
same forces who lead every anti-labor
crusade.

Already, ill-wishers, not only the arms
merchants, and the media which boycott
peace activity, but also imperialism’s re-
serves, the Maoists, who are trying to

- mislead Canadians with slanders against

the socialist world, are trying to under-
mine the Stockholm Appeal’s successes.

The Stockholm Appeal is world-wide,
a people’s effort to finally be free of the
arms burdens of billions of dollars, to
utilize these: funds for the upbuilding
‘and enrichment of the lives of peoples
everywhere.

In the Soviet Union the Peace Com-
mittee expects to sign up everyone, Civi-
lian and military, over the age of 16! In
Canada the response takes om new di-
mensions every week. A club of the
Communist Party acquired 2,116 signa-
tures to the Appeal at the Toronto ferry
docks on one Saturday outing.

It is regrettable the Canadian Gov-
ernment has not been able to bring itself
to face the arms monopolies and declare
its support for the Stockholm Appeal,
instead of drifting from the Lockheed
scandal to another multi-million dollar
deal for made-in-USA warplanes.

What is most regrettable is that the
money — more than $3-billion a year —
the Canadian Government is pouring
down the armaments drain could be go-
ing to raise living standards at home and
performing international aid.

Signing the Stockholm Appeal is a de-
cisive expression by growing thousands
of Canadians for detente, for peaceful
co-existence, and an end to the arms
race.

Large numbers go beyond that, cir-
culating the Stockholm Appeal, and con-
tributing toward paying the costs of
chalking up a million signatures and en-
dorsements.

_ The Stockholm Appeal has been en-
dorsed in Canada by elected representa-
tives at various levels of government, by
trade unions, federations of labor, and
most recently by the Canadian District
Council of the United Auto Workers.

From now until October the call is out
for peace workers from every walk of life
to pile up signatures for presentation to
the federal government, urging its back-
ing of the call for a world-wide UN dis-
armament conference.

The peace movement, a wide spec-
trum of views, is calling for the unity of
all Canadians of good will on this one
issue — end the arms build-up, secure
world peace!

Cold warrior

While millions are signing the Stoc-
kholm Appeal to end the arms build-up,
and for a UN disarmament conférence,
Defence Minister James Richardson uses
all the terminology and trappings of a
1950s cold warrior to conjure up threats
from “Russia” to sell to Canadian televi-
sion audiences the armaments dictates of
the Pentagon and NATO militarists.
Richardson’s huckstering for im-
perialism exposes its real designs and
should add impetus to the disarmament
campaign.

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