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CHARLIE CHAPLIN
AWARDED PEACE PRIZE

It was Peace Prize day for

ie Chaplin, June 3, as he was

handed the international award,

Worth $14,000, on behalf of the

World Peace Council. Then Char-
lie attacked the H-bomb users.

Chaplin intends to use the
Money for the work of peace and
friendship and he made it clear
Just where he stands:

“I do not assume to know the
answers to the problems which
n peace, but this I do know:
| the nations will never solve them in
an atmosphere of hate or suspi-
on, nor will the threat of drop-
pL arogen bombs solve them.
‘++ Let us return to that which is
Natural and iealthy in men, to the
Spirit of goodwill which is the basis
of all inspiration, of all that. is
Teative, beautiful and noble.” ”

50 years ago...

SEDITION CASE
TOSSED OUT OF COURT °
MONTREAL — Judge Cus-

son who presided at the prelimi-
nary hearing of the charge of
sedition against comrades Bruce
and Kashtan threw the case out
of court. The charge arose as a
result of the police terror on
May Day. The comrades were
arrested by detectives because
they committed the “terrible
crime” of having in their posses-
sion a package of leaflets, issued
by the Young Commiunist
League dealing with the signi-
ficance of May Day. The Judge
after reading the leaflet decided
that the sedition charge did not

‘hold and therefore there was no

case.

The pouice had made a great
show of the charge and set a
$5,000 bail for their release. The
comrades had to spend two days
in jail before their bail was
raised.

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June 14, 1954 June 8, 1929
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EDITORILAIL
COMIWIEINT

Tories in, mortgages up

A week after the election of a Tory
government to Ottawa, two banks and a
mortgage company boosted their
mortgage rates as if on signal. That is not
surprising since Tory leader Clark’s
mortgage and tax deduction scheme was
designed to serve the mortgage com-
panies, developers, builders and home
owners on the upper end of the income
scale.

As an election gimmick, the scheme
seemed to promise to young people and
to workers seeking to own a home, a way
of beating high taxes and high mortgage
interest. In fact, it would pay off to the
elite upper income bracket and those
who profiteer on interest. The money
would come from the public treasury.

The Tory plan would allow home
owners to deduct up to $5,000 mortgage
interest and $1,000 property taxes a
year, apparently after a four-year

hase-in period — for those who pay
income taxes high enough to allow sucha
deduction. There is nothing for those

who pay little or no income tax, or who
are tenants.

But this so-called subsidy, estimated at
$2-billion to $2.4-billion, goes straight
back to the mortgage profiteers by way of
the. income tax payer. The Tories evi-
dently plan no restraint on mortgage
rates, as is obvious from the swift action
of the Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce, the Bank of Montreal, and
Canada Trustco Mortgage Co. in boost-
ing their mortgage rates in anticipation
of the big Tory payoff. :

The Clark government needs to begin
learning at once what are the priorities
for a genuine program to provide
housing . for Rec and rental by
working people: :

e Urban development carried out
with funds from the federal and provin-
cial governments.

e A vast, low-income housing prog-
ram of 300,000 units annually. .

e Make such housing a public utility.

e Roll back mortgage interest on
housing to 5%.

‘Timbrell’s’ hospital beds

The Tory government in Ontario is so
inhumane in its acts that even the
capitalist system’s own courts can’t
stomach its deeds. Recently the Davis
government, and its minister in charge
of undermining health care, Dennis
Timbrell, were ordered to re-open hos-
pital beds they had callously closed to
scrounge’a few dollars, perhaps for later
hand-outs to their corporate board room
buddies.

In Windsor, on June 1, Ontario Sup-
reme Court Justice R.G. Trainor ruled

that his court had the power to order the’

“health” minister to reinstate 25 beds in
Metropolitan Hospital. He cited an
emergency in this hospital relied upon
by patients of the Windsor Cancer Clinic.

This cruel incident merely adds to the
callous 30-year record of Davis and his
Tory predecessors. The premier’s
monotone preachments have been
shown to stand only for more attacks on
health, education, employment and
ecology. :

Medicare in Ontario is a scandal.
‘Upper crust doctors, Cabinet ministers,

the pontifical Dae ens rivate is-
land playground, along wi e corpo-
enn aes believe: they are all-
werful enough to sabotage social
fenehis won by working people in hard
struggle.

calls for united ia

Not least of Tory efforts is the attem
to chop down living standards and trade
union strength in the public sector.

Understandably, these workers are
putting up a courageous and angry fight;
and they rate unreserved support in the
battle to protect their jobs, their unions,
their families and their human dignity.

In Ontario as elsewhere, workers all
through the public sector, are fighting
back, as shown by the Ontario Public
Service Employees Union, the Canadian
Union of Public Employees, and the On-
tario secondary and elementary school
teachers. Solidarity of all workers and
support far beyond the labor movemen
is called for.

_ The order to re-open the Toryized
hospital beds was only one incident, but

‘ it showed the depths to which the On-

tario Government has sunk. The readi-
ness of unions in the public sector,
threatened as they are, to take political
action to the very doors of government,

rt.

Some have calle ie Timbrell’s resig-
nation, but the Tories have a barrel-f
of rotten apples. It’s time to boot out the
whole works. The public sector unions
are an important factor. They should get
universal labor backing now, so they'll be
on the scene — and healthy despite Tim-
brell — for labor’s. process of de-
Toryizing Ontario.

Jerusalem move reckless

Prime Minister Clark is leading
Canada into a Zionist trap which en-
dangers- Canada economically and
plunges our country’s international
status to its lowest level. His obstinate
insistance on moving Canada’s embassy
from Tel Aviv, to Israeli-occupied
Jerusalem, at the same time . further
endangers peace hopes in that region.

If this reckless move were carried out
it would mean in the first place, that
Canada’s “peace-keeping” forces in the

Middle East had become troops of
occupation.

_ Clark’s move is, in fact, a transparent
payoff for votes in certain key ridings in
the recent election in Canada. It has
nothing to do with human or state

‘Tights, except as a denial of them. When

election bribes shape policies which
threaten what frail opportunities there
are for peace in the Middle East, the
people of Canada must speak out.

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