Pe te AL ke bed | | bea TTP Anti-Semitic gang beats up Jewish student TORONTO Rights of young people sacrificed to war drive, NFLY parley charges World Peace Pact. That A i7-year-old Toronto high school student was the victim last week of a vicious beating by an vrganiz- ed gang of anti-Semites. On May 1, Bruce Sabsay, student at Har- j bord Collegiate, was returning home from a-school affair at about 9.30 Fight conscription by signing fo1 is the alternative to conscription. That is the answer to war.” This was the keynote struck by Norman Penner, secretary of the National Federation of Labor Youth, in his report to 150 delegates and observers attending its second nation-wide convention here May 4-6, “that “We say to all youth: A dramatic ceremony pledged the entire convention, in the words of the report, pm. He was accompanied by two here wil be “rcanizati i a f P : : there will be no organization ae Sade are eee other students, one of them a girl ‘ Canada more active than we injagainst the will of the Canadian | declared NFLY’s role was to make -etti Stombtines Pei od a contribution towards the unify- As > reache stre a s ne signatures t > new peti- | people. : ance s they reached the streets, 4 getting signatures to the new peti | people NORMAN PENNER, y tion.” a pact of peace between the five great powers and open to all coun- |} tries, is being conducted in Canada by the Canadian Peace Congress.) | on the eve of the sixth anniversary of VE Day, Penner, a Second World War vet himself, charged that “as far back as 1945” the Canadian government agreed “to sell this country for a song... Yankee troops aad bases in Can- ada, Yankee movies, comics, programs that are vile and degrad- ing, ownership of Canadian sports teams, Yankee control of. many Canadidn ‘unions, industries and Meeting (The world-wide petition for | radio | “We fought the last war against world dictators. Cana- }dian youth are not now ready to | fight for the new pretenders to | world conquest — the madmen of Washington and Wall Street. would-be “In the name of all Canadian youth, we accuse this government of plotting the destruction ,of this generation and the next. We ac- jcuse them of committing this na- | tional betrayal on orders of the big shots of Canada who are ready to exchange our blood for their ; profits. “a Pointing out that the arms race ing of this anti-war Canadian youth, expression of “We propose widespread discus- sion-and debate in all sections of the youth movement on the ques- tion ... ‘How Can Canadian Youth Help to Save the Peace?’” In particular, he urged support of, the World Peace Pact, pledging that NFLY as a group would fight to win Canada’s young people’ for peace. In approaching the question of the anti-conscription fight, Penner said the widespread opposition to conscription should be used as a means of increasing support for so menaced Youth never Those who charge “disloyalty” -beeause the youth fight for this policy are themselves “preaching and practising disloyalty, for Canadian youth to a e power.” said. NFLY, Penner war. as today it 18 they who have worked to deliver foreign “We wish peace because we hate We want peace because Ww truck drew up, Six men and Wwo- men in it began to hurl anti- Semitic epithets .at the students. When young Sabsay replied, the group jumped him, knocking ‘him e|to the ground with @ rain of blows until he lost constiousness. Wit- said the gang debated whether to “put the boots to him,” but finally fled the scene as On lookers moved in. nesses Underlinging the socialist ideal of \ The youth was rushed to West- ern ‘hospital where he received six A stitche¢ on his lip, which was split open to the inside by either a ring , is undermining every field of inter or “knuckle dusters’ worn by one est of the youth of Canada, Pen- the Peace Pact petition—and not be placed apart from the petition. sources of valuable raw materials love life. and finally the greatest be- We want peace because we see the world in the midst of in the whole scheme—the|ner listed the sharp increase of : dg Rds SAY sae of his assailant§. It is feared he transfer of a whole Canadian brig-|fees for university students and As a vital part of the fight for |. 8Teat change to a new an is also suffering a concussion ade to the Yankee army to fight |turning of Canadian schools into} peace, NFLY would raise high higher social order — socialism | ~ 2 in Korea, and the agreement to|training grounds for “military! the banner of “friendship with | Wich holds forth the promise of The license number of the truck ' jeliver rr 4 rati f |robots”; forcing ef youth out of : 3 Ved : Bee. deliver the bs hole gener ation. of our g y the youth of the world,” said the | 2 bright and radiant future. for was taken, but has not yet been youth to this war machine to fight |employment to enter the armed eg ; ¥ Sone : ; pees = | : ry * © 6 y, L / v€ r CE, “I Pe A is \- and die wherever the U.S. govern-| services; effects of the new war NELY leader. “If the youth of |the youth. We want that future/| traced. So far there is no indi ment decides.” | budget on unmarried young peo-| the world stand together | in for our beloved Canada. And we} cation of police action in the i as © ra . K } : acpan |ple; sharp retrenchment of grants| friendship, there can be no world want to go forward to that future | case. Sabsay was released ffom sald en- ‘ “MacArthur is_ fired,” a8 ner, “but MacArthurism ee as the blood of Canadian boys | flows in this, the most unjust and “Was there ever a government | | | | i swimming pools : i for construction of swimming pools,| \ay» he ‘declared. in peace.” hospital three days later. and youth centres. goes ON | hockey rinks, VAICOUVER CIVIC EKPLOYESS — FEDERAL UNION LOCAL 407 7.1.C, IS THIS GOOD WORK?!" ves#2t% unpopular war in our history. or a policy which has wrecked more havoc among the youth than this? Was there ever a moment in our history when the youth were so menaced as they are to- day,” he asked. ainsi saci too “We consider it our sacred pat- riotic duty,” he added, “to demand | the immedate return of these boys. We demand the right to life for Canadian youth. We consider it | sacred patriotic duty to fight| Noting the widespread rainst all commitments of Can-| tance of Canadian youth of church, n boys which have been made | school, factory, political life and the Canadian government with-| particularly in French Canada to- “the ape wietee and -certainly jw ards the policy of war, Penner : . Iam writing to you in all sincerity, to point out 4 few Union-splitting group threatens VANCOUVER BeCe resis- | Dear Sirs facts that you, es a Life-Guard on City Beaches should be made eware of, ; Css | The Daily Press nas publicized the story that your group | have joined up en=bloc, in the Communist dominated union Local 28, 4 This press statement wes rehtased by the secretary of city inte guards local 28 to the newspapers. Whether it be true or false, I do not know, ; i ; I do ‘know however, that it 8s fo on _, When Civic Employees Union, Local 28, organized the : APOE mug Tene? a an . ’ - city’s life guards this month and took steps to win:them a University men, who must upon graduation, seek a position in their wage increase, the union- splitting splinter group led by Sam ‘ Pe under the-direction of TLC raider Carl Berg tried ahgsep tLerde mediately to disrupt negotiations and disorganize the suards. I have no desire to dominate or tell any group what their ; - a os ecuring the addresses of a few of the life guards, many of whom . are university students, Lindsay ; sent them a letter (see photostat on this page) in which he gave them the “friendly” (read threaten- ing) advice that to join Local 28 “is poor public relations for .!Uni- versity men, who must upen gradu- ation, seek a position in their chos- en. fiield.” £ Life guards are employed by the Park Board, . On February 26 Park Board Commissioner Mrs. Buda Brown saw fit to compliment union-raider Lindsay for “being a patriotic Canadian.” Local 28, the legitimate union of dant, along with business agent choice should be, but as President of Civic Rmoloyees Union Local 407, .Donald Guise, they offered 85. cents an hour. “But Lindsay says in his letter: ‘I am aware of the fact that Lo- cal 28 has pnomised to get you a pay increase. A pay increase that hasealready been earmarked for you by the Park Board.’ “Tt is an old company union trick to send poison pen letters ‘to workers when they are in ne- gotiations. Lindsay says nothing about their poor wages and work- ing conditions and does not offer any advice as to how they can be I can point out that Locsl 407 is in good standing with the greatest ; 4 of all Canadian Lebor Parliaments, The Trades & Labor Congress of from. all departments Canada, Our membership is mede up of City Employees who wished to remain loyal to their country and to organized labor. Local 407s members will welcome you individually, or you and your fellow Life-Guards as a group. You can be sure that any publicity resulting, from joining’ our: union would only be to your advantage. city outside workers, reproduced |, bettered. I am aware of tne fact that Local 28 has promised-to, get you L indsay’s letter for wide distribu- “The purpose of such letters is lates tion this week, under the heading,| to help the employer, not the e@ pay increase. A pay increase that has already Joeen ear-marked for you rem 7 ‘{s this good work? Is this patri-| workers. ‘ E CW ant ; a otic?” i “Local 28, acting for the life by the Park Board, The union bulletin commented: “Life guards were given a wage : of 70 cents an hour in 1948. They 24 have had no increase since then. They learned that the board was zoing to be ‘generous’: this Year . and give them 10 cents an hour more, bringing, their rate to 80 cents. As soon as Local 28 or- ganized them, and a committee went down to see the superinten- guards, and by their consent, has not accepted the rate of 85 cents _an hour. A much better rate will be set before we are through with our negotiations on behalf of the guards. : ‘Ts this the meaning of Lind- say’s “patriotism,’. disorganizing workers and telling them to ac- cept whatever the employer has agreed to give them?” 7 ‘Hoping that you will receive this letter in the spirit of xrt™ friendship in’which it is sent, and that’ you will make your. fellow s re Life-Guards aware of it at your next meeting, 702-