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OME blame it on the weather,

and speak of a “long hot
summer” in the squalid ghettos
of the affluent United States.
Lubor J. Zink dives into a book
by a police agent in the Ameri-
can ultra-left and comes up with
a dastardly plot by Chinese and
Cuban provocateurs.

Yet even through the hysteria
and bias of the press one can
glimpse the scope of the despair
of the oppressed people of the
United States and the seemingly
endless road they must travel to
freedom. Tired of being victims
of the-terror of the racists and
the lies and hypocrisy of the
white liberal establishment the
ghetto explodes. But this is only
one side of the American night-
mare, for those in power answet
the needs and aspirations of the
Negro with police and army ter-
ror—guns and bayonets.

The analogy with Vietnam is
as sickening as it is apparent,
when one sees a newsphoto of a
heavily armed American military
patrol. The caption, has to be
read in order to recognize the
locale — South Vietnam or
Detroit.

In a report from Washington,
columnists Rowland Evans and
Robert Novak speak of a “con-
fidential push by the Johnson ad-
ministration to remodel the Na-
tional Guard for riot duty in the
nations Negro slums. Evans and
Novak outline two essentials of
this remodeling of the National
guard.

There is supposed to be a
“crash program to enlist Ne-
groes in the lily-white National

Guard .. .” and “Immediate and }

intensive training in anti-riot
techniques . . .”

Excusing the terror of the
guardsmen against the Negro po-
pulation of Newark, the column-
ists write:

. “Understandably frightened by

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$100 million to end
rural poverty

RUCE Magnuson, Ontario
leader of the Communist
Party, last week called for

a fund of at least $100 million
now for the eradication of rural
poverty.

“In Lanark,” he said, “for ex-
ample, 15 percent of the popula-
tion of working age has had no
more than four years of formal
school. Some 59 percent of On-
tario’s rural population of school
age or over has grade eight or
less. In education of rural pop-
ulation, Ontario stands fifth in
the country, behind Prince Ed-
ward Island, Nova Scotia, Alber-
ta and B.C.”

Magnuson also pointed out
that 24 percent of the families
living in rural areas, but not
operating farms, have incomes
of $2,000 a year or less. “In Vic-
toria County and on Manitoulin

Island,” he added, “the figure
goes up to 40 percent.”

According to Magnuson, at
present 16 percent of all Ontario
farms fall under the ARDA
(Agricultural Rehabilitation and
Development Administration) de-
finition of poverty — that is a
family farm with capital assets
of less than $25,000 and with
gross sale of agricultural pro-
ducts not exceeding $2,500
where the farmer has less than
25 days per year of off-farm
work. However, to qualify for
grants from ARDA the farmer
has to have a minimum income
of $3,000 from his farm.

“Clearly ARDA is not helping
to eradicate poverty, or help the
small farmer to get out of his
dilemma,” Magnuson said.

In Ontario from 1949. to 1965:

there has been an increase of
35.9 percent in food prices while
prices paid to farmers went up
only 6.6 percent. Prices charged
to farmers for his machinery,
seed, feed, fertilizer, etc., in-
creased in the same period 57.7
percent.

“It is clear,’ said Magnuson,
“how monopoly corporations rob
both the farmers and the con-
sumer in our large urban areas.
In 1949, the farmers received 58
cents of every food dollar spent
by the consumers. In 1964, he
received 41 cents, and in 1967
this has declined to 36 cents.”

“A large scale program for the
eradication of rural poverty,” he
edded, “in place of exploitation
by the corporate interests, is the
only way to improve the situa-
tion in the Ontario countryside.”

such chaotic conditions, young
white guardsmen engaged in in-
discriminate firing of their wea-
pons. Understandably incensed
by the Negro onslaught on white
merchants, they over-reacted
and wrecked the stores of Negro
merchants and shouted anti-
Negro obscenities.”

Dealing with the other side of
the question, Evans and Novak
say:
“The problem of anti-riot
training is not so severe. Re-
gular army techniques—for ex-
ample, the anti-riot training
given the U.S. garrison in West
Berlin — could be written into
the federal. standards for Na-
tional Guard training.”

Thus in a nutshell, new anti-
riot techniques and force to an-
swer the demands for justice and
human rights.

In the wake of the outbreaks
in Newark, William Patterson,

' chairman of the Negro Affairs

Commission of the Communist
Party of the United States said:

“Newark has become the most
vicious expression of governmen-
tal policy toward Negro citi-
zens.

“Force and violence has
everywhere become the govern-
ment answer to a’ demand for
jobs, housing and adequate
education.

“The situation in Newark has
reached disaster proportions.
The Negro section of that city
has become a shambles and an
armed camp occupied by enemy
forces.

“The responsibility must be
placed squarely upon the shoul-
ders of the officials of city, state,
and federal government. . . . The
responsibility for Newark can-
not be forced upon the shoulders
of any Negro citizen.”

In a letter to President John-
son, the CPUSA demanded the
enactment of an immediate pro-
gram to alleviate the suffering

natu i
in the ghetto which in@l"
following points:

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The grave drought that
is damaging agricultural
production on the prai-
ries which, if it continues,
may drastically cut all
farm output, requires
prompt and business-like
action by the federal
government.

We believe the federal
government should take
immediate steps to main-
tain agriculture as a vital
sector of the Canadian
economy. The _ federal
government should call
an emergency meeting
with representatives of
the National Farmer's
Union, the Wheat Pools,
the provincial farm
unions and agricultural
ministers, to draw up a
program to meet = any
emergency.

Such a program should
include the following
measures:

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