Women’s news
and viewpoint

By PEGGY CHUNN

One of the nicest Christmas
cards received at our house over
the Holiday Season contained a
message worth repeating: headed
“Peace Is the Shelter,” it went
on to say:

“To those of us who fear that
an enemy will destroy us
and what we love,

To those who build shelters
that will not shield,

Who trust armed might that
has no power, and defence
that cannot defend,

We say there is a power,
within man and beyond
man that can yet saveus,

And without which we can-
not be moved—PEACE IS
THE SHELTERFORALL
THAT WE LOVE,”

We all agree with that, I’m
sure—but how to preserve peace
is the biggest question of our
time, It may appear strange to
use the word “fight” when speak-
ing of peace, but fight we must to
make sure that world war does
not erupt again,

When Mrs, C, B, MacPherson,
President of the Voice of Women
in Canada, was arrested in Paris
along with 14 other women when
trying to get an interview with
Manile Brosie, secretary-gener-
al of NATO, that was fighting
for peace!

The Vancouver Sun of Dec, 31,
1964, carried an item: “Two
Women Indicted for Not Testify-
ing”—and went on to say that
Mrs, Dagmar Wilson and Mrs,
Donna Allen, two leaders of the
Women Strike for Peace (an or-
ganization opposing nuclear
weapons) had been indicted on
charges of contempt of Congress
for refusal to testify in a closed
session of a House subcommittee
on un-American activities, These
women are fighting for peace!

Readers will probably recall
that at an open meeting of the
Un-American Activities Com-
mittee held last year, Mrs, Dag-
mar Wilson had the members

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of that committee scurrying for
cover by her courageous defence
of the actions of the Women
Strike for Peace Movement, and
that she received wide publicity
on it, No wonder these “brave”
men want to continue their at-
tack against peace workers and
their organizations. behind closed
doors!

While the preservation of peace
is our first concern, it is in-
extricably bound up with other
struggles—labor, women’s rights,
etc, Ittakes perseverence and de-
termination to carry on attimes,
particularly in the face of apathy
and indifference which we all
come up against at one time or
another,

But if one can judge by the re-
sponse to the sugar boycott last
year (wholesale price of sugar
in B,C, Jan, 6, 1965, was $7.25
per hundredweight, in case you
hadn’t noticed), more and more
Beople are coming to realize

that one. must struggle and per- —

severe in order to protect their
standard of living.

At this very moment a tre-
mendous protest is raging in our
province against the exhorbitant
increase in bus fares, High school
students and students from UBC.
have sparked demonstrations,
delegations, petitions and much
support from the general public
in these actions, Because the
realization that the strength of
many is required to obtain con-
cessions from monopoly and from
governments, whereas the lone
voice is very often not heard at
all, is becoming more obvious
with every new attempt made to
dip into our pocketbooks (which
are already depleted by high
prices, sales tax, municipal
taxes, etc.)

All the New Year messages
from high places of peace, pros-
perity, war against poverty—ap-
peal to our reason—but it is up
to us to make sure that these
lofty ideals are carried out, We
must make the problems of our
country, our province, city, and
neighborhood OUR problems, and

together help find solutions to ;

them—in that way, we too are
fighting for peace!

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PORTLAND, OREGON — Mat-
erials issued by the Oregon Com-
mittee to Repeal the McCarran
Act confirm the old adage that
presidents may come and go, but
the machinery of workingclass
repression continues unchanged,

Under the infamous McCarran
Act a whole new group of Ameri-
can working people have recently
been cited under the Actas mem-
bers of “Communist action” org-
anizations, Among these workers
is Ralph Nelson, lumber worker
and founding member of the Int-
ernational Woodworkers of Am-
erica (IWA), Nelson and others
have been ordered to appear be-
fore the so-called “Subversive
Activities Control Board” (SACB)
at the Federal Courthouse in
Portland on January 19,

Writing on the SACB citation of
Ralph Nelson, Bill Kreger, col-
umnist for the Oregon paper “The
World” says: “So it seems that
Ralph, longa familiar face around

’ Coos County until his recent move

to Portland, isnow someone not to
know — all this because someone
in Washington D.C. decided the
Subversive Activities Control
Board ought to ask him to re-
gister as a Communist, In other
words, by applying the technique
of the late and infamous Joe
McCarthy, the attorney-general
has successfully put the idea in
People’s minds that Nelson is a
Red, :

“This business of character
assassination via theSACBor the
equally vicious House Un-Ameri-
can Activities Committee is

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something for which Ihavenouse
whatsoever — and the instances
are many where innocent people
have been permanently injured
and discredited as a result.

“And besides, I don’t care if
Ralph is a Communist or not,
In my mind there are running
loose in this country today a lot
of fanatical right-wingers who
are plenty anxious to overthrow
the government as it now. stands,
and who pose a far greater threat
to the people and institutions of
the United States than does the
small, relatively ineffectual
Communist Party,

“So what does that make me,

Mr. Robert Welch?” (Robert ]
Welch is the founder and “Big —
Noise” in the John Birch Society. —
Ed.)

Ralph Nelson’s main “crimes” —
include, founder and builder of the ©
IWA in the Northwest; IWA dele- —
gate for many years on the S.W. —
Oregon Central Trades and Labor
Council; working member of the —
Central Committee of the Dem-

ocratic Party of Coos Bay, and ~

probably the most unforgivable
of all, the leader ofa mass move-
ment which demanded thatthebig —
timber interests of the Oregon
Central Coast area, paytheir fair ~

share of property taxes,

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