Delegation urges Ottawa:

Investigate Thieu jails

oni — Amid increasing

Stead. that hundreds of
are bei S of political prisoners
cages Ing held in jails and tiger
mand: Of South Vietnam, de-
dian Pevere made on the Cana-
as Overnment, May 23, that

© €very facility to help

bri
ng about the release of these

Victi A

ah of the Thieu dictator-
Injen leeation to Ottawa of the
Sth aahen Committee to Free
Sners peeuemese Political Pri-
and De Tom Detention, Torture

_ ~€ath urged in a letter to
r ee
Minveg tinister Trudeau, that he
tions ae all available op-
Section fe wating a prison in-
“only th efforts might not be
C Mitissine” the International
sc of Control and
‘through 1on but, if necessary,
With. th further discussions
tee of " International Commit-
Canad Red Cross and the
‘an Red Cross,” the rep-
ation said.

By-pass Thieu
€ event of frustration
“Song ee the inspection of pri-
ers,” the release of prison-
tha ra Committee requested
\ Aes ae ‘re-channel aid to
through © of South Vietnam
Cieg Non-governmental agen-
will by-pass the

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of both

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key PONTO — Tackling such
Prices Nes as women’s rights,
lth ..°Y care, and peace, the
Bess op Wention of the Con-
Cludeg Canadian Women con-
May 5, tS two-day _ session

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erg? ae United Electrical
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Sheet of feet and both urged

there s. yi Kraft boycott by
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Thieu regime .. .”. since pres-
ent Canadian aid is hand!ed by
this regime. Canada refuses to
recognize the Provisional Revo-
lutionary Government of South
Vietnam.

The Committee said it saw
“renewed hope’ in the “recent
initiative taken by Ambassador
Michel Gauvin in his presenta-
tion of a draft letter to the
ICCS, seeking permission from
the Government of the Repub-
lic of South Vietnam and the
Provisional Revolutionary Gov-
ernment for visits to prisons in
which the civilian detainees are
being held. We. believe that
such an inspection would be, in
the present context,
effective and compassionate ac-
tion possible to ease the pro-
longed and needless suffering of
these people.”

Documented Report

The Committee’s ultimate con
cern, it told the Prime Minister,
is “the release of all civilian
detainees throughout South
Vietnam. We maintain that as a
member of the ICCS, this is the
primary responsibility of the
Canadian government with re-
gard to the plight of these pri-
soners.”

The Committee is also circu-
lating a report by a mission
from the Quebec Section of the

sales outlets taking in 80% of
the retail dollar.

The Ligue des Femmes du
Québec’s four delegates spoke
of the mounting pressure of
women in French Canada
against profiteering in food. The
Ligue’s solidarity with the three
imprisoned labor leaders has
contributed to the popular de-
mand which won their partial
release.

Mrs. R. Monague, manager of
the Indian Settlement House in
Toronto, and Mrs. R. Cotter,
delegate from Thunder Bay, re-
vealed the shocking discrimina-
tion affecting Indian women —
the lack of jobs and training for
girls, the birth of babies without
medical care, the. scandalous
cost of necessities (85¢ for a
loaf of bread on a north Ontario
reserve), the demoralizing ef-
fects of isloation, poor housing,
and the crushing of their culture
and livelihood. Mrs. Monague 1s
making a home for girls in the
city for education, and helps de-
velop Native crafts and talents.

Recall Objectives

Fifty delegates and observers
from Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario
and Quebec shared experiences
from such groups as the Asso-
ciation of United Ukrainian
Canadians, Federation of Rus-

the most .

Committee to Free the Prison-
ers. The team consisted of Mon-
signor Guy Belanger, Catholic
Bishop of Valleyfield, and Prof.
Georges Le Bel, of the Univer-
sity of Quebec. They were
joined in Saigon by Monsignor
Thomas Gumbleton, Bishop of
Detroit and Father P. Robert
Manning, S. J., also from the

. USA.

Although frustrated in their
attempt to hold President Thieu
to his boast in the USA, on the
Face the Nation program that
anyone who wanted to could go
to South Vietnam and visit the
prisoners, the two Canadians
did meet a “number of recen-
tly released prisoners, as well
as a number of families of the
prisoners still held by the South
Vietnamese government.” Their
report states that “we can
affirm with absolute certainty,
with -documentation, that the
Government of South Vietnam
is now holding a large number
of political prisoners ...

Proof Is Available

“We are bringing back from
Vietnam proof that there are
political prisoners now _ being
held ‘by the Thieu regime; that
these prisoners are being mis-
treated and tortured; that the
current methods of liberation
which some _ have _ achieved,
often means a death sentence”
(they are freed far from home,
without documents); ‘that the
political arrests. and imprison-
ments continue .. .”

The following message, sign-
ed by 77 Canadians prominent
in churches, trade unions, the
arts,.education and... pursuits,
was addressed to Mr. Trudeau
in support of the representation
by the Committee to Free the
Prisoners:

“Respectfully urge you con-
sider representation made to
Parliament by Committee seek-
ing Canadian ICCS inspection
of conditions relating to civil-
ian detainees in prisons through-
out South Vietnam.”

CCW raises 10 major questions

zation of Canada, Ladies’ Auxil-
iary of the UE, Ligue des
Femmes du ‘Québec, Toronto
Association for Peace, Edmon-
ton Women’s Commission of the
Communist Party, United Jew-
ish People’s Order, Voice of
Women, Women Against Soar-
ing Prices, as well as Chapters
of the Congress of Canadian
Women. ;

The gathering greeted with
enthusiasm the organizational
report presented by the Execu-
tive Secretary, Mrs. Hilda Mur-
ray. She recalled the objectives
of the founding convention of
the CCW in 1950: the Right to
Motherhood, Day Care for Chil-
dren, the Right to Security in
Old Age, the Right to Equality
in Law and at Work, and the
Right to Peace. :

In a major continuing project
the women across Canada have
already contributed $43,000 in
cash and goods for the children
of Vietnam and for the Hanoi
Mother and_~ Child Hospital
pledged by the Women’s Inter-
national Democratic Federation.

Women’s Year

The Convention resolved to
convene Regional Conferences
across Canada during 1974,
leading to a country-wide 11th
Convention, and to Internation-

dating from the 18th century.

Julianna Politsinskaya-Chizhik and her daughter, Allegra
Malevanchuk, both librarians living in the city of Yakutsk
(capital of the Yakut autonomous republic in East Siberia),
present the Soviet Peace Fund with valuable gifts—a dia-
mond pendant on a gold chain, a silver stationery set con-
sisting of eight articles and a dextrously wrought ivory box

Set up 13 years ago, the Soviet Peace Fund has become a
national establishment with tens of millions of members. Not
only individuals but whole collectives donate to it, the money
being directed to give fraternal assistance to peoples fight-
ing for their freedom, national independence and world
peace. The Fund greatly assisted the people of Vietnam with
shiploads of food and medicines being sent to that country.

Our photo shows the presentation being made to Leonid
Nikonov, executive secretary of the Fund Board. .

Provinces organizing
for World Peace meet

TORONTO — The World
Congress for Peace, Security
and National Independence,

scheduled for Moscow, October
2-7 this year, will have as par-
ticipants, among some 2,000
others, a representative delega-
tion of Canadians.

Urgently, because substantial
headway must be. made on pre-
parations before the summer
holiday season, the Canadian
Initiating Committee has urged
the setting up of like commit-
tees in a number of provinces.

These provincial officials are
to receive nominations

by the United Nations for 1975.
Ms. Maryon Kantaroff, artist,
sculptor, and teacher re wom-
en’s liberation at Seneca Com-
munity College, was a fourth
guest speaker, challenging dele-
gates about being “lady-like,”
denigrating their work for
peace, and asking them to “join
us,” proving that some of the
new feminists have not found
out much about the women’s
movement in Canada, no doubt
due to the black-out by the
daily press.
Questions of Concern
Resolutions brought from dele-
gates to the Convention floor
through the hard-working Reso-
lutions Committee aroused de-
bate on 10 questions, most of
which will be sent on to the
Canadian government:
e winning. peace in Vietnam
e European security and inter-
national detente
e child care recommendations
of the Royal Commission on
the Status of Women
e old age pensions of $200 for
men at 60 and women at 55
(voluntary)
e subsidize prices of food on
Indian reserves :
e extend powers of Prices Re-
view Board to consumer
goods besides food

and,_

and organiza: :

within their quotas, decide on
the representation. from their
areas. Two committees are al-
ready set up and functioning,
one in Quebec (Trib, May 16),
and another in Ontario.

The Ontario Committee was
elected from among representa-
tives of churches, unions, stu-
dents, municipal governments,
peace groups, ethnic organiza-
tions and women’s organiza-
tions.

Elected as chairman and sec-
retary, respectively, were Mrs.
Eryl Roytenberg and Miss Irene
Kuusela, who have already
voluntarily sent out hundreds
of letters inviting sponsors for
the. delegation, and _ seeking
funds to finance it. Indications
are that competition will be
keen for places on the delega-
tion.

The Committee’ is made up
of the following: Joe Astgen,
JameS Blugerman, Paul Bray,
Dr. Rose Bronstein, Helen Kas-
ian, Irene Kuusela, Miriam
May, Gloria Montero, Chris-
tian Negre, Rev. J. G. Perkins,
Marion Phillivs, Michael Phil-

lips, Eryl Roytenberg, Celia
Steljes, Zoya Stevenson, Ray
Stevenson, John Trufal and

Jean Vautour. -

Fioating prison

MONTEVIDEO (LNS) — Uru-
guay’s president Juan Borda-
berry has announced plans to |
turn an old cargo ship into a
floating prison. It is expected
that the new prison will be
used to hold the approximately
2,000 people arrested over the
last year as suspected members
of the Tupamaros urban guer-
rilla organization.

tions to stop cut-backs in

education.

Other questions of concern
are related. to unemployment in-
surance, health, minimum
wages, and equal rights for
women in employment, and

housing.

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