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MARTYR’S WIDOW CARRIES ON FIGHT. Mrs. Medgar Evers,
widow of the murdered Mississippi Negro leader, second from the
tight, is shown marching at the head of a parade of thousands for
integrated housing in Oak Park, Mich. She recently appealed for
joint U.S.-Canadian action in a speech in Windsor, Ont., toend,

discrimination.

_ Eight demands for marchers

The “twin evils of discrimina-

tion and economic deprivation
plague the nation,’ asserts the
call to the August 28, Washing-
ton march for Negro freedom.
These evils ‘impose a special
burden upon the Negro,’’ says
the document.
-An eight-point program con-
tained in an accompanying man.
- ual urges: passage by congress
of civil rights legislation: school
desegregation; an end to brutal-
ity against citizens; a federal
public works program; an eco-
nomic expansion program; a fair
employment practises act; uni-
versal fair labor standards: a

national minimum wage of not
less than $2 an hour.

President Kennedy said he
would be in the White House on
August 28.

“We want citizens to come to

Washington if they feel they’re -

not having their rights express.
ed,’”’ he said.

Then he went on to condemn
demonstrations in Cambridge,
Md., where ‘“‘they’ve almost lost
sight of what the demonstration
is about.”

His latter remarks were pro-
cested by Mrs. Gloria Richard-
son, chairman of the Cambridge
Nonviolent Action Committee.

Reign of terror in Iraq

Executions are an almost week-
ly occurance in Iraq. On July
25, a Bagdad court sentenced 21
men to death for their part in
clashes with the authorities. How-
ever, this ‘‘legal’’ bloodletting
is only on side of the picture.

Recently, a well-known. Iraq
philologist and author, and mem-
ber of the national peace council,
Dr. Salah Hallis, showed a Soviet

correspondent documents and
photos smuggled out of a Bagdad
dungeon.

Besides giving the names of a
. number of those imprisoned, tor-
tured and murdered, the letter
describes their treatment by the
sadist rulers of the country.
“The Rehab Palace has turned
into a hell. The hangmen spare
nobody, neither children nor
women.”’ (Here the letter de-

scribes in detail some -of the in-
human tortures of women,-young
girls and pregnant women).

“Death sentences, monstrous
as it may seem, are passed by
the jailers who call themselves
‘revolutionary tribunal.’

“The state of health of the well
known lawyer Nafi Yunis and

tthe physician Mohamed _ al-
Chelebi causes serious apprehen-
sion . és

Says ‘Dr. Halis, now on the
Supreme Committee for the De-
fense of the Iraqi People:

.“The number of crimes per-
petrated is tremendous. Accord.
ing to information available t»
our committee, more than 10,-
000 people have been murdered
and 100,000 innocent men, women
and children have been thrown

into prisons and concentration

camps in Iraq during the last
four and a half months.

Voicing the plea of every Iraqi
patriot, Dr. Halis concludes:

“Let theworld know the truth
about what is going on in Iraq!”’

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Soviets deplore China’s action:
answers criticism of test-ban

The Chinese government state-
ment.of July 31, on the test ban
treaty was ‘‘an unprecedented,
most regrettable act,” said a

, Soviet government statement, is-
sued last Saturday.

The treaty, said the Soviet
statement, is “‘an important mea-
sure protecting mankind against
the dangerous consequences of
the pollution of the atmosphere
‘water and outer space by radio-
active substances.”

But the Chinese, ‘bracketing
the Socialist Power and capitalist
States, seek to present this as a
striving of the Soviet Union for
some nuclear monopoly, and even
as ‘capitulation.’ ”’

“Thus it follows,’’ went on the
Soviet statement, ‘‘that if nuclear
weapons spread throughout the
world, if the way was open for the
West German revanchists to
possess this weapon, if one Series
of nuclear explosions carried out
by scores of States was followed
by another one, this would, it
appears, meet the interests of

peace and would not constitute
capitulation to imperialism!

“Now, it is just the other way
round. This would mean irrespon-
sible playing with the destiny of
millions upon millions of people.’
“ALL OR NOTHING”

Dealing with the Chinese crit-
icism that the treaty does not
deal with banning all kinds. of
nuclear weapons, the Soviet state-
ment said:

“We consider it better to do a
part than to do nothing when an
agreement on such a partial
measure is in the interests of
peace, in the interests of Social-
ism.

“Tt is not too difficult to throw
right and left the simple and
easy formula: all or nothing. In
practice such a demand is devoid

Canadians toe
visit USSR

A group of Canadian tourists,
all members of the Canada-USSR
Association, will leave Dorval
airport via KLM on Saturday,
Aug. 13, for an 18-day trip to
the USSR. This tour has been
arranged by the Canadian-USSR
Association in conjunction with
Intourist and the USSR-Canada
Society. The group will visit Mos.
cow, Minsk, Leningrad and Yalta.

Included in the group are: Miss
G. Buroughs, principal of the
Cerebral. Palsy School, Saint
John, N.B.; Mr. P. Aarela, cer-
-amics and graphic artist also of
‘St. John; Mrs. Jessie I. Crombie,
teacher, Guelph, Ont.; Mr. David
Levy, Toronto advertising writer
and free lance journalist; and
Dr. Marshal O. Bingeman, vet-
inerary surgeon, Kitchener, Ont.
Miss I. Antanavicius, a Toronto
post-graduate student, will ‘join
the group in Moscow where she
has spent several weeks taking
a Russian language study course.

pickets

of any real content.”’

The Chinese leaders ‘had to
admit themselves in their state-
ment that the complete prohibi-
tion of nuclear weapons should be
advanced to ‘gradually.’ ”’

“Why, then, one may ask, is
the Soviet Union being reproach-
ed with not beirig able to secure
the solution of the entire problem
at one go?”

The reaching of agreement on
ending nuclear tests creates more
favourable pre-requisites for pro-
gress in disarmament, said the
Soviet statement. s

But the Chinese Government as-
serted the opposite.

The effect was to disorientate
the peoples and sow disbelief in
their ability to prevent war, and
it reeked of ‘‘hopelessness and
pessimism.”

On the Chinese argument that
American imperialism gained a
military advantage from the trea-
ty, the Soviet Government said:

“Even our foes admit that it
is the Soviet Union that has the
most powerful nuclear weapons
in the world today.

“This powerful nuclear-rocket
shiéld ensures the security of not
only the Soviet-Union but of all
the Socialist States, including
China, and is the mainstay of
peace throughout the world.”

BALANCE OF FORCES
The test ban treaty did not
alter the present balance of for-

ces, otherwise the Soviet govern-~

ment would never have agreed
to it.

Referring to remarks in the
.Chinese Government statement
about the past position of the
Soviet Union on a partial test ban

with the Soviet reply.

treaty, the Soviet statement said:
“While artificially selecting
quotations and juggling with
truth that life does not’ mark
time. Science and technology are
developing tempestuously.
“And what was unacceptable
only yesterday might prove use-
ful, even most useful, today.’’
Those who were the best judges
of whether a partial treaty on
tests was useful were ‘‘those who
possess nuclear weapons and hold
‘their tests,’ not ‘others who
know about them only from litera-_
ture.” ;
The Chinese government ‘‘tries
to present matters in such a way
as if it had ‘its own’ program
of nuclear disarmament prob-—
lems.’”’ But this contained noth-
ing new, since all its proposals
had previously been advanced by
the Soviet Union and other Socia-
ist countries. :
On the proposal for a world
summit conference the statement.
said ‘“‘the Soviet government, of
course, cannot object to it since
it is its own proposal.” 2
“In making such a proposal we ~
proceeded from the fact, and we
stated so, that no one can assume
any commitments for the People’s —
Republic of China except its Gov- —
ernment, and that, consequently
the questicn of China’s commit-
ments can be discussed only with
the participation of the People’s
Republic of China.”’ oi
The Soviet statement concluded
that “no conjectures or attacks
can change the foreign policy
course of the Soviet Union.”
The Chinese Government state-
ment was published in Moscow —
newspapers this week together —

Mass arrests in U.S.
freedom struggle

Mass arrests in all parts of the
United States continued to mount
last week as 700 Negroes were
jailed in Gadsden, Ala., and 34
were carried off by
police from a Brooklyn construc-
tion site, bringing the total New
York arrests to over. 800 in the
past three weeks.

The Brooklyn pickets, which
included Jackie Robinson, were
protesting discrimination by con-

Official button for the “Eman.
cipation March” on Washington.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO PARKSVILLE FOR THE

VANCOUVER ISLAND LABOR PICNIC AND CONCERT
on ones September Ist — 1 p.m.
- PARKSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTRE

Sports — Games — Excellent Food — Pictures —Tug-o-War —Horseshoes --- Music

Spend I Labor Day weekend on Sunny Vancowver Island and take in this affair

SELECT CONCERT AT 6 P.M.

Excellent camping facilities up and down the Island

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struction companies and unions. |

In Gadsen police broke up 2 ~ |
demonstration of 1,000 Negro
women and children with electric
cattle prod poles, and levelled
shotguns at them.

WHEAT

_Cont’d from pg. 1

the agreement, Trade Minister
Sharp said that Canada had
agreed to study the possibility of
purchases of more Chinese pro —
ducts. It is known that China has —
been pressing for a fairer trade
agreement in which Canada will —
reciprocate by buying more:Chin-
ese goods. .
The continuing trade between x
Canada and China once again ©
points to the ridiculous position
in which Canada finds itself by
refusing to recognize the People’s |
government of China. The latest ;
trade deal will increase pressure
on Ottawa for recognition and
support for a seat for” China’ in
the U.N. cae

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