“ Strange that you should ‘come east to look for work... I’m on my way west to give it a try...” 25 years ago... EFFECTS OF BOMB DRILL ON CHILDREN LOS ANGELES — _ Estab- lishment of a local organization to protect children against the harm. of war hysteria was re- vealed today by “Science and Education”, a newsletter issued by the Southern California chapter of the National Council of Arts, Sciences and Pro- fessions. It said: “The Education Divi- sion of the Los.Angeles First Unitarian Church has on file statements of psychiatrists, pediatricians and child psychol- ogists who have cases of children who have been seriously shocked (some are trauma cases) by the A-bomb drills. Many thetic children’s statements ave revealed part of their fears.” = - Tribune, June 4, 1951 50 years ago... THE POWER OF THE BANKS Super-capitalism is on deck in Canada. The chartered banks now number eleven; they hold Dominion, provincial and municipal bonds to the amount of half a billion dollars — nearly. equal to one-quarter of the Dominion debt. The three larger banks con- trol the bulk of these bonds, and the directors of the Big Three hold directorships in over 250 other large corporations. The banks pay 3% interest on savings deposits and re-invest them in government loans at 5 or 6% which largely explains why they are today holding such large amounts of public bonds. : Worker, May 22, 1926 Seance ” EIDITTOIRIALL COMIMIENT 7 Up to parliament to stop victimization of jobless | It would be out of tune with the mood of Canadian workers, for the labor movement to let the government get away with its savage attack on the un- employed. : In the Macdonald Budget of May 25, workers unable to find jobs are singled out for unusual treatment: first, the new qualifications will require 12 (instead of eight) weeks of work before unemploy- ment insurance may be drawn, and second, workers in highest unemploy- ment areas will have to choose between poverty or being shipped out to another art of the country — family be damned! hat’s the only interpretation Mac- donald leaves open. It is a cynical and hypocritical attempt to save a few paltry dollars, and a pre- tence at fighting inflation, at the cost of depressing living standards for an esti- mated 330,000 Canadians directly, and thousands more as a result of the deep- ening crisis of the state monopoly capital- ist system. Itis acynical and hypocritical attack on working people because mass un- employment in the first place is created by ‘government -so-called. “controlled. growth” policies. It was billed as-the way to beat inflation. But inflation continues. biased attempt. Only wages are being slashed — by “Anti-Inflation Board” — and the wl employed singled out to be driven int the ground. It is incumbent on parliament to r such a furor that this extreme decree ? big business must be retracted, wipé out, buried. If the institution of par: ment in Ottawa is to retain any hono all, it cannot. permit the government punish workers for falling prey to its 0 policy of mass unemployment. And just in case the parliamentarial are slow to demand withdrawal, to quas the finance minister’s plot to meddle! the Unemployment Insurance Act, newly-achieved unity of labor will 1) main as the only force which, bro n down upon monopoly’s representa’ in parliament, in government and in @ Cabinet, can put an end to this clas With this as the government’s attitue to the unemployed — and it will affect’ age groups, from under 20 to over 64 the general strike to pound ho working-class demands, the mobilizatiO’ of a mass anti-monopoly coalition, a setting of sights on election of ant) monopoly government, take a big st up the agenda. 5 Crimes against Indians “Indian activists have been singled out by the FBI and other militarized police agencies as part of the U.S. federal gov- ernment’s war against the Sioux nation and, against all Indian people who have taken a stand in favor of Indian cultural and spiritual identity.” - That accusation published in “Indian Nation”, acquires substance with each passing day. The paper likens Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to “A domestic version of South Vietnam, with its free-fire zones, ‘pacification’ programs, heavy use of military hard- ware against unarmed or lightly armed - ” civilians ... 2 And in Canada? Ottawa gives kid glove treatment to fascists of the Por- tuguese secret police now in Canada; it dawdles on expulsion of a Vietnamese war criminal now comfortable in Can- ada; but its policies toward the Indians are either hostile or indifferent. The 23-year-old Peigan activist, and director of the Alberta Indian Move- ment, Nelson Small Legs, shot himself on May 16 and satd in a note: “I give my life in protest to the present conditions concerning the Indian people in south- ern Alberta.” “ Leonard Peltier, a 32-year-old Sioux, in truth a political prisoner, held by Canadian authorities for extradition _ to the USA where he is “accused by the _ tence on facts in Mrs. Aquash’s kil and dehumanize the Indian people _ . vent Indian rights. Such efforts des® SASS A - Sh ee ee FBI” in the deaths of two of te operatives. Anna Mae Aquash, a 31-year Micmac from Nova Scotia, was m dered in the USA after her associa! with Dennis Banks, a Chippewa pro™ nent in the Wounded Knee occupa Mysteriously, the first coroner did “notice” a bullet in her head and death down to exposure. Among dians it was viewed as an FBI executl? It was the FBI who cut off her hands #” sent them to Washington on the pre it was necessary for identification. Behind this. grisly incident lie dozens and hundreds of instances” violence, imprisonment, and murdeé Indians in Canada and the USA, wh go unpublicized and unpunished. Well might the Indian people Canada demand: External Affairs that the Justice Department pr? Leonard Peltier from the FBI execu”, squad by refusing to hand him over © ousting of Indian Affairs Minister J ‘ Buchanan for his, and his governme? continuing policy meant to down But it is not alone the Indians’ fi ‘ No decent Canadian can disregar ; government’s crude efforts to circ” not only denunciation but a resistance.” ;