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chestra,”

The legendary jazz figure was at last in Czechoslo-

Vakia—one of the few countries he had not yet visited, His
‘fans there heard “Blueberry Hill,” “Mack The Knife,”
songs they had known from records and

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Wonderful!”

the greatest,”

bottom of my heart,

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‘Satchmo’ big hit
! in Czechoslovakia

4 La “Satchmo” Armstrong and his stars thrilled fans

_ “in Czechoslovakia during seven concert appearances

és the Lucerna Hall in Prague, Needless to say, the per-
rmances were sold out weeks in advance,

Czechoslovakia was the first stop-over on his present

tour of Europe, that has also included the GDR, Rumania,
Yugoslavia and West Germany, :

Mr, Armstrong came directly from the United States
) oo had cancelled a concert appearance with Leopold
tokowsky and the Boston Philharmonic where he was to
have played Milhaud’s “Concerto for Trumpet and Or-

Louis Armstrong played jazz as he did many years
480 in New Orleans at an impromptu get together—a special
Midnight show for Satchmo and his band,

“Jazz is the music you play from yoursoul,.. anyway
you express yourself, , , . We try to play good music and

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don’t worry about the styles,” Satchmo told a Prague Radio

How do you feel when musicians and singers the wo :
Over imitate your style? “It makes me happy! I think it’s

Who do you consider the greatest figure in jazz music?

om jazz music? I thought Joe King Oliver... cornet man in
€ early days in New Orleans, , , . He was the greatest
because there is a whole lot of riffs and five point brass
and different things you hear, . . . He originated that and
& did so much for us young musicians and he always was

__ What do you consider to have been the greatest success
in your life so far?“There have been several , . . and I must
Put this visit to Prague on my list, I think it is one of the
Sreatest, and I’m not saying it, I really mean it from the

4 How do you like Czech beer? “I have a bottle every
ay... and your slivovitz ., , oh, you better be careful,
And you know what I had for my meal last night after the
Show? Pork, sauerkraut and dumplings. ...There is always
Something in every country I like”

“ey, Any special message for your fans in Czechoslovakia?
eah! Bring me back maybe a year or two from now, God

€Ss and thanks a million! , ,.. I want you to know that as
long as we live, there will always be, not only a memory of
Tague but it will also be right here in our hearts.”

FON. Joe Hill
Non 80ngs a

Songs of Joe Hill on TV again

that it has re-

knew the power of songs and singing
bout union rights and struggles. His las
Or me — organize.”

t words were: * Don’t

‘In Name of the Living’
indictment of Nazi crimes

powerful new documentary
A film has just been released
in the Soviet Union which details
the atrocities of Nazi war crim-
inals, Called, “In the Name of
the Living,” the film was made
from a script by Lev Ginzburg
a top Soviet writer. Here is
how Leon Mazrukho, the director,
explained how he came to make
the film:

«After the war I was making
films about the beauty of peace
time, about the wonderful scenery
of my own region and its working
people, Then it was proposed
that I make a film about the
Krasnodar trial of a group of
traitors and renegades who be-
came henchmen of the fascists
during the war.

«Before I agreed I went over
the details of the case, The
investigators in Krasnodar put
10 volumes of documents on the
table before me, To say that
the crimes of the Nazis and their
henchmen stunned me is totally
inadequate.

«Memories of the war years
came back, of the time when I
was an army cameraman and saw
the atrocities of the fascists with

my own eyes.

«The film includes some docu-
mentary shots showing the vic-
tims of fascism, The trench
full of bodies of Soviet citizens
who had been slaughtered by
shooting, I filmed in Northern
Caucasus, near Nalchik,

«IT have seen such trenches
near Krasnodar, Taganrog,
Rostov and Kharkov, In Poland
I took shots of the Maidanek
death camps, and with other
cameramen in Berlin I filmed
the act of capitulation of the
defeated fascist Reich.

Nine traitors: were tried at
Krasnodar and they were sev-
erely punished by Soviet law,
But they were backed by sadists
in SS uniform who are still at
large in West Germany, Man-
kind’s conscience cannot rest
until they get their retribution,

«Writer Lev Ginzburg, the
author of the script, cameraman
Boris Manevich and I decided
that we could not limit the film’s
content to the Krasnodar trial
itself, and resolved to bring out
the bestial essence of fascism,

“To do this we had to study
film documents in the state film
libraries and archieves,

“In our film people will see,
in particular, the terrible crimes
committed by Zonder-command

iz,

Latest Soviet documentary, “In the Name of the Living,” wi

10-a of the SS, which exterm-
inated 8,000 people in Mariupol,
9,000 in Krasnodar, and 8,000 in
Rostov. The Zondercommand left
its bloody trail in the Crimea,
Mozyr, Lublin, and helped to put
down the Warsaw uprising,

“The murderers of the Zonder-
command shot, hanged and gassed
people on the territories of five
states — the USSR, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and
Italy,

The Bundestag has just passea
a law to the effect that the
prosecutions of Nazi criminals
will cease on December 31, 1969,
This is nothing more than an
amnesty on the instalment plan,
This cannot help causing great
concern to all people of goodwill,

“We want our film, “In the
Name of the Living” to sound
out like a resolute demand for
the proper punishment of the
Nazi butchers, There can be no
time limitation in the case of
crimes against mankind, There
can be no forgiveness for hang-
men_and sadists,

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g

not let hu-

manity forget the horrible Nazi crimes against humanity. Picture shows
trenches jilmed with the victims of German fascism.

HOW THE GIMMICKS WORK:

Our unfair income tax system

t this time of year, one of

the thoughts uppermost in
everyone’s mind is the filing of
his annual income tax return,
It will perhaps be of some in-
terest to the readers to learn
how the income tax which they
pay compares with that paid by
those able to live on their in-
vestment income,

In no other aspect of the Cana-
dian economy is the difference
between the treatment of worker
and investor more strikingly ap-
parent than in the Canadian In-
come Tax Act, and the worst
feature of the actis what is known
as the “dividend tax credit,”

Consider the following ex-
ample; Letus discuss acarpenter
whose gross income for 1964 was
$6500, After. the standard de-
ductions for a single man,
amounting to $1100, his taxable
income will be $5,400. Income
tax on this amount will be $1038,
which must be remitted to the
Receiver General of Canada,

Now let us consider the man
who is in the fortunate position
of living on the income from
$130,000, This sum, invested in
Canadian corporation stocks at
5%, will produce an annual in-
come of $6,500, an income identi-
cal to that of the carpenter dis-
cussed above,

Once again, we subtract the
basic deduction of $1100, cand
arrive at a taxable income of
$5400, on which the income tax
is $1038, Now, unlike the former
case, the investor will NOT remit
this amount to the Receiver Gen-
eral, There is a further calcula-
tion involved, An investor may

subtract 20% of his GROSS in-
come derived from Canadian
stocks from his NET TAX,

Therefore, from his net tax
of $1038, he will subtract $1300
(20% of $6500), which of course
leaves a minus quantity, The
only tax he will pay is the $120
old age security tax, which every-
one with an income in excess of
$5000 must pay,

Beatle Pau! McCartney last week
issued a ‘good luck” message to the
thousands who took part in the long
Easter peace trek in England last
weekend. McCartney said: “I agree
with C.N.D. (Committee for Nuc-
lear Disarmament). They should
ban all bombs. Bombs are no good
to anyone. We might as well ban
the bomb as be blown up by it.” The
Beatles latest record, ‘Ticket to
ride,” topped sales in Britain with-
in 48 hours after release.

Therefore, the investor, with
exactly the same income as the
carpenter, will pay $918 LESS
TAX, These figures are not
“fixed”; anyone can work them
out from a T-1 general return,
In effect, the investor is being
paid by the Canadian govern-
ment because he is rich,

Of course, the politicians have
a reason for the dividend tax
credit, The idea is that more
people will be encouraged to in-
vest their funds in Canadian cor=
porations, thereby increasing the
prosperity of all citizens, This
everyone will agree to be an
admirable hope, but how does it
work in practice?

The Toronto Star is a Cana-
dian corporation, How has it
used the funds which the gov-
ernment has encouraged people
to invest in it? It has used these
funds to purchase computers,
which have displaced loyal em-
ployees of many years standing,
In other words, the Canadian
government has given the Toron=
to Star a lever with which to
dislodge the very workers whose
efforts were responsible for the
paper’s success,

It would be interesting to ask
the men on the picket line if
they feel that the dividend tax
credit has strengthened the
economy as far as THEY are
concerned,

It is time that the workers
petitioned their union leaders
to press the government for
abolition of this highly unjust
taxation system,

—John C, Simpson, Victoria,

April 23, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9