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nl Nety-five years ago, on Ap-
eae a united World
Pley ovement was proclaimed
se Hall in Paris, led by
éri ed French physicist, Fréd-
€ Joliot-Curie.
( oe in response to the
when ee a new world war —
nae 3 ashes of Hiroshima and
cae atom-bombed by Unit-
cold €s planes, were hardly
ey when thousands of de-
still Cities and towns were
In. ruins,

J€ words of Frédéric Joliot-
ae then, were a marvel of
ophesy:
en truth which will be
wills forth during your work
: ioe throughout the world:
Open the eyes of those
ey ay till now have not seen
Deace pecs which threaten
Ratorg t will unmask the insti-
immer of war and will lead the
Women ; Majority of men and
Soluti to act with calm and re-
«on to bar their way.
dificult are well aware of the
ing us ty of the task that is fac-
said. the Nobel Prize winner
is ai Bee unfortunately, it
Rather = first time that people
added nO avoid war.” But, he
Not tg We have gathered. here,
Advocates ® for peace from the
eace on os rar. but to impose
aS anit and ‘stable world peace
Tacis,_ Y°t Won — colonial and
Million Tegimes still
turers sO! People, fascist tor-
Darts ml hold sway in some
can. stil} the world, imperialism
a threaten the future of
coe And the battle goes
of ipensi the war profiteers
of the palm, and the majority
War, ne uman race who oppose
W ae for disarmament, and
econ, See solved the problems
erty, Omic independence, pov-
Cial peer, human rights, so-
Telateg Soa environment, ail
C-exister detente and peaceful
of al} a, which are the needs
Worle Peace Movements. of the
of Beg ics (including that
25th cea which celebrates its
Ignificg during 1974) played a
Men yak Tole in their govern-
ism’s wy, €jection of U.S. imperial-
exe? ABainst Indochina, and
fluence gt Millions-strong _in-
in the Mic: @ peaceful settlement
that 4. 09dle East. But it is clear

t the;
eq. heir work is not yet finish-

The F
Peace {pounting efforts to bring
Suffer : those areas which now
tore ®Eression — domestic or
Mpety< ;,. WaS given immense
of BY the World Congress
oe Forces, last October in
© 3,500 participants,
®nting Countries, and repre-
oi mternational organi-
ond More thar 1,000 na-
8anizations, parties and
Bact gents have carried the im-
Nation ,, t Congress’ determi-
€ far corners of the

ej S
Nomen Mperative of the present
imperatin or, if you like,

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et : of the epoch,”
Peace aN Mier Brezhnev ma the
he ®gates, “is to unite all

Wor ®ace-lovin
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secure th
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People» €nt of all countries, all

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LS, justin “Pendence, -democ-
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act de
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subjugate.

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Recently, a member of the
Presidential Committee of the
World Peace Council, Yuri Zhu-
kov, looked back with ‘“‘grati-
tude,” and a little sadness to that
founding day in 1949:

“Here was Frédéric Joliot-
Curie, the’ courageous French
scientist and High Commissioner
for Atomic Energy, who boldly
declared . ... ‘It is our duty to
prevent the use of atomic energy
for purposes of destruction.’
Here was Joliot-Curie’s eminent
British counterpart, John Bernal.
Here was the inspired Russian
writer, Alexander Fadeyev - . -
Here also... . were Martin An-
derson-Nexo, the famous Danish
writer, Paul Robeson, the re-
nowned singer of the United
States, Pablo Neruda, the glori-
ous Chilean poet and champion
of freedom for his people, Mulk
Raj Anand, a worthy son of In-
dia: ..

“t remember the French poet,
Louis Aragon, slender, grey-
haired, - viewing the audience
boldly, and reading out loudly
and distinctly these concluding
words of the Manifesto:

“<The World Peace Congress
proclaims that the defence of
peace is the task of all peoples.
In the name of the 600,000,000
women and men represented
here, the World Peace Congress
sendse forth a message to the
peoples of the world — it says
to them:

“ ‘Courage. and confidence in
the struggle for peace! We knew
how to unite. We knew how to
agree. We are prepared and re-
solved to win the battle for
peace, the battle for life’.”"—J.L.

TORONTO — The People’s.

Charter for a Just and Stable
World Peace is being endorsed
by Canadians from coast to
coast. Picking up momentum,
the campaign finds more and
more people putting their names
to the Charter which demands
changes in Canada’s
policy to make it truly a policy
of peace. ;

As a result of work in nearly
all provinces, signed copies of
the Charter are now arriving In
the office of the Canadian Peace

foreign .

Women and the Law

By BARBARA CAMERON
TORONTO — Over four hun-
dred women and a few dozen
men attended a seminar on Wo-

men and the Law held at Humber -

College here.on April 26 and 27.
The Seminar dealt with legal
problems facing women ranging
from the position of native In-
dian women, the rights of mar-
ried women to custody of, chil-
dren and to property, and equal
work and equal pay legislation.
On the opening panel, Jeanette

Lavell explained the Supreme

Court of Canada’s decision which
deprived her of her rights as an
Indian when she married a non-
Indian. Another panelist, Pauline
Ross, described the historical
background to the Act, claiming
that it was intended to wipe out
the Indian people through ‘the
gradual assimilation of Indian
women and children. » Pauline
Harper, a Metis whose ancestors
go back to Batoche, attacked the
Indian Act as “the curse of all
Indians — a white man’s law
which makes bitter enemies of
sisters and brothers.”
Law of 1857

At a Saturday morning session
Judy LaMarsh, former Liberal
Cabinet Minister and now a Pro-
fessor at Osgoode Hall Law
School, charged: “We have a
Minister of Justice who is an ab-
solute ass and who is trying to
impose frorn lofty heights his Ca-
tholic views on abortion on hos-
pitals across this country.” Ms.
LaMarsh also attacked the Onta-
rio government for its recent de-
cision to abolish the right of
women night workers to rides
home from work. “

Ms. LaMarsh told the seminar:
“Canadian law contains many
vestiges of the view that when

Congress. It was at the Canada-
wide biennial conference of the
Congress in April that the Char-
ter was unanimously adopted.
At a suitable time the results
of the petitioning will be taken
to Ottawa to be presented to the
government then in power, Jean
Vautour, executive secretary of
the Peace Congress, said this
week. She urged organizations
and individuals, .and particularly
the trade union movement with
its millions of members, to back
this call, “for the implementa-

PEACE
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Mail to: Canadian P

<< CANADIAN

People’s Charter

for a just and stable world peace.

eace Congress:

2239 Yonge St. Toronto, Ont.

Endorsed by:

Name __—

Address __

a man and a woman marry they
are one — him.” Laws on women
and children are _ scattered
through different laws and the
basic statute on women’s legal
rights dates back to a British
law of 1857. She advised the
audience to concentrate pressure
on the provincial government
which has constitutional respon-
sibility for property and civil
rights.

On Saturday afternoon, Eliza-
beth Neville, director of the On-
tario Women’s Bureau, spoke to
the Seminar on equal pay legisla-
tion. She explained that “the pre-
serit legislation. means ‘the same
pay for the same work’, not
‘equal pay for work of ‘equal
value’”. The laws only cover
cases where wemen are paid less
for doing the same work as men
and can do nothing about sex-
typed jobs. where an entire occu-
pation is low-paid because it is
predominantly female.

Shirley Carr, Ontario president
of the Canadian Union of Public
employees, challenged Elizabeth
Neville’s contention that people
bringing complaints under equal
pay and equal job opportunity
legislation remain anonymous.
According to Shirley Carr, ‘“Man-

agement always finds out who

made the complaint.” She went
on to charge that, “Employers
are. criminals living on the
fringes ‘of the law. They stick
by the law just enough not to
go to jail”.

A member of the audience also
disagreed from personal experi-
ence with Ms. Neville. She said,
“There is no way you can re-
main anonymous. You are pub-
licly slandered, intimidated and
even fired. The government in-
vestigators are usually male and

tion of the principles of peace-
ful: co-existence, based on inter-

. national ‘security and mutually

advantageous cooperation be-
tween states . . .” Copies of the
Charter were recently made

-available to delegates to the

Canadian Labour Congress Con-
vention in Vancouver,

ong highlights of the at-
tractive blue-and-white Charter
are these actions which the govy-
ernment is called upon to work
for:

—general and complete dis-
armament, the withdrawal of
all military bases. and foreign
troops, including those now in

Canada, and abolition of all mili-

tary alliances;
—the utilization of resources,
now used for war purposes, for

the ‘eradication of poverty, ig- —

norance and disease and the

provision of better educational,

health and social services; -
—the elimination of racism,

‘and support for all democratic

struggles against colonialism
and neo-colonialism .. .

“We specifically call upon the
government to adopt an inde-
pendent foreign policy based on
peace and peaceful co-existence
directed towards extending in-

_ ternational detente,” the Charter

states.

Proposals to attain this end
include: :

_—Canada’s withdrawal from
NATO and NORAD...

—the removel of U.S. military

‘bases from Canadian territory,

the restoration of Canadian
armed forces to Canadian com-

| Double standard prevails

all the burden of proof is on the
complainant.” She argued for
very stiff penalties for compa-
nies violating the legislation and
advised women not to go alone
to employers to make comp-
laints. Other members of the au-
dience urged women to join
unions to defend their interests.

At a final plenary session the
workshop on family law urged
that marriage be considered an
economic partnership not only
at the time of divorce, as recom-
mended recently by the. Ontario
Law Reform Commission, but

from the day of marriage with

joint ownership and management
of property.

Recommendations from other
workshops’ included stronger
equal pay laws, more emphasis
on government taking the initia-

‘tive in investigations of viola-

tions of equal pay legislation, in-
clusion of housewives in the
Canada Pension Plan, 24-hour
day care as. a right for all who
need it, and a systematic govern-
ment program: of training, re-
training and upgrading.for wo-
men, whether working or not.
The Séminar also voted to send
a telegram to the Trudeau gov-
ernment protesting the Quebec
Court of Appeal’s decision over-
turning the acquittal of Dr.
Henry Morgenthaler on charges
of performing illegal abortions.

The Seminar was organized by
the Humber College Centre for
Women and sponsored by the
Canadian Civil Liberties Associa-
tion, the Ontario Committee on
the Status of Women, the Natio-
nal Council of Women, Voice of
Women, the Congress of Cana-
dian Women, and the Ontario
Federation of Women Teachers

- Associations.

mand, and the reduction of our
armed forces to levels commen-
surate* with the maintenance of
Canada’s self defense and sover-
eignty;

—the cancellation of defense
production sharing agreements.

Other proposals are for a 50%
cut in the military budget, and
recognition of and diplomatic
relations with the German De-
mocratic Republic, the Demo-
cratic People’s Republic of
Korea, the Provisional, Revolu-
tionary Government of South
Vietnam, the Royal Government
of National Unity of Cambodia,
and Guineau-Bissau.

~~

We Canadians, Signatories to this
charter for peace, address ourselves

to the government of Canade.
| We do so with full confidence in the

"| peoples' power, in their to unite
and make a just a oaks workd
peace c relity,

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1974—PAGE 9