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| Nampion of the youth

for loopholes to make it hard
if not impossible for the stu-
dents to cast their ballots. They
made an attempt to rule that the

’ students could only vote in the

ridings where their parents re-
sided, but reluctantly had to
give that up when both young
and old protested. So a policy of
harassment was substituted.

Enumerators began asking nu-
merous questions calculated to
dissuade them from being regis-
tered in those ridings though
they live there and would have
great difficulty in going to their
parents’ ridings to vote.

On learning of this (one stu-
dent said he was put “practical-
ly through a third degree” in or-
der to convince him not to go
on the voters’ list), Elizabeth
Hill, candidate in St. Andrew-St.

- Patrick, sent the following tele-

gram to Mr. Roderick Lewis,
chief election officer at Queen’s
Park:

“RECEIVING MOUNTING COM-
PLAINTS ENUMERATORS HA-
RASSING STUDENTS, TRYING
TO DISCOURAGE THEM FROM
BEING PLACED ON VOTERS’
LIST IN THEIR CAMPUS RESI-
DENTIAL _ RIDING. ORDER
YOUR ENUMERATORS TO IM-
MEDIATELY STOP THIS TYPE
OF INTIMIDATION THAT CAN
DENY MANY YOUNG CANA-
DIANS THEIR DEMOCRATIC
RIGHT TO EXERCISE THE
FRANCHISE. ENUMERATORS
SHOULD ABIDE BY YOUR
OWN RULE THAT
STATEMENT AS TO
PLACE OF RESIDENCE’ IS
‘ALL THAT THE ENUMERA-
TOR CAN ACT ON’ DON’T
PERMIT HARD WON RIGHT
OF EIGHTEEN-YEAR OLD CI-
TIZENS TO THE VOTE TO BE
TAKEN FROM THEM BY TRIC-
KERY.”

_ A copy of the wire was sent
to the press and other media,
which resulted in Liz Hill being

interviewed on the matter over’

the radio and more pressure be-
ing put on the vote-snatchers.
Mr. Lewis stated that he would
not reply to the telegram, but it
will be seen to what extent the
harassment was actually discon-
tinued only when the voters’ list
is printed. , =

‘Liz Hill’s election committee 1S
putting a booth on the campus
to take the names of those stu-
dents whose names were left off
and see to it that they are not
denied a vote on Oct. 21. :

In the meantime her election
offices at 145 Harbord St. (phone
964-3711, campaign manager
Paul Pauk) is a busy place, peo-
ple are asking to put her posters
on their houses, old and new
friends are volunteering to can-
vas the electorate.

This section of Toronto was
once a progressive stronghol
and it will become one once

again.

FOUR-SQUARE FOR PEACE

By JOHN WEIR

The public meeting called by
the Vietnam Mobilization Com-
mittee in Convocation Hall in
Toronto last Friday heard Prof.
Chandler Davis, recently re-
turned from the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam. Evelyn
Kirsch, a top coordinator of the
U.S. Peace Action Coalition,
VMC Chairman George Addison
and three Ontario election can-
didates. Kay Macpherson of the
Voice of Women chaired the

- gathering.

It was an assembly that was
seized with the grim actuality
of continued escalation of the
war in Indochina as evidenced
by massive U.S. bombing of
North Vietnam, and the need
for more action to compel an
end to the criminal aggression
by American imperialism.

Prof. Davis reported on his
talks with representative people
in Hanoi and their determina-
tion to continue the struggle for
as many years to come as may
be necessary. He described the
great gain in economic and edu-
cational advance despite the
long and terrible war. He
stressed that the war will be
ended by peace negotiations
conducted by the Vietnamese
themselves and not by any
talks by others.

Evelyn Kirsch told of the
growth of the peace struggles
in the United States, the new
power they are attaining with
the active support of the trade
union movement, and enumer-
ated the powerful actions now
under way and those planned
in the coming weeks and
months of the “fall offensive.”

“We are uniting to turn ma-
jority anti-war sentiment into
majority anti-war action,” she
declared, ‘‘to end the war now
and never let it happen again!”

Mr. Addison pointed to con-
tinued Canadian complicity —
Canada still stays in NATO and
NORAD, keeps troops in foreign
countries, sells arms and re-
sources to war-making US.,
tests poison gas in Alberta —
and outlined the “fall offensive”
plans in Canada:

e Meeting in Ottawa on Oct.

13

e Demonstrations on cam-

puses on Nov. 3.

e Broad public demonstra-
tions on Nov. 6.

“we'll keep marching until
the war is over!” he declared
to the applause of the audience.

A representative of the Bangla
Desh solidarity movement brief-
ly described how “Nixon’s pup-

pet” Yahya Khan, military dic- _

tator of Pakistan, has murdered
hundreds of thousands and
driven eight
from East Pakistan to seek
refuge in India. He reported a
“refugee camp” would be set up
at City Hall to bring the enorm-
ity of this genocide more graph-
ically to the attention of the
Canadian people.

Of the thtee candidates for
office in the provincial election,
NDP standard-bearer in Dover-
court riding, Waffler Steve Pen-
ner was the first to take the
floor. He was greeted with ap-
plause, but left his listeners
somewhat at a loss when he
pinned hopes for victory in the
struggle to end the war on the
achievement of “socialist inde-
pendence” for Canada.

U.S. imperialism has control
of Canada, he said, Trudeau
and Davis are U.S. puppets, so
they won't do anything. While
expressing solidarity with other
peoples and the Vietnamese,

million people

our task is to end our colonial
status vis-a-vis the. U.S. through
public ownership. “We cannot
separate independence and so-
cialism,” he said.

William Stewart, Communist
candidate in Dovercourt, brief-
ly presented his own and his
party’s “credentials” in the

WILLIAM STEWART is the On-
tario Leader of the Communist
Party. He is 51 years of age,
married and the father of five
children. Mr. Stewart is an
electrician by trade and has
worked in the field of journal-
ism and the machine tool in-
dustry as well. He was a union
leader in the textile and elec-
trical industries for a number
of years. A veteran of the
Second World War who was
seriously wounded in action in
the Italian campaign, he has
been a consistent fighter for
peace.

fight for peace. He came into
the Communist movement in
the late 1930’s in the struggle
to defeat fascism and prevent
war. When war nevertheless
broke out, he fought in the
Canadian armed forces for vic-
tory over fascism, was wound-
ed in action in the Italian cam-
paign and was hospitalized for
four years. ;
He participated in the cam-
paign against U.S. ‘atomic
diplomacy” following World
War Two, when American im-
perialism tried to bully the
world into submission by the
“horror bombing” of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki and brandishing

its monopoly of atomic weap-
ons. Out of hospital, he petition-
ed door-to-door against war and
opposed Canada’s participation
in the U.S. invasion of Korea.
He was removed from the con-
vention of the Trades and Labor
Congress in 1950 and later from
his position as organizer of the
Textile Workers Union because
he opposed the right-wing labor
leaders’ support of the Korean
war at that time. :

Wm. Stewart has the distinc-
tion of having been the princi-
pal speaker at the first public
meeting in Canada, at Vancou-
ver in 1964, in opposition to the
U.S. aggression in Vietnam. He
has consistently taken part in
all movements and actions to
end the U.S. war in Indochina
and Canada’s complicity.

“We fully associate ourselves
with the fall peace offensive,”
he stated. “We fully support the
7-point program for peace ad-
vanced by the Provisional Revo-
lutionary Government of South
Vietnam. We fully support the
stand of the Vietnam Mobiliza-
tion Committee against Can-
ada’s complicity. We fully en-
dorse the position that the
settlement of the war in Viet-
nam will be made by the Viet-
namese themselves, at the Paris
peace talks and nowhere else.”
: Opposing the idea that social-
ism is a condition for peace, he
declared that Communists par-
ticipate in the peace movement
on its own terms and that the
people can compel war-making
governments to back down.

As a party dedicated to the
establishment of working peo-
ple’s power and socialism in
Canada, the Communist Party
considers that “the winning of
peace creates the best condi-
tions for the Canadian people
to struggle for our country’s in-
dependence and socialism.”

His remarks were greeted by
warm applause, as were those
of Elizabeth Hill, Communist
candidate in St. Andrew-
St. Patrick, who stated that the
majority of the young people
are opposed to war and called

-on electors to defeat pro-war
_ candidates on Oct. 21.

“Let's work hard to help end
the dirty U.S. war in Indochina
in 1971,” she said.

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