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ete a few days short of his th birthday, felt he ought to © something about the OUT- Nw petition. But how to get Raned? Sylvia, an old hand, in- -Yited him to go with her to the ariposa Festival on Toronto’s entre Island.

Somehow they. got separated. ae Peter watched Susan oe people to sign, and then

Out on his own. The phone rang. _ “This is Peter,” he said. “I’ve

80t a quite a few sheets filled. aS been getting names ever ce I started. I’m so hungry! all going to eat now and then h up a few more sheets. I'll be

Ome later on.” oll of it said in the most sual way. It must be different ees we thought, compared to

€ Stockholm Appeal days. In tin evening Peter came home, te and happy. We all sat ae the kitchen table talk- : “About 80% signed,” Peter

Xplained. “They were mostly zine people because there

€re mostly young people there.

Tactically everyone I asked Signed.”

“What about those who didn’t Sign?”

j “Oh, some of them smiled and aid they didn’t want to sign.

‘Out for the first time ...

And then there were some of those guys. You know. There was one guy who said he fought against both Hitler and the Communists. I asked how he had managed that. He didn’t seem to make much sense.

“Another guy talked for near- ly an hour. He tried to convince me that ‘armed’ revolution was the only way and that I was wasting my time. And after all that, he didn’t sign anyway.”

“There was a university- stu- dent, too. He didn’t sign, either. He said there’d be a revolution, and after it was Over, they’d clean things up. He said getting signatures wouldn’t get you anywhere.”

“Oh, I met some visiting Ame- ricans. Some were friendly. I met one lady who said she was a Daughter of the American Revolution. She said she’d ra- ther have her son die in Viet- nam than be a hippy, and that we should have used the H- bomb long ago. People like that prove the need for petitions.”

There, on the kitchen table, lay 420 signatures on the OUT- NOW petition. Peter’s first ex- perience had uplifted him, No doubt about it, he had grown a bit. The future of Canada lies in the ideas and in the work of young men and women like Peter. —W.B.

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Who henefits?

The Globe and Mail has been carry- ing a series on the Internationalists, one of the small Maoist sects in Canada. It goes by the name of Communist Par- ty of Canada (Marxist-Leninist). The fact that it chose that name should be indication enough of its disruptive aims.

The attention the capitalist press is giving this particular group makes one wonder at the purpose behind it. Bour- geois ideologists understand that dis-

unity within progressive circles bene-_

fits capitalism.

The Internationalists have been par- ticularly harmful. The capitalist press plays up their adventurist antics. The Maoists always try to get ahead of other movements. When the peace for- ces plan an event, you can be sure the Maoists will haye a planned disruption going.

Bourgeois ideologists and tacticians are past masters in taking advantage of anything that will help to smear the Communist Party of Canada and the socialist system. Canadian students have cut their eye teeth on anti-Com- munism. Anti-Communism permeates capitalist propaganda. It is the main form of attack on the working class.

The actions of the Maoists seem to be deliberately designed to give credence to this whole anti-Communist system. Their actions, and the line of their newspaper, Mass Line, dovetails so con- veniently with the desires of the police, one wonders who really works out their strategy and tactics.

The latest series in the Globe and Mail has been written to cast doubt on the idea that the Internationalists are receiving money from the CIA. All we ean say is that there has been a switch from the very primitive, often discred- ited, crude and rough anti-Commun- ism, to subtler versions.

Bourgeois theoreticians have encour- aged.and developed the ideas of oppor- tunism — Trotskyism, Maoism, Mar- cusianism, and other anti-Leninist the-

ories. The aim is to discredit and falsify .

the movement for Communism. Paid, or unpaid, the Maoists, Trotskyites and their ilk do the job the RCMP and the CIA want done.

Fruits of peace work

As we go to press the news comes that West Germany’s Brandt is flying to Moscow to sign the treaty already initialed. The treaty calls for the re- nunciation of the use of force to settle differences, and the recognition of exist- ing post-war boundaries in Europe.

As this historic treaty is being nego- tiated, a ceasefire has been achieved in the Middle East, and preliminaries to negotiations are under way in that area. =

The successful conclusion of the treaty between Moscow and Bonn is a triumph for the USSR’s consistent pol- icy of peaceful co-existence. So is the ceasefire in the Middle East. While re- vanchist ideas are by no means dead in West Germany, the treaty reflects the growing sense of world reality in the top capitalist circles in West Germany.

The achievements in the Middle East

and the Moscow-Bonn treaty are trib- utes to the strength of the forces for peace around the world, and the efforts of the peoples to overcome war. :

The signing of the treaty in Moscow should make it possible for West Ger- many to reach an agreement. with Poland to recognize the Oder-Neisse

- boundary, and for the recognition of

the German Democratic Republic as an independent state, and should help move closer the negotiations for a European Security pact.

The forces for war are in retreat. These achievements are the most ex- tensive. breaks in the Cold War for many-a year. It opens the door to fur- ther victories for peace. However, at the same time, it drives smarting Im- perialism to more desperate actions.

Intensified efforts now by Canadians for the widest endorsation of the Out- now campaign, for’an end to the war in Indochina, will be our contribution to those victories for peace.

Trudeau’s economics

Prime Minister Trudeau has out- experted the experts. Some of capital- ism’s top economists have spent years studying in universities, with the re- sult that there are as many economic theories as there are economists. Tru- deau has now entered the field by stat- ing that prices have risen more slowly than wages for this past six months. Therefore it is now proven, according to him, that the trade unions are re- sponsible for inflation. :

All of which. goes to. prove the old adage that even fools can figure. Or is it liars?

But here’s one example of inflation we bet Trudeau will try to keep quiet about. It’s typical of capitalism.

The Canadian Government bought some trucks for $7,200 each in the early 1950’s, of which 551 were not used. Pri- vate dealers have now paid $340,000 to buy them. They cost Canada’s working people $4,000,000 when the government bought them. Now the private dealers are selling them for approximately $1,653,000—a gross profit of very near- ly 400% (somewhat above the 6% guidelines).

This, however, is considered to be good business. The gross profit would keep 250 or so unemployed workers for a whole year on $100 a week. Notice how silent the Incomes and Prices Com- mission is?

What's wrong with work?

A Judge Graham is reported to have

said, in ordering a 16-year old youth convicted of theft to join the Army Militia Summer Training, that 16-year olds who refuse to work or go to school should get a taste of arin tite: _ The capitalist army cures very little, if anything. For the average soldier, it aims to brutalize his human instincts, to end his processes of creative thought, to justify imperialism, and to turn him into a willing automaton to follow ord- ers unquestioningly. Song My is an end result. Some punishment for stealing 9 gramophone records!

What’s wrong with good honest work at a paying wage and the discipline of labor? That, alone, can make a useful citizen.

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