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Across Canada

Anti-Cruise MPs’ funds cancelled

OTTAWA — Jeanne Sauve, a Liberal who holds the ‘‘non- party’’ job of Speaker of the House of Commons, has frozen the $63,000 budget of Parliamentarians for World Order, an all-party committee which is opposed to Cruise missile testing in Canada. The group of 85 MPs and 20 senators is also being denied the use of Commons staff.

Warren Allmand (Lib., Notre-Dame-de-Grace — Lachine East) said, March 15: ‘‘We’ve been cut off, de-listed, excom- municated. They said we were only a lobby or pressure group.”’

Sauve said the recommendation came from the Inter-Parlia- mentary Advisory Council, which advises on funding for com- mittees.

international Women’s Day celebrated in Regina

REGINA — International Women’s Day was marked here with a march of about 300 people — men and women — and children. The day, which formally falls on March 8, is celebrated world-wide, and has been marked this year over a period of a week by various events in centres across Canada.

Economic meet on hold to hear fed Budget

OTTAWA — The prime minister and provincial premiers ag- reed to postpone their economic summit at least until June, probably until fall, in deference to the federal budget, expected in mid-Apnil. At a dinner meeting squeezed between sessions of the constitutional conference to confer with Native peoples, nettled premiers bowed to Trudeau’s insistence that the Budget is virtu- ally complete, and presumably would not be influenced by their views.

Fred Rose, victim of _ Cold war, dies at 76

Fred Rose, the former Member of Parliament for Montreal-Cartier, representing the Labor Progressive Party, a long-time Canadian Com- munist activist, has died in Warsaw at the age of 76. Rose returned to his native Poland with his wife after serving a four-year jail sentence re- sulting from the spy-scare campaign by leading reactionary and police circles in Canada in the late 40s. In 1957 the Canadian government re- voked his citizenship and he was re- fused permission from then on to visit his family in Canada.

' The book, Canada’s Party of : Socialism, History of the Commu- : nist Party of Canada 1921-1976 offers a brief insight into the work and activities of Fred Rose.

Commenting on allegations in 1946 by the notorious U.S. columnist Drew Person regarding a Soviet spy ring in Canada, and the appoint- ment of a Royal Commission under R. Taschereau and R.L. Kellock to ““investigate’’, it says:

“The real purpose of the Royal Commission was to poison the atmosphere of friendly relations between Canada and the USSR, built up during the anti-fascist war, open up the cold war internationally and justify the start of a vicious campaign of propaganda and persecution of Communists and other progressive and peace forces. With the help of the Taschereau-Kellock Commission, the bourgeois mass media or- chestrated a ‘spy’ scare which would allow reactionary monopoly circles to proceed with plans to ‘‘roll back”’ socialism and reassert their domination of the world.”

The Commission admitted: ‘‘... we had no hesitation in deciding that all evidence available, direct, hearsay, and secondary, should be considered ... if this were not done, it was doubtful whether the purpose of the Commission could be achieved.’’

Twenty Canadians were arrested and held incommunicado for a month. Fred Rose was one of these. Bearing out the Commission’s fears, the ‘‘documents’’ of Soviet deserter Igo Gouzenko proved use- less as legal evidence, and nine of those accused were acquitted.

The History of the CPC points out: ‘‘Canana’s political police had a special interest in doing what Fred Rose called ‘a job on me’ because, in speeches, articles and pamphlets, he had exposed their profoundly anti-democratic practices. In the late 1930s, for example, he wrote a pamphlet entitled Spying on Labor in which he proved that the RCMP made use of espionage and informers to disrupt the labor movement. Fred Rose was an obstacle to the unrestricted anti-labor, anti-commu- nist activities of the RCMP — he had to be removed.”’

Fred Rose was elected to federal parliament in the 1943 by-election and re-elected in the general election of 1945.

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Palestinian, Canadian women Share goals of peace, rights —

ISSAM ABDUL HADI

TORONTO — One of the major events of International Women’s Day here, was sponsored by the Congress of Canadian Women, March 13, featuring a leading woman trade unionist, an international women’s spokesperson, cultural performances, a viewing of If You Love this Planet, and liter- ature, posters, handicrafts and refreshments from far and wide. The crowd packed Bloor Street’s Trinity Church.

Grace Hartman, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), said that this year, ‘‘despite the economic de- pression, despite the \increasing high unemployment among wo- men, despite the increasing battle of women who are forced to live on welfare, despite the cutbacks in social areas like daycare, hospi- tal services and pensions — cut- backs that have a disproportion- ate impact on women — despite all of this, International Women’s Day celebrations are reaching more women — unionized and non-unionized — whether we work in a household or in the labor force — Black or white or any other color, old or young — more are turning out this year to events like this to share our successes and our struggles and to celebrate the shattering of the timeless barrier which has kept us isolated and oppressed for so long.”’

Issam Abdul Hadi, president of the General Union of Palestinian Women, told the sympathetic audience: ‘“‘We Palestinians are for peace. We want, by peaceful means, to put an end to the suffer- ing of our people under occupa- tion and outside Palestine.’

While understanding the fight of women, for daycare centres, for provisions for working mothers and for other rights of women here, she said that the role of Palestinian women is more fundamental.

‘*As we see our people brutal- ized, dehumanized, we stand for peace and our fight is for our human rights, our civil rights,”’ she said.

The chairperson of the meet- ing, Mitzi Concha, of the Office of Solidarity with the People of

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Chile, introduced, in all, five reso- lutions, urging Canadian Government action and proclaim- ing solidarity of the Women’s Day meeting.

The meeting, apparently unanimously, agreed to call upon Ottawa to ‘‘annul the umbrella agreement which allows arms tests on Canadian soil; refuse to allow the Cruise missile to be tested on Canadian soil; comply with the wishes of the majority of Canadians and declare Canada a nuclear weapons-free zone; reject any proposals to use armed forces recruitment as a solution to youth unemployment; and cut the mili- tary budget by 50%.”’ ~

A second resolution urged the Canadian Government to provide funds for job creation, enforce equal pay for work of equal value; end wage controls, and restore free, collective bargaining in the public sector.

Other resolutions proclaimed solidarity with women of El Sal- vador, Palestine, Lebanon, South Africa, Ireland, and Nicaragua, “‘who are struggling for national independence, social progress and the advancement of women’’; and support for Maria Cecilia Rodriguez Ayara ‘‘who was ar- rested in the Santiago airport (Chile) on her way from Chile to Spain to attend a meeting of the Federation of Relatives of Dis- appeared Prisoners.

Unequal Treatment

Grace Hartman charged that while progress had been made in some areas such as maternity leave, divorce, and marital prop- erty law, as well as legislation to protect against some sex dis- crimination, women still face un- equal treatment. ;

‘*Women are not being trained for a move into non-traditional job areas in any great numbers,”’ she said. ‘“‘And the jobs we do have access to are rapidly being elimi- nated or turned into part time work as the result of technological change.”’

About 80% of women are still concentrated in clerical work, nursing, teaching, and small manufacturing, she said. The jobs are characterized by low pay, lit- tle or no occupational mobility, and a high degree of employer control.

GRACE HARTMAN

Hartman suggested an in mediate focus on the right 10? job, on resisting and defeatil wages controls, on improv j pensions, daycare, legislation fo equal pay for work of equal value and full job security, as WEY” extended and fully paid retral possibilities’’ for women who? : jobs are lost to technology-

Fought to Liberate Palestin®

The Palestinian guest thanke the Congress of Canadian WO it for the invitation she and a % league, Intisar el Wazir, gene’ secretary of the Union of Palesti” ) ian Women, had accepted. The) followed different itineraries © Canada.

‘‘We express our solidatil! with all our sisters who are fig E: ing against imperialism, a Zionism, against colonialism 7 neo-colonialism everywhere io the world,” Hadi said, beca¥® these are the enemies of peac®

Giving a brief historical ske@ of the Palestinians, she said tt Moslems, Christians and in had lived in peace for hundreds years. . a

She spoke bitterly of recell events in Lebanon where, 11 © south, refugee camps had bee” bulldozed to the ground, whet, the horror of the massacres _ families in Sabra and Sha” Palestinian camps was carried 0? after Reagan put pressure % U.N. peacekeeping forces to Pr out ahead of schedule.

Finally, she spoke of Reaga”’ Jordanian option. ‘We Pales nians fought in order to libe ig Palestine,’ she declared, not order to accept any such ™ f sures’... we have had that feé f ing of being refugees for all "be lives, and what is offered by ¢ imperialists is not what we are fighting to achieve.”’ :

She pointed out that Reag# had excluded the PLO from yi plans. ‘‘It is not enough,’’ Ha®” said, ‘“‘to lay out the future of th” Palestinian people without tak¥™ into account the wishes and a! of the Palestinian people’’; s people who choose the PLO ® their representative.

“The Canadian Governme? should recognize the PLO,” she said, as a contribution to the cause of peace in the Middle East

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