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Burn. council denies hearing to delegation

A A Communist Party delegation headed by Bill Turn- 2 and Nigel Morgan was refused a hearing by Burnaby WNicipal Council last Monday.

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but © basis and discipline,

ty oe SO respecting the liber- €ach tendency, party or

organization. The party then appealed for the formation every-

where of popular committees of unity, reconciliation and peace to ensure that all use of force should ecase from now on, and asked that all military and police opera-

Ahmed Ben Bella

By JERRY SHACK

BRITAIN-E.C.M. DEAL HITS SNAG

Britain’s proposed entry into the European Common Market, almost a foregone conclusion a short time ago, is running into serious trouble as opposition from all sides begins to crystallize and increase day by day.

This week, after some par- ticularly stormy sessions in the British House of Com- mons, a number of facts be- gan to emerge with increas- ing clarity.

Edward Heath, Britain’s chief negotiator at the Brus- sels ECM meetings, had ap- parently hoped to preserve an artificial facade of pre- ferred treatment for Com- monwealth countries, at least for the next short per- iod of time, in order to quell the rising tide of opposition towards the Common Mart.

France and West Germany, however, have refused him this luxury and want it to be widely recognized that the moment Britain joins, ail Commonwealth relations will go out the window,

As a result, 36 members of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s Conservative government have tabled a strong motion urging the government to ‘insist on de- finite assurances for Com- monwealth trade and on the

centinuance of the power of .

sovereign decision by the British Parliament...” This is akin to stating that membership in NATO is de- sirable, but only if all arms and armies are scrapped. It

Algerian unity needed to prevent new Congo

tions against Algerian pat- riots should cease.

It also declared its sup- port for the program an- nounced by the spokesmen of Vice-Premier Ben Bella, which included:

e Consolidation of Alger- ian indepdendence;

e Establishment of a mod- ern democratic state free of dictatorship;

e Individual liberty and freedom of expression for all;

e Prevention of the tri- umph of neo-colonialism.

It pointed out that the es- tablishment of a single polit- ical party system such as has been suggested by many FLN leaders would be contrary to these principles as well as undemocratic.

It considered that in the circumstances, elections should be postponed for a short while.

(See earlier story on Page 6.)

serves to highlight the fact, however, that not all Tories are prepared to hand over British sovereignty to the French Gaullists and German militarists.

Reports from London indi- cate that while the Labor opposition, under the Right Wing leadership of Hugh Gaitskell, as yet has taken no firm stand on the question (as usual), at least 120 of its members in Parliament are prepared to support the ac- tion of the Tory backbench- ers. They are backed in this by hundreds of Labor Party

‘local branches and thousands of supporters.

In Canada, meanwhile, our own Tory government re- mains strangely silent, Initial opposition to the ECM has simmered down to virtually “No Comment’. Diefenbaker refuses to call Parliament, the Liberals and Socreds ap- pear to welcome the rest, and the NDP, having fav- ored the creation of the Com- mon Market and welcoming its “prosperous expansion” in its party program, also appear to have nothing to add.

U.S. cops beat, kick pregnant Negro

A pregnant Negro woman was beaten and kicked by Albany, Georgia policemen on July 23 for trying to bring food to prisoners in the Ca- milla jail, held there for peaceably seeking the rights for the Negro people sup- posed to be guaranteed them under the U.S. Constitution.

This was the first fruit of a vicious restraining order against the Negro community issued by Federal District Judge Robert Elliott, at the request of the local white supremacists.

Judge Elliott’s order bar- red the Negro people of Al- bany from peaceful protest even against police brutality. President Kennedy himself has to share the responsibility for this, since Elliott was ap- pointed to the bench by him.

The victim of the brutality was Mrs. Marian King, wife

“of Slater King, vice-president

of the Albany Movement, an anti-segregtion organization.

While standing outside the Camilla Jail, with her three- year-old son in her arms, Mrs. King was clubbed from behind by policemen who proceeded to knock her down and then kick the pregnant woman while she was down.

In its July 29 issue, the U.S. paper “The Worker” strongly condemned “the Pre- sident’s move in appointing this avowed racist (Judge Elliott) to the federal bench

”

Under an editorial headed “Mr. Kennedy's Judge Wears a KKK Ro0Obe”, the paper stated that this was but an- other example of the Ken- nedy Administration’s con- tinued support of “reaction- ary forces.”

Latest reports from Albany indicate that the anti-segre- gation struggle is entering the crucial stage with injunctions flying, jails full and the civil disobedience and sit-in cam- paign continuing.

—Eccles, Br. Daily Worker

“50 centimes, 40 lire, 3 filed-down marks—you'd think we were already in the Common Market.”

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