KANADAI HAGYÁS MUNKiS
Resolutlon senf fo Offawa
Bt. Hon. Jobn G. Diefenbaker, Prime Bnnlster of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.
Dear Sir:
Readers of the Kanadai Magyar Munkás, Canftdian-Huhgarian weekly, having our annuai Ontario banquet held on January 26th iriew with alarm the high pressurc campaign novr developing in our country to swing Canada into the nuclear club by accepting nuclear arms.
We uige you, Mr. Prime Ministerí not to give in on this vitai matter. We command your action and that of the Minister of Extemal Affairs in refusing to accept nuclear wcapons for Canada. We wel-come your atatement that the majority of letters received by you on this matter express support for no nuclear arms for Canada.
That totál disarmament is the heartfelt wish of aU humanity Is the most undeniable truth of our age. The United Nations, represent-ing every form of social order that exists tpday, agreed «nanimously that this is the oiüy reasonable, sensible róad ahead in ttóa atomic age.
Canada also agreéd and Canadians'applauded.To accept nucliear arms how would mean to dash to snüthereens our respected ppsiUon on peace iit the eyes of the wörld, negating our past efforts and cancelling out pur future positlve actions for world-wide peace. We would loae for áll time our present-opportunity to help bring the nuclear pówers tofinal agreement. 0»ir anawerto nuclear arms must be. a resounding NO!
In ouc opinion. the recent efforts to push Canada into the nuclear arms club has a strong reasonance of outside military meddling and of internál political expediency.
We ürge your govemment, notwithstanding outside pressiures, to. KEEP NUCLESARWBAPONS OUT OP CANADA.
Respectfully,
. John Sípos, 242 James St. N., Hamllton. Ont.
and community life.
While aU the groups, organiza-tions and new£fpapers involved are legal, and their role and record are known to the public, the persecu-tion and intimidation of thousands of immigrant workers Bought to create an impression and an image of illegality.
Thus, at the very root of the issue, lay: the i»^ole rangé of basic democratic ri^fhtis: freedom of con-science, of thought, speech and assembly. What at first glancé ap-peared to be a vicious form of dis-crlmination against certain im-migrants was seen tőrbe essential-1;- an attack on the basic rights of all Canadians.
The campaign also served to raise (ŰÍ not for the first time, X>erhaps in a new and serlous way)
the fimdamental questíon of clti« zenship rights as a constitutional issue, and of the need for a Can-adian constitution that would gua-rantee these basic freedoms.
The nátional Conference on Ci-tizenship Rights, held in Ottawa on October 28, was a gathering un-iqáe: in the annals of struggle for democratic rights. Convened by the Canadian Gouncil of National Gxoups, the conference brought the issue of citizenship rights into nátional líocus. |n presenting its memorandum to the Minister of Citl-zenship and to representatives of the parties, the Conference placed the question squarely before Far-liament.
At stake is a challenge to Canadian Democracy — and to all Canadian democrats as welL
ON THE BRINK
AN ISSUE OF DEMOCRACY
THE NATIONAL campaign that has been conducted in support of citizenship rights deserves special note as the outstánding contribu-tion to the struggle for civil liber-ties in Canada during the past year. Paced with very great odds in bringing the long-standing issue of political discrimination against thousaAdsof immigrant Canadians into the ópen, the campaign suc-ceeded in its rúsán atms. These were:;.,-:-. ■., ;,
(1) To Win public recognition for the issue of citizenship rights; and (2) to place the question squarcűy on the doorstep of Parlia-ment These essentiálly aré the achieveménts of an intensive na-tiónal ccüoipaign iii the short space of eleven months.
The issue Itself is not some-thing new. Denial of citizenship rights for political reasons. has been a niatter of state policy in thia country for more than 35 yeará. and its victims are nűmber-ed ih the thoiisands. What was new m the picture vp'as the fact that this discrimination could be discussed publicly, that those af-
fected came forward and became identified with the issue, and that the conspiracy of silence within which the State operated this poli-cy. could be challenged and finally broken/
Political discriinination against the lúitizenship of immigrant Can-adans, as practised by the state, has long been an ihstrüment of class intimidation against the prb-gressive and left movements. By victímizing immigrants with radi-cal or lef t-wing iiicUnations or as-socations, the real of the policy has been to intimidate both immigrant and native born Canadians from partlcipating in or sup-porting militant working-class or-ganizations, activities, or their newspapers emd joumals.
As the campaign began to un-fold it became increasingly clear that the struggle for citizenship rii^ts involved more than the un-complicated issue of justice for dtscriminated imhűgrants — that it was something wider than a problem for immigrants. At the very heart of the struggle was the legality of the Left in our éational
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SPRING TERM — 1963
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AS THE blood-chilling story un-folds in piecemeal instalments of verying degrees of "inside" author-itativeness ("In Time of Crisis", Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 8; "154 Hours on the Brink of War," Look, Dec. 18; Mínority of One re-port of Dec. 7) — certain fixed points emerge about the forces that operated in - the week of Oc-tober 22. They can help us keep our bearings in the contlnuing ef-fort to save peace on the planet.
One such point is the calculated readiness of the military-industrial complex that rules the United States, to push the world over the brink of thermonuclear annihila-tion. Witness the following:
The crisis really'^as born at the Bay of Pigs, 18 months be-fore, when Pidel Castro routed an American-sppnsbred invasion on one of the worst fiiascos in U. S. histoiy. Six months later, in October. 1961, President Kennedy, still bearing his scars from the disaster, secretly ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to prepare an invasion plan for Cuba — to be used when and if needed.
(Pletcher Knébel, in Lopk) On October 22:
The "go" signal went out to " mass the invasion forces for •'OperaUon X". Although the President rultd against a sur-prise invasion, nobody knew what would happen after the blockade went into effect. The final staging of forces for ah as-sault would také eight days. They would be ready to surgé ashore in Cuba on Tuesday, Oct 30 — if John P. Kennedy was forced to that.
(Joseph Alsop's grim report, after the kennedy-Khnishchov Vien-na meeting, of the U.S. Presidehfs readiness tp "push the button" for all-out war rather than.accept a set-back for American policy, was now finding confirmation.)
How far the "take-over" of the Administration by the Pentagon had gone (an operation noted ear-lier by Professor Prederick Schu-man) is indicated by the fact that Adlai Stevenson's reported advo-cacy of negotíation rather than military action eamed hira a smear campaign as an "appeaser": a campaign initiated from within Kennedy's super-cabinet or "exe-cutive Committee". The Saturday Evening Post
story lists among the "wár-hawks": (the group that held a majorig in the "EX Comm"): CIA chief Mo-Cone; DiUon, Acheson (brought in as a -cpnsultant), Óen. Taylor, Mc-, Cloy. Óf these, Dean Acheson is a mouthpiece of the Morgan in-terests; Taylor and McCloy are Rockefeller mouthpieces; "the agg-ressive and militaristic" McCone (writes Victor Terlo in his just-published Militarism and Industry) '*has his main present properties in shipbuildíng, shipping and heavy construction based in Sah Prancis-co" and "also owns over a millión dollars of Standard Oil sto<^."
Such were the eager hands at the throttle of the Washington Suicide Express.
What stopped them ? Why did the monstrpus invasion-machine, poised for assault on Cuba, grind to an uncertain halt on Sunday, October 28?
Surely, only because of the com bination of Soviet readiness to compromise in the interest of saving world peace, the invincible courage öf the Cubaii people and the pressure of world opinion on the U.S., insistent that "there must be no war!"
The threat to Cuba and the threat to peace remain. But the experience of the 154 hours on the brink has made irrefutable the proposition that struggle for peaceful coexistence is the one and only choice if mankind is to sur-vive: and that it is, in fact, the one workable altemative to war.
Fatíier C^ed
Johnny Crawford of "The Rifle-man" TV show likes the one about the father who told the son: "What a boy you are for aisking questiohs. Tá like to know what would have happened if Td have asked as máriy questions when I was a boy as you do?"
"Perhaps," suggested the young-ster, "you would have been able to ahswer somé of mine."
A Dog*s LIf e
After the question, "What were your -duties and what was expect-ed of you in your laat job?" the girl wrote:
"I was a secretaiy, and was ex-pected to think üke a man. act like a lady and work like a dog."
Kérem közöljék, ha tudják, körülbelül mennyit köU tenek a sörgyárosok hirdetés sekre ? K. Gy;, Wallaceburg^ Önt.
F; W. Park és felesége, jogász és közgazdász házas-1 pár "Anatomy of Big Busi^ ness" (A nagyüzlet boncta-i^ na) cimü uj könyve 176. oldalán a következő adatok találhatók: Carling's évi $4,-500.000-t, Ö'Keefe's évi $4,-350.000-t, Dow évi $5,000.-000-t költ sajtó-, TV- és rádióhirdetésekre. Ez a három sörgyári csoport az E.P. Taylor tulajdonát képező Canadian Breweri^s néven ismert érdekeltséghez tartoznak; Más F^rgyári érdekeltségekkel (Western €anada Bre-weries, Molson, Labatt stb.) a söripar összesen évi $30^-000.000-t költ hirdetésekre. Aligha vonható kétségbe, hogy a hirdetési milliókért politikai szolgálatot kapnak.
Arra szeretnék választ kapni magától szerkesztő munkástárs, hogy a házam miatt elutasithatják-e az ö-regségi segélyt? Betöltöttem a 65 évet és a kis házam egy szobája ki van adva. Abból kapok egy kis jövedelmet. Sch. J., Pelhv Ont.
^zontariöi törvény nem fosztja meig jogosultságuktól a kislakások ttilajdonosa-it. Az illetékes nyugdijható-ság meg fogja állapitani vagyoni helyzetét és jövedelme nagyságát. A 70 éven aluliak ugyanis csak tartományi nsnigdijra jogosultak. Az illetékes tartómányi hatóságot, eltérően a szövetségitől, kötelezi a törvény, hogy a nyújtandó aggsági penziót csak a folyamodó : személyi és ingátlánjövedelme meny-njniségéhez szabja. ^
Javaslom irj on errevonat-kozó joganyagért a következő cimre: Old Age Security Offices, 85 Eglinton Ave. E., Toronto.
Tisztelt szerkesztőség,^ pár sor Írással azzal a kérdéssel fordulok önökhöz, hogy Magyarországba lehet-e küldeni lakodalmi ajándékcsomagot, bármiféle uj árukat vám nélkül ? Hallottam, hogy lehet, de nem tudom. L. B.,
A Magyarok Világszövetsége ez évi Kincses Kalendáriuma "Fontos tudnivalók' chn alatt, a 330. oldalának 5. bekezdésében a következőket mondja: *?Uj házasok a házasságltí)tés első évében feladott árukért 2000 forint érték erejéig vámot nem fizetnek."
A SZOCIALISTA ...
(Folytatás az 5. oldalról) és például 1938-ban minden 10.000 emberre 51 kórházi ágy jutott, 1949-beri 53.7 és 1961-ben már 72.4.
A közoktatás jellegének és tartalmának ösz-szehasonlithatatlanul való megjavulása mellett, ma több mint ötször annyi a középiskolások, közel ötször annyi az egyetemisták száma, mint Horthyék alatt.
Mig 1938-ban csak 9.2 millió kötet könyvet adtak ki, addig 1961-ben több mint 40 milliót. Itt mindenki vásárol és olvas könyveket. Csak 1958 óta a közkönyvtárak könyvállománya több mint 2.5 millió kötettel szaporodott, olvasóik száma pedig 190.000-reL
Az ország 32 színházában tavaly 13.000 előadás volt; a 4530 moziban a lakosság fejenként 13—14 filmet néz meg egy éven
. Jelenleg \ag>' 3 millió rádió és 300.000 tele-^^í^'^y^^A^^^^^sság tulajdonában és az irányzat felfele ivei.
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J^AGYARORSZAGON, persze, még bőven van hivatak bürokrácia, kényelmes ráérés más munkahelyeken IS, hiányosságok egyes készletekben es az elosztásban. Mindemellett a haladás tagadhatatlanul nagy, a légkör tisztul, az élet hangos, változatos és vidám. Mindenki ér-ZK csak a békét kell biztosítani ahhoz, hogy a part vezetésével és a szocialista tábor növekvő együttműködésében biztos és gyorsuló leíryen a menet a bőséges és boldog élet megvalósítása
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.Jpzsef Attila idézett versének szavaival élve: eltűnt a nemzeti nyomor**, az "ezernyi fajta népbetegség", amikor :
Az erőszak bűvöletében
mit bánja sok törvényhozó,
hogy mint pusztul el szép fajunk!
Máris megvalósult és még tovább teljesedik a J«)Itonek a hazához intézett forró kívánsága:
Adtál földmívest a tengernek, \ adj emberséget az embernek-Adj magyarságot a magyarnak, ho^ mi ne legyünk német gyarmat. Hadd írjak szépet, jót — nekem add meg boldogabb énekem!