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KANADAI MAGYAR MUNKÁS
1962 július 5
THE MORE you think about itthe, "freedom" of the "free world," For madder it makes you: the way j here is a question put to you, that the Gallop Poll people framed the i you are quite free to answer. Bait-
question they posed in a recent surway. Which would you choose, they asked — "fight an all out nuclear war or live under Com-munist rule?"
Built into this "innocent" question is the proposition that the choice now facing people is either Communism — or nuclear war; that unless you are for Communism you must be in favor of nuclear war. By a trickery that is beneath contempt, the choice of "peac© — not war" is shuffied out of sight. By means of this sleight-of-hánd the card-shapers of the "Institute of Public Opinion" are able to chalk up a score of 65% of Canadíans and 81% of Ameri-cans "in favor" of nuclear war! Thereby they add their mite to the cold war fund of fabricated hate and confusion that threatens the humán race.
Come to think of it, this poison-OU3 piece of opinion-mongering is a rather eloquent testimonial to the character and quality of the
ed with "objectivity", it conceals barbe<|^ hook that could cost you your life (as well as the rest of mankind's). But what are you complaining about? The priváté company that paddles the ques-tionaire operates as part of our "free enterprise" set-up, It is under no obligation to label its wares "fake" or "poison." Or to revéal the tie-up between its own small money-making and the enveloping web of $60,000,000,000 corporate profits, the reasor-for-being of the finance-capitalist economy in the United States.
The "score" chalk up be the Gallup Poll is as deceptive and misleading as the phony question which elicited it. But it carries a frightening warning of the need to do more — much more — to dis-pel the fog of the Big Lie.
One modest step in that direc-tion would be to write in a pro-test to the Canadian Institute of Public Opinion, with a copy to your local newspaper.
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IN REFRESHING contrast with the frosen clichés of the Cold War "Kremlinologists". Michael Bark-way's comments in Macleans about the new Program of the Commun-Ist Party of the Soviet Union breathe a warm common sense. "We're still wrong about the Rus-sians" is his theme and his argument takes apart somé of the un-derplnnings of the sedulously cul-tivated "bogey of communist wic-kedness."
"I don't think any of us have paid enough attention to the Third Program of the CPSU." saysBark-way. noüng: "the astonishing thing is that the brave new world of the communists' Third Program Is much the same as the kind of Ideal world we sometimes dream about." Moreover their "broad ob-jectives and methods are discribed in terms that are almost absurdly familiar to us." Things like more meat. fruit and vegetables, attrac-
Russians. We have to switch right out of our familiar world of thought and language and tiy to get into a world of utterly differ-ent thought and language and pre-suppositions." At this point one can do either one of the two things: make a bogey of the con-cepts of fundamental social change, as do the war-inciters and obsessive anti-sovieteers; or else try to understand honestly What is really involved: the taking pos-session by a community of work-ing people of their own productíve plánt, and building on the basis of these new social relationships a completely new kind of civiliza-tion.
Rejecting the bogey-fantasm, Barkway suggests that "If there is effort of understanding to be made, surely by every law of God and man it ought to start from our side." Of peaceful competition he says: "This is the best form of rivalry — to see which of us can provide the best form of life for humán beings."
"Maybe it needs saying more of-ten," he concludes. It does indeed!
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tive clothes, comfortable furniture, domestic appliances, shopping fa-cilities, more housing, shorter hours, better welfare services — all these and many more besides evoke a common texture of exper-ience that can help to bridge the abyss of incomprehension.
Terms like "socialism," "abo-lishion of exploiting classes, an era of communist construction" sounded to Barkway like "non-sense": "None of the words mean the same thing to us as to the the report.
NEW ROSES bred by crossing the popular Peaod with the strongly scented Crimson Glory will have pride of place at the fourth an-nual rose show of the Budapest horticultural research institute this month.
Also on view in the institute's four-acre rose garden will be twelve new roses recently acquired from western Europe. They have a Wide colour rangé, including the newly fashionable shades of tan-gerine and orange-yellow, says the newspaper Népszava.
The institute has 1,200 different varieties in the rose garden, says
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Jobless Umúer 20,
At a time whcn the U. S. economy needs more and more skilled people, therí? are more and more who have neither education, nor work. said Presidont Kennedy in a specch to a federal committee Investigating juvenile crime in the United States.
He noted that 30 to 40 percent of the youth leave school before completing their education. In deprcssed areas and large cities, the figure is even higher, reahc-ing 70 to 75 percent.
Paralleling this. in the larger areas. 70 to 75 percent of the youth become temporarily unemp-loyed. One out of four unemployed in .the U.S.. said Kennedy, is a young man or woman under the age of 20.
The president pointed out that the U.S. economy will be less and less dependent on unskilled labor in the future. because of machines and scientific progress.
HUNGARY'S State Sympho-ny Orchestra is to touv Bri-tain again next year, the orchestra's chief conductor János Ferencsik said in a preas interview in Budapest. The orchestra would probably arrive in Britain in mid-Feb-ruary.
Last time the orchestra came to Britain, in November, 1960, they played in Nottingham, Huddei-sfield, Bristol, Manchester, and other provinciai towns, as well as at the Royal Festival hall.
Ferencsik himself will be guest conductor at the San Francisco Opera House for a season beginning on Septem-ber 6. He will conduct Carmen, Verdi's Falslaff, and Richárd Strauss' Der Rosen-kavalier.
Later, he will spend two months as guest conductor with the Los Angeles Phil-harmonic Orchestra.
"I conducted the Los Angeles orchestra three yeai-s ago," said Ferencsik, "and we undei-stood each other."
He expects to return to Hungarj- by Christmas.
Ferencsik will be condnct-ing the Vienna Sympl y Orchestra in the 3,000-s3at open-air auditórium at the Rathaus Gardens early next month. He will then go to Brno, Czechoslovakia, to re-cord two rhapsodies by Bartók with the Czech Philhar-monic Orchestra.
WORK IN THE last while has been going ahead in eight sectors, embracing more than a dozen different projects.
In the field of health and social conditioiiis» matériái has been cómpiled in connection with hearings of the Royal Commission on Health Care. A member of the Study Centre attended a recent world congress on health and re-poi-ted in "The Marxist Quarterly", 1962 spring issue on the relevance öf its discussions for the situation in Canada.
Work on education includes an overalP.sur\ey being prepared for publication and studies on trends in Onta^ rio, Alberta and Québec (where matériái was worked on for a submission to a Royal Commission). A report of the Canadian Conference on Education (March 4-8) is plan-ned for a future issue of The Marxist Quarterly.
In the field of political economy the forthcoming publication of Frank and Libby Park's work, **The Anatomy of Big Business: an Argument fór the Nationalization of U. S. Monopolies in Canada" is looked forward to with lively anticipation.
Work has been done by the Economics Group on ques-tions raised by the currant Royal Commission on banking and fináncé in Canada. A study has been startod on the middle strata in Canadian society, which should prove use-ful in connection with the new emphasis being placed by the trade unión movement on organizing white collar workers. A more long-range project under consideration, (arising from the work done last year on changes in struc-ture of the working class) is a study of the condition of the Canadian working class. ^
Projects in the political science field touch on two re-lated and timely themes: one concerns the national question, the "English Canadian" (English-speaking or Anglo-Canadian?) nation, and recent developments in French Canada; the other, changes in the state structure that are involved in the demánd for a new Constitution of the right of national self-determination.
Work being done in Labor history is reflected in the spring issue of The Marxist Quarterly, Note on Archives and the publication of reminiscences of participants in early struggles. Discussions are planned, in generál history, on questions relating to the War of 1812 and the U. S. in the Period of the Civil War (1862—65).
Finally, in the newest sector in the Marxist Study Centre, seminars have started in philosophy, dealing with . bourgeois polemics against Marxism centering on the early work of Marx and Engels, the issue of Communism and freedom, and the concept of alienation. Questions of Logic, and a review-study of Lenin's Philosophical Noteboóks (vol. 38 of the Collected Works, which has just been pub-lished for the first time in English) are themes planned for future investigation and discussion.
THE 17TH annual "Czechoslovalc Day" sponsored by the Slovak Be-nefit Society, (IMBF) will be held at the Slovak summer camp at Streetsville, Sunday, July 8th.
The programme, starting at 2.30 P.M. will include lively Czech and Slovak folk dances and songs as well as many fine performers, among them the popular Vercho-vena Trió.
Games for the children, good food and M. Lucas' popular orchestra are added features of the aftemoon programme to make this Czechoslovak Day a memorable yearly event for aU those who shall attend.
The summer camp is located on the eastem bank of the Credit Ri-ver about 1 mile south of Streetsville. "
WILDE tS HUNGARY
Dávid Wilde, 24-year-old British pianist who was joint winner of last year's International Liszt Contest in Budapest, is giving a number of concerts in Hungary this month, somé of them in the open-air. One, on June 30 at the Martonvásár Beethoven Park, will be under the Soviet conductor Ni-kolai Anosov.
* ♦ « TRIBUTE FOR KODÁLY
Hungary's State Opera House is to revive Kodály's opera Háry János this autumn a'^ a tribute to the composer, who will be 80 in December. And a special issue of Hungárián Academy of Sciences' Studia Musicologica will consistof articles on Kodály written by lead-ing intemational musicologists.
* * * OPERETTA FOR MOSOOW
A 180-strong company from Hungary's Metropolitan Operetta Theatre is to give 12 guest per-formances in Moscow from July 16. The Company will take its own orchestra and technical staff.
* * * THEY GO FOR MODERN MÜSIC
A series of chamber music con-
certs to begin soon in Budapest, which will include works by at least 17 non-Hungarian modern composers, including Albán Berg, Honegger, Webern, Eugen Suchon and Hindemith, has been completely sold out. Also included in the programmes will be works by eleven contemporary Hungárián composers.
UTTLE FARMER
By KERN PEDERSON
More old palaces in Hungary are to be turnéd into tourist hos-tels, Mr. István Bata, director of hostels maiiagement board, said in Budapest.
This will help the board to cope with the number of ramblers "which is growing fast", he said. About 1,200,000 people visit tourist hostels in Hungary every year, and of these 300,000 want over-night accomodation,
Palaces taken over by the Board are the Mattemich at Bajma, county Komarom, the Teleki at Gyomro, the Kamandiuli at Majk. the Metzner at Kéked, county Borsod, and the Andrássy manor and castle at Monok. Mr. Bata said they will be restored to their old splendour and then be open to tourists and students.
^yngciríoeis Frepcire For Ddiaube Jamboree
MORE THAN 150 Hungárián boating enthusiasts are expected to take part in an 800-mile canoe-ing and rowing jamboree on the Danube this summer, from Engel-hartszeU in Austria, through Hungary, to Kladovo in Yugoslavia. líie trip, organized annually in (Continued on page 11)