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THE FHÍST official delegation of students from Canadian universities visited the Soviet Union this summer as gueste of the Committee of Youth Organizations of the ÜSSR. The delegation which was headed by Mr. Bruce Rawson, national president of the National Federation of Canadian University Students (NFGUS), included students from the universities of Toronto, Montreal, McGill, Saskatchewan and British Columbia; all®
were seeing the country for the first time.
The áccomplished purpose of the visit was to get acqua-inted with the country í to observe the Síjrstem o£ higher edu-cation; the students' work, the ac-tivities. of student organizations; as weli as the generál life and re-création of Soviet ybutlu In pur-sűit of this aim many citíes were visited as weli as the Black Sea resort city, Sochi.
A Thoroughiy Thoug^t-Ont System
In an interview with Mr. Vlad-len Yevgenyev at. the end of the tpur and before leaving for home, Mr. Rawson said; **We came here With én acadexnic imowiédge of thie country and we looked forward to comparing it to reality. Ihanics tó the orgahizatíon of our travel we managed to see much.
"Our study of the Soviet higher education system cohfirmed our opinion that it is tlioroughiy thought-out system with an early specialization of students, some-tliing we do nót havé in Canada. We arrived at the conclusioh that you concentraté your efforts maih-ly on training engineers for most of the various branches <rf thé countrys economy in accordance with the program of its develop-ment. In the Soviet Union students are treated with much res-pect, ás everybody understands that in the hear future they will play an important role in the Me of the country.
••We would üke to come to an agreement on student exchanges, for thém tö study at least for one yéar in the universities of the USSR and Canada, ánd to arrange short-term reciprocal visits of stu-
dents tó the university centres of our countries. It would be uséful to organize exchanges of profes-sors who would deliver lectures on histdry, economícs ' and political scIences. I thínk the students to our countries would be taterested in exchanging tape recordings of student orchestras. An exchange of photo exhibitíons has begun. Re-cently we received from the Soviet Youth Organizations Ctommit-tee a photo exWbitipn on the Itfe ánd studies of the Soviet students. We are going to display it in the 36 tmiversities belonging to our Federation." V
iii conclusion Mr. Rawson com-mented: "Everything that has beeft done for strengthening the rela-tions between the Soviet and Canadian students is only títé begin-ning, but it is a good beginning. The expansion of our contacts will promote mutual understanding ajid the cause of peace."
Mutual Únderstuidlng Desired
Frank Griffiths of the University of Toronto had this to say: "We spoke tó many Soviet people. í recaU the talk 1 had ta Stalin-. grad with the local post-^gradüate students. Not retreating from their ideploglcal positions, they stacerely w^mted to understand me. And in this I see the usefulness of such relations. Jn frank conyersations we should honéstly try to know and undemtand each other, Good personal relations will contribute to tiie development of cordial relations between the Soviet and Canadian peoples. That is why I am completely and enttrely for ex-panding the Soviet-Canadian student relations."
(Oanada-USSR Assoolation Bulletin)
CANAniilK ON THE 1^ lESTS, WEáPONS
"1^ courage and my skllL" These words f rom Johii Bimsrán's "Pilgrim's Progress" are inscribed on á plaque to be placed in.Earl Haig Collegiáte Institute in ttíbute to Ferenc Hideg. / ?
Ferenc Hideg injured his rlght knee at thé, collégiate's fíéld day two years ágo. Twelve^, m later, after completing Örade 12 with high marks, unaffectéd charm,; qulet courage, jáncl inci|r-. ablé bcme oancezv hé etted/
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]^*rank's teáchérs last night ask-ed peimission to place a plaque in the ^oól. in tribute to him. North York Board of Education unanimously endorséd the plan.
!nie shiéld's inscription reads: *1n tribute to Frank Hideg, 1942-1960. a student at EarI Haig 0>1^ legiate Institute wh(^ fórtítude
in the face of a crippUng illness set an example for €űL"
At 18, Ferenc Hideg had endured more pain than most persons ex-perience in a Ufetíme. Doctora said he could live only a few weeks shortiy after his right leg was am-putáted. ^ fierce will to live. to bó % MMincert viölinist, kept him alive 10 weeks.
"He was weli liked and much adnüred,"Isaid Dávid Tough^Horth X<3prk seccáidary »^óol superhit^-dent, whb iast iüghtdescribed Ferenc in his last year of schooL
''He had to be carried into school and from dass to class. Hé ncver oncé Gomplained and neithér did those who carried him. He had a pleasantdii^MSiüonandwcm everybody over without even tiytog." "He was quiet," Ferenc ifideg.
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lABOSK, stndents, mot}»r8 and other C^madlán citizens fflid organizations in tho test few weeks 1^^ stepped ap their demonstrations and generál activities against nuclear arms for Canad{^ agahist naclear tests and weapons anywliere. ^^^^ ^ ^
Ih Vancouver (above) nine hundred prace mardhers paraded on Sept. 16 in opposition to nuclear arma in Canada. lliesamehappened in Montreal on that day before the U.S. consulatc.^^^^^^^
In Ttoronto on Sept. 17 a long line of peaoa picketers demonstrated against civil defense ^^^'^^ smá nuclear atms outside faliout shelter that housed family for one we^
a 7S-hour A-arms^ ptotest in Ottawa before FarUament on Th^oksi^^i^ end by
hundreds of Ontario and Québec students and other citizens.
Soma wéeks ago fiie New Democra.tic Party issued a three-point peace proposal "tn place of the gov-^nmenf s hysterical and barren pollcies".
In Montreal on Sept. 30 somé 700 mofhers and children demonstrated under the great banner "Ban Nnclear Weapons Tests by Ali Nations".
In the lítót few weeks the following labor bodies took stand against nuclear pollcy and for peace: the Ckinfederatiott of National Trade Unions of Québec province, the Nova Scotla Federation of Labor con-vention, the labor coundDs <rf London, OakviUe, HamUton, Montreal and
The Communist Party umonnoed a *Vo War Over Berlin^ demonstration In^Ottawa on Oct. iS liurough a trek to Ottawa from áll over Eastem Canada. :
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IN THE WAR and postwar periods when employment was at a lügh levél in the United States, nothing was heard of the "Okies" — the itinerant farm laborers about whom John Steinbeck wrote his famous növel, The Grapes of Wxath. But now that employment is slack and several mülion Ame-riciűis are without jobs, the Okies, pathetíc hiunans that they are, have b.egttn to reappear m news items. This time an abashed and at least slightly conscience-smit-ten Congress is interesting itself hl their plight. The Senate has appointed a sub-committee on mig-ratory labor Mid its chairm^, Se-nator Harrison Williams, has al-ready introduccd legislation to provide educational opportunities for migrant workers — a surpris-
Sr., recalled last night. A Hun-garian-bom gardener, Mr. Hideg tóid how Ferenc kept exercising the fingers of his vioUn hand even when the rest of his body was stiff and to pato, He refused to take shots to his arms.
•T gave the violih to the school," Mr. Hideg said.
Ferenc was shy and pioud, said his only sister.
"He wouldn't come to open the door iinless he knew it was me," she said. -
"He was a good boy." sáid his mother.
Toronto Daily Star, September 26, 1961.
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ing proportion of whom are illi-terate — and their children, to require registration and regulation of agricultural labor contractors, to create health services for the migrants, to assure minimura standards to hoiistogs, and to es-tablish a minimum wage.
Thus far, the sítttogs of the Williams sub-committee have pro-duced evidence that is both shóck-ing" and, tó most Americans, to-credible. It tums out that to the U.S., the richest country to thé world, which is giving bUlioris of dollars tó less fortunate countries to help them improve the livtog condiüons of the poor, there are close to half a millión farm workers ^ho drift from place .to place to harvest the crops and who work as long as ten or twelve hours a day for as litüe ás thirty cents an hour. The Williams sub-committee found that the migrants have been the victims of "a bittér ktod of exploiattion" — sometimes by employers, sometimes by crew leaders. They have likewise been the victims of a law pushed through Congress by the powerftxl lobbyists of U.S. farmers. which aUows the importation of cheap Mexican labor for harvesttog. More than three hundred thousand Mex-icans were brought to the United States last year and retumed to Mexico when the harvesttog was done. The Mexicans, caUed brace-ro3 or "strong ones", are hard workers. and although they must
THREE heavy bundles containing a petition with the names of more than 142,000 Canadians protesting nuclear weapons for Canada was placed on Prime Mtoister John Diefenbakefs desk last week end in^Öttawa, while iii the past weeks letters havé been received in minis-ters* officés from 10.000 Canad-ians, and only a handful favor nuclear weapons for Canada.
Volunteer workera at the College St offices of the Canadian Committee for the Gontrolof Radia-tíon Hazards in Toronto were stiű processtog late arrivtog petitions last week, as they made readyfor a deiegatíon to go to Ottawa with the weli bver 100,000 signatures.
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be paid a mirJmum of fifty cents an hour under the law, the major-ity of farmers prefer them to the Okies, for Whom there is, at the moment, no minimum wage.
What sort of people are the Okies? Uoyd Curtis, an Arkans^ State, Emptóyment Service official, says of those who chopped cottfflx to Arkansas this summer: "The AmericaM w^^ this stoop
labor for thirty cents an hour are the dregs of humanity". A more charitable view is that they are people withmo sMU, no roota, no education,> no labor unión,, no Épokesmöff/ people who lack we thtoga that áre essential today for economi0 survival,-even in the lichest xiátíon on éart^
• -MACIJIAN'S bctobsr T, 1961.
Knlg^tiy Caiaige Most memorable trafflc safe^ admonition we havB seen is lettfl^-éd to large prtot across the top a toU^éon.the Montreal bx^ route, á new "SupéiWglwray^