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Nigerians “No nigerian will kill you unless you kill yourself.” This statement typifies the attitude of nigerian students at the Biafra teach-in in the campus center thursday . Nigerians neatly heaped the blame for the deaths of over two million biafrans on the biafrans themselves and on those canadians who give moral and finan. cial support to Biafra. On the other hand, in the words of one nigerian speaker, “the nigerians love the biafrans. ” An In terpax representative
replied that “considering two million biafrans have already died as a result of the war, the nigerians might as well hate the biafrans. ” He also emphasized that all money donated by Canadians for relief is spent on food and medical supplies only and not for arms. Moreover, he denied that relief planes are used as a cover for gun planes. When questioned by the audience about the importance of oil in the conflict, a biafran student answered that Biafra
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seceded not because of oil but because of the pogroms. “Britain received the greatest benefits from the oil,” he said. When a nigerian speaker was asked where the oil went he would not answer. Later, a nigerian from the audience mentioned four american oil companies present in Nigeria. The position of nigerian students on the conflict was that Nigeria must remain united. The biafrans said that when certain people are reduced to stereotypes, it is better to be
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dead. They also said they had no sentiment attached to sovereignty, but that all their interests in sovereignty were to protect the people. “The state is meant to serve man,” said one biafran “Man is not meant to serve a geographical entity.” When questioned about Nigeria’s refusal to agree to a referendum, a nigerian speaker replied that Nigeria is prepared to call a referendum if Biaf ra cooperates. In a broadsheet distributed to
the audience, the nigerians also stated that the government guarantees the right to self-determination of all ethnic peoples. However the same broadsheet also states that the nigerian government is only prepared to engage in peace talks “given the prospect of a return to a united Nigeria ’ ’ . Unless one side or the other is prepared to reassess their position, there will be no peace talks, and the biafrans have shown that they are prepared to die rather than give in.
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Biafra teach-ins held ucross Canada
The purpose of this picture is not to show that it is currently winter and University avenue is a cold place to walk-both of which are true. The point is that someone decided to impress uniwat’s walking population with the necessity of always going through proper channels because the-y created a three-foot-wide passageway in the middle of a six-foot path.
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MONTREAL (CUP)-The McGill senate dealt a stunning blow to the autonomy of the campus student council Wednesday, refusing to ratify the students’ new constitution which was overwhelmingly adopted in a student referendum last march. If the senate had approved the constitutional amendments it would have been the last time the university’s highest academic body would be called on to examine the document which govems student affairs-and theirin lies the problem. The new constitution would delete the clause requiring amendmerits to be ratified by the senate. Thursday the senators insisted their veto power had to stay, and showed why by using it. If the senate were to ratify the viceprincipal document, said Stanley Frost, “the students’ society would then become a
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TORONTO (CUP)-Brian Humphries, an english lecturer, was suspended without pay this week by Ryerson polytechnic institute, following his conviction last monday, in Kingston Ontario, for possession and cultivation of marijuana. Two petitions are currently being circulated on the campus asking for his reinstatement. The students’ petition claims the institute’s administration is unduly persecuting Humphries. The second, sponsored by the
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other faculty in the english department, says they do not wish to conduct those classes normally taught by the suspended teacher. Humphries’ suspension is the second like action this week. The administration at the university of Saskatchewan has refused to re-hire teaching assistant Jeff Goodman, convicted last summer for theft of a 3% cent can opener. Students on the Regina campus are also circulating a petition requesting Goodman’s rehiring.
OTTAWA (C U P)-Students from across the country, allied with local groups opposed to the biafran war, joined the Biafra moratorium, to raise funds for food relief flights to the starving nation. Organizers said the aims of the “moratorium” were to urge the Canadian government to take initiatives in the U.N. to promote a cease-fire, put pressure on Britain and other to end arms shipments to the war zone, and provide financial assistance to canairelief, an organization flying food to Biafra. The idea of a moratorium originated with two McMaster university students, Al Brown and Richard McGrath, who sent letters to student councils across Canada asking them to bring their schools into the action, both have been working since the summer with interpax, a larger pro:Biafra group, and say their goal is $200,000 for food relief flights. At McMaster, more than 200 students volunteered to do odd jo,bs and donate the proceeds to canairelief. McMaster faculty had donated $1500 by Wednesday for jobs ranging from fencepainting to pianotuning. At a november 22 Gord Lightfoot concert, students donated $300 and a student union dance gave all proceeds to the fund. The McGill Biafra committee has concentrated on a petition committee, which had collected over 1000 signatures by tuesday and was expecting many more. A film on Biafra was shown in the late afternoon and also in the classes or sympathetic professors. Students also raised funds through a ‘rice meal’ available to the exclusion of all other food in the university cafeteria at noon thursday. The McGill group is also distributing a petition for the federal to other cities in government
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Quebec and to Bishop’s university in Lennoxville, Quebec. At Trent university in Peterborough, students aligned with local citizens for a silent march of mourning thursday night. Council organized a discussion group on the war, and one Trent college is supplying envelopes and stationery for a letter-writing campaign to external affairs minister Mitchell Sharp, to protest Canadian inaction on Biafra. At the university of New Brunswick. About 100 students netted $1000 by stopping students and faculty. leaving the campus at rush hour, and forcing them to pay a “voluntary toll.” A local bookstore cooperated by offering a 10 percent discount to university members, and giving the money from the discount to the moratorium committee. Students from the university of Toronto, York university and Ryerson polytechnical institute also joined citizens groups, in a rally thursday evening at city hall where former CBC newscaster Stanley Burke, a leader in the biafra campaign, spoke. Burke also spoke in Hamilton Wednesday, where his speech turned into a fight with nigerian students who said his campaign “appealed to emotion and not to reason. ” Terming the Biafra war the “worst disaster since the Auschwitz gas chambers,” Burke called on the Canadian government to pressure for a ceasefire. The university of Toronto groups also hosted Samuel Imeko, a biafran cabinet minister, and Dick Quinn, a minister who has worked with the food relief program. Opposition to the Biafra day came at McMaster from nigerian students opposed to biafran independence, and also from the McMaster student movement, who denounced the war as brought on by imperialist nations who wanted the profits from guns to Nigeria and biafran oil.
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Behind strong second half efforts by York’s John Pizale and Sandy Nixon, the yeomen The Acadia university axemen came back to build up a five showed Waterloo basketball fans just what a goup of all-american point lead. The warriors made one last charge with about one boys can do for a Canadian unminute to go as they narrowed iversity as they successfully dethe margin to one point. The fended their championship of the yeomen fought off the drive, tip-off tournament last weekend. and made it four Behind tournament all-stars however, points at the end of the game center Rick Eaton, from Verona and guard Steve 72-68. New Jersey, The yeomen didn’t really dePound of Millinocket Maine, the serve the win but the warriors acemen proved too much for their opposition as they beat deserved it less. Throughout the game it appeared like a contest Queen’s 66-53, York 91-48 and Guelph 78-59. of who wanted to lose least-not win the most. (Perhaps the warPound who scored 7‘2 points in riors were a little overconfident the tournament was named the most valuable player. after seeing York lose by 40 points to McMaster on wednesTwo of the other three tourney all-stars came from the other day night.) In the other first-round games finalist, the Guelph gryphons, who surprised everyone by taking Guelph beat St. Mary’s 82-78, Laurentian built up a big lead an early lead and keeping the and held off a Western charge final game very close until the to ’ win 76-75 and Acadia beat second half. Their all-stars were Queen ‘s 66-53. forward Mark Walton, their high In the semis Guelph, behind scorer, and guard Leigh Ham-Walton and Hammond, downed mond, Guelph’s floor leader. Laurentian 77-71 and Acadia desThe fifth all-star was the warJaan Laaniste who won troyed York 91-48 with Pound riors’ getting 20 and Eaton 18 and the scoring honours with 77 points as the warriors recovered from most of, the first stringers resting the second half. a first round loss to York to win The consolation semis saw St. the consolation round with vicMary’s beat Western 86-81 de+ tories over Queen’s and St. Mary’s pite Dave McGuffin’s 24 points Friday night’s York-Waterloo game was a disappointing one for the mustangs. Western, apparently had not played this year for the warriors. The first half before the tourney, and did not of the game was extremely sloplook sharp this weekend. py, featuring many bad passes The other consolation semi and turnovers by both teams and very erratic shooting. Typical of was uniwat’s victory over Queen’s The warriors held Queen’s to just .the shooting were the five misses in a row from the foul line by 20 points in the second half as they widened their half time Laaniste. Laaniste warmed up in the lead to win by 26,79-53. Tom Keiswetter led the warsecond quarter and had 17 points by the half when the warriors led riors with 28 points but was still much too willing to take 39-33. the long shot rather than set up Early in the second half the Dale Hajdu got warriors extended their lead to the offense. more floor time and had 14 points 11 points before the roof fell in. The York team threw up a for uniwat. In the final, Acadia fought zone defense which the warback from a large deficit and riors had great trouble breakran away from Guelph in the secing,. This meant that they were ond half, 78-59. The scoring for forced to take the outside shots. the axemen was by Pound with The main long-shot on friday was Tom Keiswetter who was 34, Eaton with 20 and Gary Folker-he’s the Canadian of the not hot and the warriors were group- with 8. not moving in for the rebounds. by Peter Marshall Chevron staff
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ed for half of the warriors’ output. was Thorpe unfortunately The warriors played their best injured and may be out for a game of the season friday evencouple of weeks with a bad knee. ing as they routed Windsor 8-2. In front of goalie Jim Weber, Even the loss of Ron Robinson, who wore a mask for the first last year’s OQAA scoring champ, time, the warriors started the didn’t seem to detract from the ’ game with three unanswered warriors performance. goals in the first period. At 6:09 In fact, Dave Rudge, who took Rick Maloney scored from the over Robinson’s position got left slot, getting the puck from t.wo goals and his line with Bob Bob Reade. For the next two Thorpe and Ken Laidlaw accountminutes the warriors peppered Chevron staff
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The axemen are well coached and very professional-looking and played perfectly organized ball both offensively and defensively. Guelph’s early lead had come from Walton and Hammond but the Acadia defense shut them off late in the first half. Walton and Mike Power continued to hit the outside stuff in the second half but the axemen were pulling away by then. The axemen played their sloppiest game against Queen’s on friday but proved Saturday that they were the class of the tourney and maybe of the country at this time. (Incidentally, the warriors apologized for losing to York. They felt they could have given Acadia a better match than they received in the tournament. ) The warriors played much closer to potential in the final of the consolation round when they beat St. Mary’s 89-78. That was probably the most composed first-half that St. Mary’s played this weekend. The warriors hustled remarkably well as they were playing
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after only one and a half hours rest because poor scheduling gave them back-to-back contests. The warriors got 31 points from 24 from Keiswetter Laaniste, against Mike Chambers’ 16 and Al Brown’s 14 for St. Mary%. The same problems were present, however, despite the overall sharper effort by uniwat. The warriors have got to improve at the foul line. As an aggressive team they must expect to take fouls but they must throws capitalize on the free given them. The uniwat boys also need When consistent rebounding. Paul Bilewicz and his rebounding helpers Wing, Crichton, Webster and Hamilton have a good game under the boards, the warriors do well. During the drought period against York, however, the warriors got almost no rebounds for about four minutes when they failed to score. When Bilewicz does get the rebounds he needs more help than he is presently getting to get the ball out of trouble under the warrior basket.
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Windsor goalie Bruner; with Rick Bacon just missing the corner at one point. The Windsor lancers seemed to be standing flabbergasted, ,,making j token moves to get the puck. Dave Rudge got a quick wrist-shot from inside the blueline to make it 2-O. Three minutes later Rudge’s line scored again as Ken Laidlaw scored on a backhand shot which slid through a maze of legs to beat a screened Bruner. Seconds
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The warriors also need more scoring from their forwards. In the three tournament games Webster had only 13, Hamilton 9 and Wing 19. Two scorers doth not a basketball team make. And speaking of scorers’, Tom Keiswetter’s long jumpers are still not percentage shots. In all , fairness, however, the warriors did play much better in their final game and built up a strong lead with a second half surge before they eased up. The warriors face their toughest test of the year this wednesday when they play the team from Port Huron junior college in Michigan. This team is a highlyrated american basketball school and won the junior college chamoionship last vear in Michigan. American college sport teams have proven in the past that they play classy professional ball and should make for an impressive display on Wednesday evening. The game will immediately follow the wrestling meet which is against the YMC, including Lutheran’s wrestling team, beginning at 6 : 30.
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later Bruner was called on to make one of his many good saves on Rick Maloney, who found himself uncovered in front of thenet. The second period saw the warriors let up a bit, until. Windsor scored on a power play at 1:59. Going back into their-earlier style, they again beat the Windsor goalie at 11:34 as Rudge slammed home Ken Laidlaw’s rebound. Ian McKegney led a good rush a few minutes later and was able to slide the puck between Bruner’s right side and the goalpost. That gave the warriors a 5-l lead to take into the third period. Again they relaxed a bit until Windsor scored their last goal of the game at 7:46. Tom McFadden made some sharp moves as he carried the puck from his own blueline to score. It didn’t take the warriors long to reply; Kropf picked up his second goal of league play, beating Bruner with a shot that caught the upper left .hand corner. Ken Laidlaw got his second goal of the night fro’m a scramble in front of the Windsor player’s skate. The last goal of the game came when the warriors had a two man breakaway. Electing to shoot, Ric Bacon fired the puck into the corner at 17: 55.-. tuesday
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Though the absence of Ron Robinson, who has left to play with the Oakville oaks, seems a heavy loss, the warriors played as though they didn’t miss him. They were skating fast and hard and shooting well. It was only the lancer’s allstar goalie Bruner who kept the score as low as it was. Warriors outshot the lancers 55-13. Once the warriors got inside the Windsor zone they did a marvellous job of keeping the puck inside the blueline. The defense played well offensively though at times making bad defensive mistakes. Their strong skating usually covered up adequately, however, and the few chances Windsor did have, they were not able to take full advantage of. Tonight the warriors play an exhibition game at Sheridan, and return to league-play this friday when they host the university of Toronto blues. The blues, Waterloo’s perennial nemesis, may have been weakened by the departure of some of last year’s players but it can’t be counted on. Their victorious over St. Lawrence and Clarkson, two top american schools, do not attest to any weakening. The warriors feel that they can’t lose at home and will have their toughest test on friday. 2 december
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KITCHENER (GINS)-Rev. Harry Janke of Kitchener, St. Monica House board chairman and chaplain, stepped down from both positions during the second annual meeting of Wednesday of the board of directors of the home for unwed mothers. Archdeacon J.G. Lethbridge of Windsor, who will become rector of St. John’s anglican church here in january, succeeds Janke. A new chaplain will be appointed later. At the same time, the board approved ’ a recommendation to enlarge its executive committee with the aim of strengthening.. R. G. Meunier succeeds Stewart McMillan as vicechairman. McMillan was nominated for board chairman, but Janke,
in McMillan’s absence, said that the former vicechairman had told him he could not accept the position. On recommendations from the nominating committee, the executive committee will have seven members instead of its previous four. The committee has been asked to elect its own chairman and could increase its membership to eight by selecting someone from the rest of the board. McMillan was chairman of the executive committee last year. St. Monica house staff were not at the meeting. No mention was made of the September 12 firings by Janke and McMillan of four staff members: executive director Barbara Evans, program
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KITCHENER (GINS)-A Breslau man was sentenced to one year in jail for committing gross indecency with a 15year-old boy, who was termed by the defence counsel a “willing victim”. In sentencing, Kitchener judge Kirkpairick stated the recent leghomosexual islation all0 wing acts between consenting adults was ‘fparliament’s stamp of appoval on acts of perversion.’ He said parliament’s action made homosexual acts “accepttable behavioral practice.” “They sanctioned the act itself -1 can’t interpet it any other way. ” Kirkpatrick said if parliament was merely unhappy with the enforcement of the previous law prohibiting homosexuality,
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director Anne Poetker, and two housemoth&s. The firings led to a request by an NDP legislator for a public inquiry. Asked later why the firings were not discussed, G.N. Luxton, bishop of Huron, replied that “no one asked any questiqns about them. If questions had been asked, the board would have sought to give adequate answers. ” Evans has not been replaced. but personnel chairman Huehn told the board a number of “highly qualified” applicants are being considered. Business administrator Mary Maxon is now acting executive director. A social worker and a program director have been employed on a part-time basis.
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it could “simply have changed the way of prosecuting it.” Instead, parliament preferred to set a new “standard.” -He rejected a plea by defence counsel A.W. Boos for a lengthy period of close supervision and rehabilitation out of custody.
start after he has served his sentence. Kirkpatrick said he imposed the sentence as a deterrent and a warning to all those people who see no difference between adults and juveniles in the perpetration of their acts. He admitted he was aware that the man’s interests would be better served with probation. “The penal setting is a detriment to his treatment,” he said. “I know that if he goes back to prison he will be confronted with the same circumstances that brought about his problem. ” Kirkpatrick said he was primarily concerned with the interests of juveniles. They need to be protected against such behaviour, he stated.
“The accused doesn’t need to be rehabilitated,” Kirkpatrick said. “The legislators in their wisdom now have placed their stamp of approval on such acts of perversion. “All he (the accused) has to learn now is to limit his acts to adults and stay away from juveniles. ” In addition to the one-year jail term, the man was also given 18 months probation to
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With all the clashing opinions produced by student council’s decision to ban beauty contests and related activities, it was decided that some of the females who are at the center of the controversy be given a chance to s state their views. The candidates for the miss Warrior contest were being judged last thursday night, and, thanks to the courtesy of the organizers of the contest, two Chevron reporters were permitted to interview five of the fifteen contestants. A copy of the motion that appeared in friday’s paper was read to them at the first of the interview and they were informed that it was now law. The first, three girls were rather indifferent in their attitudes. The last two girls, however, held stronger opinions. Question: What was your reaction when you saw the picture of the Chevron’s entry in the miss ’ Warrior contest on the frond; page of last friday’s issue? First girl: I’m glad to see that the Chevron is discouraging boys from entering beauty contests. Question: Why did you decide to enter this contest? Second girl : I was asked to enter it. I felt flattered to be asked. Third girl : I’m representiqg St. Paul’s college. The college’s student council chose me to represent them and I don’t think it
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would have been right for me to turn them down. Question: The main argument against beauty contests is that they are perpetuating a situation where women are looked upon as objects to be manipulated and are conducive to the oppression of women. What do you think of this point of view? It’s rather unfortunate that the young ladies did not have the opportunity to answer this question, because at this time Judd Whiteside, who is allegedly the chief judge of the contest and who was listening to the interview, took it upon himself to ask the reporters a question. Whiteside: If beauty contests and strip shows are supposed to be so oppressive to women, why does the Chevron put pictures of strippers in the paper? Reporter (realizing he was referring to the September 19 issue which featured pictures of a stripper in full action at an engineering society pub): It is the duty of the Chevron to cover all events. We were merely reporting in this case. We weren’t sponsoring it or anything. Whiteside : Oh. The fourth girl was the most cooperative of the five. She often asked the reporters questions, so it was difficult to avoid debate. Question : What’s your opinion on the council’s motion? Answer: You can’t put strippers and topless go-go dancers in the same category as beauty contests. I agree strippers are very degrading, but there’s nothing wrong with beauty contests.
Question: But what about the principle that in all these activities women and their bodies are being judged and graded like objects in order to perpetuate male chauvinism? Answer: Well in this contest we’re not wearing bathing suits or anything. We’re being judged on our personality and intelligence, not our bodies. Question : Do you feel that you’re being oppressed at all by entering this contest? Answer: I didn’t until I read some of the articles in the Chevron . Question : Did the articles themselves oppress you or the ideas presented in them? Answer: The ideas presented in them. Question: Would you participate in a strip show if you were asked? Answer: No. Would you attend one? First reporter: I used to. But that was before I became enlightened. Second reporter: As a matter of fact, there’s a topless go-go dancer over in the food services building right now. But, as you can see for yourself, I’m not there. * Girl : But if you weren’t here would you go? Second reporter: I wouldn’t waste my money. Question: Do you think that women are oppressed at all in north american society? Answer: No, not too much. Question: What about all the women in the labur force who
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are consistently being paid less for equal labor? Answer: They should get another job if they aren’t paid ‘enough. There are places where they can get decent salaries. Will this story be twisted when it’s written up? Reporter: What gives you the impression that Chevron stories are twisted? Answer: Catchy headlines and stuff, you know. Some of the letters in feedback are terrible and shouldn’t be printed. Reporter: But it’s the policy of the Chevron to print all letters that come in. It’s more democratic that way. At this point, Whiteside charged that the reporters were being argumentative instead of just asking questions. We remain indebted to him for helping us get back on the topic and sticking to the routine of only asking questions. It was interesting to find out the opinions of the fifth girl, because her picture h-ad appeared on the front page of the september 24 issue -of-the Gazette. She had also participated in a rally sponsored by the engineering society in which the winner enjoyed the pleasure of having a date with her.
Question: How did you feel at the first of this term when your picture was published for all the campus to view? Answer: I was wearing only shorts and a skimpy blouse in that picture and I woridered about the impressions that people might get. in fact, I some kids came and asked me if they also took pictures of me in the nude. Question: Did you feel at, all oppressed when you participated in the rally’, I Answer: I know a lot. of engineers and I think they are very nice people. I was glad to help them out. Question: What do you think of the Chevron’s entry in the miss Warrior contest? Answer: I didn’t see anything wrong width the gag. I think that it shows that the Chevron has good spirit. Question: What do you think of the resolution that student council passed? Answer: It depends on the conest. If they were judging us in the flesh like a piece o$ meat, I would agree with it. But in this contest we are being judged on personality and grooming.
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What was that we have always been told about communists? They rewrite history in their own favor, something a government in a democracy would never do. Then ye could.not possibly be living in a democracy. * * * For management, public opinion (same as management) and the Ontario labor department to take credit with trade unions for ending child tabor and raising standards of wages and working conditions is a boldface lie. Perhaps they can take joint credit for bringing legislation, but the legislation onlv made uniform the barest of improvehents that were originally
brought about by hard struggle of labor unions. That hard struggle was fought against management and public opinion (mainly newspapers) with direct assistance from the government that smashed unions and strikes with law if possible and cops and the army if necessary. If it were not for unions and mass action in general, child labor, unlimited working hours and r-170pay standards would still be recognized as part of free enterprise by management, its public opinion organs and its government. And as for striking a blow for working women by strengthening the equal pay for equal work law, what has
been done to put the fine principle into practise? About as much as the pollution control officers in the Kitchener- Waterloo area...nothing. A ’ woman has to demand her rights, and if she’s doing what is recognized as women’s work: as a nurse, secretary, waitress and so on, that’s not work equal to a man. * * * Probably far more damaging propaganda is the ad about federal initiative in collective bargaining kept a lot of people off the streets last year. According to the federal labor department’s rhetbric, strikes (and to be fair, lockouts) are nothing more than a breakdown in communication.
Oh really: management just simply did not understand that the workers did not think they ‘were getting enough pay to even keep up with the cost of living, let alone get ahead. Or perhaps the workers did not understand that management thought they were probably not respecting the owners’power enough. What the federal department of labor really means is they kept a lot of people out of the streets where, freed of their alienating jobs and in a position to communicate (sorry, disturb the peace) with his fell0 w worker, they might decide there’s something wrong with the system and do something to change it. f * *
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OnturioDepartment of labouryou might still be living in the good old days.
It’s 1908 and there are still children working in the mines. 3ut you’re better off be&use you have a skill and you work in a factory. You work a normal day lie everybody else. Fourteen hours. You make eight dollars a week if you work the full seven days. Most men do; because families need food and a roof over their heads. Your holiday is Christmas. One day. You need more, but nobody’s going to pay for it, and besides, there are others just waiting to take your job. And payment for overtime hasn’t even been invented yet. Nightmare? No,&at’s the way it was. But over the last tifty years things have changed. Trade unions, management, public
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Labour have brought about legislatiqn to improve job conditions and wage standards. Child labour is long-abolished, and we’ve managed to establish a iegal maximum of 8 hours work a day and 48 hours a week. The law also guarantees you a minimum wage of $1.30 an hour, with time-and-a-half for any hours you work over the 48-hour maximum. Today, you are guaranteed a paid vasation. And last year we struck a blow for working women, strengthening the equal pay for equal work law. And, if you’re working in Ontario without the protection of a union, or if you’re a new Canadian or a native Canadian unaware of your employment rights, the Ontario Department of Labour offers help for the asking. There is still much to be done. But we’ve ahadymadrti~~d~ably~thaa
they were in the good old days. As well as upholding employment standards and regulating the private employment agencies within the province, our Manpower Division provides an industrial training program and directs the Women’s Bureau and the Office of the Athletics Commissioner. Another division deals with industrial safety, construction safety, the inspection of all the elevators and boilers within the Province, and the certification of operating engineers. We also administer the Labour Relations Board, the Conciliation Services Branch, and the Human Rights Commission. With such varied areas of responsibility the Department of Labour is much more than just the Department of Labour. It’s really the Department of Labour and a whole lot of othmhing&
Ontario Department of labour, Employment Standards, and a whole lot of other things. -this
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re are many types of governpropaganda financed by taxa lnd most of it is for partisan ‘es (besides making the instruof public opinion richer through, znues). have seen the Ontario governrade crusade which subtly told Ins to vote conservative. ritish Columbia, the tax-financhod fife film helped re-elect ‘t this summer. of course, the Ontario govit deluged the media with ads OHSIP medicare that not only edit for a “comprehensive. pro e” program, but told citizens id not need to do anything. It out to be a real botch, but that incidental. * * )c
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the real damage by government anda goes beyond partisan lea matter of ideology. younger generation of workers participate in the struggles of Ior movement that ended the Id days of robber-baron capitaljth the help of propaganda like Jeral and provincial labor dents put out, the labor force is 1 to a secure belief that a great up y family of workers, o wners legislative representatives t about labor’s rights. end of ideology is the name of ne. To rewrite a very ideologiory of labor struggles seriously -s what must be continuous 1y workers to control their en snt.
lies they tell s they tell about the ideal state will never give away their property wn free will rforce of circumstances e to give up just a little there t because they know .) \ ,on win it back again Dr spreads workers can soon expect higher
this raises production and increasnd ! rich mans gold-chest agine can beat them without using force deceived lur Revolution has finally been 1out 1tell you ve better now here*s no poverty to be seen the po vert y’s been hidden fou ever got more wages Id afford to buy these new and useless goods lese new industries foist on you I if it seems to you never had so much n/y the slogan of those I have muCh more than you ! taken in ley pat you paternally on the shoulsay re*s no inequality worth speaking of nore reason ing Fif you believe them I be completely in charge narble homes and granite banks ich they rob the people of the world re pretense of bringing them culture rut ion as it pleases them snd you out ct their gold veapons rapidly developed ‘e scien tis ts some more and more deadly y can with a flick of the finger illion of you to pieces the persecution and assassination as performed by the inmates of the of Charenton under the direction of quis de Sade (a play by Peter Weiss).
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Collective bargaining is a lot like a finely oiled piece of machinery. It can run along smoothly foiyears, without any notice, but just let it break down once and everybody hears about it. For example take those disputes last year which requested Federal assistance. Of the 165 labour-17~anagement disputes that called for Federal Department of Labour conciliation and mediation, 157 were settled before they resulted in strike action and without loss of productioll or pay. A little basic arithmetic shows that Federal initiative was successful in 19 out of every 20 disputes the
eexact. Department entered:IncidentaIly, those 157 cases,settled without a strike, involved 155,128 workers. ,And that’s a lot of people kept off the streets. In light of this, and since 835 other Federal union contracts were settled without assistance we think it’s fair to say that collective bargaining really does work. In fact collective bargaining is the best way known for labour and management to solve their diAerences in a free society. No om ever really wins a strike or lockout. Labour loses wages. Management loses profits. Sometimes our whole economy suffers. A strike or lockout is nothing more than a
costly failure in communicalion. So, next time you read of a work stoppage within Federal Labour jurisdiction, remember, for that one, 125 contracts were settled without breakdown. Not: a bad batting average when you add it all up. But we believe it should be even better; through early mediation and continuous )abourmanagement communication. It can be done.It is being done. That’s part of what we’re all about.
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A receptive and generous audience trooped into the arts theater wednesday afternoon to see the university drama company’s production of Peter Shaffer’s The priwate ear.
Except for a few faltering moments, Doug Hill (Ted), Paul Harbard (Bob), and Susan Minas (Doreen), gave a laudable performance. The play concerns a young man who, ordinarily attentive to the form and figure of music, now experiences a waxing interest in the form and figure of the human female. But he is naive and curiously shy, and contracts the wisdom of his more experienced friend to help him entertain a young lady whom he has recently -met at the concert. Plans are made; sophomoric attention to technique is discussed. Ah, but still, you never can be that sure; we come to realize the young lady he has met is not
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;1 music lover after all, but had attended the concert that night merely because she had been given a free ticket. Nevertheless, the plans must not be put off. As the evening proceeds, the young man becomes less and less enamored with his recording of Madam Butterfly, and more and more determined to test his newlyacquired powers of seduction. The young lady, on the other hand, suddenly grows interested in music, and manages, if only by coincidence, to’ foil the crude and stumbling advances of the young man. The direction, by Maurice Evans, was capable and accu’rate. Uni wa t’s non-professionals deserve a reputation not unbecoming even a semi-professional . group. {The noon drama series is an excellan t idea, and if The private ear is any indication of what we might expect in the future, I, for one, would not want to miss any of them.
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Explaining why the zany Barrow poets are the most hilarious act I have ever seen is rather like attempting to summarize Gu//iver 3 travels for a vacation brochure while retaining the spirit of the original. Three men and three women from London (England), they performed in contemporary clothes (buckskin vest, mini-skirt, pantsuit, etc.) which tied in well with their contemporary approach to both poetry and music. Their opening number, Big shot, played on oboe, violin and bass cacofiddle, introduced the group’s unique musical techniques to the audience. Susan Baker, (violin) and Jim Parker, (oboe), are ex’eellent musicians and their lyrical duets provided a perfect foil to the antics of the other four. William Bealby-Wright on bass cacofiddle is another story entirely. His instrument is a combination bass, cymbals, and tomtom, and may, when BealbyWright feels so inclined, be made to emit a sound similar to a drummer playing the rim of a snare drum. Visually, the instrument presents a sight which moved one reviewer to describe it as “a grotesque homemade contraption that might have been designed for an angel by Hieronymous Bosch”. Wright plays his cacofiddle with a supremely sophisticated air more appropriate to a member of a symphony orchestra performing Handel’s Messiahan incongruity from which the audience never fully recovered. The fact that Wright plays the bass well enough to back Susan Baker and Jim Parker is only one of the many reasons why the Barrow poets are superbly entertaining. In addition to violin, Susan Baker plays irish harp and mandoline, the latter well enough to do justice to William Byrd’s La volta in a long solo. Jim Parker is equally versatile, concertina and doubling on
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Musically, Cicely Smith’s, performance on a brake ratchet from a Sunderland flying boat (which ~sounds as much like a fairground pinwheel as anything else) provided comic backing to Jim Parker’s mock-elegiac Death of an organ grinder.
But it was William BealbyWright who stole the show. His vigorous reading of James Dickey’s Shark’s par/our produced successful poetry reading and his madcap ad-libbing to Paul Dehn’s ghoulish but hilarious Alternative endings to written ballad (which
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New editor of Maclean’s seeks social change by Stewart
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“I think this is where I can change the world more than anywhere else I could be,” says Maclean’s newest editorin-chief. “And it’s fun-it’s where I want to be and it’s what I’m good at.” It’s a long way up to the seventh floor of what Maclean’s own writers would call the downtown Toronto location of the posh Maclean-Hunter building-past the offices of the Financial Post, Chatelaine Magazine, and the more than fifty trade magazines turned out by Canada’s super-publishing house. The editor of Maclean’s gets a corner office-medium size, comfortable-hardly overdone; about what you’d expect of a junior Ford vicepresident. The new man in the seventh-floor office is Peter Gzowski-a man who is hardly new to Maclean’s. In 1965 Gzowski was one of a group of high-ranking personnel who quit the magazine in protest over editorial interference by the publisher. Why is he back today? “I wish reporters asking me that question would do a little more speculation on their own-what can I really say? ” He’s probably pointing to one thing he’s adamant about-‘ ‘ I haven’t compromised myself in the least. “Before I took the job I talked to the publishers-particularly Ron McEachern (Maclean-Hunter’s vicepresident in charge of consumer publications)-I’m not saying anything about those discussions-I’m editor now. “It’s really a question of whether you’re editor of Maclean’s or not-1 am the editor.” But wasn’t Charles Templeton the editor too when he quit only a few months ago with a big public flurry protesting the same kind of interference as prompted Gzow-
ski’s resignation four years ago? “The air was cleared by the Templeton affair-I’m a different kind of editor-you have to know what your job is and what’s really affected it. Gzowski is vague about what his captainship will mean for the magazine. It will be six months, maybe a year, before he feels he has really affected it. “It’s a long, slow process,” he says. “It’s evolution, not revolution. ” “It will mean more shit-disturbing, more muck-raking, -1 believe in muck-raking journalism.” “And I hope it takes the world more seriously and itself less seriously, ” he says of the coming change. Muck-raking to Gzowski is one of the ways a journalist brings about social change. “I think anyone who isn’t in favor of social change in this country is stupid,” he says, “but the problem is often that they don’t know the facts.” That’s the journalist’s role, he feels-the “exposition of truth. ” “Rolling back the curtains, breaking down the barricades” is how a writer goes about social change. “You keep laying the truth on them.” “When the Lute organization turns on Vietnam it does more to change U.S. Vietnam policy than all the protest marches. ” Gzowski feels that the U.S. is ih Vietnam because it was misguided, misinformed and misled. He admits, though, that he can see economic reasons why they’re there as well. The war does benefit certain economic inP terests. ” And, “the type of person who owns periodicals in the U.S. is generally part of this group.” But Gzowski feels “there are honest publishers in this
country whose dedication is to the common weal. ” “Publishers are villains, but not as villainous as people think them to be.” Much of the problem in news and information control, Gzowski says, comes from what he calls “anticipatory censorship.’ Writers have a tendency to decide with little basis that they should avoid certain topics. Often this stems from old rumors and mistaken remarks around the office. Gzowski would like to see everyone write openly and freely-he believes they’d really encounter very little difficulty doing so. And he adds, “there is no built-in contradiction between a tough magazine and a successful advertising income.” Advertising control is usually useless anticipatory censorship too, he feels. All of which may be quite important for a magazine whose books only very recently returned to the black ink. It was only a year ago Maclean’s changed size to conform to Time magazine and hence be able to carry ads originally designed for Time. And the french edition, still in the red, is to continue too, Gzo wski says. All together it’s going to be quite a task for a man who is just getting used to wearing a tie and who calls himself a radical-radical in the sense that he’s always asking why-always seeking the root of the question. It should be worthwhile to see if the next year of Maclean’s will produce the changes Gzowski’s leadership would seem to indicate are coming. And it will be interesting to see if Gzowski can escape from a comment he himself made in 1965: “The elite,” he said, “by and large protect their own, and their underlings know it.”
Japanese premier’.s visit stirs demonstrations by Rick
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college press service
These are not cops-but members of Japan’s Zengakuren, street-fighting students who go in to demonstrations prepared to meet cops as equals.
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WASHINGTON (CUP-CPS)-When Japan premier Eisaku Sato left his country to meet with president Nixon, some 8OO,000 japanese students demonstrated in Tokyo in an attempt to prevent his departure. When Sato arrived in Washington, he was not yet free from demonstrations. Soon after he landed, approximately 350 blacks, whites, and asian americans marched on the japanese embassy. Though the crowd was relatively small, the protest was historic. It was one of the first real efforts at international cooperation made by U.S. and foreign radicals. The issues, for Sato’s opponents both here and in Japan, were two: l The US. presence in Okinawa. The demonstrators want Okinawa returned to japanese rule and all U.S. military bases removed. In addition to troops, the U.S. currently keeps nuclear weapons and nerve gas on the island, which is located south of Japan, bordering the East China sea. The U.S. confiscated Okinawa from Japan during world war II. l The U.S.-Japan security treaty. Dem onstrators want an end to this treaty, under which the U.S. is allowed to operate over 100 military installations in Japan. B-52’s stationed at the installations fly bombing missions over Vietnam. Sato’s visit to the U.S. provided an appropriate focus for protest, since his stated mission was to negotiate with president Nixon over the return of Okinawa. In Japan, radical leaders charged Sato’s talks with Nixon could only produce a solidification of american military influence in Japan and Okinawa. They pledged to stop Sato from leaving by occupying Tokyo’s airport, but 25,000 police were assigned to guard the airport and 75,000 police were deployed throughout the country to keep order. The nearest demonstrators got to the airport was a railroad station three miles away. In Washington, the march on the japan-\ ese embassy must have bewildered onlookers. Guerrilla theater was held in which performers held up a representation of the “U.S. imperialist dragon” consisting of a cardboard head of uncle Sam and a long cloth tail. The dragon kept “swallowing” performers who symbolized third world peoples. Finally, the dragon
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was beaten to the ground by people wielding rolled up paper clubs. Amid the usual chants of “Ho-ho-Ho Chi Minh/NLF is gonna win,” were some the unusual ones: “amp0 hunsai”-smash security treaty; and “Okinawa kaiho”liberate Okinawa. Speakers at a rally preceding the march included Makato Oda, a writer who is a leader in anti-Vietnam war activities in Japan, and Chris Iijima, a member of asian americans for action, which sponsored the event with the committee of returned (peace corps) Volunteers and others. Iijima read a statement: “The japanese people, the students and workers in the streets, demand no deals over Okinawa. No troops, no bases, no so-called security treaties in return for a modified status of Okinawa. The okinawan people demand full self-determination. The japanese people want no part of U.S. aggression in Vietnam and the rest of Asia. ” He said U.S. colonialism in Okinawa must stop, as must Japan’s partnership in U.S. militarism. The actual march was characterized by politeness. During the rally, a flyer was circulated explaining that marchers would attempt to present Sato with the statement read by Iijima, but that they would probably be halted by a police line before reaching the embassy. “At that point,” the flyer said, “those of us willing to be arrested will refuse to disperse until we have met with Sato. ” Sure enough, police halted the march about a block before the embassy. And while most of the crowd chanted and made noise, 20 marchers gathered at the head of the procession, announced their intention to continue on, marched forward and were taken hostage by waiting police and put in a police van. The others dispersed, and the 20 were held in jail on $500 bond. Things were quieter when Sato returned with an agreement from the U.S. to return Okinawa but with none of the details specified. The press and the left have both attacked the deal as probably insufficient and have criticised the process of leaving details to be filled in later as an attempt to negotiate on the sly, out of the public eye. later. They feel continued american military presence must be one of the U.S. ‘s hidden conditions.
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The program, like everything else in the universities, will be paid for almost entirely out of taxes, the majority of which come ‘from the very workers that the program seeks to control through A new course in McMaster’s gradnegotiating, conciliating and arbituate business program reflects the rating. increasing concern of the public Needless to say, no Ontario uniover the rise in labor strife and its versity has a school of labor orcost to the community. ganizing-and that’s the least the The course “Labor disputes setuniversities should provide with tlement in Canada” will be taught their expressed ideology being by Mr. Edwin L. Stringer, an interpluralism-. na tionally-kno wn labor la wyer. A But even if the universities revailable only to qualified master of frained from the more blatant business administration students in anti-worker activities such as busthe final year of studies, the new iness schools, the remaining purcourse aims at uniting practise and poses would be just as bad. theory to provide future company All programs, from arts to enofficers with a well-rounded backgineering, are designed to train ground of experience and knowland socialize people for particular edge. middle-class jobs, at the expense What they are saying is that not of the workers who pay the taxes. only do business graduates go to Far worse is the fact that very few children from working class work for owners and managers, but that business graduates should backgrounds make it to university. be well-trained at defeating workFinancial barriers, vocational stigmas and streaming by intelliers in labor disputes. Ordinary business courses ‘and gence quotient (which really meacourses in industrial sociology and sures social and environmental psychology are not enough, and as factors) all work against the children of the people who pay the unithe press release points out later this shows the faculty’s keen aversity bill. This anti-democratic situation wareness of contemporary needs and trends in the business communwill not be solved by turning finanity and Canadian society. cing of the universities to private This is all sugar-coated with the capital, which the government is myth that labor disputes are cost- now considering. That would only ly to the community, a natural con- perpetuate a situation where educlusion to reach if one agrees that cation is used by an economic ruldecent wages are inherently bad ing group to increase profits and and high corporation profits in the maintain control. What must be changed is the common good. The press release notes that the present nature and purpose of the index of strike activity has been university itself. climbing in Canada since 1960 Universities now are some of whereas it has remained steady in the worst employers, paying as the U.S. Such a discrepancy underlow wages as possible to their support staffs and destroying union lines the need for better conflict settlement machinery and a more activity as effectively as they can ; and in the cities, universities are thorough training in its use than is now the case. among the worst slum landlords. How better to pursue such a high It is time to make academic mean something more goal in the apolitical and value- freedom free academic community than than high salaries for pompous adwith an internationally-known ministrators and lazy or selfish labor lawyer. It is only incidental faculty members.
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That great american spirit that saw the white man steal North America from the natives and give thanks to God for it, was displayed once again friday as the United States observed their day of thanksgiving. As usual, it was a day of excess and officially heralded the beginning of a greater festival of excess, Christmas. In Vietnam, where Nixon and corporate America are sacrificing american men and money to preserve the Vietnamese people’s “freedom”, thanksgiving was%bserved by flying and helicoptering in turkey dinners for the american soldiers. Did the U.S. also feed the natives whose agricultural production has been decimated by U.S. military activity and whose economy has been ruined by inflation as a result of the war? No, because the malnutrition and miserable lives of the americans’ allies don’t matter as long as they are “free”.
ed their meager rations with snakes, birds and any other wildlife they could find. For the US. is running the war in Vietnam no differently than the corporations run their businesses at home-the worker gets paid as little as possible. To quote a newspaper enterprise association dispatch from south Vietnam, the drafted infantryman is “the lowest-ranking, highestexposed, longest-running and shortest-lived warrior of the war.” The infantryman gets a fixed salary of $20 a month, of which half goes to pay for his rations, and daily rising costs quickly take the rest. Casualty rates are more than twice as high among south Vietnamese soldiers as americans. The only thing that keeps the desertion rate down around the current rate of 20 to 25 percent is the fact that while infantry life may be terrible, the jail is much worse if they are caught deserting. And while the americans were munching on their drumsticks and mouthing platitudes about God _ having given them freedom and a good life, the undernourished viet\namese could only ask, freedom and abundance for whom?
And while the U.S. soldiers were eating turkey, the south vietnamese soldiers-the ones who are supposed to carry the burden of the vietnamization-supplement-
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Provincial criminal judge James Kirkpatrick’s remarks on page 4 show how much justice there is in the just society. The legalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults in private was a trifling reform; and Kirkpatrick’s personal reaction to even that is appalling. Worse is the fact that the judge not only has a preconceived bias toward homosexuality, but he expressed it and no reprimand is in sight. If this were a just society, Kirkpatrick would have disqualified himself or subsequently have been disqualified on grounds of personal prejudice. Worse still is his suggested compromise of changing the method of prosecuting the law. That is to say, if parliament did not think private homosexual acts between consenting adults should be prosecuted, they should instruct the cops and courts to go easy. Such hyprocrisy comes from a member of the judiciary in a country that prides itself on the rule of law. Not only does Kirkpatrick’s compromise avoid making a moral de-
cision (of whether or not our democratic brand of freedom allows an individual to voluntarily take part in homosexual activity) but it leaves the law on the books for use in selective harassment of “enemies of the state” that cannot be put behind bars for other “legitimate” reasons. But this sort of hypocrisy goes on everyday in the courts, where judges interpret the law in whatever manner they choose. This process also works to the benefit of accused persons sometimes too, where the judge feels the law is too harsh. But, this results in unfair laws staying on the books and leads to inequitable treatment of offenders and the possibility of selective harassment. But judges like Kirkpatrick openly display their biases and effectively flaunt the rule of law so often that it is accepted as normal. And it is such standards of normalcy which account for the sort of attitude toward homosexuality that Kirkpatrick held in the first place.
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