U.S. students plan
anti-war action

A call for National Student
Action for Peace was issued
Dec. 30 in Chicago at a confer-
ence sponsored by over 200
faculty members, students and
prominent individuals in the
United States.

Proposed actions for the na-
tional student mobilization in-
clude the possibility of strikes
on four or five campuses, which
institutions wil be determined
after further consultation be-
tween the student mobilization
committee and the local anti-
war activities,

Additional action proposed in-
clude the holding of hearings on
campuses to gather evidence of
university participation, through
war research, defense contracts
and CIA projects, in the crime

- against humanity.

The National Student Action
for Peace will be the week of
April 8 through April 14 and
will culminate in as many stu-

_dents as possible participating

in the general spring mobiliza-
tion. of the anti-war movement
on April 15.

The conference was nad eaned

Georges sings
about workers

By JACQUES GUAY
In Le Travail (Montreal)
‘IS FATHER was a textile
worker at Canadian Celan-
ese in Drummondville. He
worked at various jobs himself
prior to becoming a TV news
producer for the CBC French
network.

His name is Georges Dor, age
35, married and father of four.
For a little more than a year
now, he has been a singer. He
recently brought out his first re-
cording. Among the songs on it
is one titled “La Manic.”

But “La Manic” doesn’t extol
the world’s biggest power dam,
of bulldozed mountain or diver-
ted rivers. Georges Dor sings

~simply of the loneliness, the
hardships and the weariness of
the worker locked up in the
huge northern work site.

“Tf you knew how lonely it is
at La Manic,” the words go in
French, “you’d write me much
more often at Manicouagan...”

It’s a letter to a girl, written
by a forlorn young hydro plant
worker who can’t wait to kiss
the North Shore goodbye.

Singer Dor has never been to
Manicouagan, but in 1954 he
worked at Bersimis, location of
the first huge Quebec — wera
project.

“I was stationed in Labrie-
ville, a hundred miles north of
Forestville,” he recalls. “I work-
ed for the guy who had the store
concession; a friend of the Na-
tional Union. There were a cou-

_ GEORGES DOR

ple of thousand fellows up there.
I saw all kinds—some who left
their pay at the store, and others,
like my best friend who was
crushed to death beneath a
truck.”

Georges. Dor ‘was one of a
family of 10 children. The father
worked from six o’clock in the
evening until seven o’clock in
the morning, six days a week.

Georges Dor serenades the
rank-and-file folk, the little peo-
ple who yo about earning their
daily bread. “Not the million-
aires,” he says. “Day-by-day liv-
ing is no problem to them. And
not the fellows who work in a
14th-story office at Place Ville-
Marie, but those who stay in the
back lane and are crushed by the
skyscraper.”

for

by Professor Sidney Peck of
Western Reserve University,
Charles Cobb of the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Com-
mittee, Bettina Aptheker of the
University of California, Berke-
ly, Juan Mestas of the Federa-
tion of University Students for
Independence at the University
of Puerto Rico in San Juan and
Marjorie Kinsella of the Chica-
go Peace Council, the organiza-
tion which hosted the confer-
ence.

The conference received word
of international student support
a, nationally coordinated
U.S. protest against the . war.
Delegates from Canada and Pu-
erto Rico were present. Greet-
ings were received from organi-
zations throughout the world in-
cluding the All-India Union of
Students, the Arab Socialist
Union, the World Federation of
Democratic Youth, the World
Peace Council, and the National
Liberation Front of South Viet-
nam. Students and faculty from
England, France, East and West
Germany and ‘Chili also sent
greetings and offered support.

Some 300 students from 30
states and over 75 colleges and
universities were in attendance.
Offices for the National Student
Action for Peace are now being
set up in New York.

Their call for action makes
clear their opposition to the war
as a “war of aggression against
the people of Vietnam, who seek
only to exercise that right of
self-determination for which
Americans fought in 1776.”

It continues, “We must face
the true nature of the draft sys-
tem... It converts the class-
room into an arena in which the
losers are sent to kill and be
killed and the winners must live
with the knowledge that their
‘success’ in schoo] may mean
another’s death on the battle-
field.”

“The war in Vietnam,” it adds,
“makes it clear that the admin-
istration of this country with
the complicity of the colleges
and universities prefer to pro-
duce American youth to become
instruments of war instead of
enlightened human beings.”

They propose that the focus
of the mobilization in April be
on bringing the GIs home now,
opposing the draft and ending
campus complicity with the war
effort.

THE NEW MUSES

As seen by the Hungarian artist Kajan in Nepszabadsag (Budapest)

Television

Science
Fiction

Detective
Stories

Journalism

Cartoon
Comedies

“Now our student dentists would like to have a look at you.” |

Bolshoi opera at Expo

The Bolshoi Opera will pre-
sent four of its greatest produc-
tions when the company makes
its long-awaited North Amer-
ican debut next year, appearing
at Expo 67’s World Festival of
entertainment.

During its 21-day engagement
starting Aug. 10, the Bolshoi

will present Boris Godunov, by
’ Mussorgsky; Queen of Spades,

by Tchaikovsky; War and Peace,
by Prokofiev; and The Legend
of the Invisible City of Kitezh
and the Maiden Severonia, by
Rimsky-Korsakov. The company
will perform in the 3,000-seat

—Soviet Life ( val

treal’s Place des Arts, 4
The excellence and extraolé
nary scope of the productions al
the Bolshoi Opera are worlé
famous, yet they have been Se"
outside the Soviet Union 0
once before — when the opél!
made its much publicized &
change visit with La Scala al
Milan in 1964. Moving. a col
pany of its size—more than 4
persons, including singel i
chorus, dancers, orchestra all)
technical staff of the Bolsh®
Theatre will travel to Montrell
—is a gigantic operation requis
ing months of intensified plan)

Salle Wilfrid Pelletier at Mon-

ning.

J. $. Wallace

Land of John Hus
Whose dreams are coming true
Beyond the dream he knew

May your lantern* with its magic
Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic,
Often touched with symbolism
Light your way to communism

And so inspire us.

PRAGUE ~

Today I dined with the secretary of the Writers Union ©
and two members of the Central Committee of the Com- —
munist Party of Czechoslovakia. For their benefit I dredged —
up the story Margaret Fairley and the rest of our delegation
were told while in Hungary.

During Admiral Horthy’s fascist rule here, a com-
munist carpenter worked devotedly and dangerously in
the underground. Naturally he was given a position of trust

when liberation came. He worked so well (unlike some —

rebels who don’t make the best administrators) that he
rose from post to post. Finally he told his wife he was
now a member of the cabinet. She was so excited she
couldn’t sleep. At 2 a.m. she nudged him awake with an
eager elbow: “Janos, Janos, did you ever dréam the day

would come when you would be sleeping with the wife of 7

a cabinet minister?”

Two members of the Central Committee today; I ding
with two more tomorrow night; this time from Canada:
William Kashtan, Norman Freed. At the home of Alf and
Vi Dewhurst, with Martin Parker thrown in for good
measure.

“The Czech invention Lanterna Magica, is a blend of

stage and screen. Parts of it are so funny I was back with |
Charlie Chaplin, the Marx brothers and W. J. Field in his —
heyday (am I dating myself?) Coming to Canada in 1967 —

as last of a five month tour.

xe
FOR ALL MY CHILDREN

This is my initiation of an original by Ogden Nash and q

not as good.
A goat is a word that I will not utter
On the one end butt, on the other end butter.
(and that verse upstairs is not worthy of Czechoslovakia.)

by side |

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