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.)

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