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COMMENT 3HTmeat

You’ve missed the point but you’ve nailed the headWill nausea never cease? A fter

perusing the latest a ttack on cap ita l­ism and the sad, real sad society in which we live; not to m ention last w eek’s brilliant an d /o r cockeyed condem nation of historical processes as the schemings of m adm en, I have begun to wonder. Mainly I have begun to w onder “have you lost your m ind?” This question is, of course, d irected at anybody who may attem pt to ans­wer it, but it chiefly relates to the va­rious pedantic m onologoues by the Neophytic G reat M inds who w rite let­ters to the editor and editorials (in­cluding myself, I guess). Let us begin w here it’s easiest - namely at the point w here dialogue ascends to the level of transcendental m etaphysics. This, by the way, is the point where I seem to w elter in a sea of catholic.,.uh ...ex­cuse me, I m ean circular argum ent.

First, massah editor, w here dost thou obtain the rationale w here by you rail against “individuals on the Sir G eorge Board of G overnors (who are) perm itted to d ictate the m orality of the academ ic com m unity”, and then procede to dem and the dictation of academ ic com m unity m orality by such as share your opinion? Answer me that, if you will be so kind. Per­haps the Board does d ictate m orality by doing such deeds as perm itting C orporate R ecruiting - but then suh, you wish to dictate such m orality your­self by dem anding their banishm ent on grounds of im m orality. Hmm.

A nother point w here I seem to lose you is this; I take it you are a Socia­list o r perhaps a M arxist (polite word by neurotics to m ean Com m unist). Personally, I couldn’t give a good G od Damn if you were a Hedonist, A risto laian , T heocrat o r pervert (providing you don’t try to convert me to same by force) but really if you are a Com m unist then you are an a th e ­ist, or a t least if you have the courage of your own convictions you m ust at least be agnostic. Of course you may be a not exactly doctrinaire C om m u­nist (like a M ahom m edan who gets pissed every night) and therefore such rules of thum b may not apply, but su­rely if you are a practicing C om m u­nist you cannot possibly talk about

m orality. Not that I’m trying to say that “Com m ies are Rotten A theistic Swine W ho Plan to M urder. Rape. V iolate and M icturgate ou r W om en­folk” but surely you realize that m ora­lity involves an Ethic (or at least an Ethos); that such an ethic m ust have a basis; that it W ould Be Nice If This W ere So. You may not know it bus­ter, but if you are e ither an atheist or agnostic, and are either a D octri­naire Socialist o r C om m unist, then all this stuff about m orality is Horse- cracky. Com m unist doctrines stipula­te that m orality, as such, involves only actions or m easures which are expedient towards the establishm ent of the D ictatorship of the pro leta­riat etc. Ever occur to you that Freud was right, and the ethical basis of the society you so hate (don’t call it the Judeo-Christian tradition please, I hate that expression) is so deeply en­grained in your p e tit bourgeoise 18 year-old T eeny Bopper soul that you are unable to escape it?

Strange.Anyway, enough of attackin the e-

ditor of this paper. He probably m eans well anyway, and on to g rea ter things. If you w atch closely you will witness the Crusader for R ight(sm all V ) pro­cede to dem olish the edifice of Left W ing Hippyism.

Hmmm.Not so easy as all that, eh?W hen one does em bark on this sort

of thing, one com es to the ra ther self- stultifying conclusion that the U lti­m ate Aim in Life is to T ry H arder. Not necessarily to T ry H arder to m ake M ore M oney, or produce M ore Whiz- zybobblrd (with built in features yet,) but to T ry H arder to m ake life m ore liveable. Preferably to m ake life m ore liveable for everybody. This then de­m onstrates that the ultim ate aim of life is no t Really to T ry H arder, but to T ry H arder to be nice. W ith this as a basis (everybody needs basis) we can start. V ietnam . W hat? Easy. H istorical m aterial inevitably points to this con­clusion (series of conclusions, really):1. Societies consist of groups of peo­ple2. G roups of people consist of single people

3. Today (as Y esterday) peoples is m ore technically than m orally advanc­ed.

W hat?W ell, it’s like this. Hum ans are sm art

animals, right? W rong. Hum ans are smarter animals. They are biological beasts with souls. Soul!!!!!!?????? (W hat are you, kind of antiquarian nut?) Yes, soul. Some people call it puke, some super-ego, som e divine es­sence. some hum anitarianism . W hat it boils down to is the adap tation (ways and m eans unknown) by which vege­table blahness is replaced in higher prim ates (like us) with EM PA TH Y . We em pathise, I em phatise, you em pa­thise, C heetah the chim p em pathises. We feel sorry for each o ther. W e care about each other. M aybe we only care about each o ther because of sex drive (Ussess is perpetually sexual I but at least we do care. “So w hat?” you say, “A cares for B and C because he ( she) it requires to m ate h e /sh e / it”. “But it m ust be m ore than tha t!” wails Johnny Sob. He may be right too how should I know (I’d like to find ou t though, tha t’s one of the reasons why I don ’t suicide when things get rough)? In any case it’s a start.

W here does all this cracky com e in?W e were talking about society, re­m em ber, and V ietnam , rem em ber (we could also talk about W W II, T he Opi­um W ars, the Punic W ars, the war betw een the N eolithic Europeans and the Axe People, they tend to fight) - you can’t w ant to hump EV ERY BO ­DY so are social structures im per­fect. T hey have inner tensions, they have external tension, they act and react to internal and external forces just like the lovely little behaviorist model. W hen a society stops acting and reacting adequately it goes blah - just like the tom ato juice in your glass. And guess what? A new nasty civili­zation slaughters the blahs. Som eti­mes, of course, new societies don ’t slaughter old societies, they m erely are technically superior and repla­ce the old society’s culture.

So w hat has that got to do with V iet­nam, A m erican Im perialism , nasty Capitalists, and Boards of G over­nors? Just this, all of the above horren­

dous institutions are aspects of vari­ous socia l and cultural environ­ments (we ca ll them nations,but th a t’s m isleading becausewhen you have a com m on cu lture like that existing across Europe and North America and widely copied in Africa, South America, etc. defining the sub groups as Nations is only legally co r­rect - there ain’t m uch difference be­tween a Frenchm an and a M exican if they have a rougly com m on cultu­re). Now Asian N ationalism (if you w ant to be cute you can call it Asian Communism) represents a similiar culture (Technically oriented) but one that is essentially different (morality life values, co s t scale for social boo boos, e tc .). T he trouble is that it is not different enough. If Asian Na­tionalism represen ted the Real Bu­gaboo that nuts like W ilhelm of the Second Reich perpetra ted it was / is (Yellow Peril and all that) then we w ouldn’t have so much trouble. T hen we could go ahead and kill the dirty little men all we w anted w ithout so m uch as a twinge of conscience. Re­m em ber John W ayne in “Beaches of H ell?” He kills Japs by the hundreds w ithout trouble because he considers them subhum an - He Does Not Em pa­thise, because he cannot pro ject him ­self into the Japanese. He cannot im pute to them the sam e needs, wants, appreciations, etc. that he has. Ever notice tha t people em pathise with anim als only when the anim als vare “Oh so C ute they’re alm ost hum an”? T he obscure point is that Cutie Boo Doggie-Poo is hum an (in the eye of the beholder, that is). This is call­ed person perception. This is also w hat prevents soldiers from growing screwy on the battlefield -- them lidd- le running figures ain’t hum an - they’re targets.

Just for a small digression, by the way, (one of many) you will no tice’ that even when a soldier can perceive an enem y soldier as hum an (suppos­edly) he still does no t em pathise under certain conditions -- like when said enem y is pointing a rifle / m achine gun / rocket / tank gun / club / sharp stone at him. A t that point o ther in-

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BETTER RED THAN READThis being the georgian's fina l appear­

ance on the stands o f SGWU fo r th is year, it seems appropria te tha t w e consider the ram ifica tions o f the past year's po litica l activ ities and th e ir relevance fo r the fu tu re .

First, the year began when th ree obscure people from a d is tan t land helped propel th is venerable ins titu tion in to the in te rn ­a tional headlines sim ply by try ing to speak in H-110. The reaction o f most people w ith ­in the un ivers ity was im m ediate. They w ere fo r the most part ho rrified tha t free speech should be circum scribed in an in ­s titu tion idea lly devoted to free speech, and the exchange o f ideas. Sir George was qu ickly labelled fascistic by some groups outside o f the un ivers ity but th is image changed sw iftly when the booksto­re issue erupted.

Students w ere anything but fascistic, when w e staged a sit-in in the lobby o f the Hall Building, seeking through peaceful methods to obta in certa in concessions from the un iversity 's adm in is tra tion . This ap­parent reversal in a ttitude on the part of most students was representa tive of the po litica l events which w ou ld ensue th rough­out the year.

For exam ple, a ttem pts to p roh ib it free speech a t the beginning o f the year, had support from a large segm ent of the au­dience in attendance. When an a ttem pt was made to oust the ed ito r o f the geor­gian in February, however, on the grounds tha t freedom o f the press should be re ­stricted on occasion, the m a jo rity o f stu­dents a ttend ing the open m eeting voted against such a move.

A pparen t contrad ictions again appeared on the subject o f b ilingua lism . During the bookstore strike , speakers w ere encourag­ed to use th e ir native tongue w ith shouts o f "En fran^ais! En frangais!" But a m onth la ter, a campaign to w ith d ra w Sir G eorge from UGEQ was waged p rim a rily on racist issues.

Thus the campus has fluctuated p o litic ­a lly th roughout the year, and never rea lly settled down. Perhaps the elections w ere most revealing about the po litica l c lim ate a t Sir George. The le ft-w ing was so lid ly defeated by a la rge ly apo litica l slate. To

label the Novak slate as righ t-w ing, would be a gross in justice to conservatism . No­vak's landslide w in over A xe lrod can most like ly be a ttribu ted to the Campus Recruit­m ent issue. Throughout the year, most students dabbled in politics, favouring nei­the r one extrem e nor the o ther by large m argins -- until the Recruitm ent Issue. Then students fe lt threatened. Personal security was involved. The large question- m ark a fte r graduation became the im port­ant consideration. Dabbling was no longer even considered. The campus swung deci­sively aw ay from the le ft, because securi­ty cannot be sacrificed in campus p o litic ­al action. Politics became un im portant, because security became real, it was not lost in the nebulous " le ft '' o r the nebulous"r ig h t" . _____

Assum ing tha t campus po litica l groups increase the in tensity o f th e ir actions, how ­ever, and politics becomes real and v ita l, a true sam pling o f student "p o lit ica l" op in ion may become possible. In mid-Fail, a referendum w ill be held on the subject of Quebec nationalism . This sim ple factor should prove ex trem e ly im portan t in term s of g row ing po litica l awareness on this campus, not in re la tion to a w a r ten thou­sand m iles away, but in our own social and po litica l m ilieu. Politics next year w ill become more re levant, more real, and the results w ill be dram atic. This year's lim ited invo lvem ent in po litica l situations, has a l­ready shown tha t the in terest is real on th is campus. N ext year many m ore students w ill be prepared to make com m itm ents, ra­the r than to sim ply observe passively.

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Movement for social ist l iberationA new m ovem ent has been form ed on the Sir G eor­

ge campus based on the fo llow ing objectives. Preli­m inary w o rk w ill be undertaken during the sum mer and fu rthe r in fo rm ation w ill be ava ilab le durinq the fa ll.Proposal: This Movement is a revolutionary socialist direct-action group concerned with the development of a strategy and tactics of anti-imperialism and libe­ration from U.S. domination in this country and throug­hout the world. Canadians must be brought to aw are­ness before it is too late, that only through revolutio­nary socialism can ANY nation possibly create a tru­ly independent, non-subservient society with equality, justice and dignity for all. The Movement undertakes a commitment to directly engage in the necessary anti-imperialist struggle for socialism and national liberation in Quebec and English Canada. M em bership responsib ilities: Each member of the Mo­vement is responsible;1. to accept in principle the overall proposal of the Movement for Socialist Liberation;2. to take part in political activity in accordance with the Movement's evolving program;3. to be accountable for his activities to fellow com­rades in the Movement;4. to regularly attend meetings;5. to participate in an internal educational program of revolutionary socialist theory; and6. finally, to realize that there cannot be any separat­ion of revolutionary theory from revolutionary prac­tice. Each comrade must struggle to liberate himself from capitalist individualism, selfishness, and the social norms of bourgeois society. Socialism must be lived not only in theory, but, to the extent possible, in one's private and social life.

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STATEMENTWe, the undersigned, are in agreement with the statement “ RES­PONSIBILITY AND VIETNAM” (signed by Andre Guner Frank, David Orton, and said A. Shah, which appeared in the georgian of February 16, 1968. War recruitment on this campus, whenever it may occur, must be collectively stopped, “ using whatever means are necessary.” .

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Ginny Allan Peter Beaudin R. B. Bowness R. J . Brown H. Carrington Israel Cinman Rosie Douglas B, Fridhandler Marjory George Lewes Hermez W. E. Kadzirange Judy Koch Ray Lazanik Douglas R. Long W. McCarty Rita Micfliker Esther Nusbaum Freda Perel Savitri Ramdhan Kelvin Robinson Phyllis Rott S. David Sandys Fred Stevens Gerard Tfetreault Jean Turner Mark Wilson

M. Aron Ian Belgrave Frank Brayton Berks G. Browne Orestes Cato Terry Clarke Allan Engel Tim Gadban Majory George Cheddi Jagan Florence Katz Joseph Lajoin Peter Leibovltch G ita Maritzer Jim McConnell Jane Millman E ster Nusbaum Mike Peters Roger Ramsay Henry Rosenblat Barbara Rubin John Shearing Danyl Stotland Ernest Thomas Andy Ungar Bert Young

Noida Ashton C. Binath Richard Bridges Alvin Cader Kenny Charles Michael CohenA. EwingR. Galbaransingh Ronnie GottliebB. E. Jefferies Brian Kelly Judy J. Laurie Terence Lewis Lin Maftin Penelope McCurdy A. MoonshineG. Olivere Aron W. P ila Allan Rankin Max Ross L. Rubinlicht Murray Smith Jania Szmidt Luke Tripp Stephen Whitney

G. A.D. Astaphan Clara Birnbaum Allan Brown Adele CatTier Valerie Charles Roy Darcus Bernice Fainsilber John Garramone Richards Gunter Peter Johnston N. H.C. King L. Lazarus Michael Lipszyc O. Mayowsky Anthony McFariane Jeff Morton Willma Paskus Herman Pilgrim Carl Raskin Howatd Rostoker M. St-Germain Gloria Springer Marion T estart Nancy Turley Carlyle Williams

Editor, the georgian:Yup. Don has socked it to us

all right. Hell he's been zapp­ing us all year with his ‘F< M )D' Services. T hat fine scribe of the sixth floor Mafia. Joe Di Paolo had the right organizat­ion in his gun-sights. Perhaps Di Paolo’s onlv erro r was in criticizing the m inor employees cashiers and not suave, smooth student- cheating. student- poisoning Donald McPhie.

I too have eaten in the caf. this vear. I. too like manv o- thers. spent a couple of nights bent over the toilet-bowl eas­ing out of mv m outh the great concoctions of Sir G eorge Food Services.

Fifteen cents for a cup of coffee, is that non-profit m ak­ing pricing Mr. M cPhie? Oh. ves I know it’s onlv ten cents

with a meal. But what about the poor student who can ’t af- fort the meal, who brings his lunch in brown paper bags? Is vour pricing perhaps design­ed directiv against him Mr. M cPhie?

Peter Bors

Bookstore profitEditor, the georgian;

A petition has been signed bv students of Zoology 431 pertaining to the mark up on the Lab outline, sold in the Bookstore.

It has been discussed bv the students that the m ark up pri­ce for lab-outlines is abom in­able. This is in conjunction with a discussion in class where the Biology Dept, had agreed in selling the students the lab outline for $2.50. But the Bio­logy Dept., being unable to sell the outline for legal reasons. T he transaction was given to the Bookstore who are now selling it for $3.75 - almost 100% profit. T he students do not find the price ridiculous. W hat thev do find ridiculous is the profit m ade bv the m erce­nary bookstore. We all hope that the Bookstore Com m ittee take im m ediate action.

Class of Zoology 431

A reward?Editor, the georgian;

Last fall before the final bud­gets were set. I polled several persons as to their feelings of replacing the Annual Awards Banquet with some similiar but less costly function.

Communications Board - Final NoticeApplications for Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Communications Board may be picked up and returned to the Student Receptionist. Applications close on March 15, 1968 at noon. Acting Chairman

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In all cases I was told to for­get the idea. The opponents to my suggestion all argued that the Awards Banquet is a trad it­ion at Sir G eorge, that it is the final event and ends the v ea r’s activities, that it is the onh time that hardw orking students can m eet together and be ac­knowledged for their efforts, and that it is the onh time dur­ing the vear when student lea­ders are honoured and rew ard­ed for their contributions to the S.A., etc.. etc.. etc.

All these argum ents are va­lid to an extent: it is true that many of the people attending are deserving of some formal acknow ledgem ent and a chance to satisfy their status needs, for after all. this is why Napo­leon created the Legion of Ho­nour. in France.

Surely, however, when their are m uch greater priorities for spending money, and when the S.A. is again expecting to in­cur a deficit because revenues have not reached expected levels, surly the S.A. "student leaders” could congratulate each o ther and pat each other on the back in a less expensive but just as meaningful an envi­ronm ent as the $500 banquet a t Le M artinique Hotel.

Alas, perhaps next Year’s council will spend this m one\ in a wav that will be beneficial to all students, and not just a few. however. I doubt this.

Bob Simco

For the last timeEditor, the georgian:

Perm it me to publiclv con­gratu late the newlv elected officers of the S tudents’ Asso­ciation. T heir decisive v ie to r proves once and for all that the m ajority of Sir G eorge stu­dents are not radically inclin­ed tow ards the left.

Let those professors who have agitated and corrupted our cam pus throughout this school vear take note that their ideas are not welcome anv m ore. The left is dead. Long live the C enter

I. now feel that an\ effort 1 m ade during this past vear to awaken some in terest and opposition in the wav this uni­versity’s Student A ssociat­ion has been controlled bv a vile, misguided minoritv has been com pensated ten-fold.

I have no doubt that, after having the Student Associat­ion offices fum igated of the stench of leftism, this new Student Council Executive and the o ther elected officers will begin to work next Fall on m at­ters which are of concern to all students, and not just the few poor souls who were ca ter­ed to this past vear.

Sir G eorge is hack on the right path. Victory has been achieved

Harv Oberfeld

The non-letterEditor, the georgian:

A fter a prolonged period of intense self-anabsis. I have decided to break a long stand­ing habit and not write a letter to the editor of the georgian this vear. As has been mv wont in past vears to com pose an annual epistle dealing with sub­jects which have (or had ' far- reaching im plications in this institution i.e. an analysis of Mr. D. B ennett’s side whis­kers. and that vast examination room which somehow cam e to be referred to as the “garage”.I have decided to forego anv such letter this vear. for as a senior 1 feel that one should m aintain a stoic silence and go out to seek one’s fortune with a stiff upper lip with regard to the things which have gone on in the institution this past vear.

No doubt lots of mv friends will be dropping bv the office of the editor of the georgian, wondering where mv letter might be. In the event that, such an occurrence does take place, will you (the editor! plea­se tell them (mv friendsi for me (me i to tell y o u (Frank Brax to n i

that I (mei think that vou (the editor! have done rather a splendid job of making the geor­gian an interestingly readable paper for the first time in the four vears that I have been he­re. If it had been mv intention to write a letter to the editor this vear it would have been a letter telling vou directly what I am asking vou to have mv friends tell vou for me.

Mv onlv regret in not writ­ing a le tter to the editor of the georgian this vear is in not being able to sign it in such a m anner-

Yr Humble & Obt Svt,Barry Thompson, Gentleman

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The New Penelope con- gralutes the ed itors of the georgian on the ir fine paper th is year, and for w inning the Globe and M a il’ s c ita tio n os the best college paper in Canada.

Gary E isenkraftNew Penelope

6 / the georgian, March 8, 1968

Dr John Smola. the Vice-Principal (A dm inistration and Finance) of this University spoke recently (Mont­real Star, Feb. 24, 19681 about “the m ood on cam pus” which is “dram atically d ifferent” from that of the past. In this speech given significantly, to a Board of T rade associates m eeting, he saw this m ood charac t­erized by “students wrestling with m ajor questions with unprecedented intensity. T heir insistences that society take steps to im prove itself im m ediately... are the inevitable concom itants of the intelligent stu­den t’s attem pt to relate what he hears in the class­room to him self and the world. “ Smola vo ices en­thusiasm for this developm ent. “Indeed”, he conti­nues, “any student who has been around cam pus for four years w ithout once getting excited about the war in V iet Nam or the Arab-Israeli conflict or C om ­munism in Cuba or in China or the plight of writers in Russia -- excited enough to be profoundly concern ­ed and to m ake some public protest -- any student so dense or just plain selfish that he has not received the relationship betw een his university education and the pressing problem of his society has undoubtedly been wasting his tim e”.

John Smola"...any student so dense or just plain selfish that he has not perceived the re­lationship between his university educ­ation and the pressing problem of his society has undoubtedly been w asting h is time".

Surely, in Smola’s term the students at Sir G eorge have, this year, no t been wasting their tim e. T hey have dem onstrated that they are not all dense and se lfish .T hey have dem onstrated enough “profound concern” to publicly p ro test A m erican aggression in V iet Nam and the state of education in Q uebec. Surely, the problem of preventing “revolt on cam p­us” as Smola concludes is not in giving the students “some realistic prerogatives and serious obligations”, since they have already unquestionably accep ted their role as fully responsible and obligated citizens. Typically, Smola ends his discussion just w here he should have begun, by putting the onus for im prov­ing the “situation” on the University -- i.e., the Board of G overnors -- adm inistration and the faculty. At best his com m ents, written four years after Berkeley and four m onths after a student strike in his own University are platitudinous and d irected at the wrong audience -- Big businessm en, a group which he him­self admits “plays so small a role in the solution of our vital problem ” and who happen to run the Uni­versity. A t worst he has failed to understand or point to the real causes of “the changing m ood on cam pus” or himself accept the broad and deep challenge of which he speaks.

T he adm inistration and the “progressive” elem ents in the faculty are the ones who should be condem ned’ for shirking their responsibilities to the “com m un­ity” which they often cite so fondly.

THE ADMINISTRATIONBOARD OF GOVERNORS

Smola talks of “changes in our U niversities” not being m ade solely in “response to pressures”. But when has the Board of G overnors - A dm inistration spoken for the interests of the “University com m un­ity”? They have no t form ulated any conception of what the priorities of m odern education should be. They have not opposed but ra ther supported the ero­sion of the Liberal A rts College into the M ultivers­ity of Engineering and C om m erce faculties and Com ­puter Training C entre. They have not w orked to m a­ke the G overnm ent set its fiscal priorities in this p ro­vince. They have not w orked for free and accessible education for all. W hile speaking of “responsibility to the com m unity’ they are a group of businessm en and m anagers responsible to no one but o ther busi­nessmen. The Board of G overnors has com e out for open recruiting on cam pus of com panies supplying the A m erican war m achine, mainly because they re ­present many of those com panies but also to assert their legal authority in deciding w hat the University shall be - an agent to the co rporate world. W hen I ask who the Board of G overnors are. I am told “They

by Ray LazanikMr. Lazanik is a fourth year Socio logy student and w a s chairman, this year, of the Com m ittee for a Free University.

supply capital to the U niversity” according to Wil liam (“W ho’s running this University anyw ay?”). Reay. the T reasurer, they certainly don’t contribu te to the incom e of the University.

As reported in the Sir G eorge Williams University Annual R eport 1966-67, a condensed S tatem ent of Incom e and Expenditures shows w here the m oney has come from for the past three years - the students and the G overnm ent.

INCOME tuition govt grants other

64/6577.2%16.7%6 . 1%

65/6673.3%22.2%

4-5%

66/6755.5%41.1%

3.8%

The only way “changes in the University” will not be m ade solely “in response to pressures” is if the Adm inistration takes some initiative in articulating a philosophy of education, although perhaps the re­cen t departu re of the Principal, R obert C. Rae, to Europe to study French is as good an indication as any. The policy of strategic non-decision m aking rears its head again.

T he few token gestures to students this year -- non­representative representation on A cadem ic C oun­cils and the bookstore com m ittee were in response to student pressures. The form er has yet to get off the ground.--. The la tter was the result of a request which was originally turned down and required a stri­ke. The bookstore com m ittee has yet to lower prices o r provide b etter services, or to exam ine the finances of the University.

The Joint Com m ittee on University Affairs, the only exam ple of faculty adm inistration and students discussing m ajor problem s and finding “m eans of m ore fully involving students and faculty in the af­fairs of the U niversity” has been a dismal failure. I am quite fam iliar with the C om m ittee since I sat on it since O ctober and will attem pt to describe this “beau geste” of our University in brief:

-a m otion of mine that the Com m ittee m eetings be held in public was defeated.

-a m otion by all three students that an expanded University Bulletin be published reducing w hat is an awesome m onopoly on im portant inform ation has resulted in a publication which ceased after three issues, - the reason: lack of funds.

-after m onths of soul-searching the C om m ittee de­cided its m andate m eant it should select and identify problem s in the University.

-I suggested recently that the fact of our having the worst University library in C anada (volumes per stu­dent) and a registration system that consistently “screws” second year and o ther students out of cour­ses thi t they want, might be considered problem s. On the library, I discovered a signed docum ent be­tween the principals of Sir G eorge and M cGill not to share library facilities except at the Ph.D and faculty levels. O ur proposed library building is no t very like­ly to be built in the near future. The reason given was lack of capital grants from Q uebec. I still w onder why M cGill is getting a second building while Sir G eorge has yet to get a first. No one seems to know the reasoning behind it. No one seems to be trying very hard to do anything about it.

-On the problem of registration, 1 was told by the Registrar, D. Peets, that “you don ’t know w hat you’re talking about”.

THE FACULTYThe “progressive” m em bers of our faculty have

shown little concern for the preservation of their favorite credos -- the “com m unity of scholars” and “academ ic freedom” . They have failed to dem and their right to determ ine academ ic priorities in the University. They have failed to dem and their right to overrule the Board of G overnors’ decision on cam p­us recruiting by w arm akers or to disaffiliate them sel­ves from that decision. Two of those who have. Visit­

ing Professors Said Shah and G under Frank, unapo- logetic M arxists to be distinguished from the apolo­getic ones, have not been invited back to teach at Sir G eorge next year. A third, David Orton, was this year not allowed to teach an in troductory course in sociology w hich he had prepared over the summer, due to his lack of “com m itm ent to the discipline”. H e’s not very likely to be re-hired when his contract term inates next year.

But these three men who do not hedge their princi­ples are exceptions. They are outnum bered and more im portant, are w ithout the pow er of the o ther “pro­gressive faculty”. These are the tenured com binat­ions of adm inistration-professor whose only responsi­bility is to the advancem ent of their careers and stay­ing in the good graces of Deans and the Board of G o­vernors.

Let us consider the position of two of our outstand­ing faculty leaders, Assistant Professor Frank Chalk, the Hero of the B ookstore Strike and President of the Sir G eorge W illiams Association of University T eachers: and Professor M ichael M arsden, the Chair­m an (appointed by Chalk) of the above-m entioned Joint Com m ittee on University Affairs.

CHALK- Firstly, Chalk did not in troduce the m otion to sup­port the Student Strike in O ctober - that was G under Frank.- Chalk at the request of the A dm inistration organ­ized a referendum of his A ssociation on the recruit­m ent issue. T he vote was to move it off cam pus. Nei­ther in the Joint C om m ittee, of which he is also a m em ber, did he support me when at the adm inistra­tion’s request we were asked for our opinion on the recru itm ent issue, nor at any time after the discus­sion to reopen recruiting did he protest being Over­ruled.- Chalk has also helped draw up a new constitution for the Faculty A ssociation which allows the Princi­pal, V ice-Principal (Academ ic) and the Deans and A ssistant D eans of the faculties and schools to be m em bers, thereby effectively destroying the distinc­tion betw een adm inistration and faculty -- a distinc­tion that does not seem to ever have existed for Chalk in the first place.

Frank Chalk"...helped draw up a new constitution for the Faculty Association... effectively destroying the distinction between ad­m inistration and faculty..."

MARSDEN- ra ther than describe the activities of Prof. M ars­den, let me quote him. He has said, (SGWU) Bulle­tin. Dec. 21, 1967):

“some students confuse their desire for a free society with the running of a University. They m ust separate these aims since a University is not a model of our total society, but a functional establishm ent with specific purposes”.

- He also says: “The concept of ‘com m unity of schol­ars’ is perhaps regrettably defunct”.- Since for M arsden the deterioration of the ideal of the U niversity as a com m unity of scholars and m o­del institution of society is only, at best, “per­haps” regrettable, I am afraid to imagine what he would see as the role of the University today and how he would try to m ake it serve and be “responsible to society”. If the intellectual elite of a society refuses to be a model for that society, who shalldeterm ine the course of events? The answer, it seems quite clear, is our irresponsive and irresponsible business and fin­ancial elite. They have and will continue to determine the course of the society and the kind of education within that society with the acquiescence of even the m ost “progressive” of ou r educators.

T o the John Smolas, I say take up t e challenge you speak of o r refrain from hypocritical word-mon- gering.

T o the faculty. I say “faculty pow er” might be a m ore appropriate cry than ‘student power”. It is still not too late to take up a role as leaders and inno­vators in this society and this University.

T o the students, I say m ake U GEQ stronger and m ore critical of the society. Organize yourselves and the high school Students who so need your help in forcing their education system to respond to the twen­tieth century. W ork in your own associations and cam pus groups to articulate your grievances and your vision of a b e tter University and a b e tter so­ciety.

the georgian, March 8, 1968 / 7

Birth control - 1

The

cure

soJ • ; • .

precise

i iInterviewed by

Estelle Geller

• • . ■ - • '

"Having an abortion was the only way. I'm too young to have kids and in no position to do so being a student and unm arried... it was better for all concerned - my mother, father and baby”.

The student interviewed is a 20 year old fourth year Arts student who lives with her parents, but this latter fact didn't influence the decision to have the abortion. However she didn’ t want them to know she was pregnant

INTERVIEW ER: “ D id you go to the Health Guidance Service?”Ans: “ No; i t ’ s too personal a problem. A lso , I had su f f ic ien t help from my fr iends” .INTERVIEW ER; "W ere you on the pill?"

A n s; "N o,”.INTERVIEW ER; "Have you resumed your sexual relationship?"

ANS; "Right now I can’t indulge in sex; however, I w ill consider it in a month or so."The Sir George graduate proceeded to tell her story.

"I was a virgin little girl until Octo­ber of last year, when I got involved in a deep emotional relationship which altered my views on sex and sexual relationships. Unfortunately it was too late to start on the pill that month and I became pregnant im m ediately. Since the whole experience was new to me, I tried to elim inate the thing from my mind until realistic thinking could no longer prolong it. A fter a pregnancy test and a visit to a local gynaecologist (as a m arried wom an) my condition was confirmed.

"Due to the fact that my relation to the party concerned was rather rocky,

his result was very upsetting. How­ever, exams w ere two days away and I again excluded the thoughts from my mind.

No more mention of marriage

“ A fte r exams I decided that the only way was to have an abortion. (Before my pregnancy was confirmed, my boy­friend had stated that he would marry me if anything like this arose, but this was not mentioned after the confirm at­ion.)

"The search for financial aid began. My boyfriend was unable to get any because w e didn't w ant his parents to know and a large sum was needed.

"We decided to get the money some^ how, but the most pressing problem was to get a doctor.

"Being new at this game I had no contacts. Due to the importance of se­crecy, I was limited to the number of people I could consult for help.

"Having complete trust in my boy­friend I left this up to him. A medical friend of his was consulted and the as­surance of help was there. Three weeks three doctors later - still no help. Pres­sures w ere extrem e, I needed more than confidence and consulted a close friend. Operation search began again.

"More doctors w ere called without replies; finally I got an appointment; very tragic repercussions followed.I was lectured to but was not given any moral or physical help. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, I decid­ed to forego the idea of an abortion.

"At this point my physical ,-state was becoming noticeable. I m ade a new decision; My academic w ork had fallen far behind; I didn't feel my mind could handle the routine school curri­culum and I decided to drop out of

school and confront my boyfr iend with a new solution - I would leave town and would settle in a fairly large city, work till it was no longer possible, have my baby and play the eternal everloving mother for the rest of my life. This was very selfish of course, but strong feeling of lone liness made me consider myself more than the ba­by. I had intended to tell my boyfriend about my decision but rem ain indiffe­rent to his financial aid. (i.e . I would not ask for but would graciously ac­cept money). When I told him he not only offered financial aid, but also offer­ed to accompany me to any destinat­ion of my choice (except the U.S. be­cause of the draft). He would work and support me until the birth period.

Baby to be given up

"These new circumstances lessened my feelings of loneliness and for the moment I no longer needed the baby to fill an empty gap. A new decision fol­lowed the baby would be given up for adoption. Nothing a fter that tim e was planned - about our relationship, that is. Life looked hopeful again. The cri­sis seemed to be over. Again finances drew my boyfriend out of town for a few days. A t this time, the weakness of my m orale was attacked by the girlfriend in whom I had confided.

"She had no difficulty in convincing me that the plan was Utopian and in six months time, I'd lose the baby, a boyfriend and maybe even my mind. A new search for doctors began.

"Three more unsuccessful calls didn't dampen my spirits this tim e. I decided I had to rem ain aloof and rational. Finally I succeeded - I made an ap­pointment with a doctor.

"Although my boyfriend hadn't yet returned, the province of Quebec, Departm ent of Education, considered me worthy of a trivial loan to continue my education. W ith a loan from friends matching that sum I was able to raise $360.00 - the necessary sum.

"My first confrontation to the doc­tor was very encouraging. He calmed me down and reassured me.

"The next appointm ent was for two days hence. My boyfriend returned in the nick of time and accompanied me to w hat was to be the beginning of a horrible nightmare.

"(A t this tim e my nausea was beco­ming acute, I was living at home and my parents knew nothing of the goings on.)

"There are two methods of abort­ing;

1) an im m ediate curatage (D & C) i.e. the scraping of the uterus 2) forcing a natural miscarriage by tam pering with nature and causing the uterus to reject the foetus - this invol­ves more time, more stress, and more pain.

"My doctor decided on the latter. The miscarriage was scheduled to oc­cur within 24 to 48 hours.

"Because I was so intent on being careful and not devulging the truth,

stayed at my boyfriend's the first night telling my parents I was with a distraught girlfriend. During that night and the following morning, my boy­friend decided I was crabbing too much and he decided to discontinue our relationship. But, under pressure, he accompanied me on my third visit to the doctor. Emotional pressure was evident and was causing undue physical difficulties (hindering the process of m iscarriage.) I was put on a diet of sedatives, uterus contraction pills, anti-biotics, pain pills and one

sleeping pill. I spent the night at home. Still no miscarriage.

"The fourth visit to the doctor, alone, broke the thin thread that was keeping my sanity intact. I was rushed to the hospital under the pretense of an un­tampered, difficult pregnancey.

"The next three days w ere spent in a hospital room on completely legal but embarassing grounds (registered as Miss). My boyfriend turned up, how­ever to prove a measure of reliabil­ity. Unfortunately the excellent hospi­tal care hindered the miscarriage. Upon release I was still intact and very much pregnant.

Fifth visit to Doctor

"Visit five to original doctor -- more drastic measures ta k e n ;2 oz.o f Caster Oil and the insertion of a 14-inch long rubber tube. That night was spent at home in utter pain, diarrhea and vio­lent vometing. Suspicion was arous­ed at home. The unbearability of the pain led me to call the doctor who advised me to remove the tube and encouraged me, saying the pains si­gnified im minent miscarriage. The pain was gone by the next morning and didn't return until that evening which was spent in a theatre with my boy­friend.

"The next was the eventful day."I awoke with acute pains. It was

Sunday, the fam ily was home and sus­picious. My girlfriend came to my res­cue, Her presence prevented question­ing.

"Heavy bleeding began. An hour la­ter I miscarried. My reaction was hel­lish - for a moment I was stunned at the human-like appearance of the foe­tus which was but two months o ld - mouth, nose, ears, arms, legs and blue eyes. Yet I could not discard the evi­dence as I'd been instructed to retain it for inspection.

"I called the doctor under whose ca­re I was in the hospital and was told I had to be adm itted im m ediately to undergo a curetage that evening.

"The next shock followed within half an hour -- the bleeding resumed and the afterbirth rejected - a trail of blood remained on my carpets, floor and clo­thing. The pain was unbearable and I had to leave im m ediately, not caring about my parents suspicions. We took a cab to the hospital. A t this point I was delirious. However, I was put through an intense interrogation pe­riod by the interns.

"Two hours later, I was recovering and resting at the hospital. A fter only one night in the hospital (it is customa­ry to remain 48 hours) I was forced to leave, still bleeding, because my pa­rents had seen blood on the carpet. My mother was hysterical and was crying out that the state of my mind was causing the death of my father. Still very w eek, I spent my second re­covery night a t home.

Contrary to normal expectation, the tragedy was not yet over. My parents wanted explanations I was unprepar­ed to give. Pressures mounted and in a moment of extrem e anxiety I depart­ed for two days, leaving no trail.

"A fter more than a w eek, I was still bleeding.

"Had abortion been legal a fifteen minute operation and a calm two day stay in the hospital would have cut expenses, anxiety and the near mental breakdown of many people including myself, my boyfriend, and my parents who are still unaware of what caused my anguish for a period of over a month.

8 / the georgian,'M arch 8, 1968

Birth control - 2

. . . The prevention so simple

“ Don’ t te l i him you’ re a reporter. We want him to treat you like any college girl who comes in to see him."

These had been my instructions for a story on obtaining birth control pills at Sir George.

Across from me sat Dr. R.E.L. Watson, the semi­resident doctor at Sir George's medical center in the Hall Building basement. He gives free medical service three half days a w eek: 9 to 12 Monday and Thursday; and 1 to 5 Friday.

"There's nothing wrong with me doctor, I've come for advice. I wonder if you can give me some

1 birth control pills?”Dr. Watson took it calmly - "No - no, I don’t pres­

cribe those pills and the university hasn't asked me too", he answered.

He then w ent on to say that most of the girls he came in contact with w ere minors - "We don't want to get into squabbles with parents/a lthough what you do is your decision."

"I can give you the name of somegynaecologists and they can help you". Dr. Watson continued.

Dr. Watson, in his fifties, then asked a few pater­

nalistic questions - Are you in love, how long have you known the boy, are you planning to get m arr­ied? He was extrem ely kind and understanding.

One question he asked was "What would your mother think if she knew you w ere planning this?"

The answer was "I wouldn't tell her - the two ge­nerations feel d ifferently about these things."

"Yes, you're right, your generation probably isn't as hypocritical", Dr. Watson replied.

He didn't try to dissuade me but agreed that it was better to have protection because sometimes people fall out of love. He rem arked that the whole situation should be broached sensibly.

"I do feel that if you're sure you'll go all the way, it's better for you to have some protection than suffer from fear, anxiety and guilt", Dr. Watson said. "I'd much rather you saw someone than cau­sed everyone a whole lot of pain."

Dr. Watson then proceeded to w rite out the na­mes of three excellent gynaecologists in the Mont­real area.

He described one as an elderly lady, one a middle- aged man and one a young man. Then Dr. Watson

said that gynocologists rarely prescribe a diaphram for young girls - "I feel the pill is probably best in your case”, he added.

A session with the gynaecologi sts, Dr.Watson ex­plained, included questions on the menstrual cycle and personal questions on medical history and the reasons for wanting the pill. An internal vaginal exam ination is highly unlikely, though a slight check-up on heart and blood pressure might be in order. Following this, pills are prescribed which are available at any drugstore.

Dr. Watson said that a girl should w ait at least one month before having any relations after taking the pill.

Sir George girls would be foolish not to see Dr. Watson and take his advice if they are contem­plating having sexual relations. He was patient, un­derstanding and did as much as he could. There was no shock or condemnation on his part.

As Dr. Watson added "Think of the baby - giving it out for adoption is quite a load for a girl to bear and it might put a stigma on the child's life forever".

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D on 't use your friend 's prescription - it 's dangerous. You need a check-up before getting the Pill; and it's not for everyone.

A lthough the P ill 's the m ost fash ionab le contraceptive, an Inter-Uterine device or a d iaphragm m ight be better.

fo find out, consu lt a doctor:

The Sir G e o rge Health Service clinic has a list of g yn ae ­co logists and clinics.

The city of M on trea l operates three clinics, and the Health Departm ent will tell you w here to find them.

The Fam ily P lann ing A ssoc ia tion will p rov ide perti­nent addresses.

M a n y m ajor dow ntow n hospitals have public clinics.

The cost is m inim al. A t the public clinics, you pay accord­ing to you r incom e (which, a s a student, isn ’t much), and m any of the doctors have students' rates. The exam ination is u sua lly not over ten do lla rs and can be about five.

A m onth 's supply of the pill costs about tw o dollars.

the georgian, March 8, 1968 / 9

Birth control - 3

Laws archaic... beliefs have changedQ: Do you believe that abor-

ion should be made legal and to w hat extent?

A; Yes I do believe that they should be made legal and I believe abortions should be made available on request to any woman who wants and requires one.

Q: Why do you believe abor­tion laws are as stringent as they are now?

A; There are many reasons involved here, one of which is that the existing abortion laws w ere passed at a period in history when the mores of society w ere different than they are now; the religious beliefs involved are different from those of the present day and one of the other major reasons of course is that they w ere passed by men and I don't think that men should be allow ed jurisdiction in an area which concerns specifically wom en. I think one of the o- ther reasons that these laws are stringent, and my knowled­ge of history is extrem ely li­mited, is that countries in the past, particularly in the time of the Industrial Revolution, required much more labour than they now require. We live and are moving into an overpopulated world and in the circumstances I think that the desirability of large fam i­

lies or numerous children to provide labour is no longer necessary.

Q: Do you think that tl e new legislation will bring a- bout adequate change?

A; No, I don’t because it seems to me that the existing legislation and even the new legislation if it's passed, makes abortion available only in cer­tain circumstances with seve­ral medical opinions and only if the mental and physical health of the mother is in dan­ger. I don't think Jhis is ade­quate at all. I think this is a gesture made towards the tw entieth century by legisla­tors but it doesn't correspond with the situation or the soci­ety in which w e live. I think women should be allowed to decide for themselves w he­ther or not they w ant an abor­tion.

I think as things stand we live in a society in which girls are no longer protected or maintained in a home environ­ment until they are married off; yet no provision is made on a nation-wide basis to teach girls how to cope with the new mores and the new circums­tances in which they live. One finds, therefore, a certain number of students, or girls in any circumstances, pregnant without benefit of clergy and

Here is an interview with M air Verthuy asst Prof in French conducted by Estelle G eller of the georgian.

I think that they should be a l­lowed to decide whether or not they want to have the child... as things stand, they have a variety of choices; they can either have an illegal abortion, frequently with disastrous re­sults both on their psychology and on their body; they can have the child and put it out for adoption immediately, which is a rather shattering thing to have to do; or they can try to bring the child up alone. I know several people who are doing this and doing it quite successfully. But it was a free choice on the part of these people and I think that women should be allowed this choice. If they w ant to have a child and bring it up them ­selves, there is no reason why they shouldn't. But I don't think that legislators male le­gislators in particular, should be allowed to decide that a girl who is pregnant should be forced to go through the whole pregnancy and bring this child into the world to increase the already large numbers of children that re­

quire adoption and can't find adopted homes...particularly, in a society where religion is a barrier to adoption.

Q; Do you think that the so­ciety and more specifically the students of this university have adopted the "new morality"?

A; W ell, judging from the conversations I have had with most of my students I would say that it has entered into Sir G eorge...It seems to me that even girls who live rea­sonably quiet and sheltered lives accept behaviour on the part of their friends which they wouldn't have accepted 30 years ago or even 20 years ago, although they don't neces­sarily practise it themselves. It seems to me that a great many students are confronted with the choice between young m ar­riage in a society which is not economically equipped for his kind of relationship in as much the earning power of young people doesn't start until they're probably about 23, 24, 25 ...or (I think the ex­pression is) 'living in sin’. Sin­ce so many students find them ­selves in these circumstances,I think thata) education in this area should be approved andb) if the education falls down in practice that the girls should have the possibility of repair­

ing w hat might be an error in a proper civilised manner.

Q; Should the University Health Centre distribute infor­mation about birth control as well as prescriptions for oral contraceptives?

A; Yes... I'm not sure that I'm overwhelmingly enthusias­tic about the idea of oral con­traception for girls who may or may not want later on to have children because we don’t know yet what the ef- rects of these are going to be on future generations. But I certainly think that the health centre should m ake available in fact should encourage the distribution of information on contraception to all students in the university. W hether it should provide prescriptions is another thing...it seems to me that the Engl ish solution is quite adequate...there are fa ­mily planning centres in every community that anyone is free to consult and anyone is free to get contraceptives from. W hether the health centre of the university should serve this purpose and whether the government, under the new medicare plan, for instance, should introduce centres of this kind is a pragmatic ques­tion which I haven't gone into.

Abortion seen as personal

decisionProfessor Hedley Dimock

of the Applied Social Science Departm ent feels that the question of abortion has two parts; the moral-ethical part and the physical-maternal part.

"I think the question of whether a girl wants to have an abortion should be left to her alone, or to her and the people involved.

"From a legal point of view, I don’t think you can legis­late moral views. Therefore the moral decision involved is not one which should be le­gis la ted, but one which peo­ple m ake themselves.

"There is no more degrad­ing an experience than an a- bortion, especially in Montreal and other major cities. This is an exceptionally cruel and traum atic experience. The fact that girls do and some­times must have abortions is no excure for the inhuman treatm ent they get. If abor­tions w ere legalized in Ca­nada, and a girl could seek out competent medical eelp, then the abortion could be perform­ed in a hospital with a mini­mum of dramatic experience.

"In New York, the condi­tions for abortions are better, but it's still like a 1925 gangs­ter movie.

"The most preferable solu­tion would be the legalization of abortion.”

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A fter nearly three years of deliberation and two m onths of Student Council delay, Sir G eor­ge students finally have representatives on the University and Faculty Councils.

A total of four students -- one from each of the faculties -- are on the University Council which has authority in m atters pertaining to the academ ic program such as conferring degrees and listening to appeals.

Eight students - two from each of the facult­ies - sit on the Faculty Council which recom ­m ends legislation to the University Council.

All delegates sit on the two councils for a one year period. They m ust be academ ically eligi­ble. having a cum ulative grade point average of not less than 2.5 o r 2.0 if there are no fail­ures.The initial request for student representation

on academ ic decision m aking bodies cam e from the President of the Student U ndergraduate Society. Ron M oores, in 1965-66. Since then a sub-com m ittee, the Com m ittee to Study the Role of Students in A cadem ic G overnm ent, was established by the University Council.

This C om m ittee, working on briefs subm itted by the S tudents’ Association presented their report in May 1967.

Student Suggestions BeneficialBasically the R eport stated that students need­

ed a say in how they were governed and that the adm inistration would benefit from student suggestions. The R eport added that it is hoped a g reater feeling of “con tac t” and “co-opera­tion” will develop betw een the students and the adm inistration as a result of representation.

T he University Council accepted the R eport on O ctober 27, 1967 and it was ratified by the Board of G overnors on O ctober 31. for im ple­m entation in the new year.

T he student rep resen ta tives were chosen by a Selection Board of the SA which studied ap­plications subm itted by students.

The Board consisted of SA President Jeff Chipm an. A rts President Barry Hill, Com m erce President Joe Angelus. Engineering President Louis Novak, Science President R obert Cook and a student at large, Don Rosenbaum .

Chipm an felt a selection com m ittee “would ensure com peten t representation in this trial year. It is conceivable that delegates will be elected in the fu tu re”, he added.

SA Council Criticized for DelayT he SA Council has been criticized for its

delay in setting up student representatives. R epresentation was ratified O ctober 31st yet the Selection C om m ittee was only established at the end of D ecem ber.

Chipm an hoped the delegates would be ap­

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pointed by January 26th but they w eren’t -- ot- ficial represen tation finally cam e at the M arch meetings.

S tudent at large D on Rosenbaum said that the delegates should have been announced the day after the decision was m ade by the Board of G overnors.

“T he students should have been chosen through an election procedure four months ago”, Rosenbaum claim ed.

Representatives NamedR epresentatives were announced February

15th, 1968. On the University Council will sit A aron Caplan (Arts), Leonard W olman (Com­m erce), G abor Elias (Engineering), and Dan Smyth (Science).

Delegates to the Faculty Councils are Peter Klein and Don R osenbaum (Arts), Ross Bur­rows and M orris Zand (Com m erce), Jack Belle- tru tti and Antony M arcil (Engineering), Robert Cook and Brahm Silverstone (Science).

University Council representative Dan Smyth said the University Council m et on January the 26th and 31st to discuss the recru itm ent issue. A nother m eeting held M arch 1st was on prepa­ration for the sum m er evening sessions.

Smyth does not feel represen tation is a fake concession to student dem ands - “I think it will be a very good thing. I know Acting Prin­cipal Clark and the o ther m em bers are hoping for a student contribu tion”.

Smyth explained that the m inutes of the Uni­versity Council are confidential. He hopes to conquer the feedback problem by obtaining opinions and learning of problem s through his various contacts in the University.

Don Rosenbaum on the Arts Faculty is not sure two student representatives are enough but, “before we dem and greater representation we need to learn of the functioning of univer­sity governm ent.”

Rosenbaum attended the A rts Faculty Coun­cil m eeting February 2nd. Agenda included set­ting up sub-com m ittees for facilitating work on the Council and having discussions on rais­ing the cum ulative grade point average to a C for a BA degree.

Rosenbaum plans to have regular open m eet­ings next year to hear student opinion, and to send ou t bulletins on the meetings.

Science Faculty Council representative R o­bert Cook said their first m eeting will be on M arch 8 . Cook plans to report directly to the Science A ssociation and let them decide on the problem of feedback.

C om m erce Faculty Council delegate Morris Zand said that at their February 16 meeting they spoke about MBA program s and the m o­dification of curriculum .

Zand hopes to distribute copies of the m eet­ings. “I see our role as represen ta tives on mat­ters which affect all com m erce students - not any one particular student”. A t the Com m erce Faculty m eeting Zand said “W e were regarded with respect and openly w elcom ed”.

Treatment No DifferentEngineering Faculty Council representative

Jack Belletrutti said that a t their February 16 m eeting they discussed research grants, the departm ental classification of Engineering branches and the appointm ent of an Dean of Engineering.

Belletrutti feels representation will be a “work­ing thing . We were always listened to and we­ren’t treated differently”.

No decision has yet been m ade on whether to m ake the Engineering m inutes public and Belletrutti hopes any student who wishes in­form ation now will con tac t him.

All the representatives are full voting mem­bers and most were provided with the minutes from the previous m eetings so they had some background to work from.

As for representatives on the departm ental level, Rosenbaum said “no m echanism or ef­fort has been m ade centrally by the SA -- the initiative is being taken by the departm ents them selves.”

Chipm an said that “liaison is still in the pro­cess of being set up”. Some departm ent chair­men in sociology, geography and engineering have asked for delegates. Chipm an wants lists of the m ajors and honor students to be forw ard­ed by the departm ent chairm en.

the georgian, March 8, 1968 / 11

COMMENT I O P IN IO N

How to “ succeed” in life — without even trying

If any of you students who have b eea jn v o lv ed with p ro test­ing lately really w ant to see what you are up against -- and j ust how seriously you are being taken (in), I refer you to the ad on page six of the georgian M arch first.

Boulevard Dodge, Chrysler are offering twenty bucks to any student who finds out who is buying cars soon and gives their nam es to BDC, if this leads to a sale. You also get a chance of a five hundred dollar scholarship to ‘Loyola’ o r a university of your choice.

Of course there is nothing really wrong with such an offer,I m ean it is easy money, perhaps. And there is nothing wrong with BDC thinking that students will go for such an opportunity . N either is there anything wrong with com panies who m ake p ro ­ducts for the W AR coming on cam pus and recruiting. T here is also nothing wrong with the bookstore overcharging, as we have seen. T here is nothing even m ore w rong with advertisers telling girls that if they wear all in one girdles and bras they will be m o­re attractive to men. I m ean some girls are ra ther fat a ren ’t they?

I have often wondered, w hat with all these buttons around that students wear saying “Yes”, “No”, “Belly”, “M ake m oney. Not War” , just where all the businessm en who a ren ’t corrupting the world com e from. Not that there is anything wrong with business m en, many have told me that “You HAVE to tread on SOM E­BO D Y ”, and of course, deep in your hearts you know that this is (will be) true. I m ean to say, W HY are we at university any­way?

So, if you have nothing better to do -- in betw een protests -- fill in the application form provided and mail to the Student Salesm an Scholarship Co-ordinator, and this could well set you up for a nice com fortable job after you ‘g raduate’.

T here can ’t be anything wrong with a nice cosy job, because it com es after university. I’m sure that William Blake and Bob Dylan would have chosen exactly the same thing if they had been able to see t 1 e choice. And I know you love William Blake and Bob Dylan, and you will for the rest of your life.

Not tha t there is anything wrong with life, except that it ends. D oesn’t it?

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The hypocrisy o f the aw ards banquetThe pream ble of the new S.A. constitution

states that the student m ust be encouraged to “develop a sense of individual integrity and social responsibility”. On Thursday, M arch 7, the S.A. spent 375 dollars to honour the peo­ple who contributed to the ideals of the new constitution. Among the defenders of the Faith who were cited for their devotion to the S.A. were Steve Phizicky, who received a P re­sidential Citation for arranging for the prin t­ing of the Carnival issue of the G eorgian at the plant of the M onitor and John Gregory, for his concern with the financial state of the S.A. The S.A. M ajor Award was naturally gi­ven to Jeff Chipman. enough said.

T he Senior Award was given jointly to Chuck Axelrod and B ert Young. A xelrod refused the award - on the grounds that it cam e from an organization that was dedicated to the preservation of the status quo, an organiza­tion - which he was an integral part of the entire year and which he sought to head in the forthcom ing one. Bert Young m ade no attem pt a t a grandstand play. He refused the award simply because he felt tha t there should be innate and inward satisfaction in doing a job for the students. The fruits of Y oung’s labours will still be felt by Sir G eorge long after guys like Chipm an and Co. are forgotten.

COMMENT II“It’s a beautiful day.I’m gonna kill myselfIt m ust be at least 30 degrees F.I thought it out very carefully.I was taking the 55 bus and passed a build­

ing that had its date of erection on it. 1917. T hat was 50 years ago... gee, the same time that w orkm en... probably young ones, work­m en were younger in 1917 ‘cause kids didn’t go to as many grades, were goofing off, drink­ing Coke - people were fighting a war. M en were dying thousands of miles away while the young w orkm en were drinking Coke.

Do you think, som etim es in the future, some

In a rem arkable display of cow ardice, the awards com m ittee recom m ended that in up­coming years the President be declared ine­ligible for the M ajor Award. It obviously was beyond the scope of their lim ited courage and integrity to depart from established preced­ents. The job was dum ped in the lap of next year’s com m ittee.

The people on the com m ittee have m ain­tained that they w ere dedicated to the prin­ciples of academ ic reform , individual inte­grity, and all that crap (for it is crap after T hurs­day night). I hope people like M anny Kalles and Sherry R ubenstein can justify their choi­ces in their own minds. A fter such a gross re­pudiation of their principles w ithout so much as a public denunciation of the hypocrisy in­volved, I hope that they can sleep at nights.

W hat the com m ittee stated - is that the end justifies the means, i.e., m ake a “con tribu t­ion” to the university, regardless of what prin­ciples and ideals you have to sacrifice, and how many people you have to step on.

You might also ask yourself why the alt­ruistic Council m em bers d idn’t bring up the subject of the awards banquet in open session. It is because these people like the chance to reveal in the spotlight even at the expense of m uch-needed programs.

It’s a beautiful dayby Andre Farkas

guy will be riding the 55... m aybe there won’t be no m ore buses, m aybe... and pass a build­ing with 1967 erection date engraved and think:

T he same time that w orkm ent... probably young ones, they had young w orkm en then, ‘cause kids did not go to as m any grades... were goofing off, probably drinking Coke,

T here will always be a Coke - people were fighting a war.

M en were dying thousands of miles awav while the young w orkm en were drinking Coke, and som eone was riding the 55 bus. Do you?

I’m gonna get off the bus.

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Loyola Studentsby Ron Blunn

Loyola College today faces one of the worst situations ever to confront a Q uebec institute of higher learning.

E ither it raises funds from an unsym pathe­tic provincial governm ent or the student body, o r it will be confronted with the prospect of bankruptcy.

On Tuesday a mass rally and an open m eet­ing was attended by over 1,500 angry Loyol- ans in an effort to acquaint the student body with the dilemna.

Last m onth it was revealed that Loyola would go into the com ing academ ic year 8 million dollars in debt. Recently Loyola has em barked on an extensive building program under the assum ption that it would be partly financed by a governm ent grant. This was in 1964 and the agreem ent was m ade with the Lesage adm inistration but now Prem ier John­son claims no responsibility for the agreem ent.’ This puts Loyola in a very precarious financ­ial position.

A front page article in the M arch 5 Loyola News said that the only cheques from Loyola that M ontreal banks will honour are payroll cheques. No new books have been added to the library since Novem ber and the hiring of new and replacem ent professors has been de­layed. W ithout an adequate financial back­ing Loyola is helpless.

A fee increase of betw een $100 and $200 per student has been suggested by the adm inist­ration, thus making an education at Loyola m ore expensive than at any o ther Canadian university.

Fees are now $590. second only to M cG ill’s $600 as h ig h e s t in C anada. T he hike will rai­se Loyola’s fees to $800. Naturally the stu­dents don’t w ant any part of such a fee hike and they th reaten to close down the college by not paying it. The governm ent also is un­cooperative at this stage but their position may change.

T he governm ent (and U G EQ I currently classifies Loyola as a college classique al­though it is generally accepted as being run on a university scale. Loyola receives an oper­ational grant of only $550 -- per student while Sir G eorge gets $1,500 -- and Loyola High

School receives $680 - per student. B ishop’s University and the University of Sherbrooke are both m uch smaller than Loyola yet they re­ceive operational grants well in excess of the west-end college.

At the open m eeting Tuesday, G raham Ne- vin, the President of the Loyola S tudents’

Association pointed out that for 69 years Lo-

protest fee riseyola had grown in spite of Q uebec and not be­cause of it. He said that definitive action had to be taken to rectify the situation. T here were shouts from the audience that Loyola should m arch on Q uebec to which Nevin replied that the college was broke and couldn’t afford to m arch anywhere. A few m em bers of the as­sembly proposed that each student pay the cost of transportation ou t of his own pocket and this was m et by unanim ous approval. Later it was learned from an executive on the Loyola S tudents’ A ssociation that every ef­fort would be m ade to organize such a m arch.

It was also suggested that Loyola seek the assistance of U G EQ on the m atter but on this Nevin seem ed pessemistic.

Jean Pelletier of U G EQ said Thursday that they are still “studying the question” and that no official request has been m ade to UGEQ, although a m eeting has been held betw een Lo­yola student representatives and R ichard Bru- nelle of UGEQ.

A t the open m eeting Tuesday, when the Very Reverend Father M alone, principal of Loyola, said th; t he was sure som e arrange­m ents could be reached one m em ber of the assembly asked the good father if he was pre­pared to perform a m iracle in o rder to save Loyola. T here was no response.

Loyo la students protesting

On Wednesday, a march will be held on Que­bec, to try to rectify the situation. Sims says: “The response we receive will only be as fav­ourable as the excellence of our conduct in this endeavour and the responsible display of the rationality of our cause”. Busses will leave the Loyola campus at nine and return between 5.4)0 - 7.4)0.

the georgian, March 8, 1968 / 13

THE OTHER 85%a georgian supplement

Approximately 85% of the Canadian population never reaches university level education. Consequen­tly, they are in a less advan­tageous position to control the circumstances which govern their daily lives, to put it mildly.

What of this 85%? What is being done for them, and what are they doing for themselves? As Alan Bai- lin points out elsewhere on this page, the poor are in­terested in improving the quality of education, their children receive. They are genuinely interested in im­proving their own lives, and more importantly, the lives of their children.

Two major areas of - strength for the unorganized are the labour unions and their action groups formed by the poor to apply pressu­re against government and big business. The eight page supplement, prepared for the georgian by Jean Boi- vin, a Sir George evening student who has had expe­rience in the area of orga­nization, was undertaken to investigate the channels of change open to The o-\ ther 85%. The label may at first seem presumptuous, but from the perspective of most university students, the lack of knowledge in areas such as poverty and labour unions, is qppaling. The professional press does little to shed light on these subjects, dealing with stri­kes from the prejudiced viewpoint of management, and virtually ignoring the problems of the poor and dispossessed.

The supplement is divided into two parts; the first dealing with a variety of is­sues confronting the 85%, the second dealing with the General Motors Strike in Flint, Machigan in 1936-7. The latter subject is signi­ficant, in that organized labour fought its' most im­portant battle against the world's largest corporation, and eventually won.

All of the articles includ­ed in the following pages point to one clear conclu­sion. Labour, the poor, and the dispossessed must work together to improve their living and working condit­ions. Gradually this goal is being achieved, and the fu­ture appears promising.

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THE OTHER SIDE OF AFFLUENCEWe live in the a ffluen t society.

One in w hich every man can a ffo rd a te lev is ion set and a car, a t any rate, it o ften seems so from the perspective o f a un ivers ity student. But is th is so? Do w e rea lly have an econom ic structure in which no one w ho w orks or w ishes to w o rk lives in poverty? A re the on ly poof in M ontrea l those w ho are lazy and degenerate?

DEFINING CRITERIA

Before w e can decide w hether o r not th is is true, w e must firs t de fine our c rite ria fo r poverty. An absolute de fin ition , based on the am ount o f calories consumed per capita is o f lit t le use in de fin ing poverty, fo r w e live in a society in which to be able to function as a human being, we must consume m ore than an abso lute subsistence level a llow s us. M ost sociologists and economists concerned w ith the problem o f poverty use prim a-

by Alan Bailin

r ily , the crite rium of income. A poor person (i.e. one w ho lives be low the subsistence level need­ed to function in an industria l so­cie ty) earns less than $3,000 per year, w h ile supporting a fam ily usually includ ing ch ildren. A m ar­g ina l fam ily to one earn ing $3,000 to $5,000 annually. M arg ina l fa m il­ies cannot plan th e ir needs beyond the next day or the next w eek. A ny problem such as the need to hospita lize a m em ber o f the fam ily , w ill put them w ith in the rea lm of those earn ing less than $3,000.

Having decided on a de fin ition o f poverty, w e can app ly it to the conditions o f people in M ontrea l. A look a t the incomes of M ont­real fam ilies reveals th a t app rox­im ate ly 20% o f a ll M onfrea l fa ­m ilies f it w ith in the realm o f pover­ty : Less than $3,000.

A pprox im a te ly 305 are earn ing $5,000 or less. The average size o f a M ontrea l fa m ily is fou r people.

If one is not aw are o f these fi-_ gures, he m ight say tha t the only poor are those w ho do not w o rk . The obvious w ay to see, in rea lity , if 20% o f M ontrea l does not w ork, is to check the unem ploym ent sta­tistics. They reveal tha t the num­ber o f persons unem ployed is ap­p rox im ate ly 2% of the labour force. O bviously a g reat m a jo rity o f poor people are w o rk ing . O bvi­ously there a g rea t many poor people in M ontrea l.

How do the poor live? Most o f

us have heard the story from a friend o f going in to a poor fam ily 's house and find ing a te lev is ion set inside. The obvious conclusion is, o f course, tha t the poverty p ro­b lem is bullsh it.

BATMAN VS. BOLOGNA

For the m oment, le t us w o rk on the supposition tha t "poo r" fam ilies do very o ften have te le ­vision sets. They go down to a lo­cal store and put $10 dow n and get the TV set on credit. The cred it rates w ill be dea lt w ith la ter, but fo r the m om ent le t us concern ourselves w ith w hy w e are so hor­r ified by a poor fam ily buying a TV set.

Surveys show tha t when the poor do buy luxuries, they buy on credit.

Why don ’t they buy food w ith th e ir money instead? For the sim ­ple reason tha t it is often m ore pleasant to watch Batman on TV than to eat fried bologna fo r the f if th tim e in a w eek. We are all affected by our socie ty ’s aims fo r ourselves. The poor are no excep­tion. They see a TV set as a sym­bol o f not being rea lly as poor as they once w ere . We do the same things. We sacrifice certa in needs to get luxuries w e cannot a ffo rd . M ust the poor be m ore nob le than ourselves? Must w e regard them w ith such in justice?

DOUBLE STANDARD

This double standard w e app ly to o the r activ ities o f the poor w hich w e do not consider " r ig h t" . Beer d rink ing is a good exam ple. The a ffluen t classes constantly deride the poor fo r a lways d rin k ­ing. But are w e innocent o f such activ ities? W hy should the poor be m ore righteous than ourselves?

Credit is a very im portan t th ing to a poor fam ily liv ing in M ont­real. In o rder to buy food, c lo th ing, and o ther necessities, they must buy on credit. This means, in e f­fect, tha t the poor o ften pay 10%, 50%, or even 100% m ore than an a ffluen t fam ily m ight. M oney pro­blems are thus com pounded. Not on ly do the poor earn less than a m iddle class fam ily , but they must pay m ore fo r w hat they consume.

POOR PAY MORE

The poor often cannot get the same prices as the a ffluen t ob­ta in . Because they cannot buy in bulk, they are forced to pay h igh­e r prices. Any superm arket in M ontrea l w ill prove th is point. A m inor exam ple such as soap bars w h ich cost less when bought fou r a t a tim e, than when they are

bought singley. A poor fam ily , how­ever, w ill have to buy the single scapbarand thus pay a h igher price fo r the commodity. Evidently, the poor pay more.

We very often consciously or unconsciously hold the v ie w tha t anyone w ith ab ility can "m ake it " in th is city. U nfortunate ly the facts prove d iffe ren tly . A poor child is very like ly going to become a poor adult. Figures prove this. Poor ch ildren are less like ly to do w e ll in school. Schools in poor d istricts o f M ontrea l are almost always in fe rio r to those in a fflu ­ent districts. Compare, fo r exam ­ple, Devonshire School which is near St. Lawrence Blvd., w ith the public schools in the Town of M ount Royal. The poor are usually pow er­less to change the situation even if they are in terested in chang­ing things. Com m unity organiz­ers have found a grea t deal of in­te rest on the part o f the poor; The parents whose children go to Devonshire School, fo r exam ple, have form ed a group which is try- to re fo rm conditions in tha t school.

The same in a b ility to change conditions in th e ir neighbour­hood prevails everyw here in poor d is tric ts in M ontrea l. G overnm ent representatives from these dis­tric ts are unable to change condi­tions in th e ir constituencies, be­cause they are in a m ino rity in th e ir leg isla tures. The poor are alm ost a lways w ith o u t the money and pow er to change th ings po li­tica lly through representatives. One MPP from a d is tric t around St. Lawrence Blvd. said tha t the poor, organized in to pressure groups, had more power, and could e ffect m ore change than he could.

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS

The d ifferences between the rich and the poor are obviously institu tiona lized. The poor's only weapon in changing the social structure in M ontrea l, is the ir vast numbers.

By organizing in to pressure groups, they can e ffect change. M ost o f the poor cannot get stea­dy jobs: They are m arg ina l to the economy, and the re fo re can be paid low wages as are the w orkers in the 7-Up facto ry in T.M.R.

Therefore, one of the most im ­portan t th ings the poor in M ont­real must organ ize around is the guaranteed annual wage. O rgani­zations o f the poor are now be­ing form ed in M ontrea l on this and o tner issues, such as recreation

’ fac ilities fo r th e ir children. Chan­ges w ill occur. They must.

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UNION IMPERIALISM: DIVIDE AND RULEThe trade union m ovem ent in C anada today is tied

• up with the international unions; that is, with A m eri­can unions who have expanded beyond their borders along with the A m erican industrial com plex. This has com e about because of the dom ination of both the developed and underdeveloped capitalist world by A m erican m onopoly capital.

As the world industrial m achine (world co rpo ra t­ions) are controlled from the United States and run in the interests of the A m erican bourgeoisie, so are the in ternational unions. This, to put things very brief­ly, is a phenom enon which we call im perialism , and due to the fact that political control inevitably follows econom ic control; (the degree depending on the in­dividual nation and its degree of econom ic dependan- ce,) we refer to this developm ent as the A m erican Em pire. The in ternationalist unions are in the main, an integral part of this system.

THE SPLIT MOVEMENT

T o discover the reasons for A m erican trade union imperialism , one m ust exam ine the nature of the Am e­rican unions. In its early stage of developm ent, the m ovem ent was split; one wing being led by the So- cial-D em ocrats and later the Com m unists in the in­terests of the solidarity of the w orking class, the o ther by an elite of skilled w orkers who felt their own inte­rests were with the bourgeoisie. T he form er cen tered around the In ternational W orkers of the W orld (the W obblies), while the la tte r grew into the AFL-CIO.

This elite which ran the bureaucracy of the A FU CIO took upon itself the job of destroying all radical unions, which it accom plished with its own union funds and help from governm ent intelligence and lo­cal police forces. One union which was particularly active in destroying radical m ovem ents in the wes­tern states was the U nited M ines. This is the sam e u- nion which has been co-operating with the 7-UP com ­pany in its three year dispute with the sales em ploy­ees and w hich was indirectly involved in the raids on the M ine, Mill and Sm elter workers in Sudbury. T he Sudbury raids incidentally cost the w orkers of the U nited Steel W orkers m ore than $7.5 million (they bribed the w orkers since nothing else would work).

by Martin Resnick

T he bureaucracy of the In ternational (A m erican) Unions today heavily invest the w orkers’ dues (which are unreasonably high) and their pension funds in U. S. in ternational capitalist enterprises. T hus the inte­rests of these unions lie with the dom ination of the world econom y by A m erican enterprises. G eorge M eany, head of the AFL-CIO has said him self that “We are the m ost ferocious defenders of the cap ita­list system .”

T he U.S. unions, because of their relationship with A m erican industry opposes the developm ent of dyna­mic com petitive local industry in C anada and else­w here, and oppose any and all developm ents which do not favor the growth of A m erican in ternational capitalism . T he AFL-CIO for exam ple, supported w holeheartedly the foreign invasions of the U.S.S.R. in the 1920’s; the invasion of the Dom inican R epu­blic; has condem ned the C uban takeover of A m erican industry; and supports the A m erican w ar of genocide in V iet Nam. Its organizers w ere instrum ental in c rea t­ing the G uyanese general strike and race riots which proved essential in the British-Am erican ouster of Cheddi Jagan from power. Furtherm ore, the executi­ves of A m erican unions are by far the m ost co rrup t of any in the entire world.

PENSIONS MORE INTERESTINGThese in ternational unions ham per the develop­

m ent of C anadian owned industry capable of com peti­tion in the world m arket. They ham per the develop­m ent of skilled tradesm en in C anada by not providing proper w orker training courses. T he in ternational unions are often far m ore in terested in the pension funds of Canadian w orkers than the w orkers them ­selves. These funds are invested no t in Canadian industries, bu t ra ther in A m erican business by the top executives in the unions. This has a detrim ental effect on C anada’s balance of paym ents, causing an even g reater influx of A m erican capital and fu rther control of ou r econom y from abroad.

It is clearly no t in the in terest of C anadian workers to m aintain A m erican dom inance of our economy. For exam ple, the existence in this country of many subsidiaries of US firms, creates a sm aller m arket for each com pany, resulting in inefficiency and lower wages. These subsidiaries exist solely to serve the C anadian m arket, therefore the necessary exports that would provide jobs for Canadian w orkers are not produced. In fact, m ost C anadian subsidiaries of US firms im port products in a semi-finished state, thus excluding the opportunity of buying parts from Cana­dian m anufacturers that are capable of producing them . These unnecessary im ports entail a loss of ca­pital and further im ports of A m erican capital which results in even greater dependence on the U nited Sta­tes by Canada.

POLITICAL LIMITATIONSThis of course limits C anada politically as well as

econom ically, since the strings upon A m erican capi­tal are controlled by Wall S treet financiers who are well represented in the US State Department. George Meany has said, “ What’s good for General Motors is good for American workers” , but even if one ac­cepts this, is it good for C anadian w orkers?

The com m on argum ent used by the international unions is that, since there are in ternational corpora­tions, o r corporations controlled by the sam e group of financers on Wall S treet, there m ust be one com ­m on w orkers front against them . However, if one com pares wages of Am erican and C anadian workers, the A m erican average is far g reater. This can be at­tributed largely to the differential in productivity, but that is not the only reason. For exam ple, Falcon- bridge w orkers in Sudbury who are represented by M ine and Mill (a Canadian union), have one of the best contracts in North Am erica, yet there are only 5000 m en bargaining with an in ternational corporation.

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niccolinisu its , c o a ts , c a r c o a ts , ra in w e a r ,

a t fa s h io n s to res e v eryw h e re .

Everyone in Q uebec has no doubt noticed the wave of strikes in the past few years. Strikes are not, of course, peculiar to Q uebec yet they have been m ore num erous here, than in o ther parts of the coun­try. Two years ago, it was the fashion to refer to the­se strikes as a sort of ‘rank-and-file’ revolution against the restraining hands of the m ajor Labour bosses. Recently, the C.N.T.U. has been receiving m ost of the blam e for strikes.

The first hypothesis is m ore accura te when one exam ines the strikes them selves. T he labour union centrals cannot, in m ost cases, c reate a strike. W hi­le organizations like the Q.F.L. or the C .N .T.U . do send m en to conduct the union local’s negotiations, all proposals go to the local for accep tance o r rejec­tion by vote. The union central may endorse the pro­posals or advise against them bu t canno t c rea te or stop a strike w ithout rank-and-file support.

THE QUEBEC SITUATION

The central and the executive of the union local do, of course, have great influence. They can advise the m em bers that m ore can be gained than is offered, o r they can repo rt that a strike would be useless as the com pany is incapable of m eeting their dem ands. The executive of a local and the central union organi­zation tend to agree in m ost cases, since executive elections m ust usually be ratified by the central, and the central pays an d /o r m eets the expenses of the local executive.

Difficulties arise when there is a suspicion tha t the central and the local executive may no t be working solely for the good of the local. This situation leads to the type of organization know n as the capitalist union. This type of union is basically one which, through initial victories, now has a stake in an indus­try or in the econom y.

If the econom y is in trouble or an industry suffers, the union central is w eakened. If a strike arises the central m ust ensure “strike pay” for the w orker and, in cases of extrem e distress, d istribute food bonuses (usually notes guaranteeing a m erchan t cash if redee­med). T here also exists the possibility of a “deal”

THE PROPAGANDA MACHINEC anadian contracts usually expire a t different ti­

mes from those in the U nited States, m aking the “com ­m on fron t” ra ther ineffectual. In fact, the propaganda abou t the “com m on front” tha t is generated by A m e­rican unions, is rarely put into practice since the bar­gaining is usually not done on an industry basis. Ra­ther, each category of w orkers in a particu lar com pa­ny has its own bargaining unit and contracts within the same com pany often expire on different dates.

T he skilled elite of w orkers are always pam pered by the U.S. union bosses since this is w here they m ain­tain their greatest support. This creates divisions w ith­in the w orking class and corrupt union leaders can

betw een the industry an d /o r governm ent and the la­bour bosses. If, for exam ple, it m ight be beneficial for a central to avert a strike, the negotiating board can easily m islead the local regarding the type of set­tlem ent it is possible to obtain and therefore induce m em bers to accept the porposals offered. This was generally the situation in Q uebec until about five years ago.

W hat changed the union scene in Q uebec? Basi­cally, it was two things; The discontent of the w ork­ers and the rapid increase in pow er and activity of the C.N.T.U. T he higher wage average in the rest of C a­nada (mainly Ontario) has long been bothering the Q uebec worker. Since the beginning of industrialism in C anada, w orkers in Q uebec were paid less than those perform ing com parable jobs elsew here. With industrial growth in Q uebec betw een the wars, the blue-collar w orker gained in im portance and power.It was obvious, however, that the econom ic situa­

tion was not quite the same here as in the o ther pro­vinces. A lthough since the la te nineteen-tw enties, the m ajority of the population was no longer living in rural areas, culture and governm ent had not yet been urbanized. W hen unionism arrived in Q uebec, it was regarded with suspicion by the conservative elem ents dom inating the provincial legislature and govern­m ent hierarchy.

C R IT IC A L SITUATIO NThis situation becam e critical shortly after the Se­

cond W orld W ar. Industrial grow th in Q uebec during the w ar was rapid and the industrial w orkers acquir­ed strength and im portance again. T he difference betw een Q uebec and the rest of C anada regarding working conditions, benefits and wage scales becam e m ore obvious. This situation cam e to a head in the econom ically difficult times shortly after the war. T he two m ajor Q uebec-based centrals were the Q ue­bec Federation of Labour (Q.F.L.) which had affi­liated with the Canadian Labour Congress som e time before, and the C onfederation of C atholic W orkers (C.C.W.) which developed into the C onfederation of N ational T rade Unions (C.N.T.U.). T he C.C.W . was one of the few organizations which relied upon the inheren t strength of the union local to a g rea ter ex­ten t than the financial expediency of cen tral policy.

THE INHERENT STRENGTHThis develops into the questions of w hat is the inhe­

ren t strength of the union local, and how can it m ain­tain o r increase its pow er in the face of adversity o r even defeat? To understand t i e role of a local, one m ust regard it as a cell.

A local is a group of m en who face the sam e situ - tion o r who do the sam e job in a particu lar com pa­ny, factory, o r plant. T he m en have banded together in the belief that the com pany and its w orkers are separate and som etim es opposing entities. Since a company runs by m eans of its workers, wages and be­nefits are not gifts bu t ra ther a C om pany’s respon­sibility to the w orker. T he union exists to ensure that the com pany m anagem ent fulfils its Financial obliga­tions to the worker.

W hereas com pany can over produce and place goods in reserve as a precaution in the event of a work stoppage or strike, few w orkers have enough

m ore easily m aintain control over the w orkers. T he m ore deeply en trenched upper echelon bureaucrats are also far divorced from the local w orkers and of­ten are m ore concerned about lining their own pock­ets.

T he solution to these problem s and the imperialism perpetra ted by the A m erican unions is obvious. C ana­dian w orkers m ust break away from the in ternational control tha t is being exerted, and develop a m ilitant w orkers m ovem ent of their own. T he CNTU is the m ost advanced union in this area, and recen t rum bl­ings within the labour m ovem ent in C anada, lead one to believe tha t some progress may be forthcoming.

saved to support themselves on the twenty-five dol­lar weekly strike pay. Thus a strike is usually a last resort am ong workers. Y et strikes occur, and when they do, the com pany and the local becom e opposing forces. The strength of the union is that those who vo­te for a strike are willing to endure hardship, in some cases extrem e hardship, to fight a very powerful for­ce.

THE STRIKER S FIGHTThe local’s strength is that the strikers do not run

from the police, because they do not expect co-ope­ration or understanding. Police com e with their clubs to p ro tect property, as at Asbestos in 1949 and recen­tly at Seven-Up, but the strike goes on. Strikers do not have the overly energetic idealism of the youthful radical which is reduced under long and powerful re­sistance since the young radical (from his suburban middle-class hom e or his university pedestal) feels he is bringing freedom , et cetera, to other, whereas the striker fights a lo n i , slow battle for his own rights and those of his family.

by Douglas W. Murdoch

Unions were form ed outside and often against the law. They were form ed of necessity and the labour laws followed. A lthough unions will usually use the law as a vehicle for negotiations and strike declara­tions, laws were m ade by the existing governm ent and influenced by “im portan t” people (economists, lawyers, and industrialists). T hus when a union con­siders it necessary, it will act, and the laws will again follow.

THE ASBESTOS STRIKEI do not wi sh to dwell too long upon the strike at

Asbestos in 1949. It is, however, the best example of the beginning of today’s m ajor labour issues. The stri­ke occured in the Eastern Townships and was almost industry-wide. The governm ent declared the strike illegal due to its m agnitude and the industry’s impor­tance, and consequently sent in the provincial police. The com panies sent letters to the wives and families of the strikers, and Duplessis de-certified the union (C.C.W .). By law, the union had no right to bargain for the em ployees and w orkers could be fired for an illegal work stoppage, T here was in term itten t violen­ce followed by prolonged violence, but the strike con­tinued. The m oney lost by the strikers and the union was enorm ous but the strike was a simple wage issue. R ather the intrinsic rights of w orkers and the union’s bargaining powers were at stake.

To every strike there is the sam e aspect, thus it is invalid to argue that a strike costs the w orker more than he will gain from it, and it is ludicrous to say that b e tter working conditions can be achieved through legal channels ra ther than by a strike. Both argum ents becom e irrevelant in a strike, for any strike is an ac­tion against the com pany, the industry, tl e econo­my and the governm ent.

A lthough workers and unions are seldom radical, they are by their very existence defiant. A lthough it is seldom a union’s policy to w ork against the govern­m ent, the jurisdiction of any governm ent is restrict­ed by the form ation of a union. A union claims juris­diction over a segm ent of t! e population outside, and som etim es in opposition to, the governm ent, as in the Asbestos strike in 1949.

CNTU DfVfLOfS

T he Q.F.L. claim ed the C.C.W . would commit financial suicide but instead, the la tte r grew into the C.N.T.U. Today the Q.F.L. spends as m uch time fight­ing the C.N.T.U. as it spends on ds own union mat­ters. T he Q.F.L. can state tha t unions are not revolu­tionary in anyway, but C.N .T.U . continues to recogni­ze and use the fact that unions by their very position are intrinsically revolutionary, that is, they are basi­cally and inevitably in opposition to the existing sys­tem. C.N.T.U. is growing. It has carved g reater power from the governm ent. M uch rem ains to be done, but clearly unions like the CNTU are on the road to im­proving working and living conditions for the work­ing m an, despite the protests of government and management.

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O R G A N I Z I N G THE POOR,

DISPOSSESSEDT he Teach-In held Sunday Feb. 25, on the

question of housing in the cen ter of M ontreal which was arranged by the Political A ction Com m ittee of the M ontreal Labor Council, in collaboration with diverse related bodiest, gave rise to a violent dissertation against “the sys­tem ” by many unionists. But coodinated action betw een unem ployed construction workers and the d isp o ssessed without housing isfai.Irom realization.

T he m eeting took place in the basem ent of the Saint Louis Parish C hurch in the cen te r of the city w here the struggle against massive ex­propriation of residences is taking place. Over 500 people, including hundreds of U .E.W . mem- t bers (United Electrical W orkers) listened with in terest as various speakers from the M ontreal Labor Council, the Postal W orkers Union, C a­nadian Labor Council, U nited A ssociation of Plumbers, In ternational Union of Office W ork­ers, U GEQ, Portugese Union, Christian Labor M ovem ent (St-Jerdmei and a num ber of o ther union spokesm an addressed the group.

T he opening rem arks from the parish spo­kesm an, Henri G agnon president of the P.A .C. of the M .L.C., recalled that in the last six years, in M ontreal, 2500 dwellings a year had been dem olished and pointed ou t the irony in the C ity’s p lans to build 300 model project dwell­ings to replace the ones being demolished.

IVORY TOWERS

T he present political representatives would not descend from their debates on the constitu ­tional question to confront the real issues of the people. A spokesm an from the Popular F ron t of Center-M ontreal addressed the m eeting by de­tailing the building laws of M ontreal and the Provincial Building Code, but laid particu lar em phasis on the fact that M ontreal Building Code did not really apply to the low rent dis­tricts of the city, such as C enter-Tow n. Willie Houle, well known leader of the Postal W orkers Union of M ontreal, pointed out that the whole crisis was really the fault of “a mass of political ministers who w ere total idiots”. He denounced the C atholic School Com mission of M ontreal as “a state within a state whose m em bers are to no one and should be cast into the dustbins of history, like all the o ther anti­quities of politics”.

A nother speaker then a ttacked the (Federal) C entral Housing and M ortgage Corp., whose m ortgage in terest rates benefited only banks and placed the possibility of bank loans beyond the reach of the masses. He com pared the disparity of credits allowed for building construction with military spending. “This year”, he continued above the loud applause, “the federalists are spending $26 million dollars to buy m ore bom bs.”

SOLIDARITY IS STRENGTH

Father G rand’M aison, the spokesm an for the J.O .C. delegation from St. Jerdm e spoke: “Y our only strength”, he said,” is your solidarity, your collective will to take your affairs into your own hands.” “It is a struggle to the end. It has start­ed, now we m ust move fo rth”. T he first few words drow ned in the applause. The gathering had to form a Popular F ront of all w orkers and di s-

p o sse sse d against the “pow er e lite”. “As a re- sult of a growing class of dispossessed in the m e­tropolitan region, a growing disparity has been created betw een the w orking class and their na­tural allies the dispossessed”. He then attacked

the “technocrats and their m achines”, who were there only to “hide the b latan t misery and squalor of the Q uebec workers. He cited am ong o ther things, the inquest commissions, the great publicity cam paign and the creation of a new bureaucracy as the metuous of the eiite.

In the region of St-Jerome, he pointed out, the unem ploym ent figure is 20%. T he largest plant there had just closed down and 1000 workers were laid off, among them m en with 20 to 30 years of service. The elite knew about this, he ;aid, pointing to the Federal M inister of Labor and M anpower. Continuing his a ttack on the elite, he pointed ou t that retraining program s had only favoured 250 w orkers while their were 3000 unemployed.

He attacked sociologists and o ther “specia­lists” who continually justify high unem ploy­m ent in Q uebec as a result of the w orkers’ refu­sal to move into o ther areas (M obilite). He cited as an exam ple, a 40 year old St-Jerome w orker who was laid off, and as a result lost his house, his seniority,, his savings and his trade, and who is now walking around trying to find w ork and a house. He also cited the exam ple of a com pany which had closed down taking with it $1 mil­lion dollars in pension funds.

TWO TYPES OF WORKERT o the thunderous ovation of his audience

the priest from St-Jer6m e pointed out that two types of w orkers had to be overcom e:

1 ) Those, who generation after generation, repeat that they were born to do m enial work, that they have always been taken, etc.

2> T he opportunists who break through the ■lass structures and abandon tneir com rades behind them.

“A re you going to continue to accep t the dic­ta to rsh ip of the e lite?” he cried, giving the exam ple of young unem ployed w orkers in St- Jer6 me who have, since 1957, form ed into ca­dres of 120 m em bers, have learned that m easu­res o ther than “d irect political action are useless

He finished by stating that “Y our only strength is your solidarity, your collective will to take in hand your cause. It is a struggle to the end. It has started. Let us m ove forw ard!”

VIOLENCE OUTSIDE

The Teach-In however, was not w ithout the presence of the elite’s police force. A nd a vio­lent confrontation (verbal...) occured betw een these gentle lambs of force and a large num ber of m em bers of the U nited Electrical W orkers. Two arrests started a violent exchange of fists and elbows betw een w orkers and police, and it was not until the two w ere released tha t both forces re treated from each other.

But from early afternoon on, tha t Sunday, when hundreds of w orkers arrived arm ed with placards and weering construction helm ets, the “service d ’o rd re” began to system atically dem and identification from w orkers entering the Church. A cry of alarm w ent ou t to the hundreds of people already assem bled in the hall. In a few m inutes a large num ber had poured ou t into the street. The small contigent of the “service d’o r­d re” then sum m oned reinforcem ents yelling to the w orkers that “heads are going to ro ll”.

T he w orkers then re treated back to the hall shouting bitterly a t the cops: “You have jobs; we are w ithout!” and “It is ou r sweat tha t pays your salary - instead of catching bandits you ar­rest w orkers!”

Finally the w orkers re trea ted to the in terior of the Church with loud cries of, “G estapo!” and “T he Fascist state!”.

by Jean-Claude Ledercreprinted from Le Devoir

translated by Jean Boivin

£ a rav igote a m o r t !

by p e r m i s s i o n : L e D e v o i r

Why There Was Violence At 7UP

by Jean BoivinSince the o ffic ia l recognition, by ‘law'--Q.L.R.B. (I)

—the In te rna tiona l Brewers, Soft D rink and D istil­lers Union (FTQ - CLC - AFL) has been deprived o f th e ir barga in ing rights by the Seven-Up Co. The m u lti-m il­lion do lla r bo ttling company has w o rked in co-opera­tion w ith the 's traw governm ent' o f Quebec C ity (Viz. the M in is te r o f Labor, M. Bellem are) whose anger was d irected against the s tik ing w orkers because "they w e re upsetting the delica te balance o f invest­m ent in Q uebec!” (Le Devoir, Feb. 28 /68). A very consistant policy, M. Bellemare. We can now deter­m ine who your real bedmates are!

The s trike a t 7-Up has a strange and om inous sim i­la rity w ith o ther v io len t provocations institu ted by the bourgeoisie in Quebec and its lackeys in governm ent (i.e. Murdochville-1957; Asbestos-1949; M agog-l95l) when thousands o f w orkers from o ther unions jo ined in so lida rity to force recognition o f unions and the w in ­ning of barga in ing rights fo r thousands of o ther w o rk ­ers.

A t 7-Up, it was on ly a fte r a ll the cap ita lis t provoca­tion tha t vio lence erupted.

It was only a fte r three judgements by Quebec courts condemning the a ttitude o f the 7-Up Co., and four years o f a ttem pted negotia tion , on the part o f the union, tha t the w orkers took m atters in to th e ir own hands.

It was on ly a fte r fou r years o f company in tim ida ­tion (in junctions against 'lega l' p icketing) tha t the w o rkers took m atters in to th e ir own hands.

It was on ly a fte r the company saw f it to h ire 'scabs', to b reak ’legal' p icket lines form ed by a ’lega l' union and a fte r the company hired goon squads (from the United M ine W orkers Union, D istrict 50) to in tim ida te and beat the s trike rs and the tr fam ilies, tha t the w o rk ­ers took m atters in to th e ir own hands.

It was in the self-defence o f the ir rights and in the am id the chants of "Quebec aux T rava illeu rs” tha t they marched. It was in th is so lida rity and resolve tha t 2800 w orkers and 200 students marched together, side by side, against the common exp lo ite rs .

Postal w orkers, S teelworkers, A u to w orkers , Rail w orkers, Dock w orkers, Electrical w orkers, Laborers, W hiteco lla r W orkers—undistinguished by Central a ffilia tion --the C.N.T.U. (2) marched w ith th e ir com­rades, from the Q.F.L. (3) and the U.C.C. (4) (Farmers Union).1..Q.L.R.B...Quebec Labor Relations Board2..C.N.T.U...Confederation o f National Trade Unions3..Q.F.of L...Quebec Federation o f Labor4 ..U.C.C...Union Catholique des Cultivateurs

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G.M. STRIKE 1936-37: SOLIDARITY GROWSFor 44 days, from December 30,

1936 to February 11, 1937, the GM workers fought the corporation in a jr e a t sit-down struggle, centered in Flint, to test whether a union could or could not exist in General Motors. In this test G M employed every tactic its strength and cunning could devise, in­cluding full use of every level of go­vernm ent it controlled. The workers, employing the tactic of the sit-down to a degree unequalled in the country's history, met attack with counter-at­tack, took the offensive and finally em erged with a decisive victory.

The Flint strike was preceded by a fresh w ave of unionization, born of desperate conditions, that swept through the masses of working people. This power took shape in m ilitant stri­kes, in bitter struggles and protest act- ipns in many industries and in the ra l­lying of millions to the cause of labor. And it might come as a surprise to the auto workers of 1967 that thirty years ago it was the communist leadership which w ere partly responsible for the workers' inability to withstand a later bosses' offensive that attem pted to w i­pe out all the gains of the 1937 victory.

FEUDAL BARONY

There is no question that the auto workers needed a new weapon with which to fight the giant corporations that owned them body and soul. GM and Flint like a feudal barony. Eighty per cent of the population of 150,000 w ere directly dependent on G M for livelihood, 20 per cent indirectly. Forty- five thousand men and women toiled in the G M Flint plants, heart and nerve center of the corporations's w orld­wide empire. In the summer of 1936 every city official - the mayor, city m anager, police chief and the judges - w ere G M stockholders or officials, or both. The only local newspaper, The Flint Journal, was 100 per cent G M , all the time. The corporation controlled the radio station directly: even paid- for tim e was denied the union during the fight for unionization. The school board, w elfare departm ent and all other governm ent agencies w ere di­rectly under the thunb of the corpo­ration. Bill-boards throughout the city acclaimed "the happy G M fam ily".

Total domination of the workers and the community in which they lived was part of the system by which G M was able to net an average annual profit of $173 millions from 1927 to 1937 -6 during the depths of the G reat Depres­sion. Eighty stockholders became mil- lionnaires in four years during the late Twenties on G M dividends alone. In 1936 the auto giant completed a quar­ter century with profits that totaled an astronomical $2.5 billions, a figure u- nequalled by any other corporation in the world to that tim e. Its 1936 net profit was $225 millions, a rate of 24 per cent on a capitalization of $945 millions. No wonder it has earned and kept the title of the "world's greatest m oney-maker" among all corporations.

GM, in 1936 employing 55 per cent j f all U.S. auto workers in 69 plants, was bigger than Ford and Chrysler combined. Three hundred and fifty of its officers and directors w ere paid ten million dollars in salaries that year. Its two top officers, A lfred Sloan and W illiam Knudson, received $375,000 each in 1935. Its seventh vice-presi­dent, one Charles Wilson, received $190,000. The giant was controlled by the DuPont interests, which owned

about a quarter of the stock.The condition of the auto workers

was in stark contrast to that of their bosses. In 1935, a year in which the go­vernm ent declared $1,600 as the min­imum income on which a fam ily of four could live decently, the average auto w orker took home $900. Most lived in fearful insecurity. A foreman could fire at will. Layoffs between the old and new model year lasted from three to five months, w ithout unem­ployment insurance. A compulsory loan system prevailed, under which G M deducted principal plus interest on the worker's return to employment in the fall, cutting wages 10 per cent.

But it was the speed-up that made life intolerable. A w ife described her husband as "coming home so dog tired he couldn't even w alk upstairs to bed but crawled on his hands and knees".

One witness reported: "The men worked like fiends, their jaws set and eyes on fire. Nothing in the world exists for them except the line chassis bearing down on them relentlessly. They come along on a conveyor, and as each passes, the w orker has to fin­ish his particular job before the next one bears down on him. The line moves fast and the chassis are close together. The men move like lightning. Some are underneath on their backs on little carts, propelling themselves by their heels all day long, fixing something underneath the chassis as they move along".

Flint workers are described as having a "peculiar, gray, jaundiced color”, like "a city of tuberculars", and in July, 1936, when tem peratures soared over 100 degrees, deaths in Michi­gan's auto plants rose into the hund­reds.

W orkers at the risk of their lives -- revealed that G M spent $839,000 in 1934 alone on "detective w ork” , , more than half of it paid to

the Pinkerton Agency. Hundreds of spies worked in the plants, seeking out those who had union "inclinations". G M was a mem ber of the National M etal Trades Association, a company group that supplied labor spies to te r­rorize workers and import scabs and helped set up company unions to break or forestall legitim ate unions.

In addition, G M used the forces of the notorious Black Legion, a DuPont financed terror group that beat, tarred and feathered and murdered active unionists. G M forem en w ere actually seen donning black robes inside the plant in preparation for a Black Legion raid. Organized force inside the slants had to be defeated to bring the union to auto.

Prior to this there had been little or­ganizing attem pted in the auto indust­ry. However, in 1933, the Trade Union League (TUUL), a left-led organizing group, created the Auto Workers Un­ion along industrial lines. It conducted strikes which eventually involved tens of thousands and which w ere met with ferocious brutality, especially at the Briggs Auto Works in Flint. The TUUL-type militancy not only earned the hatred of the corporations but also' of the staid, sell-out business unionism of the AFL piecards.

The AFL since its birth had opposed the organization of unskilled workers, and especially along industrial lines -- that is, placing all the different types of workers in one plant into the same union. The AFL had intended all along to keep auto workers divided, both a- long craft lines and from one plant or

company to the next. It organized fe ­deral locals for this purpose - groups of workers in a particular plant respon­sible directly to the national Federa­tion and barred from joining together with all other auto workers on an in­dustry-wide basis.

When the AFL attem pted to step into the auto industry soon after the Briggs strikes, the TUUL locals, in a move for unity, dissolved and joined the AFL federal locals. The entrance of the TUUL left-wing militants into these lo­cals was a first step towards the crea­tion of an industrial union. Thus, when the AFL, attempting to contain the auto workers' rising militancy -- which was poison to the narrow con­cepts of craft unionism -- called a na­tional conference of its federal locals, the latter sent rank-and-file leaders who called for an "international indust­rial union". As they rose to speak, W illiam Collins, the AFL piecard in charge of auto organizing, would snap, "Sit down! You're a Communist! Every tim e I hear the words ’international industrial union' I know that person... represents the Communist Party".

In 1934, President Roosevelt ignored G M ’s refusal to negotiate - a violation' of the NRA collective bargaining Sect­ion 7a. He proposed a compromise: proportional representation of all un­ion groups in a plant - including the company unions! He also set up an A u­to Labor Board, charged with the res­ponsibility of determ ining which union should represent the workers; the union later discovered that labor's representative on the Board was a mem ber of the Black Legion.

Finally, with pressure growing for the mass organization of auto workers, agreem ent was won in May, 1936, to give the auto workers autonomy inside the AFL for w hat was, in effect, an in­dustrial union.

Slowly but surely the UAW gained strength. The fact that the discredited AFL had suspended the CIO helped draw workers into the new industrial union. Seniority agreem ents w ere won at Chrysler Dodge. In Fisher Body union stickers began to appear on auto bodies and carry their message the length of the assembly line.

The union began to resist the corporation .more strongly. Seven stoppages, provoked by speed­up and w age cuts, occured at Fisher Body No. 1 in the second w eek of No­vember, 1936. When Travis asked Simmons if the men w ere ready to stri­ke, Simons said, "Ready? Thy 're like a pregnant woman in her tenth month!" On Novem ber 9 Travis met with 40 members, key men from each depart­ment, to plan how to organize a sit- down should an incident occur. Three days later, on Novem ber 12, it did.

A forem an elim inated one man from a three-man unit iAI though the o- ther two w ere not union members, they stopped working and w ere fired the next morning. Starting from Si­mons’ group on the incoming night shift, word spread through the 7,000- man plant: "Nobody starts working". The forem an seized the man who had been removed from the group and be­gan to shove him toward the plant superintendent. Simons stepped in and stopped him w hile the entire as-' sembly line watched. A committee was picked on the spot to m eet with the boss as a committee - the first time this had ever happened at Fisher Body.

The super was stunned. He gave in

and agreed to rehire the two workers who had been fired, but the men, in spite of an agreem ent that they would not be docked for tim e lost in the stop­page, still refused to go back to work. They demanded that the two workers be brought back to the plant. The com- >any was forced to broadc ast over local and police radio to find the two men, one of whom was on a date with his girl. No one started working until he had driven her home, changed his clothes and reported for work!

THE STRIKE BEGINS

Chevy No. 4 was called the "hellhole" by its 8,000 w ork­ers; its was dominated end to end by its manager, Arnold Lenz, a Hitler sym­pathizer. But when the union ferreted out and exposed a couple of stoolies at Chevy 4, respect for the union shot up and a rapid increase in member­ship followed.

The strike began at Fisher Body No. 1 on December 30, only two days after the start of the Cleveland sit-down. When the night shift came on at No. 1 on the 30th, they found that the compa­ny had backed up a string of railroad cars and was starting to move dies. This was the G M version of the runa­way shop, an open attem pt to shift production to a plant w here the union was w eak and thus destroy Fisher Bo­dy No. 1 as a decisive unit. Travis was notified at the union office across the street. He im m ediately called the work­ers to a lunch-hour meeting by the prearranged signal of a 200-w att red lamp which the workers could see flick­ering in the union headquarters. When .hey had filled the hall, Travis said, "What do w e do about the dies?” A worker answered; "Well, them's our jobs. We w ant them left right here in Flint."

Travis reviewed the company moves. He pointed out that the Cleveland workers w ere out on strike to save their jobs, and again he asked, "What do we do?"

"Shut her down! Shut the goddamn plant!" came the cry.

Henry Kraus, a UAW editor at the meeting, describes the scene: "The men stood still facing the door. It was like trying to chain a natural force. They couldn't hold back and started crowding forward. Then suddenly they broke through the door and made a race for the plant gates, running in every direction towards the quarter- mile-long buildings.

One group raced to the railroad dock where a plant m anager was directing the coupling of loaded cars. "Strike on", yelled the men to the locomotive engin­eer. "Okay", he nodded, waved to the brakem an to stop the w ork and trotted off.

The workers inside im m ediately be­gan to secure the plant against any attacker.

The organization outside the plant was no less efficient and vital to the existence of the workers inside.

The fantastic spirit and organization of the workers spread across the na­tion. Sit-downs became a national phe­nomenon. W orkers the country over grabbed newspapers each day to see "if the boys in Flint w ere still holding out". Companion strikes sparked new methods of organization. Only one reason could drag one sit-downer at

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C0NT,Dthe Philadelphia Exide Battery Co. outside -- he was m arried at the plant gates. The entire country was union­conscious. A milk company inserted an advertisem ent in the Daily W orke r saying:

"We take great pleasure in announc­ing that we have signed a closed shop contract with the M ilk Wagon Drivers Union, Local 584. Now, our milk will be delivered by UNIO N DRIVERS!"

Support poured in from all over the country. Despite the attem pt of the na­tional AFL to Sabotage the strike, its city central bodies in Flint, Detroit, Cleveland and Minneapolis backed the sit-downers with all sorts of aid.

Based on the coordination inside and outside, the sit-downers fe lt as if they w ere building up an im pregnable fort­ress against the company and police. They w ere not to w ait too long before the first attack was launched.

PROVOCATION

On the afternoon of January 11, as workers w ere handing food in through the main gate of Fisher Body No. 2, company guards suddenly appeared and overpowered them, closing the gate of the smaller plant. The w ork­ers quickly ran up a ladder to hoist the food to the second floor, but the guards hauled it down. A t that moment, in 16 degree w eather, the company turned off the heat.

Word was sent to union headquar­ters and hundreds of workers raced to the scene. Some w ere from Buick and Chevy, some w ere bus drivers who had been helped by the auto workers dur­ing their recent strike, some w ere "flying squads" in town from Toledo and Norwood, Ohio, to help out. The ever-present sound truck appeared in front of the plant. Im m ediately 20 out­side pickets, Fisher No. 2 workers, advanced on the company guards with home-made billy clubs, took their keys and captured the gate, to guard against city cops entering. The company guards phoned the Flint cops and ran to the plant's ladies' room w here they barri­caded themselves and claimed they w ere kidnapped. It became obvious that the whole provocation had been prearranged.

The cops arrived in minutes, loaded down with revolvers, gas guns, gren­ades and supplies of tear and nauseat­ing gas. They blockaded the streets, removed parked cars and then attack­ed the pickets guarding the gate. W o­men pickets deposited their children at the union hall and raced to the plant.

When the first gas bombs w ere thrown, the pickets outside retreated tem porarily. The wind blew the gas back into the cops' ranks. Inside the plant the sit-downers dragged fire ho­ses to the windows and began direct­ing streams of w ater a t the advancing cops. Two-pound door hinges began raining down from the roof. Within' five minutes, the cops retreated.

The sit-downers started hauling out a supply of empty milk bottles and hin­ges to the pickets outside, preparing for a second attack. The cops began hurling gas bombs through the plant windows, which w ere not as well fo rt­ified as at Fisher No. 1. The workers

grabbed them w ith gloved hands and quickly doused them in buckets of w a ­ter located nearby for that purpose.

The cops then regrouped and made a second rush but w ere met with a vol­ley of bottles, hinges and lumps of coal outside and w ater from the inside hoses. They couldn't get close this ti­me. The sound truck, manned by se­veral organizers, was helping to direct the battle amid a barrage of tear gas. Again the cops retreated, this tim e

with the workers in hor pursuit. The counter-attack was led by Travis, who was later treated for gas burns. The pickets w ere joined by scores of other workers who w ere part of a crowd watching the battle.

A t that point the cops opened fire. Fourteen w ere wounded, one, a leader of the bus drivers' union, critically. W hile fe llow workers carried them off, the rest continued on the attack, over­turning the sheriff's car (w ith the sher­iff inside) and spilling large quanti­ties of gas and gas grenades out of the trunk. The cops continued to retreat up the hill, shooting at the windows of the plant.

Victor Reuther, mann­ing the sound truck, pointed out that it was not the peaceful workers but GM's cops who w ere responsible for the destruction. Fie told the workers that "they must now fight not only for their jobs out for their very lives. Let General Motors be warned; the pa­tience of these men is not inexhaus­tible. If there is further bloodshed... we will not be responsible for w hat the workers do in their rage! There are costly machines in that plant. Let the corporation and their thugs rem em ber that!"

The workers outside barricaded both ends of the plant with abandoned cars. Gov. Frank Murphy arrived in Flint and said he was holding the National Guard

"in readiness". But GM's strategy had failed, for the moment. Attem pting to counteract the character of a peace­ful sit-down it had provoked violence at Fisher No. 2, much smaller than its sister plant. It wanted to create a si­tuation whereby the Guard would be ordered in and m artial law declared. Its hope was to starve out the workers and eventually evict them, thereby giving impetus to a "back-to-work” movement led by the Flint Alliance.

The courage, organization and soli­darity of the workers had overcome this strategy. The "Battle of Bulls Run", as it later came to be known, had end­ed. The "bulls" had run.

The next day, January 12, 8,000 workers massed in front of Fisher No. 2 to celebrate the victory. No cops w ere in sight as they poured in from Lansing, Detroit, Pontiac, Saginaw, Toledo, Cleveland, South Bend and Norwood to visit the scene of the bat­tle.

GM had claimed that the battle had been between the cops and the w ork­ers; the corporation had "nothing to do with it". But still G M had seven of the wounded men arrested when they were released from the hospital. The very next day 1,200 "John Doe" w ar­rants w ere made out to be served on the strikers, charging them with "c ri­m inal synd ica lism ," felonious assault, riot, destruction of property and kid­napping." The last charge was based on the company guards who had run to the ladies' room.

Genora Johnson, who had spoken out so m ilitantly in the heat of the bat­tle, bagan organizing the Women's ■Emergency Brigade, as a vanguard de­tachment of the Women's Auxiliary.

Mrs. Johnson, 23, told them they should "expect to face tear gas and bullets on the picket line... be beaten and killed by police attacks" and by

"attem pts to break the strike". Appli­cations poured in. The Brigade began wearing red berets and armbands to identify themselves as they prepared to answer any attack.

"If we go into battle, w ill we be arm ­ed?" Mrs. Johnson asked. "Yes" shf said, "with rolling pins, brooms, mops and anything w e can get". They began carrying long "two-by-fours” whit­tled down at one end for easy hand­ling. The members of the Brigade were described by M ary Heaton Vorse, not­ed women's leader of the day, as "stri­kers' wives and mothers, normally 'homebodies', m ature women, the ma­jority married, ranging from young mothers to grandm others." Mrs. Vorse rem arked that the women were "doing this because they have come to the conclusion it must be done if they and their children are to have a decent life".

The union took the offensive. CIO president Lewis launched a broad­side against the corporation demand­ing an investigation of its ownership. He pledged full CIO support until the auto workers won their strike, real­izing the noticeable effect it was hav­ing on the steel organizing campaign. Flying squads of organizers w ere sign­ing up thousands of steel workers into the C IO ’s Steel W orkers Organizing Committee.

On January 13, Murphy called both sides into conference and two days later GM agreed to a truce. National bargaining would begin on the 18th -- solely with the UAW - on all eight issues. Seventeen struck plants would remain closed pending a settlement. There would be no discrimination a- gainst any w orker because of union membership. N e ith e r side could break off negotiations for at least 15 days.

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C0NT,DThe sit-downers would evacuate the piants before the 18th but G M would not remove tools, dies or materials from any of the struck plants. The key issue was that the UAW would be the sole bargaining agent.

The rank-and-file sit-downers didn't like the smell of it, although G M had finally been forced to sign something. (Prior to that the corporation said they would not even negotiate unless the plants w ere evacuated first, and had always maintained that the UAW only represented a small "minority"). Travis and the Flint leadership had not been involved in the negotiations leading to this agreem ent and didn't like it either. They fe lt it put GM on the offensive again, since with every pass­ing day in the 15-day period there would be increasing pressure on the union to accept less and less of w hat it wanted before GM would be able to break off negotiations. Travis pointed out that the strike was built around the occu­pation of the plants and to evacuate them without a contract would appear to be backing down. Adding to these misgivings was the fact that Travis, Kraus and two Reuther brothers (Roy and Victor) w ere arrested just a t that time for "unlawful assembly" (because of their leadership at Bulls Run). Des­pite this, the union kept its end of the bargain. Guide Lamp in Anderson, In­diana was evacuated first (and the out­side pickets w ere attacked im m ediate­ly after-wards by vigilantes); then came Cadillac and Fleetwood on Detroit's W est Side, marching out with banners flying, "Today GM , Tomorrow Ford!"*

For the rank and file it "was diffi­cult to accept a truce"42 rather than definite victory and outright union re­

cognition. Nevertheless, plans were made for Fisher Nos. 1 and 2 to march out in a by on Sunday, January 17, after a special chicker dinner inside. Everything was cleaned up, the w ork­ers had their bags packed and Fisher No. 1 was about ready to parade to the buses that would take them to No. 2 for a mass demonstration when the hitch came.

CONVERSATIONS AND H EA DLINES

On January 20, all Buick plants w ere forced to close. New negotiations w e­re undertaken in Washington at Roo­sevelt's request. Flowever, G M quit those parleys two days later and, with production virtually at the standstill, vowed to reopen its struck plants. At that point Lewis demanded that Roose­velt enforce collective bargaining un-‘ der the law and force G M to nego­tiate. Roosevelt refused to do this, answering; "I think in the interests of peace there come moments when statements, conversations and head­lines are not in order”.

G M chose to interpret these remarks as a go-ahead signal to open a strike­breaking drive. Economic conditions w ere worsening, a tim e when anti­strike movements flourish. W hile the UAW was fighting to relieve these hardships by getting relief for its m em ­bers, and was signing up new members all the time, the corporation launched its drive.

It announced that 79 per cent of its workers had "voted to return to work". Since G M was very "concerned" about its workers, it would "m ake work" for them and get them off w dlfare. On the 25th the union answered this with a strike in the Oakland plant, one of the few places where actual assembly

work was taking place.The state legislature sponsored a

bill to out-law sit-down strikes. The Alliance besieged four union officials in Saginaw and beat them up, nearly murdering them. Finally, on the 27th, G M reopened non-struck plants, mostly in Chevrolet, employing 40,000 w ork­ers. Although it had actually closed them prem aturely, to throw workers on the street and blame the UAW for their plight, it was now opening them with no real chance of assembl­ing cars. About all that could be done was to build up an inventory of parts. Travis felt, however, that it wasn't the worst thing for a lot of laid-off members to be working as long as the body plants w ere closed and GM couldn't start actual production.

But the corporation wasn't content with these counter-moves. It sought out a judge who didn't own G M stock and filed for an injunction, on ground-true, of course - that it was losing money to Ford and Chrysler. It demanded im m e­diate evacuation of the Fisher Body plants and prohibition of outside pick­eting. On February 1 the union was served with a show-cause order to ex ­plain why it should not bow to the in­junction. On the same day a march to Saginaw protesting the beating of the four union officials was countermand­ed by national UAW headquarters at Murphy's request. Travis, angry, point­ed out that Murphy could have protect­ed the officials but didn't.

G M had effectively seized the of­fensive; it had reopened its non-strik­ing plants, and the union appeared' powerless to prevent it. Fiaving passed its peak, the union would inevitably fall back and grow w eaker, with the chance that the strike might be lost or demands w atered down beyond re­

cognition, unless a counter-offensive w ere launched. That is exactly what Travis and the strikers produced.

"B E A T IN G OUR BOYS”

February 1, at the very moment the hearings w ere taking place in court on GM's new in­junction bid, Travis called a mass m eet­ing at the union hall, billed as a mo-’ bilization for a "protest march" on the courthouse. Thousands showed up and the Women's Emergency Brigade ap­peared in force. M eanw hile the union sound trucks circled the city, surround­ed by union guards, and finally, through devious routes, at 3;05 came to rest facing Nos. 9 and 6.

Five minutes later at the union hall Dorothy Krauss rushed up to Travis "breathlessly" and handed him a slip of paper. Travis turned grim ly to the crowd gathered to march to the court­house and said "They're beating up our boys at Chevy Nine. I suggest we go right down there". Unknown to the workers, the slip of paper was blank.

The crowd made a mad rush for th stairs and outside a long line of cars was waiting with motors running. The workers w ere at No. 9 in a few minu­tes. Newsmen, who had been "tipped off" earlier, w ere already there. And, sure enough, there was "trouble".

Lenz had fallen into the trap comple­tely. The entire arm ed force from the whole Chevrolet division had been sta-

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C0NT,Dtioned at the personnel building next to No. 9. A t 3:20, when the night shift marched in yelling "Strike”! the guards closed the doors and rushed in, with Lenz in the lead, shouting "Reds! Com­munists!" The outnumbered workers fought valiantly. When one woman saw her husband's bloody head gasping for air at an open window she yelled to the "red berets”, "They're smothering them! Let’s give them air!" The woman proceeded methodically to break all the windows in the plant.

Then, as Kraus describes it, in "crank­shafts" Gib Rose "reached up and pull­ed the switch and conveyor A -l was dead. This was the signal for Dow Kehler who headed conveyor A-2. In five seconds she was down too. Kelly M alone... pulled the switch on con­veyor A-3 and the entire division was

^frozen".Many workers, being "threatened"

with dismissal by forem en and straw bosses, w avered as union men march­ed around shouting: "Strike is on! Co­me on and help us!" As the number of strikers grew, “courage added to cour­age. There was practically no physical violence... Kelly Malone with wrench in hand (w ent) tearing down the lines and yelling: "Get off your job, you dirty scab!" Yet he never touched a man - all melted with fright before him".

Soon the strikers w ere hundreds strong. "Everywhere at key conveyors, squads of union men w ere stationed. Others w ere set to guard gates and mount lookout". W ith several depart­ments still to be shut, "the united un­ion forces... like a swarm of locujts passed among the machines, leaving silence and inertness w here they went".

When the forem en tried to regroup and one official urged the more pas­sive workers to retake the plant "Joe Sayen ran perilously along the narrow balcony railing and leaping to a cafe­

t e r ia table right in the midst of the list­eners began shouting to drown the plant official out". The forem an re­treated to the superintendent's office and locked the door but Cronk and his men broke it open and told them, "You've got five minutes to get out!" One official tried to call for reinforce­ments but Cronk pushed him aside and ripped the phone from the w all. The company men fled.

"The fight was over; the enormous plant was dead. The vast complex with its dizzying profusion of conveyors and machines was sprawled out like a wounded giant. The unionists w ere in complete control. Everywhere they w ere speaking to undecided workers.

"We w ant you boys to stay with us. It w on ’t be long and everything will be settled. Then w e'll have a union and things will be different".

"Many of the workers reached their decision in this moment. Others went home, undeterred by the strikers. A- bout two thousand rem ained and an equal number w ent off. But as they left... the m ajority of them, following an impulse of incipient solidarity, drop­ped their lunches into huge gondolas,

' half filling several of them with what proved to be a much needed extra sup­ply of food". A t 4:45 P.M. on Feb­ruary 1, Chevrolet plant No. 4, produc-

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er of a million motors a year, largest unit in the world-wide General Motors, empire, "im pregnable” against attack, had been secured by the men of the UAW-CIO. The women w ere standing in front of them, daring any cop, com­pany goon or national guardsman to retake it. The brilliant plan conceiv­ed by Travis and the ingenuity and he­roism of the strikers had stabbed at the very heart of the billion-dollar auto giant.

As darkness descended, Joe Sayen, who shortly before had acted so heroi­cally inside the plant, climbed the fen­ce and addressed the throng;

"We w ant the whole world to under­stand w hat w e are fighting for. We are fighting for freedom and life and liberty. This is our one great opport­unity. W hat if w e should be defeated? W hat if w e should be killed? We have only one life. That's all w e can lose and w e might as well die like heroes than like skives".

On • e 34th day of the great Flint sit-down, the workers had once again taken the offensive.

The G M "back-to-work" movement had been stopped in its tracks. M ur­phy was furious. Negotiations had been "wrecked", he said. M earv, while troops took possession of all streefs and approaches, isolating both the Chevy plant and Fisher Body No. 2 across the street. V irtual m artial law was declared. Guards with fixed bay­onets surrounded No. 4. Eight machi­ne guns and 37 mm. howitzers w ere mounted on the hill overlooking both plants. Tear gas was held in reserve. No one was allowed into the plants, which effectively shut off the food supply. Fisher No. 2 was completely sealed off from both union contact and from visits by the strikers' fam i­lies. The National Guard was upped to 2,300 and finally to 4,000. An injunc­tion signed by Judge Gladola on Feb­ruary 2 ordered the workers to aban­don the plants or face "ejection" in 24 hours. The w rit also forbade street picketing. The Women's Emergency Brigade was forced out of the area.

On February 7, Lewis joined the talks in Detroit, along with Mortim er and attorney Lee Pressman. M ortim er replaced M artin who had been sent on tour to prevent him from fouling up the negotiations. The union reduced its "recognition" demand to one of sole bargaining agent in the 20 struck plants, which included the key ones, and agent for its members only in the rest.

M eanw hile, the AFL continued its treachery. Having previously wired G M its support, and labeled the strike a "defeat", it now "demanded" thal the company reopen its plants. Its own craft members had "never voted" for a strike, whined the AFL "leaders”, and therefore they w ere being "order­ed" back to work.

The tension continued to mount. The sheriff read the injunction order to the sit-downers, demanding they lea­ve the plants. A fter the workers re­fused, he asked Murphy for aid in ou­sting them and arresting their leaders. ( * * ) By now Fisher No. 1 - free from Guard patrol, two miles from the be­sieged plants - had 3,000 m enontheir inside. Murphy kept holding off, ho­ping he could get an agreem ent and maintain an untarnished image. But the company forces would not let him rest easily.

The question arose among the union strategists of w hat to do in case of a full-scale attack.

"You're not going to tell workers to fight five minutes... and then stop... They've either got to fight or give in --

there's no two ways about it. W ell, suppose w e tell them not to fight be­cause it’s impossible defeating such a superior force? Do you know what will happen? They'll march out of tho­se plants like whipped dogs. No i the talk in the world a f te ry is going to change that. By tak he plants away from those boys now it would mean tearing the heart right out of them".

The strike leader then declared that "we've got to tell them to be prepared’ to fight... I don't think it'll ever come to that point because Governor Murphy isn’t goint to be responsible for blood­shed at this late date. But the only w ay to a ssu re that is to take the attitude that we w on 't su rrender to anybody. We fought the company thugs, and wb can fight the National Guard, too,

Inside Fisher No. 1, 3,000 w orker w ere preparing for the worst.On february 2, the men in both Fisher Body plants then sent wires to M ur­phy:

"...The police of the city of Flint be­long to General Motors. The sheriff of Genesee County belongs to General Motors. The judges of Genesee County belong to General Motors... It remains to be seen w hether the Governor of the State also belongs to General Motors. Governor, w e have decided to stay in the plant. We haveno illusions about the sacrifices which this decision will entail. W e fully ex­pect that if a violent effort is made to oust us many of us will be killed and we take this means of making it known to our wives, to our children, to the people of the state of Michigan and the country, that if this result follows from the attem pt to eject us, you are the one who must be held responsible for our deaths"!

Murphy had reached the end of his rope. On the evening of February 10, he brought the injunction order to Le­wis' hotel room to tell him it would be served to oust the sit-downers. Lewis replied that if that happened he would march straight to the plant and go inside to face the Guard alongside the workers.

With tens of thousands of workers in Flint surrounding the plants and re­fusing to surrender, with the heat and' light at Chevy 4 turned off on February 9 and 10, and nearly 5,000 sit-downers prepared to "fight to the death", on February 11, the 44th day of the sit- down, General Motors gave up. It si­gned a contract w ith the UAW recno- gnizing the union as sole bargaining agent in the 20 struck plants, and for all its members in the other plants, and agreed not to deal with any other group for at least six months. The un­ion fe lt confident - and was later prov­ed correct - that this was enough time to assure an overwhelm ing UAW m a­jority in the G M chain.

Then someone began to sing Solidarity;'Solidarity forever!'Solidarity forever!'Solidarity forever!"For the union makes us strong!’

and as all joined in, the moment was carried beyond its almost unbearable tenseness and emotion". When Fisher No. 2 had emptied, the cheering and

noise_"exceeded all bounds of hearing".The im m ediate effects of this victory

w ere enormous. Although AFL head Green called the settlem ent "a blow at all labor", a wave of successful strikes and sit5Jowns rolled across the country.

On March 2 United States Steel - the largest steel company in the world and the other giant bastion of the open shop alongside G M -- signed a contract

w ith the CIO's Steel Workers Organ­izing Committee - W ITHOUT A STRI­KE. A fter long and bloody battles dat­ing back to the 19th century, a union had come to steel. During the auto strike, flying squads of organizers had Ohio, Illinois, and other states sign­ing up workers by the thousands. The giant monopoly apparently saw the handwriting on the wall and wanted no part of a Flint-style offensive in its own mills.

The next day General Electric an­nounced it would m eet w ith the Unit­ed Electrical W orkers, CIO, to discuss a contract for its 60 ,000 workers. By March 3, 47 sit-down strikes had been won in Detroit, and young women w ork­ing in Woolworth's had smuggled cots into the stores to attem pt to bring down that million-dollar corporation.

The fact is that Roosevelt did not use Federal troops to intervene on the side of G M because of a chain of reasons: 1) The workers had announced in ad­vance that they would offer stiff re­sistance to any such attempts, and a bloodbath would follow. This would have seriously damaged the image of the "democratic" New Deal which Roosevelt was so carefully nurturing to save the system during the disas­trous depression. 2) Such open inter­vention would arouse the entire w ork­ing class against both the corporations and the Administration. 3) These first two reactions would be a severe blow to the Democratic Party, and therefore to the two-party system inside of which the workers w ere bound so securely. And 4), the final result might become a strong case for an independent w ork­ers party to challenge the ruling class parties on a higher level, possi­bly even having a socialist goal -- or at least some form of "public ow ner­ship" of the means of production.

As the sit-downer noted when he left the plant, "The first victory has been ours but the w ar is not over". To win that "war", the power of the working class must be correctly estim­ated. If there is one overriding lesson to be learnt from the G reat Flint Sit- Down it is that workers acting in unity and solidarity can triumph over the most powerful weapons the ruling class throws against them.

It remains for the present members of the UAW-CIO, heirs to an inspiring heritage, to fling that door wide open, letting in the sun of a rank-and-file-led union once more. It could fall to the auto workers to again take the lead - setting the pace for sim ilar move­ments all over the country - but this time to build a society in which the workers' law, the workers' party and the workers' state is supreme.

This article first appeared in Progressive Labor in a longer form. Condensed by Jean Boivin and Estelle Geller.

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To Lou ie Novak, who s toutly maintained that we wouldn’ t remember him in our f i ­nale: HELLO LOUIE!WE BEQUEATH:

We the staff of the georgian being of sound mind (?) do hereby declare this to be our last will and testa­ment-.

To the incoming Council w e do bequeath 14 kero- sine lamps and a calendar covering tne 1907 acade­mic year.

To outgoing (no pun intended) SA President, Jeff Chipman, w e do bequeath $541.00 in receipts, an all expense paid tr ip to observe lava to ry fac ilities a t the University o f Bengal and John Gregory.

To John Gregory we do bequeath an open meet­ing at which Frank Brayton w ill resign, a platoon of en­gineers in ba ttle dress to guard his person, and an autographed picture o f Jeff Chipman, in his p ris tine state.

To Louis Novak w e do bequeath perm ission to re- grow his beard and 1500 obedient commerce students

To Max Ross w e do bequeath a M ario Savio m ega­phone and a three year subscription to N ational Re­view.

To Harvey Oberfeld w e do bequeath a Moscow te lephone directory, contain ing the names, addresses and phone numbers of 3 m illion communists, a provo­cative fold-out of Pat Burns, and a tw e lve year subs­crip tion to Childrens Digest.

To Steve Phiziky w e do bequeath the ed ito rsh ip of the georgian tha t he has so long coveted, during the months o f July and August.

To Gary Van Gelder w e do bequeath an oscar fo r the best perform ance by a supporting actor in a come­dy series fo r his ro le in the Chipman Plot to Fire Bray­ton (1967-68) with horourab le m ention fo r his impas­sioned resignation scene. A lso a "W inn ie the Pooh" anthology.

To Chuck Axelrod w e do bequeath, 1500 te le g ra ­phed votes (Better late than never Chuck).

To Ray Lazanik w e do bequeath an ID Card ena­bling him to speak a t open meetings.

To Jim Rice w e do bequeath a pe tition of 4500 names denouncing him fo r cancelling the trad ition a l "N igh t a t the Vaudreuil Inn"

To Jean Sicotte m em bership in COLD and sum mer em ploym ent in the Am erican Consulate.

To Orestes Cato, six hours o f prim e evening tim e on CBC Radio, and a recording o f the Selected Spee­ches o f George W allace.

To the Engineering Faculty, we do bequeath, 500 Think and Do books and lifetime subcriptions to the georg ian.

To David Orton we do bequeath a map to fa c ilita ­te his invasion of Verm ont and a bound volum e of si­gned affidavits , swearing tha t Chou-en-lai is a fas­cist.

To Frank Brayton we do bequeath a candid shot o f his appearance on "Like Young" a beautifu l sculp­tured bust of Jeff Chipman, and a com plim entary pass to the debut of "The Green Berets"

To Don Rosenbaum and Manny Kalles, w e w ish luck

To Don McPhie w e do bequeath 3600 lawsuits fo r p tom aine sustained in his cafe teria and a crying to ­wel to mourn his loss o f money into.

To Sherry Rubinstein we do bequeath a volum e of "Roberts Rules o f O rde r" and three cots fo r her o f f i­ce.

To Robert Rae we w ish luck in his pursuit o f his Batchelors Degree.

To Mag Flynn w e do bequeath th ree dem onstra- tionless months and the app lication of M ario Savio

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Politics...a great leap forwardby Edward Goldstein

Edward Goldstein is a 23 year old Arts Stu­dent, presently in 4th year honors history. He was Publicity Coordinator of the Student’s Council in 1967. He is presently Chairman of the High School Information Service. He is also a Student Representative on the Joint Committee on University Affairs.

The purpose of this article is to inform the student body of Sir G eorge Williams University of what has occurred in the past few weeks with regard to the recent student election, and w hat type of people were involved. This article is a com pendium of opinions of those who have been involved in student governm ent all year. A nyone who feels slighted bv the ob­servations m ade herein should question not the w riter but them selves and their friends. They are the reason for the article, and their friends have supplied the inform ation.

T he “R ecruitm ent-on-cam pus” affair effec­tively killed A xelrod’s chances of taking the election. He had been the spokesm an once too often. So m uch anim osity had been building up in the student body, especially in C om m er­ce and Engineering, and his political m ishandl­ing of the affair totally alienated him from the­se faculties. M ore im portant, it predisposed these faculties to support any o ther candidate who happened to com e along.

Chuck Axelrod

Lou is NovckE nter Louis Novak. A virtual non-entitv be­

fore the recru itm ent issue, he saw this as a gol­den opportunitv to get rid of Axelrod. He dis­placed Howard H oppenheim as the leading candidate of the am orphous right-wing becau­se he represen ted a large bloc of Engineering votes. The Engineers could be counted on to vote mindlessly, for whom ever Novqk told them was their man. and the entire third floor knew it. So the factions were defined and the backstabbing began.

Im m ediately after the recruitm ent issue. Chipm an offered his “no-hard-feelings” sup­port to Axelrod and began privately support­ing his oppenents. It was roughlv at this point that he found out that he was being investigat­ed bv Eric Batiot. the S.A. T reasurer, and he assum ed that Axelrod was behind the whole thing. No one can know which cam e first - C hipm an’s broken prom ise or the initiation of the investigation. Let it be known that Ax­elrod knew little of the inquiry at this time.

Investigation Go-AheadShortlv afterw ard, when Axelrod did find

out about it, he was willing to go along with the head-hunting provided that Gregory was on the opposing slate. Axelrod had an intense disliking for G regory (som ething which is verv easy to com e bvu and the feeling was m utual. Perhaps a note on Mr. G regory would be ap­propriate now. T here were long-range plans for him. Chipm an, who incidentally is his room ­

m ate, was groom ing him for the presidency. This year he was supposed to run for Execut­ive Secretary, and next year for the top office. However the plans w ent astray as follows: A fter Chipm an had resigned in January, the Council was going to refuse to allow him to re­sume his office. H owever, it was decided to perm it him to resum e the presidency without a hassle and he prom ised to allow the new cons­titution to pass w ithout a fuss. But according to the election by-laws of the new constitut­ion, John Gregory was ineligible to run for office. Scrap one long-range plan. It w ouldn’t have w orked anyways, chances are, because of his intense devotion to his adm irable princi­ples, Gregory will not pass enough of his ex­ams to return to the arena in ‘68-‘69. making intelligent and clean politics a rem ote pos­sibility next year.

M eanwhile, back at the finance investigat­ion, Axelrod had totally committed himself to the enterprise. The only chance for him now was to discredit the nam es of those associated with the enemy (th is w as a far cry from the position he took im m ediately after the recru it­m ent issue when he helped to stop a budding “sm ear-Chipm an” cam paign). In all fairness it m ust be noted that by this time the geor- gian had gotten wind of the investigation, and Axelrod might not have been able to do any­thing to stop it. However, he d idn’t even try.

‘Vindication’ FollowsT he m ism anagem ent-funds charge didn’t

work. The m ost striking thing about it is that Chipm an found it necessary to vindicate him­self. The student body passed it off as just a- nother georgian ruse, refusing to dem and an explanation from the chief executive. T he fact of the m atter is Chipm an produced the neces­sary receipts but would have found it imposs­ible to justify the exorbitant spending. T here is reason to believe that Gregory was influenc­ing him in this m atter. Perhaps Chipm an was caught up in a system which perm its these ty­pes of circum stances to occur.

The “copyrighted” issue of the georgian op­ened the door to even better things. The accu­sations levelled at Jim Rice, the Carnival C hair­man, are not true. He had no idea that it was going to be a sm ear job, expecting an issue dealing with the events of Carnival. However. Gregory. Chipman. and Allen Nutik decided that this would be a good chance to seal Axel­rod ’s coffin. Because of his literary qualificat­ions, Nutik was given the job of com posing the back page. Chipm an was to rem ain in the back­ground. and G regory was chosen as the hat­chet man. should anything occur. W hat did occur was the open m eeting to im peach Frank Brayton. The politicking involved is obvious, but I doubt that it is any worse than releasing the news of Chipm an’s unjustified spending one week before the election.

The night before the open m eeting, Mike G ourlay. Don Rosenbaum , G regory, and Bray­ton were discussing the constitutional legal­ity of the m otion to be presented. Rosenbaum and Brayton pointed out. step by step, just how an editor could be rem oved. G regory re­fused to listen, preferring to do it in the grand m anner. Naturally he screw ed it up.

The election was anticlim actic. All that rem ains is for the students to assess the people who were elected. A lthough it is a fter the elec­tion, it’s not too late. Just what did the school end up with?

The New FacesLouis Novak is fam iliar for his non-commi-

tai. non-participatory politics. He is not a syn­dicalist. People seem to have forgotten that he tried to pass off a le tte r from a minor em ­ployee of CIL as official com pany policy dur­ing the open m eeting on recruitm ent, thereby intim idating the Com m erce and Engineering faculties. R um our has it that the o ther letter he presented (Canadair) was solicited bv the Dean of Engineering. If it was not. then Cana­dair had to have decided on a policy of not

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A R E Y O U IN T E R E S T E D I N -- T ra in ing for a CAREER w h ile attending school?- Earning money?- Making important Business Contacts?- Entering an exc iting fie ld?

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a large num ber of program s will com e from the students-at-large.

For the most part, be prepared for the lar­gest Poopdeck Ball in history, and “An Even­ing with M artv C utler”.

An interesting thought has occurred to some concerned people. They are considering the possibilities of setting up a Counter-Council next year. G ood Luck to them. It seems to me that the students are sufficiently polarized to ensure the success of such a venture.

On the night that the election results were m ade public. Allan Nutik said that he was pleas­ed that the “right” was not dead at Sir G eorge but exclaim ed. “Look at what we have rep re­senting it”. T ha t’s it in a nutshell.

People sure do funny things in elections.

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hiring Sir G eorge students, and com m unicate this decision bv mail in the space of three days. This seems highly unlikely. In any case. Novak is guilty of duplicity in the issue (and no t even in office veti. It should be noted tha t he did not vote at all at the open m eet­ing to fire Brayton. He did not even abstain. His opposition to the georgian is well-known, bu t it just doesn’t do to com m it yourself publi­cly on an im portant issue so close to polling day. W ell, at least we can count on his long years of experience as Engineering President. T he position has been his since the bv-elections in the first term . He also brings to the office his experience as Social Chairm an of the Poop­deck Ball.

Is Experience Competence?M artin Cutler was probably the m ost exper­

ienced candidate running for the position of In ternal Vice-President. However, experience does no t always result in com petence. He is no t a syndicalist. Cutler is a p roponent of the big splash. So we brought in the Seekers, and lost 500 dollars. Splash. No doubt we will have many m ore sock-hops next year. Big ones, of course. He was ineligible for a Council seat this year but sat on Council anyway. He did

his best to force the Georgian Players to drop “How To Succeed in Business W ithout R eal­ly Trying”, and accept a play and d irec to r of his own choosing, but failed. Naturally the play was a huge success. Thus. C utler’s main a ttribu te is his astute judgem ent. Hopefully he will get assistants next vear of the same ca ­liber as those he had this year. Som eone has to do the work while Cutler is looking in the m ir­ror.

A Two Letter FileLaurie Abrams was President of the A rts

Faculty last summer while Barry Hill was away. In September, his file contained two letters, a fair indication of the am ount of work he did. I do not doubt that he was Executive Assistant in the S.A. Personnel Office. It should be m en­tioned that the first public notice of this was in his pensketch. I e never was Co-chairm an of the High School Inform ation Service, as he m aintained in his pensketch. In all fairness, it is possible that he was led to believe that he held tha t position by John W atson. D irector of Personnel. However. I was never inform ed of it. and I am Chairm an of the High School Service. He was ostensibly the R esearch C oor­d inato r of the T heater Investigation Com m itt­ee. M arty Cutler was the Chairm an. “Execut­ive Assistants” and “Research Co ordinatoi m ean absolutely nothing when presented in a pensketch. especially when these positions are doled out by vour running mates.

The TrailerT ed Lafetiere was carried in on N ovak’s

Shirttail. He presented nothing in the way of valid qualifications. He cannot speak French well enough to get bv at UGEQ. knows no th ­ing about the organization, and will not have enough time to learn over the sum m er. His cam paign slogan was “G et UGEQ to work for vou”. and rum our has it that the first p rior­ity tha t the new Executive has decided on for next year is to get out of UGEQ. no m atter how m any referendum s it takes.

A Suit In The PaperA aron Caplan. the new Arts President, is

a three-piece suit with his picture in the paper. T h a t’s all that can be expected from him in the forthcom ing year. He worked for one day on the Course G uide and. as near as I can m ake out. th a t is the sum total of his labours. T here was talk of Caplan running for an executive position on N ovak’s slate, but he was not deem ­ed im portan t enough because some o ther peo­ple had to be pork-barrelled. So he was dropp­ed. Caplan would have run for any office, as long as it had an impressive title a ttached to it.

I apologize to those people whom I have not m entioned. Some have nothing to hide, and the rest have successfully covered up their actions.

Hope Springs Eternal...It is obvious that the student body will have

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The education of Co-opsWe have ’sixteen years left before 1984

flicks awav the rem aining ashes of our minds. W hat will we do till then? G et our degrees, jobs. TV 's. cars, “see” the world, etc.. ie. nothing. In our struggle to achieve a form of security we forget, if ever we did know, tha t we are hum an beings. The problem is universal, but here we are concerned with the G eorgian reader, the authors, the uni­versity' students.

The most inane rem arks I have ever over­heard were uttered here, at Sir G eorge, a- m ongst the intelligensia. Rem arks like. “G et a load of that broad over there!”, "H e’s cute!”, “G etcher tickets for the Smash- Bash Ball while they’re hot!” , or “You dir­ty unwashed C om m ie-bastard!” We h: ve been stupified by T.V. com m ercials. Course G uides, polititians, and parents to the ex­

ten t that we have lost a sense of hum aness- intelligence and hum an com m unication be­ing reduced to m echanical repitions of m e­chanical nam es and phrases. If vou think that I’m exaggerating, try telling your prof

in class that people fuck; som ething obvious, simple, and hum an-orientated. Nor are we likely to gain an insight into our-selves and others from advanced courses of study. It has often been said that m ost of o n e’s educa­tion takes place in pubs. I believe that pubs as educational institutions are vastly over­rated, but they are a step in the right d irec­tion. However, we m ust go beyong nightly pubbing.

This is where co-ops com e in - on the hum an level. They are by no m eans a pana­cea, but can, like pubs, contribute signifi­cantly to one’s education on the hum an le­

vel. m ore intensity and com pletely than any other institutionalized educational experien­ce known to the authors. In a co-op you li­ve am ongst people -- a fantastic range of different types of people - fighting, lov­ing. hating, co-operating. Just simple, every­day. hum an living. Perhpas, in this p rocess you'll discover the deep cold loneliness of self in another, and in so doing, discover yours -- your hum aness. Perhpas you’ll on ­ly learn w here it’s at. Perhaps I’m being overly optom istic, but its w orth a try. A co­op is yours, your home, your experience. It cannot be m ore than that. Some people learn nothing; for others its an invaluably experience.

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Comment...from page 3teresting drives dem onstrate their im portance. At o th e r tim 6s the man (ours, that ist develops battle heat (otherwise called tem porary insa­nity in court room si when he develops a lust to kill (like wolves that will run into a sheep flock and kill w ithout eating). At this point it isn’t the enem y that is dehum anized, it’s our boy. He loses himself to the urge to destroy -- accord­ing to Freud, another aspect equal to the Will T o Live. Sometimes too, grief produces hatred - som ething too com plex to discuss here.

Anyway, therein lies the root of our problem . T he V ietnam ese are different, but not different enough. Even the worst bigot knows they are hum an, and so cannot really kill when he is gi­ven the b latant opportunity. The T echnocratic society (ours) is also aTRULY HUMAN ANITAR T ARLAN SOCIETY. We do (whether some people like it o r not) place a high value on hum an life. W e search for answers to obscure non-animal questions (why do we live, whyffo, etc?). But W E A RE A HUMAN SOCIETY. So is the A- sian society. We are an im perfect society. W e have internal tension (we a ren’t all goodies), we have external tension (neither is anybody else). O ur society like any o ther in the course of hum an history m ust seek to preserve itself. O ur society w hether acting on accurate inform ­ation or not) must seek a way in which it will live forever. Just like the B eaker People did, just like the Egyptians did, just like the Sumer- ians did, just like the Indus Valley people did, just like the Jews did (they d idn’t do too badly, by the way). To live forever (a society is a liv­ing thing) a society m ust be able to identify its enem ies and either destroy o r convert them - e ither that o r convince them to leave US alone. Since the o ther society thinks the same way, it is highly im probable that any society can leave ano ther society alone.

H o hum. Long and dull, eh?R em em ber this though, an inter-social act

(person to person) group to group can only be objectively studied when the stigma of m oral­ity is no t brought into the p icture. M orality is a supra-hum an device whereby we dragged our­selves ou t of the swamps. Just as we cannot be perfectly moral, neither can societies be p er­fectly moral. W hen the G erm ans (I won’t use that sucky expression “Nazis Only” ) killed six millions of my relatives they did no t show that their society com m itted an im m oral act. If they really believed that the Jews w ere the m onsters they w ere supposed to be, then they acted in a very m oral fashion - they ridded them selves of

the elem ent that would prevent their society from living forever (actually they apparently w eren’t too hopeful. 1,000 years isn’t forever). W hat they did do, however, is dem onstrate the fact that they really w eren’t hum an. You can ’t blame an am oeba for engulfing o ther am oebas. If you a ren’t hum an, then m orality doesn’t ap­ply. If you are hum an, then it is your belief in the nature of m orality that will determ ine your actions. T h a t’s why we are haying so m uch trouble, see? O ur society is hum an (to a point), after all we get all mushy about all sorts of things. Asian Society, a t the last report, is also hum an -- just as m uch as o u rs anyw ay , which may not be saying very much.

If Asians were only like the Japs in John Way­ne films then we w ouldn’t have this trouble. Then again, if Asian Nationalism wasn’t hum an, then it w ouldn’t bo ther us a t all. Does this m ean war (Nuclear) is inevitable? Probable not. Aside from being mushy, hum an, inhum an, m oral, im­moral, am oral, confused, bo thered and bewild­ered we are al so SCARED.

When you g e t s c a re d som etim es you also get smart.

Does this m ean the A m ericans are filthy in­hum an decaden t Im perialist Swine? No, becau­se their society is bound to take the steps to p ro ­tec t itself from w hat it feels is dangerous. But unlike the G erm ans, A m ericans for the most part are not able to dehum anize their enem ies. They, for instance, conquer Japan and reform the society (some people call it im perialist capi­talist exploitationist m eddling, but they did destroy a cruel and oppressive feudal system, and they did institute an effective land reform ). They beat Spain and take her colonies, and try fairly hard (for a hum an state) to m ake the co­lonies a half-decent place to live (their slightly unlike policies in the P h ilipp ines - e.g. “Damn, dam n, dam n the Filipinos... ci-vi-li-ze them with a K rag” showed that they w aren’t quite that human). They assisted in the destruction of Nazi G erm any, and while doing so (with som e outside help, course) they form ed a ra ther naive attachm ent to a to talitarian regim e which offer­ed them the dirty end of the stick in the end (double-entendre intended). All in all, the A m er­icans try fairly hard to Be Nice. A t least they have a better record than some.

I hope this not only solves all your problem s. but»answ ers all possible questions as well. I know it isn’t every day you get to read a Key to the Universe, but feel flattered as it isn’t every’ day I get to write one.

D o u g l a s H o s p i t a lProject

M anv patients in m ental hospi­tals are lonely and neglected. T heir greatest need is to be accep ted as people, with warm th and affection. It has been prov­en over a num ber of years that groups of university students serving as volunteers on a re ­gular basis can most effictivelv m eet this need. In a simple pro­gram m e of social and cultural activities, and in person to per­son conversation. students can do m uch to help patients find fresh confidence in them ­selves. The Student Christian M ovem ent will re-convene the volunteer group after ex­ams. New visitors will be most welcom e. The program m e will begin early in May and run throughout the sum m er, or at least till the end of June. A list for names and phone num ­bers is posted and will consist of one weekly visit, weeknight or Saturday in The Zone H-539.

P r ism se l l s

Prism, the literary m agazine of Sir G eorge, announced that it has almost doubled last year’s sales and revenue.

Prism ‘68. which included an interview with the A m erican novelist John Barth, sold al­most 900 copies in the week it was on sale. Copies of the ma­gazine are still available in the University bookstore and Classics. Argo Bookshop, and the M cGill bookstore.

• “The real problem for the magazine is next year’s staff.” said M ichael Rival.

“W e need a managing editor and a training editor for the following year,” he continued.

Rival hopes to take adverti­sing in the ‘69 issue, and dis­tribute it th roughout C anada.

Rival will co-edit the m aga­zine with D erek B ennett, last year’s editor.

“Anyone who is interested in editing the magazine should con tact us now. because we’re already planning for next year’s issue,” said Rival.

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Campoli named to al l -star team.. . . . fo u r th in scoring

Statistics poor in Georgians’ fifth place finishFred W hitacre’s Varsity Basketball T eam had lit­

tle to be proud of this past season, however, they can at least claim the distinction of having one player nam ed to the five man OSLAA all-star squad.

Freshm an Richie Campoli, who led the scoring parade for the first two-thirds of the schedule, slipp­ed slightly in the final few games but was still one of three M ontreal area players nam ed to the first team . C enter John M cAuliffe of Loyola and guard W inston Ingalls of M acD onald were the o ther local represen­tatives on the dream team which also included per­ennial all-star Pete M unzar of Bishops and vetern guard Pat Stew art of Carleton.

OSLAA FINAL STANDINGS\

P w L F A P tsLoyola 14 14 0 1227 974 28Carleton 14 12 2 1128 891 24Bishop’s 14 10 4 1023 901 20Sherbrooke 14 5 9 913 991 10U, of Ottawa 14 4 10 908 952 8Sir George 14 4 10 866 1002 8MacDonald 14 4 10 919 1055 8RMC 14 3 11 748 966 6

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by Steward PhelanCampoli finished slightly below the magical 20 point

per game m ark in the scoring race as he ran a close fourth with a 19.6 game average. Laliberte of Sher­brooke, who was com pletely overlooked on either of the two all-star teams, led the OSLAA scoring para­de with a 22.8 average, followed by M unzar and Bill Holt of M acDonald.

Team Ties For Fifth The Varsity Basketball Team finished the season

in a three-way tie for fifth place, two points behind the final playoff berth which was captured by Sher­brooke. This year’s record of 4 wins and 10 losses is alm ost identical to last years squad which lost two extra games in an enlarged schedu le .-

However, the com parison betw een the two team s ends after this quick glance at their respective re­cords. W ithout taking anything away from the p re­vious team , it is highly doubtful if they would have won m ore than a couple of games in this season’s lea­gue which turned out to be one of the strongest loops in many years.

W ith the exception of Loyola, almost any of the re ­maining team s were capable of defeating each other. - Sir G eorge’s loss in overtim e to second place C arle­ton Ravens being a case in point.

In the V arsity’s case, their inability to defeat te.ams such as Sherbrooke and O ttaw a cost them a playoff spot as even one victory over Sherbrooke late in the season would have clinched this fourth position.

The team lacked height at all positions and Coach W hitacre’s hope of offsetting this disadvantage through

top shooting never m aterialized. The team as a whole shot 33% with only Cam poli and Ron Truesdale hitt­ing for even reasonably respectable averages. Trues­dale led the team percentage-w ise as he shot 3 7 .8% while coming second to Cam poli in team scoring with a 12.4 average.On the boards, Mike H irsch was the only Georgian

to make a reasonable contribution as he averaged11.1 rebounds per game.

The old cry “ w ait ‘till nex t year” seems very ap­propriate in this case, as only sometime starters Brian Cuniiffe and Wilf Jackson will not among the candidates at next season ’ s firs t p ractice .

OSLAA SCORING

G P ts AverageLaliberte, Sherbrooke 14 319 22.8Munzar, Bishop’s 14 296 21.1Holt, MacDonald 14 288 20.5Campoli, Sir George 14 275 19.WSchuthe, Carleton 14 220 15.7Ingalls, MacDonald 14 193 13.6Lewis, Loyola 12 192 16.0Phipps, Loyola 13 191 14.6Journeay, U.. of Ottawa 14 189 13.5McAuliffe, Loyola 13 186 14.8

Volleyball team edged in OSLAA finalsT he Volleyball squad has

rolled up the net for another year after a heart-breaking loss to O ttaw a in the OSLAA final. T he G eorgians have nothing to be asham ed of as they showed a trem endous team effort.

A lthough the team finished third in league play, they had suprem e confidence that they could win the semi-final against their arch-rivals, defending- cham pion Sherbrooke U niver­sity, and then proceed to steal the final from O ttaw a which had lost but one game in tw en­ty-five this year.

In the week before the final, the team had reached full po­tential and had practiced hard against some of M ontreal’s finest teams. The essence of

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the team , however, was the trem endous drive and spirit that had draw n them closely together. They couldn’t have en tered the finals on a higher note.

Faultless team play vaulted Sir G eorge into the final as they drove Sherbrooke into the ground three games to one with impressive victories in the last two m atches.

However, the team had only a twenty-m inute break before they were required to m eet O t­

tawa. The first game was easi­ly Sir G eorge’s. However, in the second game, the team be­gan to tire and several close calls w ent against them. O tta­wa fought hard and took the crown from the Georgians.

The team was led this year by player-coach Shai Kafri, a veteran of Eurepean volley­ball struggles. Kafri has had five years experience with the Israeli National Team and two with the Canadian All-Stars.

He is undoubtedly the finest player in OSLAA.

Barry Russell was the senior player on the team in his third year: he has won the Pallandi Trophy as Sir G eorge’s MVP. Two o ther second-year men, Doug Smith and Christopher Blair, once player under an All- A m erican and their defensive play has been of great help to the team . T he o ther second- year man is track-star Bob “M ofa” W alker whose speed

paid off in his quick dives for the ball.

All an A ndren was one of three rookies to m ake the team this year. A ndren received his school’s M VP trophy last year and played especially well in the final for Sir G eorge. The o ther two rookies have played for the M ontreal Latvians. “Crazy” Juris Kanins and “T ank” Valdis Eks added the extra-tough spiking that the team had lacked in ‘67.

A lthough three of the play­ers graduate this year, the nu­cleus is there for a contender next year if o ther Georgians will take an interest and try out for the team .

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THE VOLLEYBALL TEAM Top row; (L to R) Player-coach and captain, SHAI KAFRI, ALLAN ANDREN, DOUG SMITH. Bottom row; (L to R) BOB WALKER co-captain, CHRIS BLAIR, BARRY RUSSELL.Missing from photo; VALDIS EKS, JURIS KANINS

Partingbreeds sorrow

nostalgia fills the air as one rea­lizes that we’re heading for the last roundup...good-bye to lau- rie who loses articles..Jt wasn’t much good anyhow...chow to stew...christ when will he learn how to drive...double adieu to hilt who always meets his dead- lines...when will sam learn how to write...good-bye Pez where­ver you are...to fran and mike this office will always be open to you...no more beer at four o ’clock in the morning...chow to doug, paul, fred, sally, gail, janet and jane...it was fun but not too much... i think i’m go­ing to cry... stan

the georgian, March 8, 1968 / 27

Scribes choose Peel, Campoliby Mike Krupp

This year, for the first time, the georgian sports staff was pooled in an effort to find out who, in their opinion, was the outstanding Sir G eorge athlete of the year. The honourable scribes also m anaged to come up with a choice for rookie of the year honours.

T rack and H arrier star BILL PEEL has been chosen outstanding athlete of the year while Basketball sensation RICH IE CAM POLI has been selected as rookie of the year. T h e above players were chosen after m uch consultation and bickering among the sport masses who oc­casionally dot the walls of the georgian offices.

Bill Peel qualified for his selection due to his outstanding perform ances in the sports of T rack and Harrier.

Bill Peel

In the O ttawa-St.Lawrence A thletic A ssociat­ion T rack M eet, Bill led the Sir G eorge contin­gent to victory, placing first in the 880 yard, mile and three mile runs. He also anchored the 4 x 440 relay team w hich finished second. For his efforts, Bill was aw arded the OSLAA Indi­vidual T rack Trophy as the outstanding ath lete of the meet.

Bill was one of the ath letes who represented Sir G eorge at the M acdonald Invitational Cross- C ountry M eet and he prom ptly w alked (or r a n ) away with top honours.

Running for the M t. Royal Francs-Am is at the Lafontaine Park R oad Races, Bill set a new

m eet record-running the 3-1/2 mile distance in the tim e of 16 m inutes 34.6 seconds.

A t the OSLAA H arrier Cham pionships, Bill topped the 33 man field by racing the 4-1/2 mi­le distance in the time of 25 m inutes 29 seconds - a new Junior Q uebec O pen record .

C oach Doug Insleay has m any words of praise for Bill Peel.

“No one works harder than Bill does” quoth Insleay, “with a little m ore work on his speed and stride as well as some weight training, Bill could go as far as he wants to ”.

F or his outstanding running feats. Bill was aw arded the Jim W orrall T rophy as 1967’s best Junior male runner in the province of Q uebec.

In a ll a most successful track season for Sir G eorge’s outstanding athlete of this year. Bill Peel.

As previously m entioned, the ath lete chosen as the rookie of the year was none o ther than Richie Campoli. For those of you who rarely read the georgian or a ttend sport functions, Cam poli’s forte is basketball.

R itchie hit the OSLAA league like a ball on fire and led the scoring parade for m ore than half the season. He sagged som ew hat in the stre tch and ended up fourth in the point list with 275 in 14 games for a 19.6 gam e average. Cam poli’s efforts did not go unnoticed as he was placed on the all-star team .

Richie hit 36.5% of shots from the floor as well as sinking 61 of 86 free-throws aw arded him for a 70.9%.

In the games that we have seen him play. Richie displayed trem endous outside shooting and this rem ains his greatest asset. His rebound­ing needs im provem ent as he m anaged to snare only 57 rebounds over the entire season.

This has been R ichie’s first year on the V ar­sity basketball team and from his initial season one can see that he will be a definite asset to the team for many years to come.

O ther athletes m entioned in the hassle includ­ed Clifford Barry and John M urray.

Cliff had a trem endous aquatic season collect­ing 3 first place finishes in the OSLAA swim­ming Cham pionships. He has since gained a po­sition on the OSLAA C onference Swimming Team.

Before helping the water-logged boys to their sixth straight OSLAA title, Clifford was staring with Sir G eorge’s water-polo team . Clifford scored over 30 goals during the six gam e season and was a m ajor factor in the team ’s undefeated season.

John M urray, a 17 year old rookie labouring with the hockey team has established himself as a star of the future.

John started out by playing defence for the Varsity squad but has since been shifted to play right-wing. John has scored a total of 9 goals in this his initial season.

These are the nam es to watch, for they are the present and possible future ath letic stars of our University and possibly the fu tu re stars of professional sport.

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Richie Campoli

Sir G eorge rowers aim for M ex icoU nder the guidance of inter­

nationally know n rowing coach Laurie W est, the G eorgian Rowing T eam has progressed a long way tow ards their goal. Emerging from an intensive training schedule, tw enty po t­ential cham pions anxiously await the spring thaw and the

Canadian elim ination trials at T ren t University. A successful team effort would open the door to possible Olympic com ­petition.

Coach Laurie W est not only has an impressive record as a row er in his own right, being a gold and silver Olympic m eda­

list, but has coached the C an­adian squad to a bronze and gold in Perth, A ustralia and a second place in the Pan A m er­ican G am es last year. For this reason the Sir G eorge team , which will see action soon af­ter exams and throughout the summer, has a good chance of representing C anada.

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the georgian, March 8, 1968 / 29

Loyola crushes Sir George 6-2 in OSLAA finals, lose to Alberta 5-4 in Canadian Championships

by A llan H ilton

T h e University of A lberta G olden Bears won the Canadian Intercollegiate A thletic Union cham pionship on Sun­day with a thrilling 5 - 4 victory over the Loyola W arriors.

A goal by M innesota native Ron Ce- bryk with 17 seconds left in the game sen t the title out to A lberta for the second time in six years.

C ebryk’s goal, his second of the pe­riod, cam e on a perfect setup in front of the net.

“He (Andy M olino, the Loyola goal- er) cam e sliding across the goalm outh and w ent right by me. All I had to do was push it into the open net,” Cebryk explained after the game.

Loyola carried a 4 - 3 lead into the th ird period, but a less than spectacular effort by Molino paved the way for the A lberta win.

C ebryk’s first goal cam e on a deflec­tion off a Loyola defender’s skate.

Toronto Game SurprisesLoyola played way above their po­

tential on Friday night when they edged the University of T oronto Blues 1 - 0 in overtim e.

T he puck i s barely v isib le beneath D aniel D oyon’s le g , but BILL ELLY ETT did s c o ­re n o n th e less to break a 3-3 deadlock in the secon d per­iod .

M ike Griffin earned himself im m or­tality when he tipped in a pass ou t be­hind Varsity goaler John W rigley nine m inutes into the overtim e frame.

Both goalers, Wrigley and Molino, played super hockey, and the action du­ring the game was the best seen in col­legiate hockey circles this year.

A lberta gained entry into the finals by swamping St. Francis Xavier 12 - 2 and Laurentian University 7 - 2.

T oron to won the consolation series by dum ping X-men 9-1 and Laurentian 5 - 3.

Loyola wins in OSLAAT he best team won the O ttaw a St. .

Lawrence hockey cham pionship last week, but there can be no doubt that the fu ture augers well for the losers also.

T he Loyola W arriors ended the four year G eorgian jinx by trim m ing Sir G eorge 6 - 2 last Saturday.

D epth, which G eorgian Coach Paul A rsenault hailed as the m ost impressive he has seen in collegiate hockey cir­cles, was the instrum ental factor which led Loyola first over Bishop’s and then Sir G eorge to the title.

The G eorgians, m eanwhile, lost no honor in defeat.

A fter upsetting the University of Sherbrooke 7 - 5 to gain entry to the final, the G eorgians provided Loyola with a good test, bu t it wasn’t nearly good enough for the pow erful W arri­ors.

Loyola outshot, outskated, and out- hustled the G eorgians throughout. Sir G eorge was never really in contention, and Loyola had the gam e well under control until the final buzzer.

G reg H arm on and Larry M eehan were the Sir G eorge m arksm en.

Sherbrooke Game A ThrillerThe G eorgians cam e up with one of

their best efforts in the semi-final to ed­ge Sherbrooke 7 - 5 .

T1 e see-saw battle was unique in that 3 of the G eorgian goals w ere scored while Sherbrooke had the m an advan­tage, and likewise, Sherbrooke tallied twice while they w ere shorthanded.

Sherbrooke jum ped into an early first period lead, but Jim W ebster tal­lied the first of his three goals later in the fram e to tie the score.

W ebster added two m ore goals in the second to give Sir G eorhe a 3 - 1 m ar­gin, bu t two fast go al s by Sherbrooke evened the count again. T he period eneded with the score knotted at 4 r 4 as Bill E llyett notched his first of his two goals.

Ray LeCouffe gave the G eorgians a 5 - 4 lead early in the th ird with a hard blueline drive, and Ellyett upped the margin to 6 - 4 with ano ther breakaw ay tally.

Sherbrooke narrow ed the gap late in the third, but Bob Philip’s goal with 21 seconds to play put the gam e ou t of reach.

Future PromisingAlthough C oach Paul A rsenault will

be am ong the faithful leaving, only one player goaler Doug Cageorge, will be lost because of graduation.

This will leave the three lines and defensive pairs in tact for the following season - a factor which will probably give the G eorgians another top notch OSL entry.

T here will be at least th ree and pos­sibly four seniors on next year’s team.

Bryce Liberty, Larry M eehan, Toby O ’Brien, and if he returns, Joe Rae, will all be in their final year at Sir George.

The Athletics D epartm ent has yet to find a successor to A rsenault, who will be taking a M asters of Physical Education program at the University of Oregon next year.

Arsenault leaves to take Masters degreeW hen he leaves Sir G eorge

W illiams University on a one year leave of absence, G eor­gian H ockey Coach Paul A rse­nault will be able to look back on a successful five year stay.

His record?W hen A rsenault cam e to Sir

G eorge in 1962, the University’s , hockey team was languishing o u t of playoff contention near the bottom of the Ottawa-St. Law rence League.

A strong finish put the G eor­gians in the final playoff spot, and from there A rsenault d irect­ed his team to the Canadian Intercollegiate A thletic Union Cham pionships.

T he G eorgians never won a C .I.A .U . title under A rsenault, bu t until this year, Sir G eorge had always been the OSLAA representative.

T he C oach’s record during

league play is also impressive. T he Halifax born, Prince E d­ward Island raised m entor com ­piled a form idable 82 wins, 29 losses and 9 ties record in the five years tha t he was at Sir G eorge.

Tough Place to CoachConsidering the adverse con­

ditions under which A rsenault had to coach the team , the won lost record is even m ore im pres­sive.

T he m ost pressing problem was the lack of practice ice , a problem w hich was overcom e this year under the agreem ent reached with the Forum .

But the tenuous circum s­tances produced som e ou tstan­ding hockey stars.

Brian C hapm an, Bob Berry, T revor K err, Paul Lemire, H ector M cFadden, Bob Sha- tilla, Dave Dies, H arry W enger;

these and o ther players gave Sir G eorge the highly ra ted hockey nam e that it now owns.

W hen asked to select an all- star team from all the players who have partic ipated under

H ockey mentor PAUL ARSENAULT

him, A rseneault chose C hap­m an in goal. Lem ire and M c­Fadden on defence, and Kerr, Berry, and Dies for the forw ard positions.

A rsenault’s coaching tech­niques - driving the players hard - often raise controversy- but one can not very well argue with success.

“I expect a lot from my play­ers” ,quoth A rsenault, “ some­times too m uch and this might cause friction. But in the end, they players think it’s worth it.”

“Players who have left the school often com e back and tell me how m uch they miss the type of hockey that they play­ed here at Sir G eorge.”

Recruitment DifficultyThe practice so far of assem ­

bling the team has been to wait until after registration and then

proceed to draw the players from enrolled students.

Coach A rsenault feels that a lot m ore is needed to get sea­soned players to com e to Sir G eorge ra ther than wait for them to enroll and then recruit them into the team . Arsenault is now encouraging his players to talk to outside hockey play­ers and convince them to come to Sir G eorge.

The Path Ahead “Sir G eorge is lucky to have

guys who are willing to sacri­fice m ore than probably any other players (ie. o ther colle­giate hockey players)... They are exceptional people.”

T he hope here is that the new C oach will be able to find these “exceptional people” and carry on with the success that Paul A rsenault has achiev­ed.

D ejection reign s supreme in the Sherbrooke ranks but not so for Sir George. BOB PHILLIP h a s just s lip p ed the puck (arrow) underneath the Sherbrooke goaltender with ju st 21 seco n d s to p lay g iv ing the G eorgians a 7-5 win.

30 / the georgian, March 8, 1968

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the georgian, March 8, 1968 / 31

The curtain is drawn on Sir George’s sport sceneIn the first half of the 1967-68 season, G eorgians representing three different

team s reaped the rew ards of first place and the OSL C ham pionship 3 times. Ci­thers team s cam e close, while less fortunate ones m ade respectable showings. T he second half of the season was no t as fruitful as was the first, but nevertheless Sir G eorge ath letes did win a share of glory.

In the first sem ester, the w ater po­lo team was the biggest and m ost sur­prising winner, capturing the OSL title on their way to an undefeated season. T he excellent coaching of Jeno Ats and the team leadership of Pan-Am players Clifford Barry and Mike Florian were the main reasons for the team ’s trem endous season. T he poloists were the only team at Sir G eorge this year to m aintain an undefeated record.

Alm ost as successful as the polo team were the G eorgian tracksters. Perrennial stars Bill Peel and M ark A rnold led the team to victory in the OSL finals, winning 3 events each. T he victory was the team ’s second straight title, and though A rnold will be lost to the team next year a num ­ber of promising rookies will provide a good nucleus for a repeat perform ­ance in the fall of 1968.

For the 4th consecutive year, the G eorgian golf team m em bers proved that they were anything but hackers. Led by Bruce W eatherly and E. John­son, the fairway w onders re ta ined

by Lawrence Carpman

their OSL title beating ou t their c lo ­sest rivals by a half-dozen strokes.

The m ost unfortunate G eorgians in the first sem ester were m em bers of the soccer team , who while gaining a share of first place with Loyola and RMC, were deprived of any recogn­ition by OSL officials.

A nother team that was just nosed ou t of an OSL title was the tennis team . W inners of the Eastern Zone OSL title finals, they placed a c red it­able 2nd in the east-west playdowns.

The new est sport to hit the concrete cam pus this year was football. With m any adversities in the way, includ­ing practises in St. Lam bert, athletic releases, and no previous experien­ce, the team still m anaged to win 2 out of the 6 gam es it played. Though one year of experience in the foot­ball wars is hardly enough, few ath le­tic releases will be gran ted next year and all G eorgians will be looking for­ward to a successful football season.

Winter Sports?The second half of the sporting

year started off with the badm inton team winning the OSL cham pionship on February 10th. T he team was led by Barry Symons, Tony G reene. Da­ve Alford, and Andy Farago. Both Symons and G reene went unde feated in all of their single m at­ches. Though Symons will not be back next year, the team ’s chances for next year are very bright since a prom is­ing rookie nam ed M ike Byozak could pick up the slack left by Symons.

For som e reason or another, Sir G eorge A thletes seem to achieve their greatest am ount of success w hen they are not on land - bu t ra th e r in the wa­ter.

In the first sem ester, this universi­ty’s m ost proficient athletes were the water-logged poloists. Thus, no t sur­prisingly, Sir G eorge swimmers -- for a record 6th time, swam and dove their way to an OSL title. W ith Peter Cross’ 3 victories and 2 records, and with the swimming skill and winning attitude of Cham pion poloists Cliff Barry and M ike Florian, the G eor­gians left their rivals waddling far be­hind. The team ’s vast superiority could be illustrated in the fact that the G eor­gian’s am assed m ore points than the

other 4 team s in the m eet com bined. O ther laurels gained by the squad in­clude a victory in a dual m eet over Potsdam College at the beginning of February. W ith 6 successive OSL swimming titles under their collect­ive trunks, all the boys could hope for is num ber 7.

Back on land, Sir G eorge hoop- sters did no t achieve as m uch success as was originally hoped for. They unfortunately missed ou t on an OSL playoff spot by only 2 points. Though the season in general was d isappoint­ing, the team did m anage to win 3 out of it’s last 5 games. Perhaps the team ’s consolation prize was a 65-61 victory M acdonald in the Carnival game - one of the few pleasantries enjoyed by the basketballers all year. They received the Don Brown M e­morial T rophy for their effort.

For the first time ever, the Varsity hockey G eorgians were g ran ted perm ­ission to use the M ontreal Forum for practises and hom e gam es during the 1967-68 season. For the first time in 5 years though, the team did not win the OSL Cham pionship. Though the Varsity had to get along w ithout form ­er stars Bob Berry, Brian Chapm an, Trevor K err and Harry W enger, the team still m ade the OSL finals and were only beaten by a stronger and m ore versatile Loyola team after hay­ing defeated the W arriors for the past 4 consecutive years in the cham pion­ship final. T he club played with m uch pride all year and with a new hockey boss entering the G eorgian ranks. The V arsity will attem pt to regain cham pionship form next season.

On the m at floor this year, G eo r­gian W restlers d idn’t cap tu re the OSL title, bu t they nevertheless cam e second and several m em bers distin­guished them selves respectably John Ruben finished first in the heavyweight class, while John W aterhouse also faired well. C oach Insleay term ed the season “fair” and was disappointed at the lact of in terest shown by team m em bers a t the end of the season. T he grapplers w ere willing to fight their m atches allright, but they we­ren ’t too keen on practising. W ith m o­re practise they could have won an OSL title.

On the slopes this year, G eorgian skiers enjoyed a “very good year” ac­cording to coach Kirk Henry. T he team consisting of Joe H anson, Ri­chard M elen, Chris Edgell, D onald Dunbar, Bob Percy and Steve S totad, finished 3rd in the OSL finals and held its own ski m eet at Brom ont. Coach Henry will not handle the team next year, and he expressed hopes that the training program instituted by him would be continued next sea­son. M aida Silvertone has been a tow er of strength on the W om en’s Ski Team .

A s enrollm ent every fall is on the upswing at Sir G eorge, so is interest and active participation by students in sports of their choice. T here are m ore students now than ever before that are willing and determ ined to give up their time to represen t their university in com petition against o- ther Canadian and A m erican colle­ges. If we are to m aintain a good stand­ing in collegiate sport, fu ture G eor­gian athletes will have to m ake an ex­ample ou t of this year’s trium phs.

T-y

Law rie Carpman is a f irs t year Science student. In h is f irs t year on the georgian s ta ff, he has been a roving reporter w ri­tin g most o f the features which [ have dotted the sport pages

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GUY BARBERSHOP1445 Guy Street

(downstairs in the Metro Guy & Maisonneuve)

Special for students $1.50

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