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oaineo tn.n- Olassa n fcun Itikol. maa-alkoi liassa, talle, o heti U I 14 rocla-li aa-liassa Issa.. ehoksi lu-certy-päl-lalle- Jtana nnes- K), 16 Puo-aitet-tekir-nmin alle- , Myöhään craanä jona n-.eni i=t , rrurtovarista pankk:)«, y ^, I meni kassaiaapm luo. r.^^ul tea>fl •sa ja ryh'y. ,arp.jn p j o r i t i ä^ I "Mita sma meinaat"' kv i kaverinsa. ; . • l "E.pä: mitään. Xäin . , , n^eaetelfe menee.Jcylla pan m.:,uu:t:a ka man, mtj^ta ne: sotinenjälkkh f jat. tuleVat hulluksi." T J I L D I X G A CANADIAN CULTURE mis- ja erdlow. odistaa j n Iiet-iellmen i liike- C C L : - ta -vas-lyoskin uuteen puhu- •TUOLU^ETOV Tiedusteltaen: hänen mielipidetti, taivaasta ja helvetistä Mark TV lausui:. "Rakas rouva, minä en" sanoa . mitaan. Minulla oii yajJ kummasvakin paikassa"' ÄIDIN NEUVO Sievannakoinen neitonen kuunj poliisin kovia sanoja hänen uimap kunsa niukkuudesta. Mitä a.t.si, JOS ssn näkisi, ankarana.: 'Todennakosesti han kutsuisi J nut kotiin heti" selitti lyuö, 'jisl katsokaas, tama on äitin uimäpuki-f lationai Groups and the Canadian Character By JOHN AVEIR sanoit '•yiyi pa «> reprint beIow the full text öf an address by John Weir to the recent National Cnltoral Con-. ferenie in Toronto organized by the Labor Progressive Party.. For Bjarv years John Weir has been knoun as an ontstandlng worker in the Ukrainian organizations and has hada wide experience in cultural. woi1c.. Althougb in numerous cases he uses the Ukrainian- Canadia ns to iUustrate his puints; readers wiU find that his views are generally applicable . to the numerous: other national jroups as well. - me points • I ihaive to make will fco-ile eisier because we are meetlng this hali — and I could have Itsensä mrs., Marie-Louis^e Verciiei hyppäämällä Eiffelin tornin' toiseyj kerroksesta alas. Useita yierasmaalaisia oli siimimä. kijanakun han teki surmanhj-ppynä. nnaiia, Kadoniiut helikopteri idista- löydetty vahingoitu-mattomana * idista 1 työ-nnetta 'aisuu- ,n pu-tuspo-suurT ispuu- :oituk-rjoihm n . t a r - fc^ovaen se ky-an ja laisten ohjel- Tappoi itsensä hyppäämällä Eiffelin tornista alas Pariisi, — Viime lauantaina tappQ-K^-^ied «l^-^ ^^^^^ word£t m any one " .f a cozen halla i n Toronto, o r h u n - jeds itcross • Canada. •'; Let, US; take this hali as .typical of htm all. A book could — and iiould be writ.ten • about It.. You on snll see the scars Ifeft, by ä aicLst -bomb : four yearr» agb . . , .' iie chiiidren were i n the front rows, he Secretary of the Canadian -Peace ngreiis, Mary Jennlsori wäs oti •iage. upeaking , for the. banning of tomic- \veapons. And 12 years ägo. iiis whole distribt was ijammed with 0,006 peöpie Avho caihe. to take this all a\vay from aDmebody to vhoiii ; aidn't belong and give it back to :liose \vho built it. !Mathew Pbpovlch, :ätthe\v' Shatulsky, John NaVis spoke ;ere to their. people. "The unemplöyed .•^anized within these •walls, unions ere started here, many projects of inefit not only to Ukraihiaii, biit.to 1 Canadian w'orkers were launched ifroOT' here.j.-. ' These halls were built by immigtant i\vorkers.. After 10 hours in the Edmonton. — Viime tiistaina fcl aonnut , helikopteri löydettiin \iine| perjantaina : ivahingoittumattöinaia| läheltä Rocky MoimtainHousea, }Ai\ on nom 75 mailia lounaiseen täältä Helikopterin ohjaaja Roland Maierl James H. Goalder sekä hänen 9-vuo. 1 tias poikansa Terry on löydetty hen-l gi.'«;a. • . 5^^•erd- :ieinea i l i j am tahan kalkki ; eika halua i . j o h - rhaita ' mac-kittyi-kasit-mitä a a ja lädan, lajalle ovaen avaa i. On dista-suu- I SI ta 1. Oh- )ikeis-mieh- 51 ra-, mah-i avaa levätila on rlowit i toi-kyke-ta he SO-LUKU JA NYKYPAiVÄT Se tilanne, mikä Johti 1930-IUTIIIIJ niihm; suuran taistelui.lin, joisi avoimen .työpajan politiikka nm-kattiin, ilmenee nyt uusissa muodoissa. Unioiden keskusjärjestöjen yij. distamisen taustalla ovat nyt taloc-dellis «n krnsm merkit, joukkotyöttömyys, työväen elintason Ja unioidea /ikejUfsien. uhkaaminen j a Yhdysral. -tain .vetypommit. Prötlesmina oh 1930-luvulIa avo;- meii tyapajan politiikan murskaaminen ja teolhsuusunioiden rakentaminen - joukkotuotantoa . harjoittanii teoll.suusyntyksiin. Nykyisin mi rulmakysymyksina : Järjestymättömien edelleen jär- V jes^amiscn edistäminen. Yhden union luominen demo-, kraatticella tavalla kunkin teol-lifuuden alalle, T.vovaea voimien lujittaminen taloudellisen kriisin painvastal-seksi kääntämistä varten j'atä3rs-työllisyyden saavuttaminen ran-han ja maailmanlaajuisen kaupan olosuhteissa. Työväen itsenäisen politiikan toiminnan lujittaminen ratkaisevalla tavalla. Työväen . unioiden kesKusjarj£slö-jen yhdistäminen avaa oven näida pulmien ratkaisemista varten. Kjsj-mys : tyavaen yhtenäisyydestä muii-dostuu voittavaksi suunnaksi, oiieaJ suven johtajien hajoittamisyntyb* ta huolimatta. . Terveeseen- työväenluokan .ohjelmaan ja taisteluvalmiuteen penistu-va yhtenäinen ammattiyhdistyslii' tulee edistämään työväen vaatimas-ten toteuttamista huomattavalla ti-välla. Edistysmieliset unioiden ja* net tulevat huolehtimaan, siitä, tiA se tulee mahdolliseksi. foundry or m the sewer, they came here to toil after dark, putting up this building. And on Pridaya they dlvided their aieagre wages. setting some aslde to help pay for the lumber and the nails. They were common people. maybe even fiomewhat rough. They spbke a very broken English. They liad had llttle, i f any, schoohng, and many leamed to read and write even their native tongues i n these haUs. But I suggest that ve write their names high on the asroll of the builders of Canadian culture. AGBEATDREAM They were animated by a dream. The long-teim dream of the coming victory of Man. Avhen exploitation, war, OM>resslon and poverty would be no more. And the immediate dream of a place of their own to meet in, to study, i>ut on plays and concerts. and above all, to educate their chlld-ren not oiUy in the Three R's, but i n music and all fine things. And with •vorklngclass simpliclty, which strikes to the root of things/ they called these buildings Templea — temples of labour, temples of culture. I humbly suggest that their pres-cription Is good for us today as well. Combine the gulding ideal of .peace, Canadian independence and people's democracy with practical concern for meeting halLs, classrooms, stage, books. press, musical Instruments, teachers speaicers. poets, writers — and we cannot fall. It was not only the Slavic Jemn\ Finnish, Hiuigarian and other immi-grants who were doing this. There •were Qiousands of others. Among Chem was one who, after 40 years rlmains the finest model for tis all, the young Toronto machinist. also f r e s h l l ^m acrosa the ocean, also with httle formal education. who packed for all other people as "peaÄants" his lunch pail with literature instead and "natives" whain the Yankees are of sandwiches — and rose to be the oestined to lead. a feellng,of shame beacon for the best in culture i n f or their own f athers. and. mothers. This, they season wlth copiic >ook ' ' i n o r a i s ' a i id Höllywood "civiliziation" and, the subject becomea the "per-fect American", ready. to do what-everWali Street brders; • . . TIlJE AMERICAN WAY Or thiey take a " ar!a from Beethoven or Chaikoydcy, or a : Slpvak or Ukrainian folk song, and they beeip it and bop it and writ^ new words Ufce "Kiss me, baby., I'm goinig huts!-' and sign soine Broadway cliarlatan's hame to it — and thafs theinelt-ing pot. Ör they take ari inispired' social satire like Gogbl'ft "The InJs-v pector-Oeneiral". and Hollywoodize it into a gypsy farce . . . In reality. the only. shall \ve say, to some organiz- j gang, of grafters exposed by GogoVs ation or other. Thus the rple of the j magic peh resembles nothing so much national groupr» m Canadian hfe, j as a meeting öf the Frost cablnet on their coninbution to Canadian cul-j the cost of highways that weren't ture does not end mth the passing | there.. or of the Duplesslfi cablnet of the immigrant generation. but is j on why bridges are always faUing continuing. In consequence, these idQ^-^. Canada: TimiBuck. Inxmigration into Canada is oon-tinuing. But immigrants no longer form the bulk of the national groups. The majonty today are Canadian-born and English-speaking, the child-ren and grandchildren of immigrants. Yet the characteristics. particularly of ! the Sianne, Hungarian, yea and Ita- ; lian Canadian communities is that they remam communities in that sense, within • the Canadian nation, they retam their feeling of identity. theirpnde m their origins and love of their national cultures into the second and third • generations. This js an objective faet andis not hmited HELTER SHELTER By BOB W.iBi> WQ seif by Uie Bulletin of .'Vto.niic ScieiuisLs that a "«ew •••musf has been added to «he list of vhai eve.->- weli-equipped home should have. The new .-nuM" according to ihe Buller tm l i an ato-mic foxholc sheltor. And just m case anyone .«Uiould think that an atomic foxliolc i.s a place to .-ceep atomic foxe.s in le:ive Torstaina, toukokuun 5 p.-— Thursday, May 5, 3955 Sv aus: y.v,Q a big pile. making . sure, to bi* sure. that \vt doiVt fall in, tJie • 's-c-.euusiu' advjse ns io dlg It into our lavns or sweep jt into the 5C.wer..j The -scientlsts^-^slip up again on i the .svc-epmg asKijust don*t cxplain ! ho\v radio-actrve dast can be 6wept i up witJiout Taisins more dust tiiat i \ve then brcathc Into our llttle. old •lunsr*.' • is a •faJl-us ha.ten to explain that this just , d,d nuccecd in sax-ep- „««'f !mg off our roof (without talling and breaking our neck ui the pro-ccss> and finally did get all of the, duit dövvn the so\ver and thehlnto Lnke Ontario. we'd end up getting it all back in our drihking wuter So. äs Lpnesome George Göbel ! woiild say. ''tlicre ybii are." \Ve npticc tlmt some öUier "sclen- . An atonnc foxhole sheltor pläce vhat you fall into \vhcn out" f.ilLs out, as it uere: The Bulletin explalns just Jio\v easy Uiese are to build. Ii is at leasi three feet wide by five feet deep. \Vhen one falls into uhe foxhole one is advised to puli the hole ufic pents" haa-e Invenled a "dog ! in after theni via a loase board. j tag" for us potential victlms of H - i coyercd with. newsp3pers and old , bombs to we.nr. Now these tags are' clothes. just jim-dandie.s. Tliey'll vitlutand The Bulletin nrticle. in the mood a hcat of about 3,500 dcgrees Fah-of the. do-it-yourself era. says that j renheit. But the big qucstion Is wlll a box or chair should be m cach i Ave? foxhole and a bit of food and good clean \vater should be kept also. lake we told our mifi.sus tho", vou really have to hand it to theio "scientists." Coz thev discuss things In .such a "Scientific way." Just like as if instructions to build an atomic foxhole shelter was . the ijame : as Temples do not crumble and.die. but i keep growing and bu.stling with young Anyhow, thafs the American way of Wall Street. They permit the life and. vigour. j.existence of reactiohary national It IS not my task to tiace the rea- j group organizations only insofar as sons for this, although I can mdicate i they are needed to keep their fol- THE "KAKARAT" FACE THEIR FINAL TEST Vancouver. — iEven though things are really popping out here on the iWest Coast and one findsiit hard to keep up with the happenings, time iiEUst oe found for a shmi note to let e eastemera know what is going m out here.- As has been mentioned i n earller reporti, the "Kakarat" have a big oav coming up soon. On Sunday, May 3, at 7.30 tihe youngerg generation V.111 be stagmg 2 plays. The F i n nish play "Rikollmen" is pretty well ir.own to Club News readers whlle t.ne other play is Oscar Wilde's 6a-tae m English. They are both •ery good plays and if everything j|goe.'i Weil Wall be a worthy contrl-: Dution from the younger generation :o Chnton Hall activitles. Preparations have sure kept the foki busy here. The f act that the tuo casts require Qver 30 people was in luelf quite a problem for the Kakarat.'. but this. was finally over-come although nearly everyone. had to be urafted for stage work before; ill tne spots v.-ere filled. -• -^^d then .started rehearsala. Again found ourselves faced with- tre- :nend(jus (a very inadequate word) iai.i.v. The lead roles in Salome for instance require a great deal of work and personal coaching on- the part of the director. The result has been that many members of the casts have b^en going to rehearsala three times a week for the last' while. Add to the problems of rehearsals the question of costumes,. staging, etc., and finally OUT inexperience and you have some idea of what has been taking place out here. But — and this is really the amaz- Ing part — this reporter for one is confident that the work we have done and will do before M»y 8 will ensure an excellent production on the final night. As one who was on hand when the "Uranuurtajat" presented their play "Särkelä itte", I must say that it went very well and certainly sets a high göal for the "Kakarat". But after following the rehearsals of tlie "Klakarat", I think there are stiU possibilities of wlnning the honours i n this oontest agalnat the older lolks. That of course remains to be seen and only the final decision of the judges will decide the competition. Anyway,here'swishing the "Kakarat" lots of luck and a good performance on the 8th. — HL, some. For e>:ample, the immigrants came here äa people of full-fledged nationality who had withstcod. m many cases centuries of denial of their national rights. even denial of nationality «Canadian patriots taJce note and couragel and who were emigrating to Canada at a time. when their people v.-ere gathering forces for their national and social liberation. And the f act that they met oppression and discnmination in Canada, which: made them band together for mutual aid and solace and protection. The fact that they had things in their own languages, the literature, the arts, which helped them to un-dern^^ nd the world about them and to meet its challenge, while in English these were either unintelhgible or simply not there. And above all, the emergence of their pcoples back. home in this Century as the foremost re-volutionary peoples, transformmg themselves and leading in the trans-formation of-humanity.. THE "MELTING POT" Canadian culture, under attack. by United States impenalist co.s.nopoli-tanis. m and obscurantism. which seek to deny and destroy it, feels the. on-slaught m thLs field as well. in the so-called "melting pot" stea-mroller lcwer3 ignorant and backward or for intrigue and slander against the peoples m theif old homelands who are the target of the US. mllitary..., Oespite their agenta and imitators in high places over here, that is not the Canadian way. And as for our party, our program — whlch sums up our country's past. our needs and aspirations today and the road to Canada's future — forthrightly de-clares that it •'Is the champion of the closest fraternity between Can-adians oi> all national ongins and fights for their right to develop their national traditions as contrlbutions to a Canadian people's culture. OUR W A Y Our way: is the way of full equality and the widest.democracy. Only thUs can.real national unity be achieved. Only thus can Canada win herbattle for independence and martfh fonvard to socialism. The "melting pot", na- I tional nihilism, chauvinism, ideas of building'one of those sets of bpok-i shelves that come a l l unassembled. i Yup, citizens. evei-y citizen. accord- ! Ing - to the Bulletin, just has to , have his llttle three by five compleie ; with Stool and a bit,of clean water. i After an H-bomb drops (that'« if i you're right handy to your foxhole and have time to fall in before the fall-out fallfi out» you need to stay there for two days at least. . . . Then you get out and find your-self a complete change of "uncon-taminaled clothes". The ".scicntists" sllpped up on this one and just dön't explain where one gets these, Maybe this is too much of a posor for the "Scientific" mind when one con- I It rcmiiids us of the .story about j the fellow who was askcd \vhat would i be the differencc bctween being hlt j by a. bullet or hit by a bomb. "Wca," ' he said. " i f you get hit by a bullet I there you aie; but if you get hlt by ! a bomb where are you?" ' But with all due respect to the i ••.scientlJi';»" we don't Intcnd to dig family foxliolcs for the slx Ward.s. It scems to us that there's much too mucli-of an element In i t of dlg-ging one's own grave — of acccpting the inevltabllity of bombs dropping. And if the ".sclentists" wlll forgive us we reckon that it's a pretty damn un.M^icntlfic thlng for the 160 miUion people in USA and the 15 mlllion in Canada to go dlgging atomic foxhole shelters in their back yards. Ho\v' do we know that we'd be anywhere near our foxhole if it wa6 needed? How practicnl is it to conccive of our factories, offices, schools, etc.. haviiig adequate foxholes at hand Just in the event that the "fall-out" fell national isuperiority or inferiorlty are weapons of the ireactionaries, calcij-iated tö divide and weakeh the people. They are abhorrent to us and ,we fight them wherever ;We meet them. To sum up, we see the national pohcy - the other side of the coin groups as integral parts of the Can-o f r a c i ^ m a n d d i . ' c i i m i n a t i o n - w h i c h «^lan nation _ natlons! - which retain and for years .will retain their own cultural and social affinltie.? within that nation. They merge with the Canadiari character not by being deprived of ahy- character whateyer, not by ceaising to be what they are is applied m the U,S. ariid prescribed by Wall Street for Canada too. . The melting pot means what it says. They take people of many dif- i ferent . nationalities, inheriloi-s of! cultures oreated over centuries, helrs! , ..,, . , to great traditions, and, they proceed. I^ a,n d artific„i all,y b.e.c.o m^.i ng somelhing to wrmg t^h em •d ry of, a„ll. th. e.ir , sp; ir. it- t they aren't. but . • m • t..h •e . p"Ir^o.. ces••s, o•f ual heritage even as they \vring their |. bodies dry in the mine.'» and sveat-I n A OJan shops.. And they throv,- them into.! f Ollin F l O ll the melting pot, 'A^here —, as happens siders that fall-out can covcr thou- | during the work or schoo! perlod? sands of square miles. For ourselves we*ve slgned a peti- One also has to be careful, we are ^j^^^ aimed at eridlng the tlireat of warned. "to sweep the roof of our .^^^^^^ ^ther house." And not just an ordinarj'"! j„ ^^e world have signed it sweeping; but a , "good stiff .sweep-1 ,^,0 .-And we're getting our frlenda to «Jo*"" ,Mgnlt! After siweeping off the loof of the , doesn't have to agrce wlth house. we then mu.<vt .s\yeep "walks, the World Peace movomcnt; nor the streets and stairuays aiound the p^^^jp are In it about any thlng house." , cxcept one pretty fundamenlal mal- Ater sweeping all of thi^ fallout ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ g^jp„. ~ ~ ~ : ~ - - r - - " - ! tists'Bulletin regardless, that il's i n - building and baitling for Canada to-1 concelvable even trying to think of gether with all Canadians. In that j ijving in a worId whcre the. threat Piij^ppess not only do they bccome of blgger and more dcvastatlng changed, but they also put somethmg ixjmbs is ix».sed by .some atomanlncs of their own traits and traditions into a,<; a solution: to problema, the Canadian character. -If Shakespeare, Shevchenko,, Burns: Pu-shkin: Petofi, Byron.- Michiewicz, Snelley, Botev, Whitman...sholom Aleiche.m and others join our -own Canadian poets and wnters as the common heritage of all Canadiaas — wonder-ful for Canada! The .son^.s. dances. arts of all the nations from which Canadian nation.s derive give us f erille ground for the fiowering of Canadian culture. And the fralcrnal unity of Canadians of allorigms i.s t.^e guarantee of the victory which alone can sccure our natiomal sur-vival and secure a future for our culture, PUT CANADA FIRST. "One Word of iruth, and ril have you juilcd for olistructlnc* Justic Who Sold the Mos{ Complete and official figures B1IOW that again in IM^ - - f or th9 19th straight year — More people bought ChevroIrlH tlian any other car. — • Adv. on page 10 In 1954 more Ford» were bought by the motoring public (han any other make. Thafs becauHe more and. more people are dlscovering that Ford ho» more to offer. ~ Adv. on poge 12 BUILDING imOGRAM "1' see you're putting up a new building " 'Yes, sir. we only puis up new buildings." Poxholcs, mass cvacuatioiis, dog tags. ten-flylng kiddlcs wlth aUnnlc drllls at schools.; seem to us to be a pretty poor subatltutc for peacf- And, cltizcn-s, peace can be won for your kids and for ours, if wc Just raise our coUcctive volces loud enough and long enough to let overyone know that the will of the people is for peace, perfect peace. — UE NBW3 SCÄ urheiluliito! tiedonantoja J o Uiciunmassa liittokokouksi me ovat seurat tehneet yksim paatokscnUi rauhnnkysymykseei inulumiscslaan. Nyt on tuo k> taii.skin njniikohtalsimpla koko l l i u i u s a ja k a i k k i voimat onkin lava iilinun tärkeimmän asian toon viemiseksi. Ymmarrettäv on. että Ilman rauhaa' cl llltol eikii sen nuorilla jllsenlUä ole e kaan toiminnanmahdoUisuuks kun tulevaisuus kuuluu ctenkit rllle, olisi .seurojen Jilsenlcnsä tchtiiva paras mahdollinen i Mlilvttamisen vuoksi, kunkin harkintansa mukaan toimien eteen. T.vol:il.surheHut<?rvelsln, •Ulttotolmlkunla. Paavo Vaurio, 8 , J . K . . Ensi kesiin liiltojuhUcn ki volmlsteluohjclmlen mu.slikit nyt saatavlraa liiton nalsjar TJIiitkaa heti. — Sama. T l f, A T K A A • A P A C also m proce-ssm'^ .so.-ne foods over I there — they lx)i] out evory last i vitamm, every vestige of ta.ste. Into I the vacuum thas created they pour i the poi-son of chauvinin.n, contcimpt! Festival For Canada Day uo-on ista iian rn-ollut. iberg. ssaan tomasti". I Ja siunattuun alkuun paastyäuj herra Jarnberg järkeilee edelleen, "Tätä melko synkältä nayltäv» taustaa vastaan lähestyy presi* dentinvaalit päivä paivalU ybi lähemmäksi . . ." TIXXJSH-CANADIAN TALENT Reeords By Thora Neil iberg t t i s tä äkein paukuin Suo-i ai-dessä :uka- Juuri presidentinvaaleissa bB^ Jarnberg näkeekin synkkyyttä. Vaaka herra Jarnbei-g. ei sita aivan ^ suoraan'sanokaan, mm hänen sJ^- Imen "analysointinsa" osoittaa fej tenkin; että ainoastaan uusfasssä taipuvalla piskuisella KansanpuoK-eella. on- Sopiva presidentin ^ d * * — mutta' kun hän-muistaa Suoa* kansan "typeryyden", niin hän e}** lee sydämensä sy^'yydessa. että KC^ sanpuolue — kuten sita edeltäcj^l Edistyspuolue-vainajakin; muodossa j ilman armeijaa olevista suurata k^j han, i raaleista, jotka elvat saa ' t T P ^ Lsuu- j kansan kannatusta vaaleissa. T O I TP esitti i ovat siis turhia Kansanpuoiueeci^ . !'tnmoilta! ank-1 Herra Jämbergin mielettöffl.tT^ lojen 1 eivat meitä juuri ihmetytä, .«lö J^* , - o n ! tuollaisia järjettömyyksiä hän fcr.'»' lelko I tuksisiiian latelee ja torontolaifl«: "Amerikan, ä ä n i " antaa niiHe P^^' tilaa lähes kolmen palstan kuten \tapahtui esimerkiksi viS» i lauantaina? jppa sesta lelk-lelle/ hyö-uisa uut- Ei ole iiime, vaikka Suomen ) ^ san eräässä viisaassa s a n a n i » * ^ ^ ' f^iU.-.itieis sanotaankin, että "kyllä vakka tensji hakee". — Känsäkoura. For a number of years the -Vapaus PuD:^n:ng Co. Ltd; has been the .Ta,ri producer and distributor of '^••r.v.^^T. recordings in Canada. Ali pvpularmakes of Finnish reeords handled by. the-Vapaus and - in -cc.^j.-: the Vapaus has produced. a of its own recordings under Fcr.inia" and "Beaver" labels. T.it;» reeords . mclude a popular • er.;..^ oy tne noted Finnish accor-t - j . - . i S - , .paul Norrback, which. have cctr. rnuch m demand and. also a --r.es of accordion dance music by •^-••er. Rantakangas. T.nf^rnost recent release ofTecord- •'••;rrjr."^aaced by the Vapaus is a •-'•'vol ihree reeords by Thora Neil Ai.-.o Heikkinen. The tw& solo - i , by Thora Neil include tiie • A,r.^ Finnish songs: "Surullinen '-r.=o., Orjanruusu" (waltz>, <'Sä et naa'(tango) and "Jaa hy- - ar.mas" (waltz>. The third ^^-'.'d ,nas two duets by Thora and -Liljan kukka" (tango) and , ker.ran kun' sua suuteUn" ^ Tho.-a -Neil requires no introductlon ,n-,os: of oiir readers aa abe, has \P>t'-rcd in numerous concerts and ^''-^ic festtvalj in the Finnish com-throughout Ontario as a soloist. In duets with Aino Heikkinen | as well as with the Finlandia Choir öf Toronto. Both Thora and AinOi have acted as dlrectors of the wo-men's choir in Toronto and have been invaluable assets to the choir, Through her appearances on radio and T V with Canada's leading pro-feasloöal girls* choir and her numerous tours oi Eastern Canada and the United States Thora, has become known even outside the Finnish com-munity. Desplte the implication of her name she is a FinnLsh-Canadian, bbm i n Canada of Finnish parents. Tliora has been smging since she was "knee high" and has been a member of the Finlandia Choir in \ Toronto ever since s'r.e decided to make Toronto her home. She is thankful for the training opportunity the choir haa gh-en her and has con-tinued to be^an active member^of^ the ^ directicn put on a commendable' "^To^IlTth^ who read the Club perfcrmanceat the Sudbury Festival.: New.? in B r i t i s h Columbia thia is an ; De.sp;te profe-tsionaf appear- ; invltation to join i n the preparations , ances, Thora Neil; has csntJnued to ; for the Festival. Finniah-Canadlans ; regard sing-ng as an enjoyable hobby I ^ anywhere i n the province — should j and an Inseparable part cf Viik. wrlte to "Kakarat", 2605 JEost Pender Tne Vapaus 13 pleased to beabl3 I Vancouver. — Diuing the last ! m o n t h o r so there has been a Ipt j '•; öf taik around B.C. about a certain • affair called the '•Festival", or to be i more exact, ithe B.C. Festival for a j ! Greater Canada. The Britlah Co- } lumbia youth after hearing about i |, the great success of tiie Ontario | ; Youth Festival, decided that it was j i t h e best way for the West Coast to I celebrate Canada Day, 1955. y.i^f.^s And so it ifi that on Ju ly Ist and \ i 2nd Vancouver will.play host to a I great cultural and eporte festival, j ! Already some of . t h e leading perao- i nalitles in the We8t Coaet cultural] and sports woirld have started pre- ; s parations for this great event. ! ; The Finnläh-Canadlans of counce j • will do their utmost to support and: 1 assure the jrjcccsa of this affair and j even now are makir^ plans for both'. i athletic and cultural partlcipatlon in • iit. , •.. . The preparatloas for the festival J will become the main actlvlty for j B. c . youth during the next two; i months; It promises to be a very \ I excitms penod for the youth In- ; ( volved and will undoubtediy resuUj m some very fIne cultural and sports j achievements. "A wqrld at peace or a world in-pieces." are the alternatives. Prof^ssionat Hockey Has Reached the Monopoly Stage A member of QuebcCs upper hoiisc j and forrher pwner of a Quebec City hockey club said Monday night pro-( fcs.sional hockey has become more of a bu-sine-ss than a sport: Hpn. Gerald -Martlneau, member of the legisiative council and owner There are many questiöns that can j of the Queoec Frontenacs of the beasked. Some of tiicm will be dealt I Qu';bcc Junior Hockey Leagueuntll with by other comrades in the dis-! he .sold hi.s mtere.st Ihis sea.son tq cu.s.«ion. Others demand fitudy. nol j Emile Coulure, .said hociKcy s p.:yiiig cliches. The basic point is thai, as j 1-ublic has no. piotection today. j with. all other a.spect.s of cur work. j "Ba-seball has clcaned Itself up. butj we must beguided by the policy laid ; ^ am sorry. I cahnot say the same i down in the main report, the poliey 1 for hoc.<ey.",he .said Jn an .lntervlew.' • "It Ls ..no longer run for the .sport.! for the kids or for fun. It is a case | of a big .syridicate. making- money. ! ;. Marlintiau sali thiit in the National j iloc/.ey League J im Norris cif Detroit' o-ATi.-; the Detroit Red Wings, and the] Chicago Black .Hawks and has a| majrjr .share in M.idIsoni Square Gär- j den, the New York Rangers home. In 1 Quebec provinfie,. he «äid. the Mönt- J real Canadiens ov.'n aJI three teams; iri the Quebec Junior Hockey League; and tv.'o' of. the five Jn the Quebec; H^>ckey. League. MartJneau, who ha.s a hand In pro- ' •motinK nearly all sports, )n Quebec; City, fiald he .sold the Quebec Frontc- \ nac^. because^ he could not afford to j. kec-p ,,-1.junior..team.; . | .; ' I l ; iriiiKt have co.it the Canadien ; A.':';na Comr-any owner.s of the: Monlrc-a) (-äriadicns — at least $100 - • 000 to kerrp up the QJHL this year," ; he jsaid: 'That Is notfiport." . of our Program: defeat Yankee tlomlnation — put Canada firstt . As to the •hov.H" in regard to the national groups. I would lj;te to icil a Story lastcad: The other day I read a rcport from Sudbury, which dcscnbed how a ycung women's choir won fir.sl prize in the Sudbury D:stnct Kiwanls Fe;i-tival. The young lady who organized and dlrected tnat choir ishere-v,'itn as today, But to get on v/iih my .siory. The girLs sang an oldUkra;- , r.ian folk song. one that goe.s back to dim antiquity. The adjudicat<;r waK, cnarmed and a.sked them to .sing an-other. They complied, and ihen, tanght m their UiCrainian national-ccstumes. they stepped up — and led ^^e audience and adjudicator in an : '..'-.spired rendition of ' O Canada." I thilnk that ftometimes an. illustra-t.- on Is worth as much as a iormii-iatlon, - • . . , . i Finlandia Choir despite her profes-1 sicnal appearances. I n Toronto Thora is also known for her work on the stage as an actress and director, ; A year ago a play under her direction won the best play award ä t the Youth Drama Festival and again this year a group under Street, Vancouver, B . C , for more; to offer these reccrds of outstanding informatlon; on how thew can take I •Finnish-Canadian talent. V Ä I N Ö L I N N AN kirjoittama suun firjtaromaanl.. "TUNTEI4AT0N SOTILAS" enjilmmalniirn lähetys loppuunmyynlJJn neljan paivan aikana HINTA HliM Uuil lahrtyx tulinui jii uiurrmpt kuin (nummuinr.n. Lähettäkää lilauk««nne nyt, Jotka täytetään heti kun («inen lihetyi VAPA U S P U BL IS HI N G C O. h T D . BOX 69 SUDBUKV, ONTARIO part i n the Festival. — HL, maaliskuun 19 p:nä 1955 MISS RUUSU ONERVA MÄKI MR. WESLEY VICTOR HELIN WATERS TOWNSHJP, ONTARIO Parhainta /onnea teille aviolittonne johdosta toivottavat allamaJnitut sukulaiset ja ystävät Leah Jokinen Violet Mäki Oiva Mäki Unto Junkala Lydia Mäki ja Mirjam Aune Ja Matti Helin L i l y ja Bill Riutta Martha ja Walter Mäki Ja •• pojat Mirja ja Earl Mäki eherry ja Reino Mäki .: Jimmy, Marion ja 'Roland Albrecht, Kama.s City, Mo. Eilika Luhta . v Susan, Laura j a L a i i r i Hill Hilda HuJitanen ja. Harold Helga Ja Wllfrcd BasUj Helvi ja Ev. Kltchlng V/ayne, Vieno Ja Henry Huhtanen Elia Ja Han.s Robert Kujala Oi va Ed V/ a rd K osk i Selma ja David Ritari. Sigrid ja Veikko Ketola Helmi Luoma Betty KopKala .Martha ja Walter Wahämaa Fanny ja Karl Huominen Viljo Romo Terho Latvala . Afitrid ja Ilmari Manninen .Selma ja August Vakkuri Armaa, Laina ja Lauri Elma ja Santeri Meri Eila ja Elmer : Hllapielel F a n n y j ä Einari Hänninen . Eila ja Niilo L i z ja Ray EKme ja Voitto Rintala • Dagmar, Urho ja Wayne A l l i ja Oiva Santala Mr. ja mrs. R. Virta Ruuca ja Lauri Gert, Gerry Ja lap.set Hermlne Smateanek Eino Baslo Emil Basto — Sylvi Ja Ero Basto Jack Liinamaa .- Jorma Palomäki •Wayne, Enid ja Karl Ike Terävä Lorne Shane ,. M. Laakso Arthur Sequin Donald McLcan Tilda Moisio Lornpi ja Olavi Jäntti Mr. Ja mr«. Elmer .Mozam E-/elyh ja Keijo. Mr, ja mrs. R, Lujanen Joyc(" ja Karl . » .Market ja Liconard ,Mr, Ja mns. J . E.Moxam ritörKc Prasila . ;i<nJo Kainulainen Mauno .Mäkynen E. Autio Ilrni ja John .Mäenpää"- Junt; Jokinen Taimi j:i Jack Lampi Ellen Ja Helmer .Suomu ja pe: .Oiva Ranta (;eor«e Hill Hir/.ku i-d Glenna Eila Ja BiU Niemi Ann Jfi Eric Hame» Arvo BHKUi V . f o r N1'-mi )Li»i;i ja Hej;cki MakJ KIITOS Sydämellinen kiit/js teille, r.ukulai.s^-t ja .y.-Jlavat, jotka saavul viettämään kans-samme haxililaisuultammf. Kiiio.s kalkista lahjoU Joita oli paljon. . K i i t o s Illan'ahkerilU; emännille Ja tarjoiljjoille. YBtäyyydellä ja toveruudella teitä aina muMtelcmmc, ROSE JA WESLEy HELIN B. R, I , CopperCIIff, Önta
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Title | Vapaus, May 5, 1955 |
Language | fi |
Subject | Finnish--Canadians--Newspapers |
Publisher | Vapaus Publishing Co |
Date | 1955-05-05 |
Type | text |
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Title | 1955-05-05-03 |
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talle,
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Puo-aitet-tekir-nmin
alle-
, Myöhään craanä jona n-.eni i=t
, rrurtovarista pankk:)«, y ^,
I meni kassaiaapm luo. r.^^ul tea>fl
•sa ja ryh'y. ,arp.jn p j o r i t i ä^
I "Mita sma meinaat"' kv
i kaverinsa. ; . •
l "E.pä: mitään. Xäin
. , , n^eaetelfe
menee.Jcylla pan m.:,uu:t:a ka
man, mtj^ta ne: sotinenjälkkh f
jat. tuleVat hulluksi."
T J I L D I X G A CANADIAN CULTURE
mis- ja
erdlow.
odistaa
j n Iiet-iellmen
i liike-
C C L : -
ta -vas-lyoskin
uuteen
puhu-
•TUOLU^ETOV
Tiedusteltaen: hänen mielipidetti,
taivaasta ja helvetistä Mark TV
lausui:. "Rakas rouva, minä en"
sanoa . mitaan. Minulla oii yajJ
kummasvakin paikassa"'
ÄIDIN NEUVO
Sievannakoinen neitonen kuunj
poliisin kovia sanoja hänen uimap
kunsa niukkuudesta. Mitä
a.t.si, JOS ssn näkisi,
ankarana.:
'Todennakosesti han kutsuisi J
nut kotiin heti" selitti lyuö, 'jisl
katsokaas, tama on äitin uimäpuki-f
lationai Groups and the Canadian Character
By JOHN AVEIR
sanoit
'•yiyi pa
«> reprint beIow the full text
öf an address by John Weir to
the recent National Cnltoral Con-.
ferenie in Toronto organized by
the Labor Progressive Party.. For
Bjarv years John Weir has been
knoun as an ontstandlng worker
in the Ukrainian organizations
and has hada wide experience
in cultural. woi1c.. Althougb in
numerous cases he uses the Ukrainian-
Canadia ns to iUustrate
his puints; readers wiU find that
his views are generally applicable .
to the numerous: other national
jroups as well. -
me points • I ihaive to make will
fco-ile eisier because we are meetlng
this hali — and I could have
Itsensä mrs., Marie-Louis^e Verciiei
hyppäämällä Eiffelin tornin' toiseyj
kerroksesta alas.
Useita yierasmaalaisia oli siimimä.
kijanakun han teki surmanhj-ppynä.
nnaiia, Kadoniiut helikopteri
idista- löydetty vahingoitu-mattomana
*
idista
1 työ-nnetta
'aisuu-
,n pu-tuspo-suurT
ispuu-
:oituk-rjoihm
n . t a r -
fc^ovaen
se ky-an
ja
laisten
ohjel-
Tappoi itsensä
hyppäämällä Eiffelin
tornista alas
Pariisi, — Viime lauantaina tappQ-K^-^ied «l^-^ ^^^^^ word£t m any one
" .f a cozen halla i n Toronto, o r h u n -
jeds itcross • Canada. •';
Let, US; take this hali as .typical of
htm all. A book could — and
iiould be writ.ten • about It.. You
on snll see the scars Ifeft, by ä
aicLst -bomb : four yearr» agb . . , .'
iie chiiidren were i n the front rows,
he Secretary of the Canadian -Peace
ngreiis, Mary Jennlsori wäs oti
•iage. upeaking , for the. banning of
tomic- \veapons. And 12 years ägo.
iiis whole distribt was ijammed with
0,006 peöpie Avho caihe. to take this
all a\vay from aDmebody to vhoiii
; aidn't belong and give it back to
:liose \vho built it. !Mathew Pbpovlch,
:ätthe\v' Shatulsky, John NaVis spoke
;ere to their. people. "The unemplöyed
.•^anized within these •walls, unions
ere started here, many projects of
inefit not only to Ukraihiaii, biit.to
1 Canadian w'orkers were launched
ifroOT' here.j.-. '
These halls were built by immigtant
i\vorkers.. After 10 hours in the
Edmonton. — Viime tiistaina fcl
aonnut , helikopteri löydettiin \iine|
perjantaina : ivahingoittumattöinaia|
läheltä Rocky MoimtainHousea, }Ai\
on nom 75 mailia lounaiseen täältä
Helikopterin ohjaaja Roland Maierl
James H. Goalder sekä hänen 9-vuo. 1
tias poikansa Terry on löydetty hen-l
gi.'«;a. • .
5^^•erd-
:ieinea
i l i j am
tahan
kalkki
; eika
halua
i . j o h -
rhaita
' mac-kittyi-kasit-mitä
a a ja
lädan,
lajalle
ovaen
avaa
i. On
dista-suu-
I SI ta
1. Oh-
)ikeis-mieh-
51 ra-,
mah-i
avaa
levätila
on
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he
SO-LUKU JA NYKYPAiVÄT
Se tilanne, mikä Johti 1930-IUTIIIIJ
niihm; suuran taistelui.lin, joisi
avoimen .työpajan politiikka nm-kattiin,
ilmenee nyt uusissa muodoissa.
Unioiden keskusjärjestöjen yij.
distamisen taustalla ovat nyt taloc-dellis
«n krnsm merkit, joukkotyöttömyys,
työväen elintason Ja unioidea
/ikejUfsien. uhkaaminen j a Yhdysral.
-tain .vetypommit.
Prötlesmina oh 1930-luvulIa avo;-
meii tyapajan politiikan murskaaminen
ja teolhsuusunioiden rakentaminen
- joukkotuotantoa . harjoittanii
teoll.suusyntyksiin. Nykyisin mi
rulmakysymyksina :
Järjestymättömien edelleen jär-
V jes^amiscn edistäminen.
Yhden union luominen demo-,
kraatticella tavalla kunkin teol-lifuuden
alalle,
T.vovaea voimien lujittaminen
taloudellisen kriisin painvastal-seksi
kääntämistä varten j'atä3rs-työllisyyden
saavuttaminen ran-han
ja maailmanlaajuisen kaupan
olosuhteissa.
Työväen itsenäisen politiikan
toiminnan lujittaminen ratkaisevalla
tavalla.
Työväen . unioiden kesKusjarj£slö-jen
yhdistäminen avaa oven näida
pulmien ratkaisemista varten. Kjsj-mys
: tyavaen yhtenäisyydestä muii-dostuu
voittavaksi suunnaksi, oiieaJ
suven johtajien hajoittamisyntyb*
ta huolimatta.
. Terveeseen- työväenluokan .ohjelmaan
ja taisteluvalmiuteen penistu-va
yhtenäinen ammattiyhdistyslii'
tulee edistämään työväen vaatimas-ten
toteuttamista huomattavalla ti-välla.
Edistysmieliset unioiden ja*
net tulevat huolehtimaan, siitä, tiA
se tulee mahdolliseksi.
foundry or m the sewer, they came
here to toil after dark, putting up
this building. And on Pridaya they
dlvided their aieagre wages. setting
some aslde to help pay for the lumber
and the nails.
They were common people. maybe
even fiomewhat rough. They spbke
a very broken English. They liad
had llttle, i f any, schoohng, and many
leamed to read and write even their
native tongues i n these haUs. But I
suggest that ve write their names
high on the asroll of the builders of
Canadian culture.
AGBEATDREAM
They were animated by a dream.
The long-teim dream of the coming
victory of Man. Avhen exploitation,
war, OM>resslon and poverty would be
no more. And the immediate dream
of a place of their own to meet in,
to study, i>ut on plays and concerts.
and above all, to educate their chlld-ren
not oiUy in the Three R's, but
i n music and all fine things. And
with •vorklngclass simpliclty, which
strikes to the root of things/ they
called these buildings Templea —
temples of labour, temples of culture.
I humbly suggest that their pres-cription
Is good for us today as well.
Combine the gulding ideal of .peace,
Canadian independence and people's
democracy with practical concern for
meeting halLs, classrooms, stage,
books. press, musical Instruments,
teachers speaicers. poets, writers —
and we cannot fall.
It was not only the Slavic Jemn\
Finnish, Hiuigarian and other immi-grants
who were doing this. There
•were Qiousands of others. Among
Chem was one who, after 40 years
rlmains the finest model for tis all,
the young Toronto machinist. also
f r e s h l l ^m acrosa the ocean, also with
httle formal education. who packed for all other people as "peaÄants"
his lunch pail with literature instead and "natives" whain the Yankees are
of sandwiches — and rose to be the oestined to lead. a feellng,of shame
beacon for the best in culture i n f or their own f athers. and. mothers.
This, they season wlth copiic >ook
' ' i n o r a i s ' a i id Höllywood "civiliziation"
and, the subject becomea the "per-fect
American", ready. to do what-everWali
Street brders; • . .
TIlJE AMERICAN WAY
Or thiey take a " ar!a from Beethoven
or Chaikoydcy, or a : Slpvak or
Ukrainian folk song, and they beeip
it and bop it and writ^ new words Ufce
"Kiss me, baby., I'm goinig huts!-'
and sign soine Broadway cliarlatan's
hame to it — and thafs theinelt-ing
pot. Ör they take ari inispired'
social satire like Gogbl'ft "The InJs-v
pector-Oeneiral". and Hollywoodize it
into a gypsy farce . . . In reality. the
only. shall \ve say, to some organiz- j gang, of grafters exposed by GogoVs
ation or other. Thus the rple of the j magic peh resembles nothing so much
national groupr» m Canadian hfe, j as a meeting öf the Frost cablnet on
their coninbution to Canadian cul-j the cost of highways that weren't
ture does not end mth the passing | there.. or of the Duplesslfi cablnet
of the immigrant generation. but is j on why bridges are always faUing
continuing. In consequence, these idQ^-^.
Canada: TimiBuck.
Inxmigration into Canada is oon-tinuing.
But immigrants no longer
form the bulk of the national groups.
The majonty today are Canadian-born
and English-speaking, the child-ren
and grandchildren of immigrants.
Yet the characteristics. particularly of !
the Sianne, Hungarian, yea and Ita- ;
lian Canadian communities is that
they remam communities in that
sense, within • the Canadian nation,
they retam their feeling of identity.
theirpnde m their origins and love
of their national cultures into the
second and third • generations. This
js an objective faet andis not hmited
HELTER SHELTER
By BOB W.iBi>
WQ seif by Uie Bulletin of .'Vto.niic
ScieiuisLs that a "«ew •••musf has
been added to «he list of vhai eve.->-
weli-equipped home should have. The
new .-nuM" according to ihe Buller
tm l i an ato-mic foxholc sheltor.
And just m case anyone .«Uiould
think that an atomic foxliolc i.s a
place to .-ceep atomic foxe.s in le:ive
Torstaina, toukokuun 5 p.-— Thursday, May 5, 3955 Sv
aus: y.v,Q a big pile. making . sure,
to bi* sure. that \vt doiVt fall in, tJie
• 's-c-.euusiu' advjse ns io dlg It into
our lavns or sweep jt into the 5C.wer..j
The -scientlsts^-^slip up again on i
the .svc-epmg asKijust don*t cxplain !
ho\v radio-actrve dast can be 6wept i
up witJiout Taisins more dust tiiat i
\ve then brcathc Into our llttle. old
•lunsr*.' •
is a
•faJl-us
ha.ten to explain that this just , d,d nuccecd in sax-ep-
„««'f !mg off our roof (without talling
and breaking our neck ui the pro-ccss>
and finally did get all of the,
duit dövvn the so\ver and thehlnto
Lnke Ontario. we'd end up getting it
all back in our drihking wuter
So. äs Lpnesome George Göbel !
woiild say. ''tlicre ybii are."
\Ve npticc tlmt some öUier "sclen-
. An atonnc foxhole sheltor
pläce vhat you fall into \vhcn
out" f.ilLs out, as it uere:
The Bulletin explalns just Jio\v
easy Uiese are to build. Ii is at
leasi three feet wide by five feet
deep. \Vhen one falls into uhe foxhole
one is advised to puli the hole ufic pents" haa-e Invenled a "dog !
in after theni via a loase board. j tag" for us potential victlms of H - i
coyercd with. newsp3pers and old , bombs to we.nr. Now these tags are'
clothes. just jim-dandie.s. Tliey'll vitlutand
The Bulletin nrticle. in the mood a hcat of about 3,500 dcgrees Fah-of
the. do-it-yourself era. says that j renheit. But the big qucstion Is wlll
a box or chair should be m cach i Ave?
foxhole and a bit of food and good
clean \vater should be kept also.
lake we told our mifi.sus tho", vou
really have to hand it to theio
"scientists." Coz thev discuss things
In .such a "Scientific way." Just like
as if instructions to build an atomic
foxhole shelter was . the ijame : as
Temples do not crumble and.die. but i
keep growing and bu.stling with young
Anyhow, thafs the American way
of Wall Street. They permit the
life and. vigour. j.existence of reactiohary national
It IS not my task to tiace the rea- j group organizations only insofar as
sons for this, although I can mdicate i they are needed to keep their fol-
THE "KAKARAT" FACE
THEIR FINAL TEST
Vancouver. — iEven though things
are really popping out here on the
iWest Coast and one findsiit hard to
keep up with the happenings, time
iiEUst oe found for a shmi note to let
e eastemera know what is going
m out here.-
As has been mentioned i n earller
reporti, the "Kakarat" have a big
oav coming up soon. On Sunday,
May 3, at 7.30 tihe youngerg generation
V.111 be stagmg 2 plays. The F i n nish
play "Rikollmen" is pretty well
ir.own to Club News readers whlle
t.ne other play is Oscar Wilde's 6a-tae
m English. They are both
•ery good plays and if everything
j|goe.'i Weil Wall be a worthy contrl-:
Dution from the younger generation
:o Chnton Hall activitles.
Preparations have sure kept the
foki busy here. The f act that the
tuo casts require Qver 30 people was
in luelf quite a problem for the
Kakarat.'. but this. was finally over-come
although nearly everyone. had
to be urafted for stage work before;
ill tne spots v.-ere filled. -•
-^^d then .started rehearsala. Again
found ourselves faced with- tre-
:nend(jus (a very inadequate word)
iai.i.v. The lead roles in Salome
for instance require a great deal of
work and personal coaching on- the
part of the director. The result has
been that many members of the casts
have b^en going to rehearsala three
times a week for the last' while.
Add to the problems of rehearsals
the question of costumes,. staging,
etc., and finally OUT inexperience and
you have some idea of what has been
taking place out here.
But — and this is really the amaz-
Ing part — this reporter for one is
confident that the work we have
done and will do before M»y 8 will
ensure an excellent production on the
final night.
As one who was on hand when the
"Uranuurtajat" presented their play
"Särkelä itte", I must say that it
went very well and certainly sets a
high göal for the "Kakarat". But
after following the rehearsals of tlie
"Klakarat", I think there are stiU
possibilities of wlnning the honours
i n this oontest agalnat the older lolks.
That of course remains to be seen
and only the final decision of the
judges will decide the competition.
Anyway,here'swishing the "Kakarat"
lots of luck and a good performance
on the 8th. — HL,
some. For e>:ample, the immigrants
came here äa people of full-fledged
nationality who had withstcod. m
many cases centuries of denial of
their national rights. even denial of
nationality «Canadian patriots taJce
note and couragel and who were
emigrating to Canada at a time. when
their people v.-ere gathering forces for
their national and social liberation.
And the f act that they met oppression
and discnmination in Canada,
which: made them band together for
mutual aid and solace and protection.
The fact that they had things in
their own languages, the literature,
the arts, which helped them to un-dern^^
nd the world about them and
to meet its challenge, while in English
these were either unintelhgible or
simply not there. And above all, the
emergence of their pcoples back. home
in this Century as the foremost re-volutionary
peoples, transformmg
themselves and leading in the trans-formation
of-humanity..
THE "MELTING POT"
Canadian culture, under attack. by
United States impenalist co.s.nopoli-tanis.
m and obscurantism. which seek
to deny and destroy it, feels the. on-slaught
m thLs field as well. in the
so-called "melting pot" stea-mroller
lcwer3 ignorant and backward or for
intrigue and slander against the
peoples m theif old homelands who
are the target of the US. mllitary...,
Oespite their agenta and imitators
in high places over here, that is not
the Canadian way. And as for our
party, our program — whlch sums
up our country's past. our needs and
aspirations today and the road to
Canada's future — forthrightly de-clares
that it •'Is the champion of
the closest fraternity between Can-adians
oi> all national ongins and
fights for their right to develop their
national traditions as contrlbutions
to a Canadian people's culture.
OUR W A Y
Our way: is the way of full equality
and the widest.democracy. Only thUs
can.real national unity be achieved.
Only thus can Canada win herbattle
for independence and martfh fonvard
to socialism. The "melting pot", na-
I tional nihilism, chauvinism, ideas of
building'one of those sets of bpok-i
shelves that come a l l unassembled. i
Yup, citizens. evei-y citizen. accord- !
Ing - to the Bulletin, just has to ,
have his llttle three by five compleie ;
with Stool and a bit,of clean water. i
After an H-bomb drops (that'« if i
you're right handy to your foxhole
and have time to fall in before the
fall-out fallfi out» you need to stay
there for two days at least. . .
. Then you get out and find your-self
a complete change of "uncon-taminaled
clothes". The ".scicntists"
sllpped up on this one and just
dön't explain where one gets these,
Maybe this is too much of a posor for
the "Scientific" mind when one con-
I It rcmiiids us of the .story about
j the fellow who was askcd \vhat would
i be the differencc bctween being hlt
j by a. bullet or hit by a bomb. "Wca,"
' he said. " i f you get hit by a bullet
I there you aie; but if you get hlt by
! a bomb where are you?"
' But with all due respect to the
i ••.scientlJi';»" we don't Intcnd to dig
family foxliolcs for the slx Ward.s.
It scems to us that there's much
too mucli-of an element In i t of dlg-ging
one's own grave — of acccpting
the inevltabllity of bombs dropping.
And if the ".sclentists" wlll forgive
us we reckon that it's a pretty damn
un.M^icntlfic thlng for the 160 miUion
people in USA and the 15 mlllion
in Canada to go dlgging atomic foxhole
shelters in their back yards. Ho\v'
do we know that we'd be anywhere
near our foxhole if it wa6 needed?
How practicnl is it to conccive of
our factories, offices, schools, etc..
haviiig adequate foxholes at hand Just
in the event that the "fall-out" fell
national isuperiority or inferiorlty are
weapons of the ireactionaries, calcij-iated
tö divide and weakeh the people.
They are abhorrent to us and
,we fight them wherever ;We meet
them.
To sum up, we see the national
pohcy - the other side of the coin groups as integral parts of the Can-o
f r a c i ^ m a n d d i . ' c i i m i n a t i o n - w h i c h «^lan nation _ natlons! - which
retain and for years .will retain their
own cultural and social affinltie.?
within that nation. They merge with
the Canadiari character not by being
deprived of ahy- character whateyer,
not by ceaising to be what they are
is applied m the U,S. ariid prescribed
by Wall Street for Canada too. .
The melting pot means what it
says. They take people of many dif- i
ferent . nationalities, inheriloi-s of!
cultures oreated over centuries, helrs! , ..,, . ,
to great traditions, and, they proceed. I^ a,n d artific„i all,y b.e.c.o m^.i ng somelhing
to wrmg t^h em •d ry of, a„ll. th. e.ir , sp; ir. it- t they aren't. but . • m • t..h •e . p"Ir^o.. ces••s, o•f
ual heritage even as they \vring their |.
bodies dry in the mine.'» and sveat-I n A OJan
shops.. And they throv,- them into.! f Ollin F l O ll
the melting pot, 'A^here —, as happens
siders that fall-out can covcr thou- | during the work or schoo! perlod?
sands of square miles. For ourselves we*ve slgned a peti-
One also has to be careful, we are ^j^^^ aimed at eridlng the tlireat of
warned. "to sweep the roof of our .^^^^^^ ^ther
house." And not just an ordinarj'"! j„ ^^e world have signed it
sweeping; but a , "good stiff .sweep-1 ,^,0 .-And we're getting our frlenda to
«Jo*"" ,Mgnlt!
After siweeping off the loof of the , doesn't have to agrce wlth
house. we then mu. |
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