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TORONTO

Can tionwviae Congress of Slavic
pice in which every Slavic
ae ‘ation and every Slavic Can-
IS invited to take part, will

held in Toronto on July 1 and

An official call for the congress

. been issued under the head-
®: “Slavic Canadians! Let Our

Slee Be Heard! For the Happi-
a of Our Children — For the
one of Our People — For the

Pe Peace a of Our’ Country — For

roughout the World!

Signed by the Canadian-Slav
1 natimuttee and endorsed by eight
call he Slavic organizations, the
ination’ been sent to Slavic organ
and ie: throughout the country
hen a, 2t@8y Prominent Canadian
and women of Slavic origin.

et tPose of the congress is de-

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Speak unitedly to all Canada.” -

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Canadj ve years after the First
195) 2 Slav Congress held in

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lenic-Festival on Sunday,
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Mon,” 2&ar Toronto, site of the
amen and museum to the
Tins of the Ukrainian poet,
Wil j Shevchenko, The festival

Nelude a ceremonial tribute
of + « chenko, a special showing
An © Exhibition of Slavic Folk
Hist Gon Handicrafts which has

Te eted a successful tour
Stam Stern Canada, concert pro-
dang avic music, songs and
ature a display of Slavic lit-

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Congress of Slavic Canadians
to be held in Toronto on July I

—and of heroic labor and great
achievement.

They braved the rigors of Na-
ture and the neglect of govern-
ments. They did. not know the
language and customs of the land
to which fate had driven them.
Too often they were the victims
of the barbs of racists. Swindlers
fleeced them. Greedy exploiters
battened on them—they were “the
last to be hired and the first to
be fired,’ the ones who did the
hardest and dirtiest work for the
lowest wages.

Many of those who had wrested
homesteads from the wilderness
later lost their farms in hard
times. Practically all tasted the bit-
ter fuits of unemployment. They
fought a thousand battles in order
to survive and to make the hope
with which they came to Canada
come true.

But they persevered, bolstered
by the strong traditions of democ-
racy, militant defense of their
rights and mutual aid, which they
brought with them from _ their
homelands, and more and more by
cooperation with the Canadians of
other origins.

By their labor on the farms and
railroads, in the mines and forests,
in building cities and in the fac-
tories. and workshops, they helped
to transform ‘Canada. And in
building Canada they also remade
themselves, became true Canadians,
proud, of their new homeland.

Our pioneer settlers and work-
ers did not neglect the spiritual
side of their life. Even while they
were yet recent immigrants, they
began to build their,own schools
and churches and halls, establish
their own newspapers and organ-
izations, bring forth their own
teachers, leader, writers, musi-
cians. And as they developed
their own cultural communities,
they also found common interest,
common ideals and common action
with their fellow-Canadians ‘of
other origins.

Thus, our modest, conscientious,
persevering people helped _ to
create the rich and strong Canada
of today and become an insepar-
able part of the Canadian people.
There is not a province or an in-
dustry in our country that does
not bear the imprint of their labor.
And we are making our contribu-
tion to the arts and culture of
Canada.

- Today, Slavic Canadians are
found in all the professions and
in all walks of life. Tens of thous
ands proudly wear the badge of
their country’s armed defenders.
We claim full equality within the
Canadian family. We have won
the right to speak as Canadians.
We are Canadians.

In our hearts we retain a love
for our kinfolk across the ocean
and a desire to see our country,
Canada, and the countries of our
origin live in peace and friend-
ship. This is a natural, human
emotion, which we share with all
other Canadians and which only
reinforces our country’s interests
and the desire of the Canadian
people to live in peace, friend-
ship and mutual understanding and
respect with all countries.

We cultivate, alongside the
English and French, a love for
the languages, culture, and tradi-
tions of our forefathers, pass these
on to our children and bring the
best of our literature and arts to
the attention of all Canadians.

In doing this, we are not only
exercising our rights as Canadians,
but, as many Canadian leaders
having pointed out, we are there-
by adding to the sources of Cana-
dian culture, enriching it and con-

tributing to Canada’s _ spiritual
growth.

It is within expanding Canadian
democracy. and economy that we
lifted ourselves and made our con-
tribution to the welfare of our own
communities and to the benefit
of Canada. Our ‘future lies in
the further strengthening of Can-
adian .democracy, equality and
unity, in the further development
of Canadian prosperity. -

This places on us, as on all good
Canadians, the responsibility to
combat and drive from our midst
all remnants of national hatreds
and discrimination, and to create
and defend the conditions and
freedoms whieh will give us and
all the Canadian people the great-
est opportunities and encourage-
ment for all-sided growth and de-
velopment.

Aid urged for
coast shipping

HALIFAX

“It is in the national interest of Canada and in the
future development of one of her basic industries, shipping,
that the flow of Canada’s goods not be dependent on foreign
carriers,’ the recent Royal Commission on the Coasting
Trade of Canada was told here. é

In a brief prepared by the Mari
time Marine. Workers’ Federation

| Srnitrest subsidies to both coastal

(CCL) and submitted by J. K. Bell,!and deep-sea shipping “conditional

secretary-treasurer, the union de-|

clared:

upon the shipping interests build-
ing and repairing their ships in

“Tt is our contention that legis-;\Canada and operating them under

lation restricting Canada’s coastal;

trade to Canadian built and regis-
tered ships would also assist the
development of our deep-sea fleet

and Canadian industries servicing.

maritime needs.”

This view, said the brief, is
supported by Canadian shipping
and shipbuilding interests.

The union’s brief favored gov-

Canadian registry.”

‘At present, Canada’s coastal
shipping is open to Commonwealth
ships, especially those of. Britain.
Other foreign shipping is subject
to a 25 percent duty on the market
value of the ship. According to
the MMWF brief, this gives an
unfair advantage to UK shipping
in Canadian waters. ~

Endicott leaves on most
important mission of all

TORONTO

The man who has made 18
journeys overseas in quest of
peace during the last six years is
about to make a fourteenth jour
ney which he considers the most
important of them all.

At a press conference in Toron-
to’s Walker House hotel (where he
was introduced as the most famous
Canadian in today’s world, “whose
name is honored by hundreds of
millions”), he explained why.

Dr. James G. Endicott, chair-
man of the Canadian Peace Con-
gress, Stalin Prize laureate and ex-
ecutive member of the World
Council of Peace, quoted one of
the most revered Frenchmen of
thsi century to make his point.

Edouard Herriot , honorary pres-
ident of the French Assembly,
said; “The situation can now only
be clarified by the Helsinki Assem-
bly.. For my part, I am ready to
seek solutions which will enable
the diplomats to get out of the pre-
sent blind alley.”

Dr. Endicott said that statement
“hit the nail on the head” because
there is now going on a towering
and unprecedented build-up of the
forces of peace and war, locked in
a fight to a finish.

The Christian peace missionary
spoke as one of the founders of
the world peace movement at Paris
in 1949.

He recalled that he was a mem-
ber of the world peace delegation
that secured agreement from the
Supreme Soviet of the USSR to
its propositions in 1950. When the
U.S. refused to allow a similar
delegation to visit Washington, he
pulled the Canadian “Ban the
Bomb” petition out of his pocket
at a conference in Stockholm and
became one of the five men who
drafted the Stockholm Appeal
against atomic bombs which 500
million people signed.

“That appeal,” he said, “stop-
ped atomic weapons being used
in Korea. The 1952 Vienna Con-
gress of the Peoples for Peace
led directly to the Korea truce
seven months later.”

Reviewing the six years of peace
activity, the man whose name js
known to hundreds of millions of
people, issued this warning:

“To rest now would-be to sur-
render at the most critical time of
testing. Those who believe in
force as a solution are moving
with desperate energy,
against time with the peace move-
ment. German militarism’ is be-
ing readied as the detonator and
preparations are being made at ex-
press speed to let loose atomic
war.

“Against this, much more peo-
ple’s energy for peace must be let

racing |,

loose. That is the meaning in a
nutshell of the Helsinki Assembly,
where the representatives of most
of mankind will seek agreement.”

He noted that the agreement
for a Big Four. conference is an

“agreement in principle,” add-
ing: “You and | must sit at that
table — you and | and most of
mankind — for the conference
to succeed.” F

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Endicott reported that the Cana-
dian delegation, which now num-
bers more than 50, would be the
largest ever sent from this coun-
try to an international peace gath-
ering.

The Canadian Peace Congress
will be represented on the dele-
gation’ by Dr. James G. Endicott
and Bruce Mickleburgh. Other
members of the delegation are
sponsored by various groupings,
in many cases not connected with
the Canadian Peace Congress.
Among them are six ministers of
four different faiths.

Delegations from. other coun-
tries -will include an_ all-party
group of MPs from Japan led by
a former premier, Katayama Tet-
su.
A large number of MPs and sev-
eral generals, will attend from
Latin American republics. Among

them will be Josue de Castro,
president of the UN’s Food and
Agriculture Organization and auth-
or of the Geography of Hunger.

It is expected that a first global
tabulation of signatures to the
World Appeal against the Prepara-
tions for Atomic War will be an-
nounced at the assembly.

Dr. Endicott predicted that this
total would exceed the record total
of 603 million men and women
who in 1951 signed the world peti-
tion for a Pact of Peace among the
five great powers (a petition which
Dr. Endicott said had a good deal
to do with the popular pressure
for a meeting “at the summit”).

He also said that signature col-
lection would probably continue
till a much larger total is collect-
ed.

“After all,” he said, “the aim is
to abolish atomic weapons. All
atomic weapons in all countries.
Then we can relax.”

Indonesian President Soekarno
is the latest to express his support
for the world campaign against
atomic war. Five ministers of the
Indonesian government have sign-
ed the appeal.

In Canada 20 members of pro-
vincial parliaments have signed
the appeal, including four prov-
incial cabinet ministers.

Dr. James G. Endicott, chairman of the Canadian Peace Congress
and one of the five men who drafted the Stockholm peace appeal (this
picture shows him addressing the Stockholm peace conference in
1951), told a press conference in Toronto that he considers the
Helsinki conference on June 22 the most important of the several
peace gatherings he has attended.

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