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Calling all petitioners

Peace floats, such as these in Calgary (top) and Toronto are
Ng used by peace petitioners in cities across the country to focus

*ttention on the campaign for signatures to the Five-Power Peace: Pact
Petition now entering its final weeks. In this city, Vancouver Peace

Sembly is calling upon all its supporters to join in canvasses this
“td next Saturday with the aim of raising the total of signatures from

S'B.C., now 75,000; to the objective of 100,000.

Demand for a public probe in-
to milk distribution costs is rising
in Vancouver and throughout the
province following announcements
this week that the price of milk
may be jacked up from four to
seven cents a quart. Refusal of
E. C. Carr, Milk Board czar,
to release figures on distributors’
profits at recent board ‘hearings
dealing with the skip-a-day de-
livery scheme has angered house-
wives and other consumers who
believe an attempt is being made
to conceal exorbitant charges pass-
ed on to them through wasteful

~ distribution méthods.

SCANDAL IN COST
A DISTRIBUTION

“At the Milk Board hearings
we claimed a 11-cent spread,
based on letters written by under-
paid dairy farmers to various

. newspapers,” Mrs. Agnes Jack-

son, secretary of Congress of Can-
adian Women, told the Pacific
Tribune. “This was also the
figure arrived at by Alderman
Anna Sprott, after she had in-
vestigated the present set-up. :

“E. C. Carr, chairman of the
Milk Board, said the ‘spread’
was only 8.2 cents, but categoric-
ally refused to divulge figures on
distribution costs “and distributors’
profits, which he claimed to have

in his possession.

“Now a new, huge increase in ~

the price of milk is threatened.
Before any decision is reached
by the Milk Board, complete
figures on distribution costs and
distributors’ profits must be re
leased.

“Our position in the CCW has
always been that it is not the
farmer who is milking the public,
but the distributors. We want
lower milk prices, not higher, and
claim that subsidies to dairy farm-

ers would make such lower prices
feasible.”

"38th Parallel conforms
to military realities’

As the Pacific Tribune went to
press this week, armistice talks in
Korea remained deadlocked. The
only possible indication of a
break was provided by a pro-
posal, submitted in writing by
U.S. Vice ‘Admiral Chnrles
Turner, chief UN delegate, for
creation of a joint subcommittee
to consider a demarcation line—
the issue on whch the talks have

deadlocked.

An earlier deadlock was resolv-
ed when the North Korean-Chin-
ese delegation agreed to place over
the question of withdrawing for-
eign troops for later discussions
rather than allow American re-
fusal to consider the issue to im-
pede the present talks.

On the issue of a demarcation
line the North Korean-Chinese
delegation has remained firm in
its- insistence that the line be the
38th Parallel. The UN delega-
tion for some days concealed from
its own press correspondents—and
the world public—that the line
demanded by the U.S. was not
in fact the present battle-line but
deep inside North Korea between
the present battle-line and the
Yalu River. This fact was only

disclosed by a dispatch leaked
out by the Agence Presse France
from Tokyo.

The North Korean-Chinese
delegation bases its arguments for
acceptance of the 38th Parallel
on these points:

® An armistice is the first step
towards peaceful settlement:
Therefore attention, should be fo-
cussed on future peace and purely

military considerations are out of
place.

@ The 38th Parallel’ does re-
flect the military realities of the
Korean War. The Korean Peo-
ple’s Army has twice pushed
south of it and U.S. troops have
twice crossed north of it. At
present, 145 kilometres of the par-
allel are now held by the Korean
People’s Army and Chines peo-
ple’s volunteers and 165 kilometres
are held by U.S. and allied troops.
The area south of the parallel
held by the Korean People’s
Army is 3,630 kilometres, the
area north of the parallel held by
the U.S. is’ 4,630 kilometres.
Since there is little difference in
the length and areas held by op:
posing forces, the 38th Parallel

is a fair and just demarcation
line.

@ The present battle-line is
not ‘stable and does not reflect

military realities as the 38th Par-
allel can best do.

Mrs. Nora Rodd
will report on
Korea at rally

A first-hand report of the suf-
ferings inflicted upon women and
children by modern warfare will
be given by Mrs. Nora K. Rodd,
of Windsor, Ont., at a public
meeting to be held Friday, Aug-
ust 24, at the Auditorium, Den-
man and Georgia.

Mrs. Rodd has just returned
from a tour of the devastated
areas of Korea as chairman of
an international women’s com-
mission which went to Korea ex-
pressly to investigate conditions
of women and children in that
war-torn country.

After spending 12 days in North
Korea, constantly interviewing
victims of the war, the interna-
tional commission, representative
of 17 countries, filed a 43-page
report with the United Nations,
a grim indictment of modern war.

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