‘Union Label’ Week

This is “union buying week” in Vancouver and Ed Smith, sec-
retary of the Union Label Trades Council, displays various “union

shop” cards.

Total of signatures
to peace petition in
B.C. reaches 16,000

More than 16,000 citizens in this province have signed
the world peace petition calling upon the governments of
all countries to declare for banning of the atom bomb and
branding of the first to use it as a war criminal. This was
the interim report made public this week by Vancouver Peace

_ Assembly.

Mass endorsations at picnics and
public meetings adds several more
thousand to this signature total. A
crowd of 5,000 at the United Labor
Picnic last month endorsed the

_ Stockholm Appeal; more than 1,000
who heard Dr. Endicott speak in
Vancouver backed to peace plea;
and a number of other meetings
throughout the province have also
supported the petition.

: Peace canvassers will be out in
_ force on downtown street corners

- Saturday, September 16, collecting
names. A house-to-house canvass
in the East End will be held Wed-
nesday night, September 20.

‘Three peace petitioners arrest-
ed last month while seeking sig-
natures on Hastings Street and
charged with “obstructing the
police” will appear in police court
on September 22. Vancouver
Peace Assembly has stated that
it will carry the fight for the
right to petition to the highest
court in the land, if necessary.

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Infamous Ilse Koch
making her plans
to go to Australia

MUNICH

The infamous Ilse Koch, who
used human skins for lampshades,
is So sure she will be acquitted by
a West German court of her crimes
that she is already planning to emi-
grate to Australia, her lawyer re-
vealed this week.

As is well known, this creature
worked at the Buchenwald exter-
mination camp, and was personally
responsible for the torture and mur-
der of thousands of Jews and other
prisoners. Tried after the war, she
was found guilty and sentenced to
hang. However, as a result of be-

: coming pregnant in prison, her sen-

tence was commuted to life im-
prisonment.
Last October, General Lucius

Clay, then in charge of the Amer-
ican oceupation forces, let Ilse

Koch go free altogether. His excuse
was that the evidence against her

was not strong enough. The ensu-
ing uproar led to her present trial
in a West German court. It is gen-
erally believed, since the West Ger-
man courts are presided over by
Nazis and their sympathizers, that
she will be let off scot-free of the
charge of torturing prisoners. At
any rate, Madame Koch is confi-
dent she will go free, and says she
intends to go to Australia the mo-
ment her trial ends.

ML

Democratic Rights League
fights police interference

with peace petitioners

am Sam Michnick, but because I am one of

“The police were afraid of

me not because

TORONTO

those people who fight for peace,” Sam Michnick, Toronto peace petitioner who was brut-
ally beaten by two detectives, told an overflow protest meeting last week. (See also story

on page 2)

“What was attacked, what is being charged is not my-.
self, but the Stockholm Appeal,” he told the cheering audience

of 350.

The meeting was called jointly by Toronto Peace Coun-
| cil and the League for Democratic Rights to protest the ar-

rest and beating of Michnick
Canadian National Exhibition.

of the Canadian’ Peace Congress and Miss Mary Jennison,

executive secretary, also’ spoke,
tive secretary of the LDR.

Many here are not yet petition-
ing,” Michnick told the gathering.
“But I know that they will now go
out.” He said he was proud of the
fact that his mother and father
were in the audience. “My mother
has told me she will take out the
peace petition when she returns
to Hamilon.” He emphasized that
the best way to protest the police
acion was to redouble the petition
campaign and put Toronto over the
top in its objective of 50,000 sig-
natures.

It was also announced that
Michnick’s wife Joan, had led a
group of 18 young petitioners just
before the meeting and collected
250 signatures on Toronto streets.

The audience unanimously de-
manded that Toronto Board of Con-
trol “put teeth” in ‘its declaration
‘that petitioning in the city must
remain inviolate. It also went on
record as supporting the Peace
Congress “Negotiate Now’ peace
lobby to Ottawa on September 11.

Dr. Endicott called for a streng-
thened faith in the world peace
movement “and our part of it’.
Referring to a few church spokes-
men who have been asking if he
was a Communist, he said he is
beginning to say to them: “I’m not
a Communist, but I wish you would
act like a Christian.”

“The greatest sin against God
yet invented by man,” he said, “is
the idea of the extermination of
thousands of people in a few sec-
onds with an atomic bomb. Those
who want war will soon be isolated
and mankind will know who they
are.” :

Roberts said his organization was |
fighting on two fronts — against
police brutality and for the right
to petition. He quoted the United
Nations declaration on Human
Rights guaranteeing the right to
petition and also cited many sub-

Peace congress
set for Britain
in mid-November

The Second World Peace Con-
gress, originally to have been held
in Rome and then transferred to
Warsaw, Poland, because of the
Italian government’s refusal to as-
sure entry visas for delegates, will
now be held in Britain between
November 13 and 19.

The announcement was made fol-
lowing a meeting of the bureau of
the World Peace Committee.

In an appeal signed by Fred-
eric Joliot-Curie, the committee
declared: “Peace cannot be
achieved by force of arms. It will
be achieved by the general and
common action of all men and
women of good will capable of
obtaining the triumph of reason
and justice.” :

Appraising the progress made
around the Stockholm Appeal, the
declaration said: “The first steps
have already been taken. The next
will follow and they can and must
bring the peoples to a stable peace
which all long for.”

as he was’ petitioning at the
Dr. J. G. Endicott, chairman

as did Thomas Roberts, execu-

missions by Canadian organizations
to the Senate Committee on Human
Rights.

Roberts said petitioners were be-
ing challenged not only in Toronto,
but in Montreal, Saskatoon, Van-
couver and other centers. He said
every instance of police interfer-
ence would be fought.

GUO ed

Peace petition signed
by Pefewawa council

: TORONTO

Latest municipal council to en-
dorse the world peace petition is
the council of Petewawa, Ren-
frew County, Ontario. The peti-
tion was signed by six council-
lors, and the municipal seal affix-

Near Petewawa is a military
training camp and an inquiry is
being conducted into injuries suf-
fered by a child when a smoke
bomb was detonated outside the
camp. ‘

Fishermen hit
by failure of
sockeye run

Closure by the fisheries depart-

HEN ELIMLL

ment of the Fraser River and Gulf}

of Georgia grounds due to failure
of the Adams River sockeye run is
costing millions of dollars to B.C.
fishermen. :

The closure, made on recommend-
ation of the International Pacific
Salmcen Commission because the
run is figured at only 20 percent of
the normal run, struck a terrific
financial blow to thousands of fish-
ermen. More than 3,000 boats were
ordered off the grounds.

While fishermen received the
news glumly and looked forward
to hard times, many smiled wryly
when a reporter showed them a
copy of the September 2 issue of
The Financial Post, big business
weekly published in Toronto. The
Post featured a full-page article
telling its readers that “B.C. fisher-
men are earning $400 a night” at
the Fraser mouth.

“This year’s catch is the worst
I can remember,” one fisherman
told the Pacific Tribune. “TI haven’t

caught a dozen fish in th
Week.” : Sted

China pefition goal
150 million names

PEKIN
The Chinese Peace Chetiae
has set a new peace signature tar-
get of 150 million, over twice the
60 million total already achieved.

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Endicott says
division aim
of Tito invite

Dr. James. G. Endicott, chairman
of the Canadian Peace Congress,
has refused an invitation to visit
Yugoslavia, “Tito’s emissaries have
revealed themselves as not inter-
ested in the cause of peace but as
seeking, under cover of a profes-
sed interest in peace, to divide both
the tworld peace movement and
the Canadian peace movement,” he
declared.

In refusing the invitatfon to
visit Yugoslavia, Dr. Endicott

wrote the Yugoslav legatjon at
Ottawa: “It is our understanding
that the “Yugoslav National Com-
mittee for the Defense of Peace”
has not signed the Stockholm Ap-
peal and is not circulating the Ap-
peal in Yugoslavia. We have no
alternative other than to decline
your invitation.”

Dr. Endicott said that the ap-
proaches made to him by emis-
saries. of Tito made it clear that
their invitation was issued for pol-
itical purposes. “I informed these
emissaries that I could go to Yugo-
slavia only on the recommenda-
tion of the Yugoslav members of
the World Congress of Defenders of
Peace and sponsored by a people’s
committee which endorsed the
Stockholm Appeal.

The jYugoslav member of the
World Committee of the Defend-
ers of Peace is General Pero Popi-
voda, a hero of the Yugoslav re-
sistance and liberation movements.

The national council of the Can-
adian Peace Congress has endors-
ed Dr. Endicott’s stand and pointed
out that peace defenders in Yugo-
slavia, despite persecution, are cit-
culating the worldwide Stock-
holm Appeal against atomic war
with General Popivoda as their
representative on the World Com-
mittee of Defenders of Peace.

The Canadian Peace Congress
national council also pointed -out
that “the agents of Tito’s so-called
‘Committee in Defense of Peace
have been expelled from the World
Committee for activitis inimical t?
the cause of peace.”

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