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Premier Duplessis of Quebec not only padlocks the premises of
progressive papers; he even had his police arrest nine young people
distributing copies of the youth paper, Champion, this week. Featured
front page story was on hockey star Maurice Richard, and_ the
paper was’ being sold in front of the Forum. ~ Youth organizations
across the country, including National Federation of Labor Youth in
B.C., have written and wired protests to Duplessis.

Ignoring Premier B

province from the disaster of an atomic war.”’

‘No More War’
‘trek planned

yron Johnson’s refusal to see them, members of a
B.C. peace deputation will go to Victoria this coming week to place before
MLA’s ‘‘practical proposals for preserving world peace and protecting our

The deputation will leave for

the capital following conclusion of the two-day Second B.C. Peace Conference
to be held here this weekend.

A press release containing, this announcement,

issued

by- the B.C. Peace Committee this week, stated:

The Second B.C. Peace Conference, in which all citi-
zens and all organizations except political parties are in-
vited to participate, convenes Saturday and Sunday in Clinton

Hall, 2605 East Pender.

Saturday, 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Sessions are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Rev. A. Hodgkins,

Unitarian minister, will officiate at a Sunday morning re-

ligious service.

As a wind-up to the peace mission a public rally will
be held in the Sirrocco Club, Victoria, this coming Monday,

March 19, 8 p.m.,

where members of the mission will re-

port on their interviews with MLA’s.
Robert Haddow, of Montreal, nationally known trade
union leader, will ‘be principal speaker at the peace con-

ference here.

Haddow, international representative of the

Fur and Leather Workers Union, was a delegate to the

Second World Congress of
the Defenders of Peace in
Sheffield and Warsaw~ last
November.

British Columbia’s two
delegates to the World Peace
Congress, Alex Gordon, busi-
ness agent, United Fisher-

men and Allied Workers
Union, and Ray Gardner,
Vancouver newspaperman,

will also speak,

Cabinet ducks parley,
refusal spurs delegates
to talk peace to MLAs

Premier , Byron Johnson
and his . provincial cabinet
have shown, by their refusal
to meet the B.C. Peace mis-
sion, that they do not con-
sider preservation of peace
in any way their” responsi-
bility. \

This statement was made
in a press release issued this
week by) the Bic. Peace
Committee which is sponsor-
| ing a peace mission to Vic-
toria on Monday as a follow-
up to the Second British Col-
umbia Peace Conference.

The press statement con-
tinues:

In our request for an audi-
ence with the cabinet, we
stated: “We are strongly of
the opinion that the first re-
sponsibility: of every citizen
today is to do his utmost»to
protect our province, our
country and the world from
the terrible disaster: of an
atomic war. We feel that
this responsibility extends to
the government of our pro-
vince, upon the members of
which it rests most heavily.”

The cabinet has shirked its
responsibility by stating that
the question of. peace is. en-
tirely in the hands of the
department of external af-
fairs. This view we refuse
to accept:

- By refusing to take a posi-

tion on this most vital of all
questions, the cabinet auto-
matically gives approval to
Ottawa’s war policy which
is already resulting in the
death of Canadian men in
Korea, quite apart from the
inhuman slaughter of the
Korean people.

Despite the many problems
which beset the people of
British Columbia, it remains
a fact that the most serious
concern of-all citizens at this
moment is the question of
peace.

Virtually

every one of

these problems, including the .

high cost of living, is ‘either
caused or aggravated by the
threat of war. >

In British Columbia today
young couples refuse to have
children because of the men-
ace of war, Old and yoyng
alike are unable to
houses because the cost
made prohibitive by the bur-
dens of a gigantic war bud-
get.

The lives of every man,

woman and child in the pro--

vince are actually imperilled.
Yet the gavernment bland-

ly. states that this is not its

concern. f

Of all He provincial gov-
ernments in Canada, the first
to take a stand on the pre-
servation of peace should, by

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all rights, be our govern-
ment here in British Colum-
bia. For our province is a

- neighbor of both the United

States and the Soviet Union
and it also faces on the
Pacific where a war zone al-
ready exists and where Can-
adian’ soldiers and sailors are
already in battle.

Because of our geographi-
cal position our province
could easily became a battle-
ground in the event of a
new war. Our cities, our
factories, our farms—every-
thing the the people of Brit-
ish Columbia have struggled
to create, are actually in
peril unless peace is won.

_ To say that the question
of peace does not lie within
the jurisdiction of the pro-
\vincial government can only
be called a pretense. Refer-
ences to the international

situation which were made .

in’ the Speech from the
Throne concerning civil de-
fenste (when actually there
is no defense against the

atom bomb) proves that this |

is SO.
But regardless of the offi»

cial government positian, the |

peace mission will go to Vic-
toria and will place before
every’ member its proposals
for .achieving lasting world
peace.

Papers substantiating cor-
rectness of the World Peace
Council’s nine-point appeal
to the United Nations will
be presented to the confer-
ence and, in each case, will
be followed by discussion.
Among those who will pre-
sent papers on the appeal

to UN are Harrison and
Hilary Brown, of Hornby.
Island, well-known. writers

on international affairs.
Any organization or in-
dividual wishing to place be-
fore the conference any al-
ternative proposal or propo-
sals for achieving lasting
peace will be granted time
ow the agenda, on request.

Premier Byron Johnson
and Opposition Leader Har-
old Winch were invited to
address the conference but
declined because of pressure
of work. Premier Johnson
declined with thanks.

In Victoria, members of
the mission will seek inter-
views with all MLA’s, sever-
al of whom have expressed
their willingness to meet
them. Proposals to be plac-
ed before the members will
include the nine-point pro-

gram of the World- Peace:

Council and any mew pro-
posals arising out of the con-

Vet won't wear
same medal as
‘killers in Korea’

LONDON
Thousands who crowded Tra-
falgar Square dembnstration of
the British ex-servicemen’s move-
ment for peace, applauded Wing
Commander R. Turner when he
said he was returning the Ameri-
can Distinguished Flying Cross
awarded him by me Truman
government.

“This medal is Pole back to
Truman,” he said, “since I am not
going to wear the same medal as
the killers in Korea are wearing.”

Former RAF Chaplain Rev. F.
de Jonge called on ex-Servicemen
to “make it quite plain that we
will have no war, no provocation
of war and no rearmament of
Germany.”

BOB HADDOW
'.Guest speaker at Second B.C.

Peace nference

ference.

1: One spécific action the
government will be asked to
take is to pass ,a resolution
calling upon the federal gov-
ernment to amend the Crim-
inal Code so as to outlaw
war propaganda.

Urge citizens

fo help save
Willie McGee

Vancouver citizens are be-
ing urged to help save Wil-

' lie McGee, another -innocent

American Negro, from death
in the electric chair next
Tuesday, March 20. The
American Civil Rights Con-
gress asks that letters and
wires be sent at once to.
President Truman demand-

‘ing his intervention to save

McGee’s life and secure his

freedom, and ‘to Governor
Fielding Wright, Jackson,
Mississippi, demanding a

stay of execution and com-
plete pardon for McGee.
McGee is charged with
having raped a Mae wo-
man.
The Civil Sve Congress
attorneys now have evidence’

‘that the woman forced Mc-

Gee into a relationship of
several years standing , with
threats of crying “rape” and
turning him over to a lynch
mob.

McGee’s ‘trials have been
conducted with mobs sur-
rounding “the courthouse
howling for the death of the
innocent Negro and the Civil
Rights Congress states that
his life is constantly in,dan-
ger from lynch mobs.

His attorneys have been
threatened not only by the
mobs but leading Mississip-
pi newspapers have editori-
ally incited the whites to
use violence against them.

-They were forced to flee be-

fore the end of the third
trial to escape an attack
after a judge refused to pro-
tect them.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 16, 1951 — PAGE 12 ~

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