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Big Four talks at Gaeava:.

Hppes that peace-ensuring agreements would result spread
throughout the entire world as the Big Four representatives of the

United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union began their “at

the summit” peace talks this week in the historic city of Geneva
(above). This long-demanded conference not only marks the grow-
ing strength of world opinion in support of peace, but also emphasizes
the growing awareness of the futility and horror of thermonuclear

warfare.

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ROBESON

ers and treaties are mere exX-
pediencies te McCarthyism.

The Mine-Mill convention heard
about it, and angry resentment
formed the convention into a
delegation of the whole, which
immediately marched on _ the
US. consulate in ¢he Marine
Building here.

“Who's your ringleader?” de-
manded an uneasy official.

“We're all ringleaders; whére’s
yours? We want. to see him!”
was the retort.

The consul was also scared,
but mad too. Probably in all
the time he had spent in Can-
éua, or in the U.S., he had never
met the workers before, and his

_ <ignity was considerably upset.
But ‘the said he could do nothing
about an order from Washington.
_ But Mine-Mill' could do some-
tuing about the concert, and did.
it was organized into a protest
meeting, and over 2,000 met to
send a resolution to the Civil
Rights Committee of the United
Nations, the U.S. State Depart-
ment. and the Canadian Depart-
ment of External Affairs,

They knew they wouldn’t he.
Paul Robeson, but they end
anyway to fight for this cause.
But Paul, Robeson was there, just
the same, in spirit—and in voice.

Over an improvised telephone-
public address hookup he spoke
‘or fifteen minutes, commencing
at 9 p.m., and sang “Joe Hill’?
and other songs. And he prom-
ised that he would see all his

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friends, and sing to them at the
‘Peace Arch, when it could be
arranged.

That first Mine-Mill Peace Arch
concert for Robeson took place
on Sunday, May 18, a perfect
day. The park was packed with
uncountable thousands; the bor-
der was closed for two hours ow-
ing to the jam of cars; and Robe-
son afterwards said that he ibe-
lieved he had sung better than
he ever had before.

For two more years the con-
cert was continued, while the
fight for restoration of Robeson’s
passport went on through all
the proper departments of the
US. government.

This year, on the eve of the

concert which has become one
“o£ the outstanding cultural events

of the province, Robeson was
granted leave of exit from the
U.S. to go to Canada, and will
he heard again from coast-to-
eaast in all the provinces.

But the Welsh miners are call-
ing for him, the London stage
is demanding his genius, and his
friends in Africa, Asia,- and
Europe are determined that Paul
Robeson will again be free to
sing to them, and inspire them

with the voice that speaks of lib-

erty and peace.
So the fight for full passport
rights must go until) as before,

Paul Robeson is once again the

Jeader of humanity whdém all, of
every rank and station, may see
znd hear and follow to the ful-
fillment of -human destiny.

Canadian project. The technique
followed was the same as led to
sabotage of an’ all-Canadian St.

Lawrence Seaway plan.

Both the mayors and council
members of Port Arthur and Fort
William have condemned Trade
Minister C. D. Howe for refusing
to arrange an interview with the
federal cabinet in a last-minute
eftort to save the all-Canadian
natural gas pipeline. .

“\ often wonder if the honor-
able member has forgotten his
Cenadian citizenship — has he
sold Canada down the river or
what?“ asked Port Arthur Ald.
Albert Hinton. : be

Another council member, Ald.
Ron Wilmot bitterly commented:

“The same gentleman let the
vil line go to Superior. How are
we ever going to build this coun-
iry up if we continue to send all
our natural resources to the Un-
ited States for processing.” —

One alderman described Howe’s
contemptuous wire replying to
the joint appeal of the Lakehead
city mayors as one that amount-
ed to saying “mind your own
business.”

Citizens charged that Howe was”

deserting his own constituents
and that he no longer represent-
ed them. .

Ralph Farris, president of ‘Nor-
thern Ontario Gas Company, de-

clared that if, the plan to pump.

Alberta gas to the U.S.. goes
through and the all-Canadian pro-
ject is bypassed, “one of Can-
ada’s greatest natural resources
will be sold down the river.”

Reacting to widespread popu-
lar pressure, the Ontario govern-
ment through Mines Minster
Kelly last week called for build-
ing of the all-Canadian line “in

the interests of northern Ontario,

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northern Quebec and indeed all
the other provinces.” ‘

He urged an immediate survey
by an independent authority into
the economics of the plan.

“From the outset, the Ontario
government has boosted the all-
“anadian line, and has never

varied from the stand that it is
necessary to solve the fuel prob-
tems of central Canada,” he add-
ed. .

A special membership meeting
of the Labor-Progressive party in
the Lakehead cities has decided
to issue a public appeal for a
mass delegation to Ottawa, in-
ciuding a strong contingent of
irade unionists, whose job oppor-
tunities are imperilled by the
quick moves now being made to
torpedo the gas line.

Special natural gas committees
of the two Lakehead towns insist

“that no export of gas should be

nermitted ‘until the all-Canadian
line is built. They compared the
undertaking to construction of
‘the CPR.

St. Laurent, in his July 12
statement to the House that
“sound economics” demanded an

indefinite delay in construction, ,

virtually signed and sealed the
death warrant for the project.

He said: “It is probably that
instead of there being an under-
taking with a limit fixed in
months or years, it would be an
undertaking that would mature
when markets had developed to
a certain percentage. . We

have to be realistic and reco$nize ©

that it would not be useful to
have an undertaking if the fac-

- tual situation does not develop

to make it an undertaking based
on sound economics. .. . We may

have to be satisfied with a com- |

mitment that all efforts will be

‘

pipeline se

City councillors of the Lakehead cities, leading industrialists, a minister Of ©
Ontario cabinet and many labor spokesmen have joined the rising
the federal government's decision to abandon t
followed Prime Minister St. Laurent’s July 12 state
ing the door to final official ditching of an earlier so

he allCanadian gas pipeline project.
ment in the House of Commons °
lemn undertaking to build the

-adian economy. %

a

Paul Robeso

» Seaway, where at the outs?

_ declared its support fo
“Canadian Seaway, |

PORT ARTHUR
f the
tide of anger agai

open’

made to develop the market an
what, when it reaches a Cet
auota, the commitment wil wo
become an absolute obligati

This, in effect, would m
mdefinite postponement and ©
plete bypassing of building
longest gas pipeline in the W
which would stimulate te

LPP spokesmen, the most ©
sistent champions of such 2
as a publicly-owned project ma
tain that if the governmen
the day responsible for build!
of the CPR had advanc
argument sthat it was “not
omic” there would never
been a Canada. :

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the U:

Pipin ur gas to ]
ping of our g advan

under the plan being US:
by the cabinet and the;
owned Trans-Canada pipeline le
ihe most striking current mp
of how our country is
a raw material source
industries. ae
This is the second time int 2
years that St. Laurent has
ciated in delivering a mall.
source into U.S. hands. Hea
duplicating his actions ‘of thes
famous deal on the St. Law,

comuB
for ‘US

government, to still public ©"
for a2.

Washington and New
yielded control of vital *
of the Seaway to the U.S.

grounds of “sound econoR’
with the word vjntegtatione
popularized by the St. ;
government, another |.
phrase, “sound econom!

' creeping into the currel *5)

eal vocabulary at Ottawa —~
cover up the sell-out of ag
ereign control over canada
tural resources and 1”
power, the LPP charges: _

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