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Vancouver, British Columbia, July 20, 1951

_ Resolutions welcoming cease fire talks and callmg for peace in
Korea pouring in from democratic organizations on the Canadian,
Britisa and American governments received acknowledgment last week
in the opening statement made by Nam II, chief delegate from the

Stene of cease fire talks

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the Government will ask Parliament to: pass,
here at the request of .the U.S: .Government. ‘That: is something
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bases agreement, the U.S. made it clear that’ Canadian: Security”
restrictions were not considered adequate. Accordingly: and at U.S.
request, the Dominion agreed to seek legislation which W uld_pro-.

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' Korean People’s Army, as cease fire talks commenced at Kaesong.

“The Korean people, the Chinese people, the Soviet people and
the peace-loving people throughout the world, including the American
and British people, all ardently demand the early determination of the
Korean war and the peaceful settlement of the Korean question,” he

said. ‘I hope that we can reacn
an agreement in these negotiations
in order to satisfy the demands
of the broad masses of the peo-
ple.”

Nam II submitted three pro-
posals. to the. UN. delegation~in
defining the basic attitude of the
Korean and Chinese people to-
ward armistice negotiations:

@ A simultaneous order for
“cessation of hostile military ac-
tions of each and every sort.”

@ Fixing of the 38th parallel
as the line of military demarca-
tion with withdrawal of each party
or 10 kilometres on either side
of this line to create a non-mili-
tary zone.

@ Withdrawal of all foreign
troops “in the shortest possible
time.”

When negotiations were broken
off, Kim II Sung, supreme com-
mander of the Korean People’s
Army, and Peng Teh-huai, com-
mander of the Chinese People’s
Volunteers, sent a letter to General

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Embargo upon
heef exports
fo U.S. urged

With Canadian working people
increasingly being driven to ask
why they should accept horse-
meat and allow the beef they
cannot afford to buy to be ex-
ported to the Unitijzd States, the
Congress of Canadian Women is
pressing a campaign for an em-
bargo and beef exports to the U.S.

This week the Congress urged
housewives and consumers to de-
mand that the St. Laurent gov-
ernment place an embargo against
shipping beef cattle to the U.S.
and instead pay a subsidy to
farmers raising beef cattle in
order to bring beet prices within
reach of working people without
forcing farmers to take the loss.

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the effect of outlawing, under pain .of possible death
séntence, all public criticism of the foreign and domestic

policies of the government,

“Under the amendment to Section 132a, a Canadian
voicing criticism, for example, of the conduct of the U.S.
government in international affairs, could be open to a

charge of ‘sedition’.

out warrant.”

“The amendment to Section 509a would make it
possible for any strike by workers for better rates of
pay, to be construed as an ‘Aet prejidicial to the safety
of Canada’ and subject to ten years’ imprisonment.

“The amendment to Section 127 bestows upon police
officers the unheard of, arbitrary power to search with-