hier 7, POA ay ie ¥eP June 30th, 1950. aE . mittee says in parte jinn Pence Congress ent -ither open or 1 welcom this he road leading to paaon." ‘Negotiate Now’ peace lobby set for September 11 TORONTO “Date of the ‘Negotiate Now’ peace lobby at Ottawa has been set for September 11,” Miss Mary Jennison, secretary of the Canadian Peace Congress has announced here. This statement was made after Prime Minister St. Laurent de- elared that the international crisis would be dealt with at the pre- sent emergency session of parlia- ment. Plans for the lobby have been outlined by a coordinating meet- ing held by officers of the Cana- dian Peace Congress, the Congress of Canadian Women, and the Na- tional Youth Lobby Committee. “All lobbyists are asked to stand by prepared to leave for Ottawa, on very short notice, if there is any attempt to dispose of the matter of the internation- al crisis prior to September 11, Miss Jennison added. “In other words all lobby preparations are put on an immediate ‘stand-by’ basis.” The lobby will be by mothers, wives, sweethearts and young. people, stressing the need for ne. gotiation, not military action, to avert atomic war. Delegations are already arrang- ing to make submissions to sev- eral MP’s in advance of the lob by. , “With fresh statements being made about use of atom-bombs in this crisis, the latest being that of Senator Wiley of Wisconsin, the urgency grows by the hour to break the international dead- lock,” Miss Jennison stressed. me ene ‘tie See 45 East Hastings Ot tt fe ee ee te te ee eT ee “For Canada to raise its voice for the Nehru proposals might well tip the scales in the coun- cils of the nations since that is what almost everybody in the world wants. Canadian public opinion has been shown to be against the idea that commit- ment of troops will contribute te a solutica. We can only pray that our government will raise its voice in time to save us from the unspeakable horror that will ensue if the deadlock is not broken.” 2 A delegation of Central Toronto and Willowvale Peace Associa- tions, women, youth, Ukrainian, Jewish and other groups inter- . viewed David Croll, MP for Spa- dina, last week. They asked his support to the demand for gov- ernmental policies of “peaceful negotiation not drift to war,” ending the deadlock in the 'U.N. Security Council and for the Can- adian government to “ask all gov- ernments for a commitment not to use atomic weapons in this crisis.” Croll replied that he loathed war and could not find any- body in Canada who wants war. He said no responsible person would be in favor of the use of the atom bomb. He said he was a firm supported of the United Nations. EXTENDS LABOR DAY GREETINGS TO- THEIR MANY FRIENDS AND PATRONS LABOR DAY 1950 Vancouver, B.C. UNION MADE MEN’S WEAR Oe Sun suppresses reply _made by Endicott to its smear of peace petition TORONTO A Vancecuver Sun editorial drawing from the Dean of Kootenay’s withdrawal of his signature the implication that the Canadian methods to obtain signatures for the Stockholm Endicott, Congress chairman, in a letter to the editor of that photostats, made public here this week. from backed by reply Dr. James paper, (Although Dr. Endicott’s letter was written on August 19, no mention of it has yet appeared in the Vancouver Sun.) Full text of the letter to the edi- tor of the Vancouver Sun follows, and photostats* referred to are reproduced on this page: Your implications that the Ca- nadian Peace Congress, of which I am chairman, is using “fraudu- lent” methods to obtain signatures to the Petition for Peace are ut- terly false. The August 8 edition of your paper carried an editorial entitled “Even the Dean Was Taken In” and a letter from the Dean of Kootenay entitled “Dean of Koot- enay Repudiates Signing ‘Peace Petition’ Circulated by Reds.” Please publish the following, along with the facsimiles of the documents involved, so that your readers may be sure that there is nothing fraudulent about the Pe- tition for Peace (this petition asks the outlawing of atomic wea- pons, with strict international con- trol, and declares that the first government to use such weapons is a war criminal): 1—In signing, ‘the Dean wrote a sentence which in itself answers his subsequent letter and your editorial, namely: “How can any- one fail to support such a pe- tition?” 2—The Dean also said “How- ever, this does not commit me to support of the Canadian Peace Congress, about which I am poor- ly informed.” My letter had stated explicitly that signing the peti- tion’ was not a commitment to support of the Canadian Peace Congress, much as we would wel- come that support. 3—My letter of June 30 to Dean Leadbeater made it quite clear that the Petition for Peace em- bodies the worldwide Stockholm Peace Appeal, as the facsimile shows. 4—Presumably the' reason the Dean’s name was published, along with many others, in the Pacific Tribune is that all names of An- glican and United Church minis- ters signing, as well as a great deal of other peace news is re- leased regularly to all the press in Canada, You, sir, suppress this news as it is sent to you. The Pacific Tribune appears to have printed it. You have suppressed the news of all other leading Ca- nadians signing the petition. Yet you gave great prominence, and an editorial, to this “repudiation.” Are you the “Vancouver news- .paperman” who wrote to the Dean (without writing to me also) in an effort to produce a “repudia- tion”? 5—The Dean has now written further to me (and simultaneous- ly to you), stating he was not “hoodwinked,” to use the word- ing of your editorial, but signed in “ignorance.” Please refer again to the facsimile of my letter. '8—Regarding the Dean’s quota- tion of the World Council of Churches resolution urging “a gigantic new effort for peace” and for governments “to enter into ‘negotiations once again, and to do do everything in their power to bring the present tragic deadlock to an end” (as well as the addi- tional part of the resolution which says use of the H-bomb would be “g great sin against God”), may I say that I pray God that He will bring success to all who work for this objective, as well as for Peace {etition for Heace To the Government of Canada: I, the undersigned, petition you to make the followirg declaration 1. Canada stands for the uncondi- tional banning by all countries, of the atomic. weapon as an instrument of aggression and mass extermination of people, with strict international con- trol over the fulfillment of this deci- ada will regard as a war cri- t government which first es the atomic weapon against any country This Petition is being circulated in ALL countries to ensure that there shall be no more war. — Ghar A Uhm bear Address... 72° dae, G- yan So Bah YW. Occupation a da [Ajfor pon f Remarks the Red Cross proposal for out- lawing atomic weapons, as well as the Stockholm Appeal, and for all other efforts for peace. 7—The Stockholm Appeal is a good thing. If Communists also support it, that is no reason why Christians should not. The spe- cial nature of this appeal is that it is winning the support of the majority of, divers Qseixtions of mankind, not just one séction. That is what makes it a great barrier to war. 8—The Dean’s last letter states: “If the U.S.A. proposes to check Russia by using the atomic bomb, it has already good reason to do so in Korea.” We therefore agree with the Dean that it would be best for him to withdraw his name from the Petition for Peace, which is based on the proposition that neither the U.S., nor the Soviet Union, nor any country has “good reason” to initiate the mass extermination of people. If the bomb can be stopped, global war can be stopped. 9—Finally, may I be permitted to join with the Dean in his clos- ing statement to me: “Time will tell who is right, but let us hope and pray that ‘God’s will be done’ in spite of the confusion of voices and ideas.” Congress is peace appeal fraudulent stinging using has. drawn a Toronto police brutally beat vel petitioner TORONTO Brutal beating by Toronto city police of a young war veteran, one of eight {peace petitioners picked up for canvassing at the gates of the Canadian National Exhibition here, has been de- nounced as “an outrage” by the Canadian Peace Congress. The veteran, Sam Michnick, re- fused to give up his petition forms after he was taken to the station by police officers and, according to the Congress’ statement “was Savagely attacked and beaten in a room on police premises by members of the force.” The attack on Michnick follows closely upon the arrest and con- viction of Walter Krehm, an- other Toronto {peace petitioner, who was charged under Section 222B of the Criminal Code, usual- ly invoked for drunk and dis- orderly conduct in publie places, and fined $50 or 30 days. ‘The Congress has announced that the conviction will be appealed. (Hearings of charges against three of five peace petitioners arrested four weeks ago for canvassing on Vancouver streets was this week deferred for a second time. The charge is that of “obstructing police.”) The Congress’ statement on Michnick related that the jand seven. other youthful peace peti- tioners were collecting signatures at the Canadian National Exhibi- tion on Warriors’ Day, August. 26, when they were picked up by police, At the police station, Michnick, “seeking to maintain his trust to. those who had* signed his peti- tion by not giving up the peti- tions without consultation with his lawyer, was savagely attacked and beaten” by police. Michnick, the statement con- tinued, was held by police until late that night and then released On bail only after a citizen who witnessed his arrest had informed his wife. Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas Extends Fraternal Greetings On Labor Day 1950 STANTON Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries SUITE 515, FORD BUILDING, 198 E. HASTIA Gs ST. (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MArine 5746 & MUNRO — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 1, 1950—PAGE