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Friday, June 23, 1950

“EASE INTERNATIONAL FRICTION’

~ Regina CCF mstion
urges cold war end

REGINA

“The greatest need at the moment is for the easing of inter-
national tension and the removal of causes of friction which may lead

to open conflict,”

June 14 by the Regina CCF constituency convention.

declares a resolution on international policy passed

The resolution

is now being circulated in every Saskatchewan constituency prior to
the CCF national and provincial conventions.

While hot calling for outlaw-
ing of the atomic weapon, it
says, “In this critical hour the
preservation of peace” should be
“the chief bbject = public pol-
say.”

It adds: “Atomic scientists and
military experts have solemnly
Warned us that resort to war with
modern means of destruction, such
as atom bombs, hydrogen bombs,
and bacteria, will mean the end
of civilization as we know it and
the probable extinction of the
human race.”

The resolution attributes “much
of the tension and friction” to “the
attempt of the nations to achieve
their security only by seeking an
overwhelming preponderance of

military power.” It calls for “use

and support” of UN agencies, but
does not mention the inclusion of
the Chinese People’s Government
in the UN to end the present dead-
lock, as proposed by UN Secretary-
General Trygve Lie.

“War between the U.S. and the
Soviet Union is not inevitable,”
says, the resolution, “To assume
that war is inevitable and to act
as if this were so, is to admit de-
feat and betray the human cause.”

Peaceful co-existence of the U.S.
and the Soviet Union is dealt with
in the phrase: “One may be aware
of the great evils in the policies of
both these powerful states and at
the same time recognize that dif-
fering and opposed systems of life
and thought have in the past ex-
isted side by side and may do so
in the present, granted a reason-
able amount of patience and good-
will in high places. Nor should
one underestimate the desire for

peace among millions of people on
both sides of the iron curtain of
suspicion and fear that divides the
world.” i

Supporting the words of the Re-
gina Manifesto (1933), “a foreign
policy designed to obtain inter-_
national economic cooperation and
to promote disarmament and
world peace,” the resolution en-
dorses “world government,” pend-
ing which the following measures
are pledged “for the purpose of
reducing immediate friction and
promoting better understanding”:

1—Progressive disarmament and
international inspection and con-
trol .through .the .U.N., .and
strengthening the U.N.’s concilia-
tion functions.

2—Urge the government to “ex-
tend its policy” of exploring every
avenue of trade, to include the
Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and
Asia, and Calls on “our own and
other governments to facilitate
the exchange of group visits be-
tween Canada and the countries
“where suspicion and fear have
led 4o international fricticn.”

&8—Regret that the North Auan-
tic pact “has so far been only a
military alliance” instead of a “co-
cperative measure for social and
economic betterment.”

4—Means of public information
should promote understanding in-
stead of hysterical fear and hat-
red.

5—Urge our government to
cease contributing to the continu-
ance of reactionary regimes and
instead .give encouragement .to
democratic and progressive forces
everywhere.”

Prime Minister Louis St.
Laurent and External Affairs
Minister L. B. Pearson have
been asked by the Canadian
Peace Congress to endorse the
World Peace Appeal along with

. “the many millions” demanding
a ban on atomic weapons.

The Peace Appeal reads:

1. The uneonditional banning
by all countries of the atomic
weapon as an instrument of
aggression and mass extermin-
ation of people, with strict in-
ternational control over the ful-
filment of this decision.

2. To regard as a war crim-
inal that government which
first uses the atomic weapon
against any country.

The Appeal is being circulat-
ed by the Canadian Peace Con-
gress with the aim of 500,000
signatures by October 2.

A letter from Mary Jennison,
Congress secretary, points out
that signatures to the World
Peace Appeal include “the
prime minister of Finland, the
attorney-general of France and
prominent statesmen of many
countries.”

Approval of the appeal, says

St. Laurent, Pearson asked
to sign Stockholm appeal

~port for the Canadian Peace

PRIME MINISTER
ST. LAURENT
Miss Jennison, means opening
“the road leading to peace.”
She urged the ministers to join
the 120,000,000 who have al-
ready signed the appeal.
Endorsation would not “ne-
eessarily anticipate your sup-

Congress (much as we would
welcome that support),” the let-
ter stated. “The World Peace
Appeal is the property of no
organization or group of or-
ganizations.” —

Fraser River floods Fort Langley area

Along the Fraser River, flood workers, reinforcing the dykes at weak points, have thus far
succeeded in holding the waters back from rich farmlands. But not everywhere, as this picture of the

Fczt Langley area shows.

SEAMEN Liberals steal.

votes to hold
Montreal-Cartier —

By FRANK ARNOLD

e, the undersigned twelve
ae: gee who have been,
locked up for over a month in
Vancouver, want to bring to the
public the story of our case.

On the 2nd or 3rd of May, 1950,
on the SS Canosaga, under the
Panamanian flag, we arrived in
Vancouver under the following
conditions: Shamefully low wage
of 54 to 84 dollars per month, with
only 28 cents per hour for over-
time. We asked the captain to
raise these poor wages and the
rate for overtime, but the captain
and the company, George Ivanos,
refused to raise them. We also ask-
ed them to improve our working
and living conditions. This also
was refused and then we voted
to strike to gain our demands.

As a result of the strike, because
we refused to sail on the ship un-
der such rotten, disgraceful con-
ditions, the captain, the company,
and the Panamanian consul went
to the court and obtained there
an order that we must leave the
ship. Obeying the court order we
took our belongings from the ship,

the customs officers inspected our.

belongings and told us to go.
We went to the Seamen’s Insti-
tute. After eight days the immi-
gration authorities picked us up
and locked us, until the present
time, up in the Immigration
Building wanting to deport us to
Greece. We think that it is wrong

to lock us up and to deport us.

because we wanted to strike for
better pay and better conditions.
All we ask is this:
1—We have taken every re

‘course to the courts to protect.

our rights. Presently our appeal
is before Ottawa. We do not ask

‘to be allowed to remain in Canada

‘

or to become Canadian citizens;
all we ask is to be given reason-
able time to give us chance to get
jobs on another ship so that we
can work our way, and provide
for our families, and avoid de-
portation to Greece and the stig-
ma of deportation. We needed bet-
ter wages because the cost of liv-

_ ing in Greece is 300 percent high-

er than in Canada. It was impos-
sible for our families to live on
the poor wages we were getting.
We should not be persecuted for
exercising a simple trade union
right or for obeying a Canadian
court order, ~ “r

2—-We appeal to the kind heart.
ed and friendly people of Canada
to help us to be released from
detention, because deportation to
our country would mean that we
would be locked up in concentra-
tion camps, in dark and damp dun-

VONTEISAI

The notorious Liberal machine here went all-out in its successful
campaign to retain the Montreal-Cartier seat but it was’ unable to
smother the challenge to government war policies posed by Harry
Binder, LPP candidate, who. conducted a strong campaign around

the central issue of peace.

TOGO eM UC LL}

Sask. United Church
takes stand for peace

SASKATOON

The Saskatchewan Conference
of the United Church has called
for rejection of “those counsels
of despair which assume that

ewar is inevitable.”

The resolution called for a
sincere effort by every Christian
to seek peace and recommended
to the General Council of the
United Church that church rep-
resentatives should visit the
U.S., Europe (including specific-'
ally the Soviet Union,) and Asia
to confer with church leaders
there.

COU MEe  er Tt  te te Tt Tet Tn

geons under the most inhuman
and terrible tortures, as is hap-
pening to thousands of Greeks—
unionists and democratic people
— whc have been tortured and
killed for the last five years.
That is our fate if we are sent

back to Greece. With no chance

to live if deported, we—all twelve
of us — have decided to prefer
death by hunger strike in a Cana-
dian Immigration shed to slow
death of torture and brutal beat-
ings in a Greek concentration
camp of the Dachau type.

With deportation facing us
shortly we make this urgent and
last appeal for help of all demo-
cratic Canadian people and the
trade union movement. We believe
that this appeal to the freedom-
loving people of Canada to sup-
port us in our fight to be released
to join ships and leave Canada
will be answered.

With many thanks,

Kirikos Armenakis;  Kiriakog
Mpoucogiannis; A. Karras; N.
Psillos; N. Manthos; Vasilios Ve-
netoulis; Leopoldo Lafagar Dugue;
Basilou; L. Basilatos; Vergilis;
Constantinidis.

Result of the voting in this
week’s federal by-election was:

Crestohl (Lib.) ......... . 9,701
Binder (LPP) ..........: 8,907
Hebert: (PG). cissse-. ssn 2,836
_ Kaplansky (CCF) ........ 1,461

Election workers say the Lib-
eral party machine put over the

most flagrant election steal ever

seen in this riding, anda it is
openly charged here that the Lib-
erals telegraphed thousands of
votes.

So brazen was the wholesale
impersonation that hoodlums
were paid off openly om street
corners, The police ran inter-—
ference. It is charged that i?
One poll gunmen seized the bal- —
lot box 2nd for ten minutes
stuffed in Liberal votes.

The arrest of 30 LPP electio®
workers on the weekend for dis
tributing legal election handbills
was direct police interference 4&
signed to prevent the electorate
from hearing the burning indict)
ment of the Liberal immigratio?
policy,

Issuance of a warrant for the
arrest of Harry Binder’s offi-
cial agent, John Syritenian sa was
aimed at preventing the
from stopping wp tee Ee
fraud.

In the 5,000 over-all drop from
general election voting in sl
last year Binder lost 1,000, e ‘
increased his percentage of *
total. The CCF splitting candidat?
lost heaviest and ran last. re

In an election night speech é
300 fighting election workers to
der said: “Our job is to go ba pack ‘or
the people at once. Our fight S
peace and the public vin
m fe) a

eeting the widest supp iw of

the majority of Cartier’s
for peace felt upon the
government.”

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