seit iA Wi.’ eo Tell Ottawa to recognize China, peace lobby ur some as many as 200 miles in blinding bli weather was bad, so bad that a car carryi to return to Saskatoon. Lobbyists gathere By BILL BEECHING ges CCF gov't REGINA. s, School teachers and businessmen last week trekked across Saskatchewan, zzard, to lobby the government and MLA’s in this provincial capital, for peace. The ug lobbyists from Saskatoon turned over on the highway and four of the lobbyists had d in the center of Regina to join a car cavalcade to the Parliament Buildings. Slogans decorating the cars read: ‘‘Seat China in the UN’ “‘The People can save peace”? ‘Support the Peace peace” “No rearmament of Japan or Germany.” : Letters, copies of a ‘eace Council’ brief, and a copy of the call to the National Assembly to Save Peace to be held at Toronto next month had been sent two days previously to every MLA. The lobby asked. permission to address the House on the Nine-Point program of the recent Warsaw World Peace Congress and asked Premier T. C. Douglas and his cabinet to meet with lobbyists. Premier Douglas pleaded that he could not establish a precedent over tradition and asserted that urgent business prevented the lobby from addressing the House or meeting with the cabinet. The lobbyists, led by two Regina business men, E. R. Franklin and H. R. E. Rhodes, met their MLA’s, Premier Douglas, Walter Tucker, leader of the Liberal Opposition, and others’ in the corridors and offices of the Parliament Buildings, insisting on discussion of the Nine-Point program and pressing for passage of a resolution calling for seating of People’s China in the UN. Lobbyists reported on the out- come of their discussions at a pub- lic forum held in Regina City Hall SHOPPERS’ | GUIDE Ladies’ Wear SILVER’S LADIES MARY'S 4 Bakeries HASTINGS BAKERIES Fuel UNION FUELS Cleaners DUNN’S CLEANERS Taxis £ EAST END TAXI Cafes Seer JO-ANNE’S ELECTRO MILO ZENITH Jewelers : CASTLE JEWELERS G. L. MASON Markets - GRANDVIEW ’ Barristers STANTON & MUNRO Theaters STUDIO VOGUE Mortician SIMMONS & McBRIDE Steam Baths HASTINGS STEAM BATHS CRYSTAL STEAM ; BATHS Hall Rentals PENDER AUDITORIUM Painters’ Supplies TED HARRIS under chairmanship of Mrs. M. B. Hanway, Regina, president of the Saskatchewan Peace Council. ‘ Bill Horkoff, leading member of the Saskatchewan Farmers Union local at Kamsack, told the audience that this was his first trip to the Parliament Buildings. “I looked it over,” he said, “and I knew where my sweat had gone.” He reported that he had spoken to A. Kuziak, CCF MLA for Canora, who had stated that he was in favor of all nine points of the Warsaw program. When Kuziak was asked if he would attend the national assembly he had stated that he wasn’t sure that he could, but agreed to give it consideration. He assured the lobby that he would definitely become a corresponding Helpeote. Franklin and Rhodes reported that they had ‘cornered Walter Tucker, leader of the Opposition, in the legislative library. Franklin reported that Tucker could find nothing wrong with the Nine- Point program. “But he talked to us through a, haze of anti-Com- munist prejudice, telling us, ‘We all believe in peace—you get the Russians to. believe in it too’.” They told the audience that when Fon. I. C. Nollet, minister for agri- culture, had been asked to present a resolution to the House calling |for seating of People’s China in the UN, he had stated that he didn’t think such a resolution necessary. “The job we have to do is yet unfinished,’ Franklin said. “The people showed their faith in peace today. We have presented the nine points, and we are going to ask to speak to a caucus meeting in order to propose the seating of People’s China in the form of a resolution.” He informed the meet- ing that Premier Douglas had promised to give very- serious. con- sideration to all the questions rais- ed in the brief. ° Rhodes observed that there was a distinct difference between Lib- eral MLA’s and C@F MLA’s, point- ing out that in the main the CCF MLA’s had been very receptive, while the Liberals had been gener- ally hostile and antagonistic. Gaylord C. Whyte, of Regina, re- lating how he had talked to Pre- mier Douglas and Hon. C. M. Fines, minister of finance, said he had told them the lobby was a cross- | section of the ‘people of the prov- inee, and of opinion in the province, and that it was an added demon- stration for peace by the people “who are behind you in this move on China.” Fines had stated that in his opinion People’s. China should have been seated a year ago, and all this present trouble would have been avoided. Premier Douglas told Whyte that “we have made a definite stand, and the government is solidly behind that stand.” ‘ last week. Fred Schofield, of Swift Current. director of the SFU and the Pion- eer Co-op, and member of Swift Current School Board, reported he had talked to Harry Gibbs, CCF MLA for Swift Current, who re- gretted that he couldn’t attend the national assembly because he had to go back to his work after the session was over, : Gibbs, however, had declared his opposition to conscription and his ple’s China. Gibbs had said that he personally intended to use some of his radio time to deal further with the ques- tion. s Schofield also reported that Hon. T. J. Bentley, minister of health, had agreed to support any resolu- tion for recognition of People’s China moved in the House. ‘Catherine Wiggins, chairman of the National Federation of Labor Youth in Regina, reported that J. Benson, Independent MLA, had agreed to support exchange of youth delegations between Canada and the Soviet Union, China and the New Democracies, for the pur- pose of furthering international re- lations, and in order to break down some of the barriers constituting a threat to: peace. He.had also stated his willingness to become a corresponding delegate to the na- tional assembly. Benson, Miss Wiggins. added, .thought Canada was already ac- tually at war with the ‘Chinese people in Korea, and that there should be an immediate 100 percent conscription of all wealth and all manpower. John Kolynchuk, of Saskatoon, reported he had met with A Kuziak, who was very sympathetic, and W. Korchinski, Liberal launched into a bitter attack on the peace council. “He doesn’t represent the Ukrainian people,” said Kolynchuk. “Ukrainian peo- ple want peace. Korchinski is in full fayor of the rearming of West Germany and Japan.” Mrs. Betty Guest, Saskatoon housewife, reporting on her dis- cussions with (Fion. Jack Sturdy, minister of social welfare, said he had told the lobbyists that his gov- ee full support for recognition “of Peo- A, who had’ troops ernment stood for peace, and that the entire gowernment backed Pre- mier Douglas. } Sturdy had stated his opposition - to the release of Nazi war crim- | inals and rearming of Germany and had stated that if a member introduced a reaolution on China, he would support it. He had welcomed the lobby, because he felt that it was up to the people to fight for peace, and had sug- gested that the people should send letters and telegrams to Ot- tawa. Bs One CCF MILA interviewed, A. F. Stone of Saskatoon, had been decidedly opposed to the Peace Council, labelling it as a Commun- ist organization, said Mrs. Guest. He told the lobbyists that he would ‘not agree to support any resolution on recognition of. China, Rhodes reported that one cabinet member, Hon. Louis Lloyd, minister of education, had refused to state his position. When questioned about propaganda ‘for war in schools through the use of Am- erican films, he stated that the policy of his department. was to Council Lobby to save : These men and women demonstrating at Lake Success for seating People’s China in the UN have the support of the majority of the Canadian pcople,, as the Saskatchewan peace lobby showed oe 4 : * / allow “freedom? on these things in the schools. Rhodes also. told the forum that Hon. C. C, Williams, minister of | labor, had been very receptive, al- though expressing the opinion the CCF had done all it could. Wil- liams had. conveyed his distress over use of jellied gasoline by the Americans in Korea, and had stat- ed emphatically that he would sup- port a resolution. on China in the House. * $ : A. resolution addressed to the — COR government urging that it pass a resolution calling for the seating of People’s China in the UN was endorsed by the meeting: S. H. Morrison, president of — Regina Peace Council, reported to the meeting that the executive of the Saskatchewan Civil Ser- vants Association had adopted 2 resolution branding all Commut- ists and Peace Qouncil members — _ an “subversive” and calling for — , their expulsion from the union. He asked all supporters of the peace movement to support him- self and Mrs. Hanway, as mem — bers of that union, by voicing — their protests, ; ' Condemning the war propaganda of the daily press as being in direct contradiction to UN assur- ances “that everything possible is being done to bring peace tothe world as soon as possible,” Leo Nimsick, CCF MLA for Cranbrook, assailed press statements referring to the present action of Canadian in Korea as “Operation Killer” when he spoke in the legis- lature last week. - sicy , } “We have been informed by the United Nations that everything possible is being done to bring peace to the world as soon as possible,” he said. “It is not my ‘purpose to argue the merits or demerits of this but I have been’ taught as a Christian that all man- kind are my brothers, and that it was wrong to kil. ™ . : __ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 9, 1951 — PAG CCF MLA scores war_ propaganda in dailies" VICTORIA, B.C. | “Therefore, I deplore the state ments that come out in the pres® such as ‘we are not interested in) we capturing prisoners or taking — ; towns, but in seeing how many - Chinese we can kill’ i “Such statements should b®& brought \to the attention of the - federal government, because I D& lieve that. our Canadian boys de erve a higher place in the mind of the Canadian public than to )@ classed as just plain killers.” a _ Nimsick deplored the great stres> placed by the daily press on war expenditures, declaring: aye ; “I am of the opinion that out efforts for world peace will b@ greatly erhanced when the prest ige and stature of a nation ce be judged by the amount it bud- gets for the welfare ‘of its people — and not by the amount ‘ armaments, Age 4) ¥ p?