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By BILL BEECHING

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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

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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

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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. *

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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

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