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Candidates urged
to declare stand

on Bill of Rights

TORONTO

As part of its campaign for a Bill of Rights, the League for Demo-
cratic Rights has issued in pamphlet form, under the title, Our Heritage
of Liberty, an address given by Roscoe Rodd, QC, its national chair-
man, to the recent Eastern Canadian Conference on Civil Liberties.

In addition, the LDR is preparing a folder to be sent to every

candidate in the forthcoming
election urging support for and
endorsation of a Bill of Rights.

A foreword to Our Heritage of
Liberty states:

It is a stirring reminder to the
people of Canada that the rights
and freedoms they enjoy today
did not come by chance. They
were won by their ° ancestors
through courageous actions and
-years of suffering. These free-
doms represent great struggle and
sacrifice on the part of English-
men, Frenchmen, Dutchmen,
Greeks, Russians, Americans, Ne-
groes, Chinese—by men and wo-
men of many tongues and of all
races and creeds who brought to
this country concepts and aspira-
tions for human progress.

This is a timely reminder. Re-
cent actions by the government
of Canada and some provincial
legislatures indicate that Cana-
dians must be on guard for their
traditional rights and liberties.

By. secret orders-in-council, the
dominion cabinet may at any mo-
ment take away our ‘time-honor-
ed freedoms. In the proposed re-
vision of the Criminal.Code are
revealed official intentions to re-
strict and destroy the individual’s
right to liberty, safety and securi-
ty; the right to freedom of asso-
ciation, expression and thought;
the right to ‘a fair trial and to:
protection against arbitrary arrest
and excessive, unjust punishment.

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In jeopardy in Canada today
are labor’s traditional rights and
privileges.

There are many examples of
continuous attacks upon the rights
guaranteed by Magna Charta, the
Petition of Right, the Bill of Rights
and other statutes which form the
foundations of democratic society.

Here too is a challenging ap-
peal to Canadians not only to pro-
tect their heritage of liberties but
to create and produce new liber-
ties to meet their needs as citi-
zens in a modern, dynamic age.

In June, 1950, a Special Com-
mittee on Human Rights and Fun-
damental Freedoms of the Senate
of Canada recommended: That the
parliament of Canada adopt a De-
claration of Rights, as an immedi-
ate though temporary measure,
pending the incorporation into our
constitution of a permanent Bill
of Rights.

The League for Democratic
Rights believes that one of the
first acts of parliament in 1954
should be the adoption of a “De-
claration of the Rights of Can-
adians.” It should be patterned
upon the United Nations’ Uni-
versal Declaration of Human
Rights and intlude: The right to
freedom from discrimination;
the right to freedom of speech,
assembly, association, religion
and citizenship; the right to per-
sonal liberty, fair trial and
equality before the law; the
right to petition and to govern-
ment of, by and for the people.

A “Declaration of the Rights of
Canadians” should be adopted be-
fore parliament begins to complete
the revision of the Criminal Code.

It would be proper and useful
for provincial legislatures and
local governing bodies to endorse
a “Declaration of the Rights of
Canadians.”’ It should be endors-
ed also by organizations and indi-
viduals to help counteract the
dangerous trend toward thought-
control and “McCarthyism” in
Canada. :

Copies of this pamphlet may be
obtained at 25 cents each from the
League for Democratic Rights, 346
Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ont.

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ALEX KUCHER

LPP candidate

Alex Kucher, navy veteran of
the Second World War, has been
nominated for Burnaby-Coquit-
lam riding as an LPP candidate
in the federal election August
10.
one, created by the recent re-
distribution which partitioned _
the old federal riding of Bur-
naby-Richmond.

Details of
advance“poll
announced

Advance poll in connection with
the federal election, August 10, will
be held Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday immediately before polling
day, it was announced this week.
Those eligible to vote in the ad-
vance poll| include commercial
travellers, fishermen, persons em-
ployed on railways, ships and air
services and members of the re-
serve forces going to training
camps.

It is expected that the number
of eligible voters this year will
top the 8,500,000 mark ,some 600,-
000 more registered voters than in
the last election in 1949.

Polling hours will be from 9
am. to 7 p.m. daylight saving
time, and one hour earlier in
places on standard time.

Employees who are registered
voters must be given three con-
secutive hours—apart from lunch
periods—to cast their votes. This
does not! necessarily mean three
hours off work,

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" «yindiéate the Rosenbergs-”

Memorial Committee.

paign now launched to “bring the
truth of the Rosenberg Case to the
Canadian people.” The commit-
tee will also assume responsibil-
ity for the building up of a trust
fund for orphaned Michael and
Robert, sons of Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg.

Calling on all committees to
hold -memorial’ meetings across
the land, the committee announc-
ed that in Toronto such a meet-
ing was to be held here on June
29,->>

The committee will also under-
take distribution of the recently
published book of letters of Ethel
and Julius Rosenberg. Net pro-
ceeds from the sale of the book

was announced.

Rev. Glendon F. Partridge, the
Canadian Presbyterian minister
who spoke at the graveside of
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, was
to he chief speaker at the Tor-
onto memorial meeting.

“Their two children Michael 6,
and Robert 10, now need our pro-
tection,” the statement said. “We
cannot restore their parents to
them. But we can provide warmth
and love.

“We can at this hour dedicate
ourselves to vindicate the Rosen-

Campaign launche
to publicize trutt
on Rosenberg cas

This was the call of the Nationl
Committee to Save the Rosenbergs at its final meeting here on
22. The committee immediately reconstituted itself as The Rosen?

In a press release, it appealed to Canadians: to support its

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bergs. The name of the Ro:
bergs must be cleared and th i
innocence proved to the whole
world. Their execution will
main the shame of the Ul
States of America until truth, 3
tice and honor return 10
country.”

While noting that most cant
dians believed the sentence
too harsh, with hundreds of tho®
sands believing them innocent 4 ant ;
many more having grave doubts
as to their guilt, the committees
statement said:

“It is deplorable that n° of-
ficial government voice in this

country was raised in the Ror.
from

senberg case. A mercy plea
our government as in the ©

of France, may not only have
helped to save the Rosenber9*
but would have given a stron

blow to reaction in Canada at!
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the growing menace of Mc
thyism here, as evidenced in
Bill 93, which contains provi:
ions that could result in Rose”

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