Aletta ieee ree pala nib dd bore Se vi Vol. 10, No. 30: : 4 Uy Lye , eM ae WEY. i ‘eae PME SALE. Dheeact i “Vancouver, British Columbia, July 27, 195] hil «< <> “? , : fa PRICE FIVE GENTS REPEAL CRIMINAL CODE AMENDMIENTS-SASK, CCF SASKATCON Mediation to end the war in rea, world peace through ne- Sotiation, and. immediate repeal of the Garson treason amendments to the Criminal Code were unani- Mously demanded by the dele- Sates to the Saskatchewan pro- Yincial CCF convention, held uly 18-20. The Garson *amend- Ments were condemnad as “2 direct and absolute threat to civil “Tights in Canada.” he convention demanded the t aurent government pay West- £m farmers $48 million, additional en the five-year pool wheat) par- 'y prices for the 1950-51 wheat “fop, and a roll-back of farm Machinery prices to 1946 levels. witlderman Dr. E. Mahood of : ose Jaw, supporting the con- “ntion panel report on national and Mternational affairs, told the Sonvention; Ae he United Nations was not Sanized to make war on the porean People, devouring Korean ‘aq and villages with gasoline tee bombs. The UN is being ®d by the United States for pur- ee ,, with which we cannot He Which one will be After a stormy debate the dele- gates adopted: the amended panel report which inéluded: 1, Retum of the UN to its orig- * inal intention of working. for peace through negotiation, rather than attempt to enforce so-called peace through rearming and war; Peace in Korea through mediation. S Immediate recognition of People’s China by Canada; CLE 4, Termination of all interfer- ence by foreign powers -in Formosa; 5. No rearming of Germany. e Premier T. C. Douglas, ad- dressing the opening banquet de- clared: “If the great nations of the world would take 25 percent of their war production to help the backward nations, I think it would do more to bring about world peace than all the billions now being spent on armaments... . The UN should not be used to force reactionary regimes — the Chiang Kai-shek, Syngman Rhee and Franco regimes—on people that don’t want them. The task of the UN is to maintain peace, not to go in and destroy any gov- ernment or people whose ideology we do not agree with.” H. Mitchell of Fiske moved, and Percy Wright, MP, Melfort, seconded an amendment to the panel report which would have UU Te TT ee Te ee Te ED Te EB | placed the convention squarely on record in favor of official: UN policy. This was rejected after stormy debate, and a closely con- tested vote which is judged as a further criticism of the pro-war policies of CCF national leader M. .J Coldwell, who significantly did not attend the convention. Indicative of Saskatchewan dissatisfaction with policy and Convinued on back page See CCF Truman-Franco alliance menaces peace, says Buck TORONTO The Truman-Franco alliance which has ‘‘shocked the world” is a new menace to world peace and must be condemned, lim Buck, LPP national leader, de- clared this week m a statement by the party’s national executive. Calling upon every Canadian to fight against the. alliance, Buck said: ““The demand must arise all over Canada that our government condemn and oppose this sname- ful act of the U.S. The memory of Canada’s heroes of the Mac- kenzie-Papineau Battalion who ‘Miss B.C. Labor’? 4 fought and died for democracy in Spain, and the security and peace of Canada, demand this.” Following is full text of the LPP statement: The mission of U.S. Admiral Sherman to Madrid has shocked the world. On Tuesday, July 17, on instructions of the Truman government Admiral Sherman concluded an alliance with the fascist dictator of Spain, Franco. This alliance provides (1) That U.S. naval and air forces will occupy strategic bases in Spain; (2) That the U.S. will give finan- cial and material aid to Franco, to prop up his fascist regime against the rising, popular move- ment of Spain’s workers, peasants and democrats who are fighting for peace and liberty; (3) That Franco will send Spanish cannon fodder to serve under U.S. Gen- eral Eisenhower's Atlantic com- mand. : This U.S.-Franco alliance is a ‘challenge and warning to every Canadian. It is striking evidence of the fascist character of the Truman administration in __ its drive to world war. It is the for- eign policy counterpart of the im- prisonment of Communists in the U.S. and the attempt to crush democratic liberties in that coun- try. The demand must arise all over Canada that our government condemn and oppose this shame- Continued on back page See BUCK DUR ee ee ee fn Ge SUE ECEEEEE Farm Union delegates call for pact of peace CANORA, Sask. More than a hundred delegates and visitors attending the annual Saskatchewan Farmers Union convention for District. overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution calling upon the Canadian ' severnment to work for a Pact of Peace among the five great nowers as the only road. to establish peace in the world. Only three delegates voted in opposition t) the resolution. (A month ago 2 similar resolution was adopted by SFU District 5S.) 1 ] | { | in the “Miss B.C. Labor” contest at the Annual Park. From left “9 right: Freda “ehan (Miss Pamela Noel (Miss Burnaby), Mary Thomas (Miss ena Grace Stevens (Miss Hastings East). Not Stewart (Miss Shipyard Worker), Marguer- The conventon also called on Ottawa to adiust “he price of “arm produce on the basis of parity in order that farmers could continue onerations under the drastic increases in the cost of i : operations. I called for an increase in the initial price of wheat *o at least $1.60 for the new crop year. oes Smiling girls shown above are eat epee A Sons} “tenic on sunday, August 12, at Contederati? bor “nconver),: Sylvia Friedman (Miss Burrard), hown Youth), Doreen Arsenault (Méss tina ave i ie are Audrey Brandon (Miss North Vancouver a Rudkeyvich (Miss East End) and Carole Kelley.