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It could happen to you

If American intervention in Korea is extended to other countries,
and provokes a third world war in which the U.S. uses the atom-
bomb, the scars borne by this survivor of Hiroshima may be
duplicated on those who survive the atomic bombing of other Cities.
It could happen here—if the will for peace of the world’s peoples

is not imposed through the Stockholm Appeal to, ban the atom-bomb.

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6 former MLAs urge
CCF stand for peace

“Although we have had occasion
to forward you a copy of the ap-
peal in the past, we enclose a fresh
copy of the same appeal for your
closer perusal. In addition, we
would like to draw to your aiten-
tion the following: :

1 If there is a ruse in the petition,
which is simply aimed at unit-
ing all of humanity for peace
and life against atomic exter-
mination, the ruse is that it
smokes out any who harbor
plans or approve the criminal
idea of unleashing atomic ag-
gression,
clause two of the petition, not
quoted in the dispatch, calls
for the branding as a war crim-
inal of any government that
first uses atomic weapons_ of,
mass extermination. You will
also note that this clause names
no government and applies to
all governments equally.

According to official informa-
tion from the Paris headquar-
ters of the World Peace Com-
mittee—information which is
as accessible to you as it is to
us—not only is this identical
petition being circulated in the
USSR, but the Soviet Peace _
Committee, at latest report, has
signed up 100 million citizens
of that country on it. In addi-
tion, the Soviet governnient has
formally endorsed it along with
many other governments in the
world.

“Latest tabulation of signatures
to the appeal, which is being cir-
culated in all countries of the
world, reveals the total of 224 mil-
lion. :

“We would appreciate hearing
from you a correction of the un-
fortunate misinformation contain-
ed in your previous statement.”

_ Related to Coldwell’s blatant at-
tempts to distort the aims of the
Stockholm Appeal was another
letter addressed to CCF national |
convention delegates by six former
Manitoba and Ontario CCF
MLA’s: Berry Richards, Dr. D. L.
Johnson and Wilfred Doneleyko
of Manitoba; and Leslie Hancock, .

You will note that ©

Robert H. Carlin and Rae Lucock

of Ontario,

Their letter stated:

“All of us, the undersigned, were

“members of the CCF, and each of

us a member of a provincial legis-
lature, elected by sincere men and
women who all
other things to haye péace, and to
leave the world a better place for
their children.

wanted above

“Bach cf us was excluded from
the CCF because we sincerely and
passionately worked and spoke for
the unity of the labor movement
against the new threats of reac-
tion and war which swiftly follow-
ed on the victory over the fascist
Axis. ‘

“Bach of us, today, is active in
the movement for world peace, for
the outlawing of the atomic weap-
en, for an end to the war in Korea
by' permitting the Korean people
to govern their own affairs free

from outside interference, and for.

that unity of labor and the people
which the progress of our country
so sorely requires.

“We are dsking friends of peace
in Vancouver to distribute this
appeal to you, delegates to the
CCF national convention, in the
earnest hope that you will respond
to the great Stockholm Appeal of
the World Peace Congress, which
is being circulated in Canada by

' the Canadian Peace Congress. A

copy of the peace petition is at-
tached to this appeal.

“The endorsation of the Stock-
holm Appeal does not mean that
you should change your political
convictions, because it is address-
ed to all men and women of good
will who want peace through the
abolition of that terror weapon

which surely will be used should
‘world war come about, and from

which the innocent at home are
the chief sufferers.

“Please set aside whatever pre:
judices may have prevented you,

up to now, from associating with
this mighty world petition for
peace, and sign your name, as we
have done.” a

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world peace petition

By TIM BUCK

MONTREAL

One of the heartening signs that the battle for signatures to the Stockholm declar-
ation is winning new circles of adherents ‘every day is to be seen in French Canada where,
in addition to the growing wave of signatures to the petition, peace and the Stockholm
Declaration are now the subjects of broad public discussions. :

Broad popular interest through-
out French Canada in outlawing
the atomic bomb and in the fight
for peace is not surprising. A
deeply rooted tradition of opposi-
tion to imperialism and to im-
perialist war is an integral part
of the national consciousness of
this proud peace-loving people.
Furthemore, the democrats in
French Canada have learned by
bitter experience that successive
federal governments have devel-
oped a technique of step-by-step
involvement of our country in im-
perialist war even while assuring
the people that we shall not be
involved. '

The above explains in part; why
the Quebec Council of the Cana-
dian Peace Congress was able to
announce a few weeks ago that
the mayors and council members
of 21 municipalities in the prov-
ince of Quebec had signed the
Stockholm petition and that, in
several of these municipalities the
parish priest had signed also. That
response illustrated immediately

‘the seriousness with which masses

of the people of French Canada
and their elected representatives
consider the issue of outlawing
the atomic bomb.

U.S. military intervention in
Korea and the barrage of inflam-
matory propaganda that was
turned upon the people—in French
Canada equally as everywhere
else in North America—did not
change the attitude of the people
of this country; on the contrary,
it was followed immediately by
an increase in the stream of sup-
port for the Stockholm: declara-
tion.

The haste with which the Tru-
man administration seized upon
the outbreak of civil war in Korea
as=an excuse to plunge the US.
into open war against People’s
China and half of the people of all,
Asia was a forceful reminder to
Canadians that the question of:
whether or not Canada, should
participate in that U.S. war and
the question of whether or not the
atomic bomb is to be outlawed are
issues upon. which no_ serious-
minded man or woman can be
neutral. ;

In French Canada the result
was immediate. Up to the day
when the U.S. government an-
nounced its imperialist military
adventure in Korea, the mayors
and councillors of 21 municipali-
ties had signed. Two weeks after
that, the number had grown to
54; by July 21 it had grown to 70.

s * * is

The signing of the Stockholm
petition by municipal councils il-

ustrates the rising public opinion

in Quebec and its reflection in the
press. For a while, spokesmen of
the Liberal party and the govern-
ment, supported by the Tory
press, tried to pretend that the
only people and newspapers in
Quebee which opposed Canadian

involvement in the U.S. imperial- .

ist adventure in Korea or sup-
ported the Stockholm declaration
were “intransigeant nationalists”
and “isolationists’—always imply-
ing to English-speaking Canadians
that such people are a negligible
minority in French Canada,

Le Canada, official organ of the
Liberal party (and the govern-
ment) in French Canada, publish-
ed in Montreal, wasn’t, able to
pretend that anti-war sentiment is
a negligible factor so it resorted
to an unprincipled attempt to pre-
sent that those who oppose Cana-
dian involvement in Korea, or
support the Stockholm declara-
tion, are puppets operated by the
Communists. :

How reckless and contrary to
the truth that pretense was is to
be seen by the fact that Le Soleil,
influential daily published in
Quebec city, a consistent support-

'

er of the Liberal party on all other
issues, came out editorially ia
support of the municipalities and
the fight to outlaw the atomic
bomb and for peace.

The fullest and most consistent
expressions of the broad public
discussions of peace and for the
Stockholm declaration is to be
seen in Le Devoir and, true to
its own tradition and the tradition
of French Canada, it is expressed -
in that paper as strongly in the
forthright letters to the editor
published almost every day, as in
its editorials.

Concerning its editorial policy,

it is noteworthy that Le Devoir
is the only daily that published in
Canada the full text of the letter
issued by the cardinals and arch-
bishops of .France condemning
the atomic bomb and all. other
forms of mass extermination.
_ Le Devoir warns its readers
"against the step-by-step process
by which the St. Laurent govern-
ment is involving Canada in the
U.S. imperialist war against the
people of Asia.

“Stalin is not like Hitler”...
In a_signed editorial one of the
editors of Le Devoir refutes and
rebukes “those journalists who are
too anxious to establish similar-
ities between the two men.”

He reminds his readers that
Stalin abided by the provisions ag-
reed upon at Yalta and Potsdam.
He reminds them that the Soviet
Union is the only state that has
not been involved in the continu-
ous armed intervention in the Far
East since 1945. He reminds them
that the Soviet government ob- |
serves all the formalities of inter-
national relationships and stays
strictly within the boundaries of
legality. Concerning the struggle
in Korea, which he identifies cor-
rectly as a part of the people’s
revolution in Asia, he comes out
squarely on the side of the people
—of Korea and/“all of Asia.

In a feature column entitled
“The Scandal’, one of Le Devoir’s
editors declares: “As far as I am
concerned I am entirely in accord
with the three ideas expressed ...
the outlawing of weapons of mass
extermination, branding as a war
criminal that state which first
uses them, and establishment of
international control over atomic
weapons.”

He declared that the ‘amazing
thing about the signing of the
Stockholm declaration by muni-
cipal councils is not the number
that have signed but that “in the
present atmosphere” any at all
have dared to stand forth publicly
as champions of peace and reason.
He called upon French Canada’s

Independents and Nationalists to
arouse. themselves, to defy the
“poisonous propaganda” and
throw themselves into the fight.

How correct had been the refer-
ence to the attempts to intimidate
both opponents of Canadian in-
volvement in Korea and support-
ers of the Stockholm declaration
was emphasized exactly one week
later when Le Canada directed a
vicious attack against Le Devoir,
naming the author referred to
above and insinuating that he was
acting for the Communists.

Along with credit to that section
of the press in French Canada
which champions the fight for
peace, there_ must go credit to
those active and priceless partici-
pants in the development of pub-
lic opinion whose contributions
are in the form of letters to the
editor, The richness and color of
the French language press in Que-
bec is due in no small part to the
interest and energy of its contrib-
utors to the editor’s mail bag as
well as to the fact that they really
discuss basic issues.

For example, to quote only one,
a letter to the editor-in-chief of
Le Devoir, published July 12, de-
manded that Le Devoir stop ex-
pressing regret that it is the Com-
munists and not a church organ-
ization who are most active and

energetic in the fight for peace. ©

“... A petition for peace,” writes
that correspondent, “is neither
Communist, Social Credit or Lib-
eral. In demanding the outlawing
of the atomic bomb does not de-
mand the installation of a Com-
munist government in Quebec, one
demand only that which is the
most precious and the most dear:
peace.” :

The writer goes on to point out
that in meetings of the Union des
Electeurs, of the Brotherhood of

Iaintenance of Way Men, and so -

on, the appeal from the Canadian
Peace Congress meets with 4
warm response because it corres:
ponds with the true interests of
humanity. He reminds his readers
that, in the province of Quebec, al
that is necessary to make the
movement for peace and the out-
lawing of. the atomic bomb pre

dominantly a movement of Cath —

lics is for Catholics to get into it

And, he declares, “In such a cause

we have no reason to be timid.”
* * *

Such is the manner in which
serious-minded opponents of wa!
join in the fight to crystallize and
strengthen public ‘opinion
French Canada. ;

en

-IWA LOCAL AROUSED

% ere by anes of International Woodworkers’ Local 1-217
‘garnishee the wages of two former officers, Vern Carlyle and
Bob Jackson, this week appeared to have been “Sathee! by the
united action of the two men’s fellow workers at Canadian White
Pine sawmill here who, to demonstrate their protest against their
officers’ violation of trade union principle, took up a collectio™
to refund to Jackson the amount deducted from his. wages. a

From the sawmill the workers carried the fight into the TWA
local where a motion to lift the garnishee iaaartedts was defeated
by only a few votes. Jackson, his wife and three children picketed
the meeting hall with signs stating they could not live on the $15
a week left after garnishee deductions.

Last week no deductions were on’s
tu Gariviets? waken:” made “aha either Jacks

Officers of IWA Local 1-217 imposed the garnishee for P2Y~
ment of monies claimed to be due the local as a result of the
WIUC breakaway in 1948, at a time when both Jackson
Carlyle, in a move to foster unity among millworkers and under

the urging of IWA members to
rejoin the IWA. at the mill, had made gs segianalins,
eae

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 28, 1950—P8GB ©

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