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peace,

E. present world-wide cam-

paign for a five-power pact of
peace, which the World Peace
Council initiated last February,
has won enormous successes ——
even greater than the Stockholm
Appeal to ban the atomic bomb.
We can confidently say that nine-
tenths of humanity are 0} to
war, are entering the fight for
peace. }
This is true for Canada, too.
Last April the National Assembly
to Save Peace launched the Peti-
tion for a Five-Power Peace Pact,
This was in the nature of another
- test of Canadian public opinion,
' freely expressed and protected
from press and radio intimidation
because it took the form of per-
sonal approaches for- signatures
by thousands of devoted defend-
ers of peace. ~- : $
~ Every fact we now have abou’
the petition proves conclusively
that it is a great success. The
- majority of Canadians endorse
the idea of a meeting between
the five great powers to agree
on a pact of peace which will
end the threat of war. Canadians
are in favor of restoring the
authority of the United -Nations,
of universal disarmament, of pro-
hibition of atomic weapons and
strict enforcement and control
to enforce that prohibition, of
free world trade instead of trade
war to benefit the U.S. dollar..
The first_stage of our fight for
the five-power pact has ended.
The second stage has opened, sig-
nalized by the exchange of mes-
sages: between the !U.S. and the
USSR, and above all in the pro-
posal by the head of the Soviet
state the head of the U.S. for
a meeting to conclude a pact of
peace. . -
Unless there is such a pact
there will be war. :
‘. There is no other way, in the
‘present tension, to end the crisis
‘and make a new start for peace,
than through a meeting of the
- five great powers—a meeting of

‘Truman, Stalin, Attlee, Mao Tse-

tun, and whoever happens to ‘be
the premier ,of France at the mo-
ment.

That is why my message to
the Canadian peace movement
—yes, to the Canadian people
—is: the “fight for the five-power
peace pact has only just begun.
The campaign has only just
started. The thing to do is to
‘take this message
Canadian home, into every fac-
tory and to every farm, to every
rural and urban* municipal coun-
cil, to every provincial legislature
and every member of that legis-

federal parliament, to every
church, every union, every rate-
payers’ association, “every youth
“group, into every community.

There is not a single ‘Canadian
who cannot be ed with this
message, who cannot be asked for
an endorsement of the Five-Power
Peace Pact proposal: No political
or ethical creed can or must
stand ‘in the gway. The atom-
bomb, napalm, jet planes, poison
gas and germs are the enemies
of everybody. High taxes for
armaments hurt us all. Unem-
ployment and increasing poverty
arising out of war budgets knock
at every door.

I cannot emphasize— this too

: strongly — that the Five-Power

Pact is the only road to
that every door is open to
the endorsation of this central
jdea which alone can save the
world from terrible destruction.
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The first phase of our cam-

Peace

_ paign was centred on street cor-

- ner and house to house petition-

ing.
‘Now our fight must broaden

and extend, and take on new
forms of expressing the people's
will for peace. The tempo of our
fight must be stepped up because
the danger of war is so close,
and because the prize of peace
is within our grasp.

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- street canvass.

The Five-Power Pact | must be- ;

come the main issue in Canada,
raised by the people themselves.
We must make such a campaign
as will affect parliament, cause
the war party to hesitate, rally

into the conscious fight for peace |

through a .pact every worker,
farmer, businessman, woman,
young person and veteran.

The National Peace Council,
learning from the advice of the
World Peace Council, closely in
touch with the peace movement
in every country, and knowing
show recent happenings in the
world have made the Five-Power

Paet the subject of a world-wide ©

discussion, has come to the fol-
lowing conclusions:

Firstly, a Five-Power Pact, on.

the principle of negotiation in-
stead of war, is favored by the
majority of Canadians, in one
way or another. This gives us

the responsibility to go forward .

with a mighty new effort to con-
front governments with the pub-
lic opinion of the Canadian “peo-
ple. ! 5
Secondly, the mandate of 300,-.

000 endorsations on our petition

is seconded by such events as
@ The peace proposals of the

Saskatchewan CCF convention.
© The new Christian front for

“Peace in Quebec.

@ The Niagara Youth Peac
Festival and the great World
Youth Festival at Berlin.

@ The editorial in Le Travail,
paper of the Catholic syndicates
in Quebec, calling for negotiation

instead of an armaments race.

@ The response given to the
proposal made
Shvernik to President Truman
for a Five-Power Pact.

@ The disgust and chagrin of
the Canadian people at the con-
tinued massacres of innocent
people in Korea, and at the ‘ob-
vious refusal of the U.S. Army to
negotiate in good faith for a

cease-fire and mutual withdrawal ,

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by President

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of forces from the 38th parallel
(the dividing line proposed by
Hon. Lester B. Pearson in his re-,
marks in London, June 25).

@® The universal condemnation
of the rearming of Germany and
Japan. ans , ;
The climate
creasingly favorable.

Thirdly, the organized peace
movement, which has been con —
solidated by the two great peti-

tion campaign in one year—to —

ban the bomb and for a peace

pact, can now grow by extending |

the fight for personal signatures
to include work for the involve-
ment of all Canadians in ‘the dis-
cussion and support of the
Power Pact. me ;
- Fourthly, coming events will
emphasize that only through a
Five-Power Pact can _ lasting
peace be brought to Korea and
the Far East, the armaments
race can be ended, world trade
can be restored and the United
Nations can be returned to its
original purpose as a forum for
all nations for the outlawing of
war.

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Consequently the National
Peace Council has drafted a
“Battle Plan for Peace” as fol-
lows: ~ r ; r
1 To use the remaining weeks
to tabulate the greatest pos-
sible number of signatures on

the Petition for a Five-Power ~

Pact. Right now the local peace
councils and affiliated organiza-
tions are in the midst of this
great effort.
ronto Peace Council, are conclud-
ing this phase of the campaign

“now and are preparing new ways

of reaching the public. The first
point of our Battle Plan is to

amass thousands of new signa-

tures in our October 1 tabula-
tion. o

Through the coming weeks,
to visit every member of a

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Mary Jemison, secretary of the Canadian Peace Congress, ‘gels |
another signature for the World Peace Petition during a Toronto

“provincial legislature with a re-
quest for endorsement of the
Five-Power Peace Pact. This
should be followed by people’s
- Jobbies for peace to every pro-
vincial legislature meeting this
fall, along the lines of the wonder-
ful example in Saskatchewan,
where they have planned a huge
lobby on their legislature when
it meets in November.
To visit every member of
- parliament with a request
that he endorse the Five-Power
Peace Pact—this to be done be-
for the House of Commons opens
on October 9. Some MP’s rep-
resent constituences where per-
haps a majority of the homes
have endorsed the petition (for
example South York represented
by. J. P. Noseworthy). They
must listen to the people’s man-
\ date for peace: <0.» »
a To send a Mission for Peace
_, to Ottawa on Remembrance
Day, with the mandate already
received by personal signatures
to the petition, and by collective
endorsements of the idea of such
-a pact. This. mission will be the
_ biggest public demonstration of
the people’s desire for peace ever
_ to take place in our country. We
shall go to Ottawa speaking for
the majority of the Canadian
people. The government must,
listen to this majority. ©
- To visit’ every municipal.
? eouncil with a request for
endorsement of. the proposal for

a pact of peace. Peace is a muni-~

cipal affair just as much as it is
-a national and world issue. Al-
ready several municipal councils
have endorsed the pact.
reds of others can do so. We
Shall ask them. —

To visit every trade union
local, and take into every
industrial plant, the idea of a
Five-Power Peace Pact, asking
for endorsation either of the pe-
tition itself, or of the idea of the

‘the nationwide and truly heroic”

_ tion, no matter what it is.

the people can, by their action®

‘people in action, the little Pe?
Hund- .

gether to save humanity from

pact. The greatest weakness of
the campaign has been that
organized labor as such has
not yet come in. It will, be sure
of that. As the terrible truth
about war-budget inflation and
unemployment is realized, s0
more and more will workers see
that peace means job security,
that war means disaster. *

To take into every church

congregation the plea for @
pact of peace. The church con-
gregations want peace—we shall
show them that there can be no
peace in the modern world other
than by agreement between the
five great powers.

To build peace committees

and peace councils in dozens
of new places — in communities —
and industries, by holding house —
meetings of the people, by ask-
ing them to come in. We must
open wide the doors and let the

people in!
9 To issue millions of leaflets
and hold hundreds of meet-

ings to explain and ask for en-
dorsation of the peace pact, re- '
cognizing that success of this
Battle Plan for Peace depends
on the extent to which we bring
its message to the public at large.
To think that the fight for the.
Five-Power Pact will stop with
the end of a local campaign for
signatures misses the main point,
that the fight for a peace pact
must go on until peace is secured
through such a pact. Therefore ;
as this great campaign gets un- oe
der way, so the opportunity for
more personal endorsements of
the petition will increase, as new
organizations and people are
brought into the struggle.

We want personal endorsations
as well as public endorsations.
“We want broad discussions even —
among the smallest groups of
people ineshomes, as well as great
public actions such as our Mis-
sion of Peace to Ottawa on Re-
membrance Day. :
We want the personal work of —
peace defenders among their
neighbors (which can include
personal signatures), along with
great public meetings. yen

Our peace movement will take
on many forms and these forms
will include giving an opportunity
to people personally to sign the
Petition. ‘

_ Our vision is that this cam-
paign, which has been opened bY ~

effort for personal signatures,

now be extended along the lines
I have outlined, to bring the
cause of the peace pact and the
lessons of the worldwide discus
sion into every Canadian home |
and into every Canadian associ@-
Tt is
to request that local, provine
and federal governments answer
the question: “Are you in favol

of a Pact of Peace?” »
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You will see from my remarks
what I meant by saying earlier
that the fight for peace throug?
a Five-Power Pact has just be

gun. Let any who thirst fF
war take notice that we er

only just begun, to fight.
shall not be silenced, but on the
contrary’ our voice will grow
louder with every passing

The idea of peace through B®
gotiations is catching on evely
where, History is proving that

save peace. The cause of peace —
is in their hands. ‘What a are

nificent thing it is to see

ple who know in their neat® —
that only peace \can fulfill their
dreams for their young ones!
Let us have faith in the Ca?”
adian people, in the people of es
whole world. Wars are made PY
people; people can stop wars: The .
five great powers must ene

immoral hell of war.

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