pepper Lt ae A Nation-wide protest assails gov't British peace leader for barring a u il C. pms Pil aa gl i Hl He ql liz t) | en, Neo aaa carenoesinaeatll Va FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1953 Amputations high among POW’s “I noticed six cases of double leg amputation among the returning North Koreans,” wrote Alan Winnington, London Daily Worker corre- spondent, describing the exchange of POW’s in Korea. “Amputation —as the German Army discovered—is cheaper than’ medical atten- tion.” Photo above shows a footless North Korean repatriate being carrried by a comrade from an American ambulance to a North Korean receiving tent in Panmunjom. HOME OF UNION MADE and FRIENDLY SERVICE “WHAT — HE TRIED TO SELL YOU A SUIT THAT DIDNT FIT? TRY THE HUB, “Y BOY, ANO CET YOURS WITH EASY CREDITS” 45 EAST HASTINGS VANCOUVER 4, B.C A storm of protest against the banning from Canada of Dr. Monica Felton, dis’ tinguished British writer and peace leader, is gathering on both sides of the Atlantic, — B.C. Peace Council reported this week. The council noted that the Canadian Peace Congress in Toronto had expressed itself as heartened by the decision of Immigration Minister Walter Harris to review the case. “We wish to emphasize that meetings scheduled for Dr. Felton, including the 4 rally at Exhibition Gardens, Fri- day, May 29, will be held,” Ray Gardner, B.C. Peace Council sec- retary, stated here. Questions have been asked both in the British and Canadian Houses of Commons about the exclusion of Dr. Felton. Canada’s High Commissioner Norman A. Robertson, according to one London report, “has not yet made a decision on the pro- test against Canada’s actions sent by Britain’s influential National Council of Civil Liberties. The council’s complaint is that Can- ada’s ban on Dr. Felton imperils the inherent right of an British citizen to travel freely to any part of the Commonwealth.” Criticizing the decision, an Ot- tawa Citizen editorial asks: “Even if it is feared she would talk a lot of* foolishness, why should officials at Ottawa undertake to pre-judge’ her? Have not Can- adians minds of their own?” _ The editorial said, “The logic of the government’s attitude would require drastic curtailment of civil liberties—the setting up of an authoritarian state.” In Vancouver, the CCL Labor Council protested. the ban on motion of Ray Lunstrom who said, “We of the labor movement must stand behind the civil rights of free men, even if we don’t al- ways agree with their opinions.” On behalf of the B.C. District, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, secretary Les Walker has wired a protest to James Byrnes, MP. William Stewart, secretary of the Marine Workers and Boiler- makers Union, reported that members applauded when a pro- test resolution was passed at a recent local meeting. “Our mem- bers were fighting mad,’ said Stewart. “Many other local unions have protested the ban,” said Ray Gardner, “and we will make these protests known when the unions involved have notified us officially of their protest.” Meanmhile, throughout Cana- da telegrams, letters and post- cards are being sent to the Prime Minister St. Laurent, Immigra- tion Minister Harris and MP’s. At one house meeting in Van- couver alone; 163 persons signed group telegrams to Harris, ac- cording to a B.C. Peace Council release. “We believe the ban can be lifted and we urge all those who cherish our democratic rights of freedom of speech and freedom of travel to join with us in de- manding that the government re- verse its decision,” said Gardner. “Regardless of the outcome, the Exhibition Garden meeting for Dr. Felton will go on!” City Mother’s Day concert Friday Folk and ballet dancing, voice and instrumental selections will be featured at a Mother’s Day concert at Pender Auditorium this Friday, May 8, ati 8 p.m. Speakers at the -concert are Mrs. Doris Hartley and Mrs. L. Purdy. Proceeds of the meeting will be donated to help retarded children. : .‘frameup.” Continued from page | LDR plans drive for Bill of Rights empty house in the last few days of a dying parliament. It is up to everyone here to do everything they can to re-impress that fact on their MP’s. We must make certain that the impression created by the Prime Minister’s May 1.statement in the House that the bill would not be push- ed through beomes a definite fact.” Paul T. Hellyer (Lib.-Daven- port) wrote one of his constitu- ents.on May 1: “You may rest assured that it (Bill 93) will not be lightly pushed through by a majority of the House as the im- plications are much too far- reaching.” On the day St. Laurent spoke, the Special Committee of the House of Commons had tabled its final report on Bill 93. This will be followed by a government motion. St. Laurent predicted a lengthy debate which would rule out passage of the bill at this session, despite Justice Min- ister Stuart Garson’s demand that the bill be “vigorously” pressed at the current session. Meanwhile, throughout Cana- civil right groups are not relax- ing their campaign to remove the anti-democratic sections from the bill. % “At the regional conference of the League for Democratic Rights last weekend, Roberts congratu- Greet Ethel Rosenberg on May 10 TORONTO The National Committee To Save The Rosenbergs has call- ed on women throughout Can- ada to send greetings to Ethel Rosenberg in Sing Sing, Ossining, New York in observance of Mother’s Day, May 10. Women, and especially moth- ers, are asked to appeal in wires or letters to President Eisenhow- er at the White House, Washing- ton, D.C., to grant executive clemency to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as an act of mercy and in view of the serious doubts as to their guilt. New evidence before the U.S. Supreme Court further substan- tiates the defense claim to Recent weeks have brought a third intercession by Pope Pius XII for clemency. While there was no mention of this in the U.S. or Canadian press, the Vatican’s Osservatore Romano on April 16 -devoted a full page to it. lated 50 attending delegates 0D © “Tt was — certainly the best we have evel their Bill 93 campaign. conducted, and we have learned much from it... but we cannot rest content until we are certaill that all the repressive sections are deleted from the proposed new Criminal Code.” “LDR branches in Timmins; Sudbury, Hamilton, Windsor, Of tawa and the Niagara Peninsula, Montreal, Toronto and delegé tions from United Electrical Workers, Mine-Mill, Fur ane Leather, as well as many cultura and fraternal organizations wel present. National executive “proposals for a revitalized, nation-wid? campaign for a. Bill of Rights f° be launched on the anniversary of Magna Charta Day — June a] — were adopted by delegate’ The struggle for a Bill of Rights is to be linked with the fight f° rid Quebec of the Padlock Law: Plans for a special pamphlet 0” “McCarthyism in Canada” wer? also agreed on. In a keynote address “Our D& mocratic Heritage,” LDR nation® chairman Roscoe Rodd, QC, said: ‘Let us also choose today 4 assert our ancient, immemori4 rights and liberties; let us follow in the footsteps of and do hon0! to the great liberators of the pas” who gave us Magna Charta, Me Petition of Right and the Bill © Rights. ( “Let us also’ be creators of liberty. Let us express our deeP faith in the efficacy of free speee and discussion, in freedom of thé press and assembly, in the whole process of discussion and debaté ~ which has been said to be the very ‘breadth of life of our dem” cratic institutions.’ “This is the best method yet © ‘devised by man to arrive a truth and to solve the fund@ mental problem of society 2” government. This is the way intelligence and reason. This » the practice of civilized mat Let us never again betray 7” son\by the uncivilzed old meth ods of force — of repression ® home and wars abroad — by 4% such admission that mightoaa™ right. ' “Let us so tend the lamp of liberty in our own land that it will send out no flickering ° doubtful ray of light across t : world. For liberty is a fun a mental necessity for. the spirit ual and material development g all men everywhere. It is ® only the people’s prerogativ® but the prerequisite to abundant life.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 8, 1953 — PAGE ¥ 1 yt al Hn |) aa ot iy: