Lumber strike deadline nears Some 32,000 Coast woodworkers are prepar- ing to “hit the bricks” on June 15, following a government-supervised strike vote taken this International Woodworkers of America held a “straw vote” June 5 and announced that 20,000 members had voted by an overwhelming majority in favor of strike action to win 17 cents week, an hour pay hike, union shop, and retention of the 40-hour week. Woodworkers Industrial Union of Canada has issued a call to all woodworkers to support the IWA “No contract, no work” slogan and prepare for strike action by immediate setting up of strike committees in every camp and mill. This week two WIUC top officials, Harold Pritchett and Ernie Dalskog, dropped two $50,- 000 libel actions against IWA district president Stewart Alsbury “in order to remove any obsta- cle that might be cited by the IWA leadership as reason for slackening of the struggle.” Continued on page 6 See LUMBER ; flim WEY AEM EEG Ue ofthat WM GTA MATL EY 4. aa a ee rh GAGs! |! ‘Ena cold. ware UN Secretary General Trygve Lie (above) is expected to lay his 10-point peace plan before the Security Council within the next few, weeks, following his ~ visit to Moscow, London and Paris. “End the cold war” is Lie’s demand. Youth pledge ‘No More War’ before 2,500 at Peace Arch The white flag of peace, emblazoned with Picasso’s dove, waved proudly between the Canadian ensign and the Stars and Stripes as 2,500 Canadians and Americans held a stirring demonstration against war at Peace ‘Arch Park last Sunday afternoon. Sponsored by a joint Cana- dian-U.S. committee of young people, the rally reflected the growing desire for peace on the part of youth on both Sides of the border. One of the most solemn and significant incidents of the meeting occurred when the American youth, answet- ingea plea from the youth of PETITION RESPONSE WORLD-WIDE other countries: BULGARIA, peal, partments. in Dusseldorf. Millions act for peace Here’s how the World Peace Petition is being received in HUNGARY. The 26,326 local peace committees have secured 7,123,620 signatures in response to the appeal of the Permanent Committee of the World Peace Congress. CZECHOSLOVAKIA. A mass signature movement is sweep- ing the country; 1,400,000 signatures were collected the opening day of the campaign. Women of Lidice, survivors of the Nazi massacre, were among the first to sign. (See story on page 3.) RUMANIA. § 7,230,000 signatures have been collected. 5,465,000 people have already signed the ap- FRANCE. The campaign is gathering momentum. 100,000 signatures have been collected in Marseilles; 150,000 in the Seine Department; 250,000 in the Nord and Pas de Calais De- GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. More than 14,000,000 signatures have been collected in Greater Berlin, Thuringia, Saxony, Mecklenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg. WEST GERMANY. Over 51,000 signatures were collected in Hamburg; over 31,000 in Cologne; 30,000 in Dortmund; 38,000 atom - bombed Hiroshima,, pledged that they would work to wipe out the stigma of that American action by devoting all their energies to preventing U.S. warmongers from starting a third world war. American and Canadian youth unitedly pledged to young people in all parts of the world that they would work for the banning of atom bombs, and declared: “We will consider that the first government which uses the atomic bomb. against any country will have committed a criminal act against the youth of the world.” Gathering “in the name of ” the brotherhood of youth the rally called upon the United Nations to press for reduced war budgets, ban- ning of atomic weapons and the signing of a pact of peace between all nations. As speaker after speaker stood on the platform under a hot sun and delivered pas- sionate “No More War” ad- dresses, scores of youth cir- culated among the attentive audience, securing signatures on peace petitions which will be sent to Trygve Lie, secre- tary-general of the United Nations. Continued on page 6 See RALLY TORONTO While External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson spoke to parliament of “guns and butter,” and “blood and iron,” and asserted that the world was in “sort of a twilight bet- ween peace and war,’the Canadian big business press was conceding for the first time, that the World Peace Congress petition to Ban the Bomb has gained so much headway in Europe that it can be considered a major success, This is the first time any Canadian daily newspaper has reported the petition demanding the banning of the Bomb and the branding of the first country to use it a war crimi- nal. (See the peace petition, page 2). The Associated Press admitted over 100 million Euro- peans had already signed the petitions in Europe. It ad- mitted that the Marshall Planners, Atlantic Pacters and cold war carriers had no “good counter propaganda to meet it” and. that a door-to-door campaign in Europe was receiv- ing fervent welcome. Back in Canada, Pearson threateningly remarked that an atom war would obliterate Europe but he had no words of welcome for Trygve Lie’s peace mission to Moscow, London, Paris and Washington, although the United Nations’ secre- ‘tary general’s efforts were welcomed the world over. Neither did Pearson indicate that Ottawa would ignore Washington and recognize the People’s Republic of China, although Lie has called on the powers to seat China and reestablish working relations in the UN now disrupted by continued representation on UN committees of a Kuomin- tang government repudiated by the people for whom it pretends to speak, while the Chinese People’s government, although recognized by Bri- tain and other countries, is denied China’s seat. TSU NEUES ENE EUBUEN EERE 75,000 a month peace petition aim Across Canada, active peace defenders are rallying their forces for the big push to obtain 500,000 signatures for the peace petition by October 2. To hit this target, a pace of 75,000 names a month is neces- sary. First two filled copies of the new petition have aniived at the Canadian Peace Congress At the very moment when Lie was in Moscow, Pearson was in London propping up a 12-power Atlantic war pact against the Soviet Union. In Ottawa he now hints of su- per-secret weapons” and com- mitments. The note of hysteria in his speech to parliament showed that the government is feel- ing the world peace pressure. Give. ab: Ga ance a Canada’s peace forces will be week. Both of them were forms right on the doorstep October clipped from the Pacific Tri. 2 When the Canadian Peace Pine: Congress presents Ottawa We urge every reader to make With the half million signa- use of the petition form printed tures now being collected de- on page 2. manding that the A-bomb be ULE ECE nt nn tr ttt it Tir Ti banned.