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LPP call to workers: |

COMPEL GOVT TO STOP

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An appeal to the people of Canada, and especially to the workers, organized and unorganized alike, to demand that the St. st 5
ent government abandoy its support of Truman-MacArthur policy a this hour of war crisis, hee made ee aoe vey ss , ee
national leader of the Labor-Progressive party. Workers were urged ‘‘not to remaim silent on this question, ors 0 Speak ou . Oo the
government in wires and resolutions demanding the Princess Pats be brought home and that the St. Laurent government stop bail-
ing the Truman-MacArthur clique out of the crisis which is overtaking them even in their own country”’.
(Demands for peace, an end to American intervention in
Korea, seating of People’s China in the United Nations and
revoking of the decision to rebuild the Nazi armies of West-
ern Germany swept the United States and Britain this week.
In the U.S, thousands of letters poured in to newspapers,
radio stations, and government leaders denouncing American
war policies. In Britain the great popular upsurge for peace tie
and a wave of anti-American sentiment broke through into nT gE
papers. The British Peace Congress added impetus to the : |
campaign by presenting petitions bearing 1,300,000 signatures i {
to the Stockholm Appeal to the House of Commons. The peace i
delegation was introduced by Sidney Silverman, Labor MP). ue
Full text of Tim Buck’s public statement follows:
We appeal to the people of Canada, and especially to the
workers in the unions and plants, to raise their voices against to
the pro-MacArthur policy of the St. Laurent government in
/ this hour of war crisis. ri i
Prime Minister St. Laur-
@ “U.S. Dynamite Leaves Le- 64+ in his London speech of a
gacy of Ruin for Reds” read g i }}
the caption on this picture of January 8, showed that he is a
docks at Hungnam being blown clearly acting in the confer-
up by U.S. forces. And US. ence of Commonwealth prime tt
determination to destroy Korea 5 :
is horhe: out. byw AVashington ministers as the voice of the a
dispatch stating that “the scorch- discredited Truman-Acheson-
ed earth policy of the retreating MacArthur clique, who have '
forces indicates strongly they do
dhe expect to. Gees tind ee brought the world to the edge
again.” of war and have caused the ii
death of hundreds of thous-
. a ands of Korean people by ip
St L ¢ a ¢ : re t t their brutal imperialism.
| aul ren A ies RD ie) Du rs sen imen Whereas, according to press
a items, Prime Minister Nehru i
of India, under the pressure of : i!
or peace, backs Truman war policy (ise 7
A : proposing a settlement of the y
Prime Minister St. Laurent, in point plan for peace proposed his 3,500 sabre-rattling words— jn Korea, for the seating of Peo- Korean crisis by recognizing Hi ae
defiance of the growing expres- by Prime Minister Nehru. which included a new 10-point ple’s China in the UN, for with- China in the UN. withdraw-
sion of the will for peace of the St. Laurent’s words were some- program designed to put the U.S. drawal of U.S. forces from For- ing foreign troops from Ko-
Canadian. people, declared last times almost identical with Tru- on a total war footing, includ- miosa and return of that island yea, Viet-Nam and Formosa,
week he would go down the line man’s—especially when he de- ing full mobilization of man- to China, for withdrawal of jj j, St. Laurent who publicly iH
with Truman’s “declaration. of clared that North Atlantic Pact power for the armed services French and British troops from blocks the adopti f this
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war” address to the U.S. Con- nations must build new armies and industry. Viet Nam and Malaya. biiey Ga London d res it
gress. and stockpile huge supplies of St. Laurent’s agreement with That the St. Laurent address P y, ? ot en it
Im an address to the Canada 27™s against what he and Tru- this policy indicates a govern- was agreed upon by the cabinet Jo ra id tHe AS dyeing age line
Club “in London, where he. was ™2n called the “new Commun- ment move to introduce similar before he left for London, is in- which public opinion in the
attending the conference of Brit- ‘St imperialism.” (A Gallup mobilization legislation at the dicated in an interview with Commonwealth rcjects. | ii
ish Commonwealth . prime min- Poll published last week showed coming session of parliament. Trade Minister C. D. Howe, holi- ae : i
ister, St. Laurent: only three percent of Canadians ‘his would likely set the stage daying with a Yankee oil-mil- St. Laurent has’ it in his
@ Pledged his government’s full had any fear of a “Communist for partial or full conscription. lionaire in Texas. Asked for his POWer to bring a unanimous ih
support to Truman’s 10-point to- threat.”) In contrast to St. Laurent’s comment on the speech of Sen- ‘¢cision among the Common- |
tal war program. President Truman’s “state of position, described in press re- ator Taft, Howe declared: “In wealth prime ministers to de- AE
@ Put the heat on all Common- the union” message to Congress ports from London as a “get Canada we feel that strength is mand of Truman that this i
wealth governments to follow the hurled the sword of war into tough with China” policy, Prime the only thing which fazes the madness cease, that the de- a
‘Truman line of war against the face of the American people Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of ussions and that the place to |jberate destruction of Korea i,
China and the rearming of Ger- who are moving into action for India is reported to have put defend North America is as far E
many. peace. He put Hitler’s anti- before the Commonwealth meet- from North America as we can Continued on back page ii
® Bluntly turned down the six- Soviet lie-machine to shame in ing a plan for ending the war go.” See CALL