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| Mainly for Women

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AT PEACE CONFERENCE

| We can prevent war,

say women delegates

WOMEN ARE determined there shall not be another world
war. That’s what the B.C. peace conference in Vancouver last week-
end showed. The number of women among the delegates was im-
pressive, and the speakers coming to the microphone to tell passionately

and from experience the reasons
for raising the cry of “No More
War,” were close to being the
majority in number.

From very young mothers to
women advancing towards seven-
ty—(“I’m sixty-five and the young-
est member of my peace group,”
One woman reported to the con-
‘ference)—they placed their plea
for life. For it -was love of life
that moved them, and the determ-
ination that their loved ones, their
husbands, brothers, friends, and
particularly their children, should
no longer be brutalized and mur-
dered. Not one cried for them-
Selves, for their own sufferings
and hardships.

War is followed by poverty and
depression, one young woman pro-
tested. .

“My. father, although he died
twenty-two years after the First
World War was a victim of) that
war, the victim of sickness from
being gassed. My mother too died
of the poverty that father’s sick-
hess and neglect brought upon
our family. :

“In England, when I was a
nurse in a hospital in Cornwall, I
Saw and heard the victims of war,
Screaming maniacs, clutching at
bars and howling. I saw men
fall in the grass and clutch at it,
digging themselves in in insane
terror when harmless, peacetime
Planes flew overhead. War vic-
tims! Insanity, poverty, depres-
Sion, dragging disease—these are
the heritage of war.”

* * *

A VANCOUVER school teacher
Spent a year and a half in Europe
through 1948,

“When I returned,” she said, “I
Was shocked by the lies that are
being told out here, about the re-
covery in France and Italy under
the Marshall plan. I was shocked
by the war talk back here.”

When she realized the untrue
things we were being told over

here, all designed to prepare us
for war, she began ,to take an
interest in the efforts, people were
making to counteract the warmon-

. gering by peace action.

She told of a teacher who was
also elected to a school board. He
was for peace and did not con-
ceal his views, and he was think-
ing of joining the peace movement.

“An RCMP officer visited the
principal of the school to investi-
gate this teacher,” she stated.
“That principal was outraged, and
told the officer off.

“Tf people realized that this kind
of anti-democratic intimidation is
going on they would realize war
is being promoted,” she said.

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“ft DON'T want my children to
go through the horror and inse-
curity of bombing and civilian
massacre that was my experience
and the experience of my youngest
child,” another woman, an English
war-bride, said.

“Tf our Canadian people realized :
that bombs will fall on Canada in
the next war, they would soon or-
ganize against war. Our propa-
gandists for war are trying to
make our people feel that all the
bombing will be by us, not on us.
We from ‘England, know differ-
ently.”

Even the children feel the pres-
sure of the war hysteria propa-
ganda, another young mother told
the writer in an interview. ‘Her
little girl, not yet five years old,
was looking at a magazine.

“Look at these pictures — war
games,” the mother said. “Of
course, the children want to know
what they’re about. What are you
going to tell them? That this is
the future, their future? Well,
they're our children and it’s up to
us to say what kind of a future
they’ll have. That’s why I'm at
this peace conference.”—B.F.

CHILDREN’S DAY APPEAL

heir future

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Women.

epends on peace

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE
for Children’s Day and for the Conference for the
Defence of Children has issued an appeal to all
people “‘whatever their political opimion and reli-
gious belief” to sign and collect signatures for the
Stockholm peace petition “in order to save hundreds
of millions of children from the terrible menace
which: overshadows them.”

“The danger of war is becoming more definite, _
war preparations are accelerating, shameful col-
onial wars are taking place and atomic weapons
are brandished over the heads of our children,”
the appeal states.

The Committee welcomed the warm reception
given in all countries to plans for celebrating June
1 International Children’s Day.

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In Vancouver, International Children’s Day was
to be celebrated with a children’s concert, jomtly
sponsored by the Congress of Canadian Women
and a number of cultural organizations.

In Toronto, the occasion was to be marked with
a panel discussion on child welfare under auspices
of the Toronto chapter of the Congress of Canadian

Thieves

I’ve told him over and over again,
In every way | possibly can,
That the high cost of living
Has taken, the pennies.

He asks me for more

To take to the store.

My five-year old son, ;

Your lesson’s begun

I really don’t want

To spoil vour fun

By denying the chicklets, “and

chewing gum,

Chocolate bars, and ice cream too,

That big business makes

To sell to you

Alt outrageous prices;

For only I know what, treasure
"you make

Of little things.

But daddy's job is insecure

And we can never be reaily sure

From day to dav.

I must save each penny

Against the day

When we haven't any

With which to pav
The grocer for bread, and the

milkman too.

So come my son, please don’t be

blue,

Because I haven't a penny for you.
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Daddy and mummy love you $0
much, oS

That we are trying ever so hard to
touch

The match, that will siart the spark

Of hope, in many a working class
heart. y

And maybe some dav,

When we have our wav,

I won't have to say

To my five-vear old son:

“You can't have a penny.

I haven't any.

Big business has stolen them all!”

MARION MARTIN

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