TL S the Pacific Tribune reported last week, the powerful capitalist press agency, Associated Press, has discovered the world peace petition! This is indeed news. For months news of the greatest people’s crusade ever to in- clude the people of all countries, has been buried in the wastebaskets of the big news- papers. Recall how in Canada the Canadian Peace Congress got scarcely a line of coverage in, the press; how the Dean of Canterbury was auisrepresented; how the rampages of hooli- gans were given prominence in the headlines while the Dean’s message of peace was ig- nored. The AP says that the peace movement has the warmongers worried—in Berlin, Lon- don, Paris, Washington: It doesn’t mention Ottawa by name—but they are worried there €o0. : If further evidence of this were needed, President Truman provided it last weekend with his blatant attempt to ascribe to the USSR the warlike intentions of the U/S. Truman says he would “rather have lasting peace than be president.” This from the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration W. E. - Harris, introduced a resolution in the House of Com- mons “to amend, consolidate, and clarify the Indian A special joint committee of the Senate and ‘Commons are alleged to have been studying the In- dian question for about three years off and on. What is now proposed is a good example of the mountain laboring and bringing forth a mouse. : When the Indian Act was drafted more than 70 years ago it had one specific purpose: to keep the ~ Yndian people of Canada, robbed of their ancestral lands and freedom by unequal and arbitrary “trea- ties,” in the category of “wards” of the government, * with the status of declassed citizens. One would think our official morons at Ottawa had only now discovered the Native Indian people and their terrible economic and social plight. What is now proposed “‘to amend, consolidate and clarify” the Indian question, also indicates that the St. Laur- ent government thinks the bulk of the Canadian people of an ounce of decency, who: at one time or another, - ‘have not blushed with shame at official Canada’s treatment of her Native Indian people. The new proposals~“‘to amend, consolidate and elarify” the Indian Act do not abolish Malan’s - South African system of racial segregation, .“reserva- ‘dons.’ They do not extend the rights of citizenship to the Native Indian people; and they still leave the “education” of Native Indian children to the notor- jous “Indian school” system. of church organizations, yather than bringing them under the general direction and supervision of our Cahadian educational depart- * oments. a ie The “‘senior citizen” of Native Indian blood still does not qualify to share the miserable old age pit- tance allowed other Canadian citizens. The doors of scores of our hospitals and medical fraternity which do “not cater’ to Native Indians still remain - ¢losed, and the Native Indian veterans who fought in World Wars I and II, while permitted to vote for “Tweedledee, Tweedledum or Tweedledam (which ‘we hold up as a shining example of “democracy”’) O* June 7 the St. Laurent government, through a =a Native Indian! * : All these important factors are neatly sidestep- : ped by the new proposals for amending the Indian The Canadian Welfare Council in 1947 gave some revealing details on the sorry plight of Native - Indians, details which the somnambulists of the Senate and Commons apparently ignored. — Tubercolosis among the Native Indian people was 14 times greater than among other Canadians; one of every five Na- tive Indian babies born dies before reaching the age of one year; the standard of living of inmates in ~ Canadian penitentiaries is far higher than that allowed the Native Indian people on reservations! These are ‘only a few examples from a very exhaustive study of \ still cannot buy a glass of beer or buy a bottle of Kennedy’s government watered stock . . . because he — Use the peace petition man who launched the “cold war.” -This from the man whose generals and associates are constantly threatening to convert it into a “hot” one with their trigger-happy boasts to blast the hell out of all who do not regard the jimcrow-poll-tax-unAmerican witch-hunt- ing way of life as the ultimate in mankind’s aspirations. The wamongers are anxious and perturb- ed because more and more people are show- ing not only that they want peace, but are prepared to fight for it. : The Petition for Peace of the Canadian Peace Congress, which is now circulating, is © the best medium for the peace fighters to express their determination to ban the atom bomb and impose peace on the war-preparing governments. ea Every trade union local should endorse it. Every farm group. Every women’s and youth club. Every group of citizens, of all kinds, everywhere. ; ; Hundreds, yes’ thousands, of canvassers, including whole families, should go out with the Petition for Peace. Ottawa will have to listen. . Past events have more than proved that. sf Give Native Indians full rights the question by the Cw... We gave the Native Indians -a lot of “rights” in the unequal treaties, but in the year 1950: these “tights” constitute a cold-blooded cynical contempt for human rights. To give the Native Indian fisning “Sights,” where organized big business has gained complete domination, is a colossal farce. Similarly wita the Native Indians’ “‘rights’”” to timber, hunting, etc. We push the Native Indian people fartner back into the hinterland to clear .a way for the land, timber, — mining, pulp and other monopolists. Then we find that even away back in the hinterland the hunting is a splendid come-on attraction for Marshall dollar tourist attraction, so the Native Indian must move on again. - All these evils are retained in the new proposals. The form may be changed a little to allay public condemnation of what amounts to a national ‘disgrace, but the content of the 70-year old Indian Act will remain. There is no hint of abolishing the hated RCMP-Indian Agent dictatorship over the Native Indian people, or of elevating them to the status of full citizenship, with the same rights and priviléges — as other Canadians. = The government’s proposal is not designed either to ‘‘amend” or “‘clarify’’ the Indian Act, but rather ‘to “‘consolidate” its continued implementation, despite the indignation of all decent and honest Canadians. U Mag Fees: es ‘di ue d nity In Geeds . Ford Local 200, United Auto Wakers in Windsor, last week voted $1,000 to the Marine Workers and Iron Boilermakers Union (CCL) to fight the “‘Kuzych case.” Myron Kuzych was ex- pelled from the union in 1944 for holding an un- authorized public meeting to discuss internal union business, campaigning against the closed shop and ~ broadcasting slanderous staternents against & member of the union. aie sade ; A series of lawsuits begun by Kuzych, but prompted by anti-labor employers, resulted in a B.C. appeal court ruling that Kuzych’s expulsion was, il- legal. dt ordered his reinstatement, plus court costs and damages. * The ruling opens the dade for employers to send a stream of spies and strikebreakers into labor’s ranks, regardless of the opposition of trade union members. The seriousness of .the situation for all labor has resulted in President White making a national fund- raising tour. Last week'the Toronto Labor Council ~~ (CCL) gave a token donation which precedes a |) BAsy circular letter to all affiliates urging aid. Hh acted on a letter from Silby Barrett, Director District — 50 United Mine Workers of America.’ Barrett has personally donated $50 and has circulated all Dis- trict 50 locals urging help be given. * Other donations include $200 from United Elec- trical Workers, Local 525; UE Local 5/2, $100; United Auto Workers, Local 984, $122; UAW Local 28, $100. rae ouncil — LESLIE MORRIS As We See It Ge and relentless men are stubbornly pursuing their _ plans for war. Recently Canadians were informed that sweeping secret agreements for combining the might of the West were made recently in London and Paris by Lester B. Pearson. .Such a combination can have but one purpose: war.: among the people of a feeling of “business as usual,” which \ -- is as false as a capitalist election program. ® There is not any contradiction between this # species of subterfuge and the panic and hysteria which are worked up around such events as the Fuchs case. “You pay your tuppence and you take ; your choice.” If you aren’t deceived by panic, perhaps you will be by “business as usual.” So runs the official propaganda tactics. The aim is the same, to dampen the people’s desire for peace and to allay suspicion and fear. The fighters for peace constantly must be on the alert against these propaganda devices. It remains an axiom that the peoples of the world are sick and tired of war. But sickness and tiredness: are not reliable bulwarks of peace. They are emotions, not an organized force. They are only the raw materials of a conscious peace movement. Complacency is the acceptance of offici al propaganda— the achievement by the press and radio of ie. haeaa aim o preparation for war under the guise of peaceful, prepara- ions . ‘When the Associated Press in a special despatch which was widely used, is compelled to admit that the world peace petition is winning support in all countries, and when Trygve Lie’s mission’ to Moscow aroused new hopes for an agree- _ ment between the east-and west, it is clear that underneath the avalanche of inspired propaganda. the growth of the peace movement is plainly to be seen. - _ Truman’s “containment of communism” doctrine is fail- ing. The Communists make no secret of the fact that they are in the forefront now, as they have been for several years of a movement to arouse all people of good will to the ne- cessity of ending the cold war and replacing it by the policy ere co-existence of the capitalist and socialist coun- ries. The very power of the peace movement springs from the fact that the desire for peace—following upon two world wars in a generation—is so strong that it envelopes millions of people who have not worked out for themselves defined political opinions in,favor of socialism. . : ; This is the basis for the united front which the Com- munists, together with many non-Communists, are working for night and day. And it is also the source of the fear which catises the Minister of External Affairs, Lester Pear- son,.to talk in the House of Commons about “guns and butter” and iron and blood, instead of houses and flood re- habilitation, — eal of The warmongers fear the unity of the. people for peace, as they do nothing else. That is why the cooperation around the straightforward proposals contained in the Canadian Peace Congress Peace Petition, is the heart and soul of the peace-movement, a ae on Beaa . The course of events is being changed. Who can say that but for the world peace movement, the warmongers. would not ere this have launched their atomic aggression? What ~ is needed is that the fight for peace should rise above all feelings of panic or of complacency — that action should accompany the greatest confidence in the power of the people. ae _ The war camp aided by the right-wingers works night and day to try to separate Communists from the masses ‘of peace-loving people. Crude forgeries like the Montreal document, red-baiting attempts to scare away sunshine soldiers—these and many more tricks can be anticipated. It is the duty of Communists every day — in word and deed — to keep aloft the firm conviction that peace can be won by campaigns like the great peace’ petition — that unity can be strengthened, and that all the nefarious pro-_ paganda tricks of the warmongers can: be exposed‘ and frustrated. ch coe | ! il INH mul AU me Di) FY &>. TL) Aa NUM) EN Zit EUINIENe P Yerey Comme itl By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. _ aca Telephone MA, 5288 $ ee Tom McEwen ..... Loner ts dinty ) 5 44a Se RAGICOR : Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Myrnths, $1.35. Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 16, 1950—PAGE 8 ; An important part of the war plans is the installation — -