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100 million sign in USSR — |

Americans retreat in Korea

American troops, cemfronted with the armed strength and
of the Korean people, united in opposing them as invaders,
while throughout the world workers voice

active hostility of all but a small section
this week continued their long retreat,
d their protest against U.S. intervention.

CCF members score top

support

By HAL GRIFFIN

The widening gulf between the
CCF top leaders, war-bent in sup-
port of the Atlantic pact, U.S. in-
tervention in Korea and dispatching
of Canadian forces across the Pa-
cific, and the desire for peace and
democratic advance at home ex-
pressed by the majority of CCF
members and supporters became
apparent here this week.

As the Pacific Tribune went to
press, delegates to the CCF natio-
nal convention meeting in this city,
held their first open sessions, but
the central issue of intervention in
Korea, expected to explode in a
stormy debate, had not yet reached
the floor.

Nevertheless, the gulf was
there, expressed in the open pro-

posal of CCF top leaders for ful-
ler Canadian participation in Am-
erican intervention in Korea, and
rank-and-file letters published in
the CCF News strongly denoun-
cing this policy.

The CCF top leaders, with a
skill evolved in thwarting the unity
sentiments of a large section of
their membership in the thirties,
carefully prepared the stage for
the convention.” -

M. J. Coldwell, CCF national
leader, on his arrival here last
week» gave an interview to the
Vancouver News Herald in which
he maintained:

@ that Canada should not re-
cognize the Chinese People’s
government until North Ko-
rean forces returned to the

of intervention

38th parallel.

@ That Formosa was a Japa-
nese island.

@ That the UN charter ought
to be amended to eliminate
the veto so that the UN
could not be “hamstrung” by
any one country.

\ He elaborated this un-socialist
position, differimg in no basic re-
spect from Liberal foreign policy,
with a statement, made in the
course of a speech to a public
meeting held in Hotel Vancouver
that ‘“‘democratic socialism’” had
little or nothing in common with
Karl Marx and the class struggle
but instead derived its inspiration
Continued on page 6
See CCF

ing reply was that the Stock-

The Canadian Peace Congress this week gave the lie to
CCF national leader M. J. Coldwell’s shameless allegation,
made in a statement to daily papers here and eagerly circu-
lated throughout the country by the Canadian Press, that
the Stockholm peace appeal “is a ruse to assist the Soviet
Union in disarming the peoples of democratic countries in
order that the Russians may continue their aggressive tac-
tics.

“If there is a ruse in the petition, which is simply aimed
at uniting all of humanity for peace and life against atomic
extermination, the ruse is that it smokes out any who har-
bor plans or approve the criminal idea of unleashing atomic
aggression,” a letter sent to Coldwell over the signature of
Mary Jennison, executive secretary of the Canadian Peace
Congress, pointedly stated.

Coldwell ‘claimed in his statement: “The Stockholm
Appeal is in line with Soviet ‘peace’ appeals to banish the
atomic bomb — outside the Soviet Union. It is only being
circulated outside the Soviet Union. It is unfortunate that
it is not being circulated in Russia, too.”

The Peace Congress’ crush-

holm Appeal is being circu-
lated in the Soviet Union —
and has alteady been signed
by leaders of the Soviet gov-
ernment and 100 million So-
viet citizens.

Full text of the Congress’
letter to Coldwell follows:

“You are quoted by a press
agency as having stated in
an interview that the Stock-

holm Appeal for peace being
circulated in petition form

in Canada is — and these
are the words ascribed to :
you — ‘a ruse to assist the See

Soviet Union in disarming WILLIAM KARDASH, MLA
the peoples of democratic
countries in order that Rus-
sia may continue its aggres-
sive tactics.’ According to the
dispatch, you further said:

‘It is unfortunate it is only

being circulated outside si Sea open air rally to be held
Russia and not in Russia, this Sunday, July 30, at 7.30 p.m.
too.’ on Powell Street Grounds here.
Their topic will be “Prevent the
Continued on back page Korean Crisis from Becoming

See SIX Atomic War.”

Speaks Sunday

William Kardash, LPP mem-
ber of the Manitoba legislature
(above), will speak with Nigel
Morgan, LPP provincial leader,

COLDWELL’S SMEAR OF
PEACE PLEA EXPOSED