:

_ Oakalla. I used to belong to a

-_ promisea them I would speak to

. Squad, and that Police action alone

; PROGRAM

a. YUGO-SLAV

From our effort, community work

comes strength to promote peace

—DR. JAMES ENDICOTT

“Your job is to organize and direct the work in all the’ communities, the industries, from which you have come to
this conference. Out of these individual efforts, this community work, will come the strength of the common people that
will impose peace.” This is how Dr. James G. Endicctt, chairman of the Canadian Peace Congress, outlined the task of the
313 delegates attending the B.C. peace conference in Pender Auditorium here last weekend. :

“Through the World Peace Committee’s Petition for Peace you have the means of arousing the people around Ne
to thé danger of war—and, let no one underestimate it, the danger of war is great. But once give expression to the people s
desire for peace and it will generate such overwhelming stren gth that no government on any continent will brave the wrath

Youth committee
refuses demand
for youth parley

In the five months since it has been established, the Mayor’s Youth
Committee has done nothing positive on the problem of juvenile delin-
quency in Vancouver. In the frank words of Reserve Army Colonel

Bus Ryan, who was chairman of an open meeting of the Mayor's com-

i i chool Audi- | — :
ni PE — ee mayor’s | OMly increased the bitterness and
youth services committee has be-| resentment of the youth.

r i t,it
hobby R h re| Steve Endicott declared. tha
Sosipetiny Sas oo oe | was apparent from its inaction, that

| the function of the Youth Services
Steve Endicott, representative |Committee was only to divert the
from the National Federation of fire of public indignation from the
Labor Youth, declared that, the | mayor.
cause of delinquency was the fail-| Professor Dixon of UBC, a mem-
ure of the city to satisfy the basic. ber of the Mayor's committee, rose
needs of youth, for opportunity, | to protest that “the committee was
jobs, recreation, homes. He pointed|not a front for the mayor, but
out that the Canadian Youth Com-|then proceeded to admit most of
mission had made extensive reports | Endicott’s charges about the com-
on these matters,.and investigations | nrittee’s lack of action to deal with
such as the Norris Report on Rec-jthe crisis which is hitting Van-
reation in Vancouver made it un- | couver.
necessary for the Mayor's commit- Ko uewealing DHIMeRE OF he

We oe Fo % pver axain, meeting was the refusal of Chair-

“Wha eeded ” }man Ryan to put a motion, regu-
rca ences Patent rete ed ‘|larly moved and seconded, that
was asked point blank what had | “This meeting recommend to the
become of the Rogers memorial | Mayor’s Youth Committee, the call-
estate money, earmarked in the (ing of a broad conference of the
will for < community center | youth themeselves, from such or-
oe Rag uoy coi Mental boring ame senate
Broadway, but gave no reply. |churches, Y's, high s ‘

and youth clubs, on the problem of

Another delegate from NFLY, | juvenile delinquency.” Chairman
Glynn Thomas, asked why no ac-/Bus Ryan had previously admitted
tion had been taken on opening up/that there were no young people—
school gyms in the evenings to! under 30—on the Mayor’s Youth
provide recreation.

Committee,

It was a stunned committee that
heard a-youth rise from the back
of the hall and say: “My name jis
Humphry. I have just come out of

Dr. Endicott speaks
at New Westminster

Com-

gang. I’ve talked to about a hun-
dred of the guys in prison and Ij New Westminster Peace
mittee is sponsoring a public meet-
ing for Dr. James G, Endicott,
chairman of the Canadian Peace
Congress, in the Hollywood Bowl

.,on Sunday, June 4, at 8 p.m.

Dr. Endicott will report on his
recent peace mission to Moscow
and the meeting of the world Peace
Congvess in Stockholm.

KEEP THIS DAY OPEN

-- JUNE 11th

oe . 8 P.M.
AT THE

AUDITORIUM

Georgia at Denman

All- Slav Concert

this committee if I got a chance.
They all agree that the real rea-
son for this gang trouble is because
we have no things to go out to
at night.” ‘

It was pointed out in the meet-
ing that the only concrete action
which had been undertaken was
Police Chief Mulligan’s Juvenile

UKRAINIAN
RUSSIAN
POLISH |

.

. ._ CZECHO-SLOVAKIAN
CHOIRS - DANCES - ORCHESTRAS, ETC.
Auspices Canadian All-Slavy Committee

of united peoples by stamping itself as a

Endicott declared.

war. criminal,” Dr.

As an indication of what could be accomplished by com-

munity effort, Rev. A. Hodgkins, chairman, in his opening re-
marks read a number of letters, one of them from a supporter

at- Coal Harbor, B:C.,

where, he declared proudly, 93 percent

of the residents had signed the Ban the Bomb petition.

Dr. Endicott warned delegates that they would have the
press and radio solidly arrayed against them.

“But.” he said, “you should

also remember that in Europe

and Asia there is another press and radio which is not clamor-
ing for war but speaking boldly for peace.

“So, whe sometimes you: come up against people who

have become confused by the
and radio, remember that we are
not alone, that in Europe and Asia
nearly a billion people are working
for peace and that throughout the
world men and women of good will
are combining their efforts to the
end that there shall be no more
war.” :

Mrs. Jean Fletcher, a delegate to

DR. JAMES ENDICOTT

propaganda of the daily press

the recent national peace congress,
told the conference:

“We want to offer our children
a brighter future, greater security,
than we have known ourselves. This
can only have meaning if we have
peace, for the prospect of war
strips all our hopes and plans for
the feature-of meaning.”

Another delegate, Ed Cinits,
high school student, observed:

a

“Young people are being offered
the choice of breadlines or uni-
forms, and there’s no future in
either. When we graduate from
high school we want jobs, and the
only way we'll get them is by
helping to get the kind of world
that will put peaceful construction
before arms production.”

Loud applause greeted his state-
ment as it did Mrs. Margaret Apps’
remark:

“T heard of a group of farmers
in Alberta living miles apart,
but distance didn’t keep them
apart in working for peace.
Neither distance nor political dif-
ferance should keep any people
apart in this common cause of
peace.”

Vets state no security as

long as A-weapons exist

An appeal to British Columbia
war veterans to support the Cana-
dian Peace Congress petition for

peace\campaign was read by Jack ;

Phillips at the weekend conference
in Pender, Auditorium.

The “call to veterans” states:

“We veterans attending the first
B.C. peace conference address our-
selves to all war veterans.

“We have seen and felt the hor-
ror of war. We have seen with our
own eyes the great destruction
which modern war brings. It is
not difficult for us to realize how
terrible would be a war fought
with atomic bombs. Our entire ex-
perience in war ‘strengthens our
resolve that war must never hap-
pen again.

“As veterans we are concerned

with the security of our country.
But we cannot be secure so Jong
as atomic weapons exist.

“Fellow veterans. We appeal to
you: support the petition of the
Canadian Peace Congress which
calls for the unconditional banning
‘by all countries of the atomic wea-
pon and the establishment of ef-
fective international controls, and
which declares that Canada _ will
regard as a war criminal that ‘gov-
ernment which first uses the atomic
weapon, :

“Have your ‘veterans’ organiza-
tion endorse this petition. Have
your buddies and comrades sign it.

“In this way, we veterans can
| add our powerful voice to keep
| peace in the world and avoid atomic
. destruction,”

HEAR DR. J.

at

NO MORE WAR!

HOLLYWOOD BOWL :
SUNDAY, JUNE 4,AT8P.M. |

: ‘ . :
Auspices, New Westminster Peace Committee

C. ENDICOTT
the

DELEGATE SAYS:

Nazis killed

my parents,
60 relatives

Eloquent and passionate pleas
for peace, as well as pledges to
work for peace by securing 75,000
signatures in B.C. for the Cana-
dian Peace Congress petition, were
voiced by delegates to the great
provincial peace conference held
last weekend in Pender Auditorium.

Garry Culhane, chairman of the
Sunday afternoon session, drew ap-
plause when he personally pledged
to get 1,000 signatures between now
and October 2.

A hush fell upon the audience
as Rita Whyte of the Lithuanian
Literary Society said: “My father,
my mother and 60 of my rela-
tives were killed by the Nazis
in Lithuania. My father was the
rabbi of our village, where 5,000
Jews were killed—shot beside the
graves they had been forced to
dig for themeselves, These Jews,
my people, were killed not be-
cause they were religious, but
because of their religion. Can you

wonder why. I am in this peace)
movement?”

“There’s nothing genteel about
war,” said Evelyin Lewis of Na-
naimo. “Let's express Our horror
in the strongest terms. How can
any woman who has borne a child
want to see that child mutilated
or killed, a victim of atomic war?”

Beryl] Wheeldon of Nanaimo,
speaking as “a mother and a vet-
eran of the First World War,” de-
clared that “we have minimized
the willingness of people to sign
this petition.” (Two delegates proy-
ed this pcint by going on the streets
at noon-hour Saturday and filling
two petition sheets with names.)

“Our signature pledges are too
conservative,” declared Victor Ves-
terback, Scandinavian Workers
Club. “Our small organization, with.
some 50 members, will get at least
1,000 and perhaps 1,500 signatures.”

“There are 6,000,000 European
Jews, killed by the: Nazis in Eur-

_| together”

|Ope, who would march with us,”
| Said Ben Chudd, United Jewish Peo-
| ple’s Order, “Visualize half the pop-
ulation of Canada slaughtered, and
you begin to grasp the picture.”
Bill Stewart, Marine Workers and
Boilermakers, emphasized that the
task of defenders of peace was not
to “argue the relative merits of
socialism and capitalism.” He said:
“This ‘peace petition cuts across
the lines of arguments, and across
questions relating to trade union
struggles on jurisdictional issues.
This petition puts in the criminal
class the first government that
drops -the atom bomb. We must

Other trade unionists who de-
clared that “around this vital strug-
gle for peace al] unionists can come
included Pear] . Wedro
(Fur an] Leather), William Rigby
(Fishermen), Eric Waugh (Civic
Employees), Jack Rockendal (Sea-

men) and Archie Lewis (WIUC).

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Come to the

Peace Arch
Rally

On Canadian-U.S.A. Border

Sunday, June 4, 1950

JOIN THE AUTO CARAVAN
OR TAKE BUSES AT CNR
PARK, MAIN ST. AT 11 A.M,

$1.00 Return Fare

Bring Picnic Lunch
Rally starts 2 p.m.

Inserted by N.E.LLY.
in support of
PEACE ARCH RALLY

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