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_St.Laurent’s step-by-step

involvement of Canada in war

TORONTO

Terming the St. Laurent gov-
ernment’s proposal to send a bri-
gade of troops to Korea “the cul-
minating, decisive step of a seriés
of government maneuvers careful-
ly designed to involve Canada
‘step by step’ in the U.S. imperi-

alist intervention in the domestic
affairs of the Korean people,” the
LPP national executive this week
addressed an appeal to all peace-
loving people to call a halt to this
policy “through public meetings,
delegations to MP’s, resolutions,
letters, telegrams and deputations

to the government,” and by. rally-
ing around the world peace peti-
tion.

The appeal warned that the aim
of this policy “is all-out, large-
scale war against the people’s gov-
ernments of Asia, to reconquer
Asia for imperialism.”

Full text of the appeal follows:

Fellow Canadians!

You face a grave challenge.
You are called upon to make a

choice between peace and war.
Prime Minister St.. Laurent has
spoken to the country over the

CBC announcing that parliament
wiil be called next month to vote
upon his government’s proposal to
send Canadians to fight in Korea.

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British Columbia, August 11,

1950

Price Five Cents

PEACE WORKERS FIGHT

FOR RIGHT TO PETITION

RECORD ATTENDANCE EXPECTED

. Biggest .outdoor .fete .of .its
kind in Western Canada — the
United Labor Picnic — will. be
staged for the ninth consecutive
year this coming Sunday, Aug-
ust 13, in North Burnaby’s Con-
federation Park. New attend-
ance record is. expected to be
set.

Greatest interest lies in the
Popular Girl contest, with 12
finalists representing districts
and organizations competing for
honors and prizes.

Two special events will be-an
exhibition boxing match between
Golden Glove aspirants Ronnie
and Albert Crump, twin brothers,
and the hand-balancing act by
tiny Kathy Steele and her father.

In addition there will be track
and field sports for children and
adults; three professional wrest-
iIng bouts with headliners
George Bunka and Bill Mason,
and lady: wrestlers Kory Palmer
and Lou Traub; an international
restaurant offering many na-
tional dishes, including B.C.
baked salmon; weight-lifting ex-
hibitions; a “best national cos-
tume” contest; a “gayway” with
prizes and ice cream for the
Children; a musical program and
taxi dancing.

Featured speaker will be Har-
vey Murphy.

Date and place again: Sunday,
August 13, at Confederation
Park in North Burnaby. Two
bus lines are available from
Boundary Road. -

® These scenes of the United
Picnic in past years promise
& good time for young and
old alike at Confederation
Park this Sunday.

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United Labor picnic will be held
Sunday at Confederation Park

By BERT WHYTE

Vancouver Peace Assemb-
ly and its thousands 6f sup-
porters will fight back, in the
courts and on the streets,
against police attempts to
deny petitioners the right to
seek signatures for the
Stockholm appeal on down-
town corners.

Three petitioners, arrest-
ed last Saturday on Hast-
ings Street while canvassing
for banning -of the atom
bomb, will appear in police
court .this coming Wednes-
day, August 16. “They are:

Jack Phillips, secretary of
si ic Employ ees Union, Local

Mrs. Viola Bianco, a can-
didate for Vancouver East in
the last provincial elections.

Ernest Lawrie, a member
of the Civic Employees (Out-
side Workers) Union.

Police also took into cus-
tody, on a charge of ob-
structing, two passers-by,
George viele and his wife,
who stopped to object to the
arrest of the petitioners.

Daniels, a former member
of the Canadian Seamen’s
Union, will not be in court

ito face the charge, however.

He was one -of the two
workers killed on Wednesday this
week when a scaffolding from
which they were cleaning the
Pemberton Building, Hastings and

Continued on back page
See CITY

TORONTO

Walter Krehm, one of Can-
ada’s leading peace campaign
ers, with more than 1,000
signatures to the Stockholm
peace petition already to his
credit, has been found guilty
«in a Toronto court of “caus-
ing a disturbance” while pe-
titioning. He was fined $50
or 30 days, The trial, which
Canadian. Peace Congress of-
ficials believe is of great na-
tional significance, was based
on a charge laid under Sec-
tion 228 of the federal
criminal code, a section pas-

sed by parliament in 1947
and never before used in
Toronto.

,

Dr. James Endicott, chair-
man, and Miss Mary Jeni-
son, secretary of the Can-
adian Peace Congress, an-
nounced immediately follow-
ing the conviction: “We will
appeal this preposterous ver-
dict, if necessary, in every
court in the land.” The Peace
Congress statement said the
sentence “contravenes the
right of petition, sacred to
English-speaking peoples
from the time of Magna Carta.

“Mr. Krehm was asking for sig-
natures to the petition for peace
on a Toronto street corner’ when
arrested,” the statement contin-
ued, “a petition already signed by
250 million people. A courteous
request to speak up against the

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Memo to M. J. Coldwell

The Hillcrest

CCF Club in Vancouver this week has

the’ following sign pasted across the window:
“Korea and what it means to you. Maintenance of the

privileges of the few at the expense of many.
Beat Communism by a better idea,
If capitalism could give peace and security

are you on?
murder or lies.

Which side
not by

there would bt no need to change.”

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