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FIGHT FOR PEACE IS URGENT

RISA LOURIE, corresponding
‘Secretary, Vancouver Peace ASs-
sembly: We of the Vancouver
Peace Assembly know that read-
ers of your paper will appreciate
the urgency of the fight for
peace. We also believe that you

have the desire to do something
about. it,

Here are some suggestions:

1—Write or wire to Rt. Hon.
Louis St. Laurent to condemn the
H-bomb and to stop immediately
all Shipments of Canadian uran-
tum, to the U.S, until the follow-
mg clause is inserted in the
Canadian-U.S. contract now un-
der negotiation: “Canadian uran-
tum shall not be used in the
‘Production of atomic weapons,
meluding the ‘hydrogen bomb,
and action in the United Nations
Shall be pressed to ban atomic
Weapons,”

2—Write or wire to Rt. Hon.
Louis st. Laurent and to Sec-
Yetary of State for External Af-
fairs, Hon. Lester B. Pearson,
requesting the recognition of the
new Chinese government.

3—Double your efforts in col-
lecting signatures for the Ban
the Bomb petition which has
been extended until February 20.

_ Please forward all petition forms

tothe Vancouver Peace Assembly.

4—Join the Vancouver Peace
Assembly as an individual or
form a local group and affiliate.
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Steady jobs

al You Pleate.

_ Support of Peace Assembly’s
_ Ban the Bomb petition urged
:

Don’t forget to come to our
meeting on February 24, 8 p.m.,
at 111 Dunsmuir Street. Hilary
Newitt-Brown, well known auth-
or, will speak on “Who Threat-
ens World Peace?”

needed,

not merely odd jobs

. JACK PHILLIPS, Vancouver:
Yea The mountain has
labored mightily,

verily!
and produced
a miserable little mouse.

The federal government has:
now embarked on a_ national
campaign to look after the un-
employed, by looking for odd

jobs. What a fitting commentary

on the policies of our federal -

government: a policy of begging»
odd jobs!

What we is bold,
structive action. Canada’s foreign

need con-
trade policy must be disentangled
from cold war policies. We don’t
have to blast our way into world
markets in the next decade, in
order to make jobs for tens of |
thousands. All we have to do is
to pursue a policy of friendly

trade with those countries who
are in the position to trade with
us. :

Instead of worrying so much
about A-bombs, H-bombs+and T-

HEAR!

HILARY (NEWITT) BROWN
Noted Author and Lecturer

SUBJECT: \

‘Who Threatens World Peace?”

|. Friday, February 24th - 8.00 p.m.

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bombs, let’s scrap the bombs and
forget about the mythical iron
curtain. The scope of the poten-
tial Chinese market in the next
ten years opens staggering pros-
pects for British Columbia.

Of course, some ‘people will
say, that will be helping the Reds
in China. But that’s what they
said after the Russian revolution,
but it didn’t stop Russia from
growing strong and powerful,
and it certainly didn’t stop Rus-
sia from building the army that
broke the back of the German
army. The moral:-you can’t turn
back the clock of history. Time
moves on. Let’s move with it.
Let’s make our peace with those
nations who do not desire to live
under our system, even though
they have to do without Ken-
tucky cigarettes, Chicago chew-
ing gum and Hollywood films.

In 1943 and 1945 the Liberal

party promised huge _ public
works programs to cushion mass

unemployment. Now they. want

= to look around to see if Mr. John

Citizen needs a chicken coop

= built. Instead of schools, chicken
= coops. Instead of irrigation pro-
= jects,

snow shoveling, What a

farce!

No sane-minded citizen is
against giving odd jobs to men
who need them, but if big busi-
ness and the government cannot
produce enough work for 300,000
jobless (with more to, come) how

= can we find enough odd jobs for

them?
.

The National Employment Ser-
vice is to be pitied. They are
but the servants of government,
and that government has no pol-
icy. It’s up to the people, and,
in particular, labor, to shout to
the high heavens: steady jobs,
not odd jobs! :

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Five hundred attended
Chinese banquet in city

J.L., Vancouver: Along with 500 other Vancouver citizens, I
recently attended a banquet sponsored by the Chinese Workers’ Pro-
tective Association, celebrating the founding of the new People’s Re-
public of China. It was one of the most enjoyable affairs I have ever

been at.

Expecting a crowd of 200, dinner plates had been set for about

that number. Harried cooks and
waiters dished up roast turkey
with trimmings and chow mein
to two complete sittings of
guests, then - reluctantly turned
another hundred people away
from the tables because of short-
age of food and floor space.
Following the dinner a two-
hour concert meeting entertain-
ed the guests. There were
speeches, dances and musical
numbers by members of the tal-
ented Chen family, solos by Win-
ona Zuker, and other featured
artists,
Representatives from Ukrain-
ian, Polish, Russian, Chinese and
Lithuanian organizations spoke,
and there were also speakers

‘from the National Federation of

Labor Youth, the Pacific Tribune
and the Chinese Workers’ Pro-
tective Association.

A collection was taken to buy
médical supplies for the. Chinese
People’s Army, a message of
greeting to Mao Tsetung was
enthusiastically endorsed, and
plans for the formation of a
Canadian-Chinese Friendship or-
ganization were drawn up.

* * *

WALTER L. JOHNSON, Van-
couver: An_ article by Mac
Reynolds appeared in the Van-
couver Sun, Friday, February 9,
captioned “Four Dollars a Day
to Keep an Indian Lad in Jail’.
Many of the statements contain-
ed in the article are false, such
as the assumption that had the
Indian lad in question come from
Vancouver, Victoria or Nanaimo,
he would likely have been re-
leased on probation.

I have yet to see Native In-
dians receiving lenient treatment
in any of the places mentioned.
One Nanaimo magistrate is quot-
ed as saying that a lot of the
boys don’t need actual incarcera-
tion, they need working boys’
homes, if they can work in the

city; or supervised forestry
camps.
The magistrate thus quoted,

however, has himself dealt out
some of the most severe senten-
ces to juveniles. I remember one
young lad who was sentenced to
two years less one day in Oakal-
la, at the tender age of fifteen.

Racial bias seems to play a
part in the stiff sentences handed
out to Native Indians. Once in
jail, racial discrimination is very
evident. Young hoodlums refer to
them as “buckskins” and no-
thing is done to correct this,
and staff members themselves of-
ten display racial prejudices.

* * *
ROSALEEN ROSS, secretary,
Friends of Free Spain,,

Vancouver:. Recent press re:
ports announcing the intention of
the U.S. government to press in
the United Nations for résump-

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tion of full diplomatic relations
with the Franco regime in Spain
have caused us to send the follow-
ing telegram to Extérna) Affairs
Minister Lester B. Pearson:

“Deeply concerned over press
reports announcing United States’
Government's intention to press
for reversal of United Nations’
stand against Franco Spain. Ca-
nadian citizens of all political and
religious persuasions cannot coun-
tenance any political or financial
comfort to Franco regime. This
regime created by Hitler and Mus-
solini sided with our enemies in
last war and is still harboring
Nazi and Fascst war criminals.
Its Gestapo-trained police sup-
presses all civil liberties and dis-
criminates against Protestants,
Jews and other minority groups.
Its .corrupt inefficiency caused
present famine. We trust Canada
will continue to insist on imple-
mentation of United Nations re-
solution of December 1946.

* * *

MRS. D. GODDARD, Port Al
berni, B.C.: In the account of
the sixth convention of the B.C.
Federation of Labor appearing in
the February 8 issue of OCF
News, Robert Smeal lays the
violence and bloodshed of the
unemployed demonstrations of
the thirties at the door of the
Communists. Surely Mr. Smeal is
more of a realist than to honestly
believe that.

It needs no particular party to
bring out violence when there
exist thousands of hungry and
ragged frustrated men and wo-
men. Mr. Smeal seems to be so
insistent upon getting ‘““respect-
ability and dignity” into jobless
organizations that he seems to
lose sight of what it means to
be one of the ranks of the un-
employed. When one is faced
with mounting grocery bills,
overdue monthly instalments
with nothing to meet them, and
with a hopeless future, one does
not at such a time feel exactly
in a dignified mood.

And speaking of the violence
of the thirties it must be remem-
bered that much.of that took
place during the reign of “Iron
Heel” Bennett. Perhaps, too, Mr.
Smeal has forgotten those in-
famous twenty-cents-a-day slave
camps. :

It seems to me that labor,
rather than carrying on its pres-
ent policies of open conflict with-
in its own ranks, would advance
its cauSe considerably if united.

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