Five-power pact
finds favor with

MPP’s in

Toronto citizens took. the
taria legislature last week when more than
from the local Peace Council and the Canadian
gress talked to 25 MPP’s in the corridors of Queen’s

The only MPP’s to-raise

ion on the legislative floor have-
but a poll of those able to be

MacLeod and J. B: Salsberg,

Ontario

TORONTO
issue of peace to the On-
100 delegates
Peace Con-
Park.

the issue in a positive fash-

been LPP members A. ’A.

reached between an afternoon and a night session showed

Citizenship Act
amendments hit
by rights rally

Civil liberties are always one of
the first war casualties, pointed out
guest speakers Bert Whyte, Peter
Maksylewich and William Stewart
at a public rally of close to 200 per-
sons in Pender Auditorium last
Sunday night. The rally, called to
protest proposed amendments to
the Canadian Citizenship Act, was
sponsored by the League for Demo-
eratic Rights.

Whyte said that in order to
drag Canada down the road to
war the government “must either
fool or silence the people.” The
proposed changes in the Citizen-
ship Act, which have now been
approved by parliament, were de-
signed to intimidate citizens who
opposed the war policies of St.
Laurent, and gag those who dar-
ed to speak out for peace.

“Ukrainian Canadians have help-
ed to build this Canada of ours
over the past 60 years,” said Mak-
sylewich, “and we refuse to accept

any status as second-class citizens.”
The Association of United Ukrain-
ian Canadians, which he represent-
ed, formally affiliated to the LDR,
as did the Council of ‘Canadian
South Slavs.

Musical numbers rounded out the
program. Participating were the
Russian Canadian Women’s Choir,
under the direction of D. Wikristov
and accompanied by a string en-
semble; soloist Anne Shystova; and
mandolin and guitar artists Bilk
Chomyn and Ray Urbansky.

Charles Stewart, Sr., chaired the
meeting, and a collection appeal
made by James Thompson netted
$75 to aid the work of the newly-
formed League for Democratic
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that MPP’s from all parties were
favorable to peace talks by the five
big powers and for seating of Peo-
ple’s China in the United Nations
as a big step towards ending the
present world crisis. Nine were de-
finitely for five power peace talks.
+ J. I. Harvey (CCF, Sault Ste.
Marie) told delegates he welcomed
the suggestion of being a corre-
sponding delegate to the National
Assembly to Save Peace,

Agnes MacPhail (CCF, York
East) told lobbyists she hoped
“there would be no more war” and
said she “would be happy to sit in
on the discussions of the Peace AS-
sembly if the legislature was not in
session.

Eamon Park (CCF, Toronto-Do-
vercourt) felt that most of the is-
sues raised by the lobbyists were
“federal matters,” but like William
Dennison (CCF, Toronto-St. David’
Dennison (CCF, Toronto-St. Da-
vid’s) agreed that five-power peace
pacts were necessary‘if peace is to
be preserved. The same point of
view was endorsed by Lloyd Fell
(OCF, Toronto-Parkdale).

Welfare Minister W. A. Goodfel-
low felt that the idea of five-power
peace talks was “a good thing,” as
did J. D. Baxter, Liberal, Prince Ed-
ward-Lennox), O. F. Villeneuve
(Progressive-Conservative, Glengar-
ry) made it plain he was “strongly
for peace” and stressed he warmly
welcomed the recent Easter state-
ment of the Pope on the issue.

A brief presented to MPP’s and
signed by Dr. J. G. Endicott, chair-
man of the Canadian Peace Con-
gress, executive secretary Mary
Jennison and Jessie Storrie, secre-
tary of the Toronto Peace council,
urged:

e@ We ask the Ontario govern-
ment to endorse the attached nine-
point Appeal to the United Nations
as endorsed by 2065 delegates from
81 countries at. the Second World
Peace Congress and directed to this
parliament and to all parliaments
throughout the world,

e With the peace of the world

trembling in the balance we request

the Ontario government and the
legislature to make a declaration
urging a Peace Pact among the
United States, Soviet Union, Chin-
ese People’s Republic, Great Brit-
ain and France.

e We are gravely concerned by
the war hysteria developed through
the press and radio in our province,
especially about the showing of
such war films as The Steel Helmet
and the effect of comic books that
educate children in the spirit of
militarism, hate, misunderstanding
and actual degeneracy. We propose
that the government introduce leg-
islation making war propaganda a
criminal offense in this province.

e@' We request the government
to speak up against the re-arma-
ment of Germany and Japan, the
release of war criminals such as
Alfred Krupp, and the proposed re-
lease of Kurt Meyer, responsible
for the shooting of unarmed Can-
adian prisoners of war.

@' We propose that the govern-
ment introduce a motion, - in line
with the majority feeling of citi-
zens, urging the federal govern-
ment to recognize the government
of the People’s Republic of China
as a step to re-opening the door to
a settlement in the Far East.

Steel raid on
CCL unions in
East - assailed

Raiding of two Canadian Con-
gress of Labor shipyard locals in
Midland and Collingwood by Cis
Millard’s United . Steelworkers of
America is bringing condemnation
of the action from trade unions in
all parts of Canada. ‘

Speaking for the Marine Workers
and Boilermakers Union here, sec-
retary Bill Stewart said this week:

“We strongly condemn Millard’s
raiding and demand his removal as
a vice-president of the CCL. Some
weeks ago we received a protest
from rank and file Collingwood
shipyard workers and we wired the
CCL, promising our full support to
stop this raiding.

“Once you start raiding, there’s
no end to it. At first Millard con-
fined his raiding to unions sus-
pended by the CCL — such as

Mine-Mill and United Electrical |

Workers—but having been sound-
ly rebuffed by the workers in
those industries, he has now re-
sotred to raiding CCL unions.’

Greater Vancouver and Lower
Mainland Labor ‘Council (CCL) at
its last meeting expressed opposi-
tion to Millard’s raiding in the two
Ontario town’ “if the information
we have received is correct.”

The Toronto Globe and Mail
broke the raiding story last month
when the USW applied to Ontario
Labor Relations Board for certifi-
cation. The locals, which have
been under direct CCL charter for
eight years, asked the parent body
for assistance, and two CCL or-
ganizers went in to fight the steel
raiders. Millard refused to accede
to a request from CCL secretary-
treasurer Pat Conroy to stay out of
the shipyards, and the battle for
jurisdiction began.

Ottawa knifing
housing project
called ‘disgrace

Coupled with an announcement
from Victoria this week that the
provincial government
“take over” rent controls when fed-
eral controls end April 30 came the
shocking news from Ottawa that
the federal government is abandon-
ing the Fraserview low-rental hous-
ing development.

The Coalition’s decisiog—designed
to pacify thousands of tenants who
are in revolt against the govern-
ment’s increased hospital prem-
iums—is unfortunately likely to be-
come law in the form of a bill “with
no teeth in it.”

intends to)

federation of Labor it
Despite this,

now serving six months
that history-making walkout.
The CTCC has launched a peti-
tion campaign to get at least 50,000 ,
signatures from Quebec working
people to the demand that Duplis-
sis release Rocque. . |
At mass meeting in the Thetford
Mines district, president Gerard
Picard told the miners that a dele-
gation had been to Quebec to see}
the premier. They asked him to,
‘drop all charges against strikers.
Picard reported that Attorney-
General Duplessis Saides -.L am |
ready to fix everything, all except :
Rocque. Don’t worry about him. Ty
have just had him transferred from
the prison at Sherbrooke to Bor-
deaux. He was too well off at Sher-
brooke. He had too many friends
there. At Bordeaux at least he will
be among criminals of his own
kind. However, we will withdraw
all other charges if you abandon
those which you have made against
the provincial police.”
/vicard hag accused' Duplessis

Unions fight for |
release of jailed |
Asbestos leader |

MONTREAL

Premier Duplessis has told the Canadian Catholic Con-
is acting in a “subversive” manner.
the whole -CTCC
fight to free Rene jRocque, one of Asbestos strike leaders,
in Bordeaux Jail for his part in

is being thrown into the

’

of keeping Rocque as his “per-
sonal prisoner.” He stated that
Duplessis, in addition to person-
ally ordering Kocque’s transfer
from Sherbrooke to Bordeaux, is
keeping him under surveillance
and has ordered him confined to
his cell.

Rocque is being denied visits from
his wife and attorney and is not
qhorge to work or exercise.

Following Picard’s speech the
Asbestos miners unanimously
adopted a resolution calling for
Rocque’s immediate release. In the
discussion some miners called for
a “general strike throughout the
province.”

One miner proposed the organi-
zation of two trips, “the first one
to go and release Rocque from
his cell and the other to put the
premier in his place in the cell
because of the collapse of his
bridge.”

This week Duplessis said that
statement by ‘CTCC leaders about
the Rocque case “are contrary to
the facts, so unjust and so subver-
sive that it is my duty to establish
the facts.”

Duplessis said the Asbestos strike
was “an illegal: strike that lasted
several months and caused millions
of dollars damage to employers;
disturbances bordering ‘on revolu-
tion took place.” :

“No one,” said Duplessis “can de-
cently pretend Rocque is a hero.”

But that is precisely what Roc-
que has become in:the eyes of the

Premier Byron Johnson indicated
this when he stated that “the legis-
lation will enable the Lieutenant-
Governor-in-Council, where desir-
able, to deal with those inequalities
presently affecting landlord-tenant
relationships now under control,
after consultation with all those af-
fected.” In plain words, this means
that many tenants will have their
rents boosted, despite provincial
“controls.” |

Abandonment of the Fraserview

project, leaving 500 homes of the :

original 1,100 planned uncom-
pleted, came as a hard blow to
city families in urgent need of
homes. Central Mortgage and
Housing Corporation officials ad-
mitted their waiting lists of fam-
ilies trying for Fraserview homes
totalled 3,000.

“Theesituation is more acute than
ever and the government’s action
on this project is disgraceful,” said
Mrs. Betty Marsh, secretary of
Vancouver Housing Association.

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End war in Korea,
says church body

TORONTO

In a letter to the cabinet, action
by the Canadian government to
bring about an end to the war in
Korea was demanded last week
following a meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Canadian
Council of Churches. The council,
a representative body of all Pro-
testant churches in Canada, ex-
pressed “its deep concern that the
conflict in Korea remains unresolv-
ed, that the Korean people have
become its victims, and that its
continuance threatens the peace of
the world.”

Dr. W. J. Gallagher, executive
secretary, chaired the meeting,
which urged that “at the present
juncture of events renewed effort
should be made through the United
Nations to end the fighting and to
secure peace with justice in Korea.”

The Canadian Council is affiliat-
ed to the World Council of

Churches.

petition campaign to free Rocque
is at the same time the battle to:
gain a decent standard of living
and a peaceful future for their
families.

PL ICU COOL UL UI edt
ry

Proposal fo sef up
Alcan company fown
affacked by unions

A proposed legislative amend-
ment which would give Aluminunt
Company of Canada the right to
make its own laws and rule the
lives of citizens living in its north-
ern B.C. townsite came up against
sharp fire at Vancouver, New West-
minster and District Trades and
Labor Council (TLC) this week.

George Gee, International Broth-
erhood of Electrical Workers,
charged that the amendment would
give “Alcan the right to bar union
organizations from the townsite.
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