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By JOHN ELEEN

WINNIPEG

The CNR coach rattled its way west past the sulphur
blackened miners’ shacks of Sudbury and the logging camps

of western Ontario. I.sat and

wondered what the other pas-

sengers were thinking as they read the newspapers with
their screaming headlines about Korea.

Truman.was asking for more bil-
lions for slaughter; full page ads
were promising “a great future in
uniform” while the next item re-
luctantly announced that “the red
hordes” were pushing the Amer-
ican “supermen” into the sea.

The other passengers looked wor-
ried; they didn’t talk much. Per-
haps they were wondering why St.
Laurent sent the warships and
planes to Korea, or why the Cana-
dian government “yesses” Tru-
man’s actions so willingly. Or may-
be they were wondering why the
Americans were in Korea at all.

My thoughts turned to the ques-
tione “What can I do to advance
the cause of peace while on this
train?” And it suddenly occurred
to me that it is not only in the shop,
the street corner, the school, or at
a meeting that one can fight for
peace, but the fight for peace must
go on everywhere, no matter where
you are, no matter how small a
group of people you come in contact
with. And here, although the train
consisted of a coach and a couple
of tourist cars, were a group of
people with as diverse a background
and occupation as only passengers
on a train can have.

So I went from one seat to the
next and all through the train and
I talked to the people. Everyone

signed the petition except an immi-|

gration officer, a woman who said
She didn’t know if her husband
would approve, and some army of-
ficers.

I gathered 80 signatures on that
train, but to me they represent more
than just 80 signatures. They rep-
resent 80 people who love life, who
want to live and let others live and
who share with me and millions of
other Canadians a desire for peace
that ail the lies cannot destroy nor
“padlock laws” silence.

I ran into the immigration offi-
cer in the last tourist car. He was
sitting with the army officers. He
flashed a badge at me, seized my
petitions and threatened to arrest
me. I appealed to the conductor
but still didn’t get my petitions
back.

At the next station a provincial
policeman was called. Seeing that
all the people had signed the peti-
tion and that the immigration offi-
cer had no authority on that train
he ordered him to return the peti-
tions.

As this was done in front of the
other passengers, the immigra-
tion officer was booed and none
of them would revoke their sig-
natures when he later started to
intimidate the passengers by red-
baiting.

He later tried to have me ar-
rested in Winnipeg but failed as I
wasn’t doing anything illegal.

The passengers and trainmen
were very friendly. The trainmen
were talking about their coming
strike and saw a connection in the
fight for better working conditions
for “it’s the same crowd that re-
fuses our demands that is agitating
for war.”

I met an Indian at Nakina when
the train stopped for 10 minutes.
He was illiterate but signed the
petition with an X and said, “Why
don’t they spend the momey on
Schools instead of bombs?” ... ...

One of the women who signed
said, “I lost two sons in the last

war.” Another, “Only the big shots
profit from a war.” Still another,
“Whv don’t the Americans leave
the Korean people alone?” One vet-
eran said, “They banned poison gas
before, why not the atom bomb
now?” A porter on the train said,

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A-bomb ban again
asked by Red Cross

WASHINGTON

Paul Ruegger, president of the
International Red Cross, has re-
newed the organization’s plea for
the outlawing of the atom bomb.

Ruegger urged all nations to

hibiting the use of atomic weap-
ons,

The Red Cross chief indicated
reporters that he expected the
Soviet Unicn and its allies to sign
such a convention, if asked. He
said that the governments of these
countries had signed the Red
Cross’ 1949 Geneva convention,
which sets up certain rules for
combatants in war,

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“The Koreans are beating hell out
of the Americans because they don’t
want to be treated like the Negroes
in the U.S. are.”

When I got off at Winnipeg I
met some air force cadets from
B.C. I started a conversation with
them and they signed the petition
with their rank and all (they were
all NCO’s). They also took some
for their buddies to sign. As one
of them said, “We might be safe
in a plane but: our sisters, brothers
and parents will be burned by atom
bombs if there’s another war.”

All in all, it was a good trip.
And I learned one thing. Signa-
tures to the peace petition can be
collected wherever there are peo-

* ple. And I will get many more be-
fore I return to Toronto. I also
learned that despite the terrific
barrage of propaganda the peo-
ple know the score. They know
who are the warmongers.

Says Gl's dying

for rotten gov't
of Syngman Rhee

PORTLAND

Stanley Earl, former secretary of
the Oregon State CIO Council and
a Marshall Plan labor adviser just
returned from South Korea, openly
charged in a radio interview that

rotten Rhee government.”

Answering newsmen’s questions,
he said: “I took the position that I
would not stay in Korea further and
lend the good name of the Amer-
ican labor movement to anything
as corrupt as that which existed. I
thought that the American labor
movement was entitled to know the
facts. :

“They were not getting the facts.
The American public was not get-
ting the facts. The Congress wasn’t
getting the facts, and I certainly
think they are entitled to the facts
now. I think the public is entitled
to know what he boys are dying
for over there. That they are dying
for the rotten Rhee government.”

Earlier, he said: “Unfortunately
while many Koreans were starving,
the Americans were living hand-
somely. We had our big homes; we
had our big cars, and we lived well.
I think that the big parties which
are thrown for visiting congress-
men and senators are absolutely out
of place, when you can look across
the fence where the party is being
held and see hungry little Korean
kids running around’ without

enough rice to go into their bellies.”

sign a Red Cross convention pro- .

American GI’s “are dying for the]:

They prove Coldwell a liar

In Vancouver recently M. J. Coldwell, CCF national leader, asserted that the Stockholm peace peti-
tion “is only being circulated outside the Soviet Union.” But here a group of workers in a Soviet tool
plant, as workers are doing in cities throughout the world sign the pctition and help to swell the total of
100 million Soviet signatures already on the peace appeal.

Peace petitioners counter
war frenzy with slogan

of ‘No more Hiroshimas’

TORONTO

“No more Hiroshimas! No Hiroshimas for Canada — or anywhere in the world!” The
common man will impose peace on the warmakers!” With this keynote, thousands of new
peace’ petitioners are swinging into a six-week counter-offensive on the Canadian sector

ot the worldwide peace front.

“This,” said Peace Congress sec-
retary, Mary Jennison, “is the ur-
gent answer to the dwful danger
that atomic war might be set in
motion over Korea. The aim of the
petitioners is to exceed half a mil-
lion signatures on the world peace
petition in a drive to be climaxed
by the sending of 20 outstanding
Canadians as delegates to the Sec-
ond World Peace Congress.

Five years ago, August 6, 1945, a
single Atomic bomb killed 75,000
men, women and children of Hiro-
shima, wounded an additional 70,-
000. In August, 1950, while Canadian
cities were asked by Ottawa to pre-
pare against atomic war, peace pe-
tioners are asking every Canadian
to add his name so that this act
should* never be repeated.

“The only effective civilian de-
fense against the atomic bomb is
the world peace petition,’ they
declared,

Here are the main outlines of the
petitioners’ plan of campaign, as
announced by Miss Jennison:

@ The curtain-raiser: To mark
the Hiroshima anniversary \ thous-
ands of special petition forms com-

/memorating that anniversary will

be used during the week of August
6.

@ Action conferences: These will

Petition signed
by 76 ministers

TORONTO

“This. sort of petition should be
circulated to all the people of every

nation and the results put before

all governments,” is the way Rev.
D. S. Collins of Rockglen, Sask.,
signed the petition for peace. “The
agitation for the ‘next war’ has to
be stopped. We must work on this
deadly flow of pessimism.”

Two more ministers who have
jceined the 76 Anglican and United
Church ministers to endorse the

Ban the Bomb appeal are Rev.

Stanley Inserhoff, Anglican Mis-
sion, East Main, James May, Que.,
and Rev. Robt. Hughes, Ocean Park,
Surrey, B.C. “

*' Commented Rev. Inserhoff: “I am
with all my heart and soul in favor
with items one and two and pray
to God that this dreadful weapon
shall not be used to destroy human
beings.”

be held by 100 peace cotincils and
committees across Canada between
now and August 15, working out
plans to pass their share of the
national target of half a million
signatures by World Peace Day,
October 2.

@ The sinews of peace: Hundreds
of millions of dollars are being
spent for war. Active peace. sup-
porters are being asked to volun-
tarily tax themselves by donations
to finance the peace campaign and
the delegation to the world con-
gress. ;

@ For or against the bomb:
Councils and committees will ask
all local leading citizens to sign as
a positive example for peace: pub-
lic representatives, members of the
clergy, professional people, artists,
heads of organizations, and out-
standing citizens in all walks of life.

@ The infantry of peace: Peace
defenders will leaflet and petition
industrial plants, ball parks, beaches
and: resorts and all places where
Canadians come together. They will
canvass families and friends, milk-
man and grocer. They will knock
on scores of thousands of doors and
send peace teams through the coun-
tryside,

@ Telling the truth: To destroy
the campaign of those who fear
the petition, hundreds of fublic
meetings will be held to tell the
truth about the petition and world
peace. Newspaper advertisements,
posters, leaflets and novel and
spectacular means will be used to
bring these truths to every Cana-
dian, j

@ Climax: Twenty leading Cana-
dians will leave for the October
15 Second World Peace Congress at
Warsaw, in a delegation, financed
by thousands of donations.

The basis of the Congress will be
acceptance of the world-wide Stock-

‘holm Appeal as circulated in Can-

ada on the peace petition. Hence it
will be a Congress representative of
humanity united against atomic
war. Already the first 250 million
signatures have been gathered in
all lands,

“The most outstanding feature
of the petition campaign to date,”
said Peace Congress | secretary
Miss Mary Jennison, “is the in-
crease of tempo of signatures
since the outbreak of fighting in
Korea.”

“With madmen calling for the
use of the atomic bomb, the major-
ity of Canadians eagerly sign the

peace petition when asked.

The second notable feature is
that the thousands of signatures
gathered has already shattered the
conspiracy of silence levelled
against the petition by the daily
press and radio.

“For many weeks the Stockholm
Appeal was scarcely, if ever, men-
tioned by them. Now that has been
replaced by a coast-to-coast cam-
paign of calumny and lies that
gives every appearance of being
inspired by a central source.

“What gives us heart about this
is that it shows the campaign has
won such a ready public response
as to strike fear into the heart of '
the war-seekers,

“In. view of the steady stream
of press releases we have issued,
the press barrage levelled against
the petition cannot be believed to
be the product of misinformation,
but in the main instances must
be looked on an attempt to com-
dition public opinion for the crim-
inal act of unleashing atomic
war.” :

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