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PEACE LAW |

“-g@—are designed- or likely to
provoke or encourage any
threat to world peace, breach of
world peace, or act of aggression;
aggression, for the purposes of
this law, being defined as the prior
use of armed force by any state
against any other state under any
pretext whatsoever,
“é)—slanders mankind by assert-
ing or cultivating the, idea
that war is inevitable.
“—promotes hatred against
other races or other peoples,
—calls for the prior use of the
atomic bomb or other weap-
ons of mass extermination and
mass destruction.”

The delegation further request-
ed that the government conduct
a public inquiry across Canada
“into any and all cases of sup-
pression, either by the CBC, by
news and other information ag-
encies, or by privately-owned
newspapers, magazines, radio
stations or theaters, of “informa-
tion designed to give expression
to the undoubted desire of all
peoples for peace.”

This last phrase is taken from
2 UN Resolution adopted by the
General Assembly November 3,
1947, headed “Measures to be tak-
en against propaganda and the
inciters of a new war,” a resolu-
tion adopted, according to the
Peace Congress, “on the initiative
of the present prime minister of
this country.”

The Peace Congress delegation
also asked the government to
place a government advertise-
ment in all Canadian mewspapers
and periodicals quoting the full
text of the Charter of the United
Nations and that this Charter be
printed for distribution to every
school child.

Following is the text of the Can-
- adian Peace Congress submission
to the government:

We are here to reinforce our
representations fot peace pre-
viously made to your government,
and we come reinforced ourselves
by the fact that, as demonstrated
in a recent public opinion poll,
most Canadians now consider
peace to be our main problem.

When the movement of human-
ity to end war for all time is
stronger than ever before, so that
peace stands: within our grasp,
the vast plans for military prepar-
ations placed before parliament
stand out of tune with the heart-
felt sentiments of this nation and
the world.

We were encouraged »y the re-
cognition given in recent govern-
ment speeches to many of the
ideas advanced in the “Negotiate
Now” lobby last September, and
by the Prime Minister’s recent
effort to clarify China’s position.
Unfortunately this recognition has
been contradicted by Canada’s
vote at the UN for the U.S. reso-
lution, which, India charged; clos-
ed the door on negotiations with
China. It was also contradicted
when the Minister of Defence,
following the announcement of
President ‘Truman’s budget pre-
sented to the House a military
budget designed to work almost
exactly comparable hardship. Yet
we have learned in school that

every armaments race leads to.

war.

In the name of millions of Can-
adians who with all their hearts
desire peace, we present the fol-
lowing: ‘

The -Petition for Peace,
through which a minimum

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a

of 489,914 Canadians have spoken
for the absolute prohibition of

the atomic bomb,
ternational control.
made up as follows:

—Over 200,000 Canadians sign-
ed the first Ban the Bomb peti-
tion of the Canadian Peace Con-
gress, from October 1949, to May
1950.

—178,147 Canadians signed the
Stockholm Peace Appeal, as in-
corporated in the Petition for
Peace, from May 1950 to Novem-
ber 11, 1950.

—A further total of 18,795 sig-
natures have been received since
the campaign was formally clos-
ed, especially since President
Truman announced that he was ~
considering use of the atomic
bomb in the Far East,

—92,972 Canadians endorsed the
Stockholm Peace Appeal in pub-
lic meetings, or by resolutions at
meetings of organizations. :

If, in addition, one considers the
many scores of thousands of citi-

with strict in-
This total is

- zens on whose behalf 94 muni-

cipal councils signed the petition,
including 84 municipalities in
Quebec, then it may fairly be said
that many more than half a mil-
lion Canadian electors have en-
dorsed the proposals for outlaw-
ing atomic weapons. Many more
have signed in their hearts.

Because many signers have ex-
pressed concern lest they be sub-
ject to vetimization if their ac-
tual signatures are presented
here, we attach an affidavit with
the petition certifying the total
number 6f signatures.

The Appeal To The United

Nations from the Second
World Peace Congress, whose nine
proposals for peace have been di-
rected to this parliament and to
all parliaments, and which we ask
this government to press. for at
the United Nations and to make
the basis of its foreign policy.

3 A firm request, backed by

the many thousands of giti-
zens’ letters you have received,
and by the majority feeling of
Canadians, that this government -
recognize China without any fur-
ther delay, as a first step to re-
opening the door to a settlement
in the Far East.

A request that the govern-

ment introduce legislation
for the outlawing of war propa-'
gnada in this country, along the
lines of the attached draft. -

A request that the govern-
ment publish the full text of

the United Nations Charter as a
government advertisement in all

Canadian newspapers, and print
it for distribution in the schools.

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A sharp
Gestapo-like interference in
the private affairs of law-
abiding citizens of this prov-_
ince was made this week by

protest against

Nigel Morgan, LPP provin-
cial leader, who said that
numerous cases of attempt-
ed intimidation by the

‘RCMP had come to his ‘at-

tention in recent weeks.

“This intimidation
viously aimed at silencing the
voices of people who speak
for peace and at browbeating
the labor and progressive
movement in this province,”
Morgan declared. “It is no
coincidence that these
fringements of civil rights
follow the Coalition govern-
ment’s action in handing over
policing duties to the RCMP.”

in-

Morgan said that objection
was being expressed by many
organizations to certain sus-
picious. characters loitering in
and around club and commit-
tee rooms where their mem-
bers were engaged in cultural
and fraternal activities.

“There have been cases
where private homes have

been entered without the for-
mality of a search warrant
for the purpose of snooping
into the reading habits and
the fraternal, union and poli-
tical affiliations of citizens of

. instances,

is ob-

Morgan declared.

long standing in the commun-
ity,’ Morgan stated. “If the
RCMP is permitted to engage
in such activities, how long
before it adopts the other
methods of the Gestapo?” he
asked.

Morgan said that’ in some
admitted RCMP
agents had approached some-
times wives, sometimes
friends of persons active in
the labor movement, using the
pretext that they were look-
ing for a man of the same sur-
name supposedly wanted on a
criminal charge elsewhere in
the country in attempts to ob-

tain information on union and

political activities, suggesting
perhaps that “a photo would
assist us.” In other instances,
RCMP agents had posed as
salesmen or real estate ag-
ents.

“Such RCMP
constitute a direct threat to
the rights of every citizen,”
They are
part of the attack on the peo-
ple’s) liberties, tha develop-
ing trend toward fascism,
atyd they ‘must (be exposed
and stopped—now.

“Workers should know and
guard their rights. An ac-
credited police officer has the
right to ask for name and
address, to search premises

FOR LABOR’S FIGHTING PAPER

$17,500 Pacific
campaign opens

On March 1 the Pacific Trib-
une’s annual financial drive be-
and thousands of readers
supporters strive to
reach and surpass the $17,500 tar-
get before May Day.

gins,

and will

For the past few years the PT
drive objective was set at $15,000,
but with printing and distribution
costs mounting steadily this sum
is no longer sufficient to keep the
Last year the
paper’s supporters overshot all
quotas and turned in $17,100, every

presses rolling. -

cent of which has been ‘spent.

within the past 12 months.

“Soaring production costs have
hit us hard,” said business man-
ager Fel Dorland this week. “Al-
though the wages of our small
staff have not .been increased
since the paper commenced pub-
lication in 1942, other costs have
doubled. In the past two years
printing and engraving costs have
increased sharply. Daily papers,
in spite of their huge advertising
revenue — a source of income
from which we are largely barred
—were forced to raise their sub-
scription prices, and upped the
price of individual copies by 66.6

percent, from three cents to five
cents per copy.

“We have raised our subscrip-
tion rate only from $2 to $2.50 a
year and kept the single copy
price unchanged at five cents,
because we want no worker to
be deprived of the Pacific Tribune.

The only way we can meet and
overcome our operating deficit is
by appealing to our readers and
friends to raise more money for
the paper during the 1951 finan-
cial campaign. Our ‘supporters
have never failed us yet, and we
are confident they will not fail
us now. =. Bite

“We feel that the Pacific Trib-

une is not a luxury, but a neces-
sity in every progressive work-
er’s home—something just as es-
sential as meat and potatoes, For
the paper provides food for the
mind, which is fully as import-
ant as food for the body.

\

“Never a day goes by but we
are furnished with proof of how
near and dear our paper is to its
readers.
readers, in renewing his or ‘her
subscription, encloses an addi-
tional cash donation along with
the sub price. This is something

-ises

activities

One out of every three

provided he first produces a
searéh warrant, to place
under arrest where’ he
has .reason to believe a_
law has been violated. No
police officer has the right
to intimidate, to enter prem-
without producing a
warrant, to inquire about re-
ligious, political, union or
fraternal affiliations, about
officers and members of any
organization or what any
person reads or believes.

“These are yights which
the working people of this
country have won in long
struggle and which they in-
tend to hold. The fight to
protect them is the concern
equally pf every ijndividual
and every erty tess organ-
ization.’

,

Morgan coupled the many
instances of RCMP intimida-
tion in this province with the
proposal of the St. Laurent
government to amend its
own Citizenship Act so as to
enable it to strip ‘citizenship

rights from opponents of its
war policies.

“The federal government
should be bombarded with
protests against any tamper-

-ing with the Citizenship Act,

which this parliament ap-
proved and enacted, to suit
the interest of forces within
the governmént who are’
themselves betraying the
rights of the people by any
amendment such as propos-
ed,” he concluded.

ribune

March 1

unique, something that no other
paper in B.C. can boast of. It is
a warm and stirring tribute to
the good work which our readers
feel we are doing — a concrete
method of expressing appreciation
which encourages our staff mem-
bers to strive harder than ever to

improve the oontent of the
Tribune.”

Proposed financial quotas for
city and provincial press clubs
are now being discussed in com-
mittees and club, and the targets
tentatively agreed on will be pub-
lished in next week’s issue.

Prizes for good work in the
drive will be more attractive than
ever this year. A. full list of

_ prizes, which will go to 10 lucky

people, will be listed along with
the proposed quotas.

All press clubs are urged to
plan their campaign immediately,

and organize socials, dinners,
bazaars, bridge games and other
-money-raising activities. Careful

‘planning, good organization and —
strict check-up are the secrets of

a successful drive . The Pacific

Tribune hopes to see every press
club in the province top its tar-
get before May 1.

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