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LPP NATIONAL LEADER SAYS:

Korea parley proof
war can be averted |

“The cease-fire negotiations in
Korea are powerful evidence that
world war can be averted and
conclusive evidence of the power
and effectiveness of people’s ac-
tion,” in the opinion of Tim Buck,
LPP national leader, who will
be in Vancouver this weekend to
address a public rally in Exhibi-
tion Gardens, Sunday, July 15,
8 p.m. under the heading, ““The
Korean Cease-Fire.”

“If an armistice is arranged in
Korea, as every democratic Can-
-adian hopes, that will be power-

ful evidence that the peaceful’ co-

existence of the socialist and

captitalist states is fully possible,”
uck states, urging:

“Against the war propaganda
for ‘war orders’ workers should
insist upon expanding the peace-
time markets for Canadian pro-
ducts.

“Force the St. Laurest govern-
ment to sell Canadian products
to the Soviet Union, to People’s
China, to the People’s Democra-
cies in Europe, to all countries
which want to buy.”

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From 1.30 to 9.30 p.m.
4022 PERRY STREET

Take “Joyce Road” or “Victoria” bus along Kingsway.
Stop at Dumphries Street, walk East block to Perry,
: north one block.

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as there will be many features arranged for them -

Sponsored By; Vancouver Peace Assembly

in city

umbers

strike

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The rapidly expanding pressure of British Columbia workers for

wage increases to meet constantly rising living costs has already
erupted into strike action in two industries with other strikes looming.

In thes greater Vancouver area,
600 plumbers organized in
Plumbers and Pipefitters (AFL),
Local 170, this week staged what
is reported to be their first strike
in 24 years against'some 50 plumb-
ing and heating firms. The firms
have refused to meet their wage
demands and ‘seek instead to
undermine their contract terms by
expanding boundaries to eliminate
paid travelling time.

Last weekend, 900 Vancouver »

painters in the “Painters Union
(AFL), Local 138, turned down
an offer of 25 cents an hour for
an additional five cents on Novem-
ber 1. and voted for strike ac-
tion. The union is asking an in-
terim wage increase now to offset
higher living costs although its
contract does. not expire untl
March, 1952.

A strike vote will be taken
this Friday among 600 employees
cf Mc and Mc stores in Van-
couver, North Vancouver, Burn-
aby and New Westminster be-
cause of the company’s failure

to agree to a conciliation board
recommendation of wage increases
based upon job groups. The em-
ployees affected are members of |
Retail, holesale and Depart-
ment Store Union (CIO-CCL).

CONTINUED

PEACE

Korea could have been prevented
in the first place.

“However, at this critical junc-
ture, we urge on your government
and the United Nations, the ab-
solute necessity of continuing the
conversations in Korea until an
armistice, and peace with Korean
independence are secured there.
We also urge that the Korean de-
velopments shall lead to a new
chapter in world relations and call
gn your government to take the
position in the United Nations that
at once a meeting be called of the
five great powers, Britain, France,
USA, People’s Republic of China
and the USSR, for the purpose of

discussing a pact of peace...

Good! Repeat
now in order

Well, we did it. Last week
quite modestly, we asked for 40
subs and this week you, out

readers and supporters, respond-
ed by bringing in 44.

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Oj course, we're never’ salis-
fied, although we are quite pleas-
ed. We bnow those 44 subs
representa good deal of work by
some of our supporters—but only —
some. We'll never be satisfied —
until ali our supporters, as a duly —
they owe to themselves to increase
and multiply our family of read-
ers, never neglect an old sub an
never miss an opportunily to get
a new one.
_ Then maybe, we'll be in @
better position to satisfy you by: 4
introducing some dandy ideas wé
have for new features if only we
had the wherewithall to do what
we'd like to do.

Now, as to who’s doing what

on our “Monday Night is PT
Night” roundup. Of the 44 subs
we got this week, 26 came
from Vancouver, 18 from the
province. Among city press
clubs, Kitsilano 5, and Halper-
in 4, are leading. In the prov-
ince, Nanaimo is the shining
example with 5. i

Canada should b

mediator, says -

By MEL COLBY

TORONTO
With every Canadian , “eagerly
following” the peace negotiations

‘now taking place in Korea, the

new situation provides Canada
“with the opportunity of helping
all Koreans,” on both sides of the
88th Parallel, Mrs. Nora K. Rodd

told her first press conference,

since her return from Korea. The
conference was held in the Prince
George Hotel, Toronto, July 9.

Mrs. Rodd, wife of the promin-
ent Windsor King’s Counsel Ros-
coe S. Rodd, went to Korea as a
representative of the Congress of
‘Canadian Women. She was elec-
ted chairman of a commission es-
tablished by the Women’s Inter-
national Democratic Federation
to investigate the effects of war
upon the civilian population.
(The Commission’s official type-
written report was rushed to the
UN prior to release, said Mrs.

’ Rodd, and is now in their hands.) —

Mrs. Rodd emphasized to a large
press corps
and weekly newspapers and ‘wire
services, that: ff .

“Canada is a young country

_and her mission in the world

should be friendship among na-

. tions. “She can be a bridge be-

tween the east and the west, be-
tween the old and the new. We
cannot now bring back the dead
but we can send over doctors and
nurses, and mechanics and mat-

erials, food, clothing and medical

supplies, to help build up where
we have helped-to destroy.”

She replied to a question from
a representative of a big business
daily that she didn’t feel she had
“committed any act unfriendly to

representing daily

Canada,” by going to Korea to
see the results of war devasta-
tion with her own eyes. Mrs.
Rodd said she had not read the
text of remarks alleged to have
been made by External Affairs
Minister Lester B. Pearson or_
others in the House of Commons
in the debate on the Garson “gag

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laws.

“I feel,” she said quietly and
with great dignity, “that the peo,
ple of Canada desire to learn the
truth about what is happening in
Korea. I also feel I have the
right to report back what I have
seen to the Canadian people.’
While no date has been set, Mrs.

_ Rodd expects to go on a cross-

country speaking tour in the near
future under the auspices of the
Congress of Canadian Women,

“There is an old saying,” she
said, “that* the voice of the people
is the voice of God. Never has
this been truer than today when
hundreds of millions of voices
are raised for peace.” She point-
ed to the fact that not one of the
20 countries of Latin America
has sent soldiers to Korea; that
a few weeks ago 38 Greek lads
were shot because they refused
to go to that country; that in
France men are being imprison-
ed because they refuse to fight
in Korea. :

“It is not only our hope but
our belief,” Mrs. Rodd stressed
“that the destiny of Canada is to
be a mediator, and that in hear-
ing this cry of agony from Ko-
rea and the voices raised for
peace across the world, and in
doing her utmost to bring about
* peaceful negotiations among na-
tions, Canada will best fulfil that
destiny.” :

‘ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 13, 1951 —

rs. Rodd

- rafher than act as strikebreak

@ peace

What was the devastation of
Korea? Here, in part, is what
Mrs. Rodd and other members
of the ‘Commission saw and took
part in: :

“We knew what it was t?
hide in ditches and fields
from machine-gun fire; to 0° ©
hurried into air-raid shelters
atid to be awakened each morn”
ig by the exploding of bomhs —

We saw town afte: town, vil \

lage after villag:, ‘dine an

racdern cities almost complete-
ly destroyed. Churches, schools,
hospitals, homes, are now heaps —
of rubble . . where only #
year ago the people were puild-
ifg a new life after 40 years —
of Japanese sdomination. The
people are living in caves and
dug-outs and in shacks made —
of salvaged bricks and tile.

Women, often with. babies 0?

their backs, help the old me?

till the fields. Much of this
work is done at night becats® |
of the constant bombing

day.” :
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N.Z. servicemen won't
scab, 400 go to jail

SYDNEY
More than 400 New Zealand @%

servicemen have gone to jail Q
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in the present dock strike, whi a
may now precipitate 2a gene
election.
Despite 2 government lamp”
down which made it a crime 1%
any one to support the striker®
decertification of a dockers’ “ap
ion and banning of its meetin’
the strike has had unprecede”:
support, both at home
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