saints te Dill (6 ae lf mind POM svt vctflonen UL Abranatinae ) BYE gr {i pescorcnesrsittill aatlivesetl inretane FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1951 ands of signatures will -be gathered Pearson attacks congress, exposes stand on A-bomb TORONTO Dr. James Endicott last week “categorically refuted” the charge made by External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson that the Canadian Peace Congress was “the agent of a foreign aggressive imperialism.” Pearson made the charge in a snide attack on the peace movement before Sudbury Chamber of Commerce on April 20. “We are the agent of the Canadian people,” Dr. Endicott told Pearson in a letter sent April 23, “patriotically determined to ‘save our land from the scourge of war and considering activity to save peace to be the highest meas- ure of patriotism for all Cana- dians today.” He characterized Pearson’s charge as “irresponsible slander,” and added it “duplicates al- most word for word various direc- tives about the peace movement issuing from the U.S. State De- partment.” Addressing his letter “on behalf of the half million Canadians who endorsed the petition against the atomic bomb,” the Peace Con- gress leader urged the minister - to “reconsider what we must con- sider your public refusal of their serious démand.” The govern- ment has never given a written reply to the Congress on the ques- tion of banning the atom bomb. “You are quoted by Canadian Press as having told the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce and Ki- wanis club that the proposal for outlawing the atomic bomb is de- signed ‘to sterilize the one great military asset held by the western powers at a time when the Soviet Union and its friends and satel- lites have @ great superiority in other types of military power,” Dr. Endicott wrote. CONTINUED MAY DAY Franco terror; resistance rising in country after country to the war and enslavement program of the U.S. monopolists. . . . Greatest of all the expressions of international solidarity is the mighty movement of the~ peoples — for peace. In it, the free world of socialism and people’s democracy (one-third of mankind!) joins hands with the fighters for peace in the capitalist countries. For the first time in history, tens and hundreds of millions of men and women are speaking with one voice, exerting one common will, on the supreme issue that confronts humanity. “This revelation that you op- pose banning such a horror wea- pon will come as*a shock to most Canadians and serves to explain why you would not meet us face to face when we came to present the historic petition. “Tt negates your statement to us of last year that you favored outlawing the atomic bomb, and negates Canada’s participation in the United Nations’ Atomic Energy Commission, charged, by unanimous vote (including Can- ada) of the General Assembly with finding means to outlaw the atomic weapon. “Tt serves to explain why your department has kept secret its _ reply to the proposal of the Inter- national Red Cross that Canada and other signatories of the Gen- eva Convention draw up an inter- national convention to prohibit use of the atomic weapon, weapon of mass extermination of civilians. “Though few would have im- agined that your reply to the petition could have been any- thing else but favorable, in view of Canada’s Qosition at the UN, I am sure that all signatories of the petition will consider that it has accomplished a valuable result if it has discovered an hypocrisy existing in our gov- ernment on this matter. Now that your opposition to outlaw- ing atomic weapons has been expressed, Canadians will be ' able to draw more accurate con- llhsions about our foreign policy.’ “It is because those ocnclusions may be rather drastic that I ask you to reconsider your position, and to take your stand, as one is entitled to expect of a minister of the crown, with the majority in Canada for the abolition of atomic awweapons by all countries. I stress this last point because your argu- ment has completely overlooked the fact that in any event, as President Truman has announced, the atomic weapon is possessed by the USSR as well as by the [Un- ited States. With our country situated between both these great powers it would seem to be ghoul- ish reasoning to consider posses- sion of the atomic bomb by any- body as an ‘asset.’ This May Day, tens of thous- at meetings, rallies and parades throughout Canada, calling for a pact of peace among the powers; . to halt the drive to war. And the demand will rise, directed to Ot- tawa and Washington—Stop the killing’ in Korea! Bring home our troops! Act on the peace pro- posal of the Korean People’s Re- public! We'll march for peace on May CAMPBELL RIVER PUBLIC MEETING e Sunday, April 29, 2 p.m. ‘ at TRADE UNION CENTRE Speaker: Maurice Rush “THE WAR BUDGET AND YOU” Everybody Welcome ) Bring, your friends. Day. . GROMYKO WARNS: End fighting or face huge casualty lists As North Korean forces and Chinese volunteers hurled Ameri- can armies back across the 38th parallel in Korea this week, Sov- iet Deputy Foreign Minister ‘ Andrei Gromyko solemnly warn- ed Big Four deputies meeting in Paris that U.S. and satellite forces invading Korea would face vast new casualty lists unless they ended their intervention. “There will not be enough room in Korea for the white cifosses over the graves of the interven- tionists if the fighting does not come to an end,” said Gromyko. Refering to the “Operation Kil- ler” offensive. launched by Gen- erals MacArthur and Ridgway and heralded as a “meat grinder offensive”, the Soviet dipjomat said the Korean battlefield now had become “a meat grinder for Anglo-American and _ satellite ‘troops.” In Korea, the U.S. Gommand drew a censorship curtain over .the fighting but could not conceal the fact that their armies were again reeling southward ~ under the hammer bl»ws of Chinese and Korean forces, which broke through the centre of their lines hurled them back across the 38th parallel, and were systematically “chewing up” cut-off segments. PORT ALBERNI MAY DAY RALLY Eric Graf Hall N Tuesday, May 1 - 8 p.m. Speaker: Maurice Rush “THE WAR BUDGET AND YOU” ‘Not room enough for crosses...” “There will not be enough room in Korea for the white crosses over the graves of the interventionists if the fighting does not come~ to an end,” said Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko a“ Paris this week. British soldiers»(top photo) solemnly stand, aroun! the graves of their comrades killed in the Korean fighting. And in cule desolate, war-ravaged land, Korean refugees flee the horrors of Am erican saturation bombing, which spares neither young nor old. The tearstricken face of the Korean woman facing the camera portrays — better than any words the inhumanity of war. \ UNION MEN! | Hu A oy For your own good and welfare, support Trade Unionism by demanding the Union Label on clothes jc atewne ¢ created by Vancouver Union Craftsmen . Old-Established Reliable Firm REGENT TAILORS | | 'CUSTOM-MADE CLOTHES ; Vancouver, B.C. 324 W. Hastings EVERY GARMENT STRICTLY UNION MADE A Oe ae LOGGERS — MINERS — FISHERMEN ! Any Repair to Your Shoes Completed and Returned by Return Mail Same Day -H. PRICE SHOE SERVICE 148 &. Broadway © —\ Vancouver, B. EXTENDS MAY DAY GREETINGS ‘PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 27, 1951 — Page d: