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tall adds-up to war

® The recent visit of General
‘Dwight D. Eisenliower -(top) to
Ottawa to insist on conscrip-
_ tion in Canada, his readiness to
“let bygones be bygones” with
former Nazi generals (center)
who are now to become part of
his “democratic” Atlantic Pact
command,/and the campaign to
release former Nazi SS General
Kurt Meyer from a Canadian
Prison all add up to one thing—
conscription and the drive to
War. But the protest against
German rearmament and pro-
Posed release of Meyer show
that the Canadian people don’t
want the horrors of yesterday
to become again the realities of
tomorrow.

CONTINUED FROM ‘PAGE ONE

B.C. peace conference
‘everybody’s business’

action that will be acceptable to
all-people regardless of differences
of religion or political conviction.

That it is possible for people of
widely divergent religious, political,
social and cultural backgrounds to
discuss the issue of peace and then
‘to evolve a practical program ac-
ceptable to all has already been

proven by the example of the’

Second World Peace Congress.

‘

At this congress there were ad-
herents of almost every political
party in the world, ranging from
a member of the British Conserva-
tive party to Communists from the
Soviet Union. At this. congress
there were leaders of almost every

religion in the world, Anglicans,
Christian Pacifists, Catholics from
East and West, Jews, Lutherans,

Salvationists, Russian Orthodox
and Greek Orthodox and many
others.

‘Yet in spite of all these differ-
ences, heightened by the fact that
delegates came from 81 different
countries and spoke many differ-
ent languages, a brilliant and prac-
tical program. for achieving last-
jing world peace was agreed upon.
It took the form of an appeal to
iall the governments of the world
and to the United Nations.

If this were possible on so vast
a scale at Warsaw and Sheffield,
where. the World Congress |was
held, then surely it is possible here
in British Columbia where differ-
ences of nationality and language
do. not exist as they did -at Shek:

Wield and MWarsaw.

This nine-point program, the
(World Peace Council’s Appeal to
the [United Nations, will form a
basis for discussion at the British
Columbia Peace Conference. But
the committee wishes to emphasize
that there is no intention or de-
sire to limit discussion to these
nine proposals for peace,

We say to people who may not
be in -agreement with a. single
one of these nine points, “Come
forward and place before your
fellow citizens, your own alterna-
tive proposals for peace. Through
discussion, not debate, we surely
can arrive at effective comprom-
ise without surrender of principle
by anyone.”

The urgency of the present in-
ternational situation demands no-

thing less than this: the comin
together at once of all men an
women of goodwill to agree upon

a united policy to protect our
province, our country and the world

2

DELEGATES | PROTEST EXPULSION

TLC unseats Stewart,: Rigby

Charles Stewart (Street Rail-
Waymen’s Union) was a promin-
nt and respected trade unionist
When Tom Alsbury (Teachers’
Federation) was crawling around
in three-cornered pants.. ~ But
that didn’t prevent Alsbury from
expelling Stewart from Vancou-
ver and District Trades and
Labor Council (TLC) this week
for “communist sympathies.”

President Alsbury shed croco-

Morgan to speak af
three Island points

Nigel 'Mongan, provincial leader
a the Labor-progressive party, will
nie Speaking at three Island points

18 weekend, it was announced
by the LPP provincial office here.

Taking as his subject, “Welfare

_ Not Warfare”, Morgan will speak

ree Erie Graf Hall, Port Alberni,
aH Friday, March 9; in Unity
Me Lake Cowichan, on Monday,
emai 12; and at Nanaimo, Tues-
2, March 13.

dile tears as he told council that
its executive had ousted Stewart
along with Bill Rigby and Homer
Stevens (United Fishermen and
Allied Workers Union) in line
¥ with “a directive from Trades and
Labor Congress of Canada.”

“~ have the highest personal
wegard for Charlie Stewart,” de-
clared Alsbury piously, “but the
Congress has made it clear what
action is to be followed. I am
not a-dictator, but I concurred in
this action because I felt it was
an attempt to prorert democratic

rinciples.”

: heey delegates from the SRU
.and other unions, who had known
(Charlie Stewart and worked in-
timately with him for a score or
more years, protested Alsbury’s

ruling.
SRU president Stan Wilcox
wanted Stewart reinstated. A

letter sent to council on the mat-
ter—as well as a similar meaagst
from the UFAWU-—had., been “re-
ferred to the national Congress,”

said Alsbury.

“Let’s have a showdown,” taunt-
-ed SRU delegate E. E. Sturgeon,
“and have this council suspend
all organizations which have Com-
munist officers.” (Stewart is
vice-president of Division 101,
SRU).

that suggestion. “Brother Stur-
geon is misinterpreting the \ deci-
sions of the council,” he said
smoothly. It was obvious that
he had no taste for, a hatchet
job; he preferred the stiletto as
more .refined.

The fight, far from being over,
is just beginning. The Street
Railwaymen’s Union is intending
to circularize all trade unions,
giving the facts in the case of
‘Stewart. Fishermen’s Union will
‘campaign for the reinstatement
of their delegates. Other unions,
perturbed by the Congress’
“thought control” policy, will en-
ter the struggle for trade union

democracy.

But Alsbury backed away fron

from the calamity of an atomic
war.

Above all, are we concerned with
‘the life and happiness of our own
and the world’s children. It is
\they who hold the promise of

the future for ali mankind. It is
jthey who would be the innocent
victims of atom bombs, germ war-
fare and all other means of mass
annihilation. It is they, the child-
ren, who are already being slaught-
ered by gasoline jelly in the cities,
villages and open fields of Korea.

to protect the children from war,
rests heavily upon the shoulders of
every man and women and can be
discharged only by working to-
ward the achievement of lasting
world peace. It cannot be avoided
or shirked by remaining silent
while others call for a war that
might well destroy all life on earth.
To remain silent today is to be-
come an accomplice of those who
are now preparing the slauehier of
innocent millions.

The British Columbia Peace Com-
amittee appeals to all persons. of
goodwill to add their voices to ours
in demanding positive action by
the governments of the world and
the United Nations to end the war
in Korea and to preserve the.peace
of the world.

To this end, the Committee has
invited all ministers, priests and
rabbis to attend the Second Brit-
ish Columbia Peace Conference.
It has invited all trade unions,
PTA’s, Legion branches and all
other organizations to partici-
pate. To those groups or indi-
viduals who have not already re-
ceived a call to the conference,
the committee takes this oppor-
tunity to invite them.

Individual citizens may come as
observers, with the full right to
jspeak and to vote. Any group of
five or more citizens may band to-
gether to send a delegate. All or-
ganizations, except political par-
ties, may send one delegate ae
every five members.

Our conference has but one aim:
to make a contribution toward
achieving a lasting world peace, a
peace consistent with principles of
justice and with the honor of. all
nations.

At the hearts of our conference
will be the firm conviction that
‘war, being man-made, can be pre-
vented by man. We agree with
tthe manifesto of the World Peace
Council which declares that to say
war is inevitable is to slander man-
kind. ‘We firmly believe that the
success of the Stockholm Appeal,
which, was signed by 500 million
men and women and which has

| prevented, for a time, the dropping

of the atomic bomb, proves that
the people can, through their own
united efforts, bring about an end
to war.

The theory upon which we base
our conference holds that nations
with ‘different economic and social

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systems can—and must—peacefully
co-exist. To hold otherwise is to
say that war is inevitable, to in-
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We hold that there are no dif-
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that cannot be settled through
peaceful negotiation. We hold
that war would settle no prob-
lems, but would only create new
and more difficult problems at a
terrible cost in human suffering.

And, finally, in the words of Dr.
‘Christopher Woodard, the outstand-
ing British Conservative who play-
ed a leading part in the World
Peace Congress, we place peace
above politics.

Opposition to
contract strong
in IWA ballot

Under pressure from top IWA
officers, Coast lumber workers
voted 9781 for and 5549 against ac-
cepting a new 18month contract
which grants a mere nine cents
per hour hoist to the majority.
(The recent IWA district conven-
tion went on record demanding 25
cents per hour increase; the sub-
sequent Qcent deal was negotiated
secretly by the union top leader-
ship).

Largest local in the IWA, 1-217
(Vancouver) voted 2611 to 2044
against acceptance. Courtenay
local 216 also turned thumbs down
on the petty offer, 216 to 70.

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