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City MPs’ part
in DP rally called

insult to citizens

Participation by two Liberal M.P.’s Ralph C. Campney

and Arthur Laing, and a

Conservative M.P., Howard Green,

in an anti-communist meeting of 200 Ukrainian DP’s at the
Canadian Legion Hall, Broadway and Alma, was condemned
this week by Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader ,as an in-
sult to every Canadian who fought and worked in the war

to save Canada from “fascism.”

Also present at the “mass rally”,
Sunday afternoon were Senator
J. W. aeB. Farris and Alderman
George Miller, the latter repre-
senting Vancouver City Council.

Campney, Laing and Green all
spoke from the platform, lauded
the DP’s for their “stand against
communism” and smiled approval
when the meeting passed reso-
lutions calling for the banning of
“communist” newspapers, femoval
of “communists” from teaching
staffs of Canadian universities
and removal from B.C. of “key
communist functionaries.”

“Imagine the gall of these pub-
lic representatives, leading a mob
which includes DP elements who
not long ago were members of
Hitler's ‘armies, and who now
attempt to interfere with the
basic civil rights of citizens who
have worked here for many years
“ana fought for Canada,” declared
Morgan’s statement.

“This is the natural outcome
of the federal government’s policy
of importing into Canada gangs

ef European fascists who collabor-
ateg with Hitler, served in Nazi
SS divisions and fought against
Canadian boys in the war,” the
LPP leader’s statement continued.

“The meeting, which issued a
naked call for the destruction of
fundamental civil rights and the

adoption of “Hitler’s method of
manhandling all those who dis-
agreed with his dictatorship, can-
not but serve the purpose of en-
couraging mob violence. These
same DP types have already
been guilty of terrorist acts in
many parts of Canada—disrupt-
ing public Meetings, hurling
stones through windows, and more
recently the bombing of a Ukrain-
ian Labor (Temple in Toronto
which resulted in several child-
ren and adults being injured.

“Campney, Laing, Green and
Farris should remember that these
shameful acts were preceded by
warmongering harangues ion the
part of spokesmen of reaction
like themselves, the breeders of
Canadian fascism.

“The people of Vancouver must
take heed. Such statements and
action deserve serious attention;

‘only the full weight of public

epinion brought to bear against
these enemies of Canada will

- halt the drive to bring fascism

here. A vigorous protest must be
raised against DP terrorism and
the undermining of democratic
rights, Continued’ immigration of
fascist DP elements must be
stopped and those who are here
told that unless they behave like
law-abiding” Citizens, they will

be deported forthwith.”

“has an

World congress
to speak for all
who want peace

questions:
1. To whom is the call of the
Second Congress addressed?

“Issued in the name of the mil-

_ lions who have signed the World

Peace Appeal, the call is addressed
to those who, although they may
not have signed the Appeal, have
called for the prohibition of ato-
mic weapons and for limitation
of armaments; to those who op-
pose aggression; to those who de-
sire an end to the present fighting
and the attainment of real peace
and understanding through inter-
national negotiations.”
2. Who will participate?

“Men and women who want
peace regardless of their agree-
ment or disagreement on other
questions. Each national delega-
tion will be compcsed of persons

selected by groups and organiza--

tions of all sorts. Those attend-
ing are not required to support
a specific program for achieving
peace nor are ,they necessarily
bound by decisions that may be
taken at the Congress...”

$3. How many people will attend?

“3000 men and women from’

every part of the world. (At the
first World Congress for Peace
held in April, 1949, there were
present 2,000 delegates and guests
from 70 countries. They spoke for
more than 600 million people.)

4. Can additional questions be
added to the program of the call?

“Any contribution to the strug-
gle for peace will be acceptable
if it does not contradict the points
in the declaration.”

Based on the call of World Peace
Committee President Frederic
Joliot-Curie, to ban atomic wea-
pons and reduce All armaments,
to oppose aggression anywhere
and foreign intervention in the
internal affairs of other people,
and to demand an end ‘to war
propaganda in any form, the state-
ment adds:

“The peoples of the world un-
derstand that the road to peace
leads through the resumption of
international negotiaions upon the
basis of co-existence in the world
of different ways of life, of faith
and of thought. They understand
that the first step in this direc-
tion should be the outlawing of
atomic weapons which are capa-
ble of bringing about the mass de-
struction of whole populations.

“Bxperience has shown that in-
evitably and always the accumu-
lation of weapons leads to their
use. No armament race has ever
ended in anything but a general
conflict. Those governments
which have actively or passively

allowed public opinion to become

prepared to accept the exaggerat-

ed demands of the most bellicose |

elements, and which now seem re-
signed to pile up weapons for
so-called defense, are already em-
barked upon the road to war. The
truth of this assertion has re-
ceived bitter proof in the events
of the last few months.

“In view of the fact that re-
armament must inevitably lead to
armed intervention and war, a
conflict in any part of the world

inevitable tendency to
spread. The existence of such a
conflict may be compared to a seat
of infection in the body of the
world. ,

“But war and preparation for
war can only exist and flourish
to the extent that public opinion
is controlled by a propaganda

PARIS
The Second World Peace Congress. to be held in Sheffield, England, will bring together
3.000 men and women from every part of the world “who want peace regardless of their agree-
ment or disagreement on other questions.”
In a brochure issued by the World Peace
conference will be the broadest peacé gathering in world history. It answers four important

Committee it is made clear that the Sheffield

PEACE CONGRESS URGES:

of new petitioners. ,
organizations has signed.

fresh count.

ings.”

Stull time to get names

“There is still time to get thousands of new signa-
tures to the peace petition,’ Peace Congress secretary
Jennison emphasized in a call to petitioners to speed up
the work right till November 11. She offered what she
called a four-point plan for a “final offensive” with the
petition for the outlawing of the A-bomb:

“1, Keep getting names right till the last day.

2. It is not too late to put petition sheets in the hands

.3. Check up—be sure everybody in the supporting
4. Sefid in all completed forms immediately for a

“And be sure that every last form is in the hands
of your local peace organization in time for the final
total count. On the night of November 11 complete tot-
al will be cabled to the Canadian delegation to the World
Peace Congress at Sheffield, England.

“Please be sure to send a seperate list of all the en-
dorsations of the petition by organizations and meet-

TORONTO

which creates and encourages the
beliefs:

a) that war is inevitable;

b) that apparently aggressive
acts are only measures for defense;

c) that the co-existence of dif-
ferent ways of life, of thought and
of belief is impossible;
'd) that the defenders of peace
who are striving earnestly in all
countries to avert the outbreak of
war, are in fact saboteurs of na-
tional defense;

e) that the poverty which is

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Koreans recapture
six fowns in South
in guerilla actions

SEOUL
Within the past 10 days Kor-

ean guerilla troops supposedly
“trapped” in ‘South Korea have
come down from the mountains
and retaken six large towns, it
was disclosed this week. Re-
captured towns include Kochang,
Chongju, Muju, Samchok and
Utchin, while Mokpo, southwest
coast port, was under heavy at-
tack. Throughout the whole of

. South Korea, U.S. troops are

being harassed by guerillas.
HN

MacArthur

A joint plan, drawn up by Mac-
‘Arthur’s staff and former Jap-
anese generals, provides for en-
larging the size of military police
organizations and for setting up
of an officers and non-commis-
sioed officers corps. The object
is to train ‘a large army as
quickly as possible.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 27, 1950 — PAGE 12

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the consequence of rearmament is
a necessary sacrifice for the de-
fense of peace.

“It is upon the basis of such
assertions as these that war pro-
paganda is going on at present
even to the extent of calling for
“preventive” atomic war. These
new elements that have “been
brought into relief by the events
of the last few months are calling
honest men from all over the
world to intensify their efforts to.
preserve the peace.”

¢ a a
—CHVIC.
constitution and pledge of office,
by making a back-door deal
which would rob the membership
of the right to run their own
affairs, We will
abide by genuine trade union
practices and to respect the right
of the membership to elect their
own officers by free and secret
ballot. ..- :

“On October 20 Vice-President
Berg finalized his position by
submitting to the executive board

;continue to

a draft ‘agreement to be signed —

by both parties. In this agreement
he went even further along the
road of interfering with the
right of the membership to elect —
their own officers. He demanded
that the whole executive board
should resign and that a new el-
ection be held under the super-
vision of the executive of the
(rades and Labor Council. The
executive board. refused to make
any such deal behind the backs
of the membership and decided
to go to the membership and
tell them the whole story of
what is going on.”