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Dear Reader:

January Clubs of the Month are
Victoria in the province and Kit-
silano in Greater Vancouver. Book
prizes have been sent to these two
press clubs, which did the best
all-round work on PT circulation
during the past four weeks.

Into the business office this week
came a written challenge from
West End press
club. Accepting
a 1954 target of
150 subs and re-
newals, West
End ealls on
Keitsict an, 0%
Grandview and
Victory Square
clubs to raise
their quotas
from 125 to 150.

“Let West End catch up to us in
February and then we’ll talk tur-
key,” answers Kitsilano. So far
this year Kitsilano has 13 subs to
West End’s 7.

Our volunteer street salesmen
did a good job this week, one
selling 150 copies. Another 150
copies were sold at Tim Buck’s
meeting in Pender Auditorium
last Friday night.

The Pacific Tribune’s annual fin-
ancial drive begins March 1 and
some press clubs are already mak-
ing preparations. Last year at the
victory banquet we honored 30 sup-
porters who raised more than $100
each during the two-month cam-
paign, and 300 workers who col-
lected more than $25 each. This
year we hope to see an even greater
number of Homer Press Builders
and Press Builders.

I expect to visit a number of
Vancouver Island centres later this
month to help get the financial
drive started in high gear. It is
true that unemployment is grow-
ing and times are getting tougher
_—all the more reason why we need
a paper like the Pacific Tribune to
spark the fight for jobs in the
period ahead. .

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unemployed workers.”

Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council (TLC) on Tuesday this week
took a stand similar to that of the
CCL when delegates endorsed a
resolution calling for federal and
provincial public works programs
to combat “increasing unemploy-
ment.” The TLC said it would
seek a meeting with the CCL coun-
cil to coordinate union plans.

Hitting employers who “request
the government to flood the labor
market (with immigrants) in the
hopes of breaking down wage con-
ditions” and the federal govern-
ment for bringing these workers
to Canada “by false promises and
misrepresentation,’ the TLC pro-
posed that a brochure outlining the
true facts be circulated in B.C.
and that advertisements be placed
in newspapers in Great Britain and
Europe.

A Community Chest committee
will meet next week to consider
sending a delegation to Victoria
on the problem of Vancouver’s
23,000 registered unemployed.

Labor demands gov't
act on job crisis

The 50,000-member British Columbia Federation of Labor (CCL) this week asked
the provincial government to “‘call a conference of all interested and affected groups’’
to plan action to alleviate the jobless crisis in B,C. Unemployment in this province has
reached the 60,000 mark, said the federation’s brief to the cabinet.
Earlier in the week the federation urged its three affiliated labor councils at Van-

couver, Victoria and Nanaimo to “‘set up machinery’ for organization of a union of

Bloch’s sudden death
shocks city friends —

The Vancouver Rosenberg Mem-

orial Committee wired the Rosen-|:

berg Children’s Trust Fund this
week expressing sympathy at the
loss of “a great friend and fighter”
and pledged in memory of Emanuel
H. Bloch “to carry on the fight for
the vindication of the Rosenbergs
and for the care of their children.”

Emanuel H. Bloch, 52-year-old
defense counsel for Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg in the frame-up
“atom spies” trial, was found dead
in his New York apartment last
week. ;

He spoke in Vancouver on De-
cember 16 at a meeting which rais-
ed more than $1,000 to go into a
trust fund for the orphaned Rosen-

berg: children.
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EMANUEL BLOCH

Peace.

upon our children or upon any
children.”

Sharing the speakers’ rostroum
with Dr. Endicott was John Burns,
president of the 20,000-member
British Fire Brigades Union, an
active member of the British Labor
party and the Christian Peace
Movement.

Earlier the congress had heard
appeals for negotiated peace and
world trade from Charles Brooks,
chairman of the big Chrysler unit
of Local 195, United Auto Workers
(CCL), and Nels Thibault, Canadian
director of the powerful independ-
ent International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers.

Burns brought greetings from
London’s East End Trades and
Labor Council and the mayor of
East Ham, where Nazi bombs in
the Second World War wrought
havoc and destruction. In a ring-
ing appeal for world unity, friend-
ship and peace, Burns described
how the British labor movement
‘and the Labor party was advancing
the struggle to win big power
talks on the highest levels and an
end to the cold war.

“| don’t care from whatever
quarter a genuine step or state-

ment for peace is made. That
movement will get my support,”
he declared.

Dr. Endicott, who spoke to open-
ing sessions of the congress, dwelt
on the danger of atomic war.

“t want to establish beyond all
doubt the danger to Canada, lying
as we do squarely between two of
the world’s leading atomic powers,”
he said.

He warned that “probably more »
destructive power has already
been stockpiled in today’s world
than the total used in all pre-

vious wars put togethr. These
weapons, like any other weapons,
are for one purpose only—to be

used.”

“We are in this fight for peace to a finish!” Dr.
public rally here on January 31, climaxing two-day sessions of the Congress of Support for Negotiated
.

Must find answer to menace of
H-bomb, Endicott warns parley

TORONTO

James G. Endicott told a Toronto Massey Hall

Close to 2,000 citizens applauded his words and took a standing pledge in memory of the victims
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all wars “to work to see that the atomic horror shall pa be visited

He then advanced his proposal
that Canada announce that it would
never be the first power to use
atomic weapons as a means of
breaking the impasse on an atomic
weapons ban.

_Endicott told delegates that the
congress would be performing “the
highest possible patriotic duty if it
gets down to cases and seeks an
answer to the worst and most dang-
erous menace we have ever faced
in the entire history of Canada—
the Hydrogen Bomb.”

He continued: “The Hydrogen
Bomb has no respect for race,
creed, politics or religion. It threat-
ens those who live under the Soviet
system, those who live under the
system we have in Canada, and
those who live in colonies.”

While warning of the grave
danger of atomic weapons, he
emphasized that there is no room
for pessimism or defeatism and
pointed to the peoples of the
world who had “smothered” a
potential world war before it
started between 1950 and 1953.

“A united democratic Germany
which is not militarized and which
enters into friendly trade agree-
ments with all its nefghbors,” was
Endicott’s answer to the threat of
a rearmed Germany.

Both in full session and in panels
of the two-day parley, the hopes
and aspirations of the vital and
growing peace movement were
voiced through widely representa-
tive delegates. 2

Businessmen and trade union-
ists jostled shoulders; clergymen,
pacifists, a Liberal MP, a Commun-
ist leader, an Alberta reeve, house-
wives, young people, farmers and
their wives, were among the dele-
gates registered.

Reeve Plats of Unity, Alberta,
declared, “Without peace we can-
not have trade, and without trade

we cannot have peace.” Farmers,
he said, wished only one thing:
“Understanding among nations,
peace by negotiation and markets
for us so we can produce for coun-
tries which need our food.” °

Mrs. Frances Horkoff of Sas-
katchewan spoke as one of Douk-
hobor descent, taught by her par-
ents “to live practical Christianity;
as a mother and as a farmer’s wife,”
spoke of the filled granaries and
wheat piled up in fields covered
with snow.

‘J feel like a murderer seeing
those piles of wheat lying there
being wasted while two-thirds of
the world’s population are hungry,”
she said. ‘Some people say what
we need is a hot war. But as one
of our farmers put it, we cannot
feed dead people.”

Addressing the sessions as a Can-
adian Communist, Norman Freed of
Toronto emphasized that “no mat-

ter what our differences may be,
big or small, lasting peace is our
common denominator.” .

He declared the important thing
to stress was the things that united
delegates in the congress, and said
Communists “never did and we do
not now make it a condition to
unite for peace the acceptance of
our estimation as to the causes
of war or whence the immediate
danger of war emanated from.”

A report on results of the Can-
adian Peace Congress referendum
calling for a meeting of the lead-
ing powers to settle all difference
by negotiations showed that 53,-
839 had cast YES votes to 956
NO votes across the country. Dr.
Endicott described the voting as
.“the widest and most thorough
public opinion poll that has ever
been undertaken.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

Evdokimoff
may win
freedom

Nick Evdokimoff, member of the
Sons of Freedom Doukhobor sect,
who was sentenced last August to
14 years in the penitentiary for al-
legedly being in possession of a jug
of gasoline and oil, may be freed
within a matter of days. This was
announced this week by Jack Phil-
lips, city secretary of the League
for Democratic Rights.

John Stanton, senior member of

the city law firm Stanton, Munro
and Dean, appeared before Mr. Jus-
tice Whittaker in Supreme Court
Chambers on Tuesday this week
and obtained a writ of habeas
corpus and certiori in aid. The writ
is returnable by Attorney General
Robert Bonner on February 12.
Stanton argued that when Ev-
dokimoff was originally charged un-
der Section 113B of the Criminal
Code at his preliminary hearing,
the prosecutor failed to draw to
the attention of the magistrate the
attorney general’s consent to prose-
cute, as required under Section 594
of the code.
This failure on the part of the
prosecutor, should, in Stanten’s
opinion, quash the subsequent trial
and conviction. :

When Evdokimoff was finally
tried, another charge was added,
under Section 114B of-the code,
dealing with intent to use explos-
ives for an unlawful purpose. He
was given the maximum sentence
under this charge, seven years, to
run concurrently with his sentence
of 14 years on the first count.

Should Evdokimoff be freed by
this dramatic move, the Crown
could charge him with the same
offenses a second time, but a new
trial would be necessary. Stanton
expressed himself as confident that
a new trial would provide Evdok-
imoff with the opportunity to prove
his innocence.

Labor movement
loses veteran

The progressive labor movement
has lost a staunch supporter by the
death here last Sunday of John
Cunningham.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, 69
years ago, Cunningham came to
Canada in 1912. He moved to
Vancouver in 1929 and was active
in the unemployed movement dur-
ing the Hungry Thirties.

During the war he was an active
member of the Boilermakers’
Union, serving as labor coordin-
ator on labor-management com-
mittees. :

In later years ill-health forced
him to play a less active role but
he maintained an unflagging inter-
est- in the labor movement.

He is survived by his wife, five
sons and four daughters.

Maurice Rush, LPP city secre-
tary, paid a final tribute to his work
at funeral services held Wednes-
day this week.

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