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To consolidate the peace won at Geneva the Cana-
dian people must reject the attempt by the United States

instigators of war

‘to misrepresent the terms and the

essence of the Geneva Agreements and to inflame pre-
judice against them in preparation for an organized attempt

to upset them,” said a statement
issued this week by the national
executive committee of the Labor-
Progressive party.

The LPP statement continued:

In a brazen demonstration of
its bellicose attitude, the United
States government alone of ail
the great powers refused to ack-
nowledge the political reality ex-
pressed in the Agreements. Hav-

ing failed in its efforts to scuttle ,

the Conference, even resorting to
unscrupulous use of the non-rep-
resentative stooge “government”
of Cambodia in a last-ditch at-
tempt to block the signing of the
joint declaration, the Eisenhower
Administration is seeking already
to circumvent the Accord by an
aggressive organization of imper-
ialist powers to browbeat the
lands of Southeast Asia and their
peoples by naked military force.

It is a matter of grave concern
to the people of Canada that pub-
lic support is being given to that
aggressive- plan of the United
States militarists in the name of
the St. Laurent government. On
the same day that Canadian news-
papers reported the sour chagrin
of the Eisenhower administration
at the successful conclusion of
the Geneva Conference and the
Dulles plan to counteract its re-
sults by setting up a military
bloc, they reported also a speech
delivered by senior cabinet min-
ister Dr. J. J. McCann, favoring
offensive military action against
the People’s governments.

Peace-loving Candians should
condemn sjuch governmental
dowble-dealing and demand that
it be stopped.

The invitation to our country
to be one of the three members
of the International Commission,

to supervise the truce and the
elections to be held in the coun-
tries of Indochina, is a high»hon-
or to us as a people but, in addi-
tion, it imposes a solemn respon-
sibility upon us.

The fact that the government
directly and vitally concerned: in-
vited India to serve with Canada
and Poland on the International
Commission; in spite of the fact
that the United States govern-
ment had vetoed India’s partici-
pation in the Conference, empha-
sizes the profound importance
that they attach to the role of
the Commission, to its composi-
tion, and to its historic responsi-
bility.

This responsibility demands
that the federal government stops
giving support to the Eisenhower
administration’s scheme to wreck
the Geneva accord that Canada
is called upon to implement.

The Geneva accord has. opened
the way to the consolidation of
peace in Asia and d new stage in
the development of peaceful ‘co-
existence between capitalist and
socialist. countries: _

V peace in Korea.

iV the seating of People’s China
in the United Nations.

V the democratic reunification
and neutralization of Ger-
many. :

V all-inclusive collective non-ag-
gression pacts for the coun-
tries of Europe and Asia.

V the outlawing of the H-bomb
and progressive disarmament.

V an end to the U.S, blockade

against free world trade and
cultural exchanges. ~

This is the path to enduring.

peace and friendship for Canada
and all peoples.

Pipeline demand
receives backing —

Demand for immediate action by the provincial government to
make possible an early start on construction by the B.C. Power Com-

June 28.

Effie Jones blasts PUC
for ‘hiding’ fare brief

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A charge that the Ing Utilities Commission’ is trying to reduce the hearing
was made by Mrs. Effie Jones, following B
refusal to release copies of the company application to organizations opposing the ™

mission of a publicly-owned gas pipeline to bring Peace River natural
gas to the populated areas of the province and tie in with a Canadian
Bast-West grid is receiving support from a number of interior towns.

Time out for java on the picket line

Strikers at the Kelvinator plant in London, Ontario take time out for coffee on the picke tract
where police guns have been used to intimidate workers fighting a five-year “deep freeze” con

demanded by the U.S. Kelvinator Company, makers of refrigerators.

year agreement,

on the BCER fare increase -to a

hike.

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“To permit public organizations «to appear. and then rule that they will not hav

access to. the facts prior to the
hearing, is decidedly unfair and
cannot but reduce the hearings
to a mere formality,” Said Mrs.
Jones in a letter to PUC chair-
man Percy George.

George wrote that only the City
of Vancouver is entitled to copies

of the BCER brief since the fran-

chise is with the City.

Demand that the hearing be
further postponed until after
Labor Day to give municipal
councils, trade unions and com-
munity groups time to prepare
their briefs, is gathering steam.

The newly formed No Fare In-
crease Committee will place this

‘proposal before Vancouver City

Council.

Burnaby Council is considering
a request for postponement by a
delegation from the Burnaby

7 LPP.

In North Vancouver the LPP

has distributed leaflets urging °

City Council, which has so far
takeu a “wait and see” position,
to oppose the increase. The Dis-
trict Council will appear at the

-hearings to oppose the increase.

A citizens’ conference against
the increase is scheduled for the
&

i farce”

eve of the ‘hearings. It will con-
venue in the Pender Auditorium,
Friday, August 6 at 8 p.m.

Beat ‘traffic nerves’
_at big labor picnic

Don't you get that travel itch
on these fine summer weekends?
There’s a way to beat traffic
nerves on Sunday, August 8. Just

_drive straight out East Hastings

to the Annual Labor Picnic at
Confederation Park, North Burn-
aby. Or better still, leave the
car at home, take the Hastings
East street. car to the end of the
line and ‘a bus to the picnic
grounds.

You'll find something at the
Labor Picnic to keep every mem-
ber of the family happy. There
are races for the kids, sports for
the teenagers, a baseball game
for the spectator-type sportsman,

The union is asking for 4 ine
The 450 strikers, members of the United Auto Workers, have been out >

+ line

ti-

Canvassers for Effie Jones’ Zi, e
tion report an overwhelming 14

orable response.

One of the main attractions
ing lined up by the picnic con®
mittee is a series of variety
to take place on stage in nt
of the main stands. They inclu!
accordion number by Ron paja? is
soloist with the Kitsilano Bo d
Band when it toured EM (eh
last summer; Canadian songs ott
tenor John Niechoda, choir dit a
tor of the Federation of ®
Canadian; Chinese novelty i
and a Chinese boys’ choir 4S
as square dances.

Also featured is a track ie

em
field program put on by the ™ rts

bers of the International

League. foo

and lots of ice-cream, hot dogs,
and hamburgers.

In Kamloops last week an LPP
meeting decided to send a: reso-
lution to Premier W. A. C. Ben-
nett and Works Minister P. A.
Gaglardi [who represents Kam-
loops riding in. the legislature.

Trail-Nelson clubs of the LPP ~
have decided to send a resolution
to the provincial government,
jocal MLAs and to organize a
delegation to city council to press
for the development.

Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial

United Labor
PICNIC

SUNDAY, AUGUST 8

CONFEDERATION PARK
4600 EAST HASTINGS
NORTH BURNABY

deader who addressed a number

of meetings in the interior on
the gas pipeline issue told the
Pacific Tribune on his return to
Vancouver last week that “the
people want the advantages, of
cheap, clean and convenient fuel
and they are keenly aware of
what the pipeline means in terms

of industrial development and
jobs.”

_ In a radio broadcast ‘over Nel-
son station CJCN Morgan said:

' “Natural gas is one of the finest
fuels for smelting because it.

makes possible recovery of valu-
able chemicals which are lost
when coke is used. .

“Natural gas would mean a
vast expansion at Trail and it
would revolutionize extracting,

refining and by-products manu- |

‘facturing processes there.
“Provision of natural gas would
furnish the basis for a new cycle
of industrial expansion. The gov-
ernment should not be allowed
to let it go to waste any longer.”

Robeson Sings Again!
‘SUNDAY, AUGUST I

PEACE ARCH PARK

Buses leave Font of CNR Station
at 12 noon, DST :

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BRITISH EMPIRE GAMES COMPETITORS AND vistTos
CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND.

AUSPICES: INTERNATIONAL UNION OF MINE, MILL
vrs AND SMELTER WORKERS

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 30, 1954 — PAG

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