A Mi f My LLIN ALAM ATG Price Five Cents Elgin Ruddell, Civic Reform leader, filing nomination papers for mayor one hour be- fore the deadline. on Wednes- day this week, stated bluntly that “my reason for runnyng is to give Vancouver voters an opportunity to vote for a peace candidate.” F Explaining his dramatic swich from the aldermanic race to the mayoralty contest, the |Civic Reform candidate: elaborated on his opening re- marks: “My three opponents, Mayor Charles Thompson, Fred Hume and Jack Price, all be- ljeve thet, war is inevitable, and bring forth various *disaster plans’ for our city. “As a labor candidate, I stand for peace, and I believe that peace can be maintained. We .don’t want atom bombs drop- pmg on Vancouver. We do want peace and the develop- trade with China and all countries. War means the shattering of all our plans for Points in Ruddell’s platform include: : ® An immediate plebiscite on id public ownership of the B.C. Electric transit system. @ Tax reform; 2 New Deal for Vancouver's small home owners and business men. @ Community representation through a new ward system. @ Modification of present re- I strictions On Sunday sports and cultural activities. Other Civic Reform candi- dates seeking office on Decem- j ber 13 are Effie Jones for ald- erman; and Maurice Rush, seeking a seat on parks poard. ELGIN RUDDELL A peace plan — not a disaster plan — and Prime Minister St. Laurent — this week were made fully aware of the desire and determina- tion of the peoples of Canada and the world to end the war - in Korea and impose peace upon the warmongers. It was Truman’s reckless threat to use the atomic bomb against the Korean and Chinese peoples which roused human- ' ity to the gravity of the international crisis. _ As MacArthur's armies reeled southward before the Ko- rean People’s Army, aided by Chinese volunteers and patriotic guerilla detachments, the panic of the retreating armies creat- ed an even greater panic in Washington, among both the senators on Capitol Hill and the paper generals in the Pen- tagon. Truman’s shocking statement that use of the atom bomb was being considered was followed by a rash of demands from dementéd American congressmen that the A-bomb be dropped—on Korea, on China, and on the Soviet Union. A wave of revulsion swept around the world, embracing all peoples, all classes. It spread far beyond the 500 million people who had signed the great Stockholm Petition. In Britain, public pressure forced Attlee to fly the Atlantic and Se - Continued on Back Page —See MAKE New world peace council to check on UN actions By RALPH PARKER WARSAW With a powerful warning that the peoples of the ,world want the United Nations to return to its basic principles or else be replaced by a more effective agency, the 2,000 delegates from 71 countries have created here a new world organization—World Peace Council. It has probably been the most eventful meeting in mod- ern history since founding of the United Nations at San Francisco five years ago. The capitalist press is wrong when it says that 2 new United Nations has been formed here. But it is true that the United Nations has been given its “last chance” warning by the Second World Peace Con- egress. The meeting, held in a swiftly converted printing plant of war-ruined Warsaw after the British Labor government's sabotage of the gathering at Sheffield, was' almost indescrib- able for the richness of its drama, the sweep of its ideas and varied contributions from the assembled delegates. : Continued on Back Page — See ENDICOTT PEACE CONGRESS MAKES THREE PROPOSALS TORONTO—A three-point pro- gram to “tip the scales for peace” t in the present world crisis is of- fered by the Canadian Peace Con- gress in a letter to External Affairs Minister L. B. Pearson co-signed by members of the Con- gress’ notional council, Following is text of the letter: “We are encouraged by press despatches stating that our gov- ernment yesterday sought clarifi- cation of President Truman’s statement that use of the atomic bomb is under consideration. We would be a good deal more en- Gov’t urged: Tip scales for peace couraged if you were to denounce that statement, which has shock- ed and angered the world, Hu- manity has already pronounced its verdict on the atomic bomb, in the 500 million individual signa- tures to the Stockholm Appeal, Cont, on Page 7—See CONGRESS Aggression defined by World Peace Congress WARSAW The Second World Peace Congress here defined as an aggressor that state which first uses armed force against another state under any pretext. It was agreed that no political, economic or strategic consideration, nor any reason based on the internal situation of a state, could justify armed intervention.