i ‘ ’ = fit it eH Ve he Vol. a dt . ‘ “ff WE it Yh, 3 ji; DOME UL EEMLLAG OAL AMET ED | Vancouver, British Columbia, April 14, 1950 C1 add incdl . - Price Five Cents World Peace Congress states: FIRST A WILL BE More than 1,000 delegates representing Canadians in all walks \ of life — workers, farmers, students, housewives and _ professional ptople — will be present when the second National Peace Congress opens here on Saturday, May 6 A great peace rally of record size where all citizens will have the chance to show their support) for peace will be held May 7 at Maple Leaf Garden, addressed by the Dean of Canterbury, Father Clarence Duffy and Dr. James G. Endicott. Brought to the convention floor and the Garden rally will be the historic resolution adopted by the World Peace Committee at its recent Stockholm meeting, where delegates from 52 nations approved and signed it: “We demand the unconditional prohibition of the atomic weapon ~as-an. instrumenty-of aggression..and.mass. extermination of people, and the establishment of strict: international control over the fulfilment of this decision. “We will regard as a war criminal that government which first uses the atomic weapon against any country. “We call upon all people of good will all over the world to sign this call,” External Affairs Minister to attend the Congress and address it on government.” On May 8, the day after the Lester B. Pearson has been invited “the fbreign policy of our RECOGNITION OF PEOPLE’S CHINA URGED Congress convention closes, a Canadian-wide peace delegation will visit Ottawa and place Ban the Bomb petitions with-an estim- ated 200,000 signatures on Prime ders as Colin Cameron and Rod Minister St. Laurent’s desk. Fi- nal name getting is now under Way in all Canadian cities. (Van- Couver peace partisans are asked to report every Saturday between 11 am. and 3 p.m. at Pender Auditorium for street-corner can- ening between now and April From coast to coast peace or Sanizations affiliated to the Cana- dian Peace Congress are making final preparations for the second teat convention of the CPC. Montreal Youth Assembly for Peace is enthusiastically readying Plans for the most dramatic relay tace in Ganndots history, a 380- mile run from ‘Montreal to To- tonto in which 50 young veterans and trade unionists and church youth will carry Quebec’s torch of Peace to the national Con- 8t€ss_ convention. The flaming torch of peace Which will be carried by the Continued on back page See PEACE PENTICTON, B.C. On at least two vital issues peace and recognition of the Chinese People’s Republic— the voice of the great majority of CCF members and supporters in B.C. found expression at the CCF provincial convention here last weekend, even though that expression was through such lea- Young who used these issues to conceal their own consistent op- position to working class unity” and their anti-Soviet stand. By a 28-22 vote taken at the close of ‘the 12-hour Satur- day session delegates overruled the ‘recommendation of their reso- lutions committee and approved a resolution “‘opposing any fur- ther expenditure on arms.” The resolution ignored the growing American military do- mination of Canada and accep- ted at. face value Liberal- Con- servative claims that Canada is arming only for defense by a preamble stating: “‘It is admit- tedly impossible for the 13 mil- Why isn’t Goode out to get jobs? Burnaby voters want to know BURNABY, B.C. “The voters of Burnaby-Richmond are con- Tom Goode, red-baiting _MP for Burnaby- Richmond, who on a flying visit here from Ottawa this week announced, I am out to get Tim Buck, has aroused the ire of many of his constituents who want to know why he is not out to get them the jobs he ‘promised in last year’s election cam- une which he won by a decided minority vote. Goode, however, did not stay long enough to receive a delegation, but bustled back to Ottawa to prepare his ‘‘anti-ccommunist’’ bill. A. letter written to Goode by Robert Smith, y of the Labor-Progressive party’s Burnaby stated : secretar, committee, cerned about the lack of action by MP’s on grow- ing unemployment . . . The cry of wolf is a con- venient diversion for failure to act in_ providing jobs for the jobless. « “Tim Buck has been a recognized leader of the working class for many years,” Smith declared, and asked: “‘Are you afraid, Mr. Goode, that the ‘propaganda’ of the New Democracies of Eu- rope consisting of full employment, civil and_poli- tical rights and security for all, will be made known to the Canadian people?”’ (See editorial on back page). USER E WAR CRIMINAL CF opposes arms expenditures lion people of Canada to pro- vide the necessary arms, equip- ment and personnel to defend the dominion from attack .. .” But it struck to the heart of the issue by its statement that the large sums now being spent on armaments “‘could be better employed in improving the stan- dard of living for the Canadian people, and thus providing an example of national sanity for the rest of the world.” As at last year’s convention, when a majority of delegates re- jected the pleas of avowed right- wing leaders and voted against support of the Atlantic Pact, delegates to this convention spurned all appeals for support of the government’s war pro- gram and rejected the request of former Vancouver alderman Laura Jamieson, new provincial first vice-president, that the reso- lution be reconsidered. The convention called for -re- cognition by Canada of the new People’s Republic of China and placed itself on record as being “opposed to the sending of arms to any side in the Far East con- flict, both external and internal.”