BINDER RAISES

ISSUE

a desultory meeting of the

of conscription.

Councillor Binder rose to
bub and buzz continued.

motion, merely shrugged
at the
stand.

No conscription motion
rocks Montreal council

By FRANK ARNOLD

Councillor Harry Binder dropped a bombshell into

week when he served notice that he will introduce a
motion to put the council on record against any form

Council was winding up its .business for the day.
Most councillors weren't paying the slightest atten-
tion as various notices of motion were being put. As

word “conscription,” the council was suddenly hushed.

“Whereas a big public campaign is now being
conducted by various organizations in favor of con
scription,” Binder read, “and whereas the vast majori-
ty of the people of this city have always been opposed
and are still opposed to conscription today, the ex-
ecutive committee be requested to consider the ad-
visability of urging the federal government to declare
it will under no circumstances impose conscription
upon the people of this province.”

Immediately he had finished reading his motion,
a number of English-speaking councillors shouted -ang-
rily, “Out of order, out of order.” —

Mayor Camillian Houde who had a hard time
suppressing a grin while Binder was presenting his

‘Out of order” shouts, and let the motion

MONTREAL

Montreal City Council last

read his motion, the hub-
3ut when he came to the

his shoulders expressively

North Van

heads»

provincial sub list

Pacific Tribune press clubs have turned in 127 subscrip-

tions and renewals in the first

three weeks of 1951, with the

provincial points leading Greater Vancouver by one sub. Here’s

the record;

GREATER VANCOUVER: North
Van., 9; Commercial Drive, 7; Kit-
silano, 5; Victory Square, 5; Capitol
Hill, 3; Vancouver Heights, 2;
Electrical, 2; South Burnaby, 2;
Fairview, 2; Civic Workers, 2;
Grandview, 1; -Advance, 1; East
End, 1; Georgia, 1; West End, 1;

Norquay, 1; miscellaneous, 18. (To-
tal, 63). :

PROVINCE: Campbell River, 5;
Cumberland, 4; Fort Langley, 4;
Trail, 4; Natal, 3; Vernon, 3; Vic-
toria, 3; Lake Cowichan, 3; New
Westminster, 3; Steveston, 3; Cop-.
wer Mountain, 8; Port Alberni, 2;
Nanaimo, 2; Mission, 2; Kelowna, 1;
Whonnock, 1; Prince Rupert, 1;
Salmon Arm, 1; Websters Corners;
1; White Rock, 1; miscellaneous, 14.
(Total, 64). .

Timely fo win people
for peace, says Wray

EDMONTON

“If it is timely for the premier of
this province to give people infor-
mation on what they should do if
bombers come over Alberta, it is
timely for us to give the people our
point of view on what they should
do to win peace,” declared Arthur
Wray, Independent Social Credit
MLA, at @ peace rally attended by
300 people here to which he and
Frank Maricle reported as two of
the Alberta delegation to the recent
World Peace Congress at Warsaw.
Maricle expressed his deep thanks
to the Smoky Lake Farmers’ Peace

SAM LINDSAY

Bergs of a feather

Board.”

CARL BERG

Fed up with the union-splitting activities of Carl Berg, TLC
vice-president, and his local henchman, Sam Lindsay, expelled by
Local 28, Civic Employees’ Union, 144. civic workers employed by
the Parks Board have signed a petition calling for Lindsay to
“return to work or else forfeit his position in the service of the ~
Lindsay, on Berg’s payroll as president of the splinter
group, finds his support dwindling week by week. Berg, who slipped
out of Vancouver as secretly as he entered the city last October
to perform his “hatchet” job, is reported ill in Edmonton.

after Drew

Union,

University of Toronto, follow-
ing a bitter anti-Communist
harangue by Drew, voted in
favor of Canadian recognition
of China and rejected the reso-
lution calling for conscription.
It also “strongly opposed”
the attempt, led by the Tor-
onto Globe and Mail to “wipe
out or suspend beneficial mea-
surers such as family allow-
ances.”

The Progressive Conserva-
tive students met after an. ear-
lier ,meeting of U of T stu-
dents heard [LPP national
leader Tim Buck urge the
withdrawal of Canadian troops
from Korea “because it is not
in the interests of Canada and
because we have no right to
interfere in the internal affairs

Committee for enabling him to go
to Warsaw. ‘

THE *E.1GH

TING VOLC-E

of Korea,”

OR: VY:OU-N G

Young U of T tories”
oppose conscription

harangue

TORONTO

Indicative of the strength of the popular desire for peace
was the slap in the face delivered
George Drew, long-time proponent of war against the Soviet

last week to Tory Rader

The Progressive Conservative Student Federation of the

UTE TO ee te ee) ee

Peace plays draws
large attendance
at New Westminster

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.
Braving snow and rain which
churned country roads to mud,
some 200 people, many from Val-
ley. points as distant as White
Rock, turned out to Hollywood
Bowl here last Sunday night to
see a performance of Hal Grif-
fin’s But Ye Are The People by
Vaneuver Theatre of Action.
The performance was sponsored
by New Westminster Peace Coun-
ceil. "Naw
Although handicapped by the
small stage which forced them to
dispense with settings and neces-
sitated last-minute changes, the
players drew prolonged applause
for their spirited presentation of
this three-act peace play.

DU A Cn

CANADA

Lenin's vision
of Asia's role
being realized

“Lenin was the Great Emancipa-
tor—he emancipated the workers
of Russia from wage slavery, and
inspired workers in all countries of
the world to organize against their
oppressors,” said Bert Whyte, Pa-
cific Tribune labor editor, Speaking
to an audience of 1,000 at the
Lenin Memorial meeting in Pender
Auditorium last Sunday night.

Reviewing: Lenin’s life and work,
Whyte pointed out that in his last
article, dictated to a secretary while
he lay in bed in a condition of
partial paralysis, Lenin wrote:

“In the last analysis, the upshot
of the struggle (for socialism) wil]
be determined ‘by the fact that
Russia, India, China, etc., account .
for the overwhelming majority of
the population of the globe. And
it is precisely this majority that,
during the past few years, has been
drawn into the struggle for eman-

| cipation with extraordinary rapid-

ity, so that in this respect there
cannot be the slightest shadow of
doubt what the final outcome of
the world struggle will be. In this
sense, the complete victory of so-
cialism is fully and absolutely as-
sured.”

Boday Lenin’s words are com-
ing true, said Whyte. A great
people’s revolution is sweeping
through Asia. A thousand million
people are shaking off their
chains. The march of humanity
towards a progressive and just
social order “cannot be halted by
the advocates of an American
world empire.”

“Will American capitalism, now
in crisis over the collapse of its
Far East policy, spread the war,
start World War Three?” continued
the speaker. “If America does, it
will mean the end of capitalism.

“But socialists don’t advocate war
as a means of ending capitalism.
For peace will also mean the end
of capitalism. And the socialist
sector of the world desires peace.
Let capitalism and socialism com-
pete in peace, and let the better
system win. (That is the challenge
of socialism.

“War means death to millions of
people in all countries. Who wants
war? Not the socialist part of the
world. Not the common people in
any ‘part of the werld—as witness
the 500 million signatures to the
Stockholm Peace Appeal. Who
wants war? Only the capitalists,
the trusts, the munition makers,
for whom war appears not terrible,
but only terribly profitable.”

Participating in the concert part
of the program were the Finnish
choir, the Ukrainian choir, the Rus-
sian choir, and the .Labor Youth
choir, Bill Hope recited an exerpt
from a poem by Vladimir Mayakovy-
sky, “On the Death of Lenin.” Bill

Stewart chaired the meeting.

By, GWEN JOHNSON

When the first issue of Cham-
pion, newest youth
paper, comes off the press in
Toronto next week, it will al-
ready have a host of readers and
supporters in Vancouver and
throughout: B.C.

For the past four months pro-
gressive youth» organizations in
this province have been prepar-
ing for Champion’s birth by sell-

Canada’s

ing subscriptions and drumming
up interest in this latest addition
to labor’s journalistic family.
Active in this preparatory work
have been the Federation of Rus-
sian Canadians, the Association
of United Ukrainian Canadians,
the Fnnish Organization, the Un-
ited Jewish People’s Order, and
the National Federation of Labor
Youth.

‘Early last September, members

of these organization set up a
“B.C. Committee for a Democratic
Youth Press.’ More than $1000
has been raised to help. finance
Champion, and 150 subs have been
sold. (“This is just a beginning,”
say committee members, “we’re
out to get 500 subs by the end of
February.”

National prizes will be awarded
to the top press. builders (every
supporter turning in 10 or ‘more

B.C. young people raise $1000 for new paper

subs becomes a Press Builder)
and B.C. is shooting to capture
one of the top awards.

To handle the important job of
gathering and writing B.C. news,
a provincial editorial board has
been set up. It consists of an
editor, a labor reporter, a roving
reporter, contributors from the
various youth organizations, and
a cartoonist. Material compiled
will be forwarded every two weeks

to Danny Daniels, editor of
Champion.

“Champion will ‘fight for peace,
against war, against militariza-
tion, against conscription,’ said
Daniels last week. “It will not
only champion the cause of youth,.
but will be a youthful paper of
song, humor, cartoons and laugh-
ter. Its pages will reflect the
colorful lives of young Canadians
in play as well as at work.”

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