Join. the crusade for peace! |

This Declaration, unanimously adopted by the Second National Peace

Congress was also given the endorsation of 12,000 citizens at Toronto’s Ma- 2 pes. ae i :
conditional prohibition of all atomic weapons as instru-

ments of aggression and the mass extermination of peoples,

ple Leaf Gardens May 7.
ype CANADIAN Peace Congress, composed of Canadians and the establishment of strict international control over the

fulfilment of this decision.
To propose to all countries a solemn agreement to brand

in all walks of life, calls on all lovers of peace to arouse
the public conscience to prevent another war.
3 as a war criminal that government which first uses the
atomic weapon against any country. 4

~The danger of war is great, but the possibility of world
peace is greater. We declare that there is no difference

Canadians, join with the Canadian Peace Congress to
save our country from the horrors of atomic war!

among the powers which cannot be peacefully settled in the
March in the Crusade for Peace! >

United Nations without recourse to war. We affirm the great
:
Plan of action for peace

principles of human brotherhood as the foundation of world
The following Pian of Action for Peace, proposed by Dr. Endicott, was

peace.
also endorsed by the Peace Congress in plenary sessicn.

.

The striving for peace underlies the desires and aspira-
tions of the Canadian people. It is the only guarantee for the
security of Canada. Peace cannot be left sole’y to govern
; ments. The Canadian Peace Congress is founded to organize
the people's activity for peace. Participation in the work of
the Congress is open to all who sincerely desire to work for
peace. 1) Half a million signatures to a new petition based on

The Canadian Peace Congress opposes the armaments _ the declaration of Stockholm to be obtained not later than
race and every form of propaganda which makes for war International Peace Day, October 2, and to include mass en-
hysteria. Weare agreed that world peace can be maintained dorsations from trade unions, city and town councils, religious
if the peoples repudiate the drive to war. We are determined and fraternal organizations, and all other organizations con-
that Canada shall live at peace with the nations of the world cerned about peace. gi
by respecting the soverign rights of all other peoples, and de- * 2) Support to the Congress of Canadian Women in cele-
manding in like measure that Canadian soverignty shall be bration of International Children’s Day, June 1.
respected. 3) Celebration of International Peace Day, October 2,

We call upon all people of good will, regardless of their in every city and town in Canada by concerts, dramatic pre-
views concerning the reasons for the present strained inter- —_ sentations, mass rallies and by completion of the signature
national situation, who seriously desire to see peaceful rela- = cqmpaign.

Petite sored ene ena Pa e a] ieee e:Gaiede for 4) By means of these proposed activities, the organiza-
SESE AS tion of peace councils, committees and associations in every ©
To propose immediate international negotiations be-

| city, town, village and rural area across Canada, in neighbor-
—. tween East and West to chart the common ground for the hoods in larger centers, in places of work and within affiliated
| maintenance of world peace.

organizations should be pressed.

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CONGRESS

i
a | Linking the congress with a bil-
‘lion peace defenders in the: world
| was the presence of the Dean of
| pelled to come half way around the Canterbury as representative of the
_world—5,000 miles further—because World Peace Conference.

the shorter route sto Canada was) Congress called for the 500,000

HUGE TORONTO RALLY DENOUNCES PADLOCK LAW

_ ‘Peacemakers blessed,’ says Dea

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‘ty

{ that“ the forces of peace in the! Pearson, Canada’s Minister of Ex-
world are large enough and deter-/ternal Affairs. Referring to Pear-
mined enough to conquer the war- | son’s statement that he (Endicott)

“Blessed are the “peacemakers,”
the Dean of Canterbury told 12,000
-cheering Canadians who gathered
at a Maple Leaf Gardens Peace
Rally ‘here last Sunday to launch a
national “Crusade for Peace. As
perhaps no others could, the words
spoke the feelings of the huge

crowd which responded by giving |

Rev. Hewlett Johnson the kind of
ovation which unanimously and em-
phatically endorsed his statement

& DEAN

how we can help each other and
bring about coordination to our
rapidly growing peace movement.”

It is an all-in conference and

everyone who wants peace is wel- |

come to attend and _ participate.
Peace committees, trade union or-
ganizations and other progressive
bodies will be well represented. In
addition, ten citizens, anywhere,
can send a delegate. These repre-
sentatives will be accorded delegate
status if they come with signatures
of ten or more friends who they
are authorized to represent. In-
dividuals may attend and will be

» accorded observer status—voice but

no vote. j :

Every effort will be made to bil-
let out-of-town delegates. The con-
ference committee stresses that it
: will assist arrangements greatly if
~ delegates And observers send in
the registration in advance. May
23 will be the deadline for applica-
tions for those requiring billets.

The conference will be financed
solely through registration fees and
donations from those who “are will-
ing to pay the price of peace.” Fees
for delegates are $2, for observers,
$1. on ah

BH

mongers.”

A part of the big audience were
the 1,709 .delegates who attended
Peace which

National Congress

Street.
and women and youth from the
| country’s East to West coast, and
on Sunday night they were joined
by 11,000 citizens in a mass peace
rally which thundered a welcome to
chairman George Harris when he
opened the meeting by declaring
“that this gathering unites all
people of goodwill who fight for
peace.”

Linked to the struggle for peace
is the fight for civil liberties, par-
ticularly in Quebec, and it was
natural that the great crowd
would roar its approval of a reso-
lution condemning the Duplessis
Padlock Law and endorse a de-
‘mand that the federal government
- declare it ultra vires. The feelings
of more than 1,200 Canadians will
be transmitted to the federal cab-
inet, Premier Maurice Duplessis,
Montreal’s Mayor Camillien
Houde and to J. O. Asselin, presi-
dent of the executive committee
of Montreal’s City Council.
Significantly, the resolution, in-
troduced by Jean Pare, also show-
ed the magnificent unity of the
people at the great rally: only two
of three shouted “nays” when chair-
man’ George Harris put the question
causing him to remark dryly:
“There must be someone here who
wants to be padlocked.”

Dr. James Endicott, national
chairman of the Canadian Peace
Congress, received a standing ova-
tion when he rose to address the
rally “as a Christian missionary
and proud of it.” He was sharp in
his condenYnation of Lester B.

the two-day session of the second | {
|Endicott declared: “What is ‘be-_
met May 6-7 at the Bathurst Street neath contempt’ is the Padlock Law
United Church and at 83 Christie |
They were Canadian men |
‘ultra vires they don’t need to talk >
to me about how I “misrepresent” |

‘| proposed

i was “beneath contempt” because he

had exposed the government’s war
policy and its effect on civil liber-
ties at a Moscow press conference,

and until Mr. Pearson and the gov-
ernment he represents declares it

democracy.”

Endicott made the blunt charge

|that, “We'll have no peace as long

as we follow the policies of Pear-
son; he is deliberately poisoning
the minds of the Canadian people

‘in order that he can get on with

his war plans.”

He warned: “If our government
ever conscripts Canadian soldiers
to go to Europe to fight alongside
armed Nazis the peoples of the
countries we invade will hang us
as war criminals.”

Enthusiasm greeted the organiza-
tional plans presented by Mary Jen-
nison, executive secretary of the
Canadian Peace Congress when she
the establishment of
Peace Committees in cities and
towns across the country “every-
where.”
unanimously by the 12,000 people.

The ovation of the night, how-
ever, was reserved for the Dean otf
Canterbury as he walked to the
platform escorted by the Rev. I. G.
Perkins of Donlands United Church.
He took his place on the platform
with ministers, leading trade union-:
ists, housewives, representatives of
youth, cultural, women’s and other
organizations. rs

“Comrades in the Crusade for
Peace,’ was the Dean’s greeting.
Then he dryly explained that
though he wag “coming from a
British country to a British coun-
try in a British plane” he was com-

The plan was endorsed

|blocked by the U.S. “Golden Cur-
| tain.”
“We want peace. We will not
have war’ is the cry of the com-
mon people,” said the Dean. “The
people are the deciding factor; it
is they who will decide the issue
of peace or war. It is the common
people who have to make the ma-
chines, fire the machines. If they
| say ‘No! we will not fire the, guns,
then there will be no more war.”
He summed up his own feelings
with simplicity: “I would rather
be one of those who suffered death
under an atom bomb than be one
of those who advocated dropping
st

“Who does want war? I know

the Soviet Union would never be
the first to use the atom bomb,
but if war is forced then it would
have to use the atom bomb to de-
‘fend herself instead of the peaceful
| purposes she wants to use it for.
« “Soviet science is not idle. It
would be a mistake for any part
| of the world to believe it has a lead
'on scientific developments. No part
| of the world will be safe if there
‘is ever atom warfare. |

“Who wants war? I deny that
the East wants it.’ There are
plenty of lies spread about the
Soviet Union “but the most damn-
able lie is the one which says the
Soviet Union wants war. They
need peace and want peace.

“People with a rising standard
of living do not want war. Theirs
is a planned economy to which war
would be an intolerable hindrance.

“Who wants war? | Canadians.
British or American? No! If there
was a vote taken for war or peace
for every single ballot cast for war
there would be 10,000 votes against.
But some in the Western world.
'and they even declare it, want war,

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‘They have an interest in war be-

Signatures to be won by Interna-
tional Peace Day October 2, (200,
,000 have already been gathered).
Tt resolved to send a big: delegation
to the World Peace Congress in
‘Rome this fall. It elected a na-
, tional council representative of Can-
'ada from coast to coast and with
| thunderous ovations chose Dr. Endi-
|cott as national chairman and Miss
_Mary Jennison as executive secre-
tary. :

| It featured a scorching reply by
| Dr. Endicott to the unprecedented

|defence of Ottawa foreign policy |

| submitted to the Congress by for-
|eign minister Pearson.

' Exhilaration was in the air from

‘the first moment when delegates _

.Saw the huge throng. overflowing
|Bathhurst Church here. But the
exhilaration didn’t spell complac-
‘ency. What was thrilling was that
everybody knew that a fighting and
| effective answer had at last been
iforged to the cold war bombard-

| ment of Canadians for the past four _

years. The united conspiracy of

| party leaders in Ottawa faces the

{“danger” of peace. Though the
_road ahead, as Dr. Endicott warned,

is rough, it is a road leading to vic-_

tory. That was the theme running
through all the speeches.

cause they profit from war and
|they fear the collapse of Western
/ economy unless there is war.” — :
“Blessed are the peacemakers,”
said the Dean in a conclusion

And as a first

tion it volunteered a collection of

| $8,000 to put the campaign under-—

way.

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