= ™ le a8 | ie wil Vol. 10, No. 27 ey oe ; | ie Uy Ry i piles 5 Hal | casas bid yh, oat ; ality Wa fl hop y Pro et er tes mame i tal tum f WEAETE Aint fi 4) , hs uf Hh 4 ; Map 4 preeprcragyes ALA AAA ATE Vaneoliens British Columbia, July Oye > ty wed Lge. PRICE FIVE CENTS WORLD NORLD PEACE OPINION DEMANDS CEASE-FIRE Across the country in the next few days thousands of people wilf be working for peace, By resolution to the gov- ernment and pressure upon individual MP’s, by enlisting the support of their fellow citizens through signatures to the five-power peace pact petition, they will insist that this op- portunity to end the war in Korea shall not be lost. Aware that the demand for peace,-in the U.S. as in this and other countries, has forced the Truman administration to act on the suggestion for cease-fire discussions advanced by Jacob Malik, permanent Soviet representative in the UN, they are not likely to be deceived by daily press stories seeking to throw suspicion on Soviet motives or to. discredit in advance the intentions of the Korean,and Chinese people’s govern- ments. They will remember that the St. Laurent govern- ment, by reversing its: stand in the UN last winter and Representatives named by U.S, General Matthew B. Ridgeway (far left) will meet with those designated by Kim Il Sung, su- breme commander of the Korean People’s Army (bottom of page) and General Peng T eh-huai, commander of Chinese volunteers, (left) in Kaesong this Sunday to discuss a cease-fire in Korea. Weasked for 40-we got... We aimed for 40. subs this Week, but we only got 31. ‘May- © it was the hot weather, or Pethaps it was the holiday week- atever the reason, we Must not fail again! Our target 'S still 40 for the coming week. 3 Ane eves are turned toward the th parallel in Korea these days. °r the FACTS on the Korean ar British Columbians must turn ¥ the Pacific Tribune. But thou- pads of people in this province ied never even seen a copy of “" paper, This is the job that must be done by our supporters— pelling ihe PT into, the hands of "ew readers! Tess club totals for the first . Months of 1951 appear on ees 6. Read them, but don’t top pdust make un your mind Set aside Monday Night as we Night, and go out and sell a t Shell Oil employees strike for wage boost. Strike action was taken by 245 ‘Shell Oil workers on Wednesday this week when the “company re- fused to accept the union’s de- mand for a 25 percent wage hike. Another 250 workers at Imperial and Standard Qil refineries have voted for strike action if similar wage, demands (amounting to about 30 cents an hour) are not met, and 125 workers at Home Oil and B.A. Oil are deadlocked in negotiations. All are .mem- bers of Oil Workers International Union (CIO). Other happenings on the labor front this week included: @® A 32-cent ‘hourly pay boost was won by 450 members of the Pile Drivers’. Union, Local 2404 (AFL-TLC). aie @ Members of Mine-Mill in Trail and Kimberléy are voting on a Consolidated offer of 1712 cents hourly hoist, on top of the 7'\% cents interim increase won last December. » @® A coastwide ballot, on a new salmon price offer conducted by United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union and the Native Brotherhood resulted in 75 per- cent favoring acceptance. Price increases range from 25 to 3614 percent. ® More than 600 employees at Mc and Mc'voted overwhelm- ingly for a government supervised ‘strike ballot if the company rejects a majority report of a conciliation board recommending $40 a month increases, ® A _ Coalition government offer of a 6\4 percent increase for B.C.’s 10,000 civil servants was rejected by the executive ‘of the Government Employees’ As- sociation, which is holding out for 10 percent across-the-board, or a minimum hike of $22 a month. @ Members of Seafarers In- ternational Union aboard 23 coastal ships are voting July 6 on operators’ offer of $16 to $22 a month increases. Originally SIU officials had stated they would not settle for less than $30. @ At Pacific Tribune press time, Labor Relations Biard was seeking to avert a strike of plumbers demanding $2.10 an hour. “Final’’ offer of Master Plumbers’ Association was’ $2. The 60 plumbers are members of the Plumbers and Pipefitters’ Union (AFL-TLC). B.C. signatures to world peace appeal now 60,000 Peace petigjioners in Vancouver and throughout B.C, weren’t idle over the holiday weekend, col- lecting close to 3,000 signatures to boost the provincial total to 60,500. Korean cease-fire talks increase the urgency of winning support for a pact of peace be- fween the five great powers as @ guarantee of permanent world peace. B.C. Peace Council announced this week that another mass street canvass will be held Sat- urday, and a door-to-door can- vass on Wednesday night this coming week. voting to support the U.S. motion: branditig China as an aggressor, threw away the opportunity it had then to in- itiate peace talks and so avert the bloodshed and destruction of the past six months. More than 60,000 people in the province of British Col- umbia alone have signed the _five-power peace pact peti- tion. The desire for peace demonstrated by this res- ponse, multiplied into the hundreds of millions through- out the world, is a decisive factor in the talks that will start this coming Sunday in the rubble of Kaesong be- tween representatives of the U.S: and Korean armies. A cease-fire in Korea and an armistice on equal terms will be a victory for the tre- mendous force of world peace opinion, organized and united through the World Peace Council, which will gather even greater strength from it to pursue the demand for Continued on back page See CEASE-FIRE KIM IL SUNG B11 i aa