|| corr | tt} tt Magna Charter day will open campaign for Bill of Rights TORONTO On June 15,, the 738th anniversary of the signing of Magna Charta, the League for Democratic Rights will launch a new national campaign to help win a Bill of Rights for Canada. Main objectives of the campaign are to win support for the demand that one of the first acts of the next federal parliament shall be adoption of a ‘‘Declaration of the —. of Canadians’; ~ Draft Bill of Rights Reproduced above is the title page for the Draft Bill of Rights for Canada drawn up by the League for Democratic Rights. story on this page.) (See Morgan congratulates LPP supporters on spirited campaign “Tt is evident from early election returns that substantial num- bers of those who support the policies of peace, trade and jobs advanced by the Labor-Progressive party voted CCF in order to try and keep Social Credit out,’ Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, said on Wednesday this week. “It is obvious that the voters were confused by the blackout of news about LPP election activities into thinking the contest was between the Social Credit and the CCF. In reality, of course, the LPP was the only party which presented an alternative policy to. the warfare-before-welfare policy which Liberals and Tories, Social Crediters and CCFers all support. “With the LPP ocntesting 25 seats — 20 more than we con- tested last June — our candi- dates placed fourth in Vancouver East, getting more first-choice votes than both the Progressive Conservatives and the Christian Democrats. “Although early returns gave the LPP less votes than had been hoped for by most of our election workers, all agreed the ballot count.certainly does not reflect the good work done in estab- lishing a beachhead for the LPP in all the constituencies we con- tested. “Despite the daily press black- out of LPP speeches and activi- ties, and the RCMP’s slanderous smear campaign, our program was taken to thousands of vot- ers. Our 25 candidates put up a good fight for peace, trade, jobs and the people’s welfare. The importance of the issues raised and the constructive poli- cies advanced by the LPP will win increased recognition and support. “To our candidates, campaign managers arid hundreds of elec- tion workers throughout the province, I wish to extend on behalf of the LPP provincial executive our heartfelt thanks. “Our fight is just beginning. Our candidates and supporters _ will carry on the campaign to” change the present disastrous policies which are leading us into an economic crisis in B.C. We must increasingly speak up on the vital issues of govern- ment, build our organization, so that in the next provincial election we can present an even larger slate of candidates to challenge those who are be- traying our province to the big U.S. monopolies and their war Policies. “The provincial election cam- paign will serve as a springboard to the coming federal election, for which a mid-August daté is expected to be announced before the end of this week. The LPP nationally will run more candi- dates than we have’ ever done. To date 78 have been nominated, in- cluding 12 in B.C. In the federal campaigning, the other parties will not be able to skirt the key issues of peace, Canadian inde- pendence and trade, as they tried to do in the provincial campaign just concluded.” ; and to win endorsation of the main principles of this draft declaration from provincial leg- islatures, municipal governments, organizations and individuals. Speaking on “Our Heritage of Liberty” to an Ontario-Quebec regional conference of the LDR held here last month, Roscoe S. Rodd, QC, national chairman of the League for Democratic Rights, said: “Let us. then highly value this great heritage of freedom won for us at so great cost. Let us preserve it. Let. us defend it with our thought, with our ener- gy, and with our very lives. Let us fight for it, as if its continued existence amongst us depended upon the efforts of each one of Vis AIONE.<. 7. “Let us also be creators of lib- erty. Let us express our deep faith in the efficacy of free speech and discussion, in free- dom of the press and assembly, in the whole process of discus- sion and debate which has been said to be the very ‘breath of life of our democratic institu- tions.’ . Let us never again betray reason by the uncivilized old methods of force—of repres- sion at home and wars. abroad— by any such admission that right. is might. .. “Let us so tend the lamp of liberty in our own land that it will send out no flickering or doubtful ray of light across the world. For liberty is a funda- mental necessity for the spiritual and material development of all men everywhere. It is not only the people’s prerogative but the prerequisite to their abundant life.” The national battle led by the LDR against passage of Bill 93 resulted in non-passage of pro- posed revisions of the Criminal Code by the session of parlia- ment that ended May 14. “Of course it is to be expected that the next session of parlia- ment will be asked to pass a bill revising the Code,” points out a press release issued by the LDR. “The nature and contents of such a new bill will be determined by the results of the forthcoming federal election and the express- ed opinions of the Canadian peo- ple. Unquestionably we must continue to work to prevent the adoption of a new Code contain- ing undemocratic sections—but we cannot just continue our Bill 93 campaign. ... “We need a clear, concise state- ment of our rights and freedoms, to act as a guide to ourselves and our legislators, before any further consideration is given to other legislation affecting our lib- erties. . . . That is why we are preparing a folder which will contain a draft Declaration (sim- ilar to the draft Bill of Rights prepared and published recent- ly) which will contain space for endorsations by individuals and organizations,” | | oo | Paci, iC (@ mas i Pe Rs --FRIDAY, JUNE 4 1953 an MB I< mote (to sone JULIUS ROSENBERG ETHEL ROSENBERG Continued PEACE to Bermuda to meet President Eisenhower and the French prem- ier. The prime ministers also agreed that the government of People’s China ‘one day must be universally recognized” and ad- mitted into the United Nations. Problems to be settled by a meeting of the Great Powers in- clude the fighting.in Malaya, In- dochina and Kenya; a divided Germany; and the non-represent- ation of China at the United Na- tions. Frantic efforts to prevent an armistice in Korea have been made in the past week by the fascist dictator of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, and some Ameri- can politicians and_ brasshats. The peace initiatives of the So- viet, Chinese and North Korean governments have dealt a smash- ing blow at their plans to keep the war going and extend it to China. The heroic struggle of the Korean and Chinese peoples and the pressure of world public opinion forced the Americans to the conference table at Panmun- jom. They must now be forced to agree to a genuine settlement of all outstanding issues in the Far East, based on the rights of the Korean and Chinese people. a sured it almost two” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 12, 1953 — Continued SAVE they were convicted on a trum ed-up ‘atom spy” charge. At 1 p.m. this Saturday, 34 13, a protest poster parade cat start. at Pender Auditorium. rying signs urging clemency ith the Rosenbergs, Vancouver he zens will march to the Amerié f consulate on Howe Street, parade through downto streets. ; The Vancouver Save the Rose, ee, bergs Committee is urging “eY of democratic citizen” to write wire President Eisenhower the questing that he commute death sentence. Rev. Glendon F. Partie Presbyterian minister and ond World War veteran, le i) is great Ottawa Clemency 1B ee January, and since then has the working tirelessly to wil the clemency battle and save Rosenbergs’. lives. “Work and pray as neve fore,” he told fellow-mareh x Ottawa. “Expand the WF stor ready done by telling the tow! of the Rosenbergs in every and city we can reach.” 6 The 600 Canadians ff? 100 parts of the country wh? be part in the Clemency if fore the U.S. Embassy ? Dt tawa—and thousands ° ast Canadians from cont to co pul have been doing jus now a new and terribly ‘cose be cution date has been s¢t efforts are doubled and ! unless great protest rallies held in scores of oles towns, there will not be 2” a he stay of execution, and enbergs will die June 18 aw “We urge, we plead wi th che lover of decency and Mi oH join the placard protest | ome urday afternoon, and © ay the Save the Rosenbergs just Sunday evening in Penge ce torium,” an official of the “ gihe! committee said this wee* ust a and Julius Rosenberg mus die!” De Gasper! 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