; cf IRIE [ Ua Si Se , on wll | L@) 2) | ra AG CD : i ELIN IES (ae TE Ey Friday, October 6, 1950 WELLAND Charge that the St. Laurent government is turning the Ni- agara Peninsula into “an ar- senal of war” when the people want it to ke “a garden for peace” was made here last week by Mel Doig, who has been nominated as the Labor- Progressive party’s peace can- didate to contest the Welland federal byelection on October 16. Doig’s 5-point election pro- gram—“I stand for your wel- fare, not warfare”—reads: 1. No more war! We want peace! 2. For the independence of Canada! 3. Raise the family income! Prosecute the profiteers! Make the rich pay! 4. Guard our liberties! 5. Family welfare first! A war veieran, Doig is call- ing for banning of the A-bomb, reduction of armaments, a 5- power peace pact, an end to comes LPP runs Welland peace candidate MEL DOIG intervention in Korea, recog- nition of China in the UN, and opposing conscription and the rearming of Western Germany. Endicott outlines Peace Congress’ nature, purpose TORONTO Statement that the “Canadian Peace Congress, which is affiliated with the World Congress of the Defenders of the Peace, is based on a simple and clear faith which anyone can understand,” is made here by Dr. James Endicott, Congress national chairman, in a series of statements, questions and answers defining the Congress nature and purpose. “We be- lieve in the possibility and desirability of the peaceful co- existence 6f the two systems. which now divide the world,” Endicott said. We believe North that the “American system of free enter- prise and the planned economy system which from East Germany to Indochina can get along together without - war. Both sides will gain more by peace than by war. Any quarrels or disagreements they may have can best be settled in the 'United Nations. Endicott’s questions and state- ments follow: ° Who Belongs To The Peace Movement? Anyone who has this faith in the possibility and desir- ability of the peaceful co-exist- ence of these two systems can be- long to the peace movement. We . affiliation, ask no questions about political religious belief, race or any other question. Those who sincerely want peace and are willing to help to achieve it are welcome in the peace movement. The Peace Movement Is A ‘Great International Movement: The peace movement is the great- est mass movement of the com- mon people that the world has yet experienced. It is a great, world-wide, democratic move- ment. It is movements like this" which will give life and power to the United Nations. It will help to establish the old dream of “The Parliament of Man, The Federation of the World”. Why Outlaw Atomic Weapons? The key to the present day strug- is now operating’ gle to preserve peace has been the outlawing of atomic weapons. The nature’ of war has changed so- much that no large nation could hope to win a war against another great power without the destruction of the industries and working class of its opponents. A war of this nature is unthink- able to any reasonable moral man. Around the Stockholm Appeal to outlaw the atomic weapon, we have rallied 400,000,000 signatures. No More War: The peace move-' ment has been severely criticised because it seemed to be only con- cerned about atomic weapons and it is claimed that this puts the U.S. at a disadvantage. Such criti- cisms are not to be taken serious- ly by those whose real purpose is te stop all war, and that is the stated purpose of the Peace Move- ment. Call To The Second World Con- gress: The call to the forthcom- ing Second World Congress of the defenders’ of the Peace makes this claim’ of the peace movement to be out to stop all war, quite clear and specific. It will outline a program on these points: 1. Out- - lawing atomic weapons. 2. Gen- éral reduction of armaments un- der control. 3. Aggression where- ever it may occur; condemn for- -eign intervention by force of arms in the internal affairs of any peo- ple. 4. Support all peaceful moves to end the Korean war and 65. Work for the banning of all forms of war propaganda. Rearming West Germany | branded as insult to 6,000,000 Jewish dead a than 15,000 ae Jews have signed the Stockholm Appeal, expression of the Jewish people and all people who desire peace and security in the sae today, Joseph Gershman, editor of the Canadian Jewish Weekly, told an audience which packed Community Center last Sunday evening. Gershman, a member of the dominion council of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and also a mem- ber of the executive board and the public relations committee of the central region of that organ- ization, expressed “regret” that top leaders of the Congress have taken a position against the Stockholm Appeal and for mili- tary intervention in Korea, but emphasized that “this attitude is not that of the Jewish citizens of. Canada, who>will not follow these Congress leaders down a blind war alley.” In order to truly represent the interests of Jewish people, said Gershman, Congress leaders should: : @ Support the Stockholm “Ap- peal and work for peace in Korea and withdrawal of foreign troops, e Protest against U.S. policy in Western Germany, which is openly reviving Nazism by releas- ing war criminals responsible for — the death of 6,000,000 Jews and millions of other peoples, and ap- pointing Nazis to positions of re- sponsibility in the government. @ Fight against the St. Laurent of flooding government’s policy Canada with fascist DP’s, many of them former SS men. _ @ Object strongly to the Cana- dian government’s action in al- lowing the notorious General An- ders, whose last action in Israel was to stage a pogrom in the town of Rechovoth in 1946, to set foot on Canadian soil. “Jews must speak out boldly for peace,” said Gershman. ‘“Hit- ler intimidated and terrorized the Jews of Germany into submission, and .then exterminated them. There is no hope of survival when One adopts the policy of submis- sion.” He told a story to illustrate his point. “During the war, Madame Vallient Couturier found herself in Auchzwitz, along with thousands of French people deported to that concentration camp. One even- ing she was called to comfort a dying Frenchwoman. When Madame Couturier was brought to her, the woman turned to her and kept crying, ‘I didn’t do any- thing. I didn’t do anything. Why am I here?’ Madame Couturier answered her sadly, ‘It is precise- ly because you and tens of thous- “ands like you did not do anything, that you are here’.” Gershman said the Canadian Jews should follow the example ‘of the Jews in Israel, where 300,- 000 have already signed the world peace petition, despite the opposi- tion of the Ben-Gurion govern- ment. ; Turning to. the question of the revival of Nazism in Western Germany, he declared: : “The Truman administration is destroying the Yalta and Potsdam’ agreements and violating the Big Three pledge to not only prevent another war, but abolish ~ the causes of war. “Only the Soviet Union has faithfully lived up to its pledge to denazify and demilitarize Ger- many and help the German people to again become part of the fami- ly of nations. “Niow ‘Truman, supported by Schuman and Bevin, is actually ~ in the process of establishing a new Nazi army in Western Ger- many. “Not long ago Wilhelm Pieck stated that Germany considers itself responsible for the barbaric actions of the Hitierites and for the sufferings of the victims of Nazi aggression, and declared that in Eastern Germany ‘we want to pay back with good deeds for the wrongs that we have done.’ “Contrast | Pieck’s statement with the arrogant declaration of Dr. Kurt Schumacher, national leader of the Social-Democratic party in West Germany, who told the world that ‘the complete inte- gration of Germany as a full- fledged member of the European community weuld constitute only the smallest reparation for the wrongs that have been committed against Germany.’ “So, according to Schumacher, the world has done wrong to Ger- many, to murderers of 6,000,000 Jews! j “Jews in Canada and the world over will never align themselves with the American warmongers who are reviving Nazism and re- building a Nazi army in West Germany to use as an instrument of aggression against the Soviet Union and the New Democracies. Instead, we must come out boldly and fight for peace.” Trades Council slams Millard’s Steel raiders Vancouver Trades and Labor Council (AFL-TLC) denounced C. H. Millard’s Steel raiding against Mine-Mill at Trail on the floor of the council meeting this week, and will let provincial Labor Min- ister John. Gates know \how it feels about the matter. President Jack Stevenson and secretary R. K. Gervin will meet Gates next week and inform him that the TLC believes no union should be certified as a bargain- ing agent unless it first collects money for dues or initiation. Gervin told delegates that Mil- lard’s Steel raiders, trying to grab members away from Mine-Mill at Trail, had based their application for certification on signed cards, but had collected no dues for ini- - tiation. Steelworkers’ certification bid was turned down by the Labor Relations Board, but Gervin warned that should such methods ever be recognized, it would mean any group could “move in” on a legitimate union simply by having workers sign cards. Following the reading of a long report by Gervin proceedings of the recent Trades and Labor Con- gress convention in Montreal, where 20 alleged “communists” were barred, police delegate Frank Doherty wanted to know when the “clean up” would begin here. President Jack Stevenson replied that the executive is “tak- ing the matter under advisement.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 6, 1950 — PAGE 1% which is “‘the genuine Congress aims common ground fo win peace Aims of the forthcoming | Second : World Peace Congress are’ out lined in the current issue of Defense of Peace, journal of the World Peace Committee. “The World Peace ‘Movement already counts ‘its supporters i? hundreds of millions — men and women—and can claim some not- ‘able successes. It is probable that had there been no world peace movement, had there been 10° campaign for signatures to the Stockholm Appeal, atomic wea- pons would have by now beet used. Had these weapons bee? used there is little doubt that 4 third world war would have bee? brought much nearer. “But without underestimating these successes, we must say that | the movement has not as yet ful ly succeeded in’ warding off th® — danger of- war. In the last few — months, indeed, this danger has grown greater, particularly with the events in Korea, which now present the most serious threat of. a general outbreak. ; “The intervention of foreig? troops in that country has had aS *— & complement an increased mo- — mentum in war preparations — military budgets have been in- creased to astronomical figures, fantastic campaigns of war pro- paganda have been unleashed, troops have been recalled to the colors, military service in many different countries has been ex- tended. All these preparation, now, more than ever before, ‘give rise to legitimate fears that the — intention is to end international differences not by negotiations leading to a peaceful settlement, hut by armed force.” Pointing out that these fears “do not preoccupy only those who take part in the peace movement —they are shared by whole. popu- lations everywhere with the ex- ception of small groups of men who actively desire war,” the journal states: ; ‘It is by unity among all these forces and by common action that we shall be able to repel the dan- ger of war which daily grows J greater. “The aim of the Prague propo- sals is to provide such common ground on which all who want peace can come together to work — out means of achieving the fol- lowing: , 1. The outlawing of ali atomic weapons, 2. Reduction and control of all armaments. 3. Condemnation of aggression and of foreign armed intervention in the internal affairs of any na- tion. F ) 4. Return ay the accepted pro- cedure of the United Nations as a preliminary to a peaceful solu- tion to the Korean conflict. 5. The outlawing of propagan- da making for war in any coun try whatsoever.