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This map shows how radio- Some of the Japanese fishermen burned by radioactive dust from active dust from U.S. H-bomb U.S. H-bomb explosions are interviewed by: Japanese radio reporters: . tests has spread across the Pacific The Japanese Diet has demanded that all further U.S. H-bomb tesfS | IC | | eal lt | ) fp 2 f ies il Ji lia) j WW GH ae ‘Seas ede od Cid ae HDS FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1954 Pr i TEENIE: IN| me joes] Bo bh Continued from page |! matter to meet our press dead- line.” ’ At the Canadian Tribune’s press time on Tuesday this week no reply had been received from Howe. 4 The fact that the Canadian government has evidently ‘com- mitted Canada to go along with the U.S. Wiley Bill signed by President Eisenhower, which puts three key locks on the U.S. side of the International Rapids section, is also revealed in an- other Toronto Telegram report from the capital dated May 20. It refers to the Seaway as “a joint . Canadian-U.S. enterprise,” and adds: “The Americans will maintain complete control of ‘their canals as they do with their Sault Ste. Marie installations.” "For the work Canada must do ‘on the “joint” Seaway, the gov- “ernment will pay out $300 mil- ‘lion. The U.S. will get its finger ‘in the contro! of the waterways for just a bit over one-third that ‘amount — $150 million. Canada has already spent $500 million on the waterways compared to a U.S. outlay of only $50 million... By treaty there is to be no discrimination by either country against the shipping of the other. This agreement, however, can be ended on a year’s notice. : The.New York Times reported May 13: “The McCarran Act also is causing some misgivings (in Ottawa). Canada wants assur- ance that her citizens sailing through the canal on the USS. ‘side will be treated as though they were on their own soil.” Such is not now the case with the TCA at Sault Ste. Marie. There, TCA planes must land on the U.S. side. But U.S. laws in- SEAWAY sist that a bus take all through passengers back to the Canadian side until the plane has been ser- viced. Then they may return to the plane—at a cost of $3 extra for the bus. That the sentiment for. an all- - Canadian route is still strong is indicated in the leading Financial Post editorial of May 15: “After all these years the Un- ited Statesrwants to joint with Canada in. building the St. Law- rence Seaway. But many Cana- dians would still prefer an all- Canada route built on this side of the boundary—a Seaway with no chance of becoming snarled up by the intricacies of another country’s politics. “The orginat joint agreement of 1941 has long since been dis- solved. Canada is no more obli- gated to join in this latest U.S. plan than she is to buy wheel- barrows for her weekend garden- evs. But if a partnership is now accepted, this country must be certain that it is a real partner- ship between equals.” Back on June 30, 1952, Canada signed an agreement with the U.S. declaring that she would build the Seaway herself on Can- addian territory. | ; But on January 9, 1953—in a document not revealed until sev- eral months later—External Af- fairs Minister Pearson sent a memo to the U.S. Embassy in Oi- tawa saying his government was now willing to discuss with the U.S. “any specific proposal dif- fering” from the 1952 agreement, provided such negotiations did not delay the power project be- ing undertaken by Ontario Hydro and a New York State Authority. - to the countries bordering it. Dr. Endicott, who is chairman of the Canadian Peace Congress, will also address peace rallies in Victoria this coming Wednesday, June 2, and Nanaimo, Thursday, June 3. A reception in his honor, open to the public, will be held Tues- day, June 1, at Pender Auditori- um (Lower Hall). On this occa- sion Dr. Endicott will show slides depicting what he saw in Japan. Dr. Endicott was a_ special guest of the World Pacifist Con- ference held in Japan, sponsored ‘by all the well-known pacifist groups in the world. The con- ference was attended by Budd- hists, Christians and other paci- fists from a number of Asian and | European countries, including Japan, India, Ceylon, Burma and ‘Cambodia. Indian delegates to the confer- ence brought a gift from Prime Minister Nehru of the ashes of Buddha “for the suffering people of Hiroshima.” Dr. Endicott was in Japan when the frightful news of the H-bomb tests became public. In an in- terview in the June edition of the Canadian monthly, Peace Re- ‘view, he says: ‘Yn addition to showering dead- ly ashes on the 23 fishermen, the hydrogen bomb tests dislocated a third of Japan’s huge fishing industry. Up till now, over 25 radioactive boats have come in- fo port, including a 19,000-ton whaler: 4 spoke with a doctor who was treating, eight people suffering from something akin to cancer of the blood due to eat- ing radioactive fish. : : “Naturally there was a nation wide outburst of indignation: The Japanese feel bitterly about hav- ing been made victims, as they see it, for a third time.” As a result of this public in- dignation, Dr. Endicott reports, the Japanese Diet was obliged to pass a strong resolution calling for an énd to the H-bomb tests and for international prohibition of the bomb. While in Japan, Dr.’ Endicott talked to the doctors who attend- ed the fishermen of the “Lucky Dragon,” victims of radioactive death ash. He visited a village é in the Pacific be stopped. where the poisoned victims of radioactive fish are suffering. He spoke at Hiroshima at a memorial service for the 200,000 victims of the first two atomic bombings, the bombing of Hiro- shima and Nagasaki. Peace Review carries Dr. En- dicott’s own account of the im- pression this ceremony made on him and of his part in it: “We went to the Explosion Centre. “Under a bright blue sky, simi- lar to that of the fateful day when a B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic weapon of mass ex- termination, we held a solemn ceremony. The foreign delegates laid wreaths under the cement arch on the grey granite coffin in which are engraved the names ease victims of that first last. . “T felt an inner shrinking of : horror to thing that at this very, time a vast and terrible war is now in an advanced stage of pre- paration. I was asked to speak. I said in substance: “‘Just as a photo flash-bulb makes a clear picture in the camera, so that flash in the sky on August 6, 1945, must make a clear picture in the conscience of all men. This must not happen again. We must vow to build a world of peace and ‘brother- hood’,” Endicott to tell city meeting of Hiroshima visit, H-bomb victims Canada’s peace missionary, Dr. James Endicott, who has seen at first hand the atomized cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and who has talked with doctors. now treating the Japanese fishermen who have become the first victims of the hydrogen bomb, will report on his recent tour of Japan at a fifth anniversary rally of the peace movement on Friday, June 4, in Exhibition Gardens here. The rally, sponsored by B.C. Peace Council, will comriemorate the founding five years ago of the world peace movement, which has become the most widespread and effective movement of the people the world has ever known. Railroaders’ strike vote in mid-June Strike vote ballots will. be dis” tributed in mid-June to 135,000 non-operating CPR and CNR workers, who will mark them foF return not later than August 2 it was announced this week PY Frank Hall, chairman of a uniod negotiating committee. Results of the strike ballot may not be known until mid-August and will be announced from unio? headquarters in Montreal. Last week the 580,000-membe Trades and Labor Congress of Canada threw its full weight b& hind the demand of the railroat ers. ‘A conciliation board rejectio® of the railroaders’ demands £07 eight statutory holidays and 4 sick-leave plan, opened the door : to strike action. ‘ ‘HARNESS —— \ the 7 | — FRASER’ | BC NETWORK ~Mon., May 31 -- 10:15 p.m. - Speaker: ALF DEWHURST Provincial Organizer, Labor-Progressive Party PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 28, 1954 — PAGE