Disarmament, world trade aims of
Canadian Peace Congress campaign

Proclaiming its confidence that ‘‘the
of opinion, voice their unanimous demand f
national council of the Canadian Peace Con
national campaign for disarmament and world trade.
tional pedple’s conference

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cause of peace can be won if the Canadian people, “without regard for other differences
or peace through negotiations and keep on raising this voice until peace is secured,’’ the
ng here December 8-9 adopted a five-point resolution proposing a
The campaign, as outlined by the resolution, would culminate in a na-

Following. is the full text of
the resolution: :

The Canadian Peace Congress
has fulfilled the hopes which
brought aboit its formation in
1949 as a Canadian people’s move-
ment for ,peace, a part of the
world-wide striving of humanity
in all countries for peace.

The Canadian Peace Congress
has carried through two great
campaigns: ‘the Stockholm Ap-
peal for the prohibition and ef-
fective control of the atomic
weapon, and the Appeal for a
Five Power Pact of Peace to ban
War as a means of settling dis-
putes between nations.

Both these campaigns, which
took the form of ‘the collection
of hundreds of thousands of
Signatures to public petitions to
the Canadian government, have
proved that the majority of the
‘Canadian ‘people want great
power negotiations for .peace.
This demand is growing and will
grow until the great powers
settle their differences, because
the alternative is war,

The Canadian Peace Congress,

at the meeting of its National
Council, December 8-9, in Tor-
onto, reaffirms its confidence

By MITCH SAGO

WINNIPEG
Labor lost one of its traditional

seats in Winnipeg’s Ward 3 when
the recount of votes by Judge C.
B. Philps in county court declared
the Tory-Liberal candidate Frank
Wagner elected by 14 votes over
veteran Alderman M. J. Forkin.
While the original count at the
city hall gave Wagner a slim
margin of four votes, after the
transfers had been completed,
Judge Philp’s decision increased
the lead by another ten votes.:

While the Winnipeg Free Press

fatuously congratulated the elec-
tors of Ward 3 for ridding city
council of one ‘Communist, the
general reaction of the man on
the street is one of suspicion. It
is already clear that Ald. Forkin
has been the victim of a method
of evaluating
votes that runs counter to estab-
lished practice and method at the

and _ tabulating

.| ballots rejected by returning of-

LABOR LOSES TRADITIONAL ‘PEG SEAT

city hall for the last 30 years.
Final ‘results of the recount saw
considerable difference from the
vote recorded at lthe city halk |

Officials in Forkin’s election
committee point to the meagrej
information already available to
the public, which the judge’s
written decision will amplify in
greater detail, as indicative of a
situation ‘that warrants an im-
mediate investigation by city
council. The. facts are these:
that early in the*recount, on the

ficers in the city hall, Forkin had
a one-point lead over Wagner;
that’ in the recount by Judge
'Philps, 125 votes ruled as good
by the returning officers were
rejected by the court! Thus the
decision 'by Philps challenges a
method of evaluating: ballots by
the city hall electoral system
that has been in vogue for 30
years, :

Forkin out by 14 votes in recount

While Roy St. G. Stubbs, coun:
sel for Ald. Forkin, said’ that an
appeal would be made if at’ all
possible, it is now clear that the
city charter does not provide for
an appeal against the decision of
the county. court judge. This
makes the judgment of the coun-
ty court final, and leaves no re-
course for any dispute of the
findings by the candidate con-
cerned.

The indications now are that
Ald. Jacob Penner, chairman of
the Labor Election Committee,
and long-time colleague of Ald.
Forkin in Winnipeg City Coun-
cil, will demand an investiga- ‘
tion of the whole system of

Jevaluating and tabulating votes,

based on the serious differ-
ences revealed by the recount.
Penner will urge that members
of council examine the rejected
ballots, once the report of the

judge is in the hands of the -

tha't the cause of peace can be
5s, pn, if the. Canadian people,
- without regard for other differ-
ences of opinion, voice their de-
- mand for negotiations and keep
»on raising this voice until peace
is secured. ~
At this time, the people of
Canada are objecting in greater
numbers than ever before to the
‘heavy burden of arms expendi-
tures on their living standards.
They are realizing that arma-
ments mean bankruptcy, high
prices and higher taxes, lower
incomes and poorer, social serv-
ices, reduced foreign trade and
greater and greater dependence
on U.S. markets: Moreover, un-
less it is checked, rearmament
leads inevitably into ‘the catas-
trophe of war.
The people of Canada are also
coming to realize that disarma-
ment can mean a reduction of
tension between nations and the
opening of new possibilities for
_ world trade—to transform pro-

which are summarized as fol-
lows: 4

@ That the five great powers,

the U.S., the Soviet Union, China,
Great Britain and France, con-
clude a disarmament convention;

@ That they agree on the ab-

solute prohibition of all atomic
weapons and all other means
of 'the mass destruction of inno-
cent people;

® That this prohibition be en-

forced by the strict control and
inspection of declared weapons
and plants and those whose ex-
istence may be suspected.

@ That an arms reduction of

‘one-third ‘to one-half of the total
armaments be made by the end
of 71952; |

® That arms reductions take

into account the national secur-
ity of Canada ‘by. fixing the arms
to be retained solely for. our. na-
tional defense, in accord with our
length of frontiers and the num-
ber of our inhabitants.

Implicit

and control of declared and. sus-
_pected arms.

® That Canada in the United
Nations should propose.such a

disarmament convention!
3 To propose to the Canadian
* people ‘that they support the
policy of world trade by calling
on the Canadian government to
send trade delegations to all
countries for the purpose of con-
cluding agreements for the ex-
change of goods between them

‘and ourselves.
4 ~This National Council meet-
* ing of ‘the Canadian Peace
Congress emphasizes the urgent
necessity for cooperation be-
tween the ‘Peace Congress and
all other organizations. peoples
and movements who desire peace.
The Canadian Peace Congress
looks on the movement of the
Canadian people for peace as be-
ing a converging of all peace
opinions and aims in the general

city clerk.
5 This National Council meet-
“* ing registers the opinion that
because of the growing active
interest of the Canadian people
in the cause for peace, the time
is opportune for the vastly ‘ex:
tended organization of the Can-
adian Peace Congress. With this
in view, the National Council pro-
jects the, following proposals:

®@ That the Disarmament and
World Trade campaign should
commence with hundreds of
house meetings in every locality,
among industrial workers in
plants, and in farming communi-
ties, among young: people and
women, with the aim of discuss-
ing these Disarmament and
World Trade proposals: in the
light of their own special inter-

ests and ito see what can be done
about it.

@ That each house meeting,
organized by the existing coun-
cils and committees of the Peace
Congress, should have the aim
of setting up a peace committee,
no matter how' small, to carry on
the peace campaign, such com-
mittees to be given help and en-
couragement by the peace coun-
cils and local associations.

® That every ‘house meeting

peace.

® That out of such meetings
hundreds of resolutions and dele-
gations should go to governing
bodies at all levels, urging sup-
port for Disarmament and World
Trade.

© That public meetings, for-
ums, debates, advertisements,
leaflets, pamphlets, radio talks,
etc., be arranged for the debate
.of these proposals for Disarma-
ment and World Trade.

© An indispensable feature of
the. Disarmament and World

enlightenment on and support
for a Five Power ‘Peace Pact.
World peace depends upon the
conclusion of such a pact and
general and complete disarma-
ment. On such a basis’ the UN
could be restored as the world
organization for the guarantee
and security of world peace, for
which it was established in 1945.

‘The National Council of ‘the
Canadian Peace Congress ex-
“presses its firm conviction that
the peace-loving people ,of Can-
ada, joined with ttheir fellow-
humans in all countries, can win
lasting peace, and that out of
the: present world crisis there
can emerge a world liberated

from the scourge of war.

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into production for peace and
‘construction.
The people of the world have
‘compelled the question of dis-
armament through negotiations
‘between the five great powers
to be placed on tthe agenda of

direction of bringing about a VANCOUVER LOCAL

change in present policy towards
lasting peace.

in any disarmament plan that
will guarantee our: security is
the principle that no ‘Canadian
forces or bases ‘be located in any
other country and that the forces
or bases of no other country
should be located in any other
country and that the forces or

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to discuss these disarmarment
and world trade proposals.

at this National Council meeting
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“* campaign for disarmament
and world trade, to culminate in
a national People’s ‘Conference
for Disarmament and World
Trade. to be sponsored by the
- Canadian Peace Congress, to con-
-vene at the beginning of. May-
- 1952.
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