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25 East End partisans for peace - collect 627 signatures in 3 hours

To prove their contention that “no honest man can refuse to sign the Stockholm Appeal,” 25 peace workers from the Grandview and Hastings East peace committees and. the West Coast Seamen’s Union took to the streets Saturday after- noon and within three hours secur- ed 627 signatures to the world peace petition.

On Sunday, as a follow-up, five canvassers went to Stanley Park, distributed 2,000 leaflets explaining the meaning of the Stockholm Ap- peal, then collected another 250 names on petitions.

Concentrating on the Hastings Street area between Forsts and Na- naimo Streets, the Saturday peti- tioners, using sandwich boards to advertise their purpose, approach- ed citizens with the question, “Have you signed the peace petition yet?”

“The results were astonishingly

good,” reported one canvasser! “Nine out of ten people were ex- tremely sympathetic and coopera- tive. When we compared notes afterwards, we found that during the afternoon six citizens had taken petitions to use in their own neighborhoods, promising to return them, filled, by next week- end.”

Garry Culhane, one of the can-

vassers, who has pledged to get 1000 signatures for peace before October 4, filled four petition sheets and reports that his total is now 154,

Saturday’s signature drive will be followed up every weekend during the next two months, with canvass- ers concentrating on parks, beaches, picnic grounds, street corners and “wherever we can find people in large numbers.”

Vancouver Peace Assembly, which plays a leading role in the campaign for 75,000 peace signa- tures in British Columbia by the

‘first week in October, opened an

office this week at 144 West Hast- ings (Room 40) to direct activities. Information and petition forms may be obtained there.

Posters and stickers saying simply, “No honest man can re-

‘ fuse to sign the Stockholm Ap-

peal” and being posted and stuck up all over the city. Another post- er, entitled “Sign for Peace,” is now being distributed. It contains the world peace appeal, demands absolute banning of the atom bomb, strict control to ensure that the ban is observed, and the branding as a war criminal of the

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TORONTO

One thousand signatures for peace on one street corner! That’s the achievement of Miss Mary Claire, who has petitioned for peace during the past month on the busy

corner of Spadina and College.

She’s the first Canadian to

reach the 1,000 mark on the world peace petition, but she has competition for the rest of the way.

Wally Krehm, like Mary a mem- ber of the National Federation of Labor Youth, has 727 names and Dan Romanyshyn of the Associa- tion of United Ukrainian Canadians has 503. They are sparking the work of all petitioners.

“Anybody can do it,” Miss Claire said, “The trick is to get started— the first petition sheet is the hard- est. bs

“Standing on the corner and sign- ing up almost everybody I asked shows that Canadians want the

atom bomb done away with for good,

“People signed a lot faster after the Korea crisis started. Canadians just don’t want war and when you ask them they sign. It’s as simple as that.” :

This young peace fighter has shown the way. What are you doing with your lunch hour? Get some petition forms from your local peace committee and start filling them up.

Use peace petitions at picnic for St. Laurent

REGINA

Regina and Moose Jaw District Peace Councils sent a truck load of peace petitioners into the country and to the Fort Qu’Appelle picnic at which Prime Minister St. Laurent

spoke recently.

Travelling through several towns en route to the picnic they were met with an enthusiastic response. Councillors and cooperators took copies of the petition, promising to fill them up. The son of a leading Liberal greeted the delegation with: “Well, I don’t care what you are, this is a good. thing.”

The peace truck stopped in Southey. One of the petitioners spied the Southey bus on the main street. He stepped into the bus and every passenger signed. They were hardly on the picnic grounds when Pat Deshaye, Liberal MLA for Mel- ville, declared he would use‘ the RCMP to chase them away. The peace group remained to collect sig- natures,

One nine-year-old farmer boy, carrying a placard “Let me live to a ripe old age,” collected 30 signa- tures and $2.19 in donations. Two girls aged 12 and 14 years with a placard “Unite for Peace,” collected 60 signatures and $3.95.

Other peace canvassers carried placards representing a mother, a nurse, a farmer, a worker, and so on.

The most frequent question was:

“We need peace, but what good will it do?” On being assured by the petitioners that every signature was another voiced raised against war there was no hesitation in signing. The Moose Jaw and Regina groups plan to set up peace councils in every district visited. anata

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Farm parley all out for ban bomb petition

SASKATOON Representatives from three prairie provinces at the LPP farm conference last weekend send out a call to farmers to go all-out in the fight for peace and behind the Canadian Peace Congress petition. “U.S. intervention in ' Korea must cease” said the farmers. A campaign for $2 wheat was agreed upon.

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first government which uses the bomb against any country.

“The Stockholm Appeal is an ap- peal for peace,” a Vancauver Peace Assembly leaflet says. ‘Religious, cultural, scientific and labor leaders from all over the world originated it at a World Peace Congress held in Stockholm last March,

“It is the first world-wide petition in all history. The prime minister of Finland and 12 of his cabinet have signed it. So-has the attorney- general of France and a former U.S. attorney-general.

“More than 130 million people in 60 countries including . Britain, United States and Russia have al- ready signed it.” :

Street canvassing with the peti- tion in many parts of the city has brought good results. “Knock: on every door,” said one peace worker. “You'll find that the reception will

be good from nearly all the people you meet.”

Other canvassers are using methods designed to achieve maximum success during the hot summer months. In the West End, peace workers are collecting names every night this week at the English Bay carnival.

Half a dozen picnics are held every weekend at Bowen Island, An hour’s work on the ship or at any of the six picnic grounds is a sure way to get signatures.

“The main thing is—carry your petitions with you wherever you go,” stressed one peace worker. “On the corners, in the parks, at picnics or at the race track, you can spend an hour working on the peace sig- nature campaign. Try it. The re- sults will encourage you to make it a habit.

Hit Italy bar to world congress

PARIS

The World Peace Committee an- nounces that the Italian. govern- ment has informed it that visas will be refused to delegates to the Sec- ond World Peace Congress sched-

uled to be hela in Genoa in October.

“In view of the fact that the basis of this congress is to be the appeal for prohibition of atomic weapons launched by the third ses- sicn of the World Peace Committee at Stockholm,” notes the committee, “and that the Italian people, who are so strongly attached to peace and liberty, are signing the Stock- holm Appeal en masse, the secre- tariat of the World Committee re- grets the decision of the Italian government. This decision, is against the urgent and necessary defense of peace in the world.”

The congress is now to be held in Poland from October 16 to 21.

HARVEY MURPHY “The need is urgent”

HAROLD PRITCHETT “Each dollar will fight for the workers”

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