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‘Wall Street’s aim large-scale warfare to reconquer all Asia

First, the Liberal government sent three RCN destroyers to Korea, _ then an RCAF squadron, and prom- ised that no ground troops would be sent. St. Laurent now wants to break that promise.

The proposal to send a brigade of Canadian ground:troops to Korea is the culminating, decisive step of a series of government maneuvers Carefully designed to involve Can- ada “step by step” in the U.S. im- perialist adventure in the domestic affairs of the Korean people.

Two paths are still open to Can- ada. ;

..One is the path of war—reckless Military aggression against peoples who do not threaten us, do not in- terfere in any way with us or in- fringe upon our national rights or interests, :

The other is the path of peace. _ Two weeks ago, in a public opin- ion poll, two-thirds of the Canadian People were opposed to sending Canadian boys to Korea. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians, includ- ing MP’s, mayors and councillors Of municipalities, churchmen, pro- fessional men and women, workers and farmers, in all provinces, have Signed the Stockholm peace peti- tion ... The overwhelming ‘major- ity are for peace, opposed to war.

This U.S. intervention is against the people of all Korea — to prevent them from uniting their country

under one national government freely elected. by themselves. But Korea is not the sole, or even the Main, concern of the imperialists Who are pressing to involve Canada.

The aim of the cynical men of Wall Street and Washington and their Canadian partners is all-out, large-scale war against the people’s f0vernments of Asia, to reconquer Asia for imperialism.

Even India’s Prime Minister Nehru, a bitter anti-Communist who is politically opposed to the people’s 8overnments, has been impelled to denounce this “new imperialism.”

Af the St. Laurent government is

8iven authority to send ground forces to Korea, Canada will be & full participant in this criminal ‘Wall Street war for imperialist’ re- Conquest against the independence Of all the peoples of Asia. . The Labor-Progressive party de- Clares that peace can be saved. That the great majority of peace- loving Canadians, the mothers and Wives and fathers and sons of Can- ada, must make their voices heard in a mighty demand upon the MP's: =

Don’t send Canadian boys to Ko- rea!

Vote down the St. Laurent gov- ernment’s proposal!

Canada can still exert a vital, Perhaps even a decisive influence, in Saving mankind from this ter- rible, avoidable, imperialist atomic War. Instead of allowing profiteer- ng warmongers to push our coun-

into war at the orders of Wall Street, the people should demand of he federal government, and of every MP, that Canada step for- ward publicly and fearlessly, as & Supporter of the practical peace Proposals put forward by Prime Minister Nehru of India:

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1. Stop the war in Korea from spreading;

2. Seat the representative of the government of China in China’s place on the United Nations Secur- ity Council;

8. Settle the conflict in Korea by allowing the people of that country to settle its future themselves, free from foreign interference — they would settle it in a week by a na- tional general election.

At Lake Success, Jacob Malik, president of the UN Security Coun- cil and répresentative of the So- cialist Soviet Union, has proposed: e 1, Stop the shooting in Korea;

2. Bring representatives of North and South Korea to the Security Council to state their cases about the civil war there;

3. Withdraw all foreign troops

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HIROSHIMA

| was atom-bombed five years ago

EVEN NOW, women in the Hiroshima district are

giving birth te children terribly deformed by the effects

- EVEN NOW, survivors are going blind.

TODAY madmen are talking about using the atomic ‘bomb in the Korea situation. This could unleash world- wide atomic war. Every city in Canada would be vulner-

MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF CANADA (OR. ANYWHERE) MUST NOT BE BURNED ‘TO A CINDER

Humanity's answer is the world Peace Petition.

No Hiroshimas for C

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from Korea.

In the interests of peace, demo- cratic Canadians should insist that the St. Laurent government sup- ports this move. Every Canadian worker should be proud and glad that it is the first socialist state, the USSR, that demonstrates to the public opinion of the world that it is against the spreading of the Korean war into a general Asian or world-wide atomic conflagration.

Capitalism — imperialism — is the evil force that breeds war, that profits from war—as every Cana+ dian family knows today when they suffer from a rampage of profiteer- ing prices and face the grim pros- pect. of heavier taxes to pay for St. Laurent’s war policy.

Socialism, labor, democracy, stand for peace, for hope, for humanity.

1 (ONE) BOMB, dropped by 1 (one) plane

killed 75,000 men, women and children; wounded 70,000 men, women and children (Aug. 6, 1945).

To the Government of Canada: ‘ We, the undersigned, petition you to: make the following declaration:

(1) Canada stands for the unconditional banning, by all countries, of the

_ atomic weapon as an instrument of

{ x Fe Pr ac Pr people, with strict international control over the fulfillment of this decision.

n (2) Canada will regard as ‘a war criminal that government which first , ¢

; uses the atomic weapon against any country. wobty :

The camp of peace is strong and will win if you, and all the common folk of Canada and the world re- fuse to be frightened, and speak out and act for peace.

CCF’ers, shocked by Coldwell’s advocacy of Canadian troops for Korea should stand by the Regina Manifesto, which opposes imperial- ist war.

The Labor-Progressive party calls upon peace-loving Canadians to act ‘now! Through public meetings, de- legations to your MP, resolutions, letters, telegrams and deputations to the government, by. rallying around the nation-wide crusade of the Canadian Peace Congress for the Stockholm peace petition, act now!

Make sure that when parliament meets the policy it will decide on will be: ;

Not one Canadian Yankee war in Korea!

Restore peace to Korea! Consult the Korean people!

Withdraw Canadian destroyers and planes from Korea!

Re-estabilsh the legality of the Security Council by seating the

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ON THIS PETITION

Say blacklist against Greek seamen in cily

A committee from Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) visited the Panamanian consul this week to protest a “first-class blacklist” oper- ating against nine Greek seamen recently freed from local immigra- tion custody for 60 days.

If the seamen fail to ship out before the 60-day period ends, they will be locked up again and may be sent to Greece, where death sen- tences or concentration camps await them.

“Both Greek and Panamanian ships have been in port, some need- ing men and sailing short-handed, yet they refused to hire these sea- men because they struck for decent wages on their last ship,” charged George Mitchell, VLC vice-presi- dent.

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