: utegral Part of Danish Kingdom COPENHAGEN served formal he United Nations Ny Greenland, Canada’s clos- neighbor in the Arctic, is no S, ae a colonial territory but Kin tegral part of the Danish i Sdom. The move follows tion endment to the constitu- ih ’Pproved by Danish voters Greenland’s 22,581 Eskimos and 1,061 whites will now sit in the Danish parliament. Fear of U.S. encroachment on Greenland was a factor in hastening the change in the ter- ritory’s status. The U.S. secret- ly built and placed in opera: tion its huge air base at Thule, Greenland (see picture above) ®@ plebiscite jast May. Two} before its existence was official- entatives elected by| ly revealed to the outside world. a 7 P olitical prisoners hurdered in quake Gh ean kK authorities used the earth- Dolitinny waster to murder many : ; ae Pye iay 122 Prisoners held on the Ion-| Here were 215 political prison Slands, ers in the Zante jail when the first ‘quake shook the island. Denmark has ‘Notice on the Zante, at the very moment when the prison building was coilapsing as a result of the earth tremor. There Ei A cali to the peoples of the stopped, its resolution declared. ple’s China to the UN, banning of all weapons of mass destruc- tion, easing of the arms burden and resumption of world trade. The resolution said: The Bureau of the World Coun- cil of Peace, at its first meeting since the conclusion of hostilities in Korea, salutes this victory of the cause of peace. ; The bureau reviewed the pro- gress of the campaign launched on June 20, 1953, by the World Coun- cil of Peace, calling upon the people to demand of the govern- ments that ‘they negotiate and agree. - The welcome extended by public opinion to this appeal showed that the World Council of Peace first voiced the dearest wish of human- ity. Today no statesman dares any ' longer openly to oppose nego- . tiations. But recent develop- ments oblige the Bureau of the World Council of Peace to call to the people to be on the alert. The word “negotiation” is too often being used to veil man- eouvres opposed to the peaceful settlement of international prob- lems. It is not negotiation for one party to lay down conditions be- forehand to another and to seek It demanded sincere negotiations, the Soviet Union, the TUC General Council, through of Peace. The bureau called o World’s peoples warned - to be alert for peace VIENNA world to be on the alert in defense of peace has been issued here by the Bureau of the World Council resumed in Korea and to end it in Indochina. n the peoples to prevent war being Force against the peoples in Asia and Africa must be loyalty to the United Nations’ Charter and admission of Peo- The peoples will not allow re- Wival in Germany of a source of conflagration, endangering all Ger- many’s neighbors, the German people themselves, and world peace. What the peoples demand is sin- cere negotiations, an honest search in every field, fo agreed solutions acceptable to all. They call for loyalty to the charter of the United Nations. They demand that the People’s ‘Republic of China ben enabled to assume its rightful place in the United Nations. It is their conviction that neither settlement of major international problems nor the establishment of peace is possible without the par- ticipation of China. The dread threat of the H-bomb hanging over humanity, makes im- mediate and essential the banning of all weapons of mass destruction. Perilous and unbearable burdens of military expenditure must be lightened by international agree- ment on disarmament. It is time for the resumption of trade, on a footing of equality among all nations, to their mutual benefit and a rapid achievement of a better life for all. It is time to renew’ cooperation of all na- tions with one another. The way to new horizons must be open to mankind. The Bureau of the World Coun- cil of Peace turns with confidence to the people, who, by their strength, were able to achieve the Korean armistice. It calls upon them to unite, by their efforts, so that the poli- cy of force may be foiled, and the government be brought to agreement. Two million support trade eall Unrestricted world trade, at TUC DOUGLAS, Isle of Man including reciprocal agreements with China and other eastern countries, received 2,353,000 votes at the convention of the British Trades Union Congress here last week. This considerable support was Lily British Schoolteacher, Miss What oy Was an eyewitness of ig eet in Zante, where it Bison. eat over 200 anti-fascist ne Greg Were detained by the Sovernment. e ie : Most horrifying experi- © said, “was when pri- “em Zante jail tried to the gendarmes started “Sh 0 ton S added to the smoke feng i Continuous ground leg gs nd €verything in a sham- a ely f Sena. Some idea of the horror me te added, eG tha a News Agency report- si on Suards mercilessly °wn Greek patriots in Dp When tremors shook the build- ings from the foundations the pris- oners demanded, “Don't bury us alive. Let us out.” Zante refugees who: reached Patras said a great number of poli- tical prisoners perished. These were jailed for having taken part in resistance against the Nazis during the war and because they opposed the fascist regime in Greece, In the city ef Argostoli, which is reported to have been destroy- ed, 230 political prisoners were as- sembled in the square. They were kept handcuffed together and guards with fixed bayonets threat- ened td shoot down anyone who moved. to prescribe to another the form and content of the negotiations in advance. To precede negotiations on Korea with a separate treaty with Syngman Rhee, who has not accepted the armistice, and exclude India from the political conference; to demand, before the starting of any negotiations on Germany, acceptance of the rebirth of German militarism, is to seek to make agreement im- possible. We call on the peoples to pre- vent the war in Korea from being resumed on any pretext whatso- ever, and to bring the war in Indochina to an end. In the interests of peace, the use of force against the indepen- dence and security of peoples in Asia and Africa must be stopped. a ‘WHAT — HE TRIED TO SELL YOU A SUT THAT DIONT TRY THE HUB,-7Y BOY, ANO GE: YOURS WITH EASY CREDIT! 45 EAST HASTINGS © Ss. H. BROWN PLUMBING & HEATING 371 Johnson Road R.R.1 White Rock - Phone 5661 ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings Street VANCOUVER, B.C. UNION HOUSE STANTON MUNRO & DEAN ' BARRISTERS SOLICITORS NOTARIES Suite 515 FORD BUILDING (Corner Main and Hastings) 193 East Hastings its spokesman, W.. L. Haywood, and a right-wing mobilization of some of the big union votes to de- feat the proposal. The resolution, moved by Jim Gardner (Amalgamated Union of Foundry Workers) and Jim Camp- bell (National Union of Railway- men), was lost on a card vote. The figures were 2,553,000 for, and 5,404,000 against. Gardner said his union was vital- ly concerned with the future of its members. It was also vitally concerned with the importance of world, trade in British economy, because the problems of unem- ployment, trade and wages were indivisable. ; Engineering goods accounted for half Britain’s total exports, and were important in the manufac- ture of equipment for other in- dustries. Intense competition, particular- ly from the U.S., Germany and Japan, and contracting markets, were causing uneasiness in Brit- given in face of opposition from In the sterling area trade was restricted by the policy of the U.S., to the detriment of the ex- port of British capital goods. While Britain faced growing resistance and intense U.S. com- petition in one half of the world it was at the same time restrained by U.S. embargoes in the other half. Such interference was unparal- leled in British history. Denmark and France had traded with the Soviet Union. Why, asked Gardner, could not Britain do the same in the interests of its people? Removal of restrictions would improve international relations. This improvement would take place if the general council sup- ported removal of the restrictions. Was it not a fact that in the thirties the Soviet Union took one- quarter of Britain’s exports of en- gineering plants? Gardner asked. * Quoting from trade records he showed that in 1936 Soviet con- tracts for machine tools were re- ish economy. ceived by 500 British firms. MOSCOW _A giant department store to be opened soon in Moscow’s Red Square will be the biggest in the Soviet Union, a government an- nouncement states. A thousand store clerks behind one and a half miles of counters will serve customers with a wide range of goods including clothing, shoes, furs, fabrics, perfumes and radios. Workers are now busy trans- forming a huge office building into the new store which will have over 500,000 square feet of floor ace. mer will bring trading back to the Red Square for the first time in MArine 5746 VANCOUVER 4, B.C . more than 20 years. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — Huge department store being opened in Moscow In addition to the usual com- modity sections, the store will pro- vide snack bars, a post office, sav- ings bank, theatre booking office and a rest-room for mothers and children. Customers will also be able to buy small articles from automatic slot machines. Since ‘the early thirties, Red Square, dominated by the Krem- lin and site of the tomb contain- ing the body of Lenin, and now ~ that of Stalin, has been reserved for great state occasions, such as May Day parades. In the old: days when bazaar customs were strong in Russia it was a famous trading centre. SEPTEMBER 18, 1953 — PAGE 3