and women of all the against peace. Serving third world war. -Canada‘s security depends today more then ever upon peace throughout the world. We must strive to arouse the entire nation to ¢ realization that our country is in danger Ggain. Sinister imperialist interests are plotting a third world war, this time with Can- G@da as the base and probable scene of their military Operations. The peace for which Canadians fought, and for which so many millions of men deepening conflict between the great powers on several issues of fundamental impori- ance to the future of the world. Reckless determination to re-establish imperialist domination and exploitation has brought into being the Anglo-United States-Canadian bloc as the instrument with which the imperialists hope to split the United Nations and regain their supremacy. Canadian imperialists and their political representatives have played an active part in the plot dominate the economic and political life of the nation, the King government, with the tacit support of the Tories, is systematically involying Canada in the drive to disrupt the peace and provoke a United Nations died, is not yet secure. There is a sharp and the selfish predatory ambitions of the finance-capitalist monopolists who 55655 Excerpt from Tim Buck’s speech to fe 2nd National Convention, LPP aE: ————— — sol Sa a Vel. 1, Ne. 28 Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, August 23, 1946 Fermerlu PACIFIC ADVOCATE Hiroshima, city of wholesale annihilation under the fury of the atomic bomb on Aug. 5, 1945. 18,000 buildings were disintegrated, 26,000 people killed and 40,000 wounded, the latter dying off at the rate of = . one hundred per day for weeks after as a result of Tadioactivity contact. Nagaski suffered a like fate from the A-bomb explosion. Look closely at the background. It could be Wancouver~ House committee report aimed to hog-tie labor By ROBERT LAXER OTTAWA—After four weeks ,of intensive labor the Parliamentary Committee of Industrial Relations has done the job that Prime Minister Mackenzie King for the Liberals _and Arthur Smith (Calgary West) for the Conservatives , hoped it. would do. Having conveniently served the purpose of taking some of the heat off the government, it has now issued seyen recommendations de- = Signed to give low wage and | Paper, the need ae ee ealnsmashing policies Uhe GWAs |e 7 a Gaagiaisa? te OTs ot eee and oes quick a much diluted Rand formula Parliamentary approval. : proposing “that a measure of To maintain its guise of impar- union security should follow cer- tiality the Com-|tigcation.” But the recommenda- mittee makes @/tions refiect the policies of A. A. few concessions (Continued on Page 8) > to labor. It ac- See REPORT Bl knowledges, on wl Five Cents PEACE CAMPAIGN DEMANDS KING END WAR POLICY While the King government continued to give its support to imperialist cir- cles striving to destroy Big Three unity and international tension inereased, the Labor-Progressive Party, backed by all Progressive sections of the labor move- ment, on Wednesday launched its Peace Week campaign in an effort to mobil- ize the people for a positive foreign policy to secure the peace. This weekend rallies will be held in cities across the country te demand that the government break with “atomic diplomacy” and carry out the mandate recognizing Big Three unity as the foundation of election. Im Vancouver, A. A. MacLeod, EPP leader in the Ontario legis- lature, who addressed rallies -at Nanaimo on Wednesday and Vic- toria on Friday, will be the guest speaker at an open air peace rally to be held’ m Capilano Sta~ dium at 8 p.m. this Sunday. The Peace Week campaign will end with a broadcast by Tim Buck, LPP national leader, over the CBC national network, on Wednesday, August 28, at 8 pm. Pacific fast time, for which listeners’ groups Eave been organized on a large Scale throughout the province. Among listeners’ groups organ- ized in downtown Wancouver are those at Croatian Hall, Campbell Avenue; Ukrainian Hall, 805 East Pender; Russian Hall, 533 East Georgia, and a youth group or- ganized by the HEP Youth Club at 2737 Adanac. From theSe groups and from individuals and organizations it is expected that hundreds of reso- lutions and letters will be direct- €d to the federal government and individual members of parliament Other Peace Week broadcasts will be made by Maurice Rush, LPP provincial organizer, and Bruce Mickleburgh, city director, over CKMO this Friday at 7 p.m. and by A. A. MacLeod over CKWX Monday at 6:05 immedi- ately following Al Parkin’s ‘a- bor Looks Behind the Headlines.’’ CSU leader American imperialist policies in China are responsible for the full-scale civil war which has again broken out goes to parley between the reactionary Kuomintang forces of Chiang é Kai-chek and the Chinese people. Posing as “a friend” James Thompson, Pacific Coast of China seeking to establish representative government, vice-president of the Canadian the U.S. imperialists have consistently backed Chiang Seamen’s Union, will leave for against the aspirations of the Chinese people. The above Toronto at the end of August to picture is supposed to represent U.S. marines defending participate in negotiations with 5 5 3 3 3 5 55 2 the Shipping Federation for a| @ Tailway station against “communist bandits,” but in ena agreement covering actuality it represents U.S. domination of the sovereignty wages, hours and conditions, CSU of a foreign power, under the guise of “benevolent headquarters announced here this week. neutrality.” (See story on page 3.)