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Photos show sessions of the World Federation of Trade
Unions meeting in Peking. Bert Whyte, Pacific Tribune
correspondent, reports below.

By BERT WHYTE
“Disarmament, relaxation, peace and social progress
will never come as gifts from the imperialists, but the
Working class and the people have the strength to assure
their triumph in the world,’ Agostino Novella, president
of: the World Federation of Trade Unions, told 10,000

workers here June 9.

The meeting was held in the
great Hall of the people to
celebrate the conclusion of the
11th session of the WFTU gen-
€ral council.

Trade union leaders from 60
countries received a standing
Ovation from the Chinese
workers as they entered the
Magnificent hall.

: Speakers at the meeting
Meluded Wand Chun, presi-
dent of the Peking Federation
of Trade Unions; V. V. Grish-
In, vice-president of the WFTU

€nd chairman of the All-Union |

Soviet Central Council of

Trade Unions! Benoit Frachon |
another WFTU vice-president |

8nd general secretary of the
General Confederation of La-

bor of France; Vicente Lom- |

bardo Toledano, president of
the Confederation of Latin

Merican Workers; Jose Maris |

de la Aguilera, of Cuba; Ibra-
him Zakania and others.

At the closing session of. the
WETU parley that morning
elegates had

Slution whose opening
Sraph noted that objective con-
itions favor “the reinforce-
Ment of the united struggle of
© workers to force the imper-
lists to enter into serious ne-
80tiations and to accept dis-
eaeat and peaceful coex-

ce, so as to eliminate the

hens. F
fnace of a world atomic
War,”

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The resolution condemned
* Imperialism for sabotag-

a unanimously |
opted a 27-point general res- |
ara- |

ing the summit conference and
continued:

“Thanks to the strength of
the peace forces in-the world,
thanks to the-peace policy of
the socialist -camp and the
many steps taken by the Soviet
Union, it has become really
possible to avoid the menace
of an atomic war that would
prove devastating, to impose
on the imperialists
ment and the use of the enor-
mous resources that are at pre-

disarma- |

Canada

next W

ing’ a modern» nation again
Noel-Baker told a crowd of
attended the recent Massey

“Canada could be the Pol-
and of World War III,’ the
British Nobel’ peace prize win-

ner warned. ‘No country is
=| more, menaced by the arms
race.

None has a greater interest
in it being stopped.

Referring to the disarma-
ment plan presented by Soviet
Premier Khrushchev, the
speaker said the United States
should examine’ closely the
“good- and constructive ideas
he proposes,’.. adding that the
alternative of continuing the
arms race would ‘inevitably
lead to war.”

He told the audience ‘he
hoped the rally would be ‘“‘the
nucleus of a nation-wide move-
ment.”

The cause of. disarmament,

human causes, a cause upon

World: War Three.”
When he called on his listen-

ers to become ‘warriors for
peace’? they responded with
cheers.

“This meeting is the concern
of all people,’ he said. ‘“‘Nuc-
lear bombs Wwon’t spare even

meeting.”
Biggest ovation of the even-
ing came when Feinberg, in

|sent being wasted on the arms
race for the economic, social
land cultural progress of all
the people.

“But it is necessary to make
the situation clear to the work-

lers so that they should have |
no illusions about the willing- |

ness of the imperialists to ac-
| cept disarmament.

“All workers must be con-
'vinced that only by the untir-
| ing, ever stronger and more
| united struggles of the peoples

ithroughout the world, and by |
abe | died down.

the isolation of imperialism,
which is the source of war and
aggression, can the imperialist
| war policy be thwarted.”

| The WFTU listed the main |
isome 50

|problems facing the workers
lof the world as the preserva-
| tion of peace; the anti-colonial
|struggle; the main economic
land social demands; united ac-
‘tion against the monopolies on
ithe national and international
llevel: the struggle for trade
iunion rights and democratic
| liberties.

| reading out the program of the}
“for;

sponsoring * committee
came to. the
which called on the
ment to “recognize
ately the People’s Republic of
China, because .no_ disarma-
ment agreement is
without
China.”

“We can no longer
600 million people,”
added, after the cheers had

ment,”

ignore

Seated on the stage
with the featured ‘speakers

mittee for Disarmament
prominent Toronto
citizens; representing various
organizations and groups, whd
supported the rally.

Greetings were read from
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Lord
Bertrand Russell, James M.
Minifie, and the Women’s
Auxiliary of the United Elec-

trical Workers in Hamilton.

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“Disarmament is technically a very simple problem;
in. fact it is child’s play compared with the task of defend-

he said, is “the greatest of all}

which the future of. your
people — of .all mankind—de-
pends.”

Earlier the rally heard}
Chairman Rabbi Abraham L.
Feinberg warn that “Canada
will be the no-man’s land of

those who are opposed to this)

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st nuclear weapons,” Philip
more than 2,000 people who
Hall rally sponsored by the

| Toronto Committee for Disarmament.

Other speakers who address-
ed the rally were:-- Horace
Brown, who read a. moving
prose poem entitled, ‘Cry from
a Nobody,” -which he himself
had written; Mrs. Helen Tuck-
er, a Toronto university _ lec-
turer; Michael Tinker, a high
school student; Mrs. Josephine
Davis, one of. the: sponsors of
the newly organized ‘Voice of
Women” movement for peace:
David Gauthier, a Toronto uni-
versity professor;. Rev. J. M..
Findlay.

Mrs. Josephine Davis was
introduced by Mrs. Tuchen as
speaking on behalf of the com
mittee which had been organ-
ized “to cope with the ex-
plosion of women’s-pent up
|feelings for peace.’
|. She made a stirring appeal
| to the audience, particularly to
| the women present, to launch
| “an all-out’ war on nuclear
| annihilation.”

From the overwhelming re-
|sponse the “Voice of Women”
|} movement, she said, “it is clear
| that women insist on. having a
| say about what’s happening to
| us.”?

She’ urged the
build ‘‘a huge grass-roots move-
|}ment reaching out across the
|.world, through all the means
of communication at our dis-
| posal.”

She announced to the meet-

ing that all women interested |

|in the new women’s peace ac-
| tion movement should write

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David Gauthier

as ‘“‘the father of

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impassioned plea for

mament.

1e task, he said s not
merely to point to the desir-
disarmament

but te

it into concret

advocating the. ree-
on of China, the program
Toronto committee read

ment to:
—Abandon the present plans

to equip Canadian armed
forces with nuclear weapdéns.

—Prohibit the stationing of
such weapons on Canddian
terrifory.

—Appeal to all other non-
nuclear powers to adopt a
similar policy, since the fur-
ther spread of nuclear weap-
ons makes disarmament harder
to attain.

—Take active initiative in
forming a permanent United
Nations. police force.

—Seek the co-operation of
other middle powers to. per
suade and press the big powers
to -move toward total disarma<
ment.

—Urge that a committee for
outer-space activities be estab-
lished by the United Nations.

“We realize this program is
not popular in some quarters,”
Rabbi Feinberg added, “but it
will have to become the basis
of Canada’s policy.”