iy B fle A | f i fp tj Vy ry Le 303 4 SPE | Vol7:.. “Nek Vancouver, B.C., Friday, January 2, 1948 " Five Cents * China shipment stalled SECOND ARMS SHIP MAY BE BOYCOTTED : Decision as to whether Chiang Kai-shek’s TS ae ae osaaaa a ; i regime will receive Canadian munitions to bolster ae ae ae ee . its undemocratic rule in China this week rested with : sie ; ae { national officers of the Canadian Seamen’s Union (TLC) and the maritime council of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, and an aroused public opinion throughout the country. / It was revealed here Tuesday that a second ship, the S.S. Lake Okanagan, was loading the $1,200,000 cargo of munitions left stalled on railway sidings outside Vancou- ver when the charter of the’ S.S. Colima was cancelled fol- lowing nationwide protest and establishment of a picket line. Possibility was seen that CSU crew members would refuse to sail the Lake Okanagan, as they have done in the case of two China-bound arms ships at Halifax, or that if the picket line is re-established they will refuse to cross it. Meanwhile, labor groups which organized the picket of the S.S. Colima are receiving congratulatory messages from China and India on their action, among them a wire sent to William White, president of Vancouver Labor Council, by Maniben Kara, leader of the Maritime Unions at Bombay. ing OTTAWA—Canadian armed intervention in the Chi- nese civil war on the side of Chiang Kai-shek’s corrupt regime constitutes an adroit piece of diplomatic legerdemain. Asked by CCF leader M. J. Coldwell if he considered shipment of munitions to China to be “in strict conformity with our obligation to promote peace in Asia and throughout the world,” External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent told the House of Commons, “The government is of the opinion that such shipments do not violate any obligation which may rest upon Canada to maintain peace in Asia.” St. Laurent’s glib interpretation was based on the mu- 4 tual aid agreement between Canada and China of March, 4 1944, when both were at war with Japan. On V-J Day, a 4 large part of the credit for military and other supplies ex- : tended by Canada was still unused and a further agreement was concluded to allow Chiang Kai-shek’s regime $25,000,000 of an unexpended $60,000,000: credit. ‘War inevitable end of bi-partisan foreign policy’ HENRY A. WALLACE... A 7-point program to replace the Marshall Plan Peace, prosperity Wallace's aim AE leg «ie The editors wish all a CHICAGO—Former Vice- President Henry A. Wal- lace’s announcement this week that he will be a can- didate for president offers the American people a choice now denied them by both the present Democratic ad- ministration and the Repub- lican majority in Congress, equally committed to a bi- partisan foreign policy which step by step is involving them in imperialistic expan- sion and war preparations. Wallace himself presented the choice as one between the third party “peace and prosperity” platform on which he will campaign and the “bi-partisan reactionary war policy” of the Demo- cratic and Republican par- ties which, he declared, “is dividing the world into two armed camps and making in- evitable the day when Amer- ican soldiers will be lying in their Arctic suits in the Russian snow.” Announcing his intention of running as an independ- ent candidate, Wallace stat- ed he would withdraw only if “either of the majority parties becomes definitely a peace party before the elec- tion.” His new party, he added, would generally support pro- gressive Democratic candi- dates for Congress. Senator Glen H. Taylor (Dem., Idaho), who recent- ly attracted national atten- tion by crossing the United States from California to New York on horseback in a campaign to arouse Amer- icans to the danger of the Truman administration’s for- eign policy, revealed that he was considering the possi- bility of running for vice- president on Wallace’s third party ticket. readers and supporters A HAPPY NEW YEAR