Here’s what was said

ernment’s shipment of arms to China when food, clothing and

medical supplies are so badly needed.”

Dr. James G. Endicott.

This is what Dr. James G. Endicott, former United Church
missionary to China and one-time advisor to Chiang Kai-shek,
said in a press interview at Ottawa last week:

“When scrap iron was being sent to Japan in the thirties
the government said the entire matter was one of a private deal
between Canadian companies and the Japanese—that it could
not stop the movements. This time it is clear the argument
cannot be used because the entire matter is under the control
of the government. It is a startling thing that Canadians must
solve their American dollar shortage at the price of the blood
of innocent Chinese peasants. ag

“In view of the fact that people coming back from China
are testifying to the corruption of Chiang Kai-shek officialdom,
Canadians should urge Ottawa to stop the present shipment of
arms to Chiang and freeze the remaining credits earmarked

for military goods.”

Thomas Braidwood

Thomas Braidwood, president of Vancouver Board of Trade,
following the pattern of those who endeavored to defend ship-
ment of war materials to Japan a decade ago, attributed the
protest to “Communist agents in Canada, fellow travellers and
their dupes.” He said:

“That churchmen should
help for China amazes me. They should know
operaté freely under the nationalist

munist zone of
tion that goes with Communism.

“The nationalist government of China is not perfect, but
it is the government that resisted Japan for matty years and it
is holding another front against totalitarian power today.”

Alex A. McAuslane

A similar stand, in effect, was taken by Alex A. McAuslane,
vice-president of the Canadian Congress of Labor, now in Van-

couver, wher he stated:
“It is quite obvious to me that this whole thing has been

the Communist

continues.”

join the Communist-inspired agi- ~

The students of China, shown

struggle for democracy,

“communistic.”’

Student protests suppressed

here demonstrating in Pekin,

were in the forefront of the national struggle against Japar.
Now that they are carrying their’ militant tradition into the
Chiang Kai-shek’s secret police are
carrying out wholesale raids and arrests, branding every protest as

ing the widespread pubic indigna-
nation is the spate of letters receiv-
ed by daily newspapers from read-
ers like Sylvia Weldon of Vancou-
ver whose letter to the Vancou-
ver Sun protested:

“Export of arms is traditionally:

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good business for the country not
itself engaged in war. Are Cana-
dians going to be content with the
economic profits of intervention in
full-scale war so long as the shells
do not burst among us? Do we
want the money that plunges
China deeper into war, starvation,

abetting the third world war by
non-political arms export? Are we
Canadians just disinterested arma-
ment dealers for a profit?”

The large and representative
picket line established at Burrard
Drydock where the SS Colima
was removed for repairs, included
Arthur Turner, CCF MLA for Van-
couver East, Harold Pritchett,
secretary, Vancouver Labor Coun-
cil, and representatives
men’s, woodworkers’, fishermen’s
and other unions with thousands
of members in the province, as
well as pickets from youth and
women’s organizations.

Picketers’ views were summar-

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newspapermen: “I’m glad there
is a picket line organized be-
cause all progressive people in
B.C. are opposed to aiding the
Chinese Nationalists.”

A similar view was expressed

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by Murray Bryce, president of
the Socialist Club, who said: “We
are ashamed that the Canadian
government should assist the
Chinese dictatorship.’

Following receipt of the CCL
top officers’ demand on Vancou-
ver Labor Council officers, how-
ever, the CCF provincial execu-
tive instructed its members to
“refrain from further picketing,”
giving as its reason “difficulties”
between trade unions in the city.

Leading CCL unionists here
pointed out that although the CCL
instruction complained of activi-
ties “preventing members of our
unions from adhering to the terms
of their collective agreements,”
there had been no actual viola-
tion of any agreement. Boiler-
makers who had stated their in-
tention of refusing to work on
the SS Colima had not been
called to work on the ship.

Members of Local 501, Interna-
tional Longshoremen’s and Ware-
housemen’s Union (CIO), resolv-
ed to load the ship, Stewart Mac-
Kenzie, vice-president, stating:
“We, like other groups, are dead
set against the sending of muni-
tions to China, but since there
is no labor dispute involved, we
must load the ship.”

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Protest

At a representative conference
over the weekend a committee of
‘five was named, including Mur-

ray Bryce, Harold Pritchett and
Elgin Ruddell, to approach the
United Nations Society here with
a view to reestablishing the pic-
ket line and it was considered
likely that the protest would be
renewed this week.

Traffic

plies from War Assets Corpora-
tion. This credit was extended on
February 7, 1946. Total credits
to China were expected to expire
December 31, 1947, but have
now been extended to Decembe
1948, it is learned. ;

Shipment of small arms and
ammunition to China as of March
$1, 1947, amounted to $3,448,695;
with sale of five Castle corvettes
and conversion costs, $1,252,515.16,
and nine B and C Type coasters,
$3,250,000, bringing total sales
around $8,000,000.

Extension of the credit beyond
1947 is regarded as further evi-
dence of the desire of the Cana-
dian government to cooperate with
the Chiang Kai-shek government —
in pursuing its war against the —
Chinese people, and the present
three shipments, one from Mon- —
treal a few weeks ago and two
now being prepared at Vancou-
ver and Halifax represent an ef
fort to use up the remaining
military credits. 4

Sources close to key export-
ers there reveal that a supreme
effort is being made to build
up stocks of war materials in
China for a spring offensive.
The spurt of sales in Canada
may account in part for theis

It is also revealed that a re-
quest for parts for 50,000 trucks
to be shipped to Hong Kong has
been received by Canadian sales-
men. :

Despite denials by government
officials that current Sino-Can
dian war deals are in the line
of “straight private business,” mill-
tary .earmarking of $25,000,000
out of a Canadian government
credit of $60,000,000, plus pro-

that the federal
directly responsible
way for traffic in arms

discredited and corrupt regim
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