FU) one TT Pae if C. im FRIDAY, sige apy i D)) fea eee ( rel 1S EHINIE NIE. = DECEMBER 2, 1949 a Nee Z I | im { SINKIANG JOINS REPUBLIC ' and the Chousan Islands. : Sinkiang, ‘Liberate Taiwan, Tibet Slogans celebrating foundation of the Chinese People’s Re- public suggest that the Kuomintang dictatorship won’t be left with an island, desert or mountain toehold from which to claim “Big Five” status at UN. f “Swiftly liberate Taiwan (Formosa), Tibet and all places not yet liberated!” was one slogan. Among places named for liberation were Sinkiang, Hainan vast and strategic province bordering India, Afghanistan and the Soviet Union, has now broken all relations with Chiang, established a people’s provisional government and joined the Chinese People’s Republic. Tien Mai, representative of 25 Tibetan tribes, told a mass rally which welcomed the People’s Liberation army in Chinghai, bordering Tibet: “We walked 600 miles to welcome the People’s army and help it to liberate us.” | PEKIN G i Me Ng MA OL 0 0 Bh AAP TRL 0 AGA LOLA, A 10. Canada scuttles ships Germany builds them Charge that the St. war TORONTO Laurent government is ‘sacrificing the Canadian merchant marine to its \60! policies, “‘while a new West German marine, with Nazi magnates in control,” made by Tim Buck, LPP national leader, in a statement issued here last week. Text of Buck’s statement read: “Announcement by a government commission that the Canadian merchant marine is to is being created, was be scuttled, except for a nucleus that will be kept for ‘‘war Purposes’’, is a callous and cynical blow at thousan deep sea sailors’ and shipyard workers in the Maritimes, Que- bec and on the Pacific Coast. As if to throw this into relief as a new result of the “cold war”, the new West German govern- ment set up by the U.S., France and Britain, with Canadian gov- enants’ Defense groups | ight to hold line on rents Meeting of jobless to be held Sunday A meeting of unemployed workers in Vancouver has been called for this Sunday, Decem- ber 4, at 8 p.m. in the Pender Auditofium, 339 West Pender Street, by the trade union com- mittee of the Labor-Progressive Speakers will be Harvey Murphy of the Mine-Mill union and Elgin Ruddell, Civic Re- form aldermanic candidate. Demands for cash relief by, Christmas, continued unemploy- ment insurance benefits and a public works program to ease the jobless situation this win- ter, will be discussed by the speakers and the audience. The fight to “hold the line on rents” moved rapidly ahead this week, with several tenants’ defense committees springing’up and trade unions and other popular organizations bombarding Ottawa with de- mands for cancellation of the rent boost which becomes effective December 15. “Most organizations continued to direct their protest to the federal government as the authority now - controlling rents: and empowered to rescind the recent order, ception being the B.C. Provincial Command of the Canadian Le- gion, which urged Premier Byron ex- Johnson’s Coalition government to follow Saskatchewan’s CCF government in taking over rental controls, At a protest meeting in Hast ings Auditorium here November 25 an Hast End Tenants’ Defense Committee was formed, and Pres- : ident Fred Collins ’ Home of UNION MADE CLOTHING AND FRIENDLY SERVICE Wilshire Gabardine _ Military Styled TRENCHCOATS ~ Specially Priced . $27.00 “SHOWER PROOFED F OR a EXTRA WEAR ‘Mail Orders Prepaid _ ® 45 E. Hastings St. - Vancouver is 7 J ay nt nitty TH weet announced that city hall will be “bombarded by telephone calls, letters and delegation$,” demanding that council take action on the threat- ened rent hike. Tenants in the Commercial Drive area are meeting this Fri- day, December 2, in the Vancou- ‘ver Hast. Community YWCA to set up a committee. One week later, on December 9, Mt. Pleasant-Fairview area tenants are holding a protest ral- ly at Arcadia Hall, Main and 7th Avenue, to form a defense com- mittee. Tenants in the Kitsilano dist- rict are planning ‘to take simi- lar action within the. next fort- nigh. % A West End Ténants’ Commit- tee has been functioning for the past three weeks and is winning support among the thousands of tenants in the city’s crowded West End. en NO REAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LABOR, NATIONAL POLICIES ee ernment support, as a reactionary base for war preparations in Europe, announced the same day that it was ‘entering the world shipping market with its own merchant marine and as a build- er of ships, The Canadian merchant mar- ine. is being sacrificed to. the “cold war” policy of the govern- ment, while a new West German marine, with Nazi magnates in control, is ‘being encouraged by the St. Laurent government’s pol- icy. This is a travesty of all that Canadians fought for in the Sec- ond World War. It means unem- ployment for Canadian marine workers, subsidies through the Marshall plan for German ship- ping magnates so that they can build up a marine industry for use in the war which is being planned by top government and business circles. The lLabor-Progressive party strongly condemns this attack on the ,Canadian marine industry and points out that the recent attack on the Canadian Seamen’s Unien can now be seen in a clear light as a plot to remove the strongest fighter for a Can- adian merchant marine—the CSU. The LPP urges the labor move- m€nt and all progiressive Can- adians to demand of the govern- ment that the Canadian merch- ant marine be nationalized and built up by trade with the world, including trade with 800,000,000 people whose governments in the Soviet Union, China and other countries are now subjected to a “cold war’ embargo by the St. Laurent government. This trade could keep our merchant marine going, The LPP urges all Canadians to denounce the St. Laurent gov- ernment’s aid in the creation of a reactionary West’ German gov- ernment composed of the very same elements who backed Hitler and financed him. J. PARNELL THOMAS © PADDED PAYROLLS. Un American ‘ asks ‘mercy’ WASHINGTON The man whose un-Amée Activities Committee has become a modern. inquisition, persecutin’ progressive Americans in evelY walk of life and mocking Ame™ ican democratic traditions, this week threw himself pn the mercy of the court. "hep Appearing: before Judge Ale ander N, Holtzoff here to answe charges of padding his office P82 _ roll, Rep. J. Parnell Thomas(ReP” N.J.), chairman of the House American Activities Committe’ changed his plea from not guilty .to nolo contendere, | thus per ting the government’s case phone him to go uncontested: - N.Z. defeat laid at door of gov ] AUCKLAND Defeat of the Labor government of Premier Peter Fraser in the New Zealand general election this week is not the victory for “free enterprise” it is represented to be nor, conversely, is it a defeat for “socialism” which has never been tried. / The election was in reality a contest for government between two major parties, Labor and Na- tional, in substantial agreement on all basic policies and differ- ing only in approach and appeal, with the only real ty and a few labor independents advocating progressive policies ‘the official Labor party abandon- ed during its 13 years in offite. Beth the Labor and National parties stood for wage-pegging, interference in trade union af- fairs, increased military expendi- . opposition . ‘coming from the Communist par- - _ Speech, tures and support of U.S.-design- ed cold. war policies. The 15 Communist candidates campaigned for increased wages and pensions, introduction of the 35-hour week, nationalization of all coal mines, a national housing plan, and legislation to make economic, social or political dis- crimination against the Maoris a criminal offense, Vic Wilcox, leader of the Communist. parliamentary team, described the Labor party’s ap- peal to voters as “Hold on to’ what you have,” and the Na- tional party’s approach as a promise that “We won’t take anything away from you.” Explaining the. Communist par- ty’s reasons for contesting 15 seats, Sid Scott, general secre- tary, stated is defeated, it will be towdieck in a_ pre-election , “Tf the Labor government — its pa : : PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 2, 1949 — PAGE 12 7 : political - with" that of the National ‘party? fault. It has had 13 years to. con solidate its position and has a ne miserably. p -'tThe Communists, he said, nad supported the Labor government! during its first years in office D& cause its policies generally could be considered as progressive. “Today its policy on all majo questions is identic?! he declared. rican i tidak sich silica es Transfer of eight seats from _.the Labor to ‘the National ranks, ‘giving the National party 46 seats to Labor’s 34, is seen as a COD: “tinuation of the trend in the 1946 election when Labor lost 11 seat3 and was returned to office with 42 seats against the National pal y's 38, reflecting growing disil- lusionment over the Labor g0V- ernment’s failure to carry through a progressive policy.