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FOR PROGRESS

Bl. 1. No. 27

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“VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1945

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jupport In
As Election

| NEW WESTMINSTER,

-alition nominee.

| Ounced his intention of stand-
Sa) 2S an independent candidate
(2n if appeared likely that
yor William Mott would be
€oealition standard-bearer,
week withdrew on the
bund that he had promised
'nsen not to contest the seat
minst him in the event that
»z0t the nomination. But while
mue’s withdrawal patched up
| break in the Coalition ranks
@ caves Mayor Mott’s support-

| still disgruntled over defeat
jthe candidate at the recent
ition nominating convention.
/ had been widely expected
"> Mayor Mott would be the
lition- choice and the nomin-
nm ef Johnson, one-time Lib-
» MLA for Victoria, came as
surprise to all except those
»” knew of the divisions and
| greements within the Coali-
F. At the nominating con-
S tion, evenly divided between
eral and Conservative dele-
—®s who had agreed beforehand
= nominate a Liberal because

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| reenall Program Gets

ponister provincial by-election campaign now in its last week,
pis generally recognized that the issue lies between Jack
‘eenall, popular LPP choice,

-MayorHred_-Hume, swhe--

JACK GREENALL

Royal City
Date Nears

B.C——With the New West-

and Byron (Boss) Johnson,

support, but lost the
Pomination to Johnson when the
Conservatives and a group of
Hume’s supporters among the
liberals voted against him.

Some members of the govern-
ment, who knew that Hume was
determined to contest the seat if
Mott, who supplanted him as
mayor, was the Coalition candi-
date and who feared for the
result, threw their support to
Johnson. Tory-minded Tom Reid,
who realized the effect loss of the
Provincial seat would have on his
bid for re-election to the federal
House, lined up behind Johnson.
And Johnson also received the
full support of the Gonserva-
tives, who preferred him to the
far more progressive Mott.

But what the Coalition has
gained in eliminating Hume from
the field it has lost in a selection
popular only among the CGon-
servatives and Tory-minded Lib-
erals. :

Indicative of the lack of int-
erest in the Coalition campaign
is the fact that Mines Minister-
EH. CGC. Carson drew less than 50
people to a rally here this week,
while a sign pointing to the
alarm felt by the Coalition is the
entry into the contest of Eddie
Mills, perennial candidate for
public office in the Royal City,
as an independent labor candi-
date. ~

Millis first announced his in-
tention of running last fall after
Hume had come out as an inde-
pendent in the apparent hope of
forestalling the Coalition and
forcing it to support him.

This week he told a PA repre-
sentative:

“T did not
nouncement

an-
sure

confirm my
until I was

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MAKES PROGRESS

Frisco Delegates Settle
Down In Earnest After:
Week Of Preliminaries

SAN FRANCISCO (Special)—The United Nations Conference on International Or-

ganization, after a preliminary week featured by policy speeches by the heads of delega-
tions, got down this week in earnest.to the task of fashioning a post-war world organ-
ization capable of preventing new wars.

Two important decisions highlighted the opening sessions of this week. « -

Representation was granted in the confer ence to delegates from the Byelorussian and
Ukrainian Soviet Republics, as was agreed by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta.
This opened the door for admission of two of Europe's largest states with a combined

population of 52 million people who have made perhaps the greatest sacrifices of all in the
anti-fascist War. -

The second decision was to admit fascist Argentina to the conference. The move was
initiated by the Latin American delegations and was opposed by Foreign Commissar VY. M.
Molotoy of the Soviet Union -who sought to have the matter laid over for investigation,
meanwhile stressing the unfairness of grant ing representation to a country which had
actively assisted Hitler Germany while denyin g admission to Poland.

After lengthy debate the motion to give Argentina a place in the United Nations was
adopted by a big majority, with all the Latin American states, Great Britain, United States
and Canada, among others, yoting in favor. ;

It was known that the British Commonwealth delegations were considerably split on
the issue. New Zealand’s Premier Fraser voted with the Soviet Union. The Australian
delegation was split. India and South Africa abstained from voting. And M. J. Coldwell,
CCF leader and member of the Canadian delegation, is known to have urged Mackenzie
King not to vote, and to have sharply criticized Canada’s position in the matter.

The admission of Argentina, only a few months ago characterized by Roosevelt as the
mainspring of fascism in America, does not ne cessarily constitute a serious setback to the
security conference. But it does indicate the strength of reaction in America and the need
for greater efforts to defeat those elements who still represent a hangover from the period of
fascist appeasement.

POLISH QUESTION

Still to be settled was the question of Polish representation. At Yalta, the Big three
had agreed that, upon being broadened by inclusion of other democratic individuals from
both inside Poland and abroad, the present provisional government of Poland would be
recognized by Britain and the United States (it is now recognized by the USSR, Czecho-

See GREENALL PROGRAM

Continued on Page 2—See SAN FRANCISCO