at is a dangerous simpli- The charter as finally does adhere in its essen- Dumbarton Oaks, _and es history’s highest icts between nations. Ws ‘estimation - of the : agisco results, for which ct is partly responsible amber - of. the -Canadian n,.is both superficial and ig. For he oyerlooks- the it. fact... sthata whatever ses: exist, are not-in,fthem- ecisive. ~The . conference ructure- pegfect-ini|cevery. ithno. contingency over- But its success: vould dependent first upon the J unity .of the- major particularly. the Big ind secondly upon rela- sween the Big Three and ‘ler powers. snance of- the Big Three Je peace structure. Re- tat keystone and _ the ‘security setup, no miatter ong it may appear, will ‘t like a house of cards. I POLICY’. weaknesses et whe San o conference;=-were in directly related to the onstruction of the secur- anization. The most dis- factor was the changed of Britain and the Unit- tes toward the Soviet the much-touted “tough which ih effect lent itself worst barrage of anti- oropaganda in the press te-war days. State Secretary Stettin- roading of Argentina in- tbership in the security ition was a case in point. ally, that-move violated any the original Dumbar- ts* ‘proposals. Actually, it -in-the most terrible and ng—way every principle anti-fascist struggle be- creating’ -‘the- first ~open n. the Big Three’s unity ose. The same can be said lo-American policy in re- | Poland a seat at San ‘ico, which amounted to an rt to misinterpret the Yalta 2° 'Yegarding the. future government. ta the” “UNCIO role up ek'the delegates- at suc in drafting, : w the Securities the long fight to solve. ve.drafted an.sorganizas| is the very keystone of | THE ORGANIZATIGN PROPOSED AT pavers oaks = RELATIONSHIP DEFINED 1. PROPOSALS a mmm RELATIONSHIP TO BE; DETERMINED World Peace Charter The organization is divided into five major divisions, headed by the Security Council, which is the core of the general organization whose main task is to maintain peace by foree if necessary. Five of.atp: eleven members represent the five: major powers and will be permanent appointees. The six -other members will be elected to the -council by the General Assembly for a stated term after which they will be replaced by six others. Other departments or divisions sisting of representatives of all member nations; the Economic and Social Council, elected by the, from among. 18 na-; assembly tions; the International Court of. Justice, the chief judicial organ of the security organization; and the Secretariat, comprising the secretary-general and his staff functioning as the. administrat- ers of the Security Council. The entire setup is essentially a simple one and its simplicity means but one thing—a_realiza- tion by the great powers that the success of the organization does not depend on its formal makeup but primarily on the will of the nations involved. Conditions of today will change. This being the case, the agreements cover- ing the machinery of operation are meant to contain a minimum of those stipulations which so burdened the old League of Na- tions Covenant and made it so subject to attacks by reaction. TWO WEAKNESSES. But the security charter suffers from two important weaknesses, both the result of amendments to the original plan. On the question of the colonial gountries and. trusteeships, Am- erican policy changed sharply fromthe former position of com- plete independence for ‘the colon- jal nations to support for a less definite formula, finally adopted, “promote the political, econ- omic, social and development of the trust terri tories, and their inhabitants, and: their progressive development toward self-government or inde- pendence as may be appropriate | to the particular purpose of each territory and its peoples.’ By watering down the security or- ganization’s colonial policy, over the objéctions of the Soviet dele- gation, Stettinius. staged a re- ‘lveaticfrom the Roosevelt posi-*: == PACIFIC ADVOCATE Pr at, Dumbarton -Qaks. educational’ tion of full independence as ex- pressed in American policy to- ward the Philippines, and align- ed himself and the American delegates with Britain and France. The biggest weakness is of course the change in the veto power of the Security Council, also a retreat from the position taken: by the Big Three at Yalta and formulated by Roosevelt himself. As it stands now, any major power shall not have the power of vetoing discussion by thet Security Council, and the consideration and discussion of a dispute does not require ‘the un- animity of the permanent mem- bers of the Security Council. The Soviet delegations consistently took the view that any final de- cision by. the council must be the outcome of joint discussion, that the absence of unanimity at all stages of the discussion would “prejudice any joint solution and would in fact open the door to Big Three disunity. This was in fact precisely what happened in the case of Argen- tina.and Polanjd. It happened again over the Syrian issue, where Churchill. quite frankly stated he did not want the Soviet Union to participate sions on the -colonial question. The full acceptance of the unan- imity principle would have placed the responsibility clearly upon any power seeking to avoid. a complete discussion within the Security Council. In its watered down state, the veto principle has: left the door open to much fu- ture’ difficulty. But again it should be empha- sized, these weaknesses are not decisive. The success of the new world organization; will depend greatly: upon the such problems as German recon- struction, Poland and Trieste, the progress of democracy in the liberated and colonial countries. Most of all, it will-depend upon the continued unity of the major powers on all matters of future security. The security organizaton finally constructed at San Francisco is only one of the important instruments by which the forces of democracy. Scan defeat reaction.. Behind it, giving it life and expression, must stand the. entire Jabor i‘ and~ democratic forces of the world. = President Truman gave ex- in discus handling of 4 Union in Vancouver yards. The matter was reported to this week’s meeting of the Van- couver Labor Council by Fred MacNeil, union business agent, who moved a resolution pledging the council’s support in what- ever action the union may find necessary to take. Tracing the history of the dis- pute, MacNeil pointed out that in May, 1942, the War Labor Board had ruled. that the North Van Ship Repairs and North and South Burrard yards must pay time_and one half over the basic rate for all confined space and tank-cleaning work. . The ruling was accepted by the union and} the companies. In May, 1945, the WLB ruled that West Coast Shipbuilders should also begin paying confin- éd space money. W. B. MacLar- en, general manager, challenged the board ruling on a question of interpretation, maintaining - that only the cleaning of tanks could work. In its reply, the WLB ‘sud- denly reversed its former stand and in a-covering letter to both the union and the company stat- éd that®it never was the inten- tion of the board to order pay- ment for _confined space. work.” “In the opinion of the Dock and Shipyard Workers, this is nothing but” a wage cut,” Mac- pression to this idea in his speech closing the convention. “All fascism “did not die with Mussolini,” he declared. “Hitler is finished—but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains —Victory on the battlefield was essential, but it was not enough. For a good’ peace, a_ lasting peace, the decent peoples of the earth must remain determined to strike down the evil. spirit which has hung over the world for the past decade.” ‘—AL PARKIN. - - - Compliments ... Dr. R. Llewellyn. Douglas RICHARDS and HASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. WAND STUDIG “Anything With a Camera” 8 E. Hastings St. PAc. 7644 VANCOUVER, B.C. be considered ‘as confined. space | Dock and Si ” Confined Space Ruling ‘A new fight 6n an old issue—confined space money for shipyard workers, looms this week as a result of a new inter- pretation of a previous ruling of the National War Board.covering members of the Dock and Shipyard Workers | ip Protest Labor. Neil aserted, “and we intend to fight it through to the finish.” CMA INTERFERENCE Sharp protest was registered and ordered sent to the National Labor Relations Board’at the in- terference by the Canadian Man- ufacturers’ Association in con- tract negotiations between unions and individual. employers. Dele- gate Charles Caron of the Boiler- makers Union pointed out that his union now had agreements pending wae seven individual firms. : 5 “These negotiations are stalled, the employer in each case having told us that the negotiations are | being handled directly through a representative of the CMA,” Ca- ron said. right the CMA has. to imterfere in such matters, and demand that such interference stop.” JOB PROVISION Reporting for the council legis- lative committee, Nigel Morgan referred to the results of the federal election as indicating the need for greater labor activity in the legislative: field in the com- ing months. 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