Tk RE ae G ICKETS HALT EVICTIONS Action On Housing Crisis Started As Public Stages Protest Demonstrations Vancouver’s City Council, under fire from the indignant citizens, moved Tuesday to place Alderman Miller’s housing plan, which calls for the construction of five or six hundred law-rental homes to servicemen on CIFIC ADVOCATE] | PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS 5 Cents Solo = — city-owned property, before the federal government. This action, which ti] ANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, JULY 21, 19% comes on the heels of the ederal-insurance company proposition to build al 1000 homes in Vancouver as the city’s share of the vast $50,000,000 fed- eral housing scheme for the construction of 10,000 hous- ing units throughout the Dominion, proved the first, Iiny Problems Face | Fires woes 2? a ', 4 ; - GENTLE IEN, FOR TIE fIREET JIYE bright spot in a clouded ee H : } izon of. procrastimation .an . g 3 Conference IN ANY CITY, THE ONLY FERFLCT buck-passing that has feat- |S SF: LOIML/V OF WAR 7) Vf CLA TE . ured the present agitation x he long-awaited meeting of the “Big Three’’— Chur- IMMOBIL/. TV AUP INACTION f OA for a ‘housing plan for | ‘ruman and Stalin—-got under way this week at Pots- LP Vancouver. : : ; @. suburban Berlin. It was an appropriate and sym- ; ~ The scheme of the City ‘Council has come under fire ; Jetting for the great meet-. mstare was established the upon which modern Ger- flitarism was built. Here fen Bismarck, the first = Wilhelm, and his physic- da mentally twisted suc- wa Wilhelm Il. Now it was ing place of the leaders ~The future relations of the Big Three will be determined by the decisions arrived at on many of these related problems. from many .quarters because it tends to separate: the needs of servicemen from those of the rest of the house-hungry public, and makes no provision for: the hun- dreds of industrial workers who are badly in need of low-rent housing. The plan proposes to vent homes to servicemen only at First in importance is Ger- many. There will have to be action on the position of German indus- try, especially in- the Anglo- American occupation zones. nations whose efforts _praght the defeat of Hitler- “i of the very Junkers mili- = ste whose roots were nur- “it the palace in Potsdam. §ecas a. new Big Three that |. Tuesday. President Tru- \yho was taking the place “mB creat predecessor, had not EM her Churchill or Stalin be- fia) Ghurchill, who may no --be Prime Minister of Britain by the time the snee iis over, came this iuccompanied by Clement leader of the Labor Par- ad all four principal con- knew the burning nature problems they faced, and Be crucial fact that the Pots- wae neeting might well mark int at which the Big Three fe would continue to oper- disintegrate. 7 Ar % Tl SE Premier Joseph Stalin told § iewlett Johnson, Dean of Eirbury, in a Moscow inter- just a few days before he # pr Berlin: “It was easy to waa together when we were rag side by side against the 4 of Germany. But the Ger- g}are beaten now, and it is siasy when the tension is to avoid friction The So- ;Jnion wants to do it, not i words but in deeds If | = oliticians will do it, we will $)R PROBLEMS Wh this clear statement of ™> aims, the conferees have sid discussions. on a whole mer of important questions. @& those most likely to be ered are the treatment of any, its industries and its aicriminals; the handling of eormer Nazi satellite nations G f territorial disputes gener- yincluding Greece, Syria and | ewhole Near East problem; ime and place of the peace _ground will have to be recogniz- There are reparations from the Reich, especially in the form of labor to reconstruct shattered Europe. The Soviet Union has already set the pattern for solv- ing these matters. Then there is the need of alleviating the’ eco- nomic crisis facing Europe, and of solving the critical food shor- tage which threatens wholesale famine next winter. Finally, there’s the matter of speeding up the trials of war criminals, and of extending the arrests of Nazi bigwigs to those Nazi in- dustrialists in Western Germany who have been permitted to go free up to now. The problem of Germany’s for- mer allies is still another matter. Italy is a case in point. The time has come where Britain and Uni- ted States must decide on re- moving the armistice with Italy, and of ‘granting the existing de- mocratic government freedom to reconstitute and reconstruct the nation without further interfer- ence from the Allied Military Government. TERRITORIAL DISPUTES The territorial] issues are equally burning. The Yugoslav claim to Trieste and the “Julian March,’ justified, on every ed. The Syrian dispute, though not in the news ‘recently, -is still smoldering dangerously. The French and Soviet proposals for a five-power meeting to settle the problem have been bucked by Churchill, but such a conference, held. under terms of the San Francisco. Charter,’ will be the only way the Syrian and other territorial questions can be. sol- ved without resorting to strictly unilateral action, which would be fatal to Big Three unity. There is likely to be much Continued on Page 2 eo | VE S| \ |J4OYZ F ME END Lo LT” TRAIL, B.C. the expulsion of H. attempt to prevent him in the recent federal election, seems, likely to result in the People’s CCF nominating unity candidates for the three West Kootenay provincial seats. This latest development came to light here this. week in a statement issued by P. S .Beatt, secretary of the West Kootenay People’s CCF Campaign Commit- tee, which reaffirmed the group’s intentions of standing by its pro- unity principles “and if necessary upholding those principles by the nomination of candidates for the coming provincial. elections.” The statement came in the way of a direct answer and a condem- pation of the CCF provincial executive’s latest move in sus- See “BIG THREE” | pending the charters of West Kootenay CCF Group May Run Candidates (Special) ——The anti-unity drive of the CCF provincial executive in Kootenay West, originating in W. Herridge from the party and the from successfully contesting the seat ‘members Kootenay CCF clubs and the ex- pulsions of individual club mem- bers. It was issued at the close of the first annual picnic of the People’s CCF, attended by CCF from Trail, Nelson, Kalso and other centers, and points out that the destructive results of the official CCF atti- tude toward labor unity is not only opposed to the interests of the CCF membership but to the entire progressive movement of the province. Text of the statement reads in part: “