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arried out while the new constitution is being drafted.
sreign policy must obviously be this program,

The basis of the new
but what constituted a broad

biaék marketeers; heavy _taxa-
tion on war profits; compensa-
tion for victims of fascist ter-
ror; establishment of genuine,
effective democracy -In every
field through the restoration of
all civil liberties; suppression of
all secret and political police; no
racial discrimination; fiscal re-
form tending to democratic tax-
ation; wide reform of the army,
civil service and public educa-
tion; extension of political, so-
cial and economic rights to col-

onial territories.

The foreign policy calls for
the organization of collective

security and the complete’ elim-
ination of fascist vestiges every-
where; a democratic policy in
Germany with effective control
of all industries there, collective
exploitation of the Ruhr coal
basin and the complete elimina-
tion of Nazis; help in all fields
for Italian democracy; an im-
mediate diplomatic break with
Franco Spain and _ recognition
of the Spanish Republican gov-
ernment - in- exile; democratiza-
tion of French diplomacy both in
personnel and methods with par-
liament having permanent control

over governmental action, objec-
tives and methods.

Gala Opening

Will Feature

“B.C. At Work’ Exhibition

Exhibitors in the second

annual ‘‘British Columbia at

Work’? competition are considerably more than double the
number entered in the 1944 show; and the exhibition, which
will be held in the Vancouver Art Gallery from November
13 .to December 2, is assured an even greater success than last

year.

The gala opening on Wednes-
day, November 14, at 8:00 p.m.,
will be the highlight of the la-
bor-art season, and trade union-
ists are especially urged to at-
tend. As announced in P.A. last
week, Elmore Philpott will of-
ficially open the exhibition, and
the $500 in cash prizes awarded
by B.C. Trade Unions will be

presented by R. K. Gervin, sec-

retary, Wancouver and District
Trades and Labor Council.
Other speakers will include
Lawren Harris, National Presi-
dent of the Federation of Can-
adian Artists, and John Turner,
Secretary, Vancouver Labor
Council. Music by the Tait String

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Iroops Moved North
Into American Zones

NEW YORK—With China on the brink of civil war,
the Communist leader Tung Pi-wu, who has been in this
country since the San Francisco conference, broke his silence
to tell American newspapermen of how Chiang Kai-shek has.
used the time since V-J' day to form a civil war front on which
Kuomintang troops, quislings and Japanese who have been
allowed to keep their arms stand side by side.

It was during this time that
the Kuomintang and Communist
parties negotiated an agreement
providing for a democratic settle-
ment of their differences but
events now show that Chiang
used the talks as a screen be-
hind which he manoeuvered for
military position.

ClO-TUC |
To Exchange
Delegates

LONDON.—tThe British Trades
Union Congress general council
this week voted to establish a
joint committee with the CIO
to facilitate he exchange of
views on common problems and
thereby accepted alignment with
the CIO for the first time. A
tripartite committee including
the AFL had originally been
‘suggested, but the AFL declined
to serve with the CIO. The TUC
council also designated a three-
man delegation to visit the Brit-
ish occupation zone in Germany
to study economic problems, par-
ticularly the reestablishment of
free trade unions.

For 50 years, the AFL and
TUC have exchanged fraternal
delegates at conventions but the
CIO has never attended a TUC
conference nor has the TUC
been present at a CIO meeting.
At the TUC September confer-
ence, a resolution proposing an
exchange of fraternal delega-
tions between TUC and CIO was
not acted upon by the conven-
tion, but instead was referred
to the general council for con-
sideration. ©
The CIO invited TUC dele-
gates to its convention in Nov-
ember, 1944, but this invitation
was refused on the grounds that
it might prove “embarrassing”
in view of he TUC’s relations
with the AFL. British represen-
tatives appointed this week to
the TU-CIO committee are
TUC general secretary Sir Wal-
ter Citrine, W. P. Allen,-A. Con-
ley, H. N. Harrison, and F. Wol-
stencroft.

The delegation to Germany,
which was invited by the War
Office, will consist of Will Law-
ther, president of the National
Union of Mineworkers, Jack
Tanner, president of the Amal-
gamated Engineering Union and
H. Bullock, president of the
General and Municipal Workers
Union. They also plan to visit
Poland, Czechoslovakia and Italy
at the invitation of the trade
union movements of those coun-
tries.

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SQATTIRDAY NOVEMRER 10.

Tung made it clear that this
process was aided and abetted
by American policy, as repre-
sented by Ambassador Hurley,
General Wedemeyer and the
U.S. troops in China. He said
that exclusive American sup-
port had encouraged Chiang
to embark on his present course,
creating a situation which was
dangerous not only for China
but for international peace. He
appealed to the American peo-
ple to put pressure on their
government to end the armed
intervention of the United
States forces in his country.

Observers who did not have
to get all their information from
censored press dispatches have
long been aware of the facts be-
hind the news in China. Since
long before the war with Japan
ended; the chief -effort of the
Kuomintang had been directed
te ward depriving the Chinese
Communist forces of their share
in China’s victory. Chiang Kai-
shek even lent some of his forces
to the Japanese for the purpose,
letting them put on quisling uni-
forms.

After the Japanese surrender,
enemy troops were ordered to
retain their arms and “maintain
peace” wherever they were sta-
tioned, while Chungking forces
tried to push the Communist led
troops out of places they had
recaptured. When this proved
more difficult than anticipated,
Chiang Kai-shek agreed to ne-
gotiate for a united democratic
government, with all parties rep-
resented, in place of the Kuom-
intang monopoly of power.

Although these negotiations
were bound to. be stormy, a dur-
able compromise could have been
arrived at had not the United
States. given Chiang its unre-
served backing. It was American
support that emboldened him to
attack Communist held towns,
and it was the American Navy,
Marine Corps and airforce which
established bridgeheads (im-
mune because under the U.S.
flag) in North China, to which
Kuomintang troops were brought
and from which they were de-
ployed into the surrounding
country.

It is a well-known fact that
the Communist-led forces in
the former guerrilla areas had
gained the staunch support of
the people by land reform.
This was attested by Ameri-
observers and even by the Jap-
anese who publicly attributed
their difficulties in dealing
with the guerillas to this cause.
The Kuomintang troops advanc-
ing into Communist-led terri-
tory are taking account of this

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