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Tension Eases---Peace
Prospects Brighten As

Big 3 Unity Prevails

Soviet Russia’s insistence on maintenance
main guarantee of world peace, plus pressure from world democratic opinion,
has forced a clearcut change in international policies away from the recent
atom bomb ‘‘diplomacy”’ of Truman and Attlee and back again on the road
of Anglo-American-Soviet collaboration.

‘This became clear with the announcement Thursday that the foreign

ministers of Britain, United States and the USSR, meeting
for 11 days in Moscow, had reached “substantial agreement”
on the control of atomic power, the governing of Japan and
Korea, the peace treaties and other related questions. The
new Big Three agreement was a Christmas present to the
world and a hopeful augury of continued progress in 1946.

Principal decisions reached |

of Big Three unity as the
PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS

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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, December 28, 1945

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decisions

reached at

moiced by Bevin, Byrnes
F olotov just as the old
| 1945 drew to a close,
rtovided a fitting end-
'+what has been one of
| st eventful -12 months
ye long history of man-

2 i. in which the forces of
f ‘ascism were decisively
‘n military battles, and
th- the Socialist Soviet
-merged as one of the
Pongest nations on earth,
* > termed memorable in
Biense of the term. But
= 1ese events are accom-
y the revolutionary har-
of atomic energy, then
; 1945 can justly claim
it mention in the annals
-‘uture.

|

®& was little excuse for the
*m prevailing among cer-
© les of progressive opinion
’ year drew to its close.
© ge back at democracy’s
i for 1945, the gains add
emendous victories on a
of fronts, and to an enor-
‘engthening of the forces
‘ESS.

n fascism was decis-
mashed in battle, Japa-
litarism was forced to
te, and world reaction
*n a tremendous setback.

failed. In-
: was European fascism
ent down to defeat, while
»R emerged more power-
3: before.

ced democratic govern-

 oscow conference, and

Because they know that labor’s fight is the serviceman’s,
these vets, members of United Auto Workers (CIO), put
on their uniforms and medals and marched together to picket
General Motors plant in La Grance, Il.

by British Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin, U.S. State Secre-
tary James F. Byrnes, and So-
viet Foreign Commissar V. M.
Molotov, related to control of
the atomic bomb, the future of
Japan ,and Anglo-American: re-
lations with the Balkan coun-
tries.

For Japan, a new Far’ Eastern
policy commission will be form-
ed with the Soviet Union serv-
ing on the controk council along
with the U.S., Britain and China.
On the atom bomb, the Big Three
agreed tto establish a special
control commission of the Unit-
ed Nations Organization which

would in turn be directly re-

Prior to the entry of the LFP
into the field, the campaign
showed every indication of being
a very polite and quite affair in-
deed. The coalition had called
the by-election at very short no-
tice. They counted on shortness
of time, election weariness, slip-

By MINERVA COOPER

Byelection Brings Gains For
Labo: Progressives In Okanagan

I.PP supporters in the North Okanagan are drawing considerable satisfaction from
their contribution to the December 19 by-election and the strength the party developed
in the course.of the ten-day campaign.

pery roads, and Christmas pre-
ocupation to obscure the real is-
sues, and tone down the cam-
paign. The CCF evidently con-
sidering it more expedient to
make their main appeal to- the
larger orchardists and business

Loggers Local

ere founded in Europe.
yid and the Balkans, the
«> of feudalism and re
“Y monopoly capital was
d, and agrarian reforms
ad. France emerged wtih
“ment made up mainly of
Mists and Socialists.

Eratic sentiment swept
= Asia, bringing popular
# against colonial oppres-
Eolts which will have. far-

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‘ BALANCE SHEET

to the Alaska panhandle and
Queen Charlottle Islands,
The convention was held in

met

Nominates

Morgan For Vice-President

The largest local of the International Woodworkers of
America, Local 1-71, covering operations from Wancouver

from Alert Bay north to the
in convention this week.
Vancouver, in Boilermakers’

Hall, on Thursday, December, 27.

Nigel Morgan, Provincial
Leader of the Labor-Progressive
Party who left the post of In-
ternational board member of the
IWA. to lead the LPP, was unan-
imously nominated vice-president
of the local without -opposition.
Morgan who is well-known to
trade unionists and loggers,

‘served the union as International
Board Member from 1940 to 1945
and the nomination by acclama-
tion was seen as a tribute to the
stellar service he has given to
the union during his ofice.

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See LOCAL 1-71

groundings, for the large ad-
vertisements heralding their en-
trance into the campaign bore
as its main slogan.” Strengthen
His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.”

Such a slegan could not be
construed by any stretch of the
imagination into a positive call
for action on the question of jobs
for B.C., tied up with a program
of development for the Okana-
gan, increased opportunities for
small producers and the estab-
lishment of veterans on the land.

These were the main issues of
the campaign and they were rais-
ed vigorously only after the LPP
entered the field. The LPP alone
introduced into the campaign
labor’s demands for a 55 cent
minimum wage, the forty-hour
week without reduction in take-
home pay, and 100 percent com-
pensation for all injuries and oc-
cupational diseases for all work-
ing mén and women. The LPP
alone challenged the operations
of the local cannery monopoly,
and spoke out on behalf of the

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See BYELECTIO¥M

sponsible to the security coun-
cil of the UNO. Since the secur-
ity council comprises the - Big
Five powers—Britain, the U-S..
China, France and the USSR—
each would have veto power over
any major action dealing with
atomic policy.

It is apparent from these two
decisions alone that the main
stumbling block which brought
the London conference of foreign
ministers to such a disastrous
close last September was hurdled
in the current Moscow parley.
At London Bevin and Byrnes be-
gan wielding the “big stick”
against Molotov, using the pos-
session of the atomic bomb sec-
ret as a blackmail weapon and
rejecting Soviet attempts to have
the Potsdam agreement serve
as a basis for future moves. At
Moscow the dangerous trend to-
ward disunity was apparently
halted, and Bevin and Byrnes,
faced with tremendous opposi-
tion to their policies from their
own countries, were forced into
working more closely with Molo-
tov in the interests of world
peace.

This was clearly shown in
Byrnes’ press statement just be-
fore he boarded his plane at
Moscow for a return to the
United States, in which he de-
clared that the “important thing
about the conference is that clos-
er relations have been establish-
ed so that the possibility of
agreement has been greatly in-
creased”

Even more significant, the
Moscow newspaper “Bolshevik”
declared that “the new agree-
ment reached at this conference
has inflicted a blow on those
political intriguers who after
failure of the London council of
foreign ministers, were ready
to consider that the great pow-
ers had passed the stage of col-
laboration.””

In addition to Japan and the
atomic bomb problem, the Big
Three foreign ministers announc-
ed agreement on the following
points:

@ Reorganization of the Ro-
manian government so as to

permit its recognition by Brit-
ain and the United States.
@ Broadening of the Bulgar-

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