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Vol. 6. No. 46 Vancouver, B.C., Friday, November 14,1947 <= Five CGHS

CCF, LPP voice demand |

ASK HART GOVERNMENT
TAKE OVER BCELECTRIC

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Acree on Palestine

The United States and the Soviet Union this See eens
& Compromise agreement at Lake Success for 2 eres A
tain’s mandate over Palestine next May 1 and ao oning a
territory into Jewish and Arab states by July 1. The capt
Calls for a commission of three or five small eels a ae
Sent the UN when British control ends. It was repo ee
amd Arabs would maintain order in their own ter es 2
their own militia between May 1 and July 1 Map es ae
the division of Palestine as recommended by the spec
committee, shaded areas representing the Arab state and un-

Shaded areas the Jewish state.

‘een

Demand that the provincial government intervene in the transit strike to
secure a just settlement for the 2,600 street railwaymen involved and to bring
all transportation and power operations of the BCElectric under public owner-
ership and control came from two quarters this week as the transit monopoly
showed no indication of offering terms acceptable to the union.

Harold Winch, CCF provincial leader sent an open letter to Premier John
Hart and Labor Minister Gordon S. Wismer urging them to call a special session
of the legislature to consider the proposal that the government authorize the
B.C. Power Commission to expropriate all BCElectric operations. The LPP pro-

(Continued on Page 8—See BCElectric)

British paper bares
Greek fascist terror

In Washington this week President Truman reported to Congress that the
military situation in Greece was deteriorating and that Greece could not recover
economically unless internal order were restored. Coincidentally, in Athens,
Constantin Tsaldaris, Greek foreign minister, grandiloquently announced that
the Greek army had been ordered to take the offensive to “liquidate the rebel-
lion.” And in London, the
Daily Mirror published grue-
some. pictures of Greek gov-
ernment troops parading with
the severed heads of guerillas
and asked: What are the Bri-
tish doing here?

These were the essential
facts of a crime against the
peace which the people of the
United States and Canada and
Britain this week were being
asked to endorse as a few
years ago they were asked to
endorse the international crime
‘against the peace in Spain.

To those who were not so
blinded by propaganda and
hatred as to condone even
mass murder perpetrated in
the name of containing com-
munism, the facts were bitter.

The picture shown here is
that of the execution of Fritz
Schubert, a Nazi corporal who
was convicted of having di-
rected the burning of Greek .
villages and the murder of
their inhabitants during the
war. This picture has been
widely published, but the Pic-
tures of Greek troops parad-
ing with the heads of slain
guerillas were virtually smug-

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See GREECE