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Israel Epstein outlines the significance of the sensation-
al revelation made by Drew Pearson, Washington com-
mentator, that former U.S. defense secretary James V.
Forrestal is now in an asylum. Turn to page 3 for full story.

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, April 22, 1949

Price Five Cents

U.S. plans
for war
revealed

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
‘Peace in our time’

LOUIS ST. LAURENT

‘Peace in our lifetime’

All labor backs CSU

DEMAND GOV'T END |

HOODLUM TERROR

Fifty East’ Coast ships are tied up in a score of ports around
the world and grim-faced, fighting-mad seamen and longshoremen’ in
a dozen countries are waiting to tie up 40 more still at.sea as the
Canadian Seamen’s Union strike enters its third week.

At press time, a showdown was pending on the Pacific Coast
as CSU officials met with West Coast operators in the’ Marine Build-
ing here to discuss signing of a contract. Should negotiations break
down, 19 vessels owned by Western Canada Steamships, Canadian
Australasian and Johnson-Walton Steamships, will be added to the
list of Eastern strike-bound ships. If a contract is signed with the
CSU an important wedge will have been driven into Canadian op-
erators’ ranks.

An attempt by the Seafarers’ International Union to seat a gun-
toting Seattle official and four other strike-breakers as delegates to

Vancouver and District Trades and Labor Council on Tuesday night
met with a sharp rebuff. All five SIU men were told to leave the
meeting. (See story on Page 7.) The ousted trigger-man, Ed Coester,
recently signed an unsavory back-door agreement with the Alaska
Salmon Industry, Inc., in an attempt to sneak the cannery workers’
jurisdiction away from CIO Cannery Workers Local 7. (See story
on Page 2.)

Jimmy Thompson, West Coast vice-president of the Canadian
Seamen’s Union, blasted the SIU attempt to import American gun-
and-goon tactics into the Canadian deepsea strike. “‘Our boys faced
torpedoes and dive-bombers in the merchant marine during the war,
and we are not intimidated by this tinhorn gangster from Seattle,”’ he
said. ““The SIU had better send their gunmen back across the border.”

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CCF convention votes down
support of Atlantic pact

The majority of the members who form the active organization
of the CCF in British Columbia are opposed to the Atlantic pact and
vehiee to accept any compromise which would enable their leadership
to continue even “conditional” support of the war alliance formally
concluded at Washington this month.

This is the conclusion to be drawn from the 54-46 vote by which
delegates to the CCF provincial conyention here last weekend re-
jected a motion to support the pact presented by their provincial presi-
dent, Mrs. Dorothy. Steeves, completely upsetting their leadership’s
plan, forced through at an earlier closed session, to placate them
Sith a meaningless compromise resolution.

Delegates went into a closed session on Saturday night to consider
six resolutions from CCF clubs opposing the Atlantic pact and all
such military alliances and calling for strengthening of the UN. They
emerged from two hours’ bitter debate with a compromise resolution
they had adopted as a substitute for the six club resolutions.

The substitute resolution noted that the Atlantic pact could not
“by itself satisfy the requirements for a stable world organization,”
which, it held, must “involve international socialist planning to estab-

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lish an economic and social basis for peace.” It further stated that
the UN “must become the chief agency for the settlement of inter-
national disputes and development of world government, thereby
eliminating any reason for regional security pacts.”

Then the resolution urged the CCF national council and MP’s
to press for a series of measures, not to ““be subordinated to or curbed
by military expenditures,” to secure peace. These proposed measures
included international control of such resources as uranium and oil,
direction of any mutual aid program “‘to foster political liberties’” and
socialization of German industry “to block the revival of the world
cartel system.”

The resolution was skilfully worded to placate opponents of the
pact, but the fact that it merely noted CCF national policy without
either endorsing or repudiating it in effect withdrew the criticism offered
by the club resolutions and left the national council unchallenged in
continuing its support of the pact. Realization by many delegates
that this reduced the substitute resolution to so. many words was ap-
parently a factor in their rejection of Mrs. Steeves’ motion later.

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