VOL. 10, No. 41 1 a oe OS Jo) TUL UP Vancouver. British Columbia, October 12, 1951 Alt ED ty PRICE FIVE CEN thilfa Lotti TS Duplicity in Korea WAR BUDGET US. TALKS OF TRUCE PLANS SEA LANDINGS Peace, prices, trade _ Issues facing House OTTAWA The ferment of dissatisfaction ®Mong the people of Canada over ® St.. Laurent government’s ®Uns-before-butter policies will be felt in parliament when that body Sets down to: serious business Win Week following adjournment °r the visit of Princess Elizabeth "Nd the Duke of Edinburgh. Here are some of the issues: 1 PRICES. The cost of living index stood at 189.8 at Sep- “™ber 1 and there is little doubt *re that it will hit close to 200 Y the year’s end. Consumer 8 : eeending has been forced down ih * Percent, LAYOFFS. Serious pockets of unemployment are report- ed in Windsor, London, Toronto, Montreal and British Columbia, in auto and other durable goods industries, textiles, logging and building trades. Textile industry in Ontario and Quebec reports ,800 workers unemployed. TRADE. Canada’s trade de- ficit with the U.S. has reach- ed record proportions and will likely stand at $800 million by the end of the fiscal year. The drain on gold and dollar reserves, such as has brought Britain to the brink of economic disaster, is be- ginning to be felt here. Canadian reserves, half the size of Britain’s dropped $73,000,000 in the past three months. Sale of Canadian resources to the U.S. has so far kept reserves up. U.S. investment in Canada by the end of this year will reach $10 billion. FOREIGN POLICY. On No- vember 11 a Peace Mission headed by the Canadian Peace Congress will present the demand of several hundred thousand Can- adians for government action to initiate the calling of a five-power peace conference. Sending of the 27th Brigade to Germany—first Canadian army to be sent over- seas in peacetime — will not find much favor in Quebec. If MP’s from B.C, heed their constituents, there will be questions about the Continued on page 7% See MP’s Even as it was reported that Korean truce talks might be resumed this weekend at a site near Panmunjon, New China News gency, in a Peking dispatch, charged that the U.S. was “planning new military gambles, in particular landings along the east or west coast of Korea.’” At the same time, another news agency, Telepress, disclosed that in recent Washington talks between U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson and British Foreign Secretary Herbert. Morrison, Acheson demanded a total blockade of the China coast and reportedly maintained that a cessation of hostilities at the 38th parallel would amount to an admission of defeat for UN forces. (The.London Times, in an editorial on October 1, called fora prompt settlement at the 38th parallel and came out against the current Washington line, as voiced by American Generals Van Fleet and Ridgway, of scuttling the truce talks and putting into effect General “MacArthur’s grandiose scheme for a drive to the Yalu River and all-out war with China. (“The ostensible aim to create a united, independent and demo- cratic Korean Republic is no longer possible. The only practical sclution is to accept a divided Korea, ‘with the 38th parallel as the dividing line,” declared the Times, pointing out that only this would convince China that “the UN has given up all idea of advancing to the Manchurian border.”’) (In a speech at Edmonton recently, Dr. James G. Endicott, chairman of the Canadian Peace Congress, stated that several times a threatened expansion of war had been halted by public outcry against it. “We are today discussing problems of world peace in a situation that is steadily deteriorating, but that does not mean that we are not going to be able to stop war,” he said. ‘Several times we have been very close to an expansion of the war, but every time that ‘happens there is a corresponding upsurge of the will of the people that they are going to stop war. I am still firmly convinced that we are not going to have war. Let us guard against being discouraged al- though there are some very discouraging things. They should only influence us to more action.’’) New China News Agency bas- stationed in Japan, have visited ed its charge on a Washington the Korean battlefield for a first- ‘disclosure that a new operational hand survey. plan had been drawn up, designed to pocket | the whole of North Korea, drive North Korean and which are being groomed for the pees vo a ESS ae to contemplated adventurous landing e Yalu River and bomb bases ae Of ak : ig in Northeast China. The agency ae f the two, the 40th in said the plan, which had been publicized by many American hewspapers, called for use of five Le ee Oe 0 more division. Peace delegates fo see council A delegation of citizens, called together by Vancouver Peace As- meanwhile carrying out large scale sembly, will ask city council to mlitary manoeuvres, troop move- endorse the appeal for a five- ments, reconnaissance and other power peace pact this coming activities, Tuesday, October 16, at 2 p.m. “These two American divisions are reportedly part of the troops Continued on page 6 See KOREA “This plan coincides with what is happening in the Kaesung nego- tiations,’’ stated the dispatch. “Since the very beginning of the negotiations the Americans have been creating delays deliberately, ““American and other news “We appeal to all citizens to agencies have revealed that com- join this simple act for peace,” manders of the U.S. 40th and said Ray Gardner, assembly J 45th infantry divisions, which are _ president. EES