Arts Guild, following his return
from a, month-long stay in China.
Johnston shipped to the Orient
on a China coaster, built in Van-
couver for the Chinese govern-
ment.

Johnston’s impressions were
gained from conversations with
the Chinese people themselves,
and from trips through the city
of Shanghai and its environs, A
picture of extreme poverty side
by side with bloated affluence, of
people dominated by military rule
and prevented from even mili-
tantly demonstrating for decent
standards was gleaned from John-
ston’s experiences.

Complete absence of controls in
China have lifted the costs of
even the essentials of life far out
of the reach of the Chinese peo-
ple, with the result that starva
tion treads a gaunt and bony path
through the sub-continent of
China, Shanghai, to Johnston rep-
resented a window through which
outsiders could glimpse the un

Chinese people, who have thrown
Off the yoke of Japanese imperi-
alism only to find themselves
shackled in the chains of Kuo-
mintang corruption and American
imperialism.

- <Aecording to statements made
by the seaman it is revealed that
even relief measures, aimed at
easing the suffering of the Chi-

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FORM No. 16
SECTION 86
LAND ACT

Notice of intention to apply to
lease Land in Range 3, Coast
District, Land Recording District
of Vancouver, and situate at Eu-
cott Bay, B.C.

Take notice that Turney W. Phil-
lips, 3327 Sussex Avenue, Burnaby,
B.C.—occupation Fisherman, and
Robert M. Baldwin, 4236 Grange

Sane

Street, Burnaby, B.C.—occupation.

ex Police Officer, intend to apply
for a lease of the following des-
Cribed foreshore commencing at
the South West corner of lot 5,
Range 3, Coast district, being a
Point on high water mark of Eu-
Cott Bay, thence Northerly, West-
erly and South Westerly along
Said high water mark to the
Point where the South boundary
of 10 intersects said high
mark, thence East 1.5
chains, thence North Easterly 52
Chains, thence East 6 chains,

thence Southerly 37 chains more
Or less, to a point 1.5 chains West
Of the Southwest corner of said
“Lot 5, thence East 1.5 chains to
the Point of Commencement,

by FRED WILMOT

Kuomintang-US imperialism
evils bring hardship to Chinese

“A progressive future is knocking at China’s door, a future that will lift the people of
that land out of the backwardness of feudalism, but Chang Kai-shek has himself firmly
braced against the door of progress.” This statement summarizes the impression gained
by Jimmy Johnston, seaman and ex-member of the Boilermakers’ Union and the Labor

tola suffering of the courageous |

nese people, was used by greedy
merchants to line their own poc-
kets with fat profits. UNRRA
was a flop, because the Kuomin-
tang government used it as 4@
source of profit, cleaning up black
market prices on relief materials.

Johnston states that the big-
gest business in China today is
the black market. Unrestricted
operation of the black market has
added to the general soaring of
prices until even a meal similar
to one costing a dollar in. this

country costs $8,500, Chinese cur-
rency.

Johnston cites the sharp class
delineations

in China today. On
one hand _ there
are the mass of
the people, starv-
ed, oppressed,
barely able to
secure enough
sustenance to
keep in wasted
bodies. On the
other hand there
are the. rich
merchants, lolling
in plushy hotels,
driving in lim-
ousines, throwing
money ar ound
freely, anq object of growing
hatred on the part of the Chinese
people.

The American army, contrary

to frothings of the American

State Department, represents
more an 2 of occupation
than anything else in China.
The most vicious types of chau-
vinism are practiced against the
Chinese people, everyone from
rickshaw boy to restaurateur is
victimized ‘by the American
“supermen,” and even the Chi-
nese law enforcement agencies,
toading to American pressure,
protect the excesses of Ameri-
cans against the protests of the
Chinese people,

The power that Chiang Kai-shek
and his government have taken
on themselves in China is reflect-
ed in the fact that even Chinese
soldiers on the street, doing mili-
tary police duty, have the right
of judge, jury and executioner.
“Trigger happy” is the expression
which Johnston uses to describe
their method of meting out “jus-
tice.” The whole picture created
is one of callous disregard of
the welfare of the people and
determined crushing of any spark
of resistance to the economic
anarchy which results, from
Chiang’s rule,

Johnston states definitely that
the spirit of the Chinese people
is not broken, An example of this
was given out of his own ex-
perience, He witnessed a strike
of stevedores on the dock, un-

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loading ties that comprised the
cargo of his ship, Stevedores were
striking for an increase of one
thousand dollars a day, the equiv-
alent of about thirty cents in
Canadian money, over a previous
pay of seventeen hundred dollars.
Although troops broke up meet-
ings of the workers, when they
went on strike their determina-
tion to win was shown in that
not a single worker returned to
his job until demands were met.
And in a land where seventy
cents is a lot of money, not one
person scabbed,

Other evidences of the mood
of the Chinese people are clear
in their determination not to
“take anything” from American
seamen or soldiers, their strong
hope in China’s future, their keen
desire to make friends with out-
Siders showing a sincere interest
in the welfare of China’s people.

Starvation is extreme in Chi-
na, according to Johnston. Men,
women and children coming out
to ships in sampans to pick
through ship’s slop pails for
enough food to keep alive, Chi-
nese children die daily in the
streets, and the battle for life
is a grim, no-quarter struggle
that is part of the people’s daily
routine,

Johnston states that education
is the primary need in China to-
day. ‘Chiang Kai-shek seems to
have deliberately made education
impossible for the Chinese peo-
ple, he states, “and much of the
possibility of the Chinese people
themselves lifting themselves out
of their present situation is re-
moved by the overwhelming bur-
den of ignorance placed on their
shoulders.”

The general attitude of China
toward the western world is re-
flected in a statement made to
Johnston by an old Chinese. “We
want the white man’s assistance
and trade, as well as his friend-
ship. But the one thing that
China does not want is the white
man’s domination.” This expres-
sion of independent reliance on
the Chinese people’s potential ab-
ility to change their present con-
dition, coupled with the force for
progress represented by Red
China in the north, in Johnston’s
opinion points to a better day for
the Chinese people, and the end
of Kuomintang brutality and Am-
erican interferehce,

Protest rally |
on prices boost

Declaring that only “organized
buyer resistance can call a halt
to the reckless drive toward in-
flation and crisis,” the Women’s
Commission of the Labor-Progres-
sive Party, following its regular
meeting January 13, has an-
nounced plans for a protest rally
to be held in the Lower Pender
auditorium, Thursday, February
6, at 8 p.m. Speakers at the
meeting will be William Kash-
tan, National Secretary of the
Labor-Progressive Party who will
visit Vancouver in the course of
a national tour, and Minerva
Miller, LPP provincial education-
al director.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 7

Philadelphia~-Camden Newspaper Guild (CIO) get a taste
of Truman’s ‘get-tough-with-labor’ policy, as tops and
hired goons seek to plow a path through the picket lines.
More than a dozen pickets were seriously injured as :-
newspaper and police trucks drove recklessly into pickets. _

Association that it never snows in
Vancouver, hence there’s no need
for snow-clearing and loading
equipment.

Thousands of citizens had an
opportunity to reflect on their city
council's lack of foresight and its
inability to cope with an emerg-
ency as they waded through the
snow that still clogged the main
thoroughfares twenty-four hours
after Monday’s snowfall. Motor-
ists who ventured out on un
cleared and unsanded streets
could also refiect on what inade-
quate equipment and poor organ-
ization had cost them in dented
fenders and other minor damage.

Information that the city had
spent $10,000 and the B.C. Electric
another $6,000 on snow clearance
was scant consolation to those

late in the day because services
were disrupted by a _ snowfall
which in any other comparable
city with modern equipment would
have caused little if any incon-
venience.

No one was disposed to argue
the fact that the city had been

who could not get to work until §

Snowfall exposes lack =
of emergency equipment

It’s doubtful if Vancouver’s aldermen read the weather
forecasts, or if they do that they pay any attention to them.
Presumably they prefer to believe in the pleasant fiction per-
petuated by Leon Sweeney, fatuous president of the Tourist

caught unprepared: and with no
other excuse than ‘abnorma?’
weather conditions. This was ob-
vious. It was also obvious that
after an earlier prolonged cold
spell no effective preparations to
cope with further snowfalls had
been made. ‘ ee:

This week there was a. wide-
spread demand from eitizens, who
have grown tired of hearing pleas
about ‘abnormal’ weather every
year since the heavy snowfalt of
1935. completely paralyzed _ the
city, that the council take emerg-
ency measures to Make streets
safer for pedestrians and motor-
ists and prepare for future’ ab-
norma? winters hy voting funds
for purchase of adequate snow-
clearing equipment. :

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