Page 6 — Saturday, December 2, 1944 Westbrook Pegler To Be Sued By ILWU SAN FRANCISCO—1 ibel suits totaling 1,000,000 dol- lars will be filed against the newspaper PM and against West- brook Pegler and a number of papers using his column, the International Longshoremen’s Chinese Cabinet Changes Bring Better Hope Of National Unit The changes in the Chungking Cabinet, announced Monday by Generalissin Chiang Kai-shek, are still far from the drastic reorganization required by the crisis. B they do mean’ that. the catasttophe now threatening China is loosening up and beginny to disrupt the stubborn alliance f i ; ; }. F which there can be no turn- and Warehousemen’s Association (CIO) announced here. The $500,000 suit against PM, New York tabloid owned by Marshall Field, is based on a Series of articles by its Wash- is what is intended in these suits. Let Pegler get before an Ameri- Can jury and defend his lies if he- can. As for PM, it is most urgent that the American labor movement learn that behind its of reactionary forees which hol the regime in its grip. : The Cabinet shifts are an ad- mission that changes are neces- Chiang is: impelled to move; completely ing back. It lives as a com- pletely revitalized force, or it dies clearing the way for a ~ new government — capable of rallying and lead- . dt is clear that the recall < Gen: Stilwell did. not mark th end of one phase and the hj: ginning of a contrary phase ;- American policy. If anythin, _the unity policy is being urge sary and possible. A real shake-| up is in the offing. The advance of a powerful Japanese army into the heart of Free China makes a basic change hourly more im- perative. For China is on the verge of a catastrophe, more serious than any which’ has threatened during the Sino-Japanese war. THE MILITARY THREAT A well-equipped Japanese army of 250;000 men has cut off% the entire South China coastal area from Central China, estab- lished a continuous area of occu- pation from Nanking almost to the Indo-China border, engulfed vital food-producing areas, taken command of strategic railroads and forced the bases of the U.S. air forces far back into the in- ing the Chinese people to vic- tory. THE DEFEATIST TRIO The recent changes in the Ghi- nese Cabinet must be viewed with hope. They. are the advance rumblings of a political earth- quake which will shake the whole regime out of its feudal lethargy. In his shifts, the Generalissmo put his finger on the three Cabi- net members who represent the most reactionary and retarding influences in China. The Cabinet shifts will not placate or “in any way deceive the people and the anti-Japanese forces. If anything, they will be encouraged by the new develop- ment and press their demands more vigorously. pro-labor blandishments there’s more energetically than im th’ a load of morning-after regrets.” ae z ington correspondent, James A. Te : past. Wechsler, alleging that ILWU President Harry Bridges was to be removed as regional director of the CIO for California be- cause he failed to endorse the Montgomery Ward strike. “These falsehoods,” the I1LWU Said in a letter to PM, “were to the general effect that the failure of the ILWU and its president to give active support to a war- time strike engaged in by an- other union of the CIO had angered CIO President Philip Murray and caused him to de- eidé or at least to consider the removal of Mr. Harry Bridges as California regional director ef the CIO.” = In fact, unity has become i perative’ also from the vyie |point of the American milits contribution to the war. T Communist-democratic area the northwest-is fast becomi: the only safe area’ in which base the 14th U.S. Air Force # attacks upon the Japanese-he interior and upon Japan prop; And to all this must be add another extremely vital fa, President Roosevelt is emineni victorious in the elections, wi a powerful popular mandate £: his foreign policies. The sands are shifting Chungking. The old, rotten pro: Women Urge Vote In Italy LONDON, (ALN)—The right of women to vote in Italian elec- tions on a basis of “absolute equality” with men was demand- ed this week by the Union of Italian Women in a memoran- dum. submitted to the Committee of National Liberation. A report from Florence states Other PM stories “wholly mis- . ; = so eee represented” the wunion’s ¥ ost- | that Italian women of all classes |*€Ti0r- : : U.S. POLICY ; of the regime are beginning ep eee " D 3 a ee b h The Chungking regime is Another very important factor | give way. A new resurgence War position on strikes. the let- | are affiliating to the local brane . se i ; y : : of the IW, which has adopted as| NOw faced with a decision |is the continued pressure by the|strength and unity, in the f_ “ter said, concluding: “We have ascertained that President Mur- tay flatly denies the allegations made by PM with respect to our union and its president. We have also ascertained that a number of other labor leaders, who were solicited by PM reporters for at- tacks upon our union with re- spect to its postwar . program, made the assertions which you printed on the basis of misrepre- sentation by your representa- tives.” : United States for a positive solu= its program: tion of the crisis. , : which it can no longer post- of impending disaster, will sa pone. 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LPP Club meets every seco: | and fourth Wednesday of each| and fourth Friday each. moni month, 8 p.m., in Pine Hall, 8 p.m., at 1332 Davie Stree: Pine St., between 7th and 8th. mn “To increase aid to the fight- ing men, their families and fa- milies of men martyred by the Nazi-Fascist terror: to colla- berate in the government’s purge activity by appointing delegations to the purge com- mission; to organize welfare for needy children;.to conduct cultural and recreational activ- ity for the children of the poor.” A. charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted later than Wednes- day midnight of the.week of publication. Victory Square— LPP Club meets every Frida’ | | 8 p.m., at 531 Homer Stree PM has refused to correct the articles. The Pegler suits will be filed as the result of two columns (Riga Montagnana Togliatti, wife of Communist Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti, is a. New Westminster he wrote Sept. 26 and Sept. 27 < 7 * TOO sn ue alleging that a man named Doug- | ee eee Club NOTICES las K -_Hyde was ousted from the Office of War Information.) BRANCH MEETINGS Meets the third Sunday of each - TLWU Local 34 for supporting month in the Party -Club Canadian Aid to Dewey for President. The col- Britannia LPP Branch— Rooms, 59 Alexander Street, : : umns also implied that money collected for the Bridges Depor- Chinese School of Meets: every Sunday, except New Westminster at 8 p.m. A welcome is extended to all new- Russia Fund— Auxiliary No. 1, want sewe tation Defence Fund was turned L angu age ehange of shift Sundays. Ad- comers. Executive meetings and workers. Send used clot | over to the Communist party and dress communications to Box 2 ie of all 45 | that the ILWU conducted “kan- nae oe sees Aa Ty ay Tuesday night, 8 p.m. to ae 2 ane ae We. : <8 : 2 m. = ender. rine Tee | garoo courts controlled by murd fiaeoll aye Glass Latod is 1S e p : erers, thieves and Communists.” Two newspapers which printed the Pegler columns have already Jegzreed to print retractions. ILWU Information Director Morris Watson commented: “It ‘is high time to call irresponsible journalism. to account, and that only. Simplified method under the tutorship of Mor CGheolin, native teacher. No worry about pronunciation, you can learn as easily, as other students. See or write us today for fur- ther details, 207 West Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C.; MA. 7632. Croatian Halil— Available for Dances, Socia_ Weddings, Banquets, Meetings Reasonable rates. 600 Cam | bell Avenue. HAst.. 0087. 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