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Through a series of misleading advertisements in Vancouver daily papers this week the B.C.
Shipping Federation sought to obscure the fact that its own refusal to negotiate with the Inter-
national Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union provoked the strike which has tied up
Vancouver and four other B.C. ports for the past three weeks.

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VANCOUVER, B.C.

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Hands off China meet
0 he held in city

abandon its provocative poli-
cy. there is a grave danger
of war,’ Maurice Rush, LPP
city secretary, said in an-
nouncing the meeting.

“The Chinese People’s gov-
ernment has every claim to
Formosa, from which its ter-
ritory is threatened. The U.S.
has no valid claim and _ its
security is not threatened.”

Confronted with the Ship-
ping Federation’s unyielding
stand, the union has consoli-
dated its strike action by ob-
taining provincial, national
and _ international support,
while reiterating its readi-
ness. to enter negotiations
whenever the Shipping Fed-
eration is prepared to make
reasonable proposals.

On Wednesday this week
the federal labor department
entered the picture with ap-
pointment of Eric G. Taylor
of Toronto as mediator.

Taylor’s appointment was
welcomed by the ILWU, which
pledged its “full cooperation.”

Taylor, who will arrive in
Vancouver this Friday, will
report to federal Labor Mini-
ster Michael Starr. ‘

Meanwhile, the’ ILWU is
receiving increasing support,
both from other ILWU locals
in U.S.~Pacific ports, and
from other unions in this
province.

The B.C. Federation of La-
bor has sent out a call for
assistance to all its affiliates
and seamen and_ teamsters
have been among the first to
respond.

The Seafarers International

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How will CCF-labor
parleys define unity?

By HAL GRIFFIN-

Over the coming weeks a
series of conferences which
could have a decisive influence
on the political future of the
province will be held. The two
participating bodies are the
provincial CCF and the B.C.
Federation of Labor and the
outcome of their deliberations
will be determined by which-
ever of two concepts prevails—
the broad concept of united
labor-farmer political action as
defined by the political action
resolution adopted by the
Canadian Labor Congress at its
Winnipeg convention earlier
this year, or the narrow con-
cept of labor support for the
CCF advanced as an expedient
policy by the B.C. Federation
of Labor at its. convention here
last year.

What could emerge from
these conferences is a strong
popular movement embracing
the present CCF organization,
the entire trade union move-

ment, including big indepen-
dent unions now excluded from
the CLC, such farm organiza-
tions as the Farmers Union and
some cooperative organiza-
tions, and. extending to the
Labor-Progressive Party.

There is no doubt that such
a combination,. giving form to
and marshalling popular’ de-
mands, could effectively chal-
lenge the Social Credit govern-
ment and thwart Conservative
and Liberal attempts to capital-
ize on growing popular unrest
through “new” programs and
leaders.

The question to be decided,
both within the conferences
and outside them and primarily
by the memberships of the
trade unions themselves, is
whether such a movement shall
be brought into being.

Both within the CCF provin-
cial leadership and among CCF
members and.supporters hold-

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China's millions
answer Chou's call

By ALAN WINNINGTON

PEKING — The Chinese
people were mobilizéd on
a huge scale last weekend
to prepare for anything
that may result if the ex-
tended U.S. aggressiveness in
the Formosa Straits takes the
U.S. over the brink.

Within an hour of Premier
Chou En-lai’s statement that
this “is an internal Chinese
affair in which no foreign in-
terference will be tolerated”
and the call of the Supreme
State Conference for mass ac-

ae SHES os es tion against aggression, mil-
Ne of thy hinese young people responded to Chou En-lai’s call for preparedness. Here are lions of people all over China

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were rallying in spontaneus
demonstrations.

Many units of the armed
forces and newly, formed mili-
tia groups took part. In Pe-
king a night of torchlight ral-
lies culminated a demonstra-
tion of at least one million
people in Tien An - men
Square.

By dawn the whole city
was plastered with hastily-
drawn slogans “Liberate Oue-
moy and Matsu,” “Liberate
Formosa and Pescadores.”

As the call went out from
youth . organizations for the

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‘demonstrators in Peking,