PORT FROM CHINA

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A’s tea trade, which has
€n steadily declining. during
ee few decades, is now
a oe again. Tea exports last
ae es double those of 1949,
Lae a Soviet Union and the ,
ere Democracies the biggest
he mers, ‘This year exports
* expected to be still greater.
WO years ago the People’s
» Severnment set up the China Tea

the
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. ey _to take charge of
ete cultivation, manufac-

. Pee and sale of tea on
e _itihe scale. It was decided
oe Hon Ore the neglected tea plan-
Tem S, extend tea growing and
oe ae priority to production of
ee tea for export.
Se is the home of the tea
i es than 2,000 years ago
eee inese people were culti-
tiny a and by the eighth cen-
a e plant was being grown
hal Province south of the
ee River. For many cen-
ae Cainese tea dominated the
oa market, reaching a record
he are of, 240,000,000 pounds
* sia 6, Thereafter, the trade
gee declined to little more
a 0,000,000 pounds annually
- Pre-liberation years.

Under the Chiang Kai-shek. re-
We aes tea exports to the Sov-
Mth Pe. were banned, even
ee Ph this action cost China
4 +»: ange purchases were

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ed

Once-flourishing tea trade,

Chiang, now revived

around 100,000,000 ‘pounds a year.
‘This ban was followed by an-
other against tea exports to the
Mongolian People’s Republic.
At home, the profiteering poli-
cies followed by the Kuomintang
tea monopoly were equally ruin-

ous. Low prices to growers and

<high prices to purchasers had the

effect of curtailing production
and denying tea to millions of
working people who were unable
to afford it. Tea growers were
compelled to -hack down large
tracts of their plantations or
leave them to turn to seed.

This situation was completely
reversed after founding of the
People’s Republic of China in
1949. Reasonable tea prices were
established. as part of official
policy. The first government
shipment of tea to Sikang mark-
ed the beginning of a revival of
the once flourishing tea trade
with the ‘Tibetan, Mongolian and
other minority peoples in North-
west China. Last year nearly one
million pounds were shipped and
sold there at prices from 34 to
79 ,percent lower than 1949.

The peasants began to drink
tea, which they had long come
to regard as a luxury. And now
that land reform is raising their
living standards a big home mar-
ket for tea is'in the making.

It is estimated that if the 400
million peasants of China each
consume only a hhalf-pound more
tea a year, tea production will
rise 200,000,000 pounds, almost as
much as China’s record export
in 1886.

Envisaging a bright future for
the tea industry, the People’s
government has introduced
measures to stimulate tea grow-
ing. Purchasing prices have been
fixed in favor of tea growers
and loans made available to
them. Except for certain areas
assigned to cultivation of green
tea, growers in Kiangsi, Hupeh,
Hunan and Chekiang are turn-
ing to production of black tea,
assisted by experts provided at
government expense.

The China Tea Company is

directing its efforts to replacing se

primitive methods of tea manu-
facture with modern machine
methods and scores of tea pro-
cessing plants, are now being
‘puilt. At the same time, private
tea concerns are also benefitting
by the government’s policy of en-
couraging production through
government loans for purchase
of machinery. ‘

What has heen done in only
two years to restore the tea trade
is a measure of the giant strides
being taken by the New China
toward the socialist world of to-
morrow. ef

s a : .
“FRANK GULLETT

—can keep
ae ‘ LONDON
; &r @ hundred towns and vilages-
bane pmeriean - occupied. Britain
cele Mericans have brought their
“not noted way of life, and it does
‘press the natives.
z a @ week’s tour and in scores.
ing vetsations, I learned some-
Wy. of how it feels to live close-
St the shadow of the Stars and
\ Tipes,
pec nes use a variety of ex-
Sea ons and reasons, but all I
Wer Can be summed up in three
“rds: Send them home. _
Pion. ly the professional camp *fol-
ey 2 WhO fave hit the wollar
a and the following of some
a N-age girls are an exception
+ is general rule.
hon the reasons for this un-
Wich arity, go to Cambridge, Nor- _
ha Newmarket, Oxford, Milden-
: Steg any of the bigger centres
thes the G I’s flock to spend
..t time and pay—and watch
“iia! intercourse as the Yankees
“Mderstand it.
Ley, ,Dattern never changes.
“g.ve trucks, coaches and taxis
ene Up on country: town squares
: Mat seven o'clock in the
Tiere and spill out the occupy-
_ © *0rces for their nightly spree.
_, "St wear civilian clothes, hop-
o ener to break down the.
ip ity, perhaps wanting to es-
a immediate recognition.
an their style, cut and clothes:
“not distinctive and mistakes are
=, 0ften made. _
or a nging about in, wait for glam-
re small shoals of female col-
Tators, : , :
Papa choosing their partners —
hei. © evening they move off to
ies rocored tavern. aa
qn. & Welcome they get, here is an ,
*ereasingly uncertain oie
trogant G. I.’s drive local cus-

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It’s their way of life - and th
it, declare Britons”

you

“+ “Come

corner

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tom away, and now many land-
lords are giving the Americans
the cold shoulder

One or two have posted. a rule ‘
saying Americans will not be-

served. :

But in the towns in particular
there are one or two taverns
whose landlords turn a blind eye

to everything. | 4
Here manners are more home-

like, They shout for drinks, with —

never a polite please or thank
. Threepenny pieces g0 into
juke boxes and the evening fun be-
gins. ‘ id ‘
The rules of the game- are
simple. He who consumes as much
drink as possible, as fast as PpOs-
sible, with as much noise aS Pos-
sible, is the winner.

“Rill ’em up!” ;

“Drink up, Elmer, let's get rais-
ed!’ Fj : :

wanna get going.”

The drinks are downed and the
Gun:

juke box blares out the Shot
Boogie. . ; Se KG
‘An hour or so of this, then the
attern of culture changes.
PicThoss: with partners” kiss and
embrace along the sides of the
room while those without
ue to line the bar. we
Outside the smoke-filled taverns
other groups lounge near the
and wolf-whistle at passing
women and girls. '
_ So far as
are not brought to acount for
even the most blatant conduct.
te ae. a
More serious —
gance are the
follow in the wa
tion. Wake t ocob cs
The most serious is the sharp

than this arro-

increase in juvenile delinquency
-and prostitution of young girls.

’ except drinks. i

over here, honey, We

contin-

I could see, offenders

social probems that iB
ae of the occupa~

of life - and they

is

Another source of annoyance,
which is not yet serious but will
be when the expected reinforce-
ments for the U.S. garrison arrive
is housing. :

American servicemen can afford
not only to bring here their wives
and families, but also to pay
fancy prices for houses and flats.
’ Another popular idea— that an
influx of rich doughboys brings
a town prosperity — I found not
borne out at all in talks with shop-
keepers and businessmen. f

G.I’s buy all they need at the
PX, including clothes, cigarettes,
toilet goods. te

Plenty of these things they sell
on the black market, which is
“worrying many local traders.

‘They buy little themselves a

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Who’s arming for war?
man-hours each of the countries listed is devoting to war production.

This chart ‘above’ shows how many

STANLEY B. RYERSON

_ Attacks are

sign of —

weakness, not strength

NE DAY last month Freddy
and Carl had their father
taken away from them. They
were awakened early by strange
men pounding on the door of
their apartment. Afterwards the
boys’ mother, Alice, did her brave-
hearted best to comfort and re-

assure them. But the shock and ©

hurt remain. ‘
Their father, whom the US.
federal thought police had taken
to prison, is one of the most
noble and cultured men in Am-
erica.
The “indictment” read that “in

the Southern District of New

York, in or about February, 1951,

_ Wictor Jeremy Jerome, a defen-

dant herein, did issue a directive
and cause it to be circhlated
through Political Affairs”.

The wholly admirable article by
Jerome in that issue of Political
Affairs is entitled, “Let Us Grasp
the Weapon of Culture.” ‘For the
book-burners who run America
his call for the defense of peo-
ple’s culture as a power for peace
is a criminal act. It is proof pa-
tent of conspiracy “unlawfully,
willfully and knowingly, to advo-

cate and teach the duty and ne-

cessity of overthrowing and de-
stroying the government of the
United States by force and viol-
ence.” u

So reads the “indictment” of

Vv. J. Jerome, Elizabeth Gurley

Flynn, Alexander Trachtenberg,
Israel Amter, Claudia Jones,
Louis Weinstock, Jacob Mindel,
Betty Gannett, Alex Bittelman,

the average intelligent read-

er must ba able pretty shrewd-

ly to discount American re-
porting of Korean war: news.

One of the reporters now gives

some help by telling tales of

_ how news agency men work in
- competition for a “beat.” A

\ He writes in the New York
Herald Tribune about a re-
porter at the front telephon-
ing to his colleague in Tokyo
an account of a battle. He said
four hills had been captured
and, for clarity, dictated,
“Four, repeat four, hills.”

The Tokyo man misunder-
stood this as 44 hills and re-
layed that to his American
headquarters. ,Another news
agency in New York, seeing

How they make news

FTER a year’s experience, |

this report,, wired its Tokyo
reporter protestingly, “Opposi-
tion says 44 hills taken. How?”
The Tokyo man made a tele-_
phone call to his colleague at
the front in Korea, and the
New York Herald. Tribune re-
porter relates: re :
_ “He was awakened from his
first, couple of hour’s sleep in
three days and told about the
query. With > disgust that
‘would be understandable to
almost anybody — he snap-
ped back: “Oh, hell! Tell ‘em |
we captured 47 hills and 46
valleys.” ay ee
Later that news agency man
learned that his Tokyo col-
league had faithfully relayed
his report and it had made
front-page news in many Am-

erican papers.° +

and a dozen other staunch work-
ing-class leaders in the United
States.

Five days before, the leading
editorial in For a Lasting Peace
had opened with these words:

“The more distant the period
separating us from the end of

World War Two, the clearer it

becomes that U.S. imperialism, |

pursuing a policy of aggression
and preparation for another
world war, is taking the path
of Hitlerism. . . . The imperial-
ists are seeking, first of all, to

__ crush the resistance of the peo-

ples, “to destroy the “democratic —
liberties won. by the masses, to —
smash the peace movement.

They want first to kill freedom —

so that it will be easier to kill

peace,” :
e

In the same week, at Ottawa,,
the men of the ruling American _
Party introduced a series of
amendments to the Criminal ‘Code.

St. Laurent and Garson had it
in mind to celebrate the 84th an-
niversary of Confederation with
a stab in the vitals of Canadian ©
democracy. .

Their Made-in-USA amendments
were perfectly adapted to that
purpose. :

Criticism of policies of war pre-
paration is threatened with war-
time sanctions even though the
country be not at war. “Seditious
libel,” seditious conspiracy” or
“treason,” depending on the whim
of the thought-control police, are
the weapons at the disposal of the
ruling foes of peace. Criticism
of Yankee domineering and war-
mongering, which might “influ-~
ence” the armed forces of the
USA stationed in this country,
comes under the heading of “of-
fences of seditious nature.” iy

Our liege-lords are in Washing-
ton and Wall Street.

Who says so?

The government in Ottawa.

A mare usque ad mere. From.
sea to sea, our proud Dominion.
Whose? ssa
_ Whati the ruling rich and their
--servitors in Ottawa are panicked ©

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by is the jubilation reported

among Canadian troops in Korea

at the proposal for a cease-fire,

made by the Soviet Union.

The vicious attacks on demo-
cratic liberties bear witness to .
weakness, not to strength. For in
the struggle for peace,
peoples are going to win. J

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 6, 1951 — PAGE 9

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