e ~ * ‘reds.’ \ CONTINUED LPP ~ ada. For a condition of things in which the democratic forces of both in this country will co- operate as equals—nation to na- tion—in the fight to keep Canada| at peace and Canada free.” In an appeal to members and supporters of the CCF, Buck urg- ed them to oppose the policies of the Coldwell leadership which, he said, was committed to the ‘foreign policy of the St. Laurent government. Instead of going about the country urging workers to produce more, Coldwell could, ‘if he were really interested in doing something for peace,” play a leading role in the great move- Ment in Canada today to press the St. Laurent government to ' Tecognize China now. What Coldwell was saying, how- ever, was mild compared to what Ontario CCF leader E. B. Joliffe was. advocating. He was telling the capitalist class of the prov- ince,. Buck declared, “that. CCF policies under his leadership are the best and most effective instru- Ment with which to defeat the This is opportunism car- ried to. its logical extreme. This is .prostitution of the honest de- Sires of militant workers who choose the CCF as a road to so- Cialism.” He said such policies were not shared by the majority of rank and file CC¥Fers. At the conclusion of his ad- dress, Tim Buck raised high the 80al of socialism for Canada. “Our party is the highest ex- pression of working class interest, the highest organization of the working class in Canada. Our ultimate aim is a socialist Canada. We recognize the tremendous ob- Stacles that exist at the moment, but we recognize also: the histori- cal developments which make our victory sure. ( “We must ‘recognize fully that the course of history is now firm- ly and clearly established. The victory of socialism cannot now be. prevented. It might be delay- ed, it might be made harder, The Course of humanity might be made to take the path of war and de- struction. But the eventual vic- tory cannot be prevented.” The Communist movement throughout the world is today looked upon by the capitalist class as the leaders of its main opposi- tion, he said. . The People’s Democratic Repub- lies, led by the Soviet Union, are leading the world camp of peace and it is the Communist party of every country that leads the op- position to the agents of Ameri- can imperialism in these countries. It is the Communists within the labor movement who fight to maintain the labor movement as an instrument of peace. army he capitalist class of Canada recognizes our party as the ad- vance guard of a growing force, of a mighty growing force,” he _ Said. SURNONENANB SANTANA ABB ENS ANE Ne ee Ae eNE JO-ANNE'S ELECTRO CAFE Open 6.30 to 6.00. p.m. Weekdays i Union House 111 Dunsmuir BUTI MT ‘Hastings Bakeries - HA, 3244 BROTHERS BAKERY NOW AT ABOVE ADDRESS. wooD SAWDUST FA. 7663 LONDON Open plans to rearm Germany and General Dwight Eisenhower's recent tour of Europe are caus- ing more and more British peo- ple to rebel against the idea of being involved in a U,S.-led -war in alliance with the Germans. Over 500 veterans of the two world wars met on January 14 at the Cenotaph, Britain’s shrine to her war dead, in a protest meeting. They ieft a wreath in- scribed: “In memory of the Bri- These West German police, here seen receiving Bren (ee Hd os gun training, are part of the U.S, plan for reviving German military might. German rearmament hit as betrayal of veterans tish men and women who gave their lives to defeat Nazism and to prevent resurgence of German military strength. We pledge our- selves to see that their sacrifice will never be betrayed.” Harry Tobias, veteran of eight years’ service who holds one of Britain’s highest decorations, the Military Medal, said, addressing the meeting: “Tell Eisenhower he must go back home. If the Americans want a war they can fight it themselves.” - Ivan Birchard, Independent La- bor candidate, is putting forward three main points: no sale of Second Narrows bridge without guarantee of an adequate span for the general public; a works program to carry: out necessary improvements that have been ne- glected; and a fight for subsidies to improve the conditions of so- cial and old age pensioners in this period of extreme inflation. Mrs. Dorothy Lynas, indepen- dent, stresses two-key needs: the granting of the vote to spouses and modernizing schools. Background to the North Shore elections is interesting. Before the First World War ;|people felt that the North Shore was. destined to become a flour- ishing metropolis. In 1891 the District was formed, including West Vancouver, then in 1907 the City of North Vancouver was formed: out of the district. In X\ HA. 6570 Stylized Permanents and Hairshaping by © Paul's Beauty Salon , 2511 E. Hastings St. opp. Forst’s (Upstairs) BBB: t EAST END: TAXI UNION DRIVERS ; North Van District elections February 10 NORTH VANCOUVER, -B.C. On February 10 District of North Vancouver will hold its first elections for reeve and council since 1932. and independent and Ratepayers’ Association candidates are campaigning vig- orously to defeat the bid for power on the part of the newly- formed Non-Partisan group, counterpart of similar reaction- ary groups in Vancouver and neighboring municipalities. 1912 West Vancouver broke away to become a separate municipa- lity. Shipyards went into full pro- ‘duction during the First World War but a post-war slump killed hopes of rapid growth of North Vancouver. , A brief temporary economic sta- bility resulted in construction of Burrard Dry Dock in 1924, but the limited ship building program did little to stimulate growth or prosperity to the area, The “1929 crash brought a complete halt to normal development, and sale of a section of waterfront to Na- tional Harbor Board robbed the city of an estimated million dol- lars. through loss’ of taxation. By 1932 both city and district ‘were in dire financial straits and placed under a provincial com- missioner. During the Second World War,- a tremendous ship-building pro- gram brought an dnflux of people to the North Shore and the in- creased incomes and spending of thousands of workers helped to bring down the debt to the de- gree that the city reverted back jto an, elected council in 1943. Now the district, too, is‘returning to representative government. ee Hastings OME ok FA. 0242 0334 » | |= FULLY 24-HOUR = UNION F UE , || 2 evsuRED SERVICE = F 911 F. HASTINGS ST. 7 TEE tn et ti i CERT TT Tn Gt J ‘Castle Jewelers { | Ex-Mayor Charles Thom been brought before that body. clarified the issue in a written Workers and Boilermakers’ Union against the mooted: “screening.” “This is in regard to your letter of December 19, 1950, respecting a@ proposal by ex-Mayor Thomp- son to screen civic employees,” the city clerk wrote Marine Work- ers’ secretary William Stewart on January 25. “T should like you to know that this proposal was made by the ex-Mayor at his own instance, and was not submitted to the council for its discussion. ‘J am aware of no move on the part of the new council to introduce this question. I suggest therefore that the matter be al- lowed to drop and.in the mean- time your letter be placed on my files for future reference if re- quired.” : Civic Employees’ Union, Local 28, which has successfully defeat- ed the union-splitting attempt. of Carl Berg, reprinted city clerk Ronaid Thompson’s letter to Stew- art, and added these pertinent comments: ; “Why did the Sun and Province of December 11 quote ex-Mayor Thompson as follows: “Sun: ‘The mechanics of screen- ing have-yet to be worked out in that all civic workers would be of Vancouver City Council, because the question iad never Screening stated never a policy of city council pson’s pre-election statement “screened” was never policy City clerk Ronald Thompson reply tota protest from Marine CONTINUED INDIA The convention sent the follow- ing telegram to Prime Minister St. Laurent and Sir Benegal Rau, In- dian delegate to the UN: “Yesterday’s New York Times states U.S. Senator Connally side- tracked India’s request for two million tons of U.S. wheat to meet famine conditions because of In- dia’s stand for peace in Asia. This fourth national convention’ of the LPP calls upon your govern- ment to immediately communicate to the Indian government the willingness of Canada to fill this and further orders for wheat.” bland ultimatum on India: To abandon its attempts to ne- gotiate peace in Korea or face imminent starvation for millions of its famine-stricken citizens. detail, but we are negotiating with the RCMP in that connection.’ “Province: ‘In a prepared state- ment the Mayor said the city is negotiating now with the RCMP authorities here to work out the technicalities of the screening pro- cess to be employed.’ “Was Mayor Thompson's | state- ment, so highly publicized by the daily press, an’ attempt to win votes, or to help in the ‘disrup- tion of Local 28—or both? “The Mayor became the ex- 28, which came out in opposition to screening, along with other civic unions, is still carrying on. gaining new strength every day.” CONTINUED OTTAWA ‘for the first part of a ‘program aimed at prolonging and extend- ing interventionist war in Asia. As announced from Parliament Hill this week, the government’s program is designed to fit into the American master plan for war: Increased “defense” spend- ing—reportedly $114 billion; Can- edian participation in JEisen- hower’s European. command which will arraign Canadian troops alongside reconstituted ~ German divisions; further in- roads upon civil iiberties by a- mendments to the Citizenship Act which will enable the govern- ment, as arbiter of what consti- tutes ‘loyalty,’ to deprive its opponents of their citizenship. ‘Although the government’s stand in the UN reflected the strength of the popular demand for peace, its legislative program is clearly intended to weaken this mass demand which promises to upset its war policies. The test of the people’s demand for peace will be the’degree to which - it is organized and, through pres- sure on parliament forces aband- onment of the government’s new program for war. Mayor two days later, and Local| - anal The committee sidetracked le- 'gislation to send two million tons fof American grain to stave off a threatening famine. A United Press dispatch from | Washington said that with this ,;action the committee “registered ;its dislike for India’s attitude to- ward the Korean war: Chairman iTom Connally (D-Tex.) of the | Foreign Relations Committee, - |said action on India’s request for |about $200 million in food aid has ;been postponed until a subcom- {mittee headed by Sen. Guy M. Gillette (D-Ia.) “looks into” the whole question of United States relations with India.’ UP added: “Connally made clear in a talk i with reporters that chances for a ;prompt and favorable Congressio- t action were lessened consi- \derably by yesterday’s speech of Indian Prime Minister Jawahar- lal Nehru.” } ' } “Everything in Flowers’ FROM:- =; EARL SYKES 56 E. Hastings St. PA, 3855 Vancouver, B.C, MILO CAFE | “We Specialize in Ukrainian Food” 242 E. Hastings St, PA. $037 Vancouver TED HARRIS Painters’ and Paperhangers’ Supplies Was 28¢ — Now l4c a roll 757, E. HASTINGS HA. 2973 UNION HOUSE ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings Street VANCOUVER, B.C. STANTON Barristers, Solicitors, Notavies SUITE 515, FORD BUILDING, 198 E. HASTINGS 8T. (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MArine 5746 & MUNRO WASHINGTON The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week served a’ Sunworthy Wallpaper half price | PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 2nd, 1951 — Page 7 aia