Ask gov’t state
policy on China

An appeal to the federal government to condemn United
States interference in the Chinese civil war as a violation of
Chinese sovereignty was made this week by B.C. Peace Council.

It was contained in a letter addressed to Prime Minister
Louis St. Laurent by Ray Gardner, peace council chairman,

whe wrote:

“We believe that the government
of Canada could make a singular
contribution toward the preserva-
tion of world peace at this time by
ennunciating a policy toward the
People’s Republic of China based
On the following three points:

“1 A declaration by: Canada

that we condemn any in-
terference in the internal af-
fairs of the Chinese people by
any other state as a violation of
China‘’s sovereignty, and that in
Particular we condemn the ex-
Pressed intention of the United

States to interfere in the Chin-
€se civil war.

ie, Recognition by Canada of

the People’s Republic of
China.

2 A declaration to the ef-

fect that Canada recognizes
the right of the People’s Re-
Public of China to take her place
'n the United Nations without
further delay.

“Such a policy, we feel con-
fident, would help dispel the ‘dan-
8erous situation, to use the words
of Mr. Pearson, that now exists
Off the China coast as a result of
American interference in Chinese
affairs,

“The tension which now exists
off the China coast is due, we feel,
to the refusal by the western pow-
ers to allow the People’s Republic
of China to play her rightful role
M world affairs, both inside and
Outside of the United Nations.

“As to the specific question of
Formosa, there cannot* be the
‘lightest doubt that Formosa is

Inese territory, as much a part
Of China as, for instance, Vancou-
Ver Island or Newfoundland are
a part of Canada. The same is
true of the Pescadores islands.

. ‘This fact is clearly recognized
In the Cairo Declaration signed by
the 8overnments of the United
States, Britain and China.

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“Therefore, for any foreign
Power to interfere in Formosa or

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the Pescadores is to violate the
sovereignty of China and can be
described only as an act of aggres-
sion. ‘

“We should like to quote, and
express our full agreement with,
a statement made this week in the
British House of Commons by Rt.
Hon. Clement Attlee, who said:

“Tt js clear that in this matter
of Formosa and the islands there
is here an intervention in a civil
war. It is clearly an action by the
United States and not an action
of the United Nations. :

“In view of the need for prev-
enting hostilities ‘and trying to get
more peaceful arrangements, is it
not clear that China should get her
proper position in the United Na-
tions?’

“We trust that the Canadian gov-
ernment will act quickly to prevent
foreign interference in the Chinese
civil war that could easily provoke
an atomic world war in which Can-
ada would inevitably be involved.”

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conference
Dear Keader:

We had a fine turnout at our
Vancouver circulation meeting last
Friday, with 30 people represent-
ing 17 press clubs. And almost
everyone produced ideas for ex-
tending circulation of the Pacific
Tribune this year.

Our aim is to ring up a net
gain of 1,000 readers by December
31. It will mean
plent of door-
knocking and
street selling
but I’m _ confi-
dent we can do
it. The best
way to increase
circulation is to
do more circu-
jating ourselves.

Press clubs are already shooting
for the January Club of the Month
awards. ‘Trail is the leading pro-
vincial club, with 10 subs, follow-
ed by Sointula, 5; Albernis, 4;
Nanaimo, 4 and New Westminster,
4. In the city Kitsilano is ahead
with 11 subs, followed by Georgia,
6; Point Grey, 6; Victory Square,
5; Electrical, 5; A. E. Smith, 4 and
Vancouver Heights, 4. \

Tom McEwen and | will be in
Victoria early in February, and
hope to be able to visit a number
of Island centres and meet many
of our readers and supporters.

The P.T. financial drive begins
this year on March 15, and some
clubs are already beginning to
prepare for this big campaign.
Several supporters of the paper
who have been using collection
eans in their homes since the
last drive tell me they expect to
turn in $25 and become Press
Builders on the day the drive
opens. And a few have hinted
that they hope to turn in $100
and become Honor Press Build-
ers ‘before the drive is a week
old.

Good news, indeed!

|; Aeca Whyte

Scores giveaways

Arnold Webster (above), CCF
provincial leader, assured a CCF
dinner meeting in Rio Hall here
on Friday last week that the
CCF Opposition at Victoria would
be alert at the legislative ses-~
sion which opened this week “to
prevent any more giveaways” of
the province’s natural resources.

LABOR
BRIEFS

Vancouver. City Council’s pro-
posed five percent cut in wages for
3,500 civic employees was brush-
ed aside by union representatives
who conferred with city aldermen
last Friday, and union spokesmen
made it plain that they have no
intention of abandoning their de-
mands for wage increase and other
concessions.

Alderman Jack Cornett, finance
chairman, pleaded this way: “It
will be a very difficult year. A

lot of people, especially pension-
ers, cannot pay their taxes. You
should be generous enough to keep
the tax rate down by taking a five
percent decrease in wages.”

“Do you consider this propagan-

da campaign in the press on wages].

as bargaining in good faith?” said
Max Pierotti, business agent of
City Hall Employees.

“Some 3,500 civic employees

cannot be saddled with the tax
problems of 400,000 citizens,” said
Donald Guise, business agent -of
the Outside Workers.
_ The five aldermen present fail-
ed to convince union representa-
tives that wage demands should be
dropped.

* * *

Some 500 “inside” dairy work-
ers at the city’s 11 major dairies
are seeking a 16-cent pay boost
and a welfare plan in negotiations
which opened this week. Another
600-odd milkmen are asking dairies
to pay half a welfare plan. cost
plus nine statutory holidays.

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Another 100 B.C. workers were
thrown out of work last week
when fire destroyed the Andy De-
vine sawmill at Mile 83 on the
Pacific Great Eastern Railway.

* * *

Electricians on strike the past
two weeks at Burrard Drydock
have asked management to:
“sincerely attempt” to reach a
settlement.

The strike of 94 Electrical
Trades Union (CCL) members
idled more than 800 other ship-
yard workers, who have refused
to cross picket lines.

* x. *

B.C. District Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers re-elected all
officers by acclamation at their
convention here last week.

Ken Smith was returned as pres-
ident and Les Walker as secretary-
treasurer. Executive board mem-
bers: George Anderson, Copper
Mountain; Clem Thompson, Kim-
berley; Rod Black, Bridge River.

Council studies :
housing brief —

Vancouver City Council has set up a special committee
headed by Alderman George Cunningham to study a Building
Trades Council brief calling for a low-cost housing program

which is
needs.”
Committee members are Ald.
George Miller, Ald. Bill Orr, cor-
poration counsel Russel Baker,
comptroller Frank Jones and plan-
ning director Gerald Sutton Brown.

The brief, outlining the need for
low-cost housing, referred to “the
almost complete stagnation in the
building of dwelling units during
the depression years of the Thir-
ties, which created a staggering
backlog of housing requirements.”

During the last two decades
housing construction was greatly
accelerated, but failed to keep
pace with the normal growth in
the number of household units in
Canada, with the result that this
country “has failed to meet the
need, from this factor alone, by
over 100,000 dwelling units.”

A housing program, stated the
brief, must be blue-printed to pro-
vide the following in sufficient
numbers: )

“urgently required to

@ Moderate priced housing for
potential home owners.

@ Low rental subsidized hous-
ing for old age pensioners.

© Low rental housing for Can-

adians generally.

“A program like this is always
timely,” said the brief. “However,
at the present time when we are
faced with the serious danger that
unemployment will, in coming
months, exceed even that of last
year when the number of jobless
approached the three-quarter mil-
lion mark, a government-backed
housing program becomes even
more than a matter of timeliness
—it becomes an essential aspect
of social action by our govern-
ments at all levels, federal, pro-
Vincial and municipal, to maintain
a healthy economy by providing
full employment for all Canadians.”
The brief proposed that council
utilize the National Housing Act
to make a planned survey of the
Greater Vancouver area and to

Assessment —
‘blackmail’ hit

BURNABY, B.C.

Appearing before Burnaby Muni-
cipal Council this week as spokes-
man for a delegation, William
Turner, whose championship. of
ratepayers interests has won wide
support in the municipality, charg-
ed that “a veiled form of intimida-
tion is being used against citizens
who send in an appeal on their
assessments.”

Turner said that some citizens,
after filing their appeals, had
been visited by assessment officials
and “hints have been dropped that
their assessment might be increas-
ed if they insist on going to the
court of revision.” Up to last week
some 250 appeals had been receiv-
ed.

Municipal assessor Lewis Greens-
word told the press that his de-
partment is rechecking all the
properties complained about “and
in quite a number of cases we will
recommend increases to the court
of revision.”

Turner blasted statements made

by officials which claimed that]

higher assessments didn’t neces-
sarily mean higher taxes.

“They have always meant high-
er taxes in the past,” he said, and
proposed -that the mill rate should
not be struck until after the court
of revision had met.

Turner said that homes are
bearing a heavy burden of taxa-
tion, and advocated complete re-
assessment of industry, based on
land improvements only, which
would give the municipality more

direct revenue.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 28, 1955 — PAGE

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meet our accumulated housing

start on a housing program with-
out delay.

Reference was made to the Little
Mountain Housing Project, which
is now fully occupied by 224 fami-
lies, including 20 pensioner fami- -
lies, and 431 children. Average

rent is about $48 per month per
unit.

It was proposed that action be
taken on the “Bowman Plan”
for the construction of some 150
units for senior citizens on a
six-acre site at 45th Avenue and
Knight Road; and that work be
proceeded with in the Fraser-
view area to provide low-rental
housing.

Appearing on behalf. of the
Building Trades Council were
Cliff Worthington of the Carpen-
ters and John Hines of the Paint-
ers.

JOSEPH
GERSHMAN

Editor of

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Weekly

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MEETING

Wednesday

February 2
8.30 p.m.

at

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