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“Hands off China”, demand-
ed-placards carried by pickets
at Ballantyne Pier this week,
where the SS. Islandside, with
30 Mosquito bombers already
aboard, was loading 5,000 tons
of high explosives. —

Ottawa is rushing the death
cargo to bolster the tottering
Kuomintang regime.

“Not a plane, not a gun for
Wall Street’s Chiang,” and
“Stop the. profit-mad»murder-
merchants”, were slogans car-
ried by Audrey and Elsie
Brandon, who returned with
the 1948 Béaver Brigade last
Week from Europe.

“At the International Con-
ference of Working Youth,”
they explained, “Chinese dele-
gates implored us to ask Can-
adians to stop arms shipments
to the murderers of their
people.”

Agreement was. voiced by
Homer Stevens, 1947 Brigade
commander and secretary of
the United Fishermen and Al-
lied Workers’ Union. “More
murde# shipments are planned
—the government says it will
send 150 Mosquito bombers

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@ One of the outstanding leaders
of the Chinese Liberation Armies
is General’ Chou En jai, until
Chiang Kai-shek made further
negotiation impossible Commun-
ist representative at Chungking.

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AN EDITORIAL

‘Blessed event

N Sunday, November iAce 1948, two
baby boys were born, one in Bucking-
ham Palace, the other in a small British
Colun,bia hospital. Neither of these two
bouncing additions to the Empire had any-
thing to say about the order of their coming
or the welcome accorded each upon arrival.
One, born a prince, automatically went
on the government payroll at some $200,000
per annum, the other born of plebian stock,
automatically reduced his sire’s take-home-
pay by $250.00 through the simple fact of
being born, which can scarcely be augment-
ed by his ‘royal stipend’ of $5 per month!
One got millions of columns: of news-
paper copy heralding the “joy” of his princely
birth. The other rated a three-line notice
in the local sheet announcing his arrival.
One had the finest medical and scientific
attention available in making his debut on
life’s stage; the other, in the absence of a
minimum of social or economic security,

had to shoulder all.the hazards of survival.

One was born to be a ddine=> <2 in
times when monarchy is in its last twilight
and crowns are being given in pawn for
Vankee dollars. The other was born in a
period when his kind are coming into their

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@ Here’s where your tax money

is going—to China, to help the

shek regime prolong the civil
war and thwart the people’s

aspirations for peace and pro- A

gressive government. Planes
like these Mosquito bombers
will earn Canada only the hat-
red of the millions of Chinese

Selves from the rule of Chi-
ang’s clique of corrupt, war-
rich politicians.

September

‘HANDS. OFF CHINA-

ARMS SHIP PICKETED

Woodworkers
may strike in
Interior dispute

Stormy weather features this week’s
situation in the lumber industry with two
camps on strike, pickets arrested during
a lockout at a third camp, and the prospect
of a strike looming in the camps and mills
of the Interior.

President Harold Pritchett has an-
nounced that the Woodorkers’
Union of Canada, ‘recommends
woodworkers of all camps and mills in the
Interior reject the employers’ ridiculous
otter of 5% cents per hour retroactive- to
September 1, 1948 (now being engineered
by the Fadling IWA group) and prepare te
fight for the Coast award of 13 cents or
1] percent retroactive to July 12, 1948.

“In order to implement these just de-
anti-democratic’ Chiang Kai- ands embodied in an Interior industry-wide
contract, the WIUC pledges
unequivocal support.”
conciliation board majority award
had recommended 9 percent «retroactive to
1, but -the operators spurned
even this to return to their original 5 per-
people fighting to free them- cent offcr. The WIUC is advocating a fight

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Labor unites in demand
for lifting ban on film

Vancouver ‘Tirades amd Labor
Council this week unanimously de-

manded that Attorney General Gordon
Wismer lift the ban on tke Soviet

anti-fascist film, “Diary of Nazi.” /.

Vancouver Labor Council (CCL)
took similar action last week.

Street Railwaymen’s delegate’ Chas.
Stewart, who introduced the resolu-
tion, recalled that Birt Showler, pre-
sent TLC chairman, had moved a mo-
tion 10 years. ago inviting Leo “Sun-
shine” Sweeney to come before the
council to repeat a pro-Nazi speech
he had made to the Kiwanis Club.
(Sweeney is chairman of the appeal
board whick upheld the censor’s ban,)

“You should tell the delegates why
{ did tkat,” said Showler, “or some-
body might get the idea that I liked
that speeth.”

“That’s right,” replied Stewart,
“You did it so we could rip the pants
off him, which we did.”

Alex Gordon, United Fishermen’s
Union business agent, heads a com-
mittee seeking lifting of the ban, which
has asked .Wismer to be allowed to
invite prominent citizens to a pri-
vate screening of the film: “Wide-
spread protests are needed to halt
this kind of thought control,” he told
the Pacific ‘Tribune.

Artkino Films is appealing the ban
to Wismer.

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