Bi ee : \TALIST Re, oe IR 5 ee one Ee j — Ach du lieber atomikers LL CPS er eee Sextet cco ty SS Big Nazi arsenal is given the green light in anti-Soviet Drive LONDON—Secret Anglo-American talks in Paris have saved the life of the biggest and most dangerous war firm in Germany. _ At the very moment when the Big Four were discussing the future of Germany, the British and Americans cancelled plans for the “control” of this firm—the Vereinigte Stahl- werke Company, of Dusseldorf. The Vereinigte Stahiwerke (United Steelworks) is a very much larger affair even than Krupps. Under the Potsdam Agreement the British Military Government in Germany was absolutely bound to control and “take apart” this monster armament trust. After long delays, Military Goy- ernment, according to its London spokesmen, was at length on the werge of doing so. it was pointd out that Verein- igte Stahlwerke, as the biggest steel concern in all Europe, can be regarded as the heart and brain of German war industry— with influences and connections stretching far beyond the German borders. It bas subsidiaries in Spain, in Tatin America and other coun- tries: It is linked by cartel agree ments and patent agreements with powerful British and Amer- ican concerns. Now, after arrangements for the destruction of this vast war combine where admittedly nearly complete, they have been counter- manded. “A new situation in Paris” was the only explanation that could be offered by the authorities. While Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Bevin try to persuade Mr. Molo- toy and the world of the sincerity ef their intentions regarding Germany, they are .secretly play- ing a very different game. They are deliberately keeping alive—in violation of the Potsdam Agreement—the biggest war po- tential in the whole of Germany. And they are giving orders for it to be left in the hands of the men who only 18 months ago were drawing huge profits for running it on behalf of Hitler. These secret talks on Germany between Britain and the U.S. are to be continued in London and Berlin. : To make matters worse, Byrnes has gone out of his way to threaten two-power or three- power “special arrangements” in Western Germany in defiance of the Potsdam Agreement. “Qur military representatives in Germany,’ he said, will “be in- structed to cooperate with anyone or all three governments in essential administrative matters like finance, transport, communi- cation, trade and industry. “We will either secure economic cooperation between the zones or place tye responsibility for viola- tion’ of the Potsdam Agreement.” It is well known that the American and British conditions for what they term “cooperation” consist mainly in the demand that the Russians, who gare run- ning their zone successfully, shall help pay for the failures of the Americans and British in their zones. In the Anglo-American zones, the intended policy is .to restore German Big Business “to econ- omic levels.” Already in HWamburg, in the British zone, the great chemical combine known as the i. G Far- benindustrie — supposed to have been dissolved in accordance with Potsdam decisions — is operating Quality and Purity As HOMEMADE HASTINGS BAKERY 716 E. Hastings HA. 3244 WAND STUDIO “Anything With a Camera” 8 E- Hastings St. — PAc. 7644 Vancouver, B.C. 3 SERVE CHINA 9 BY LEARNING CHINESE We can teach you to speak 4 and write Chinese in a short Bue time. Many of our students \ i f { can read 400 characters in { six months training. Fall elass to start Cctober 1. En- roll now. Also Home Study Course, . Chinese School of Language, A Dominion Bank Building, : 207 West Hastings Street, ) . MArine 7632, ey Mor Cheolin, Director. JOHN STANTON Barrister - Solicitor Notary Pablie 502 Holden Bidg. — MAr. 5746 Night: Alma 2177-M as a trust under the thinnest of disguises. At its Hamburg headquarters an official told a reporter of the Hamburger VWolkszeitung that “it is not really possible” to break the trusts and combines. Elsewhere in the zone, British and American capital is at work to rebuild and restart German industrial firms whose assets were seized by the Russians as repar- ations in the Eastern zone. Of major significance is the fact that the American authori- ties are now proposing to suspend the regulations against trading with the enemy. This proposal, announced by General McNarney, USS. Com- mander-in-Chief in Germany, is designed to permit representatives of American big business to enter the zone and get to work. Almost since the beginning of the occupation, there has been close ““nder-cover”’ cooperation between the German industrialists and the American financial and commercial firms with which they were linked befoe the war. Now this association is once again to become open. It is pre- sumed that similar steps will be taken in the British zone. It is virtually admitted by the British and Americans that their proposals involve violation of the Potsdam Agreement all the way down the line. They are discussing, for in- stance, the removal of all the agreed Potsdam restrictions on the sale of Ruhr coal. At Potsdam the agreement was designed to get Ruhr coal to the and to the liberated other zones, countries of Hurope. Now the proposal is that the German coal barons should be given a free hand to sell in whatever market they can find— regardless of the needs of the weekly paper published in Pacific Tribune, to the mark. “The commercial hysterical headlines, and evasions, is drums of war,” it stated. “So it’s. not enough for the cause of peace that only our present fam- ily of subscribers get the facts- Every reader must, for his own sake and the sake of those who are about to die, see that others get the facts. Given the facts the people can better fight for peace. We will print the facts. But who else will put them in the hands of your friends, your neighbors, the men and women with whom you work? It’s up to you and your conscience.” : That’s the kind of appeal tha makes you think, It’s not much to ask, even in these busy days, that you take a few minutes, perhaps an hour or two, once in a while, to get a new reader for the Pacific Tribune. It may not seem like much of a contribution, but you know, and we know, that multiplied by our thousands of readers it adds up to a power- ful influence in the cause of peace, Here and there, scattered about the city and around the province, there are Tribune readers whose conscience needs no prodding. In Kamloops, for instance, Frank Halvorson goes around every week with a bundle of papers. He is a busy man, what with his job in the day and the meetings he attends at nights, and no one could complain if he decided to take things easy on his Saturday off. Instead, he makes the rounds of his Tribune readers, stopping to talk with them if theyre in the mood, and winning new sub- seribers every week. Here, in the Tribune office, we have a real appreciation of the work he is doing when we open our mail. Perhaps it takes a special kind of enthusiasm to do ‘this, the kind of enthusiasm that leads A. F. Willbee to stand outside Van- ecouver Public Library with his signs, his placards and his papers. Willbee frankly regards himself as a crusader—for years now he has been a familiar figure to thousands—and he makes his efforts to get new readers for the Pacific Tribune an integral part of his campaign to win a better deal for old age pensioners. We may not have time to stand on street corners, but all of us can share the enthusiasm. All of us have special interests within the labor movement which find a press, with distortions beating the | A new Tribune reader, --a fighter for peace By IVAN BIRCHARD The other day I picked up a copy of the New World, a Seattle which, like our tries to break through the confusion created by the commercial press with the facts. The New World too is appealing te its readers to get new subscribers and the cpening lines’ of its appeal went straight own - hysteria and reflection in the pages of the Pacific Tribune and make promo-— tion of the paper a part of our work, 2 “Tt’s to up you and -your Here’s a contribution to keep Al Parking on the air with “Labor Looks Behind the Headlines” and every one of us is pledging a dollar a month tewards your radio fund. This is how Kitsilano LPP Club re sponded to our radio fund ap- peal and here’s the letter Don McIntosh, executive secretary, sent us: “Qver here in Hitsilano we are all ardent Al Parkin fans and when Betty Dunbar, chair- man of our press committee, brought your appeal to our at- tention we decided that our club should do semething tc- wards keeping his nightly broadcast on the air. “John Stanton suggested that we take up 2 collection right away and —T am enclosing the $9 collected. We also agreed that each member would pledge one dollar a month for your radio fund, raising the money among friends, workers on the job and so on in Order to pop- ularize the broadcast. zy If other LPP clubs follow Our lead, and we are chaitleng- ing them to do so, there is ne doubt Al will be able to continue looking behind the headlines without having to worry about ooking in the cash box.” E conscience.” In return for an hour or two of your time you can have the satisfaction of knowin= that you have helped to place the facts in the hands of another supporter of our fight for peace. It’s not always easy, but the effort usually produces the results, as Tom Dzwonkowski, a new member of our growing family of readers, proved this week by sending in three new subs, The efforts of a relatively few readers like Tom Dzwonkowski brought us 73 new subscribers eloser to our goal of 5,000 new readers this week. If we all pitch in, we can double our circulation in a month. Let’s do it. It can be done. The spokesman said Poland had pledged itself at Potsdam to hold free and unfettered elections but Poland opposes Britain, US meddling in affairs LONDON.—An official Polish spokesman charged this week that Great Britain and the United States, in notes to the Polish government protesting the method of counting votes in the recent referendum, were attempting to supervise the coming Polish election in violation of Poland’s sovereign of the Polish electoral law or of Polish party politics.” “Tt is without precedent in in- ternational relations that a gov- ernment base its diplomatic in- terventions into the internal af- fairs of a sovereign state on ru- tions,” the spokesman said. ference that the terms laid down in the notes concerning the ex- pected November election consti- tuted an “attempt to Supervise the HIGHEST PRICES PAID for DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD Other Valaable Jewellery STAR LOAN CO. Ltd. 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