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g e nd all 1S the unimaginable hi of nuclear war. ona) What Tim Buck,, LPP Mot fader, told an audi- i] Ga 000 people at Exhibi- he evens here Friday last ds © opened a national 0 otf China” tour. bh, Sition to the threat of h , become a material his . Sre which govern- ), | CoOmpelled to hesi- it a declared, De Meetings in Nan- },% Saturday and Clover- thi Sunday, Buck ampli- a h. cment by pointing “haa. U-S. State Depart- Ba received 5,000 letters Hey, Bust 23 the majority \ Pa, “dmittedly critical of Malan astern policy. 1 Maj Y, the Toronto Globe ‘yj, 284 received 3,000 fa ori sponse to its edi- Meg; ieizing U.S. policy Misc US. dailies as paid ‘un €nts—and 2,700 of i tant the Globe and | big - Cont Change is taking | Bey wed on page2 __ * RECOGNIZE

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People can compel US. to back down’

tld opinion has become the force the United States is it increasingly difficult to overcome in pursuing its Policy against China. By speaking out the people of all countries can compel the U.S. to back down and ® necessity of peaceful coexistence, the alternative to

Morgan: to speak on Town Meeting

Four opposition provincial party leaders, including Nigel Morgan of the Labor-Progres- sive Party, and a spokesman for Social Credit will be held this Friday, October 3, on Town Meeting of the Air, which will originate - from Pender Auditorium.

The question to be discussed on the program, which will be broadcast over CJOR, Sat- urday, October 4, 9 to 10 p.m., is: “Which Party is the Work- ingman’s Friend?”

Mark anniversary

The ninth, anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Republic will be celebrated here this conaing Sunday, October 5, with a concert meeting in Russian People’s .Home..at 1:30 p.m. and a banquet in Forbidden City at 6 p.m.

With world opinion united against it and even its closest allies reluctant to support it, the Eisenhower administration is hedging on its stated policy toward Quemoy and Matsu. But there is as yet no indication that the U.S. is abandoning its aggressive plans against China.

On Wednesday this week, President Eisenhower tacitly admitted the threat to the Chinese mainland posed by the Chiang Kai-shek regime’s concentration of some 100,000 troops on

Right-wing CCF leaders

face dilemma

By HAL GRIFFIN

Insistence of the right-wing CCF leadership on excluding independent unions from par- ticipation in Labor-CCF con- ferences is creating division in the CCF’s own ranks.

The dominant right-wing leadership is striving to in- terpret labor political action to mean ‘labor support — and finances — to elect a CCF government in this province. It takes as its starting point the resolution adopted by the last B.C. Federation of Labor convention holding the CCF to be the best means of at- taining labor’s ends ‘at this time.”

But since the BCFL pass- ed its resolution, over con- siderable opposition, a year ago the Canadian Labor Con- gress has adopted its own political action resolution en- visaging a far broader move- ment of labor, farmer and other progressive forces, in- cluding the CCF.

To strengthen its hand, the right-wing CCF leadership in this province, which also in- cludes CCFers holding top posts in the B.C, Federation of Labor and various unions, has called upon Claude Jodoin, CLC president, and Stanley Knowles, former CCF parlia- mentary whip who is now CLC vice-president, to in- terpret the CLC political action resolution. Both Jodoin and Knowles have arbitrarily ruled that independent unions must be excluded.

The right-wing leadership is now on the horns of a poli- tical dilemma of its own making.

As the recent Vancouver Labor-CCF conference show- ed, the right-wing CCF lead-

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heavily fortified Quemoy.

Speaking a day after U/S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had said it would not be “wise or prudent” for Chiang to concentrate one- third of his armed forces on the - offshore islands, Eisen- hower said it was “not a good thing” for Chiang to have so many troops there.

Confronted with overwhelm- ing hostile world opinion, both Eisenhower and Dulles, in an attempt to make it appear as though they were offering a concession while actually con-

ceeding nothing, spoke of re- ducing Chiang’s forces on the offshore islands, provided a cease-fire could be arranged.

But Chinese sources main- tain that the demand for a cease-fire is,a manouevre de- signed to force upon them per- manent acceptance of U.S. oc- cupation of Formosa and the offshore islands.

Eisenhower complained peevishly about lack of sup- port for his administration’s Formosa policy from USS.

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