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_ Following is the text of the
‘Statement issued by the national
€xecutive committee of the Labor-
Progressive party on the death
of Paul Phillips.

Sane né@onal. executive com-
Mittee ef the Labor-Progressive
Party sorrowfully announces the
death of Paul Phillips, one of
the outstanding leaders of our
Party and a comrade beloved for

‘selflessness and complete de-
Votion to the cause of socialism
and the emancipation of the peo-

’ ple of our country from capitalist

Oppression.

Our comrade Phillips died at
4 o'clock on the afternoon of
Monday, November 14, in Toron-
to General Hospital after an ill-
hess of three weeks. The cause
of his death was established as
an abcess of the liver.

We wish to pay tribute to the

doctors who attended him until

death and to the staff of

Toronto General Hospital who up-

held the fine traditions of Cana-

dian medic®&e in their stern
hattle to save his life.
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Paul was born on October 8,

1908, in the Ukraine. As a young

boy he and his family suffered
‘om tsarist oppression and from

_ the brutal attacks of the pogrom-

ists. During the years of the
Revolution and civil war his
family like many others were
Scattered. However, in his ten-
der years he became aware of
the necessity for the struggle for
freedom and actively participat-
€d as a schoolboy in the revolu-
tionary movement.

In his teens he came to Canada
and worked in Montreal as a

Presser in the dress trade, active- |

ly helping to build the union and
Tapidly learning that the same
fundamental problems stand be-
fore the working people of this
Country as they do before the
Working people in every capital-
Ist country. :
_ He joined the Young Commun-
League soon after his arrival
in Canada in the early twenties

and also became a member of

€ Communist Party of Can-
ada. He was a member of the
Montreal city committee of the
Communist Party of Canada and
Tapidly advanced to a position of
leadership.

When the great economic crisis

- Of 1929 occurred and the Com-

Munists of Canada assumed lead-
€tship of the struggle of the peo-
Ple against its terrible effects up-

_ 00 them, Paul was asked to come

Toronto as an organizer of

€ Young Communist League, in

which capacity he participated in

1 € great free speech fight of

920-30 and devoted himself to

the building of the working class
youth movement.

_. , Once more he was very active

the needle trades market as a
Wilder of the union and many
is recall his leadership in the
ag of the Holman and Sable

Strike,

_. During the thirties and during

the war when the Communist

_ Party and the Young Communist

€ague were declared illegal, he

Continued his work as an organ-

ler of the Toronto city commit-
» paying special attention to
in Ward Four and in Spa-

Was widely known and loved

Seti oan x

After the war Paul assumed

: leadership’. of the work of the

LPP tribute to Paul Phillips”
‘Staunch character

idealism’
party among the national groups
whose progressive organizations
will sorely miss his close know-
ledge of their problems and of
some of their languages. He was
an accomplished linguist and
deeply versed in the national cul-
tures of the people who make up
our country and this was trans-
formed into brilliant political
leadership because of his Com-
munist internationalism.

He was an example of that
self-discipline which is the basis
of the indispensable discipline
which characterizes the party of
Communists. His helpful daily
sadvice will be widely missed, and
the wisdom which he displayed
in helping the people of the na-
tional groups to combat chauvin-
ism -and to develop among them
the highest expression of demo-
cratic Canadianism, was always
combined with a respect for and
the development of their own
cultural contributions to a demo-
cratic Canadian culture.

Paul’s practical and theoreti-
cal work among the national
groups was a power and a beacon
which will always be felt and
seen in this broad field of Cana-
dian progressive tradition.

os 503 x

Comrade Phillips became a
member of the national commit-
tee of the Labor-Progressive par-
ty and its executive in 1946.

He was the treasurer of the
Labor-Progressive party and as
such knew perhaps more than
most all the sacrifices and devo-
tion expressed by the left wing
movement in the raising of money

from the people to advance the
cause of Canadian independence,
democracy and socialism.

The hundreds of party mem-

bers who dealt with Paul on these

matters will testify to the con-
cern and helpfulness which he
displayed in solving the difficult
financial problems which always
attend the socialist movement un-
der capitalism. His relationship
with people in this respect was
an anticipation of the comradely
and friendly relations between
people respecting material things
which will one day become the
quality of all the people.

og seg 53

Paul Phillips was a Communist
of exceptional purity of charac-
ter and high idealism. He was a
patient, understanding and very
modest man who found his way
to combine the highest devotion
to principle with the most human
consideration of practical diffi-
culties.

His loss to the Labor-Progres-
sive party and to the people of
Cahada is an immense one and
we call upon our party to close
its ranks and to do what Paul
himself would have wanted us
to do — to fight harder for our
party program, to instil the deep-
est love of our country among all
the people and to redouble our
efforts to bring closer the day
when our dear country will be
forever free from the scourge of
capitalist insecurity and war.

In 1946 Paul suffered a grave
sorrow at the sudden death of
Jean Phillips, his wife, the
daughter of A. E. Smith and the
mother of his sons, Peter and
Eric. Paul’s profound sorrow at
that. critical moment of his life
was borne with dignity and mar-
vellous courage. _

To Rivka Phillips his wife, to
Peter and Erie his sons, to his
little daughter Susan, and to his
sister in Montreal, we extend our

deepest sympathy and love.

oN

LPP mourns deat
of Paul Phillips

The Labor-Progressive party has lost one of its most able and devoted national leaders

TORONTO

by the untimely death of Paul Phillips in Toronto General Hospital on is week.
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Phillips, who was 47 years of age, was the Labos-Progressive marta een. 2 and
a member of both its national executive and national committee.

From Regina, where he is
attending the LPP Saskatchewan
convention this weekend, Ti
Buck, LPP national leader, sent
a wire of sympathy to the
bereaved family in “the grievous
loss we share with you,” and a
message that read, in part:

“The loss of ‘our dear comrade
Paul fills my heart with sorow.
He personified the complete
dedication to our ideals that
makes people. of a special mould,
warm in his personal relations,
undeviating in his devotion, con-
siderate of others and unsparing
of himself. Paul made a tre-
mendous contribution to our
movement. His place will be
hard to fill.”

Tributes to Paul Phillips to be
read at funeral services Thurs-

day were received from all parts | :

of the country. Among them

were messages and wreaths from].

the B.C.-Yukon and Vancouver
committees of the LPP and the
staff of the Pacific Tribune.

Paul Phillips is survived by |}
his wife, Rivka; two sons, Peter |}

and Eric; a daughter, Susan, aly
in Toronto; and a sister in Mon-
treal.

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PAUL PHILLIPS

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Canadian - Soviet Friendship _
group plans new activities |

The Vancouver branch of the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society. is launchi

a new

program of varied activities designed to appeal to the special i seeking new
; pecial interests of le s

approaches to the problems of their chosen fields, the society Te ee cai

gram will see the society offering opportunities to musicians, educationalists, students of

literature, doctors and artists, through articles a
Soviet approach and achievements. —

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Burnaby candidate
\

Alex Kucher, a lifelong resi-
dent of Burnaby, announced this
week that he will contest a
parks board seat ,as.an inde-
pendent candidate in Burnaby’s
December 10 municipal elec-
tions. He will campaign for
establishment of a municipally
sponsored recreational centre
with an indoor swimming
pool, an ice rink and gym-.
nasium. Development of parks
is another plank in his plat- .
form. “Burnaby needs to ask
for assistance from the pro-
vincial government to develop
parks that will be real cen-

tres of pleasure and relaxation,”
he says. : pele

Union, owners
agree on cut

Bargaining committee of the
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union and the commit-
tee of the Fishing Vessel-Owners
Association this week agreed to
recommend a settlement of the
herring dispute based on 43%
percent to boat and net and 56%4
percent to the crews. ;

“N@g could have sat tight and

‘|required the owners to move all
|the way to 43 percent,” said

Homer Stevens, UFAWU secre-
tary. “The Vessel Owners ad-
mitted they were concerned about
‘saving face. That is why we
did not put forward the 43% per-
cent which we proposed to them

last week.”

The union committee agreed
to recommend acceptance of the
Vessel Owners’ offer to ‘avoid
unnecessary bickering and in an
effort to re-establish some har-

mony in the industry.

Union members in the co-op
operation voted on the new offer
Wednesday this week. Part of
the proposed settlement was that
$8,000 held in trust for arbitra-

tion out of last- year’s co-op

operation will bepaid over to
the crew members.’ » uss

PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

nd discussions dealing. in detail with the

The ‘society proposes in the
coming year to distribute tech-
| nical literature on medicine; music
and other arts and sciences, and
to promote panel discussions,
‘concerts and exhibitions of books
and works of art demonstrating
i the latest developments in the
Soviet Union. — sas £3551

|

This fall saw the first of a series
of musical concerts, tobe con-
tinued in the New Year, and this
month a series of three Soviet
films during the month of Novem-
ber marks the beginning: of san
effort to bring Soviet films regu-
larly to Vancouver.

The society is asking persons
desiring to take part in diseus-
sions of Soviet developments in
whichever fields of the arts, the
sciences. or-labor they are en-
gaged, to contact the society’s
executive secretary, Mrs. Florence
Dorland, 3440 Fromme Road,
North Vancouver, _ .

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