fi: Bi BG WORKERS’ NEWS July 10, 1936 --Gallacher, Life-Long : anist Member for ' t Fife to Speak Jere Aug. 19 " Gallecher, Communist “the =Cottish coal-mining aie of SV est Fife, has been = since that day in the year nm he was born in the Scot- ‘otton-thread town of Paisley. ather, am irish laborer, died William was seven years old. “ten he had to start earming ‘ng aS an errand boy to help er who bad a hard struggle mee. In his early twenties, 4 was attracted towards i . after much reading P = > king, joined the In- fad Pe IT Party. Soon he : Row 42 singed with that organ- ee oh ott if to join the British ge eourty, Marxist organiza- ae oP yhich he remained until the of inist Party was formed in » + Britain in 1920. out if Was As an industrial and rade union fighter that the name of rallacher first became famous in he British working-class move- nent. During the last Imperialist var, the city of Glasgow and the urroundine district —known popu- arly as’ Glydeside — became famous ar the fierceness of the strugsle of Meguiars workers against the d to maintain working class j %eand liberties. , Struggle, the name of Gal- stands out as a foremost % the Shop Stewards, who the might of the Imperialist ‘ent and made men like a sorge and Churchill come to to-- plead — unavailinely workers for class-collabora- olitically, during this period, :ighter For Labor, Visitor 6 — @ ———————— Gallacher worked in close tion with John McLean, the “fiery petrol” of the Clyde, a man whom the government feared more than anyone else in Britain and whom they repeatedly imprisoned. Gallacher himself saw the inside of a Scottish prison more than once during the war and more than once since. The last time was when he —as one of the twelve leaders of the Communist Party — was sentenced to twelve months, in 1925, for “‘sedi- tious conspiracy.” After the war ended, Gallacher went to Moscow- where he attena, ed the Second Congress of the Com- munist International. It was there that he finally renounced the anti- parliamentary views which he had previously held and adhered to the line of the World Communist Party. On his return io Britain, he play- ed a great part in breaking down the sectarian opposition of his old Shop Steward associates and in creating the Wnited Communist Party of Great Britain. From that day to this, he has been one of the best known leaders in the British working-class move- ment and at the last World Con- gress of the G.I. was elected a mem- ber of its executive committee. At the general election held last November, the working-class voters of West Fife showed their confid- ence in his record by returning him as their member of parliament on an uncompromising revolutionary platform, despite the most frenzied efforts on the part of the bourgeois parties to keep him out. Since his election, inside parlia- ment and out, he has done trojan work in laying the basis for a solid united working-class front against Fascism and war and for the de- fense of working-class liberties. associa- Advance,” New Youth pf “Advance,” Canada’s youth maga- ine, is here! rom tri-colored cover o the back page, it reflects the deals and needs of the young people f£ today. it contains short stories, riicles on the Olympics, the com- ne war, Canadian Youth Congress, mor by Mel Colby, etc. Although it is a youth magazine, ‘ou don’t necessarily haye to be a ‘ounge person io be a reader—old eopley and those not so old, will ind! if yery interesting and will get ieee education from it. OS fo 0" is in a Class by itself. _youthful, interesting and in- five; not only that, but it is ing out the trail the youth | “slow to improve their lives day to day, and how Socialism. Feinally be attained; but if “Ad- * ce? is