tye Ting fH ol Ne, October 13, 1939. THE ADVOCATE Page Five . FORUM OF THE*PEOPLE Red Army Entered Ukraine As Army Of Liberation, Not As Invading Force, Declares This Reader To the Editor—For several weeks the eyes of the world were centered on Poland. When the Nazi army crossed the bor- der, the news came through that the Poles were resisting. The Polish government fled and left the mass of the peo- ple, defeated, disorganized and in despair, their cities bombed, their homes destroyed and their national life disrupted and ruined. Resrets and vague promises were handed to them. Then we heard that the Red Army had “invaded” Poland and “stabbed Poland in the back.” A modern army, of sev- eral thousand men, had crossed the frofitier for several thou- sand miles. But how different was this so-called “invasion!” We heard nothing of bombing of cities, no burning of homes, no destruction of national life. Instead we heard, given by newspapers reluctantly, that there was very little resistance, that the Red Army was wel- comed, that troops imprisoned had been released and told to go back to their homes. Guards lic and private property and buildings. With the army, we learned, was an “auxiliary corps” whose function was to teach the peo- ple the value of cooperation in the development of economic and cultural life. This auxiliary corps has no need to use force, only persuasion and example of the advantages of cooperation. The peasants were told to di- vide the land between them. They were given the joint use of all agricultural implements. had been placed to protect pub- Workers were told to take over the factories, thus putting an end to exploitation of man by man. These remarkable facts do mot seem to interest our local papers, who insist that Russia “invaded” Poland and is now “jnvading” Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. 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Opinions expressed on this page are solely those of con- | Big Capital Anticipates Fuge Profits To the Editor: I went to hear one of Dr. Clem Davies’ lectures in the Legion hall here recently. i had hoped to hear a forthright denunciation of war profiteering: and speculation in foodstuffs. In- stead I came away feeling that, all his claims to the contrary. Dr. Davies has not the interests of the people at heart, in one form or another, he re- peated all the threadbare charges of reaction, that a non-ageression pact is the same thing as a mili- tary alliance, that the Soviet Union is doomed and so on. He made no mention of war profiteering, which already is working tremendous hardships on Our people. His attitude was that we are all in this war now, any- way, and can forget about finance- capital because it doesn’t matter. 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Hastings \~ —) PHOTOGRAPHEES DRUM FURNACES: Sawdust or Wood —.________.$25.00 up DRUM HEATERS —.$5.00 up All kinds of Welding and Stove Repairs City Weidinge 1527 Main Street TODAY IN FRANCE Democratic Liberties Assailed By Reaction : NEW YORK, NY—Reports from Paris reaching New Yorl this week indicate the extent to which the democratic rights of the French people are being curtailed and abolished. Since outbreak of war reactionary forces in France have intensified their drive against the labor movement under cover of a violent press campaign of slander and distortion, utilizing extraordinry war powers to achieve their aims. Directing the campaign is. Georges Bonnet, former foreign minister and now minister of jus- tice, whose pro-fascist connections and activities were mercilessly ex— posed by i’Humanite, French Communist organ. L’Humanite was banned at the beginning of the war when the campaign against the Communist party was intensified. Since then scope of the drive has been widen- ed to include militant trade unions and other labor organizations as the Daladier government, profess- ing anti-fascist war aims, follows the path to fascism. Months before the crisis explod- ed into war the Daladier govern- ment announced a decree that there would be no national elec- tions for two years after regular constitutional powers of the pres- ent Chamber of Deputies had lap- sed. The next step, taken two weeks before war began, was the sup- pression of the Communist morn- ing paper, L’Humanite, and the progressive Paris afternoon paper, Ce Soir. At the time Leon Blum, Socialist party leader, timidly suggested that such undemocratic action was unwise. Police raids on Communist, labor and union halls followed. PARTY DISSOLVED. Then, on Sept. 26, cables an- mounced that the French govern- ment had issued a decree dissoly— ing the Communist party of France and all groups connected with it. It should be recalled that the French Communist party had 72 elected deputies in the Cham- ber and two members in the Sen- ate, that its deputies represent 1,200,000 votes polled in the 1936 general election, that since that time its membership had grown te close to 500,000. However, in France, according to the constitution of the Republic, elected deputies enjoy parliamen- tary immunity. The Communist deputies met and constituted themselves into the Workers and Peasants Group. Leon Blum declared that his party approved the dissolution but he > considered the action a “tactical error” by the government. Qn October 5 the French gov- ernment announced a recess of parliament for an indefinite per- iod. Then began a series of arrests of the workers’ and peasants par- liamentary deputies. The immediate cause given was that these elected representatives had sent a letter to the president of the French session suggesting that parliament be called into ses- Sion to discuss peace possibilities. According to United Press, the Communist letter on peace said in part: “We moust prevent a prior re- jection of peace propositions which would entail the risk of a catastrophic adventure. We want @ just and durable peace and we think it can be obtained rapidly. Im the face of the imperialist war-mongers and with Nazi Gér- many a prey to internal contra- dictions, there is the power of the Soviet Union which can per mit the realization of a policy of collective security capable of assuring peace and safeguard- ing the independence of France.” Power was assumed by the sovy-— ernment to remove all elected mu- Hicipal councils and mayors at its discretion and it is reported that 317 municipal councils will be re— placed by appointed commission- ers. Forty-nine parliamentary depu- ties are reported under arrest and others, including the most prom- iment members, Maurice Thorez, Andre Marty, Florimond Bonte and A -Ramette were being sought without immediate success. it is reported that during the eourse of the government cam- paisn of suppression only four Communist deputies have resigned from the party. They are Jules Fournier, Marcel Bront, Paul Lou- bradon and Gustave Sausset. At a meeting of Socialist mem- bers of parliament with party representatives, by 115 votes to S$ with eight abstentions, a reso- lution approving of government's ’ action was passed. Here is a news story taken from the “‘Iwenty Years Ago” column in the Province of Oct. 3. “No Names. Christian names are to be abol- ished in Soviet Russia on the ground that they are reminis- cent of the reactionary system. They will be replaced by num- bers. Each child at birth will be given such a number.” That was the kind of news handed out to the people of BC by the capitalist press, in 1919. It was phoney, as we Know today, but many people believed it because “they read it in the papers.” It was a lie made out of the whole cloth. The truth is that the only people who had a number tagged onto them were the land-owning and capitalist thieves and their hired henchmen, and it was the skidoo number—23._ Today, the news they publish is just as reliable as the item above and in Jess than twenty years from now people who believe what they “read in the papers” will learn the truth. What must we do to offset this barrage of lying and slander, of distortion of fact and misinterpretation of what cannot be distorted, where the workers’ interests are concerned; this dope which passes for news in the capitalist press? There is only one answer, we must build our own press. We must get the news straight and true, without having it distorted and twisted like a Nazi cross to suit the ruling class. That is why we must all get behind the Advocate drive and ensure the financial structure which will maintain it through all tests. if you are not on some press committee and want to do something to help, go out on your own and send in the results to help our column to make its share of that $4000. 23-Skidoo! Com an The spirit of the profiteer already begins to show Ze 'P Ly that it has real, tangible and serviceable teeth. At Union. Wells in the Cariboo, the miners of the Cariboo Gold Quartz Mines have a company union. That is to say, they are even worse off than if the boss had to deal with them individually. For a man to belong to a so-called “company union” means that he is organized in the bosses’ interest and contrary to his own. ihast week the press carried a news item which told that the “miners’ union” at the Cariboo Gold Quartz had made an agreement with the company calling off all industrial disputes for the duration of the war. Any discussion regarding hours and wages, now and until the end of the war, will be strictly unpatriotic and no third parties will be allowed to disturb this idyllic condition, that is, no Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ union organizers will be permitted to show their face in the neighborhood of the company’s operations. Just what does such an agreement mean? The news item says, “The management of the company has strongly impressed on its workers the national importance of their service in maintaining the country’s gold production.” This means only one thing; that through its union the management has been able to put over a fast one on the unprotected Wells miners by a scheme which condemns them to work for the same rates of wages and under the same rotten condi- tions without any possibility of betterment, while the cost of living is rising quicker than the mythological beanstalk of our nursery— rhyme days. An W. C. Mainwaring, general sales manager of the 2 BC Electric Railway Co., told the Junior Board of Authority. Trade, at a luncheon the following day, that prices were bound to increase and that living costs would increase at 2 higher rate than wages, at first. He knows, and the Cariboo Quartz management knows, but the miners don’t, or they would never have allowed themselves to be vic- timized by such a one-sided agreement. When Mainwaring said that living costs would increase at a higher rate than wages, AT HIRST, he meant that wages would not go up just because the prices of com- modities were going up, but that the workers would have to fight for the increases to meet the rise in the cost of living. The bosses never raise wages out of the goodness of their hearts, but because they are compelled to, either by strikes or te prevent strikes which will affect their profits. in taking advantage of the patriotic sentiments of the miners em- ployed by them, the Cariboo Gold Quartz Management is playine true to the form of its class. Its patriotism is a matter of dollars, dimes and cents, like that of the profiteers who made millions by selling to the sovernment in the last war rotten hams, paper-soled shoes and rifles that had to be discarded. Logical Despite this agreement which the company has R I fooled them into signing, these Wells miners will esult. have to ditch it, as the cost of everything they use goes up. In the last war the cost of living was more than doubled. This time it may be even worse. The price of sold may remain Stationary. That is the affair of the mine-owners. At the present moment the miners of Canada are giving them the flea-bite of over half a million dollars worth of gold daily. During the first six months of this year gold production was greater than at any period in the history of Canada, amounting to $87,000,000. So the mine bosses are not doing so badly! But the price of everything else will go up. That is the affair of the miners. And making miners’ wages So up with the increasing prices of other commodities than labor power, will only be accom- plished by fighting the mine-owners. The miners at the Cariboo Gold Quartz will have to take part in that fight as well as the miners at Bridge River, Atlin, the Kootenays, Zeballos and other auriferous fields. It will be easier for them to keep pace with the rise in the cost of living if they get into the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ union with the other miners of BC. Balt “Germans whose families have been in Latvia for B 700 years are about to be removed from there by arons. mass evacuation, to Germany.’ Thus reads the news from Riga. Riga, for the last twenty years, has been a lie factory for dis- seminating slander about the Soviet Union. Now that Riga is under the influence of the Soviet: Union, the news from there begins te sound like the truth. What kind of people are they who can trace their descent back for 700 years? Decidedly not members of the working class! Only jland-owners have occasion to boast of such a family tree. So these Germans who have been 700 years in the Baltic states are undoubtedly the Balt barons who have been an interminable source of trouble in the little Baltic countries Since the 12th century. They are the de— scendants of the Teutonic knights who fastened themselves like leeches on the landrents of these countries until their further progress was halted by the Russians under Alexander Nevski on the marsh_ land borders of Esthonia. After 700 years, the German dream of conquest of these northern lands is at an end. And this ending was brought about by the might of the Soviet workers’ republic. Hitler admitted this when he said in his speech of Oct. 6 that “the east and south of Burope is to a larse extent filled wtih splinters of the German nationality .._. Germany and the Union of Soviet Republics have come to an agreement to Support each other in this matter.” “Supportine= each other” means that he is to move his trouble-making Germans out of these countries. They were driven out once before by the Gettish people but the British and French imperialists re-established them. They will stay out this time. Wote the difference, too, between the deportation of the Germans from Latvia and deportation of the Jews from Germany. The Ger- mans are asking $600,000,000 compensation for the Property they own in Latvia, and will probably get it. But the Jews were despoiled of $400,000,000 and chased out of Germany penniless to be thrown on the world’s charity.