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THE ADVOCATE

December 22, 1939

Congress Head

Advocate
Barred

From Air

CKANMO Refuses To
Reinstate Program
Approved By CBC

Although the Advocate has
received permission from the
Canadian Broadcasting Cor-
poration to go back on the air
with Labor News Highlights,
subject to severe restrictions,
radio station CKMO in this
city, over which the popular
newseast has been broadcast
without interruption for the
past two years, has refused to
reinstate the program.

Following enactmetnt of the War
Measures Act, several programs

- OVer City radio stations were sus-

pended, including a number of re-
iisious and political broadcasts.
Amons those barred from the air
was Mayor J. Lyle Telford. After
communication with Ottawa all
were reinstated with the exception
of the Advocate and Pederationist
newseasts on which the CBC de-
ferred its decision.

Protesting this arbitrary action,
the Advocate and Federationist
sought immediate reinstatement of
their programs. Both were in-
formed that they must not refer to
the war situation, to racial and
minority questions or to military
matters. Subject to these restric-
tions, Ottawa ruled, the programs
eould go back on the air.

While taking strong exception to
the limitations imposed by the
CBG, the Advocate accepted the
ruling, believing that even though
it would be prevented from broad-
easitine the truth about interna-
tional affairs, it could continue its
function
sive and accurate presentation of
labor news.

Radio station CKMO, however,
while reluctantly reinstating the
Federationist program, refused to
put the Advocate back on the air.
Given as a reason for refusal was
the fact that Tom Macinnes, fas-
spokesman

protest in 1938 and subsequently
reinstated, was also being denied
radio facilities by the station.
DISCREMINATION HIT.

Asked what this had to do with
their barring a labor newscast
station officials ad-
mitted that, even with limitations
sharply defined by the CBC, they
Gid not want to accept ‘responsibil-
ity for the program.

Dr R. Liewellyn Douglas, popu-
lar city dentist who has cooperated
with the Advocate in sponsoring
Labor News Highlights, endea-
yvored to obtain reinstatement, was
turned down.

“— have made every effort to
get the program back on the air,
but without success,” Dr. Doug-
las said this week “I believe you
should tell your readers why the
program has been cut off. Under
the circumstances the action of
the station amounts to discrimin-
ation against the labor move
ment and should be protest

of giving a comprehen-+

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Baladier Gov’t
Raids Offices Of
Dr. Juan Negrin

PARIS, France. — Offices
here of Dr. Juan Negrin,
premier of the Spanish Re-
publican government, were
raided last week by gen-
darmes acting under orders
of the Daladier government,
All records of the Spanish
Republican government
were seized.

In addition, the Daladier
government has cancelled
all visas and passports of
Spanish Republicans who
have taken refuge in France,
in preparation for delivering
them over to the Franco re-
sime, at whose hands death
or imprisonment awaits

them.

Demands Freedom

cS

AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER

Speakers from trade unions, the
Labor party and the Communist
party at a mass rally held here
,S0me weeks ago to celebrate de-
feat of conscription in 1916-17,
sounded a united protest against
Premier Menzies’ compulsory
military training scheme as lead-
ing directly to universal conscrip-
tion and demanded a world peace
conference.

“Be strengthened, be courageous

Newsguild
‘Head Dies

NEW YORE, NZ Heywood
Broun, president of the American
Wewspaper Guild and veteran col-

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umnist, died of pneumonia Mon-
day-
After rallying on Saturday,

Broun’s condition grew worse and
24 hours before his death he lost
consciousness.

At 51, Broun had spent 30 years
of his life in newspaper work as
reporter, sports writer, drama cri-
tic, book reviewer and columnist

In 1933, at the height of the NRA
organization wave, he and some
hewspaper colleagues formed the
"American Newspaper Guild which
has become a model for ‘white col-
lar’ unionism in Worth America.

In the six years of its existence,
the Guild, under Broun’s presi-
| dency, grew from a smali semi-pro-
| fessional society into a strong labor
union with signed contracts in
major American cities.

Broun was somewhat of a liberal
in American journalism,

termed the ‘liberal’ position.

We gained fame for his stand in
behalf of Sacco and Vanzzeiti for
which he was fired by the Pulitzers
from the New York World in 1928.
Subsequently he became associated
with the Socialist party and ran
for Congress on its ticket in 1939.
TARGET OF ‘RED-BAITTERS’

With emergence of the Guild and
his participation in practical trade
union activity, Broun became a
champion of the united front of
the working class; breaking with
his former Socialist colleagues
who were opposed to joint activity
with the Communist party.

Because of this advocacy and
because of his militant defense of
industrial unionism, civil liberties
and collective security, and his
readiness to cooperate with Com-
munists in the attainment of com
mon objectives, he was a favorite
target of ‘red baiters.’

With outbreak of the European
war and signing of the Soviet
German non-agegression pact,
Broun, like many other liberal in-
tellectuals, aligned himself with
the anti-Soviet camp and bitterly
eriticized the Communists.

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and fight,” was the clarion call is-
sued by the Australian Communist
partys chairman, L. Sharkey, in a
speech urging the people to organ-
izze and struggle against conscrip-
tion, against attacks on democratic
rights, for better living and for
defeat of the Menzies government.
Taking this demand for peace
into the federal parliament, Labor
MP B&B. J. Holloway demanded of
Premier Menzies that he allow the
people through their representa-
tives to express their opinion on
peace proposals before he made
any statement for the country.
Menzies reserved his reply for
a later date, thus arousing further
suspicion among workers that the
Australian federal government is
trailing along with the war policy
of the Chamberlain government.
In an earlier statement to the
Tribune, Sydney semi-weekly pa-
per, Holloway declared “the im-
mediate necessity of a world con-
ference is to me self evident.”
“Winety percent of the world’s
people want a world organized
for peace, not war,” he said. “This
ean be gained only by a system
of collective security, and this
ean be established only as the re-
sult of a world conference.”
Trade unions and councils in r
olutions have shown they stand
determinedly against continuance
of the war.
Most important among these
was that adopted by Queensland
Trade Union Congress which,
jecting the Australian Council of
Trade Unions’ declaration that it
was ‘Australia’s duty’ to prosecute
war, demanded an immediate
statement of war aims and a peace
conference.

re-

All affiliated Trades Hail coun-
cils were instructed to launch a4
campaign for a peace conference
and all unions urged to send simi-
lar resolutions to Premier Men-
zies.

Resolutions expressing similar
sentiments haye been passed by
Plasterers, Bricklayers, Clerks un-
ions, Ceniral Council of Railway
Shop Committees, Newcastle
Trades Hall council, Illawarra La-
bor council and many others, in-
cluding a recent meeting of shear-
ers at Cuppacumbalong which en-
dGorsed the trade union demand for
quick ending of the war.

That the people should “rise up
and seek peace” is the feeling of
many clergy in this country, vivid-
ly expressed by Rev. J. H. Wing at
a special Armistice Day social in
Newcastle.

‘Creative movements begin with
the masses of the people,” he said,
“Our need is to arouse the People
to vise up and seek peace.”

A statement condemning war
and branding conscription as “an
unwarrantable interference with
the rights and liberties of the peo-
ple,’ was issued by ten northern
eoalfields clergymen, demanding
a definition of war aims now. The
statement added: “We believe war
does not exempt any government
from its duty to provide work for
the unemployed.”

Grave warning of the lengths to
which the Menzies’ government is
prepared to go to defeat working
class organization was given by
the use of soldiers to break a

transport workers’ strike last
month.
Military forces were used to

unlead cargo from a ship at Dar-
win which workers had declined
to handie unless they received
increased wages. Even the ship’s
captain had admitted the men’s
demands were justified and ship-
owners were anxious that the
men be paid, yet federal authori-
ties sent soldiers to break the
strike.

Strone protest has been regis-
tered by local unions and Queens-
jand Trade Union Congress against
such a dangerous precedent.

The same Congress, meeting in
Brisbane recently, recommended
te trade unions the desirability of
a one-day strike to secure a 40-
nour weelx, urged them to work

Powerful Movement
Calls For Peace

z (Special to The Advocate)
SYDNEY, Australia—Recalling their tradition of successful
struggle for democratic rights, Australian people are condemn-
ing Bomoclsary military training and are raising an insistent
demand that peace negotiations be opened with a view to conclu-
sion of a truly democratic peace.

Moving the resolution, delegate
E. P. O’Brien, Townsville, remark-
ed that the people should be told
whether the war was to be con-
tinued against the workers of Ger-
many after Hitlerism was over-
thiown.

“The only people who can over-
throw Hitler are the German
people themselves,’ another del-
egate declared. “There can be
only one revolution in Germany
—a proletarian revolution—and
Chamberlain would rather nego-
tiate with Hitler than a German
workers’ government. British
policy for years was to support
German capitalism and Hitler
is merely an instrument,” he con-
tinued.

A similar stand was taken by
federal leaders of three of Aus-
tralia’s biggest unions, Waterside
Workers’ federation, Ironworkers’
union and the Miners’ federation,
who roundly condemned the pres-
ent compulsory military training
as leading inevitably toward uni-
versal conscription.

“Tt is in the interests of the
workers of the world that the
present war Should cease,” declar-
ed the federal committee of man-
agement of the Ironworkers’ union,
when it met at Sydney in October.
“A continuation and further de-
velopment of hostilities will mean
a huge sacrifice in human life, par-
ticularly will the lives of the work-
ers be thrown away.”

The Victorian Provincial Trades
Hall council, at which were repre
sented Trades Hall councils of Bal-
larat, Bendigo, Maryborough, Gee-
long, Castlemaine, and Mildura,
urged British and Australian gov-
ernments to call an immediate
peace conference, asserting that
“at such a conference peace would
not depend on the perjured word
of Hitler fascism and that the pres-
ence of the neutral countries, par—
ticularly the powerful Soviet Union,
would result in a democratic peace,
favoring neither Hitler mor those
who, under the guise of fighting
fascism, are attacking democracy
in their own countries.”

Hit Attack On Rights

for an increase in the basic wage
and standard of living commensur-—
ate with increased costs, increased
productivity and mechanization of
industry.

Parallel to the demand for in-
creased wages a tremendous
campaign against profiteering
and high food costs has swept
into being.

A packed rally in Darlinghurst
some weeks ago condemned the

activities of the Price Commission,
which has allowed prices to in-
erease. The rally demanded a $4
increase in the basic wage and
elected a vigilance committee to
take care of the people’s own in-
terests.

“The sole purpose of the Price
Fixing Commission in Australia is
to enable the big firms and mono-
polies to maintain in wartime the
same rate of profit they did before
the war,” declared New South
Wales Labor council’s president,
J. R. Hughes, himself a member of
the Gommiussion, ‘a dubious honor,’
he remarked.

Reaction in Australia urged that
the NSW legislature should be re-
cessed before it had hardly opened,
while several federal ministers,
Minister of Health Sir Erederic
Stewart, Postmaster-General Har-
rison and Assistant-Treasurer P. C.
Spender have tentatively suggest-
ed ‘constitutional reform, by abo-
lition_ of state parliaments — the
same” "ery. raised by reactionaries in
Canada.

A terrific barrage of criticism of
any such proposals, while the people
are fighting profiteering, high costs
and wage taxes, is coming from la-
bor circles.

State Communist party chair-
man & EK. Knight, declared the
NSW government was afraid to
face criticism from labor opposi-
tion and from one of its own sup-
porters.

Protests from the labor move-

ment has also been lodged
against the Queensland police
ban on all open air political

meetings, which has resulted in
obvious discrimination against

Communist party meetings and
the Tribune.

Rockhampton Trades and Labor
council regretted “that a labor
government should be a party to
such an undemocratic action.”

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Nehru
States
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Declares Freedom
For India Test
Of Asserted Aims
LONDON, Eng. (Passed
by British Censor)—Jawahar-
lal Nehru, former president of
the All-India National Con-
gress party and leader of the
Indian liberation movement,
last week replied categorically

to British demands for Indian
aid in the conduct of the war.

In a letter to the London News
Chronicle, Nehru declared:

“Tf this war is for democracy
and self-determination and
against aggression it cannot be
fer annexations indemnities or
reparations, for keeping colion-
ial peoples in subjection and for
maintaining the imperialist sys-
tem.

“Ror this urgent reason Con-
gress has invited the British gov-
ernment to state its war and peace
aims clearly and particularly how
these apply to the imperialist or-
der and to India. India can take
no part in defending imperialism,
but she will join in the struggle
for freedom.

“This historic opportunity must
be seized by recognizinge India as
a free nation with rights to draw
up her constitution and her char-—
ter of independence.

“Anything short of this will
mean losing this opportunity and
keeping alive the spirit of friction
and hostility between India and
Emeiland.

“It will mean that not only
we in India but others will doubt
the -sincerity of the war and
peace aims and there will be a
divergence between what is pro-
fessed and what is done.

“Phe first step must therefore
be a declaration of india’s full free—
dom.

“India wants to forget the past
of conflict and stretch out her
hand in comradeship. She can do
so only as a free nation on terms
of equality.

“She must be convinced that the
past is over and that we are all
Striving for a new order not only
in Europe but in Asia and the
world.”

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