December 29, 1939. THE ADVOCATE Page Five Sask. Te Stalin grateful to Stalin for his sympathy for the Chinese people. Text of Chiang Kai-shék’s preet- ing read: “I heartily congratulate you on the occasion of your G0th birth- day. “The prosperity and progress of your state during the last few years have been achieved thanks to your great leadership. Similar unprecedented successes arouse the respect of the whole world. “China which at present is strain- ang all efforts in resisting the enemy in its struggle for establish- ing 2 state on the basis of the three national principles (of Sun Watsen) experiences feelings of Special respect and gratiude for the leadership in the great plans of stateconstruction you are carry- ing out, for your Strivinges to sta- bilize peace throughout the world and particularly for your sympathy for our war of resistance. “On behalf of the whole army and the entire people of China, al- low me to tender to you the warm- @st congrtulations.” Greetings Sent By People’s Gov’t TERIJORI, Finland—The people’s Sovernment of Minland on the oc- “easion of the 60th birthday of Sta- jin sent greetings to the leader of the Soviet people on behalf of the Finish workins people Text of the message was: “Qn behalf of the Finnish work- ins people who are fighting hand in hand with the heroic Red Army for the liberation of their country from the yoke of the White Guard hans— men and hirelings of foreign im- perialist warmongers and for the wictory of the independent Demo- cratic Republic of Finland, the People’s government on the occasion of Stalin’s 60th birthday expresses its profound respect for the great friend of the Finnish people, Stalin, whose name will always be a sym- bol of the friendship and frater- nity of the peoples of the Soviet Union and Finland, as well as of ail the peoples of the world.” The telesram was signed, “Otto uusinen, on behalf of the peapie's gevernment cf Finland.” New York Meet Sends Greetings NEW YORK NyY.—Twenty thou- Sand people attending a Madison Square Garden meeting last week passed resolutions greeting the democratic People’s Republic of Finland and its leader, Otto Kuusi-_- nen, and the 60th birthday of Jo- seph Stalin. Organizing Drive WASHINGTON, DC. — At the CIO’s Southern Organizing confer- ence last week plans were made for an organizational drive through- eut the southern United States. a < ) chers Protest Lo /THROUGHOUT CANADA after June 30, 1940, for a salary Guelph Workers Out On Strike GUELPH, Ont. — More than i150 workers at Lancashire Pelt com- panys factory here are out on Strike following breakdown of ne gotiations with the company. All departments of the factory are closed down. Strikers are demanding a 20 per- cent increase in piecework rates, a 10 percent wage increase for day laborers, fewer hours of labor, and a closed union shop. Herman Finkelstein, organizer of the United Hatters union (AFI) Will Refuse Schools Under $700 Minimum REGINA, Sask.—Eighty-five percent of teachers attending conventions of the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation have voted for the resolution pledging them not to accept schools of less than $700 a year, accord- ing to J. H. Sturdy, secretary of the teachers’ body. decisred that workers are organized 100 percent. A picket line was formed immediately the strike was declared. NS Fishermen Win Demands HALIFAX, NS. — Solidarity of Some 650 CIO fishermen and fish handlers at Lockeport, who recently forced withdrawal of RCMP sent to break the strike, was rewarded by wictory last week The fisheries combine was forced to grant the demands of the men, including rec- Ognition of their union. Im contrast to the drunkenly ex- travagant reports of Hinnish White Guard victories circulated to an over-eager world capitalist press, the following sober appraisal of three weeks’ fighting in Finland, which recéived scant attention in the same press, was issued by the Red Army last week. Said the Soviet communique: “Summing up the result of the Past three weeks of hostilities in Finland, one should admit that Soviet troops scored important suc- cesses during this period. - “In Worth Finiand, Soviet troops, having occupied the part of Pet samo, Dec. i, advanced i130 kilo- meters (about 81 miles) into the interior of Finland, counting from the coast of the Barents Sea near Petsamo Bay, which makes on an average six kilometers (315 miles) a day. “In the Uleaborse direction Soviet treops advanced 150 kilometers (about 92 miles), or an average of %72 kilometers a day. In the Ser- Gobel direction Soviet trd0ps ad- vanced 80 kilometers (50 miles) or on an average of four kilometers a day- “In the Viborg (Viipuri) direc- tion, Soviet troops advanced 60 ixil- ometers (40 miles) from the Strate frontier, on an average of 3.2 Idilo- meters a day. “In all directions Soviet troops captured 18 officers, 105 non-com- maissioned officers, 1,302 privates, 35 canonn, 350 machine Suns, 3,000 rifles, 21 trench mortars, 220 gren- ade throwers and seven armored cars. Seviet casualties were i,823 killed, 7,000 wounded. The Finns lost 2,200 killed, found on terri- ADVOCATE CLASSIFIED These merchants and professional men offer you their services at competitive prices. By advertising in these columns they support your paper. By patronizing them you ensure continuance of their support. Make it a point to deal with Advocate advertisers wherever possible. ADVERTISING RATES Classified, 3 lines 45c. 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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE Soviet Issues Summar Of Finnish Conflict y tory occupied by Soviet troops and not counting those iilled on the enemy’s territory by the fire ef Soviet artillery and machine Suns and picked up and taken te the rear by Finnish troops. “According to approximate fig- ures at the disposal of headquar— ters the number of wounded Finns exceeds 10,000. “The foreign press, especially the French and British, regards this rate of adyance by Soviet troops 2s too slow, attempting to explain this by the ‘low fighting capacity of the Red Army. “Some Military observers go even further, assertins that the of fensive of the Soviet troops ‘failed’ Since there was no lightning blow and the Soviet troops failed to do away with the Finnish troops in one week. “Undoubtedly such villification of the Red Army can be explained either by overt and crude slander against the Red Army or by the igMorance of its authors in military affairs.” “The territory of Finland pre- Sents most serious difficulties for movements of troops. hack of roads, rugged terrain, impassable forests ,innumerable lakes divided by innumerable isthmuses spanned by several lines of defenses con- sisting of concrete gun and ma- chine-gun emplacements with con- crete refuges for troops—thesse are conditions hindering the rapid ad- vance of troops on Finland’s ter- ritory. “Finland was building these fortifications for four years with the aid of three foreign states which fought among themselves for influence in Finland as a base for attack on Leningrad and lat er on Moscow. “In its defense power this sys- tem of artificial fortifications, as, for instance, on the Karelian Isth- mus, reinforced by natural condi- tions, is in no way inferior to the defense power of the fortified Sieg- fried Line on the western frontier of Germany, against which Angio- French troops have been fumbling already for four months without making the slightest progress. “The Red Army knew of these difficulties in Finland, and there— fore never expected to annihilate the Finnish troops by one light- ning blow. “Only ignorance or overt hostil- ity toward the Red Army could ascribe to Red Army leaders the wish to do away with the Finnish treops in one week. “The HKarelian Isthmus is the mest difficult area, covered with a dense network of fortifications spanning the area between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Lado- ga. Soviet troops advanced here at am average of 3.2 kilometers (two miles) a day, and Finland’s principal line of defense, the so- called Mannerheim Line, already has been broken in several places. “If one compares this rate of progress of the Red Army in the area of the Mannerheim Line with that which is being done by the Anglo-French troops in the area of the Siegfried Line, one is bound to admit that Soyiet troops scored: important successes, while the An- gle-Prench troops were markine time and suffered complete failure. “Why is it, indeed, that the for- eigm press shows Do interest in the ] w Wages Continued Elections lic works for years are now will= img to spend $11,000,000 over the mext four years,’ he said. Questioned by Dr. W. H. Butt, board of education chairman, on his attitude to the war, Ald. Smith declared: : “Pm against the policy which led up to the war and I’m against the war. I want every elector to know that. But I don’t think it has anything to do with the present civic election.” Labor, progressive, and small taxpayers’ organizations are rally- ing behind the campaign to elect Smith, Salsberg, Collins and Bell. Real issues confronting Toron- to voters have been outlined in a leaflet issued by the election com- mittee. Says the leaflet: “Every man who enters civic af- fairs has to choose between service to the common citizens and service to wealthy groups. “Wealthy groups have ‘axes to grind’ at the city hall. Big gasoline companies need stooges. Approval of big corporations falls upon those who are prepared to wink at their special privileges. They are biz newspaper advertisers. They have influence. Just go along with the general run of things and you will be assured of an easy ‘civic career.’ You are sure of support in the ‘Tight places.’ “Choose to serve the interests of the common citizens and you are in for a tough time. You find the common citizens have little influence. They control no news- paper advertising. They have no ‘power.’ You are faced at once with a thousand obstacles. You buck up against the special privi- leges of powerful corporations. They can mobilize a lot of cars on election day. YWou soon find yourself denounced on ‘every hand. Your statements are unre— ported or distorted. Doors begin to close on you. it is made clear that you have a ‘great future’ if you will simply ‘switch over.’ “But what if you don’t ‘switch over’? Then, be prepared to face @ merciless campaign of mud-— slinging and lies.. Be prepared to See all the powers-that-be organiz— ed to defeat you. “That is the experience of Ald. Stewart Smith» He will never ‘Switch over’.”’ Lhe pamphlet cites the fact that Ald. Smith has yoted consistently against the high tax rate during the past few years, has fought against high milk prices and secured res- ulations of the ‘coal racket’ in the interests of the taxpayers. TORONTO, Ont. — Lewis Dun- can, Toronto barrister, who last year polled more than 50,000 votes in the mayoralty contest and who is again a candidate for mayor, Jast week lashed out at Premier Mitchell Hepburn, deseribing him “2s our local Hitler in the parlia- ment buildings.” “Qne oi the chief issues of this Campaign is the people versus the press,” Duncan said. “In this election you may have foisted upon you by our local WBitler in the parliament buildings a civic gevernment that will be yours two years or until the end of the war. “The newspapers have been run- ning this city since the war,’ de- clared Duncan. “Some of them have been boasting about it. You can’t have democratic szovernment in this city if the press does not publish the speeches of the candi- dates so that you may judge. “We have given the press great privileges today. It can go farther in the way of slander and innuen- dco and get away with it than you or IT can. Some of them have reach-— ed a pretty fine art at slanderins by innuendo in their editorial col- umns. “Let tthem have it. But in their news columns, how are you going to get to know the candidates through the newspapers? it is practically impossible for you or me to overcome the blank wall of the press and get to be known. “If the press distorts what a can- didate says, that is not honorable. Tf it deliberately blocks out so that by suppression, by hidden censor— Ship, it can advance the interests of someone else, that is not demo- cracy, that is tyranny.” number of kilometers which the Anglo-French troops covered daily during the four months that they have been standing before the Siegfried Line, having the purpose to defeat Germany? “Is it not because the average daily progress of the Anslo-Brench troops would have to be measured, mot in kilometers and not in met-— ers, but in centimeters if one can at all speak about any progress here?” Gnly Shoe Repair Store m Vancouver with a Signed Agreement with the Union NEW METHOD SHOE 337 Carrall St. 8 SHORT JABS by OF Bill 3 Four years ago we all had a chance to read Karl Billinger’s book Fatherland. That was not, by any means, the first book to describe the horrors of life in Hitler’s Third Reich. Highteen months before that we were reading the first Brown Book of Hitler Terror. Everyone who could read the English language had an opportunity to learn of the mass murder program being visited on the German people in Nazi jails and concentration camps. ; Recently the British government has published a White Paper Concerning the Treatment of German Wationals in Germany, 1933- 1939. It is a rehash and covers the same ground as the literature issued by the anti-fascist movement ever since Hitler came to power, but it has been acclaimed by British and Canadian pressmen as a book fated to become a best seller. Probably these clever pressmen never heard of the methods of the Nazis in dealing with their political opponents and perhaps there is another reason? : I have just picked up a copy of the English Sunday Ghronicle of Wov. 5, 1939. I was amazed to find in it part of Karl Billinger’s Fatherland, and to read that it was the continuation of 2 story that had been running in Nov., 1935. As a lead to the story an editorial note says: “I was aware of one racking desire—to be dead, dead, dead” So wrote Karl Billinger, victim of the sadistic Nazi chiefs, when de-— scribing in the Sunday Chronicle in Nov., 1935, the tortures he en-= dured at the hands of these monsters.” : At that time Billinger’s story was discontinued in the Sunday. Chronicle at the request of the Foreign Office. it was felt it might embitter relations between the two countries. With publication of the White Paper last Monday, revealing the cruelties practised in German concentration camps, the Sunday Chronicle now feels free to complete the amazing and fully documented story which Billinger relates after his escape.” So the news that’s fit to print is ladled out to an undiscernine public! ss Out Of The Past. Two Wearer to home, in the same connection, we have dee another instance of protecting the dear public. Showings. in the New Age Bookstore on Hastings street there was displayed in the window a few months ago a handbill issued by the Ieasue for Peace and Democracy. It was an imitation of a police murderer wanted poster. On it was a picture of Hitler, with the usual description and a list of his crimes and an offer of a reward for his arrest. After it had been in the window a few days, the police in- structed the proprietor to take it out. in the war-propaganda picture now being shown throughout the Empire, The Lion Has Wings, you may see the same poster) exact to the letter hanging on the canvas tent of one of the RAF flyers, That is but another angle of the propaganda yalue of news, even though it is only a throwaway bhandbill. A The same paper has its sense of humor. Tt pub- 5 S lishes half a page of jokes. For each one it prints Prizewinner. it Sives a prize of ten shillings—two and a half bucks to you. Here is one prizewinner which brought somebody a few extra feeds of fish and chips: : “British destroyer on patrol. Captain signals the engines to Stop. First lieutenant appears on the bridge. “Why have we stopped, sir? “There is an enemy submarine immediately below us,’ answered the captain. “Shall I get busy with the depth charges? “INo,” replies the captain, “I am Sending down 2 diver with some leaflets first.” Some The Province newspaper has a swivel-chair Wa- 2 poleon on its staff. He writes-up the war from day Generals Ff to day. Not being anywhere near the fightins he has to depend for information on the daily barrage of manufactured news from correspondents who, in most cases, are as near to the front as himself, that is, in Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, London, New Work, Rome, Tokio and so on. Writing about the Russian army a couple of weeks ago this arm- chair strategist says that “the same story comes from Finland as from Poland a few months ago. The army marchings into Poland dis- carded tanks: and trucks along every roadside . |. Soviet Russia doesn’t possess or has not mobilized skilled mechanics necessary to maintain its mechanized army.” This story originated with another armchair general, or rather colonel, an ex—-war correspondent, Brederick Palmer, who wrote some time ago that “Russian aviation efficiency cannot be very high to judge by the breakdown of her mechanization of the advance into Poland.” Lhis is nonsensical wishful writing, not at all in line with the facts. Soviet aviation has proved itself in the Jast two years. The Sereams of the enemies of the Soviet Union and the extension of the Soviet borders are answer enough to the “breakdown of her me_ chanization.” The truth is that the work of ecccupation of Western Byelorussia and Western Ukraine by the Red Army was a2 miracle of engineering. Polish railroad track is of standard gauge like the American raij- roads. Soviet railroads are of broad gauge, being eight inches wider than the European standard. In two weeks after the first Red army soldier crossed the Polish frontier every railroad track in Western Byelorussia and Western Ukraine had been lifted and relaid on the broad gauge. In two weeks — that does not seem like breakdown. And the lies from Fin- land are of the same calibre. Another source of inspiration for the homesiuard military critics, is Webb Miller, whose effusions lend grace and color to the otherwise drab pages of the Vancouver Sun. Being a bitter anti-Bolshevik, Webb Miller is admirably fitted to write about the Red Army. He is at present in Helsingfors where Ananias has taken up his abode. A few days ago, Miller wrote, “There is about a foot of snow at the front, The Finns hope for more. They can ski and the Russians cannot!!” He also tells us that the Finns are invisible against the snow because they aer dressed in white. We are almost convinced that they never have seen any snow in Russia. But we remember the tale of the Russian armies that were supposed to have landed in the North of Scotland ,;travelled to the South of England and so to the Western Eront, during the last war. And we remember that the evidence of some of the people who said they saw them, was that they had snow on their boots as they passed through Britain. When Webb Miller says the Russians cannot ski, he is merely rooting for his anti-Bolshevik masters like a hog rooting for truffles for his French peasant owner. The Red Army has had skis as part of its equipment since 1920. When it chased Kolchak from the outskirts of Moscow to Lake Baikal, about 3000 miles, every Red soldier travelled on skis. Today eross-country ski running is part of the physical training of all Red Armymen and commanders. The world records for lone distance ski running are held by teams of Red Army soldiers. Irkutsk to Moscow, 5,200 kilometers: Yerchinsi to Moscow, 6,910 kilometers; Becherevo to Moscow, 8,134 kilometers. The last two performances at an average speed of 92.4 kilometers per day. Since it is some time since these records were made they have been improved upon. 4nd when Webb Miller, anti-Bolshevik, speaks of the Finns being invisible against the snow in their white clothes — it is almost twenty years now since the Red Army, dressed in white, recaptured Kron- Stadt from the friends of General Baron Mannerheim who had talen it by internal revolt Because the Red Army does not slaughter the Finnish people indiscriminately as the Germans did with the Poles, they fall in 2 military way, according to armchair strategists. The Red Army is not at war with the Finnish people, but with the fascist foverpnment of that country Even the lying correspondents have to admit that the towns that have been bombed were bombed only after the Ppopu- lation had been evacuated. But all these war correspondents, ex-war correspondents and Parlor strategists must earn their keep. The Russians have a proverb which says, ‘Qne hand washes the other.” We might switch it around and say “one liar helps the other.’ Story Teller.