e ADVOCATE FOR PEACE, PROGRESS AND DEMOCRACY Problems Of Japan In China —Page Five . What Would ¢ Lenin Say? —Page Six VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1940 <= ® 5 Cents F, CLDL, TRADE UNIONISTS OTEST ORDER-IN-COUNCIL oviet Refutes Foreign Press Stories | = |Declare Measure : New War Form Of Section 98 Union.” with this caption: supplies, tanks.” With This - - - These pictures afford an illustration of the re- liability of news and photographs of the Soviet- Finnish conflict appearing in the daily press. On March 2, 1938, the picture at top right was published in the Moscow News, accredited to the Soyuzphoto agency, with the following caption: “Well-trained dogs aid border guards stationed at the extensive frontiers of the Soviet Union. wo border guards are seen with Lilly, police dog, who is ail ears for any trespassers of the Soviet Nearly two years later, on Dec. 28, 1939, it ap- peared in the Seattle Star as a scoop ‘war’ shot “Steal Into Russian Lines: soldiers in ghostly white are turning the tide of | war on the Russian front. Creeping invisible back of the Red lines they are cutting off troop units, These Finnish -ress Openiy Urges War On Soviet Union Unconcealed moves to begin a nlitary campaign against the joviet Union were revealed #xrough the reactionary press in ‘aris and London this week. In Paris the powerful unoffi- ial yoice of the Daladier gov- ronment, Le Temps, elaborating n the strategy involved, called or immediate attack on the So- iet Union. “It would be all advantage and 0 risk to blockade Murmansk a the north and by naval action 2 the Black Sea, divert Russia f#-oi1n her oil wells and cut Ger- Giany off from her Soviet and vyentually from her Rumanian ources of oil supply,” said the ewspaper. “All these actions, and each ne separately would, of course, #2 tantamount to war with Rus- La, but now is the time to ex-— fine the consequences of such f-eps on the part of the two DALAT = Dh: ‘hre to swing the decision in Fin- ind to the side of justice and ight. accesses /yestern powers in the near fu- - “Branco-British land forces, few, but well trained and equip- ped for an Arctic campaign, would land not far from Petsamo and coordinate their efforts with those of the Finns to chase the Reds out of the region. “The result of ‘this action would be at little cost, to clear the Arctic region and permit the supply of the Finnish army over the excellent Petsamo-Kemi highway. “To divert the Russians from Sending #00 many reinforce- ments to the Karelian front, Black Sea naval action is advo- cated.” In Britain, the call for war on the Soviet Union was issued in the form of a letter to the Bir- mingham Evening Despatch by General Sir Hubert Gough. “Sooner or later, I am con- vinced, we have to go to war with Russia,” General Gough wrote. “We should send a naval squadron to Petsamo to destroy the Russian fleet based in the Arctic Sea, to protect the left flank of the Finns and to block- ade Murmansk.” More than usual significance Was attached to General Gough’s letter. The general is a personal friend of General Ironsides, and led the British expeditionary armies against the Soviet in the post-war intervention of 1919. PREVENT WAR SPREAD. In Moscow, the Soviet Union disclosed this week that it had moved last week to prevent spread of war to the Scandinavian coun- tries, However, an interchange be- tween Moscow and Oslo and Stockholm revealed that efforts to maintain the peace of North- eastern Europe were not entirely reciprocal, according to a detailed account by Tass, Soviet govern- ment News agency. Tass reported that the Soviet took the initiative early this month to stop violations of neu- trality which were complicating the relations between Sweden, Norway and the USSR. Moscow instructed its ministers to Oslo »weden, Norway Warned On ‘Unneutral Acts’ and Stockholm to protest “un- neutral” acts by government of- ficials and the press directed against the USSR. But replies by the Swedish and Norwegian governments were deemed ‘unsatisfactory’ by the Soviet, whereupon Moscow warned the two countries not to allow themselves to be used as pawns for ‘‘those powers: which Strive to involve Sweden and Nor- way into war against the USSR.” “Recently the attention of the Soviet government has been at- tracted by certain facts taking place in Sweden and Norway,” the Tass report said. “Press organs closely connected with the govern- ments of both countries, and cer- tain official personages with the connivance and support of the Swedish and Norwegian authori- ties began a widescale campaign against the USSR and embarked on actions incompatible with the policy of neutrality proclaimed by the governments of both coun- tries.” and a number of leading trade unionists this week voiced strong protest against the federal order-in- council amending the War Measures Act gazetted last weekend. “This gives the government unlimited powers,’ Herbert Gar- grave, CCF provincial secretary, declared in a press statement this week. “Ihe political implications of the law are as bad as fascism.” Red Army Position _ Outlined 80 Miles Within Finland In North MOSCOW, USSR. — Baron Mannerheim’s Finnish White Guards not only have not erossed the Soviet frontier at any point, but have been pushed back an average of 50 miles from the border, Lenin- grad army headquarters de- clared this week in a blast against foreign press stories. Pinning down point by point press association ‘reports’ from Helsinki, Soviet army leaders revealed that Red troops were as much as 80 miles inside Fin- nish territory. (Continued on Page 3) Gargrave, acting for the CCF provincial executive, this week air- mailed a protest to Prime Minister King. Sponsored by the Canadian Labor Defense League here a memoran- dum calling upon all BC members of parliament to protest the amend- ment at the forthcoming session of parliament has been signed by many leading trade unionists. Resolutions of protest to be sent to Prime Minister King and Justice Minister Lapointe are being pre pared by the CLDL, George Dray- ton, provincial organizer, informed the Advocate. These will be for- warded to all trade unions and progressive organizations for en- dorsation. WLORONTO, Ont—National Secre- tary A. BE. Smith of the Canadian Labor Defense League, has sent a letter to Prime Minister Mackenzie King protesting amendments to the War Measures Act as being “as severe (if not more severe) as those of the former Section 98 of the Criminal Code.” “We declare such legislation to be, in our opinion, uncalled for even in these stressful times, and we re— gard with great alarm and abhor- ence the attack on the rights of the (Continued on Page 2) See PROTEST Trail Smelte Seek Wage Directors of Pioneer gold mines can expect no assistance: from the provincial government to supply provincial police to break the strike or evict the miners from company - owned bunkhouses, Attorney-General Gordon Wismer is reported to have told mine-owners’ repre- sentatives, according to ‘T’om Forkin, BC organizer for Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ union, who made this statement in a report to Vancouver Trades and Labor council Tuesday. Forkin pointed out that directors had agreed at a meeting with Labor Minister G. S. Pearson and At- torney-General Wismer on eight proposals for reopening of the mine, closed since Oct. 8 over a dispute for $1 a day wage increase, union dues check-off and recognition of a bargaining committee. The understanding was that Dr. H. T. James, mine manager, would present these proposals to the miners as a basis of settlement, but he had repudiated the agreement reached and offered counter-pro- posals for a hand-picked committee and wholesale discrimination, For- kin related. (Continued on-Page 2) See PIONEER | r Workers Increase TRAIL, BC. — Cooperative committee decided at a meeting Thursday to seek a wage in- crease of $1 a day for all em- ployees of Consolidated Mining and Smelting company. Living costs have risen sharply since outbreak of war, but wage rates have remained static. Considerable criticism has been levelled at the committee for its support of company policies rather than the needs of smeltermen. Commentator, a small bulletin published by the Trail and District Miners’ union, has consistently agi- tated ‘to boost wages now,’ and this apparently has had its effect in assisting the committee to reach its decision. Stewart Given y 2-Wear Sentence TORONTO, Ont. — First to be tried by indictment under the War Measures Act, Dougias Stewart, business manager of the banned Clarion, was sentenced to two years in Kingston penitentiary this week, Stewart was convicted on three counts of printing, publishing and circulating the Clarion, containing the manifesto of the Gommunist Tn- ternational, carried in part by daily papers in Canada and Britain.