at Page Four THE ADVOCATE February. Canadian CIO Head Scores Old-Lin US Youth Congress Condemns_ Aid To Finns As Move To War NEW YORK, NY—With only five dissenting votes, one thousand delegates attending a meet- ing sponsored by New York City council of the American Youth Congress last week took a decisive stand against any US loans to Finland, holding that such action constituted an at- tempt to force the United States into the imperialist war. : Taking as its slogan, ‘The Yanks are NOT Coming,’ delegates in the resolution adopted con- demned President Roosevelt’s policy as “encouraging the subversion of American neutrality by those financial interests: which seek pro “He has proposed,” the reso fit from American involvement in the war.” lution said, “the extension of loans and credits to Finland, ap- proved the registry of American ships under foreign flags, encouraged American boys to vio- late our neutrality with their lives by enlistment in Finland, and proposed a vast enlargement of America’s military resources at the expense of the une mployed and needy in America.” WASHINGTON, DC — Boos and hisses greeted President Roosevelt here this week when he told five thousand youth con- gress delegates that the New York Youth council’s resolution against aid to Finland was “unadulterated twaddle,” that they should not pass resolutions on subjects of which they “have not complete knowledge.” Contrastingly, delegates app lauded CIO president John L. Lewis’ biting indictment of Roosevelt’s failure to answer vital questions concerning the future of American youth. Communist. Vote Shows Only Gain Browder Defeated, But Support Drops For Major Parties NEW YORK, NY—A heavy drop in the Democratic party vote and a proportionately small gain in the Communist vote in the 14th Congressional district, indicate that the people oppose President Roosevelt's war program, the Communist party stated this week in analyz- ing returns of the special election Earl Browder, Communist gener- al secretary, polled 3080 votes to 12962 for Michael Edelstein, Tam- many candidate, and 6665 for L. J. Lefkowitz, Republican, in the con- test for the office held by the late Rep. William Sirovich. Browder's 3080 votes compared to 3962 cast for Israel Amter in 1938 when the latter was candidate for Congressman-at-large and drew the highest vote ever recorded for the Communist party. But, it was nearly 14 percent of the total of 22,647 valid ballots cast, as comi- pared to 11.6 percent of the 34,114 ballots cast in 1938. Total votes cast dropped nearly 12,000 from 1938, and the Democrat- ic vote was over 11,000 below that cast for Sirovich in 1938. Sirovich’s vote was 69 percent, Edelstein’s 57 percent of the total ballots cast. The Republican vote dropped near- ly 4000 votes from 1938. Only the Communists showed a relative gain of over two percent, despite unprecedented attacks against the party, especially .a campaign of deception among the Jewish and Polish people who com- pose the bulk of the residents in this East Side district. “The president’s description of your resolution as ‘twaddle’ clashes head-on with the prin- ciples of democracy,” Lewis said. “Jt might interest the president to know that the United Mine Workers recently adopted the same kind of resolution ...as a protest against war. I wonder if the president would call that resolution ‘twaddle’.” Referring to a delegation which stood in the rain that morning to ask the president pertinent ques- tions conecerning jobs for youth, peace and civil liberties, Lewis re- marked, ‘the president said sub- stantially that under certain con- ditions and under certain forms of government you wouldn’t even have the opportunity of standing on the lawn in the rain to ask for jobs.” ACCEPT COOPERATION The national assembly decided to accept the Lewis’ offer of cooper- ation with Labor’s Non-Partisan League on the political field, but because of the Congress’ non-polit- ical character, did not consider af- filiation. Collaboration with AFL, CIO and farm groups was made a key AYC policy for the future. In line with the tremendous ovation given Indian youth lead- er Rajni Patel when he declared that many young people who fol- low President Roosevelt “will not follow even Franklin Delano Roosevelt into a war,’ the as sembly set aside April 6, anni- versary of America’s entry into the first world war, as a national peace day. Demonstrations will be staged throughout the coun- try to inform the whole world the Yanks are Not Coming. Further criticism of the Roose- velt administration for drastic cuts in relief appropriations was seen in the platform slogans: “Scholarships, not Battleships.” “Balance the Human Budget First.” “Bury the Slums Before They Bury Us.” “‘No’ to War Tools; ‘Yes’ for More Schools.” Demands of various red-baiting individuals and groups including Montana’s Senator Wheeler, .that Communists be excluded, failed dismally. The Congress’ attitude was evidently expressed by John Cadden, its secretary when he said: “If we begin by throwing out Soviet Sub Dares Icefields To Cut Finn Supply Routes MOSCOW, USSR—Details of daring lightning submarine raids near Finnish White Guard harbors and heroic U-boat oper- ations in both stormy and ice-bound seas were revealed today by the Soviet Union. Credited with the most powerful submarine fleet in the world, the USSRefor the first time gave indi- cation of its underseas' power. Activity of Red submarines was brought to light during a meeting of the Supreme Soviet presidium which conferred honors on 235 commanders and sailors of the Red Baltic fleet. Among those listed for bravery was Captain Alexander Tripolsky, commander of one of the sub- marines which came through a raging storm, Arctic frost and en- emy minefields and went far into enemy waters to sink Mannerheim ships, This submarine was in action for over a month. On several occas- ions it detected enemy craft sur- reptitiously making their way into White Guard Finnish harbors, and sank and destroyed Finn vessels. Another submarine, commanded by Hero of the Soviet Union Cap- tain Theodore Vershinin, sunk three enemy war transports with a total of 10,000 tons. The submar- ines had two enemies to cope with and drastic weather conditions. There were continuous’ ex- treme heavy storms and ice floes which made operations difficult. All the deck structure of the submarine were ice-bound, and the U-boat resembled an iceberg. It had to submerge deep under the ‘surface in order to thaw out the heavy coat of ice. BUS PURE FOOD PRODUCTS Victoria, Nanaimo, Prince Rupert, New Westminster, Kamloops, Vernon, Penticton Kelly Douglas Co. Ltd. Vancouver : Canada China Preparing Lo Produce Own Newsprint Soon CHUNGKING, China. — May, 1940, will see China producing its own newsprint and book printing paper, which since the loss of the coastal provinces has been supplied primarily by for- eign countries. Capitalized at $3,200,000, of which half represents the investment of the government, the Lung- stang paper mill will produce nine tons of newsprint and book paper a day, when its plant is completed this spring. Cost of producing one ream of newsprint is estimated at $20, as against the present retail price in Chungking .for imported newsprint of $90 a ream. minorities, we don’t Imow where it will end. No one can seriously contend that the expulsion of the fractional number of Young Communists from the Youth Congress can provide jobs for the four million young Americans who are out of school and out of ' work. The experience of other eountries leads us to believe it can only result in elimination of every type of dissenter.” Visiting Congress on the morn- ing after the Youth Congress’ final session, a group of youth delegates hissed Rep. W. J. Labertson for congratulating GOP chief John D. Hamilton for refusal to send a speaker because the Congress had not purged the Communists. Youth delegates cheered lustily when Rep. Vito Marcantonio, in a Lincoln Day address declared: ‘If Lincoln were alive today you would not be throwing stones at those young people, you would be doing something about their unemployment.” india Police Raid Unions KABUL, India— Police recently carried out around one hundred raids on the premises of public, labor, peasant and student organi- zations in Calcutta and Bengal province -and arrested many pro- minent leaders of the Indian people’s movement, The Tribune, Indian people’s weekly paper, re- ports. During the latter part of Janu- ary, writes the paper, police made energetic efforts to uncover all anti-war literature in Calcutta and in Goura, a suburb of Calcutta. The more than a hundred raids and searches were carried out under the Defense of India Act. Offices of the Bengal Province Peasants union, the Trade Union Committee of Bengal province, Calcutta Tramway Workers union, Goura Students Federa- tion and Trade Union commit- tee, and many other organiza- tions were among those raided. Many Calcutta publishing houses were also raided. Police arrested several promin- ent leaders of the Indian People’s movement, @’Casey Seores White Guards LONDON, Eng. — Hope for a speedy end to the Finnish conflict “with one more land won for so- cialism,”’ was expressed here re- cently by Sean O’Casey, world- famous playwright who wrote The Plow and the Stars and Juno and the Paycock. ‘It is obvious that the talks (with the Soviet Union) were kept going while all the capitalists countries poured war materials in- to Mannerheim’s lap. Well, let’s hope for a speedy end to the fight, with one more land won for social- ism.” * WHILE YOU WAIT Men’s Half Soles and Rubber Heels I BATA Ladies’ Half Soles - - G5e EG. ape | tacks on labor. SPECIAL! Anti-Labor Actions Of Gov't Hit Labor Department Termed Brake On Labor By Barrett TORONTO, Ont.— (Special) —When John L. Lewis told the jubilee convention of the Unit- ed Mine Workers of America at Columbus, Ohio, that so- called liberal governments will be judged in future by their practical program for the work- ers in industry. and farms and not by their vocal protestations of sympathy for labor, he was only enunciating the feelings of Canadian workers, Silby Barrett, chairman of the Canadian commit- tee for Industrial Organization ana executive board member of District 26 UMWA, declared on his arrival here this week. International in scope, the pro- |_ gressive program adopted by the miners’ 2,500 delegates is directly applicable ‘to Canada, Barrett as- serted. The conference adopted resolutions demanding a national conference on unemployment; de- nouncing the awarding of govern- ment contracts to companies which defy the rights of employees to bargain collectively; criticizing government bodies for their at- “The statement by John L. Lewis that the New Deal has dropped its policies by the wayside and that the support of labor as a political force is too often taken for grant- ed, has its counterpart in Canada,” Barrett declared. “Politicians of both old-line parties have used labor as a val- uable footbball too long here in Canada. Labor serves notice on both these bankrupts that its support is not as sure as the set- ting of the sun, as they seem to have thought in the past. “Labor in Canada is learning that the workers’ only hope is to vote for a progressive program with assurance that it will be adopted, and not just for a party,” Barrett emphasized. “But labor must have more than promises from any party of its intention to carry through policies that will help the worker to be employed, to earn a living wage and belong to organizations without fear of discrimination. RAPS LIBERALS “What have the old-line parties done for labor in Canada? The present federal administration passed an amendment to the Crim- inal Code purporting to prevent the discharge of workers who join unions. How effective is it? The lobbyists of the manufacturers de- clared publicly that they did not oppose it because it had no effect in Ontario, the province represent- ing one-third of the Dominion’s in- dustry and wealth. And the govy- ernment was told that the law would be almost uséless by lead- ers in the Senate. This is how the CCF proposal was emasculated,” Barrett declared. “Labor's demcoartic rights have been wiped out by the De- fense of Canada regulations, comparable to the degrees of Na- zi Germany,’ SBarrett said. “Trade unionists have been ar- rested for criticizing undemo- cratic decrees passed by Domin- ion order-in-council and enforced by Canada’s No. 1. labor-hating administration in Ontario. That is the sorry’ spectacle confront- ing the workers of Canada as they begin to select those who will govern us in the critical years ahead, CALLS ON WORKERS e Party Policie Leatlets Greet SEATTLE, Wash.—it’s ‘disorderly’ to break the ne Alfred Duff-Cooper, former first lord of the British admy that ‘The Yanks Are NOT Coming.’ Herbert Johnson, 29-year-old log- ger, was arrested and booked at | police headquarters last Saturday as a ‘disorderly person’ for distri- buting leaflets on the Washington University campus that embarras- sed the efforts of Lord Duff-Coop- er, Leaflets, sponsored by the cam- Ppus,branch of the Communist par- ty, raised pointed questions on Britain’s imperialist aims and re- echoed the battle cry for peace sounded by maritime unions: ‘The Yanks Are NOT Coming.’ Dutf-Coopei ip After the war Duff-Coop ised, “Britain will form a States of Europe which wi the future peace of the worl But the leaflets, clutch Many within the hall, irop pointed out: “The democrag: profess to be fighting for nied 350,000,000 in India. 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