Page Four 7 Hk, POPs THE PEOPLE Published every Tuesday by The People Publishing Company, Room 104, Shelly Building, 119 Wrest Pender Street, Vancouver, B-C. Telephone: MArine 6929. Hat GRIFFIN . Kay Grecory sores EpNA SHEARD Eprror Mawnacine Epiror -. Business MANAGER -..-.--- Printed at Broadway Printers Limited, 151 Bast Sth Avenue, Vancouver, B.C, Clear The Way For Continuous Production HIS week, Justice S. E. Richards, chairman of the Royal commission which conducted the enquiry into conditions in British Columbia shipyards, is expected in Vancouver to implement the findings of the commission’s majority report. That report favored continuous production. It was based on a full examination of all the evidence submitted to the com- mission, which, if it revealed the need for more efficient planning and for measures to remove the cause of the work- ers’ grievances, also failed to bear out the claim advanced by some that the obstacles to continuous production are insuper- able. The report also advanced a number of sound proposals for remedying certain conditions and made provision for calling a conference to reclassify labor and equalize pay. Shipyard workers should accept that report, not because it contains every recommendation they would like to see in it nor because application of its proposals will solve all the prob- lems in the shipyards. They should accept it because its sup- port of continuous production serves the national interest and advances the common cause for the destruction of Hitlerism. There can be no argument that, all else being equal, more ships can be built under the continuous production than under the six-day or any other plan. And ships are needed—ships for the second front, ships to take supplies to the Soviet Union, ships to keep the supnly lines of the United Nations open. These ships can be built. New records in ship construction can be set here on the Pacific Coast. Workers in British Co- lumbia shipyards can set a production pace to which Canadian labor will point with pride. But they can do it only if they ac- cept continuous production as an established fact and get down to the hard task of making it work in their interests, which are inseparable from the interests of the Canadian people and the peoples of the United Nations. Serene workers have not yet got down to the taslx of making continuous production work because they have al- lowed themselves, in many instances, to be diverted into sup- porting issues which evade or conceal the major issue of con- tinuous production, issues which, whatever their basis, de not advance the interests of the shipyard workers who are_ob- jectively placed in the position of obstructing the war etfort so long as they do not accept continuous production. Some- times these issues are raised by individuals who have no par- ticular desire to accomplish the destruction of fascism, and sometimes by those concerned only with narrow selfish per- sonal aims. Such issues only weaken the position of the trade unions when they have the effect of diverting the workers from the need for accepting continuous production. This week, when Justice S. E. Richards is to face the diffi- eult task of implementing the commission’s report, finds three unions positively in support of the resolution for continuous production submitted by the All-Union Conference, while the majority have still to define their position. Within the next few days the largest shipyard union, the Boilermakers, is conducting a referendum on the conference resolution and the referendum, provided it endorses continuous production, will undoubtedly influence the two smaller unions opposing the resolution to con- sider their position. In the meantime, however, the situation remains confused, hampering all progress. Shipyard workers can end this situation now by placing their unions on record in support of continuous production. Their own interests as militant anti-fascist workers demand that they do so, With continuous production accepted the way is clear, not for construction of the maximum number of ships alone, but also for rectifying of their just grievances. Shipyard workers very properly want adjustment of unfair wage scales, dissatisfaction with which led to recent wildcat strikes. They want categories reclassified and adjusted to changed conditions. With the major issue no longer an issue, these other questions ean be settled, as they never can be while opposition to continu- ous production and doomed support of the six-day plan obstructs the way. : Dolitical Reasons For Raid On Dieppe NTIL now there has been little discusison of the reasons which led the Allied Command to choose the Dieppe region as a test for opening of the second front . Yet an examination of the raid, in whcih Canadians played so valiant a part, re- veals many reasons why Dieppe was selected. A glance at the map of France = shows that Dieppe is first a high- way center of strategic importance. From the very center of the town diverge four national nighwaye || which deploy towards the heart of France. In addition, there is a state highway in excellent condition running along the Longe River, which passes by Neufchatel, In the three provinces mentioned —the lower Seine, the Somme and the Oise—the struggle against the Germans never ceases. Fach day sees more acts of sabo- tage, trains derailed, depots burned, trucks smashed, supplies destroyed. In three months, not less than 245 acts of sabotage have been commit- ted in this part of France, where The first route connects Dieppe there are also beginning to appear with Paris. The second leads to qetachments of Franestireurs. Rouen. The third is to the east The peasants’ resistance to Ger- of the highway running along the man requisitions has become so shore of the Longe River and joins strong that often the intendant and LeHavre with Fecamp, and the poyernment inspectors fear to step fourth runs near the shore to Tre-| into a village. pert Bal iF ors EASES cs meee | Because of this essential factor Amiens and Paris. this nerve center of Hitler’s malig- Success of the landing at Dieppe nant ‘New Order’ has much more ereated a political-military problem political than military importance for the Germans. to the Germans, and it is here that To protect Paris means to pre-|Hitler’s general staff has had to vent access towards the mouth Of | concentrate its strongest forces. the Seine (Rouen and LeHavre),| a~ 2 result, the landing at Dieppe and thus to pyeid eos off ene was effected in that particular zone north ffom the rest of Bes where the Germans were forced to |few miles from Dieppe is the 2P-| ,,epare more strongly against a proach to the industrial zones of eee sly Seainst "20 |the lower Seine, and of the Oise, ‘which are a prolongation of the in- dustrial basin of Paris. It can therefore be said that right near the zone of debarkation, had the raid been an actual inva- sion, the Allies could have counted on the support of the region’s Masses of working people, among the most militant of France. Amiens and Longueville are the two centers of the Cheminots, whose leader, Jean Catelas, a Com- munist deputy, was guillotined by the Wazis for his stubborn fight against foreign occupation, In the valley of the Oise and the valleys of the lower Seine the met- allurgical industry is well developed and here the workers have been most active in their resistance to the Nazi army of occupation. Despite the strength of the defenses it is clear that at no time did the Germans counterattack the units which landed, but contented them- Selves with keeping on the de- fensive. From this the conclusion may be drawn that a break-through there is possible, e@ T IS clear that at this: moment the popular masses in France are in a state of ferment, and that the struggle against the Germans will take on a more violent char- acter. Armed groups will gradually Surge forward everywhere to aid the Allies when the really decisive landing takes place. The French people understand that after the successful Dieppe op- eration, a second front is possible. Nobody can doubt that the struggle of the French people will be decisive in assuring the success of the second front, nor can anyone any longer hesitate to place confi- dence in a people who have been defeated through betrayal, but a people that remains unvanquished. However, it would be dangerous not to profit from the present stirrings of the French people and of the other oppressed peoples whom Dieppe has infused with new energy for conducting the struggle in the west and for open- ing the second front. It is neces- Sary to strike immediately. Con- ditions are now ripe for venturing to strike a crushing blow at the very heart of the enemy. Saansh Deasle Sull Fish: ECENT changes in the Franco government are only the ex- ternal reflection of the profound erisis in the Falange and the Franco regime in Spain. Opposition inside the Falange and the ruling fascist clique is mounting in pro- portion to the growing struggle of the Spanish people against the Fal- ange and the Franco regime. e HE Germans and their Vichy servitors therefore, have a stronger basis for concern about the Dieppe region, which joins the Paris region, than about any other zone. In fact, it was only a few months ago that the workers in a Rouen arsenal went on strike under the leadership of a national front committee composed of Commun- ists, Socialists, Radicals, and Catholics. In Amiens, since the assassination of Jean Catelas, the Germans have been compelled to face a growing opposition which often takes on the character of a mass political demonstration. lona the women smashed some stores in the market; in Valencia they broke into a bakery, protesting at the poor quality of bread and the hunger rations. Every Spaniard realizes today that the srowing danger of Spain being drawn into the war must be countered by a more intensified struggle. In this struggle, the Span- ish patriots are not letting their former political divergences be an obstacle. Their love for their native land unites all who want to seve their country from catastrophe. The popular masses are rising in a solid wall against the new Franco gov- ernment. The Spanish people kave not folded their banners of struggle for freedom, and have not laid down their arms. Spain is fighting for national independence. Her people were the first to enter into the struggle against Hitler, and today The guerrilla movement during the last few weeks has been spread- ing throughout Spain. Irun was the scene of a demonstration of women protesting against the dispatch of trainloads for Germany. Gendarmes opened fire, killing and wounding several women. It was in Irun too, that the people stoned Hitler's hire- lings of the “Blue Division.” Near the frontier a group of guer- rillas captured and set afire a train en route to Germany with supplies. One train was derailed at Sumaiya, another near Legaspa. In Barce-| they will not be among the last. invasion than in any other place. : October 13, [ eT JABS |} by OV Bill | a gle O A — e Greetings : LA-HOW-¥YA! British C€ | bia’s own form of gree | deeper in its meaning thar hj salutation that passes betweer™ in any of the languages I kn¢ i On this occasion I think it | friends and fraught with me) to new ones. For this newspa yi a British Columbia one, unid® its place but one of many 4 purpose, winning of the war ale Wazi-fascist barbarism. Since last I filled a colunij?2 print, many changes have ~j) place. Fascism has made in? into civilization which were © undreamt of But the necessity destroying it has not changed’) the obstacles and opportunity increased. That is why The People ap) today and why I am writing column; because I am sat’ that, unless we, with our al whoever they may be—destroy cism, fascism will destroy us. % is no in-between, no halfway FE no middle of the road, no fen straddle. Money AISING money for papers The People has been a with me for more years than j to think about. All of them ni” ; that kind of assistance, but na ] them more than The People, :~ ing out as it does under suc] ; cumstances as the world prese — our gaze at this time. t I undertook to raise at le couple of hundred dollars to> | a sustaining fund by appealr the many friends who have i | me in the past, the far-away a: as the not-so-distant past. If you are one of them, yor | know what to do. You will hr make fhat $200 quota. You w helping to put the paper on eure foundation. You will be ing me to make good my boas with the help of my friends People would benefit to the « of $200. You will help to insur: the paper will continue to pi. and that Ol’ Bill will fill ov column weekly unless the 1 taker interferes, Already Joe has got under the wire and I’ to hear from lots more. Wext week I hope to tell yor | one of my committee member sold over 100 subscriptions. your donations and subs to O at this office. o so Alabi NE of the results of the w that nothing has taken a >> beating than the idea so assidu fostered by the Buzzer, that p: Ownership and management i- perior to collective ownershiy management. Three years or so before the broke out, the management co B.C. Collectric promised the Council that it would spend h million dollars on new rolling during the ensuing year. Tt is now three years since war started, and we are still - ing for the news cars. Only the cars have been put in service that, obviously, was only pi ganda for one-man cars, whii the meanings of PCG, as far as couver is concerned. The war has proven an exct alibi for the past three years there can be no alibi for the ceeding three. The only ac plishment of this private owne program of broken promises, ficient management and plain ; has been the rearrangement o ‘lives of three-quarters of the on \her | Po ulation of Vancouver.