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in the fields for lack of men

of troop movements.

Finnish Guerrillas
Rout German Force

STOCKHOLM, Sweden.—Finnish anti-fascist guerrillas
operating in the Utejoli district of northern Finland have
routed a punitive force sent against them and are continu-
ing to harass German troops on the northermost Soviet
front, according to reports reaching here.

In recent months the guerrilla movement in Finland
has grown so sirong that Home Minister Horelli was forced
not long ago to appeal to the population “to aid the au-
thorities in detaining the guerrillas.”

His appeal fell on deaf ears. Because crops are rotting

mans take available supplies, famine threatens the people.
Factories have been forced to close because of the labor
shortage and opposition to the war is spreading. The peas-
ants, far from aiding the authorities, are assisting the
guerrillas, supplying them with food and informing them

Guerrillas in the Utejoki district have seized 17 Ger-
man trucks in the pist three months and in September
they destroyed eight German planes and killed some 70
officers and men in an attack on an airfield.

to harvest them and the Ger-

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People On March,
Declares Willkie

which no man, certainly not Hit-
ler, can stop,’ he asserted. “Men
and women all over the world are
on the march. The peoples of the

East are no longer willing toe be
Eastern slaves for Western
profits.”

Everywhere he went, he said, he
found India a major question, and
he remarked that “our wishy-washy
stand on the question of India
fives the Indian people no idea of
what they may expect from us after
the war.”

Wis recent tour, which carried
him to the USSR and China, he
stated had brought home to him
“not our distance from other

|ization, Willkie declared that he
|had followed some American goods
lto their destination where he had
}seen “people who sometimes did not
know whether to laugh or to weep
|when the crates and boxes were
| opened.”

| The United States, he said, “can-
|not win the war 40 percent mobil-
lized. If we continue to fail to
| deliver to our allies what we have
| promised, our reservoir of goodwill
| will become a reservoir of resent-
lment. Five million Chinese and
five million Russians have given
their lives in this war. Each of
them has lost more than the total
lof our army. We owe them more

people but our closeness to them.” |than boasting and broken
Making an appeal for total mobil- promises.”

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the interests of the war effort, to
return to work immediately.

Failure of National War Labor
Board officials to issue a decision
on miners’ wage demands of more
than four months ago was blamed
by UMW =A<A officials as the cause for
the strike of 1200 miners.

First flare-up was last Wednes-
day when 600 Nanaimo miners
voted to strike in protest of gov-
ernment delay in dealing with their
problems, followed Thursday in
quick succession by 600 more in
Cumberland mines 5 and 8, all
declaring their intention to stay out
until some word had arrived from
the federal labor department.

Tieup of Vancouver Island’s four
major coal mines means an esti-
mated loss of 3000 tons daily to
Canadian consumers and threat-
ened a serious shortage of fuel if

some settlement is not quickly
reached.

Patience of Vancouver Island
miners had been sorely tried by

fovernment procrastination, union
officials felt. They had so far re-
sponded to appeals of the UMWA
executive by refusing to be pro-
yoked into any action which might
hold up production of coal needed
for war plants, while awaiting
decision from the National War
Labor Board.

Main grievance was request for
a 30 percent wage increase, investi-
gated last month by an arbitration
board consisting of Professor W. G.
McBride of McGill University, F.
W. Gray, Sydney, N.S., and Arthur
L. Smith, Calgary. The board’s
findings had been forwarded to
Ottawa five weeks ago, and union
officials felt that the men’s anger

at the government’s delay was
justified.
Flying to Vancouver from the

east to give his personal attention
to the situation, Stokaluk remarked
that he felt the matter was
‘serious.’

“While this strike is not author-
ized by District 18 of the UMWA,”
Stokaluk declared, “at the same
time it’s very hard to expect men
to continue working for months
while they wait for official de-
cisions on their demands. That
same thing goes for the 150 miners
at Princeton.”

Despite several serious disputes
in the past few months, British
Columbia miners have maintained
an average of 24.0 man days worked
per month and an average produc-
tion per day of 3 tons per man.

Coal production generally in
Canada during 1942 shows a de-
celine of 426,716 tons per month,
while BC coal production has
declined at the rate of 33,391 tons
per month.

News- Herald

J. C. A. Cameron of Belleville,

of justice here. :
The statement added that the

Appointment of a commissioners
follows publication in the Vancou-
ver News-Herald of articles charg-
ing that a “Japanese fascist-like
gang intimidates law-abiding Cana-
dian-born Japanese,” and implying
that the British Golumbia Security
Commission has been influenced by
Japanese fascist agents in carry-
ing out evacuation of Japanese
from the Pacific coast.

In its first revealing article,
the News-Heraid asserted that
Etsuji Moril, whom it named as
“chief agent of the Sokeku-Kat
(Black Dragon) Society in B.C.,”
had been “established as a con-
tact in the B.C. Security Com-
mission” and that he had utilized
his position to terrorize the Jap-
anese and extort money irom
them on the promise of securing
permission for them to remain
in the protected area.

The article, quoting from a brief
on Morii’s a@tivities compiled by
the Consultative Council for Co-
operation in Wartime Problems of
Canadian Citizenship, charged fur-
ther that the B.C. Security Com-
mission had ignored evidence
placed in its hands.

The second article published in

the WNews-Herald detlared that
while Morii had been evacuated to
| Minto, in the Bridge River district,
his lieutenants were “carrying on
for him-at the Nippon Cluk,” one
of “the depots’ where Japanese
apply for ‘work orders’ of the B.C.
Security Commission, preliminary
to evacuation.”

Trese revelations made by the
Wews-Herald bear out charges
made four years ago by The Advo-
cate, labor-progressive weekly ‘in-
definitely suspended’ in 1940.

In a series of articles exposing
fascist activities on the Pacific

Statements Made By. t
Advocate In 1938

OTTAWA, Ont.—The federal government has named Ju)

into the report upon charges, allegations, statements and qi
tions contained in articles in a Vancouver newspaper of Sept 4
and Oct. 9, 1942, respecting the ‘Black Dragon Society’ §
other matters referring to the British Columbia Security © 7
mission and the administration of the Defense of Canada FE
ulations,” according to a statement issued by the depart

‘hen an opportunity will be given to the newspaper and ot! ;
concerned to give evidence respecting the matters in questi |

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enquiry will open about Oci!

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ployed terrorization as their ck”
means of silencing any oppoesiii ”

ef . Japanese agents ende:.
to use the second generation . |
anese, speaking the language Of
country they were born in, fam
with its customs, to work arm
the people as a whole in an el
+o counteract the widespread ha
of Japanese aggression,” The A |
cate stated in July, 1932.

“The mass of the Japanese pe
in B.C. may be antagonistic to
anese imperialism. They may 1
ize that their one hope of obi
ing full citizenship rights rests
the victory of the democratic fo ~
but where they are not acti
misled by Japanese fascist pr
ganda, then they are terrorize‘
the fascists at work amonge =~

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that must be broken becaus j
enables fascist agents and spit
carry on their activities wit
fear of exposure by. their
people whom they terrorize

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coast, The Advocate named Morii
as a fascist agent and pointed out
that fascist elements among the
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