en SENN OE E PEOPLE LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY OL. I, No. 5 VANCOUVER, B.C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1942 5 Cents UNITED NATION GROWING, : \greement Shipyard Major obstacles to operation of provincial shipyards on seven- 7 continuous production appear to have been overcome with qjeinite adjournment by Justice S. E. Richards last Thurs- # of discussions between union representatives and shipyard Tators over which he is presiding. Reached Parley mance had reached agreement on peints contained in the unani- @s recommendations handed nu by the Richards commissicn additional recommendations for emt operation of the plan put ard by the unions. Included 4§ 2ESe Were recommendations for week's holiday with pay, time a half for the whole of the i day and ‘wage readjustments. wicse recommendations for oper- 2 of continuous production, as ly agreed upon, differ little Bi the resolution sent down to unions for endorsation by the Sijournment came after the con-@ joint shipyard trade union con- ference. This resolution, at the time, was not accepted hy Boiler- makers union officials, with the result that the unions were com- pelled to present their cases in- dividually, suggesting division and lack of agreement, although the final decision showed no major difference. 4A record of the proceedings has now been forwarded to Oitawa to await decision of Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell on his return from Britain. When this decision JOSEF STALIN is known the conference will be reconvened to consider it, asul ‘former Consul Here hrrested By FBI ‘Acting on a presidential warrant, FBI agents have arrested G. Braneucci, -former Italian sult in Vancouver, and are holdi week. The arrest was made at g him at Ellis Island, it was learned on good authority here Yonkers, N.Y., last month. in this city until war = out, Brancucci used his dip- tie office to promote fascist or- zation among Italians living in sh Columbia, and was active in oizinge the National Fascist ¥ and the Circola Roma, an an fascist front organization May, 1938, a reporter for The cate, former labor weekly here, ided a gathering of the Cir- Roma held in Hotel Vancou- at which Brancucci acted as to some 50 guests. His story, ished in that paper, told of ts wearing NPF buttons, toast- Mussolini and King Victor Em- Hel, greeting each other with fascist salute. From that gath- > the Circola Roma’s banner Sent to Italy as a special ges- ades Council ‘eets Soviet | UBaninious vote, delegates to trouver Trades and Labor Coun- 2St week instructed Secretary 8 Pritchard to send greetings .e USSR on its twenty-fifth an- rsary through the Soviet lezga- at Ottawa. FBI Said To Have Files On Morii's Activities Refusal during Monday’s session of the enquiry into activities of the Japanese Black Dragon Society here of Ted Ward, News- Herald reporter to reveal names of those who gave him informa- tion used in his exposes, which he was pledged not to divulge, was condemned by Commissioner J. C. A. Cameron as “stulti- fying the whole purpose of the enquiry.” All information withheld, Ward stated, and much more, could be obtained from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. “I suggest the files of the FBI be obtained,” he said. “That would not serve the purpose of this commission, de- clared Cameron, causing some amazement in court at the implication that not all evidence available would be used for pur- poses of the investigation, particularly in view. of Cameron’s Own statement of the enquiry that] the R.C.M-P. had been obtained it would be the duty “of all or-| a much stronger case could have ganizations to co-operate in obtain-| been presented,” and pointed out ing facts. that it was not the duty of the At the outset, however, Sena- newspaper to follow up the infor- tor J. W. de B. Farris, appear- aay ASU SE ing for the News-Herald, remark- ed that “if the cooperation of (Continued on Page Bight) > MIGHT SAYS STALIN <2nd Front No Less Essential For Allies Than Us’ MOSCOW. — Declaring that the “British-Soviet-American coalition has all the posibilities for victory and it will win,” Premier Josef Stalin in a speech broadcast to the Soviet people on Novy. 6, expressed his confidence that there will be a second front “sooner or later because it is no less essential for our allies than for us. Our allies must understand that after the fall of France, the absence of a second front can mean catastrophe for them.” Only members of the Moscow Communist Party, the Moscow Soviet and other organizations were present at the undisclosed meeting place to hear Stalin’s stirring speech, made on the eve of the Soviet Union’s twenty-fifth anniversary as congratulatory messages poured in from all parts of the world. “Because of the absence of a second front,” Stalin stated, “the Germans were able to take the initiative without risk to themselves. “Thus the main reason for German success this year is the absence of a second front. If there had been a second front in Europe drawing away 60 German divisions as during the first world war, the position of the German armies today would be bad indeed. “We would be witnessing the end of the German fascist armies because our troops would be in Pskoy, Minsk and Zhito- mir. This would mean the German fascist armies would be faced with catastrophe. Red Army Facing 240 Divisions Pointing out that in the first world war only 85 of Germany’s 220 divisions were on the eastern front, compared to the 240 divisions now engaged against the Red Army, the Soviet premier Said: “Now, however, this year, out of 256 divisions, 179 are on our front. To this can be added 23 Rumanian, 14 Finnish, 10 Ttalian, 13 Hungarian and one Spanish division, making 240 divisions altogether on our front against the Red Army. “The enemy’s other troops are in occupied France, Norway and other places. “Part of them are in Libya fighting against the British, but there are only four German divisions and 11 Italian divisions in all. We have over three million men arrayed against us. “I think no other army or country could stand up to such an onslaught.” Germany's plan of conquest this year, Stalin said, called for the fall of Stalingrad -by Sept. 25, Saratov by Aug. 9 and Baku by Sept. 29, to be climaxed by capture of Moscow this fall. “Tn their hunt for oil and for Moscow, the German strategists have got into difficulties,’ he declared. “Their summer plans appear to have failed.” See STALIN (Continued on Page 8) German Soldiers In Norway Riot When Ordered To Soviet Front LONDON, Eng.—How the battle} school building in which the bat- for Stalingrad is affecting the mor-| talion was quartered and refused to ale of the German soldiers is dem-|leave. A bloody encounter ensued onstrated by recent events in Nor-| between the men of this battalion way. and the SS and Gestapo detach- In Oslo, as soon as the soldiers’ ments. of one battalion learned they were In September, several thousand to be dispatched to the Soviet front, | German soldiers in Norway were ar- they immediately barricaded the!rested and charged with desertion.