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Ukrainians

form a Ukrainian regiment

majority of those called up
hiding in the forests.

attempted mobilization.

Hungarian Troops

INSTANBUL, Turkey.—According to information re-
ceived here some weeks ago,
ties announced the mobilization of several classes of the
Ukrainian population in the Bereg and Ung districts of
the Carpathian Ukraine. The Hungarians were hoping to

German front. However, the mobilization failed since the

In view of the growing guerrilla wargare in the Ru-
thenian forests the Hungarian authorities dispatched puni-
tive detachments to Bereg and Ung districts at the begin-
ning of last month. The detachments ordered the arrest
ot the families of the guerrillas “and stooped to any
| means to mete out exemplary punishment to the local
peasants who are helping the guerrillas.”

Scores of Ukrainians were shot and hundreds of mem-
bers of their families arrested, some of whom were hang-
ed. Despite the terroristic measure used against it, the
Ukrainian population is continuing resistance to the

Resist

Hungarian military authori-

for shipment to-the Soviet-

did not: report and are now

Mexican Labor Militias
Asset To War Effort

By CESAR ORTIZ
Allied Labor News Writer

MEXICO CITY.—When the first Mexican troops take their
lace beside the AEF in Europe, they will undoubtedly include
en who received their basic military training in the CTM
bor militias, originally organized in 1937. Ted by General
elestino Gasca, a former railroad worker and probably the
aly Mexican general who is also a union member, the Labor
filitias were bitterly opposed in their early days by conserva-
ves who accused the CIM of setting up a “communistic”
‘med force to challenge the standing army.

Vicente Lombardo Toledano, then:
[fM general secretary, conceived
the militias as a weapon to help
fend the people against attempts
, fascist leaders to seize the gov-
nment. :

Today, with 36,700 members, the
ilitias play an important role in
e country’s war program. A lit-
>more than a third of the militias
43,400 men in 37 battalions—are
sterans who started training as
sjlunteers in 1937. The national
mmittee of the CTM later estab-
shed compulsory military train-
= for ail CT M members, a require-
ent which was more rigorously
forced in- some provinces than
mexs:

The militias are now under the
mtro] of the presidential general
aff and Mexican Army officers,

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responsible for training the mili-
cianos, maintain strict military dis-
cipline. The men wear uniforms
similar to the fatigue uniforms of
the U.S. Army—khaki pants and
shirt and overseas cap, with the
CTM emlem on cap and belt buc-
kle. After years of drilling with
wooden stavos, they are being
trained in the uses of various
types of firearms and in the prin-
ciples of modern mechanized war-
fare.

In the cities where CTM are
Strongest, Mexico City, Monterrey,
Torreon, Chihuahua, Veracruz,
Tampico, Durango, Gudalajara, the
CTM also provides auxiliary mili-
tary training for women, with em-
phasis on first-aid and ambulance
corps work. In Mexico City, 400
women union members have re-
ceived nurses’ training. _

The voluntary civilian battalions
now being formed in every town,

leity and.hamlet in Mexico are not
, connected with CTM militias but

are modeled along the same lines.
All eble-bodied men in every com-
munity, workers, peasants, students

jand professionals, are eligible for

these battalions. In Mexico City a
quarter of a million men are re-
ceiving military training.

Germans Raze
Slovene Village

LONDON — In retaliation for
Groat guerrilla attacks on occupa-
tion forces, the Germans are re-
ported to have razed the village of
Krasjna Kamnik in Slovenia, shot
all the men and deported the wom-
en and children to Germany-

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American Labor Urged To Join
Anglo-Soviet Union Committee

NEW YORK.—A move on the part of the CIO or any other labor group in the United
States or Latin America to secure direct affiliation with the Anglo-Soviet trade union com-
mittee will be warmly welcomed by British workers, Jack Tanner, president of the Amalga-
mated Engineering Union of Britain, said in an interview here last week. Tanner, who was one
of the two fraternal delegates from the British Trades Union Congress to the AFL convention
in Toronto last month, has just returned from a four-week tour

Workers,
Soldiers
Compete

MOSCOW .—Inspired by the
desire to be worthy of the Red
Army men at the front, work-
ers in Soviet war production
plants have started a cam-
paign of competition and emu-
lation with snipers and other
units of the Red Army.

“You have been successful in
wiping out 30 fascists. Last month
I produced 105 per cent of my
quota. This month I will preduce
110 per cent if you will kill an-
other ten fascists.”

This challenge to a Red Army
man from a worker at the Molotov
stell smelter is typical.

Hundreds of ‘steel workers in
Molotoy have joined the competion,
challenging individual Red army
men and fliers to feats of heroism
in return for which they pledge
te exceed their quotas and train new
workers.

Inability of a plant in the Urals
to fulfill its quota owing to a fault
in one department caused consid-
erable trouble until a young

mechanic named Tokarev. asked
permission to organize a team of
workers with relatives at the front.

Tokarev selected a team of seven,
including two young women whose
husbands were at the front. At the
end of a month he was able to re-
port an average of 150 per cent ful-
fillment of their quotas.

This patriotic movement of “front
brigades” spread throughout indus-
try with men and women striving to
work as well as the army was fight-
ing at the front. The front brigades
helped many shops, formerly lag-
ging behind, to exceed their sched-
ules by as much as 200 per cent.

Miaja To Form
Foreign Legion

MEXICO CITY—A proposal ad-
vanced by Gen. Jose Miaja that he
be permitted to form a foreign le-
gion in Mexico to fight overseas
under the Mexican flag is reported
to have been accepted by Defense
Minister Lazaro Gardenas.

Miaja proposed that the legion
be built around some 1,200 refugee
officers and men of the Spanish
Republican Army now in Mexico
and brought up to full divisional
strength of 15,000 by recruiting
volunteers.

Miaja won fame as commander
of the Spanish loyalist forces which
for 32 months held Madrid against
Franco’s armies.

Name Conciliator
In Mill Dispute

Application of the International
Woodworkers of America for a con-
Ciliation board in its dispute with
the Mohawk Lumber Company, New
Westminster, over collective bar-
gaining rights for 160 employees,
has been granted, it was announced
today by Harold Pritchett, TWA
district pyesident. James Thompson
has been appointed as conciliator.

of Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago,

dustrial centers.

Pittsburgh and other U.S. in-

“Fiverywhere I went I found that the American workers,
whether they belong to the AFI, CIO or independent unions,

are eager to have closer unity

with their brothers in Britain,

Russia and South America,” Tanner said before leaving for

Boston to address the executive
board of the GIO. “In my opinion,
such unity is urgently needed, not
only to speed up the war effort, but
also to make sure that labor plays
its rightful part in shaping the
peace. I believe that no time must
be lost in getting real unity be-
tween the allied labor movements.
A lot depends upon the CIO con-
vention in Boston.”

Commenting on the possibility
that the ClO may seek direct affil-
jation with the Anglo-Soviet trade
union committee, Tanner said:

“Such a move by the CIO or any
other American labor group would,
I believe, be warmly welcomed by
the British and Russian workers.
Formation of the Angilo-Soviet
trade union committee in October,
1941, led not only to substantial
production increases, but also to
closer unity of action between our
two governments. Some months af-
ter the labor committee was form-
ed, Britain and the USSR signed a
20-year treaty of alliance.”

British representatives on the
Anglo-Soviet committee, which has
held meetings in London and Mos-
cow, are: Frank Wolstencroft, sec-
retary of the Amalgamated Society
of Woodworkers and president in
1941 of the TUC; Andrew Conley,
secretary of the National Union of
Tailors and Garment Workers; H.
IN. Harrison, secretary of the Gen-
eral and Municipal Workers; W. P.
Allen, secretary of the Associated
Society of Locomotive Engineers
and Firemen; and Sir Walter Cit-
rine, general secretary of the TUC,
who, with Nikolai Shvernik, presi-
dent of the All-Union Council of
Soviet Trade Unions, is joint sec-
retary of the Anglo-Soviet commit-
tee.

Referring to the problem of CIOQ-
AFL unity, Tanner said: “i have

been very impressed with the se

sire of American workers to get
unity between these two great la-
bor organizations. I was also very
impressed by the sincerity of
Green’s remarks on this question
to the AFL convention, and on what
Murray told me in Washington. I
believe that unity is by no means
impossible. After all, we have both
industrial and craft unions within
our Trades UWnion Congress and
jurisdictional disputes are settled
by the special Disputes Committee
of the TUG. CIO-AFL unity will be
of tremendous benefit, not only to
American workers, but also to labor
in all the United Nations.”

Pointing out that America has
has only been in the war for
eleven months, whereas Britain
has been in for over three years
and has suffered severédly from
the blitz, Tanner said: “I think
this accounts for the fact that
American workers, on the whole,
are not as war-conscious as Brit-
ish. This applies particularly to
unorganized plants. In plants
where unions are active and Ia-
bor-management committees have
been set up, the workers are put-
ting as intense effort into their
jobs as their brothers in Britain
and the Soviet Union. Fhe strong-
er the union, the greater the out-
put of war materials. It’s the
Same over here as in England.”

Stressing that the opening of 2.
second front in Europe would have
a tonic effect on American produc-
tion, Tanner said: “Everywhere I
found that: the offensive spirit of
the American people is rising. They
Want a second front to be opened
up in Europe. Intensification of the
allied war effort will sweep -aside
many problems now facing us on
the home front. I am convinced
that the American workers will go
all-out to smash Hitler and his
gang.”

Meeting Will Discuss
Transport Problems

H. R. Cottingham, of the Wartime Advisory Transportation
Committee, has been asked to address a public meeting on trans-
portation problems called by the Housewives’ League of British
Columbia. It will be held in the Belmont Hotel, Nov. 25, at 8 p.m.

Sponsored by the League’s Trans-
portation Committee, headed by
Mrs. Effie Jones, the meeting will
consider all aspects of transporta-
tion problems in Vancouver and
vicinity and representatives of all
organizations and interested citi-

zens are invited to take part in
the discussion.
“Transportation is everyone’s

problem,” said Mrs. Jones, “and we
intend to encourage full discussion
at the meeting.”

As a candidate for school board
in the forthcoming civic elections,
Mrs. Jones has been taking an
active interest in the transportation
shortage, since it may affect the
problem of getting school children
to and from schools in far-flung

areas.

Shipment Sent
To Soviet Union

‘Canadian-Russian War Relief
Gommittee in Vancouver this week
announced that the third large con-
signment of clothing, medical sup-
plies and boots has recently been
shipped direct to the Soviet Union.

The committee is asking that do-
nations of any kind be made at its
headquarters, 1122 West Pender.
Telephone number is MA 2744,

New or used clothing, coats,
sweaters or blankets are especially
needed, and the committee states
that it has a large corps of volun-
tary workers who are hard at work
making up quilts out of old ma-

terials,