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Canada Joins Allies In
Denouncing Atrocities

OTTAWA.—“‘Hitler’s disposition that 1942 must br
is being carried out with such ruthless
400,000 people in the Warsaw ghetto,
Mass murders are common throughout the country.”

National Council in London, and published here as the federal

the Allied declaration denouncing the Nazis’ systematic campaign. to exterminate all Jews in

territories under German control.

“in the Warsaw ghetto,’ the
report continues, “thousands of
Jews await death. No hope of

rescue exists for them.

"In streets the patrol assassins
shoot anyone who dares emerge
from a house, or look from a win-
dow. Jewish police are obliged
to hand them over to German ex-
ecutioners. If they do not, they
are killed. On the pavement lie
unburied bodies.

“Mhildren who cannot walk by
themselves are put into trucks.
Very few reach the ramparts alive.

Watching this, many mothers go
mad. The number of those who
have gone mad from despair and
terror equals the numbers of ex-
ecuted. .

“At the ramparts, railway cars
wait. Executioners drive 150 of
the doomed into one carriage, the
floor of which is covered with a
thick layer of lime and chlorine,
sprinkled with water. The car
doors are then sealed. People are
packed so tightly that those who
die cannot fall, but remain stand-
ing with those still living, or dying

ing an end to at least half the Polish Jews
ness and barbarity as history has never known.
260,000 have been liquidated in less than three months.
So states a report issued by the Polish

Qut of

government aligned itself with

slowly from chlorine and lime
fumes .

“When death trains arrive they
contain only corpses. :

“All chemist shops in the ghetto
have been closed so that poison
could not be obtained. There are
no weapons. The only thing that
remains is to throw oneself from
the window onto the pavement.”

There were 6,500,000 Jews in con-
|quered territory at the time of the
Wazi invasion. Since last spring
‘an estimated half of this number
have been murdered,

Soviel Reveals Nazi Plan
To Exterminate Jews

MOSCOW.—The Nazis are resorting to killing their victims in special horror chambers,
electrocution, burning at the stake, and poisoning by
encourage individual murder, with a specially organized scheme of mass murder of children

up to twelve years of age. In internment camps prisoners sick for longer than two days are

shot.

Information on the existence of
this mew, intensified plan for
physical extermination of a con-
siderable part of the civilian popu-
lation in the countries of occupied
Burope is reyealed in a statement
issued by the People’s Conmimissarr-
iat of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.

According to this statement, the
plan calis for total extermination
of the European Jewish population,
now being concentrated in eastern
Europe, particularly in Poland,
which has become the principal
fascist slaughterhouse.

Civilians in German-occupied
Russia, their own towns burned
and plundered, aid tortured prison-
ers who manage to escape, hiding
them in camps and villages; and
sharing with them the little food
they hayve—despite the fact that
such “crimes” against the Nazi in-
vaders bring torture and death,

Even Jews mobilized into the
armies of MHitler’s vassals are
marked for extermination, being
forced to undertake the most
dangerous tasks or concentrated
into special labor battalions where
starvation and disease take their
toll.

Soon after their invasion of the
Baltic Soviet republics, the Nazis
shot over 60,000 Jews in Riga.
Whole families were killed. Chil-
dren were torn from their mothers’
arms and buried alive before their
eyes. Now fewer than 400 Jews
are alive in Riga. They are forced
to live in a ghetto surrounded by
barbed wire. The gates are barred,
and all roads leading to the re-
stricted area are closed. These
Jews are doomed to slow starvation
and death.

Reports from France, Norway,
@zechoslovakia and Holland, quoted
by the Soviet statement, show that
regardless of nationality, the peo-
ple who themselves suffer from
Wazi oppression manifest their pro-

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found sympathy to Jewish families
deprived of all human rights, hu-
miliated and driven to slaughter in
Poland. Indignation at the new
wave of terror has spread also to
a number of neutral countries, and
a movement of protest has swept
across Sweden against the rebbing
and murdering of Jews in Norway.

On August 26 and 27, 20,000 Jews
were rounded up and shot in Lutsk.
In the town of Sarny 18,000 Jews,
along with thousands of Ukrainians
and Russians were shot August 26.
During the same two days, 1,850
Ukrainians and 1600 Jews were

hydrocyanic acid. Awards are made to

shot in Rokitno; 1250 civilians in
Berezno; 1400 in Kostopol and 1500
in Zdolbunove.

The few old women, oid men and
children who escaped are now roam-
ing the forest, ragged, barefoot and
hungry, in hope of meeting guer-
rilla bands.

By such “punitive measures”
against civilians, and particularly
Jews, declares the Commissariat
of Foreign Affairs bulletin, Hit
ler is trying to divert the atten-
tion of the German people from
the disaster descending on fascist
Germany.

Charges Made On Labor’;
Forum To Be Probed

OTTAWA.—Dr. J. S. Thomson, general manager of CBC,
has announced that Dr. Norman McKenzie, president of the
University of New Brunswick, has accepted an invitation to
conduct an impersonal investigation into charges contained in
a letter read over the National Labor Forum program.

Charges made in the broadcast
concerning the “cost-plus racket,”
labor hoarding, mismanagement,
profiteering and inefficiency in one
of Canada’s war industry plants
were declared by Grant Dexter,
Vancouver Sun Ottawa correspond-
ent, to be “false.”

Although Dexter said “the
charges have been investigated in
detail,’ Wren asserted that the cor-
respondent simply took the depart-
ment of munitions and supply’s
word that such conditions did not
exist without troubling to investi-
gate them himself.

Stating the letter read over the
air “caused quite a stir in Ottawa,”
Dexter - charged that “no state-
ment was more calculated to des-
troy public confidence in the war
effort” and described the worker

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with than those previously used
by the Germans and Japanese,

these new incendiaries contain p

action fuses and do not explode
for some time after they fall. Still
others contain live phosphorous,
and are designed to kill or wound.

One of the most dangerous of the
new German. bombs is a “kilo” mag-
nesium bomb, of great penetrative
power and weighing twice as much
as the usual type of incendiary
pomb, which explodes from one to
seven minutes after it falls. The
Japanese haye perfected similar
bombs, and are making good use

1 of the oil and rubber taken in the

Pacific to manufacture fragmen-
tation bombs, pellet bombs, phos-
phorous bombs, and a solid oil
bomb.

The use of such bombs, coupled
with new methods of aerial attack,
have made necessary radical chang-
es in the actual methods of dealing

Shoe Workers
Get CCL Charter

Employees of J. Leckie Company,
city shoe manufacturers, have been
granted a charter by Canadian Con-

gress of Labor. Organized into
Western Shoe and Leather Work-
ers’ Union, Local 1, the employees
association had a closed shop agree-
ment with the company.

Charter was installed and offi-
cers elected at a special meeting
last week. Jack Tanner is presi-
dent; Robert Murdock, vice-presi-
dent: George Stretch, secretary-
treasurer, and John Burns, record-
ing secretary. Mrs. Ahern was
elected as executive member, Reg-

Smith as guard, and Bill Char-
boneau as warden.
Negotiations are under way for

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concerned as “disgruntled’ ‘and one
who “patently knew nothing about
the industry.”

Drummond Wren declared that
since the worker himself is an em-
ployee in the plant concerned, that
he is backed by the union in his

statements, then the onus is on
Dexter to prove the ‘worker is
wrong.

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