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q ; The laurels for this week go to those 4,000 men at the North
le “ncouver Ship Repair yards who dropped their tools on
tg) esday morning to enforce closed shop agreements, and made

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» # mfortunately, the same cannot
.§) said of the position taken by
“mG Wice-President A. A. McAus-
€, either on the-issue of the
~m Ke itself or on the general is-
: of the Boilermakers’ Union.
claim, as he did, that the strike
me “unauthorized” and a “breach
es existing agreements,” was ob-
= | asly very wide of the mari.
=m his attempt to link the strike
‘wah the dispute between the old
Blermakers’ Union executive
the shop stewards, an issue
| before the courts, was very
=,@ dvised, to say the least. Equal-
—lificult to understand was the
“84 official's statement to the
“Mss last Saturday, in which he
mpted to blame the shop
g ards for taking the Boiler-
i cers Union into the courts.
§ 50 does McAuslane think
§ fooling? The facts are that
iyas McAusiane’s appointment
an administration board over

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their action stick. We say laurels

due because the entire affair,

loaded with so much potential dyna-
mite,
cause the men, regardless of trade
union affiliation, displayed the great-
“ unity behind the capable leadership of the shop stewards.

Was so capably handled, be-

the affairs of the union, in defi-
ance of the CCL constitution and
all recognized democratic trade
union rights, that precipitated the
dispute. It was this action that
Set in motion the whole train of
events culminating in the step
taken by three members of the
ill-fated, administration board to

slap an injunction on the reg-
ularly elected officers of the
union.

One thing is sure—McAuslane’s
position is not the position of the
vast majority of shipyard work
ers. Nor is it in the best interests
of the rank and file of the Ca-
nadian Congress of Labor. On the
contrary, it is safe to say that his
entire handling of the WBoiler-
makers’ Union situation has done
considerable harm to labor gener-
ally and the CCL in particular.

He would be well advised to con-*

sider these facts in ahy future
steps he might take.

e@ After studying carefully for the past several weeks the

-~™@Y press. coverage of the Boilermakers’ Union affair, we

'§ forced to conclude that some of the reporters and head-

applicat

What

Jaction?

line writers have misunderstood the

ion of the word “faction,”

which they have been using frequently
in connection with the dispute. Some-
one should tell them that the term fac-
tion can hardly apply to a group of no

® = than ten or fifteen men who are opposing the interests

tere are no factions within
e@ Boilermakers’ Union! There
Se crely an attempt by a small
P of people to hinder the
a7 ess of 12,000 men _ solidly

welve thousand. It seems just a little far-fetched.

united behind the leadership of
the shop stewards. For further
clarification on the matter, we
would refer the daily press to the
story about the mouse and the
elephant.

Jans” are at it again!

=rofessor Watson Kirkconnell and some of his “new Ca-

This idol of all who wear brown shirts and swastikas, it

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tirkconnel!!

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a> nothing to do with democ
&¢ silly like that. To help

© ted professor, out of the good- ~
of his heart, was instru-
® al in forming the Ukrainian
= dian Committee, a group of
Hascists which includes mem-
sof the fascist UNO and Het-
@= Associations, and editors of
® notorious “New Pathway,’
Sainian Voice,” and the Goeb-
Suspired “oiler.”
4> latest attempt of Kirkcon-
— committee to disrupt unity
— 2 United Nations was to send
S2randa to Prime Minister
senzie King, urging him to
11S influence to see that the
1 of the Soviet Ukraine were
~ their “independence” after
= Var.
Smbers of the loyal Ukrainian

§ be remembered, is the originator of the “new Canadian”

theory, which holds that all
Canadians of European des-
cent should be allowed to
preserve their national tradi-
tions, as long as those tradi-

tions are fascist in nature, and

racy, love of freedom, or any-
“new Canadians do this, the
Canadian Association in BG,
which boasts the highest number
of members in the armed forces
of any national group, are strong-
ly protesting the actions of Kirk
connell’s fascist-minded WUkraini-
ans, who presume to speak for
their gallant countrymen who are
fighting to the death in the Red
Army to destroy the very type of
barbarism the professor wants to
give them.

Why, patriotic Ukrainians en-
quire, is this group allowed to
function in Canada at war?

Why, they are justified in ask-
ing, is Kirkconnell not arrested
by the RCMP, and the Wkrainian
Canadian Committee disbanded
under the Defense of Canada Reg-
ulations?

LOMBARDO TOLEDANO

This week the president of
the powerful Latin American
Workers’ Federation, in a
speech in Mexico City, struck
out sharply against the small
but noisy group of appeasers
in United States who are at-
tempting to isolate the Soviet
Union from the United Na-
tions by a red-baiting cam-
paign. He denounced the
dangerous delay in the open-
ing of a second European
front, and praised the efforts

of U.S. Vice President Wal-
lace and Premier Stalin in
promoting the unity of all
peoples in the war aganist
Hitler Germany.

For more than ten years
Lombardo Toledano has been
a champion of the rights of
Latin American workers. To-
day he is one of their greatest
war leaders.

To Die Is

the Red Army with ever

geared to its war effort.

Soviet War Economy
Miscalculated By Hitler

COLA SEING on the first contributions made by
Soviet defense industries to the special Red Army
fund, Red Star writes in a recent editorial that “one of
Hitler’s greatest miscalculations turned out to be his
banking on the weakness of Soviet economy to provide
ything necessary for modern
warfare waged on a gigantic scale.”
The industry of the Soviet Union coped with its prob-
lems successfully, Red Star points out, and stood up to
the war industry of Europe which Hitler Germany had

“Twenty-one months of war have absorbed vast quan-
tities of armaments and equipment. The uninterrupted
growth of war production has not only made good all
losses, but also accumulated reserves necessary for the
realization of the strategic plans of the High Command.”

- MOSCOW.

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Girl Tank Driver
From The Urals

By JANET WEAVER

HEN she was 19, Tamara Vorobey was driving a tractor

over the broad fields of her collective farm in the

Urals. This was in the spring and summer of 1941. But now,
Tamara nearly 21, is a veteran of many tank battles and has
been cited for valor on the field of battle under enemy bom-
bardment and has been decorated with the Order of Red Star

in recognition of her services.

When Tamara’s father, also a
tractor driver on the farm, was
ealled up for service in the tank
forces, Tamara made her decision.
She knew her tractor inside out
and made all the repairs herself.

“T am going to military school,”
she told her mother. “I am going
to be a tank driver like father,”

In August she was made a Ser-
geant, driver of a medium tank.
The other three members of the

Not Hard

By G. KORZIN

MOSCOW.

7] O DIE is not hard, to live through life is harder, Vladmir
Mayakovsky, the great Soviet poet, once said.
And for twenty-five years the Soviet people built life, built
hospitals, schools, farms, men and happiness in their land.

Then the Hitlerites came upon
the east, and it took the life of
many to save the Soviet life of all.

Struggle is the assertion and

continuation of life. This was the
thought of the defenders of Sevas-
topol, the slogan of the fighters
of Stalingrad.

The Red Army continues the
struggle for life. The fascists
lmow only rage before the edi-
fice of life, and they will muster
every arm to storm it.

This was Stalin’s message to the
Soviet people. This is what Ser-
geant Sorokovnikoy knew when
be crawled forward against fire
to repair a broken telephone cable
on a sector of the northern front.

He got his third wound when he
held both ends of the wires in
his hands. It was a meter short
and he wound the wires around his
naked arms and himself became
the transmitter,

This is what the Leningrad
worker Fyodor Zabvorny knew
when, sick and cold, he went back
to his shop and suspended a chair
above the conveyor, watched and
supervised the assembly work.
One after another, the tanks left
the conveyor.

The Uzbeks say: “Man wants
to live. Man loves life. Man’s

life is above all, his freedom.

If a man is free, he makes his

life beautiful. Is there’ anyone

who would yield his happiness
to the enemy?”

During peace the collective farm
mechanic, the Uzbek, Kakhardjan
Tuichiyey, dreamed of peace and
happiness under the blue skies of
his native Uzbekistan, listened to
the songs of the young Uzbek
girls and smelled the peach groves
in bloom. Hitler marred the peace
of Kakhardjan Tuichiyey. Life
hurled him onto the battlefield.
The tank destroyer, Kakhardjan
Tuichiyeyv, spent hours in ambush
on the central front patiently
waiting for the enemy. One day
he picked off a German machine
gunner and the enemy spotted and
came for him. Five bullets earned
Tuichiyey five dead Germans.
Then the tanks came, headed
straight for him. He aimed at the
first of five, and got it. The sec-
ond also. The others turned back.
The dreamy Uzbek had asserted
the life that flowered in Uzbeki-
stan.

The Soviet people are fighting
for the life they have built, for
the life they will build, for the
life their children will build. And
that assertion of life is summed
up in one word: VICTORY!

MOSCOW.

crew were men. The oldest, the
commander, was 23. They were
a little doubtful when they saw
Tamara, a little girl with a saucy
turned up nose, pink cheeks and
a small red mouth, but they said
nothing, After a few days of
training together, when they saw
how Tamara could handle a tank,
their doubts vanished. For five
and a half months, the four were
tank buddies and grew to respect
each other. The skill of each was
the pride of the wohle crew: the
commander’s quick accurate
judgment, the deadly fire of the
gunners, Tamara’s driving ability
and her skill as a nurse when
first aid had to be rendered.

.)

ANUARY, 1942, was a tensely

active month in the Red Army’s
memorable winter. This was the
offensive in which Tamara’s crew
participated. In the early morn-
ing of January 25 Tamara’s tank
was part of the steel torrent rush-
ing forward through a sea of
enemy fire. They were pursuing
the German infantry division
after having smashed its artillery
and tank defenses the day before.
Tamara’s tank had broken into
an artillery position of the
enemy and was tearing back and
forth, flattening out their guns
like pancakes.

At daybreak they were tearing
across an open field firing cease-
lessly and carefully when there
was a dull explosion, the machine
reared up and Tamara pitched
forward and to the side, her head
hitting the wall with a blow that
knocked her unconscious. She
came to soon after and found her-
self lying on a great coat in the
snow with someone rubbing her
hands and someone else forcing
burning liquid down her throat.
She sat up, felt better and strug-
gled to her feet. Her first question
was about the motor of the tank,
and running over to it she began
to tinker with the engine.

Se
GUPDENLE a buzz was heard
from far off to the west. En-
emy bombers! The drone srew
to a roar as Tamara worked fran-
tically at the motor. Winally it

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