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Labor Dep’t Certifies |IWA Lo

Continued

Blaylock

A worthy gesture, costing approx-
imately two thousand dollars

e€ach—but peanuts compared to

payment of $8,000,000 in divi

dends for one year.

Perhaps the gem of all the phil-
blessings whiéh Mr.

anthropic
Blaylock reports upon to his em-
ployees, resulting from the capi-
tal-labor relationships of com-
pany unionism, is the distribution
ef free fertilizer. That is one
point we can agree upon—Mr.
Biaylock can sure hand out the
fertilizer. Even the free Xmas
turkey cannot detract from this
quality. It is precisely because of
this quality of dealing out fer-
tilizer, as a part and parcel of
company unionism, that the lat-
ter, because ofits odor, is totally
unacceptable to freedom-loving
working men and women.
e

R. BLAYLOCK'S report to

his employees is given in de-
fense of company unionism — a
one-sided relationship that rele-
gates labor to the status of a
serf. We do not doubt that Mr.
Blaylock is sincere in his desire
te see fascism beaten “unto
death, dust and ashes.’ However,
in his long and consistent opposi-
tion to giving recognition to the
elementary fright of bona-fide
trade union organization and col-
lective bargaining — again dem-
onstrated in opposition to the
IGA Act, and in his questionable
defense of company unionism, we
do doubt if Mr. Blaylock is aware
of what the war is being fought
for. Company unionism

Hitlerism. Mr.

ing.

Official Text Of Soviet

Note To Polish Gov't

MOSCOW.—The note of the Soviet government on its de-
cision to suspend relations with the Polish government, sent
by V. M. Molotov, Commissar for Foreign Affairs, to the Polish

ambassador, reads:

On the instructions of the Government of the Union of Soviet

Socialist Republics, I have the honor to bring to the attention
of the Polish government the following:

The Soviet government consid-| pied Poland, where everything is
ers the behavior of the Polish gov-| under Hitler's heel and where an
ernment. of late with regard to} honest Pole cannot openly voice his
the USSR as entirely abnormal | opinion.
and violating all rules and stand- For this “investigation” both the
ards in the relations of the two] Polish government and the Hitler
allied states. The hostile slander| government are attempting to use
campaign against the Soviet Union| as an organ the International Red
begun by the German fascists in| Cross which, in the conditions of
connection with the Polish officers|a terroristic regime with its gal-
killed by them in the district of | lows and mass extermination of
Smolensk, on territory occupied by

stems
from the same ideological root as
Blaylock should
lay aside his fertilizer distribu-
tion and do a little clean think-

May Day
Pictures

See them at The People Book
Shop ... Boeing workers, ship-
yard workers, bands, pipers,
Russians, Croatians, Ukrain-
jans and Scandinavians in na-
tional costume. See yourself
in the parade. Drop into the
Book Shop, 105 Shelly Building,
119 West Pender Street.

German troops, was
taken up by the Polish press.

The Polish government has not
failed to give any rebuff to the
against the
USSR but did not even deem it
necessary to address any questions
to the Soviet government or to
ask for explanation of this matter,
Having perpetrated this monstrous
crime against the Polish officers,
the Hitlerite authorities are now
investigation farce
in the staging of which they have
utilized the Polish pro-fascist ele-
ments recruited by them in occu-

vile fascist slander

Playing at an

immediately

civilian population, is compelled to
take part in this investigation
farce, whose director is Hitler.

It is understandable that such
an “investigation” conducted more-
over behind the back of the Soviet
government, cannot evoke the con-
fidence of any honest people. The
fact that the hostile campaign
against the Soviet Union was be-
gun simultaneously in the Ger-
man and Polish press and con-
ducted along the same lines, leaves
no doubt as to the existence of
contact and complicity between
Hitler, the enemy of the Allies,
and the Polish government with

regard to the conduct of this hos-
tile campaign.

At a time when the peoples of
the Soviet Union are shedding their
blood in the hard struggle against
Hitler Germany, straining every
effort to defeat the common enemy

of the Russian and Polish peo-
ples and all freedom-loving demo-
the Polish gov-
ernment, to please Hitler’s tyranny,
is striking a treacherous blow at

eratic countries,

the Soviet Union.

The Soviet government is aware
that this hostile campaign against
is undertaken
by the Polish government in order
to utilize this piece of slanderous
Hitlerite forgery for bringing pres-
sure to bear on the Soviet govern-

the Soviet Union

ment to wrest from it territorial
concession at the expense of the
interests of the Soviet Ukraine,
Soviet Byelo-Russia and Soviet
Lithuania. All these facts compél
the Soviet government to recognize
that the present government of
Poland, having stooped to the path
of complicity with the Hitler gov-
ernment, has actually abrogated
allied relations with the USSR
and adopted a position of hostile
relations toward the Soviet Union.
On the basis of all this, the Soviet
fovernment has decided to sus-
pend relations with the Polish gov-
ernment.

Continued

Unity Marks City’s May Day

kidding; that when they chose
as their official May Day slogan,
“Everything for the Offensive”
instead of the pre-war slogan,
“Down Tools on May Day,” they
meant EVERYTHING — in-
creased output, support of war
finance campaigns, and unity
in the ranks of labor itself,
among all sections of the popu-
lation, between workers and the
armed services, and within the
war councils of the United Na-
tions.
e

ToS May Day the men from

the shipyards and logging
camps, the women from ,Boe-
ings, marching under banners
pledging to keep materials mov-
ing to their men in army, air-
force and navy, the Ukrainians

The Pamphlet of the Year...

11§ West Pender

SAM CARR’S

FACE

OF THE

ENEMY

The People Bookshop

105 Shelly Building
MA. 6929

Vancouver, B.C.

fighting for the legalization of
their organization, the East In-

dians working to free their
mother country and win the
franchise here, the Chinese

lumbermen and shipyard work-
ers, the youth groups and the
housewives organizations, the
members of the Mac-Paps and
the native Indians marching in
full war paint, proved that
unity on the home front had
been achieved. The whole par-
ade, the very fee] in the air, ex-
pressed unity and an urgent de
Sire for increased offensive
action in Europe.

“The tools you are producing
and the money you are saving
now,’ Major-General Pearkes
told Vancouver's war workers,
“are not to save us from a des-
perate enterprise of the mom-
ent, but the long pull ahead.”
And he went on to hint of the
beginning of a vast offensive
in the near future.

“It is a wonderful thing,” he
continued, “how the soldiers and
workers are cooperating in this
war. Having served in the
ranks myself, I feel a common
bond with these soldiers who are
your sons and brothers.”

Loud cheers drowned every
mention of the Red Army, and

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a resolution to be sent to the
“Big Four’—Churchill, Stalin,
Roosevelt and Chiang Kai
Shek, declaring that supplies
would be kept rolling from the
preduction lines until fascism
is vanquished, was passed un-
animously.
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N THE banners carried by

marching groups, as well as
in the words of the speakers,
onlookers could read the whole
of labor’s win-the-war program,
set down in simple terms.

First, labor is determined
that the war over its deadliest
enemy must be won. To ensure
this, labor works for greater

unity, internally, nationally and
internationally, and for a per-
petual increase in output of
munitions and machines for

war. To insure unity, labor is
demanding the lifting of the
ban on democratic anti-fascist
organizations. And to ensure
Steadily increasing production,
labor demands the cutting away
of all reactionary forces and
dead wood standing in its way,
the resignation of such dis-
rupters of national unity as
Justice Minister St. Laurent,
and aircraft bungler-in-chief

‘resentatives of all emplo |

‘Maj jority

IWA Local 1-80 has
recognition as official
ing agency for empl
Lake Logging Compan;
announced this week —

Department of Labor.

A letter from an officic |
Labor Department to J. ~
ston, secretary of Roun”
Local of 1-80, read in pr

“Following investigatior
M. Whisker of our Victori’
it has been found that
jority of employees who y
affected by a dispute bety
employers and the emplo
members in good standing
1-80, International Woodwe
America, and that such of
the said union, or such pe
the union may elect for
pos¢, shall be the bargain

fected, pursuant to Sectii |
the Indusirial Conciliation ©
bitration Act.”

Local 1-80, one of the |
tablished locals in Dist §
1, prior to the passing of
Act amendments was coi
negotiations on a _ distr
basis. Several more of
are expected to apply for ~
eation shortly, including 1
Ployees at the big Victori
ber and Manufacturing €
mill at Ladysmith.

Ralph Bell, as well as th
who, while presuming to
for labor, is actually cons
by workers themselves ;¢ |
stacle-to-bieger-productior
One — Labor Minister H
rey Mitchell, And labor de
that men be appointed in
place who are supporte
total war, real justice, ef
production, and sound ?
labor policies,

This was the essence
very keynote of Vancor
May Day.

i eee the shipyard
packed up their insti
The women of the voli
service foree, in smart
forms, went home to coo}
hers for war-worker husi
Shipyard workers hurriei
af the grounds to get
for the graveyard shift, ar
rest of the crowd piled
streetears.

Back in Brockton Ov
bright flame, dedicated
Archbishop Sir Francis H
cote was left burning in Li
May Day pylon. And
flame will be kept bur
every May Day marcher ple
until fascism surrenders
conditionally.

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