at the action was not
‘of a sudden decision
feful and sustained
! je deep-foinge changes
iplace in the world and
‘and changed tasks that
“facing the working-class
pot. As noted in the reso-
the war has sharpened
eded up the growing dif-
* within each country.
st obvious manifestation
“mot course, is the diametri-
= sosite tasks that now con-
he working-class move-
in the Axis dominated
's from the tasks. of the
in the countries allied
the fascist Axis. That is
only contradiction that
‘he historical character of
7 however. It has been. ap-
ties or some considerable fime
profound differences be-
both the- governmental
and the possibilities for
F tie development in differ-
@aitries, combined with the
sibilities for broader de-
unity than at any time in
>, were creating the need
on to clear away €very-
ni@jaat could be utilized by
or could be misunder-
y hesitant democrats as
tacle to. democratic unity.
ec resolution points out,
SMP rists, guided by the teach-
the founders of Marxism-
iu@in, have never advocated
‘servation of organization-
Gi; which have become ob-
ne
Sj ie contrary, we have al-
ke @nbordinated questions of
fil Nional form and methods
a0 to the political interests
tj labor movement as a
n the given historical sit-
‘and conditions. This pro-
rom the Executive of the
‘mm is a perfect example
je an attitude towards or-
i: @ onal questions.
fo)

som dissolution will strengthen
4=e unity of the United Na-
tg y the very fact that it
iolish the basis for one
worst and most insidious
mer? that has been used in
ne as well as other coun-
sue bring aid and comfort to
and his allies, namely, the
eam that the USSR was plan-
is@» establish control of the
®2S of central Europe
i the work of the Comin-

.

Gre

>
;

4@ ll also end the basis for
)) the same canard by the
gee °Obaganda bureau, and by
eslings who serve Hitler in
/cupied countries. At the
Bime it will, or should, help
nate the strong elements
crimination by which a
nany Communists are still
ed from giving their best
ying their full role in the
Sil war effort.

' @

(ING the past years we
fe repeatedly exposed and

ined the lie that Com-
Parties are in some way

rT, however, that even the
‘and interests who ignored
‘ts of the case in the past,
ad themselves without am-
on for the disruptive prop-
+ how that the Internation-
ormally dissolved and the

Communists in every country
Stand altogether without interna-
tional affiliation of any kind.
That fact should help to make it

possible for Communists to do

even more in support of the war
to destroy Hitler and all that his
mame stands for. It must also be
recognized as adding to our re-
sponsibilities,

je welcoming the proposal to

disband the executive com-
mittee and the International as
a guiding centre of the interna-
tional labor movement, we must
emphasize the

By
TIM BUCK

that the working-class movement
of Canada owes to the Comin-
tern. It was the inspiration and
the guidance of the Second Con-
gress of the Communist Interna-
tional which made it possible to
unite the vanguard of the ad-
vanced workers in Canada during
the early nineteen twenties, and it
was the tireless and uncomprom-
ising struggle of the leadership
of the Gommunist International
to bring the teachings of Lenin
to the broadest circles of the peo-
pie, that replaced the vulgarized
and distorted propaganda of the
opportunists by the true letter
and spirit of Marxism-Leninism.

W the third of June this year,

it will be 22 years since the
two Canadian affiliates of the two
Communist Parties then in exist-
ence in the United States united
to form the Communist Party of
Canada. Every step forward that
we have made since then, and
we have made progress despite
mistakes, has been made by ap-
plying the Leninist studies and
theses of the Communist Interna-
tional to the specific conditions
and problems of the working-
class movement in Canada. In
greeting the decision to dissolve
the Comintern now that changed
conditions make its dissolution
advisable, let us not minimize
these facts.

The maturity of the Commun-
ist movement will be demonstrat-
ed now by the general correct-
mess with which it succeeds in
meeting the political tasks that
come forward as a result of the
war.

Our task in Canada, is to
strengthen the fight for labor
unity as the indispensable core
of national unity and to strength-
en the struggle for the lifting of
the ban from the Communist
Party of Canada while putting all
our energy into the effort to
win the war.

ISSOLUTION of the Comin-
tern does not negate the
need for international unity and
does not even suggest that the

profound debt _

| Decision Opens
ew Perspectives

[ announcement on Saturday that the Executive Com-
ttee of the Communist International had appealed to
fmmunist parties throughout the world for agreement
proposal to disband, to dissolve the International, opens
persepctives for the world labor movement.

sading of the resolution adopted by the Executive

workers of the world will feel
the need for international soli-
darity less than they have in the
past, The internationalism of the
working-class does not grow out
of organizational forms, it is the
ferms that are themselves thrown
up. by the needs of the interna-
tionalism. Our internationalism
stows out of the historic struggle
of the working people for demo-
cratic progress towards a better
world. 5

The defeat of the armed might
of the Axis powers will mean
more than military victory alone.
To the great majority of demo-
cratic people it will represent the
defeat of the idea of fascism as
a barrier to social progress.

Our task today is to do every-
thing within our power to ensure
that military victory is achieved
and to do our part in uniting
all sections of the democratic
forces of Canada in that new
and broader unity which shall
ensure the complete defeat of
Hitlerism today and peace and
ordered social progress in the
post-war world.

New Type Labor Paper
Boosts Production Competitions

Production competitions in Soviet factories have given
rise to a new form of trade union newspaper— live-wire”’
news sheets, sometimes issued as often as every hour at
the height of a competition — which are given much of
the eredit for the increases in Soviet labor productivity
in the past year. The news sheets, devoted entirely to
production questions, are posted on bulletin boards in
each department and require little paper.

The first news sheets were issued in a Moscow ma-
chine plant last summer, and their success immediately
got them the backing of the All-Union Central Council
of Trade Unions. Hach sheet makes a single point: it
publicizes a new record set by a Stakhanovite, describes
an efficiency proposal, denounces a worker or a foreman
responsible for lost time, prints letters from former
workers at the front, or lists the names of blood donors.

MOSCOW.

Davies Decries Ruins

Of Heroic Stalingrad

MOSCOW.

Joseph E. Davies, former United States Ambassador to
the Soviet Union flew to Stalingrad on his way to Moscow
with President Roosevelt's letter to Joseph Stalin. There he
viewed the ruined city from the air and then landed and

walked about its streets:

In describing the destruction
he saw there to the correspon-
dents, he said in a voice filled
with emotion, “I had the im-
pression that it was the most
terrible, damnable blot on civi-
lization in all history, perpe-
trated by somebody called man.”

Wavies has quoted one of the
members of his party as say-
ing, “I could tear the Germans
to pieces with my own hands,” as
the plane flew over Stalingrad;
and as they looked down on mile
after mile of ruins and wreck-
age.

"J wish that every fighting man
in the United Nations forces
could experience what we experi-
enced in Stalingrad before they
go into battle,” Mr. Davies said.
“I wish every American man,
woman and child could experi-
ence what we 15 Americans ex-
perienced—the horror and anger

that such a crime could be com-
mitted.

Davies placed a wreath on the
grave of an unknown soldier in
the square in Stalingrad, and in
a short, extemporaneous speech,
stated:

“Here in immortal Stalingrad
we stand humbly in the midst of
the still charred embers of this
brave,-new city which has been
devastated by the Hun.

“Acting for the President of
the United States and for the
free, liberty-loving sons of God
everywhere on earth, as a token
of our homage and deathless re-
spect I lay this simple wreath of
Russian spring flowers on the
grave of this unknown soldier.
Even in death he so gloriously
typifies the supreme heroism and
devotion to freedom of our un-
conquerable ally, the Soviet
Union, and its great leaders, its
glorious Red Army and its heroi-
cally undaunted Soviet people.”

A Russian woman, returning to her village which was recaptured by advancing Red Army

troops, finds the body of her husband massacred by Nazi troops before they retreated.