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triticism of Lewis

€ executive commit-
Meater Newark Indus-
2 Council, representing
rkers. Charging that

the UMW president had “betrayed
his country by violating labor’s no-
strike pledge and betrayed Jabor
by furnishing the ammunition for
anti-labor legislation,” the council
declared:

“John L. Lewis has called a strike

_ that threatens to paralyze our war

production. He is gambling with
the lives of our fighting men. His
actions can only result in delaying
our offensive in Europe, thereby
prolonging the war and costing the
lives of many thousands of our
American boys. Such action can
only be characterized as deliberate,

malicious sabotage of America’s
war effort. Such actions place
Lewis in the unenyiable position of
America’s No. 1 fascist.”

Among the many other labor
groups condemning Lewis are the
national executive board of the
United Office and Professional
Workers, CIO, the Greater New
York CIO Council,- representing
500,000 workers, the New York
Printing Pyressmen’s Union, AFL,
and* the Wayne County CIO Coun-
ceil, representing 350,000 workers
in the Detroit area.

‘Roll Back Prices’ Drive Opened

The CIO and AFL presented a joint memorandum to Presi-
dent Roosevelt this week asking his intervention in the tangled

to be entrusting the job of price
control — of primary importance
te labor because of the limits on
Wage increases under the stabli-
zation program — to officials of
food companies and grocery chains.
The OPA is under concerted at-
tack from a half dozen Congres-
sional committees, the bulk of the
press, and powerful spokesmen for
the “Farm Bloc” and food inter
ests. Despite its announced inten-
tion of rolilnge back staple prices
to the level of September 15, 1942,
in the last few weeks leading OPA
sadvocates of price control have
been fired and business men who

affairs of the Office of Price Administration, which now appears

regard inflation as inevitable have
been promoted to key positions.

The CIO, in a supplementary
memorandum, asked the President
this week to: (1) veto the tax bill,
which presents an outright gift
of several billion dollars to big
corporation and wealthy individ-
uals; (2) consult labor before issu-
ing economic orders; (3) simplify
War Labor Board procedure; (4)
and giye more forthright leader-
Ship in Congress, so that adminis-
tration leaders will not continue
to vacillate uneasily on major
issues, and occasionally support
measures “in direct opposition to
the President's program.”

National

Foronto Tely’ Serves Goebbels

Known as one of the most reactionary, anti-United Nations
papers in Canada, the Toronto Telegram once more came in for
censure last week when members of House of Commons pointed

out the latest pro-fascist act of
the paper which is often com-
pared to Gol. MecCormick’s
isolationist Chicago Tribune.

Despite what War Services Min-
ister LaFleche calls “a very good
understanding” with newspapers
regarding publication of reports of
broadcasts made in Germany by
Canadian prisoners of war, the
Telegram preferred to serve Goe-
bbels rather than the cause of na-
tional defense by printing an article
referring to such a broadcast by
a Canadian prisoner in Germany.
The article went on to describe
the “tears of happiness’ shed by
his mother when she heard his
voice.

As pointed out by W. Ross Mac-
Donald (Liberal, Brantford), these
broadcasts aré used as clever bait
to gain a Canadian audience for

German propaganda. He enquired
whether publication of such broad-
casts in newspapers was censored.

Wavy Minister MacDonald said
that the services took a definite
view on broadcasting by prisoners
and felt that it should not be car-
ried on. He hoped the Telegram,
as a patriotic newspaper, would
seek to do nothing to aid the
enemy but said that such reports,
indicating that people might hear
the voices of missing men over
the radio, would encourage others
to listen to German broadcasts.

To loyal Canadians, however, the
Telegram article looked like what
it was meant to be: free advertis-
ing for Goebbels. Many Canadians
hoped that minister of war serv-
ices LaFleche will act upon his
promise made to the House to
“look into the situation.”

Lift the Ban

“We Have Not Dissolved”

“Far from being ‘dissolved, the Communist movement in
Canada will grow by the very nature of things, and it will again
bear the proud and honored name of the Communist Party,”

Tim Buck, national secretary of
the Dominion Communist-Labor
Total War Committee, declared
when, as part of his job of rallying
Canadian workers to all-out sup-
port of the war and increased pro-
duction, he took time out to cx-

plain to a packed meeting of To-

ronto citizens the significance of
the Communist International’s dis-
solution.

“Tt is said that the decision
means that the Communist parties
will also ‘dissolve.’ That is utter
nonsense,” continued Buck. ‘Com-
munist parties are produced by
conditions within each country,

not by conditions alien to that
country. They are rooted in the
fabric of each country, and not
in the imaginations of men. They
are mass parties—not sects.

“Qur fundamental viewpoints on
the need for socialism remain.
We shall fight constantly for our
democratic right as Canadians to
hold and express these viewpoints,
for our right to try to convince
the majority of Canadians that
Wwe are corect.

“At this moment, when all our
futures depend on the defeat of
Hitler, we say again, as we have
in the past, that we do not advance

French Unity Negotiations Opened

Uniting France once more,
French commander in North Africa, greets General Charles
deGaulle, Fighting French leader, on deGaulle’s arrival at
Algiers to discuss formation of a new French government.

Stretcker Work at Attu

General Henri Giraud (left),

US soldiers carry a comrade wounded in fighting against the
Japanese on Attu Island. The photo shows some of the rough

terrain typical of the Aleutians.

our * socialist proposals at this
stage, when the utmost unity be-
tween all people and ideas is re-
quired; that we subordinate our
Socialist program to the needs of
the people’s war against the com-
mon enemy.

“But we do not, and will not,
surrender our right to legality.
Far from abandoning this struggle
‘to lift the ban on the party, as
Mr. St. Laurent apparently wishes
us to do, we say now that mare
than ever before must Canadian
democrats insist on our right to
have our party organization, when

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no longer can St. Laurent use the
program and constitution of the
CI as a pretext for banning the
Communist Party. The issue of cur
party is not our private concern,
but that of all Canadians.

“Hard battles lie ahead. The
Communists will be in the fore-
front of those battles,” be con-
cluded. “We are Canadians first
and foremost, devoted to our
country’s welfare. We call on all
democrats to more than ever sup-
port our claim to legality, to that
freedom «for which we are all
fighting.”

Attention! Mr. St. Laurent

While Justice Minister St. Laurent prefers to regard the
win-the-war activities of Canadian communists as “subversive,”
Prime Minister Mackenzie King apparently feels that a frown

of disapproval plus a few admon-
ishing words is sufficient punish-
ment for the president of Falcon-
bridge Nickel Mines Limited, who
at that companys annual meeting,
expressed satisfaction that the
company’s property in Norway was
being maintained and operated
under German control. i

This “gentlemen’s agreement”
between some of our Nazi enemies
and a Canadian board of directors
was brought to the attention of
the House of Commons by CCE
leader M. J. Coldwell.

The (inference that could be
drawn, felt the Prime Minister,
was that “property interests of
the company were being placed

above the prosecution of the war,”
when it could not be doubted that
the Allied cause would be better
served if the property had been
rendered inoperative.

Some honorable members want-
ed to know what action would be
taken against the Falconbridge
Mines president, and Coldwell
pointed out that men had been
interned for less.

“The statement I have just made
will, I think, be more effective
in its results than any other meas-
ure the government could possibly
take,” King replied.

There are many who do not
agree with that conclusion.

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