Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, June 19, 1943

\Canada And June 22

By AL PARKIN

"WO years ago this weekend the greatest army the
world had known—Hitler’s Wehrmacht—poured
cross the borders of the Soviet Union. Hitler, swol-
en by the conquest of Europe, confident of Nazi
might, certain that the hostility of the western de-
mmocracies to Soviet Russia would leave his rear free
from attack, boasted he would take Moscow within
six weeks. 2
But something happened. For the first time the
|) Nazi “heroes” faced an army of men with a purpose,
fn army without spies, an army without traitorous
/fenerals. The Red Army fought back, and though
\ditler may not have realized at the time, that day of
June 22, 1941, marked the turning point in the great
)onflict and laid the foundations for ultimate victory
ver the Axis and for future world progress.

Hitler launched his assault on the Soviets at a
ime when the position of the Allied nations was des-
erate: in the extreme. All of Europe was in his
lands. North Africa and the Suez seemed ripe for
he picking. Great Britain and the dominions stood
done, their armies not yet fully formed, their air
arces only beginning to take shape as an offensive
yeapon. The Luftwaffe ruled supreme in the air.
Had Germany’s great blow against the Red Army
ucceeded, nothing would have stood in the path of
Yazi world conquest except Britain and the United

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neeting, which is being held
Be to Russia on the second
sary of their entry into
> will be addressed by many
ent speakers, among them
forgan, International Board
t, International Woodwork
America, Grant MacNeil,
EA, representatives of local
‘ganizations, and Tom Mc-
of the Communist-Labor
Var Committee. A musical
A will feature the Kitsilano
Sand, and Russian music by
i Russian, Ukrainian and
groups,

' two years the Russians
strugeled relentlessly and
Uy against our common

lant Athletic Park
ally On Soviet Union

‘NCOUVER citizens will pay tribute to the people of the
jpviet Union and their valiant Red Army in a huge mass
=ag to be held in Athletic Park, Sunday, June 20, under
Yonsorship of the BC Communist-Labor Total War Com-

enemy,” stated Tom McEwen, an-
nouncing plans for the mass meet-
ing. “When the Nazi forces invad-
éd the Soviet Union, many mili-
fary analysts predicted that Mos-
cow would fall within six weeks
or two months. The fallacy of their
predictions was soon apparent: the
Russian people fooled both the
analysts and Hitler. The whole of
the civilized world owes a tre-
Mmendous debt to the Soviet people.
If Hitler had been able to win the
grain of the Ukraine and fhe oil
of the Caucausus, there would be
no civilized world.”

Chairman will be A. C. Camp-
bell, and the meeting will begin
at seven p.m.

In Industry

Production
Threatened
By Disputes

Canada’s organized labor
movement placed full respon-
sibility for the current labor
erisis throughout the nation
full on the shoulders of the fed-
eral department of labor this
week as work stoppages from
Quebee to British Columbia
left thousands of workers idle
in vital war plants while new
disputes threatened at several

points from ithe government's
refusal to take labor into its

confidence.

In every case, strikes in pro-
‘gress and new disputes develop-
ing stemmed either from failure
of conciliation boards to act
quickly, from Jack of understand-
ing among government officials
as to real conditions in various
industries, or plain inefficiency
on the part of various govern-
ment agencies in the handling of
labor problems,

In BC the labor picture was
marked by the following develop-
ments:

@ Several thousand BC fisher-
men will tie up their boats at the
epening of the sockeye salmon sea-
son if the fisheries department re-
fuses to change its price-pegging
order that will sharply reduce
fishermen’s income for 1943,
though the pack price to the op-
erators is as high as formerly.

@® Vancouver packing house
workers have been forced to take
a strike yote to get acknowledge-
ment from Ottawa on a Regional
Wear Labor Board recommendation
that their pay be increased five
cents per hour retroactive to Nov-
ember 3 of last year.

@ Shipyard workers in Prince
Rupert have postponed for two
weeks further action on their de-
mand for better food in dining
rooms after having been forced
into a brief slowdown action to
get recognition of their pleas ear-
lier this week. Food conditions
have been so bad in Wartime
Housing-operated dining rooms
that labor turnover in Prince jRup-
ert shipyards has been almost 50
percent, with the goyernment con-
sistently ignoring the unions’ de-
mands for improvement. ®

Across Canada the crisis was
marked by failure to bring about
settlement of stee] strikes at Ham-
ilton and Galt provoked by failure
of a conciliation board to hand
down a decision; a strike of 7,000
shipyard men in Quebec yards; a
walkout of 1,500 men at Lachine:
and a strike of 320 steelworkers in
Montreal.

In addition to these, a whole
number of other disputes loom
throughout industrial Ontario
and Quebec, in almost every case

See PRODUCTION—Page 2

MeEwen Indiets
Hart Statement

“The statements of the government on the election of the
CCF candidate in Revelstoke last week is the strongest indict-
ment that can be made against the government, and is part and

parcel of its pre-war, moth-eaten approach to economic prob-
lems,” said Tom McEwen of BC Communist-Labor Total War

McEwen was commenting on re-
cent statements of members of the
Hart government who declared
that the election of Vincent Segur

in the Revelstoke by-election was
a step towards “totalitarian gov-
ernment.” :

“It is quite clear that people who
can make such statements are
merely paying lip service to pro-
gress in post-war world reconstruc-
tion plans,” continued McEwen
“The election of the CCF candidate
in Revelstoke is a very definite
gain for labor in general. For
responsible government leaders to
argue that election of CCE mem-
bers is 4n-ndication of totalitarian
government is absolutely absurd.
The only guarantee against the
introduction of Nazi forms of gov-
ernment in Canada will be precise-

Committee in a statement to the press this week.

ly through election of representa-
tives of labor and the CGF.

“The Hart government should
begin to realize at this late date
that the red herring is a poor
obstruction to progress. On the
whole, labor is gratified at the
victory of the CCF in Revelstoke
riding.”

“The main object of a labor gov-
ernment if it came into being to-

morrow in any province or in the
Dominion of Canada would be to
concentrate on mobilization of
Canada for total war against the
Axis. Apparently the red baiters
in the Hart government feel that
its job, if one may judge by their
Statements, is to mobilize the pec
ple of British Columbia against
labor. If so, it is Sadly out of
touch with the spirit and sentiment
of Canada,” he concluded.

stituent convention to establish a
political party of Communists in
the dominion. *

The conference established itself
by, resolution as the initiative com-
mittee for the constituent conyen-
tion which will be held here Aug-
ust 21 and 22. Tim Buck was
named chairman of the committee
and Stanley Ryerson secretary.

Dealing with the continued ban
on the Communist Party by the
federal government, Buck told the
conference:

“We are Communists. We have
a part to play in the winning of
the war and the building of Can-
ada. We can play that part only
by putting forth and fighting for
Communist proposals and policies
on every issue of our national life.

“We can do that most effective-
ly only by uniting ourselves in
our own party and fighting under
our own political banner in sys-
tematic, parliamentary, educa-
tional and organizational activity
in every corner of Canada.”

Dissolution of the Comintern has
established the last obstacle to the
establishment of such a party,
Buck pointed out. it has removed
every vestige of excuse for any-
body to render judgment upon Ca-
nadian Communists on any basis
other than our own declared aims
and purposes and our own actions.

Arising out of Sunday’s confer-
ence, initiative committees will

be set up in all provinces to pre-

Canadian Communists
To Form New Party

TORONTO, Ont. — A conference of Communists from all
parts of Canada held here June 14 on the invitation of Tim
Buck, general secretary of the Communist-Labor Total War
Committee, endorsed a proposal by Buck to call a national con-

pare for the August: 22 constitn-
ent convetnion. Full cooperation
has been pledged to the confer-
ence by officials of the Commun-

sR
ist-Labor Total War Committees
through which Communists have
been working for a maximum na-
tional war effort for victory. -
Tim Buck’s speech to the con-
ference will meantime be given

national distribution in 250,000
copies, to be printed in Enelish
and French, oe

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