MISS SCANDINAVIA REECE MISS CHINA MISS FREE FRANCE MISS BRITAIN MISS AMERICA Miss United Nations To Be Named At Big Picnic OQ of the most interesting events planned for the huge Communist-Labor Total War Gom- mittee’s picnic on August 1 will be the choosing of Miss United Wations from among eleven en- tries representing countries united against fascism. From left to Tight above: Miss Scandinavia, Mona Morgan, wife of TWA In- ternational Board Member Nigel Morgan, sponsored by Lumber- workers’ Committee; Miss China, Ann Lew, member of Boilermak- ers’ Union, sponsored by Salvage Shipyard Workers’ Committee; Miss Free France, Alice Pristupa, member Welders and SBurners local of the Boilermakers, spon- sored by South Burrard Commit- tee; Miss Britain, Ann Clozza, member Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Union, sponsored by North Burrard Committee; Miss America, Kay Rogers, member Cannery Workers’ Union, spon- sored by Committee of Workers Buek Writes The following letter has been sent by Tim Buck to the editor of the Toronto Globe and Mail in reply to an editorial in that paper on June 16, 1943. WAS interested in the edi- torial, in your issue of Wed- nesday, June 16, entitled, “Another New Party Pro- posed.” The editorial writer started quite correctly from the fact that my proposal for establishment of a national party through which Com- munists will actively parti- cipate on the whole political front “raises @ number of important _questions.’ The most important, indeed the fundamental question, raised by my proposal is that of the right of free political association in Canada today. Assuming that right, the question arises as to whether citizens who hold to specific political convictions should band themselves together in their-own party so as to put forward their point of view in an organized way. Heretofore the answer to that question has been @ very definite “yes.” Indeed, it is an essential feature of the normal operation of our political party system. It is regrettable that the above-mentioned editor- ial evaded these two questions. e@ AD the writer faced these two prime questions he would have been compelled to answer them in the affirmative. The Globe and Mail has placed itself on record in this connection sey- eral times: “The Committee of Two Hundred for Total War” and the campaign to build a nation- wide movement, to influence na- tional policies, under the name of “The Leadership League,” are two outstanding examples of this. In the normal operation of our political system there is consid- erably more need, today, for Cana- dian Communists to establish their own national party than there was for any of the above- mentioned attempts at political organization. The Canadian Com- munist movement has grown out of Canadian life and the needs and interests of the working peo- ple. There were Communist or- ganizations in Canada as early as the ’80s of the last century and the Communist Party estab- lished in i921 grew directly out of the Socialist Party of Canada and other left wing groups which merged in its establishment. There are more Communists than there were members of either the “Com mittee of Two Hundred” move- ment or the Leadership League. @ F YOU, Mr -Editor, or any reader of the Globe and Mail doubt whether our proposals in support of national unity and the betterment of Canada are suf- ficiently distinct from the pro- posal put forward by other part- ies to justify establishment of our own party to advocate them, I would advise a reading of the brief which I submitted to the National Inquiry in Labor Re- lations on May 27-28, my accept- ance speech upon being chosen, recently, in public convention as Labor candidate for the Federal Constituency of Spadina, and the Communist Party’s submission to the Rowell-Sirois Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations. The validity of our analyses of national problems and of the care- fully worked out proposals that we have put forward in these and numerous other published docu- ments of a Simialr character, have never been publicly challenged. The distinctive character of the contribution that Communists can make in democratic development of national policy and our politi- cal cohesion in support of our proposals are both illustrated y the fact that ours was the only party in Canada which advocated, for years before the war, precisely the policy and alliance which now characterize the United Nations. FAPHROUGGHOUT those years the Liberal and Conservative Parties and most of the public press, supported the suicidal poli- cies of the Chamberlain govern- ment and withdrew their support only after a succession of disas- ters showed it to be based upon undemocratic wishful thinking in- stead of upon the real interests of democracy. The fact that the true nature and full content of our proposals are known to only a limited number of Canadians is due to the discreet silence main- tained by the daily press concern- from Light Industry; Miss India, Worreen Jowle, sponsored by Sikh Temple Committee. (Read- ing down on the left): Miss Gari- baldi, Rosie Nicolette, sponsored by Anti-Fascist Italians Commit- tee; Miss Ganada, Judy Power, wife of Boilermaker, member of Canadian Women in ‘Training, Sponsored by West Coast and Hamilton Bridge Committee; Miss Soviet Union, Miss M. Rud- kewich, sponsored by Slavic Workers’ Comittee; Miss Greece, Gay Dades, sponsored by Aircraft Workers’ Committee. Miss Scot- land, whose picture is not shown, is Lorna May Hamilton, spon- sored by New Westminster Work- ers’ Committee. The picnic will be held at Con- federation Park, 4600 Hast Hast- ings Street. (Take Number 14 or 16 car to Boundary Road, then Hastings Hast extension to Alpha Avenue.) mn New Party ing them. That alone renders the establishment of our national par- ty necessary. a I think the above answers the rather flippant thesis of your editorial to the effect that, if we Communists desire to contribute to national unity and the war ef fort, we should dissolve our or- fanization. @ AGREE entirely with the statement in the editorial that continued maintenance of the ban is now ridiculous. I have written at some length Continued China's S the Japanese army 159,000 rifles, millions of bullets, thousands of light and heavy machine guns, Shells, hand grenades, pistols, hundreds of various types of field guns, etc., as well as large quanti- ties of war supplies such as radio and telephone sets, trucks, hel- mets, uniforms, gas masks, tele- scopes, etc. The secret of the strength of the Chinese Bighth Route and ’ New Fourth Armies lies in their deep roots among the people. In the northwestern border region, which is the base of the Highth Route Army “democratic political institutions and concrete agrarian and tax reforms have been intro- duced.” Such measures enable the people to do their utmost to assist the armed forces in organ- izing successful resistance. e HIS is not true of all Free China, In most of the other sections of the country danger- ous tendecies have developed which from time to time threaten both national unity and people’s resistance. Uncontrolled hoarding, profiteering and speculation has rocketed the prices of some com- modities sky high, thus shaking the morale of the people. As a re- sult production of some of the basic commodities has dropped. And even some of the Central government army’s supplies have been sharply affected. Punish- ment of profiteers and democratic reforms alone can alleviate this acute economic crisis. in reply to your editorial because the purpose of public discussion today should be to strengthen understanding of the responsibili- ties which the struggle for United Wations’ victory, and that victory itself when it is achieved, imposes upon all democratic people. This is another of the “important ques- tions” overlooked by the editorial writer and I hope this letter will help make up for his omission. Hoping that you will find space for this letter and thanking you in anticipation, —TIM BUCK. ix Years But despite all these shortcom- ings, the Chinese people are de- termined to wage this war to a successful conclusion. In order to assist the Chinese people, the re- opening of the Burma Road is essential for replenishing the Chinese war supplies. The flow of adequate war supplies can en- able the Chinese forces to launch an early offensive against the Japanese occupationists. Such an offensive coordinated with the military operations of the Anglo- American forces will doom the Mikado’ Imperialism. CE has not only fought a Successful military battle for the world in Asia, but also a po- litical battle. It was the Chinese people who repudiated the Japa- nese imperialist slogan of “Asia for the Asiatices.” It was the Chinese people who proved to the world on the field of battle that it was not a ‘trace war’ as advo- cated by the Japanese fascists, -but a people’s anti-imperialist war of national liberation. It has been the heroic struggle of the Chinese people that has created a great anti-faseist movement all through- out Asia against the Japanese- sponsored Pan-Asiatic Racial movement. The Chinese people unmasked Japanese imperialism. Thanks to them the flames of this sacred struggle will spread all over Japanese occupied Asia as the armed forces of Nippon- ese fascism grow weaker.