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Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, July 3, 1943

bes Crate’s A\rrest

He.

lean Nazi Cleanup?

least one of Canada’s most notorious fascists seemed
~ == d for long-deserved internment this week with the arrest

P#ionton of Charles Crate, alias Brandel, self-styled Nazi
© ider of the pre-war Canadian Union of Fascists.

arrest was made by the RCMP after Crate, who had

i Bed to work openly

ind frequent appeals to the
ent of justice for his ar-
)s charged with dissemin-
Fascist propaganda while
~~) i om a vital defense pro-
“] > Alaska Highway. After
eary hearing in Edmonton
iurt, he was remanded for
“= rial, Full charges were not
cf Low. .
'was one of the most ac-
|a highly-organized sroup
piian fascists holding con-
with similar individuals
"= ips in the United States
"8 at Britain. As early as
—) activities were singled
= <=posure by labor papers
imizations throughout Can-
\ Hat time he was employed
e oronto postoffice, a posi--
| -& he held even after the
= out. He was shown then
2 regular correspondence
own German agents such
» Kuhn in United States and
}ild Mosley in Great Bri-
/h now interned.
)}; the Toronto labor paper,
|. Tribune, came into Pos-
fot documentary proof of
Elinued activities in the

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oer Workers
ie .
®t In Nanaimo

200 delesates from every
ithe BC logging and saw-
Stry will meet in Nanaimo
Pay, July 4, for sessions
‘WA BC District Council
midsummer conference.
will be held in the Eagles’

Jusiness of the gathering
0 map out a program for
i for the next six months,
to be the most important

a will be given to prob-

obtaining union agree=
establishing joint labor-
lent production commit-
! seking solution to such
| 45 special rationing for
shy. President Harola J.

; ay, the District
i IWA Ladies’ i

as a Nazi -fter the war
protests by labor organiz- ©—

lion’s history. Special con=

started despite

form of letters and pamphlets
Sent by him to various “contacts”
throughout Canada. He was then
working in Northern Ontario,

Qne such letter, dated May 3,
i942, was addressed to an individ-
ual whom Crate hid attempted to
recruit for fifth column activity,
and declared in part:

“I trust you will pardon my de-
lay in replying to your Ietter of
April 19. Up te the 27th, I was
Working hard op the plebiscite .. .
I mailed you, however, a quantity
of leaflets and stickers by return
mail and trust they arrived in time
to be of some use,

“The result (ef the plebiscite)
was not worse than expected,
as we were fighting the com-
bined machines of the Conserva-
tive, Liberal, CCF and Commun-
ist Parties, plus the press and
financial interests. I see you are
‘wise’ to the Jewish question.
That is, I think the core to the
whole matter .. .

“I expect to help keep the work
going in whatever way I can, war
or no war. . .”

Again on June 15, 1942, he com-
municated with an individual in
Northern Ontario, proposed to fur-
nish the latter with anti-Semitic
material, and went on to reveal
that he contemplated issuing a fas-
cist “monthly bulletin” in Canada.
This would be done, he Said, in
collaboration with others. He fur-
ther revealed that he was in touch
with fascists in Hire on the ques-
fion of securing pro-Nazi, anti-
Semitic propaganda.

Prior to the war, Crate published
a monthly paper called “The Thun-
derbolt” under the name of Charles
Brandel, described in his own
words as the “only Canadian fas-
cist and National Socialist paper
published in the English lan-
Suage.” The paper contained fran-
tie diatribes against the Jews, de-
mocracy, and Canadian institu-
tions, coupled with hysterial praise
for fascism, Hitler, Mussolini, and
the Nazi dismemberment of Czech-
oslovalia.

Action by the RCMP this week
was the first known instance of
the department of justice moving
against any member of a whole
nest of similar fascist agents now
working in Canada.

Sill at large are such known
fascists as Dr. Gabriel Lambert

See CRATE — Page 2

Lumber Union

Wins Overtime

Communists
Prepare For
Convention

Labor groups in a number
of cities in Canada were pre-
paring for conferences this
weelk at which plans will be
laid for launching provincial
initiative committees prepara-
tery to the national constitu-
ent convention in Toronto on
August 21 at which a new party
of Communists will be formed.

Here in BC leading Communists
and supporters will meet July 17
in Hotel Georgia to discuss forma-
tion of the new party. Feature
speaker at the conference will be
Tim Buck, chairman of the na-
tional initiative committee, who
will be visiting the coast at that

time on a speaking tour in con-
nection with the campaign. On
July 18 he will speak at a mass
meeting in Athletic Park.

In Ontario a number of initial
meetings have already been held,
called by the Ontario Initiative
Committee, in such centers as
Toronto, Hamilton, Windsor, Kit-
chener, Oshawa.

At Winnipez W. A. Kardash,
MLA, addressed a preliminary
meeting last week, where a num-
ber of steps were decided on to
prepare for the national conven-
tion, including formation of a
Manitoba Initiative Committee.

Millimen Benefit

By IWA

In a precedent-shattering order

Victory

that will bring higher living

standards to thousands of BG workers, Adam Bell, deputy min-
ister of labor, this week announced a decision to grant premium
overtime pay to all employees of the sawmill industry. The

order will go into effect July 5.
The Board of Industrial Rela-
tions’ action followed an applica-
tion made to the Regional War
Labor Board last March 10 by the
International Woodworkers of
America, BG District Council, and
which was subsequently referred
to the relations board under the
Maximum Hours, Minimum Wage
regulations of the province.

The order prescribes the pay-
ment of time and one-half of the
regular rate for all sawmill work
ers after eight hours in any one
day or 48 hours in any one week.
Only exceptions will be in the cases
ef persons holding managerial
Positions, cook an@ bunkhouse em-
ployees, watchmen, caretakers and
stockkeepers. Nor will it apply to
those engaged in preparatory work,
such as operating engineers, mill-
wrights. For these categories,
overtime rates will commence after
nine hours work per day or 56
hours per week. All such excep-
tiens will be taken up later by
the IWA in the course of negotia-
tions.

In the course of the IWA’s ori-
ginal submissions, District Presi-
dent Harold J. Pritchett maintain-
ed that all classifications should be
covered, including logging and
other branches of the woodworking
industry. The union’s position in
this matter has been acknow-
ledged by Labor Minister Pearson,

vy

who as chairman of the Wartime
Wages Control Board, has an-
nounced authorization for exten-
Sion of the premium pay principle
to logging camps, plywood plants,
Shingle mills and box factories.
As a result, the IWA will make
further representations immedi-
ately.

“The Board of Industrial Re-
lations, particularly its chairman
Adam Bell, and Minister of Labor
George S. Pearson, are to be
highly commended for the steps
taken to male the overtime prin-
ciple a law,” Nigel Morgan, IWA
beard member, told The People. ~
“It is only reasonable to assume

that where employees have to work
longer than the normal week, the
employer should share the sacri-
fices equally. The employees’ time
and energy might otherwise be
Spent with his family or in leisure
activities, and in return the em-
ployer should pay a penalty in
the form of overtime rates.”

The labor department ruling is
seen as one of the most signifi-
Cant victories for the TWA in
many years. Lumbering has long
been an industry where the em-
ployer has stubbornly refused to
grant conditions normally pre--
vailing in other industries in the
province. Permits for overtime

See MILEMEN — Page 2

Stalin’s Message Some of the Red Army

will continue to strike he
east in combined offensive with the invasion of
Stalin’s statement was made in a special messag
his June 22 message to the Soviet people.
the east and west, said Stalin, the sooner

ated, he added, for the final defeat of the

common enemy.

men who, promises Joseph Stalin,
avy blows at the enemy from the
Europe from the west by Allied armies.
e to President Roosevelt thanking him for
The sooner the Allies strike joint blows from
victory will come.

Conditions have been cre-