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‘This Is Our Land’
Indicts Nazi Intrigue

THIS IS OUR LAND—By Raymond Arthur Davies—Progress

Books, Toronto.

This book will help Canadians to know Canada. That is
very important—not only from the standpoint of making our
maximum contribution towards the extermination of the Nazi

plague—but for the building o

be worth all the “foil, sweat,
plood and tears” that are part of
the price of democratic survival.

This book is a story of the
struggles, hardships and achieve-
ments of the four or five hundred
thousand Canadians of Ukrainian
origin. It is very fitting that the
opening chapters should find
their setting in the vast prairie
lands of the Middle West. . . in
the transformation of these lone-
ly areas into thriving communi-
ties.

When a lot of us came to this
country from the British Isles
many years ago, we brought a
jot of chauvinistic baggage with
us that could well have been ieft
behind. Among this dubious men-
tal baggage was a queer concept
of Canada’s working people —
“shite men,” which we took for
granted covered our particular
breed, and “bohunks,” “salatians,”
“dooks,” “foreigners,” and so on,
which covered all others not of
our own superior clan. Ultimate-
Iy those divisions were broken
down, but they served our joint
exploiters well while they lasted.

Coming from European areas
where tyranny, autocracy and ig-
norance ruled, the Ukrainian im-
migrants prought a healthy
hatred of oppression and a great
Jove for learning to the land of
their adoption. They brought
with them the rich folklore, songs
and culture of their people, a
heritage they have preserved
through decades of oppression
and woven it into the pattern of
their adopted land. One of the
fine contributions of “This Is Our
Land” is to appraise the Cana-
dian people of the great contri-

f a post-war Canada that will

bution made by our fellow Cana-
dians of Ukrainian stock.

A great section of the book
will be a starting revelation
to many readers. Fascist and
Nazi intrigues, based upon nar-
row nationalist and racial ag-
grandizement, have stopped at
no provocation to wage war upon
the USSR. and to utilize “nation-
alist’? Ukrainian elements, where-
ever they could find them, in
Canada or elsewhere, as their
willing tools, the objective being
of course the repartition of Eur-
ope and the Soviet Ukraine into
a “sovereign” Ukrainian State.

One need not recount the con-
fiscation of the halls and proper-
ties of the loyal Ukrainian-Can-
adians, the seizure of their print-
ing presses and the banning o£
their papers and organization, the
internment of their leaders, and
the turning of these halls ahd
other properties over to the Nazi-
controlled Ukrainian “national-
ists’ for a fraction of their real
value, The greater portion of
“This Js Our Land” deals with
this blot upon Canada’s treatment
of loyal Canadian-Ukrainians.

“This Is Our Land” does not
tell the whole story of the great
contribution made by Canada’s
people of Ukrainian origin to the
wealth and culture and well be-
ing of our country, but it does
tell that part of the story which
every Canadian should know, and
know it now. The book is a splen-
did stimulant to hatred of fas-
cism—to hate Nazi plunderers of
Europe, and to hate and despise
their servile reptiles in our midst.
—T, Mcebwen.

Canadian Printing Of
‘Communist Manifesto’

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO—By Karl Marx and Fred-
erick Engels—Progress Books—10 Cents.

Five years from now, workers throughout the world will

be celebrating the centenary o

f the publication of the Com-

munist Manifesto, joint work of Marx and Engels.

The Manifesto, as it has come
to be called, appeared a few days
before the outbreak of the Feb-
ruary Révolution in Paris which
heralded the revolutionary wave
that swept over Europe in 1548,
even touching with its fringe the
well-bolstered institutions of the
British ruling class.

This Manifesto of the Commun-
ist League was to become the
basic document of the Socialist
movement. It was to be translat-
ed into more languages than any
other book (except, perhaps, the
Bible); to be the source from
which millions of workers would
draw inspiration for the making
of a better world.

In the introduction to the Pol-
ish edition, Engels wrote of it:

xs . By the numbers of the
Manifesto circulated in a given

language, we are able to estim-
ate with a fair degree of accur-
acy the condition of the
working class movement in that
jJand.”

A quotation from Wendell Will-
kie on the front cover says it is
one of the “historic documents.”
The Manifesto is a historic docu-
ment certainly, but it is not a
museum piece. It has been the
center of political strife for al-
most a hundred years. It was
banned as early as 1852 in Ger-
many, after the Cologne trials,
and has since been banned in al-
most every country at one time
or another.

But the Communist Manifesto
will still retain its place as the
basic document of the Socialist
movement—a historic document
that is also a guide to action.—
W. Bennett.

Democracy In The

By ALFRED C. CAMPBELL

Spee READERS DIGEST
continues to scrape the
depths. One of its hack edi-
tors, the notorious trotzkyite;
fascist Max Eastman, con-
tinues to work for Hitler.
Wallowing in a welter of
weasel words inspired by

Goebbels, this degenerate
sheet has printed in its July

_dssue a vicious slander against

the Soviet Union and its leader,
Joseph Stalin.

With the exception of a few
sentences on the fascists, which
were put in to more firmly con-
fuse the indiscriminating reader,
this article could be lifted word
for word out of any fascist paper
in Berlin. The Readers Digest
has a large circulation in Can-
ada and the timing and purpose
of the article is obvious.

Driven to fury by the ever-
increasing friendship and unity
of the Allied Nations, Eastman
joins with other treacherous ele-
ments to sow discord and arouse
mistrust, doubts and suspicions
about our Soviet ally. Under the
misnomer of “We Must Face the
Facts About Russia,’ the Beaders
Digest article raises all the hoary
canards about the Soviet Union
which have long since perished
under the blows of time and
truth. Taking Advantage of the
credulous reader who may be

quite ignorant regarding the
democratic character of the
USSR, the fourteen full pages,

among other things, are devoted
to depicting the USSR as a
totalitarian country, with “red
imperialist” aims and Premier
Stalin as a dictator.

é$

N TORONTO, on June 22, our

Premier Mackenzie King, along
with Joseph E. Dayies, former
US ambassador to the Soviet
Union, and Soviet “Minister
Gusev, addressed an audience of
over 17,000 persons where, in
tribute to the Soviet Union, he
said: :

“The importance of MRussia’s
resistance has been so great that
we hardly dare ask ourselves
what might have happened if, in-
stead of standing firm, the Rus-
sians had yielded or had been
overcome.”

The author of “Mission to Mos-
cow,” Joseph E. Davies, said:
“Mutual trust and respect as be-
tween the Soviet Union, Canada
and the United States is of
particularly vital importance to
WSs ee

While this was being said,
the Readers Digest was already
on the news-stands, contain-
ing its vicious attack on the
integrity of Davies, the picture,

Mission to Moscow,” the Vice-
President of the United States,
Henry Wallace and the Soviet
Union.” How such an article
was permitted to pass the cen-
sors and the Canadian customs
is something that should cer-
tainly be asked our respective
government departments.

.

we the smoke cleared away

from the ruins of Stalin-
grad, some of the confusion and
prejudice against the Soviet
Union in our country went with
it. But, aided by such treacher-
ous agencies as the Readers
Digest, there still exists great
ignorance in regards to the eco-
nomie and political democracy
of the Soviet Union.

What are the facts we have to
face? The facts are that the
Soviet Union with its Socialist
system has the highest social,

economic, and political democ-
racy ever attained jn the entire

history of mankind. Its consti- ~

tution is the most clear, concise,
democratic document in the
world.

« | The main foundation of
the draft of the new Constitu-
tion of the USSR consists of the
principles of Socialism, its main
pillars, which have already been
won and achieved: the socialist
ownership of the land, forests,
factories, works and other imple-
ments and means of production;
the abolition of exploitation and
exploiting classes; the abolition
of poverty for the majority and
of luxury for the minority; the
abolition of unemployment; work
as an obligation and honorable

_duty for every able-bodied citi-

zen in accordance with the form-

The North American edi-
tion of “Volkischer Beo-
bachier” seconded by
Max Eastman, stabs our
Soviet ally in the back.

ula. ‘He who does not work
neither shall he eat.’ The right
to work; the right to rest and
leisure; the right to education,
ete, ete. The draft of the new
Constitution rests on these and
similar pillars of Socialism. .. oe
(Stalin on the new Constitu-
tion.)

The firm foundations of the
Soviet Union is seen in its huge
mass popular organizations of
the people. Its powerful trade
unions in every factory, mine
and mill discuss all public
questions and advise the gov-
ernment, which, contrary to the
skeptics, pays great attention
to their suggestions and resolu-
tions.

The vast educational work car-
ried on in the Soviet Union by
the sports, art, theater and musi-
eal organizations places that
country in a %eading cultural
position, and exists on such a
wide seale precisely because it
is a socialist country. The huge
agricultural collectives, the
mighty democratic Red Army
and the working class are united
by a million bonds of loyalty to
the leading organization of the
country — the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, led by
Joseph Stalin.

Ace for those who attempt to
confuse the Soviet Commun-
jst Party with the German-fasc-
ist, imperialist-controlled, Nazi
party of baby killers, Stalin gave
an answer:

“In the -USSR there are no
longer such classes as capital-
ists, landlords, kulaks, etc. In
the USSR there are only two
classes, workers and peasants,
whose interests are not only not
antagonistic but, on the contrary,
amicable. Consequently, there
are no grounds for the existence
of several parties and therefore
for the existence of freedom for
such parties in the USSR. There
are grounds only for one party,
the Communist party in the
USSR. Only one party can exist,
the Communist party which bold-
ly defends the interests of the
workers and peasants.” (Stalin
on New Constitution.)

Today, in Wight of the crush-
ing defeats the fascists have re-

ceived at Leningrad, Moscow —

and Stalingrad, we hi
plaud the words of
Stalin when he a
that it defends the
these classes not
is a matter about
can hardly be any

world that the ageres: a

Japan in China and
Abyssnia was the prelu
other global war which
a million times more s
any former conflict
took the lead in thes
collective security a
for an alliance of the
cies to head off th

of the Berlin-Rome-Tok

and prevent the outbreak
And since June 22, 19

USSR has borne the main |
of the enemy forces and
allies an opportunity to;
“ate and strengthen the {

for the long over-due iny
Europe. ;
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informed the fascists th:

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ally say one thing to i
lions of its followers
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