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the Textbook Commission set up
by The Protestant as follows:

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extbook Commission to enter into
the realm of theological disputa-

tion, but to speak a word of counsel
to those responsible in any way for
the injection of suggestive and pro-
vocative statements in books used
for the teaching of democratic
youth. A democracy which permits
any group of its people to be edu-
cated in hatred against any other
group. puts itself in serious danger.”

Great Britain

Britons Want Second Front

The powerful Amalgamated Engineering Union, Britain’s
largest union of workers in War industries, at its annual con-

in Europe whieh will crush the
Nazi forces between the Red
Army in the east and the Allied
armies in the west,” for greater
Support for AEU members in the
armed forces, for “an intensifica-
fion of the drive to secure labor
unity through affiliation of the
Communist Party to the Labor
Party,” and for increased enrol-
ment of AEU members in the Bri-
tish Labor Party.

A second resolution called for
“greater efforts to bring about
unity between the trade union
movements of Britain, United
States and the Soviet Union.”

This latter step, first of its kind
yet to be taken by a British union,
is important, and it is likely to
lead to a widespread demand that
all- sections of American labor —
the CIQ and Railroad Brother-
hoods as well as the AFI, — be
invited to join the Anglo-Soviet
trade union committee, now hold-
ing its third meeting in Moscow.
The AEU’s moye makes it certain
that the question of international
labor unity will be brought to the
fore at the September convention
of the Trade Union Congress.

Also significant is the resolution
urging more members to join the
British Labor Party. One of the
reasons for the size of the major-
ity vote against Communist Party
affiliation at the Labor Party con-
ference was the fact that big
unions such as the AKU, which
supported affiliation. have a small

vention in Southport, called for “the opening of a new battlefront

membership in the party.

Most of the convention’s time
was taken up with discussing means
of increasing production of war
Materials. A seven-point produc-
tion program was adopted. Points
emphasized were:

Establishment of joint produc-
tion committees in all war factor-
ies and throughout the transport
industry.

Elimination of the wasteful sys-
tem of sub-contracting — which
has brought huge profits to the
master contractors — through the
direct allocation of all secondary
contracts by the eleven regional

boards operating under the Min-

istry of Production.

Government guarantees that em-
ployers shall not be permitted to
cut piece rates as a result of in-
creased output.

Replacement by independent
chairmen’ of the representatives
of big corporations now heading
the control boards in the Ministry
of Supply, Ministry of Aircraft Pro-
duction and Ministry of Produc-
tion.

Labor representatives to hold
more executive positions in goy-
ernment agencies.

Part-time and full-time employ-
ment of housewives in war indus-
tries to be encouraged through
setting up sufficient numbers of
nursery schools and improving
shopping facilities.

Setting up more factory canteens,
and improvement of health facili-
ties.

National!

Whats Behind Hlynka’s Move?

Anthony HyInka (New Democracy, Vegreville), the Ukraini-
an nationalist from Manitoba who regularly opposes every par-
liamentary act leading to total war, who advised Quebec voters

to defeat the plebiscite on con-
Scription, and who was one of the
most ardent advocates of the save-
the-Ukraine-from-the-Bolsheviks-by-
£iving-it-to-Hitler movements has
taken another step in what appears
to be a planned campaign to instil
fascist ideology among Canada’s
Ukrainian Canadians.

This time, according to press re-
ports, Hylnka has sponsored a bill
which would give the right to in-
corporate to the Ukrainian Frater-
nal Society of Canada, a group of
fascist Ukrainians. And, unfortun-
ately, the bill has been considered
favorably by the Commons bank-
ing and commerce committee,
whose job it is to authorize in-
corporations which would indicate
that Hlynka’s drive to “save” the
Ukrainian Canadians for Hitler has
the backing of influential people

In justifying his suggestion,

Hiynka said that this society was
a good thing because it was op-
posed to “communistic” views held
by certain Ukrainians. These “com-
munistic” Ukrainians referred to

include members of the Ukrainian
Canadian Association, which has
taken an active part in all Red
Cross and Allied Aid campaigns,
chalked up a magnificent record
in the selling of victory bonds, can
boast of the highest percentage of
enlistments in the armed forces of
any national group in Canada, and
in convention pledged full support
of the war against fascism.

The organization Mr. Hlynka
would have us support, on the
other hand, includes many persons
and groups with close connections
with the notorious Hetman fascist
organization, and through it di-
rectly with Berlin.

It is with this group of Ukrain-
jians that Professor Watson Kirk-
connell has close connections. At
the first convention of the body in
Winnipeg recently Kirkconnell di-
rected a slanderous attack against
loyal Canadian Ukrainians, and
accused them of everything from
being “non-representative” to be-
ing “led by Tim Buck.” -—

The reason the fascist Ukrain-
ians in Canada should be consid-

oJ

Shown in center is Flight Sergeant Sydney Cohen, to whom
the Italian garrison on Lampedusa Island surrendered when
his crippled plane was forced down on island beaches. His
flying mates now call him “King” Cohen. He was injured

during the landing.

ered as good Canadian groups,
Says Kirkconnell, is that their or-
ganizations were legally in exist-
ence in November, 1940. Also car-
rying on work openly in 1940, it
might be pointed out to him, were
Many fascist agents now interned,
including Charles Crate—with whom
the Ukrainians organizations which
he addressed are on familiar

ferms and who was arrested last
week as a fascist agent.

Groups affiliated to the Ukrain-
jan organization led by Kirkconnell
include Ukrainian National Fed-
eration (which advocates an inde-
pendent Ukraine under fascist lead-
ership) and United Hetman Organ-
izations (open advocates of fas-
cism before the war).

Goebbels Assists The Professor

Korkonnell’s Ukrainian fascists will be glad to know that
their efforts in Canada are being backed up in Berlin; where
official Nazi radio made the claim last Monday night that the

Sraves of 1,000 murdered Ukrain-
lans had been found near the tewn
of Winniza, in the vicinity of Zhit-
omir—about 80 miles southwest of
Kijey.

The broadeast said it has been
established that the graves were
dug between 1938 and 1941, and
contained the bodies of men, wom-
en and children. The Nazi announ-
cer stated that exhumations had
begun and it would be proven that
the murdered Were all victims of
the Russian OGPU.

The broadcast recalled the earli-
er allegations of German propa-
Zandists that the bodies of 10,000
Poles, which they asserted had
been slain by Russians, had been
uncovered in the Smolensk region.

Within the next few days, prob-

ably, the Nazis will make the amaz-
ing discovery that the Russian se-
eret police, after murdering the
Ukrainians, thoughtfully buried
full particulars of the crime with
the bodies. It will be discovered
by agents of Goebbels that the
bodies will be in a remarkable
state of preservation (due no doubt
to some mysterious property in
the soil) which will enable the
nazis to classify them as fascist
Ukrainian sympathizers.

And in less time than it take
Kirkeonnell to cry “Red Menace”
our Ukrainian fascists here in Gan-
ada will follow in the footsteps of
the Polish government in London,
and demand that action be taken
against the USSR in retribution for
the horrible “crime.”

‘Freezing’ Is No Solution!

BE school teachers became the recipients of a dubious honor
this week: they became the first members of a profession or
trade to be definitely and irrevocably “frozen” to their jobs.

The order-in-council was passed
at Ottawa on June 17, and pre-
vents teachers from going to other
employment. They can, however,
enlist in the armed forces.

The serious situation arising out
of shortage of qualified school
teachers has been apparent for
some time. Members of the BCG
Teacher’s Federation warned that
action must be taken to keep tea-
chers on the job as far back as
their last Eastern convention, and
even before. They pointed cut that
the number of teachers was de-
creasing rapidly, that teachers were
leaving their jobs fer other work,
that few new teachers were en-
fering the profession.

More important, however, the
Teachers Federation pointed out
that teachers had a perfectly logi-
cal reason for leaving the pro-
fession; after spending hundreds
of dollars on their training, they
found that they were expected to

work at wages that the average
day laborer would refuse. The pro-
vinecial government, when the ques-
tion of wages was placed before
them, stuck their heads in the
Sand, and gave the teachers a
minimum wage of $840 per year.

Now, instead of considering tea-
chers’ legitimate demands for a
living wage, the government pre-
fers ta use the old order-in-council
weapon to combat one of their own
blunders.

The attitude of organized labor
towards the freezing of teachers to
jobs was illustrated at the last
meeting of the Trades and Labor
Council in Vancouver, when a del-
egate declared: “Teachers work for
Starvation wages. You can’t com-
pare the application of the freez-
ing order to them as you can to
miners and lumbermen, because
these workers have an established
living wage rate. The teachers are
Getting a dirty deal.”

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