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potentialities and

arations for a victorious offensive
against the Japanese.”

Behar legislators who are mem-
bers of the All-India National Con-
gress held a meeting on June 13
and adopted a resolution which
stated:

“Consequent upon the failure of
the (Sir Stafford) Cripps mission
and the subsequent imprisonment
of members of the All-India Con-
gress by the British Government,
there has been a serious political
deadlock in the country, and it
behooves toward a solution of this
deadlock.

“Ifmembers of the Congress were
out of jail, they would have tried
to resolve the deadlock.”

The Indian food situation, after
a sight improvement at harvest
time, has again become worse. The

Moslem League ministry of Ben-
gal has started an anti-hoarding
drive, a drive to unearth food
stocks hoarded in the villages and
to distribute these to people in
need.

This drive, however, excludes
Calcutta and Howrah—two hoard-
ing and black market centers.

Bengal Communists are mobiliz-
ing the people back of this meas-
ure by the Bengal ministry, and
are trying to get it applied also
in Calcutta and Howrah.

Meetings were held all over In-
dia to observe the second anni-
versary of the beginning of the
Soviet-Nazi war.

All groups of the people took
part. Glowing tributes were paid
by the entire press to the Red
Army and the Soviet Government.

South Africa -

Jim Crow Policy Continues

Jim Crowism, which has always held sway in South Africa,
bas not let up since the entry of the British Empire into the
war against fascism, and discrimination practiced against native

workers is becoming a serious
detriment to national unity, accord-
ing to leaders of the native trade
unions and other African progres-
sive leaders.

Calling attention to problems
facing South African workers, G.
i, Hemming this week asked in
parliament in Capetown: “Why has
the cost-of-living allowance been
taken away from a large number
of the poorest laborers in the coun-
try, and why has the richest in-
dustry in the Union of South Af
rica been given the benefit of that
allowance?”

Hemming referred to- the fact
that profits of the gold mining in-
dustry were $17,500,000 for one
month, which proved the industry
Was well able to pay the cost-of
living allowance paid by other in-
dustries. The bulk of the miners,
he added, were extremely poor.

The cost-of-living has increased
particularly for mine workers and
their families since the outbreak
of war. There has been no increase

-in the pay of native mine laborers

for 25 years, and labor leaders of

the WNon-European trade union
movement in South Africa believe
workers are justified in demanding
the allowance. For many years
mine owners have followed the
practice of weighing native work-
ers from time to time; when it is
noticed that a worker is losing
weight, he is told to go home and
rest, despite the fact that he may
be suffering from silicosis. He goes
home, and soon develops an ad-
vanced form of the dread disease
—too late to claim compensation
from the mining companies.
Meanwhile, despite opposition of
African workers, repressive mea-
sures against native trade unions
and their leaders continue. Zulu

Pungula, leader of the successful.

strike of Durban dock workers
which gained pay increases sever-
al months ago, has been deported
by the government and is not per-
mitted to return to the Durban
area. Native trade unions regard
this action not only as a setback
to the Durban dockworkers, but
also as a threat to the very exist-
ence of the Non-European trade
union movement in Africa itself.

National

Labor Reaffirms War Pledge

The invasion of Sicily by combined Canadian, British and
American forces brought renewed pledges from Canada’s or-
ganized labor moyement this week to allow nothing to stand in

the way of full support of the men
on the battle lines.

The pledges were in the form of
replies to Prime Minister Macken-

zie King’s call to the nation the
day after the invasion began, in
which he urged united support of
the armed forces and cautioned
against senseless optimism.

“We can expect no easy victories
and no quick successes,” the Prime
Minister declared. “Rather, we
must be prepared for fierce fight-
ing and for a long struggle.”

In reply, leaders of organized
Jabor saluted the Canadians ham-
mering at the enemy, stressed the
need for greater effort on the part
of all groups on the home front,
but stressed, too, hat the Sicilian
invasion underlined the need for
a government labor policy that
would unharness the workers’ full
ereate more

favorable conditions for maximum
production.

A. R. Mosher of the Canadian
Congress of Labor said the men
and women on the production
front fully endorse Prime Minister
King’s declaration that Canada
would not fail her fighting men.

He pointed out, however, that a
great obstacle to maximum utiliza-
tion of Canada’s industrial poten-
fialities lies in the lack of “a satis-
factory federal labor policy.”

Officials of the Trades and Labor
Congress yoiced similar views.

Among unions that have already
publicly supported the Prime Min-
ister’s stand are the United ‘Elec-
trical, Radio and Machine Work-
ers, the International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
United Gas, Coke and Chemical
Workers, and Toronto shipyard
unions, and the International
Woodworkers of America.

FIRST JAP. ATTACK

ON THE U.S. NAVY WAS NEARLY

4 YEARS BEFORE PEARL HARBOR WHEN [as

THE U.S.S. PANAY WAS BOMBED IN
CHINA ON THE YANGTZE RIVER,
DEGEMBER 12, 1937.... REMEMBER ?

yar, 40 MILLION CHINESE wave
TREKKED OVER 1.000 MILES WESTWARD,
CARRYING WITH THEM 452 FACTORIES
MORE THAN IO0,000 TONS OF
SALVAGED MACHINERY, SCORES OF
SCHOOLS, BANKS, PUBLISHING HOUSES!

LIM SEN,

FRESIDENT OF CHINA,
HAS CALLED THE
UNITED NATIONS] &
BEGINNING OF UNI\
BROTHERHOOD”

Bengough Urges Post-War Seeurity

The war has proved«that Canadians need never again face
unemployment, insecurity, and the breadline. That is the key-

struction and Re-establishment by
the Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada last weekend.

Submitted by Acting President
Perey Bengough and.Vice-president
Pat Sullivan, the brief backed up
its main assertion by pointing out
that the Dominion is today not
only providing full employment
and some measure of security to
its citizens, but at the same time
is supporting outright 696,000 per-
sonsin the armed forces, producing
55 million dollars worth of muni-
tions a week, and sending millions

note of a brief presented to the Special Committee on Recon-

of dollars worth of foodstuffs
abroad to our Allies.

“If Canada’s resources and peo-
ple are equal to this great job im-
posed by the war, there is abso-
lutely no reason why the same job
cannot be done in the interests of
security and employment in the
peace, accompanied by a reduction
of the working week to 30 hours.”

The problems of post-war recon-
struction and re-establishment are
of “paramount importance,’ the
Congress brief stated, “subject only
to the vital need of winning the
present war.”

Fuel Dealers in the Woodpile

On July 1, a North Burrard shipyard worker who lives on
the North Shore noticed a clump of alder just out of town. He
was hard up for fuel; the wood didn’t seem to belong to anybody

in particular. So he hooked the
trailer -on the back of his car,
took the whole family for a picnic,
and started off home with some
nicely cut stove wood. On the way
a provincial policeman stopped
him and gave orders for the wood
to be taken to his (policeman’s)
house and dumped. Later the
shipyard worker got a summons to
appear in court. :

This week, an excavating con-
tractor now engaged in cutting
wood on lands owned by British

“Pacifie Properties Ltd., but leased

to the West Vancouver Municipal
Couneil for fuel purposes, spoke
his mind on the fuel situation.
According to the terms of an agree-
ment reached by himself and the
council, he is not allowed to sel]
wood anywhere but West. Van-
couver. He-is allowed to sell 75
percent of his wood to the people
of West Van at $9 a cord, and
the rest to the council to be stored
in their yards at $8 a cord. Be-
cause of lack of orders, he claims,
he is not making enough to justi-
fy continuing operations.

While this is going on, Vancouver
is heading closer to its fifth war-
time winter. Nobedy has forgotten
the cold winter citizens just passed
through. More people have forgot-
ten, as a matter of fact, that Van-
couver has handed a fuel control-
ler not so long ago—an-act which
is fine in theory but is apparent-

ly falling down in practice because
the real authority in the fuel ques-
tion still-lies in the hands of the
people who made a mess of it for
Vancouver and a good thing of it
for themselves last winter — the
big fuel dealers. Z

Government officers and agen-
cies confessed to reporters this
week that no accurate picture of
the city’s overall fuel situation has
been drawn. The job is apparent-
ly impossibie—or perhaps we need
Some new officials. The ones in
charge now speak vaguely of “too
many unknown factors” of both
supply and demand to enable any
estimates fo be Compiled with any
reasonable degree of accuracy.

In the meantime, winter is ap-
proaching, and city officials are
“tackling” ihe accompanying fuel
problem by beating around the
greatest possible number of bushes
—apparently to avoid stepping on
anybedy’s (particularly big fuel
dealer's) toes. And also in the
meantime, the city advises citizens
to help themselves by bringing in
their own wood, and then arrests
them for doing so. Or sets up a
fuel controller with control over
everything but fuel dealers, who
are still able to dictate te Van-
couyerites, to tell them plainly to
take what they can get, pay the
price that is asked, or they will
get none at all “if they act too
fussy.”

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