ABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY

No. 28.

5 Cents

ANADA is going into action!- The opening move in the
ean “fortress” has begun.

Men of the Red Army, who have stopped the Nazis’ third great offensive in its tracks, are

cheered by news of Canadian-American-British landings in Sicily.

tuality within days. =

ion of Sicily will provide
head for the invasion of
Allied leaders have forecast

ce of the Soviet Red
usands of planes were
nearing the peak of its
uipped than ever before,
er of the Nazi blitz, stands ready to launch its own
pean cnsive, timed to coincide with Allied blows from
= West.
|| this situation, every Canadian will back up Prime
ster Mackenzie King’s appeal to the nation for united
ort of our armed forces. The goal we have been work-
ind fighting for is hearing. And Canada must meet
wisis by intensifying the fight for unity, by forging
closer the bonds between the soldiers in the front
and the workers on the production lines.
aere is much to be done! More ships must be built,
planes sent into the sky, more tanks, guns and am-
fion sent overseas to our fighting forces. The fight-
i Sicily is only a prelude to the struggles that’ are
ag. They will srow in intensity, in ferocity, as will
umber of sacrifices that will have to be made. We

See FULL SPEED AHEAD—Page 6

lion Charges Death
ie To Negligence

q

n 14-year-old Billy Long, shipyard worker at North
ver Ship Repairs, was ordered to g0 up a pontoon and
)a coke pot the night of June 30, a string of events
Which the Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders Union,
0. 1, intends to see through to the finish.

Tamit of the pontoon was any vider noting criminal negli-
1 forbidding. Orders had gence.

yen that no one should Event number three occurred
ere, for there were no early this week, when the Boiler-
> guard rail and a com-| makers Union presented a brief
k of safety measures. Bill to the attorney-general demanding
the top,- approximately 60 | that he authorize an application to
> and then tragedy struck. | the Supreme Court for another in-
Sows how it actually hap-| quest into the death of Bill Long,
ut apparently the boy| The brief was accompanied by a
nm the dark and fell the letter from John Stanton, counsel
| feet. Smashed and un- for the union and the boy’s par-
+ He was removed to a ents. :

Where he died. The letter contends that at the
cond event was that in | first inguest altogether insufficient
Coroner's jury, on July 2,| evidence was presented to enable
> evidence, including that | the jury to reach a proper verdict,
; lack of lighting and|that even with the existing evi-
il, and brought in a ver-
accidental death—without

See INQUEST — Page 8

Tim Buck Here To
Discuss New Party

Reporters from all daily papers, a number of personal friends, and many citizens
anxious to see the well-known Communist leader “close up,” gathered at the CPR sta-
tion early Thursday morning to meet the train bringing Tim Buck, Chairman of the Tniti-

ative Committee, to Vancouver
huge public meeting in Athletic
political party of Canadian Co
nation-wide tour which began some weeks ago.

“The central purpose of my tour is to organize
a new party of left-wing people in Canada,” Buck

told reporters.

where he will participate in conferences and address a
Park on Sunday on the subject of the proposed new
mimunists. Tim Buck is visiting Vancouver as part of a

S|

“Finally, it is self-evident that the end of the
War willsmark the beginning of an entirely new.
period in the history- of mankind. All democratic
people must decide whether they will permit a

“You mean a Communist Party?” they wanted to | jay, scramble for imperialistic advantage, for re-

know.

establishment of imperialist domination and privi-

“A Party of Communists.” answered Buck. “But | leges in the Far East and the creation of a new

I believe the new Party will include tens of thous-
ands of people not previously members of the

Communist Party.”

“Why should a party be or-
ganized now?” he was asked.

“The fundamental reason
is that the political party
system of Canada makes it
necessary for every group of
Canadians who hold a par-
ticular political philosophy to
organize themselves into a
political party. In addition
to this permanent reason
there are three other reasons
which make it imperative
that we should organize poli-
tically and on a national
seale. First, we are now at
the climax of the war. The
invasion of Sicily is quite
obviously the prelude to in-
vasion of Europe. The United
Nations now have a prepon-
derance of armed and train-
ed military forces, over-
whelming air superiority and
a preponderance of arma-
ments: -An all-out offensive
during this summer and fall
ean bring victory in Europe
before the end of next win-
ter. This, of course, will de-
mand eyer firmer national
unity and working-class sup-
port for a supreme military
effort.

“The second reason is that
the main national question
in Canada during the coming
period will be that of post-
War policy and particularly
the measures to provide full
employment when fighting
ends. The labor movement
is concerned with all prob-
lems involved in this. It is
quite probable that a series
of provincial elections and a
Dominion election will be
held within the coming
twelve months, and the goy-
ernment elected will be re-
sponsible for all measures
brought forward to meet post-
War problem. The labor
movement, progressive farm-
ers and other progressives
are vitally interested in this.

te

set of contradictions similar to those which pro-
See TIM BUCK '— Page 7

..- Sicily is the prelude to European invasion.”

ae