Page ieee Saturday, January 20, 1945 : S A Eg PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR: PROGRESS Published every Saturday by The People Publishing Com- pany, Room 104, Shelly Building, 119 West Pender Street, Vancouver, British Columbia. and printed at East End Printers, 2363 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia. Subscription Rates: One year $2, six months $1. Editor €. A. SAUNDERS SACUSNANADANANGDESSUUAULATEESRORUSESTATOSERSRUGEUSPEALISETISPSRSSESESSUATIATENE PACIFIC ADVOCATE SEAUUEVASERKUSUCCCSTRESSREKSSSNanELASERD (iescusnsree Pavcanesencces Auerteceur-gese Associate Editor MYER SHARZER The Offensive “["HE end of the war in Europe is now in sight. That is the _ meaning of the new Soviet offensive, the greatest in the history of warfare. _ Advancing with relentless fury across the frozen plains of Poland toward Germany, shattering the resistance of the Wehrmacht in its. path, this offensive is pointed straight at the heart of Nazi Germany, Berlin. Phe basis for this offensive was laid over a year ago in Teheran. The coalition warfare which Teheran promised has passed through the stages of the great 1944 spting and sum- mer offensives of the Red Army, the tremendous achievement of the opening of the Second Front and the drive to Germany’s western borders and just recently the complete defeat of the Rundstedt political offensive, as well as the Red Army’s suc- cessful Balkan campaigns. : The offensive is a complete and timely answer to the stooges of teaction who attempted to assist Rundstedt by ac- cusing the Red Army of holding back on the eastern front. As one network commentator put it: “The Red Army could afford to allow these remarks to be answered by the unfold- 2 ing of events.”’ ig i) _ There is a lesson in this that must not be forgotten. Both military and political events give point to it. : Reaction” throughout the world, paralleling the maneu- vers of Nazi Germany, is not going down without the most vicious and fanatical resistance. That is a major lesson of the developments of 1944. ; In 1945 that resistance can be expected to continue. That is why the unfolding of Teheran does not proceed evenly and smoothly. : : The fainthearts who see the end of everything whenever some disagreement arises in the United Nations’ camp should begin to understand this. Teheran never pretended to be an automatic guarantee of its objectives. It did, however, register the agreement of decisive forces in the world and in the countries of the United Nations to struggle for its realization. And by so doing it sealed the doom _ef fascism and reaction. Precisely for this reason it is being—and will continue to be—resisted fiercely and savagely. And it is because of this that’ the workers and the people in general must rally their strength“to meet and counteract the maneuvers which reaction will constantly attempt to en- gineer. s We have had many examples of these in the past year, both internationally and here at home in Canada. There is a~ direct link between the Nazi resistance, the anti-Soviet - Campaign in certain circles in the USA and Canada, the blow- ing up of inter-Allied differences and the Tory political - Maneuvers-in Canada. _ Similarly there“is a direct link between the victorious un- folding of coalition warfare, the achievement of major points of agreement among the United Nations and the unity which Canadians displayed in smashing the Tory ‘‘conscription”’ conspiracy. 1945 has “opened auspiciously on the fields of Poland. It can go forward to greater achievements if we continue to use the instrument of unity which Teheran has placed in the bands of the peoples of the world. | This Week By Leslie Morris THE decision of the CCF to contest the Grey North by-election reveals the basic policy of that party more clearly than any recent action has done. A great deal of confusion has marked the public statements of CCF leaders of late, especially in connection with the recent Tory campaign to bring down the government and foree an election. But the simple, direct action of nominating against General McNaughton in the Feb. 5 by-election shows up in sharp relief the electoral policy which the CGF leadership is determined to pursue on a wider scale in the — coming” general election. CGF is to be judged. GES NORTH is a seat: which in the past has produced tight votes for both the Liberals and Conservatives. Both the federal and provin- cial seats are now held by Liberals by narrow majorities. The labor movement in the constitu- ency is very small and confined mainly to a few unions in Owen Sound. The CCF has-no mass strength in the riding and nothing can be ‘ad- On Grey North, the duced_to prove that it has a chace to win the seat on the basis of its own independent strength. All it can hope to do is either to -win on a minority vote as a result of splitting the elec- torate or to elect the Tory candidate. FyEs if the CCF were not in the field the Lib- erals will have a heavy job to defeat the Tory candidate. Yet that, the defeat of the Tory can- didate, who by his candicacy is committed to the line of Bracken, Drew, Hanson, Green, Bruce and the rest of the Tory cabal, is the democratic task in Grey North which over-rides all other considerations. j To elect the Tory candidate, Garfield Case, a man who ran as a Liberal-Progressive candi- date in the 1940 election and is a renegade from the Liberal Party, would be to give further comfort to the Tory plotters and to hand the Tory strategists and penny-a-line journalists an excuse to return to the attack up the people of Canada via the military policy of the wartime government. : It is the clear-cut duty of all progressives’ to subordinate every consideration to bring aboub the defeat of Mr. Case and to return General McNaughton to the House of Gomons. The CCF decision to contest the seat with Air Wice-Marshal Godfrey (already nominated in another federal constituency) as their candi- date, is the crassest expression yet of the blind Ee streetrailwaymen’s strike brought labors’ ‘No-Strike’ pledge directly into the limelight again. No other action of labor has engendered so much discussion nor yet been subjected to so much deliberate misrepresentation. It was to be expected that unscrupulous em- ployers would endeavour to take advantage of ‘labors’ pledge, and undoubtedly it has been made immeasurably harder to fulfil by this cynical, grasping and unpatriotic attitude. But equally as dangerous and unscrupulous is the constant misrepresentation and hedging by opportunistic elements within the labor move- ment itself. They constantly strive to represent the pledge as meaning something less than it ac- tually represents—to surround it with conditions and esapes, in fact to generally rob it of any potency or practical value. ° [X view of these constant attempts at misrepre- sentation we print below the full text of the CIO ‘No-Strike’ resolution passed at the 1944 convention. Trade vinion leaders should study it, eut it out and carry it around with them, it is an adequate fnswer to the scoffers and belittlers. CIO’s NO STRIKE PLEDGE Weekes The working men and women of this nation desire, above anything else, to exert all their effort and energy toward achiev- ing maximum production of war materials. The - CIO, at the outset of this war, gave its no-strike pledge, which has religiously maintained; WE RECOGNIZE that a strike or stoppage of work, frequently provoked by management or caused by the weaknesses and delay of zoy- ernment agencies, must necessarily interfere with this effort for all-out production and to that extent actually assists our enemies and endan- ~ unity and to labor that is m question + _ to refrain from entering the field: _ Godfrey at Owen Sound, it may. not. j Resolution and attempt to exploit labor regardi | _ prevent special groups from. exploiting th : partisanship of the CCF leaders: No i sideration than their hopeless ambitioj! eral power seems to govern their decisi N a debate with the writer last Sunda: in answer to a question from the Professor G. M. A. Grube, president c tario CCK, put the responsibility for Grey North squarely on the shoulde local constituency association. Sensing a flimsy reply, quite naturally, appe pletely ineffective; Mz. Grube declared: at_no time the CCF has supported t]) policy of conscription but holds to its: conscription of Indutry as well as 1; it had a perfect right to run against: eral. : BG ¥ . Apart from whether or not. the voting with the government at the e last session, gaye a vote of confider, government’s conduct of the war 1} course, being out-manoeuvred by MM: acceptance of Coldwelis amandment) 1) blithely disregarded the political realit; Grey North affair and almost petulant} on the CGF’s right to contest the seat. 4 Of course, the CCH’s “rioht? to do. in question. It is the CCH’s duty tc has been thrust’ aside in favor of 1 partisan ambitions. i Tf the renegade Liberai who is | candidate in Grey North is elected of the CCF will have to accept the resj for perhaps reviving the recent crisis. | see “no difference” between Garfield | General McNaughton then it is blind and not worthy of the confidence of 1 a the meantime, labor has to speak tell the CCF what it thmks about th] which may elect the Bory candidat erucial byelection. Already G.ocal 19 UAWA at is last. general=meetine ir | has given a lead to all Canadian labor { for General McNaughton’s election an} defeat of the Tories, and appealing to If thousands of such messages ar] Jolliffe and Coldwell, and to Air-Vice late to compel the CCF to reconsider 1 and to exercise some of its vaunted < by listening to the voice of labor. gers the life of those men and wom + battlefronts fighting the Axis armies’ § os does not regard its no-strike j § a bargaining matter with our natic contrary, we recognize that the enem war effort would constantly seek to pre # into engaging in strikes and that the} ployers who, for their cwn personal pri = endeavor to take advantage of our wai & impact of their policies upon the w4 This has involved sacrifices by labor § continuous and maximum production o ¥ terials for our armed forces; now, there | RESO EY SD, That the CIO hereby reap solemn pledge that until we have aif ed a complete and absolute destructi [ff German and Japanese military forces | be no question of our basic responsibil nation to continue intact our no-strike 8 :} Each member and leader of organ fe must make it his responsibility to disch® serupulous care this sacred obligation, EH MUST recognize that for the durat | war all issues in dispute between ¢ management must be Adjusted thril® peaceful means of collective bargaimin |} tion, or through disposition bythe Nat |m Labor Board. ee ‘TU SELES we must recognize that f the prosecution of the war progra ig benefiting from the sacrifice of other# ized labor has the task of mobilizing if on the legislative and political fronts & program. designed to meet the basic problems arising out of the war and # the interests: of the common people.