peared so pendie 11 copies of the P.A. chased me around ~ time and needless to 20ing through every ‘m with the greatest ‘been sadly out of union and political C.for the past cou- s, through no fault | so now I must get latch up. ith the greatest of at I saw articles in ay such old friends des as Tim Buck, Kean and Tom Mc- ast but by no means joy OV Bill again. ft those Short Jabs e they are intended iow how long Ill be ‘ but I hope before able te renew old in the meantime . fam making sure [ receive are passed mever possible dis- reat help to us to 5 at home are not our Fight for free- pass on to old com- 2w my sincere hope access in our com- igainst fascism7on wishing the P.A., ag on it and all 2 job and to my the services’ an |. I remain, JACK HOLE. @ adit 4 last week’s issue, and Mi. Rose take 2 question I asked / article on Social ‘question was: If a fend of $50 or $100 2nswers by asking ‘gine operates well oressure, then why sounds? Both. of smen apparently pint. ded of the story in ck? about the fel- id the lady if she ia night with a : $1,000,000. The that she would. » the same thing > lady, of course, sulted. “What do am?” she asked thave already es- fact,” he replied, - to establish now sa? ‘apted to show was erence between a lonly a matter of jeither would con- ata of wealth to Beople; that the italism are not hortase of money, - ‘efore, these evils tei by shovelline mto circulation: in time. the form of a “national divi- _«dend.” ‘If the fly wheel on a steam engine was out of balance, the engine would not operate whether the pressure was 60 pounds, or 60,000 pounds. FLOYD ANDERSON. Workers’ War Dear Sir: Re the no-strilke pledge dis- cussed at a recent Town Hall meeting. I don’t think that Tom McEwen brought out clearly and distinctly enough the fact that this war is a workers’ war. It may be our luek that events have forced the boss to help us fight our And in my opinion no strike is justifie@ that in any. retards the war effort. When we strike at this time we strike against ourselves which is poor policy at any I notice Malcolm Bruce has taken a stand against the no-strike pledge. I wonder if he has forgotten our friends who are lying in Spain, killed im an earlier phase of this Same war. The boss may be making an extra profit out of us, but by helping us to rid the earth of the Nazi and Fascist beasts, ours is the greater pro- fit. war. way JOHN SUTHERLAND. “be appointed on Confidence Dear Sir: The failure of the National War ilabor Board to win the confidence of the. people proves the need for genuinely elected labor representatives on gov- ‘ernment boards. This need: is further stressed by their ne- glect to assure employment to millions of workers who are gravely concerned about the welfare of their families when the peace whistle sends them back home. — Another reason for lack of confidence is the wxestricted franchise here in Vancouver that bars labor from the city council. As a result of this un- democratic condition the coun- cil has degenerated to the sta- tus of a sub-agency for the Property Owners Association. To attain closer unity and to gain public confidence it is im- perative that labor representa- tives selected by trade unions government boards.. It is a certainty then that a more democratically constituted administration would stimulate workers to greater effort and build the morale of our sons overseas, for they might soon he reading such headlines as, “Feudalistic Poll Vax Cancelled,” “Fran= chise Granted All Resident Adults,” “Old Age Pensions Doubled,” ete. Surely this re- assurance to our boys facing death at the front would im- press them with the sacredness of the strugele against the Nazi beasts whose aim is to prevent the forward march of mankind. JACK BOYD. d, why not one for = md of $50 or $50,- - Saturday, February 3, 1945 — Page 5 SUSATSUASSORCUSEXQENSECESEENSEURSISNCOSOSUETPASUCQNCCRISENSISNAESUINaYELELETuAyeTILeyeystesarsaseeesaaeysstsias Short Jabs 4, o: 2 AUAUSANASCSARSSUSRUERRYCAUURESUCIUSEUSEOUUSUCUGEReaeeeusnaeseeszxrexiqaussias1ssseteersseyarsiersastaavasisayan Underground or Aboveground DUES the past few months, a section of the press and radio has treated us to some pointed, and at times heated, comments on the treatment of the Polish underground by the Soviet leaders and the Red army. The tenor of these comments were denunciation of the do-nothine policy of the Red army which was Supposed to be “sacrificing the brave underground” that was fighting for the liberation of Poland and whose only connection with the outside world was the so-called government. in-exile in London, a government without a state to govern, and whose army, of 75,000 was organized, armed and fully equipped by the Soviet government, but never struck a blow for Poland on the Mastern front, since it was shipped to Persia on the direction of that same government- in-exile. Perhaps we are wrong to say “comments,” rather we should Say “diatribes.” ms : ‘These venom-spittine commentators of the press, radio and parlia- ment, are now getting their answer. The Nazis have, as I write this; been driven out of almost all of Poland. By the time it appears in print they may have been cleareg entirely fromthe country. When that happens there will be no underground movement in Poland —fightine the Nazis. There may, however, still be an underground at work but it will be fighting the liberating: army of the Soviet Union and the government that the Polish people are giving their full support to, a government whose army fought side by side with the Red army of the Soviet Union in driving the fascist hordes out of their country. That underground will be the same kind of underground that the Hitlerites in Germany threaten to establish when the Allies have taken state power out of their hands. It will be am underground movement whose weapons will be murder and arson, a copy of the Nazi methods and whose purpose will be the destruction of democratic Poland and the re-establishment of the rule of the pans and colonels over the Polish people as well as the national minorities who suffered at their hands during the period between the two world wars:—Ukrainians, Byelo-Russians and Jews, about 40 per cent of the population. And it is worthy of note, too, that the same group of commentators who denounced the Red army for doing nothing a few months ago, now that Poland is practically freed from Nazi rule by the magnificent gen- eralship and steadfast bravery of the same Red army and their Polish allies, are wailing to the moon that Soviet Russia is attempting WO) 2 Bolshevize Central Furope. One specimen of this breed of reactionaries is reported in the press (Jan. 29.) The Ukrainisn National Federation of Canada has just held an annual convention. Michael Phorecky, the editor of a Ukrainian — weekly paper published in Winnipesr, the Ukrainian Pathway, a rabid” nationalistic sheet, delivered an address to the convention in which the : following statement is made. _ “Instead of democracy in the liberated countries, we see sweeping from the east, the Bolshevik totalitarianism; a new sword of tyranny. ~ Because of inability of western democracy to re-establish the order based on the democratic system as we know it here, the liberated peoples, encouraged by the sweeping success of the Soviet Red forces, simply by the force of cricumstances choose the dictatorial system of govern- ment.” * 4 ‘ He is but a spokesman for many. They would like to see a return to the fleshpots of Polish fascism or near-fascism, Maybe he would like to see the Red army act like the British army did in Greece? And these are the people, proteges of Watson Kirkeonnell, to whom the Custodian of Enemy Property turned over the halls and properties of the Ukrainian Labor-Farmer Temple Association. If we are to defeat fascism they must be stopped! Not a Question of Mathematics {8 the days before Stalingrad, when disputes arose about the numbers of Soviet dead in the battles which took place, the German figures were always about three times those of the Red army. Hitler settled all argument by proclaiming that—-when the Germans count them, they’re counted. In this winter campaign of the Red army, German figures about the distance the Red army spearhead has thrust itself into the heart of the German Reich are at variance with those of the Soviet government. At this time as I write, the Germans have placed the distance as low as 75 miles. The latest figures of the Soviet government, put it at 109 miles. For the sake of the too-hopefuls, who expect too much from the Red army, we may change Hitler’s pronouncement and say, “when the \Red army counts miles they’re counted.” Before Stalingrad the German people had to be worked into a jubilant frame of mind, they had to be fed victory pap so they would fit properly into the Nazi seheme of world conquest. Thus the fabulous numbers of dead Russians to be credited to the “victorious” German war-machine. : Today the mood has to be changed to one of fear, the fear of the caged rat that will fight any odds because of that fear——so the distance between the invading Red armies and the heart of the Nazi Reich, Berlin, has to be counted in the reverse order that the counting was done previous to Stalingrad. ; So the Germans are told that the flash of Red artillery may be seen from Berlin. This is the best indication that the Nazi leaders ._ know that they are defeated, even though they inspire rat-like ferocity in their deluded followers. The Lethal Chamber Aaain N author and publicist committed suicide by shooting himself in the head on the promenade of an English waterfront place. Before doing so he sent a note to the police stating that “he loathed the in- cidence and stigma of old age,” and advocated “the lethal chamber for all 60-year-olds whose continued existence does not in some way benefit the community.” : That man must have been afflicted with a Nazi mentality. Only that state of mind will see any “stigma” in old age. Old age in a worker who has toiled through youth and manhood should be honored by society. There are those too, who contribute nothing to the community, like Tommy Manville, the asbestos king, who could profitably be sent to the lethal chamber long before they reach old age, even in their youth.