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.

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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
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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
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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 =

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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.