| These kids are playing “train”’
ters children of Soviet railway wor
i donated by railroad brotherhood

h recently received at the home.

outside the special orphanage near Moscow which

kers killed in the war. Clothing and other relief sup-
s, AFL and CIO unions through Russian War Relief

ypert Labor-Progressives Open
ideral Election Campaign

PMINICE RUPERT B.C As the opening
m-ampaign in the Skeena Federal riding,
ge Rupert's daily newspapers and now bei

sible comment in the north.

gun in a fighting Labor Progressive elec-
the following statement, carried in both of
ng mailed throughout the riding, has evoked

Wtriotic Canadians will view
-eep regret the fact that at
§ ucial hour in the Huropean
) has become necessary for
s Minister Kine to state that
tion date will be announced
eto April 17,7? commented

Mickleburgh, WLabor-Pro-
(ye candidate for Skeena
| on receipt of news of Mr.
— statement. :

wh the well-being of fu-
peuerations being forged at
‘heat before our eyes, one
B think anybody containing
8 < of concern for the future
jaanity would wish to con-
Bie every last ounce of
Bch behind the death blows

period.

this

candidate,

Parliament if they can possibly,
Prevent it have compelled the
calling of a general election.”

CHALLENGES ARCHIBALD
“At the outset of this cam-
Faign, I wish to publicly chal-
lenge LAC Archibald, the CGF
to get on the same
platform as myself for the pur-
pose of discussing fearlessly and
openly before
Prince Rupert the question of
how to secure jobs and rising
living standards in the postwar

workers of

“The action of the Tories in
placing a candidate in the field
in Skeena will give the people of

jing dealt Nazi Germany,”’
inmued.

ortunately there appear
politicans who would ra-
yght Mackenzie King than
Hitler. For some months
2 CCF and the Tories have
mmpetinge: with each other
who would wring the most
packenzie Kins yotes out of
YS So-called manpower

ER UNITY

6s has been paralleled by.
Pfforts to shatter unity by
‘ng; industrial disputes, as
fase of the BCER in Van-
aided and abetted by the
continuous incitement of
kers to strike.

pay-off is the diseusting
on in the Grey North by-
i. Here the reckless anti-
Bnent attacks of CCF and
rusans, and their refusal
w Defence Minister Mc-

riding the opportunity to
give this party the trouncing it
deserves. Efforts now being made
to line up certain Liberals be-
hind the Tory campaign will, it is
hoped meet with rebuff, since
such action would benefit nei-
ther the liberals nor the people
of Skeena.

LABOR PARTNERSHIP

“The self-seeking politicians
have started it, and the labor
movement, of which the Labor-
Progressive Party is an integral
part, will finish it. Out of this
election will come a Taberal-
labor coalition government, in
which for the first time in Can-
ada’s history labor will hold part=
nership.”

Meanwhile the Prince Rupert
Labor-Progressive Club is taking.
immediate steps to get its elec-
tion machinery into high gear
and an early conference of the
Skeena Constituency Council of
the LPP is scheduled to appoint
a full-time campaign manager.

The Conservatives managed to

On to take his place in

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get together enough die-hards to
held a nominating convention in
Rupert Friday evening. One for-
lorn delegate appeared from
Ocean Falls, but outside of him
there- was no representation from
any points in this 150,000 square-
mile constituency .save Prince
Rupert.

Previous attempts to scrape to-
gether gatherings of Pro-Gons
had failed to muster a quorum.
Perhaps the presence and efforts
of one of John Bracken’s high-
pressure (and high paid!) lieu-
tenants was responsible for the
twenty-five who decided to nomi-
nate Major R. T. Harvey, old
Tory wheelhorse now overseas,
noted for fathering the City Man-
ager plan which was décisively.
smashed by all sections of the
people in the 1942 Civic Elections.

i - - - Compliments .. . :

: Dr. R. Llewellyn Dougla. :
foe

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A Petition Ca

lled

In For Referendum

- Petition asking for referendum ballot on removal of con-

| tentious ‘‘anti-Communist” t
| Woodworkers of America constitution will be immediately

clauses in the International

called in, Jack Greenall, IWA District No. 1 secretary, an-

nounced this week. The

will be sent to the international

|officers who will order the re-

ferendum if sufficient names are
received,

Decision to call in petitions
was made following action of
IWA international board meet-
ing last week in passing, by a
small majority, motion to sus-
pend two locals in Washington
State which refused to expel two
members on instructions from
late International President
Worth lLowery. Lowery issued
the instructions following un-
seating of the two as delegates
by the recent annual convention
in Vancouver, after a long-drawn
out debate in which the self-
named “White Bloc” conducted
a vicious red-baiting campaign.

ADMINISTRATOR

The suspended locals, which
are to be placed under control of
an administrator appointed by.
their. District Council, are 2-46

jin Bellingham and 2-75 in Ly-

man. The two men involved are
William “Red” Wallace of 2-4
and Ralph Nelson of 2-75. :

Karly Larson, president of
Dictrict No. 2, and a member
of Local 2-75 attended the inter-
national board meeting to pres-
ent the position of the two lo-
cals. This position, on which was
based the unanimous decision of
both locals not to expel the two
members, was that they could
not constitutionally take such ac-
tion without holding a trial. They
were willing to hold such trial

petitions have been widely circu-
‘|lated in several IWA districts in
|the USA as well as in B.G., and

Soviet Films For
Red Army Week

Highlight for all MOovie-Foers _
and particularly for those inter-
ested in Soviet films, will be Van-
couver’s first Soviet Film Festi-
val scheduled to commence at
the Paradise Theatre on Feb. 19.
The festival will run for a whole
week in commemoration of the
2i%th anniversary of the found-
ing of the Red Army, and will
be very timely indeed when seen
against the backeround of that
army’s sledge-hammer blows on
the last Nazi formations before
Berlin.

On Monday and Tuesday, the
“Gypsies” and “Three Women”

will be shown, on Wednesday and
Thursday, “Baltic Deputy” and
“Peter the First,” on Friday and
Saturday, “Chapayeyv” and
“Country Bride,” two features
being presented on each pro-
gram. The writer has seen five
of the above pictures and can say
that they are not only excellent
entertainment (the cream of So-
viet film production throughout
the years), but at the same time
throw a light-on the forces that
were at work creating the power-
ful and_ stable Soviet State of
today; which is something for
which not only the Soviet people
but progressive people all over

Vancouver, B.C. |

as soon as any member of

Local would prefer charges,

provided in the constitution,
that so far no member of
Local had done so.

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and | difficulty recognizing how much
the Vancouver Public appreciate

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