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PACIFIC ADVOCATE

“PEOPLE’S VOI CE FOR PROGRESS

LL, No. 15

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VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1945

jecond Conference Of

‘or Victory

3ig Three Sets Stage

And Peace

Paralleling the jolting effect on world fascism and re-

qnouncement this week that

1 the first question, “to con-
yt plans for-completine the de-
at of the common enemy.”

The announcement, released
multaneously in Washington,
loscow and London, imecluded an
senda of the major auestions to
: solved in carrying out the
second. part of the ~meeting’s
mpose, to concert plans “for
nilding, with their Allies, firm
umdations for a lasting peace.”

| 2EHSAGING UNITY

| Inclusion of the agenda was
“mediately imterpreted as pre-
‘ging similar unity in dealing
ith this phase of the confer-

fice, and promising early and
horough agreement on the
‘oints involved. Painting out

iat “discussions of problems in-
olved in establishing a secure
‘eace have also begun,” the bul-
“tin said these discussions would
zal with “joint plans for the
Seupation and control of Ger-
sany, the political and economic
moblems of liberated Hurope
nd proposals for the earliest
sstablishment of a permanent

fternational organization to
daintain peace.”
-This Stunning blow to the

alamity howlers, who hopefully
‘aw in each inter-Allied differ-
mee an insuperable obstacle to
mity, offered new evidence that
he spirit of Teheran was work-
ag more powerfully than ever
md raised the hopes of the peo-
les of the whole world.

STUNNING BLOWS :
Stunning and possibly final
lows were also in the making
a the battlefields of eastern and
western Germany as the Red
Lrmy made a number of cross-
mgs of the Oder River, last
Jatural barrier before Berlin, and

seneral Hisenhower’s armies
edged through the Siegfried
Line.

Aé press time Marshal Zhu-
sov’s Ist White Russian Army

“ton of United Nations’ victories on the war fronts, was the

the “Big Three’ meeting was

a and that “complete agreement’ had already been reached

was reported to have gained
seven bridgeheads the
Qder directly before Berlin and
was laying down a punishing ar-
tillery barrage.
casts already admitting
that German defenses
cracking: and the stage was being

acress

German broad-
were
were

set for the final allout drive on
the German

WESTERN

On the
Americans

capital.
FRONT
western the

a

front
were continuing
slow advanee which was ex
pected to accelerate as positions
for launching a large scale of-
tensive were won. Action on the
western front was growing in in-
tensity along several stretches of
a 120-mile front. While no large
scale activity was reported on
the northern sector, held by Brit-
ish and Canadians, German
broadcasts continued to empha-
size that they expected the big
smash to be launched from this
part, around Aachen.

PIERLOT RESIGNS

Tremendous boost to hopes for
solving the tangled European
political picture, given by the
“Big Three” announcement, had
added to it the announcement
from Belgium that Premier Pier-
lot was bemg foreed to resign
under the pressure of a popular-
ly supported coalition of Liber-
als, Socialists and Communists.

Particularly significant in the
Pierlot resignation was the ad-
mission that his government,
which had excluded the popular
forces, was unable to either con-
duct an efficient administration-
cr solve the many pressing eco-
nomic problems facing the coun-
try. One of the major charges
against the Pierlot government,
aside from incompetence, was
its failure to remove collabora-
tionists from leading positions.

Results

confusion and disunity.

Grey North
Demonstrates
artisan Pol

CCF tactics and propaganda resulted in the election of the Tory candi-
date in Grey North by-election this week. This result, with its ominous threat
to Canadian war unity and the winning of the peace, was achieved by the

Coldwell-Lewis-Millard gang by a combination of splitting the progressive
vote and a propaganda campaign which went right

os

Without the help of Soviet workers on the home front,
the Red Army could not now
on the road to Berlin. Like American workers, those in Russia
have topped production schedules to keep the battlefronts
supplied, These men are members of the Soviet trade union
movement, the largest in the world.

be crashing through Germany

BCER

a six cent hourly wage increase,
was inaugurated at this week’s

meeting of the Vancouver, New
Westminster and District Trades
and Labor Council (AFL).

The packed meeting wnanim-
cusly adopted their executive’s
recommendation to set up a

committee to bring in proposals
for amendments to 9384 at the
next regular meeting, and went
on to unanimously pass a resolu-
tion from Division 101, Street
Railwaymen’s Union, to secure
support from Trades and Labor

inion

Full Support Of Labor

Dominion-wide campaign of AFL unions for improve-
ments. in wartime wage control order, P.C. 9384,, and for
pressure on federal labor department to give the “green light’
for the Regional War Labor Board to grant BCER workers

Assured

Councils across Canada for the
street railwaymen’s demands and
for revision of the order-in-coun-
cil.

IMPLIED PROMISE

Division 101 resolution asked
for support “in bringing all pos-
sible influence to bear upon the
Federal Labor Department in an
endeavor to give the necessary
power to the Regional War la-
bor Board to fulfill the implied
promises of Federal Labor De-

icy

down the Tory alley of
Prime Minister Mackenzie
King had not announced his
decision on the holding of an-
other session of parliament by
press time, but it was obvious
that the byelection result had
made it virtually impossible
for him to avoid calling it off.
Indications were that Cana-
dian unity to back up the
final attack on Nazi Germany
had been seriously jeopard-
ized by the Tory-CCE gang-up-
with a general election, in which
the false “conscription” issue
would receive dangerous promi-
nence, in the offing.

Prize statement on the results
was made by. Vancouver Bast
CCr M.P. Angus MacInnis. He
told a reporter that “under the
circumstances the party had done
very well.” Leaying aside the

;|implied admission that the elec-

tion of the Tory was a satisfac-
tory outcome, this post-mortem
contrasted sharply with such
pre-election blurbs as the follow-
ing by George Grube, Ontario
CCF President, comparing Grey
North to the CCF Victory in
South York three years ago
(when arch-Yory Arthur Meighen
was defeated by a coalition of
left-wingers, Liberals and CCF),
“Grey North will be a victory
just as great — a victory that
may well put the CCF in power
at the next election.” This state-
ment was made as part of the
campaign which the CCE con-
ducted from one end of Canada
to the other to raise funds for
their Grey North disruption.

GRAVE IMPORTANCE

The result of the byelection in
Grey North has lessons of grave
importance to the people of Can-
ada. It is a signal demonstration
that the splitting of the’ demo-
cratic forces can only result in
the election of a government of

Tory xreaction in the coming
federal elections. It serves to
emphasize the decisive impor-

tance of labor’s role in the com-
ing contest, and a distinet warn-
ing of the result of following
narrow partisan policies with the
consequent splitting of progres-
sive forces.

The vote, 7338 for Garfield
Gase (Prog.-Cons.), 6090 for
Genera! McNaughton (Lib.), and
3136 for Air Vice-Marshal God-
frey (CCF), places the respon-—
sibility squarely on the should-
ers of the CCF. The complete re-
versal of the CCL-PAC policy of

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