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March 10

Page 16 — P. A. Features,

Maurice Rush
Missing In
Action ©

Private Maurice Rush, who
was nominated as LPP fed-
eral candidate in Vancouver
Centre just Jast week, has
been reported missing in ac-
tion in Europe according to a
telegram received this week
by his wife, Olga, who resides
in Vancouver. Rush was serv-
ing’ in the Royal Ganadian
Artillery. :

Born in Kamloops, where
his parents lived for many
years before they moved to
Kelowna a few years ago,
Rush is wellknown and was
a popular member of the left-
wing labor movement in which
he took an active and leading

"part since he joined the Young
Communist League at the age
of 17.

His capabilities as an or-
ganizer and leader brought
him to the fore rapidly and he
soon became a leader in the
YCL and the anti-fascist acti-
vities of that time. He be-
came the provincial organizer
of the organization in 1936,
when he came to Vancouver,
and continued in this position
until 1940 when the YCL was
declared illegal in the anti-
Communist witch- hunt of that
time.

During the period of the il-
legality of the left-wing or-
ganizations, when its leaders
‘Were persecuted and imprison-
ed, Rush remained at his post
in B.C. as a left-wing leader
and continued active in fur-
thering its anti-fascist aims.

Throughout the years of his
active political work. prior to
his joining the armed forces,
Maurice Rush made a splendid
eontribution to the progressive
movement, and particularly to
the organization of the Youth
Congress movement which
played such a great part in
rallying young Canadians for
progress. He took a leading
part both in its provincial and
national bodies.

He was arrested on two oc-
easions for picketing the Jap-
“anese and Italian embassiles ‘
during the boycott movement
against the shipment of war
materials to the aggressors
and against imports from
them.

He enlisted in the RCA in
1943 and trained in Vernon,
Nanaimo and Shilo. He went
to the front in Europe almost
immediately after going over-
seas a few months ago.

His brother Herman, who
left Canada shortly before
him, was. reported wounded
recently. :

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CCF Kidnap Miners’ fel

BY CHAD MacMILLAN

The sinister and reckless drive
of the CCF in Nova Scotia for
control of the United Mine

Workers of America, District 26,
has culminated after seven years
in a resolution which appeared
before the Miners’ Convention in
its closing hours. This resolution
practically nails the CCF banner.
te the masthead of the Glace Bay
Gazette, the miners’ daily news-
paper. A proposal before the
cpnvention that the Gazette be
changed to a weekly was de-
feated by the CCF bloc who
favor its continuation as a daily
in which to spread the propa-
| ganda of the CCF, up to the fed-
eral election anyway.

by adding the phrase “as long
as the CCF continues to work
in the interests of the United
Mine Workers and the workers

They tried to stem criticism

As a result the rank and file
miners, through the political
opportunism of a group who are
in the main old discredited
union leaders, find themselves in
the unenviable position of not
only paying its dues to the CCF,
but now paying extra dues for
the next two years to support
the Gazette as a CCF OEE22. :

In the early days of ne CCE
trade unions were welcomed into
its Labor Section, but that was
discontinued by the middle-class
leaders who feared theiz influ-
ence. At present, affiliated trade
unions have no say in the policy
of the CCF; they are barred
by the CCF constitution from
electing rank and file members if
they are not also members of
CCF clubs. -

It certainly does not benefit |
the miners or any group of
workers at this stage of develop-

been amply demonstrated
wise leadership -
Philip Murray, Sydney

decisions far outweigh

Coldwell, Jolliffe,

tions of men like Gha
lard in steel, or sine
Clarence Gillis and Don:
Donald in coal, to use
Strength to forward their
ambitions and subvert the
ed policy of the CCL Po
Action Committees. Un:
‘workers of all political
ligious faiths is the founda
of trade unionism;

ment, to be tied down to the fate

unity we built the CCL.

in general,” but no one is fooled.

I makes sense, doesn’t it, to make Labor a PARTNER
im the next government of Canada imstead of having
individual groups in the Opposition. Every trade unionist
now knows that the greatest danger that Canada faces in
the postwar is a government of reaction, a government
dedicated to the old “iron-heel” policy of pre-war days.

Such a catastrophe must not happen in Canada and we
Sre confident that the great Canadian trade unions, now
grown to full maturity, will prevent it from happening.

That is why the Labor-Progressive Party proposes a
parimership of labor im the next government; a coalition

of independent labor, progressive CCE, Liberal and LPP
members. That ‘kind of government would certainly ensure
full employment, social ier a peace and Prosporsty, in

the postwar years.

fhe Labor-Progressive Party is placing some 70 can-
didates in the field in the coming election to contribute its
share to the building of this labor-in-government partner-
ship. To succeed we require the aid of working men and
women to help us finance such an undertaking. Will you
send a donation today? It will be your investment im the
sound, secure Canada of tomorrow. x