P Dorise Nielsen Speaks
To Capacity Crowds

(Special to P.A.)

‘Mrs. Bote Nielsen, M.P. for North Batierord: Se
tatchewan; drew the winning grand prize of $2,000.00 on
the last evening of the Yukon Winter Carnival. The, winner

"he mother of five children.

| On Saturday, March 10, Mrs.
\ielsen addressed the ladies of
Whitehorse at a tea at which
ime she urged the women to get
Paterested and take part in pub-
ic affairs. “Thus far,” she said,
Imen have had the job of look-
ng ‘after the housekeeping of the
puntry, and look at the horrible
nAesS it is in.” She urged the
yomen to cooperate in obtaining
‘ecreational facilities for the
Ihildren which are so _ sorely
‘eeded in this community. Mrs.

-Yeilson spoke at length on the
xcellent contribution the wo-

ind went on to say that there
fas no reason why, in the post-
var. they should not continue.

SiUGE. CROWDS

Phe larsest gatherings ever held
ma Whitehorse in the Capitol
— heaver, Sunday, March 11. Mrs.
#aeisen was introduced at the
fieetinge by .isobel McEwen,
Haughter of the labor candidate
for the Yukon. She spoke under
‘ne auspicies of the Whitehorse
Hub of the labor-Progressive
‘arty, and in support of the labor
‘andidate.

Mrs. Nielsen pointed out the
gact that the people of a con-
itituency when choosing a repre-

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| Mrs. Nielsen addressed one of}

iwas Mrs. Jessie James of Atlin, B.C., a working woman and

sentative to be sent to the House
of Commons on their behalf,
must choose a man of vision.
whose record is one of loyalty to
the common people, and not one
who is tied to old parties by nar-
row politics and who does not
rise to his feet in the House even
when the occasion warrants it.
She traced the work, or rather
lack of work, of the sitting MP,
George Black, of this constitu-
ency and pointed out in one in-
stance when Black as a member
of the committee set up to re-
view the Defence of Canada
Regulation, attended only two
| Sessions of the committee.

“You must be on one side or
the other—either we go ‘on to
progressive measures and co-
operation, with jobs and security
in the development of world
trade, or we go back with the
| old line party politics to ‘frus-
tration and unemployment of the

prewar. Business men must
surely realize that their only
hope to continue as such is

through the full employment of
the majority of the working peo-
ple in their own comunity.” We
|must have progressive goverm-
ment in Ottawa in order to
achieve these things—one that
is representative of the aspira-
tions of the great masses of the
Canadian people—stated Mrs.
| Nielsen.

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Minerva Cooper
Tours Interior

Steps to bring the B.C. La-

bor-Progressive Party’s ‘150-
000 Nameés” petition on labor
resulations amendments into
every home in the province will
be discussed with LPP* Clubs
in several interior points by
Proyincial Organizer Minerva
Cooper on a tour commencing
this week

Addressing public meetings
en LPP pregram and policy aty
mest centers the popular pro-
yineial organizer will also dis-
cuss with constituency and
elub election committees their
plans fer stepping up the fed-

eral election campaign. Ar-
rangements will be made for
further provincial teurs by
LPP leadins members
Commencing at Princeton
and Copper Mountain in Yale
censtituency. she will then

visit Rossland, Trail and Nel-
sen in West Keotenay. In Hast
Kootenay. organizer Sam HEng-
lish has arranged visits to sev-
eral points where thriving
clubs have recently been or-
ganized. Next will come Qso-
yoos, Penticton, Vernon and
Kelowna in Yale and Salmon
Arm, Revelstoke and Kamloops
in Kamloops constituency
The tour will last from March
22 to April 9.

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Partisans Granted Full
Army Status In_ltaly

ROME—The measures nae recently by the Italian
government designed to give partisans more official recogni-
tion have been welcomed not only in partisan ranks, but also

in liberated Italy The decrees

tinguished action; that partisan

establish that needy families of
partisans who reside in liberated
terirtory-' wil receiye the normal!
soldier’s . family allowances ;
that army decorations will be
conferred on partisans for dis-

commanders, whose terirtory has
been freed, can join the army
With the same rank they held
while fighting behind the Ger-
man lines. unless their rank be
higher than a lieutenant-colonel.

These measures are felt to be
removing some of the obstacles
which previously prevented freed
partisans from entering the
army. Although most of them
were “anxious to continue to
fight a small percentage had en-
rolled prior to the decrees when
they were not allowed to join as
a formation and their command-
ers had to enter as privates and

undergo the most elementary
training The small enrollment,
observers here state was en+

couraged by some Italian and |
Allied ‘officers in an attempt to|
avert what SOS termed the fae
filtration of a “communist ele-|
ment”

COMPLETEH UNITS

It is felt that the changes un-)|
der the decree were brought |
about in large measure by the!)
‘success of the British 8th Army,
which when it advances, takes
over complete partisan units.
The partisans are re-equipped.

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provided with’ British army ra-
tions and pay (which in many
eases iS not accepted) and are
put in or in front of 8th Army
lines. Tasks for which they are
especially trained, such as patrol-
ling and scouting, are assigned to
them and they operate directly
under their own commanders.
The latter have the power to re-
lease a man to civilian life if he
so desires, but very few requests
of that kind have been received.

The practise of the U.S. 5th
Army has been to disarm par-
tisans and send them to rear
areas. where they are gathered
in so-called “partisan centers.”
The treatment they receive there
is inferier to that of prisoners
of war. They are fed on civilian
refugee rations and for re-cloth-
ing they depend on private char-
ity. They are permitted to leave
the center whenever they choose,
but especially among those whose
homes haye not been liberated,
they have no choice but to join
Allied labor battalions. The 5th
Army is now experimenting with
Sth Army methods.

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