PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS

Vol. 1. No. 24.

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VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1945

The superhighways of which the Nazis boasted now be-
some the roads alone whitch American armored divisions and
-oops roll into the heart of Germany.

MeKean accused the National
ar labor Board of refusing to
mect gross injustices in wage
tes and of wrongly acting on
€ assumption that its only func-
m is to/ stabilize wages.
PP leader called for all out
apport of the campaign to se-
te the amendments proposed
y_ the special committee of the
Cl earlier this year.

The fact that the CCE-domin-

stal Vancouver membership of
S than 1000, was questioned by
legates and a motion to in-
Stigate this top-heayy repres-

Necessity of amending P.C.’
oboe movement to assume its focal place in national af-
'2irs was stressed by Fergus McKean, Labor-Progressive Party
rovincial Leader, when he addressed Vancouver Labor Coun-
i (CCL) at its regular meeting this week.

The |

ates on the Council, despite its |

McKean Addresses

Labor Council

|

/ tation was adopted. IUMMSW ithe proposed
aternational representative Har- amendments was also defeated.

Meet

s 1003 and 9384 to enable the

vey Murphy pointed out that this
reacted unfavorably toe other un-
ions such as the Boilermakers,
whose 8000 members had only
seven delegates.

Hxample of the purpose of such
a large delegation, based on
splitting up the union into a large
number of small locals, was given
at the meeting when a motion was
forced through by a narrow mar-
gin to protest direct to Ottawa
federal disallowance of certain
sections of Saskatchewan labor
legislation. Attempt to refer the
question to the CCL National O#f-
fice in order to ayoid conflict wath
present moves to lobby Ottawa on
order - in - council

INAZI RESISTANCE COLLAPSES
Allied Forces Unchecked

Along Hitler’s Highway
On The Road To Berlin

Three immediate major military objectives of the coordinated drives
into Germany were rapidly being attained this week.

Capture of Berlin was still highest on the list as Allied forces in the
West raced apparently unopposed toward the German capital.

By press

time, the American Ninth Army was less than 60 miles away and other
western army groups were well in the running.

Greenall Popular Choice
in New Westminster

“We welcome this by-election as an opportunity to bring
forward our own realistic program for the solution of press--
ing provincial problems, and I am confident the outcome will
demonstrate that our party’s positive approach has the sup-

taking of this symbol of con-
tinued German organized re-
sistance would mark the end
of the major phase of the Eu-
ropean war and might well be
the signal for Allied procla-
mation of victory.

Backing up the aim of des-
troying all organized German
military ferce, and to prevent
any w ithdrawal of the esti-
mated 200 divisions on the
Eastern front into the Bavarian
last-ditch “pocket,” the Amer
ican First Army was speeding:
across the middle of Germany
toward a juncture with the Red

Army north of: Czechoslovakia. +

Interlocking with the aim of
this drive, the Red Army, while
some of its forces were still mop-
ping up the remnants of Nazi
resistance in the captured Aust-
rian capital, Vienna, drove or
toward Munich in Bavaria to
thwart the Nazi design of pro-
longed underground resistance,
based on guerrilla forces center-
ed in that area.

As this chopping up process
tool: form, it pointed up the evi-
dent recognition by the High
Commands that unconditional
surrender would have to be im-
posed against a background of
continuing fanatic resistance to
the onrushing complete destruc-
tion of German imperialism. The
coordination set up at Yalta was
working in day-to-day operations
and achieving. the immediate
mulitary objejetives agreed on
there in brilliant fashion.

Outstanding announcement of
the week on the Huropean front
was General Dwight HEisen-
hower’s dramatic statement that
“German resistance in the West
has collapsed.” The statement
was contained in a warning to
the German people that the Al-
lied armies would soon enter
their towns, and implied that de-
struction of North Sea ports by
“fanatics who may make a last-
minute attempt to make the ports
unusable’ should be prevented
by the Germans.

Notable also was the declara-
tion by the Soviet Government,
as the Red Army proceeded to
the conauest of Vienna, reaffirm-
ing the position on Austria enun-
ciated at the 19438 Moscow Con-
ference of Foreign Ministers of
Britain, USA and USSR.

The declaration, broadeast by

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See RESISTANCE COLLAPSES

It was obvious that the

port of the majority of. organized
labor and working people gen-
erally in the Royal City who ap-
preciate that unity and coopera-
tion of all progressive elements
is eSsential to British: ‘Columbia’s:
future,” Fergus McKean, LPP

JACK GREENALL

stated -thiis
that he in-

Leaden,
in announcing

Provincial
weelx

tended to take a prominent part

New West-
by-election

in the forthcoming
minster provincial
campaign.

Labor-Progressive candidate
is Jack Greenall, TWA District
Secretary and vice-president of
IWA Local 1-357, who was nomi-
nated last summer. Greenall, out-
standing member of a family
wellknown in New Westminster,
made his first bid for public of-
fice in the eivic field and re-
ceived a substantial vote when
he ran as labor candidate, testi-
fying to his strone support and
popularity.

“Jaek Greenall, as the man
who has contributed more than
anyone else to the building of
the trade union movement in this

city, will, through his candidacy,
present the sharp contrast be-
tween the LPP’s efforts to unite
crganized labor for a realistic

postwar. perspective. and the ait-

tempts made by those identified
with the CCF in this constituency
te divide and disrupt the trade
unions,” declared Harold Griffin,
LPP federal candidate for New
Westminster. Griffin will direct
the publicity work for the pro-

| Vineial campaign.

The New Westminster provin-
cial seat became vacant last May
on the death of Honorable Wells
Gray, Minister of Lands in the
Hart coalition government, for-
mer alderman and mayor and
long-time Liberal member of the
legislature for the Royal City.
But until the government’s re-
€ent decision to call a snap elec-
tion, following a protest from
New Westminster’s I[iberal-do-
minated city council against the
delay in filling the vacancy,
neither the government nor the
CCF appeared anxious to force
ihe by-election contest—the gov-
ernment because of differences
in the ranks of the coalition and
the CCE because of its lack of
support in the constituency which
promises to break its record of
by-eleetion successes.

Finally, at the close of the last
session, Hiarold Winch formally
notified the Speaker and the goyv-
ernment’s decision to call an im-
mediate election, probably for
the middle of May, was unoffi-
cially reported this week.

Apart from Greenall, the only
other candidate in the field is
ex-Mayor Fred Hume, one-time
Liberal who jumped the gun some
time ago with the announcement
that he would be an independent
candidate. Hume’s maneuver was
obyious. By declaring jhimself he
hoped to force the New West-
minister coalition organization
te endorse him and prevent the
Liberal section of the coalition

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See GREENALL