“iissian prisoner,

freed at last from Nazi
S. guard in liberated Navi slave camp.

brutality,

points accusing finger at cringing

faks approved ‘without any im-
fortant amendments and the
Firious committees of the con-
| rence deep in discussion of the
retton Woods economic plans.
- The new world security organ-
Pation will be no reptition of
‘ie League of Nations. The ma-
yr difference lies in the chang-
'1 relations between the USSR
ad- other major powers. In
| 319 the capitalist world organ-
7 ed a League of Nations that
) as essentially aimed at destroy-
1g the socialist state. In 1945
‘ie United Nations are charting
® world setup in which the
| oviet Union is to play one of
hie five major roles along with
‘ie United States, Britain, China
ind France in maintaining peace.
that is the very essence of the
Dieaning of San Francisco.

© In no other way is that chang-
'd relationship better revealed
‘ban in the position of promin-
Ince and respect enjoyed by the
© oviet delegation to UNCIO and
he personal popularity of
foreign Commissar V. M. Molo-
(OV.

“fAGNIFYING DIFFICULTIES

| Some newspapers and radio
Lommentators covering the his-
Horie meeting are of course re-
lecting the reactionary, anti-
| Jnited Nations line of the Hearst
Poress and the Chicago Tribune.
This is true also of some Canad-
‘an newspapers, notably the Tér-
)ntc Telegram: and the Vancou-
Ter ' sun. These newspapers
Have® ‘heen seizing on every diffi-
eulty, imaginary and real, and
agnifying them into basic dif-
ferences which from day to day
‘about to erupt and destroy
€ conference. That the con-
erence refuses to accept this de-
featist line is both a tribute to
the real unity on the main issues

a

Sers and an indication of how
‘ 2 infiuence these newspapers
and the people they represent

either in the

) prevailing among the major pow-4|

ot

Success Of San Francisco” ne
Conference Is Assured

SAN FRANCISCO (Special) The success
}aternational Organization seems assured. This is the only estimate that can be made
Doliowing a week of intense work by delegates which has seen the proposals of Dumbarton

the United ee Conference on

But the big majority of cor-
respondents and observers pres-
ent are becoming convinced that
the presence of the Soviet Union
delegation at San Francisco has
actually guaranteed the success
of UNGIO.

This conviction was streng-—
thened at Molotov’s final press
conference before the Soviet
foreign commissar returned to
Moscow to deal with the com-
plex problems raised by victory
in Europe. The Soviet states-
man made two points.

That the conference to date
had agreed on the essential prin-
ciples of the new world security
organization and the details
could well be left to future dis-
cussions.

That the conclusion of the San
Francisco meeting should be
hastened, and the framework of
the new organization established
once the general principles had
been laid down.

POLISH QUESTION

There was much newspaper
discussion of course on the Pol-
ish question, which broke out
With renewed clamor again this
week over the arrest in Poland
of 16 representatives of the land-
lord clique in London. These men
were discovered - behind Red
Army lines with secret wireless
equipment, after they had been
involved in diversionary activi-

Gontinued on Page 8
See SAN FRANCISCO

Ukrainian Labor Temple
Returned By Government

Vancouver Ukrainians, assembled in the Ukrainian La-
bor Temple, on East Pender Street, were presented with the
deed to their temple at an impressive ceremony. Garfield

King, Vancouver barrister and
attorney. for the Ukrainian La-
bor-Farmer Temple Association,
presented Alex Bob, President
of the Association, with the deed
to their property, seized by the
Federal Government in 1940,
while an overflow crowd filled
the hall and streets with their
eheers.

The Ukrainians formed up at
the Groatian Education Home on
Gampbell Avenue, and over 2,000
paraded down. Pender Street to
the hall. There the crowd
streamed into the building until
it was packed to capacity, and
overflowed into the lot adjoin-
ing, where seats had been placed
to. accommodate them. Seats
were not available for the large
erowd present and the remainder
stood on the street outside the
temple, where proceedings were

heard over loud speakers. A
sign reading, “We are going back
to our home” was hung over the
door to the temple.

“The government of Canada
has seen fit to recognize that
you are an integral part of this
Dominion,” Garfield King told
the assembled Wkrainians, as he
presented Alex Bob with a clear
deed issued by the Federal Gov-
ernment.

Leading Seaman James
Thompson, LPP candidate for
Vancouver Centre, spoke to the
assembly. “Your work in the

nation’s war effort has been rec-
ognized,” Thompson stated, “and
the government recognizes that
you have made a contribution to
victory that is as important as
that of your SDE NSE in the
Soviet Wnion.”

May: 12,

1945 — Page 3

Official Recognition
Demanded By WTUC

SAN FRANCISCO — The World Trade Union Cou-

ference adminisrative committee requested official recogni-

tion “in a consultative capacity’

from the United Nations:

Conference on International Or-
ganization here. At the same
time, it announced that the

' groundwork had been~laid for a

new organization, to be known
as the World Federation of
Trade Unions, which will be for-
mally established when the sec-
ond world labor conference con-
yvenes in Paris on Sept. 27.

In its request to UNCIO, the
WTUG ean and will charge it-
self with the task of mobilizing
workers of all lands to assure the
success of the International Se-
curity Organization,” it said.
“But it can perform this vital
task with full effectiveness only
if it participates in the work of
establishing that organization
only if it can assure the workers
for whom it speaks ~that their
representatives were consulted
and their views effectively pre-
sented in framing the charter.”

LABOR’S ASSISTANCE
ESSENTIAL

The statement stressed that
the London. world labor -confer-
ence in February had charged
the committee to see that repre-
sentatives of international labor
“shall be associated with. both
the security council and the eco-
nomic and social council.’”? It is
of ‘vital importance,” it said, “to
discuss how this-can be put into
effect “whether by amendment
to the charter itself which now
makes no provision for labor
representation when established.”
Labor’s assistance, it pointed out,
will be ‘essential in perfecting
international eouEsen non in the
economic sphere.”

The WTUC bid was made af-
ter a formal request for recog-
nition of, the organization had
been placed before an UNCIO
committee meeting by Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov.
Molotoy later told a press con-
ference that he had not pressed
for a vote on the question be-
eause his proposal had met with
general opposition. The WTUC
request was addressed to the
four conference chairmen and
was signed by Sidney Hillman
for the CIO,.Sir Walter Citrine
of Britain, Louis Saillant of
France and Mikhail Tarasov of
the USSR.

NEW ORGANIZATION

Announcement of the plans for
a new world labor organization
was made by Saillant, adminis-
trative committee secretary. The
new organization, he said, will
appoint a general council, exe-
ecutive committee and general
will be represented on the coun-
ceil although the proportion has
not yet been determined. The
council will have power to speak
on behalf of the organization and

Joseph Nilchowy, provincial
president of the Canadian
Ukrainian Association spoke,
reporting that a conference
will be held in the near fu-
ture at which it is hoped a mer-
ger will be made of the ULFTA
and the Ganadian Ukrainian As-
sociation, and at which will be
decided the name that the new
Ukrainian organization will use.

_Alex Sholdra, treasurer for the
ULFTA accepted donations and
pledges which totalled over

$2,400.

to put its decisions into effect
and the executive committee,
with 15 to 17 members, will be
empowered to act for the council
between council meetings.

The unanimous judgment of
the committee on the question of
autonomy, Saillant said, was that
decisions of the congress or its
general council or executive com-
mittee which require action by
affiliated organizations must be
carried out unless the affiliate
notifies the secretary of its in-
ability to do so within three
months. The secretary will pre-
sent the affiliate’s reasons to the
executive committee and the lat-
ter will seek to help the affiliate

[to apply the congress - decisions.

If any affiliate contmually vio-—
lates decisions of the congress, it
will be subject to expulsion BROT
the world organization.

The most important question
still to be settled is the relation
of existing international trade
secretariats to the new federa-
tion. The committee postponed
settlement on this issue, resolv-
ing to study it prior to the Paris
conference and to take it up at
a meeting of the full 45-man con-
tinuations committee of the con-
ference in Paris on Sept. 19.

REBUKE LABOR MINISTERS

Bighlighting the controversy
over the lack of labor representa-
tion in UNCIO delegations, Cit-
yine and Ebby Edwards, co-dele-
gate of the TUC to the adminis-
trative committee, sharply re-
buked their government’s dele-
gation for refusing to support
their demand for representation.
Hitting particularly at Clement
R. Attlee, leader of the British
Tabor Party who as Deputy
Prime Minister is second man in
the British delegation to UNCIO,
their joint statement declared:

“Wie do not believe the attitude
of the Labor Ministers in the
government expresses the view
of the labor movement in Britain.
We do not believe that the forth-
coming conference of the labor
party will endorse the contention
of Mr. Atlee and his colleagues
that the work of the San Fran-
eisco conference is not the con-
cern of the trade unions but ex-
clusively the concern of the gov-
ernment. This is the issue that
has been raised. Its serious na-
ture calls for_discussion with our.
colleagues at home, and we shall
return for that purpose.”

Candidates Meeting

Harold Pritchett:
May 19, House meeting at

3131 E. 4th.
Jimmy Thompson:
May 13, Royal Theatre,

Goneert meeting
May 14,-Ukrainian Womens
House Meeting, 812 EH.
Pender.
Minerva Cooper:
May 13, House Meeting
2997 West Second
May 14, House Meeting.
_ 1782 East First.
May 16, Tea, 766 EH. 14.

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