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ws, but the cir-
= the purchase
Jight of liberated

our Div HQ in
ther day, when I
'2 and a little boy

the road that ran
iwhere I had to do
The old.man was
ed in odds and
wooden shoes on
s arms he carried
white dog with
on his face. The
_ about ten years
dressed in shorts,
fhirt and wooden

n seemed to drag
; as if he was a
tired of living. I
look ‘towards
lads in a_hesitat-
way, as if fearful
3 unusual in Hol-
e came abreast of
. wanted to sell the
‘lked to the fence
The boy looked at
| Then he spoke in
[you want to buy
‘ly 100 cigarettes.”
a cute little fellow,
<s old-Toy Terrier,
over- 100 British
the dee. .
st_ me about sixty

are very hard to
i, that is, hard for
splies are almost

About the only
aply is the armed
2se parts, cilivians
ver with their plea
2for money?” Al-
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say in the country-
ox0d, and practical-
' buy in the cities,
7 one you meet
"e scads and scads
tes, especially the

of whom made a
iper money during
on. 10 cigarettes
‘Idens. in this prov-
rijssel, and if you
ans from your unit
e deducts 84 cents
cash balance. No
le you go; no matter
| stop, invariably
i man or boy,

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my, but chocolate,
| canned meat, tea,
¢ and clothes. When
ber that the Dutch
yractically no soap,
- cigarettes for five
very little genuine
Tee, and that even
‘had to do without
1e foods he used to
pace time, you’ can
| why everyone is
fet something tang-
2 paper money that
‘mulated.

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vives, daughters and
the military camps
with eggs and milk
e for the products I
The going price for
mokes for one egg.

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Every. Voter A Subscriber! .

This is the slogan that Press Committees should
adopt as a follow-up to the splendid work done in the
The tasks. ahead demand that we
reach thousands of people; that we consolidate work
already done, and make new contacts. People under-
stand and support our policies when we are able to
cut through the fog of misrepresentation and slander.
Our press can provide the basis for our work — let us
build a circulation worthy of our outstanding electoral

this province by road, in normal
times, are the three great cities
of . Holland: Rotterdam, The
Hague and Amsterdam. In Rot-
terdam, mothers are burying
dead babies in their gardens so
they won’t have to surrender
their ration cards. In The
Hague, 33% percent of all the
deaths are caused by starva-
tion. In one working-class dist-
viet of The Hague, Red Cross
investigators took an inventory
of 453 inhabitants on a work-
ing class street. All were suf-
fering from malnutrition, with
50 cases of semi-starvation and
5 eases of tuberculosis aggra-

‘vated by malnutrition.

In one house, they found a
boy who had not eaten for 14
days. In another house, all_the
fioor boards had been used for
firewood, and the family of six
were weak from hunger.

This is the terrible heritage
of Nazi occupation: hunger,
starvation, disease, death, spec-
ulation. Cities, towns, villages
and farms have been destroyed
in their thousands. Nearly
every bridge in this country of
countless bridges has been des-
troyed, and the railways are
only now beginning to operate,

at a fraction of their former
capacity. Very little volume of
goods can be moved by canal,
the ‘blasted bridges
lock the way. Hundreds of thou-
sands of liberated Dutchmen are
now returning to this land of
misery and ruin—many of them
to find their homes destroyed
and their families dead.

because

Today, when L read of the Tory
victory in Ontario, I realized
full well the suicidal folly of
these parties and elements in
the progressive camp who
spurned unity, and let the Tor-
ies in again. If this defeat is
repeated on a national scale,
and if Churchill has his way
with his Red scare in Britain,
then we will see a return to
power in two key countries of
the very same _ reactionaries
who caused and countenanced
the hungry thirties, appeased
Hitler and who cannot escape a
verdict of Morally Guilty for
the plight of Holland and other
liberated countries. It is fash-
ionable in some left circles to
jeer at “Yalta politics.” After
seeing Europe, I believe such
men are fools, or political
scoundrels.

SGT. J. PHILLIPS.

“MEETING IN BERLIN”

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Vive la Frenchmen !

HIE best news since VE Day! That is what I told myself when I heard

the radio announcer describe the wrecking of a trainload of Spanish

fascists travelling in a sealed train from Switzerland to Spain through
France, by enraged Frenchman of the resistance’ movement.

These scoundrelly fascists were reported at first to be members of
the cowardly Blue division of the Spanish Phalange which was in the
Ukraine fighting against the Red Army. 2

’ ater, the number of killed and wounded was toned down and it
wasedenied that they had any connection with the Blue division. They
were now claimed to be Spanish diplomats but that story was too bare-
faced to go over as there could not possibly be a thousand Spanish diplo-
mats in all Germany.

Then Butcher Franco, in a feverheat of indignation, announced that
the train was filled with poor, defenceless Spanish workers who had
been working in Germany.

No -matter to which category these friends of Hitler belonged, the
Frenchmen did a good job. If they were from that infamous Blue
division, they had it coming to them—and more. If they were Franco
diplomats, it is a pity Franco was not with them. -

And if they were Spanish workers who had been making supplies
for Hitler’s war machine, since Spanish slave jabor dare not return to
Spain, they must have been volunteers and in a different class from the
slave workers press-ganged from Spain, - France, Belgium, Holland,
Denmark and Norway—they, too, got what they deserved.

And if Franco demands reparation from the French people, the
French government will be doing the right thing if they tell him to go
take a jump in the lake.

‘A Monument to Roosevelt

Teese Roosevelt is dead the work he did has been apparent every
day since he died.

The latest proof of that is in the decision handed down by the U.S.
Supreme Court, declaring invalid Attorney-General Biddle’s deportation
order against Harry Bridges.

The atmosphere of the Supreme Court has been changed. It has
been liberalized. There was a time when that court used to be described
as “nine old men sitting in a marble tomb.” Like all other tombs it was
linked more with the dead than with the living.

Roosevelt’s appointments to that court, made from his own people,
have added men to it who brought with them a semblance of humanity
to the interpretation of the laws made by the Congress. _

This is a real monument to Roosevelt the man, and to his policies.

Disunity — Why?

QNE thing that has come out of the recent Federal elections, is an

insistent demand on the part of the workers that an end be made
to the splitting of the vote of the forces who are opposed to Toryism
and the things that Toryism brings in its trail, smashed trade unions,
low wages, deterioration of the standard of living, unemployment, relief
lines, degradation and misery for the masses of the people.

I hav a visitor the other day from an up-coast settlement. He was
disappointed. that Nigel Morgan had not been elected and wanted to
learn from me why the labor vote in Comox-Alberni had been split, in
fact, why it had been split almost everywhere else. Some of the people
in his neighbourhood had talked it over after the election and decided
that they would write to both the LPP and the GCF demanding that
they come to some kind of agreement in elections to prevent the election
of anti-labor candidates with minority votes.

That is a very laudable proposal but it indicates that these workers
have not been made aware of the efforts of the LPP to accomplish just
that purpose. When it was explained to that worker how often and
how earnestly the Communist party and the LPP had made overtures
to accomplish this, he was surprised. That may be our fault. We may
not have given enough publicity to all the attempts we have made to
secure some kind of working agreement with the leaders of the: CCF,
provincially as well as nationally. Here are some of these overtures.
Our party learning from'the press that the B.C. Provincial Council of
the CCF had set up a committee to investigate the possibilities of closer
relations with the Communist movement; after waiting for three monhs,
sent a letter to the Provincial Council notifying them that our party had
also set up a committee to meet with theirs and explore the possibilities
of unity. That was on September 4, 1943.

On Sept. 18, 1948, the reply of the CCF was received. It was to the
effect that unity could not be “furthered through our acceptance of your
invitation to meet with your representatives for the purpose of eonsider-
ing means whereby the CCF may cooperate with an organization which
has already chosen a disruptive role. In our opinion the CCF is the
political instrument through which the unity of farmers and workers
for the building of a democratic and socialist Canada can and must be
realized.”

On April 12, 1944, another appeal was sent; this time to the B.C.
Provincial convention of the CCF, with no better success; in fact we
received a reply which might be considered an.insult by workers chafing
under defeat through disunity. It runs: “Dear Sir, Your letter of the
12 inst. addressed to our recent provincial convention was heard by the
convention and ordered received and filed. Yours truly, F. J. McKenzie,
Secy.” . :

These are only two instances. They are similar in character to
proposals made during the late Federal election by the National and
Provincial sections of the LPP.

The CCF attitude, however, is not one that will meet the wishes of
the workers who have been so disturbed by the reverses labor has met
with in so many ridings. We have proved our willingness at all times
to do so but we refuse to efface ourselves. :

SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1945.