-rkers of America against
Bice of the nine-hour day
; rea east of the Cascades
weheld. this week, as the
gl Labor Relations Board
y down a decision abolish-
cial. regulations govern-
| nine-hour day for the In-
% 3oard decision concludes
| ally the fight of the IWA
¢ 2limination,of the differ
vhich _prevailed-, prior. .to
- 2, and which interior -op-
governed by the dictums
Canadian Manufacturers
ion, . have consistently
-yers in the interior have
{scision; and have put for-
claim that éduction' of
‘king day in the interior
sdiously affect production.
*A, however, havé opposed
sind and have -set forth
.at reduction of the work-
= to eight hours will tend
_-ntain- and possibly in-
. ‘man-hour production.
EN
“stablishment of the prov-
4, e eight-hour day will
terior working conditions
50 line with working -con-
'- existing in the coastal
4 ad will open: the way for
ijustments to ensure that
of take-home pay will be
by interior woodwork-
; shreatened strike at the
iller hingle Mill was set-
i week as the management
the IWA Master Agree-.
fovering ‘working condi=
4: the majority of organ-
'2rations on the coast. By
the agreement with IWA.
- 1-217, the management
—iverted the developing
ituation brought about by
- 7ious refusal to accept the
> terms.
' zreement was also signed
he Acme Shingle Mill
ge the IWA jurisdiction in
operations.
a strong protest to ‘the |’
|Buck Pledges Support _
To Windsor Strikers
The following wire was
Labor-Progressive Party:
labor movement.”’
te
“man, Local 200, UAWA, by Tim Buck, National Leader,
“I wish to take opportunity. of expressing full support
of your strike. Symbolizes efforts of labor to assure. jobs”
and maintenance of purchasing power through guarantee
of trade union security. As such merits unstinted support
of all sections of labor movement. Am calling upon Labor-
Progressive Party throughout the country to back your
efforts and assure victory which will be victory for whole
sent to Roy England, Chair-
“The alarming increase in juvenile delinquency was. the
direct result of delinquent government,’ charged. Maurice
Rush, LPP candidaté for Vancouver Centre, while speaking
week...
;Pointing to the recent shock-
ing murders of Dianne Blunt in
Vancouver by: a 12-year-old boy,
and that of Phyllis Stroud by a
17-year-old boy in Victoria, Rush
said:
“These cases cannot be sep-
arated from the social condi-
tions which gave rise to them
and ‘the failure of government
action’ to ‘remove these condi-
tions which are responsible
for many of our younger gen-
eration going astray is to be
‘deplored. The Blunt and
Stroud tragedies are the sharp-
est expressions to date of the
startling rise in juvenile de-
linquency. We would fail in
our duty to our children and
youth if we were not stirred
into action by these cases.”
Turning to a review of ju-
venile delinquency Rush point-
ed out that during the first
three years of the war major of-
fenses in Canada increased by al-
most 40 per cent, while at the
same time minor offenses in-
ereased by 86% per cent.
“Consider these facts,” Rush
urged. “In 1948, 28 out of every
1,000 boys of acertain age group
4
4
ive for
iet with
) ria.
3 With the war ended the fight for jobs, homes and security
i s larger than ever. In the post war period the P.A. takes
dded importance. It can and must become the rallying centre
» nereased numbers of people. It is one of the most effective
Bes for carrying fighting slogans to the people and for
(1g the mleadership in the day=to-day fight for a decent life.
It would be wrong te separate the drive for new readers
om the provincial election campaign. The P.A. has and
Ul continue to de a great service to labor by exposing the
‘ory and Liberal coaliticen plot to feist the rule of big
siness on us for another four years. The P.A. is the fore-
‘est champion of labor and progressive unity. It reaches
Mousands. of peopie with our message. It is a collective
vader, and as such should be extended during the election
-2mMpaign io reach into ever increasing circles of readers.
; The present subscription drive should receive the support
severy progressive person. The P.A. is no ordinary paper. It
ur best propagandist and organizer. The printed word is one
.the most powerful weapons the advanced labor. movement
Se We know from experience that many people who find their
% into the movement do so by reading.
porter of the P.A. to give the present drive for 2000 new
yseribers their fullest support.
MAURICE RUSH, Provincial Organizer, LPP.
?
s
f
uild Your
3etween now and the end of October the P.A. is conducting
2000 new subscribers.
has been moved forward until November
the efforts of labor to elect representatives to
Paper!
The drive for a sustaining
so as not to
I appeal to every
a, gathering of women at the Ukrainian Labor Hall last
were brought into Vancouver
courts on a juvenile offense. This
figure represents. a 100 per cent
inerease over 1936. Among the
girls the Situation is equally as
bad. The increase of juvenile
eases among girls in a given
group was shown to be 75 per
cent over that of 19386. A recent
report from the superintendent
cf penitentiaries shows that 50
per cent of admissions into Ca-
nadian penitentiaries were youth
under 25 years of age.”
GOVERNMENT CRITICIZED
“Strongly criticizing the gov-
ernment for failure to act on the
housing crisis and to provide
greater economic security and
recreational, educational facili-
‘ties, Rush charged that by its
| failures the government has
contributed to the present ter-
rible situation.”
“What must be done to tackle
the problem of juvenile delin-
quency?” Rush asked. “‘Certain-
ly corrective institutions are
necessary but they are not pre-
7
ventative. We must tackle this
problem - scientifically,” he
claimed. “Firstly, it is neces-
sary for government action to
ensure rising living standards
for the people—through postwar
employment and social security
weasures.
“Secondly, it is necessary
to tackle the problem of hous-
ing immediately. Thousands
of our children are driven out
on the streets to get away
from the miserable hovels they
live in. It is estimated that
B. C. needs at least 50.000
new homes. If we tackle the
problem of housing we shall
also be tackling the problem
cf providing more jobs.
encourage and finance greater
recreational and educational fa-
cilities for our children and
youth. Provide them with healthy
and character building activities
instead of leaving them to shift
for themselves.
Turning to the problem of
government, Rush said: “The
coalition government of Tories
and Liberals had their chance
to tackle this problem — they
failed our children. The citizens
must work to elect peoples’ re-
presentatives that will see to it
that these problems are properly
IFIC ADVOCATE — PAGE 3
dealth with.
<lthe industrialists.
Thirdly, the government must.
For Grave
Far East Policy Cause
Concern
All the fears-expressed over American appeasement of
Japan—beginning with the- retention» of Emperor Hirohito
and the subsequent “kid glove’’ handling of the-Japanese
) militarists and industrialists—were amply justified this week
in a score of major incidents indicating how that policy was
working against the interests
of future world peace: “
Democratic concern over~ the
situation was given recognition
in London by. Soviet Foreign
Commissar V. M. Molotov, who
proposed to the Big Five Con-
ference that.an: Allied.-Council on
Japan be established to lay down
policy for General Douglas Mac-
| Arthur. Molotov’s-preposal.:was |.
eoupled. with criticism.of Mac- |
Arthur’s. attitude toward .the
Japanese “old -gang,;”. especially
| There was good reason: for the-
Soviet proposal. In Japan prop-7)
MacArthur’s* mili- |.
er, General
tary administration,;intended as
the supreme authority over the
Japanese people, finds itself fre-
quently in conflict and at’ times
even superseded ‘by a' parallel
Japanese .administration headed
by that nation’s number one war
criminal, <#firohito. The -Emper-
ors royal: advisers; the cabinet
comprised. mainly .of swar crim-
inals, the big monopolists and
the fascist party officials still
remain ins power. And the Jap-
anese pressiand radio, still staff-
ed with their wartime propagan-
da personnel, frequently. breaks
the peace terms by publishing
and broadcasting ‘material of a
A soft peace for Japaa would
be an invitation to new aggres
sion, says Gen. Jonathan M.
Wainwright, above, who spent
over three years in a-Jap prison.
strongly: anti-democratic nature.
The effects of MacArthur’s
“easy-going” policy in the Jap-
anese homeland is reflected even
more dangerously in develop-
ments on the Asiatic mainland
and throughout the East Indies
SAMURAI OVERLORDS
In Korea the Japanese samurai
are still strutting as overlords
of the Korean people. Japanese
troops are still fighting democ
racy in North China with the
full knowledge and apparent ap-
proval of Chiang Kai-shek. Am-
erican correspondents report
that German Nazis and Japan-
ese, fully armed, are walking
freely about the streets of Shang-
hai, terrorizing Chinese demo-
erats, “heiling” and “banzaiing”’
their contempt for American oc-
cupation forces. And Japanese
troops are being used to put
of Asia’s colonial peoples ‘and
down demonstrations of the In-
donesian people ' pressing for
their freedom “from Dutch. col-
onial oppression.
But. it is in Korea that Ameri-
can appeasement. policies are
bearing their most bitter fruit,
and where the pattern of future
-American policy in the ‘Orient
is already beginning to take
shape. -Here there was no at-
tempt at covering up. ~*~ |
General Hodge, head: of the
American .occupation force in
‘Southern..,Korea, simply . an-
. nounced..that.,.the Japanese,
who had oppressed the Korean
people for 40 years, would con-
tinue in power ‘subject: to-Am-
erican authority.°- Py
When this barefaced” move
drew widespread condemnation,
Hodge “explained” that the Kor-
ean people had. no policy except
“sg desire for immediate inde-
pendence” which in his mind
meant chaos, Cairo Declaration
or not. Small wonder that the
general turned to the Japanese
as a source of reliable informa-
tion as well as reliable police-
men.
Very little has been said. this
week, or any other week, con-
cerning the situation in North-
ern Korea, which is under Soviet
administration. But here, .as. in
Europe, Soviet policy is based: on
the realistic idea that peace im
Asia will not come until. the
Japanese militarists are rooted
cut and destroyed and the co-
lenial peoples granted self-gov-
ernment.
So in Northern Korea and
throughout Manchuria, the
Japanese administrators have
been yanked from their posts
and thrown into prison, while
the Korean people have been
placed in important executive
committees and financial) and
industrial positions.
The contrasts between Ameri-
can and Russian policies in Asia
are striking. MacArthur’s plans,
undoubtedly shaped by the US.
state department, indicate an
intention to maintain the whole
monopoly and imperialist struc-
ture of Japan, first as a bulwark
against the independence move-
ments of the Asiatic peoples,
and second as a possible basis |
for future operations against
the Soviet Union. This attitude
of the Supreme Commander has
actually ‘been voiced in some
sections of the American press.
But the likelihood of that
policy succeeding over a long
period of time is by no means
sure. This imperialist adven-
turism in Asia does not take in-
to account a whole number of
new factors in the Far East, in-
cluding the new power and in-
fluence of the USSR, the de-
veloping struggles of the co-
lonial peoples, the possibility of
China. becoming a united and
powerful democracy once her
internal problems are resolved,
and even the possibility of a ris-
ing democratic sentiment among
the Japanese people. Nor does
it take into account the senti-
ments of the democratic peoples
of United States, Britain, Can-
ada and Australia.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 29, 1945