Yugoslavs

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country. I stopped at Kragueje-
vich,-a small town, in the dis-
trict where the opposition re-
ceived its largest vote. At a
small cafe, the proprietor gave
me and my companions (all Bri-
tish press correspondents) a
lecture on the lack of freedom in
Tito’s Yugoslavia. He assured
us that the situation is intoler-
able and that it is getting worse,
because the government would
not give him meat and he.could
no longer make his customers’
favorite dishes. Because of the
wholesale destruction of cattle
during the war, the government
has forbidden the slaughter of
cattle until the country’s stocks
have been built up again.

-“T have nothing against the
Communists,” he said. “They

fought well and they are good '|
but now new ‘people

fellows,
have arrived who try to impose
the German system here.” This
“German system” turned out to
be nothing more than the intro-
_duction of rationing. “For bread
you must have cards, for sugar

you must have cards, for every-

thing you must have cards,” was
his complaint.

-A-woman in the cafe joined
in to defend rationing vigorous-
ly and told the proprietor that
he should be ashamed of himself
for not realizing that all over
the world shortages made ration-
ing the only way in which poor
people could be certain of getting
anything. For the proprietor food
controls meant lack of freedom
and for the woman whose husband
worked in the factory, proper ra-
tioning system was democracy.

The proprietor told us frankly
that he hod voted anti-Tito and
he said this in the presence of
the woman who said that she
“supported Tito. He was backed
by an ex-officer who told us that
people were afraid to speak their

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Labor Arts
Guild
Concert

Barbara Custance, distin-
guished concert pianist and for-
mer pupil of Stojowski, will 2p-
pear as guest artist on the 32nd
People’s Concert, conducted. by
the Labor Arts Guild under aus-
pices of the Vancouver Labor
Council, on Sunday, December 9,
at 7:30 p.m., in Pender Audi-
torium, 339 West Pender.

Highlight of Miss Custance’
performance will be the Liszt
Polnnaise in E, one of the most
brilliant works in piano litera-
ture, which was included n her
Town Hall recital that won the
acclaim of New York. critics. -

Vocal soloists featured on this
Same program will be Dr. James
T. Lawson, baritone, and Betty
Phillips, soprano, as: well-as a
group of Czecho-Slovakian folk
songs by Erica Nales, in national
costume.

Ted _Cawker, leading tap mas-
ter, will present some of his
own dance improvisations for
which he is well knewn; and
George Calangis, recently re-
turned from-overseas, will furn-
ish an unusual attraction as the
first mandolin soloist to appear
on the series.

The Mather Boys String Trio,
and the B.C. Eleciric Choir con-
ducted by C. E. Findlader, will
round -out another of these varied
programs which have become a
weekly institution in the musi-
cal life of Vancouver.

thoughts, although we ad just
listened to as free a -discussion
as one could find anywhere. It
nearly always boiled down to the
same thing resentment by
small shopkeepers, cafe propri-
etors and richer peasants against
restrictions which are no worse
than those England had been

years.

putting up’ with for the last-few |:

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General Motors

Recent figures by the CIO re-
search department show that
profits of all U.S. corporations,
before taxes. skyrocketed. more
than five-fold from an average
of $4.5 billions in each year from
1936-39 to $25 billion in 1944
alone. Even after taxes, net
profits almost tripled — from
$3.6 billion. to $9.9 billion in
1944.

On top of this,.the Truman
administration is preparing to
hand to 18 steel corporations tax
ki¢kbacks of $149,138,000, money
which the steel industry is ap-
parently ready to spend in an
attempt to break the steel union.

This gift from the Truman ad-
ministration, coupled with the
wavering position of the gaqvern-
ment toward its own recommen-
dations for industry-wide wage
boosts, were among the reasons
why an inereasing. number of
union. leaders, even in the Am-
erican. Federation of Labor,
were moving away from their
wartime dependence on the
White’ House for a solution to
all labor-management  difficul-
ties, and in the direction of de-
pendence on the strength and

bargaining power of their
unions,
REGULATION

This development toward ac-
tion at the point of production
was also being speeded by the
attitude of industrialists in gen-
eral,
Ira Mosher; president of the Na-

tional Association of Manufac-

turers, that labor will have to
relinquish the unlimited right to

strike and be regulated eaneny:

with business. be

“shown by the remark of

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The NAM president’s position
was being actively put forward
in Congress by such reactionar-
ies -as Senator Taft, who has
now embarked on a campaign
to remove all price controls and
where another group of senators
and representatives are working

overiinie for the pass
anti-labor legislation,
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First Congress Cont.

and olive drab uniforms in the
assembly, which is united in the
aim of creating a world demo-
cratic women’s federation with
the: following program: (1) to
fight fascism in all its forms;
(2) to defend peace and democ-
racy; (8) to improve women’s
conditions throughout the world;
(4) to prepare a happier, better
future for coming generations.

Accepting the demands of the
Indian delegation that represen-
tation from colonial-and depend-
ent countries be elected to the
presidium, the congress nomin-
ated one Hindu and one North
African Arab to serve with del-
egates from the U-.S., China,
Spain, France, the USSR, Yugo-
slavia and Czechoslovakia.

The British delegation, al-
though fairly large, has- de-
clined to take an active part and
responsibility in the congress
work because, as Elizabeth Al-
len of the British Women’s Lib-
era] Federation’ argued; “though
they represent their own organ-
izations they feel they have no
right to speak for all organized
women in Britain.” The British
therefore asked ‘permisison to
act as a consultative delegation.
The American delegation is head-
ed by Mrs. Fredric March and in-
eludes Mrs. Gifford Pinchot -of
Americans United, Thelma Dale
of the National Negro Congress
and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,
Communist leader.

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