Buller

pay off against the workers of
Windsor for nominating and
electing their own representa-
tives in the Ontario provincial
elections. The militant move-
ment of the workers was be-
headed by these judases who
Were going to teach the workers
a lesson.

“They were prepared to use
force at Windsor,”
pointed out.
provincial police were brought
in for-that purpose, but the rea-
son they were not used was be-
cause the workers were united.”

Turning to the war-monger-
ing campaign, sparked by the re-
cent war scare, the speaker
pointed out that no one would
object to the government taking
steps to protect itself against.
spies. “But in this case,” ° she
Stated, “Something has been
done that was never done be-
fore. A campaign of villifica-
tion was started in the press

Annie Buller continued,
“The R.G.M-P. and |

May Day

smoke screen over their real de-
Sire to balk the trade unions in
their efforts to obtain a higher
Standard of living and a short-
er work week,” he stated. “The
old red bogey is being: resurrect-
ed once more by frenzied oppo-
nents of a rapidly expanding la-
bor movement,” he declared.
“Labor will not be misled, how-
ever, by these false prophets of
decadent misrepresentation.

“May Day will be commemor-
ated by labor this year as a de-
monstration of the working peo-
ples united determination to con-
tinue its struggle more emphat-
leally than ever for an increas-
Ing standard of ° living and a
shorter work week, in Spite of
all the smoke Screens and bogeys
that are placed in their path,”
stated Mr. Mezger.

R. Mezger, G. Taggart, A. Mit-
-chell and J. Bayliss were elect.
fed on the committee charged
with the responsibility for mak-
ing arrangements on behalf of
the Victoria Labor Council, on
the May Day conference.

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against our Soviet ally before
they were notified of what was
taking place. Before the com-
mission handed down its find-
‘ings the daily press had con-
victed the Soviet Union: orders
“amounting to millions of dollars
were cancelled and the campaign
of thatred was given full leash.”

“We have to understand,” she
“that capitalist coun-
tries do not make love because
they love each other. The Unit-
ed States seeks the support of
Great Britain today for one rea-
son and for one reason only—to
help to prevent Europe going
left.”

In an appeal to the women
whe played such a magnificent
part in winning the war, the
speaker drew attention to the
recent convention held in Paris.
“Women from 42 countries con-
gregated, before the ashes of the
war had grown cold,” she con-
tinued, “to plan the building of
a better world. They came from
the liberated countries of Europe,
from Egypt, China and India.
There were 138 delegates from
the United States, but wunfor-
tunately there was no represen-
tation from Gamada. The Ga-
hadian Government was not
anxious to assist in the providing
of transportation.”

Pointing to the great results
from this conference, which
“paralleled in importance the
meeting of the World Federation
of Trade Unions,’ Annie
Buller urged the women
of British Columbia to find
some means of getting one of
the American women. delegates
to the conference to visit Can-
ada.

Courageous People

along.
rightist Democratic
Party, the Christian Labor move-
ment, the Peasant League and
the Polish Peoples’ Party.

The government has made ra-

le failed to do and in the pris- |
oners’ dock at Nuremburge stand

Goering and Hess, not the Jews.
The Jews, In common with all
other democratic and freedom-
loving peoples—the Greeks, the
Yugoslavs, the Poles, the Rus-
Sians, Britons and Americans—
made tremendous sacrifices to
Win the war. The victory over
fascism was the victory of all
democratic people. To make such
a statement means conceding a
partial victory to the thorough-
ly defeated Hitler.”

The new Polish government is
giving “vigorous” aid in reha-
bilitating Polish Jews and de-
feating every attempt to revive

‘anti-Semitism, according to Mr.

Lipshitz. Recently the govern-
ment passed a decree making
anti-Semitism a crime.
Questioned regarding the
stories of. Russian influence in
Polamd, he pointed out that dur-
ing his stay, he was allowed to
travel and interview people ab-
solutely unhampered, and he
never saw one Russian in any
official capacity. Everything is
run by the Poles. The only Rus-
Sians left are the Red Army men
guarding the tramsportation lines
between Russia and Germany.
“The Polish people have a
warm and friendly feeling to-
ward the Russians,” Mr. Lip-
shitz continued. -“This feeling is
not a leftist feeling, but one
which cuts across party lines;
they recognize the Red Army as
their liberators and are grateful
for assistance rendered by the
Russians since liberation.” :
The Folish government is a
coalition representative of the
main political thought. In it are

-| the two leftist parties, the Gom-

inn iit titi ttt tt (ttt ttt ttt iti

“They Shall Not Pass”

“The claim to fame of the men of the XV
on any feat of arms. Their claim

Brigade does not rest merely

International

to fame is that at a critical moment in history they played their
part with the men of other nations in halting the stampede of

Democracy. Breaking through

the barriers of narrow nationalism,

smothering the animosities of contending politics and parties,

they spontaneously united and
ideal of thé unity of arms of
Fired with that ideal

realized in one bound the age-old
international democracy.
they rallied to the aid of the Spanish

people. Hastily organized, ill-armed, their first task was to hold

back the Fascist hordes

and thus give a breathing space in which

the Peoples’ Army could be organized. /
They and thousands of others died because most of the goy-

ernments of democratic nations

ciples, and were denying the

Spain the right to purchase ar

invasion.

Under such conditions, gallantry

had abandoned democratic prin-
lawfully elected government of
ms to quell treachery, to repel

often did substitute for mil-

itary experience. Great men squandered their lives in those eriti-
cal days. Leaders whose function it normally was to direct bat-

talions died compensating for the
the weaknesses—of their comrades.

inexperience—aye, often for
And there were others, men

cast in a gentler mould, whose function it normally was to illum-
ine the drabness of this world and guide the minds of men

to greater progress,
generously flung themselves

but who—realizing the issues at stake—
into the horrors of that struggle,

lest the greater horror of Fascism triumph. Their loss was not
merely the loss of the countries that gave them birth; all human_

ity was the poorer for
words of Spanish they
They Shall Not Pass.

their passing. But they
had learned on their

died with the first
lips—No Passaran—

—=FROM THE “XV BRIGADE.”

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munists and Socialists,

with the

dical moves in two directions.
First, all industry employing
ever 50 people has been nation-
alized and secondly the great es-
tates have been divided among
the peasants. “Don’t you think
this shows a leftward trend?”
asked one reporter. “Yes, all of
Europe is moving to the left,”
Lipshitz replied. “This is what
seems to be perturbing Winston
Churchill so much.”

“Although developments in
Poland are opening up new pos-
sibilities for the Jewish people
there, it must be understood that
searcely one family remains in-
tact. These people have a terrible
loneliness, they want to join their
relatives, to get away from. the
scenes of terror and torture.”
Sam Lipshitz concluded: “Some
want to go to Palestine, some to
the United States — to Canada
and so on, wherever their rela-
tives may be. They should be
given every assistance to forget
the horrors they have endured
and to return to a normal life.”
—C.A.S.

Drew Drips

Excerpt from a speech de-
livered by Colonel George “A.
Drew at the 17th Annual Con-
vention of the, Ontario Fire and
Casualty Insurance Agents As-_
sociation held in the Royal York
Hotel, Toronto, October 14 and
15, 1937, taken from “Canadian
Underwriters of November 1,
1937.

“Guest speaker at the Friday
luncheon was Colonel George A.
Drew, who delivered an address
entitled “So This Is Russia” to
the enthusiastic cheers and ap-
plause of those present. Mr.
Drew spent a few days in Mos-
Cow and gathered some exceed-_
ingly unfavorable opinions of the
city. Characterizing John UL.
Lewis (CIO) and Dimitroy of
Leipzig fame, as haying simi-
lar “facial characteristics of a
thug,” he flayed the League for
Peace and Democracy, trade
unions, French striking laborers,

certain mealy-mouthed hypo-
¢erites in the church, people who
write optimistic things about
Russia.

“Insurance men should be es-
pecially interested (in the men-_
ace of communism) because you
are trustees of a large bulk of
public money and it is your con-
cern to make sure that your in-
vestments will be safe. Gom-
munism is the most serious
threat to those investments to-
day.” Mr. Drew said that although
not particularly favorable to
fascism in its different forms,
he expressed preference for the
administration of affairs in Italy
and Germany to that of Russia.

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