TART i ahs < MPAA Rn ITs, iis No.5. 5 Cents Vancouver, B.C. Friday, March 15, 1946 Formerly PAGIFIG ADVOGATE aatre, Wancouver, tr. Morgan declared: Tascism was defeated, but erushed.” The truth of those dis came home to all thinking adians last week when they - the text of Winston Chur- ’s Missouri speech. This zesman for world imperial- Was providing a political d transfusion .for weakened nants of fascism when he re- d every Hitlerite lie in sup- of an Anglo-American mili- alliance against the Soviet pT a qaurchill’s speech was swiftly wwed by an outright call to against the Soviet Union by 4st Premier Drew of On- >. March 9. -rrying a torch into a situation ady explosive, Drew strives “reate panic by charges that Soviet Union plans an at- ' on Canada. He makes the inal incitement to war now aese words: “We are in just food position to challenge sia today as we were to chal- e Germany in 1939 and that 2 is the only hope for peace.” 2 took his cue from Winston rchill. With every demagogic G in his bag of oratory, Chur- omes are homes in any lan- ze. Part of Vancouver LPP paign for $1 billion home- ding lean. 10, Nigel Morgan, Pro- chill in his Missouri speech called for an anti-Soviet alliance, con- jured up dread nightmares of Russian expansion, and with cynical and calculated disregard of truth, used the terms “neo- fascist, communist and fifth col- umn” interchangeably. .. . ; Linked with the anti-Soviet ramp is a drive against the la- bor movement on the eve of Wage and strike struggles, for a decent standard of living. By authority of order-in-council, a precedent has already been es- tablished for holding persons in- communicado. The stage is be- ing set for an all-out attack on labor at home, to defend monop- oly’s profits and destroy organ- (Continued Page 8) See MORGAN Victoria Prepares For May Day VICTORIA. — The Victoria Labor Council, at its regular monthly meeting, Monday night elected a committee to contact all local trade unions and veter- ans organizations and ask them to participate in a May Day Conference meeting on March 24, 7:30 p.m., at Room 6, 1116 Broad St. Organizations will be asked to send a delegate to the meet- ing, the purpose of which is to formulate plans for a May Day Mass Rally. zi The Labor Council secretary was instructed to extend an in- vitation to Harry Bridges of the International Longshoremen & Warehousemen’s Union, San Francisco, to be a guest speaker. R. Mezger, Council Secretary- Treasurer, condemned vigorously the methods being used by the Federal Government in dealing with the Soviet Spy enquiry. “Canadian monopolies are us- ing this spy hysteria to lay a (Continued Page 8) See MAY DAY rew-Churchill Policies| ndanger World Peace Speaking before a capacity audience in the Beacon on March cial leader of the LPP issued a prepared statement on critical developments arising from the espionage issue. ABOR HITS WARMONGERS Buller Exposes Spy Scare Calls For Greater Unity “Before the last guns were fired the monopolists had rolled up their sleeves, the honeymoon was over and they were preparing for a showdown with labor in a battle to reduce wages and lower the standard of living of the Canadian people,” said Annie Buller to a crowded meeting held in the Beacon theater last Sunday Members of World Federation of Trade Unions, guided by Russian officer, cross into Russian-occupied zone of Germany on their tour through war-blasted continent. Left to right: Escorting Officer Col. Tulpanoyv, Leon Jouhaux of France, Sir Walter Citrine of England, Ebby Edwards of England, Sidney Hillman of USA, M. Kuypers of Holland and M. Tarasov, USSR. A Courageous People Begin Reconstruction Sam Lipshitz, editor of the Canadian Jewish Weekly, brought back a picture of a people who, having undergone unbelievable hgrrors and hardships were courageously tackling the problem of rebuilding their country, when he visited Vancouver this week on his return from Poland. Returning 12 days ago from a fact-finding tour under the auspices of the Canadian Jew- ish Congress and several other Canadian organizations, Lipshitz brought with him photographic evidence of Nazi cruelty, sadism and ‘horror, levelled at the Jew- ish people. Looking over these pictures in his room at the Van- couver Hotel, it was easy to agree with him when he said: “Tt is hard to believe that a civi- jized people could perpetrate such atrocities.” Questioned as to the possibility of exaggeration, Lipshitz point- ed out that he had talked with thousands of people in Poland. “JT spent eight days of listening to such stories and each person had his own individual experi- ence to tell. You must under- stand that out of three and one half million Jews in Poland, only 75,000 are alive today, and of this number not one has survived normally; all bear the marks of their terrible experience. Every Jew in Poland was sentenced to death. Those who survived lived for years hidden—some in underground holes, from which they ventured only at nights in search of food. I thought I had some idea of what had happened before I went, but now I can only say that I had little realiza- tion of the real horrors.” I asked Mr. Lipshitz his opinion of Dr. Wiseman’s state- ment (leader of the Zionist movement) to the effect that “for the Jews, Hitler had won the war.” He was emphatic in his contradiction. “One of Hit- ler’s expressed aims was to wipe out the Jews of the world. This (Continued Page 8) See COURAGEOUS PEOPLE In a spirited address that drew enthusiastic response from her audience the veteran labor fighter and manager of the Ca~- nadian Tribune called on the peo- ple to close their ranks in the struggles that lie ahead. “Pro- tect your organizations from the defeatists who enter your ranks. We are not a timid people, the people who fought and won this War are not afraid of the fu- ture, we can say to reaction it is too bad you are afraid to face the dawn, we are not afraid, the future is ours,” Annie Buller went on. The speech of Church- ill was ‘The speech of an old man who is afraid of tomor- row.” Referring to the first great battle of Canadian labor, the Ford strike at Windsor, the speaker, who has walked many picket lines in support of work- ers’ struggles, was bitter in her denunciation of the role played by so-called jabor leaders like CG. H. Millard. “Whe workers were united,” she stated. “I was down there and saw the won- derful spirit of those workers on the picket lines. They had been patient during the war years, they kept their no-strike pledge beeause they realized that all that they could produce would aid in shortening the war and save the lives of thousands of their brothers on the battle fronts. But then the cold-blood- ed Ford Corporation refused to recognize their union, started their wage cutting and union busting campaign. ‘The workers at Ford’s were ready to fight to a finish, the workers in all in- dustry were ready to support them. There was unanimous sympathy for a one-day strike, but the Millards had a score to (Continued Page 8) See BULLER Churchill Speech Denounced VLC Scores Spy Procedure Sharp denunciation of the methods used by the Fed- eral government in pursuing the investigation into espion- age charges and the campaign of villification started against the Soviet Union featured this week's meeting of the Van- couver Labor Council. A resolution introduced by the United Office and Professional Workers criticizing slanderous statements made by | “unim- peachable sources” against “certain progressive m ov e- ments, friendship ‘societies and labor leaders in our country,’ was passed by the council. The resolution urged: “That this council go on rec- ord condemning in the most em- phatic terms the manner in which our government has hand- led the alleged espionage probe. “Rurther, be it resolved that this council condemn the gov- ernment authorities for their in- fringement of the ‘traditional British justice’ by holding the accused persons incommunicado and denying them right to legal council.” Gondemnation of the war- mongering speech of Winston Churchill, was expressed in a2 substitute resolutton adopted by the council addressed to Prime Minister King and urging that: (Continued Page 7) See CHURCHILL’S SPEECH