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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-

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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

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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

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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:

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See CHURCHILL’S SPEECH