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Sharp denunciation of the methods used by the Federal govern-
ment in pursuing the investigation into espionage charges and the
campaten of villification started against the Soviet Union featured

A resolution introduced by the
United Office and Professional Work-
ers criticizing slanderous statements
made by “unimpeachable sources”
against “certain progressive move-
ments, friendship societies and labor
leaders in our country,’ was passed
by the council.

The resolution urged:

“That this council. go on record
eondemning in the most emphatic
terms the manner in which our gov-
ernment has handled the alleged
espionage probe.

“Further, be it resolved that this
council condemn the government
authorities for their infringement of
the ‘traditional British justice’ by
holding the accused persons incom-
municade and denying them right to
legal councl.”

Gondemmation of the: war-monger-
ing speech of Winston Churchill, was

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this week’s meeting of the Vancouver Labor Council.

expressed in a substitute resolution
adopted by the council addressed to
Prime Minister King and urging
that:

“You petition the Labor Govern-
ment of Great Britain to denounce
the policy proposed by Churchill,
pointing out that the extension of
the socialist ideology is not an im-

position, but a result of the economic |.

and political conditions prevailing
with capitalist countries of the world.
The resolution goes on to demand
“from your government an end to
policies which are foreign to na-
tional interests and are certainly not
conducive to international under
standing; and further;

“That immediate steps be under-
taken to implement a program of
social and economic security for the
nation.”

Issued By The National Committee, Labor-
Progressive Party, Tim Buck, National Leader

The people of this country can’t help but feel
the gravest concern at the happenings of the past

World War [I is scarcely over; we've not yet
even begun to tackle the problems of building the
new, happier postwar world for which our fighting
men gave all they had—and yet, already, we're once
more in the midst of what amounts almost to an at-
mosphere of war hysteria. :

The “spy scare” is being blown up to fantastic
proportions with the obyious aim of damaging be-
yond repair our cooperation and friendship with the

Premier Drew of Gntarie calls for a “crusade
against Communism” —as a substitute for housing,
a labor code, and the fulfillment of his other election
pledges. Premier Duplessis of Quebec proclaims his
intention -of stifling civil liberty by again putting

labor in Canada.

press and radio has poured

The recent speeches of Premier
Drew of Ontario, and of Duples-
sis's threatened resurrection of
the fascist “Padlock Law” in
Quebec, together with the war-
like orations of Wanston Church-
ill, have given rise to a great deal
of justifiable alarm in the ranks
of organized labor. :

Among those in British Co-
unibia commenting on Prenat
Drew's open appeal for an im-
mediate war with the Soviet
Union were D. ©’Brien, Regional
Director of the @CL who said:
“The UNO was set up to settle

international disputes. Public
people like Col. Drew should
keep their opinions to them—

selves until the UNO has had an
Opportunity to deal with the
matters at issue.”

Jack Stevenson of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners declared: “Every Cana-
dian should demand action to
stop Col. Drew irom making
such statements. Instead of chal-
lenging Russia, we should be do-
ing everything possible to pro-
mote friendship between the two
countries.”

Echoing labors fear at the
trend of events, both in respect
to the method of handling the
espionage issue, and the speeches
of Drew, Malcolm McLeod and
Garry Culhane, officers of the
B.C. Shipyard Federation stated:
“Premier Drew is apparently ap-
plying for the job left open by
the death of Dr. Goebbels. His
speech must sound the alarm to
the Canadian people, who must

While labor across Canada has fully supported the
government in any measures adopted for national secur-
ity, Labor has been sharply critical of the methods which
have marked the conduct of the espionage issue. From

Soviet and anti-Labor propaganda.

G@ constant stream of anti-

sto Shea =e

reject reactions attempt to im-

pose fascism on Canada as a pre-
Inde to new wars of aggression.”

William White, president, Mar-
ine Workers and Boilermakers
Industrial Union, said: “It is in-
dividuals like Drew who are try-
ing to force this country into war.
He has evidently fallen in line
With the proposals made by \Win-

William Rigby, secretary AFL
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers’ Union, stated: “Drew's
call for an immediate declaration
ef war on the Soviet Union
should open our eyes as to what
Churchill realy meant. Every or-
ganization and every Canadian
concerned with the welfare of the
country should speak up now
while there is still time to repudi-
ate the policies advocated by such
as Drew.”

Ernie Dalskog, IWA Board
member, stated: “Premier Drew,
the admirer of the late Hitler,
and one of Canada’s most reac-
tionary anti-labor figures, can
scarcely convince anyone that he
has become the champion of
peace. He is an enemy of the peo-
ple and the Federal government
should immediately dissociate
itself from his remarks.”

Labor across the country takes
the view that these war-like
speeches of Drew and Churchill,
coupled with the manner in
which the King government had
handled the espionage issue, and
the most recent arrest of Fred
Rose, M.P., thereby seeking to:

serve as a grave warning to organized

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Espionage Scare - - Churchill
Speeches, Part Of imperialist
War Plans Against USSR

_ The arrest of Fred Rose, M.P. for Montreal-Cartier under charges of violat-
ing the Official Secrets Act, and linking his name and that of the Labor Progress-
ive Party with the espionage issue, must

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implicate the Jabor-Progressive|

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“Latest developments in

for any charge whatsoever.

Immediately following the arrest of Fred Rose, M-P.,
Montreal-Cartier on alleged connections with the espionage
issue, Tim Buck, National Leader of the Labor-Progressive
Party forwarded the following wire to the British Columbia

clear indication now for an extended attempt to unleash a
smear campaign against the left wing labor movement. The
Labor-Progressive Party does not and will not condone acts
of espionage. Our party will combat with utmost vigor and
determination any and all attempts to involve it in this es-
pionage case through false allegations, or any activities of
such a nature. Wie have no knowledge what charges may be
brought against Fred Rose, M.

“We do emphasize, however, as we have done from the
outset, that the provocative nature of the campaign being
conducted by big business interests, is aimed at disrupting
United Nations unity and to provide a smoke-screen for an
onslaught on the living standards of Canada’s working people
Against this campaign of reaction a united effort of all He
mocratic Canadians must be directed, to safesuard the i i
terests Or peace and our national postwar reconstruction a

Tim Buck, National Leader Labor-Progressive Party.”

the Ottawa spy scare gives

P,, nor of any possible basis

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Party, constitutes in the first in-
stance a systematic and deliber-
ate attack against Canadian la-
bor; and secondly, that the at-
tack is designed to Turther the
interests of reactionary imperial-
ism, through the creation of
blocks, as proposed by Churchill,

ganized labor of

Drew, et al, against the Soviet| United Labor movement, deter-
Union. mined to preserve and win the
The arrest of Rose demon-| Peace, cam saye Canada from) the

strates all too plainly the master

plan of reactionary interests, car- | mongers.

tied on behind the smoke-screen
of an anti-Soviet watch hunt. It
is an attack against the best in-
terests of all democratic @ana-
dians—and in the first instance—
an attack designed to deprive or
its postwar
hopes and aspirations: Only a

reactionary shemes of the war-

Fred Rose has been an active
fighter in the labor movement
since his boyhood. He is known to
thousands of people across Gan-
ada. A charter member of the
Communist party and its succes-
sor in Canada the Labor-Progres-
sive party, he has participated in
every miajor struggle of the
people fox the last twenty years.
First elected io parliament as the
LPP member for Montreal-Car-
tier in the by-election of 1943, he
Was returned again in the 1245
elections with a majority grei.cr
than any other member in the
Montreal area.

Interviewed by a reporter who
teld him of his impending arrest,
Rose classified the whole thing as
Tidiculous. “If I am supposed to
be the guy who gave away infor-
mation on the last secret session
of parliament on reinforcements
they are certainly being ridicul-
ous,” he said.

I know that information is sup-
posed to have leaked out of that
innocuous session but certainly it
did not come from me.”

Ever since Mackenzie King first
pulled the lever that let loose 2

movement
charges.

with the
So far

struggles.

FRED ROSE, LP.

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into operation his infamous “Padlock Law.

The Tory Churchill, repudiated in the last elec-

itain, the United

tions ar-alliance of Br 2 :
, calls for a w he Soviet Union

States and the Domine poe £
in place of that unity of the big 2 L
Beebe basis for jesting peace. The Wiens pe
Three unity, if once carried through, can ea on
to World War III—the atomic War which man
rightly dreads as an unspeakable te ee
The King government, by using ibe aia
fo stir up hostility towards our Soviet Ally, 1
helping to undermine the Pp
What does end the barrage of prepesonss
aimed at convincing us that instead of the pea

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longed for, we must prepare for Wend Wee ee
Let there be no mistake aI Ute asc
owers of the Axis have been defected a ke tee
fF hting unity of Britain, America on he US Re
Big Business imperialism 1s rampant still,

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_Rose Repudiates Charges _

flood of anti-Soviet villification in
the daily press abortive attempts
have been made to link the labor
espionage
these attempts
have failed miserably. Arrest of
Rose is seen as a desperate at-
tempt to blacken the labor moye-
ment in the eve of great wage

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