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FINLAND: In the Bank of Finland,
British financiers have $5,000,000 and Am-
erican financiers $12,000,000, Since 1932
British bankers have bought $50,000,000
of Finnish government bonds. Since 1920
Finland has borrowed over $200,000,000
from the U.S., Great Britain and Sweden.
Perhaps that’s why big business, which
refused to aid the suffering millions who
“were victims of ruthless and violent ag-
gression in Ethiopia, China, Spain,
Austria, Czechoslovakia, is busying itself
to help “poor little Finland.”

In the period 1914 and 1915 the cost
of living rose 2 per cent; by 1918 it was
62 per cent higher and by 1920 it was
88 per cent above the level of 1914. Early
reports indicate 1940 will be a real
Leap Year for prices and profits,

TORONTO: After several months’ rest
in his beautiful English estate, the Right
Honorable Richard Bedford Bennett re-
turned to native shores for a brief stay.
In the Toronto newspapers of December
21 and 22, he was reported as suggesting
that conscription — called perhaps by a
sweeter name since it “is a nasty-sounding
word’—might “be necessary here.” His
words brought good cheer to those pow-
erful interests who have united to foist
conseription on Canadian youth,

PORT ALBERNI: The Great Central
operations of Bloedel, Stewart & Welch
went on half time this week as a tem-
Porary curtailment of production.

VICTORIA: Victoria Trades & Labor
Council will celebrate its 50th anni-
versary with a banquet to be held in the
Empress Hotel on March 28,

SYDNEY, Nova Scotia: Labor and
progressive forces were elated last week
over the election of Norman McKenzie,
president of the Steel Workers’ Union
here, to the City Council, despite vicious
red-baiting used to try and sidetrack the
main issues of taxation, civic progress.

SAN FRANCISCO: Waterfront gangs
received assignments from their Union
Hiring Halls last week to work ships
and start moving waterfront cargoes
which have piled up as a result of the
CIO Ship Clerks’ strike, which had tied
up the port since November 10 and
which was ended with a truce satis-
factory to the union men.

DETROIT: Wages shot skyward like

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January 24, 1940

FINNISH SITUATION
CLARIFIED BY MEET

The following resolution was adopted
unanimously by a Finnish meeting of over
500 held at the Croatian Educational
Home in Vancouver last Sunday, and is
being published at the request of the Fin-
nish Organization to correct and clarify
certain misrepresentations which have
been appearing in the daily press.

Whereas: Untrue and deliberately mis-
leading reports are being circulated re-
garding events in Finland and the atti-
tude of the Finnish people in Canada to
the present situation; and

Whereas: Under cover of such false-
hoods attempts are being made to justify
the legal suppression of the Finnish Or-
ganizations of Canada, and of the daily
Finnish newspaper, “Vapaus,’ published
in Sudbury, Ont, which would serve to
deprive the Finnish people in Canada
from a democratic expression of their
views regarding events in their own home-
land which by personal knowledge they
are well qualified to judge for them-
selves;

Therefore be it resolved: That this
meeting of 500 Vancouver citizens, vig-
orously protests against the false allega-
tions to the effect that members of the
Finnish community in Vancouver are by
their opinions and actions “degrading
their own country at this time,” and
against the subversive appeals for the sup-
pression of free speech and press made
at a meeting in Hasting Auditorium,
whose small attendance proved it entirely
unrepresentative; and

Be it further resolved: That this meet-
ing endorses the following statement to
be forwarded to all newspapers in Van-
couver for the information of their
readers:

1, The Finnish Organization of Canada
was founded in 1923 and chartered by the
Federal government. It is the largest and
oldest organization of citizens of Finnish
descent in Canada and its newspaper,
“Vapaus,” now a daily, has been pub-
lished continuously in Canada since 1917.

2, The Finnish Organization of Canada
is a cultural and educational body not
affiliated to any political party and open
to all of Finnish descent irrespective of
Political opinions, Its activities are de-
voted to helping its members become
worthy citizens of Canada whilst keeping
alive the cultural traditions of their home-
land, Most of its members are now Ca-
nadian citizens and are fully prepared to
share all the duties as well as the priv-
dleges of Canadian citizenship,

a thermometer in a blast furnace when
Local 389 of the Oil Workers’ Interna-
tional Union (CIO) signed a contract
with Penola, Inc, of this city. Pay
jumped as much as $30 a month, with
other increases running from 16 to 41
per cent, More raises are to be granted
six months hence under the terms of the
agreement.

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8. The members of the Finnish Organi-
zation always have and always will sup-
port the full right of self-determination
and independence for their own people
and homeland. This was their attitude
when Finland was a part of the Tsarist
Russian empire and when General Man-
nerheim was a general in the Russian
army, It was their attitude in 1917 and
1918 when General Mannerheim called in
German troops to mercilessly suppress
the representative government of the
Finnish people and it remains their at-
titude today,

4, We consider that the welfare and
best interests of the Finnish people can
only be served by a sincere policy of peace
and friendship between Finland and all
other countries, particularly all neighbor-
ing countries having common frontiers
(Sweden, Norway and the Soviet Union).

5. We deplore the fact that the Cajan-
der government of Finland in the course
of its negotiations with the government
of the Soviet Union, did not permit the
Finnish people to give expression to their
opinions and instead refused to make
public the Soviet proposals, closed down
newspapers and magazines that spoke
in favor of peace and friendship with the
Soviet Union and failed to call the Fin-
nish parliament into session to publicly
discuss and vote on matters so vital to the
people,

6. We consider that the Treaty of
Friendship now signed between the
U.S.S.R. and the new People's government
under Premier Kuusinen (who was min-
ister of education in the Finnish govern-
Ment of 1918 that was overthrown by
General Mannerheim with the help of
German troops) is in the best interests
of the peace, welfare and prosperity of
the Finnish people and is full proof that
Finnish independence is not threatened by
the Soviet Union,

1. We give full support to measures
of humanitarian relief for the population
of Finland and to alleviate the suffering
that the Finnish people are undergoing
through no fault of their own, and call
upon all to aid the fund which the Na-
tional Committee of the Finnish Organiza-
tion is raising for this purpose, We re-
fuse to endorse the appeals for sending
arms and volunteers to the Mannerheim
government, whose policies have led to
the present suffering of the Finnish peo-
ple and whose continued existence can
only prolong this suffering,

The principal speaker was Oscar Sa-
lonen and the chairman, F, Kivi, During
the evening one minute's silence was ob-
served to the memory of Sister Laura
Law, brutally murdered wife of I.W.A.
leader Dick Law of Aberdeen, Wash., who
was a member of a brother Finnish or-
ganization in that southern Washington
town, Also to the memory of Dr. Norman
Bethune, who lost his life recently while
serving suffering Chinese defenders of
democracy, During the evening the Fin-
nish mixed choir, conducted by Kerttu
Viitanen, sang Finlandia and a number
of other Finnish folk songs,

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