THEH B.C. LUMBER WORKER

NEWS and VIEWS

By EVAN LANE

While the British people welcomed joint Anglo-Soviet action in Iran

and are now applauding Churchill’s government’s
Air Force wing to fight on the Soviet front, clamor

second European front continues to

leave the working out of military plans to

sending of a Royal
for opening up of a

Public opinion is content to
the British and Soviet general

grow.

staffs, but it is not content to allow. considerations other than that of de-
feating and destroying Hitlerism to paralyze action at a time such action

can have a decisive influence on the

outcome of the present gigantic

conflict. The British workers, Striving to eliminate waste and inefficiency,
the bottlenecks created by profiteers, are stepping up production. But

they want action. «

During the past two months a power-
ful section of the British press has re-
flected the general demand for opening
up of a second front,

Thus the Sunday Express, one of Lord
Beaverbrook’s newspapers, wrote:

“At this critical moment ‘when Hitler
has been forced to concentrate his
whole striking force against Russia,
when he holds the occupied countries
mostly with second rate troops, when
there is ferment and unrest running
through all the conquered nations, no
British soldier is fighting anywhere ex-
cept along the short Lybian-Egyptian
frontier, Are you satisfied? At the mo-
ment when the opening of a second line
front would not only be of greatest re-
lief for Russia but might light a flame
that would set the continent ablaze, we
find ourselves forced to be almost spec-
tators of the war. What is the matter
with us?”

The Times, too, has spoken bluntly on
the urgent question of opening a second
front.

“What is significant is the increasing
urgency of throwing the full weight of
British power into the scale both by an
assault on Germany today and by intensi-
fied production for the campaigns of to-
morrow, seeing that for Russia, as for
ourselves, it is in the short run and not
in the long that the danger of defeat is
to be discerned,” it stated.

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The New Statesman and Nation’ ex-
pressed this same view in caustic verses
published in a recent issue. Entitled On-
ward Comparatively Christian Soldiers,
the verses read: ¢

Onward Christian soldiers, armed for
total war,

Crescent moon and sickle going on
before,

Strengthening defenses, girding for the
fight,

Westward help comes slowly, eastward
it is bright.

Onward Marxist armies, mainly infidel,
Smite the hordes of Wotan, ram the
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Onward hosts of Allah on the desert sand,
Paladin of Siva from India’s coral strand!

Onward Afric warriors marching in the
van,

Polytheists fighting as polytheists can!

Moslem, Sikh and Hindu bringing victory
near,

Onward Christian soldiers, bringing up
the rear!

Gather, piebald legions of every faith or
none

For the powers of darkness conquer one
‘by one.

Satan’s ranks will scatter, Wotan’s swarm
depart,

Chased by Christian soldiers, once they
make a. start,

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The Sunday Express refers to the
“flame that would set the continent
ablaze.” ‘The flames of revolt are already
licking at the Nazi rear, fanned by the
Red army's resolute defense. Opening
of a second front would ring the German
armies with fire. Not an issue of Pravda
goes to press without some report, such
as that quoted here, of guerrilla activities
in “conquered” territory.

“In recent months, German-Italian oc-

cupation forces have been able to ex-
tend their rule only by large towns and
to settlements along the major high-
ways, Every forest is an ambush and
every mountain pass a trap,” Pravda re-
ported on guerrilla activities in Yugo-
slavia,
“ “A conference of guerrilla leaders from
Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Hereze-
govina, Macedonia, Wojewdino and Mont-
enegro was held recently in the moun-
tains of Bosnia, The conference discussed
guerrilla activities in these districts, sum-
ming up the result of their first activities
as follows:

“In the past six weeks alone the guer-
rillas killed 12,000 fascist officers and
soldiers, blew up more than 200 bridges,
large and small, set fire to between
three and four hundred gasoline, am-
munition and provision depots and
wrecked seventeen trains,

“The fascists,” Pravda continued, “are
trying to drown the guerrilla moyement
in Blood. Afraid to keep arrested Serbs
in Yugoslavia, they have sent 10,000 Serbs
to German concentration camps in the
past two weeks. A few days ago the
Italian fascists shot 47 Slovene partisans
in Trieste and Lyublyani, while some 200
Croatian guerrilla fighters were executed
at Zagreb in August.

“Following an insurrection in Belgrade,
400 Serbs were executed in addition to
those killed in the actual fighting.
Hungarian authorities executed nine
Serb partisans at Bacaka and the Ger-
mans shot 150 more in Banat. -

“The German fascists cannot depend
on their Italian, Hungarian and Bul-
garian forces and have been compelled
to send a special army of 80,000 to sup-
press the Yugoslav people. But the Yugo-
slav people cannot be suppressed.”

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VICTORIA MILLS
SEEK INCREASE

At a meeting of the employees of
Lemon Gonnason’s mill in Victoria,
under the auspices of Local 1-118, on
August 27, a committee was elected to
negotiate with the management for an
agreement calling for fifty-five cents
(55) per hour basic wage rate with an
additional fifty cents ($50) per day
inerease for all classifications,

The Company when asked to meet
the committee at first ignored the cor-
respondence, then sent a carbon copy
of a letter which had been forwarded to
the Department of Labor to the commit-
tee stating that they would meet some
employees, but not the elected commit-
tee. A notice was posted at the mill
stating that a slight wage increase would
be granted, falling far short of the
seale included in the proposed agree-
ment and also stating this increase was
subject to be withdrawn when the com-
pany saw fit. A further notice was
nor‘ad by the company stating that
they would meet the representatives of
their employees in accordance with the
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration
Act. This at present {s being taken by
the committee, i

The Lemon Gonnason mill is a good
example of what organization can do
when sufficient pressure is brought to
bear. However, this is only the beginning,

IWA Sash and Door |
Local Is Growing

Activities of IWA Local 1-217
been increasing during the last
weeks, especially in the sash and |
plants, where the local has been co
trating on an organizational drive.

companies, where employees are very
hopeful of obtaining a union shop.

Log Prices

Hemlock: $10 - $13,
Cedar: Shingle, $10; Lumber, $19 - $25,
Yellow Fir: $13, $22, $26, $28,

Fort William Court
Fines Strike Pickets

FORT WILLIAM—Convictions were
entered by Magistrate C. D. Lemay last
week, against all forty-three men, who,
while acting as pickets, were arrested
for “besetting the premises” of the
Great Lakes Lumber company sawmill
here. The strike itself was settled Te
cently with minor concessions to the
men,

‘The magistrate fined each of the ac-
cused $5, and-they jointly were ordered
to pay the costs of the court.

With the support of the workers in all
the mills in the Victoria area the work-
ers at Lemon Gonnason’s are confident
of a signed agreement and final victory.

“The Socialistic Monkey”

There was once a monkey island
Where the monkeys lived with ease,

For they used to feed their “tummies”
With the nuts from off the trees.

There were nuts for every monkey,
‘Nuts and nuts and nuts galore.
They, just climbed the trees and picked
them
When they wanted any more.

But one cunning, scheming monkey,
Lazy! Work he did detest !

Decided that to climb the trees
Disturbed his sleep and rest.

So he got a monkey genius
‘A long pole to invent,

With a hook upon the end of it—
For picking nuts ‘twas meant.

Now he told the other monkeys,
That he'd rent them his machine;
For every nut they picked themselves

‘They must bring one for him.

The monkeys saw this saved a climb
Of trees so high and tall.

They thought it quite a good idea;
From trees they would not fall.

Well! They rented the nut-picker
From the monkey tired but wise,

And so the job of gathering nuts
Became commercialized,

The trusting little monkeys now
Came solely to depend

On this machine for picking nuts—
It saved them work no end.

The capitalistic monkey's pile
Of nuts grew mountains high.

He manufactured more machines ‘
Ere many moons went by.

And very soon he had stored up
So many nuts that he

Decided that to gather more
Would very foolish be.

So he told the other monkeys,
‘When for nut-pickers they went,

That he had sufficient nuts and
His machines were not for rent.

The monkéys now became alarmed.
Their climbing tricks they'd lost.
Their dependence on the nut-picker,

Was bought at bitter cost.

Too many nuts they’d gathered for
‘The boss monkey's possession,
And instead of having nuts to eat

The hungry monkeys sat and gazed

At nuts they once enjoyed.
Instead of busy cracking shells
‘They now were unemployed.

For milk from nuts their babies cried,

Dad Monk fed mother fleas

And wondered why they starved to death,
‘While nuts still grew on trees.

A sanctimonious, priestly monk
Would point up to the sky
And say, “You'll all get coconuts

In heaven when you die.”

The affluential fonkey’s wife
Tag-days originated

To help to feed the unemployed,
And several nuts donated.

Good coconuts were just around
‘The corner, they were told,

All turnings they explored for them,
But of none could they get hold.

One shabby, little toil-worn monk,
Chockful of resolution,

Decided that the way to nuts
‘Was through a revolution.

So he lectured from a soap-box
And a protest march he led.

Some starving monkeys carried signs,
“We want more nuts !” they read,

‘They marched right to the monkey boss.
And told him plump and plain,

That they’d had enough starvation
And were going to eat again,

The wealthy monk said “Bolsheviks !”
His lady called them Reds

And spoke of agitators
Putting notions in their heads,

But the monkey boss—scared—noticed
that
Their air was resolute,
So he handed out the nut-pickers,
And all his nuts to boot.

‘The monkeys soon decided then
That no more should there be

‘The ownership for private gain,
Of a necessity,

The pickers now are used by all
For all the monkeys’ use,

And no one monkey hoards away

A store of nuts profuse.

And so 'tis sald that human beings
May follow soon the lead

Of monkeys, and use tools for use,
And not for personal greed. i

They'd brought on a depression,

An agreement has been prepared and—
will be presented Friday to one of the

Fir: $13.50 - $18.50. Peelers: $26 - $33,