poy
Ha
fe

ly,

AGG),

iyi

Price Five Cents

Legion heads protest

AR C

Outraged by the King-St. Laur-
ent government’s scandalous , de-
cision to protect four pro-Nazi
French collaborators who fled to
Canada to escape punishment for
their war crimes, branches of the
Canadian Legion: are leading the
barrage of protest being directed
at the cabinet.

This week a meeting of 32
members of the B.C. Command,
Canadian Legion, representing 40,-
000 veterans in this province,
unanimously demanded that the
government investigate charges
that the men are war criminals

@ This is Count Jacques Duge de
Bernonville, alias Jacques Benoit,
secretary and bodyguard to Mar-
shall Petain during the Vichy re-
gime, who is free on $5,000 bail in
Montreal while he fights deportation
proceedings instituted because he
entered Canada. as did other Nazi
collaborators, on a false passport.

VT SCANDAL BARED
RIMINALS AIDE

already tried and sentenced by
French courts and, if the charges
are substantiated, deport them to
France.

The B.C. Command, acting on
protests forwarded by Legion
branches,-is also pressing, its do-
minion officers to take “vigorous
action.”

Seldom has any action taken by
this government, even with its
long anti-popular record, met with
such widespread condemnation.
The ugly revelation that the gov-
ernment. is catering to: powerful
anti-democratic influences in Que-
bec and that Acting Prime Minis-
ter St. Laurent himself intereeded
to protect the four Vichyites after
consultation with Senator Jean-
Marie Dessureault, his political
organizer in Quebec, has drawn
angry protest from the CCF and
LPP, veterans, women’s, tabor
and farm organizations.

in nine lo

workers in a 1a-
faced with failure
ompany-collaborat-
IWA international
ye organizing goon
disrupt or-
oodworkers’

_ _ Already repudiated by
lovity of operations and
°t their plot to create a C
‘ng woodworkers’ union,
Organizers, are reported to!
Squads in a desperate attempt to
Sanization of the say scaecreaie W
ndustrial Union of Caneda. ane
At ramen cis Woodworkers tee?
Rational convention in Portland last Be
leaders of Columbia River IWA Ora ee
for volunteers “to take a trip UP eMeKe coe
Subsequently a meeting was held esi
these volunteers and delegates sia nal
‘estminster Jocal, which TWA pokatt areas
resident James E. Fadling's aces dis-
3.C. have long used as a base for thel
"uptive activities.
_ The move was interpreted a
ng the importation of goon squa

s foreshadow-
ds from the

WIUC instals charters

cal unions

U.S. to disrupt and wreck meetings of B.C.
woodworkers, recalling the TWA international
convention at Vancouver in 1944 when several
Columbia River delegates came armed with

blackjacks and knuckle-dusters.

Reports from logging camps and saw-

mills fully substantiate charges made by the
B.C. district council when it disaffiliated from

(Continued on back page)

SEE WIUC

@® No more than a change of name is involved
here as Fraser Wilson, Vancouver artist with a
long trade, union record, replaces the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of America with the Wood-
workers Industrial Union of Canada on this of-
fice door, The men who buiit the union, the fight-
ing policies on which they built it, the bulk of
the men wha made it the proud labor organiz-
ation it is, remain unchanged.

“These criminals are morally
responsible for the murder of
Canadian and Allied soldiers at the
hands of the Nazis during the
war,” declared Gui Caron, LPP
leader in Quebec, this week. “In
the name of every veteran and of
the families of those who died on
French soil, che Labor-Progressive
Party demands that these collab-
orators of the Nazi hangmen im-
mediately be deported from Can-
ada and handed to Frenth justice.”

While the overwhelming major-
ity of the people, through their
organizations, are branding the
government’s decision to allow

‘the collaborators to remain in

Canada “an insult to our war
dead,” influential church and gov-
ernment figures in Quebec, some
of them noitcrious for their’ pro-
(Continued on back page)

SEE SCANDAL