Oppose German arms

24 CCF MP’s urged

TORONTO

The 24 CCF members of the House of Commons “can proudly represent the conscience
of Canada” by speaking out and voting against ratification of the London and Paris agree-
ments to restore German militarism, says Tim Buck, LPP national leader, in an open letter
addressed to M. J. Coldwell, CCF national leader.

The letter, signed by Buck for the national executive committee of the Labor-Progressive

party, reviews popular opposition
to German rearmament in West
Germany itself, Britain and France,
and states that CCF opposition to
ratification would “express the
highest national interests of our
country and the deep desire of
Canadians for peace.”

Full text of the letter’ follows:

We are writing to you on the eve
of a fateful session of the House of

Commons. When the session opens

on January 7 next, the ratification
of the Paris and London agree-
ments for the rearming of German
militarism will be placed before
the House by the St. Laurent gov-
ernment.

The 24 members of the CCF in
the House of Commons can proud-
ly represent the conscience of Can-
ada by speaking out and voting
against ratification.

To support the rearmament
of Germany would be to bring
the national security of Canada
into peril, to make a mockery
of the 100,000 Canadian dead in
two world wars and to place in-'
superable obstacles in the way
of the achievement of mutual
security by the European states.

The feelings of the West Ger-
man people on this matter are ex-

pressed clearly in the opposition

of the Social Democratic party, the
trade union federation and _ the
- Socialist youth to rearmament, as
well as in the strong opposition of
the Communist Party of Germany.

The vote in the British House
of Commons in favor of the Lon-
don and Paris Agreements was not
representative of British popular
feeling. As Labor Party members
said in the debate, a plebiscite in
Britain would be a vote against
German rearmament. This was re-
flected in the House of Commons
vote, when 357 MPs — 59 percent
of the total membership of the
House — abstained from voting.
Six MPs had the courage of their
convictions, and voted against
ratification ;

It is also true that in France,
popular forces which represent a
majority of the French nation, are
opposed to German rearmament.

- The fact that venal .cabinets
actually in the service of United
States imperialism, obtain mech-
anical ratification, does not mean
that the people of those countries

support it. The memory of the
horrors of Nazi crimes are too
fresh in their minds to accept Ad-
enauer and the German monopol-
ists, militarists and Nazi generals
as their new “allies.”

The purpose of the London
and Paris agreements is exactly
the same as the purpose for
which Hitler was built up, name-
ly, to make war against the so-
cialist section of the world —
this time as the tool of U.S. im-
perialism.

The ending of the war in Korea
and Indochina, the unanimous re-
solutions adopted in the United
Nations on world disarmament
and on the use of atomic energy
for peaceful purposes created
hopes among all peoples that the
disagreements which divide states

can be resolved through negotia-
tions. The agreement to revive
the Wehrmacht not only under-
mines this lessening of interna-
tional tension, but confronts ‘the
people with the fearful danger of
a new war.

Surely it is clear that the na-
tional security of Canada must rest

upon a demilitarized and demo-
cratic Germany, united through
genuine free elections as the Ger
man Democratic republic pro-
poses, and upon an end to the cold
war, brogressive disarmament, the
outlawing of weapons of mass de-
struction and the principle of
mutual security and non-interfer-
ence in the internal affairs of other
nations.

We urge you, Mr. Coldwell, to
oppose the plan to rearm Germany.
If the CCF members of parliament
will speak and vote against the
London and Paris Agreements, they
will express the highest national
interests of our country, and the
deep desire of Canadians for peace.

Needless to say, the Labor-Pro-
gressive party will support the
CCF in such a policy, and actively
work to arouse the maximum pub-
lic support for a CCF House vote
against the revival of German
militarism. While we differ on
many questions, on this matter
there is certainly such a vital meas-
ure of agreement that, it it is
virogously expressed, can unite
millions of Canadians, who are
deeply worried at the prospect of
another German army of aggres-
sion.

TIM BUCK

M,. J. COLDWELL

U.S. governor
lauds mass —
deportations

‘ LOS ANGELES

General Joseph M. Swing, U.S.
immigration service commissioner
who is knéwn by newsmen as “a
professional, longtime
hater,’ has been congratulated by
Governor Goodwin J, Knight of
California for carrying out the
mass raids and deportations of
Mexican Americans in the U.S.

Simultaneously, Attorney Gen-
eral Herbert J. Brownell praised
‘Swing’s handling of “probably the
greatest migration on this conti-
nent in modern years.”

Thousands of those deported
were Mexicans who were encour-
aged to go to the US. by anti-labor
employers and then found them-
selves harassed and persecuted.

Knight praised Swing for “your
excellent work.” This “work,” in
which agencies of state, county and
local governments participated, re-
_ Sulted in deportation of 96,777
, Mexican nationals in the California-

| Arizona and Texas areas. Another
: 45,953 were listed by Swing as re-
turning “voluntarily” and 10,917,
Swing said, were seized at road-
blocks while attempting to do so.

Knight, in his message, reported-
ly expressed “hope that you will
continue your drive in California
and elsewhere” and declared “we
are happy to have been of service

The case of Hazel Anna Wolf

U.S. seeks to deport Canadian-born woman

By WILF PARRY

; SEATTLE
‘ Hazel Anna Wolf was born just
two weeks—and 17 statute miles—
from American citizenship, in a
modest hotel room in Victoria,
B.C., in the year 1898.

Her parents, George and Nellie
Anderson, had left their Tacoma,
Wash., home just two weeks before.
Mrs. Anderson was disturbed that
her first-born would come into the
world in an impersonal hotel room
in an alien land.

A plain woman, limited in school-
ing, but with a deep sense of coun-

Yes, there were appeals — to
the very attorney general who
initiated the prosecution it was
“justice’’—Walter-McCarran style.

* x *

What has Leo Wolf been doing
all these years to earn the hostile
attention of the justice department?

She had her first trade union “ex-.
perience” at the age of six. Her
father, a seaman, had died of in-

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try, she thought fit to drape the
Stars and Stripes on the wall above
the hotel bedstead. A few hours
later, Hazel Anna was born.

The fact that Leo Wolf (she
won the nickname “Leo” in child
hood) was born literally under the
American flag, and just across the
Strait of Juan de Fuca from Port
Angeles, Wash., and of an Ameri-
can citizen mother, cuts no ice
with the U.S. Justice Department.

Immigration officials charged
with eniorcing the Walter-McCar-
ran Act care nothing for Mrs.
Wolf’s 22 useful, active years in
the U.S.; for the fact that her
family, friends, interests and work
in this country make it as much
her homeland as though she had
been born here.

For five years they have been
trying to deport Leo Wolf to Can-
ada.

At one point in that five-year
battle the courts branded immigra-
tion hearing procedures flagrantly
unfair. Deportation orders based
on such hearings (including Mrs.

‘Wolf’s) were ordered thrown out.

But in 1952 anti-labor congress-
men hatched the Walter-Mc-
Carran Act. It reinstated the
rigged hearings the courts had
said were unconstitutional.

New hearings were ordered.
Again shopworn professional in-
formers like Paul Crouch were
brought in. Their purchased testi-
mony was accepted on its face.
Immigration agents sat as prosecu-
tor, judge and jury. The deporta-
tion order against Mrs. Wolf was
automatic.
juries suffered aboard ship. That
left Leo’s mother with three small
children and no money.

Mrs. Anderson found work in an
overall factory and served as sec-
retary of the union built there by
the Industrial Workers of the

World. Leo skipped to union
meetings at her mother’s side,
while the younger children were
left with neighbors. ;

. Leo grew up “half Tomboy and
half bookwurm.” After school she
might be found haunting the pub-
lic library; or playing ice hockey
or basketball; or rowing with her
brother along the Victoria water-
front, making friefids with good-
natured tugboat captains.

At 14, after finishing grade
school and a short business course,
she took a job in a law office.
But a job was ‘something to get
away from for swimming or skat-
ing. She had a flair for athletics.

She ran the 100-yard dash ingd:
seconds flat, equalling the: women’s
world record.

As a swimmer she competed
against the best of her day, and
held a Pacific Coast title with a
60-foot “plunge for distance.”

At 20 she organized Victoria’s
first women’s basketball league,
bucking the bias of those days
against women in sports.

Mrs. Wolf and her daughter had
lived in Seattle 14 years before
she completed her formal educa-
tion with two years of sociology at
the University of Washington.

Drifting from one short-term of-
fice job to another, she found her
lack of schooling a bar to steady
employment. She took courses in
penmanship and spelling, earned a
high school diploma at night school.
She continued her hours at the
library, weighing the clashing con-
cepts of a hundred thinkers.

J * x * ‘

Tragic suffering and seven-league
social strides were linked in the
depression and New Deal days,
and Leo Wolf was close to both.
While employed by the Works
Progress Administration (WPA)
she led organizing drives that built

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unions for the teachers and office
workers in WPA projects, and for
the Negro and white companies in
the Federal Theatre ‘here.

When Congress barred non-citi-
zens from WPA, she lost her Fed-
eral Theatre job. At once her
voice was heard in behalf of the
jobless and hungry. Depending on
relief herself, she joined the Work-
ers Alliance and gave full time
without pay to fighting for relief
for others. 24

Mrs. Wolf enlisted as a civilian
in the war against Hitler fascism.

to Travelers Aid, helping home-
sick GIs and their distraught loved
ones solve problems of food, shel-
ter and reunion. t

An honor certificate signed by

Harry S. Truman salutes her
patriotism. and selfless citizen-
ship during the war.

The active years took their toll.
In 1945 she was hospitalized for
tuberculosis. Released two years
later, she again plunged’ into the
cause.

She helped raise funds that
smashed a perjury frameup against
John Caughlan, Seattle attorney,
in whose law office she works. She

ty of the Pension Union. And she
found the hours to help build the
Washington Committee for Pro-
tection of the Foreign Born.

The mammoth job of typing
the Smith Act trial transcript,
making an appeal possible, was
achieved under her direction at
a saving to the defendants and
their supporters estimated at
$30,000.

her persecution under the most

cause she has identified herself
since her childhood in Victoria.

Mexican-

She volunteered hundreds of hours —

hated law in the U.S. Repeal of
that law in 1955 is the best guaran- |
tee Leo Wolf will continue to serve
the working people with whose —

organized a local in her communi-

These are the deeds that led to—