Fa executive of the Canadian Congress of Labor shas added another laurel to its union- splitting record. Taking their cue from the Mur- ray-Carey leadership of the CI@, the CCL bur- eaucrats have expelled from CCL affiliation the 25,000-strong United Electrical; Radio and Ma- chine Workers’ Union (UE). Press _ reports credit the CCL leadership with following up. this dastardly act by “throwing their weight’’ behind the new company union setup headed by “Carey ‘and designed by the recent CIO convention to split and disrupt the militant UE. Like a cheap trickster, seeking to hide the real facts from the workers, CCL’ President A. R. Mosher gives “non-payment of union dues” as _ the reason for UE’s suspension. But since UE. dues, as in other’ CCL-CIO affiliates, are paid through the CIO international office, and since the Murray-Carey heirarchy decided months ago to attempt the destruction of UE. and other left- wing militant CIO unions, Mosher’s “excuse” is obviously false. The real truth is that. the CCF- CCL: leadership, Mosher, Conroy, Millard, fol- lowing the ‘pattern set by the CIO wrecking crew, Halt the union wreckers all CCL unions. proved working conditions cannot be won by have decided to attempt the wanton destruction of all unions they cannot shackle to the reactionary - war policies pursued’ by Washingon and Ottawa. Hence the arbitrary and disgraceful suspension of UE by the CCL on the same flimsy pretexts which _ served for the expulsion. of Mine-Mill, and the threat of the axe for other militant unions who do not conform to the Murray-Mosher state de- partment diktats.. : The suspension of UE, from the ree coup- led’ with CCL top-level aid to Carey’s, company union set up with its destructive raiding and dis- ruption, must call forth an emphatic protest from The fight for wages and im- splitting: and disorganizing the organized. The trade union bureaucrats—they have never been noted for building unions—must not be permitted to destroy what has been built by others to serve the workers. The wage increases won by UE vad Mine-. Mill during the past five years were won through unity and struggle and not by raiding, disruption, or per capita cannibalism. on stink os HE latest anti-Soviet stink-bomb being manufac- tured by the Un-American Activities Committee oa the FBI promises to top all previous ettonts: & m smear technique. © The chief * SS idettatar® for this. inquisitorial - body. has discovered a U.S: air force major, a George : ~Racey Jordan, who now “‘recalls’” that three or more “plane loads of “vital atomic bomb materials” and ;Rargoes. of uranium were’ flown direct. ‘to Russia “under instructions of the late Harry Hopkins, confi- “dential assistant to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and former Vice-President Henry Walloce now leader 2 "of the Progressive party. Amid all the shillet aiiiae versions ‘of press and tadio on how. * ‘vital materials” were flown to Russia in lend-lease planes, guarded by “‘ferocious-looking, viet agents. armed with tommy-guns”’ , two facts emerge quite plainly. One, the tireless efforts of — ‘Yankee reaction in pursuit of its anti-Soviet war. - thysteria, to smear, slander and besmirch - the “New Deal” perioteel and the’ government of raat x ~ Ban on crime comics SA RESULT of strong, public pressure from Parent-Teacher Association bodies and other in- Boeied organizations and citizens, parliament has | "passed a bill prohibiting anyone from “‘publishing, printing, cireulating, or having in his possession for any such purpose” any “comic” crime or obscene books for sale in Canada. | While we are in full agreement with those who hold that the typical Yankee crime and sex kultur sontained in these miscalled comics is bad for young and old alike, we are not too sure that * “prohibition” will effect an overall cure. ty Whether the ‘ “Fulton Bill” as the new act may be known, will be helpful or not in eradicating this menace depends upon the Canadian people ee than upon the government for sane enforcement. The publishers of crime and obscene “comic” : magazines are big business, who, in the absence of | an alert and vigilant people, will be able to get around the “ban’’, just as the milling and baking trust got around the Combines Investigation Act in its price-fixing conspiracies against the people. ae ; It is hardly likely. that the big sex and crime magazine ‘monopolists will accept the “ban” as law- abiding citizens. “They know only one law—profits. “These the act endangers. It is therefore highly probate, with numerous Ipopholes in the act, t that a Roosevelt. In this latest un-American stink-bomb explosion, President Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Hen- ry Wallace and numerous other will be pilloried as Soviet “agents”. An example of this was provided in a particularly unscrupulous Washington dispatch given front page -prominence by the Vancouver News-Herald on/ December | 6. The ‘dispatch open- ed, ‘ "Henry Wallace, self-confessed Communist . . .”” An FBI “confession” , no doubt, carried = Can- adian newspapers as ‘‘news’’. ’ The other ,fact, of closer interest to Camara is ee new ‘discoveries’ of the. un-American witch- hunters knocks the last remaining Pron, clean from’ under Mackenzie King’s anti-Soviet espionage” _con- spiracy of 1946. Verily, “whom the Gods would Edeaioy. they first make mad’’, thus enabling the common people | to get a true picture of their measure. ~The. un- Americans have tossed a real dilly this time, pungent enough to satisfy even Dr. Goebbels, were: he. alive to enjoy the new techniques devised By. his ASDeriCR: pupils. — : ' \ thriving bootleg business in crime aad Bees suite tions will ensue. In fact it is a foregone conclusion — that the ““comic’’ 'crime-strip monopolists will connive _ all sorts of schemes to meet a well-established juvenile — demand—and in the process teach our young people to bootleg, as well as absorb ‘‘comic’’ poison. With parents solidly behind Parent-Teacher ane other organizations for eradication of this filthy liter- ature, the “Fulton bill” can be made to work. Without an alert interest of ‘Canadian fathers and mathe, it can pease merely another farce. aay Xx 5 : -Denazification N the French occupation zone of Gérmaily p many Jews are tS posteards | eebiga ns snes message? : AG you have pais the san: age, ce should report immediately to the State ‘Crematorium Portal No. 9, Furnace No. 36, Door No. 5, in order that your body may be burned. — You should _ | bring some firewood, coal, and a container for youn); ashes, which will be used in the | manufacture of ck soap. You should close all pores and openings in ° your body so that : your gases will not polton employ, ees of the crematorium.’ A crude joke? - Nee Nazi interpretation of Yankee of their patriotic duties in time of war. to provide asylum for a God-fearing sect of Doukhobors fro: Merely Us on “denazification”. fi TOM McEWEN As We See It NCE again the so-called “Doukhobor problem” has temporarily . — pushed the “cold war” off the front pages of the daily press in British Columbia. Dynamiting, arson, and other acts of violence aré ; being credited to a fanatical segment of our Doukhobor communities — in B.C, Police are refiiforced and the prisons increases. Doukhobor population in our acute. One school of “opinion” holds that deportation is the only solution. But where to...and how?. It is as yet (fortunately), not too easy to deport Canadians from Canada, : As a religious fraternity, the Doukhobors are a» ‘hard-working, eNO ay people. Wherever they have gone in their century-old trek in search of freedom to worship according to their faith, they have transformed a virtual wilder- — ness into a fertile productive land. “° That * virtue made the Doukhobors highly desir- able immigrants back in the nineties when Canada was rolling her last frontiers back and transforming her prairie provinces into a “granary for the world.” Intensely ‘pacifist, and thus opposed to war in all its forms, and seeking only an opportunity to live their own lives in accordance with the principles of their religious faith—dénied them under T absolutism and German militarism, the Doukhobor people entered Canada under certain basic guaran- ‘tees: (a) that they would not be called upon for military service or to serve the. gods of war in any way; (b) that they would be permitted to bring up their children in their own faith and customs (separate schools, etc.), and: (ce) oe they. sunt have ee full religious freedom, ee Under the need to settle an iudisttona ay 5 of immigrant upon na, the broad lands of Canada, the zovernment of the day readily apresd va these and other “concessions”, : Literally translated, the word Hots y means devil or spirit wrestler. As a religious sect, the Doukhobors hold that all man- made laws requiring the giving of “oaths” are contrary to their reli- gious faith. To the Doukhobors, man is responsible ohly to God. As a consequence the Doukhobors have donea good ‘deal of “wrestling” with the “moral” canons of “free SN ea ae where the question of “oaths” is at issue. Thus, when the first settlement of Doukhobors “proved up” their “homesteads in the Swan Lake area of Manitoba away back in 1893, Ro they ran into this “oath” difficulty. Under the old Homestead Act it was necessary for the homesteader to take an oath of allegiance © or citizenship before he could get his title deed. This the Doukhobor homesteaders refused to do, and from that day to this the “fat”, SO to speak, has been periodically “in the fire”. : Came World War I with its 1917 conscription and its crop of | professional “Colonel Blimps’” who, by their actions, violated every government guarantee in their blood-and-thunder “patriotism”, with _ which they sought to impress Doukhobor (and other communities) In Mennonite, Hutterite and Doukhobor communities the behavior of ‘these “recruiting” Blimps is something decent Canadians like to forget. Provocations led to thoughts of reprisals, and the thought, fester- — ing on the wrongs of broken promises, opened ‘the door for schism — in the Doukhobor sect. Added to the harassment (if. not the impos- — ition) of conscription, was the growing compulsion of “the authorities — to have Doukhobor children attend public schools in place of, or in addition to their own. Coincident with these growing problems ‘came inner dissention in the Sect, the challenging of the Veregin “saint- hood”, and the manifestation of a “split”, expressed in the origin oF a new Doukhobor group, the “Sons of Freedom”. Associated with this‘ group (rightly or wrongly) are’ periodic at very unsaintly outbreaks ‘of violence; dynamiting, bombing, the burn- — ing of bridges and schools, etc. Naturally “the law” is concerned a with effects rather than causation. Police rule takes over, numerous convictions are See then at is quiet—until the 1s nN oe ; ae The Canada that heard ane Teas of Count Tolstpi, “Gedtee: Bar nard Shaw, Kier Hardie and the young British Labor party in 1889-90 the cruel oppression of Tsarism, is different from our Canada of today. — _ And it is in this difference, which has given rise ro a Pav gnye t ve roblem’’, that the solution must be sought. | _ Time thas nullified the guarantees _ given by fae Canada of 1889. bee down at, the root of the ““Doukhobor problem” is the yearning to hold their children to the traditional faiths and customs which — ‘governed the Doukhobor sect in 1889 and before. And it cannot be done. Doukhobor young people have gone “modern” with the rest of us. Young,Doukhobor men and women have entered the profes- sions and made great contributions to Canadian culture and art. “Young Canadian Doukhobors fought in World War I and made no_ less a sacrifice than, Canadians of other origins. Young Doukhobors “have confounded, the lies of the wiseacres "who Say that they ER Doukhobors) cannot be “assimilated”. - The “patriarchal” concept dies hard... ‘in Doukhobor » commun- tien? as in other: groups. and peoples. A religious fanatic, seeing his young people being weaned away by a changing world | from his — ancestral concept of God, as, often as not turns to acts of blind _ violence to stay the process. A little governmental ‘common sense “Gf such a thing ‘can be imagined in our “free enterprise” system) ¥ _ applied through a younger generation would £0. a long wey towards solving the “Doukhobor probiem”.. Re far cn “Meantime the “Doukhobor > problem remains, “and: we of” the oe _ Canadian labor movement manifest. less interest in it than our British : “brothers. did in 1889. Like Pilate, we “wash our hands” of the affair é and ali it to the pre oe and their poles m BA oer a PBS LT TOME lv to ‘Sat bn : Published Weekly ‘ any ¢ WN eS SiEliN “i pg 3 at 650 a Street _ Sed Ae Uar Rey BY ee ‘TRIBUNE PUBLISHING fog als LID. Pel eet ; Telephone MA. 5288 a WEE Soe cals se ebeseececs a fi ‘Tom Mcrwen eae __, Subseription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, batRe Printed by Union ‘Printers Ltd., 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC. pee second | class bal Post ‘Oftice sca (Ottawa But it would seem there is no solution to this veX- ing problem, which each successive outbreak of violence renders more —