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Hundreds of millions of working people the world over grieved at the death last weekend of
Bulgarian Premier Georgi Dimitrov. Tim Buck, national’ leader of the Labor-Progressive Party,
Wired the central committee of the Communist Party of Bulgaria: “Accept our deepest comradely sym-
pathy at the death of the mighty and heroic world leader of our cause, Georgi Dimitrov. We shall
regard as our sacred obligation the teaching of the lessons of his life to the generation now facing the
people’s democracy. “We bow our heads in memory of an inspiring

Dimitrov, secretary from 1935
tll its dissolution in 1943 of the
Communist International, died
July 2 at a sanatorium near Mos-
©0w from a diabetic complaint

that had long plagued him. He
Was’ §7, '

His body lay in state in Mos-
Cow's Hall of Columns, with the
Suard of honor joined by Premier
Stalin and other leading Commun-
ists in the Soviet Union. A host
of citizens came to pay tribute
8nd to follow the bier to the train
Which bore him to Sofia, capital
(Sf his native Bulgaria, where a
Special tomb will be built. -

Dimitrov gained world fame
When he inflicted their first de-
feat upon the Nazis in thé Reich-
A a fire frame-up trial, and
 “Usht working people how to

defy fascism. :

He went on to expound, on be-
hale of the world Communist
Movement, the strategy and tac-
Hes that led to the defeat of the

821 axis, and on the basis of

NGS tallying for the final defeat
Rh imperialism and wat.

Tn his report to the historic 5th
fy Wora Congress of the Communist
ternational] in 1935. Dimitrov
‘Said Millions of workers were ask
vad the question, “How can fas-
*m be prevented from coming to
‘ a €r, how can fascism be over-
_ “wn where it hag been Vvictori-
Sus?
“To this, he said, “the Com-
ale International replies:
he first thing that must be
Tone, the thing with which to
qommence, is to form a united
ee to establish unity of ac-
s -Of the workers in every
or in every district, in
_,» region, in every country,
as the world. Unity of ac-
tio of the proletariat on a na-
Re ee and international scale is
a ‘Mighty weapon which ren-
+a the working class capable
‘ only of successful defense
But also of successful counter-
“*SHensive against the class en-
emy.”

a : a
Ditters ited front policies were

ly fought by right-wing so-
the Gemocratic leaders, openin
. doors for Hitler’s war. B®
Says Were a weighty factor in
“Seve NS onset of that war ee
otane years, and in the forging
ia © world-wide liberation Et
a triumphed in the people’s
an. Based on the united front
iat People’s front, anti-imperial-

|, S0vernments are building S0-
Dee in the new democracies.
ty ye himself became premier
na. 8 Bative land where he had
towly escaped jdeath at the

Bah,
a ieior reaction in 1923.

ieee: “new hundreds of mil-
x . have learned from the bitter

Past bloody experiences of the
te, 25 years the truth of Dimi-
Shien, Words, and are rapidly
aly Sthening the united front in

lands as the instrument for

Steat struggles for lasting peace and
Semlus of the world’s working class.”

Which the peoples of the world |

beh

Dimitrov death

UN PUBLISHES FIGURES

“Marshallized

world economic report showing

countries,

equalling 100):

COUNTRY
Austria

Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada

Ghiles.. sack see + epee tas tay
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Finland
France

Britain
United States
USSR

New Democracies outstrip

._The United Nations this week published figures in its 1948

New Democracies of Europe had increased their industrial pro-
duction more -in the past year than did the Marshall plan

UN’s report printed the following index (with 1987 output

The UN report also warned that a business recession ap-
peared to°be beginning in the United States.

i 2
countries
LAKE SUCCESS.

that the Soviet Union and the

1947 1948 GAIN
AEDs 78 27
86 93 7

148 179 31

162 169 7

136 143 7
83 98 15

116 129 18

119 137 18
85 99 4
66 70 4
85 89 4
25 33 8
91 110 19

115 125 10

109 144 32

139 144 5
98 110 12

165 170 5
135 171 36

HARRY BINDER

“Arcand was the unofficial can-
didate of the Drew-Houde-Du-
plessis ferces in Richelieu-Ver-
cheres constituency. . . . What
is significant is that he was
able, on an open fascist pro-
gram, to get over 5,000 votes,”

Voters defeated
Anthony Hlynka

—EDMONTON.

One of the few positive accomp-
lishmenis. of the recent federal
elections from which the working
people, particularly of Alberta, can
derive satisfaction was the defeat
of Anthony Hlynka, Social Credit
MP who has filled pages of Han-
sard with his anti-Semitic, pro-
fascist diatribes.

Hiynka was pusted from his
Vegreville seat by: the lineup of
progressive. voters behind J. De-
core, the Liberal candidate, who
won with a majority of 1,198 votes.
Neither the LPP nor the CCF en-
tered candidates in the constitu-
ency.

Labor-Progressive leaders here
termed Hlynka’s defeat “a victory
for the united democratic forces
in -Végreville.” t RSE:

been marked by a working. class
conducted by Duplessis’ police in

The agreement, as announced
by Gerard Picard, president of the
Canadian Catholic Federation of
Labor, provides for an increase of
10 cents an hour to bring thie
basic -hously rate- to 95 cents;)
seniority rights; re-employment of
all strikers without discrimina-
tion (except those ectavicted by
the courts); and four holidays
with pay a year ‘

Announcement was |
with cheers and parades of over
2,000 strikers. ‘Settlement had pre-
viously been won for 2,500 em-
ployees of four smaller companies.

Abbe Louis Philippe Camir-
and, chaplain of the syndicate,
led in celebrating mass for the
strikers, and at night there
was dancing in the streets. :

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greeted

and changes in working condi-
tions, Johns-Manville settlement
had been delayed over company
attempts to blacklist strikers. In
May a small army of oe res
police unleashed a reign of brutal
terror when strikers M ot ae
: by a m
born erie tervoriam: anes
when strikers answered by. g

; rt time in

e town for a sho:
Sree et ateatlon of militancy that
x a) support for their

won nation parricades were with-

Wi: :
Pats lasting peace.

cause. After

The men had struck for 15 cents |_

Workers dance in streets
of Asbestos over victory

__ASBESTOS. |

At 1:30 am. on Dominion Day settlement was announced of the Asbestos Syndicate strike against
the labor-hating Johns-Manville Company, bringing to a successful climax a 20-week walkout which has

militancy seldom equalled in this prevince. and the campaign of terror

attempts to smash the strike.

drawn, police rounded up‘ 150
strikers, who were subjected te
unprecedented victimization in

these have now been released.
It is reported that the company
is already seeking means of un-

jails and courts. All but ten of 'dermining the agreement.

Marine workers firm in
stand for wage increase

This week 700 members of Local 101, Marine Workers and
Boilermakers Industrial Union (CCL), met in Pender Auditorium
here to consider union leaders’ reports on current negotiations with

three shipyards and 14 boatyards.

The meeting, largest held in
the past five years, decided un-
animously to stand firm on un-
ion demands for wage increases
and paid statutory holidays,
and denounced fabricated news-
paper reports predicting screen-
ing of workers to bar Reds”
on future jobs.

“Anyone who opposes the poli-
cies of big business today is la-
belled .a ‘Red’,” commented Bill!
Stewart, union secretary-treas-
urer. “We intend to maintain our
trade union gains, and defend
seniority rights of members.”

President W. White referred to
newspaper reports this week on
soaring living costs. ;

“Canada’s cost of living zoom-
ed to an all-time high this
month,” he said. “Workers are
hit hardest by the increases, be-
cause the main price jumps
were in articles of food.”

SIU tries sellout

of cannery workers
—SEATTLE.

Real intent of the union-wreck-
ing program fostered by Alaska
Salmon Industry, Inc., with the
help of Lundeéberg’s AFL seafar-
ers’ International Union, was dis-
closed last week when they hatch-
ed a program to cut present wages
by 50 percent and eliminate more
than 1,000 jobs in the salmon can-
ning industry.

Under the contract held by CIO
Cannery Workers Local 7, work-
ers shipped to Alaska for cannery
work in this $60 million opera-
tion receive a two-month wage
guarantee. The SIU plan would
cut this in half.

Vote proved
Tory backing
for Arcand

—MONTREAL.

“Adrien Arcand, leader of the
fascist National Unity party, re-
ceived some 5,200 vetes as a can-
didate in Richelieu-Verchers fed-
eral riding. “Ponder this well,”
said. Harry Binder, LPP organizer
in Montreal ‘and candidate for
Cartier in last month's federal
election, in a statement to the
Pacific Tribune, “Over 5,000 votes
were cast for the exponent of
open and naked fascism, running
on a platform of anti-Communism.
and anti-Semitism.

“There is a serious danger to
progress in these figures and what
they represent,” continued Binder.
“They show that already some sec-
tions of big business in Canada’
are beginning to support open
advocates of fascist dictatorship.
How did Arcand get such a vote?
Where does his support come
from? The answers to these ques-
tions show the need for sounding
the alarm across the land.

“Areand was the unofficial
candidate of the Drew-Houde-
Duplessis forces in the constit-
uency. The official Tory candi-
date received some 400 votes.
The Union- National forces of
Duplessis worked and campaignu-
ed for Arcand.

“The situation. there was - simi-
lar to that in Papineau, where
Houde himself ran. There was an
official Tory candidate who ran
@ token campaign. But the Drew-
Duplesis machine worked, for
Hotde. ; :

“It was the same in Richelieu-—
Vercheres. The Tery candidate
who ran against Areand was a
token candidate. The real cam-
paign of the Tories was waged to
elect Arcand.

“What is significant is not the
fact that Arcand was defeated,
but that he was able on an open
fascist program to get over
5,000 votes.

“Only the Labor-Progressive par-
ty raised this question during the
course. of the election campaign.
The LPP pointed out the growing
danger of fascism, and showed
that the capitalist parties are not
only tolerating the development

Fof the fascist party, but are .ae-

tually encouraging its growth.

“The open alliance of the
Tories with Arcand, the “tolera-
tion” of his campaigning by the
Liberals, the careful avoidance
by the CCF of even mentioning
the candidature of Arcand, prove
this contention.

“The results of the elections
re-emphasized the growing danger
of fascism in Canada.

“The labor and _ progressive
movement must draw ‘the neces-
sary conclusions from this fact.
The LPP in particular must help
to awaken the people to the dan-
ger which threatens, and combat
any tendencies to ‘pooh-pooh’ the
Arcands. They are already a men-
ace; they must be fought now
without delay.

“The facts themselves will make
every labor man, every progres-
sive man or woman stop and
think. We must. galvanize them
into action to force the govern-
ment to ban fascism, to strangle
‘the fascist party before its poison
spreads.” id

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 8, 1949 — PAGE 7