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Pitts ALMA USL “yr / 48 Price Five Cents 3,19 Film banned because | ! ‘Nazis seen at Worst’ | pitvark for peace uver jaudiences as they are recorded in the Soviet “the Nazis at their worst.” ‘This is the anti- November 7, 1948, sees the rage and e BC. board of censors in handing down a ie which was to have been shown at the State fear of the lords of “western” finance The horrors of the Nazi regime, t their lives, should not be seen by a Vanco film, Diary of Nazi, because they depict democratic line of reasoning followed by th written ruling banning the Artkino production, Theater here this week. “T have rejected this picture because it is a cruel, sadistic picture, depicting the Nazis and industry reach un prec edented China policy bankrupt Even while the daily press is hailing President Truman’s re-election — under the bi- partisan policy, it would liave placed a similar interpreta- tion on Governor Dewey’s election — as ensuring con- tinuation of the Mlarshall Plan, the inherent bankrupt- cy of American policy in sup- porting fascist and reaction- Continued on back page See CHINA Solidarity with miners Canadian miners are being call with striking French miners by goes to France. Here are some ~ ES 28 Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, November at ‘their worst. On the other hand, it depicts the Russians in an altogether different form, and its general use today would be purely Russian propaganda giv- ing the greatest comfort and encouragement to Communist or- ganizations,” J. B. Hughes, chief motion picture censor for the province, ruled, e A similar attitude was taken by M. Leo Sweeney and Mrs, T. Bingham | appeal board members, to whom Mervin Marks, of Coast Films, carried an appeal against the ban. d The picture, opined Sweeney, was ‘needlessly brutal.” His comment on a film which is drawn from the actual war diaries kept by SS leaders, mem- . bers of the Gestapo and army ed upon to show their solidarity ensuring that no Canadian coal of the victims of the Moroccan troops ordered into action against the miners by the French government because they struck for $70 a month. ee MARK SOVIET ANNIVERSARY | Ryerson to address peace rally Alberni, Courtenay, Mission, Kelowna, Cranbrook, Stanley Ryerson, national or- ganizer of the Labor-Progres- ~ sive Party, will speak at a peace. rally in the city this coming Sunday, November 7, when sup- porters of the labor and pro- gressive movement in Vancou- ver gather to murk the 31st an- niversary of the founding of the Socialist Soviet Union. Ryerson, whose two historical books, “1937—Birth of Canadian Memocracy” and “French Can- ada” have earned him national stature as one of Canada’s fore- most writers, will speak under . the title, “Not a Man for Wall Street’s War.” His chairman will be Maurice .E. Dewey, the alternative to Truman proposed by a powerful section of American big busi- USSR is veople’s ° officers recalled for the labor ‘ a ——o 4 ; movement the fact that he was heights—for the Union of Soviet Social- publicly denounced in 1938 for ee his speeches praising Hitler and ist Republics stands more invincible the Nazi regime. Continued on back page Continued on back page See FILM BAN See PEACE ISSUE Democratic sweep ends Truman alibis | _ Harry S. Truman kas been elected president of the United States to fill fer anether four years the office to which he succeeded on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death in 1945. To that extent, his victory is also a victory for the giant monopoly and banking interests who fashioned the strategy of kis Truman Doctrine and eyolved the Marshall Plan as its tactical counterpart. — fe But the 20,000,000 Democratic voters who refused to be stampeded into voting for Thomas ness, rejected the Republicans’ bid for a majority of Senate and House seats because they were opposed to the anti-popular record of the Republican-dominated Congress. To that extent, the calculations of the American warmongers received a setback- , Repudiating the openly Fi : reactionary Republican at- irst qd 0 AY worn titude on such vital issues. ; as price and rent controls, housing and labor legisla- : | 2 ~ ¢ tion, the majority of the iy Um er Crisis people turned to the Dem- : ocratic Party as, the “less- er oe ee with Demo- , Several crews of laid-off faliers are on the skid- ee ie Oe dae ue _ road—evidence that production is beginning to exceed : demand as the Marshall-Abbott noose tightens about have no alibis for evadin ar “os - hic blection gledees! 8g British Columbia’s woodworking industry. In the’ cities, organized Hiding behind a shrinking IWA, a number of oper- labor turned out millions ~ ators are already striving for further speedup, divisive strong to vote out of office ere . aes : Sueribers ape abe eh otorGus discrimination, blacklist and layoffs—opening guns in a Gna pisaean Se hiscitee drive to safeguard profits by taking the crisis out of | the hides of the logger and millworker. Continued on back page See ELECTION Answer of the woodworkers is seen in the fact that the five-weeks’ old Woodworkers’ Industrial Union of Canada now has the following functioning locals: Van- couver loggers (covering mainland and north coast), Vancouver sawmiils, Victoria, Cowichan, Nanaimo, Port Prince George and Terrace. Rush, LPP provincial organizer, who has been accompanying him on a tour of Vancouver Island during the past week, ~ The Vancouver meeting will The union is now moving to consolidate its posi- tion on the point of production through a job stewards’ movement the bulk of which has remained notact. Ac- cording to WIUC president Harcld Pritchett the main be held in the Hastings-Odeon aims here are to counter the boss-IWA offensive, sign Theater, cpening at 8 p.m. with : . a concert program arranged by . Continued on back page the Ryerson Club. See WOODWORKERS