GUIDE TO GOOD READING

Gallacher continues
story of British labor

Th ‘8t, The Rolling of the
Bie aor Is exciting reading.
iG. ae history than autobiography,
a, Ook is nevertheless a re-
cc ing self-portrait of the
“ath Working-class leader
ane pie 1935, has been a Com-
St member of tt

haem of the House of

Gallacher provides a keen

‘a Fxist study, by one who was

¢
Aanai economic conflict in the
ties In of the twenties and thir-

ee _hard-hitting prose,
ae Munist leader deals with
a and events as the
ish cite Congress of the Commun-
waar ernational of 1920, which
wie hoe in Moscow, and at
ing Seg met Lenin; the found-
Britian early problems of the
ig Communist movement;
abe Saeed movement; the
era; ee rive of the MacDonald
trimped. arrest and jailing, on
e. -up charges, of 12 Com-
hee leaders, including Galla-
and lots more.

S ‘ * * *
we a THE North Atlantic
zen ig igs to the average citi-
&ssica Old in lively fashion by
America Smith, editor of the
nN monthly magazine So-

Canadian Ukrainian
Plenic on July 3

to. peatations have been made
annua). le a big crowd at the
Soreq provincial picnic spon-
Krainien Association of United
lang (yy Canadians at Lulu Is-
thig gq, Pe and Second Road)
Seve wey? July 8.

all ie pretty contestants from
compete = of the province will
Chosen Jor the honor of being
Pr Picnic queen. A sports
both features contests for
Visiton Re and old. Hungry
Ui. Will be fed succulent
Man dishes.

Clal_ busses will run from
C hall, 801 East Pender
P.m., throughout the af-

Spe

the front lines, of the politi--

viet Russia Today, in a 48-page
pamphlet called Jungle Law or
Human Reason?

The pact divides the world for
war instead of uniting it for
peace, says the author. It is mot-
ivated by a myth—the myth of
threatened Soviet aggression.
But the USSR, as the record
shows, has committed no aggres-
sive acts and will
bark on any aggressive war.

Outlining the world-wide op-
position to the pact, Jessica
Smith observes that “the reser-
voir of friendship which Wendell
Willkie once urged this country
to cherish and replenish has been
drained away; in its place we
have poured a brew of suspicion,
fear and hatred, to which the
deadly poison of the North At-
lantic pact is now being added.”

All reliable observers agree
that the rate of restoration and
new building in the Eastern
European democracies has far
outstripped that of the Marshall
plan countries, whose economics
and hence political policies are
in bondage to the United States,
which has held back their indus-
trial development to create mar-
kets for its own goods.

The forces fighting for peace
can triumph over the forces
driving towards war, says Jessi-
ca Smith. “No matter what other
issues may divide them, millions.
of Americans are finding a com-
mon language in the search and
the struggle for peace . . . mil-
lions of workers who listened to
Wallace and voted for..Truman
when he gave lip-service to the
issues Wallace had clarified for
them are now turning out in the
big demonstrations \and mass
meetings for peace throughout
the United States.”

Article 14 of the Atlantic pact
provides that the treaty be de-
posited in the archives of the
United States of America. “Let’s
see that it’s buried there!” is
Jessica Smith’s comment.

The pamphlet sells for 15
cents and can be obtained” at
the People’s Cooperative Book-
store.

men er ) at—

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Permanent buildings for UN

Here five members of an AFL building trades union eat lunch atop a newl
“ erected structure
that will be part of the United Nations’ permanent buildings near mee York’s East River.

YOUTH FESTIVAL

Canadian art
to be shown

HEADED BY a group of mu-
cians, a delegation of 25 young

Canadian men and women will
sail for Eurepe on July 23 to at-
tend a world festival of youth
and students at Budapest, Hun-
gary, beginning August 14.
Following the festival, many
of the group will attend the
World Youth Congress, also
meeting in Budapest. Norman
Penner, secretary of the National

Federation of Labor Youth, will
speak at the congress on the
activities of Canadian young
people in the fight for peace.
Other delegates include Clarke,
of the United Rubber Workers;
Gilles Michele of the, Fur Work-
ers; Camille Dionne, French Ca-
nadian student; and representa-
tives of the Student Christian
movement.

At the youth and student fes-
tival,’ the group of Canadian
musicians will present a _ two-
hour program of orchestral folk
musie and dancing. Among per-
formers in this group are John
Moscow, director of the Associa-
tion of United Ukrainian Cana-
dians’ Orchestra and member of
the Toronto Symphony; Robert
Spergel of the Toronto Sym-
phony; Ann Belay, violinist; So-
phie Romanko, outstanding Can-
adian Ukrainian soprano; Wal-
ter Balay, dancer.

An exhibition of art and the
activities of the progressive
Canadian youth movement will

be presented at the festi'val,
including the cartoons of “Der”
of the Canadian Seamen’s Un-
jon; “Avrom,” popular) Jabor
artist; and Bruce Milne, whose
poster for peace won a Unit-
ed Nation’s prize. Graphic pic-
tures portraying the struggles
of the asbestos workers and
seamen will be presented.

Plan Valley event

A POPULAR annual event
which in the past few years has
drawn an increasing number of
people from all parts of the
lower mainland, the Fraser Val-
ley labor picnic, will be held
this year on August 19 \at Fleet-
wood Park in Surrey.

The organizing committee,
representative of New Westmin-
ster, Surrey, Langley and Dewd-
ney, is now working out its
plans for several novel features
with which it hopes to draw a
record attendance.

HEAD FOUR BIG UNIONS

Half Soviet unionists women

MOSCOW.

WOMEN COMPRISE almost half the Soviet Union’s total
labor union membership of 28,500,000, according to figures is-
sued at the 10th Soviet Labor Congress, 39 percent of the del-
egates to which were women. All women workers in the coun-
try enjoy equal job and union rights with men in the USSR,
with equal pay for equal work legally established on pain of
criminal prosecution of violators.

Women presidents head the Soviet Textile Workers’ Union,
Garment and Knitting Workers’ Union, Teachers’ Union and
Medical Workers’ Union. Of the national officers of the 67
Soviet industrial unions, 36.5 percent are women. The total
number of women serving on local and factory union commit-
tees throughout the country exceeds 410,000.

1M
W LT.
ou

| HAVE BEEN ON THE

PICKET LINE

AROUND THE

DAILY PROVINCE

FOR 36 MONTHS

“Until I was forced on the picket line by the Southam
Co. in June, 1946. I had worked in the composing room of

the Daily Province for 19 years.

“I contributed my fair share to the building of the
Province, and I worked there long before the Southams of
Montreal moved into Vancouver with their millions and
bought the paper. There never was any trouble until the
Ssuthams took over.

“Southams rewarded my lifetime of service with 36
months on the picket line, obtained a court injunction, sued
members of my union for damages in the Supreme Court
and _imported individuals from all ever Canada to take
my job.

“I am still on the picket line with my fellow I.T.U.
printers. We will be there until the Southam Co. will
abandon its union-wrecking policy and sit around the con-
ference fable in good faith.”

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