Nazi Ukrainian DP’s

behind ‘Peg violence

—WINNIPEG

A group of ee Ukcites nationalists f.om Nuremberg, Germany, is behind the outbreaks

of violence in this city directed against Ukrainian-Canadians and their organization, the Association of |:
The DP’s are former members of Hitler’s security battalions.

of United Ukrainian Canadians.

The

~ AUUC made this information public last week in a leaflet being distributed to every home in Winnipeg.

The exposure of the plot to make
Canada “the terrain for maximum
concentration . . . towards influ-
encing the fate of the whole state”
by these fascist groups, which are
evidently encouraged by the USS.
secret service and the federal gov-.
ernment’s immigration department
follows the violent assault on the
Ukrainian-Canadian Labor Temple
here on October 16.. The attack
resulted in injury to several AUUC
members and damage to the hall.

Following is from the text of
the AUUC statement entitled “Op-
eration Canada” charging that the
violence “was no accident; it was
a plan”:

Plenty of warning was given by
the Association of United Ukrain-
ian Canadians about the possibility
of the immigration to Canada of
former members of the security
battalions of Adolf Hitler.

In November, 1945, our Associa-

tion published a pamphlet in

reply to the attempt of so-called
“displaced persons” in Germany,
to gain admission to Canada as
“political refugees.” We pub-
lished proof that under cover of
this name, outright fascist~ ele-
ments were trying to come to
Canada to continue their work.

Here, the Ukrainian Committee
collected funds to assist these so
called “refugees” and tried to influ-.
ence public opinion to get them
admitted to Canada.

The facts are that while some
genuine political refugees may have
come here (although the two mil-

lion Ukrainians transported to
Germany as slave labor returned
to their homes after the defeat of
the Axis) numbers of collaborators
with Hitler and betrayers of the
Ukrainian nation are now in Cana-
da, posing ag genuine Displaced
Persons, when actually they select-
ed Canada as a new base for their
fascist activities. Canada, it seems,
did not select them! Here is proof.

A Ukrainian paper, Time, pub-
lished in Nuremberg, Germany, in
its issues of September 12, 19, 26
and October 16, 1948, made very
clear what the purpose of the

Sahel is in coming to

A series of articles by the pub-
lisher of Time, R. Initski, entitled
“Emigration at the Crossroads,”
contains a clear and unashamed
admission of the real .purpose of
these elements, former members of
Hitlerite punishment — battalions,
like the SS _ MHalichina, whose

special job it was to murder their

than

fellow-Ukrainians who resisted Hit-
ler’s destruction of the Ukrainian
nation.

He advises this group to strive
to maintain their political activity

\|by a “roundabout road,” suggesting

that they go to Canada “‘in the role
of ordinary workers so as to renew
there the same work by various
roads and through different con-
nections.”

The “work” of this group was
to collaborate with Hitler, like true
Quislings, to share with the Nazis
some of the spoils of the conquest
of the Ukraine. They were special
Ukrainian-Nazi battalions which
did not hesitate to murder and pil-
lage Ukrainian villages during the
German occupation of the Ukraine.

Ilnitski, having in mind the pos-
sibility of a new wai wherein the
Ukrainian Quislings could again
perform their functions, says that
these people “must select a country
for settlement not so much from
the point of view of possibilities
there for a livelihood but likewise
in consideration of the chances
there for social work ... working

for a living will obliterate the (poli-.

tical) face of our emigration.”

Could anything be more bitazen
that? The: 2D.Brs. awho
wreaked their violence upon the
Ukrainian’Labor Temple on Octo-
ber 16, gave an example of the
kind of “social work” sigenorabal has
in mind!

“Scattered groups must be fed
from one source ... it seems to
us that this role can be fulfilled
by the Ukrainian press that grew
up in Germany since the war,” says
Initski.

Why was Canada chosen by these
people as the place in which to
re-form theiz organizations which
had been shattered by the defeat
of Hitler?

In order to
cision, Time _ established one
criterion: “To go ‘to the
country selected by the Ukrain-
ian emigration as the terrain for
its maximum concentration and
its main theatre of action. Such
a country of our choosing, ac-
cording to our deepest convic-
tions, must be Canada... It is _
high time we issued the call:
Whoever possibly can, should go.
to Canada ... Let him make
every effort in this direction, for
“there, in that country, we shall

make this de-

form our greatest concentration.”

B.C., Alta. miners
seek wage boost

By SAM ENGLISH

_MICHEL, B.C.

Wage increases of from $2 to $4 a day will probably be one

‘of the major demands put forward
of the United Mine Workers of
open in Calgary, November 28.

Another demand high on the list
will be the putting into effect of
a decent retirement plan to guar-
antee miners adequate pensions.
Under the present unsatisfactory
plan, a miner must prove that
any disability he has was caused
by or is attributed to working in
a mine. Im such cases, miners
believe they should come under
the compensation act; but many
men who worked underground for
as long as 20 and 30 years are de-
clared inelegible under current
regulations.

‘Decent homes for, miners is
another pressing issue. In Michel
many homes of miners and their ,
families were built half a cen-
tury ago; they have no bath or

by coal miners at the convention

America, Dictrist 18, which will

inside toilet, and in most cases
have never received a coat of
paint.

Hard work by miners’ wives suc-

ceed in making the inside of such
homes clean, neat and cheery; but
the outside and the surroundings
are often as bad as the worst city
slums.
_ Coal companies. are financially
well able to launch a decent hous-
ing plan and miners feel the com-
panies should be forced to build
modern, low-rental homes.

Abolition of the contract system
and questions dealing with auton-
omy, the present system of unem-
ployment insurance and other is-
sues vital to the welfare of UMWA
members will also be dealt with at
the convention,

Why Canada? “There is no other
country in the world besides Cana-
da where Ukrainians might dream
of and strive towards the attain-
ment of really substantial influ-
ences upon the life of the entire
state . .. We must place before
us wider tasks and be sparked with
greater ambitions than that of
merely organizing our Own self-
rule on foreign soil ..: we must
attempt something greater, we
must strive towards influencing the
fate of the whole state in propor-
tion to (our, strength).”

The group, small tn number, who
constituted the Ukrainian “Security
Service” of Hitler, are the same
people who, masquerading as “‘poli-
tical refugees” and trading on the
humanitarian impulses of Canadi-
ans, emigrated to Canada, quite
deliberately, not in*order to work
for a livelihood, but to continue
the work they have been doing in
Eunope.

It was not an “accident”, there-
fore, that a group attending a pub-
lic meeting on October 16, deliber-
ately provoked a riot and brought
human and property damage with
them; it was part of a whole plan
of organized activity, carried on
against progressive Ukrainians
with a view to repeating here the
crimes they have committed in
Europe. ;

“In Canada ..: no one will boy-

‘ecott us, no laws will limit the field

of our activities . . .’ boasts Ilnit-
ski, Winnipeg police have taken
no action against those responsible
for the vfolence.

PROTEST

big businessmen in Tor onto, brush-
ed off priotest action as “utter non-
sense.”

~ Norman Gillespie of the Cana-

dian Legion’s. housing committee in/

Montreal said the government “has
broken faith with the Canadian
fighting men who died to make it
possible for landlords to. retain
their property.” -

The Catholic Syndicate leader-
ship in Montreal also condemned
the increase, declaring the syndi-

cate would be forced to fight “even,

more” for wage increases.

Ald. Jacob Penner led the ‘pro-
test from Winnipeg, which will be
hard hit by the 25 percent boost.
He urged a powerful protest be
made by labor and veterans. Ald.
Penner recently presented a plan
to Winnipeg City Council for build-
ing 10,000 low-rental homes ‘to be
financed. by civic, provincial and

federal governments.

George Harris, Toronto, secre-
tary of the United Electrical Work-
ers, said the rent increase was
equal to a 10 percent wage cut.
Rent payments in Canada consume
a greater part of the worker’s in-
come than in any other country in
the world, prcenes the U.S., Harris
declared.

He cited a resolution passed by
the UE convention recently charg-
ing that rent profiteering is ram-
pant “with landlords being’ able
easily to circumvent regulations.
Through such trickery exorbitant
rates are being souged:, from the
people. ”

In Toronto alone, thei'e are near-
ly 80,000 rented living quarters in
the city, not including rooming
houses. Of this, 33,250 are homes.
William Jenoves, president of\ To-
ronto and District Trades and La-
bor Council, said! “We have been
told that coal prices and telephone
rates may go up, too.
wonder labor asks
wages, he said.

for higher

Is it any-

Candidate

Hugh Clark, popular Royal City
trade unionist, who in two previ-
ous elections has missed election
to New Westminster City Coun-
cil by a’ slim margin, will again
be a Candidate this year. He has
been nominated by a joint com-
mittee of Sapperton and Queens-
borough Ratepayers’ organiza-
tions. 4

No, Mitchell

isn’t worried

British Columbia ‘citizens are
worried about a growing unem-
ployment situation in this province
which may result in a jobless total
this year greater than last winter’s
40,000.

No such worries exist in the
mind of Labor Minister Humphrey
Mitchell, in Vancouver this week
to ‘officially open the new seven-
storey home of the Unemployment
Insurance» Commission.

reporters, Mitchell
rapped “prophets of depression
who delight in - predicting bad
times.’”’ Reminded of the growing
list of unemployed, Humphrey
shrugged his shoulders and said:
“Seasonal unemployment comes
every year, like the snow, Nothing
can be done about it, so »why
worry?”

Smirking at

Later in the week, while visit-
ing Victoria, Mitchell diopped a
few more “comforting” words into
the laps of the unemployed. “You
can’t have a rise of the tide with-
out a fall of the tide,” he remarked
fatuously. é ra

Brushing aside further questions
on unemployment, Mitchell turned
to a favorite subect, red-baiting,
aha opined that right-wing labor’s
move to “clean out Communist in-
fluences” this year was a “develop-
ment of great significance.”

Meanwhile job markets are
shrinking and more men and’ wom-
en are walking the streets looking
for work. National .Employment
Service officials in Vancouver ad-
mit that the situation is “slightly
worse” than last year.

- Labor groups and the Canadian
Legion are worried about growing
lines of job-seekers and declare
that government action to provide

'|jobs is a burning necessity. Thous-

ands of seasonal workers will be
thrown out of work as soon as
the warm weather ends. At the
present time there are at least
15,000 jobless in the province, and
an NES official admitted this week
there were only 719 jobs available
in Vancouver on October 27, and

1655 in all the province.

ITU wins
long strike

at Province

Pickets who pounded the pave-

|ment around the Daily Province —
building for 41 months were back |

in the composing room this week,
working under an _ International
Typographical Union agreement
signed by the management and
the union last Friday.
Agueements covering union
stereotypers and mailers were also
signed by the Province manage-
ment and the unions involved.

Strikes in other Southam news- —

papers remain unsettled.

ITU printers took to the picket
line on June 6, 1946 in sympathy
with the union’s Winnipeg local,
which had gone on strike against
the Winnipeg Tribune and _ the

Winnipeg Free Press the Pe yoUs i

November.

An early victory for the union
might have been won had not
several’ AFL amions, notably the
Teamsters (whose, international,
under the leadership of Dave Beck,
has for years adopted a strike-
breaking policy in the Pacific
north-west) crossed ITU picket
liness 4

Several pitched battles took
place in the early weeks of the
strike, when the Province tried to
hit the streets. In one melee Cam-
bie and Pende1 streets were strewn
with torn-up papers, a Province
van was overturned and the paper
bundles set on fire. A score of
pickets were arrested; several
served jail terms.

The strike turned into an “en-
durance contest”. For more than
thiize years ITU pickets stayed
on the job, and Province circu-
lation steadily decreased.

Following settlement

of the

strike last week, Alexander Bevis, ©

president of Vancouver Typogra-
phical Union No. 226, said in a
statement:

“An agreement has been reached
in restoring ITU jurisdiction in the
composing room of the Province.
The terms of settlement provide
that ag many of our. members
who weit? formerly working in the
composing ‘room of the Province
as are now available will return
to their former positions,

“Provision has been made where-
by persons who were employed in
the composing room at the con-
clusion of these negotiations will
make application for membership
in the union in the regular way. .

“The agreement provides for full
recognition and acceptance of ITU
laws and working conditions and
reestablishes Vancouver Typogra-
phical Union as having complete
jurisdiction in the composing room
of Vancouver Daily Province.”

Ald. Birt Showler, whose Teams-
ters helped to prolong the strike
by going through picket lines for
more than thiee years, hailed the
end of the dispute as “the best
labor news story of the year in
B.C.” R. K. Gervin, secretary of
the Trades and Labor Council, de-
clared that “it shows what can be
done when parties sit down and
really take off ees sa coats to 2
problem.”

Had Showler and Gervin
taken off their coats three
years ago and done a little
real fighting in support of the
ITU, a more favorable con-
tract might have been won
long ago.

Miner MP reneges |

on union dues issue

OTTAWA

a miner elected to House of

Commons from a mining constitu-

ency this week betrayed the trust
placed in him.

James Byrne (Liberal, Kootenay
East), a memben of the Mine-Mill
union, after “wholeheartedly” sup-
porting a CCF proposal that union
dues be made deductable for income
tax purposes, quickly came to heel
when the Liberal whips went to
work on him, and an hour later
voted with the Liberals to block tHe y
measure 108 to 48. °

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