Rally protests
Canadian bar on

U.S. Siav leader

Leo Krzycki, president of the

American Slav Congress and out-

standing labor leader, was prevented by Vancouver immigration author-
ities from addressing a concert rally at Exhibition Gardens here last Sun-
day on the flimsy excuse that he had not brought his American birth

certificate to Canada with him. After being questioned at Vancouver air-.

port, he was forced to return to Seattle within one hour of’ his arrival.

Condemning the action of im-
migration authorities who turned
Krzycki back at the airport Sat-
urday, a resolution unanimously
passed by 2,000 citizens attend-
ing ‘the “All-Slav ‘concert meeting _

ed the action “an unwar-
ranted and flagrant interference
in the right of passage through
our border’’ and sent copies of
their protest to Prime Minister

St. Laurent and local MPs.

An outstanding spokesman among
Slavic Americans in the peace
struggle, Krzycki was delegate last
spring to the Paris World Congress
for Peace. On his return he wrote
a pamphlet describing the social,
economic and political conditions
as ke found them on his visits to
Paris, Prague and throughout Po-
land and Czechoslovakia. Krzycki
began his career in the American
labor movement 50 years ago, and
was for many years vice-president
of the Amalgamated Clothing Wor-

LEO KRZYCKI
“Flagrant interference”

‘kers of America, CIO, which he
helped to organize.

The Canadian Slay Solidarity
Concert was a mobilization of all
Slavie peoples of Vancouver in pre-
paration for the Canadian Slav
Congress which will be held in To-
ronto on May 19, 20 and 21. . |

Krzycki, a citizen of the United
States by birth, landed at the Van-
couyer airport at 11 a.m. Saturday,
but was refused admittance to Ca-
nada because he “did not have suf-
ficient identification to prove that
he is an American, and would be
re-admitted to the U.S. after he
had completed his) speaking engage-
ment.”

Krzycki pointed out that he had
visited Canadian cities many
times in the past 46 years, and
had never had any difficulty be-
fore. The authorities remained

adamant and he was foreed to TBan the Bomb petition.

fly back to the U‘S.

Despite the cold weather, more
than 2,000 people attended the con-
cert and heard Harvey Murphy of
the International Union of Mine
Mill and Smelter Workers speak
on the need of all peoples to unite
to strengthen the world peace
movement and defeat the war plans
of Wall Street.

Mrs. Bladen and Mrs. Gibbs re-

UE local suspends

six former officers

COBOURG
Six former officers of Local 534,
United Electrical, Radio and Ma-
chine Workers, who deserted the
union and went over to the CIO-
sponsored “Imitation UE”
suspended from the local at a regu-
lar. membership meeting held here.
UE Local 534 represents a plant
of the Canadian General Electric,
one in the chain of GE plants that
James Carey’s raiders are attemp-
ting to take over in Canada.
Workers at five GE plants in
Toronto have rejected all attempts
of the raiders to split their ranks
and are firm in their loyalty ‘to the
UE. At Peterboro the raiders
have been able to make very little
inroads but activities are such that
they have enabled the GE manage-
ment to stall on contract negotia-
tions involving 3,000 workers.

were.

presented. the Vancouver Peace
Council at the concert-meeting,
and Ban the Bomb petitions were

fascist heil
MONTREAL

Following his sabre-rattling
speech in which he called for the
building up of Japan and Germany
as, war bases against the Soviet
Union, General H. D. G. Crerar has
won himself some strange? bed-fel-
lows, d >

At a special meeting ‘of the fas-
cist Native Sons a unanimoug re-
solution was passed congratulating
General Crerar on his “intelligent
and courageous attitude.”

The Native Sons, an avowedly
anti-Semitic, anti-Soviet organiza-
tion, went inactive during the war
against Hitler. Now they have re-
newed their fascist propaganda.
Leading Son ig Salluste Lavery, a

onetime candidate on Adrien Ar-
eand’s fascist ticket and more re-

fm | cently lawyer for the Arcand group.

CATHOLIC PRIEST SPEAKS OUT FOR PEACE

circulated throughout the audience..

AND LANDLORD REFUSES TO MAKE REPAIRS

By MAY LENICZEK

A delegation led by Mrs. Effie
Jones of the Civic Reform Asso-
tiation, with representatives of
the West End and East End
Tenants’ Associations and sev-
eral tenants, called on officials
of the Rental Control Board last
Tuesday to ascertain the rights
of 18 tenant families living in
the 110 block Cordova Bast.
Sixteen of the tenants who
come under one rental agency
were offered and signed leases
for _18 to 22 percent rental in-
creases. Investigation showed,
however, that since 1944 their
rents have-been increased from)
100 percent to 275 percent, -de-
spite rental control. The board
agreed that something might be
done if tenants could produce
back receipts for these years.

The houses in question are
among the oldest buildings in
the area and have been allowed
to deteriorate into semi-slums,
the landlords refusing to make
necessary repairs. In one house
the bathtub leaks like a sieve
and every time a bath ‘is taken,
water pours down into the kit-
chen, loosening plaster on the
ceiling. “Go ahead and fix it,”
said the landlord to his tenant.
‘Ill pay for the materials but
not for the work.”/

West End and East End ten-
ants’ organizations are invés-
tigating all such cases that
are brought to their atten-
tion, Tenants facing difficul-
ties should contact Mrs. Caro- .
line MacFarlan, 1760 Parker,
HA. 2475-R; Mrs. Lillian Rob-.
son, 1706 Alberni, MA. 1690;
or Mrs. Effie Jones, 5038 Sher-
brook, Fr. 1317, for informa-

Rents raised 275

percent

Thousands of Canadians living in run-down dwellings
faced ‘rental boosts of 18 to 22 percent on February 1. Many
of them are not aware that $140,000 of the money they paid in.
taxes last year was Spent to purchase the home above for
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, plus another $86,000 that
is being spent to remodel it. 4 major change was made to
provide the premier with a hetter view of the Ottawa, Valley —
and Rideau River,

tion and assistance, _ month. These tenants come

Families who have moved |under the Landlords and Ten-
since November 1, 1948, are find- | ants Act of B.C., which in es-
ing that their rents had auto-/sence js nothing but a landlords’
matically been decontrolled with protective act. Court House of-
the change of tenancy, and they |ficials coldly state that such
are now at the mercy of the|tenants should See a lawyer to

landlord, who can, if he so de- I pet information on the peculiar

sires, raise their rents every | workings of this act,

TORONTO

Irish priest touring Ontario and

Quebec in the interests of world
peace, has addressed. crowded
meetings in Toronto, Windsor,

Hamilton, Ottawa and Montreal.
Defying red;baiting attacks of the
press, and the hierarchy of the
Roman Catholic church, he has won
the hearts of thousands of Cana-
dians by his forthright advocacy
of “Christian peace and brother-
hood.” ;

“War is not inevitable,” Father
Duffy told 3,000 people in Toronto's
Massey Hall, “World War HI will
not come if we Catholics, Protes-
tants, Jews, agnostics, and Com-
munists get together and say there
will be no more war. Sign your
You in
Canada have- got more initiative
than we have-in the United States.
With your petition campaign you
can show them how to'do it.

“The time has come for everyone
to take a stand, to show which
Side we're on. We must tell our
governments and the United Na-
tions that we will not take part
in any war of aggression against
anyone.

“T call for a mighty league of
non-combatants — all over the
world ~~ who Will say they will
not go to war.”

Father Duffy, victimized earlier
by reporters from the Toronto Tele-
gram and the Catholic Register
with a barrage of slanderous in-
nuendos, began his Massey Hall
address by stating simply and
quietly: “I am here to publicize as
far as I can, the teachings of Christ,
the fundamental. concept of Chris-
tianity — thou shalt love thy neigh-
bor as theyself. I, asa priest, can
cooperate and associate with any-
body and everybody who is interes-
ted in the things I am interested
in. ‘I am a priest in good Standing
and I intend to remain in good
standing.” :

Later in his speech he made a
direct appeal to the trade union
movement, to all labor, to unite for
peace. He spoke of the’ attacks
made on militant “left” unions: “I
consider those men from the left
unions heroes of the labor move
}Ment,” (And here he was stopped

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Father Clarence Duffy, a fighting |

|by cheers) “because I have a fel-
low feeling with them. You are
being called Communists. So am
a ;

He told the audience such tactics
were being used to split and divide
labor, Then his challenging, Irish-
accented voice filled every corner
of the hal] as he cried: “To you
union men I say — for God’s sake
don’t let them do it. And I mean
for your own sake, too!?’

Labor must unite, he said. “La-
bor provides the sinews of war and
if labor says no sinews, there’ll be
no war. Then you can advance
and take over the government of
Canada — I didn’t say overthrow
it —- according to the constitution.”

Father Duffy received hundreds
of written questions from the ay-
dience, a few of which attempted
to red-bait,
authority, Several were on Car-
dinal Mindszenty. Father Duffy
replied that Mindszenty was a
“Prince Bishop who owned land,
He didn’t want to give up his pow-
er. If he had been a true Christian,
nothing would have happened.”

To an inspired question about his
right to say mass, he replied curtly
and almost angrily: “I said mass
this morning and where is my own
business,”

about Mussolini, his reply was quick
and direct: “Not half enough!”

In. Montreal the black-haired,
black-eyed priest addressed a pack-
ed hall at McGill Union when ar-
rangements for the rental of other
meeting halls were cancelled by
the owners of ‘the establishments
concerned, after pressure had been
brought to bear on them by pro-

vincial police and ecclesiastical
authorities.
“Get together, right here in

Quebec, and start at home working

the common man,” Father Duffy
told his audience. Commenting on
the lack of freedom of speech in
the province of Quebec, he said:
“If Christ were here today , and
walked down the streets in_ his
Sandals preaching the brotherhood
of man, he would be scoffed at and
thrown into jail.” ;

some challenging his

“Asked what the Pope had said |

for peace, freedom and justice for.

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‘Common people can stop war’

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