LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY

Vol. III. No. 2

5 Cents

Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, January 15, 1944

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Deny Aid
To Freneh
Partisans

ALGIERS.—Word has just been received here that

the Franc-tireurs (French Partisans),

carrying on a

courageous and inedequately-publicized battle with
the Nazis every day, have not been receiving for at
least six months the supplies and financial help that

France.

1 should be flowing to them from sources outside of

A memorandum received from the Franc-tireurs
#7 high command inside France, by Fernand Grenier,
French Communist leader, states:

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“For the past six months,

sthe French partisan Franc-

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“tireurs

have received,

‘through the only available

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channels, only small ship-

ji ments of material.

“Organizations ‘who are
not carrying on any struggle,

“Shave been receiving large

quantities which have been
held “in reserve” and 50 per
cent of which falls regularly

“into enemy hands instead of

being used against the enemy.
The same applies to financial

| aid.

“We hope you can con-

} vince all those who are in a
| position to halt such an at-
\titude toward the Dariisan
| Franc-tireurs.

“Though we belong to a se-
eret army, we consider that

Vit is to the interest of those
4 patriotic soldiers that their
; actions not be kept secret.

“Nothing will stop the
French partisan Franc-tir-
‘eurs who are a military force
‘in the national front, from
carrying on their struggle. It
increasingly coincides with

| the aspirations of the French

people.”

Princeton Acts

On Mine Closure

PRINCETON, B.C.——Citizens of this coal and hardrock mining center, faced — by
the closure of the Granby coal mine and threatened shutdown of Granby Consolidat-
ed copper operations — with a preview of what the owners of Canadian industry are
planning for the postwar, are giving a lead to the rest of B.C. by a course of action
calculated to save the mining industry for both war and peace production.

This was made clear last Sunday when representatives of every labor, frat-
ernal, civic and church organization in the Similkameen Valley met in a broad con-
ference in the Oddfellows Hall here, drew up a four-point action program featuring

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‘Here, in one of the first picvares to reach this Soueakey from the Balleant front, ‘ugoslay

: Partisans are seen rounding up Nazi prisoners.

In Yugoslavia, at a time when Hitler

needs all his reserves on the eastern front, the armies of Marshal Josip Broz are en-
gaging more divisions than anywhere else outside the Soviet Union.

Labor Council Demands

Proposals that AFL and
CCL national executives
consider leading a Can-
ada-wide labor delegation
to Ottawa immediately to
protest against the new
federal labor policy were
made by delegates to Van-
couver Labor Council Tues-
day night.

“The heads of the two
Canadian congresses
should get together at
once,” declared Corey
Campbell. “I move that
we wire our national ex-
ecutive to take immediate
action!”

“The effect of the gov-
ernment?’s action in hand-
ing down the code arbi-
trarily is very bad,” said

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National
Action On
Wage Order

OTTAWA, Ont. — Thou-
sands of workers face lay-
offs in the next four
months, with the prospect
of 100,000 Canadians be-
ing thrown into the ranks
of the unemployed by
April 1.

That is the grim truth
cuiting through the maze
of assurances and conitra-
dictory statements that
have come from govern-
ment heads. If present
government policies con-
tinue, with their disregard
for proper planning and
labor’s proposals, Canada
will have a serious unem-
ployment situation by the
beginning of next summer.

“Ne are going to have

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