cM MMMM The PEOPLE Phone MA 6929 Published every Saturday Pany, Room 104, Shelly Bu Vancouver, by the People Publishing Com- ildi British Columbia, and printed at Broadway Printers Litd., 151 East 8th Ave., Vancouver British Golum- bia. Subscription Rates: One year $2.00, six months $1.00. Editor HAL GRIFFIN ng, 119 West Pender Street, AOAC TTT LATA Churchill's Answer le any answer were needed to the defeatists and those others who have been mischiey- ously speculating on strained relations between Britain and the United States and the Soviet Union, Prime Minister Winston Churchill this week gave that answer. His speech was at once proof that the agreement on fundamental ques- tions reached at Teheran has in no way been clouded by the first of many difficult questions to test it and a reflection of the application of that agreement. : How far we have come since Munich and the profound changes that have occurred since, culminating in Teheran, was shown by Chur- chill’s frank statement on the Soviet-Polish bor- der question—a question which has been used by pro-fascists and defeatists everywhere in an effort to disrupt United Nations unity. “Many millions of Russians have been slain and vast tracts of Russian soil devastated as a result of repeated German agsression. Russia has the right of re-assurance against future at- tacks from the west and we are going all the way with her to see that she gets it, not only by the might of her arms but by the approval and assent of the United Nations,” he stated. “The liberation of Poland may presently be achieved by the Russian armies after these arm- ies have suffered millions of casualtites in breaking the German military war machine. I eannot feel that the Russian demand for reas- surances about her western frontiers goes be- yond the limits of what is reasonable or just.” Churchill’s speech is both a direct rebuff to the disrupters of United Nations unity and a Warm encouragement for all who believe that the future lies in realization of the promise of Teheran. The New Labor Code HE new Dominion Labor Code is a “good piece of legislation,” to quote the words of Percy Bengough, president of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, and “the best resu- lations with respect to labor that had ever been brought into this country,” according to A. R. Mosher, president of the Canadian Congress of Labor. Other union leaders have all approved the new order-in-council. It now appears that the cabinet discussed the new code with the representatives of labor prior to the tabling of the order. Thet is a fine, democratic departure by Prime Minister King from the former prac- tice of action without consultation with labor, as was the case in connection with the new wage order. Labor has been asking for such a code for a long time. It has now been treated, really for the first time in this war, in the way that na- tional unity demands. It is an omen that nation- al unity is being strengthened, that the govern- ment, which represents the nationally united policies of the country at war, will broaden its basis and include the labor movement in all its deliberations on vital policies. The code meets almost all the requirements of the labor movement. It removes a serious cause of friction and undesirable strikes. It strengthens the trade union movement—and a stronger union movement ean but Strengthen the country’s war effort in every direction. The new code will remove one of the most aggravating causes of class conflict. Instead, labor will be given a strong incentive to refrain from planning any demand which will not rep- tesent the needs of the nation at war. It is plain that the government went as far as its constitutional powers permitted it to go in the drafting of the new code. The provinces at the coming Dominion-Provincial conference in’ April should agree to give the federal govern- ment the power to enact national labor laws in peace time as well as wer time, and to have these powers without limitation as far as any Section of wage earners is concerned. Such a constitutional reform is solely needed on labor law. The Dominion could then ask the British parliament to so amend the British North America Act, something which it will have to do until this outworn practice is aband- oned on the initiative of Canada. Al Parkin Resigns i the resignation of our associate editor, Al Parkin, who has been advised that recur- tence of an old illness makes jt necessary for him to enter a Sanatarium for two years, we have lost the services of one of the most able and best liked newspapermen the labor move- ment in this province has yet produced. With a wealth of experience sained as editor of the B.C. Lumber Worker, city editor of the Daily Clarion in Toronto, editor of The Fisher- man and acting editor of The Advoeate, and with his keen practical knowledge of the trade union movement Al Parkin made a contribu- tion to The People which will not easily be replaced. We hope that as his health permits he will continue to write articles for us and we know that in the labor movement the many who know him personally end the still larger num- ber of those who have come to know him through our columns will join us in wishing him a speedy recovery of his health so that he may once again tale the place of leadership his ability and experience have earned for him, UNITED STATES ALP Clique EMAND that the “narrow cli- D que leadership” of New York’s American Labor Party be changed was made last week by Jacob S. Ptofsky, secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (CIO), speaking at a rally of the Bronx Gounty Committee for a United Labor Party. : Denouncing Alex Rose, State ALP secretary, as a “political chameleon,” Potofsky, who is also chairman of the ClO’s Latin Am- erican Committee, asked: “Where do Mr. Rose and the rest of the present ALP leaders stand on a fourth term for Roosevelt?” Rose’s “curious and suspicious silence” on the fourth term, he eontinued, aroused suspicion that he was making a deal with reac- tionary parties “in violation of party principle, as on Many prey- ious occasions.” Potosky, one of the original founders of the ALP, predicted that the coming AIP primaries to choose the party leadership would end Rose’s present control. Scoring the State ALP leaders for rejecting the proposal of Sid- ney Hillman, chairman of the CIO’s Political Action Committee, to broaden the ALP’s base by in- eluding all trade unions in the state, Potofsky branded as false the charge that this was a means by which Communists would gain eontrol of the party. “How can a labor party leader- ship worthy of the name bar from representation over 1,000,- 000 trade unionists in New York State?” he asked. “If these are - not entitled to representation in the Jeadership of the Labor Party, who is?” : CIO Delegates AMES R. Carey, CiO secretary, has announced that all 12 CIO delegates to the world labor con- ference at London next June have been cleared by the U.S. State De- partment and will receive’ pass- ports. One of the delegates cleared is Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, who last summer charged that he was pre- ~ vented from going ashore in North Africa as an able-bodied seaman because of the State Department's action. Curran this week described the London meeting as “the biggest thing in the world labor move- ment, and a milestone in the fight for international labor unity.” LATIN AMERICA _- Palace Coup HE recent palace revolt in Argentina reveals the deep inner crisis of the pro-fascist re- gime of President General Ram- irez. From the rather eontradictory reports coming out of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the follow- ing seems to have occurred: q The “coup within a coup” Was organized by the pro- fascist military clique of the Group of United Officers (GOU), which engineered the revolt of last June 4 and which forms the main support of the present re- gime. The leader of the GOU is Colonel Juan Peron, labor and social welfare minister and “strong man” of the fascist gov- ernment. As a result of the new coup, President Ramirez was foreed to accept the resig- nation of Foreign Minister Gil- bert and his secretary Col. Gon- zalez, both of whom ported to have favored ation of war against th 2 Education Minister e a leading pro-Nazi Semite, who had _ res protest against the br the Axis, was replace Honorio Silgueria, a ¢ lawyer. Navy Minister Benito Sueyro tempora over the post of Fore ister. - These changes within { offer no suarantee that with the Axis will be into a real change of pc frem pro-fascist “neutr: internal fascist repressic The rupture with Ger Japan oceurred last me result of the threat of je inter-American econorm political sanctions, and | ereasing pressure of the people. The rupture, annoy Ramirez and Gilbert ¢ the agreement of the | been obtained, was 1 formal step under cover the regime hoped to st3 fascist dictatorship. : The proposal to dec upon the Axis is also ij in many quarters as stil formal step by which ¢ clique hopes to anticipaj vert the growing pressu overthrow. It is not ¢ altogether unlikely tha declaration of war may coming once agreement j among the forces suppi fascist government. It is recalled that | livia and Paraguay are at war against the thoush their governmen the fascist pattern. But the recent coup aij a serious split with the circles, which has beer ated by the combined | from abroad and from } country. The fascists are in Argentina as throu world, and they are mé desperately to retain pt if is found necessary i the United Nations camp Berlin has increased it upon Argentina, as it har Franco regime in Spaiy Finnish government, to wholesale desertion by lites. Sharp notes from 1 Tokio protesting against of their military att Buenos’ Aires “palace” revolt. precipi On the other hand, ._ eratic forces within Arge the ments were encouraged anti-Axis America: success in bringing abor to continue pressure. The Argentine Navy to be opposed to the ES in the Gi within the army there deep cleavage, as show - resignation of General) leader of © 4 revolt, as ambassadoi in protest against — army clique the original zil Ramirez’ policy. After the Ramirez re; and incre took more openly the te” pressing all democratic opposition among the fp came better consolidate tional Unity Committee — ance was formed, inel anti-Axis sectors from tive to Communist. Resi mittees began to functit most important political) the country. 4 The movement of res Said to inelude represen the military and naval to the GOU government. | Constitutional Refor With the full support dent Isaias Medin ita, the Democratic Parts cas has initiated a mass) to eliminate the anti-€ f clauses in the constitution. The Was inserted into the ct present ¥ i anti-Communist ]