LABOR’S VOICE FOR VICTORY Anti-Doukhobor Campaign Masks Land Mosher Rules On : Vol. HI. No. 13. ile CCL Issue W site Vancouver, B.C., Timely intervention of Saturday, April 1, 1944 President A. R. Mosher of ‘Unity Ee WEW YORK — Voters enrolled in the American | Labor Party decisively re-- F jected the anti-unity poli- “cies of the red-baiting Old } Guard state committee in | primary elections __ this } week when they returned sa majority of the slate put derward by the Committee — for a United Labor- Party to the new state commit- tee. : = . Defeated at the polls, sthe Old Guard leadership, | dominated by David Du- § binsky’s Social Democratic Federation, promptly with- ‘drew from the ALP, still pursuing its red-baiting policy, on the pretext that the Communists had “cap- tured the American Labor Party.” (Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, is known as a friend of John L: Lewis. Bitterly anti-Soviet,- he initiated the infamous Alter-Erlich campaign in the United States, is now one of the leaders of the fight against international trade union unity.) Though the election was confined to the Empire State, its significance and its consequence go far be=- yond it. The outcome of _ this Struggle will have strong Tepercussions throughout U.S. where the CIO Politi- eal Action Committee is action behind President Roosevelt’s policies and the Social Democratic Fed- ration is striving to split the unions. | The election revealed around two slates for state _—C€ontinued on Page 8 rallying labor for political — Steal Plot — NELSON, B.C.—Charges that elements “bent on embarrassing the govern- ment”’.and others prepar- ing the ground for a huge land steal are utilizing the opportunity provided by the actions of a fanatical min- ority among the Doukhobors to foster hatred and violence against the majority of law- abiding Doukhobors were voiced here this. week. “There is no question that the whole Doukhobor prob- lem has been fostered and 7 abetted by a semi-political element bent on embarrass- - ing the government,’ de- clared the Trail Ad-News in an editorial. “Then there is the other side of the issue that had the purchase of the Doukhobor lands in mind, and it has been this element, so we believe, that has been the cause of many fires and the Canadian Congress of La- bor thas headed off a jurisdic- tional struggle between the United Steel Workers of America and the Boilermak- ers and Iron Shipbuilders Union, Local No. 1. : Both unions are affiliates of the Congress, the Steel- workers through CIO affili- ation and the Boilermakers throught the Shipyard Gen- eral Workers Federation. In a recent organizational drive the Steelworkers organiza- tion committee had entered -a number of small machine shops which were already cevered by the jurisdiction other parts of Canada have come within the scope of the Steelworkers organization. The Boilermakers had ob- jected on the grounds that these shops were better or- ganized under the SBoiler- makers since working on production as- sociated with the shipyards. When the matter was taken Tommy gunners of a Yugoslav volunteer unit train on Soviet soil for the day when they will help to liberate their own country. - : = —Continued on Page 6 —Continued on Page 6 A000 5000 Homes Committee Z The “5,000 Homes Now” Committee welcomes “the indications that the Canadian government is considering VV TI S ; | the housing problem,” John McPeake, committee chair- Delegation man, stated this week. To Ottawa “We are glad that plans for postwar housing are being seriously analysed and that arrangements for con- struction of Vancouver homes by British capital are being discussed,” he said. “At the same time, we intend to increase and expand our campaign for 5,000 new homes now. We want postwar housing, but thousands of Vancouverites must have homes at once. And we feel that homes valued at $5,000 or more—the type of home proposed by the British businessmen——would not answer the needs of Vancouver war workers and families of servicemen.” The “5,000 Homes Now” Committee is sponsoring a conference of delegates from 500 political parties, trade unions, service clubs and church groups to be held April 12. Delegates will discuss the committee’s —Continued on Page 8 CAAA LM MM MM MMMM EQUATE TAT TTC TTT of the SGWF but which in — OCA ACT TVD PN a4 they were.