: th’s Role In Wartime

Labor Youth Federation
@a for Grace Wales,

iss Wales has a record of
Hevement behind her as edu-
‘eenal director of the Interna-
wa] Government Workers in
®ereal, social seryice worker
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Into and executive secretary
‘oronto LYE. She has also
i connected with the Recrea-
©. for War Workers Council
Bithe Reconstruction Council.
fe plan to have Grace Wales
i to all branches of the
-Progressive Party and to
tarious Labor Youth Feder-
@ groups,” Betty Dunbar,
Pouver LYE organizer, told
sPeople. “We also hope to
‘ey her address a number of
7 unions.” -
ie main issue before the
t; Youth Federation today,
Wales said this week, “is
role of civilian youth in
ge the invasion of EKurope.”
E: explained that in Calgary
pYE had organized a “Peti-
a_ Blitz” around the question
$125 clothing allowance for,
@orged service men and
n.
|Wannipes the LYF is pre-
=a youth program to fight
juency, while in Toronto it
oducting a “Salute to the
s campaign through which
mi; people can give active
rt to such projects as the
on of the $125 clothing al-
ce and the need for blood
Ss :
eenbers of the Toronto LYF
@also pledged themselves to
topies of the New Advance,
lal youth magazine, to
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groups have arzanged-a~full pro-
national war services director of the
gor YOuth Federation, who arriyed in Vancouver this week
“jnake an extended organizational tour of provincial points.

GRACE WALES

Labor-Youth Federation
groups are planning to hold a
special youth rally and confer-
ence, June 18, at which a pro-

vincial program will be laid
down.
Chinese-Canadian

Officers Named

The following executive was
elected at a meeting this week
of the newly-formed. Chinese
Progressive Club: Mor Cheo-lin,
president; Alfred Kwan, Chi-
hese secretary; Dale Dades, Ga-
Madian secretary; Harry Keen
and Jack Boyd, organizing di-
rectors; Ann tLew, education,
and Wong Do-soon, treasurer.

“They turned our fair

in human form. NOT

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Produce

Bill Downs,

a hell on earth. Now they are on the run—
these child-butchers, torturers, these beasts

OUR TERRIBLE VENGENCE!”

of the

Alexander Bovzhenko
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and smiling land into

ONE SHALL ESCAPE

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Ask $125 ©
Clothing -
Allowance

A resolution asking that the
clothing. allowance for members
of the Canadian forces be in-
creased from $65 to $125, “so
that our first class Canadian
fighters are not reduced to
wearing second hand clothes,”
Was passed at a symposium on re-
habilitation, sponsored by the
provincial Women’s council of the
Labor-Progressive Party in the
Boilermakers Hall last Sunday.

A second resolution urging
equal pay for men and women in
the services was also adopted.

Stating that “there must be a
reorientation of our social Sys-
tem if we are to have a proper re-
habilitation program,” Jack Hen-
derson, new provincial president
of the Canadian Legion, said:

>~ “The responsibility for re-
habilitation rests on the federal
government. Hvery man and
woman should be maintatined on
full allowance until they are re-
habilitated imto civilian life.

Tom A. Barnard, past pro-
vincial president of the Cana-
dian Legion, declared: “We
cannot rehabilitate men and
women in the services alone.
We must have a plan that is
both comprehénsive and all-
.embracing for the entire

country.”
_P. A. Lewis, provincial presi-
dent of the Army and Navy Vet-
erans of Canada, said that recon-
struction was necessary before
rehabilitation could be put into
effect.

“Soldiers today are workers in
uniform. . If we stay united we

ean be assured of security in Can-
ada,” declared Charles Stewart,
business agent for the Street
Railwaymen’s Union.

“The men and women of the
armed forces are looking to us
to guard their future interests,
and that is just what labor in-
tends to do.” Stewart described
present clothing allowances,
pensions and dependents allow-
ances as inadequate and: urged
that they. be increased.

Kayla Eglin, secretary of
the Women’s Council, pointed out
the necessity of increased health
and educational facilities in the
Dominion. Stating that “We are
on the threshold of an era never
before seen in history,” Miss. Eg-
lin suggested that a prognam: to
“build and construct” should be
Canada’s aim.

A telegram from Premier John
Hart to the meeting read, stated:
“T am in favor of an increase in
elothing allowance to those in the
service upon their discharge.”

Members of the audience signed
a petition to Prime Minister Mac-
Kenzie King, urging that the al-
lowance be increased to a mini-
mum of $125.

Among branches of the Labor-
Pregressive Party which have sent
resolutions to the federal govern-
ment urging that the clothing al-
lowance be raised to $125 are Kit-
silano and North Victoria.

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Books and People

by Kay Gregory

BASSE G of Lillian Smith’s novel STRANGE FRUIT, in Boston and
Cambridge, Mass., was recently followed by police department
action in Detroit, although the action has now been dropped.

Pollowing much the same procedure as in Boston, a Detroit police
sergeant inofrmed all local bookstores that they faced possible prose-

cution if they continued to sell the book, and a majority of bookstores
took the book off their shelves.

But in Detroit the police authorities reckoned without trade union
opposition. In this city the United Automobile Workers opened its
own bookstore last January and Allan Barahal, in charge of the store,
ignored the warning. His action was supported by UAWA officials,
who instructed their legal advisers to prepare to defend the shop
against any action arising from its refusal to obey the police depart-
ment’s “sugegestion.”

The publishers, Reynel and Hitchcock, announcing that they in-
tended to co-operate with the union, took large advertisements in the
Detroit Free Press and News, pointing out that the book could only
be obtained at the UAW store—it sold 750 copies in one week.

Publishers everywhere—to say nothing of all booklovers—regis-
tered protest against the United States’ Post Office’s order, later re=
scinded, banning STRANGE FRUIT from the mails, and the Book
Publishers Bureau forwarded a formal resolution to President Roose-
velt, declaring that “a free, literature is one of the basic foundations
of our whole Western democratic civilization,” recording “their dismay
and mistrust over the recent incursions into the field of literary
censorship by the Post Office Department of the United States.” They
expressed the “hope and expectation that no further interference of
this kind will be indulged in by the department.”

SETBENG rather amusing lawsuits have been started recently.
against authors and publishers of best-sellers. One: is against
Betty Smith, author of A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, and her pub-
lishers, Harp Brothers, by her cousin, Mrs. Sadie Gardner, who claims
she has been identified by her friends as the prototype of the novel’s
eccentrie character, Aunt Sissie.

Readers of the book will remember that Aunt Sissie had three hus-
bands, all of whom she called John regardless of What their names
were, and had eight stillborn children before she was 24, that she was
supposed to have committed bigamy and adultery and to have
stolen a Bible from a hotel room, and that she worked in a rubber
factory. :

Mrs. Gardner states that some facts about her own life lead people
to think she is Aunt Sissie. Her nickname from childhood was Sissie;
she had two husbands named John and four children who died between
the ages’ of 13 days and 21 months, and that she once worked in a
rubber factory. : -

Declaring that “she has been so shamed she fears to go out into
public,” Mrs. Gardner is suing for $250,000 on libel charges.

Another suit is for $30,000 damages against Mitta Shiber, author
of PARIS UNDERGROUND, by a Hungarian writer, Aladar A. Fark:
as, who claims he has not received sufficient credit as collaborator in

the writing of PARIS UNDERGROUND, which he declares he orig-
inally wrote in 1942 as “a work of fiction built around a 54-page typed
statement of Mrs. Shiber’s experiences in occupied France.”

PARIS UNDERGROUND was ‘a Book-of-the-Month selection last
October and a condensation of it appeared in Reader’s Digest. Both
led the reader to assume that the book was the sole worl of Etta
Shiber herself. : ;

HIS year’s Shakespearean festival ~ in England was_ prob-

ably unlike all other festivals ever held in historic Stratford-on-

Avon. This year everything was different—a new director, new. com-
pany, new method, and most notable, a new audience.

Stratford this year was made available to American troops on
short leave, and from the beginning of the festival they flocked to
the theater in thousands. Box office records have been far in ad-
vance of any peacetime performance.

Many of them went with no higher aim than to be able to tell
the folks back home that they have seen Shakespear’s play in his own
home town, but they found they really enjoyed the show and went
back for more.

Many of them travelled miles to hear a performance.
arrived after the house was sold out and pleaded to be let
they had come 200 miles.
them squeezed in somehow.

The birthday celebration, spread over three days with an anni-
versary performance of Hamlet, was made particularly enjoyable this
year by playing of U.S. Army bands, who put themselves at the

town’s disposal.
A NEW fund destined to encourage and discover new musical talent
is being established in the United States as a memorial to Sergei
Rachmaninov. Including many notable names in social and artistic
eircles, the committee has issued a statement of its aims: “To discover
and encourage exceptional talent in the three fields in which Rach_
maninovy was eminent; pianist, conductor and composer, and to help
cultural exchanges and understandings between the peoples of Russia
and America.”

Eventually the committee hopes that the Soviet government will
give its approval to a tour of the Soviet Union by the winner of the
contest. Similar contests may, too, be held in the Soviet Union, where-
by the winner would tour the U.S. at the same time as the American
Pianist was playing in the Soviet Union.

One party
in because
The management broke a bylaw and got