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Lenin Memorial meeting
to be held on January 22

Vancouver’s 1950 Lenin Memorial Meeting, commemorating
the 26th anniversary of the death of the great leader of the 1917
revolution, will be held Sunday evening, January 22, in Pender
Auditorium.

An interesting musical program has been arranged, featuring
the Rigsian choir and the Ukrainian orchestra, plus a variety of
musical numbers. This part of the program is under the direction
oi the Ryerson club of the Labor-Progressive party.

Maurice Rush, LPP provincial organizer, will be the main
speaker, and will cover the highlights of Lenin’s life and work,
his profound influence on the lives of millions of people; relating:
this to the st&iggle for Canadian independence today, and the
fight for peace an jobs.

Labor-Vet group
urges cash relief
for unemployed

Cash relief for unemployed, to be paid out through the Unemploy-
ment Insurance Commission, is the demand which will be wired to
Prime Minister St. Laurent this week following a meeting at noon
Wednesday of the Labor-Veterans Committee in the new Vocational

Technical School.

Invited to the meeting were two representatives of the Unemployed

Action Association, William Gee and Frank White, who described the

jobless crisis in the city. Also
present, as a guest, was F. W.
Smelts, chairman of the regional
Labor Relations Board.

The resolution to St. Laurent
will be drafted by a committee
of one representative from each
labor council, one from the Can-
adian Legion and one from the
Unemployed. Action Association.
The Labor-Vets committee also
decided that delegates from the
UAA would be seated at all fu-
‘ture meetings.

Failing a satisfactory reply
from the federal government,
Vancouver’s unemployed - intend

to stir public sympathy for their.
plight by marching through the
Streets carrying placards — de-
manding cash relief or jobs.

At a meeting of the executive
of the Unemployed Action Asso-
ciation later the same day, it. was
decided to write city council re-
questing permission to hold a tag

day in Vancouver January 28 to
help relieve jobless members who
are in acute distress.

There are approximately 40,-
000 unemployed in Vancouver and
mote than 50,000 jobless
throughout the province. With
layoffs mounting, the provincial
figure may jump to between 60,-
000 and 70,000 within the next
month.

Across Canada the picture is
equally’ distressing. Following
sharp prodding by TLC president
Percy Bengough and CCL head
Aaron Mosher, federal authorities
have admitted that some 300,000
Canadians are out of work. In
Montreal alone there are 45,000
jobless.

Mosher and Bengough referred
to the present unemployment cri-
sis as “a national emergency”
and demanded that Ottawa put
into operation the public works
projects promised in Liberal pre-
election pledges.

Boilermakers vote to
bar Kuzych 979-28

Members of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Unio turned

“thumbs down’”’

on Myron Kuzych’s attempt to force his way back

into the union by voting 979 to. 28 Saturday against readmission.
President William White, who along with union secretary William

Stewart spent a day at Oakalla jail on a

for failing to act on a court de-
cision to re-admit Kuzych until
the membership judged the case,

declared that the decisive ‘“no”
vote “completely vindicates the
action of the executive in that

they were carrying out the wish-
es of the membership.”

White and Stewart were re-
leased from jail after the Court
of Appeal granted a stay of the
committal order. Their
will be heard some time this
month.

' Mr. Justice Whittaker’s action
in awarding Kuzych $5000 dam-
ages against the union has en-
couraged another individual to
start a suit against the Boiler-
makers. Eric Swanson, welder,
176° Powell, is seeking damages

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appeal

“contempt of court’’ charge

‘against the union for allegedly

preventing him from obtaining
employment during the last four
years, :

Swanson is one of thousands
of shipyard workers whose job
terminated when the industry
went into a slump after V-J day.

Mr, Justice Woods commented
that he was not so sure that he
was in favor of employers firing

"aman with a wife and family to

take on Swanson.
Witnesses. called

Swanson’s claim

they -had also been laid off

when work slackened following

the end of the war with Japan,

but had gone to other jobs.
The case is continuing.

to support

14*** THE VANCOUVER SUN: Tuesday, Nov. 29, 1949

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Dut soviet Russia discovered tha
) religion. Pressure was eased during
ithin limits.

GQD WON'T STAY UNDERGROUND

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persecution defeats its end when practised against
the war years and “freedom” of worship permitted,

e : e 7 : e e.
ussias War on Religion
Fails to Win Masses Over

This is f
Walter Bede Smith’s réport on his three years in Moscow.
By @T..GEN. WALTER BEDELL SMITH
(Sopyright by Walter Bedell Smith)

Great issueof religious freedom still are unresolved in
the Soviet Union&but seen at first hand the staying power

he 17th installment of former U.S. Ambassador *

chate of Moscow was given
governmental permission and co-
operation for the publication of
a book, “The Truth About Reli-
gion,” that pledged loyalty to the

Soviet cause and denied Ppersecu-:

tinn af. 4h -~L---2

Sun forges anti-Soviet picture

testified that ~

“God won't stay underground” says the heading
over above article on Russia written by Lieut-Gen-

eral Walter Bedell Smith, who was U.S. ambassador
to the USSR for three years.

cyclopedia (p. 60).

The correct title reads:
typical peasant family are here learning: about the
new order of things, Notice the newspaper. Before

“Three generations of a

the revoluticn very few peasants were able to read.

The picture is labelled “Collective farmers at-
tend a meeting of the League of the Godless in Mos-
cow.” God have mercy. There is no misstatement
too lew for the touts of the modern red witch hunt.
No position too high to prostitute for their ends, No,

not even the position of ambassador. ‘The heading

Today illiteracy is being ee as the. Russians
say, that is, abolished.”

Somewhere in the deal the newspaper part of
the pictutve was clipped.

over the picture reads: “The Rus-

‘sian peasant goes to school.” Maybe certain authors

Here are the facts: the picture is from the col-
lection of Ewing Gallery, New York. It was used
by the Grolier Society in 1935 to illustrate the sup-

ing, “Thou shalt
plement to the 1936-36-37 issue of the Children’s En- :

neighbor.”

should go to schoo] too. Even one day a week, Sun-
day. They might read about a commandment say-

not bear aelie witness Senior thy

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