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release

—Story on Back Page

WILLIAW STEWART

WILLIAM WHITE

Just 24 hours after they were
jailed for “contempt of court”,
union Jeaders William L. White
and William Stewart regained »
their freedom after a stay of
preceedings was granted, pend-
ing an appeal. They wéte com-
mitted to Oakalla for failure to
issue a union card to an expell-
ed member, Myron Kuzych. The
Boilermakers’ union member-
ship will decide the status of
Kuzych by referendum vote
January 7. °

‘This morning my radio was blaring, ‘All I Want For Christmas
Is My Two Front Teeth.” Well, I have my two front teeth, and all
I want for Christmas is a steady job at decent wages, which I believe
evefy Canadian is entitled to.”

In these words Fred Collins, unemployed seaman, summed up the
feeling of everyone attending a meeting on unemployment at the Fish-

ermen’s Hall on Wednesday afternoon—a meeting which took steps
to organize Vancouver’s thousands of jobless citizens by setting up the
Unemployed Action Association as a membership organization.

“We seek the broadest united action on behalf of the unemployed,”

Soviet leader 70 on December 21

CHRISTMAS BOX
AT GOOD WAGES

said chairman Bill Gee. “We are willing to cooperate with every
union body or other organization which fights for jobs, higher unem-
ployment insurance benefits, and cash relief for unemployed workers not
eligible for these benefits.”

.
At the same time the newly formed group made it clear that its
members have little regard for committees on unemployment which refuse
to take action in defense of the unemployed. “It was our recent dele-
gation to city hall which brought the jobless crisis into the public arena,”
Continued on page 7
See JOBLESS

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Stalin peace prize established

From. Moscow this week the presidium of the Supreme Soviet an-
nounced it was establishing a Stalin peace prize to be awarded on
December 21 each year to citizens of any nation for outstanding achieve-
ment in the cause of peace and in the struggle against the warmongers.

This was the signal honor the Soviet government and people paid
to a great leader, Premier Joseph Stalin, as they celebrated his 70th
birthday on December 21. And throughout the world working men
and women, struggling to create a new socialist society out of the de-
struction of the last war, or fighting against the imperialist advocates of
a new war to bring that society into being, sent their messages and their
greetings to the man whose name has become inseparably linked with
their strivings for peace.

Announcement of the new peace award was coupled with another
simple statement that the presidium of the Supreme Soviet had awarded
the Order of Lenin to Stalin for ‘*exceptional services’? in strengthening
and developing the construction of communism in the Soviet Union,
organizing the rout of the German fascist invaders and the Japanese
imperialists, and strengthening the national economy in the postwar
period. :

The Stalin Peace Prizes, it was stated, will be awarded annually

to between five and ten persons selected by a special committee which
will include among its members citizens of various nations. This com-
mittee will announce on December 21 each year the names of those to
whom the prizes, each carrying a value of 100,000 roubles, are being
awarded.
: Celebrations of Stalin’s 70th birthday throughout the Soviet Union
have become a tremendous demonstration of a people welded from many
nationalities to hasten the material conditions which will enable them to
pass from socialism to the higher stage of communism. In factories and
farms, every sphere of Soviet economic life, workers have engaged in a
great campaign of socialist emulation to increase output, to speed con-
struction, by December 21.

Greetings and gifts, many of them the product of mass popular
efforts, have been sent to Moscow from the New Democracies and other
countries. In France, letters, verses, drawings and signatures, poured
into the offices of the editorial committee which prepared a Golden
Book to be sent to Stalin. In Czechoslovakia, nearly 10,000,000
people signed a message of greeting entitled, “With Stalin, for peace,
socialism and the happiness of our people.”

SUPE RENEE

PREMIER JOSEPH STALIN

MEE MEER NECN N NEN IEP ENE MEN IENEME YENENENENENEEEENNNE NIEI IE EI I

A merry Christmas to our readers

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