. Assembly is sponsoring a concert

rons with peace doves stenciled on

Peace concert,

bazaar fo be
held October 6

In commemoration of Internatio-
nal Peace Day the Vancouver Peace

and bazaar Friday, October 6, 2.30
pm. to 11 p.m. at the Swedish
Community Hall, 1320 East Hast-
ings. Proceeds will be used to help
send two B.C. delegates. to the
World Peace Congress to be held in
Sheffield, England, November 13-17.

Many fine articles have been
made by members of the Peace As-
sembly to sell at the bazaar: hook-
ed rugs, carved wooden jamps, ap-

them, and other attractive items.
Bazaar booths will be well stocked
with toys, handiwork, pottery,
white elephants, home cooking,
books and products from flower
and vegetable gardens.

At 3.80 p.m. there will be special
entertainment for the kiddies. An-
other feature will be the taking of
candid camera shots. Burnaby

Canadian Jewish

2675 Oak Street,

J. GERSHMAN
Joseph Gershman, editor of the

speak on the war in Korea at a
public meeting to be held this
coming Sunday, October 1, at 8
p.m. at the Community Center,
Gershman is
touring western Canada and his

Growing concern over the need
the Canadian Congress of Labor

a coordinating committee.

Rank-and-file seeking
action on wage front,
CCL executive hedges

By MEL COLBY
for a national coordinated
convention here this week
succeeded in sending back a substitute wage resolution which

WINNIPEG
wage drive was reflected at
when rank-and-filers almost
did not specifically establish

There is no doubt that the motion
to refer back by Muni Taub (Fur
and Leather Workers) would have
carried if the CCL leadership had}
not thrown United Auto Workers’
director George Burt into the
breach to argue against a co-ordi-
nating committee on the grounds
that it would be ineffective because |
union contracts expired at varying
dates.

At the same time Burt was ob-
liged to recognize the sentiment

against Con
the floor to

will

declaration
written in

John Kurchak (Local 252, UAW)
demanded to know if the CCL
executive would ask the conven-
tion to endorse Franco since the
anti-Communist ~ section of ‘ the

anti-Communist center which is
preparing to endorse Franco.”

gress policy but gave
ten defenders.

“sounds as if it was
Washington, a main

still continuing when he hurriedly -
put the question to the convention.

sion was the main business before |
the convention on the opening ses-

. 8561 (evenings); or Mrs. C. Marks,

Peace Committee is having a gift
booth, and North Vancouver Peace
Committee is sponsoring a novel
sale of gift articles made by mem-
bers and friends, to be sold un-
opened, in their original mailing
wrappings,

The ladies’ branch of the Asso-
ciation of Ukrainian Canadians will
serve an “international supper” be-
tween 5.30 and 7.00 p.m.

An evening concert, with John
Goss in the chair, will provide a
varied program: peace films, solos,
and singing by the Labor Youth
chorus; and a “news round-up” of
world peace activities by Mrs. Hil-
ary Brown. Refreshments will be
served following the concert.

Admission is 50 cents and entit-
les the bearer to attend both after-
noon and evening programs. Tick-
ets are obtainable at the Vancou-
ver Peace Assembly Office, 144 W.
Hastings, MA. 9958. The office is
open daily from 11 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.

Anyone wishing to donate arti-
cles to the bazaar should phone the
VPA office; Mrs. W. Turner, CH.

TA. 3254 (daytime).

Millard receives
setback in steel
slander charge

HAMILTON

The Millord-Sefton clique receiv-
ed another setback here last week
when a membership meeting of
steelworkers local 3235 voted to
throw out a trial committee , re-
commendation against Arthur Lav-
erty, a member of the local, for
criticizing the union raiding poli-
cies of the union leadership. The
committee had further recommend-
ed that if Laverty should commit
such a “crime” again he would be
Suspended from the union. Out of
a meeting of 50 members, only five
supported the trial committee’s pro-
Posals,

Charges of slander against La-
verty arose following a meeting in
Port Colborne called by the Niagara
United Labor Committee in early

_ July to protest steel union raiding
of Mine-Mill. At this meeting, La-
verty criticized union raiding in
general, and in particular his union
raiding policies against Mine-Mill.
He said the leadership in steel was
neglecting its own locals while en-
8aged in raiding other unions.

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EAST END

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INSURED

lecture here is being sponsored
by the Vancouver section of the
United Jewish People’s Order.

He will speak in English.

Stand for peace
faken by Typos

Rank-and-file members of the In-
ternational Typographical Union in
Vancouver are expressing satisfac-
tion at the forthright stand for
peace taken by delegates to the
recent ITU convention in Washing-
ton.

In spite of hysterical redbaiting
and war speeches by labor and gov-
ernment officials, the delegates
went on record as “endorsing all
efforts for world peace’ and “to
put an end to hot and cold wars.”

The convention delegates also re-
affirmed their determination “to
help preserve and extend the tra-
ditional rights of labor and of the
common’ people, and strongly con-
demn any type of discrimination
based on race, religion, or political
beliefs. ;

The peace resolution noted that
“the overwhelming majority of the
people throughout the world desire
peace” but that “there are a hand-
ful of people who wish for and at-
tempt to foment wars because of
the profit therein for themselves.”

It endorsed “all efforts for world
peace” and urged “President Tru-
man and Secretary of State Ache-
son to work out specific methods
and means with the heads of all

other governments, through the
United Nations, to put an end to
cold and hot wars, so that our

country may continue to grow and
prosper through the blessing of an

down below and urged the dele-
gates to “go back to your local
unions and don’t ask for, but de-
mand, that contracts be reopened
and wages raised.” :

The debate on wages saw CCL
secretary-treasurer Pat Conroy seize
on that serious issue as another
excuse for red-baiting by declaring
that the original coordinating com-
mittee had been disbanded because
“Communist dominated unions had
tried to make the committee ridi-
culous.”

The motion to refer back was
supported by the entire delegation
from UAW Local 199 which was
among those unions whose original
resolutions demanded coordinated
action, :

Elroy Robson (CBRE), while sup-
porting the declaration, warned.
that “we should. not allow our anti-
Communist attitude to go to the
length where some people will take
our attitude as the okay to enact
vepressive legislation which will
endanger the labor movement. We
should not go too far.”

Two days of convention debate
showed that the CCL leadership,
although confident of its ability to
marshal votes was not completely
certain of the rank-and-file. The
executive was especially touchy on
the rail issue, leaping to Mosher’s
defence on several occasions when
criticism was voiced from the floor.

That the expulsion of the United
Electrical, Radio and Machine

The convention’ passed a resolu-
tion demanding price control and
heard William Stewart (Boilermak-
ers) warn that such a campaign
must be conducted hand-in-hand
with a wage drive “because we
can’t accept price controls as a sub-
stitute for wages.”

CCL delegates heard the execu-
tive’s “Declaration of Positive
Economic Philosophy” condemn-
ed by Fur and Leather Workers’
director as “the philosophy of
monopoly capitalism.” Haddow
was referring to the fact that
the economic section of the so-
called declaration is a jumble of
pious platitudes designed to per-
mit the CCL leadership to duck
real issues.

Condemning both “capitalism”
and “communism”, it is designed
to deepen the division in the labor
movement, while its first section
repeats every anti-Soviet red-bait-
ing slander to be found in the most
reactionary press.

During debate, CCL president A.
R. Mosher threatened to “throw
out” opponents of the policy state-
ment when many rank-and-éilers
insisted on the floor, He permitted

enduring peace.”

only | three delegates to argue

Workers Union has not gone down
well was reflected in a 15-minute
“explanation” Mosher made _ the
following morning when he at-
tempted to defend his ruling that
the motion for expulsion was not
debatable.

Mosher had scrapped the CCL
when he autocratically ruled that
debate would not be permitted on
the motion providing for expulsion
of the UE.

The show of hands vote which
eventually followed was partici-
pated in by only some 25 percent
of the delegates, the rest either
abstaining or waiting the oppor-
tunity to oppose the motion. A
large section of CBRE and UAW
delegates abstained from voting.
Between 75 and 100 delegates op-
posed the motion.

Mosher’s ruling that the motion
was not debatable caused bedlam
on the floor with delegates chal-
lenging his ruling, accusing the
Congress executive of being “afraid
to debate” the issue. One delegate
even called Mosher a “liar” when
the CCL president said his ruling
was constitutionally correct. These
challenges were shozited over
Mosher’s gavel pounding and were

HAS PLANS FOR ANTI-DEMOCRATIC POLISH ARMY

TORONTO
General Wladyslaw Anders, fas-
cist Polish general notorious for
his anti-Semitic atrocities, was to
climax a visit tq Canada and the
U.S. with a conference this week
with President Truman, He has
been living in Italy and England
since establishment of a democra-
tic government in Poland made his
return to that country impossible.
Purpose of Anders!’ cfnference
with Truman was to discuss the
possibility of creating an anti-de-
mocratic Polish army within the
framework of the Atlantic pact.
Anders commanded the Polish
Second Corps. Because of his pro-
Nazi views he treacherously pull-
ed his army out of the fighting with
Germany and fied to Ivan.
After the war, in his postwar
camps at Bari, Italy, he added 30,-
000° ex-Nazi officers and men to

811 E. HASTINGS ST.

his army, thus giving protection to

Fascist general visiting Canada

Hitlerite murderers of the Jews.

Among these were Dr. Wlady-
slaw Dering, named on the inter-
national list of war criminals for
having performed surgical “experi-
ments” on living human beings in
the horror camp of Auschwitz;
Henry Gutman, head of three Nazi
concentation camps in Austria and
Father Isydor Nazbajewski, former
chaplain in a renegade Ukrainian
SS division, notorious’ for its crimes
against the Jews.

Trials of pogromists held by
the Polish People’s Republic in
1947 and 1948, proved that such
massacres of the Jews as that at
Kielce in 1947 were inspired by
Anders’ headquarters and other
fascist remnants inside Poland.
Agents of Anders were shown te
have smuggled anti-Semitic pro-
paganda as well as arms and
funds into Poland.

for the
even to

Anders responsibility

death of Jews extended
Jewish Palestine. —

On September 10, 1946, Oliver Pi-
lat wrote in the New York Post:
“Officers formerly associated with
Gen. Anders’ Second Polish Army
Corps are adding fuel to the raciai
fires in Palestine, according to re-
ports reaching the Washington
headquarters of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine.”

Anders’ fascist army had been
evacuated from Italy for resettle-
ment in Britain. About 10,000 went

the new democratic Poland.

But Anders’ men were removed
from Palestine after a series of
pogroms against the Jews in Re-
hovoth, and when the Jewish au-
thorities warned that they would
not . guarantee Anders’ men

grave and dignified manner in
which he

to Palestine rather than return to

The UE’s appeal of its suspen-

sion. UE leaders, all powerful floor
speakers, were deprived of the right
to present the appeal, but rank-
and-filer George Aldridge of UE
Local 521 won the respect and com-
plete attention of delegates by the

read the 34-page brief
which contained the arguments
buttressing the union’s appeal
against suspension,

Aldridge received spontaneous ~
bursts of applause when he reach-
ed the section of the appeal which
dealt with the railway strike and
which bluntly charged that “the
working people of Canada must
have been thoroughly disgusted at
the press photographs which show-
ed President Mosher doing a glee-
ful jig when the government
brought down its strike-breaking
legislations.”

“The railroad workers,” the ap-
peal emphasized, “can still win
the victory which the government
seeks to prevent. This conven-

refuse to meet the full and just
demands of the workers.” =

The UE brief exposed, by quoting
the CCL constitution, that the —
charge of non payment of per capi- —
ta tax had been cooked up by the
Congress executive as an illegal
excuse for suspending the union, a
major critic of CCL policy. :

The brief contained documented ©
exposures of the CCL leadership’s
retreat all down the line on the ~
question of the need for a fight on —

the wage front. It exposed the role
being played by the CCL leader-
ship in attempting to tie the Con- —
gress membership to the St. Lau-
rent government’s war plans on be-—
half of Washington,- and then
bluntly said that the only reason —
the UE had been suspended (and ©
was in danger of expulsion) was
because the CCL top brass wanted _
to rid itself of those who are criti-

eal of policies not in the best in- _
terest ot the labor movement.

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DOUGLAS

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