Nazi Fifth Column Att n Canada And United States

By TOM McEWEN

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AST week the U.S. Congress passed another substantial appropriation for the continuance of the Dies committee, investigating un-American activities. The committee will carry

on for another two years. In its study of “un-American activities”

the Dies committee mani-

fests its ultra-reactionary character by red-baiting and direction of the bulk of its main ac-

tivities against communism.

Its latest discovery, given at a time when the heroic Red Army and the Russian people are victoriously fighting the greatest battle of all time—for the entire civilized world, is that

there are twenty-nine high officials in the U.S. eovermment with

wards communism!”

Strangely enough the WDies Gommittee sees no elements in high or low places with fascist or pro-fascist ‘leanings,’ in spite of the fact that the Federal Bur- eau of Investigation has uprooted a whole number of nazi plotters in recent weeks operating in the USA and Latin-American coun- tries.

Gonsidering the recent Church- ill-Roosevelt Casablanca confer- ence, and the ‘grave decisions reached in that conference, suc- cess of which depends upon maintaining and strengthening the unity of the Allied Nations, particularly the unity of the three major powers—the United States, Britain and the USSR, it would seem to the layman that the greatest “un-American” activ- ity of all is the Dies Committee itself.

HE Dies committee and simi-

lar bodies constitute a bul- wark of reaction and retrogres- sion. To them the titanic strug- gle against Nazi barbarism is just another war, and their main con- cern is that at its conclusion the status quo of the old world— their world—will remain.

They dare not openly attack the Soviet Union because its smash- ing blows against German fas- cism have won the sympathy, support and admiration of men and women everywhere. So open- ly attacking this sympathy and admiration as being synonymous with communism, they render yeoman service to Hitler and un- dermine the fabric of unity among their own people.

We have pocket editions of the ‘Dies Committee” in our own country. Only recently the CBC banned Professor Watson Kirk- connell’s address to the Toronto Ganadian Club from the air, but the Toronto Globe and Mail car- ried an outline of this tlrade in which ten language papers of workers’ educational and cultural organizations were condemned as ‘communist poison.’

These papers, sa-d the professor, only support the war effort of Canada and the Allied Nations be- cause Russia is in it, but that their support is like a hitchhiker intending “to ride to the end of the trip and then slug the driver and steal the car.” The professor championed the UNO (Ukrainian Wationalist Organization) and similar pro-fascist outfits, as be- ing “loyal to Canada” and of be- ing attacked by the alleged ‘com- munist’ papers for their ‘loyalty.’ All of the activities of these lan- guage papers according to Kirk- connell are under the control of “Gomintern and Pan-Slay move- ments.”

It was a highly commendable action of the Canadian networks to bar this nazi filth from the air-waves, but the matter should not stop there. Professor iirkeonnell and those who fi- nance his pro-fascist activities should be interned under Sec. 394 of the Defense of Canada Regula- tions. If the RCMP who are en- trusted with the enforcement of the DOGR would demonstrate one half of the assiduity they essay when hounding and intimidating workers with anti-fascist or com- munist sympathies, the disruptive pro-nazi work of the Kirkcon- nelis and their ilk would be brought to a speedy end. But the cases of the Chaleaux, Car- riere, Francescini, etc., shows that in Canada also there are those with a Dies complex who are al- lowed to continue destroying na- tional unity without let or hind- rance.

f (ae eee in a transcon- tinental train some weeks ago I had a first-hand experience of the spreading of nazi poison. My fellow travellers were mostly RCAF boys and a few WAAF’s Splendid young men and women, intelligent, eager and confident of the power of the United Na- tions and of Canada to smash Hitler.

In our coach was a dapper gentleman, well groomed, oily in approach, anxious to converse, and emphatic in his ‘revealed’ opinions. In the course of three days’ travelling this sleek indiv- idual buttonholed a good any of the RCAF boys. Some listened out of poliiteness, other left him to himself as rapidly as good breeding would allow.

His theme was religion, but what a “religion!” Representing himself to be some high mogul in the British Israel movement, he would give his listeners some of the interpretative conclusions of British Israel in their studies of the Bible. That, of course, was his right as a citizen of any democracy, as it must be where freedom of conscience and wor- ship is the right of every individ- ual.

Not being conversant with the

philosophical premises upon which British Israel bases its “prophesies,” or how they may de-

termine ‘that they are ‘‘the chosen ones of the lost tribes of Israel,” we cannot debate the astrological, mathematical or other powers

they may possess in interpreting

Holy Scripture. But when these occult powers are brought into play to slander the USSR, to weaken the confidence and morale of our fighting forces, to

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emphatically argue and repeat again and again that “Stalin is the beast,” that “Stalin will be- tray the allies,” that “we will have to fight Russia when we finish with Hitler,” that the Book proves that “we can never trust Russia,” ete., ete., then it be- comes obvious that this is a ‘re- ligion’ of a new sort, which should have the immediate at- tention of the RCMP. Spreading this insidious propaganda (in it- self a mockery of every tenet of Christian religion) to men and women of the armed forces can only do irreparable harm to the morale and unity of the cause of the Allied Nations.

This method of causing disaf- fection among Canada’s active forces is none the less subversive because it is coated with the pious veneer of a dubious ‘religion.’ And it constitutes a monstrous Slander against the heroic Red Army and the Soviet people who are carrying the major share of the battle for the survival of civ- ilization.

NLY recently Fred Rose, au-

thor of “Fascism Over Can- ada,’ wrote another pamphlet, “Hitler’s Fifth Column in Que- bec.’ This pamphlet is a brilliant exposure of the ramifications of Nazi activities in French-Canada. Individuals, organizations, and a powerful French-Canadian press are cited in Rose’s pamphlet as the centre of Hitler's fifth col- umn base in Canada, It is a book of hard, revealing, disturbing facts.

Yet, to date, we haven’t heard of a single Nazi or pro-nazi or- ganization, or any section of the French-Canadian press engaged in the spreading of nazi propa- ganda even being chided by the RCMP, let alone being effectively eurbed.

Naturally

enough, the main

_smoke-sereen of these individu-

als and papers in carrying on their Nazi activities is redbaiting, opposition to Canada’s war effort, and slander of the USSR. That of course is also Hitler’s excuse and that of his axis allies for the devastation of Europe — ‘saving Europe from Bolshevism.’

There may be a wide ideologi- cal division between a Kirkcon- nell, the “Knights of Jacques Car- tier,’ a mogul of British Israel, or others who utilize redbaiting to cover up their nefarious work.

Despite the differences from which their ideas stem, the sum- total of their pro-Hitler work is Subversive of Canada’s best in- terests and serves only the ene- mies of Canada. They are Can- ada’s fifth column.

Chinese Set Print Reeor

[yes workers in the Eighth Route Army printshc Yenan, capital of the Shensi-Kansu+Ningshia Be Region, recognizing the importance of education in the against Japanese fascism, have established a new reco

typesetting in China. According to a report from the Yenan Printing Workers Union, appearing in Sin Hua Jih Pao, Bighth Route Army newspaper in Chungking, they set 3,000,000 characters last month, 900,000 more than the record established last year by the Commercial

Press in Shanghai, largest print- ing plant in the country.

About 10,000 characters are re- quired to print an average Chin- ese newspaper.

This record was possible “only because of the determination of the workers, the recent improve- ment in their living conditions, and their system of inter-depart- mental production competitions,” the secretary of the Printing Workers said.

Over thirty members of the union last month were awarded the title of “labor hero” by the Border Government. The Border Region, by agreement with the central government in Chungking, is under the administrative con- trol of the Eighth Route Army.

There can be no comparison be- tween the advanced tools and technique of the Commercial Press and those in our primitive shop,” the union secretary said. “In the type foundry attached to the shop the elderly worker Pei Ming-fu, observing the lack of work in his own section, mobilized his fellow workers Wang Shushi-

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ung, Feng Liaosen and Yan; || hshou to switch over to c™ melting. For days on end ~ worked in the midst of ch smoke and hot vapor. In an. they had melted close to hundred catties of copper. T by they gained their titles ¢. bor heroes.

“Workers in the enue shop have many other acl. ments to their credit. WN paper has been made a sul substitute for the unavailabir ported product. Cardboard ij ing made to substitute for slugs. These are all the re of hard-thinking and experi ing by our heroes of labor”

Similar production gains being made by workers in pri ly-owned plants in the B Region. Lin Peich’u, chairm:: the Border government, rec” outlined the following labor icy as a basis for pcre duction:

“Workers must carry out contracts with private empl and uphold labor discipline; ]j conditions must be improved eight-hour day must be rele; as an ideal for the future. present war circumstances 7 the ten-hour day necessary; / union organization must strengthened; popular edue must be developed so labor become the base for anti-Je ese democratic government!

British Workers Reply To Bridges

LONDOD

4 [ee open letter addressed to “Mr. and Mrs. England

Harry Bridges, president of the International Longst men’s and Warehousemen’s Union (CIO), has aroused | interest among British workers. In this letter, publishe the Jan. 29 issue of the ILWU Dispatcher, Bridges ass that “so far as we know the British workers and pe haven’t expressed themselves on whether or not they i

freedom for India now, as against some vague time in the future’; that “many British ships calling at U.S. ports for lend-lease sup- plies are manned by non-union crews”; that British trade unions have a ‘stuck-up attitude in re- fusing to deal with anyone but -the AFI on international trade union problems.”

Replying to the first charge, Harry Adams, president of the powerful Amalgamated Union of Building Trades Workers, told Allied Labor News: “I would like Brother Bridges to know that I and thousands of other British workers feel that our Indian comrades are entitled to the same measure of freedom as we demand for ourselves.

“We are continually pressing for action on this.

“As evidence, I would refer Brother Bridges to the mass meetings held all over England last month to demand freedom for India. I wish he could have

seen the huge rally a few ago at the London Gol which climaxed India Week,

Qn the question of Britis bor's “‘stuck-up attitude,” A declared: “As one who re unity of allied labor abovy else as an essential basis fo tory over fascism and the ing of a new world order in ° there will be economic ant itical fredom for all, I can indicate that large masses 0 tish workers favor dealing the CIO and all other Unite tions trade union groups, put exception, on an equal of friendship.”

Adams expressed concel Bridges’ statement that British crews carrying lease supplies are non-unii suggest that the Interna Longshoremen’s Union off communicate with the Ef Seamen’s Union in order * in elimating qQon-unionism said.