| These kids are playing “train”’ ters children of Soviet railway wor i donated by railroad brotherhood

h recently received at the home.

outside the special orphanage near Moscow which

kers killed in the war. Clothing and other relief sup- s, AFL and CIO unions through Russian War Relief

ypert Labor-Progressives Open ideral Election Campaign

PMINICE RUPERT B.C As the opening m-ampaign in the Skeena Federal riding, ge Rupert's daily newspapers and now bei

sible comment in the north.

gun in a fighting Labor Progressive elec- the following statement, carried in both of ng mailed throughout the riding, has evoked

Wtriotic Canadians will view -eep regret the fact that at § ucial hour in the Huropean ) has become necessary for s Minister Kine to state that tion date will be announced eto April 17,7? commented

Mickleburgh, WLabor-Pro- (ye candidate for Skeena | on receipt of news of Mr. — statement. :

wh the well-being of fu- peuerations being forged at ‘heat before our eyes, one B think anybody containing 8 < of concern for the future jaanity would wish to con- Bie every last ounce of Bch behind the death blows

period.

this

candidate,

Parliament if they can possibly, Prevent it have compelled the calling of a general election.”

CHALLENGES ARCHIBALD “At the outset of this cam- Faign, I wish to publicly chal- lenge LAC Archibald, the CGF to get on the same platform as myself for the pur- pose of discussing fearlessly and openly before Prince Rupert the question of how to secure jobs and rising living standards in the postwar

workers of

“The action of the Tories in placing a candidate in the field in Skeena will give the people of

jing dealt Nazi Germany,”’ inmued.

ortunately there appear politicans who would ra- yght Mackenzie King than Hitler. For some months 2 CCF and the Tories have mmpetinge: with each other who would wring the most packenzie Kins yotes out of YS So-called manpower

ER UNITY

6s has been paralleled by. Pfforts to shatter unity by ‘ng; industrial disputes, as fase of the BCER in Van- aided and abetted by the continuous incitement of kers to strike.

pay-off is the diseusting on in the Grey North by- i. Here the reckless anti- Bnent attacks of CCF and rusans, and their refusal w Defence Minister Mc-

riding the opportunity to give this party the trouncing it deserves. Efforts now being made to line up certain Liberals be- hind the Tory campaign will, it is hoped meet with rebuff, since such action would benefit nei- ther the liberals nor the people of Skeena.

LABOR PARTNERSHIP

“The self-seeking politicians have started it, and the labor movement, of which the Labor- Progressive Party is an integral part, will finish it. Out of this election will come a Taberal- labor coalition government, in which for the first time in Can- ada’s history labor will hold part= nership.”

Meanwhile the Prince Rupert Labor-Progressive Club is taking. immediate steps to get its elec- tion machinery into high gear and an early conference of the Skeena Constituency Council of the LPP is scheduled to appoint a full-time campaign manager.

The Conservatives managed to

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get together enough die-hards to held a nominating convention in Rupert Friday evening. One for- lorn delegate appeared from Ocean Falls, but outside of him there- was no representation from any points in this 150,000 square- mile constituency .save Prince Rupert.

Previous attempts to scrape to- gether gatherings of Pro-Gons had failed to muster a quorum. Perhaps the presence and efforts of one of John Bracken’s high- pressure (and high paid!) lieu- tenants was responsible for the twenty-five who decided to nomi- nate Major R. T. Harvey, old Tory wheelhorse now overseas, noted for fathering the City Man- ager plan which was décisively. smashed by all sections of the people in the 1942 Civic Elections.

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A Petition Ca

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In For Referendum

- Petition asking for referendum ballot on removal of con-

| tentious ‘‘anti-Communist” t | Woodworkers of America constitution will be immediately

clauses in the International

called in, Jack Greenall, IWA District No. 1 secretary, an-

nounced this week. The

will be sent to the international

|officers who will order the re-

ferendum if sufficient names are received,

Decision to call in petitions was made following action of IWA international board meet- ing last week in passing, by a small majority, motion to sus- pend two locals in Washington State which refused to expel two members on instructions from late International President Worth lLowery. Lowery issued the instructions following un- seating of the two as delegates by the recent annual convention in Vancouver, after a long-drawn out debate in which the self- named “White Bloc” conducted a vicious red-baiting campaign.

ADMINISTRATOR

The suspended locals, which are to be placed under control of an administrator appointed by. their. District Council, are 2-46

jin Bellingham and 2-75 in Ly-

man. The two men involved are William “Red” Wallace of 2-4 and Ralph Nelson of 2-75. :

Karly Larson, president of Dictrict No. 2, and a member of Local 2-75 attended the inter- national board meeting to pres- ent the position of the two lo- cals. This position, on which was based the unanimous decision of both locals not to expel the two members, was that they could not constitutionally take such ac- tion without holding a trial. They were willing to hold such trial

petitions have been widely circu- ‘|lated in several IWA districts in |the USA as well as in B.G., and

Soviet Films For Red Army Week

Highlight for all MOovie-Foers _ and particularly for those inter- ested in Soviet films, will be Van- couver’s first Soviet Film Festi- val scheduled to commence at the Paradise Theatre on Feb. 19. The festival will run for a whole week in commemoration of the 2i%th anniversary of the found- ing of the Red Army, and will be very timely indeed when seen against the backeround of that army’s sledge-hammer blows on the last Nazi formations before Berlin.

On Monday and Tuesday, the “Gypsies” and “Three Women”

will be shown, on Wednesday and Thursday, “Baltic Deputy” and “Peter the First,” on Friday and Saturday, “Chapayeyv” and “Country Bride,” two features being presented on each pro- gram. The writer has seen five of the above pictures and can say that they are not only excellent entertainment (the cream of So- viet film production throughout the years), but at the same time throw a light-on the forces that were at work creating the power- ful and_ stable Soviet State of today; which is something for which not only the Soviet people but progressive people all over

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