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From D-Day To V-Day

OR more than a week now, our brave Can- adian boys together with their courageous

ritish, American and French comrades-in-arms ‘have been battling on, the soil of France. The Western Front is on to join the Eastern, Front held by the valiant Soviet forces in liberating the Continent and bringing the European war to a victorious conclusion. If the initial success have been easier than expected, this but bears witness to the colossal “injuries which the Red Army has inflicted on the common enemy during ‘three years of war

in the East, and’ proves again that the Nazi |

-opaganda about the “impregnability” of the

western wall” was as false as Stalingrad prov- ed the Nazi propaganda about the “invincibil- ity’ of Hitler’s “Wehrmatcht” to be false.

But let this not create any complacency. As our leaders have warned us, the heavy fighting is just about to begin, the real test is yet to come. Without doubting for a moment that victory will ultimately be ours, let us soberly understand that it will take everything we've got.

_ With complete confidence in our military and. political leaders, let us pledge that we shall do everything in our power to back them up until victory is won.

; © CANAD has never yet seen such a wave of solidarity, of patriotism, of unity, as swept Over our country during this past week as our boys were sweeping over the sandy beaches of Normandy. :

The legions of Iabor have risen to the ccasion in a surge of fighting determination to saicrease production, to sweep aside all obstacles and smash all strike provocations, to stand in battle formation on the home front even as our sons and brothers are standing on the fighting fronts. x

The sowers of discord and distrust, the provokers -of strikes, the ghouls who seek sel- fish partisan advantage out of the nation’s dif- ficulties, the rats who would gnaw away the ties that bind us to our allies—all that defeatist

crowd stands exposed in the glare of the reali- ties of the Second Front.

There are great problems to be solved if Canada is to give her best to the Second Front, some of which—-such as the manpower problem —-are already upon us. The government alone cannot solve them. No party alone can solve

them. It will take the combined efforts of the ~

whole Canadian people—and labor's role will be decistve—to do the job. :

There can be only one dividing line in our country at this time: those who work to speed the victory and those who are for helping Hitler.

Every -issue can be decided only on one

basis: will it help, to win the war? ©

S the Ontario LPP message on D-Day elo-

guently put it: ae

“No petty selfish interest; not a single parti- San impulse; not a temptation to put small things above the greater, must be permitited to turn us from our task—to help unite labor

and the people behind he battle of Europe and

for the new world which Teheran has made possible of achievement.”

To this we all stand pledged!

AS Renesade

HIS week thé shipyard workers once again offered ample evidence to Malcolm Bruce and his ABW clique that the disruptive policies of

a renegade from the bona-fide labor movement can find no’ support among honest workers I¢ Bruce had not turned his back upon his’ own labor record he would not find himself in the unenviable position he now occupies where he is spurned by those who at one time looked upon him as a leader of labor in Vancouver.

‘He now adopts the unprincipled methods:

of struggle against which he spoke and wrote for many years—the methods of all working class renegades who set themselves against the workers and who eventually end in political obscurity unheralded and unsung.

OLLOWING 1s the text of a radio address given over station C J OR, Van- couver, on Monday, June 12, by Hal Griffin, editor of The People and LPP candidate for New West- nunster.

TONIGHT I want to discuss

a question which is already the subject of heated controver-- sy in the press and on the pub- lic platiorm—the question of the future of the Japanese in Canada. Because of the cam- paign conducted by a small but Noisy minority this question threatens to obscure the real issues now confronting all of us who lool: to a postwar period of economic security and democratic advance, and this-is precisely the danger. As I pointed out in a recent edit- orial in The People condemning the stand taken on this question by.

Angus MacInnis, GCE member for Vancouver Hast:

“The question of the Japanese in Canada, long the resort of re_ actionary politicians in this province, is once again being: raised out of all proportion to its importance in an effort to divide’ the people . . : :

“The most important consid- eration now is that this question shall not be allowed to distract the working people from the major tasks of war and *peace and that it shall not be allowed to divert them from the need of _ uniting their forces to accom- plish these tasks. The question of the future disposal of the 25,000 Japanese in Canada is not

‘a Major issue in the next elect.

ion, The question of the future

social and economic securi ara Beers &s i curity of newspapers, but ¢

Canada’s eleven and a half mitt lion people is a major issue.”

Hiver since the first Japanese were. broyght to this province around the turn of the-century the question of their status has agit- ated British Columbia polities. Self-seeking politicians have used the issue to cover up their own lack of constructive policies. Indeed, many of them have sueceeded in maintaining themselves in office by their adriot use of it.

And now, if the -recent inflam- matory remarks made by Hon. Ian Mackenzie, TLiberal member for Vancouver Center, and Mayor J. W. Cornett of Vancouver before the Provineial convention -of the Cana dian Legion are any indication, they are again dusting off their old speeches. Tom Reid, my Liberal opponent in New Westminster, is another who chooses to substitute the appeal to racial prejudice for

a realistic approach to the ques- tion. — :

(pees is why I want to recall to-

night certain incidents of 4 few years ago which at the time were either given little publicity or sup-

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pressed entirely. | months spent inves ese espionage and | tration in our provi my findings in a si in The Advocate, weekly published z

il gave the nam agents operating: oO pointed out how thi sul in Vancouver ; both Japanese and 1 ducting an intensi

‘campaign, bribing —

newspapers, threat

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undermine the dem

‘our people as part

weaken our defensi 4

i revealed how

agents, including i _prominent in the E

servative Party, we Japanese interests title to our iren-an our’ timber resoure

-. IT’ exposed those

shameful traffic of dian materials to against China—ant ber that if the J: had been able to a sistance of the Chir. would have been a their strength inte Alaska and our oy -

All “this is his articles I wrote at reprinted in’ Sovi papers generally 5 | am reviving the ¢_

_ only to illustrate t— then, a point which

that. such. politicia. Mackenzie and Tor ing the issue to w pealine to racial 3 T.warned in 1938 ese fascists were 7. showdown in the this question, the ré Canadian people, — kenzie, in his capat- of defense, remaine | He did not, for ii Canadian people a to reveal in my rece and the Canadian — New Frontier, tha of the Japanes through the Japa: Vancouver was 2 why the constructia Highway was not At the same time, the Japanese ques votes but he negilec; prominent individu!