FARGsEAEE RSENLEER cast lel] Tecod SURCERCUEUSUSUELTSEDUSSACLOLEECUEDECES ES CREESELSLATIE Udy ] wh CO} ihg arly as yet to anept a reasoned sof effects UPpom enget the atomic he & of which has © fild this week. f of course in a usual lurid lice have arrived Ody seudo-scientific ict @f a few voices 1 peed ‘in sober thaehe almost un- Ouse s such a dis- ngs should the gS ling the:atom ~ als of the most “3 ‘AS a = . i irresponsible jee capital. ads thoughts that a ter was the 1 g@ecovery for the lig TOSTESS — the if! nd the world fe. The atomic t. $1 become the Bs far as the - s concerned, to je class conflicts. ly @orol and use by > Bof one or two S-ountries could ol st the socialist ns ft, then used. to ieee le of the wi people of “Sorld_ into line »;= extermination seins of popula- ‘et mere specu- stating effect of has -apparent- its creators, ag > awed comment R apers on the 3 -ushima. There = ne. controversy # he use of this @ force will un- s,s which cannot -@ is yet by man =z knowledge. ? seems clear al- > of the next % of progressive _ itical in this revo-_ AT DO YOU AUERE: titi) EUREEQUCEECSOESEED! THINK’? humanity may well be the-fight ... to bring this epochal weapon -_ under the direct control-of re- sponsible governments, and its secret shared by the Soviet Union if such has not already been done. Its exclusive posses- sion by Britain and United States could in the very near future alter the existing pol- relationships in such a way as to bring further war. We can be thankful to the British working people, even in the present situation, that they so decisively defeated Churchill and the British Tories in the recent elections. The black -record of Britain’s right wing Tories, had they maintained power, would have boded ill for the future use of the atomic, bomb. -* -JOHN SWERINGEN. Biack Market To the Editor: Last week in P.A. an article appeared which stated that landlords in Vancouver were operating a black market in ’ housing, in which certain land- lords ‘were charging “bonus payments,” er “kick ins” on top of regular rent. I was very glad to see that someone has at last taken an interest in these violations of wartime con- trols, because the degree to which this boosting of rents is practiced is almost beyond be- lief. I thought you might be in- — ~terested-in- hearing about a case of which I know. The case is that of a young married couple who were badly in need of a place to live because the wife was about to have a baby, and they did not have a place suitable for her to bring ,her baby to. While she was still - pregnant, she toured the city looking for a place and finally found one in the’ Vancouver- centre district. Unfortunately the landlord j@eiate reaction to the circular came from the Weaneeting of the Canadian District Council of 'g Electrical Workers, headed by C. S. Jackson. iig representing 20,000 workers, unanimously of 79 orld Labor Conference , @n of protest is rising in Canadian trade union uy the suggestion by leaders of the Canadian NS: Labor (CIO and national unions) that the =n from participation in the Paris world labor ine The suggestion came in the form of a circular ¥f the new World Federation of Trade Unions it the yearly affiliation fee of $6000. @> pointed out that the AFL is not expected to Gin the September conference. pe oat non-participation by the CCL x2 WETU and isolate Canadian workers from Jwe.ent for world progress, @ lelegation be sent to Paris. In-a wire to Mosher, Heointed out that the “vast majority of the Sip of the CCL want affiliation and representa- The “6 would 29 and demanded that a , : 4 ” OCATE—PAGE 5 was a shark, and he insisted that if they took the two-room apartment, they would have to buy the furniture in it. Need- less to say he soaked them for the furniture, which was in a very dilapidated condition. The house has no gas or hot water, and now the wife is compelled to cook on a wood stove in the middle of this hot weather. The landlord refuses to give them gas, as he says the house has no pipes. The rent for two small rooms is seventeen-fifty per month, and they have ‘to pay their own electric light bills. The rooms are small and pokey, and the furniture has broken down. They were charged over fifty dollars for the furniture. This landlord is one of those real sharks, and it is my feeling that steps should be taken to prosecute him for the crime he has com- mitted against this young couple. A WORKER. CMA Attack To the Editor: The American Can Company strike, and the wide degree of public interest that has accom- panied the day to day develop- ments of it, have focussed the attention of the general public on the fight that is shaping up between labor and _ reaction. This fight is one of the most important, to my mind, in the history. of the trade union movement in Canada. A close observation of the facts of the strike will clearly indicate that the principle that is involved in this strike is go- ing to be-the pattern of future . disputes between labor and management. The facts them- selves are fairly cléar. The union is striking for its right to have ‘security, to protect its wartime gains, and protect it- self in the coming period. No question of pay is involved; it is merely the principle of union security that is under dispute. The company on the other hand: is remaining obdurate to any action toward settling the strike, because it is carrying out-the edict of the CMA in refusing to permit union secur- ity. The hysterical treatment of the strike in the daily press, with an attempt to lay the re- sponsibility for the food that is spoiling in the fields on the union, clearly indicates that the press is inclined to support the position of the Can Monopoly against the union. There is no doubt that unless firm action is taken by the gov- ernment to protect the right of unions to protect their position so that they may continue to bargain for workers, the all- out union-busting offensive will begin with a vengeance. What is needed is for a deluge of letters and telegrams to be sent to the Labor Department at Ottawa, pointing out that the federal government must stop coddling these monopolist- je interests and protect the rights of the working man and his organizations. Unless this is done, the wartime gains of the workers might well be lost. JAMES PARTRIDGE. ont ADUDDAUCKSERQRGUSCESSEESECESNUCHTQGUSENEDEUIUCTEESTOSIESEDERASSEUERSE ERT Short Jabs by Ol” Bill @pUeeURSQUSUCAGCUSEQUUCUORURPORUCRUEDESSSSCUESCUSOESESSSUGUEOURESSLSSUSIUSTUGGSGUSELODSRESOPSRDODRURE ENE RC LECT S Political Liberties N EUROPE during the war the Gommunist Party was banned in nearly every country, including neutral Sweden and Switzerland. ‘The only countries where it was permitted to function legally, were the USSR and the British countries of Great Britain, Ireland and Cyprus. It was a legal party also in every part of the British Empire except India, Burma, the Straits Settlements and Canada. Elsewhere, it had to carry on its work from “underground.” This, of course, the Communist Party did and it was one of the potent factors, in most cases the leading one, in organizing the resistance movements which played such an important part in expelling the would-be over- lords from all the Nazi occupied countries. The latest to restore the Communist party to legal standing among the political parties, is the pro-Nazi Argentine government. This is undoubetdly the result of pressure, internal and external pressure, brought against the fascist-minded gang who have seized control of the country against the wishes of its people, and pressure exerted by the United Nations, small as well as big, particularly the other South Am- erican. peoples. _ But there are still countries where the Gommunist party is banned by edict of the governments—Japan, Spain, and (to our shame )Canada. Since legality-was restorea to the Party in the Indian countries, Canada “is the only part of the British Empire where political discrimination is in force. ff the Atlantic Charter means anything, it is time this blot on Can- adian democracy was erased. What are we going to do about it? Fascism Not Yet Dead EUTEARY victory over: fascism and its German set-up, National So- cialism, is complete. The exterminatien of its Japanese expression is well on the way to virtual completion. But from news items reach- ing us from the liberated countries of Europe we are justified in enter- taining grave fears that the ideology of fascism, has still to be dealt with. From Norway comes a story, undoubtedly true, about the release by a British military court, of a German Nazi who had been proved guilty of killing a Russian soldier. . From Trieste too, we learn of the sentencing to. 18 months imprison- ment, for possessing a revolver, of the editor ef a Communist paper, “T] Lavoratore.” The sentence was imposed in an AMG. ,court. On the bench were one American and one British judge. The American judge was in favor of dismissing the charge as the weapon in question was only a war souvenir, but the Britisher refused to listen te any such explanation ‘and his stubbornnes resulted in the imposition of the sent- ence stated above. _. George Jaksetich, the editor of “I] Lavoratore,” was arrested along with 44 others. He has been fighting Fascism for over 20 years. In the 1920’s he was arrested by Mussolini’s Blackshirt police and sent to one of the “Devil’s Isles’? where political prisoners were incarcerated, that is, those who were not immediately murdered. He escaped to France before his four-year term had expired. There he carried on in the anti-Fascist struggle. In 1932, he was again arrest- ed, this time by Laval’s gestapo. He again eseaped and succeeded in get- ting into Yugoslavia. There he was again arrested in 19385 by the political police and thrown into the notorious Ljubljana jail where he was almost beaten to death. Since 1943 he has peen tighting in the _Yugoslav Liberation army where he distinguished himself. The British AMG judge whose insistence sent Jaksetich to jail has never fought fascism. He may have fought the Italians and the Ger- mans, but it is easy to see that his sympathies are with the fascists, and the same is true of that other bird in Norway. And now comes the crowning exposure. Max Schmelling, the ex- prize fighter who was so roundly trounced by the Negro Joe Louis, Schmelling, who was to the Nazis a symbol of their Aryan nonsense, is. reported in an American paper to be one of the Germans who are to be given the task of “re-educating’”’ the German youth. : If Goebells had not committed hari-kari, it would be just as reason-- able to appoint him to that position, for Schmelling’s record reeks of Nazi brutality and sadism just as much as does that of Goebbels. From January, 1940, until the spring of 1941, he was commandant at the murder camp of Oswiecim in Poland. In that horror factory during the time Schmelling was in command, and always for that matter, experiments were conducted cn human beings, men, women and children. German professors and doctors with that thoroughness that Engels called “grundlichkeit,” bestialized science by experimenting on the sex organs of their victims and by grafting diseases like cancer, onto other- wise healthy people’s bodies. The victims were always murdered when they had served their “‘scientific” purpose. Four million people were murdered in that hell; Poles, Russians, French, Belgians, Hollanders, Czechs and others. Every Jew who fell into the clutches of the monsters who were in charge of that murder machine were killed out of hand. The United States war department, challenged by Louis Budenz, editor of the Daily Worker, did not deny the story, but denied that they had any authority in the matter since Schmelling is in the Hamburg zone which is in the area under British military control. The surly, arrogant, bullying gorilla Schmelling, instead of being honored by being put in such a position should be placed in the crim- inals’ dock and charged with the crimes committed against humanity at Oswiecim while he was commandant there. The type of military officer represented in these courts, also should be dealt with. They are symbolic of the rot in society which we have been trying to eliminate during the past five years. Now, with the terrible new weapon, the atomic bomb, they are undoubtedly dreaming of how it may be used against the working class and the progressive elements in society and the political forces which represent them—the Soviet Union and the Labor government in Britain. Reaction dies hard. Its votaries always have the same objective, the prevention of human progress. “SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1945.