TIM BUCK

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and the entire

deathiess struggle
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and full national unity
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set us an example of
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W striving for the fuller unity
“of French and English-speak-
ing Canada, dangerously impair-
ed by persisting national in-
equality, we can learn from our
Soviet friends and neighbors.
“From the Rusians we can learn
much,” U.S. Vice-President Henry
A. Wallace stated recently. “Rus-
sia has probably gone further
than any other nation in the world
in practicing ethnic democracy.
<o Ethnic democracy means
that different races and minority
groups must be given equality of
economic opportunity.”

The people of French Canada
share fully in the admiration and
warm respect felt by our people ~
generally for the USSR. It is
significant that a minister of
the Quebec government, Hon.
Valmore Bienvenue, speaking of
the need for friendship and und-
erstanding ~ between Ganada’s
people’s has pointed to the Soviet
Union as an outstanding model
in this respect.

We shall make Canadian unity
a reality to the extent that we
establish full national equality in
Ganada, This is at once a War
task, and a task to be carried to
completion in the peace.

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F there is to be lasting peace
in the world when this war
is won, it must be based upon
and maintained by agreement
and close co-operation between
Britain, the USSR, the United
States and China, supported by
all other peace-loving nations.
Canada, as a growing power, 1s
called upon to contribute actively
to the strengthening of that

democratic unity.

The present passivity of the Ca-
nadian government must be re-
placed by a vigorous pressure
on behalf of fuller strategic and
political unity with the USSR
in the conduct of the war.

Fundamentally, the Canadian-
Soviet friendship rests and will
rest on deeds, not words alone.
Full coalition warfare against
the common enemy, full part-
nership in united offensive action
against the heart of the European
continent by all Allied armies in
unison—these alone can engender
that complete democratic team-
work on a world scale which the
future of mankind demands. —

The implementing of friendship
requires the defeat of the dis-
ruptors of that friendship.

Powerful forces in Canada and
the United States are already
working for such disruption.
These interests, represented most
definitely by powerful invest-
ment bankers’ associations, are _
bent upon developing a new era
of imperialist supremacy and
finance-capital exploitation.

These are the interests which
strive to counterpose a British-
United States alliance to the
Anglo-Soviet-American coalition.
Their aim is not that of a lasting
peace through collective security

ihe Soviet Union

and freedom for all peoples, but
an imperialist peace in which
United States imperialism, with
British imperialism as a junior
partner, will dominate the world.
The more blatant protagonists of
this idea openly declare as their
aim te “marry the wealth and
power of the United States to
the territory and resources of the
British Empire.”

If the aims of these interests,
which would render impossible
the unity of nations visualized in
the Atlantic Charter, should be-
come the objectives of foreign
poliey after the war, the present
war will have been fought and
won in vain. :

An inseparable counterpart of
these poliices is the disruptive
promotion of “anti-Communist”
crusades, by which reactionary
monopolist interests seek to de-
feat the peoples’ movements for
reform. It is no accident that
the enemies of United Nations’
unity are likewise the implacable
foes of labor’s rights and of all
progressive social change.

)

pe Canadian people’s fight
for speedy victory over Hit-
lerism is the fight for Canada’s
democratic future, for all further
progress in our land. At the
heart of that fight is the issue
of forging full United Nations’
unity and democratic unity of
Canada through the joint offen-
Sive in Europe.

Surrender to the forces working
for delay, for evasion of the com-
mon military responsibilities of
full coalition warfare, can only
bring protracted suffering and
ultimate disaster. Canada’s peo-
ple want to speed the victory:
Canada’s most vital interests de-
mand without delay the united
offensive to finish off the Axis
Slave-power!

Equally with Canadian-British
and Canadian-U.S. democratic
solidarity, Ganadian-Soviet col-
laboration must be basic to our
national policy, to our conduct
in world affairs. Canada should
in her own name negotiate a
direct alliance with the USSR,
similar to the- 20-year Soviet
British alliance.

Friendship of Canada and the
Soviet Union, in war and peace
alike, will be decisive for our
national destiny. It is the grave
responsibility of the government
and the people of Canada to work
far more actively than in the
past, to make that friendship
strong.

The common people are sternly
resolved that this war shall open
the way to a world forever freed
from war and want and fear. We
can be confident that the Soviet
people, the heroes of Stalingrad
and Kursk and the Dnieper, will
do their part in helping to re-
build the world in full coopera-
tion with the rest of the United
Nations. It is up to us, citizens
of a young and growing power,
to make sure that Canada plays
her full part in shaping now, in
deeds, the democratic future of
mankind.

The unity of the peoples will
achieve the Century of the Com-
mon Man!

m 57,000 members of Ar-
trade unions were on
73 Buenos Aires factories

Clashes between police
ing workers and students
throughout the week as
reops tried to break up
d student demonstrations.
is encounter took place
a Plata University when
ers, with fixed bayonets,
a meeting of students and
embers, including mem-
he’ National Railwaymen’s

’ Zuvira,

Union, headed by Jose Domenech,
leader of the state-controlled labor
body. Large numbers of NRU
members are striking against gov-
ernment intervention in their
union.

Writing under the pseudonym of
Hugo Wast, Dr. Gustavo Martinez
Minister of Justice and
Public Instruction, a member of
Ramirez’ cabinet, authorized anti-
semetic pamphlets translated from
the German by the Reich’s State
Publishing House. He also inspired
this week’s editorial in the unof-

Falange Conspiracy

FRESEONDING: to a call issued
by the Confederation of GCo-
lombian Workers (CTC), 40,000
Colombians last week demon-
strated before the presidential pal-
ace in Bogota pledging full sup-
port to President Alfonso Lopez in
the face of attacks upon his goy-
ernment by the Falange Espanol.

Dr. Lopez, accompanied by mem-
bers of the cabinet, welcomed the
manifestation of support and, in
an address to the meeting, declared
that he would not vacillate in his
defense of democratic institutions.
He asked for continued confidence
and support from the people for
the preservation and extension of
democracy. ~

The demonstration came after
renewed attacks on the government

In Columbia

made in parliament by Axis sup-
porters and Falange partisans who
follow Spanish dictator Francisco
Franco’s “Hispanidad” policy.

The CTC charged that these at-
tacks and the general activity of
the Falange Espanol were part of
an attempt to establish favorable
conditions for a coup d’etat sim-
ilar to the one that took place in
Argentina on June 4. Recent gov-
ernment investigations have dis-
closed conspiratorial plans in high
army circles.

The most vociferous opponent of
Dr. Lopez is Laureano Gomez, ed-
itor of El Siglo. Gomez is one of
the leading figures in Colombia’s
Falango, which, the CIC points
out, functions as an espionage
ageney for the Franco government.

Trade Union Committee Formed

Ape trade union division of the

Latin American Free Ger-
many Committee has taken steps
to reunite exiled anti-Nazi German

trade unionists in the Americas
and to set up a working relation-
ship with German anti-Nazi labor
representatives in all parts of the
world, Paul Merker, secretary of
the Free* Germany Committee, dis-
closed in Mexico City this week.
A leader of the German Hotel
Workers Union and delegate to
Berlin Trade Union Council in pre-
Nazi Germany, Merker led the il-
legal trade union opposition to Hit-
ler within Germany itself for sev-
eral years and continued his ac-
tivity when he was forced to flee
to France.

Discussing plans of the commit-
tee to help re-establish the Ger-
man trade union movement once
Hitlerism is crushed, Merker said:

“As a preliminary program our
committee will contact all German

anti-Nazi trade unionists in exile
and through mutual agreement
reach an understanding as to the
future of the German trade union
movement. We believe that the
basie objectives of German trade
unionists should include the forma-
tion of an industrially organized
federation similar to the CIO in the
United States; that this organiza-
tion should not be politically de-
pendent on any one party, although
it must represent democratic po-
litical beliefs; that there must be
no discrimination against social-
ists, christian socialists, commun-
ists or others ;and that trade union
democracy must be made thor-
oughly effective.

The first task of the reconsti-
tuted Germany trade union move-
ment must be to smash all vestige
of the Nazi Arbeitsfront. We must
make sure that the new leaders of
the trade unions come from the
ranks of former German demo-
cratic organizations.’

Britain

Labor Delegations Exchanged

4 pee British Trades Union Con-

gress, acting in conjunction
with the Ministers of Labor and
Information, has designated four

British war workers to visit U.S.
war factories, reciprocating the
naming of a similar U.S. labor
delegation to tour Britain.

The British representatives, who
will visit the U.S. for a month, are:
J. Clark, chemical worker and
member of the Transport and Gen-
eral Workers Union; J. Ward, air-
eraft worker and Amalgamated En-
gineering Union member; J. H.
Jones, steel worker and member

of the Iron and Steel Trades Con-
federation; and P. Carey, aircraft
worker and National Sheet Metal
Workers and Braziers member.

The British information and sup-
ply ministries haye announced
plans for an extensive inspection
tour for the four U.S. trade union-
ists. now en route to Britain. They
are: Joseph Smith, a member of
the United Auto & Aircraft Work-
ers (CIO); Hugh T Mahoney,
United Steel Workers (CI@); Stan-
ley Ceizyk, International Kssocia-
tion of Machinists (AFL); and Otto
QO. Butler, Chemical Workers
(AFL).

ficial Cabildo, which stated: “Roose-
velt’s officious defense of the Jews
does not frighten us.”

Zuvira has outlawed the Federa-
cion Universitaria Argentina, inter-
university student organization,
whose members are boycotting the
universities as “communistic.”

Huge crowds paraded down main
Buenos Aires streets this week,
shouting “Long Live Democracy”
under the watchful eye of soldiers
and police. The entire Buenos Aires
police force of 23,000 was called
out for special duty.

Exchange of war plant workers between U.S. and Britain
has begun with the departure for England of Stanley Coizyk
(left), member of Burbank, Calif, Lockheed Local of Interna-
tional Association of Machinists (AFL), and Joseph Smith,
member of Detroit Chrysler Local of United Auto Workers
(CIO).