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sident just elected to
rk City Council; Reid
sident of the Mine,
‘wismelter Workers; and
‘ter, Furniture Workers
A. F. Whitney, presi-

returns in last week’s
_for New York City
iclosed the election of
gnd progressive candi-
te @aicked by the New York
Tial Council, out of a
| Wjouncilmen. The present
ij @presents the strongest
group the City Council
tS six years of existence.
ected under the propor-
esentation system in-
pael J. Quill, president
fasport Workers Union
adude W. Klein, Ameri-
Party; Benjamin J.
Wegro member of the
Party; Peter V. Cacch-
nunist Party; Stanley
» Genevieve Earle, Re-
iogressives.
the first Negro Com-
sr elected to public
ie United States. -

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dent of the Brotherhood of Rail-
read Trainmen: V. O. Gardner,
president of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Telegraphers, and CIO
President Philip Murray sent mess-
ages of greetings.

Wins in New York

Blection of this strong progres-
Sive bloc represented a sharp de-
feat for the reactionary leadership

of New York City’s Democratic
Party, which, although it elected
10 councilmen, greatly lowered its
once overwhelming control of the
City Council. Election of Quill,
who ran as an independent and
Waged a long uphill fight against
strong opposition from the right
wing-controlled Bronx ALP, repre-
sented the most important labor
victory in recent New York City
elections. A former City Council-
man, Quill is a member of the ex-
ecutive board of the CIO. His
first choice vote totaled 47,600 and
topped that of any other Bronx
candidate.

Heading the list in first choice

South

‘r of Rights
‘n by. the South Afri-
vernment of the non-
sade unions, a minimum
($8) per week for un-
-@ekers and abolition of
Fiscrimination in indus-
tion were among the
yoints contained in a
Rights of the Native
yi South Africa,’ issued
(& Johannesburg by a
sof 200 leaders of in-
) eligious and other
is.
ints in the charter in-

is one of the first two
mists ever to be elect-
ie office in the Union
rica. She is Mrs. Betty
ected to Cape Town
Fil.

& 5 is even better known
en name of Betty Ran-
#}oame under which she
@euardian, South African
newspaper.

votes throughout the city was
Cacchione, with 53,000.

Afri

cluded proportional representa-

tion in the legislatures fer all tax
Paying peoples and races, exten-
sion of the Unemployed Benefit
Act to include all workers, irre-
spective of race or color, and pro-
vision for adequate housing, medi-
eal and educational services for all
workers.

The conference, presided over
by Rey. Michael Scott, urged Am-
erican and British Workers to sup-
port the program and “help do
away with the poverty and degrad-
ation in which Africans are forc-
ed live.” =

communists Elected

Election of the two Communists
to Cape Town City Council was a
part of the clean sweep of the
elections made in September by
win-the-war candidates, when pro-
United Nations Field Marshal J.
C. Smuts thoroughly defeated his
pro-Axis opponent.

The second successful Commun-
ist candidate was Sani Kahn.

'xploding bombs.

fO was shattered when gunfire echoed through its
he advancing 8th Army fought house-to-house and
slards. This picture shows Tommies crouching be-
(Signal Corps radiophoto via

5

Victory Approaches|

Ee es is the official translation of the third section of Marshal Joseph Staliws speech of Nov-
ember 6, when he addressed the Moscow Soviet on the 26th anniversary of the October Revolution.
This section is titled “Consolidation of the Anti-Hitler Coalition, Disintegration of the Fascist Bloc.”

pee past year marked the-turn, not only in the patriotic war of the Soviet Union but in the

whole world war.

Changes which have taken place during this year in the military and international situa-
tion have been favorable to the USSR and the Allied countries friendly to it, and detrimental
to Germany and her accomplices in brigandage in Hurope. :

The victories of the Red Army have had results and consequences far beyond the limits
of the Soviet-German front; they have changed the whole further course of the world war

and acquired great international
significance. The victory of the
Allied countries over the com-
mon enemy has come nearer
while relations among the Allies,
the fighting partmership of their
armies, far from weakening have,
contrary to the expectations of
the enemy, grown stronger and
more enduring.

Eloquent evidence of this is the
historic decisions of the Moscow
conference of representatives of
the Soviet Union, Great Britain
and the United States of America,
recently published in the press.
Now our united countries are
filled with determination to deal
the enemy joint blows which will
result in final victory over him.

This year the Red Army’s blows
et the German fascist trcops were
supported by fighting operations
of our Allies in North Africa, in
the Mediterranean basin and in
Southern Italy. At the same time
the Allies subjected and are still
subjecting important industrial
centers of Germany to substantial
bombing and are thus consider-
ably weakening the enemy’s mil-
itary power. If to all this is
added the fact that the Allies are
regularly supplying us with vari-
ous munitions and raw materials
then it can be said without exag-
geration that by all this they
facilitated considerably the suc-
cesses of our Summer campaign.

Of course, the present actions
of Allied armies in South Europe
cannot as yet be regarded as the
second front, but still this is
something like a second front.
Obviously the opening of the real
second front in Europe, which is
not so distant, will considerably
hasten victory over Hitlerite Ger-
many and will consolidate eyen
more the fighting partnership of
the Allied countries.

Thus events of the past year
show that the anti-Hitlerite coali-
tion is a firm association of peo-
ples and rests on a solid founda-
tion.

C)

Y NOW it is obvious to every-

body that by unleashing their
war the Hitlerite clique led Ger-
many and her flunkeys into a
hopeless impasse. Defeats of the
Fascist troops on the Soviet-
German front and the blows of
our Allies at the Italo-German
{troops have shaken the whole
edifice of the Fascist bloc which
is crumbling now before our very
eyes.

Italy has dropped out of the
Hitlerite coalition never to return.
Mussolini can change nothing be-
eause he is in fact prisoner of
the Germans. Next in line are
the other partners in the coali-
tion. Finland, Hungary, Rumania
and the other vassals of Hitler,
discouraged by Germany’s mili-
tary defeats, have now finally lost
faith in the outcome of the war
being favorable for them and are
anxious to find a way out of the
bog into which Hitler has dragged
them.

Now that the time has come to
answer for their briganage, Hit-
lerite Germany’s accomplices in
plunder, but recently so obedient
to their master, are looking
around, searching for an oppor-
tune moment to slip out of the
bandit gang unnoticed.

In entering the war the partmers
in the Hitlerite plot counted on a
quick victory. They had already
allotted beforehand who would
get what: who would get buns and
pies and who bumps and black
eyes. They naturally meant bumps
and black eyes for their adver-
Saries and buns and pies for
themselves. But now it is obvious
that Germany and her flunkeys
will get no buns and pies but will
have to share the bumps and
black eyes instead. Anticipating
this unattractive prospect Hitler’s
accomplices are now racking their
brains for a way to get out of
the war with as few bumps and
black eyes as possible.

Italy's example shows the Hit-
ler vassals that the longer they
postpone their inevitable break
with the Germans and permit
them to lord it in their states the
greater is the devastation in store
for their countries, the more suf-
fering their peoples will have to
bear. Italy’s example also shows
that Hitlerite Germany has no
intention of defending her vassal
Countries but means to convert
them into a scene of devastating
war if only she can stave off the
hour of her own defeat.

@

4 eee cause of German fascism
is lost and the sanguinary
“New Order” it has set up is on
the way to collapse. The out-
burst of the peoples’ wrath
against the fascist enslavers is
brewing in the oceupied countries
of Europe. Germany’s
prestige in the countries of her
allies and in neutral® countries
is lost beyond recovery and her
economie and political ties with
neutral states haye been under-
mined.

The time is long past when the
Hitlerite clique clamored boister-
ously about the Germans winning
world domination. Now, as is well
known, the Germans have other
niatters than world domination to
worry about; they have to think
about keeping body and soul to-
gether.

Thus the course of the war has —

shown that the alliance of fascist
states did not and does not rest
on a reliable foundation. The Hit-
lerite coalition was formed on the
basis of predatory rapacious am-
bitions of its members. As long
as the MHitlerites were scoring
military successes the fascist coal=-
ition seemed to be a stable asso-
ciation. But the very first defeat
of the fascist troops resulted in
the actual disintegration of the
bandit bloc. Hitlerite Germany
and her vassals stand on the
verge of disaster.
c)

A pe victory of the Allied coun-

tries over Hitlerite Germany
will put on the agenda important
questions of organizing and re-
building the state, economic and
cultural life of the European
peoples. The policy of our gov-
ernment in these questions re-
mains unchanged. Together with
our allies we shall haye to:
[eves the peoples of Eur-

ope from the fascist invaders
and help them rebuild their na-
tional states dismembered by the
fascist invaders; the peoples of
France, Belgium, Yugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Greece
and other states now under the

former -

German yoke must again become
free and independent.

Ce: the liberated people of
Kurope full rights and free-
dom to decide for themselves the
question of their form of govern-
ment.

Bo lake measures so that all
fascists who are to blame for
this war and the suffering of
peoples bear stern punishment
and retribution for all the crimes
they have committed no matter in
what country they may hide.
gh Ss20's 8 such order in Bur-
ope as will completely pre-
clude the possibility of new ag-
gression on the part of Germany.
—KEstablish lasting economic.
political and cultural collab-
oration among the peoples of
Europe based on mutual confi-
dence and mutual assistance for
the purpose of rehabilitating the
economic and cultural life de-
stroyed by the Germans.
@ =
IpCess the past year the Red
Army and the Soviet people
achieved great successes in the
struggle against the German in-
vaders. We have achieved a radi-
eal turning point in the war in
favor of our country and now the

war is heading for its final out- .

come. But it is not like the Soviet
people to rest on their achieye-

ments, to exult in their successes. ~

Victory may elude us if com-

placency appears in our ranks.”

Victory cannot be won without
struggle and strain. It is won in
battle. Victory is near now but to
Win it fresh exertion of strength
is néeded, selfless work through-
cut our rear and skilful and reso-
Jute actions by the Red Army at
the front.

It would be a crime against our
Motherland, against the Soviet
people who have fallen temporar-
ily under the fascist yoke, against
the peoples of Europe languishing
under German oppression, if we
failed to use all opportunities to
hasten the enemy’s defeat. The
enemy must not be given any
respite. That is why we must
exert ali our strength to finish off
{he enemy.

The Soviet people and the Red
Army clearly see the difficulties
ci the coming struggle. But al-
ready now it is clear that the day
of Gur yietory is approaching, ‘The
war has entered a stage when it
is a question of driving the invad-
ers completely from Soviet soil
and liquidating the fascist “New
Order in Europe.”

The time is not far distant when
we shall completely clear the
enemy from ithe Ukraine and
Byelorussia, from Leningrad and
ihe Kalinin region and shall lib-
erate from the German invaders
the peoples of Crimea, Lithuania,
Latvia, Esthonia, Moldavia, and
the Karelo-Finnish Republic.

Comrades, for the victory of the
Anglo-Soviet American fighting
alliance! For the liberation of the
peoples of Europe from the fascist
yoke! For the complete expul-
sion of the German fiends from
our land!

Long live our Red Army! Long
live our Navy! Long live our
gallant men and women partis-
ans! Long live our great Mother-
land!

Death to the German invader!

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