LABOI’S VOICE FOR VICTORY
OL. I. No. 50

5 Cents

Vancouver, B.C. Saturday, December 18, 1943

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.——Labor scored a smashing
ictory at the polls this week when the Prince Ruperi
§ ivic Labor Federation elected its candidate for mayor,
dur of its five candidates for city council and two of
s three candidates for school board.
| Harry M. Daggeti, former school teacher and séc-
stary of the Carpenters Union, who last year won
lection to the city council, was Labor’s successful

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ing playing of the Int

New Anti-Labor

Gangup Exposed

The nationwide  anti-
labor gangup of financial
higher-ups — headed in
western Canada by S. G.
Blaylock and C. H. Locke,
K.€. — which has been ex-
posed as a high-geared or-
ganization aimed at keep-
ing Canada safe for private
enterprise, is a conspiracy
not against the Liberals
and CCF but against all or-
ganized labor. This charge
was levelled by Harvey Mur-
phy, international representa-
tive of the CIO Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers Union,
before this week’s regular
meeting of the Vancouver
Labour Council. Murphy
backed up his charges with
eonerete facts, and proved to
delegates that certain inter-
ests not only here but
throughout the Dominion are
Scheming to “break labor.”
At the same time, unionists
in Ontario and Quebec are
uncovering facts of similar
nature. In Toronto, Gladstone
Murray—ex-CB€ chief and
propagandist fer big business
—last. week presented his
eredentials as. a strike-break-
er of 24 years’ standing to a

secret meeting of Progres-_

sive - Conservative bigwigs.
Under the official title of

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i i i i attention dur-
i inister iston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin stand at a
ie eee ernationale at the Soviet embassy at Teheran. A moment later,

~ Churchill presented a sword to the people of Stalingrad as a token of the British
people’s admiration for their gallant defense of their city.

The wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of Kiev citi-
zens thas been branded as the worst Nazi atrocity of the
war. This picture, found on a German prisoner, shows
a Nazi shooting a Kiev resident at the edge of a burial
ditch. :

ST

Shipyard Unions To Cal

Sri

Conference

On Industry

British Columbia’s 25,000 shipyard unionists are
pledged to a two-point program calling for the hold-
ing of a province-wide conference of labor and social
groups to plan the maintenance of industry in the
postwar period, and united political action by organ-
ized labor, farmers, the CCF and the Labor-Progres-
sive Party to block the anti-labor plans of reactionary
big business interests, as expressed in the federal

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