; now stored there. shipped to Monte- nile in vessels other fand transferred here Wecps as the result of sement reached last etween the govern- Wie and Uruguay, in Bamittee for the De- Ne viexican Revolution, Wiiosed that the army successfully tried to “member of the per- “i Salvador Abascal, *€ the fascist Sinar- *icer, Lieut. Antonio t2i0j0s, died from “id as the result of ® escape. Abascal is m2 of Sinarquista ‘wer California. feria also disclos- =icinarquistas, meet- in April 14 (four ©: attempt on Ca- , declared that » most glorious ©nartyr.” Speakers mg, Renteria re- Plady for battle and Wait orders from~ learned” that Lama laborator of Anton Wazi agent and a secretary to Abas- fa Barcenas, Sinar- deader and a law- eovincial business- f issue of the Mexi- NW juista chieftains, } city, signed a 4 declared: “The tTquistas, Cathclics Support our na- YS proposal to in- mist of Sinarquista erother and com- ama who was dain” The mani- - te eighth Sinar- Pded° that Sinar- f recognize Avila sident of Mexico. m ued the fact that organization was ¥ 23, 1937, on in- Helmuth Oskar Zi agent recently * internment. Ti- > Torres Bueno, a - who now heads Was given Schre- attorney when the fed in 1942. There ‘that he does not > ITED. \TES PRAY, president of \i forwarded to Sir ». Secretary of the ;Jnion Congress. a sional agenda for | rence to be held ome. "sals were group- Sleadings “further- ad war effort” and = ruction.” mt the conference wstoric moment,” = under the first Scomplete inter- 4s for achieving tuction of war Hullest- mobiliza- efesources of the “sand for “poli- Fiteries reoccup- decisive : Beoples for the # include the im- mediate establishment of “free- dom of the press, speech, religion, assembly, political assembly and to organize labor unions, and for- mation of governments which have the support of the people.” Under the postwar reconstruc- tion heading, Murray urged: @ Hiimination of “every phase of fascism, nazism or Japanese Miltarism” in occupied nations. @ international aid to rebuild devastated areas; measures to end the “international cartels seeking to restrict production or full development of domestic and international trade.” @ Establishment of an “interna- tional trade union movement, with the participation of labor organizations of all the United Nations, and, after victory, from all other nations desiring to so participate.” : Murray suggested a meeting “prior to the opening of the con- ference te designate a working committee to facilitate prepara- fion of the agenda and other organizational matters.” This sug- gestion parallels that made pre- viously by Soviet labor. Parties Merge |(\y PES of the Farmer-Labor and Democratic parties in Minnesota is now an accomplished fact. Both groups have’ unanim- ously adopted a comman constitu- tion for a new political organiza- tion te be known as the Demo- cratic Farmer Labor Party. Party conventions of the two factions agreed to call a series of meetings, starting with precinct groups before June 15, for elec- tion of new county, district and State central committee officers representing the merged parties. SOVIET UNION Three Divisions ED SCUEN DEL among the officers and men of the Polish di- visions now fighting side by side with the Red Army for the liber- ation of their homeland are many former Polish trade unionists — miners from Dombrowa, steel workers from Warsaw, textile workers from Iodz, railwaymen from Cracow and farmers. From battalion to brigade, from brigade to division, Polish men and women in the USSR have now built up a regular army, equipped with the latest weapons of modern war, under their own military: leader, Gen- eral Zygmunt Berling. These Poles are now advancing against the Nazis with all the fervor of their own national hero, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, whose name Was given to their first division and whose memory and exploits were recently commemorated throughout the Slavic world and in other countries. A In Moscow, the 150th anniver- Sary of the Polish liberation move- ment headed by Kosciuszko was celebrated at a large rally held in the House of Trade Unions. Many towns and villages in_ America are named after him, as is also the highest mountain in Australia; discovered by the Polish - explorer Paul Strzlecki. The Kosciuszko division is the first regular armed detachment of the Polish army to be founded by the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR. The second division is named after the Polish patriot Dombrowski, who fought ~ during the Napoleonic wars. Other great Dombrowskis in Polish history in- elude a comrade-in-arms of Var- lin, Deleseluze and other leaders of the Paris Commune who fought on the barricades against French traitors and Prussian invaders. Under the banner of Dombrow- ski, many Poles—more in propor- tion to the population than any other country—fougsht in the Int- ernational Brigade in Spain against German and -Italian troops and some of these veterans are in the Polish army on the Soviet- German front today. : The third division of the Polish army in the USSR bears the name of another great patriot, Romuald Traugut. : - “THE: BALKANS: THEN. AND NOW: d UNIO-OW1 Short Jabs by OV Bill Historic Declarations pee document issued at the conclusion of the Teheran Conference, signed by “three ageing statesmen” as an unofficial CCE Paper refers to Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, is, at this time only a docu- ment. It is not the first “declaration” of prime social significance to be made in history. One which preceded it is known to us as the Declara- tion of Independence. When that document was framed in 1776 by the fathers of the Ameri- can Revolution, it would haye remained a document if nothing further. had been done about it. It would have remained an historic souvenir of ineptitude and windy persiflage of which there are many to be found in history books. But that was not to be its fate. Those who published it and those who accepted its proposals intended it to become a living reality. They made it into a battle-cry. They organized and armed themselves to rid the. path to that reality of all the obstacles in their way. Another was the Declaration of Paris, made in the middle of last century, by which the signatories agreed to pool their navies for the extermination of pirates and privateers from the ocean trade lanes. They directed their power so well that in a few years piracy was wiped out on all the Seven Seas with the exception of a small strip of the China coast outside their control. The Teheran Declaration can only become a living reality in the Same way as these other declarations. The fact that a working agreement for victory over fascism that also establishes the Guiding principles of the peace has been reached between the still progressive forces in the Capitalist world and the only socialist state will mean nothing, the agreement will be valueless, unless those who are in accord with its provisions are willing, able and thoroughly equipped to fight for them. We know what those provisions are. We must be able to explain them. We must be able to convince those who do not yet accept them, and they are many. We must be able to prove that the ‘Teheran Declaration is not a sellout of socialism just as democratie elements among the capitalists musti be able to prove that it is not a sellout of capitalism. : We shall do our share best among Our Own people, here, where we live and work, by our efforts towards the military victory and the peacetime victory to which the Teheran Declaration can lead. Some years ago there was a Communist in Vancouver who was known as “Shanghai Bill.’ He earned that nickname because he talked about China during all of his waking hours. He knew the names of all the Chinese leaders, generals and politicians, and of all the Chinese battlefields—at least, he was reputed to know them because nobody could contradict him. But he did not know anything about Chinatown. He did not know, when questioned, that on old Chinese worker who had helped to build Western Canada had dropped dead on the street in Chinatown from starvation because he was out of work and could get no relief. : This is not the way by which the Teheran Declaration will be made into a reality. That man would have been of more service to the Chinese people by building in his own backyard. Perhaps you have read the Aesop fable quoted by Karl Marx in The i8th Brumaire. A boaster in a Greek village was telling of the great jumping he did in Rhodes. One of his listeners broke in; saying, “Hic Rhodus, hic salta!” (Here is Rhodes, leap here.) Do it here. That is the way to make the Teheran Declaration a reality. Press Drive que drive will probably be for a couple of weeks more. With the Standing of our column at this time we have a good chance to make our $250 quota. Two weeks ago I wrote in this column “If, like me, you have no friends .. .” I misealeulated. I discovered several. And there are probably more. One of them is a logger, and a boss logger to boot. He is one of a small number of logging operators who do not practice the grasping, clean up and clear out policies of the boss loggers association. He has been the subject of their “kindly attentions” at times, in fact. In his letter he says: “There is no reason why you should be left holding the bag so here is a cheque for $50, but grab me off a year’s sub for The People out of it. Maybe it will encourage some of the others to do the same,’ I hope so, Al. A couple more like that will put us in the clear. Do you remember what Will Rogers used te say, “All I know is what I read in the papers.” That goes for millions of people on this continent. And since there are many -kinds of papers, what they know will depend on the kind of papers they read. Do you know of any reason why they should not be reading our paper? I know you don’t. So, you give them the chance. First, give the paper the means without which it cannot expand and grow to the point where such appeals as this will become unnecessary. Sell sub- scriptions and guarantee a maintenace fund to take the place of the advertising revenue that maintains other papers. Then you will be able to give Will Rogers’ millions the right kind of paper. As a part of the complex struggle to build and unite the labor move- ment around policies, to give it decisive voice and influence, this also is a way of realizing the great promise contained in the Teheran Declaration.