Sis Ss Victoria {Leading In valmpaign While response to the Labor- mMogressive Party’s election ind campaign has been en- uraging, the appeal must be Poadened and more effectively ordinated with canvassing id other pre-election work if re $10,000 objective is to be lached in time, LPP district ‘icials warned this week. Excellent work has already Hen done by LPP clubs in Vic- §4 32, who have been prompt in fiding: in donations and re- tts. Victoria Club is in the d with $239.30 against a )s>ta of $400, while North Vic_ dia Club is second with 13.50 on a similar quota. ither clubs reporting progress ! Copper Mountain, $72.30 on 1100 quota; Lumby, $20 on a quota; Wihitehorse, ¥.T., £8.90, on a quota of $150; Gib- Ms’s Landing, $30 on a quota of Is; and White Rock $2.44 on 550 quota. é —3 |) Garfield A. King a BARRISTER ({8 Granville MA. 8642|| : John E. Mecredy @ xsENERAL INSURANCE re * Automobile * Accident | 5 Howe, Vancouver, B.C. || Phones: ke. 52385 — Res. PAc. 4885 Be ebb Sh PheoeeSehriiededs GREETINGS to The People 5 frém DR. W. J. CURRY | > BOILERMAKERS’ ' HALL 339 W. Pender wery WED. & SAT. Dancing | §-12 pm. CARLE HODSON’S ORCHESTRA pne PAc. 4835 for Rentals | J lin ex oe 'TITO and His People . by HOWARD FAST ; — fifteen cents — ; @ MacLeod Scores Broken Promises Calls on Opposition To Oust Premier Drew PORT WILLIAM, Ont.—The various opposition groups in the Ontario Jegislature are ob- ligated to the people of this province not to permit a minor- ity government to continue to hoodwink the people for a whole period of five years, A. A. Mac-_ Leod, MPP (Toronto-Bellwoods) told a public meeting here last week. . Macieod, who is the spokes- man for the Labor-Progressive Party in the Ontario legislature charged Premier Drew with “complete and ealeulated dis-_ honesty before the people of this province.” Speaking of Drew’s 22-point election program, Macleod Stated that a whole year had now elapsed since the election and this has provided ample time for the Progressive Gon- servative leader to begin te im- plement some of his promises. Analyzing these promises, Macieod showed how 80 of some 90 bills passed by the last ses- sion of the legislature were of minor significance and that none of the promises made to the people has been carried out. “I propose,” said’ MacLeod, “that the legislature be recon vened in September and that on the basis of its failure to carry. out its commitments to the -people of this provinee, the question of confidence in the present government be placed before the House.” Labor Arts Guild Names Provisional Committee Labor Arts Guild, organized as an auxiliary body to the labor movement, to coordinate cultural activities of all those interested in “giving substance to the rising crescendo of the people’s voice,’ and to “bring into the light of day the wealth of unsuspected talent within the labor movement itself,” has announced election of a provincial committee to carry on the affairs of the organization until September, 1944. tate ase ooston ot McEwen Hits Road Critics agreed to take the position of Current charges of “waste” director of the guild and Julia Christensen, executive secre- tary of the Shipyard General Workers Federation, has been chosen as secretary. on the Alaska Highway ‘were Among other wellknown scored this week by Tom Me- figures who will act as execu- ee eet Labor candidate tive members of the new group “Canada’s KE airoes 38 are are: advanced by these charges. Nor is it purely coincidental that those stimulating this rumor campaign are the Same tory Prevor Tremain-Garstang, radio artist; Cliff Rouse, orches- elements who have been quite vociferous in their opposition tra leader; Les Buckley, chair- man, Arts-Hducation Commit- tee of the Boilermakers Union; to the route, construction and Helen Moat, secretary, Labor utility of the highway right Theater; Ted Ward, publicity from its inception,” said Mc- director, Industrial Reconstruc- “There is undoubtedly waste. But upon what project the di- mensions of the Alaska Righ- tion and Social Developmept Council; Cecil Hagman, leader way, built with the enemy at our back door, would there not of the Firemen’s Band; Ross A. Lort, architect; Harry Bird, F. Lambrett Smith, dramatic be waste? artist and producer; Walter “In my recent tour of the Gawrycki, conductor, Russian- Yukon, I saw some of this Canadian choir; Ray Gardner, ‘waste’ but as a Canadian con- cerned about the war effort of Canada against fascism, more than in cheap publicity and cheap electioneering, I was im- pressed by the great achieve- ment of the road, rather than in the battered machinery or other equipment that had gone into its making. feature writer, Vancouver Sun; Dorothy Livesay, noted Canad= lan poetess; Ann Sugar, CKMO Seript writer; Una Bligh, artist and designer; Stan Randle, band leader, arranger and com- poser; Claud Donald, field Tep- resentative, National Film Board. == Books and People by Kay Gregory QN= of the new novels to look forward to early this fail will be Five Arrows by Allan Chase, who wrote Falange, a book on fascist penetration of Latin America and pointed to its link up through Franco With Hitler. Five Arrows is reported to be a “novel based on the facts” and promises to have some excellent material in it if his article on Spain in this month’s Coronet is any indication. In his article Chase gives some very encouraging information about the underground mevement in Spain. Far from being inac- tive, he declares that nowhere is there to be found “a body of soldiers with more experience in fighting Axis troops or more reasons to hate the armies of fascism” in all occupied Europe. In September, 1943, representatives of all the anti-fascist fac- tions in the Spanish underground met in a Secret congress in Spain and established the Junta Suprema de Union National, bringing ‘all guerrilla and sabotage units of the underground under one central control. : Within a few hours of the drafting. of its historic manifesto, details were transmitted to the whole Spanish nation by two power- ful illegal radio stations in the Pyrenees and the Levant, by seven daily undersround Papers and scores of weekly magazines pub- lished by the underground. Chase also tells an amusing story of guerrilla ingenuity in obtaining supplies. Guerrillas in the Sierras de Grande region needed 100 thousand pesetas in a hurry to buy some vitally needed arms from a grafting fascist official. Calling a council of war, they discussed various ways of getting their hands on this sum and finally despatched a note to Melchor Ramos, a landowner and Falange leader. The note ordered Ramos to have 100 thousand pesetas ready for delivery to the guerrillas at his farm on a given morning. Ramos did the expected thing. At the time set by the cuerrillas? note every tree on the farm concealed a civil guard. Fascist soldiers took up positions in the attic, cellar the spare reoms of Ramos’ house. And a regular army colonel arrived to supervise the spring- ing of: the trap. “The colonel and the frightened landowner repaired to the study where they shared a bottle of sherry and examined Ramos’ strong box. Just to play safe, the landowner had drawn 100 thou- sand pesetas from the bank. After an hour or so, the colonel emerged from the room, alone, and inspected the guards. “Stay at your posts,” he ordered. He marched to his car, and was many miles away before 4 startled lieutenant discovered that the “colonel? was actually a guerrilla ehief and that the 100 thousand pesetas were gone! Chase also echoes a Warning that is somewhat familiar to those of us who remember the campaigns waged on behalf of the Spanish people several years ago. He declares that “if the third world war is to be prevented it will be in Spain—-where the second could have been prevented in 1936.” : {pes week I finally got around to reading Burma Surgeon, by Dr. Gordon Seagrave, a medical missionary in Burma who went through all the horrors of the retreat to India with General Stilwell. And I’m still wondering why it became such a best seller. Admittedly it is intensely interesting but without any depth. How a man could possibly go through so much and yet remain so politically aloof, so unaware of the issues involved is beyond my comprehension. Here is a book written by Someone on the inside of that terrible retreat and yet all he is able to tell us is how many operations he performed, how wonderful the Native girls were in learning to nurse and the conditions they all endured. There is none of the information everybody is seeking as to why these things were necessary or how the people of that district felt about the whole thine. He does remark in one place about America’s disgraceful record in aiding Japan during the earlier years of war against China: Americans “were not only selling scrap iron,” he states, “they. were shipping droves of the best American mechanics to Japan! to help her start airplane factories. Doctor Seagrave certainly performed some heroie work in caring for those thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers, but his constant astonishment at the prowess of his native nurses was to me very annoying. Why shouldn’t people of Burmese, Chinese or any other nationality attain just as high ability in any protes- sion, particularly nursing and surgery, provided they have the required training and aptitude. The little Burmese nurses’ bravery, their constant hard work to provide food clean laundry and com- fort for the suffering is something which might well be an example to every other race. After reading this book, I cannot help thinking what a mar- velous book Dr. Norman Bethune could have written on his work in Spain and China—a book that would ave given the reader a rounded out picture of all the aspects of the battle against fascism, whether Japanese or German, and would not have confined it, as Seagrave’s book does, to medical and personal details.