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THE News-Herald this week reprints a scurrilous

story from the notoriously labor-hating, pro-
fascist Colonel R. McCormick’s Chicago Tribune.

Thinly camouflaged by attempted satire, the
story is nothing more than a filthy and unwarrant-
ed attack on organized labor. It refers to an al-
leged organization in the South Pacific, possibly
Originating in the imagination of the Chicago
Tribune Fuehrer, expressing “profound sym-:
pathy with union workers for hardships which
wartime conditions have imposed” and asserts,
With vicious wit, that labor organizations should
be “thoroughly congratulated for recognizing the
need for strikes, slowdowns and the propagation
of civil unrest at this time.”

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This libelous attack, even with its attemp-
ted humor, is so contrary to the facts that it
stands condemned as a cunning, though clumsy
attempt to undermine organized labor, to drive
a wedge between labor and the fighting forces.

Such a perspective fits in very well with the

postwar plans of pro-fascist elements in the
United States who are closely identified with the
McCormick and Hearst press.

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Tt is not necessary to set forth in detail the
tremendous .contribution of organized labor to
the war effort. : :

The fact is, that in spite of provocation,
strikes have been at a minimum. labor's no-
strike pledge {was fulfilled 99.75 per cent in
1943. And it is only in those cases where em-
ployers, taking advantage of that pledge, have
pushed unions to the point where no other action
was possible to preserve their organizations, that
work stoppages have occurred.

The boys in the armed forces are well aware
of the part played by organized labor. Every
time that umbrella of bombers and fighting planes
roars Overhead; every, time that protective~bar-

‘tage of high explosives screens their offensive;

every time supplies are landed from American
and Canadian built ships, they know that labor
fights for them and with them.

The strength and power of organized labcor
is the greatest assurance of fair and adequate
treatment for Our returning service men and
women.

Just as the driving power and initative of
prganized labor has been the major factor in
stepping up war production, so will they be of
the utmost importance in the establishment of

Associate Editor
MYER SHARZER

a lasting péace, in which pobs for all at decent
wages must be the foundation.

The News-Herald will not add to i; pees.

tige by reprinting the filthy propaganda of the-

anti-United Nations, anti-labor, ‘pro-fascist Mc-
Cormick-Hearst. press. fe ne SESS Css

Patriotism Betrayed
Tee damaging ‘effect the continued anti-demo-
cratic maneuvers of the Polish government-

in-exile have upon relations within’ the United
Nations is illustrated by the way every reaction-

ary, anti-Soviet element has seized upon... the..

issue created by the premature uprising in War-
saw-

As they did in the instancé jof the Katyn mass-
acre and again in the boundary dispute, diehard
emigre Poles and their. agents inside Poland are
seeking to divide the Allies in order to gain their
Own aim of recreating Poland as closely as pos-
sible in the rotten image of the past.

When the Red Army neared Warsaw, Polish
patriots under “General Bors’ struck-jwithout in-
forming the Red Army commanders or consult-
ing with them to learn when their action could
be most effectively coordinated with the Soviet
offensive. On reaching Warsaw's well-fortified
outer defenses, the Red Army fanned out to bypass
and encircle the city, following its tested method
of dealing with enemy strongpoints to trap their
defenders and accomplish their surrender at the
least cost of life. Whereupon ‘General Bors*
charged that his patriot forces within the city
had been betrayed.

They had indeed been betrayed, but by their
own leaders in the Polish government-in-exile
who led them into an adventurist uprising with
the political aim of presenting Red Army com-
manders with a fait accompli in order to streng-
then their own shaky position vis-a-vis the Pol-
ish Committee of National Liberation.

‘This miserable policy of using the splendid
patriotism of the Polish people for their own
political ends has been shown in other instances.
There have been many occasions, as in the vicin-
ity of Lublin in June and in the Lipa Forest in.
July, when units of the emigre governments
Armyja Krajowa have refused to aid the People’s
Army against the Germans, although the emigre
government tries to create the impression abroad
that all its forces have been thrown into the
common struggle.

Instead, by using its forces for questionable
political ends, the Polish government-in-exile is
needlessly sacrificing thousands of lives, delay-
ing the day of liberation and obstructing the
rise of a strong democratic Poland founded on
a realistic policy of friendship with the Soviet

Union.

Where

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INCE the Teheran Conference was held j;
about it, from realistic appraisal to fane
outright denunciation. The CCE, in the state
policy adopted after bitter argument at its p
and particularly in its provincial organ, th
tion and distortion untroubled by the dang
erous actions to which that policy leads it,

Thus, as I poimted out last
week, it obstructs the libera-
tion movements of Hurope, with
which it presumes to identify
itself, in their efforts to recon-
struct their countries along the
new democratic lines made pos-
sible by the promise of the
Teheran Declaration to secure
their right to “live free lives
untouched by tyranny and ac-
eording to their varying desires
and their own consciences.” It
strives to obscure the damn- -
ing indictment of its own anti-

unity, anti-Communist: policies -

implicit in the unity. achieved
by the European . liberation’
movements by denouncing “the
virtual dictatorship of the Big -
Three in the policies of -the:-

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United Nations” as a. return to ieee s eo a

power politics and by—posing: as:
the champion of small nations’=>
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As a result, the leaders of the
CCF find themselves in_ a

stranger by far than any align-
ment of progressive forces pro--"

posed by the Labor-Progressive _ :
or any other Marxist party to... Edges.
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ensure the implementation of
the Teheran concord in the post-
War era... aS

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OROTHY Steeves, CCF mem-
ber of the legislature for-
North Vancouver, echoes the
Trotskyist-dominated Independ-~
ent Labor Party “in Britam
when, with all the gall of one
whose “revolutionary” activities:
have been confined to the elec-
tion platform, she accuses
Stalin of having “betrayed the
revolution.”

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“The policy
the opposite ¢€
‘vides the milita:
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_Colin Cameron, the “leftist? -euarantee of .

CCF member of the legislature
for Comox, whe likes to think
of himself as an arch=-fee of
imperialism, finds himself sym= ~
pathet to Thomas Dewey, the
Republican nominee for presi-
dent, who is supported by the
very advocates of- the “new
American imperialism’ against
which he thunders. He writes
in the CCF News: 3

«_... Thomas Dewey, like
most of the leading figures
in the U.S.A. today, is diffi-
cult to analyse. -.. His ene-
mies charge him with isola-
tion, a crime of which his
friends say he has repented.
Possibly a touch of isolation-
ism might not come amiss as
an antidote to the all too
evident upsurge of imperial-
ism in contemporary Ameri-
can thought. ... The world
can only hope that the nom-
ination of Dewey means that
the Republicans have purged
themselves of the more crass--
ly ignorant elements that
have hitherto guided the
party.” (August 3, 1944)

Gameron finds Dewey diffi-
cult to analyse, although organ-
ized labor in the United States
through the Political Action
Committee has no such diffi-
culty, correctly appraising his
eandidacy as the central expres-
sion of American reaction. But
when it comes to analysing
President Roosevelt, as one of
the Big Three, Cameron unhesi-
tatingly condemns his policies
as power politics.

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