ai play to the value of
glotys- (Signed) Van-
fopaganda, Lublin.”

sites for the fireworks
wily arrived. But a lit-
etemps arose over the
This occurred much
tober 28, at nine hours
|minutes o’clock. Herr
; suddenly noticed that
| of the printed poster
gltesether satisfactory.
telephone message to
denbuseh in Cracow:

‘all of M. Attention haz
led to the fact that the
»scow (Moskau) in the
| spelled in the German
fereas the rest of the
in Polish. As a re-
% poster naturally loses
#aveness. I propose that
® slips be printed with
ish. word ‘Moskwa’ in
‘and request an urgent
uVandrey, Propaganda,

es

ihe last obstacle to the
| of Moscow -was re

snough on October 29,
‘err Vandrey dictated
Owing circular to his
sates in Chelm, Bialu,
Grubiszow, Radzyn,
3, Bilgorai and other
“Official Confidential.
of M. You will receive
for number) posters,
would be a graphic dem-
mm to the Polish popu-
‘the significance of the
the capital of the Bol-

frorld conspiracy. I re-
jm to see to it that the

ers was enclosed with the cir-
cular. Nine hundred posters
were sent to Radzyn, 1200 to
Chelm, 1000 to Grubiszow and
1300 to Lublin. Herr Vatidrey’s
subordinates, Wenaler Scheller,
Walerz Ganet, Funk and others
ordered buckets of paste.

iverything Was now ready
for the fireworks: posters, red-
Zummed slips, stands for, the
German colonists, signplates
with the name “Viktoria-
Strasse,” and the speech of SS
Obergruppenfuehrer Globotsch=
ik.

The delay was not due to lack
of paste or orators. The Red
Army had its say and the Ger-

man plans went agley. The.

celebrations had to be called
off.

Of course, that was very rude
on our part. After all, the Ger-
mans had prepared so lone for
the solemn day, they had squan-
dered so much on posters and
fireworks, they had put their
rotenfuehrers to so much troub-
le composing their fiery
Speeches. But if they had only
stopped to think; if they had
asked any Russian country lad,
they would have realized that
Moscow would not surrender.

- So the celebrations in the
overnment-general” and the
“protectorate” had to be ecan-
celled. True, they did rename
some cafes “Victory Cafe,” but
the “fitting excuse”? for it, as
Ohlenbusch so charmingly ex-
pressed it, was lacking: there
Was no yictory. Instead of Ben-
gal lights they began setting a

ik S Theat : Failec

L

eruppentuehrer Globotschnik
devoted his leisure to asphyxiat-
ing defenseless people with
gases and distributine shoes
Stripped from the feet of exe-
euted children. His is one of
the first names to figure in the
list of the Maidanek criminals
and I am certain that this
“candidate” will be accepted for
the gallows.

Much has changed since the
time when the greedy and
Stupid Germans made their
plans for celebrating the cap-
ture of Moscow.

Time and again Moscow’s sky
has been lit up with rockets in
celebration of the liberation of
towns and whole Republics. The
would-be conquerors of those
days are rotting in their graves.
Lublin has been liberated. Ob-
erbutcher Globotschnik and Ob-
erbraggart WVandrey fled, for-
getting to remove the files and
folders with their strictly confi-

dential documents.

The Red Army is at the gates
of Warsaw. ‘The day is not far
off when the flag of liberty
will wave over the mutilated but
proud Capital of Poland.

Nor is the day far off when
Germany will answer for the
evil she has done. Our Allies
have surrounded Aachen, they
are threatening the Ruhr; they.
are 530 kilometers from Berlin.
The heroic Red Army which is
now annihilating Hitler’s Jast
forces is 510 kilometers from
the German capital:

SHORT JABS

by Ol Bill

Union Wrecker

: A MAN who claims to have known me for many years, but who does
not sign any name to his letter, is a little bit wroth, or maybe he is

just indignant, at me for being so ungallant as to expose the anti-union
policy of the CCF as they are carried inte effect by their Provincial

chairman, Alsbury.

Even if the letter had -been signed, I would still refuse to become
unduly contrite, to sit on the penitents’ bench or to feel like apologizing
for the criticism of the studied contra-union CCF policies I wrote of in

this column two weeks ago.

TE have worked in the woods and sawmills on this Coast. I knew
the idyllic life of the logger and sawmill worker in the days when there
was no union, no form of organization, among the timberworkers._ if
helped to organize unions in both ends of the industry and saw them lift
the victims of the timber barons from the status of “howling timber-
wolves” to that of men who could stand on their own feet and play a
part in determining the conditions under which they were to live.

I saw these unions destroyed, purposely, by other alleged labor or-
ganizations whose members shouted to high heaven in mouthy phrases

their love for the workers and their hatred of the boss loggers.

IT saw the Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union, the LWIU, grow from
nothing to 20,000 members. In that process the loggers changed from
turkey-toting transients who slept in double-decked, muzzle-loading,
vermin infested bunks with hay and plank mattresses to men who car—
ried a suitcase with a pair of calked shoes and their Sunday-go-to-meet—
ing togs and maybe'a bottle of hootch.; And all their habits changed in
line, except, of course, they still played a little poker, to ease the pains

of labor.

That union was not organized to make a revolution in political life.
Its purpose was to improve the lot of the lumberworkers, in the woods,

the mills and the factories. It certainly succeeded.

But it had competition from a revolutionary union, so-called, the
Industrial Workers of the World, the 1WW, better known as the Wob-

Hven the most stupid Ger-
mans have forgotten about “the
fall of M?? The time has come
for another event: the fall of B!

blies. The IWW had a lumberworker department, Local 120 it was called.
Local 120 would not brook a powerful industrial union im the woods of
B.G. so the few members in B.C. were inspired and instructed from their
headquarters in Seattle, to either capture the ILWIU or destroy it. They
succeeded, in destroying it. :

The Wobblies went into the LWIU. They pushed themselves ahead.
They got into strategic positions on the official paper of the union; got
elected as camp delegates and placed on the payroll. dnstead of or-
ganizinge the loggers into the LWIU they issued cards and organized
the men into the [LWW Local 120. They did everything to brine about
the failure of the LWIU plans. The Wobblies might not have succeeded
by themselves, for they were few in number, but they worked hand in
hand with the boss loegers—knowingly or unknowimely.

light to the towns and villages. -

Lublin got no celebrations: it
got Maidanek instead. Ober-

are properly displayed.
is :

ik receipt for the post-

Segoe Ree Seg ee here

[Tea See

THINK? #25

READERS
to put the finger on the Reds but let’s have some action.

is a feeble substitute .

support we gave those
and Nazis in Hurope

‘stemming the red tide
*scow.
10 bled over all Hurope

eannot unconditionally admit
to our ranks those who become

members of parliament by do-
ing the same chore here.
Their words are fair enough,

Harold Winch might do it, if
he didn’t waste so much time
tossing back those raven locks
of his.
Yours for the revolution and
the purge.
SOCIAL DEMOGRAT.

Target for the Day

HE: result was the destruction of the LUIW and a partial return to

the pre-union eonditions in the woods and mills. [ didn’t like that. It
hurt. And°*when I see signs of it coming again, I would be a heel, worse
than a stool-pigeon, to the loggers in the TWA if I did not sound the

alarm. For the [WA is “target for the day.”

Today, the CCE is attempting to assume the role once played by the

Buy Bonds Wobblies. it is, alas, too apparent that their purpose is to get control
of the leadership of the TWA and use it as a stepping stone for political
Dane Ste aspirants. If it is destroyed im so doing, and the bosses are the only

iciari i i) too bad for the TWA.
With the seventh Victory beneficiaries, well, that will be-just too bad for the

Loan in swing I would like to
appeal to all workers and pro-
gressive people to support this
worthy project.

We can all agree with the
advertising that its success
will help in bringing our boys
back sooner. Probably another
equally good way of putting it
is to say that if it should fail
it would be a staggering blow
to morale both here and over-
seas.

If Alsbury likes working in a sawmill so much why doesn’t he quit
teaching school and become a real sawmill worker? But he does not ap-
pear to like the work so much. He just wants to hold on to enough of
the sawmill, three hours per night, to enable him to stay in the TWA.

If he is as good a union man as he wants people to believe, a man
who asks us to compare his record with that of Bill Stewart, why did he
not join the steamfitters’ union? The firm he was working for is an
American contracting outfit that builds dry kilns in sawmills, steam-
fitter work. They only hire union men when the union catches. up with
them. On this job they did not get any men from the union. So, Alsbury
was a union school teacher working as a non-union steamfitter with @
burning desire to join the International Weodworkers of America. ;

He was not working in the industry and was not entitled to become
a member any more than the postman who delivered the mail at the
office, or the laundryman who changed the towels in the office staff
wash room. Z

This means that-now, in the
last weeks of the doom of fas-
cism, we should all make a big-
ger effort than ever before to
buy one or more bonds!

The lesson of the last few
h Ht months of fightme is that fas-
i 4 cism will not be destroyed with-

The objectives of the CCF and Alsbury, are the men who are re-
sponsible for the building-of the union. The men who are in the leader-
ship today are the builders of the [WA. The boss loggers want to set
rid:of them and the CCF are going to try to do the job for them. Watch
for other €CFers joining the TWA.

Phillip Murray and Bill Green have had innumerable discussions
over the welding together of the two great trade union movements in
the U.S., the APJ, and the CIO, but nothing has come of it.

Here in Canada, too, there has been much talk of making the AFI,
and the CCL into a powerful organization but with like results. How
would it be if all the organized workers in Canada followed Alsbury’s
example—be a member of an AFI union in the daytime and a GCL
union at night. That would, at least, effect a physical unity that might
help, for Alsbury has accomplished what Bengough and Mosher have
failed to do, unite the two trade union centers. Or maybe there is some
difficulty about “dual” membership that Alsbury does not know about.

out a fierce struggle. The rat
is cornered and at bay and is
apparently determined to fight
to the last ditch.

See Buying bonds now will help
drive the nails into the coffin
so deep and so firm that even
Os if a spark of life is left for
awhile it will finally go out

forever.
JUST A WORKER. ~