Page 16—Saturday, November 25, 1944

Forty thousand members of
Lodge 727 IAM, call their
“unionettes” rabble rousers
because they were so effective
organizing Lockheed — plants.
Rita Plant, trustee and a re-
porter for the Lodge paper,
American Aeronaut, show
what they mean.

Republican
Exiles Meet
At Toulouse

Spain’s 80,000 Republican
exiles in France held an impor-
tant congress at Toulouse last
week, reaffirming support for
the Junta Suprema de Wnidad
Nacional, the underground center
inside of Spain.

The Spanish ‘National Union,
which is what the Republieans in
France call themselves, address-
ed an appeal to the -people of
Spain to prepare an all-national
uprising against Franco.

AVOID COMPLICATIONS

But they disavowed any in-
tention of inspiring or leading
this anti-Franco fight from out-
side of Spain, thus avoiding any
issues with France, which is es-
tablishing, for the meantime,
normal relations with Madrid.

Some 14,000 of these exiles
are fighting in the French FFI,
and Toulouse was gaily decked
out to greet their Spanish com-
rades.

The National Uunion’s confer-
ence was warmly gereeted by
Cuban and North American or-
ganizations sympathetic to the
Spanish republic. Reports are
that Cuba may soon follow Mevy-
ico’s lead in refusing relations
with Franco.

Women Played Great Part
In Roosevelt Victory

By ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN

In the hushed moment when you. stand inside the cur-
tains of the voting booth, you are alone—like a boy in a

fox hole or a mother about to
deep thoughts and grave
American women stood there
Tuesday squarely on their own
two -feet, and made their final
decision. They ‘helped’ reelect
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“First. in war, first in peace and
first in the hearts of his country-
women,” is the historic verdict.

POLITICALLY OF AGE

It demonstrates that our wo-
men-haye come of age politically
and are a force toe be reckoned
With in all our future. It indi-
cates .a lesson to red-baiters,
labor-baiters, immigrant haters
—that women are not as suscep-
tible to such vile propaganda as
they had ‘ confidently expected.
It proves that women were not
easily swayed by calculated ap-
peals to their natural anxiety
about their loved ones—to swal-
low the lie that the President is
planning to keep them abroad in-
definitely.

REBUKE TO REACTION

Their vote is an expression of
confidence’in our Commander-in-
Chief—to win the war and bring
our boys home as quickly as pos-
sible. It is a rebuke to the low
type of campaign carried on by

responsibility.

have a baby— alone with your
Many million

Dewey and the G@OP—their lies
about the war, the President, our
allies, lies about the home front.
They took their duties as citizens
tremendously serious:
great indignation over the de-
nial of a vote to many. of their
soldier sons.

PREPARE NOW

It’s too early for a breakdown’
of figures—although probably
they will show about the same
percentages as men in different
places and groups. Naturally we
cannot assume that all women
voted right, any more than all
men did.

These elections must cause us,
even in the midst of rejoicing, to
evaluate the weak spots in our
armor of national unity and the
need of special efforts to edu-
cate and strengthen these con-
fused elements.

Important postwar problems
will follow swift on the heels of
victory. We must prepare now:
And so—to work, to win the war,
to build peace and security.

That’s what America’s women
voted for, in choosing obee man

They felt |

Vancouver Unionists Support |
First Industrial Art Exhibition |

By JOHNNY OTTEWELL

Marjory Robertson, young Boeings Aircraft employee and member of Lodge 756, «
awarded the first prize of $250 for her sculptured figure ‘ ‘Aircraft Worker’ at the co,
petitive Art Exhibit which opened last Tuesday, November 21, under the title of “Briti

Columbia at work.”

The second prize of $150 went
to P. Ustinoy for his painting en-
titled “The Foundry”; Ustinov,
an employee at Neon Lighting is’
a member of the Moulders and
Foundry Workers Union, CCL.

Ruth Carlson won the third
prize of $100 for her oil paint-
ing “Prospectors,”’ a picture de-
pictine’ Gold Miners.

British Columbia Trade Unions
are contributing to the $500
prize fund and three special
prize awards have been donated
from individual unions for the
best work depicting the industry
represented by the union.

The International Wood Work-
ers of America awarded John El-
lison $50 for his painting en-
titled “The Mill.”

Young “Per” Danielson, a stu-
dent painter received $25 from
the Fishermen’s Wnion for his
charcoal drawing the “Trawler.”

Members of offices and staff
of unions affiliated to the Ship
Yard Generals Workers’ Federa-
tion are taking up a collection

anion will be presented to Fraser
Wilson for his painting entitled
“Organization.”

Sponsored by the Allied Arts |
War Services Couneil, under the
auspices of the Vancouver Labor
Arts Guild this exhibit is an un-
‘usual experience for British Co-
lumbia.

The first exhibit of Social Art
ever held in Canada it is also the
first time organized labor in
Canada has actively interested
itself in the promotion of an Art
Project.

Labor must develop and use
the art medium so as to be able
to present its social aims and
democratic ideals in a manner
that will impress the publie and
win its sympathy and wunder-
standing. <

With the strengthening of iat
bor ‘organizations in the last few
years and the turn of the war
into a. people’s war there has
been a great surge towards So-
cial Arts.

It was due to the realization

of the need for an organi:
movement here that the Taj’
Arts Guild was formed last su
‘mer.

In every labor government) ~
eial art springs into being. We
of public buildings are cover |
with paintings showing the p=
ple’s struggle for _ justice ae
liberty. Great plays are Writ\
and symphonies composed arou
the people’s movement,

The victory of socialism in {
USSR created the condition :
a revival of the people’s arts g
handicrafts and we know toc
the result of this far sighted ;
ministration.

Their plays, their symphon
and their songs are reprodui -
by the common people all o; §
the’ world as symbols of libe |
and social equality. :

We can be proud that in G
ada, British ‘Golumbia, thror
the Labor Arts Guild, has 6
the first in the field of Canad

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