Continued from Page 11 Page 14 — P.A. Features, December 16 @ . | Foibles, Labor Press F, @ = This Is Your Canada By GEORGE MORRIS 2) Or | @$ ban ios Gia eas Ghotomad (Q)EGANIZED labor's turnout o f the votes that assured Pr dent Roosevelt his majority i s acclaimed quite generally. EE In the east stands Great Bri- in the USSR. Sheer capital- ism, : ete of a oe enue ae z Z ae eatevey © BREOD2. the President’s foes concede that. wealth. ‘ ft Gc TS ~\ x : e F 2s cae anee i SG 10. : 2 Wess 1S BeSsine one Not so well known, however, is the role of the labor press ambassadors with three of her new nation of ageless China. combatting poison gas attacks of the MecCormick-Hearst-Paters @ great neighbors, the United In this present world of air- Gannett axis. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes noted + States, Russia and China and plane and radio, all these pow- the President was reelected despite the fact that only 17 perc Ain’t ft the Truth ~Jack Cornett has fought the workers’ cause.” (Head- ing in Vancouver civic elec- tion leaflet issued by J. W. Cornett. ) = Rugged Individualist “At least one person in America does not subscribe to the best man won’ atti- tude in the presidential elec- tion. Novelist Rose Wilder Land will go on living with- ©ut a ration book because she refuses to have any truck with the New Deal. ‘She is living instead off a three-acre Connecticut farm which she bought a few years ago for £500 and rations her earnings to £10 a month so that she does not: have to pay the Govern- ment taxes. She faces the winter with 1,200 bottles of preserved chicken, pork, vegetables and fruit, all from her farm.” (Item from British General News Serv- ice.) é : @ Seunds Like Expert Dog. Training “If any more of their rent collectors are bitten by dogs kept by Council house ten- ants, Bilston Town Council will take legal proceedings. Arrears of rent in Bilston total £1,600.” (From Rey- nolds News, London Eng- land.) = And No Weevers to - Educate Them. Poor Souls “There is no socialism in Russia any more. The final proof has been presented by George ( Weasel’) Weavy- er in the Vancouver CCF News. He has discovered that divorces are discour- aged and mothers are honor- ed in the Soviet Union! Not only that, George. We have it ‘on the best of authority that women are not nation- alized and that parents don’t devour their children thats what) at is!” (From ~ “Footprints and Fingerprints” by ‘Ed’ in the Canadian Tribune.) = Or a Trip ina Vancouver Fog “An unknown chapter in the history of the war, says a correspondent, is the battle of transport. Or three years on the 5:10 bus.’ (Quoted from the Louisville Courier Journal in the Christian Science Monitor.) also with Brazil and Mexico in latin America. She has estab- lished legations in Argentina, Chile, Peru and France. A Special minister has been ac- credited to, the victims of fas- cist aggression, Greece, WNor- way, Czechoslovakia, Yugo- Slavia, Netherlands and Bel- gium. Higher Commissioner’s offices have been opened in the United Kingdom and all the Dominions. Neutrals like Swe- den and Turkey maintain lega- tions’ in Canada. Canada has been accorded representation on the Pacific Council at Washington. She is also represented on the Gom- bined Production and Resources Board, which is the economic general staff of the United Nations. Canadians sit on six Joint American-Canadian CGom- mittees that plan and co-ordin- ate the economic and defence policies of the two nations. Mr. Churchill indicated quite some time ago that Canada can have membership» on the Imperial War Cabinet for the asking. S “pee strategic geographic position of €anada adds even greater importance to her rising power. Canada lies in what has been termed “the very cockpit of the world.” To her south across the 49th parallel lies her great friendly neigh- bor, the United States of Am- erica. To the north, across the Arctic and North Pacific, only a few hours flying distance, Stretches the mighty Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ers are ‘Canada’s next door neighbours. Further, Canada lies at the future crossroads of world air- ~ ways. Through her territories bass the shortest routes to Europe and Asia from the United States. Across the Canadian Northwest lies the shortest air route to Tokyo, Shanghai and Chungking. Through the Mackenzie river basin and Central Siberia lies the shortest skyway to Tehe- ran, Bombay and Cairo. And through the Canadian North- east is the shortest skyway to Great Britain and the Euro- pean continent. No place in Asia or Hurope lies more than 40 hours flying distance from Winnipeg, Canada. Canada is destined to become the june- tion of the world airways, in the yery near future. It is indeed in recognition of Canada’s growing international importance that Prime Minis- ter Churchill and President Roosevelt, have twice chosen the Gity of Quebec, as their meeting place, to plan the con- duct of war and postwar world. Such singular honor-has hardly been accorded to any other na- tion outside the Big Four. Undopbtedly then, Ganada has become a great force, and She will play a leading part in shaping the world of tomorrow. @ (This article is one of a series to follow from a book entitled,. “Canada and the New Asia,” to be published next spring by the “Pro- press Book,” Toronto. sugsested Xmas Presents THE ROAD PO THE OCEAN= Teguard Leeroy 355 ESCAPE FROM THE BALKANS—Michail Padeo _ 1.70 WE THE PEOPLE—Leo Huberman _ 3.50 (; ——) Books By Upton Sinclair _—_- Wide Is the Gate __ 3.25 Between Two Worlds 3.25 Presidential Agent — 3.25 Dragon’s Teeth ___ 3.25 World’s End __ - 3.00 Mountain City _-_ 1.35 = —=——= J Contemporary Publishers Pamphlets includes amongst other package pamphlets four by Dyson Carter All for 1.00 plus 15c postage PEOPLE’S BOOKSTORE 420 WEST PENDER STREET Phone MArine 5863 LAAT TTT il of the country’s newspapers backed him. He drew from that conelusion that editorial power has declined very much as an fluence of political opinion. | Undoubtedly this is true to quite an extent. But it also | true that considerable press strength was marshalled for-24 ' President through the thousands of weekly and monthiy un’ publications. Americans are customarily cold to union papers beca= union journals, since their earliest appearance, have not be very popular and at times were hardly readable. As far as pe ties iS ¢oncerned, most have followed a non-partisan tradition — barred even mention of politics in their paces. ‘ But a big change has occurred and it became most appare in this Presidential election.’ 3 The circulation has grown with union- membership. The rar ; is above the 13,000,000 organized workers, practically each | whom gets a union journal in the mails. Many hundreds of pape and those are eyen more popular and aggressive in a campais are published by locals, regional or shop organizations. Tiaz numbers of non-union workers and other. members of union fai | lies are reached by those papers. : The qualitative change is equally obvious. The majority the papers are issued by the new CIO unions— They are not; " tarded by traditions of political non-partisanship or aloofne With hardly an exception they went all out, devoting major spa to campaign issues, turnout for registration and to bringing ¢° the vote on Noy. 7. AFL papers showed some changes, although many of j. national monthly journals still refrained from campaigning ;~ any candidates. The Federationist, official monthly organ of 7” AFL, was “nonpartisan” devoting equal space to Republicans 2 Democrats on controversial material. But there was®ene gene , positive feature that ran through all of the papers: they at le: hammered away on the importance of qualifying as voters. Tl” favored the President far more than Dewey since the votes unionists, even according to the polls, went about.three to c for Roosevelt. : Many AFL papers refused to be hamstrung by outworn “ne partisanship” and went all the Way out for the President. OQ: standing among them was the International ‘Teamster, of whi Dan Tobin is editor. That journal, going to 600,000 teamste Was outspoken for Roosevelt since the first signs appeared a movement to draft him. About a score of Teamster papers { out in the distriet councils, followed the same line. The best example among the very conservative Railrc | Brotherhoods was the Trainman which goes to 200,000 memb: President A. F. Whitney did a swell campaigning job. ; Regional AFL papers like the journal of the Norfolk lal ; council, the Chicago Federationist, the New Jersey Labor Her are other such examples. But the most direct appeal and influence came from ~ big CIO journals—Steel Labor, going to nearly a million; the — Yews, to about 700,000 and United Automobile Worker to abow - million and a quarter, to mention only the three largest. Most ; the CIO papers are weekly or semi-monthly, newsy, popule edited, hardhitting tabloids. Below these are the numerous s! and local papers some of which are larger and eyen more ; fective than the national organ since they take the campaig — down to the very department. i Most of the large plants in Detroit have such shop pape 5 Ford Facts put out by Local 600 goes to each of the employe | of the huge River Rouge plant of the Fort Motor Go. The Bom! 3 goes to the workers of the Ford Willow Run plant. The Conve; | goes to many shops on Detroit’s West Side, ete., ete. There 4 quite a competition for popularity among those papers. They | for two-color, pictorial, cartoon and other such attractive featui | The Shipyard Worker, going to some 400,000 GIO membe i) tops another chain of local papers, each covering the workers 4% such huge yards as Todds in Brooklyn, Federal Ship in Kear: | Fairfield Bethlehem in Baltimore, and others. Hundreds of local and shop papers are issued m New Ye q City. Some of them run as many as 16 pages, as does New Voie. 1 two-color, live paper going to 10,000 members of Local 65, Who 7 sale and Warehouse Workers. Among the good examples of Al} local papers is the tabloid of the Hotel Club Employes, Local ( | Indicative of the progress in labor journalism is the improi | ment in servicing this chain of papers. Federated Press has be a particularly valuable contribution in the campaign with its da} service to papers supplying the facts and material on campai q issues and news that most local labor editors, have neither t # means nor the time to find. Much help also came from the Clit | weekly news service and the PAC’s bulletins. i The Daily Worker and Worker had a part in this picture dy beyond the scope of their circulation. Their contents were widi reprinted or their influence was reflected in numerous Jak papers—especially those that proved to be the most effect # mobilizers. } The labor press, for the first time, really tasted its streng | —a strength that was not fully used. The candidacy of Roo” velt around which practically every labor organization im 1 country rallied, gave the labor press the first opportunity really cross swords with the big daily poison spreaders. With: exageerating or overlooking the many labor papers that are Sj almost a waste of paper, it can be predicted that the labor pré! is on the road to becoming: a powerful weapon of labor. 3 !