Page 2 — Saturday, January 6, 1945

Taken from a roll of films found on a captured German soldier, this photo tells the
dramatic story of the Nazi counter-offensive in which thousands of Americans have
been taken prisoner.

Workers Educational Association
Opens Labor School This Month

Registration for the spring term of the Workers’ Edu-
cational Association Labor School is expected to be com-
pleted by the middle of January reports WEA Director Claude
Donald. The school will open on January 22 with classes
in five subjects to be given by competent authorities in each

field.

Subjects which will be dealt
with are: Psychology, Economic
History of Canada, Public Speak-
ing, Child Psychology and The
Shop Steward. Fees for the
courses are: for members of af-
filiated unions, $2 for Associa-
tion membership and one course
and $1 for each additional course;
for members of unaffiliated
unions, $2.50 for Association
membership and one course, $1
for each additional course. Fur-
ther details on the school can be
Secured from Claude Donald,
WEA, 1005 Holden Bldg, MAr.
7919.

“The classes are very different
irom the traditional] university
classes,” said the director. “The
methods, point of view and at-
mosphere are those of a workers’
group: they feel at home and do
not ‘freeze up.’ The class re-
sembles a debating society with
a real democratic interchange
of ideas between students and
tutor.

“The student workers bring
forward their own problems and
the lecturer emphasizes that they
are not really individual ones
but part of the society in which
the individual lives. They are en-
couraged to develop critical judg-
ments and to form objective
Opinions.”

The course on psychology wil
be led by Dr. J. I. Macdougall,
M.A. The main object will be to
apply the findings of psycholo-
gists to the practical issues of
life. Lectures will include dis-
cussions on understanding one’s
own personality problems, how
our feelings and emotions color
our life, motivation and the
drives of life, brological and so-

cial, and what this means- for
Purposes of leadership and the
technique of reasoning out every-
day problems. This class opens
January 22 at the King Edward
School at 12th: and Oak, and
every subsequent Monday night.

The economic history of Can-
ada course will be led by Dr. A.
W. Currie of the University of
Eritish Columbia. Directed to
providing a foundation for con-
sideration of Canada’s future,
the course will be a sane and
Gown-to-earth account of the
workers who changed a sprawl-
ing wildermess into the second
greatest exporting nation in the
world. The class will be held
every Thursday night, begin-
ring January 25, at the King Ed-
ward School.

The popular class on public
speakine has been divided into
two sections, one, with Robert
Skinner, meeting Tuesday nights
and commencing January 23 and
the other, with J. W. Hope, on
Wednesday nights, opening Janu-
ary 17.
the King Edward School. ‘The
course will give the essentials of
good public speakine: with prac-
tice and instruction in thinking
on one’s feet, selecting, composing
and making the speech, and the
overcoming of nervousness.

Kathleen Gorrie and Marjorie
Smith will be-among those lead-
ing the course on child psychology.
This course is being given to
help parents understand the prob-
lems of child development. Meth-
ods of educating children, the need
for nursery schools. and c¢reches
will be among the topics discussed.

Time, place and further details

Both will be held az.

will be announced later by the
WEA.

Aimed at creating competent
shop stewards “who will thor-
oughly understand where their
job begins and ends,” the shop
steward course will deal exten-
Sively with the history, develop-
ment and future possibilities of
these important trade union lead-
ers. Including labor history, it
will stress practical issues and
everyday problems. Tutors will
include Garry Culhane, Tom
Parkin and others. Details of
time and place will be announced
later. :

sentenced on a “perjury”? charge

arising out of an anti-red witch
hunt in New York City colleges,
Schappes served a little over one
year of his sentence before gain-
ing his freedom.

A college instructor, Marxist
scholar and writer his “‘erime”
was characterized as “premature
anti-fascism’” by U.S. progres-

Sives. Testifying before a legis- |
lative committee, supposedly
searching for “‘subversive” ac-

tivities (a Ja Dies) in the colleges
of New York, Schappes stated
that he only knew three or four
Communists on college staffs. As|
sertinge that there were many
more and that Schappes, as a
Communist, must have known
these, Schappes was finally rail-
roaded to prison on the “perjury”
charge. Significantly enough
the legislative committee was
headed by New York State Sen-
ator Frederick R. Coudert, Jr.,
whose law firm was the repre-
sentative of the Vichy. Govern-
ment in the USA.

Several appeals were launched
against the unjust verdict but,
despite the fact that Chief Jus-
tice Irving Lehman of New York
State’s highest tribunal, the
Court of Appeal, thought the
case was too flimsy to warrant
conviction, the majority of the
court refused to acquit him.

A strong e¢ampaign for
Schappes’ release was conducted
by American progressives, led by:
the weekly left-wing publication
New Masses, during the. past
year. Governor Thomas Dewey,
however, refused to pardon him
and Schappes was finally released
on parole.

SGWF Discusses Changes
In Federal Labor Code -

Special conference of all locals of the Shipyard General
Workers’ Federation to consider and adopt proposed amend-
ments to Orders-in-Council P.C. 9384 and 1003 will be held
January 7, at 10 a.m. at 339 West Pender. -

Holding of the conference

arises out of the decision of the.

National Council of the Canadian
Congress of Labor, at its meet-
ing in Ottawa in December, to
sent out a call to all CCL affili-
ates to thoroughly examine the
orders and, on the basis of the
actual union experiences with
them, to send in proposed amend-
ments to the Congress office. A
special subcommittee of five was
set up to meet two days before
the next National Council meet-
ing, January 15, for considera-
tion of the proposals.

Orders referred to are the ones
on the Labor Code (1003) and
on Wage Control (9384). All
SGWE locals are expectel to
have delegates at the conference
who will brine with them their
lloca’s suggestions. Particular
timeliness is seen in holding the
conference at this time in view

of the difficulties which have
arisen with regard to application
of P.C. 9384 in the BCER dis-
pute.

Concert Series To
Reopen Sunday

The People’s Concert Series,
presented weekly by the Labor
Azts Guild under the direction
of John Goss, and sponsored by
the Boilermakers’ Union in their
hall every Sunday evening, will
be resumed again’ on Sunday,
January 17, 1945, at 7:30 p.m.;
with a gala program of leading
talent opening tne post-holiday
season.

merican Anti-Fascis
Released On Parole

Victim of red-baiting political persecution during
period when neither the United States or the Soviet U
were involved in the war, Morris U. Schappes was rek
from prison in New York State last month. Origi

Strengthen
Jewish Uni

Problems facing the Je’
people after the war wil
ceive extensive considera
by delegates from all ;
of Canada at the Sixth Ple
Session of the Canadian Je
Congress meeting in To:
January 13 to 16. The
gress is the representative
stitution of the Jewish com
ity in Canada and has play
major part in organizing an
ordinating the great war €
centfibution of Canadian Ji

Besides its war efforts
vities, which include sa
men’s clubs open to membe
the armed forces of all
@nd origins, and sending of
fort boxes and millions of |
arets to men overseas as
as special attention to thi
cial and religious needs of
ish servicemen, the Gon
has done magnificent worl
Sistine Jewish victims of thi
overseas and in combatting
Semitism and race prejudic

Among the major pro.
which will be dealé with a
Toronto convention are the
lem of intensification of ac'|
against anti-Semitism and
prejudice, with special att
to clarification of these
amons the Canadian peopl
the securing of legislation
lawine these manifestatio:
Nazism; increase in the
paigns for assistance to
Jewish men, women and ch
who have managed to s1
the Nazi holocaust and wh
in dire need of immediate
as well as measures looki
their rehabilitation; cultura)
ecucational problems of th |
nadian Jewish community; |
bilitation for Jewish servic
and strengthening of Car |
Jewish unity. :

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Forestry Brief

VANCOUVER B.C. }
ings will be resumed by the

Commission on Forestry

mencing January 15, accc
to word received last wee
Harold Pritchett, TWA Di
President. The Royal Goi
sion under Chief Justice

in previous hearings has al
eonsiderable evidence on

conservation, the effects a
present methods of loggir
the fishing industry, per
tives for postwar plannir
the woodworking industry,

An extensive brief on pro
facing the woodworking: inc
has been prepared by the
for presentation to this
mission. Harold Pritchett.
dent, will present the bri
behalf of this union. f