and add to the fun.

Warming up for diaper derby

Papa Gordon Martin of Vancouver is warming up
for the big diaper changing contest at Labor’s Jubilee
picnic on August 4 at Confederation Park. Papa Mar-
tin seems to be following the rules of his basic army
training, by having junior’s attention focused on other
matters while he deftly adjusts the underpinning.

Get into this contest. Tf you haven’t a baby, borrow one,

Clip the entry form below and mail to Fel Ashton at
Room 209, Shelly Buildings, 119 Pender St. W., Vancouver.

BABY CHANGING CONTEST ENTRY FORM
LABOR’S JUBILEE PICNIC

i wish to enter the Baby Changing Contest to be heid
on August 4 at Confederation Paric

ITU injunction

fer of the two Vancouver labor
councils for support in the South-
am dispute.

“We call upon all trade union-
ists to give all moral, legal and
economic support possible to have
the Southam newspaper chain bar-
gain with the only genuine print-
ers’ union, the International Typo-
Braphical Union.”

Support for the ITU strike was
also forthcoming this week from
other sections of the labor move-
ment. Maurice Rush, LPP proyvin-
cial organizer, termed the injunc-
tion “a strikebreaking move,” and

Atom bomb test

of the Truman Administration and
Congress is also based on the

atomic bomb provocative policy.
This year’s military budget pro-
poses the unheard of peacetime
appropriation of 12 billion dollars
for the navy, army and air force.
Then there is the extension of the
draft, the drive for universal mili-
tary training, the retention of mili-
tary bases all over the world and
the proposal te unify all the
armed services under one cabinet
head. These unprecedented military
moves cannot be interpreted in any
other way than as preparations for

an early war against the USSR.
Lastly, there is the wild jingoistic
war dance now going on in the
American press and on the radio
which also has the atomic bomb at
its center. For misrepresentation,
this Campaign of lies and war-
mongering goes far bevond any-
thing in our national history. Ac-
tually, the newspaper writers and
radio commentators make it look
2s though the USSR possesses the
atomic bomb and is menacing us
with it, instead of the other way
round. The essence of this orgy of
warmongering is that the United
States must hurry up and knock

Spy report

most threatening to the future of
democracy, here were the incipient
methods of fascism, the naming of
individuals against whom not even
alleged proof of activity could be
offered for their supposed. willing-
mess to act. :

But it could not be inferred from
the report that it was the Gan
adian government which was pre-
Paring its Arctic regions for
atomic war. The report was neces-
Sary to provide a reason for that—
the Munich pattern of translating
“offense” into “defense” and “war”
into “peace,” of attributing to one’s
prospective opponent all one’s own
agsressive aims.

That is the warning to the Can-
adian people Prime Minister King
conveyed in tabling the commis—
sion’s report in the House. It is not
the warning: he gave, but it is the
warning the people must take if
their labor movement, and ultim-
ately all their democratic organi-

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LPP
MEMBERSHIP

MEETING
Wed., July 31st

8 p.m.

Croatian Hall

Guest Speaker

LESLIE MORRIS

LPP
Provincial Leader of Ontario

Admission
By Membership Card

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zations, are not to be destroyed,
section by section, as the necessary
precondition for embroiling them
in the third world war upon which
the King government is already
embarked.

Unity party leads
in Berlin vote

BERLIN.—Candidates of Ger-
many’s new Socialist Unity party
had almost a two-to-one lead over
those of other parties as election
results for the executive commit-
tees of eight out of a total of 17
unions in Berlin Were made
Known. Results for the other
unions will be known later this
week.

In accordance with Allied pol-
icy, both the Socialist Unity party
and the Social Democratic party
were free to operate in all four
sectors of Berlin. So far, 123 So-
cialist Unity delegates, 64 Social
Democrats and 13 Christian Dem-
ocratic and non-party delegates
have been elected.

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out Russia with the atomic bomb
before she has a chance to manu-
facture it herself

The only fly in the ointment for
these advocates of another world
War is that the USSR does not
appear to be terrorized by all these
atomic bomb threats, Is this be-
cause the effectiveness of the
atomic bomb as a war weapon has
been purposely greatly exagger-
ated, or (perish the thought) does
it mean that the Russians, too,
have the atomic bomb themselves?

Because of the United States’
ruthless, imperialistic atomic bomb
policies, the world is now in a
Serious crisis. And the worst of it
is that the war-mongers, by turn-
ing) world facts upside down and
inside out, have convinced large
sections of our people that the
United States is following a de
fensive policy and is merely trying
to check an aggressive USSR. All
of which makes it easier to under-
stand how Hitler was able to con-
vance the bulk of the German
people that Germany, whose ruling
class was actually fighting for
world domination, was merely seek-
ing to defend itself from a hostile
world.

The tense world situation caused
by our imperialist atomic bomb
policies is one that should indeed
alarm the American and Canadian
people and make them take steps
to curb our war-mongers and im-
perialists and to re-establish
friendly working relations with our
Soviet neighbor.

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“union.

/mand the removal of Labor Min-

Bruce Mickleburgh, acting Yan-
couver city directer, offered the
ITU the Labor-Progressive Party's
full support. Z

“Unless the trade unions and
the entire labor movement act im-_
mediately to force withdrawal of
the injunction the same procedure
will be followed against all picket
lines,” Rush decalred. eetCS ca)
strikebreaking move calculated to
prevent organized workers from ex-
ercising, their right to strike and
picket.”

Rush said that his party was ap-
proaching the CCF with a view to
obtaining concerted action against
the injunction and aiding the
Strikers.

From the response of the labor
movement to the coordinating com-
miuittee’s call for Support, there was
every indication that the union-
hating Southam newspaper chain
would not find it easy to publish »
Scab sheet in union-conscious Van-_
couver, nor would it find ready dis-
tributors or buyers in a eity that
has learned to respect the unfair
list on which the Province has
been placed by virtually every

Steel strike

fer is refuted by the financial facts
dug up, and placed before the na-
tion by the United Steelworkers of
America.

“People of Canada: We appeal to
you to condemn vigorously the out-
rageous strikebreaking policy of
the King government and to de-

LPP pledges
Strike support

The Bc Executive of the
Labor-Progressive Party has
written to the B.C. Dis-
trict Union. of the Internsa- 4
tional Union of Mine, Mill, ang |
Smelterworkers ;
port for their
. bership:

“The LPP Stands foursquare
behind the just demands of the
TUMMSW in :

of BC. The risin & cost of liv.
ing makes Substantial wage in.
creases imperative to main-
tain decent living standards.

“The tactics of the mining
Operators in refusing to nego:
Hiate with your union commit
tee on an industry-wide basis
is to be condemned. It is an
attempt on their Part to break
up the union piecemeal and
deal with it Section by section,
and we support the demands
of your district for an indus_
_try-wide settlement.

“Our Vancouver membership
have been active in suppor
the strike of the moulders and
foundry workers. We are anxi-
Gus to know in which way we
Can assist in every aspect of
the fight that your union is
involved in. Whatever facilities
our organization has in the
way of halls, publicity avenues,
etc, are open to you. The
Labor-Progressive Party recog-
nizes that your strugele is part
of the fight of Ganadian labor
te win the peace and establish
decent postwar living stand-
ards.”

s

ister Mitchell. Demand that the
steelworkers be granted their 194%2¢
an hour, their $33.60 minimum, the
40-hour week and 2 weeks’ vaca-
tion with pay.

The King sovernment, through
Mitchell, tried to break the steel-
workers’ just struggle by passing
an order-in-council which aimed to
deprive labor of the right to strike.
The real meaning of Mitchell’s
strikebreaking policy is seen in the
cooperation of controller F. B. Kil-
bourn with Steleo president H. G.
Hilton aimed at smashing the Stel-
co workers’ struggle for their just
rights and demands.

Mitchell ordered Kilbourn to co-
operate with Steleo to defeat the
union. Filton has transformed the
Hamilton Steleo plant into a strike
breaking prison. Workers are being
held in Steleo against their will.
Booze is flowing behind the Stelco
barbed wire in violation of Ontario
law. Federal law is violated to al-
low Stelco to use aircraft to take
in scabs and supplies. The King
Sovernment allows the Steleo mon-
opoly to create a situation entirely
outside the law.

The situation is serious, and will
get tenser and more serious unless
labor and the people, by their
united action and solidarity com-
pel an immediate change, an end
of government strikebreaking and
the granting of the steelworkers’
demands.

Steel is the heart and focal point
of the nationwide struggle of all
labor and the people for higher
living standards, price control,
democracy and peace.

The steel strike is the business
of the nation, the concern of every
labor union, organization, of every
community.

MEI JEP
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Unions rap Bevin

A change in the British Labor
sovernment’s foreign policy aimed
at restoring harmonious relations
with the Soviet Union was demand-
ed this week by two of Britain’s
Major unions, the 800,000-stronge
Amalgamated Engineering Union
and the 400.000-strons WNationsl
Union of Railwaymen. Resolutions
urging Foreign Minister Ernest
Bevin to change his policies were
adopted at the annual conferences
of both unions.

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