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By IVAN BIRCHARD

PEACE WEEK! The beginning of a great national
crusade to preserve the peace of the world, finds the over-
whelming majority of Canadians searching for a means
whereby they can take effective action against the reactionary

war makers.
Qur Tribune has 2 proud record
of service in the cause of peace.

Whonnock 2, Seamen 2, Quathi-

To halt ‘war, oust Franco

By NIGEL MORGAN

“The people are like a story that mever ends. The people are like a river that winds and fails,

is lost in deep gulleys, is smothered with recks, but somehow always finds the seal”
Those words from the last farewell of a young Canadian lumberjack,

leaving fer

the Spanish front to halt fascism ten long, historic years age, take on new meaning ta-

day.
broke out in Spain a decade ago,
when a clique of generals struck at
the Republic with Axis guns and
planes,

In Spain farmers and workers,
joined by the heroic anti-fascist
International Brigade, fought and

The cancer of fascism, which threatens world peace with atomic devastation today,

Undoubtedly, unless powerful
pressure is mobilized by labor and
progressive forces, no effective
action will be taken by the as-
sembly. The demand must re—
echo completely round the world
that each and every government

dawn of victory
Spanish
stained,
nine hundred of Canada’s
loved
Battalion victims of fascist bru-
tality and murder. If we are to

is rising over
land that holds bileod-
bullet-riddiled bodies Gf
best

sons, Mackenzie-Papineau

This issue devoted to peace week |aski Cove 2, West End 6, Ole Bill) aiea by the- thousands to save the break off relations with Franco|make the world secure for peace
is but one example of a people's 2, English Bay 3, Ladner, White-| peace from the brutal, blood-thirsty and recognize the Republican;and democratic progress; if we
journal fighting for the real int- “horse, Trail, Lake Cowichan, | plans outlined in Mein Kamf. That : : government in-ex-|are to complete the task of de
erests of | Canadians. North Vancouver, Fawn, Langley battle was lost. But as surely as a ile headed by|stroying fascism; if we are to
Our Tribune places the local 2 4 2 7” | river flows, they: fought the people’s Premien Joselend Spain’s present agony — we
Canadian issues in correct rela- Grandview, East End, Georgia, cause, and the people's cause can- Giral. The voice|must act and act now! Surely
tion to the great international |Norquay and Kamloops all sent not -be lost. Their dying taught of labor speaks| everyone who hates fascism and
events. Small in size, the Pacific |i, at least one sub while a num-|the world a bitter lesson—the les- very clearly|who has the best interests of the
Tribune contains more Feet noe ber of people called or sent their|Son of -appeasement. We lost on through the | people at heart will answer this
eee ee ies oldies Own subs into the office. the Ebro, where so many of Can- WETU, and many | call: :
Every paper is a little sold1 2 ada’s best were claimed—but on labor organiza- “Workers of the world over,

fighting your battles and mine.

All of which leads to the vital
matter of 5,000 new readers, 5,000
more soldiers in the cause of
peace. You can create this army
too. Just get one more subscriber
to our Tribune.

The Tribune Labor Day edition
will be another ‘speciai’ you will
want your neighbors to read. Will
you get one more reader before
the end of August?

The past week has shown im-
provement in the response to our
appeal for new readers and for
financial support to keep ‘Labor
on the Air.’ ‘Twenty-nine differ-
ent clubs have sent in subs: and
donations. North Surrey topped
the list as a result of the activ—-
ity of a few hard workers there
assisted by Lena Lipsey. We wish
to thank all those who so gen-
erously gave their time and
energy to build the Tribune. Just
double the results of this week
and keep it up every week and
our circulation and financial prob-
Jems will be solved.

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William Shoreyko, H. Drake, J.
Freeman, George Hanson and
Mrs. Dixon each contributed $1.00
which brought the weeks’ dona-
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that Massey-Harris has closed be-
cause of the steel strike are
wrong and are merely calculated
to prejudice the public against
the steelworkers,” William R.
Wie, secretary of the Massey—-Har-
Tis -local of the UAW, said this
week.

“The present partial shutdown
is due to the termination of the
production season,” Nie said
in a statement replying to claims
that the steel strike had shut the
King Street plant. “The annual
stocktaking requires a one-week
period, and it is customary at this
time for all employees entitled to
holidays to take them. This year,
the plant will be on short staff for
an extra week as our union was
able to secure two weeks’ vaca-
tion with pay for all employees em-
ployed more than five years. Thus
comes the three-week cessation of
production. Those not entitled to
holidays are working at stocktak-
ing and other jobs.

“The persent steel strike could
have little effect on Massey-Har-
ris yet,’ Nie stated. “A lot of
the steel used in our plant comes
from the U.S. and there are con-
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the Volga four years later, the
march-back was started by our
heroic Soviet allies; a march that
will not end until fascism has been
completely extirpated. :
Im 1936 the democratic people
of Spain called to the world to
help them stop fascism. Workers
answered them from every corn-
er of the world, but behind the
scenes a powerful network of
intrigue and fascist appeasement
was at work. Chamberlain like
a vulture, had ‘his claws upon
the throat of Spain while Hitler
and Mussolini hacked her: to
pieces, Better to have Hitler take
Spain than to see a democratic

Spanish government, whispered
British, French, American and
Ganadian imperialists. They call-
ed it “Non-intervention! No arms
to Spain! Wo food!” And only
the democratic anti-fascists call-
ed, “Don’t tie Spain’s hands! Stop

fascism on Spanish soil! Save the
world from war!” The Republic
finally perished in the fifth col-
umn uprising of anarchists, trot-
skyists and ~- renegade Social
Democrats in March 1939, in Ma-
drid. But in nearly three years
of fighting it had helped save
the world.

INow the world is again threat—
ened with war—with fascist Spain
as a base. And the safety of the
world is once more linked with
the freedom of Spain, which the
Chamberlains, and Churchills and
Bevins of today would still keep
shackled by fascism.

In September, the General As-
sembly of the United Nations
will meet in New York, and at
the same time, also in New York,
the executive of the World Fed-
eration of Trade Unions. Both
events will have a direct bearing
on each other, and on Spain. Be-
fore the assembly will come the
Spanish question, handed on to
it after stormy sessions in the
United Nations Security Council,
and its special sub-committee
whose report was emasculated by
the imperialist spokesmen, Bevin
and Byrnes.

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tions will refuse
to handle cargoes
destined for the
Spanish dictator-
ship. Unions in
France, Nether-
lands, Denmark
Nigel Morgan and Austria, al-
ready boycott
Dictator Franco’s shipments.

Only the governments most in-
fluenced by labor have tried to
do anything against Franco, and
this does not include the British
Labor Party government. There
the matter rests. Be sure there
will be a new high point in
September over future relations
with the Spanish “feubrer.” What
the people of all countries, in-
cluding our Canada, do before
then, and particularly what labor
does, will effect the decision.

The people of Spain have a
well-organized, smoothly function-
ing underground resistance move-
ment, although the penalty for
resistance is death. They are
ready and anxious to rid Spain of
fascism. They are puzzled that
the British and American govy-
ernments, who fought a world
war for the avowed purpose of
eradicating fascism from the
world, recognize , and support
Franco’s fascist dictatorship. In
Madrid nearly every dawn ex-
poses the letter “R” written on
a wall. It is the symbol of re-
sistance, republic, reconquest.
Without and within Spain the re-
sistance movements draw nearer.
When they meet, fascism will be
wiped off one more spot on this
earth.

“Try and get the people to see
that no help is given Franco.
Try and do more to bring about
unity of action on the part of
the whole international labor
movement,” appealed La Passion-
aria for the Spanish people and
for the world. That demand to-
day takes on new urgency. The

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We are burning alight
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Still thru the night;
“Pasaremos!

We shall pass!”

White supremacy

LOS ANGELES. — Fido never
knew it, but he was a Negro. Al
the 18 years of his life in this
mortal vale he was a Negro, but
no one ever told him so.

Now Fido doesn’t care. For Fido
is dead.

Fido, you see, was a dog. A
Wegro dog, by the simple reasoning
that the couple who reared him
and cared for him and loved him
are Weeroes.

When Fido died, The Daily Pec
ple’s World learned the other day,
his owners were refused permis-
sion to send the body of their
pet to the Los Angeles pet ceme-
tery and crematory. :

The cemetery, it was explained
by an attendant, accepts “no pets
belonging to ‘Negroes, Mexicans,
Japanese or Chinese.”

“The owners of the cemetery
won’t permit us to handle for
burial the pets of any but white
people,” it was explained.

What might have happened had
Fido’s ownership been transferred
to white citizens a week or a
month, say, before his death, could
not be outlined in terms of canine
anthropology.

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