Youth Brigade moves in

“‘They’ve come from everywhere to help’’

By WILLIAM STEWART

Wational Secretary, Federation of Labor Youth

HE young men and women who form the youth brigade building the vital railway

line between an important Yugoslav coal centre and the main trunk lines of the trans-
portation system comprise volunteers from the young people of a score of countries.

The clanking of picks and shovels, the clear rhythmic ring of sledges, the steady hum
of pencil on a drawing board, the Sweat of thousands of youth from many countries,
toiling side by side—‘“a railway is being built.” But there

this railway.

The way these young people
work, the look of determination
on their faces, the speed at
which construction proceeds—it
seems. as

this railway for themselves.
“Fiey, Frenchie,” we say to
our translator, “we'd like to

know what this is all about,
would you ask the pretty young
Yugoslav girl to tell us in her
own words just what is goimg
on here?” Erenchie nods his
assent and speaks to the Yugo-
slay girl who has been eyeing
us with frank curiosity. Obvi-
ously reluctant to quit work,
but at the same time bursting
to tell us the whole story,
girl puts down her shovel and
sits on a railroad tie. We all
sit around her and amid the din
of the work going on around
us the girl begins to speak.

“The Peoples Youth of Yugo-
slavia has volunteered on behalf
of its membership to build a
much needed railway stretching
between Breko and MBanovici.
This railway will connect the
rich coal belt around Banovici
with the rest of the Yugoslav
transportation system. leading
engineers said we would do
well to complete the task in
two years and we have claimed
that we will do it in six
months; that’s why I should not
be sitting down here now.

“This railway means a lot to
us young people in Yugoslavia,”
She said, “not just because it
provides a much needed link in
our transportation system, but—
well, I just don’t Know exactly
how to put it. It goes back to
the days when those murdering
fascists were occupying our
country — to the time when
Michailovich was betraying and
murdering his own people and
when Tito had just emerged to
lead the people of Yugoslavia
against the fascists. At that
time, the youth of Yugoslavia
flocked in thousands to join
Tito’s partisan army and to help
beat back the enemy.

‘Now we want to show that
we can play as big a part in
building and fighting for the
peace as we did in war. That's
why building this railway means
So much to us. .

“These other youth you see
around here — French, English,
American, Czechoslovac, Greek,
Albanian, Rumanian, Bulgarian,

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Soviet, etc——have all come from
their own countries especially to
help us. The new, powerful
world youth organization, the
World Federation of Democratic
Youth, sent out a call asking
that brigades of youth from all
over the world be formed to
come and assist in the construc-
tion of our railway. The youth
of the world has responded with
such vigor and enthusiasm that
it is possible that we may finish
construction ahead of time. It

is an interna-
tional brigade
for peace.”
“Well, that’s
about it, Cana-
dians, except
to say once
again that

this railway in
@ year or less
we are going
to undertake
William Stewart something else.
This is our country and we are
going to play a big part in
building it.”

Before she leaves, Frenchie,
ask her if there is anything
Ganadian youth can do. It seems
too late to organize a brigade,
but perhaps there is some other
way we can help.

The girl’s eyes
excitement. “Ill say there is,”
she exclaimed. “You people in
Canada have lots of cigarettes,
shaving equipment, sports equip-
ment and all those comforts
that mean so much to young
men and women. We are very
short of such things. You see,
most of our factories were dam-
aged or destroyed in the war
and now when we are rebuild-
ing the country we have to con-

flashed with

centrate most of our producing .

on articles most neces-
We're not complaining,
She hastened to ex-
elaim, “but people are bound
to miss such things. Maybe the
young people in Canada could
send us some of these things.

power
sary.
mind you,”

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is something different about

You could ask them, anyway. It
sure would be a wonderful con-

tribution.”
The pretty Yugoslav girl
waved us goodbye, picked up

her shovel and went back to
her task of preparing a roadbed
for the tracks. Frenchie looked
after her with open admiration
on his face; he accepted a pack-
age of cigarettes from us with
profuse thanks and went back
to his task.
The Wational

Labor Youth is
campaign to

Federation of
initiating a
provide comforts

i BELIEVE that friendship

with the people’s govern
ment of Wugoslavia is in-
separable from our desire for
peace,

The amount enclosed is my
contribution toward this
friendship. Congratulations
and good wishes to the youth
ef Yugoslavia.

AMOURE ee oe eee

Make all checks and money
orders payable te:

meric Sinac, Treasurer,
200 Adelaide St. W., Toronto

for the youth engaged in the
construction of the railway. The
campaign which opened on
September i will continue until
the end of October. It is de-
Signed to raise $10,000 to $15,000.
The Money will buy all sorts
of comforts, the main emphasis

**Poor shareholders’’

_Austin Taylor is, of course, one
of tke kingpins in Vancouver
mining circles. Indeed, his un-
subtle brand of union-busting,
anti-workingclass propaganda: is
net hard to discern behind the
scenes of the present all-out of-
fensive against the living stand-
ards of the workers.

In this he is ably assisted by
such good citizens as Senator
Farris, whose services he has
often used in his anti-union cam-
paigns, and A. E. Jukes, another
native son, who has his fingers in
as many..B.C. pies as he has fin-
gers and toes. One of. Jukes’
favorite interests (financial) is
Sheep Creek Gold Mines, of whieh
he is vice-president. This mine
now refuses the demands of the
striking miners for the extrayva-
gant wage of $40 per week.

But Sheep _Creek had no
trouble last year finding a quar-
ter of a million dollars in divi-

dends with which to pay Jukes~

and his fellow shareholders. This
works out to just $3,000 in divi-
dends paid out last years for each
of the 79 men who risked their
lives daily to transform crude ore
a mile underground into gold
bars in a Kentucky hillside. How-
ever Jukes, is just small potatoes
alongside Boss Taylor.
e
IN you stop to think about
it, all that a miner loses
when he goes out on strike is
about $250 a month. Qa the
other hand, Taylor and his pals
lose $420,000 in profits for every
month of the strike.
Street boys also lose about $400)-
000 for every month of the strike.
Can’t these miners see that the
20 cents they are striking for is
chickenfeed compared to the mil-
lions the shareholders are hold-
ing out for? Come on boys, let’s
be reasonable.
AN OLD proverb says; “Virtue
is its own reward.” Big
scale Mining seems to bring with
it certain rewards also. Take GC.
A. Banks, Companion of the most
distinguished order of St. Mi-
chael and St. George, reputed to

The Wall-

be our next lieutenant-governor,
whe has just moved from the
rarefied atmosphere of his pent-
house atop the swanky Fair-
mount Hotel in San Francisco to
the equally rarefied atmosphere
of Government House, Victoria.
Banks piled up a fortune of
millions in B.C. Silver, Premier
Geld, and such “international”
operators (all chartered in B.G)
as Bulolo Gold, Pato Consolidat—
ed Gold, Placer Development and
Asnazu Gold. We would respect-
fully suggest to our new lieuten-
ant-governor that he take some

time off from Government House

this month and visit a few com- —

pany towns in BG to see how

the miners (many of whom he!p-

ed to make him a multi-million-

aire) live on 794£c an hour. =
(or

ND this brings us back to our

question: Who are the 45,000
shareholders? Well, we’ve men-—
tioned some of them. ©. H. Locke
—the man who, from 1939 to 1941,
reputedly delivered the entire
copper output of his mines to
imperial Japan. The same man,
who, last month, refused to sub-
mit the mine owners’ case ta
Chief Justice Sloan.. The man
who wants to cut gold miners’
wages 10 per cent.

AS ©. (“Behind-the-Scenes”)
Taylor is another—one of ths
gallant band of widows and or-
phans, among whom we number
Victor Spencer, HB. TT. (Fiji Is-
land) James, Senator Farris, the
man who said a 40-hour week
will wreck our economy, A. E.
Jukes,
workingman. (We wonder how
Locke, Taylor or Senator Far
ris would like living on 79%c an
hour !)

Meanwhile the ghost of S. G
Blaylock is said, to be haunting
the great Sullivan Mine, bemoan-
ing the fate of his company
union, ousted by the Internation-
al Union of Mine, Mill and Smel-
ter . Workers. z

This leaves about 44,991 share—
holders not accounted for. We're
going to keep right on looking.

being placed on cigarettes, shav-
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Sports equipment.

Bonds to the value of $1 and
50 cents are being circulated
from coast to coast. Be sure to
buy one if you are approached.
In addition to this, young people
will be organizing all sorts of
affairs to raise money for this
campaign. Give these campaigns
your support, -

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contributes in any other way
will have their names inscribed
on a pledge of friendship to the
youth of Yugoslavia, - These
pledges will all be assembled in
book form and presented to the
youth of Yugoslavia as a memo

of the friendship of Canadian

and Yugoslav youth.

At this time, with the forces
that led us into the last war
using every conceivable device
to lay the basis for yet another

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way! Clip the coupon appearing
on this page and send with it
your contribution te the youth
of Yugoslavia and the youth of
the world.

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