mation of a new ‘es and supported 5s a possibility as

Prime Ministers yshington meeting

id the obvious fact aR had never asked = 2 bomb. She want- Fie maintenance of “iity and strict ad-. >. Allied agreements > jtsdam. Yet these F questions were pre- F ruman, Attlee and ® to face up to at

= ents by progressive | the outcome of the | onference believe it = ; and no less omin- = 1 the breakdown of Ministers’ Confer- on two months ago,: teting should have = .Truman,-Attlee and = han between the Big

, interpreted as the

possible next Anglo- “pve——the creation of

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big power coalition centered by a group of lesser powers the results of the Washington Attlee and Mackenzie King ‘was supposedly called to

began to discuss the handing over of the

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around Great Britain and led by Canada—loomed more conference between President be assessed.

he Soviet Union. But all the press comment on the discus-

tion to the Soviet Union and the new. democracies of East- earn Europe will have _to be discarded by the imperialists for some time to come, at least. As LPP. national leader, Tim Buck declared only last week in a speech on the international sit- uation: Atomic bomb® diplomacy: will not succeed in’ turning back: the clock of history to the days of feudal reaction. : “If they imagine that Hungary: is coming back into their arms

they are badly mistaken,” «Buck declared... “Do you think - the peasants, who now own their

farms for the first time, “will give the land back to the hereditary

landlords? Similarly .in: Czecho-

taking decisive steps toward so- cialism. Do you think they are going to invite foreign finance capital to step in and take over the national. economy? Even the atom bomb can’t do that!’ These are only a few of the sharp contradictions now facing Anglo American imperialism and its would-be junior partner, the imperialist group in Canada. And

Prime Minister Mackenzie King, avho. hopes: to become’ the third

member of the Truman-Attlee,

-axis,. and who finds the .same contradictions present on “the Canadian -domestic...scene, will

find it equally difficult to re- solve those contradictions in fa- vor of Tory réaction. is

slovakia and ~ ‘Yugoslavia, now

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= iashington axis and | of the Anglo Soviet-

Pd. *) MB DIPLOMACY ? can and British mon- _ atomic bomb secret ~jly being ~ counted > “hole card’. in this © ish-speaking imper- * ver. But the people f the world have re- ! frightened. ’ thing, the atomic. ® aacy failed dismally F xpt. to create a Wes-. = .an bloc of nations - .e Soviet Union and ' ce. The French elec- that scheme badly— dly became apparent ' then General Charles ter several days of

= F aster, was forced to

' ais mew cabinet five - members, granting = m the key portfolios - its, national economy, | yroduction and labor. '., French Communist irice Thorez was in- ' a minister of state

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USSR Ambassador S peaks

To Sovict-Friendship Meet

The B.C. Regional Congress for Canadian-Soviet Friend-

ship will be held in the Hotel and 25, under Canadian-Soviet Friendship. will be G. N. Zaroubin,

Socialist Soviet Republics, the American Soviet Friendship Council, who will speak to a lun-

1cheon meeting and. will address

a public rally, to be held in the

Orpheum-Theater at 8 p-m. Sun- day, November 25.

The call issued by the Coun- ci] states: “The end of the war

has centered everyone’s inter- ests on the maintenance of em- ployment, trade, purchasing power and living standards of the population.. Everyone is anx- jous that the extensive gains that were made in industry, science, education and general economic development should not be lost. Canada’s progress depends on the maintenance and extension of her position in the world as a trad-

ing nation. The USSR offers,

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National Educational Director

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Eminent Young Canadian Author

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the auspices of the Main guests at the Congress Ambassador and Edwin Smith, Director of

Vancouver, November 23, 24, Vancouver Council for

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probably the largest of the world’s markets for the absorp- tio of Canadian products. The development of Canada’s cultur- al life, as well as her economic and social institutions will de- pend in a large measure on her success in maintaining a strong economic lever. The promotion of Canadian Soviet Friendship, therefore is a highly practical and not a sentimental project.”

Representatives from many trade union and progressive or- anizations will be present at the Congress, to discuss various top- ies relating to maintenance of friendship with the USSR. Panel discussions will include:

e@ The Arts, Medicine and Re- ligion,

@ Trade and Industry, Labor and Trade Unions.

The theme of the congress will be “Benefits to Canada’s Re- conversion Program of Good Re- lations with the USSR,” and it is expected that labor will take an active part in leading dis- cussions in the trade and indus- try panel.

The Congress will be held un- der the patronage of Hon. John Hart, W. C. Woodward, Chief Justice W. B. Farris, Sir Fran- cis Heathcote, and Mayor Cor- nett. -

The holding of the conference will give added interest to the campaign to secure signatures for the national book of signa- tures campaign, pledging friend- ship to the Soviet Union, be- ing conducted by the National Council for Soviet Friendship. Every organization and com- munity group, according to in- formation released by the Na- tional Council, will be sent pages of the book which. are to be filled with signatures of per- sons wishing to indicate a de- sire for friendship with the USSR.

Protesting the delay

in holding. national elections, 100,-

000 people, members of all political. parties, parade in Rome.

Rush-McEwen

To Make

Organizational Tours

As part of the recruiting,

educational and organiza-

tonal_.drive-.of the party, two provincial executive ,.mem- bers of the Labor-Progressive Party leave for extended tours

of the province this week.

iD i i j : : Tom McEwen, Provincial; Trail on the sam

Chairman of the B.C.-Yukon La- bor-Progressive Party will ad- dress a numberof public meet- ings in the Kootenays and ‘Cari- boo areas of the province during the coming month. His publie meeting itinerary is as follows:

Rossland, Sunday, Nov. 25 (af- ternoon), with a public meeting

Protest Attack On Wage Standards

The meeting of the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council on Tuesday this week, went on re- cord as. protesting conditions existing on the Provincial Gov- ernment road-working project on the Hope-Princeton Highway. Delegates condemned the M. L. Anderson Company for following practices which it is alleged undermine working and wage conditions in B.C.

Resolution was passed author- izing the sending of a telegram of protest to the provincial gov- ernment, and drawing: the matter to the attention -of local Selec- tive Service and Labor officials.

“The Hope-Princeton Road business has been going on for 30 years”, stated a delegate from the Building ‘Trades Council. “Whenever the contract is let it is let to eastern contractors who bring cheap. labor into the prov- ince and who by. their actions undermine conditions in British Columbia’.

Alex Gordon, United Fisher- men delegate, pointed out ‘that the Trades Council should oppose any company which by its prac- tices threatens the maintenance of working standards in this pro- vinee. He harshly eriticized the Provincial Government for its policy of granting contracts and urged that regardless of which contracts carry out government projects, wages and. conditions should measure up to provincial standards.

-Thurs.,

e “evening. Cranbrook, “Saturday, “Dee: 1; Kimberley, Sunday, Deeio2;-Fer- nie, Sunday,*Dec.: 9; Michel,.Mon- day, Dec. 10; Pioneer, Wednesday, Dec. 12; Bralorne, Thursday, Dec. 10; Wells, Saturday,:.Dec. 15; Prince George, Dec. 17.

In the intervening periods the provincial chairman will conduct a series of workers’ study classes on Marxist-Leninist theory and practice in Trail, Kimberley, Fernie and: Prince George.

These classes are being organ- ized by the LPP Clubs at the above points, and all students interested in the study of scien- tific socialism and the building of a Marxist-Leninist Party, are urged to attend. Details on the classes can be secured by writ- ing the following LPP Club sec- retaries:

Edna Henne, Trail, B.C.; H. Romer, Box 98, Kimberley, B.C.; Sam English, Michele, B.C., and Art Brown, Prince George, B.C.

At the completion of the B.C. tour, the LPP chairman will pro- ceed via CP Airlines to White- horse, Dawson City, and other Yukon points for a series of or- ganizational and public meet- ings. :

Maurice Rush, LPP’ provincial organizer, is leaving this week for an extended tour of many interior points. His tour will combine public meetings ‘with Party conferences in numerous important centers.

The subject Rush will speak on will be “Labor and the Coali- tion.” He is expected to outline the Labor-Progressive .Party’s position. on . many important questions facing B.C. His tour will considerably aid toward or- ganizing and rallying progres- sive forces in the interior to meet the reactionary policies of the Hart-Maitland coalition.

During his tour Rush will speak at the following places:

Copper. Mountain, Sat., Nov. 25; Princeton, Mon., Nov. 26; Hedley, Tues., Nov. 27; Pentic- ton, Wed. Nov. 28; Kelowna, Nov. 29; Vernon, Fri., Nov. 30; Salmon Arm, Sun., Dec. 2; Revelstoke, Mon., Dec. 8; and finally at Kamloops, at a date to be announced.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1945

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