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ertain that the decision 3 on November 7 will ‘decision of the over- jg Majority of the of Our nation who are me age. :

; out that “the over- | majority of ClO mem- es through their interna- jons and their local fas,’ have called upon

fi, the PAC added that merely recording the o£ the membership” in “again to respond to : duty in the nation’s- becoming a candidate inte’ : - ' that President Roose- the. qualifications for the United ‘States, the ‘The man whom we ssident will be charged tern and difficult task fing the war to full, ncompromising victory. ve the duty of repre-

nation - writing the | eharacter of his lead- = determine whether we > eliminate every ves- eism from the face of (me day the basis for a 1 which war will be ft generations to come.’

Amalgamated (GtI@) on a for international labor _ was later unanimous- AGW president Sid- 4; last week urged that fof world labor organ- Fcluding Soviet trade eld as soon as possible | Britain or the United

[i trade union confer- iby the British Trades ress which was to have sondon on June 5 has med on account of § stions.

that the International we conference, held nonth at Philadelphia, ' sa fairly good pro-

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sizoosevelt to run for a -

ers stand by for action as a member of the detail asks for further orders from his superior officers alkie-talkie radio. The men had just landed in the » area of the Dutch New Guinea coast.

gram, Hillman stressed, however, that the ILO was not truly repre- sentative of world labor because of the absence of the CIO and the Soviet trade unions.

“Think of it,” he said, “speak- ing for labor in the United States and the CIO absent. Our great ally, Soviet Russia with its tremendous contributions in this war, was not there. While our great Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, meets with: Molotov, and our great Presi-

dent with Stalin, some of our —

people say ‘but we must not meet with representatives of Ia- bor from Russia’ You cannot achieve the task of organizing the power of labor when you. leave Russia out and that is one reason for the ClO position for a conference of labor of all the United Nations as soon as possible.” : : Hillman warned that labor must not make the same mistake it “made at Versailles by contenting itself with mere token represen- tation at the peace table, but must demand “a full and rightful place in the peace negotiations. net want the kind of compliment. that may be paid to labor even by our administration in just ap- pointing one or two labor people te go into the peace conference. We want a real place at that con- ference.”

The only way .to achieve this objective, he added, was through a United Nations labor confer- ence that would develop a pro- gram which “will go mueh far- ther than even the program=of our administration.” =

Earlier, the convention heard Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt urge close political and econemic col- jaboration between the U.S. and other countries after the war as essential to world stabilization and prosperity of the U.S.

“If we want to have jobs for ~- everyone—and I am talking not about high ~employment but full employment—if we want a good standard of living,” she said, “then we have got to give other people a chance to want some of the things that we pro- duce, because even though we make it possible for our people to have more, we can produce more than they can possibly - consume.”

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She stressed that economic col- laboration must not be on the basis of exploitation of weaker peoples but of mutual benefit.

SPAIN

Germany’‘s Back Door

(CONFIRMATION of reports 3 that Franco Spain continues to send to Germany large quanti-

= ties of war materials purchased in

South America was given to An- drew Gordon, Allied Labor News correspondent at Montevideo, last Week by crew members of the Spanish ships Arriz and Monte Gorbea, who had jumped ship. the eye-witness: revelations come on the heels of the treaty between Spain and the Allies and the denial in April by Franco’s- Lega- tion here that such shipments were being made. -

Deseribing how Germany re- ceives the war materials from Spain, the seamen declared: “Chil- ean nitrate, arriving from Monte- video, is’ loaded in the Uribitarte dockyard in the port of Bilbao on German trucks, which are escort- ed by Spanish and German police. The trucks reach France within three hours and the nitrates are then transported to German fac- tories by train. =

“Nitrates and other American raw materials such as Brazilian and Peruvian cotton are trans- ported by a special fieet of eight merchantmen of about 1,000 tons each, which ply the waters be- tween the Spanish port of Bilbao and the French ports of Bayonne and Bordeaux. Much South Amer-. ican cotton is also unloaded in the port of Barcelona and shipped to Germany from there.

“The contraband shipments to Nazi Germany were first discov- ered by chance by the Barce- lona. branch of the National Bank of Spain, when Barcelona industrialists, Spain’s principal _ consumers of cotton, began to deposit huge quantities of 1,000 peseta notes. The industrialists said the notes were. received from a German purchasing com- mission for the delivery of cot- ‘ton, which the Spanish minister of industry had ordered them to sell to the Germans. The notes are even printed in Germany.’

INDIA

Gandhi's Interests

AHATMA Gandhi, released earlier this month after 21 months of internment, is reported to be showing a keen interest in two particular. subjects, relations between the Indian National Con- gress and the Moslem League, and the Soviet Union. ‘

While he is not conducting any political discussions at the- mo- ment and has not yet issued any public statement, Gandhi has ad- vised his followers that as soon as his health permits he intends to meet with representatives of the Moslem: League to discuss the question of unity between that organization and the Congress in order to end the political dead- lock and strengthen India’s posi- tion in the war and in the struggle for independence.

Gandhi's associates report that he is greatly impressed by the strength of the Soviet Union, has studied works dealing with the USSR during his long confinement and has even read Karl Marx’ Capital and Emile Burns’ Hand- book of Marxism from cover to cover.

lt is also noted with consider- able interest that Gandhi, who received greetings from the Communist party of India on his release, has expressed a desire to meet with representatives of that party as soon as his health improves.

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SHORT JABS

by OL Bill

Definition in Practice qe English language presents many pitfalls, even to those

“who boast it as their native tongue. To immigrants whose language is other than English, the dictionary. meanings of our

words are hard to understand, because their meaning accord--

ing to Webster does not always conform to practices met with in everyday life. : =

Webster defines “custodian” as “a guardian or keeper; one who has care or custody of public property.” Many Ulcrainians throughout Canada today are wondering if Webster was as profound as he is generally credited with having been. A royal commission recently touréd the country investigating the claims of the owners of Ukrainian and Finnish halls which are, OF Were, in the “custody.” of the custodian of enemy property. The com- mission has now recommended that the halls the “custodian” kept be returned to their original owners and this has been done, or is being done, in some cases. 5

But are the halls, like the Ukrainian Labor Temple in Van- couver, which the “custodian” did not keep, halls which he actually sold, going to be returned to their owners? Or are they to remain in the hands of the present occupants, since to return the money and dispossess them ‘‘might cause dissension”?

Professor Watson Kirkconnell, who is gaining considerable notoriety as the advocate for the pro-fascist minority in every language group in Canada, has written a book titled The Seven Pillars. of Freedom. It is published et a price so low that it can-

not cover the cost of production, heightening the suspicions of.

those who believe that it is being subsidized.

Justice is one of Professor Kirkconnell’s seven pillars. But if this treatment of the Ukrainian-Canadians who contributed out of their earnings to build the Labor Temple in Vancouver,

only to have it seized and sold by the “custodian,” is a sample’

of Kirkconnell’s pillar of “justice” and the other pillars are

erected on a no more consistent ground, then freedom is none

too secure on her pedestal.

The unity of the Canadian people and the destruction of fascism is no part of the program of the people to whom the “custodian” sold these properties. The group which “brought”

the Vancouver Labor Temple, according to the evidence present-_

ed to the commission, paid in $3,000, practically the equivalent of xent for the period it used the hall. But when questioned about what price it would demand if the government wanted to re- purchase the hall, the priest who represented the group said it would want $16,000.

The unity of the Canadian people for victory cannot be ac- complished by appeasing the reactionaries. If it will cause dis- sension to take the halls from those who should never have been allowed to have them and return them to their rightful

owners, the dissension will be created in the right place—where _

it ean do no harm to national unity.

Henri Bourassa

ie I were a member of the CCF, believing in the principles upon which the CCF is supposedly founded as distinct from the policies and practices adopted by the CCF leadership I should be profoundly disturbed, as indeed, I am disturbed, by two recent statements made by two public figures of widely divergent viewpoints.

The first is that made by John Roy Carlson, author of Under Cover, in Montreal last March in which he linked the CCF and the Bloc Populaire as organizations which he termed “breeders of future fascism.” ; ;

The second is that made in Quebec City this week by Henri Bourassa, veteran dyed-in-the-wool nationalist leader in French Canada for half a century, who called on “true” French-Cana- dians to vote for the pro-fascist Bloc Populaire or, if there were no Bloe Populaire candidate, then for the CCF. “True Cana- dians,” he said, should Yote for the CCF rather than “reds or blues’—meaning, of course, Liberals and Conservatives who have been known by these appellations among French-Canadians for generations.

There is an old saying, “See yourself as others see you.” M. J. Coldwell, the CCF national leader, may protest, as he did this week, that the policies of the CCF and the Bloc Populaire have nothing in common. Henri Bourassa obviously thinks they have.