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|US MONOPOLISTS NAMED

IN SUPPRESSED DOCUMENT

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‘Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday,

November 8, 1946

Formerly PACIFIC ADVOCATE

Editors, In Fact for Federated Press

NEW YORK—The 400-page docu ment prepared by the former sedition

trial prosecutor for U.S. Attorney-General Tom Clark official record showing the extent of Nazi

It names the people who worked with the Germans,

tion.

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Author of report fired

Here, by special arrangement with In Fact and the Feder- ated Press, the Pacific Tribune presents the amazing story of Nazi espionage and intrigue with mative American fascists, many of them leading industrialists. The author of the report, @. John Rogge, special assistant to the attormey general, was dismissed a few days after he had delivered his report to U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark, and the report was suppressed. Part of the report has since “leaked out” and Reoege is now making a national tour speaking on the findings of his investiga-

Hedley Mascot union reach agreement

Tentative agreement for settlement of the strike which has closed down Hedley Mas- cet since the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers struck it and eight other producing geld mines in the preyince feur months ago, was re- pGrted to have been reached as the Pacific Tribune went io press.

According to Harvey Mur- phy, IUMMSW western re- gional director, the proposed agreement is satisfactory to the union’s policy committee and will go before a special meeting of Hedley Mascot Lecal 655 this Sunday. It will also be placed before di- rectors of Hedley Mascot this week Until it has been ap- proved by both union and taknagement no details of the settlement will be released.

Around 125 of the 1500 gold miners affected by the strike are employed at Hedley Mas- cot. f :

Negotiations for settlement ef the strike in other gold mines, in line with Chief Jus- tice Gordon Sloan’s recom- mendation that agreements be concluded on a local basis, Were also reported to -be in. prepress this week.

Wheeler; 9—John LL. Lewis;

of the top-notchers.

spilled over into Canada.

The nazi ramifications penetrated deep into U.S.

8—Senator Burton KH. These are only a few industry and finance, and

Taxation, housing, labor and social legislation key issues before Labor-Progressive convention

One of the big annual —gets under way Saturday, registration and will continue

This will be the fourth provin- lal convention since the LPP was formed in 1943. Like the others,

i€ will mark another year of Steady growth and achieve- Ment by the labor move ment in which the party has

Played a key role. In addition, the 125 delegates expected to at tend from every part of the prov- ince will put in three days of intensive work hammering out the 1947 program of party policy 4nd activity.

“Ihe convention will be dedi- Cated to furthering. the interests

®f B.G’s workers and farmers,”

November 9 in the Pender Auditorium.

until Monday evening.

events of British Columbia’s labor movement—the convention of the Labor-Progressive Party Sessions open at nine o’clock in the morning for

declares Nigel Morgan, provincial IPP leader. “Every delegate will be pledged to continue the fight for Canadian labor’s general pro- gram—for decent wages and the maintenance of price controls, the curbing of the monopolies, the building of trade union unity and the uniting of the industrial werker and farmer in the strag-

Socialism.’ Sener will deliver the keynote address to delegates at the open- ing session, and as in previous conventions, his report will form

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penetration

is the most complete into U.S. affairs. records the date of their meetings, the amount of money paid and by whom. Be- Cause it pulls ne punches, O. John Rogge, special assistant to the attorney-general, who wrote it, was fired. He is Now on a nation-wide speaK- ing tour, revealing the con- tents of the document.

The report, officially, is still listed as a Justice Department “top secret,” but Rogge has made portions of it available to the press. Many of the - important sections which he has already discussed in his speeches, however have still gone unreported by most of the papers.

Here are some of the sup- pressed highlights:

« Readers’ Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace ordered $4,- 300 paid to Lawrence Dennis, alleged seditionist and self- styled intellectual leader of American fascism. The money

was to “tide Dennis over” while he discontinued his pro-Nazi Weekly Foreign Letter, which

Wallace feared would land Den- nis in jail. The payments began in 1941 and continued after Pearl Harbor.

1® Justice D. Mooney, vice-presi- dent of General Motors, who sub-

|Sidized the native fascist Society

of Sentinels, met with a Nazi agent, Gerhard Westrick, and told him he would try to sell- President Roosevelt on getting along with Germany, even after Hitler had overrun France, Belgium, Holland and Norway.

@ Sosthenes Behn, president of International Telephone and Tele- Staph Company, not only met with Westrick and discussed do- ing business with Hitler, but af-— ter the Nazis occupied Czecho- Slovakia discussed the division of

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Greetings

On the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the following cable of greeting was forwarded to Premier Stalin from the Vancouver branch of the National Council for Canadian-Sov- iet Friendship:

“On the occasion of the 29th amniversary of the Soviet state, the Vancouver branch for Canadian-Soviet friendship again extends greetings to you and your People, and expresses the wish for close coopera- tion and unity in the estab- lishment and maintenance of world peace.”

Tribune signs union contract with newsvendors

The Pacific Tribune this week became th nize mewsvendors when it signed an agreem couver with the recently-organized Newsven International Union, Local 244 (AFL).

The agreement provides that the Pacific Tribune shall be sold on downtown corners only by union members and that those news- vendors engaged only in selling the Pacific Tribune and other

labor papers shall become mem-

e first weekly newspaper in Canada to recog- ent covering street

dors Section of Building Service Employees

sales in downtown WVan-

bers of the union. It further pro- vides that “any sales made at des- ignated corners by individuals other than those assumed to be employees, for the purpose of pro- moting the publication of the em- ployer, shall be allocated directly

to the employees affected if these sales affect their revenue direct- ly.” 2

The agreement does not affect street sales outside the downtown area or home delivery routes.

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