Le monde ouvrier = The labor world, 1 juillet 1941, samedi 5 juillet 1941

27e Année — No 27 SAMEDI, 5 JUILLET 1941 — MONTREAL — SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1941 27th Year — No.27 DRINK DOW’S ALE fj JtaniiMgi m fîatuif TRY DUCK HORSE Standard of Strength and Quality QDuwief Hr UiorlO ALE 100 Years of Brewing Experience behid it Rédaction: 11, rue Saint-Paul Ouest « INSTRUIRE ET AMELIORER » _ Téléphone: LAncaster 5361 L'épargne populaire Labor's Urgent and Vital Need La guerre, ce grand mal, n'en aura pas moins donné un complément de vigueur à l'épargne populaire, ce grand bien.En etlet, l'achat continu de timbres et de certilicats d’épargne de guerre a notablement accentué, parmi notre population généralement trop peu prévoyante, la bonne et si utile habitude de l'épargne comme mesure de prévoyance sociale.Dans tout le Canada, de nombreux milliers de gens qui, avant septembre 1939, ignoraient jusqu'au sens du mot épargne, économisent aujourd'hui régulièrement par l'achat continu de timbres et de certificats d’épargne de guerre.Cet achat massif est, comme il sied, encouragé dans tous les milieux de mille et une façons, mais il semble que notre effort collectif en ce sens soit encore au-dessous des besoins véritables de l’effort de guerre proprement dit.Deux raisons plausibles justifient ou tout au moins expliquent cette insuffisance de l'épargne de guerre.L’une se résume à une augmentation du coût de la vie non compensée par une augmentation générale et correspondante des salaires ouvriers au pays.L'autre prend sa source dans le fait que, depuis septembre 1939, les impôts, directs et indirects, ont de beaucoup augmenté.De ces deux faits indéniables, il résulte que le pouvoir d'achat des consommateurs, moyens et petits, c'est-à-dire de la majorité des Canadiens, a été de beaucoup réduit depuis dix-huit mois.Et c’est précisément cette réduction de pouvoir d'achat d'un si grand nombre de gens qui les empêche d’épargner autant qu’ils le voudraient.Aussi prend-on, de toutes parts, toutes les dispositions imaginables pour inciter, de la part de nos salariés, toutes catégories, un maximum d'achat régulier de timbres et de certificats d’épargne de guerre.A ce sujet, on nous cite le cas d'une firme qui offre à ses employés de leur faire cadeau de 50% de leurs souscriptions en certilicats de guerre jusqu'à concurrence de 4% de leur salaire.Cette heureuse initiative a eu, comme on pouvait s'y attendre, un plein succès puisque le volume d'épargne de ces employés compte parmi les plus substantiels du Dominion, toutes proportions gardées.Voilà, certes, un de ces bons exemples que tous les employeurs de main-d'oeuvre, ouvrière et autre, devraient s'mpresser de suivre, que ces employeurs soient de simples particuliers, des compagnies ou des gouvernements.Il est entendu que les employés, à quelque catégorie qu'ils appartiennent, ne demandent pas mieux que d'acheter régulièrment un maximum de timbres ou de certificats d’épargne de guerre, mais encore faut-il que, toutes dépenses légitimes effectuées, y compris les impôts, le résidu de leurs revenus vaille d’être transformé en timbres ou en certificats de ce genre.Livrés à leurs seules ressources, déjà réduites à la portion congrue par l'augmentation du coût de la vie et les exigences croissantes du fisc, fédéral, provincial et municipal, il va de soi que les salariés n achèteront des titres d'épargne que dans la mesure où ils y seront encouragés par leurs employeurs, soit par une augmentation générale des salaires, soit par des "allocations d'épargne", comme l'a fait la firme dont nous parlons plus haut.L’épargne étant volontaire et le pouvoir d'achat de chacun déjà réduit, elle devra être encouragée autrement que par des promesses pour donner un maximum de rendement.La guerre en Russie La pieuvre nazie étend maintenant ses tentacules meurtrières vers l'extrême-est européen.Son but ou plutôt 1 un de ses objectifs, c est le blé de l'Ukraine d'abord, puis le pétrole caucasien dont elle a besoin pour ne pas mourir d'inanition militaire., _ Cette offensive de l'agresseur professionnel contre la Russie soviétique va, entre autres choses, affaiblir le monstre axiste et donner aux Alliés démocratiques plus de temps pour asséner le coup final à la puissance totalitaire.Déjà, Londres et Washington ont plus ou moins promis d aider Moscou sur les fronts militaire et économique, d'où la perspective d'une alliance ou, tout au moins, d'une semi-alliance qui renforcera l'ampleur de l'effort militaire anti-nazi.L'entrée de la Russie de notre côté, c'est-à-dire au nombre des ennemis du Reich, désoriente évidemment bien des gens, mais ce n est pas le moment de perdre le nord et de donner dans le piège de la propagande allemande en refusant notre concours le plus entier aux Russes sous prétexte que l'idéologie communiste répugne a la plupart d entre nous.Par le fait même que la Russie se bat contre notre ennemi commun, elle nous aide, par conséquent, à écraser 1 infâme Hitler et ses hordes de gangsters fanatisés et sert proportionnellement notre cause.C est la un fait et force nous est de le reconnaître malgré nous.C'est d ailleurs ce qu'a immédiatement compris monsieur Churchill et, apres lui, tous les chefs démocratiques.„ , Sur le front du travail, nous devons adopter la meme attitude et proclamer l'union sacrée de toutes les forces ouvrières contre celles des assassins de Berlin et de Rome.Nous devons, désormais, n avoir d autre but que d'écraser l'infâme par un effort de guerre croissant et continu.Must Employ Legal and Other Experts.Employers’ Unfair Attacks Should Be Promptly Repudiated.— Labor Must Defend Itself.— Publicity Basis of Understanding.By BERNARD ROSE, K.C.I have on more than one occasion urged, that organized labor in Canada, should make every effort to retain and employ legal and other experts.If the Canadian Manufacturers Association find it necessary and advantageous to employ legal and other specialists, there is much more reason for labor to be avail itself of the services of professional men, to cooperate with and advise it, along legal, legislative, and other lines.It is unfortunate that labor should be divided.The solidarity sq essential to united action is wanting.Again, the workers are far behind the employers, the overwhelming majority of whom are members of the C.M.A.There are four distinct affiliations in Canada (I am not referring to independent organizations), as compared with the one organized and influential body representing and speaking on behalf of the employers.The C.M.A.has an "Industrial Relations Department", which keeps members advised of pending and enacted legislation and orders-in-council, as well as suggesting and preparing measures deemed to be in the interest of employers.It may be alleged, that labor has not got the funds.This may be an excuse but not a reason.Labor can and should, be able to afford the expense that employing experts would entail.A small additional assessment levied upon the membership of the trade unions of the country would provide the necessary funds.The first essential however, would be for the several organizations with which local unions are affiliated,.to forget their differences, and get together in order that they cooperate to meet the challenge of the organizations and bodies that advocate "keeping labor in its place." Not only is it urgent that labor have its own permanent counsel and other experts, but it should create without delay a public relations bureau, that would carry on a campaign to educate the workers, and promptly reply to the attacks directed against labor and its leaders.At present, and I say it with regret, organized labor is no match for the organized employers who are aided by the press of the country.Public opinion is whipped up to a high pitch of indignation when a strike is threatened or in being.How many newspapers say a kind word for loyal labor or take to task, employers paying low wages ?Certain newspapers serving financial and allied interests have for months been violently attacking and criticizing labor leaders.They are held up to public scorn as "agitators" who interfere with the continuous carrying on of essential war work.• ® • No sincere friend of labor can or will, countenance the activities of subversive agents.The communist is no friend of the loyal trade unionist.What he preaches is diametrically opposed to the principles and ideals of the labor movement.The communist does not advocate or work for constructive reform.He seeks to arouse discontent in order, that he may better be able to succeed in his treasonable designs.Organized labor is primarily interested in safeguarding the economic welfare of the wage earner, and employee in receipt of a salary.It does not concern itself with the overthrow of "capitalism" and the ushering in of the communist form of society.This has been amply demonstrated by action taken by the big organizations in the States and Canada in the amending of their constitutions refusing membership to communists and expelling them.The organized employers have not been vociferous in their appreciation of this action by organized labor.Yet, the communist is as much a menace to capital as it is to labor.• • • During the depression, the employers were not much concerned with the plight of the thousands of workers who were forced to seek public relief.Those who did succeed in getting jobs had to take what the employer offered.The market for labor was unduly depressed and the work hungry artisan or laborer, had no alternative but to accept the wage or salary offered, or go on relief.It was the State that assumed the responsibility of keeping the unfortunate worker from dying of starvation.There are scores of sympathetic employers who deplored the situation in which many deserving workers found themselves, but in their outlook-they were governed by strictly business considerations.There were few if any employers who had to seek public relief.Where they became insolvent they could compromise with their creditors.I have pointed out in these columns, that even in the best of fîmes, the average worker has quite a job to make ends meet.He is therefore, morally and economically justified in demanding, when conditions improve, a wage commensurate with his needs and experience.Thousands of workers are heavily in debt, and out of their meagre wages they must pay long sufferinq creditors who were kind enough to tide them over very distressing periods.In quite a number of instances they were sued and in addition to the original debt must pay interest and costs.There is as yet, no law enabling the v/orker to comDromise with his creditors as the farmer, trader, and company can.These facts are very seldom given the slightest consideration by the employers and their eloquent representatives when demands are made for higher wages or salaries. p(*rs and Hlectrotypers Lnion No ; Associai.* n.omltor; Amalgamated Lithographers of America No.27; President.\V Corivst ; vie* president.C Arpln: Recording Secretary.Centres Prunelles; .rotary Treasurer, Jam.s Philip.Room KKl.OSO Notre haute St M ., Tel.MA.7IS9; Executive, •John Moore.1 A Ardouin and John Kelly: Auditors.1, A Picard.Janies Singleton.J.A Ardouin.Council meets second Tuesday of each month at IMI'.i St Lawrence hlv.l.I MON TYPtM.KAI'IIIQUE .1 ACQl' ES-l’AU-TIEIC No I I A.— S’assemble le 1er samedi il U mois, il la salle de l’I’eion du Commerce, 107'.), ru.* Herri.Président.Charles Coûta.203.s, rue St Antoine, T.l l’I 4227 : secretaire trésorier.Clis-E Chalifour, 7180, rue Christophe-Colomb, Tél.IX).3771.TV l’OG KAPIIK al l mon No.I7«Î.— Meets first Sunday of each month at the Windsor Hotel.Raymond M Peimett, President.337 Melrose Avenue.Verdun: .lames Philip.Secretary-Treasurer, Room 108, CSC» Notre Dame W ; Rusiness hours: N.lM) a.m.to 8 p.m., Saturday.9.00 a.m.to 1.00 p.m.: Tel MA 7489.CONSEIL I > I : DISTRICT III; MONTREAL DE LA FRATERNITE l Nil, DES CIIAR-PENTIERS-.MENl ISIERS li’.WIERI(|l E.— MONTREAL DISTRICT OP CARPENTERS AND JOINERS Ol AMERICA.— Président.Ksdras Secours : vice président.1*’.I mill’d ; trésorier.E.Lanthier ; secrétaire, Edouard Larose ; gardien, Xénon Prlmeau ; agents d’affaires, Ed.Toussaint et E.Hornier.Assemblée chaque mercredi.A H lires du soir, au .Monument National, chambre II).U.L.PM.s’assemble tous les lundis soirs, au Monument National, chambre 11.c J.Raymond, secrétaire.P L.17s, s’assemble tous les 1er et de jeudis de chaque mois, au Monument National chambre 10.Jos.Remy.secrétaire, K.8PI, rite Henri-Julien.P.L.11 *J7, s’assemble tous les ‘Je et le lundis, au Monument National, chambre K), En-don* Primonu, secrétaire, D'd — b* Ave, Verdun.L L 1244.s’assemble tous les ‘Je et le Jeudis, A '.MH.rue St.- Catherine ouest, 11.II.Salter, secrétaire, ‘JJS’J, Oxford Ave., N.h.(i.P.L.lîll 10, s’assemble tous les 1er et de lundis.1080.Notre-Dame ouest.11.Martin, secrétaire, 2818, rue Claude, Verdun.P.L.1878.s'assemble tous les 1ers lundis, A 108 — 1ère Avenue.Lachine.Harris Daoust, secrétaire, 180 — 1ère Avenue, Lachine.IJ.L 1808, s’assemble les ‘Je et le vendredis, A 2I8S, rue Valois.Charles Thibault, secrétaire.2188.ru.* Orléans.Membres Associés, ce local s'assemble le 2c mardi, au Monument National, chambre IL UNION DES EMPLOYES DE TRAMWAYS DE MONTREAL, Local 700.Association îles Employés de Tramways électriques et de chauffeurs d’Autobus d’Amérique.— MONTREAL TRAMWAYS EMPLOYEES’ UNION, Local 75)0, Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America.— Quartiers généraux.— Headquarters, 1188, St-Denis.Tél.LA.2808.Officiers — Officers: Elphège Beaudoin, président : J.-G.Gagnon, vice-président ; O.A.Neveu, sec.-financler : Raoul Trépanier, agent d’affaires ; Alberto Brodeur, trésorier : Joseph Barhusci, secrétaire-correspondant ; W.Latour.sentinelle.Le Local si* réunit le ‘Je mercredi de chaque mois.A la salle de l’Union du Commerce, 107'J, rue Herri, et l'exécutif 1«* lundi précédent l'assemblée régulière A 1188, rue Saint-Denis.FRATERNITE DES PEINTRES DECORA-TKIÎRS ET TAPISSIERS D'AMERIQUE.Local 811).— S'assemble le 2e et le Je lundi du mois au No 1881A est.rue Ste-Catherine.Président, Jules Houlet, 1171.rue Champlain ; vice-président, C.A.Monder, 4227, rue Montana : secrétaire-correspondant, Arthur Montmorency.1208, ruelle Mont-Royal ; trésorier, L.-P.Holsselle, 804, rue Goiiunud ; secrétaire-financier.Raoul Gervais.4200, rue Marquette : conducteur.A.Goudreati, 9078B cat, rue Notre-Dame ; Auditeurs ; Arthur Rols-menu, 4021.rue Colonial : Ernest Desève, 0088.rue St-Dominique ; A.Chevalier, 2427, rue Jeanne d’Arc ; gardien.Jos.Girard, 8145, rue St-André : agent d’affaires, Edgar Gilbert.bureau DOD, boul.St-Laurent, chambre 22.Tél.PL.0804.UNION DES TRAVAILLEURS DE I.A CHAUSSURE, Local 249.— HOOT & SHOE WORKERS’ UNION.— S’assemble tous les vendredis soirs A 1881A est.rue Ste-Cntherlne.Président, Roméo Talbot, 1S4D est.rue Marie-Anne ; vice-président, Léo Leclair, 879, rue Sicnrd : sec ré ta Ire-archiviste et correspon- dant, N.Gervais.2112, rue Wolfe : secrétaire-financier.trésorier et agent d’affaires, Charles Me Percher, 1881A est, rue Ste-Cntherlne, Tél.CIL 0311, résidence, CL.7128.; assistant agent d’affaires, Lionel Thibault.4070.rue Papineau.Tél.AM.7002 ; sentinelle, Phllins Leclair, 1408, rue Visitation.I/exéciitlf s’assemble le 1er et le 8e mercredi du mois.A 1881A est, rue Ste-Catherine.Président, Jos.Glroux.8440, rue Horion ; vice-président, Mlle Edna Tremblay.1038, rue Visitation ; secrétaire, Jos.Hcauregard, 1898, rue Beaudry.ministériel 7440, qui réglemente les relations du Travail et du Capital en temps de guerre.L’arrêté ministériel en question prévoit que si le coût de la vie, établi par les statistiques fédérales, augmente dans une proportion de 5 pour cent, l’augmentation des salaires doit être analogue et payée sous forme de boni de vie chère.Ce boni doit être donné à tous les ouvriers, quels que soient leurs salaires.Le ministre a dit en dernier lieu que le montant global des salaires payés en 1940 a été de $2,800,000,000 et qu’il sera probablement de $3,000,000,000 en 1941.t PAGE 6 SAMEDI, 5 JUILLET 1941 — MONTREAL — SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1941 Labor s Urgent and Vital Needs (Continued, from page 1) The war has enormously increased the demands for labor.Let me say at once, that I believe it is the bounded duty of every worker in the country, to do all that his skill, strength, and love of liberty permits, to cooperate to the fullest degree in maintaining and accelerating production.Freedom is the stake in the present conflict.A nazi victory would mean the end of everything politically, socially, and economically progressive, and the workers as in Germany, Italy, and Russia would be the first victims.For military purposes and to defeat Hitler, the democracies may be associated with Russia, but that does not mean we are in sympathy with or likely to adopt the Russian system.If the people of Russia are satisfied with communism, that is their business — we are satisfied with our democratic government, which in spite df its defects is superior to any form of totalitarianism.The standard of living of the American, Canadian, and British workers is higher than that of the German, Russian, and Italian workers.• ® • It is because the workers in the democracies are opposed to totalitarianism, that they resent, and will not allow themselves to be exploited by employers, who loudly vaunt their patriotism and refuse to meet the just demands of the workers, thousands of whom were for several years unemployed.It is neither fair nor patriotic, to expect workers to subsist on a wage that is much below their needs.They are asked to buy war savings certificates, victory bonds, and contribute out of their earnings to other worthy causes.Can they meet these demands out of a wage, that is not enough to enable them to satisfy their ordinary obligations ?To work efficiently, they and their families must be properly fed, housed and clothed.Will any reasonable person dare assert, that thirty-five or even forty cents an hour is enough to square the worker's budget ?• • • In several local strikes the demand was for a wage of forty cents.Surely this is not exorbitant when we take into consideration what it costs to maintain the average family of five ! There are workmen who receive double this amount but they are highly skilled mechanics.Their services are so urgently needed that in prosperous peace times they could ask for and be paid much more.It is idle to think, that workers in a democratic country can be coerced into accepting what they consider an inadequate wage.Employment is a contract, the terms and conditions of which, are best concluded by the interested parties.This is what takes place, when a voluntary agreement is entered into for a given period between a group of employers and an organization of workers.The collective agreement applicable to a zone or territory is another example.It is thus, somewhat unfair to demand repressive legislation and regulation, when underpaid workers ask for reasonable increases in compensation.• • • In the wire that was sent to the Prime Minister on June 11, by the President of the C.M.A.it is stated that : "the whole labor situation is rapidly deteriorating and will deteriorate still further and become a grave menace to the entire war production effort of this country." This is a gross exaggeration of the actual situation.The Minister of Labor proved this by the figures he gave of the actual loss of man hours and the fractional percentage of the men involved.The wire goes on to state : "We are deeply concerned and disappointed that no action has been taken to date by the Canadian Government to enforce the law against illegal strikes and subversive activities on the part of a comparatively few professionals, mostly communists, who do not want settlements and whose interests lie in promoting in every possible way discontent and unrest leading to strikes." I am justified in saying, that every reputable labor leader in the Dominion will challenge this accusation.That the communist seeks to promote discord and discontent is well known, but that the average "professional" labor leader favors "illegal strikes and subversive activities" is the reverse of truth.The Government of Canada is responsible to the whole people and not any section thereof.It cannot legislate discriminatively against a particular group or class, unless it can be proven that it is deliberately subversive.The right to strike is a legal right.It is suspended until an enquiry is held and the information obtained ; but only in the cases where the employees are engaged in war work or employed in the industries enumerated in the Act.• • • No one is better qualified to understand industrial relations than the Prime Minister.He wrote "Industry and Humanity" following actual personal investigation in the Colorado mine fields.He is a staunch upholder of conciliation, mediation, and arbitration.The Minister of Labor has the advantage of being able to discuss labor relations with the head of the Government and the highly competent members of his staff, who are as anxious to maintain industrial peace as the President of the C.M.A.It would be going to lengths that could only be called arbitrary and unconstitutional, to exercise the coercion that is the characteristic of the totalitocracies.Canadian workers are reasonable men and women.They love their country and are as proud of its traditions and history as their fellow citizens who are employers, professional men, or civil servants.They object to being threatened and classed with those who wish to subvert the government, and they repudiate in the most emphatic way the attacks upon the leaders to whom they give their confidence.Labor solidarity is as necessary in war time as in peace.Organized labor would be better served and defended if it took steps to retain a legal staff to advise it as the manufacturers are, and also create a public relations bureau that would immediately challenge any statement made by one or more newspapers and unfair to labor and its leaders.• • • The national organization that will be the first to adopt these suggestions will not only considerably extend its influence but secure for labor the prestige and cooperation that would benefit all persons gainfully employed.The best in the way of professional skill and experience is not too good for the workers.The outstanding leaders of the workers must show by their attitude The Chance of the West The Nazi turn against Russia belongs clearly to the order of events which are at once a great peril and a great opportunity.The peril lies in the fact that Hitler may find in this new move one more opportunity for dividing morally those whom he must overcome if his victories so far are to profit him at all.The opportunity lies in the fact that, properly employed, the move may marshall against him the very forces he proposes to use against the rest of the world, or at the very least give time to rally and mobilize the forces potentially so very much greater than his own, and still unconquered by him — the forces of America and the British Empire.The military strategists point out that in any case there is very little material aid that America could quickly give to Russia, even if it went as part of the aid sent to Britain.But if during the next few weeks Hitler can manage seriously to divide American and British opinion, then certain vital strategic decisions may be so delayed while "waiting for public opinion to develop" that he will be able once more to seize and keep the initiative.It is almost certain that the Hess visit was part of this maneuver.We — the British and American public — have still inadequately digested the fact that the ultimate explanation of Hitler's victories has been his employment of the "moral" weapon — his capacity to divide the non-Nazi world so that it can be brought under the domination of a Nazi minority ; if the non-Nazi minority had only learned the trick of hanging together as the sole alternative to being hanged separately, this evil menace would not now hang over us.It is particularly on this matter of Bolshevism versus Nazism that the confusion has from the beginning arisen.Western Europe could not, in fact, make up its mind which of the two evils was the greater ; and failed to see that was never the question.The real question was, not which was the greater evil, but which was the greater danger."Communist unrest" was something for Western states to meet in part by education, in part by constructive social reform.It was never anywhere in itself a military danger.It was a danger to defense only in so far as it played the game of Nazism by contributing to the divisions from which Nazism, not communism, profited.The events of the last twg years have shown beyond dispute that Nazism was in a position to profit greatly from the weaknesses of Western society — particularly the disruptive nationalism which rendered that society incapable of mutual aid in defense against the domination of a violent and ruthless but competent and cohesive minority.It was this weakness which enabled the Nazi minority to sweep over the world in a devastating wave that threatens to carry away the freedoms built up in a thousand years of toil.A day or two ago I sat in a gathering of religious, well-intentioned folk.A man of education and knowledge expressed the view that Britain should have avoided this war at the time of Munich by striking a bargain with Germany which would have allowed Hitler a free hand to attack Russia in return for peace in the West.Very few of the earnest folk present seemed at all shocked by this suggestion.Very few seemed to recall that the proposal represented precisely the intention which those of the left everywhere believed to animate the more sinister elements of the right ; and that for governments in Western Europe to have lent themselves to such a maneuver would have split Western nations from top to bottom, would not have preserved peace, and would have delivered the situation into the hands of the Nazis even more completely than events have done so far.To forestall the confusions which are likely to bedevil counsel and policy in the coming months we must keep constantly before us the first and last purpose of this war against Germany.That purpose, as it affects America, is the defense of the people of this country, as of others, against the oppressions of a counter-revolution similar to that which the people of France now face, a counter-revolution which has resulted in part from internal divisions, in part from external pressure.Russian communism as we now know it represents an evil form of society.So be it.Are we therefore indifferent whether Russia is overrun and brought under the domination of the Nazi power ?We know that if that takes place Nazi Germany will stretch from the shores of the Bay of Biscay and the North Sea to the shores of the Pacific.Germany, in fact, will in that even be brought to within a dozen miles of American territory.And that conquest, as Churchill reminds us, would be merely the prelude to an all-out assault upon the British fortress.If Britain fell, then the whole world outside of America would be under the command of Hitler ; and no one who can face facts at all would pretend that in such circumstances the United States would be defensible very long.Russia, we are told, is not a Christian state.Neither is China.Neither is India.Most of the world is non-Christian.The conquest of Russia by Germany would not make Russia more Christian.It would only make it more dangerous.To show that the West is prepared to give Russia the same rights of protection against external violence, the same rights to life as a nation and a state, which Western nations demand, will be to increase the chances that ultimately it will, with others, take its part in common resistance to war.The alternative — some form of appeasement which would throw the Soviets to the Nazi wolves — would in the end condemn us all to a like fate.NORMAN ANGELL.(From "The Nation" of June 28th, 1941.) and replies that they resent the criticism of which they are the objects.Insinuating that they are associated with communists will weaken public confidence in their loyalty and integrity.As representatives of the organized workers they are entitled to be consulted both by the Government and organized industry whenever it is proposed to temporarily abridge the rights of the workers because of national emergency.Throughout the years labor has had to fight against what at first appeared to be insuperable obstacles to secure political and social reforms.It must jealously guard the rights it enjoys whether the attempt to destroy or undermine comes from reactionaries of the "Riqht" or revolutionaries of the "Left." In common with out neighbors to the South we believe in : "A government of the people, by the people, for the people." Labor can best defend itself when it knows and appreciates the need and value of the same professional and other skills that organized employing groups find it advantageous to employ. SAMEDI, 5 JUILLET 1941 — MONTREAL — SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1941 PAGE 7 Adolf Hitler, your Star Has almost Set?Without Religion Germany Will Perish ! — An Open Letter to the German Chancellor.By BERNARD ROSE, K.C.You believe you are a great man.You are convinced you have a mission.You point with pride to your achievements.You are obsessed with the idea that you can consolidate not only the Germans within the Reich but those who live beyond its borders.You have successfully regimented the German nation into soldiers and serfs.You have an effective propaganda machine.It is the world's super lying factory.You have considerably increased the armed forces of the nation.You have not hesitated in carrying out your purpose to openly violate and disregard solemn treaty obligations.You are cursed by small nations.In your opinion, and that of your intimate associates, the end justifies the means — be they ever so brutal.You have come a long way since the day you labored for a livelihood.I will admit that you have made history more rapidly and spectacularly than any other dictator within modern or ancient times.You have rained death on thousands of helpless women and innocent children.Millions of youth acclaim you as the regenerator of the New Germany.You have even had the audacity to contemptuously defy such great and powerful nations as the British and the American.There were some in these lands who detesting your methods had a sneaking regard for you.You boasted of what you did to reduce or abolish unemployment.You started by robbing the unions and murdering their leaders.You were dominated by the over-powering belief that you would make Germany the first of the many powers.You almost succeeded ! Had you sincerely endeavored to rebuild the German nation along democratic and Christian lines, you would have merited the hearty support of not only the Germans in whose past and race purity you profess much pride, but the peoples of other nations, not the least, the British, the French and the American.Anglo Saxons are taught to admire that courage, that succeeds in spite of handicaps.Every nation would have applauded you.if instead of cruelly and vindictively marking out an insignificant fraction of the German people as the object of your pitiless wrath you made an earnest appeal to all classes and faiths within the Reich, to unite and cooperate, in peacefully securing that development the progress of which, would be assured, because of your desire to help the people to help themselves.For some reason best known to yourself you took a violent dislike to the so-called race that can claim kinship with the Saviour.You seldom lost an opportunity of reviling and denouncing them.In your book you rage against them and blame them for the misfortune to which they in no way contributed.You even alleged they were in league with the enemies of democracy — the Communists.All who believe in justice and Christianity hold a brief for this frightfully persecuted and savagely treated minority.What they have endured because of your attacks and book will ever be a gruesome spectre in the German historical cupboard.Retribution, fierce, unyielding, and as certain as the sun shines will overtake those who are responsible lor barbarously branding as social outcasts, the men, women, and innocent children whose only crime was their love of your Germany and keeping the faith of their fathers, or being descended from those who professed this faith.All your racial experts whose views and conclusions are adapted to suit your policies and propaganda, know in their hearts, that the Aryan race is a fiction manufactured out of whole Nazi cloth.Scientists have so declared.Because of your persecution of helpless minorities who follow the Mosaic or Christian Codes you have awakened the hostility of millions in other lands.German production is being boycotted and every German living in the democratic lands is regarded as an actual or potential spy.Many no doubt admire you, and think you are unconquerable and invincible.They delude themselves into thinking they gain in personal importance and racial stature by expressing their support of your doctrines and appreciation of your efforts.Germany would undoubtedly have succeeded in gaining a place in the world even greater than that it possessed prior to the last war, had it adopted a policy permitting all Germans regardless of race, faith or class, to pull together for the good of the German people.Instead, you announced that you would begin your rebuilding of the nation by depriving minorities of the opportunity of earning a livelihood in the trades, professions, arts, and sciences.We who are British, are taught, that it is cowardly to attack one weaker han ourselves or hit an opponent when he is down.Apparently there is no such word as fair play in the German or nazi lexicon.Your colleagues and associates, Goebbels, Goering, Rosenberg, Himmler, and Streicher advocate a campaign of merciless and inhuman iquidation, economic, educational, social, and religious when dealing with the alleged enemies of the Reich.That in thus acting they repudiate the basic principles of Christianity and humanity does not apparently cause them the least concern.They have the nation's might in their keeping and their will must prevail.What other nations and peoples think of their personal attitudes and official conduct, is of no consequence.Once again it is ''Germany over all." You are aware of what happened to the proponents and supporters of this dangerous and anti-social doctrine.You were in the German army and shared its defeat.You are heading the nation you now lead, to a second Armageddon and a physical and moral ruin from which it can hardly recover within a century ! This fate will be yours and your nation's unless without delay you reinstate not only Jews but Catholics and others in their rights as full fledged citizens.In spite of what they have undergone they still love ’the country of their birth or adoption.Both Jews and Catholics before your advent on the scene were proud of their nationality and what its members had accomplished.They fought, taught, and planned as Germans.Members of your minorities achieved world wide distinction, in What Is Cooperation?By RUTH TAYLOR In every time of national crisis or emergency, we are urged to "cooperate." The word is used almost as though it were magic, as if, when by some happy chance we should achieve a state of cooperation, all our troubles would disappear.It really doesn't need a national emergency to tell us that.We know perfectly well that if all groups in this country, or in the world, would work together, nine-tenths of our difficulties would disappear.But with the repetition of the word cooperation has come confusion.Each group wants its opponents to cooperate with it only when they say cooperate they generally mean give in.And each group unfortunately uses as an excuse for its own shortcomings, the statement that the other side won't cooperate, forgetting that there must be a real "give and take" attitude, not merely the will to take.Let's not try to determine where the blame lies, but get back to the fact of just what cooperation is.According to the dictionary it is "joint action — working together." The dictators say we can't do it.That a nation of free men will not cooperate, that they will pull in a thousand different and selfish directions at once — and get nowhere.But they ignore the basic meaning of cooperation.Cooperation is a joint action.It means that all will have to freely and intelligently move together, like a machine where each part has its particular function to fulfil, but also like a machine that is built correctly, so that each part is capable of taking up its share of the stress and strain.Labor knows the value of cooperation.Organized Labor and the gains it has made for all workingmen are evidence of the power of cooperation.The same principles that have made labor organizations effective need now to be annlied to national affairs.Organized Labor proved its point by making the organized workingmen more valuable to Capital than the unorganized, and it did this by making its individual members better equipped for their work.The emphasis in cooperation should be not on what the other person has not done, but upon constructive working together.By all means let us cooperate — but cooperate by each doing the full measure of his share in the work for the common good.Cooperate not in comparison with another's cooperation with you — but to the fullest extent of your own powers.The command is, as it always has been, "Give and it shall be given unto you.For with the same measure ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." medicine, chemistry, literature, the arts, and theology.How many great men and women have you produced ?The real and true genius of Germany has been exiled or compelled to conform to the Nazi pattern.Originality and initiative are suppressed unless they fit the Nazi jacket.Adolf Hitler, your star has almost set ! The democracies will no longer tolerate your arrogance, repudiation of agreements, nor suffer the constant menace you are to the peace of the world.Why not admit that you were ill advised ?You were born and brought up a Catholic.You can and must repent.You can atone for your sins against those of your faith and the people of the Book whom you have so grievously injured and maligned, by asking forgiveness and doing all your power permits to rehabilitate the oppressed and suffering minorities who have lived in a veritable hell since you took office.You must recall your invading armies from the conquered and despoiled countries you invaded.France must be freed.You have hitherto escaped the wrath that is visited upon those who sin against righteousness — but its coming is certain and inevitable, unless you tell the world that your treatment of Jews and Christians was wrong and unjust.The Reich cannot prosper without the whole souled and loyal support of the Germans at home or in exile who accept the spiritual guidance of the Sovereign Pontiff in Rome or the teachings of the Book venerated by millions in every Christian land.A land without Catholics and Jews is morally destitute and must become economically sterile.The most prosperous Germany was that in which Catholics and Jews gave freely and gratefully of their best, to the building up of the country they loved.The lands in which both dwell in peace, and enjoy civil and religious liberties are specially favored and possess that material abundance and glory that is your principal ambition for the land of which you are at the moment the supreme ruler.Let me finally warn you of the implacable vengeance of the peoples led by the Lord's avenging knights, in the persons of those mighty men and leaders, Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt.Upon the English speaking nations now rests the supreme and awful responsibility of saving the world from that darkness and despair that will overtake it and be its shroud for centuries were you and your modem barbarians to prevail.Posterity will for untold generations regard you as the embodiment of evil.Only if the Ruler of the Universe has designed that civilization perish and democracy die will it be possible for you to inaugurate the Devil's "New Order." It is not written in the stars or Scripture that you can encompass the downfall of the divinely favored Anglo-Saxon nations.The will of free peoples is the will of God ! Buanderie - IMPERIAL - Laundry & SUPPLY CO.TEINTURIERS — NETTOYEURS DYERS AND CLEANERS Excellent service de blanchissage Superior Laundry Service Lavage de famille à prix modérés Family Washing at Popular Prices Téléphonez FAlkirk 1179 Call FAlkirk 1179 1471, RUE PARTHENAIS 1471 PARTHENAIS STREET PAGE 8 SAMEDI, 5 JUILLET 1941 — MONTREAL — SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1941 Shoppers Respond From HERBERT TRACEY of the to Union’s Appeal British Trades Union Congress Wartime service is rendered with loyalty and patience by a great body of workers in Britain whose very existence is often overlooked.A chance encounter with an executive officer of the big Union of Shop Assistants reminded me" of the fact.Rationing, price regulations, local shortages of commodities, smaller staffs and alterations in shopclosing hours have certainly made marketing difficult for the housewife, but the same conditions have also created problems for the retail shop-keeper and his assistants.The greatest achievement of the shop assistant, my Union friend told me, has been to preserve the standards of courtesy, good temper and mutual goodwill between customers and the men and girls behind the shop counter.This was said quite seriously.It was, in effect, the Union’s reply to complaints from disgruntled and sometimes peevish critics of tlie retail traders, alleging that managers and staffs are “displaying insolence combined with stupidity” in dealing with customers.Such attacks by a very small minority find no echo among the marketing housewives.Letters were shown to me in which grateful customers pay tribute to tire shop workers."Shop girls are doing a grand job,” wrote one, “carrying on despite all difficulties, with a cheery smile for the customer.” Another wrote: “The amazing courtesy and cheeriness of the shops and their staffs in those trying times of rationed shopping is deserving of a gesture of gratitude." Educating the Public An appeal to the public to bear in mind that shop-keepers and their staffs are not responsible for wartime difficulties was drawn up by one of the Union organisers.It is to be found displayed in many shops and here are some of its points: Please do not grumble at tire manager or assistants.Remember, they are your friends.They have no control over goods in short and it is to their advantage to sell all the goods they can.So much can happen in war time to foods between production and delivery to your usual shop and allowances must be made.Very many thousands of trained assistants are in the armed forces.IPease help the new owners in the shops as much as you can.Have your ration books ready and state clearly what you want to buy.Try and take all the rationed articles you can at one shopping trip.> If the shop is busy, remember to take your turn.It saves time.Remember, too, that shop workers are human beings, doing necessary and important work.Treat them as you would wish to be treated if in their place on the other side of the counter.My Union friend told me that in shops where customers have seen this appeal a disagreeable and hostile person is a rarity on either side of the counter.Widening Basis of Diplomacy Much interest has been aroused among trade unionists by the announcement of the British Foreign Secretary (Mr.Eden) that the British diplomatic service Is to be democratised.One passage in Mr.Eden’s statement, in particular, has attracted the attention of trade unionists.He said that among the proposed reforms, it is intended to appoint officers competent to advise on social and labour questions, and to attach them to embassies, legations and consulates abroad.No details are yet available; but in Trade Union circles it is anticipated that arrangements will soon be made to give effect to the Minister’s announcement.It is regarded as the fulfilment of a pledge given by the Minister of Labour, Ernest Bevin, when lie addressed the conference of Trade Union executives twelve months ago.He told that assembly of the accredited representatives of the Trade Union movement tirât closer relations were developing between Iris department and the Foreign Office than had ever existed before, and that he was anxious to see that the experience and knowledge of trade union representatives became available to the diplomatic and consular services.The proposal is, I gather, that in the combined Foreign Service, embracing tlie Foreign Office and the Diplomatic and Consular services, provision will be made for the appointment of labour advisers.They are to be chosen for their competence to advise on matters concerning the organised Trade Union and Labour movement in their own country and in the country to which they are accredited.Tlie object is not only to make British diplomacy more representative, but to establish regular and permanent contacts with the Trade Union and Labour movement in every country where the British Government is represented.Trades Councils in Conference Representatives of the 420 local Trades Councils attached to the British Trades Union Congress will be meeting for their annual conference at the end of this month.This is one of the most useful conferences, since its delegates are active workers in the Trade Union branches affiliated to the Trades Councils in each area.It is upon these that the TUC relies for its local propaganda and organisation.How useful tills connection is can be seen from the report wliich the TUC Joint Consultative Committee lias prepared for the forthcoming Trades Council Conference.Reference is made in this re|x>rt among other matters, to the very successful series of conferences arranged through Trades Councils at which Ministers of the Crown were able to explain to organised workers the activities of the Departments.The Minister of Labour, the Minister of Mines and other Government colleagues were thus enabled to make direct contact with the Trade Union movement in the country.Arrangements made through the Trades Councils to give Government and union officials opportunities to talk about their work are also the subject of reference in this report.This lias proved to be one of the best methods of rousing the interest of the Trade Union rank and file in the wartime activities of the various Ministries, particularly those concerned with the transfer of labour, factory welfare, and the social aspects of the Civil Defence organisation.INTERNATIONAL LABOUR FORCE With the hearty good-will and active help of the Trade Unions a new department of tlie Ministry of Labour has got down to work.To look after the interests of a quarter of a million friendly “aliens” who sought refuge in this country when war came, and to make use of their services, the International Labour Branch of the Ministry was formed some months ago.Its first step was to set up a central agency or bureau to place over the age of 16, of both sexes in useful occupations Most of the refugees are of Polish, Czech, Norwegian, Belgian.Dutch, and French nationality; but these are 60,000 Austrians and German among them who are treated likewise as victims of Hitler's tyranny.The policy of the Ministry’s International Branch is to work in the closest collaboration with the Allied Governments, with the Trade Unions and the refugee organisations to which the expatriated workers belong, and with the British Trade Unions that have extended their protection to them.Tlie British Employer’s Confederation is also giving its support to the scheme.Under it, a large number of foreign workers have already been placed in employment.An essential feature of the scheme is that, the refugee workers shall have the same wages as our own people in the same employment.A special women’s section has been set up.Government training centres ire being opened to them on the same terms as for British women workers.A central register has been opened for certain important categories of highly skilled workers among the refugees, including specialised administrative workers and technicians.This register cames the names of some 300 engineers of foreign nationality who arc seeking employment.Separate bureaux or registers arc now to be opened for each national group; one for the Poles is to be opened this month.NOT IDLE WORDS And here, to show that British Labour's goodwill is not a mere matter of words, is a development of policy in the spirit of Labour Day.It has just been announced that foreign refugees and allied nationals who are helping in the war effort are to be brought within the scope of our national system of insurance against unemployment and sickness.Regulations have been issued which provide assistance to them in such circumstances, until they acquire 'full insurance rights under the State schemes.Many of the refugees, the Ministry of Labour points out, reached this country without resources of their own.Few of them can look to their Trade Union for help, although measures are being taken to link the foreign trade unionists in Britain to the Trade Unions in the British industries which employ them.It is primarily for those who are entering employment that the new Regulations have been issued to give them nonnal payments when unemployed or sick according to the established scales, until they acquire insurance rights as insured workers.It is stipulated by the Ministry that applicants for these uncovenanted benefits must be over the age of 16, not normally resident ir Britain, and engaged in some insurable employment here.They must also have been employed ir their own country in the kind ol employment which, if they hac heen working in Britain would have qualified them for inclusion in the State insurance system.Expatriate workers could hardly expect te receive more generous treatment ir any other country in the world.THE "PEOPLE'S CAR" RACKET The Nazi Commissar for t Warthegau, which is that part Poland which is intended for Ge man settlement (tlie other part u der German domination in whi Poles are allowed to exist is call the Gouvernement Général) I laid down that from now on the i habitants of the district are a eligible to qualify for the Peopl Car, and that they can begin rig away with their instalments.T1 announcement brings to mind tl considerable numbers of Germ workers are still paying their weet instalments of 5 marks for wl they will soon realize is a mythii vehicle.The story is told now, being faced with a demand fix Brinkmann, then Reich Minister Economy for 30 million marks to raised from the German Labe Front every week.Ley hatched tl famous idea for collecting mom It was in May, 1938, at Fallerslebc that the foundation stone was lr of the “largest- motor car factory Europe.” In August of that yei Ley announced that the Peopl Car, Would cost 990 marks, plus 2 LE MONDE OUVRIER Rédigé en collaboration MARCEL FRANCQ Secretaire de la Rédaction BEN.DROLET Gérant de la circulation Le seul journal ouvrier bilingue au Canada Membre de la Presse ouvrière internationale d’Amérique THE LABOR WORLD Canada's Only Labor Bilingual Paper Imprimé par l’Imprimerie Mercantile, Limitée, 11, nie Saint-Paul Ouest, Montréal Edifice Aldred, Téléphone : PLateau 8451 AVOCAT MONTREAL NOW IS THE TIME TO GET A GOVERNMENT JOB as Clerk, Postman, Customs Clerk, Steno., etc.Five Dominion-wade exams held since war began.Free Booklet.M.C.C.Schools Ltd., Toron- agents.MONTREAL, CANADA AIRD & SON LIMITED BEAUMONT SHOES FOR WOMEN marks for insurance.It was put about at the time that it was the Fuehrer’s wish for every German worker to have his.own car, and that- “he” expected everybody earning over two to three hundred marks a month to put his name down for the scheme.About 6,000.000 dupes fell for what one of those responsible for it himself described as the “greatest pre-payment swindle of all time.” Apart from a few test models (which were trailed right across Germany with characteristic showmanship for display purposes) none of them has been seen on the roads.But the object has been attained: for a period of 4'i years, it has provided the Nazis with a screw to squeeze out a supplementary war loan of 1,500 milion marks a year.•— -:o :-~ Our Leading Amusement Uans nos Théâtres PALACE ?— -( Moon Over Miami IN TECHNICOLOR starring DON AMECHE BETTY GRABLE ROBERT CUMMINGS EXTRA! q EMPIRE in EXILE CAPITOL Second Week ! 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