Le monde ouvrier = The labor world, 1 janvier 1943, samedi 30 janvier 1943

Glir îiilntr « A * « ^ *ft ïr jlmuïr •naAX'-V (Ûuuricr wSw 29th Year 29e Année — No 5 SAMEDI, 30 JANVIER 1943 — MONTREAL — SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1943 UNE SITUATION PEU CONFORTABLE ,A M -, * .'*• i ‘ at LOPOE LiTiawt WRlE AE Voilà dans quelle terrible position sont les ouvriers de nos usines d'avions victimes de la grave injustice du gouvernement fédéral qui rejette constamment leurs demandes.Nous donnons ci-après un tableau des taux de salaire minimum horaires payés dans les usines d'avionnerie des différentes villes importantes du Canada, soit : Montréal, Toronto, Fort William, dans l'Ontario, et Vancouver, dans la Colombie Anglaise.On notera que le boni de vie chère payé dans les autres provinces est plus élevé que dans le Québec, sauf pour une usine de Montréal, où il est de S4.25 en dépit de la demande des trois autres avionneries de Montréal dont les ouvriers ne touchent que SI.50 par semaine.C'est tout probablement parce que les ouvriers de la Canada Car, qui bénéficient d'un boni de S4.25, sont membres d'une union de compagnie, qu'ils ont la préférence des autorités fédérales.Dans les autres villes, l'indice du coût de la vie est plus bas qu'à Montréal, les salaires sont soit équivalents soit plus élevés et cependant les ouvriers touchent un boni plus appréciable.MONTREAL TORONTO PORT WILLIAM VANCOUVER C.L.É £ CLASSIFICATION - -O E .c U cc u c c.Sa" C U p C | ‘ •?- c c.“ C pc’” | JC «• t «.**¦ c c.•=.2 = c — - CS Ç) •— _ .jr — ~ c .t: c 'Z C •E ^ > *w ES.il .».i.mour, seutmeiie.i.c Local 11.505,898 habitants, dont 5,900,148 ! vendredi, le 5 février, en la salle ! sequent l'aido des membres en eé-1 Be .ré"I,it.lo a" mercredi de chaque hommes et 5.605,705 femmes, le 2 ! du Palais d'Or, rue Stanley.Les j n£al.5 .^ | seph dont : Barhuscl, W.Latour.secrétaire-cor respon-sentinclle.Le Local juin 1941.révèlent les statistiques du recensement de 1941.On a tenu compte du nombre des hommes et des femmes faisant partie de l'armée.Lors du recensement de 1931, la population du Canada était de 10,376.786.Voici maintenant quelle est la l>opulation de chaque province : Québec, 3,331,882 (la population mâle est de 1,672,982) ; Ile du Prince-Edouard, 95,047 ; Nouvelle-Ecosse.577.962 ; Nouveau-Brunswick, 457,44)1 ; Ontario, 3,787,655 ; Manitoba, 729,741 ; Saskatchewan, 895,992 Alberta, 769,169 ; Colombie Anglaise, 817,861 ; Yukon, 4,914 ; Territoires du Nord-Ouest, 11,271.bénéfices résultant de cette soirée un sujet qui semble embarrasser iront aux fonds de la Croix Rouge i ies membres de l’Union des em-canadienne.; ployés de tavernes et qui les pla- - ce dans un dilemme difficile à résoudre, c’est celui de l’ouverture et de la fermeture des tavernes.Tous sont sur le qui-vive et ne savent quand ces restrictions leur seront imposées.Ils s’attendent d’être beaucoup affectés par ccs restrictions.Cette question qui est d'une importance vitale refa l’objet d'une se-étude par l'exécutif du i local 200.M.Ed.Flore, président de l'Al-: liance internationale des commis de bar de Cincinnati.Ohio, a félicité Bal annuel du local 115, A.C.W.U.Chaque année, ce bal est un événement dans le monde ouvrier.Cette soirée récréative, dont les préparatifs d’organisation sont tenni- , House nés, aura lieu vendredi, le 12 février prochain, en la salle du Palais d'Or, rue Stanley.lundi précédant l'assemblée A 1153, rue Saint-Denis.régulière FKATKICMTK DES l'ElNTKF.S DK-UOKAIKUKS, I.nriil ,'I4I>.— S'assemble tous les lundis du mois nu No 1331A rue Ste-Catherine est.Président, Raoul Gervnis, 42(31 Marquette, Té! FR 4110-Vice - Président, J.t,.Morel, ursri Ainherat, FR.4152; Secrétaire-Correspondant, I,Helen Gauthier.21 la Montcalm, FA.21150.Trésorier.L.-P.Iioiselle Oui Gounod, Secrétaire-Financier.Ernest Desève, 0033 Rt-Domlnlnqiie ; Conducteur, Albert Gondreau, Ü07SH est o,n.*rc‘o?"l"':, ,***rdlen.Jos.Girard.R14.i St-André; Auditeurs: Arthur Rolsincnu préaident, 4021 Colonial- II Leduc ci Mnrc Prévost, sentinelle.Agent, d'affaires, Ernest Desève, bureau 1331A rue Ste-Catherine est nenres de S è P heures, le matin et d” 4 fl 5 heures l'après-midi, tél.Cil.6511 Un orchestre de choix a été re tenu pour la circonstance de même 1 M.c.Lalonde, secrétaire-financier AL.BENOIT-BENOIT PROTECTAL INC.Vous pouvez vous procurer à CREDIT LUNETTES D’APPROCHE — THERMOMETRES BAROMETRES — YEUX ARTIFICIELS OUVREZ UN COMPTE COURANT 1617 ST-DENIS que des numéros sensationnels de vaudeville.C’est une fête de solidarité ouvrière que nul travailleur organisé n’a le droit d'ignorer.Ces soirées récréatives sont populaires et hautement appréciées par le public.pour la bonne tenue du local 200, en rapport au paiement de sa taxe per capita en date du 31 décembre 1942.Ne louez rien de ce que avez pu Nous gagnerons la guerre.Ii faut aussi gagner la paix.Sauvegardez vos économies en les plaçant dans les Certificats dépargne de guerre.j faire avant que d’être ) l'approbation d’autrui.assuré de Avianus L'ignorance est toujours prête s'admirer Boileau.I N ION DES TRAVAILLEURS DF.I.A CII.U SSCIIE.Local 2ig, — llooi A SHOE WORKERS’ UNION.__________ R'ns- Ki’inhli’ tous les .voir A 133IA est.run St.' Calhorlno.Président, Jos.Giroux.3440 Horion; vjc(*-prf*sl * VATICAN Quarante Etats au Saint-Siège Cité du Vatican.— Avec l'arrivée du docteur Tchéou-Kang Sic, envoyé de Chine auprès du Saint-Siège, le nombre d’Etats représentés autour du trône papal se chiffre maintenant à quarante.La vaste majorité de ces diplomates appartiennent à des nations en guerre avec l’Axe, ce qui soulève les clameurs de la presse fasciste Mats le Saint-Père n’entend pas céder à la pression italo-germa-nique, oui voudrait qu'il chassât tous ces gens ne croyant point aux sublimes destinées du totalitarisme.Les diplomates se sentent d’ailleurs bien tranquilles, dans l’asile du Vatican: les dix-sept dernières familles à y arriver totalisaient 160.016 hommes, femmes et enfants.Parmi les derniers arrivés, on remarquait les envoyés du Brésil, de la Bolivie, de la Colombie, de Cuba, et de l’Uruguay.» 0 « ALSACE Déportation d'Alsaciens Berne, Suisse.— Le dernier numéro du “Strasbourger Nachrichten", journal nazi publié à Strasbourg, mentionne que sept familles connues de cette fille ont été déportées en Allemagne, comme "mesure éducative”.Chacune de ces familles possède trois ou quatre enfants.Les autorités germaniques les accusent "de n’avoir pas cherché à s'adapter à l'ordre national-socialiste”: raison évidente pour laquelle on doit les déporter au sein du Reich "dans leur propre intérêt’.La publication répétée de pareille nouvelles indique que ces déportations sont très fréquentes.o © p SUISSE Une chapelle offerte par des Polonais Berne, Suisse.— Des Polonais internés en Suisse viennent d'offrir une chapelle à la ville de Zucluvill, afin de montrer à la libre république leur gratitude 'pour les bons traitements qu’ils y ont reçus.La chapelle fut bénite par l’Evèque de Bâle, devant les autorités fédérales, militaires et civiles.« © • ALLEMAGNE Pour une cigarette, les soldats d’Hitler l’insultent Londres.— Le prince Albert-Edouard de Ligne, un filleul de feu le roi Albert des Belges, s’est évadé récemment d’un camp de concentration allemand.Le prince a raconté que des prisonniers de guerre britannique distribuent aux gardes nazis quelques cigarettes qu’ils reçoivent dans des colis de la Croix-Rouge.Mais avant que les Allemands reçoivent chacun une cigarette, ils doivent se tenir en ligne et crier: ’Hitler Heraus!" — Dehors Hitler! o G © DANEMARK Les Nazis sont froissés Genève, Suisse.Un journal clandestin, publié au Danemark, déclare que trois mille citoyens ont été envoyés en prison, durant le cours de l’année dernière, pour avoir prononcé des remarques "inopportunes" à l’endroit des Allemands.Le journal ajoute: “Nous trouvons, pour notre part, que chacune de ces remarques était opportune.” o © o HOLLANDE Les Nazis volent les Hoches.Londres.— British Broadcasting Cor-ixiration rapporte que les Nazis s’empa- rent de toutes les cloches des églises hollandaises.pour en faire des canons.Ils ont averti la population que toute tentative d’opposition serait sévèrement réprimée o © o BOLOGNE Les Nazis volent les femmes Moscou.— Des officiers allemands capturés en Russie ont avoué que quatre cent mille jeunes femmes, enlevées en Pologne et en Russie, vont partir d’un moment à l’autre pour l’Allemagne, officiellement pour y être employées comme domestiques Le conservatisme social L’évolution sociale a fait de telles enjambées depuis septembre 1939 ; notre économie d’avant-guerre a été tellement réglementée pour les besoins de l’effort de guerre ; le gouvernement fédéral est si intimement intervenu pour s'octroyer au moins un droit de regard dans le domaine des relations industrielles ; l’élément patronal est devenu si aimablement disixjsé à faire des concessions au point de vue salaires et conditions générales de travail que notre parti politique conservateur, honteux et dépité comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris au piège, rougit maintenant de son appellation traditionnelle et veut se dire progressif envers et contre tous, dussent ses ancêtres frémir dans leurs tombeaux au spectacle incroyable de politiciens torys accouchant d'un programme de réformes sociales quasi radicales, si on les compare à l'idéal économique rétréci de nos affairistes d'hier.C’est ainsi qu'à Winnipeg, le parti conservateur national s'est choisi un nouveau chef qui n'est pas un conservateur, mais plutôt ce qu'on pourrait appeler, en jargon électoral, un libéral progressiste ! Le parti conservateur, au sens accepté du terme, est donc bien mort et ce n’est pas trop tôt pour la sécurité de la nation canadienne.A sa place nous voici gratifiés d’un parti conservateur-progressiste dont le programme est relativement gauchiste, pour nous servir d'un terme à la mode, car il renferme des choses pour lesquelles le parti ouvrier a lutté et lutte encore.Mais qu'on ne s’y trompe pas.Ce nouveau parti politique, qui est tout simplement l’ancien recouvert d’une peau neuve, laisse encore une marge beaucoup trop grands à "l’initiative privée" dans le domaine économique pour qu'on puisse le prendre réellement au sérieux et lui faire confiance au cours des élections éventuelles.C'est que, jusqu'à présent, au point de vue affaires, nous avons exclusivement pataugé dans la brousse épaisse de l'initiative privée et l'on sait ce que cela a donné.Nous devons à cette initiative privée exaspérée une économie spéculative et désordonnée à laquelle nous devons la présente guerre et celles qui, sans doute, suivront, si nous ne lui coupons pas les ailes avec vitesse et efficacité.Ce qu’il nous faut, c’est moins d'initiative privée et plus d'initiative publique, moins de ploutocratie et plus de démocratie, moins de millionnaires et moins de taudis, moins d’opulence et de misère, une plus juste répartition du pouvoir d'achat entre les citoyeits du pays et un strict minimum d’intermédiaires-parasites entre le point de production et le point de distribution à la masse consommatrice du pays.Or, le parti conservateur, si progressiste qu’il soit en principe, ne peut pas nous donner cela parce que c’est Contraire à ses intérêts, dangereux pour les privilèges sociaux de ses membres et nettement incompatible avec l’économie spéculative dont se réclame encore, par la force même des choses, im parti qui compte dans- ses rangs la plupart des chevaliers industriels contre lequel les ouvriers syndiqués ont l’impérieux devoir de lutter toujours et sans répit.PIERRE PONCE. PAGE 6 SAMEDI, 30 JANVIER 1943 — MONTREAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1943 The New Barbarians Hitler Determined to Enslave the Workers.German Super monopolists Co-operating with the Chief Nazis in Exploiting the Workers in Germany and the Occupied Countries.— Both Must Be Completely Liquidated if the Workers In Europe Are to be Freed and Those in Other Lands Protected from Becoming Victims of their Plan of World Conquest.The German Industrial Barons in League With Nazi Gangters.By BERNARD ROSE, K.C.In previous issues, references have been made and .nfor- j motion given concernincf the plans of the Nazis to not only destroy everything that all free men hold dear, but extend their sway into every land where they can find willing dupes or agents.The workers in the free lands, particularly, the Englishspeaking ones are compelled to do everything the resources of their countries permit, in the providing of munitions and men to carry on the war until the Nazi armies in the field are not only completely defeated, but the armies of United Nation^ in occupation of Germany, I have no patience with those who suggest that we be considerate in our treatment of a vanquished enemy.How considerate were Germans in the last war and what consideration did they show the Russians when the concluded the Brest-Litovsk treaty ?What consideration in the last and present war have they shown the people in the lands they overran and occupied ?Their bestial treatment of the peoples of Poland, Holland, and the other occupied countries cries aloud to heaven for summary vengeance.The Nazis are utterly incapable of understanding and appreciating the sentiments of other nations.They are devoid of pity and repudiate everything that is Christian and humanitarian.They have shown what a menace they are to the peace and security of the world.They will rank in history as the world's greatest scoundrels .thieves, and planners of organized murder, assassination, and devilish atrocities.The peoples of Russia, Poland and other eastern countries have seen and experienced the Germans at their worst.One cannot and should not blame them when once the Nazi armies are on the run showing them as little mercy as they did those whose great misfortune it was to become their victims and slaves.It is very difficult for the average person brought up in a democratic atmosphere to deliberately engender within himself that hate, which is essential, if the Nazis from Hitler down to the lowest Gestapo agent and camp guard are to be punished as they deserve.Nevertheless a hate of this kind against everything Nazi, not only for today, but for generations is necessary if justice is to be done to the memory of those who served, suffered and died in order to rid the world of the leaders and their followers responsible for the suffering that caused a world agony without historical precedent.The treatment that minorities have received is such that words cannot be found to describe the Nazis as they properly should be.Hitler has availed himself of everything in the way of propaganda that can serve his satanic purpose within and beyond Germany.He holds the masses in every country in contempt.He believes they should be kept down and held in economic and political subjection.Because of his early experiences, he seldom loses an opportunity, personally or through the bandits carrying out his orders, of venting his mad spleen upon those who belong to the working class.It is only as the peoples in the English-speaking lands become more conversant with the plans of the Nazis that they begin to appreciate, that no matter how great the sacrifice in order to win a decisive victory, such sacrifice must be made if freedom is to be retained and a better future assured to the coming generations.The heroism of the Russian armies and people and their magnificent solidarity should prove to the most skeptical, that the Russian nation would sooner die than become the slaves of the Hitler-Goering-Himmler-Goebbels clique of adventurers and assassins.Britain was the first to express its determination that it would die rather than suffer defeat.The bravery of its splendid young airmen in 1940 awakened the admiration of a world that was tense with anxiety and fearful, that the legions of Hitler would conquer the land that had not been invaded for « thousand years.Hitler's plan went awry after he boasted and expected that he would overrun and conquer Russia in six weeks.The German General Staff no doubt were confident that Russia was ill-prepared in men and equipment to meet the terrific onslaught planned by them.They met their match however in Stalin and those who were in command of the magnificently heroic Russian armies.In order that we may not slackep in the slightest degree in carrying on preparations for the total war that, as our own Prime Minister has pointed out, is essential to victory, — information that can be provided to show to what extent the Nazis were prepared to go in their determination for world domination should be furnished to the workers and citizens in our own and other countries that constitute the group known as the j United Nations.Hitler declared through his official mouthpiece, the arch criminal and world's greatest liar, Goebbels, that he had prepared the blueprints for a new order.It is an order conceived ' in the neurotic mind of a distraught fuehrer.It makes no allowance for those liberties and rights that constitute the basis of a democratic form of government.It is intended to create a specially privileged class, the members of which would, as masters in control of the military and naval forces of the world, : be served by hundreds of millicns of industrial slaves.The Goerings, ihe Himmlers, and the Goebbels, would become so wealthy that they would be able to build castles to please their fancy and expend huge amounts to gratify their depraved iostes.They would be associated with the German industrial barons who would not have to worry because of demands coming from their exploited workers who for the whole of their lives, would remain in the slave cKiss.They would be paid just sufficient to purchase the bare necessaries of life and continue creating still mere wealth for their unscrupulous and pitiless masters.It is upon organized labour in the United States and the British Commonwealth of Nations, that the responsibility devolves of demonstrating to the Nazi brutes, cowards, and assassins, that the free workers will leave nothing undone to smash the Nazi machine into fragments.Organized labour through its leaders has expressed its determination to give their governments the fullest co-operation by increasingly accelerating the production of the munitions of war that will make the destruction of everything Hitler and the Axis represents absolutely certain.What Hitler's new economic order in Europe means, has been very concisely and factually set out in a pamphlet that merits the widest distribution both within the United Nations and those that are now groaning under the Axis.The authors of this little pamphlet have evidently had access to first hand information.It is entitled : "The Economics of Barbarism." In order to make it known to readers of the Labor World, 1 am giving extracts from this pamphlet.These will prove beyond any doubt that Hitler is mankind's greatest enemy and that those associated with him must not be permitted to establish their new order if the world is to be saved from a fate that .t is difficult for even the imagination to conceive.In their introduction, the authors of this pamphlet speaking of this modern barbarism state : — "They rob and rape, burn and plunder, mutilate and murder." They continue : — "Goering, in conjunction with Krupp, the coal and iron baron, Himmler with Flick, the steel king, and Goebbels with Schmitz, the chemical magnate, have made longterm plans to hold mankind in sway." "Hitler and the monopolists are endeavoring to build up a New Order in Europe — the order of Nazi tyranny, the order designed to set the German monopolists at the head of world economy.They are making use of all the experience mankind has gained in every field of science.They pervert science into an instrument of planned oppression and exploitation, on a huge scale and over a long period." Further they say : — "Out of the ruins of the old world, they are already trying to build the foundations of a world where freedom and culture are unknown, and where terror and oppression flourish.It is against this "new" world that we are fighting — against this world they seek to construct out of the worst elements of the old." "This vile New Order is no ramshackle affair thrown together by ignorant jerry-builders.It is the work of masters in the masonry of evil.Nothing so good, so brave or so noble but that they try to find some malevolent alchemy to convert it to the service of their foul design, until, fashioned anew in the furnaces of corruption and infamy, it emerges ready* to fill its appointed place in this edifice of torture, degradation and suffering." What the attitude of Nazi leaders is toward the workers is contained in the statement that follows : — Manpower Policy as to Working- Mothers The following has been issued by the United States War Manpower Commission : The expansion of the war-production program, as well as the increasing requirements of our armed forces, necessitates the maximum utilization of our labor resources.In many areas the lack of adequate housing and transportation facilities compels full use of the local lab., supply.These considerations j make it necessary to employ large Inumbers of women in gainful occu-i patrons useful to the war effort.‘Steps are already being taken to j provide lor the recruitment and j '.raining of additional women.Prospective v.ar-production schedules i indicate Unit this program will have j to be considerably expanded and j intensified.In carrying out tills program for utilization of women | workers, it is important that to tre j maximum extent normal family life be preserved and maintained.To promtote that end, and to pro-Imote the effective mobilization and maximum utilization of the Nation’s ; manpower in the prosecution of the | war, the War Manpower Commission hereby declares the following basic policies: I.The first responsibility of women with young crildren, in war as in peace, is to give suitable care in their own homes to their children.I II.In order that established family life may not be unnecessarily disrupted, special efforts to secure the employment in industry of women with young children should be deferred until full use has been made of all other sources of labor supply.III.Barriers against the employment of women with young children should not be set up by employers.The decision as to gainful employment should In all cases be an individual decision made by the woman herself in the light of the particular conditions prevailing in her home.IV.Whenever it is lound that women with young children are gainfully employed in essential activities, or that the labor requirements of essential activities have not been met after the exhaustion of all other sources of labor supply, and that to meet such requirements women with young children must be recruited, it is essential that: • a) Such women be employed at such hours and on such shifts as will cause the least disruption in their family life; and (W If any such women are unable to arrange for the satisfactory care of their children at home during their working hours, adequate facilities be provided for the day-care of their children during working hours.Such facilities should be developed as community projects and not under the auspices of individual employers or employer groups.Labor Information Ilultctin "Guns for butter." Dr.Schacht enlarged upon the implications of this slogan in a speech made to the Econ- j omic Section of the German Academy on November 28, ] 1938 : "The less the people consume, the more work can ¦ be done on armament production.The standard of ' living and the scale of armament production must move in opposite directions." "Such is the policy of the economics of barbarism : j produce as much of the means of destruction as possible —-and out of this you get enormous profits for the monopolists and frightful deprivation for the mass of the people ; out of this emerges the new world order of barbarism." Speaking of the co-operation which Hitler is giving the German industrial barons, they tell us : — "One must not, of course, assume that Hitler or other leading National-Socialists decide on their own initiative upon such a policy.The policy was (and is) decided by j the most important heavy industrial monopolists who j execute it in conjunction with the leaders of the Nazi party.| Very soon after they came to power, leading National-1 Socialists became members of the directorates of the big companies, while the chief industrial capitalists became ; (Continued on Page 7) Taxi Drivers Union Signs Three More Firms Business Agent M.Mclvor of the Taxi Drivers’ Uaion, No.151, Vancouver, B.C., reports the signing up of three more taxicab companies who have agreed to the working conditions and wages called for in the union agreements which are now being enjoyed by the members employed by other union firms in the city.With the signing up of the United Taxi Cab Company, the Abbott Taxi Cab Company, and the Stanley Park Taxi Cab Company, the union now’ has twenty-one companies signed up on yearly agreements and three (largest) companies signed up for the duration.The union is purchasing another $300 in worth of Victory Bonds. ¦•I ny PALACE a-a ERROL FLYNN ALEXIS SMITH in GENTLEMAN JIM Added Feature SECRET ENEMIES ,m .-—-¦— c CAPITOL CARY GRANT GINGER ROGERS in ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON EXTRA ! 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THE NAVY COMES THROUGH starring PAT O'BRIEN Added Feature ‘The Falcon’s Brother’ LOEW’S THEATRE TYRONE POWER MAUREEN O'HARA in Rafael Sabatini’s The BLACK SWAN IN TECHNICOLOR with LAIRD CREGAR MONARCH GAS RANGES Made b]/ Canadians tor Canadian Homes Tél.LAncaster S858 Salon de Fleurs St-Denis 1590, rue SAINT-DENIS (Edifice du Théâtre St-Denit) * Spécialité» : Bouquets de Noces.Tributs floraux Usrninptu de 10% aux lecteurs du "Monde Ouvrier” Mme J.-Z.PILON.Rés.HA.7W1 ’* ‘fi LEND Prenez avis que Adèle Le Roy Fuller Hardy, de la ville de Cowansville, comté de Brôine-MissiHqnoi, province de appliquera au Parlement du Canada il sa prochaine Session pour tin hiW de divorce «!«• Errol l'rvsdace Hardy, commis, de la Cité de Montréal, district «le Montréal, province de Québec, pour adultère.Montréal, le 28 décembre 1042.G.M.ALMOND, 1—-5 Soliclteur.IT’S THE WEATHER Bill: “She was your sweetheart.” Joe: "Ye«, but she sourer! on me.” SAMEDI, 30 JANVIER 1943 — MONTREAL — SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1943 PAGE 7 [THE NEW BARBARIANS i Continued from Page 6> memoers of the state administration.Thus, the two groups became joint planners and executives of what we today understand by National-Socialists economic strategy." The present condition of the German workers is shown in the extract which follows : Although insufficiently fed, the German workers were driven to work harder and harder.The working day was lengthened for both manual and white collar workers.The sixty-hour week became the rule.Substantial groups cf workers labored for seventy-two and even eighty-four hours per week.An official "collective agreement" actually exists providing tor a 104-hour week in the power stations of Baden.” And what they planned is referred to in the statement made : — "Ruthlessly, without regard for the lives and wellbeing of the people, the National-Socialists and the monopolists prepared the way for war, for the deaths of millions of Germans and millions of people of other nationalities.For more -than six years the German people had to tighten their belts, were compelled by terrorism to produce guns instead of butter.For over six years the dread of bankruptcy over-shadewed the daily existence of hundreds of thousands of independent craftsmen and small retailers, and many failed as a result.For more than six years German children and their elders had to endure growing privation in order that the rulers of Germany — Hitler.Krupp and their like — might eventually wage war upon the world." The authors in the chapter, entitled : "The Réintroduction of Slavery,” declare : — One of the gravest and most momentous features of the New Economic Order which the German monopolists and National-Socialists are imposing upon Europe is the réintroduction of slavery.Even before the war, numerous restrictions on the freedom of bargaining and on the movements of the workers were introduced in Germany itself.In many industries the worker was not allowed to leave his job.He was practically indentured to his employer.Also, he was not allowed to form any kind of association which was not sanctioned by the National-Socialist Party.He was often not allowed to choose his occupation, but was compelled to perform certain kinds of work." Throughout the Continent, the workers have lost those liberties which they had gained through centuries of struggle and endeavor.Over 50,000,000 workers, with their families, have been forced into this first stage of slavery." Our own workers can therefore appreciate what would be in store for them if, unfortunately, the Nazis were to win.One of the most enlightening passages in this excellent little pamphlet is that in which the rules are set out for the workers who are German to follow.Guiding rules" have been prepared to govern the treatment to be accorded to imported labor : "The German worker is our brother; the foreigner is our racial enemy.The barrier between our workers and the foreign workers must always be clearly recognizable.The German worker is not the colleague of the foreign worker."The specialized and easy jobs are to be given to the Germans, even in case a foreign worker is, by chance, j the better qualified of the two."Foreign workers must never supervise German workers."It is forbidden to speak to foreign workers except on matters connected with the work."Any German who associates with a racial enemy will be publicly warned and shamed."It is not permitted to invite racial enemies into your house and to sit with them at the same table.'' The whole basis of these rules can thus be seen to be the degradation of all workers who do not come within the privileged class.Speaking of the ''condition of the people," the authors \ from whom we have quoted say : — "Whatever the National-Socialists and monopolists do ! — whether they build up or destroy an industry — they act ! against the interests of the people.If they build up heavy industry, it is not to construct more houses, automobiles, { railways, or to make refrigerators and household utensils, for the people.It is to manufacture more weapons tor use j in yet more wars.If they intensity and extend agricultural : production, it is not to raise the standards of the people, ! to grow more food for them, but to become less dependent ! upon imports from "enemies in future wars." If they curtail production of some goods, it is not because there are already sufficient articles of this kind available, but in order to produce more armaments in their place." m "The National-Socialists and the monopolists wish tc conquer the world and to exploit all peoples.They desire to become much richer and more powerful than they already are.This lust for power and wealth necessitates the oppression of the people, material as well as spiritual." They suggest that : — "The decisive truth to be grasped on The American LA BIJOUTERIE PAUL ROLLAND s'f '-: (M Comptes courants ou par versements pur >• usaiif.IV;- r .! 11.• •• r-t sur 1.* soltl.'y^J 381 Mont-Royal E.MA.6892 / / ^ continent is that no isolation from event in Europe is possible.The economics of barbarism, which the German fascists and monopolists are now instituting in Europe, are ci a higly epidemic character, and lead everywhere to paralysis.No country can remain immune to their effects.Like epidemics, also they spread farther and faster than their symptoms at first indicate.While many believe that they are still out of range and immunized, the germs have already started to destroy them.It is not only of the greatest importance that the people of the Americas realize what the economics of barbarism will mean in the future ; they must also realize that they are already being poisoned, that the economics of barbarism are already reaching across the Atlantic and are affecting the life of the American peoples.The only way in which they can quickly save themselves is to give the greatest possible help to those peoples who are teday actively engaged in war against German fascism curd monopoly capital.The defeat of Hitlerite Germany will bring in its wake the defeat of Japan, Italy and the Axis satellites." In their concluding chapter, they state : — "German fascism and monopoly capital have conquered almost the whole of Europe.They have subjugated hundreds of millions of people.They are building up an economic system designed to enslave and exploit the people for ever." "There is a gigantic struggle going on between the fascists and the peoples of Europe.Tens of millions are fighting on the one side, while on the other there are only the few who benefit from the regime.But those tew have at their disposal the weapons of terror and the machinery of oppression .Europe's millions can cripple the barbaric efforts of the National-Socialists and monopolists.They can hinder and unsettle their calculations and plans."Nevertheless, they are not strong enough by themselves to overthrow this hated system.They need outside help.The people of the Soviet Union are fighting with all their might.But all the peoples must join in this fight and give their best.The quicker this foe of mankind is overthrown the better for us all.Any hesitation new means tens of thousands of deaths tomorrow and untold suffering for those who live.Let us all fight together against those who are our common fee, the toe of the German people and the conquered peoples of Europe, the foe of the Soviet peoples, the foe of all mankind." These quotations should prove that the workers of the world must unite and fight if they wish to escape being shackled with the chains that the Nazis have fastened upon the workers and peoples in their own country and those of the occupied lands.The liberty-loving workers in all countries must stand together and show a united front and an unbreakable solidarity against the armies and monopolists who are leagued together to rob the free nations of their liberties and territories and introduce an order which Mr.Hitler predicted would last c.thousand years but which we have now good reason to believe because of the great sacrifices being made, is a figment of his diseased imagination.'Qs&àS&êi • - ; - • j < • v • 1 jTIm mmm DA'S OF I NEST PAGE 8 SAMEDI, 30 JANVIER 1943 MONTREAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1943 * RUMOR CLINIC * Service Officer in charge of call up: Absolutely wrong.Men are being called on an equal basis, irrespective of creed or religion.If any particular case were submitted we could investigate and deal with it.'' ItlJMOR: 'Soldiers returning from overseas have to pay, if not for the full trip, half of it." FACT: Transport Branch, Department of Defence: "Soldiers brought back to Canada do not have to pay.It might be true of a few given compassionate leave, at their own expense, to return to settle urgent private matters, or similar reasons.” prepared by the Canadian Column FACT: Selective • i Hitler’s little helpers.— rumors, tongue-wagging and tall tales, continue to make their malicious rounds, unfettered by winter's sleet and snow.Well, we are going to put the skids on this season’s crop.It is “they” for the most part, not enemy agents who do Hitler the very fancy favor of puncturing our national morale.So let's put forth our united forces to protect the home front from this pestilence.The R.C-M.P.and other law enforcement agencies are hiking care of the Fifth Columnists.You can depend on the good job they are doing to protect our national safety.But it is the object of the Canadian Column of the Rumor Clinic, which appears reguarly each Saturday night on tins page, and in thirty six Canadians papers, to give you facts versus rumors devastating to our national defence program.Rumors can be no more effective in Canada than Canadians permit them to be.Just remember that the grapevine of gossip is a Hitler plamied scheme to split unity amongst the Allied Nations.Be on the alert not to spread a rumor by repeating it.Here are a few of Hitler's little helpers to muddle our minds, and truths versus lies: RUMOR: "The blackout on the Gaspé coast is put on so the English refugees can be landed at night so they will not be seen and the boats are being filled up with Canadian soldiers to replace the Englishmen".FACT: Our authority, Mr.F.C.Blair, Director of Immigration, Ottawa, states: "In the year and eight months period, from the first of January 1941, to tlie 31st of August 1942, the total of British male subjects who came to Canada was 1217.Of these, 161 came from the British Isles, 762 from Newfoundland and 294 from other countries.Of the 161 from the British Isles, we had this broken down into age groups with the following result: 18 to 29 years, inclusive.28 30 to 40 years.’’ 58 over 40 75 "Of the 18 to 29 group, eight are with the Royal Canadian Navy, three with the Canadian Army, one with the Royal Air Force, one is a medical student, four are employed as clergymen, and the remaining eleven are employed in various branches of war production.No person, male or female, between the ages of 16 and 60, may leave the British Isles without securing a permit from the authorities in London.It is obvious that these permits are not being issued to those who are running away from duty.” • • • Kilpatrick, D.D., Principal, United Theological College.DONT REPEAT RUMORS — REPORT THEM Write to the: Canadian Column, Transportation Building, Montreal.i All letters must be signed.Unsigned letters are disregarded.) The CANADIAN COLUMN is a non political, non profit organiation, with only one aim and purpose: to do anything within the power of its members to help Canada.Here's a rumor which we define as a "morale-breaker”, if allowed to go unchallenged on the home front.We are happy to expose it as unfounded and give you the fact.RUMOR: "There is a persistent rumor among the men serving overseas in the armed forces that Canadian officers overseas will be required to pay income tax, not only-in the coming years, but also for 1942." FACT: Hon.Colin W.Gibson, Minister of National Revenue: "I have never heard of it.There has been no suggestion of any such action.” • • • A rumor such as below was repeated to a Jewish mother who has two sons serving over seas, one of whom has been "missing" for many months.RUMOR: "It is unjust that young men of Jewish faith are not being called up under the Mobilization Act, and are being accepted in the army-only as volunteers, while all others are subject to call." RUMOR: "There will be no use in sowing any grain next spring." FACT: Hon J.G.Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture: "We hope farmers will sow as much grain as possible.We would like to see the wheat acreage reduced by 4,000.000 acres, but to have coarse grains on those 4,000,000 acres." • • • Here’s a funny one.but also subtle suggestion of disloyalty to government wartime regulations.RUMOR: "That the C.P.R.is deliberately loading trains into the Laurentians with skiers in order that tlie ordinary passenger traffic will be unagle to secure accommodation and thereby cause so much discontent and so many complaints that the Government will be forced to change its policy regarding ski-trains." ’ACT: Canadian Pacific Rail- way : There is not a vestige of truth in this statement.The operation of ski trains this winter having been banned by order of the Transport Controller, regular trains of the Canadian Pacific Railway in service to and from the Laurentians are open equally to all classes of passengers without any distinction or discrimination.No accommodation is reserved.Trains are loaded on the principle of "First come first served" until capacity of the equipment is reached.” • • • GET THE FACTS Arm yourself with the facts regarding Canada’s War effort.They are far more interesting and inspiring than Hitler's lies and provide the best weapon to fight rumor mongers.FACT: Canada has the largest aluminum plant in the world which has been expanded seven times.This plant has a greater capacity than the entire world production in 1939.Canada now produces almost 40% of the aluminum requirements of the United Nations.For 1943 Canadian output of refined aluminum, nickel, copper, lead and zinc, is estimated at 1,300,000 tons, an increase of 77% over 1939.About 30% of this production will be sufficient for all Canadian rubber requirements.Three of a Kind Fred Hazell, sr., of the Gazette News Chapel, has every reason to be proud of his family.The recent enlistment of Sydney Hazell in the Royal Canadian Navy, sees all three of his sons on active service.Cpl.Fred Hazell, jr., is now an instructor at Dundum Camp, Sask., was the first member of the Gazette Chapel to go active, and Douglas Hazell, the youngest, is a leading seaman in the R.C.N.t ' / >> iresh ment anytime.anyn ROL.LEMIEUX EPICIER - BOUCHER L’AMI DES TRAVAILLEURS WI.6646 517 ATWATER AVE (près N.-Dame) m Editorial Board: The Rumor Clinic is supervised by an Editorial Board consisting of: Dr.P.Cyril James, principal and Vice Chancellor, McGill University; Paul Vail-lancourt, Honorary Secretary for the Red Cross, Province of Quebec; Mr.Justice C.Gordon Mackinnon; Paul Fournier.President, Montreal Trades and Labour Council; Lieut.Col.W.C.Nicholson, D.S.O., M.C., Vice-President, Canadian Legion; Alfred Charpentier, General President, Confédération des Travailleurs Catholiques du Canada; Honourable Wilfrid Bovey, Member Legislative Council; Rev.G.G.D.FROM 1939 to 1942, our wage bill Increased from $4,51 1,433 to $9,379,203, due to additional employment given by the war.But also because the average hourly earnings of plant employees, inclusive of cost-of-living bonuse*,- *»»• 33,2 pef cent higher than in 1939.1939 1942 In THE same period, our income taxes rose from $244,514 to $8,000,000.The tax load is now 32 times what it was in 1939; 1939 1942 DIVIDENDS paid to the 3,188 shareholders who own the company, remain at the same level as in 1939 — $1,485,842.DIVIDENDS ü> 1939 1942 j / e