The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 24, 1919, Page 20

Canadian People Oppose New War Organized Farmers and Workers Throughout Dominion Demand That Soldiers Be Brought Out of Russia (By Gordon Grey in the Nation, New York) Marvel has followed marvel since Alexander Graham Bell in- vented his first simple telephone, the forerunner of the millions in use today. In these last four decades thou- sands of Bell engineers have de- veloped a system of telephonic communication, so highly per- fected that the same crude in- strument which at the beginning one room to another can now actually be heard across the con- tinent. This is because of the many inventions and discoveries which have been applied to inter- vening switchboard, circuits and other transmitting mechanism. The vision of the engineers has foreseen requirements for in- creased communication, and step by step. the structure of the art has been advanced—each ad- One Policy could hardly carry speech from_ Mfiltiplexihg the Telephone _vance utilizing all previous ac- complishments. 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The labor unions in Canada express- ing their opposition- to Canada’s en- trance into the struggle against the Bolsheviki are -affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Cana- da’s four largest central labor coun- cils, central labor bodies in other cities, numerous local unions, the only provincial federation of labor to meet during the last two months, and several district conventions of craft unions, all of them affiliated with "the American Federation of Labor, are among the protestants. Vancouver Trades and Labor coun- cil, the largest central labor body on Canadas Pacific slope, was the first central Iabor council to pass these resolutions. Winnipeg Trades and Labor council, the central labor coun- cil of the most populous and best or- ganized city of the prairie provinces; and the Montreal and Toronto central bodies, the two most important trades and labor councils in eastern Canada, adopted similar resolutions. Western Canada lodges of the International As- sociation of Machinists, at a conven- tion in Winnipeg, passed resolutions “demanding that the allied troops in Russia be withdrawn.” Division No. 4 of the Railway Employes of Canada, long considered one of the most.con- servative labor organizations, held a convention in Winnipeg and adopted resolutions calling for the “withdrawal of all allied troops from Russia so that that country may work out its own political freedom without capitalistic intervention.” The Albérta Federation of Labor, meeting in Medicine Hat, indorsed the Vancouver resolutions, only one dissenting vote being record- ed. In Victoria, B. C., 700 conscripted Canadian soldiers, in their uniforms, attended a massmeeting held under the auspices of the Federated Labor .party. They applauded J. H. Haw- ° thornthwaite, the ~uncompromising Labor party member of the British Columbia legislature. * * * CABLE SENT TO BRITISH LABOR The British Columbla Federation of Labor and the Vancouver Trades and Labor council executives held a joint meeting and cabled a:copy of the fol- lowing resolution to Arthur Hender- son, until recently chairman of the British. Labor party: “Labor in this province is opposed to the intervention - of the allies in Russia., Considers working class in any country should be left unhampered in its efforts to establish industrial democracy. We are opposed to any form of compul- sory military service. Desire our posi- tion be understood by delegates to In- ternational Labor conference. Reply.” The British Columbia labor movement also demanded that Canada’s three delegates to the International Social- ist-Labor congress back up Canadian labor’s protest against intervention in Russia. .of Canadian troops in Siberia. ment, the tillers of the soil naturally had other reasons for the withdrawal of Canada’s soldiers from Russian soil. They never forgave the Borden gov- ernment for passing a conscription law following the general elections in December, 1917. Of course, some of them objected to a struggle with Rus- sian peasants, but their desire to see their own sons back on the farms had something to do with their protest. They made their wishes known through the county council. FARMERS ARE OF THE SAME MIND, When Wentworth county council protested against Canadian interfer- ence in Russia it was, in reality, a farmers’ protest. The representatives of this prosperous Ontario county passed these resolutions and instruct- ed the clerk to send a copy to Sir Thomas White, acting premier of Canada while Sir Robert Borden is at the peace conference: “That this council wishes to express its disap- proval of any further drafts of Cana- dian soldiers being sent to Russia and also states that in its opinion the drafts already sent should be imme- diately recalled, believing as it does that it is a very unwise policy now that the war is won that (Canada should interfere in the internal affan‘s of any other country.” That these county councillors re- flected the opinion held by Ontario’s farmers is evident if one can believe Peter McArthur, well known as a writer on farm ‘topics, who declared that farmers wanted Canada to keep out of the Russian trouble. In his weekly article in the farm section of the Toronto Globe, a newspaper which supports the Borden government, Mr. McArthur said: “A matter that is in need of light at the present time is the Canadian expedition to Siberia. Boys from this district volunteered for that work, and now people are beginning to wonder ‘what it is all about and why we should go on with it. There is no longer any plan to attack Germany on the eastern front. As a matter of fact, the expedition to Siberia can have no possible connection with the war with Germany, since it is now over—or in such condition that it can not be resumed. The expedition must now be concerned only with the work of restoring law and order in that vast welter of humanity called Rus- sia. Surely Canada has not become so great a world power that she must undertake to police other nations— ‘the lesser breeds without the law.’” The Globe itself questioned the wis- dom of Canada’s entrance into Rus- sian affairs and one of several edi- torials on Russia that appeared in this influential daily newspaper declared: “The Canadian people are entitled at least to an explanation of the objects which are said to require the presence The ° dispatches from there report a series of squabbles between classes of Rus- sians whom the allies are supposed to be backing against the Bolsheviki in the name of order and stable adminis- tration. * * * Are these factions worth fighting for? Are the allies under any obligation to prevent them from flying at each other’s throats?” The Globe had the support of other daily newspapers quite as emphatic in their opposition to the Bolsheviki and no less faithful in their swpport of the Borden Unionist party. Two of these newspapers are printed in Hamilton, the city which S. C. Mewburn, Cana- da’s minister of militia and com- mander-in-chief of her military forces, represents in parliament.” Although both of them supported Gereral Mew- While labor organlzatlons, economic as well as political, might be expected 8t. Paul, Minn, | to uphold bolshevismAas a sister move- PA f. TWENTY le permonth mon. OonlumerléordngaCo..Mlnneaponl.nflnn. ued Al bug treated. .:,.h:?‘&’.t‘“’s‘:' i piee 1o Yol e NOEAY & COr 7 7 E. Third S, BINDER : TWINE lIPAYHIg%ESTMA,&