Abstract

The Week

This article presents political developments. The news from the Soviet Union and particularly from Siberia, is of the most contradictory character, and the press dispatches suggest the same combination of rigid censorship and propaganda which from the beginning has impaired the value of European war news. Enough leaks through, however, to indicate that the Allied military operations are not going very well, and that the whole affair may possibly turn out to be another Gallipoli. The National Executive Committee of the Socialist party has put out a resolution on the Soviet Union, commending the Soviet Government for its ideals of economic freedom, and calling attention to the historical parallel of the French people, a century and a quarter ago, who found all nations turned against them because of their ideals of political freedom. While the War Labor Policies Board has been keeping down strikes in this country by the comparatively simple device of recognizing the unions and granting the demands for higher wages and easier working conditions, Canada has been torn during the past few weeks by serious and widespread labor disturbances.