CANADA BACKS HER BRAVE BOYS!
Fifteen thousand dollars worth of comforts were 
sent to the boys in Spain for Christmas. Shoes, socks, 
cigarettes, tobacco, chocolate. Every volunteer received 
an Xmas package.
This fine shipment was made possible by the warm 
support given to the campaign of the Friends of the 
Mackenzie Papineau Battalion by Canadians from 
coast to coast. The National Committee thanks all 
who answered its appeal so splendidly.
The B.C. Committee sent in over $1,300 in cash 
and $800 in goods. More than $3,000 as well as goods 
came from the cultural organizations, outstanding 
among which was the $1,500 for boots from the Ukrain-
ian progressive organizations. Halifax, Winnipeg, 
Toronto, Montreal, Regina, Windsor, Hamilton — all 
cities big and small, various groups of people from all 
walks of life, responded splendidly. The National Com-
mittee of the Young Communist League donated 100,000 
cigarettes. The Jones Boys Club, a small Toronto group 
gave over $200., the trade union locals furnished more 
then $1.000., with the B.C. loggers topping the list with 
$400 and outstanding donations came from restaurant 
locals, miners, B.C. Electric Railway employees, the 
pulp and paper industry, etc. Women knitted 800 pairs 
of socks including three pairs by an old woman of 72 
years from Shere, B.C. Old George Rudak of Manitoba 
himself collected $270, ten year old Shirley Silverman 
saved her pennies for cigarettes. Such were just a few 
of a thousand incidents, proving the love and devotion 
of the Canadian people for our boys defending demo-
cracy in Spain.
Said the young American Capt. Bob 
Thompson, who commanded the MacPaps 
for a while:
"I can only say that I consider it a 
privilege to have had the honor of com-
manding during its first action, such a 
battalion (MacPap), and to have had, as 
my comrades in arms these splendid stan-
dard bearers of Canadian democracy.
I am confident that the Canadian 
people will insure that their boys and this 
battalion receive a continuously swelling 
stream of support.”