tbruary. $, 1935 orkers’ = B.€. WORKERS’ NEWS orresponden < Page Three ce . ee Co Jnemployed | Demonstrate fc Determined To Get Some Action or “B.C. Workers’ News.’ }he workers of Cumberland are 3:d with the situation of where we our children throughout this dis- t suffering from starvation. (fe are beginning to see that the ir way to better these conditions ¥ organizing and showing a little Bis action. 2nd and demonstrated up to Government Agent™ and had a Sat turnout. It was one of the {zest demonstrations we have had. )7hen we interviewed the Govern- Hit Agent it was the same old story hoassinge the buck. But we don’t Bnd to let them put us off any We are going to demon- H.te on Saturday again. a Cumberland we haye single girls mty-one years old only receiving B=ndents’ relief. Single sirls re- Brine $6.60 per month. Single men 4 destitute, living mext door to h other, receive Warious scales. me get $9.60, some $10.60, and @ie $11.40. These are single men @> are batching. The unemployed | working with no underwear, and Se with the shoes falling off their fen are forced to ride to work in open truck, eleven or twelve miles ay. itis either work or no cheque. Comradely yours, Chairman, Cumberland Unemployed Council. “B. Patients Refused Aid r. Lapp Declares Camp *“Unfit to Live In’’ ZAMELOQOPS, B:C., Jan. 238—Hos- al Camp 300, at Kamloops, was merly a soup kitchen which has sn remodelled for use as a hospital np. Some three months ago, the ealling conditions at Hospital “mp 202 at Deroche, GB-C. were aight to public notice by the Par -Teacher Federation. The Feder- on notified the provincial authori- s of their findings at that camp, d demanded better housing and satment without delay. Shortly af- +, the Federation were told that ae patients were moved to a T.B. spital and given the best medical tention and care by the staff from = Tranquille Sanitorium.’ When s, the patients, arrived at Kamloops = found the place hardly better an the camp we had come from. € were informed that the camp juld be taken over by the Tran- lille Samatorium soon, as things got operly arranged. Three months twe passed and nothing has been me to fulfill the promises made. te find ourselves existing in sub- ro weather-fightinge against terri- > odds. Dr. Lapp who is medical rector of the Tranguille Sanatorium fused to take over the camp and sndemmned it as “unfit to live in.” Following is a true statement of snoditions now prevailing in this ump: 1. The bunk houses are filthy, overcrowded, and cold. | 2. While the food is fair in qual- ity, the dining room is as cold as an ice plant. The food allowance is so meagre that it allows for no variety: in diet, whatsoever. 3. The patients suffering from all manner of diseases are put to- pephee indiscriminately. Total lack of all necessities such as bed stands, drinking glasses, etc. One bed change every two weeks which consists of one sheet, pillow case and pyjamas. No disinfectant. All up patients have to wash their own clothes, floors, etc. 4. Many of the men are sick enough to need continnous trained eare, but get none. 5. The medical attention is en- tirely inadequate. The orderlies Know nothing whatever about the eare of the sick. There is no doc- tor in regular attendance. The facts set forth above are rouched for by the writer and ail Indersigned patients. We put these acts before the publie in the hope hat it will join us in an endeavor o abolish these camps and their in- luman practices. ay Siened by 28 men of Hospital Camp 300, Kamloops, B.C. W.H. Malkin Co. Has Spies And Speed-up Malkin Shell Is But Slave Memorial Editor, “B.C. Workers’ News.” Just a few highlights on ene of Vancouver's greatest exploiters of labor,—the W. H. Malkin Co. At the time W. H. Malkin donated the music shell he fire@-two of his Slaves, so that it means it is not a Malkin memorial at all, but a ‘Jack Prescott and Lenard May memorial,”’ as the wages they should have re- ceived but didn’t, paid for it. Just lately he has shown what kind of a man he is by taking one week's holidays from his workhouse employees who formerly had two Weeks. But that may not include his boss or a few “yes men.” Another way he has of helping his employees is: they are all paid by the month, yet if they are off sick a day, or a holiday such as Xmas, Boxing and New Year's Day, they are “‘docked.” The speed-up system is also in full swing. The straw boss goes about “half nuts’? sometimes. if he gets a bawling out from the gods that be, he passes it on to the warehouse slaves, cursing and swear- ing, and with hands waving over his head like a madman. There are few contented men in the warehouse. W. H. himself gave Some of the men their Xmas boxes personaly by stickine out a very limp hand and wishing them a “Mer- ry Mmas."" Wasn't that big-hearted ot him? His brother Phil Maikin is another bis-hearted capitalist. Why, he once eave away absolutely free some sour marmalade to the Pogey in Chinatown. We often wonder if his conscience bothers him when he looks at hiS poor slaves in his ware- Straw house with their tired looks, flat feet and round shoulders. Wake up, Malkin slaves. Organize and set a square deal. I nearly for- got to say that the leaders in the last war could learn and improve on their spy system by using the Malkin Code. ; A Worker. Sports Front Boycott Boss Olympics GERMANY. Herr Fritz Scion, Cologne family, formerly a member of the “Daily Mirror’’ sports staff, is now a big shot in Germany since Hitler ascended to power. Fritz is now the boxing promoter and di- rector of the “Berlin Sportpalats” and is also holding a leading govern- ment post. He is at present angling for a fight between Max Baer and Schmelling- : of a leading OLYMPIC GAMES. Construction is under way on the Olympic Studiam which being built eight miles out of Berlin. Its seating capacity is 150,000. This is the stadium which will be used for the boss Olympics in the summer of 1936. Just as capitalism is interna- tional so is their sports. The games are being held in a country where chauvinism is practiced to the ut- most. For example: The Jewish peo- ple who, before Hitler’s advent to power, were the leading sportsmen, are now barred from active partici- pation in this field, as in all others. The Olympic gSames are being held in a country. which is in the fore- front of the anti-Soviet campaign and as the U.5.S.R. not being asked to participate in the Olympics, it seems as though the chief reason is the Nazi Ieaders and their fol- lowers could not bear to see the “Red flag’ flying and hear the In- ternationale being played every time the Soviet Union placed first in an event. It is the custom in the Olym- pic fames that whichever country’s sportsmen place first in an event the flag of their representative country is hoisted and its national anthem is is is is played. Rally under the banner of the Workers’ Sports Association in this Campaign of “Boycott the Boss Olympics,” by supporting us in the campaign of sending a dele- esate to the U.S.S.R. this summer. W.S.A Office: Room 210 Empire Bid=s 603 Hastings St. W., Vancou- ver, BC. NOTICE The Workers Centre, 200 First Street B., North Vancouver, B.C. Sunday, February 10, 8 p.m-: Ad- dress by R. Lealess on ““Lhe Work- ers’ Social Insurance.” Questions and discussion. All welcome. S. Hill Sewer Job Revolt Relief Workers Ready To Act VANCOUVER, Feb. 1—The spon- taneous strike that took place on the South slope sewer job recently by relief workers working for a mere pittamce over and above their relief, .shows the ever willingness of the workers to struggle and also the dangers of spontaneouity that is likely to take place if the proper leadership is not there to guide and direct these struggles. On investigating. the results of the Strike we find that a white collar worker not accustomed to sewer work. and unable to keep up the pace set down by the foreman, was fired without notice, when the work- ers knocked off for lunch at 11:30. The news of this high-handed ac- tion on the part of the foreman spread like lightning throughout the ranks of the workers. Immediately there was a buzz of voices; someone suggested a petition. Paper and pen- cil was cecured and the petition was on its way. Asain someone gested a delegation be sent to the “shack”? to demand that this man be reinstated. That was more like it. The petition was forgotten and the delesation was hastily picked and sent to the ‘‘shack’’ to find out why the man was fired. At this point the foreman bellowed out his “All to work”’ signal and only a few weaklings responded. Out of about two hundred men, only ten moved off towards the ditch. The foreman was quite astonished at the men not acting like a bunch of sheep, and turning on his heel made for the shack and was later seen catch- ing a streetcar for town. The delegation reported that no one here knew why the worker was fired and suggested that they go to the main relief office to get the rea- son. i The forman returned and told everybody to go up to the shack. He told the workers how lazy the fired worker had been, how utterly useless he was, and of his conifer- ence at the main relief office. He said no one would be blacklisted or eut off relief for quitting or being fired, and only the amount of money coming to a worker would be de- ducted from his relief allowance. There is still some talk of or- ganization on the job and it was the opinion of the worker I interviewed that the men on the sewer job would be the easiest to organize in the whole of Vancouver at the present time. sug- Editor's Note.—W hat is the matter with the Workers Unity League taking a hand? Come on you or- fanizers—jump to it! A Workers’ Press Thou art the melting-pot Into which we pour The fiery liquid Of our grievances And seething passions Long smouldering ‘neath injustice. Within the melting-pot A churning process goes on And soon—Behold! = There flows from it The liquid, smooth and cool Of reason Which hath gathered The seattered drops of hate And passion Into a flood of Jogic Which at first indicts, Then menaces, — Then in a vast torrent Drowns out forever Ajl injustice. S. Zlotvick. A.C.CL. MEMBERS DEMAND CHANGE "LABOR TRUTH” Splitting Policy Firmly Denounced - At the last meeting of the Van- eouver Labor Council there was a lively discussion on the organiza- tional metheds pursued by the Na- tional Gabor Council in their offi- cial paper, viz., “The Labor Truth.” Several delegates drew to the atten- tion cf the meeting the antipathy Solidarity Sointula Shown the Way The Communist Party of Canada (Sointula Section) have donated $14 towards the expenses of the Unem- ployed Delegates who haye gone to Ottawa to represent the Provincial Workers’ Council at the Congress of the Unemployed, when they present the “Workers' Bill for Non-contribu- tory Unemployment Insurance’? to the Bennett Government. This is real solidarity and a real expression of unity in the fight for the relief of the sufferings of the Unemployed Workers of British Co- Jumbia. The Provincial Workers’ Council asks the “News'’ to convey through the medium of its columns its appreciation of the stand taken by the workers and farmers of Soin- tula. FARMERS’ PLIGHT GIBSON LANDING “Work and Wages’’ on a Lead Raft GIBSONS LANDING, Feb. 1.—We workers of Gibsons Landing have read the first two issues of the “B.C. Workers News" wish to congratulate all those comrades who have made the publication of such a splendid working class paper pos- sible. Gibsons Landing is one of those beautiful summer resorts to which men of wealth and moderate means come for a few weeks in the summer time. However, it has its unpleasant aspects for relief workers, and poor farmers. Many of them have spent a lifetime in mule work on their farms, to find now that they are required through force of circum- Stances to sign up for the monthly stretch on the “chain gang.” The government relief officials classify these men as being partly self-sup- porting so the Bloody Axe of cap- italism swings for and wide and chops a good liberal slice off the recular allowance... The farmer left thus to clothe and feed himself and family on such a meagre pit- tance that the result has been very indeed. While the recent cold spell was on, we found poor farmers’ children trudging off to schoo] over snow-covered roads, under-nourished. The footwear on some of these chil- dren could be pointed to as a decided witness against the eruel one-sided which are com- who only is cruel system under we pelled to exist. The tools with which we work on stump ranches and fruit farms were for the most part bought when times were better. Now they worn out and obsolete.