‘Seared in the ‘Daily Province’? to
~™an it would appear that the long-

“4he truth. More than 60 per cent of

- themselves at the telephone day and

‘figure.

Militant Leaders Have

Theap” through the speed-up.
ing the past few months the water-
’ “front has faced what is known as
a

rt

to re-organize the waterfront,
Shipping Federation made the state-
ment that the high earning gangs
would oppose any move to equalize
earnings. Today the high earning
Zanes are still carrying the burden
of the fight to distribute the work
among their fellow-members,
‘Because the high earning gangs
realize more than anyone else that

they will soon be on the

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ee WE OUR AGE RES) SNE Wes

MARPOLE AIDS
WORKERS’ BILL

-Condemn Bennett's In-
surance Bill

Editor, “B. © Workers’ News":

Comrade: At the regular meeting
of the Marpole Unemployed Work-
ers’ Association, the following reso-
lution was passed unanimously:

“WHEREAS, any form of con-
tributory unemployment imsurance
does not benefit the yast number of
workers who, through no fault of
their own, are already out of work;
and

“WHEREAS, the unemployment
insurance as proposed by your gov-
ernment is of no benefit to the work-
ers and will only increase the al-
ready intolerable load of taxation;

“THEREFORE, be it resolved,
that this organization, the Marpole
Unemployed Workers’ Association,

unanimously condemns the unem-
ployment insurance as proposed by
the Gennett Government and con-
siders that their needs can only be
met by a genuine system of non-
contributory unemployment and so-
Cial insurance at the expense of big
finance and the government military
and war debt expenditures of big
capital.”
“This organization is *~ associated
with the C.C.F. Council on unem-
ployment and it is proposed to bring
the matter of the resolution into
the conference for discussion. The
members of this Association were
unanimous in their condemnation of
the Bennett scheme of unemployy-
ment insurance. It was pointed out
“py one speaker that this form of
insurance would be of no benefit to
those who are already out of work,
and a wage cut for those who are
working. :
UNEMPLOYED WORKER.

Longshoremen

| Take Steps

~ ToProtect
~. Gams

Will Refuse to Work
With Non-Union
Men
On Feb. 2nd a statement ap-
the effect that longshoremen are
‘earning $247 a month. To the lay-

Shoring industry is a profitable in-
‘stitution. Nothing is further from

the longshoremen are earning less
than $100 a month. To make that
much the longshoremen haye to be
at the hall at 7 in the morning to
5 at night. If not they must park

night. Take his working time( in-
‘cluding overtime) and the time he
hangs around the hall for the con-
venience of the Shipping Federation
and it figures out at an average of
$97.20 a month. It is true that a
few have earned this figure for one
or two months at a stretch, No
Tongshoreman can possibly work a
Ship month in and month out and
earn this figure or over for any
Jength of time. In less than two
years he would “crack up’’ under
the lone hours of hard work that
must be undertaken to earn this

Rank & File Support

When the progressives started out
the

why?

“serap
Dur-

“Deak load.” This has created

SEAFARERS HOLD
FIRST ANNUAL
CONVENTION

Obstacles to Unity Are
Rapidly Being Met

By PAT DRISCOLL.
VANCOUVER, Feb: 12.—B. ©
Seamen organized in the Seafarers’
Tndusirial Union held their annual
convention at Vancouver on Feb.
3rd. The convention marked a big
step forward in the work or organ-
izing the seamen on the Pacific
Coast. The move made some time
azo with the aid of the longshore-
men to amalgamate the three exist-
ine seamen’s unions on the coast
las proved a valuable asset to Sea-
farers. In spite of the sabotage of
Pat O'Donovan of the C.A.A.S. the
seamen have moved forward. The
union tackling the grievances
aboard ship, and this is what will
win the seamen for the union. The
chief task before the union is the
building of ships committees.

is

The union will grow if it con-
tinues to fight for the every day
needs of the seamen, It has the
backing of the militant longshore-
men, in all the unions of water-
front workers, as well as the unions
affiliated to the Workers’ Unity
League. The convention prepared
to push ahead in the coming: sea-
son, strengthen its organizational
connections and broaden its base.
It adopted for its official organ
“Ship and Dock,’’ the militant sheet
of the Longshoremen and Water
Transport Workers’ Association,
with which the union is affiliated.
The convention passed several
resolutions, one of which was for
the enactment of the “‘Workers’ Bill
for Unemployment Insurance at the
Expense of the Employers and the
State.”

The next conyention will be held
in the Port of Vancouver on Feb.
ist, 1936.

NOT HIGH SOUNDS —
POINTED MEANING

BOUNDARY MTT LGE PICKET
LINE, Feb. 12—Relief camp work-
ers who have been blacklisted and
cut off’ relief are actively assisting
the Shingle Weavers in their strikc
at Boundary Mall. The spint of
solidarity shown by the camp work-
ers is an example for the workers
of Vancouver to follow. These york-
ers cannot be cowed into submission
by the black-list. They wall fight Ate
At the present time, due mainly
{to the efforts and militancy of the
pickets as a whole, all transporta-
tion of shingles and the manufacture
ef same has been stopped.

Relief Camp workers will continue
militant and physical support to the
bitter end; realizing the great need
for solidarity of employed and un-
employed. -

CAMP WORKER ON PICKETnu
- GAMP WORKER ON PICKET

LINE.

Shipping Federation and the union
has waged a bitter fight for this
surplus work. The Wederation has
continuously
and this surplus work as a threat
against the organizational upsurge
of the membership upstairs.
cently the Federation reserved the
basement

membership
sinister moyes of the Federation, and
job delegates called a meeting on
Wednesday, the 6th of this month,
to deal with this important ques-
tion.
tion to the mass meeting held Sun-
day,
atre.
meeting and
the union membership
work with any
out by the Shipping Federation, who]
are not recognized by the member-
ship.

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longshoremen
control of the work on the water-
front.
is allowed to break down the wages
and conditions which it has taken
immense struggle to build up,
the conditions of the whole working
elass will be worsened.

used the ‘‘basement”’

Re-

The
the

unto themselves.
quickly realized

The delegates sent a resolu-

Feb. 10th, at the Royal The-
It was endorsed by the mass
is to the effect that
refuse to
non-card men sent

The zero hour was set for
a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12th.

Every worker should support the
in this fight for the

Tf the Shipping Wederation

then

eonsiderable surplus work. The

Waterfront Correspondent.

GRAND

FOOD WORKERS’

Dancing

FIRST CLASS

Admission 25 Cents

Auspices of Hotel and Restaurant Section of
INDUSTRIAL UNION

in the

ROYAL DANCING ACADEMY

(Corner of Hornby and Robson Streets)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935

Ten Dollars in Merchandise To Be Given Away

Tickets on Sale at 305 Cambie

DANCE

YOUTH COLUMN

Youth League Against
-War And Fascism

ClGyx CONVENTION FORMS
UNITED FRONT WirtH
¥.C.L. AND Y¥-S-L.

At one of the most militant youth
conferences held in B. C. for some
time, the C.C.Y. movement here
syent on record as favoring the unity
of all working class youth organiza-
tions. The immediate practical re-
suit was the formation of a united
front with the Y.S.L. and the Y¥.C.L.
Delegates from these two organiza-
tions were at the conference and
submitted a program of united strug-
gle against the disenfranchisement
of the relief camp workers, and
against war and fascism. The con-
yention yoted unanimously in fayor
of it, and a joint conference of the
delegates from each organization will
be held as soon as possible.

Other highlights of the convention
were:

The of the delegates,
who are fed up with inactivity, and
are determined to see a revolution-
ary spirit in the C.C.Y. The C.C¥F.
and the Y¥.S.L. came in for repeated
eriticism on this account.

The forming of a deputation to
interview the Anglican Mission
which has stirred up workers here
to great indignation on account of
its Conduct in running the Chinese
relief mission., Lhe convention pro-
posed a joint delegation. The two
y.C.L. delegates immediately offered
their services, while the Y.S.L. pro-
mised to bring the matter before its
members.

Passing of a resolution in favor of
non-contributory unemployment
surance.

The friendly feeling manifested
toward -the Y¥.C.L., which augurs
well for the revolutionary youth
movement in B. C.

militaney

in-

NOTICE

All youth are invited to attend
the educational class held by the
Youngs Communist League at 686
Powell Street every Saturday after-
noon at 2 pm. Wital issues are be-
ine discussed at this class, and in-
cluded in the subject matter is the
program of the Communist Inter-
national.

UNEMPLOYED YOUTH,
ORGANIZE!

of the unemployed
youth taken up every Wednesday
night at the regular meeting of the
Youth Section of the Workers’ Pro-
tective Association at 1273 Gran-
 wille Street at 8 p.m.

Grievances

C.C.Y. Convention On
Pregram Of Unity

Throughout the world the youth
are taking a prominent part in the
fight against war and fascism. The
struggle against Hitlerism in Ger-
many is being carried on to a large
| extent by the Youth. In lrance and
Spain they played a prominent part
in the United Front movement,
which has been successful in stop-
ping the Fascists: from taking power.
The Youth of Britain are showing
an ever-increasine resistance to
Mosley and his British Union of
Fascists. The Fascists of the United
body of Youth, the American League
of Youth against War and Fascism.
In Canada the development of
fascism is growing at an alarming
pace. There are open Fascist or-
ganizations in the East, but what is
of greater significance is the veiled
Fascism of the government and the
state. The veil has been so cleverly
constructed that many who are sin-
cerely opposed to Fascism have been
caught in the web and are support-
ing Fascism and the war prepara-

tions of Canadian Monopoly Capi-
talism.
The building of the Canadian

League of Youth against War and
Fascism is of utmost importance at
the present time. The League of
Youth must be built and developed
throughout Canada to stop the mass
murder and mass enslavement
planned for us by the war-mongers
and fascists. ;

The League of Youth is setting up
central branch for the City of
Vancouver on Friday, Feb. 22nd, at
112 West Hastings Street at 8 p-m-
To this we invite the youth from
all over town, regardless of political
affiliations or opinions. For informa-
fion inquire at Room 24, 615 West
Hastines Street.

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ORCHESTRA

WOMEN’S
COLUMN

Conducted by
Peggy Harrison

North Shore Women

Active

The following will expose another
ease of actual starvation and how
it was overcome by militant organ-
ization. A man, Woman and one
child have had nothing to eat in
the house for several months, liy-
ing chiefly on what little food could
be scraped together by their neigh-
bors. Of course there are many
workers who don't know that we
haye organizations that can win
their d@mands. The Wooman’s La-
bor League took up this case and
found the people had come from
Alberta two years previous and had
been intimidated into believing that
they would be DEPORTED to Al-
berta. These workers left Alberta
on the advice of doctors, the woman
and ehild having illnesses that com-
pelled them to Seek a different cli-
mate. The Women’s Grievance
Committee first got them a hearty
breakfast, as the man had not eaten
for two days and proceeded to do
battle with the powers that be.
They were successful in getting an
emergency order of $5 and were
promised that the case would be
looked after by Mr. Tubman in
Wancouver. They next demanded,
and got an order for the man to
visit the doctor. After examination
the doctor, in the presence of four
Witnesses, Stated this worker was so
undernourished that he would have
to be put to bed and given a light
diet until his stomach was adjusted
to solid food. When the spokesman
of the Grievance Committee arrived
home later in the evening there was
a message from the relief officer to
the effect that the worker would
not have to go to Tubman in Van-

eouver, but he would be able to
register in North Vancouver as a

Provincial transient.

Forward to an organized workers’
movement that will eliminate such
schemes Bennett's unemployed
insurance and will compel them to
introduce NON - CONTRIBUTORY
UNEMPLOYED INSURANCE.

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Charity Rags

Editor, B-C. Workers News:

Sir,—I wonder if you could find a
little space in your paper for the
followme letter. %

Having heard a great deal about
“what they call] the Junior League
shop, 2 place where the well-to-do
people of this city send a lot of
their old clothes, I though I would
so and yisit one of their shops to
if I could pick up some little
shoes and things for some kiddies
who cannot go out because they have
no shoes or underwear.

Mr. Editor, I was surprised and
disgusted to think that any mother
would send in, to be sold over again,
the class -of shoes and little clothes
that were there” The shoes were
worn out; only a genius of a shoe-
maker could have done anything
with them. The little woolens were
so shrunken that not even one of
the Dionne quintuplets could have
squeezed into them, and clothes that
were fit to wear were far too dear.

It is a disgrace to think that poor
harassed mothers who have to
trail around these stores looking for
makeshifts for ‘their little families
should be so humiliated.

A. GC.

Comrade Editor,—This statement
is absolutely true. My daughter-in-
law and myself visited one of their
stores on Kingsway near Broadway
last Thursday.

see

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Nine Thousand Bucks

7

News item of February 7 in the
jocal press:
“LEGION GETS GRANT

“Ottawa.—A grant of $9,000 for
the Canadian Legion was passed in
the House of Commons today. It is
used to help returned men present
their pension eases to the tribun-
als:

Many rank and file Veterans think
this money is paid to the
their good work in
money for the government!

Come and haye a good time eyery
Saturday night at 1224 Hastings
Street West, at 8 o’clock. A grand
concert will be held February 16.

Legion

for “saving”

Burnaby Bits
Grievances
£or
was the wife of a Veteran on relief
applying at North Burnaby for car
jickets to visit her husband, who
was undergoing a serious operation

“were taken up last

week two Ex-Servicemen. One

in the General Hospital. It was
not before permission was received
from the authorities at Edmonds
that her request was granted. She
was also informed that it was not
necessary for her to yisit the hos-
pital every day. Callous authorities
Will do anything to save a few cents’
This Veteran could die in loneliness
to save the municipality a little ex-
pense.

Qur CGomrade has served 21 years

in the forces, but because it was not
continuous, Shaughnessy said he
was not entitled to a long service
pension.
The Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s
League thought differently and now
this Comrade has a special campaign
pension of one shilling a day. Not
much —but something. What's
Wwrone with the Pension Bureau at
Shaughnessy? Are they afraid they
will lose their jobs if they work in
the interests of Ex-Setvicemen?

Mrs, Dell, the wife, can now get
ear tickets every day.

.Besides this, the grievance com-
mittee succeeded in getting her bed
sheets, of which she was badly in
need,

The W.E.S.L. fight for the imme-
diate need of the Veterans. Support
us!

Another serious case was brought
to our attention. This Veteran was
faken to hospital on Pebruary 5. His
wife is also in hospital expecting an
increase in the family. There are at
present five, the eldest 13 years of
age.

The house they were living in had
once been a brooder house for
chickens and two families living
there previously, contracted T.B.

Dr. Melvor has diagnosed this
cuse as a relapse from influenza.
He was taken to hospital in a sedan
cur, his boy of twelve having to go
with him to see that he did not fall
from the seat. We intend to find
why the ambulance was not sent.
Had the League Known of this case
sooner, he would have had an am-
bulance and we would not have wor-
ried who did the paying.

Our committee visited BHdmonds,
the seat of government, and now
there is a woman installed to take
eare of things until the mother is
well enough ,to look after things.

This bad been done by a kindly
neighbor previously.
The municipal Health Officer is

now investigating this brooder house
and the children are being examined
for T.B. germs. This place has
never been fumigated, but the
League is on the job, and it will be,
our word on it,—and Burnaby will
pay!

While hardships for Ex-Service-
men like this go on, Bob McNichol
uses the columns of the “Province”
fo describe the hunt for a suitable
Wake up.
Bob! and remember the living.

stone for a memorial.

Paton of Canteen Fame

Paton, of the Canteen Fund had
the V.O.N. visit a Veteran who had
a Six months old baby needing
clothes.

Wurse on arriving says: ‘“‘Lhis is
not a V.O.N. baby. I can do no-
thing!’ She referred them to the
Red Cross. Evidently if the V.O.N.
are not in on the birth you can ex-
pect no help from them.

This *smily also need mattresses,
so Alderman McDonald is going toa
see he gets work on the sewer so
he can buy his own. What's he to
do in the meantime, Alderman?

Paton Again!

A Veteran on applying for a meal
ticket, was told to see a DENTIST!
He said, “I’m hunery.’’ The answer
was, “Get your teeth examined and
Til give you two days’ relief.’’ He
walked out, figurine he could get
by the two days until he went for
his relief.

Admission 10 cents.
Sundays at p.m.,
Always food speakers.
Mount View Branch meet at 3905
Fraser Avenue, Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
This is a newly formed branch. Ex-
Servicemen, sive it your support.

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Open Forum.

F.S.U.

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MOSCOW. NEWS
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CHINA TODAY

LITERATURE

SOVIET RUSSTA TODAY (Canada)

REPORT OF J. STALIN TO i7th CONGRESS (Pamphlet)

Discount on bundle orders from
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Vancouver, B.C.

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10c¢ monthly
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10@ weekly .
30c every two months

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Typewriters and Adding
Machines Supplies
and Service

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from 310-00 up

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432 W. Pender St., Sey. 282

SHORT JABS

Trotsky has become a storm
trooper or maybe a schutz staffel
ef the counter-reyolution. Since his
from the Communist
Party he has used the yilest capital-
ist rags to Slander and defame the
Party that led the workers to vic-
tory in the Soyiet Union. Sensation-
mongering, sewer-pipe journals like
“Liberty” and the “Saturday Even—
ing Post,’ have served as mediums
for his counter-revolutionary writ-
ings. He has now gone a step fur-
ther. The leading article in the lat-
est issue of “Seven Days,” the offi-
cial organ of the White Guard riff-
raff in Paris, is a scurrilous attack
on the Soviet leaders by Trotsky in
which he contends that the assas-
sination of Kiroy was a plot by
Stalin, instead of, as it really was,
part of the imperialist offensive and
a@ murder for which if Trotsky had
his deserts he would be standing in
the dock. From being at one time
a leading member of the Party he
has degenerated into a tool of the
imperialist warmongers who plan to
bring about the downfall of the
Workers’ Government. Lenin spoke
when he said, “The logic of
struggle leads every opposition to
direct open counter-revolution.”

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expulsion

truly

* *

During the past month the Cana-
dian banks have issued their annual
reports—business being very good,
thank you! Sir Herbert and Ironheel
Bennett probably developed a genial
glow of satisfaction to know that
their Royal Bank had five and a
half million dollars ayailabie for dis-
tribution. The report of this bank
shows that their assets have*® in-
ereased during the year by 29 miil-
lions, totalling 758 millions of dol-
jars. It deals with a great many
aspects of financial and industrlai
life, embracing a great part of the
globe, but not one line anywhere in
it refers to the efforts of the Royal
Bank to steal the land of 30,000
peasants in Cuba, as part of last
year’s operations. Twenty-five miles
from the Guantanamc Naval Station
there is a district called Realengo
18, comprising the richest coffee-
erowing land in Cuba. This district
is a Royal land grant by the Span-
ish king in 1877 to some of the
soldiers who fought in the Ten
Years War and belongs to their de-
seendants today. The Royal Bank
of Canada has secured, by the
crooked methods of the finance wiz-
ards, an expulsion order from the
reactionary Cuban Government
which is really a tool of the Royal
Bank and other outfits like it. If
this land is included in the pub-
lished assets of the R-B-C. it= will
not be worth even as much as Van-
eouver bonds on settlement day for
the armed Realengo 18 peasants
oreanized under the leadership of
the Communist Party has defeated
all the military forees of the Royal
Bank’s government who tried to take
their land away from them. In this
resistance they are being valiently
supported by the peasantry of all
the neighboring and the
trade unions of Havana and Santi-
ago. When the workers and farm-
ers of Canada follow the lead of the
Realenso peasants Bennetts bank
won't haye five and a half million
dollars available for distribution.

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regions

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The leading cities of Canada are
fallen on evil days with such shin-
ing examples of the labor-faking
business for mayors as Gerry Me-
Geer in Wancouyer, Andy Davison
in Calgary, Joe Clarks in Edmon-
ton, John Queen in Winnipeg and
the most brilliant star in the firma-
ment, Jimmy Simpson in Toronto.
This methodist howling dervish,
prohibitionist-socialist and Labor
Tsar has followed the lead of that
other holy-roller, MeGeer, and called
for a day of prayer for the City
of Churches. By this he hopes to
bring good times to a town where
a lot of praying has been done in
the last fifty years. However, when
he wants to throw young workers
out of his meetings as he did in the
Mavety Hall in Toronto recently, he
does not depend entirely upon God,
but follows the line of the Irish
politician who had a like task to
perform, and did it, “with the help
of God and a half-a-dozen police-

men.’

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Jimmy Simpson is following the
path of German Social Democracy
to fascism. He says, “The Radical-
ism of the Communist group will
arouse the extreme .of fascism.”
This is the Stand of the Socialists
who have muzzled the miltancy of
the workers in all those Countries
where fascism prevails today. Marx
and Engels had the same type of
confusionist to deal with durine the
days of the Bismark anti-socialist
laws. Replying to the Zurich Social
Democrats they wrote, *“‘In order to
relieve the bourgeoisie of the last
trace of anxiety it must be clearly
and cenvincingly proved to them
that the Red bogey is really a bosey,

Wee Pioneers are workers’ Kids

To help along our parents

We stand upon ‘the picket lines; ~

In the effort to improve our lot

We organize within the schools

And many other different things ™

We meet with many troubles,

For we know that for our worr

We children work determinedly,

In the rising generation,

The Builders
Who strive with all our might 3

In the anti-bosses fight.

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We march right with our class

‘By fighting with the mass.

To try and get free feeds,

Which every child needs.

But we carry on the same,

The bosses are to blame.

We brave our schoolmates’ jee

Hail the Young Pioneer!
—A member of the Fairy
Branch of the “Ever Read
Pioneers.” g

Always Ready

The magazine for working clas
children, “Always Ready,’ is s
ing a drive during the month
February.

The amount British Columt
must raise during this drive is $10
each children’s group to obtain
least $5. The objective is to &
aside a substantial fund of $1,101
for our magazine by the particip
tion of every group in Canada.

Greeting cards will be sent to ¢:
eroup so that the children will }
able to collect sreetings from indy
viduals and organizations, these 7
be printed in the next issue of 7 3
“Always Ready.’ We suggest,
that the groups hold socials,
eerts and raffles to raise additio

money. 4.
a

Besides this, we must obtain fip};
hundred new subs throughow

Canada during the drive. This mea
that each group must send in
least three new subscriptions.
A prize of a volley ball and
will be given to the city of the
lowing four which raises the large
amount of money in subs and si
taining fund: ‘Toronto, Montr
Winnipes, and Vancouver. So
to it, Vancouver! |
A badge is to be given every né
subseériber during the drive. All wit
get ten subs will receive a book
and all who get $5 in greetings
get an equal prize. _
—Sent in by Stan Reddy

CHILDREN’S CONCERT.
The District Children’s Cound
have arranged a concert for Fridi
(tonight), Feb. 15th, at the Ukrainiat
Hall, 805 Pender East. The prog
promises to be very entertai
and three prizes are to be givé
away. Proceeds will be used
educational material for the
dren's Groups.

secret of the Red bogey if it is na
the bourgeoisie’s dread of the
evitable life-and-death struggle be
tween it and the proletariat? Dre:

of the inevitable decision of 3
modern class struggle? Do awe
with the class struggle, and

bourgeoisie and ‘all independen f
people’ will ‘not be afraid to
hand-in-hand with the proletari
And the one to be cheated will &
precisely the proletariat.” The Sims
sons, the Wvoodsworths, the ©

wells want socialism (of a kind)

easy to make if the struggle well
taken up only on condition of i
fallibly fayorable chances.”
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Hitlers demagogic promises fo
lieve the small business men fron
the competition of the big depart
ment stores and the chain store
prove more and more delusive ever
day. The biggest department stor
in Germany, Wertheim’s, run
merrily along after two years ¢
Hitler power, even though it 3
owned by Jews. The newest proi
that Hitler had no intention of helt
ing the little storekeeper is az
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worth German share capital fro}
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teen million marks. .

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YOUTH MASS
MEETING AGAINST
WAR AND FASCISM.

THURSDAY, FEB. 21st

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Authentic War Slides
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