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WOODSWORTH’S UNITED FRONT

Only one day ;
out Canada (many of whom were members of the C.C.F.)
had in mass demonstrations protested against the Bennett
Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill, and immediately
after a delegation representative of almost all shades of po-
litical working class opinion from all over Canada had gone
to Ottawa and protested against the Bill, Woodsworth,. with
the other reformist sheep, voted unanimously with the Lib-
erals and Conservatives to inflict this additional burden
upon the workers of Canada.

This is in line with the utterances and actions of the
C.C.F. and other reformist leaders since Bennett’s radio
speeches acquainted the people with his Hitlerist intentions.
From the time of Bennett’s first demagogic “reform” speech
Woodsworth and Company hailed his program as a «step
toward socialism,” and pledged their support to its enact-
ment into law. True, when they realized the storm of re-
sentment and protest their treachery caused, they began to
trim and hedge and babble about supplanting capitalism
with “socialism.”

For years those reformists fought against non-contribu-
tory unemployment insurance, and the moment the finance
capitalists with Bennett at their head proposed a swindle in
the name of unemployment insurance, they at once fell into
line in support of it. Deceiving the workers with their re-
formist)jprattle of ‘“‘steps in the right di rection,” although be-
wailing the theft of the program from their reformist mul-
ligan, they contented themselves with academic phrasemong-
ering about how socialism could be brought into existence
if only the workers and farmers would send enough C.C.F-.ers
into parliament, and abstain from class struggle outside it.

What they did in supporting Bennett’s fascist Insurance
Bill as a minority plainly indicates what they would do if
they were in the majority, the only difference being that
as a “responsible” government party they would go further
in crushing the workers than the Tories would dare to. go.
This was well known to the ruling class of Great Britain
when they called in their lackeys of the Labor Party to put

_ through the Dawes Plan, cut down the dole and to enforce
wage cuts, speed-up and rationalization.

Woodsworth and his fellow parliamentary careerists by
their support of the Bill endorsed its scab-herding, strike-
breaking and union-smashing provisions.

The words and actions of these labor parliamentarians
would be pitiful were they not so treacherous. Refusing the
united front of struggle outside of parliament, they have no
hesitancy in forming a united front with the blackest reac-
tion inside parliament. And insofar as outside of parliament
is concerned their sabotage and disruption of unity of the
workers serves the robber class of Canada even better than
their support of fascist measures in the House of Commons.

These reformist enemies of the workers delude and
weaken the working class front and dull their will to struggle
with their vague promises of socialism in some remote and
misty future; with the falsehood that steps toward socialism
ean be taken while the state machine is in the hands of the
eapitalists, when they know full well that not until capitalism
is destroyed and the state power is in the hands of the work-

ers can the slightest step be taken toward the building of

socialism. : at

The many workers who pinned their faith in the-policies
and program of reformism have had a rude awakening, al-
though the whole record of Woodsworth and his colleagues,
as well as the whole black record of social democracy, should
have warned them.

- But despite the shameful actions of the C.C.F. leaders
in their endorsement of the Bennett program and their as-
sistance to him in making it law, the fight against it will
go on. Now, more than ever, is it necessary for the workers
of the C.G:F. and of all other organizations to unite as never
before to struggle against the attacks being made against
the workers, against the bosses directly and against the un-
holy trinity, the Conservatives,

Liberals and C.C-F. leaders
who united to put over this last piece of anti-working class
legislation.

* *

POISON GAS PROPAGANDA

Propaganda as a part of the preparations for war against
the Soviet Union is on the increase. The correct, stern mea-
sures taken by the proletarian dictatorship in the soviet
Union against the degenerate tools of the counter-revolution
and imperialist intervention who murdered Serge Kiroff in
Leningrad served as a pretext for a howl from the muddled
liberals, the Trotskyites, the White Guards and other social
scum who joined with the war-mongering Hearst, Father
Coughlin, Durant and the international imperialist plund-
erbund in a frantic, but well organized, effort to generate
hatred against the workers’ fatherland.

There was a sample of this sort of slander and falsehood
exhibited a few days ago in the House of Commons, when
Hanbury, Liberal member for Vancouver-Burrard, and a lum-
ber baron who has exploited the loggers in B.C. for many
years, “explained” the great loggers’ strike a year ago by
saying that it was caused by agents sent into the camps by
the Soviets.

So there we have it. The strike was not caused by the
rotten conditions in the camps, nor by the wholesale black-
listing and discrimination, nor yet by the starvation wages
and speed-up. It was caused by Soviet agents who wanted to
disrupt production in B.C. in order to gain wider markets for
Soviet lumber in Hngland and elsewhere, according to this
stomach-robbing lumber baron-politician.

The loggers of B.C., however, know better. And so does
Hanbury. But that did not prevent him from trying to
arouse hatred against the Soviet Union with his echo of
“Soviet Dumping.” only he added Soviet sabotage in Canada
to it. He was also making a play for more support from the
government in their efforts to haye the increased lumbei
contracts secured by the Soviet Union in Great Britain can-
celled.

The enemies of the Soviet Union have been lying so long
now, and have been discovered so often at it, that it takes
Jareer doses of slander to have any effect.
Ganada are in ever greater numbers learning that their
enemies are not in the Soviet Union, but can be found right
here in Canada—Hanbury being one of them.

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after tens of thousands of workers through-

The workers of |

Defeat It

Further to the article in the Wo. 5
“B.C. Workers N
regarding a letter which was
and Labor Council,
denied that there was
militarization in the relief
The rules published in the
Workers News’’ speak for
themselves, but further elaboration
for the of the “Doubtinge
Thomases” would not go wrong.
The question has been asked by
people of various walks of life. and

issue of the News’
read
to the Trades
where it was
any
Camps:
FLEW eE

sake

the answer is in the affirmative. We
must realize that these cainps
planned by the Bennett
government in 1931. Nor was Ben-
nett alone in this seheme; Woods-
who today upholds the open
Capital,
the first to put forward the propsal
of a “Peace Army” in Canada, there-
by preparing the sroundwork for
the “Militarization’”’ of the Canadian
youth.

One glance at the rules is proot
positive of the iron heel of Canadian
Further proof the
fact that 50,000 men are employed in
the camps—in a State Industry—de-
nied the right of organization, forced
to work eight hours per day, build-
ing roads and airports.

The Dominion Franchise Act of
the Bennett government denies these
50,000 men the elementary right to
vote in Democratic Canada, where
we boast of our advanced degree of
Civilization, with much
given to this dope in the
press, and from the pulpits and plat-
forms. In the schools we are taught
the glorious traditions of British de-
mocracy, lulline the masses
sleep.

The recent relief camp
strike has placed before the Canadian
masses the urgent need for unity of
all sections of the working class if
we are to smash the war plans of the
Bennett government. The slave com-
pounds are a direct challenge to or-
ganized labor. The Relief Camp
Workers Union under the militant
leadership of the W-.U.L. is leading
the everyday struggle of the work-
ers and is fighting for the abolition
of slave labor, against militarization,
and for the democratie right to vote.
Therefore we appeal to all work-
ers, regardless of their religious or
political beliefs, to unity around
these specific demands of the unem—-
ployed who are herded into relief
camps. Let our slogan be: Unity of
employed and unemployed, agrarian
and industrial worlxers, against
hunger, war and fascism. Forward
to Unity!

were
carefully

worth,

brutal rule of Finance was

imperialism. is

so space

yellow

to

workers’

—Organizer, R.C.W.U.

EVANS INVERNON

Solidarity With Noranda
Strikers Expressed
By Workers

VERNON, B-C., Feb. 18—On his
recent tour, Comrade Evans ad-
dressed a meeting in a local hall at
Vernon ,to a fairly good sized au-
dience despite the severe cold
weather. Those valuing the great
task of theirs to participate-in such
gatherings and to grasp the mislead-
ing tactics of the state reactionary
forces were there to hear how the
proletariat under capitalist
is tortured at every step in his daily

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Society

struggles against the poor conditions
he exists in.

The meeting was well received by
everyone, with the exception of one
individual (obedient pup), otherwise
a “stool” who usually the
militant workers from one meetings
wating to

follows

ta another, get a chance
to play his dirty role.

There were many questions asked
from the audience; receiving a savis-
in each respect. A
for

leaders’

factory
Silver

aid
appeals,

answer
colection was taken the
the strike

following which

of Noranda

a dance
Many greetings
from the
organizations extend-

and social was held.

were received and read

Yarious mass
ereetings of

Byans

ing their revolutionary

solidarity to have Comrade

back again with us.

GORDON GRANT

Room 29
163 West Hastings St
SOLICITOR FOR THE C.L.D.L.

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The war that the Imperialists of
the world are preparing for seentS
to be approaching closer and closer.
These preparations are not limited
to the great military and naval pow-
ers. The Canadian capitalist class
are marching in step with wai-mon-
gers everywhere.

Towards the end of the last war,
when the tide of patriotic sacrifice
in manpower was ebbing, a ery arose
in Canada for the conscription of
wealth. Canada was to be in the war
to the finish—to the last man and the
last dollar. To many who knew of
‘the enormous profits the capitalists
were making out of war contracts
this ery sounded like a mighty good
one, but being yery faint, it
drowned in the blare of martial
music and the sound of the marehings
feet of conscripts. Against this talk
about the conscription of wealth the
eapitalists pointed to the fact that
they. too, as well as the working and
middle Glasses, were sacrificing their
sons on the battlefields. And this
was quite true; the capitalists were
willing to sacrifice their own sons to

was

war, rather than risk defeat,
shortage of man-power, |by
them out of the war.

win the
through
keeping
According to a press despatch,
Senator J. J. Hughes has moved a
resolution in the Senate amiing to
distribute the burden onto the
shoulders of all classes when Can-
ada goes to war. The resolution
stated that no one should receive
a higher wage than that paid to
the soldier on the field; that there
shouid be a national war council,
and that there should be conscrip-
tion of wealth and man-power.
There could be no stronger evi-
denee than this that the Canadian
eapitalists are preparing for war, be-
cause. this resolutio nis plainly
tended to create the idea that when
it will be

in-

Canada war a
“democratic” war, one in which rich
and poor alike will make sacrifices,
a war from which no one, not even
the capitalists, will reap any mone-
advantages. They will
side by side, shoulder to shoulder—
eating out of the same mulligan-pot,
as it were—to defeat the “common
enemy.’

Conscription of wealth is a mean-
ingless phrase. There exists a false
jmpression that the capitalists of
the world are preparing a war to
slaughter off the unemployed, the
surplus population that capitalist
production cannot absorb. The capi-
talists of all countries are willing
to butcher their own workers, but
that is not the reason for war. There
are two possibilities of war at the
present time, a united attack on the
Soviet Union aimed to crush the first
workers’ republic and destroy the
revolutionary movement everywhere,
and a war between groups of Imper-
jalist powers for a re-division of the
it being hoped that

goes to

tary stand

world markets,
such a re-division will stimulate pro-

Directory of Unions
and Organizations

Workers’ Unity League Council—
Meets first Wednesday in the month

at 305 Cambie St., at 8 p.m. Execu-
tive commiittee meets every Wed-
nesday at 2 p~.m- Send all com-
munications to the Secretary, 305
Cambie St.

C.L.D.L. (Sam Carr Brench)—

Meetings first and third Fridays in
the month at $

Saturday at

eb eels
at 4141 John St.,

Wihist every
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p.m.
Vancouver.

Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League fired too? However, while everyone
in Vancouver—Mects every Wednes-| "= busy pa the “‘buck,” one
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out ot
The antagonisms thai
exist between England and the Unit
ed States, England and Japan; the
United States and Japan, France and

Germany, France and Italy, Italy
and Germany, are primarily caused
by commercial rivalry. The capi-
talists go to war to protect theil

In no wat
would they place their wealth at the
disposal of the “nation.” Tf thei:
wealth is endangered they sue foi
peace rather than lose it all, as the
German capitalists did when, facec
with a workers’ revolution, they los
They stil
remained the owning class in theii
own country, although they lost the

wealth or to increase it.

all hepe of winning out.

war.

All talk of conscription of wealth
is designed to deceive the people into
supporting the capitalists and fight-
ing their own battles when war
comes, and the fact that such decep-
tion has already begun shows that
War is drawing closer. Another pur-
pose of the Hughes resolution is to
give adyance notice that there will
not be paid the high wages that were
paid Guring the last war.

Many years ago Marx said: “The
workingman has no country.” To-
day the international working-class
has a Fatherland in the Soviet Un-
ion, but in all capitalist countries
Marx’ statement is still correct. Is
there a clasS-conscious workingman
who does not Know that his enemy
these days, in peace time, is the
Bennett-led capitalist class of Can-
ada? During war it is the same; the
country is the country of the ecapi-
talist class. The workers baye one
enemy and one enemy only—theit
own capitalist class, peace or war.

What is wanted is not a capitalist
war with the slogan ‘‘Conscription of
Wealth” (it could never be more than
a slosan to encourage industrial
peace and stimulate recruiting), but
the expropriation of capitalist wealth

to stop all capitalist war—F. Biges.

Getting Ready

BERLIN.—The Kluessendorf fac-
tory in the Berliner Chausee, Span-
dau, manufactured
automatic postage
is now making micrometers for ma-
ehine guns and 98-model rifles. The
than

which formerly
stamp machines,

personnel bas been
doubled during the past few weeks
There are
of the usual

more

now 375 workers instead

170.

Make Worker Goat

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The fore-
responsible for the
safety of the men. Why wasn’t he

ination ¢ inst Bastman.

man is equally

penetrating more and more into the
Soviet countryside, it was reported
at the congress of collective farmer.
here. The Thaelman Collective
Farm has organized its own air
club, purchased an airplane and the
collective farmers are learning pilot—
ing and parachute jumping.

Millions of collective farmers are
mastering the technique of modern
agriculture. Hundreds of thousands
are attending training schools for
tractor mechanies and schools fox
stock-breeders. The total expendi—
tures upon study will run into seyv-
eral hundreds of millions of rubles.
The cultural level of the farming
population rising with
rapidity. The
from Czarism—illiteracy—has
wiped out.

is unprece-

dented inheritance
been

There are now 53,300 col-

lective farm clubs and readings
rooms. During the past two years
over 10,000 new clubs and palaces

of culture were built in the country
side. Thousands of movies and sev-
eral hundred theatres were built.
The finest classical music is brough*
to the farmers. The demand for
books and newspapers growing
Almost every collective farmer now
has his own library.

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Machine Production
MOSCOW, U-S:S.R., Feb. 14.—In-
ereased metallurgical production and
machine building the Soviet
Union, it was brought out at the
collective farm congress now in ses-
sion, affords new to
agriculture.

During the whole period of exist-
ence of the Soviet System,
jn use in agriculture amounted to

280,000 with a general capacity of
four and a half million Horsepower.
In 1935 alone, however, Soviet in-
dustry produced tracters totalling a
general capacity of 1,900,000 horse-
power. Figuring the horsepower per
tractor 15, this means 127,000
tractors for 1935.

In 1934, there were 35,000 combines
in the Soviet Union, while in 1935
alone 20,000 will be produced.

Death Rate Cut
MOSGOW, U-S:S-R. Feb. 11.—
(ALP)—The death rate in the Rus-
sian Socialist Pederated Soviet Re-
public, one of the republics of the
Soviet Wnion, has been cut by 40
per cent below what it was in C@zar-
according to the report of
of Health to the

in

ever force

tractors

as

ist days,
the Commissar
Coneress.

C.F. MEMBERS
EXPEL FRIEND
OF SECTION 98

Copy of a Resolution Adopted By
The Executive Conimittee,
C.C.F. Coquitlam
Club Ne. 1.

WHEREAS, R. C. McDonald,
Reeve of Coquitlam and ex-Vice-
President of the ©.C.F. Club, one
of our members, spoke from the
publie platform on the two even-
ings of January 24, and January
25, 1935, in the Municipality of
Coquitlam, and

WHEREAS, he discussed Section
98, the abolition of which is in
Section No. 12, C.C.F. Manifesto,
and

WHEREAS, the speech was In
ridicule of any party advocating
its abolition, and

WHEREAS, he misrepresented
the Section itself, and agreed it
stand on the statute
now

should
books,
HEREBY, be it resolved that the
Executive Body of €.C.F. Club
No. 1, Coquitlam, does by this
Resolution expel R. ©. McDonald,
from this Club and does

HEREBY, call upon our Central
Executive to read this former
member out of the C.C.F. party.
Copies of this resolution to be
handed to any and all that may
be interested; and a copy to be

sent to our Central Executive.

(Signed) J. W. HARRIS,
Secretary.

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Adopted Jan. 30, 1935-

Soviet congress, “M. Molotoff ¢_
trasted conditions in -eapita |
countries and in the Soviet Un
saying that production in the U:
States was now 33 per cent be

what it had been in 1929, wher]

:

He also asserted that 22,000; ©
workers in the capitalist world 2
now unemployed. The crisis ing?
rest of the world, he said, has a)

stabilized into a depression- a
Tei
:

creased 39 per cent since 1929. vie

workers of the world, he went)
i
haye an opportunity to —

what kind of regime eould best d ;
tect them from a crisis. 4 |
“Present conditions in the bo
beois countries,” he said, “are le
ing to repression and terror and
only way out of the crisis they? 45
See is war.” :

Youth in the Soviet #
Union a

MOSCOW, U-S.S.R., Feb. ua
mendous work is being done 2 Et
the youth in the Soviet countrys]
declared Yakovlev, in his repo oo

qe
the collective farm congress aa fi

now.

os

PI

session here. ( Hox

Two hundred and seventy thi)
sand peasants—all youths—w

@ fo!

trained as tractor drivers Guy
1934; 21,000 as shock brigads
19,000 as drivers of combines;
26,000 chauffeurs.
246,000 are undergoing courses)
training for field shock brigaders
This year, 16,890,000 children |
attending school in the countrys
In White Russia alone, where, oe

as

to the revolution not a single scl ;
taught in the national language) {,
White Russia, there are now 85 f ii
children attending” the nati £
schools. Thousands of new sch §

Women Under Socialis)
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Feb. I4-—
his report to the collective fj 7
congress, ¥. A. Yakovlev laid en
on the tremendous i
women. At the cong
some women delezates
attendance. In the last two Y&
the number of women members
the management boards of the™
lective farms, iInereased from S85}
to 165,000. Women members of 8 —
shock brigades increased from 1%)
in 1931, to 50,000° at the prest
time. .
The number of women manag
on farms larger than any of i
former landlord estates of Czak
Russia, runs into tens of thousan}
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emphasis
played by
400

Social Insurance
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R, Feb. 2.—8
Central Council of the trade uni
of the U.S.S.R. today approved 7
completed social insurance budp-
for 1935, marking an ene |
penditure this year of 850 mill}
rubles over the 1934 figure.
In 1985 the enormous sum ory
billion rubles will be spent on soe
insuranee. In 1934 the amount #
five billion, one hundred and 3
million rubles.

The plenum of the Central Tr
Union Council was held here Hy
simultaneously with the meeting
the plenum of the Central Comr
tee of the Communist Party of?
U.S.8.R.

BURN. WORKER’
WIN CONCESSIO

saad

Present Demands to
Commissioner

CAPITAL HILL PRESS ,CLu
19.—One hundred and ii
workers on relief gathered at F
monds Municipal Hall, Burnal
Feb. 18. A delegation of six ¥
elected t present the demiat

Feb,

te}
which were: .
Unemp!

1: Won - contributory

ment Insurance.
2. 50 per cent increase im reli€
3. The right to get hardware

40 per cent:

And several individual grievan
were brought before Commissio
Fraser. He would have nothing
do with the insurance or inere

HASTINGS BAKERY
716 EAST HASTENG ST.
The Bakery that suppled bread
to the Loggers’ Strike.

Xe Specialize in Cakes
and Fancy Bread

in relief, but granted the right
set hardware on 40 per cent, :
ated that the Provincial and ~
minion Governments up to end
last year paid all relief in Burn:
but since the first of the year Bu
aby had to bear part of the cos
Commissioner Fraser Ww

relief.

Support Those Who Support ¥ou

not let all the workers in the co

7 unless they form

“oat

and higher compensation

a mass
united front for better safety codes,
rates.

Make the employer pay for his care-

cil Chambers, allowing the delega
only, and had police stationed on
doors leading to the couneil eh
ber, Commissioner Fraser evide

lessness and greed for profits:

Waterfront Correspondent.

does not like to meet the worl
face to face. - oe