Mites ther Opera: re i tise year. S Ore kere mes te 1 Teall ie Py ide) peee Nels ig a x jis ‘ t He aft ne zi iE nl 7 a : 5 is) _ several workers from other camps, if o “GOR UNITY IN STRUGGLE” } VOL. I Published Weekly VANCOUVER, B. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935 Single Copies: 5 Cents SS No. 6 C.C.F. Leaders In United Woodsworth & Co. Vote as Bloc for Fake In- surance Scheme OTTAWA, Feb. 19.—The Unem- ployment and—Social Insurance Bill, a vicious, anti-workinge class mea- Sure introduced by the Bennett zov- ernment, received its second reading here today. Phe CCE. members, led by Wiscodsworth, unanimously supported it, thus acting in complete unity with the old capitalist parties. Woodsworth, while stating that the Bill fell short of “social justice,” nevertheless affimed that it had many “desirable features.” Good Thing for Some. This Bill places a tax of approxi- mately twenty million dollars per year on the employed workers: will cost about nine millions to admin- ‘ister. Questoned as to the salaries the commissioners administering the new law would receive, Bennett was not definite but thought that théy would recive about ten thousand per year. The support given by the G.GF. members is not Surprising, as they have in the past supported the worst fascist measures introduced by Ben- nett, including the Marketing Act and the Central Bank MeInnis raised. a protest against the disfranchisement of Relef Camp workers, but talked too lone to get a vote on it. MILITANT. ACTION FORCES REDRESS Camp Workers Stand Solid and Are Given Transportation Ten workers were dischareed from D.N.D. Camp 208, Cheam View, i6 miles east of Chilliwack. others left in sympathy. Sixteen Conditions in this camp have al- ways been bad, but are now worse than ever. We were in camp 5 weeks without having a full clothing issue, we were eating grub a doz wouldn’t eat. “Sanitary” conditions are unknown Wo recreation whatsoever, the fore- man heying a yocabulary of dirty Phrases that was extraordinary even for a slave driving tool of the Na- tional Defense. This individual turned his dirty tongue on a young com- rade, who returned the compliments. The bulls were called, the Grievance Committee took the case up with the bulls, and had the workers rein- stated. Militant Action As @ result a petition was for- warded to the superintendent, ask- ing the removal of the foreman. Our answer to this petition was the ar- rival of Mr. Irving, superintendent for Hope District, accompanied by the provincial officers from Hope. Being discharged, we were refused transportation. However, by militant action we forced the camp trucks to take us to Chilliwack, and going in a solid body to the provincial police Secured transportation from there to Vancouver. Arriving in the city we had inter- views with the provincial and city authorities but were told that no help whatsoever could be siven us, pending investigation. Join. Picket Line Together with us in the city are their cases being similar to ours. Over 100 men are at present cut off from any means of livelihood. Talking together, we find all have been discriminated against for ac- tivities in the December Strike. At the meeting of these workers last Sunday it was decided to join the Shingle Weavers picket camp at Boundary Road, and by doing so showings our attitude towards the employed workers. In the meantime @ committee of three is carrying on “cess, and aldermen were simply dy- Front With Benentt-King SOVIET FILM 10 BE SHOWN SOON IN VANCOUVER “Ten Days That Shook the World’’ Coming in March. TORONTO, Ont.—(ALP)—Two of the most outstanding films yet to be seen in Canada, “Ten Days That Shook the World” and “Potemkin,” willbe Shown from Ontario to the Pacific Coast during the next two or three months. Starting from Port Arthur and district, where the first showing will be-from Feb. 5 to 19, “Ten Days That Shook the World” will then proceed through the prairie provinces and British Columbia. HWrom Vancouver eastward, the tour will be continued with ‘‘Potem- kin,’ an even finer picture than the other. Thus two different showings of Soviet movies will take place in each-cenire. The full itinerary will bé published at an early date. The first picture deals with the breath-taking events of the October Revolution, taken from John Reed's famous book of the same name; the Second one with the 1905 revolt on the armored eruised Potemkin in the Black Sea. BOUNDARY MILL STRIKE OFF, BOSS WILL PAY SCALE Militant Shingle Work- ers Defeat Wage Cut Stmking Shingle Weavers and pickets have been withdrawn from Boundary Mill pending determina- tion of the price that will be paid for “Canadian Trade work.’ The mill is cutting American trade at present and paying the rate. Ben- fZough, Police and Bosses united to Smash the strike and put over the Wwage-cut, but have not yet suc- ceeded. Workers in other mills were al refused advances on pay checks, be- cause it was known that workers were drawing part of their wages in order to contribute to the Strike Relief. The militant shingle weavers are determined that the present wage rate will be maintained. This strike is a temporary partial victory for the rank andifile and a defeai for the reactionaries. It can be made permanent with intensified organization and support from the members of A.F.of L. unions. ‘man who, SCENES AT PROTEST MEETING, CAMBIE ST. GROUNDS, FEB. 18 Left: Section of mass of workers on grandstand, showing spealiers’ stand and mezaphone. rade Delargy, veteran seller of militant working-class literature. note the Chinese workers. Center: Com- Right: Section of great throng on ground; Three Thousand Vancouver Workers Vote For Workers’ Insurance Bill: Denounce Bennett’s Fake Insurance Masses Refuse to Accept “Mayor McGeer’s Prom-‘ ises’’——Send Delegation Back to City Council —- Demand Quick Action VANCOUVER, Feb. 19—To hear the report of the delegation who were elected Feb. 4th to go to the City Council and to up the Ottawa delegation to press for en- actment of the Workers’ Insurance Bul, approximately .3,000 Vancouver workers turned out to Cambie Street Grounds Feb. 18th. This was one of the best United Front meetings ever held in Vancouver and proved that the workers to strugegie for Real Unemployment In- surance and against the fake Swindle Bennett is trying to saddle on the backs of the workers. Speakers from several workers’ organizations addressed the huge gathering at invitation of the Pre vinelal Workers’ Council. Repre- JOHN CAMERON EX-CHIEF NABBED Cop Plug-Usly Himself in the Toils VANCOUVER, Feb. 20: — John Cameron, the late champion police thug of B. C., is, according to re- ports in the Boss Press, now under arrest. A lengthy document in the form of a bench warrant charges him with divers crimes whilst em- ployed as a Peace Officer (not with beating up workers), This is the whilst Chief of Police, banned free speech for workers, beat up workers’ leaders and organ- back are ywilling (Continued on Page 2) Spécial Council Meeting on March 15 The delegation of four elected to present the demands of the unem- ployed workers met the Relief and Unemployment Committee of the City Council at 3:30 pm. Monday last, and the resolution endorsed by the of workers on Cambie Grounds, was presented. This re- ferred to the fact that Relief Recip- ients mass by thousands should be con- Sidered of importance than the affairs of a few bondholders, and called on the Relief and Unemploy- ment Committee to set a date within two weeks for the Special Meeting of the City Council and the Unem- ployed Delegation. The Relief Committee( Mayor Mc- Geer was not present) refused to do They informed us that the Court of Revision was in pro- greater anything. strain. the Mayor himself was going over to Victoria for at least ing on their feet from the Moreover, DELEGATION FROM CAMBIE GDS. DEMAND McGEER COME THROUGH Sary for the Mayor to be chair for in the the Special Meeting. The question of the death of two Chinamen after eating in the soup- kifchen at 143 Hast Pender was brought up. was Pattullo’s Street This we were told business. Of course, we insisted that the men had died here in Vancouver and therefore it was Vancouver’s business. We pressed for the Committee to call in Mayor, and the fused. However, recommended that Mayor in his office, Committee Committee on the which we pro- the re- the Wwe call the struggle in the city. two weeks, and it would be neces- RADIO FANS, ATTENTION! Readers who have short wave set can Jisten in to an all-Russian program each day from midnight to 7 a.m. over a 71 metre length. The station broad- casting iShabaravsk, U.S-S.R. The program includes music, Col- lective Farm and Red Army pro- grams, as well as Daily News events in the Soviet Union. access to a is sented by speakers wasthe C.C.F., Communist Party, Socialist Party, as well as the ¥-C:L., Y.S.L:, C.C.Y. and others. Bob Lealess, the mili- tant leader of the P.W.C., was chair- man, and women were well repre- sented. Lily Lee, a young Chinese woman worker, spoke on behalf of the Chinese Workers, who were present in large numbers. The dele- gation reported that the City Coun- cil had been profuse with promises, but no action had ensued. The delezation was City Council. sent again to the (A report of the dele- gation’s visit to the Council is t be found elsewhere in these eclumns.) Three thousand hands went up in Support of the resolution ordered sent to R. B. Bennett, demanding that the All-Canadian delegation for the Workers’ Insurance Bill be heard and ih favor of the bill, as against Bennett's Fake Unemploy- ment Insurance. Another meeting is to be held early in March to fur- ther strensthen the struggle for in- creased relief for all unemployed workers. Keep The ‘Karlsruhe’ Out! An Editorial Quietly, the ruling class in B.C. are preparing to wel- come the Nazi battleship, “Karlsruhe” to the Port of Van- couver. It will take all the united efforts of the workers te prevent the ship docking on March 15. Credit te the B.C. League Against War and Fascism in defeating previous attempts to open Nazi support can be given, but the present campaign must be greatly intensi- fied if success is toe be assured. The League rallied mass support to prevent the showing of the Nazi film in Van- couver. parade of Nazi seamen. The The same support on a wide scale stopped the League collected in conjunc- tion with the C.L.D.L., 27,000 signatures for release of Thalemann, but this campaign is not moving fast eneugh to prevent the Karlsruhe entering B.C. waters. = On March 2 the League is calling a wide conference, and on March 9 the Youth League hold one. This is good, but action must be started right away. All who are op- posed to ruthless Fascist dictatorship should send resolu; tions of protest to R. B. Bennett, DEMANDING THAT THE SHIP BE DENIED ENTRANCE INTO ANY HAR- BOR IN CANADA. Every workers’ organization should go ‘forward with preparations fer mass mobilization protest before March FAT BOYS IN TRADES COUNCIL SUPPORT BENNETT INSURANCE; WILL NOT SHOW FIN. STATEMENT Fitzgerald Pulls “‘Novel Argument’’ for Supporting Wase-cuttin < “I am in receipt of Non-Contribu- tory Unemployment Insurance right now, I’m on relief and I don’t ge enough to live on, that’s why I’m in favor of Contributory Insurance,” sc Stated Hitzgerald of the Musicians’ Union at the last meeting of the Trades and Labor Council. (The hew argument pleased Bengough.) The Council voted for Gontribu- tory Insurance by 48 to 21. Ben- gough’s excuse was “No country has adopted WNon-contributory Unemploy- ment Insurance yet, whilst the con- tributory form works very well in Britain.” We also was against it because it is sponsored by Com- munists. Bengouehb figures that Soviet Rus- Sia, comprising one-sixth of the world’s surface isn’t a country. At the same meeting the bureaucrats gave the auditors’ “report’* but re- fused to give a financial statement. Delegates pressed for figures, but Bengough covered up slyly by Stat- ing “accredited officers of a union can see the books.’’ It’s time the rank and file moved to replace these fat boys with some militant Trades Unionists. CRANBROOK HAS DEL. 10 OTTAWA Organization Extending Throughout Entire - District any CRANBROOK, Feb. 13—Now that we have won the $5 for fuel we are intensifying the fight for an in- ereased clothing allowance. Qur or- fSanization is composed of city lief workers and provincial relief workers. The Cranbrook City Coun- cil Say that they will not recognize anyone in a delegation who is not a city employee. Tomorrow a delega- tien composed of city and provincial Workers representing the W-.P.A. svill demand of the City Council an imcrease of clothing allowance. We were unable to send a delegate to the National Congress on) Unem- ployed Insurance, but we collected $12.50 which we have sent on to the Congress Fund. Our Ree. Sec. is working on a plan whereby the dis- triets composed of Creston, Cran- brook, Golden and Fernie can unite. We are proposing to strengthen the unemployed by having an Interior Workers’ Council in which the dis- tricts mentioned shall join. Fhe In- terior Workers’ Council shall in turn apply to become a unit of the Pro- vincial Workers’ Council. Ge— 15th. 2 ceeded to do. f Here the same arguments were bel = Fil = F advanced, the Court of Revision, : the trip to Victoria, ete. When we asked for the date to be set we at first met with a blank “You birds” (this was the expression used) ‘“‘want to do it your way. Why refusal. don’t you get elected and then you would be able to run things your way 2”. However, cerely meant toe carry out his prom- ise of in the matter, but he would the one to decide on the methods to be used, and told us plainly that we might not like those methods. The sinning to show a little. We finally managed to promise from him that the Meeting would be called before the 14th of March. FRED GRANGE, Bor the Delegation. he insisted that he sin- “action” be iron fist was be- Waring: a Special Elevator Operators’ Strike Called Off W YORK—The strike of build- abruptly | 2; fy ing service employees was by the reformist leaders ort in service Manhattan, after paralyzime elevator about 200 in old buildings the seli-out trick of ‘“‘arbitra- tion’’ being used. ROUTED BY MILITANT WORKERS Representative of Chiang-Kai-Shek Fails in Effort to Organize Blueshirt Gang VANCOUVER, Feb, 21. — Chang Fa-kwei, the Chinese fascist mander, got short shrift last night when he attempted to hold a meet- ing at Bast Pender Street. Sup- porters of Chiange-Kai-shek arranged a banquet for the Canton commander at the W. K. Chop Suey House, and com- 37 later the Commander was to address a meeting to gain support for the icoumintane. Chinese workers learned of the plans during the afternoon and im- mediately issued leaflets in Chinese and Enelish the rally and prevent him speaking. workers io The hall was packed with Chinese work eallings ers, and when the speaker com- eeted menced he was immediately < with cries of ‘Traitor! Murders and in a few minutes the windows erashed and the Commander wa chased out of the hall. Chane Fa-kwei alone with Li EPu- lin were responsible for thousands of Chinese workers being murdered at Canton after the fall of the Com- He came here from San Fran- Seattle on his way back t Sain support for the Kou- He openly boasted that he body of “Chinese but the militant Chi- of Vancouver foiled Oyvho are to by the Commonwealth), are mune. eisco and China to mintane, would Blueshirts,”’ organize a nese workers his plans. These workers referred contemptuously as “Chinks’’ doing real work in combatting Pas- cism. Protest Italy’s War Moves NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-—The New York City committee of the Amer- ican League Against War and Fasc- ism at 212 Fourth Avenue today is- statement protestinge against th Was sued a the by Italian Fascist government. If that =