Page Four B. GC. WORKERS” NEWS | = March 15, 193 | B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS THE PROLETARIAN PUBLISHING ASS’N Room 10, 163 West Hastings Street - Wancouver, B.C. 4 — Subscription Rates — One Year _-__ -- $1.80 Halt Vear- === = 4600 Three Months._$ .50 Single Copy ——__ -05 4 Make All Ghecks Payable to the B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Send All Copy and Manuscript to the Chairman of the Educational Board — Send All Monies and Letters Per- taining to Advertising and Girculattion to the Business Manager. A FASCIST WOLF INSIDE A LIBERAL SKIN The powerful opposition on the part of all decent people against the entertainine of the Wazi butchers who are officers of Hitler’s warship is showing up the real fascist sup- port in Vancouver. Foremost amongst those who are admirers of fascism is the Vancou- yer “Sun.” This local sample of yellow jour- nalism has come out a second time editorially in defense of the City Council’s proposed welcome to the “Karlsruhe” and her officers, as well as printing a filthy pro-fascist feature article by that miserable journalistic hack, Pat Terry,—a vicious screed in the form of an interview with Hitler’s consul, Steelheim, which has justifiably aroused the resent- ment of the entire Jewish population. In an editorial of March 13th the “Sun” again repeats the falsehood contained in its first editorial on this subject, to wit, that the opposition to the welcome to the fascists’ warship is a survival of the war hatred. This is a mendacious attempt to evade the issue. The opposition to the welcome, as the Sun’ well knows, is not a left-over from the war days. And even in the war days, the workers of Canada had no hatred for the masses of Germany save that generated by the “Sun” and its kind. The “Sun” hypocritically says that the welcome to the “Karlsruhe” is a friendly gesture to the 66 millions of the German people. It is no such a thing; it is a gesture to the bloody Hitler rule of butchery and an endorsement of it. Insofar as the oppressed millions under the jack-boot of the fascist Thyssen-Hitler rule are concerned, they would be glad to see the “Karlsruhe” at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. “Let us be genttlemen,” drools this “Lib- eral’ sheet. Gentlemen to the murderers of tens of thousands of the flower of Germany’s population! But the “Sun” and others of its kidney weren’t asking for gentlemanly treat- ment toward the German workers in Canada during the war years when they were hound- ing them like wild beasts accompanied by the yelps of the capitalist press pack. ‘We must consider and respect the other fellow’s point of view, whatever it may be,” goes on the “Sun.” Respect the viewpoint of Fascism—that is what the “Sun” wants and is working for. But it does not ask any- one to respect the point of view of the thou- Sants who hate and detest Fascism and all its works, including the “Karlsruhe” and its Nazi officers. The tremendous opposition to the welcom- ing of the Nazi butchers is righteous opposi- tion to the rottenest, most corrupt, and. most brutal rule that has ever cursed any people on earth. It is a protest against the horrible mass crimes of the Nazis, against their rever- sion to the worst forms of barbarism, against their degradation of women, against their sex-perversion, against their open glorifica- tion of homo-sexualism, against their incite- ment to war and because Hascism stands for all that is repugnant, repellant, savage, put- rescent and reactionary. The “Sun” makes the claim that the re- turned soldiers do not object to the fascist welcome. The.ex-seryvicemen do: most em- phatically protest against it, that is, the workers and all others who have a spark of decency and manhood in them. But what the “Sun” means by returned men is the of- ,it is, will later give the fascist salute in the ficer clique, these swivel-chair warriors who basked in sunshine and peace many miles behind the lines. The- capitalist sheet concludes its hysteri- cal diatribe with a typical fascist threat. It openly calls for fascist police, military and naval terror against these who may express their dissent to the welcome, so as to make pleasant the visit of those “fine German youths,” and brands those who do not fall in line with the fascist welcome as “a bunch of hoodlums” whose anti-fascist protests are “blackeuarding” the city. The howls of the fascist-loving “Sun” should not deter the real decent element of Vancouver, i.c., the anti-fascists, from let- tinge the Hitlerite sadists and the local bud- ding fascists know what they think of the whole dirty insulting business. A REFORMIST “DEFENSE”’ “Qur Communist friends and even some Within our own movement (emphasis ours) are getting somewhat excited about the at- titude of our ©.C.F. representatives toward the .. . Unemployment Insurance Bill sow in committee,” states the reformist paper, ~The Gomimonwealth.” It then goes on to quote from Hansard part of a speech by one lone CCFer,.Garland, wherein he tries, feebly and inefectually, to justify, under the jibes and prods of Bennett for his having already voted for it, his support of the Bennett anti-labor Bill. But the later statement of Garland in the House that the contributory feature of the Bennett Bill was a mere detail, “The Commonwealth’ conveniently forgot. Gariand’s speech, which “The Common- wealth” accepts as a justification for C.C.F. support for the Bill, gives as his reason for that support that it was necessary to vote with Bennett in order to provide an oppor- tunity later on to move certain amendments to it. This represents a typically reformist regard for bourgeois parliamentary pro- cedure. But Garland in the part of his speech quoted by ‘The Commonwealth,” makes clear that he voted for the fake Bill because he endorsed it in principle. No supporter and defender of the workers will oppose in principle unemployment insurance, but the Bennett Bill is not an unemployment insur- ance bill, but a strike-breaking bill, and one which taxes the workers out of a portion of their already meagre wages. Furthermore, what can Garland and “The Commonwealth” say about the effect of the united front with Bennett at a time when the workers outside of parliament, including < large proportion of members of C.C.F. clubs, were fighting against the Bill in toto, and seeking support for a genuine Workers’ In- surance Bill? The C.C.F. members not only supported Bennett in the House by voting with him, but they also supported him and the ruthless exploiting class which he repre- sents, and of which he is a part, by splitting the workers who were fighting. against Ben- nett’s swindle. Garland, it is true, kept his word and voted against the Bill on its third reading But he had to split with the Woodsworth- MaciInnis group in doing so. Even if “The Commonwealth” tries to jus- tify Garland’s early support by pointing to his opposition vote on the third reading, it can not hope by this trick to hide Angus MacInnis, Woodsworth and Co. behind the parliamentary skirts of Garland. For all the rest of the reformists in the House voted against Garland, and once more with Bennett “The Commonwealth” is a literary prosti- tute for Ganadian reformism just as the Social-Democratic press of Germany was a bulwark for bourgeois democracy in that country, and like the social-democrats it, to- gether with the reformists whose lickspitti: House of Commons as their counterparts in the Reichstag gave it to Hitler, that is, un- less they are prevented by the strangling of rising fascism by the united front of the workers which, again with Bennett, they are doing their utmost to prevent. of the lower units? The clearest STATE SECRET POLICE “GESTAPO” | proof against such a lie is the fact that the too severely injured victims were taken to the police-hospital or to the hospital wards in the prelim- Tf the victim this, his sufferings are by no means lives through all The “further treatment” of the over. The Gestapo then turns him] prisoners begins with ‘ordinary’ |oners taken there. over to the S.S. for “further treat-| sayvace beating. The victim is laid ment.” This is usually given in the] on a table over a Glair. As many 5 - wes ~|be called almost humane as: com- cellars of the S.A. houses, located| torturers as can find place crowd : : all over Berlin. In addition there are| around the defenseless body ana] P24red with the following: several central quarters from which] peat upon it with rubber clubs, In a room in which there were ten no scream of pain can penetrate to other ears than those of the Gestapo torturers. even when there Among the most notorious of these places are the “ULAP” amusement park near Lehrter Station, the build- ing formerly occupied by the military authorities, on General Papestrasse, Berlin-Schoeneberg, and the former of the victims, ably, incite greater brutality. rors of these torture-chambers. =< riding whips, belts, shoulder straps, or Whatever comes and the blood flows from them, the beating does not stop. The screams who the torturers method is now being brought into inary prison in Berlin-Moabit. And it Was the Gestapo that had the pris- The above describes tortures can or more prisoners a wooden behead- to hand. And block was brought in. are open wounds ing A pris- oner was ealled forth from the group and asked whether he had an to make. at the block one of the torturers with an axe and let it sink slowly until the cold steel Suddenly he swung the axe np high, as though “last wish’’ stood suffer intoler- to ever “improved” An touched the victims, neck. flicted upon the workers by the re Karl-Liebknecht House on Bulow] Use to prevent making visible] he were really going to strike this Square. The government confiscated wounds, wet towels are rolled to-| time. The prisoners stood there and this house, and placed it at the dis- sether, and with them the victims] had to watch this “play’’ The head, posal of the Gestapo: The victims | 2re beaten. They are just as “‘ef-| however, was not cut off, the whole tortured in this house are mostly | fective’ as rubber clubs. “same” being only meant as a form those who are keen to be function- Other methods of torture applied} Cf torture. Another case is known— the Communist Party of Germany. Then there is also the “Brown House” in Hedemanstrasse, headquarters of the Regional Com- mittee of the ‘“National-Socialist German Workers’ Party.” The most notorious of aj] the torture cham- bers exists in the so-called “‘Colum- bia House” and in the Gestapo build- ing itself, in Prinz-Albrechtstrasse. aries of it is a fearful experience merely to hear what people tel of the hor- described as follows: The victim is laid in a coffin and ordered to lie Over his head a vessel of water is placed, from it are absolutely motionless. water slowly drips down wpon the forehead. Another method much applied to women, consists in forcing the women to sit motionless for hours at a stretch. Punishmeni for the slightest movement is a rain of blows or kicks in the face. victims’ Unauthorized actiyity on the part and it is hardly the only one—where the and The straight but al- heal together in whatever position they happened to be lying. As a result the victim must now drag victim's and arms legs were beaten broken. fractured limbs were not set lowed to through the world, a helpless, mis- Shapen cripple for the rest of his life. (Continued next week) ‘Labor Truth’ —A Slander Sheet of the Boss Class Canadian Union Leaders Are Enemies of the Seviet Union By MALCOLSI BRUCE Vulgar, poisonous and reactionary, but always in tune, the reactionary labor-skate press can be heard hiss- ing their tin whistle accompaniment to the blatan tfascist trumpets of the Hearst press. slandering the Soviet Union. One of these anti-working class, counter-revolutionar Sheets is a vul- monthly rag called, “Tabor Truth" irenically it Zar in- is enough, actionaiy Wancouver burocrats o£ the nationalist All-Canadian Con- gress of Labor, a rival of the Moore- Draper - Simpson - Tallon - Bengough Bang in splitting and betraying the workers. The A.C.C.of L. has essentially the Same policy as the A.F.of L., namely, repudiation of class struggle against the employers and the capitalist State, substituting therefor class co- operation with the exploiters. What them from the A..F. of L. fakers desire to keep all in Canada so that they will personally benefit thereby. They cast envious at twelve thousand dollars a year salary of the John LL. Lewises and the other fat boys of the A.E.of L. of- ficialdom. distinguishes is their the money eyes the Twin Eneniies. While Labor Truth fights against the A.F.of L. over control of the money the workers, there is the closest affinity and in- ecestuous anti-working class cohabi- tation when it comes to assisting the enemies of the Soviet Union in the campaign of lies and Slander against the proletarian State and against the militant working class gouged from first organizations in Canada. Labor Truth has no hesitancy in featuring on the front page of one issue a vicious article by the High Priest of the A.F.of L., Matthew Woll, black reactionary, member cf the Wall Street-founded Civic Iec- eration; co-worker of Hearst; friend and business colleague of Morgan and Lamont. This is the same Woll who is a regular contributor to that rotten McFadden magazine, Liberty, which, alone with Hearst And com- is leading the attack in the pany, U.S. against the Soviet Union as 2 part of the preparation for war against the latter. In the February issue of “Truth” there is slanderous attack whieh begins with vulgar abuse of all Left Wing workers .and proceeds to defend capitalist democracy. another Imperialism Praised. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is denounced. The very been abandoned by nomists,’’ idea has “western eco- iS Says. This means, by bourgeois economists. It wants a co- operative commonwealth as do the CCF. But the sort of co-operative commonwealth they want is one in which the workers will co-operate with their exploiters and oppressors. In approved jingo fashion it states that “the British Empire has suf- fered Jess from’ a ruthless ruling class than any other part of the world.” What abyssmal ignorance or deliberate falsehood! What about the blacks of Africa, decimated and’ destroyed by British imperialism? What about the Chinese upon whom opium was millions foreed by British gunboats and treops in the greed for profits? What about the villages of Asia where whole village populations, men, women and chil- dren British air- planes? What about the 350 millions were bombed by of India who were shot down, as at le to free themselves from the gallm2 imperialist yoke? And what about the Amritsar, because of their strurce to come closer, speed-up, “Wwage-cuts and Starvation of Britain’s unemployed, and the vile slums of the great cities where the producers of Britain’s wealth are hived? Burford’s Poison Quoted. of the article quotes at leneth from an Burtord in the January issue of the Canadian Unionist. this The writer in Seorieh article by In article Burfard joins with the Czarist White Guardists, and other enemies of the Soviet Union and the International working class is com- paring the executions of the and spies plotters With the executions carried out by Hitler in his blood purge. He says that when the proletarian dictator- ship took the necessary measures to counter-revolutionary stifle the counter - revolutionary plottings the Left Wingers ‘‘swal- lowed their repugnance”’ and “craved for complicity.’ The worlcsers of the world who sup- port and defend the Soviet Union felt not the slightest repugmance at the execution of the plotters. Only petty-bourgeois mental dwarf could imagine such thine. These exe- eutions were necessary to defend the first world fortress of the world reyvo- lution, whereas the executions Hitler were for the purpose of erushing the workers and entrench- img the blodoy fascist rule of the German imperialists. There is no basis for comparison in the two sets of executions. One was done y parasitical, exploiting minority against the productive, useful ma- The other was done by liberated, useful majority against the remnants of a former parasite class which was attempting with the aid of foreign imperialism, the Bur- at a by a jority. a fords and the Hearsts, and others of their reactionary ilk to restore capitalism. Reactionary Degeneracy. And this act by first workers’ republic is what Bur- ford calls “one of the most atrocious crimes ever committee by a govern- ment.” Only a degenerate defender of armed intervention against the Soviet Union and condoner of coun- ter-revolution could make such a Statement. But the workers of the world do not take such an attitude. They enthusiastically endorse the strong proletarian action taken to maintain the Soviet State. When capitalism jin its greed for profits slaughtered tens of thou- Sands of Canada’s young manhood in the world war there was no ‘“‘re- pugnance”’ in the hearts of the Burtfords. No, they endorsed and supported the wholesale butchery. Wor did they feel any nausea when the Estevan miners were shot dead the of necessary the by ‘Canada's political police, R.C.M.P., or over the butchery workers by the German fascists. The quotation from the Burford fulmination winds up by that ‘the executions in Soviet Union prove that there is no Browth of freedom in the Soviet Union. There is no freedom for the of trying to show the eounter - revolutionary and agents imperialist Kind of and the will not restoration This is the Burford But they Czarist intervention. freedom that “Truth’’ desire. Setat Hands Off the Soviet Union. Let the war-mongers and their re- agents howl! The liberated workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, conquered power, have eliminated unemployment, are building socialist industry and agri- culture, improving their and cultural life, are strengthening the Red Army to defend their free- dom and their gains, while spies and counter-rey formist having material olutionazry agents of the imperialist robber nations who worm their way inte the country will be ruthlessly dealt with by the victori- Proletarian Dictatorship, the heroic defenders of the first fortress of the proletarian world revolution. ous Prov. Workers’ Council To Launch Wide Campaign Congress Delegates To Report VANCOUVER (B.C. March 14 — May Day, 1935, be a day of Struggle for Real Unemployment In- surance and of Trade Unicnism. Preparations are the Provincial will for defense being Workers’ a well pre- campaign. The Workers of B. @ are not going to take Bennett’s fake bill laying down. Employed and unemployed are to be mobilized to resist it anda struggle for real insurance. Workers’ Cnogress to Be Called. made by Council pared to conimence and wide to Gn April 17th at the Orange Hail May Day Campaign And Unemployment Insurance © in Vancouver a Workers’ Congress will be held to lay down a definite policy, after the report of the dele- gates to the National Congress has been heard. This congress will be all workers’ organizations. Every working class body and or- fanization of those near to labor are asked to send delegates. From this conference will follow the united front of labor for the May Day cam- paisn. open to Let our slogan be “For UWnem- ployment Insurance based on the Workers’ Bill.”’ HASTINGS BAKERY 716 EAST HASTING ST. The Bakery that supplied bread to the Loggers’ Strike. We Specialize in Cakes and Fancy Bread Support Those Wko Support You | WHERE THE WORKERS RULE | SAFEGUARDING HEALTH MOSCOW .—Before the revolution the whole Tajik (Soviet) republic had only 60 hospital beds, a figure which has been raised to 2,265 at the pres- ent time- Im 1917 the Transcaucasian Fed- erated Republics had only 1.317 hospital beds, while today they have over 16,400. In the whole of Russia there were only 175,624 hospital beds in 1913, while today there are over 800,000. Health protection in the U-.S.S-R. gives great emphasis to preventive measures which means that ade- quate care be given to the health of workers while they are well, and not only when they are ill, the cure of diseases playing a sécondary role in Socialist society. The utmost consideration is given to public services, sanitary housing, food inspection, physical culture, the fight against alcoholism, and the protection of labor. Similar achieye- ments have made in the reduction of the infantile and maternity mor- tality rates and in the wiping out of prostitution. Capitalists Forge Lying Propaganda As the recent abolition of -the bread-card system denotes, there are ample stocks for seed and food, if needed, in the hands of the authori- ties. Quite recently, however, there has been a fresh outburst of “‘star- vation propaganda” in the German and Austrian press, with appeals for eharity for “the unhappy victims of the Soviet famine.” Gld Tricks. Reports from Berlin indicate that this campaign was supported photographs taken Some were even said to date from the Volga famine of 1921. This favorite trick of anti- Bolshevik propaganda. by earlier. is 2 Soviet Farmers Reap Fruit of Revolution MOSCOW, U-S:S.R., Feb. 20.— (ALLP)—The definite and striking suc- cess of the collective farm movye- ment has been demonstrated at the second congress of 1500 ‘“‘shock- brigade” collectivists from all parts of the U.S:S.R., which has just ended its session in Moscow. At present 85 per cent of the cul- tivated land is collectivized. WBighty per cent of the peasants—20,000,000 families—have joined the collective farms. This spring nine-tenths of Russian farms will be worked by 230,000 tractors operated by $3,500 Special ‘“‘machine-tractor stations” with a highly qualified personnel. The congress opened with a speech by former Commissar of Agriculture V. A. Yakovief, who eharge of the whole Seviet agrarian program. M. Yakovief particularly stressed the great improvement organization and production and the the past two years. is now in in returns during Overcoming IWulal Sabotage. “We are rapidly overcoming the effects of the Kulak sabotage of 1932 and 1933," he said. “We have not only already raised grain pro- duction to a record figure, but with- in two or three years will have re- paired the losses in livestock due to the aforesaid sabotage.” : M. Yakovlef cited the case of a typical collective farm in the North Caucasus with comparative figures for the end of 1932 and the present. The 1932 figures give a picture of what really occurred in the North Caucasus and the Ukraine. In some peasants they sections recalcitrant rich deported, but mostly trickled away to towns and cities. were Showers for C.L.D.L. Bazaar VANCOUVER, March 13. — The District Executive Committee of the CL.D.L. is ealfing ~wipon all its branches to hold showers for prizes for the coming Annual District Ba- zaar. Some of the C-L.D.L. branches already prepared for these showers, which can be utilized to gather such articles as socks, hand- kerchiefs, needlework, ete. A truck has been procured to call and gather these articles at 4 convenient date before the bazaar. have A WARNING The Seafarers’ Industrial Union, Local 5 of L.& W-T-W. of Canada, wishes to announce that they have mo connection whatsoever with an organization by the name of “Sea- farers’ Federation,’ that is now so- liciting funds and holding dances for the so-called purpose of aiding unemployed seafaring men and to our knowledge there is no Such or- =i] PRODUCTION OF | SHOES 7 Prior to the war Russia produg 8-400,000 pairs of footwear per yea): The gsreat majority of the Willa; |= population did not wear boots, bi |) plaited grass shoes. Only the well}, -to-do peasants « possessed | footwear. 3 In 1932 the Soviet Union produc 3) 74,000,000 pairs—nine times as may as before the revolution, nessa 20,000,000 of them going to supp” children. At the present time tt 7 production is nearing 100,000,0¢ }¢— pairs per year, and steadily elim)” ing, because as yet there is not i sufficient supply of footwear. { | a Soviet Workers Have Celebration . STALIN, Ukraine, U.S.S.R., Fe 19.—(ALP)—Well-pressed suits an |b felt hats were much in evidence ye: terday as 700 pig-iron shock worke — assembled here to celebrate the en of restrictions on “‘the bread of ig” | dustry.” +7 Pig-iron lines were abolished, were the breadlines, on January The ration system no longer is neg) essary, because of imereased pr id duction. Dhe fact that industry aj af buy as much of the metal as it neeg | made the meeting of the meta! 4], a! 4 ie Shock workers congress a2 joyou i} event. / 4 One delegate arrived with hi family in his own automobile A was subjected to friendly bantering « Wigures published’ on the occasior Hy of the congress show that Russia formerly an importing. country, oe ported 160,000 tons of pig iron 1] : year. It was expected productior would increase by 2,000,000 tons & ° a total of 12,0000,000 tens this year Leary Up for Trial Next Week VANCOUVER, March 13.—Sched. | uled to appear in the Assize Court next week, the trial of EB. E. Leary 4 and Kulechysky will be rehashed On trial at last Fall’s Assizes and | charged with “Willful Trespass” the jury disagreed and the case was ad- journed until the Spring Assizes) Gordon Grant for the €h.De will defend. 4 i Tobacco for Glass Weel Prisoners i Each week, the District Execus tive Committee supplies the cel = war prisoners in Okalla prison with) tobaceo, toothpaste and other sun= dries denied these workers by the authorities- At the present time over 60 men are in Okalla for their labor activities, and while a good deal of support has come from’ the camp workers (who, earn 20 cents) per diem) in the way of donations of tobaceo and cigarette papers, a gocd deal of surpeert is needed te earry out this important task. All workers are urged to help in this work and leaye donations or sup= plies at the District Office, Roons 28, Flack Building, and so show your ,solidarity with the workers | imprisoned for fighting in behalf of} the working class. 7 GRAND BAZAAR To raise funds with which to } provide relief for the families of class-Wwar prisoners and to defend : workers in the courts, the Dis- } trict Executive Committee of the f C.L.D.L. is staging a bazaar on ff Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 4, 5 and 6. The District Committee urges all workers’ or- ganizations to keep these dates open and to send delegates to the bazaar meetings. The time of these meetings are available at the District Office, Room 28 Flack Building. i NOTICE! First Anniversary of Weekly Young Worker ENTERTAINMENT & DANCE Tuesday, March iSth 8:00 P.M. at LABOR TEMPLE 805 East Pender Street Free Draw on Carving Made by Arthur Evans Whilst in Oakalla Jail ADMISSION — 10¢ ganization.