Page Four BB G. WORK ERS | NEWS March 15, 19} 7) = 4 B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Published Weekly by THE PROLETARIAN PUBLISHING ASS’N Room 10, 163 West Hastings Street - Vancouver, B.C. 4 — Subscription Rates — One Year —-—__ 51.80 alt year === 1-00 Three Months__3 .50 Single Gopy —_— .05 4 Make All Checks Payable to the B.C. WORKERS NEWS Send Ail Copy and Manuscript to the Chairman of the Educational Board — Send All Monies and Letters Per- taining to Advertising and Circulation to the Business Manager. A FASCIST WOLF INSIDE A LIBERAL SKIN The powerful opposition on the part of all decent people against the entertaining of the Nazi butchers who are officers of Hitler’s warship is showing up the real fascist sup- port in Vancouyer. Foremost amongst those who are admirers of fascism is the Vancou- ver “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; itis 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. “Tet 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 Fascism 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-servicemen 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- 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 “blacksuardinge”’ the city. The howls of the fascist-loving “Sun” should not deter the real decent element of Vancouver, i.e., the anti-fascists, from let- ting the Hitlerite sadists and the local bud- ding fascists know what they think of the whole dirty insulting business. A REFORMIST “DEFENSE” “Our Communist friends and even some within our own movement (emphasis ours) are getting somewhat excited about the at- titude of our C.C.F. representatives toward the ... Unemployment Insurance Bill now in committee,” states the reformist paper, “The Commonwealth.’ 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 haying 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. Garland’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 2 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- Macinnis 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 Canadian reformism just as the Social-Democratic press of Germany was a2 bulwark for bourgeois democracy in that country, and like the social-democrats it, to- gether with the reformists. whose lickspittl it is, will later give the fascist salute in the 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 lives through all;rors of these torture-chambers. this, his sufferings are by no means mhe “further treatment? of the|2 “o> the Gestapo that had the pris- over. The Gestapo then turns him) prisoners begins with ‘‘ordinary’?| oners taken there. ver to the S.S. for “further treat-| sayae Stine ete a z : 2 savage beating. The victim is laid The aboye describes tortures can This is usually given in the located ment.” cellars of the S.A. all over Berlin. In addition there are several central quarters from which no scream of pain can penetrate to houses, torturers the beat upon around it riding whips, other ears than those of the Gestapo|or whatever comes to hand. And]|ing block was brought in. A pris- torturers. even when there are open wounds] oner was called forth from the group Among the most notorious of these and the blood flows from them, the|and asked whether he had an “Jasi places are the “ULAP” amusement beating does not stop. The screams] wish’’ to make. At the block stood park near Lehrter Station, the build- of the victims, who suffer intoler-| one of the torturers with an axe and ine formerly occupied by the military ably, incite the torturers to ever] let jt sink slowly until the cold steel authorities, on General Papestrasse, greater brutality. An “improved’’| touched the victims, neck- Suddenly Berlin-Schoencbers, and the former method is now being brought into} he swung the axe up bigh, as though Earl-Liebknecht House on Bulow ¥=°: fo prevent making visSible| he were really goine 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, The victims|2re beaten. They are just as “ef-| however, was not cut off, the whole posal of the Gestapo. tortured in this house are mostly those who are keen to be function- > Other aries of the Communist Party of}are described as follows: The victim and it is hardly the only one—where Germany. Then there is also the] is laid in a coffin and ordered to lie| the victim's arms and legs were “Brown House” in Hedemanstrasse, absolutely motionless. Oyer his head | beaten and broken. The fractured headquarters of the Regional Com-|a vessel of water is placed, from it limbs were not set straight but al- mittee of the “‘National-Socialist| water slowly drips down upon the lowed to heal together in whatever German Workers’ Party.’ The most} victims’ forehead. Another method position they happened to be lying. motorious of all the torture cham- bers exists in the so-called “Colum- bia House” and in the Gestapo pbuild- ing itself, in Prinz-Albrechistrasse- It is a fearful experience mereiyv to hear what people tel of the hor- on a table over a chair. as can find place crowd defenseless with belts, shoulder straps, fective” as rubber clubs. methods of torture much applied to women, consists in forcing the women to sit motionless for hours at a stretch. Punishment for the slightest movement is a rain of blows or kicks in the face. Unauthorized activity on the part inary prison in Berlin-Moabit. And AS many be called almost humane as com- pared with the following: and clubs, body rubber In a room in which there were ten or more prisoners a wooden behead- “came” being only meant as a form applied | ef torture. Another case is known— As a result the yiectim must now drag the world, a helpless, mis- the rest of his through shapen cripple life. for (Continued next week) ‘Labor Truth’—A Slander ’ Sheet of Canadian Union Leaders Are Enemies of the Soviet Union By MALCOLM 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 counter-reyolutionar Sheets is a vul- sar monthly rag called, ironically enough, “Labor Truth.” It is in- flicted upon the workers by the re- actionary Vancouver burocrats of the nationalist All-Canadian Con- gress of Labor, a rival of the Moore- Draper - Simpson - Tallon - Bengough gang 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 distinguishes them from the A..F. of L. fakers is their desire to keep all in Canada so that they will personally benefit thereby. They cast envious eyes at twelve thousand dollars a year salary of the John LL. Lewises and the other fat boys of the A.F.of L. of- ficialdom. anti-working class, the money the Twin Eneniies. While Labor Truth fights against the A.F.of L. over control of the money gouged from the workers, there is the closest affinity and in- eestuous anti-working class cohabi- tation when it comes to assisting the enemies of the Soviet Union in the campaien of ligs and Slander against the first proletarian State and against the militant working class 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 oz the Wall Street-founded Civic Pec- eration; co-worker of Hearst; friend and colleague of Morgan and Lamont. This is the same Woll who is a regular contributor to that rotten McFadden magazine, Liberty, business which, alone with Hearst and com- pany, is leading the attack in the U.S. against the Soviet Union as = part of the preparation for War against the latter. in the Pebruary issue of “Truth” there is another slanderous attacik which begins with vulgar abuse of all Left Wing workers and proceeds to defend capitalist democracy. 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 C:C.F. 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 sut- fered Jess from a ruthless ruling elass than other part of the world.” What abyssmal ignorance or deliberate falsehood! What about the blacks of Africa, decimated and destroyed by British What about the Chinese millions upon whom opium was forced by British gunboats and troops. in the greed for What about the villages of Asia where whole village populations, dren “the British Empire has any imperialism? profits? men, women and chil- bombed by British air- planes? What about the 350 millions of India who were shot down, as at Amritsar, were because of their struggle to free themselves from the galling imperialist yoke? “And what the to come closer, about speed-up, the Boss Class wage-cuts and Starvation of Britain's unemployed, and the vile slums of the great cities where the producers of Britain’s wealth are hiyed? Burford’s Poison Quoted. of the article “Truth” quotes at length from an article by Burford in the January issue of the Canadian Unionist. In this 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 spies and counter-revolutionary plotters with the executions carried out by Hitler in his blood purge. He that when the proletarian dictator- ship took the necessary measures to The writer in Says stifle the counter - revolutionary plottings the Left Wingers “‘swal- lowed their repugnance”’ and ‘ ‘craved for complicity.’’ The workers of the world who sup- port and defend the Soviet Union felt not the slightest repugnance at the execution of the plotters. Only petty-bourgeois mental dwarf could imagine such a thing. These exe- eutions were necessary to defend the first world fortress of the world revo- lution, whereas the executions by Bitler were for the purpose of crushing the workers and entrench- ing the blodoy fascist rule of the German imperialists. There is no basis for comparison in the two sets of executions. One was done y a parasitical, exploiting minority against the productive, useful ma- jority. 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- fords and the Hearsts, and others of their reactionary ilk to restore a cok eapitalism. Reactionary Degeneracy. And this necessary act by the first workers’ republic is what Bur- ford calls *‘one of the most atrocious erimes ever committee by a govern- ment.’ Only a degenerate defender of armed intervention against the Soviet Union and condoner of coun- ter-reyvolution 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 in 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 Burfords. No, they endorsed and supported the wholesale butchery. Nor did they feel any nausea when the Estevan miners were shot dead the of by ‘Canada’s R.C MP. werkers by the German fascists. The quotation from the Burford fulmination winds up by trying to show that ‘the executions in the Soviet Union prove that there is no in the political police, or over the butchery growth of freedom Soviet Union. There is no freedom for the counter - revolutionary agents of CGzarist restoration and imperialist intervention. This is the kind of freedom that Burford and the “Truth’’ desire. But they will not get it. Wands Off the Soviet Union. _Let the war-mongers and their re- formist agents howl! The liberated workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, conquered power, have eliminated unemployment, are buildine socialist industry and asri- improving’ their and cultural life, are strengthening the Red Army to defend their free- dom and their gains, while spies and having eulture, material counter-reyolutionary agents of the imperialist robber nations who worm their way into the country will be ruthlessly dealt with by the victori- ous Dictatorship, the heroic defenders of the first fortress of the Proletarian proletarian world revolution. May Day Campaign And Unemployment Insurance Prov. Workers’ Council To Launch Wide Campaign Congress Delegates To Report VANCOUVER ,B.C.; March il asked to send delegates. From this May Day, 1935, will be a day of] conference will follow the united struggle for Real Unemployment In-| front of labor for the May Day cam- Surance and for defense of Tra paign. Unionism. Preparations are being Let our slogan be “For Unem- made by the Provincial Workers’| ployment Insurance based on the Council to commence a well pre-} Workers’ Bill’ pared and wide campaien. The workers of B. C. are not going to HASTINGS BAKERY take Bennett's fake bill laying down. Employed and unemployed are mobilized to it struggle for real insurance. Workers’ Cnogress to Be Called. Qn April 17th at the Orange Hall to be resist and to in Vancouver a Workers’ Will held to lay after Congress down a definite the report of the dele- es to the National Cor an heard. all working be policy, ress has This congress will be open to workers’ organizations. Every and or- Sanization of those near to labor are elass body 716 EAST BHASTING ST. Bakery that supplied bread to the Loggers’ Strike. We Specialize in Cakes and Fancy Bread The | WHERE THE WORKERS RULE. a SAFEGUARDING HEALTH MOSCOW.—Before the revolution the whole Tajik (Soviet) republic had only 60 hospital beds, a figure which bas been raised to 2,265 at the pres- ent time. In 1917 the Transcaucasian Wed- 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 $00,000. 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 secondary 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 haye 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 charity for ‘the unhappy victims of .the Soviet famine.” Old Tricks. Reports irom Berlin indicate that this campaign was supported by photographs taken earlier. Some were even said to date from the Volga famine of 1921. -This a favorite trick of anti - Bolshevik propaganda. is Soviet Farmers Reap Fruit of Revolution MOSCOW, U:S.S:-R., Feb. 20.— (ALP)—The definite and strikin= suc- cess of the collective farm move- ment has been demonstrated at the Second congress of 1500 ‘“‘shock- brigade” collectivists from all parts of the U.S.S.R., whieh has just ended its session in Moscow. At present 85 per cent of the cul- tivated land is collectivized. Eighty 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 WV. A. Yakovlef, who is now in charge of the whole Soyiet agrarian program. M. Yakovlef particularly stressed the great improvement in organization and production and the returns during the past two years. Overcoming Kulak Sabotage. “We are rapidly overcoming the effects of the Kulak sabotage of 1932 and 1933,” he said. “We have not only already raised srain pro- PRODUCTION OF SHOES Prior to the war Russia produc | 8-400,000 pairs of footwear per yer The great majority of the villa |f population did not wear boots, bat plaited grass shoes. Only the we! -to-do peasants possessed leath ); footwear. ; In 1932 the Soviet Union produc |) 74,000,000 pairs—nine times as mau j as before the revolution, near} 20,000,000 of them going to | children. At the present time ti} production is epee ya sacet preety wi nearing 100,000,0 | pairs per year, and steadily clim | ing, because as yet there is not | sufficient supply of footwear. a Soviet Workers Have Celebration : STALIN, Ukraine, U.S:S-R., Peo 19._ {A LP)—Well-pressed suits 4) felt hats were much in evidence ye i terday as 700 pig-iron shock worke H assembled here to celebrate the € of restrictions on “the bread of §_ dustry.” it Pig-iron lines were abolished, 43 were the breadlines, on January j The ration system no longer is né i essary, because of increased Dp a duction. The fact that industry | \ | buy as much of the metal as it nee) made the meeting of the met | j shock workers congress a joyol. " event. One delegate arrived with he family in his own automobile an was subjected to friendly banterinj Figures published on the oceasia of the congress’ show that Russi formerly an importing country, a ported 100,000 tons of pig iron isi year. it was expected productiq would increase by 2,000,000 tons a total of 12,0000,000 tons this a \ Leary Up for Trial Next Week i VANCOUVER, March 13-—Sche uled to appear in the Assize Cour next week, the trial of E. E. eae and Kulchysky will be rehashe} On trial at last Fall’s Assizes an charged with ‘Willful Trespass’ i jury disagreed and the case was ad journed until the Spring ASS Gordon Grant for the C.L.Da will defend. ; : Tobacco for Class wa Prisoners ' Each week, the District Execi tive Committee supplies the clas war prisoners in Okalla prison wit tobacco, toothpaste and other sus dries denied these workers by t authorities. At the present tim over 60 men are in Okalla for the labor activities, and while a gos deal of support has come from tf camp workers Gyho earn 20 cen per diem) in the way of donation of tobacco and cGigarette papers; food deal of support is needed 3 carry out this important task. A workers are urged to help in th work and leaye donations or SU at the District Office, Roo 28, Black Building, and so sho your solidarity” with the worke imprisoned for fighting in behalf the working class. oe gd ba Ea plies 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. Yakoylef 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 sections recalcitrant rich peasants were deported, but mostly they trickled away to towns and cities. Showers for C.L.D.L. Bazaar VANCOUVER, March 13. — The District Executive Committee of the CLD. is caling yupon 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 showers, which can be utilized to father such articles as socks, hand- kerchiefs, needlework, ete. A truck has been procured to call and gather these articles at a conyenient 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 no connection whatsoever with an organization by the name of ““Sea- farers’ Federation,” that is now so- funds and holding dances for the so-called purpose of aiding unemployed seafaring men and to our knowledge there is no such or- liciting { Support Those Who Support You GRAND BAZAAR To raise funds with which &t provide relief for the families o elass-war prisoners and to defen workers in the courts, the Dis trict Executive Committee of th C.L.D.L. is staging a bazaar oI Thursday, Friday and Saturday April 4, 5 and 6. The Distric Committee urges all workers’ or ganizations to keep these date open and to send delegates to th bazaar meetings. The time o these meetings are available a the District Office, Room 2 Flack Building. - NOTICE! First Anniversary of Weekly Young Worke ENTERTAINMEN & DANCE Tuesday, March 19th 8:00 P.M. at LABOR TEMPLE 805 East Pender Street Free Draw on Carving Ma by Arthur Evans Whilst i Oakalla Jail ADMISSION — 10c ae ganization.