Page Four Bes Geri Wr ARE Re Se NEWS April 12, — BC WorKERS NEWS Published Weekly by THE PROLETARIAN PUBLISHING ASS’N Room 10, 163 West Hastings Street - Vancouver, Bre: & — Subscription Rates — One Year —__-__ $1.80 Half Year 1500 Three Months__$ .50 Single Copy —— .05 at Make All Checks Payable to the B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Send All Copy and Manuscript to the Chairman of the Editorial Board — Send All Monies and Letters Per- faining to Advertising and Circulation to the Business Manager. THE BANKERS RULE “Provision is made for payment of interest ‘on the bonded indebtedness AT THE EXIST- ING RATES (emphasis ours), so provides the budget for the City of Vancouver for 1935. This is the outcome of all the ballyhoo of Vancouver’s Kingfish mayor who was go- ing to chase the money-changers out of the civic temple. The demagogy of politicians of the McGeer type is old stuff, but is still potent with the more backward and credulous elements of the public. Here is a man who has talked bravely about reducing the interest rates and as a step in that direction has a finance capitalist, a bondholder, brought from the financial East to investigate the financial situation of Vancouver and make a report and recom- mendations thereon, The recommendations included the payment of ful] interest rates at the expense of the poor, as every one knew they would. Just before his departure for the Hast to the mayors’ confab he told a delegation of Relief workers to wait until he returned, when he would be in a position to do some- thing as a result of the conference. He came back, and tells an aggregation of gaping mor- ons in a church that the money changers had to be driven out, but that they were there and he couldn’t do a thing about it. And later he tells a delegation from the striking Slaye Camps workers to wait for another confer- ence or Commission—to finish their sittings. Wait. wait, wait! The fact is, that the bankers and bond- holders are running the municipal govern- ment of Vancouver as they run that of every city, provincial government and the federal government. McGeer will do what they tell him to do. And one of the newest tricks in putting over the policies of the bankers is to clothe them with unprincipled demagogy. ok ok UNITY IN THE FEDERAL ELECTION That the conversations between provincial representatives of the Communist Party and the C.C.F. looking to a united anti-capitalist front in the forthcoming federal elections were not more productive of something more fruitful is a matter for regret. The proposals put forward by the C.P. met with the per- sonal approval of the C.C.F. representatives, but the letter of their provincial Executive leaves doubt as to the possibility of unity by agreement upon the basis of a program of minimum immediate demands. The difficulty of the C.C.F., they point out, is their Constitution and By-laws which for- bid any such agreement being entered into, and it is well known that the national leaders of the C.C.F. are opposed to unity with the communists on any basis whatever because such unity means class struggle. This is the obstacle that local officials and the rank and file members of the C.C.F. have to overcome. The Communist Party has shown sincerity in its efforts to build up the united front of struggle, and will go a long way toward at- taining that objective; but failing to achieve an anti-capitalist united front for the forth- coming election, it can not be expected to abandon the field to the reformists and the two old capitalist political parties. The letter of the Provincial Executive, C.C.F., says that the final word rests with * 7 the district convention. This may be true technically, and the convention could be re- lied upon to endorse the united front pro- posals of the Communist Party if not ma- chine-ridden from the top, because there is no doubt of the deep-going desire of the C.C.F. membership for unity. The letter of the Provincial Executive does not completely close the door to unity, and the Communist Party will undoubtedly exert every effort to yet achieve it. The growing attacks upon the workers and oppressed farmers and lower middle class, the jettison- ing of existing democratic rights and the ad- vance toward fascism and imperialistic war makes imperative the united front of class struggle on immediate issues even if there are wide fundamental differences as to the methods by which the freedom of the work- ine class can ultimately be attained. E < * a3 THE CITY COUNCIL MUST FURNISH RELIEF The real reason for the appointment of a Commission to “investigate” conditions in the Relief Camps is becoming more apparent to all, and confirms the analysis given’ by the B.C. Workers’ News and the Relief Camp Workers’ Union. The sole purpose of the Gommission is to split the workers and divert the strikers from struggle by holding out false hopes for redress through investiga- tion and palaver until the edge of the will for struggle would be dulled by delay and dis- appointment. In his letter to the Strike Committee of the Union, Mayor McGeer tried to put this plan into effect by asking that the strike be called off and that the men return to the camps anc wait until the findings of the Commission become known. The conditions in the slave camps are well known now, have been known for a long time, and they are known to be rotten. McGeer knows that, and so does every member of the Commission. The same goes for Grote Stirling, Minister of War, al- though even before the appointment of the Commission he tried to work up a fascist sen- timent against the strikers by loose, wild and irresponsible talk about “plots”-to burn down the camps, etc. To the slanderous accusations of Stirling, the deception of the appointment of a Com- mission of inquiry, and the intimidation of the camp workers before the walkout, there is now added a terror launched against the men who are on their way to Vancouver to join their fellow strikers. Wholesale arrests are taking place even when police provoca- tion fails. The Federal government, who operated the slave camps, throw the onus of relief for the men on the provincial government, and the latter throw it back onto the Federal gov- ernment. The task of the strikers must be to compel the City of Vancouver to feed and house them. It is not the business of the men to take part in the technical, legal discussions whose only object is passing the buck. The men are here. They are hungry and cold. The nearest source of relief is the City Coun- cil of Vancouver who can find money readily enough to wine and dine Hitler’s pervert butchers, give McGeer airplane trips all over the continent, and pay the full rate of in- terest to the bondholders. The donations to the strike fund from the Longshoremen, the Street Railwaymen and the Printing Pressmen is a Magnificent ex- pression of class solidarity. But this alone is not enough; the burden of feeding, cloth- ing and housing the camp workers in the city must be placed upon the City, and let the city be reimbursed by the provincial or fed- eral government. Meanwhile every effort must be made to bring more men out of the camps. The strike must be made even more effective than it is at present. The plight of the victims of mili- tarized slave camps is the concern of every worker, organized and unorganized, employed and unemployed. Their struggle against the damnable slave camps concerns the whole working class, and must have the support of the whole working class. “GESTAPO” STATE SECRET POLICE went on to the next ward. In the camp there was Karl Schultz, from the town of Ficlenzig, a war veteran and a complete invalid. He had al- ready been in the camp for several (Continued from last issue) Sill the Z. B. V. sadist gave them no rest. Whoever collapsed Was thrown aside, out of the way; the others had to continue. The prisoners no longer resembled human beings. Their clothes were dripping wet, their hair hung in wild disorder, matted with the per- spiration pouring from their faces. Others stared with glazed eyes, al- most nearing the breakine point. It svent on further, “up, down,” to the wall, double quick march. At last the commander himself appeared, and a pause was made while the 7.3. man made his report. Prison- ers standing nearby heard the 7,B.V. murderer —pointing to the men lying prone on the courtyard— report to ithe commander, “They don’t want to mutiny any more.” The punishment ended thus for this time, but as penalty for the “mu- tiny” a new regulation was put into force, such as is usually met with in hard labor prisons—a half hour free time, walking single file, with five paces distance between each man and no speaking: permitted. Such are the methods which were employed to cause “mutinies”’ in the Sonnebergs concentration camp. These methods are part of the whole system of these death camps. “I am not afraid to paint the wall red with your biood if you will attempt to mutiny.’ With such words the Gommander Sigismund, ZBV. Ppo- lice officers greeted new groups of prisoners who were being trans- ferred from Pomeranian city to Golli- now to the Sonnenburg camp. And this man was the instructor ot the S.S. detachment under whose charge the camp was put after August, 1933. Since this time the comman-— months, when one morning, in Oc- tober, 1933, he was so beaten up ders of the camps in Prussia are | that be fell into a delirium. In his “directly responsible to the Minis-| fever he imagined that he was try for the interior.” Mass Sie storming trenches, so that he had treatment and torture is the rule in| t® be Strapped in his bed for two the concentration camps. Hundreds | 92Y5- Finally, he was taken to the of thousands haye been forced to | Police hospital. His whole “hosti- bear the sufferings ity to the State’ consisted in his inflicted in the concentration camps. And what the Situation is now in these death camps, No one is able to say from personal experience, for the prison- ers Who are still being held there consider themselvés prisoners for life. They are the ones the Gestapo considers the “most dangerous’ and “incorrigible.” What the foreign journalists have been or will see on oceasional visits are only organized exhibitions which do mot in any way reflect the true situation. Besides the mass tortures, the concentration camps have also their “individual treatment,” “Cross- examination,’ and “third degree.’’ These are conducted in rooms es- pecially equipped for their purpose. Nothing is seen or heard of what goes on in these rooms. Prisoners must afterwards remove all traces —they clean up the blood, skin and flesh, and remove the pieces of knocked-out teeth and broken eye- flasses. In the hospital of the Sonnenburg camp there were patients whose backs were beaten to a pulp of puru- lent wounds. When the doctor asked them what was wrong with them, they said they had “rheumatism,” for fear of being subjected to new tortures if they complained. The hospital chief, however, cynically re- marked to the doctor that nothing Was wrongs; with them, “except that a map of {Soviet Russia had been drawn on} their back-sides.’ The doctor, Dr Schuette, grinned, and having been counsellor for a prole- tarian organization of war—cripples and the families of soldiers who had died in the war. (Continued next week) SOVIET FILM IN WINNIPEG WINNIPEG, Apr. before the protests of thousands of the province, 4—Retreating workers throughout the Manitoba Board of Censors yes- terday removed the ban it had previ- placed on the Soviet film, ot ously “Golden Mountains.” the film will be given at the Uk- Showings rainian Labor Temple, Pritchard and McGregor, at § p.m. on April 4, 9, 10 and 11. Royal Artillery Protest Swastilkas LONDON. — The British War Of- fice has opened an investigation to determine who is responsible for the, appearance of swastika emblems on the new tanks assigned to the fourth battery of the Royal Artil- lery. Members of the battery dis- covered the swastikas when the tanks arrived, and refused to handle the tanks until the swastikas were removed, lest they be re-~ It ate Nazis $i DO ay finvited a ‘ [WAR MANO By F. BIGGS EUVRES IN EUROPE When Stanley British Conservative, ing a Parliamentary discussion on air force expenditures: “Our fron- tier is now on the Rhine,’ he had, beyond doubt, reference to the srow- Baldwin, leadine declared dur- ing strength of the Soviet Union and the possibility of a working class revolution in Germany. For two years British and American capi- talism has given every assistance to German Fascism, done everything they could to strengthen it, in order that it would be a bulwark against Communism. They wanted Hitler to lead the pack of capitalist wolves against the Workers’ Republic. But they are not having every- thing their own way. The recent visit of the British diplomats, Simon and Eden, to Berlin, if press reports are raliable, gives a new view to the European situation. Hitler, it is said, refused to yield an inch in his demands. He wanted a big nayy, a big army, colonies and the anchluss, or union, with the groups of Ger- man people seattered in the small countries of Central and Eastern Europe. ; A Changed Situation This must have been quite a set- back to Britain. It was a polite way of telling her to go to the devil and mind her own business. In other words, the beast that British and American capitalists have been fat- tening is feeling its own strength and has turned snarling, threaten- ine to bite the hands that fed it. The swngland that, through its eontrol of the world’s water routes, has been the balance of power in Europe, playing one country against another by threatening to take away colonies, is now fearing for her own safety. English capitalism is menaced by German capitalism. There is no honor amongst these thieves. It has been customary to refer to Hitler and the other Nazi leaders as “madmen,” who didn’t Know what they were doing or which way they were going. This is wrong. If they are mad so are Thyssen and the whole German capitalist class whose ereature Wational Socialism is. The program of National Socialism is not he plan of lunatics, it is the care- fully detailed blueprint of Thyssen, most powerful German capitalist, for ommercial domination of the world und the reduction of the world’s working class to a condition of in- dustrial feudalism. German Imperialist Needs Thyssen, coal and steel magnate of the Ruhr, has established what is practically a monopoly of German industrial and financial institutions. But his industrial expansion is hin- dered by the lack of raw materials- He needs the iron ore of Alsace- Lorraine in France, he needs the copper of the Balkans, he needs many other varieties of raw mMma- terials found in the colonial coun- tries. He wants to capture and colonize the fertile Ukraine with German peasants to produce food for his industrial slaves. And he wants, and does not intend to have, any competitors for his manufac- tured commodities in the ‘world’s markets. The foreign policy of Hit- jer is the foreign policy of Thyssen- To reach this mark Hitler has been stepping softly in the field of foreign politics. Meanwhile he has been re-arming secretly, developing a e2redt war woaterial industry, puilding up a powerful military ma- chine, and a great air force. Euro- pean diplomats no longer discuss dis- armament, they try to arrange an agreement on armaments, and both are impossible. Germany a Formidable Foe In every country Hitler's agents have been working to form Nazi groups strong enough to exert in- fluence towards Fascism in those countries. The Vancouver civic re- ception to the “Karlsruhe” is an in- dication of this, and it is also an indication of the lack of awareness of the Canadian working class to the menace of Fascism. The growth of Fascism, everywhere, is strength- ening Hitler. It appears that the time has come when Thyssen, through Hitler, con- siders himself powerful enough to dispense with the camouflage and stop pussy-footing with the diplo- mats of other capitalist countries. Where will Hitler strike first? East towards the Soviet Union or west- wards towards France and England? Britannia may rule the waves, but Thyssen aims to rule the air. If his great air fleets can, by 2 sur- prise attack, rain enough poison gas, incendiary bombs and disease germs on France and Belgium, bringing death to millions of people, France will be quickly subdued, England at his merey and forced into neutrality. Then he could take a breathing JIMMIE LIKES MOUNTED COPS TORONTO, Apr. 4.—Jimmie Simp- son, C.G.I. mayor of Toronto, in his capacity as chairman of the police commission is worried about the sug- gestion made in the board of control that the police force get rid of its horses aS an economy measure. Mr. Simpson showed in police commis- sion that he fully understands the use of mounted police against the workers. “It is a necessary arm and must be maintained,’ said his wor- ship. ‘‘There are situations where the mounted police are indispensible, such as the parades on May 1.” space to organize his onslaught on the Soviet Union. Seeks World Domination That is one possibility. Another is a direct attack on the Soviet Union with the full support of world capitalism. But German capitalism would not sacrifice itself for French, British and American Capi- talism. It would lead the drive, but would want all the loot. To derive the utmost from such a venture she would want to be powerful enough afterwards to defy MBritain and Prance, which these powers know. Whichever way it goes the Nazi butehers will stop at nothing. There is no horror imaginable they would hesitate to perpetrate if it would give them world domination- What is the greatest danger to, and the power which will eventually destroy Hitler’s National Socialism? The Red Front of the workers of the world. The Soviet Union is quite capable of defending itself. A So- viet leader has said: “If the Fascist bandits attack us we will blow them off the face of the earth.” The oep- pressed German workers, led by their Communist Party—the bravest of the braye—are conscious of their ereat responsibility and will do their utmost to bring defeat to Hitlers war moves. They will stop at Do Sacrifice to destroy Pascism. Zi The Menace of Fascism Ganadian Fascism would be just as brutal, as ruthless, as merciless, as German Fascism. Fascism 15S capitalism, always and everywhere. Fascism is the capitalist class mob- ilizing all resistance to unlimited exploitation and oppression of the workers. Is the movement against Fascism keeping pace with the growth of Fascism in Canada? It should -keep well ahead of it. It must do this or the Canadian work- ers will suffer the consequences— the defradation of a slayery such as the world has never known. Need For United Front jlfé Hitler attacks the Soviet Union he will have the aid of the Cana-— lian capitalist class. If the Soviet Union is not involved it will be a struggle for supremacy between Fascist, or world-be Fascist, coun- tries. A victory for “our own” capitalist class in the war now loom- ing, wherever and however it Starts, will be a victory for Fascism. Their defeat means a victory for the work— ers over Fascism, a step towards Socialism. Fascism of whatever stripe, National Socialism, Christian Socialism, a New Deal, Reform Pro- grams, Social Credit, Monetary Re- form, can only be wiped out by the United Front of the world's work- ers in their respective countries against their own capitalist class, and Canada is no exception to the rule. 8-Hour Day, ‘| | 95c Per Hour On Docks, March 31 Marked Ne Step in Progress O Industrial Unity Thirty-four delegates represen the affiliated locals of the Lo shoremen and Water Transpo Workers of Canada, and the Victor 7 and Alberni longsheremen’s orgay j izations gathered in conference Sur! Gay, March 3ist, and prepared ag of wage scales and working condi) a tions governing the industry. 4 Schedules For deep-sea work the rate Wa set at 95 cents per hour for an eigh} hour day, with double time art eight hours. The maiximum da was set at 10 hours. Sundays an - holidays and Saturday afternoon j ( be paid at the rate of time and | half. Ship and dock rates to §- the same. ; £ A corresponding increase is sough { for the coastwise workers. i ‘The ship-liners are determined the the crews of ships be prevented ee lining ships in B. G. waters. It we pointed out that more and mo: ships are doing their own lining 6 | port, which is allowed only in Bt | Unsafe construction, because of use of scrap lumber and because th erew are not carpenters, ondandal the life of longshoremen, liners an crew. Against Fascism The conference went on record” opposed to the recently enacted con tributary unemployment insurane and in favor of free social insim ance. Also to resist to the limit 2m} attempt to restrict the right to os ganize, strike or the rights of mas picketing, and to protect the ris of free speech and assembly and th freedom of the press. It was resolved that the confer ence £0 on record as against military conscription, or the han of war materials. ; \ : 3 NOTICE Any organization wishing to Us the W.L.L. office, Roem 12, Pad Block, for meetings, is requested get in touch with the secretary, I Harrison, 746 Cardero Street, fo Cc.C.F. IN HAMILTON TURN DOWN OFFER HAMILTON, Ont., March 31.—Co- operative Commonwealth Federation electoral council of Hamilton has in- formed the Communist election com- mittee that they are unable to accept an offer of united front in the com- ing Federal elections. In his letter to the Communists. the secretary states: ‘Lhe constitu- tion of the C.C.F. will not permit us to have a united front with any po- litical party.’”’ ITALIAN TROOPS RESENT FASCISM TURIN, Italy, April 4 (ALP) When troops were leaving the rail- way station here, a number of youre fascists endeayored to raise patriotic presenting the in the fascist enthusiasm by sol- diers with neckties colors, and with fascist signs. 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Workers’ News. F.S.U. RUSSIA TODAY (England) ....- U.S.S.R. IN CONSTRUCTION MOSCOW NEWS SOVIET TRAVELS (foscow) LABOR MONTHLY (Eneland) CHINA TODAY LITERATURE SOVIET RUSSIA TODAY (Canada) REPORT OF J. STALIN TO i7th CONGRESS (Pamphlet) Discount on bundle orders from FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION, Room 13, 163 W. Hastings St., Wancouver, B.C. 7c monthly 10c monthly 50c monthly 10e weekly rates and available dates. WHERE THE WORKERS RULE — Continuous Increased Production (Moscow Cable to Associated Labor Press, Toronto, Ont.) MOSCOW. U-S.S-R., April 3. (A.L.P.) —Preliminary figures for heavy industry covering the first quarter of the third year of the second five-year plan were released here today and show successful ful- fillment of the plan schedule. Com- pared with the first quarter of last year the output of steel increased by 32.8 per cent and iron by 28.3 per cent. Compared with the same period, the output of rolled steel in- ereased 29.1 per cent. The automobile and dustry surpassed the program of the first quarter, producing 20,749 auto- mobiles and 24,656 tractors. During the first three months of 1935, the railway plants produced 401 locomotives and 12,027 freight cars. Agricultural machinery plants ful- filled the plan for the manufacture of agticultural machinery time for the beginning of farm work. Dur- came more tractor in- in ing the quarter, 5,536 combines out of the factories, ten times than during the same three months last year. The production of copper increased 77.6 per cent when compared with Jast year. Early Spring Sowing > Continued warm weather, far A sowines year. survey just llkraine almost 3,000,000 the Gate in 1934. equipped than ever before. began their spring than stronger in 1934. the Soviet Union. MOSCOW, USSR, April 4 (ALP)— favorable for field work, has resulted in spring ahead of schedule this completed shows that by April ist in the rich hectares were sown with spring crops. About 1,500,000 hectares had been sown in Worth Gaucasus by the same date, as against 913,000 by the same Farmers are going into the field this year about 15 days earlier than schedule and are technically better Every- where the collective and state farms work much in other years and with full confidence that this year the farm workers will sow more than Spring sowing has now begun in some sections of the central part of Soviet Heavy Industry : Gains in First Three Months This Yea MOSCOW, USSR, Apr. 3.—Prelis inary figures for heavy industry co ering the first quarter of 1935 (thi year of the second five-year pis were released here today and skt successful fulfilment of the pl schedule. Compared with the fi quarter of last year the output steel increased by 32.8 per cent, 4 iron by 28.3 per cent. Compal with the same period, the output rolled steel increased 29.1 per cen Automobile and tractor indus surpassed the program, produce 20,749 automobiles and 24,656 & tors. Railway plants produced 401 lo motives and 12,027 freight cars. Agricultural machinery plants | filled the plan in time for the beg ning of farm work. During the qu ter 5,536 combines came out of factories, ten times more than d ing the same three months last ys Production of copper increased ' per cent, when compared with | year. One Hundred Thousa Tractors . KHAREOYV, USSR, Apr. 5 (ATs Workers of the Kharkoy Tra Plant yesterday celebrated the | duction of the one hundred tt Sandth tractor. The machine driven off the conveyor and ou plant by an old Ukrainian parti Nesvyatopask, one of the best sl brigaders in the plant. During the day meetings were in all the shops in the huge Dp! In their speeches workers cited tremendous progress made by plant since its opening three ar half years ago. Congratulations comments were received from 2 Kolhozes and Sovholzes. RUSSIA SPENDS MORE ON HEAL MOSCOW, April 4. — Wage medical workers and public he appropriations haye been subs tially inereased this year. P health expenditures in the 5 Union will total 4,070 million ru an inerease of 1,478 million © over last year.