B= C- WORKERS’ NEWS Page Three OUTH COLUMN | PUTH ON MAY DAY \ he Stanley Park branch of the ‘YIM. at 1343 Robson Street last lday night voted in favor of par- lation in the May Day parade. _ was suggested that the May i Committee should get out some : sheets, especially with the In- ‘ational printed so that workers | sing and livén up the parade. is expected that this club of will turn out one ENTERS SKI MEET wo members of the Salmon Arm 3.A. will enter the ski meet to be i by Vancouver Ski Association April 19th to 2ist. They are Mel- Maki and Sulo Soon. Melvin enter. Blass B in the cross coun- and jumping events, and Sulo enter Class B in jumping only. vin is 20 years of age, and Sulo *9. Both are good skiers. er by Sati) a Jnited Front Success he concert held» in the Royal atre in Vancouver last Sunday at. by the United Front Commit- F of the Young Socialist League, Young Communist League and Co-operative Commonwealth f.th, was a tremendous encour- ment to the United Front sup- @ters. The theatre was packed to doors by § p.m. and many work- had to be turned away. rhe Relief Camp boys enjoyed the Seram* immensely, and roared #Jir approval which was a-great bit to them after being cooped up the fester holes of the Depart- EAST END GANG TERRORIZES W.S. A DANCE Last Friday night after leaving the Clinton Hall members of the Workers’ Sports Association were attacked by a gang of fascist thugs. One of the members, Frank Watko, was Knocked to the ground and ter- ribly kicked and beaten. In the midst of the beating he was robbed of a little more than a dollar. His injuries were so bad that he ‘had to be removed to the General Hospital. On the Saturday following he was discharged from the hospital, but the same evening he collapsed at the corner of Jackson and WHastines Street and again had to be removed to the hospital. It is feared that he is suffering from to the spine. This gangster terrorism is becom- ing so bad at working class dances that it is time that organization was built among the youth to take care of it. Not only is it necessary to protect the dances now, but this Sangsterism and terrorism of today is the seed of the fascist terrorism of tomorrow. Workers’ Defense Corps are now becoming a necessity. The revolutionary working class must organize and act. anjuries youth ment of National Defense. Frank Joubin spoke on behalf of the United Front Committee and ex- pressed his desire to see the United Front advance still further. well received by the workers pres- ent. The proceeds, $14.68, owas turned over to the striking retief camp workers. Altogether the affair augers well for further Strenethen- ing of the United Front of the work- ing class youth in Vancouver against the attacks of capitalism. He was ‘Canadian League of South TRIANON BALLROOM #§ Admission 25c DANCE LEN CHAMBERLAIN AND ORCHESTRA Against War and Fascism FRIDAY, | APRIL 26 Dancing 9 to 12 | ‘WHERE THE WORKERS RULE §)CIAL INSURANCE | IN SOVIET UNION , Cable to Associated Labor Press) > TOSCOW, April 10.—The social in- - ance budget for 1985 in the Soviet ».on amounts to the staggering sum i 6,000,000,000 roubles, it is an- Panced here today. This is the iget proposed by the All-Union | ancil of Trade Unions and adopted the Council of People’s Commis- \'s and it is by far the largest so- 1 insurance budget in the world. fe U.S.S.R. is the only country in hich such a budget would be even motely possible. The number of people insured at 2 end of 1934 had reached the tre- ssndous figure of 23,680,000 people. For health resorts, rest homes, iidren’S nurseries, Kindergartens, B2., 53.5 per cent more funds have en appropriated this year than in 134; for public health of insured £4 per cent more than last year; propriations from social insurance bods for construction of workers’ bime is increased by 46.1 per cent. OVIET BUYS ‘MORE IN U.S. WASHINGTON, April 8. (ALP)— dviet purchases the United tates during the first quarters of 35 totalled $5,900,000, the highesi sure for the past four years, Drdinge to government figures lmonge the purchases was a com- lete steel rolling mill for which thc LS.S.F. paid $3,300,000 cash. Indus a equipment of all kinds, preci- ion instruments and agricultura! quipment made up the rest of the 1TdGers. in ac- | FOREIGN TRADE BALANCE MOSCOW, April 10. (ALP)—In 1933 he favorable foreign trade balance Vas 147,000,000 rubles gold, while in 934, it rose to 187,000,000. Have The DELICIGUS BAKERY Deliver Your Bread PHONE: HIGHLAND 705 1500 BAST HASTINGS ST. DANCE. at ORANGE HALL Gormer Gore and Hastings EVERY Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 9 to 12 3 Musie by ORANGE HALL ORCHESTRA WOMEN IN THE SOVIET UNION LENINGRADE, April 10. (ALP)— A world record for women parachute Jumpers has been set here by Vera Ferdorova, 24-year-old student at the Leningrad Institute for Physical Culture and mother of a six-year- old daughter. Ferdorova leaped from a plane at a height of 20,883 feet, almost four miles. She had no oxygen apparatus. She delayed opening the parachute until her ungloved hand almost froze; then she pulled the cord and landed on the roof of a collective farmer’s cottage over 20 miles from the Leningrad air field. She was in the air 22 minutes. The wife of an officer in the Red Army, she is ex- tremely enthusiastic about flying. e Courage of Women on The Farm “There is a good case for suggest- that every farmer and family are entitled to a short holi- day each year. given recently before the Royal Commis- sion on Wheat Farming in Australia farmers spoke of the cour- azeous support which had been af- forded to them in their fight with adversity by their wives and daugh- ters, and the Commission feels thai special reference should be made to jhe part which women are playing in maintaining the industry during the time of depression. On the average work is harder than that of their sisters in the city, and the ac- tivities of various organizations in Siates of the Common- ing his In evidence many their the different wealth should have wider support in order that the home life of the wheat farmer can be improved.’ The above extract from the report of the Royal Gommission in Australia applies with equal force to the women on Canadian farnis. Patronize Our Advertisers Whist Drive & Dance SATURDAY, APRIL 20 LUMBERWORKERS HALL 130 West Hastings St. IN AID OF “THE WORKER” Adm. 15 Cents _BREBcCEBEBESE BET SBETPaE TS BESET BDUESBBEVTwDY EAT at the LOG CABIN LUNCH 54 East Hastings St. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Full Course Meals, 15e up WORKERS .... Support Those Who Support the Movement ABS ABABAA DAE DY Jae aamessranunenel /SSVuwVew~e Bese wVe ser cee uesuexvs Workers’ Correspondence McKENDRICK . ON TO SIBERIA Establishes Workers’ School at 54th Parallel PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., April 13. —The Canadian Labor Movement is extending. It is spreading in all di- At the 54th parallel there has recently been established a work- ers’ training school. C. J. MckKen- drick is in charge of the school. Stu- ‘dents come from Shere, Smithers, Forestdale, Nithi River and Prince George. The advance of the militant labor movement will continue and in the not too distant future will eonnect up with Siberia at the pres- ent rate of progress. YELLOW DOG CONTRACT SWIFT CURRENT, Sask., April 13.—_(A LP)—A yellow dog contract is being foisted on all applicants for relief here. Covering four full pages of foolscap, it asks all the questions thinkable about past history, present status, future hopes, ete. Then it gets down to the meat of the matter and proceeds to tie up the unfortunate workers to some- thing that old Uncle Tom in the days of southern slavery surely was not asked to sign. Clause § says: “I will accept any employment offered to me by the eity of Swift Current for which I am qualified or physically able to un- dertake.” . Nothing about wages to be paid—it can be three cents an hour and still must be accepted. The final clause is an agreement to repay every Single last penny ex- pended on relief for the worker and his family. rections. Duncan, Vancouver Island, C.C.B. Club has affiliated’ to the B. C. League Against War and Fascism. if you don’t subscribe to this paper, send in a sub now. Acquire Knowledge! - -,- by reading the works which have been gained by years of ex- perience by the great working- class revolutionaries. “Rise and Fall of Austro- Marxism” by Ernst Fisher, 10c The Workers’ Economic Struggle and the Fight for Workers’ Rule (by, A. Thosovsky) =<... .. =:--- 5¢e The Program of the Communist International .............- 20¢ The i4th of March 1883 (by Eredrich Engels) ........ 5¢e Strike Stratesy and Tactics (by Charlie Sims) ........... i0c a <— — Discount on Bundle Orders — 6 Gash with Orders se a3 The above literature can be or- dered through the office of the B.C. Workers’ News. "ROYAL CITY’ FRIENDS, FOES Support and Militant Organization Got Results NEW WESTMINSTER, April 15. —It is reported to the C.L.D.L. that it was Ray’s Meat Market who phoned for the police to arrest the taggers last Saturday morming, which resulted in seven taggers be- ing arrested. Many of the New West- minster longshoremen became aware of the fact, and it is alleged that Rays’ Meat Market lost four hun- dred dollars in business on Satur- day night at a result. Taggers Fed. It is also reported that workers in the B.C. Electric lunch room Called some of the taggers into the lunch room and gave them a good feed. Some other restaurants also fed the taggers free. This is real support. A barber of New Westminster called in the representative of the €.L.D.L who went over from Vancouver to defend the arrested taggers and told him that he should certainly have a shave before he went to see the Chief so that he would be more pre- sentable. The barber shaved him free. Z “News”? in Great Demand. It is also reported that there as many as twenty-five people ask- ing for the B.C. Workers News in New Westminster and were unable to get it. (Westminster agent please take note). were Road Workers Organize NORTH BAY, Ont., April 6. (ALP) —Two hundred workers turned out last night at the city hall here for a mass meeting road work. A resolution was adopted ask- ine for a 26-day-month, 8-hour-day and 35 cents per hour, free medical, hospitalization and dental treatment for all members of workers’ families. regarding UNIONS DESERTING REFORMISTS STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 8.— (ALP)—Disgusted with the Social Democratic Party, many of the trade unions are voting to sever all con- nections with it. The latest to take this action was the Jointers Union at Gothenburg. A similar step has already been taken by the Brewers’ Union and by two branches of the clerk's union. JEWS FLEE TUREBEY JERUSALEM, April 8. (ALP)—A report from Istanbul, Turkey, to the Paleor News Agency today said that 17,000 Turkish Jews, a third of the Jewish population of the country, are ready to flee because of adverse economie and political conditions. They claimed increasing restriction of economic and political rights. Callous Treatment At Prince George Hospital Cottins Cheavss Than) Operations for Poor Workers PRINCE GEORGE, April 13.— Suffering with advanced pneumonia was admitted to the hos- pital here and nine hours after en- tering he died. In that nine hours the only attention he got was to have one poultice applied. This poor victim ask€d repeatedly for a doctor, but on the pretext that he had en- gaged one doctor who was not pres- ent at the time, this was denied him. Threatens to Put Wife Out Although this man was in a dy- ing condition, his wife was told to get out of the hospital at “lights out."’ However, she proved to be a courageous woman and refused to leave, Stating “‘I would like to see the nurse who can put me out.’’ a worker Callous Magistrate Further callousness was shown to this woman when she found that a claim had been laid against her hus- band’s wages by a shylock magis- trate from whom the couple had rented a shack. In spite of intimid- ation the funeral expenses were raised. No Money—No Treatment Another case where a worker died can be traced directly to the fact that he was penniless. Hospital authorities refused to give him a chance for his life by sending him to Vancouver for a much-needed operation. SOCIAL CREDIT FAKER CHOSEN CALGARY, Alta., April 5 (ALP)— William Aberhart, social-credit faker who is feeding his Fascist schemes upon the misery of the poor farmers and low paid and unemployed work- of Alberta, became a ‘‘der fuhrer’’ in fact here last night when he was named “Our Leader’ at social credit convention. The organization, called the Social Credit League, was launched as a “fourth” party in Alberta politics and decided to make an attempt to capture the Alberta legislature at the next provincial general elections which will likely take place in June. Delegates elected Aberhart to head the “party” and granted him the powers of a dictator in the selection of candidates. ers a SHINGLE WEAVERS! GET THIS! LENINGRAD, April 12.—_(ALP)— A man’s toe has been egrafted to his hand by Soviet scientists to re- place a finger which had been acci- dentally severed. Dr. M. I. Kuslik, FASCISM GANGS IN FLIN FLON EFLIN FLON, Man., April 8. (ALP) —Vigilantes are suspected of an out- rage perpetrated here in the bachelor quarters of John Bronak, a worker who was active in assisting the striking miners last summer. “Hood- lums broke into the home and smashed dishes and furniture, ripped up bed clothes and scattered groceries all over the floor. Although it is not proven that Vigilantes are responsible, itis quite clear what the motive was. The Anti-Gommunist League, thugs of the mining or the Hudson Bay companies, or others may haye been the culprits. An increase of 25 in the R.C.M.P. force is expected within the next few weeks here but it is hardly likely that they will take time off from Snooping and anti-labor activity to find out who wrecked the home of John Bronak. it was DIGEST OF LETTERS Poets—We appeal to our readers to send us in some news of the struggles of the workers and farm- ers in their area. We have not enough room in this issue for some of the stories received, so readers will readily understand that we can-' not possibly publish all the poetry which reaches us. Lately we have received excess poetry. Some of it is very good, but we are unable to print it Maybe it is the spring weather that is responsible for such a rush of poems. Again please send us some news stories of the strug- gles, and BOIL THEM DOWN. in to ask increased. This is J. A. of Nanaimo writes for the bundle order to be by ten copies each week. the kind of letters we like. WN. S. of Deep Bay writes in for a few copies in order to penetrate new ground. This is good stuff. Who else wants to be a revolu- tionary trail blazer? Q@. P. of Cloverdale writes in to say that the Municipal Council re- fused to meet a delegation, but they are going after them again on April 20th, and they mean business, and will demand 50 per cent increase in relief. who describes the operation to the Leningrad Surgeons’ Society yester- day, said the results were gratify- ing. The patient can bend his new grafted “forefinger” at will. The second toe of the patient’s foot was Camp Strike Highlights Harry Day, a camp striker from Camp 901, Pender Harbor, while out tagging on Saturday, was approached by a man who asked him if he wanted an overcoat. Upon receiving a reply in the affirmative, he ran up to his room and returned with an overcoat which he donated to the striker. Day returned to Strike Headquar- ters and upon feeling in the coat pocket found two thousand shares of mining stock. The strike committee advised him to take them to the police station, which he did. They are now with the lost property de- partment at the police station, where they will be held for the owner for six months, after which they will be handed over to Day if not claimed. @ne hundred dollars was yoted:to the camp strikers on the first day they entered Vancouver by. Swede Finn Workers Club with headquar- ters at the Orange Hall. The pro- visio was made that fifty dollars be handed over right away, and the other fifty be handed over at any time required during the process of the strike upon one day’s notice of requirement. Alphonse Ratti, delegate . for the TLongshoremen’s Union, visited Vic- toria and spoke to the longshoremen there and appealed to them to sup- port the Camp Workers walk-out. They responded by assessing the membership 50 cents per member. This is splendid working-class soli- darity. : BOSSES SUPPORT HEARST’S WAR PROPAGANDA SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 10-- (ALP)—When Wiliam Randolph Hearst wants children as a foil for his war-mongerine activities, poli- ticians see that he gets them. Participation of children in San Francisco Army Day exercises, fos- tered by the super-patriotic news- paper publisher as a publicity and red-baitinge stunt, was the direct re- sult of pressure exerted on city hall, according to writers in his opposition bourgeois newspapers. When the matter of using the children in the “celebration’? was first broached to Superintendent of Schools BE. A. Lee, he objected. Hearst's lieutenants immediately got busy on the phone to city hall. It’s a city election year, and the power of Hearst’s papers are very Sreat, so the authorities changed their minds. if you don’t think the camps are military, ask a camp worker to show transplanted to his right hand. you his discharge! 191 —HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE V began his memorable reign. In this year there were continual strikes amone the miners, Who dared to ask for as much as 5s. a day. Soldiers sent into South Wales by His Majesty's Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, shot down a number of these miners at Tonypandy. 191 * 2k * —IN this year Winston was busy again. This time in London, where dockers, stevedores, carmen, porters, seamen and other transport workers stopped the whole Port of London during July. Reegi- ments were massed in London, and a scheme to use 25,000 troops as blacklegs was only dropped because of the militaney of the workers. 1912 +e —SAW scores of women be- ing tortured, or as it was officially called, forcibly fed, in prisons all over the country. They were demanding the right to vote. Later this roused so much indigna- tion that the “Cat and Mouse Act” was passed. They were then re- leased when they looked like dying and re-arrested when they were strone enough to stand another period on hunger strike. —IN Dublin the transport 191 workers, led by Connolly and Garkin, fought for the right to belon=e to a trade union. Patrick Pearse wrote at this time: “The tene- ment houses of Dublin are so rotten that they periodically collapse upon their inhabitants, and if the inhabi- fants collect in the streets to discuss the matter the police baton them to death.” 4 —THE WAR TO END 191 WAR. British capitalism sent British workers to die in three continents in order that profits be higher. Nearly 1,000,000 Many of the rest can still be seen hobbling round on crutehes or selling matches in the steets. += = % 25 REASONS FOR CELEBRATING KING GEORGE'S A BRIEF HISTORY OF A GLORIOUS REIGN 19] —THIE stupidest history was fought at Loos. Everyone on the spot knew beforehand that it was bound to be a failure. But Lord Eitchener (not on the spot) wanted a “big push” to advertise his claim to become Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces. Over 60,000 men were kille: and wounded, but Isitchener did not get his rise. battle in ee see, 191 —ON Paster Monday Pearse and Connolly, with 70 men, raised the flag of an Irish Re- public in Dublin. They were taken and shot with 14 others. Connolly was badly wounded by a dumdum bullet. Wery likely he would haye died anyhow. As he was too weak to stand, they shot him sitting in : chuir. 1917 this summer hun- dreds of thousands of me fought in the mud fields around Ypres. There was no need to bury the dead; the mud swallowed every- thing. When Haig visited the place for the first time after the four months’ battle was over, he is sai to have burst into tears, saying: “God, God, did I really send men <& fight in that?” Govern- 1918735 » ae —HIiS Majesty's ment sent troops spring of this year to Murmansk an Archangel to help the Whites t turn out the Soviet Government. The experiment was mot a —ON April 13 of this yeal 191 Brigadier General Dyer ordered his troops to fire into an un- armed crowd of Indians at Amritzar They were in an enclosed space with only one small exit, and the troops fired all the ammunition they had— 1.650 rounds. Three hundred ant seventy-nine men and women were Sucecss: * > killed and over 1,000 wounded. % = —IN this year there were 192 over 27,000,000 days of strike action. Im October His Ma- jJesty’s Government passed the Emer- gency Powers Act. This giving them the right, whenever they think there is an “emergency,” to take any step they think fit, not through Parlia- ment, but by “Orders in Council.” This Act is still on the Statute Book. 192 Southern India rose in re- volt. Many were taken prisoners and some hundreds were sent acros India in a train so crammed that they could hardly move. They ha no water or food. When the journey was ended 70 were found to be dead. 192 “War to End War’ wert new beginning to be felt. In tw. years the workers had lost £10,000. 000 a eels in wages. There were over 2,000,000 unemployed. His Ma- jesty’s Prime Minister refused t& mect the representatives of 2,00{ Hunger Marchers who reached Lon- don on November 17. Seventy thou sand workers demonstrated to mee them in Hyde Park. Es * * —HIS Majesty’s Govern- 192 ment sentenced to death 172 Indian peasants, by starvation. J. He driven to revolt Thomas, afte a swell feed at the Wembley Empir FEexhibition, declared, ““We love ou Empire. We are proud of the Great- ness of our Eee. —HIS EER ESGy: s 192 Government face with a strike of London dockers. In February the Emergency Powers Act was put into operation witl Josiah Wedgewood as Chief Civi Commissioner. The strike wa broken. —HIS Majesty's Govern 192 ment was preparing to cu the wages and increase the hours « the miners. Twelve leaders of thr Communist Party were tried befor Justice Rigby Swift for sedition conspiracy. Fiye were sent to prison —IN August a trible ir op TEs ES —THE full effects of th first Labo was for 12 months. The remander for six months. “‘Red Friday’’ forced the Gevernment to set up the Samue Commission and the Strike-breakine “Organization for the Maintenance of Supplies.” 192 —THE General Strike was met with the full force of the State machinery. Hyde Park be- came a military camp. Armored cars rattled through the streets of thi East End of London. Hundreds Workers were arrested. Later His Majesty’s Government helped th: coalowners to starve the miners intc Surrender. 192 —HAVING starved the min- into surrender, His Majesty’s Government still felt ur safe. So they passed the Trad Union Act. This made almost any kind of picekting illegal and pro- hibited “‘‘sympathetic” strikes. => * = 192 —AS a method of fighting the attacks of the employ- ers and the Government the T.U-C. leaders began to get into a corne: with Sir Alfred Mond and discus the wickedness and futility of strikes and the need for everyone to get to gether. 19? —ON March 17, 31 Indian and British trade union ists were seized by the Indian police. handcuffed and taken to Meerut where they were charged with con- spiracy againt the King-Emperor After a trial lasting four years the} were sentenced to various terms 0? imprisonment. Some are still in jail * *& = eS Sey ers = * * 193 —DURING this year Hic Majesty’s second tTLabr Government was in office. The Meerut prisoners remained in ja They were soon joined by 2 other political prisoners. In e) strikers at Alexandria ‘were shot down by troops. Pitteen were killed and 220 wounded. JUBILEE 193 —THE May Commission set up by His Majesty's Goy= ernment demanded economies. The Labor Government resigned and 4 National Government was formed to “Save the Pound” by means of wage- cuts, dole cuts and ‘‘economy.” Scores of unemployed workers were batoned and imprisoned. But the went anyhow. + * * 1932 2228 Cars again. This time in Belfast. On October 11 a huge demonstration of unemployed was called to protest against relief scales that were the lowest in the United Kingdom. After street battles lasting all night the authorities were forced to make big concessions. 193 —HIs Majesty's Poreign Minister, Sir John Simon, worked overtime this year at Ge- neva and elsewhere getting the League of Nations to approve Ja- pan’s seizure of Manchuria and the murderous bombing of Shanghai. This was a triumph for British di plomacy. 193 —JUST to show that they had really got the better of the crisis His Majesty’s Govern- ment passed the Unemployment Act. This Act led to huge cuts in relief for hundreds of thousands of unem- ployed workers who were delivered jnto the hands of the U.A.B. * * ok Q@ in this year of grace 1935 we can all with good reason unite to celebrate the Jubilee of His Most Re- ligious and Gracious Majesty King George V. * % ca —Daily Worker (London). GOD SAVE THE KING Bohemian Cafe & Kosher Delicatessen Limited HOME COOKED MEALS IMPORTED MEATS & FISH 610 Rebson St. Doug. 4536