Page Two Be Ce We © RAKE PRIS Gee wes April 26, 1935 REACTIONARY SLANDERER ECHOES HEARST FALSEHOODS , Ex-O.B.U. Counter-Revolutionary Sabotages Relief Camp Strike ATTACKS SOVIET UNION KAMLOOPS, April 21.—The Kam- loops C.C.F. Club secured the ser- wices of the reactionary and self- called “‘dialectitian,” Frank Roberts, for about a two-week period. This individual delivered a series of ad- dresses in the Legion Hall, which were full of contradictions and Trotskyite slander against the Com- munist Party and the Soviet Union. He repeatedly stated that “the mien in relief camps, now on strike, dhad slave mentalities, and all their strike would result in, would be a few smashed skulls. It was non- sense to pit the force of the work- ing class against that of the capital- ist Class,” according to this “‘Marx- ist.’ We urged upon the workers to “set this idea of force out of your beads,” and further urged them to “fuse their mental Force to elect a CCF. government and do away with the economic effects of capi- talism.” Not one word was men- tioned as to how the workers are to exist until Socialism is brought into beings. = At one period he stated that “in Canada we need haye no fear of Fascism’; and later in his lecture he went so far as to say that “‘there is no need of demonstrating against War and Fascism, that they were both inevitable under capitalism.” Tt must be clearly understood by the masses of workers in Canada that this defeatist policy is similar +o the one adyocated by Social Democracy in Germany and Austria. "The fruits of which today are ex- pressed in a ruthless fascist dictator- sship in both countries. In answer to a question re Ben- nett’s Employment Insurance Bill, as to why it was voted for in the Federal House by the C.C.F. repre- sentatives, he replied in the right direction.” We stated that the class struggle, according to Marx and Engels, was a mental and intellectual struggle until the workers obtained a parlia- mentary majority. We concluded his vile Slander by saying that “we do not want a Communist Dictatorship in Canada like the Communist Party dictator- ship over the proletriat in Russia,” thus repeating the slanderous Trot- “it is a step skyite, Will Durante and Hearst propaganda. This demagog, Erank Roberts, should pe exposed by sincere work- ers wherever he may go spreading his vile slanders against the whole working class. Communist Election Meetings Malcolm Bruce, Communist candidate ‘for Vancouver East, will speak at the follow- ing election meetings during the week; Friday, April 26, Culley’s Hall, Burnaby, at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 28, Renfrew St., at 8 p.m. Monday, April 29, Clinton Hall, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, Com- mercial and Fourth, at 8 p.m. On Sunday, April 28, at 122 Hastings Street West, a meeting will be held, and the Federal Hlection and the United Front will be the sub- ject. Mike Dusnitsky will speak, : 1605 OBITUARY We regret to announce the death of Hans Nielson, an unemployed logeer of Millardyville, B. ©. Wans was born in Denmark and came to Ganada many years ago. He was always an active union member. He was a member of the Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union, and was blacklisted for his union activity in the logging camps of B. C. The revolutionary labor movement will miss him. He suffered Ul health through prolonged unemployment and meagre relief, but kept his chin up right to the end, even attendime a meeting two days before he col- lapsed and died. NOTICE Any organization wishing to use the W.1..l.. office, Room 12, RMiack Block, for meetings, is requested to eet in touch with the secretary, P- Harrison, 746 Cardero Street, for S MASS MEETING HELD iN ARENA Aims For Unity In Strug- gle Against Camps Bear Fruit VANCOUVER, April 20.—Worty- three trade unions and working class political parties and workers’ or- ganizations were responsibie for staging one of the best united front meetings ever held in Wancouver. The meeting, held last Friday night at the Arena, was called to protest against the action of the sgoyern- ments in refusing to deal with the eamp workers strike of two thou- sand workers who walked out of the camps of B.C. on April 4th. JT. Hmery of the Longshoremen’s Union was Chairman. Before he fook the chair, the two thousand strikers marched into the Arena in three divisions from Cambie Street Grounds: Speakers included Colin MacDon- ald of the Trades and Labor Council (A.If.of L.); McKinley of the All-Ca- nadian Congress of Labor (8.C. Dis- trict); Evans of the Workers Unity League; Matt Shaw of the Camp Workers Union, who appealed for a eollection; Peggy Harrison of the Women’s Labor League; G McNeil and Mrs. Colley of the C.C.F.; Mal- colm Bruce of the Communist Party of Canada (B.C. District; Frank Lucas of the Ganadian Labor De- fense Leasue (8-C. District); Pete Lowe of the United Front of Youth; Pat ©’Neil of the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League. Wide Representation. Besides the above representatives, there were twenty-four delesates on the platform from trade unions, such as the Street Railwaymens Union, Blectrical Workers Union, and others, as well as ©.C.F. clubs, So- cialist Party branches and workers’ mass organizations. The note of unity in this struggle was pronounced, and was accepted with wild enthusiasm by the 5000 workers gathered to support the camp workers in their struggle. The chief slogans were: “Immediate Re- lief’ and “Opening Negotiations.” Future Policy. The future policy to be adopted in this campaign was outlined by Mal- colm Bruce when he said that the strike must be spread across Canada in all of the canips under the Depart- ment of National Defense. Secondly, to bring out the remain- ing men left in the camps of B.C., and thirdly, that if that is not suf- ficient, then the strike must be spread to industry, and the employed workers drawn in through the ex- tension and intensifying of the United Front. The camp workers present readily understood this policy and wildly eheered the clarity with which Bruce outlined the policy. YOUNG PIONEERS TAG DAY Watch for the Young Pioneers’ Tage Days, which are to be held April 28th and May ist. Tages will be sold at all Work- ing Class Halls. Do your share to support the kiddies to raise funds to make a successful sumimer camp this year. All pro- ceeds will go to the Young Pioneer's Summer Camp. UNITED FRONT SHQRT ABs It is quite understandable when J. S. Woodsworth complains in his reply to Sam Carr about scurrilous attacks and personal abuse being ihe stock-in-trade of the Commun- when the slander-mongeringe racketeer who lives off the “Labor Truth’ tallk of “‘the poisoned darts of commiunistic vituperation”’’ and when other class enemies of the workers act like a hen on a hot- plate when they are themselves de- scribed and exposed in proletarian terms, in the language of the worlk- ing class. ists; There is, another class of objectors, who admit that the ex- are alright, but they don't like the lanesuage in which they are They don’t like the ad- jectives generally and the substan- tives likely, they say, to offend the susceptibil- ities of some of our more cultured followers. however, posures couched. sometimes; these are Now our movement is not a move- ment of ‘‘cultured’’ people, but of loggers, miners, fishermen, long- shoremen, streetcar men, factory workers, ditch diggers, garbage col- lectors, school teachers, store clerks, stump farmers, chicken ranchers, cow cChambermaids and so forth, who are busy rustling the next meal or the rent or the gas-bill or worrying about the price of shoes or overalls or how the baby is to be provided for. If the worker has a job and eects a chance to straighten his back he has no time to grasp the beauty and rhythm of the machinery about him; he is all eaten up on wonder- ins if the boss is going to lay him off, with a payment due on the louse and lot or the radio or the washing machine. If the stump farmer straightens up and leans on his hoe it is not to admire the beautiful sunset, but to hope the bugs will leave him something for his share or that it may rain be- fore morning. While the unemploy- ed worker has lots of time it is too full of the miusery admire the beautiful architecture of the relief office. of existence to We haye not developed that kind of culture. And we are lacking in dignity. We don't know how to wear a clawhammer coat or a plug hat. In this respect R. B. Bennett or Mr. Woodsworth would make us look like thirty cents: We don't dress for dinner (when we are lucky enough to get a dinner). We'd make a poor showing trying to balance the accoutrements of afternoon tea and at the same time discuss soul- fully “SNiryana’ or the literary out- pourings of Rabindranath Tagore. @ur accent, too, smacks of the fac- tory and the fo’e’s'‘le, not of the drawing room or the salon. And so with our language when we take to scribbling; it is not pol- ished. George Bernard Shaw says it is atrocious, but a greater mind than GBS. told us long ago that “the social revolution . .. cannot draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the fu- ture.”—(Marx). Our langsuage, like our accent, is the product of our experience of life. The class war is the most in- veterate of all wars. Those workers who most clearly realize this de- velop the greatest feeling of class hatred, which is the greatest of all vitrues in a worker. Out of this erows our style of writing and if it sounds brutal to the timorous and the so-called cultured, it is in keep- ing with what life has dealt to us at the hands of our class enemies. The toad beneath the harrow knows where the prongs bite, and if Bruce dips his pen in vitriol when writing of some scoundrelly bar- gainer in working class lives or ol’ Bill kabels a bullying police thug as he should he labelled it is as nor- mal a reaction as that of Marx who sacrificed the enemies of the workers in most terrible and biting words IN SWEDEN STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 12. —(ALP)—The fight against war and fascism will be the main theme of speakers at united front demonstra- tions to take place all over the coun- try on May ist. Defence of the So- viet Union is also included in many centres. At a meeting of the Federation of Trade Unions at Molndal, an im- portant textile centre, it was de- eided to enter a united front includ- ing Social Democrats, Trade Union- ists and Communists. Similar united fronts will be held at Vastervik, Soderham, Poshallavik, Blomster- mola, Hudiksvall and in the large industrial centre of Jakarsstrom. Get a subscription from your neighor or shop mate for the B.C. rates and available dates. Workers News. ers; that nobody today can imitate. When we have anything to write instructions from some one who controls our living, as do the ink-coolies of the capitalist as do the ink-collies of the capitalist from Hearst’s hirelings up we dont take press, (if there is any up), so we are not compelled to “try to act like gen- flemen’”? as Bouchette wrote in his column, his instructions were, when he was sent to interview Hit- as ler’s pervyent butcher commanding the Karlsruhe. This criticism levelled at these who try to “sell” the workers is not ‘“~ituperation” because it is true. And if they want to hear it in more trenchant, though unprintable terms, let them go among the work- ers fighting the bosses on the picket lines, among the relief camp strik- among the lumberworkers in CRUEL ATTACK (Continued from Page 1) Riot Act Read After the attack in the store the strikers, in orderly manner, paraded to Victory Square, where a sreat demonstration was held. And again, although the men were 50 orderly that they eyen protected the flower beds, city, provincial and R.C.M.P. police, mounted and on foot, in War equipment and pro- vided with tear gas bombs, massed in the square in the greatest dem- onstration of armed force ever seen in Vancouver against unarmed men. Members of delegations sent from the gathering to interview the Mayor and City Council were arrested. Adolph MeGeer Does His Stuff Towards the close of the demon- stration which had not produced the slightest disorder, there strutted no less a personage than Gerry Mc- Geer. He read the Riot Act, which eave “legal” sanction to mow down the workers. Bven with this provocation the men showed remarkable restraint, and within 20 minutes of Gerry’s stunt formed fours to parade out of the square. The notorious sad- ist, Mounted Policeman Scanlon, made moves toward attacking the men and Joosinge the terror. He was prevented from doing his accus- tomed stuff by a superior officer, So it is Said. Night Raids on Headquarters The men were permitted to par- ade off the grounds, but chagrined at the failure of provocation, the police staged raids the same night under cover of darkness and made miore arrests. This called forth an- other mass demonstration, which took police until after midnight to break up. Next day there appeared in the daily press statements from Mc- Geer, Premier Pattullo and the act- ine Prime Minister, WPerley, which they made attempts to create a Red Scare in order to divert at- tention from their treatment of the slave camp inmates and to win the public away from its sympathy and support of the strikers, by ignoring the plight and grievances of the strikers and charging the strike and the outcome of their starvation pol- icy to the machinations cf the Com- munists. : Hi-Lites Of Camp Strike Powell River Pulp and Paper Co. workers sent $208.82 to help the Camp Workers win their strike. The money was received on Wednesday April 24th, by the strikers with en- thusiastie applause. asain in From workers in the logging camps the Lumber Workers’ Indus- trial Union received $341. This has been turmed over to the strikers. Five strikers are charged with “Assault’’—two with “Damage to Property,’ and ten with “Vagran- cy” resulting from Tuesday’s at- tack upon the Relief Camp Workers by the police. The Canadian Labor Defense League is defending them all. Jack Lawson, militant organizer for the Relief Camp Workers’ Union last Wednesday in the Hudson’s Bay store, jumped up and addressed the public in the store and pointed out that “the parade of Camp Workers was a method of protest against the camps and that no disturbance was planned” but the police at thjat mo- ment made the attack. Lawson spoke for five minutes before police pulled him down and charged him with “Damage to Property.”’ Workers of New Westminster have been successful in obtaining a permit for a Tage Day, Saturday, April 27th. Tagging will be carried out from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. All proceeds are for camp strikers. Copy of telegram from Association Humanitaire, Inc. Montreal, to the B.c. Camp Workers’ Union: ' *Seven thousand members of our organization send you their deepest solidarity and wish you all the necessary courage in your ereat and noble struggle that you are undertaking.” Patronize Clympia Steam Baths Private Baths Open on Thur., Fri., Sat., from 2 pm.to 12 pm. Experienced Masseur in Attendance. 35c Single, 60c a Pair 2558 HAST HASTINGS STREET the camps and the longshoremen on the docks and what they will hear will still not be vituperation, be- cause it will still be true. | Ssanizer, and a miner of Corbin gave Henri Barbusse, the international Chairman Amzciens Combattants, French equivalent to the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, informs us that our Comrade Graef, although jncarcerated in a Nazi Concentration Camp, is in fairly good health, and there is no news of serious mistreat- ment, nor does his life appear danger. _ However, as this militant comrade of ours has committed no erime and has been imprisoned solely because of his militancy in his fight for the welfare of the German World War Veterans, we urge the ex-servicemen of Canada, individual- ly, and through their organizations, to send telegrams and resolutions to Werr Hitler in Berlin demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Huso Grack (from the Veterans’ U-S°A.) in Wews, ODE TO A NINE-INCH SHELL Whether your shell hits the target or not e Your cost is 500 dollars a shot. You think of flame, of noise, and power, You gorge a hundred barrels four. of ach time you roar, your flame isfed With twenty thousands loaves of bread. Then peace, and millions of hungry men Seek bread to fill their mouths again. —Author unknown. MAY DAY The Provincial Office of the Work- ers’ PBx-Servicemen’s League calls on all members and past members, with veterans who support the workers’ cause to RALLY under our banners on the May Day Parade to Stanley Park. Assemble on Cambie Street Grounds, 1 pm., May ist. Let's make May Day, 1935, a Red Letter Day in VWancouver. LABOR HISTORY Ex-Servicemen Show Your Solidarity. Gc. B. Cowan states in “Lhe Veter- ans’ News,’ New York, that “It is not enough merely to investigate the activities of these potential baby HITLERS, and war makers, but Rank and File committees must be organized in every post and encamp- ment throughout the country to ex- pose and kick out these enemies of the ex-servicemen and the potential victims of the next and to establish in these post and encamp- ments real Rank and File leader- ship, that is opposed to FASCISM and that will fight to the end against any other IMPERIALIST WAR.” I think our antifascists in the Canadian Legion and other Veterans’ organizations might well follow this example and set up Rank‘and file committees to strengthen the fight against the coming war. war, Sunday weather, afternoon, owing to wet the United Front meeting of Socialists and Communists called for Cambie Street Grounds, fiven the use of our hall. At that meeting Tom Uphill, M.L.A.; Harvey Murphy, miners’ or- were us a tale of the most brutal attack on Armed Thugs hired by the provincial fovernment the listened te—we had read of Hitler's terror, but had not expected these tactics to be used in B.C. by our Attorney-General. It is possible some women will be crippled for life. Wre would ask all citizens to protest to the provincial authorities. unarmed men and women by writer has ever CAMPAIGN FOR A DAILY ‘WORKER’ Workers in B. G. are rallying to the campaign for a Daily Worker in Canada. The drive for $6000 sus- taining fund is meeting with good response in B. C. Some organiza- tions have raised more than their quota, and are continuing to collect funds and subscriptions. Loggers Support Campaign @ne worker in a logging camp eollected eleven dollars in a few The Worker Publishing Co. is offering a prize of a trip to the Soviet Union to the district which does the best work in connection with this campaign. British Colum- bia ought to be in the running for this prize, if we speed up the col- lections. There is only one week days. to go. Turn in Collections We have only collected 50 per cent of the amount which B. C- ought to collect. Some of the money collected has not been turned in yet. This should be done right Let us put all our enersy into the campaign now and clean it up with a big surplus and get into the running. We must do our part to get a Daily Worker for the work- away. WOMEN’S COLUMN Conducted by HEARD IN PASSING. Old gentleman to boys on corner: ‘Were you out to the Scout rally to hear Baden-Powell?” Boys: ‘‘No; mother went to Tim Buck's meeting, and were in the Pioneers now.” A woman in the erowd of Van- couver citizens who showed thei: sympathy with the relief camp strikers on Tuesday at Victory Square, was heard to remark that she would rather see her son dead than in the uniform of the Mount- ed Police. These thugs make camp sweaters and overalls look like 4 million dollars. It would be interesting to know how many relief strikers lost fathers or other relatives in the war, in view of the fact that Gerry McGeer read the Riot Act in the shadow of the Cenotaph, seventeen years after the was made safe for democracy. world WOMEN READY TO HELP. The struggle of the camp boys is arousing a great deal of sympathy Among women in Vancouver. Three women, who are in no organization at present, dropped in to the Centre Branch meeting of the Women’s Labor League on Tuesday night to say that they were ready and anx— ious to do anything in their power to help the boys win. OQne woman bad with her a letter she had written. “—T have no boys of my own in camp,” she said, “but we women are the mothers of the race and I have written this protest to Mayor McGeer as a mother.” All three women were very in- terested the Women’s Labor League, and are coming to the next meeting. in Cc. L. K. writes in to ask advice, but as the problem is of a personal mature, will she write again and five her name and address and she will receive a private reply. SUPPORT DELEGATION MONDAY, 2 P.M. On Monday, April 29th, at 2 p.m., a delegation from the © Women’s Labor League will interview the City Council in an effort to set an issue of $5 monthly for house- hold necessities for relief recipients. All women interested are asked to back up this delegation and hear the report at 19 Hastings Street East at 4 p.m. on Monday. N. Van. Branch W.L.L. Are Active In Strike This branch of the Women’s La- bor League participated actively in feeding the striking boommen and others who have assisted in picket- ing the four booming grounds. The kitchen was set up by the joint committee of the W.I-R. and the strikers. The W.L.L. took over the duties of cooking, waiting on tables and putting up lunches for the night shift pickets. The strikers had certainly appre- ciated this effort on the part of the W.L.L. as a concrete example of unity in struggle for better condi- tions of workers. However, a greater achievement Gan be rendered owing to the fact that members of the W.L.L. assist- ed in the organization of a Woman's Auxiliary to the Boommen’s Union. The auxiliary is now functioning and they are jointly co-operating with the W.L.l. in looking after the comforts of the men on the picket line. g We look upon the formation of this auxiliary as the doubling of strength of the Boommen’s Union and further strengthening of the ranks of organized labor. Members of the W.L.L., whilst we have recorded guite an achieve- ment, let us not forget that the big task lies ahead of us, the task of bringing these new women comrades into closer contact with the class struggle. Press Correspondent. Patronize Our Advertisers Geo. L. Donovan Typewriters and Adding Machines Supplies and Service New and Used Machines from $10.00 up — See US First — 432 W. Pender St., Sey. 282 (ine class of Canada. strikers, the police keep arresting 1% Pessy Harrisor Every minor is expecting arrest daily. Wirtual martial law is in effect. anybody. : magistrate to try them, although ni: injured. ’ 5 CORBIN TERROR (Continued from Page i) others and then releasing them The imprisoned strikers are not jj The police are bringing charges haye yet been laid. Th police are no doubt waiting to see? what will happen to the scab and || policeman who are lying seriously | Dr. Hlliot of Corbin has signed the following statement: “Resard- ing the case of Mrs. W. Condratow,” whose husband is in jail and who- Was pushed around and hit on the back by police on April i7th in? Corbin, B.C, and is now threat. ened With an abortion or miscar riage, despite my request that the ~ police release her husband on bong” as the woman is in a serious condi-— tion, this was refused: (Signed) “ROBERT ELLIOT, MC. a Dr. Elliot, in his official capacity as secretary-treasurer of the Lib- eral Association, has also written as” follows: Tan McKenzie, M.P., is Vaneouver, B.C. 4 Dear Sir: Regarding the strike in™ Corbin, B.C., 45 men and women were injured, also five policemen and four strike-breakers. The ma- jority of these men and women were injured by cuts on the back of the head, evidently trying -to get away. from the police. About 15 women were injured, some quite seriously. JT have written three letters to “the: Attorney-General of B. ©. to try i settle strike by arbitration, but he evidently believes in beating women and men up, instead of using com= mon sense. . i In the welfare of humanity in th Crow's Nest area, I wish you would interview the Attorney-General and see if you can persuade him to ui some system instead of beating in- nocent women into insensibility. Yours truly, | (Signed) ROBERT BELLIOT, Secretary-Treasurer, ; Liberal Association. There are now 160 police concen- trated in the B. GC. section of the Crow's Nest Pass. In Corbin alone there are 120: Just imagine such ¢ number when the total population ot men, women and children on amounts to around 425. : < Delegation to Victoria A delegation interviewed Premie Pattullo and Attorney-General Sloat on the 23rd inst., and demanded tha police be withdrawn. The delega tion was composed of two miner from Corbin, Harvey Murphy, of ganizer of the Mine Workers’ Unio of Canada, and Tom Uphill, M.L.A for Fernie. The Premier refuse to and denied that th police were brutal. He suggeste that the miners agree to arbitrat the strike. Harvey Murphy state that ‘‘arbitration was neyer Know to help the workers, and this ws only a suggestion to help the mit Owners win the strike.” intervene, Mass Pressure Only Solution A mass mareh is threatened Corbin from mining centres of B.! and Alberta to assist the strike and force the police to withdra Edmonton and Calgary are prepa ing mass action. The same will | considered from the coast of B. and even delegations from Vanco ver Island if the police terror do not cease. Protest resolutions shot be forwarded to the Provincial Go ernment from all organizations | manding the police be withdray from Corbin. Set up defense Co! mittees in every town ano ham in B. ©. Rush relief to the Mi Workers’ Union at Corbin. 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