[1 26, 1935 . ; B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Page Three jail Amalgamation Means Forty Thousand Laid Off Sseatty's Plan Would jncrease Burden For Workers : ues | -INNIPEG, April 17._Details of operating costs of the C.N.R. ' the G.P.R. recently made public explode Beattys myth unemployment resulting from ication of the two roads can be idated by natural causes, i.e., by fans of pensions, deaths, etc., and | by lay-offs. On the contrary figures reveal a minimum lay- of 40,000 railroaders to effect the ing of $75 million aimed at by rail magnates. the figures follow: Teatas tal operating ex- enses, CIN-R. and MPR. in’ 1933... -.3220,099,412-70 meal salaries paid to igemaployees in 193838... 141,130,268:69 pal faeenses -exclusive of operating ex- $78,969, 144.01 highest meoxperts agree that the Psible saving that could be made factual operating expenses is 30 cent, i.e., $23,690,743.00, which yes $52 million to be saved from The railroad employees zes and salaries. average ze of all is 300. Therefore, of $52 million from the wages to effect a sayv- @| salaries account would necessi- f> the firing of forty thousand. iditional Thousands of Workers : Affected “3ut-this is not all, “tion in the purchasing power of | railroaders would be accom- qiuied by a similar effect in the . ed and dependent industries. ification would affect that steel Ents, the coal mines, the tie-camps, ., and with the already talked-of | fication of the telegraph services. uid result in a gross total lay-off © from S80 to 90 thousand workers. this huge re- "PEG WAITRESSES GET TRIPLE PAY Win Back Wages and A Shorter Working Week WINNIPEG, April 19.—A three- fold increase in pay, $25 back pay and a reduction in the working week from 60 to 48 hours, were gained by the waitresses of the Dufferin Cafe yesterday after a strike lasting only one day. The girls, who will now receive the mini- mum wage of $7.65, with $2.50 and $3.00, previously, are members of the Hotel and Restaur- Workers’ Industrial Union, which has chalked up a string of as compared ant victories in which hundreds of dol- lars of back pay have been won for paid the restaurant workers below minimum wage. OCHRANA FOR NEWFOUNDLAND ST. JOHNS, Nfld, April 8, (ALP) —Newtoundland is planning tablish a police force patterned after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police it is announced here. Permission has been sought from the Dominions Of- fice in London, England. The new police force, which will have airplanes, automobiles, motor boats and horses, will combine the functions of political and resular police, will collect customs, admin- ister relief, and will perform other tasks. Loe es— Turn out May Day and demonstrate mass resistance to wage-cuts and Slave camps. Help to build united front working class solidarity. “'omen’s Auxiliary Do 'Great Work Feeding - Picket Lines SORTH VANCOUVER, April 23. iSeyen ships are tied up in the rbor today while the striking Ex- rt Lo= Workers hold firm. The ikers have the support of wide stions of the organized workers on = waterfront, as well as of other ies. : Men Staying By Demands Fair Wage Officer Harrison ikine efforts to end the strike. 1c two main points in the demands the men are: (1) Hiring of men rough the union hall, and (2) the ize scale. The men also demand: no discrimination; (b) time and e-half for overtime, legal holi- ys and Sundays; (c) n0 man to ceive less than two hours’ pay is \hips Not Being Loaded i As Strikers Hold Firm Vfor each call to work; (ad) all sub- contractors to be breusht under the agreement; (e) peeling contracts eliminated. Excellent Work By Women The newly organized Women’s Aumsilliary is a great help to the strikers. They are doing noble work in feeding the men on picket line -in conjunction with the W.I.R. and the Women’s Labor League. Twenty-four hour pickets and a picket patrol boat are doing mas- nificent work. Vancouver and New Westminster longshoremen are givy- ine financial aid and refuse to load unfair logs. Donations haye been fiven from the Seafarers’ and Goastwise Unions, and the unem- ployed are rendering support. Re- ports from Vancouver Island are that no ships are being loaded, as the longshoremen there are solidly supporting the strike. HASTINGS BAKERY 716 BAST HASTING ST. ‘The Bakery that supplied bread to the Loggers’ Strike. We Specialize in Cakes and Fancy Bread Support Those Who Support You DANCE ‘ORANGE HALL Corner Gore and Hastings EVERY Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 9 to 12 a Musie by | ORANGE HALL ORCHESTRA SOVIET FILM BEFORE CENSOR The Soviet film, “Ten Days That Shook the World,” will go before the censors on Monday, April 29th. If passed the first showing will be given in Vancouver on Thursday, May 2nd, places and other dates throughout the prov- ince to be announced later. pLeSee See eee Sees eSeeeeeEe EAT at the LOG CABIN LUNCH 54 East Hastings St. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Full Gourse Meals, 15c up WOREERS .... Support Those Who Support the Movement AAARRRARE EET OD MRAranaananaannaneannl ; 4 f § f f § f 4 p f 4 f f 4 f f 4 f § 4 $ p | Canadian League of Youth Against War and Fascism DANCE LEN CHAMBERLAIN AND ORCHESTRA TRIANON BALLROOM Admission 25c FRIDAY, APRIL 26 | Dancing 9 to 12 i | —= — i RATES: One year, $1.80. City or Town GSPWTON GS: eysieewsiwtere ciel ols core SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PAPER BY | FILLING OUT THE FORM BELOW | 6 Months, Please send THE B.C. WORKERS NEWS to: for which I enclose $......-.-..-.--- $1.00. 3 Months, 50c. === Workers’ Correspondence INDIANS WANT EQUAL RELIEF Wecless To Apply Indian Agents To We print below a copy of a resolution sent to Premier Pat- tullo and the Minister of Labor asking for alleviation of the ter- rible distress among the Indian people of B.C. It is significant that the Indian people are follow- ing the lead of their white brothers in this. The next step is to link up with white workers and farmers to fight as one.—Ed. Lillooet, B.C., April 8, 1935. Doz Hon. T. D. Pattullo, Premier, Hon. Geo. Pearson, Min. of Labor, Hon. G. M. Weir, Prov. Secretary, Dear Sirs,—We to bring to your attention the terrible situation in whieh the Indian population find themselves in the Lillooet. Qur people are becoming entirely destitute in increasing numbers with wish district around consequent vitality. and We cannot get even the amount of relief Siven to the Ahite population and we need mum amount. Not Beggars. We have appealed to the Indian Department, as individuals, also through letters representing quite a few of us, but without results. As a matter of fact, our Conditions are becoming worse. We are not beg- Sars; we are simply asking at this time that we be placed on an equal footing with the relief recipients generally throughout the province. This letter has been drawn up after wide discussion selves, sickness lowered this mini- among our- and we trust that you will take the case of the Indians up and obtain redress for us. (Signed) Indians’ Protective Association. Per W. Adolph. HARRISON MILLS BEAT WAGE ACT Minimum Wage Legisla- tion Useless Without Organization Chinese and Harrison Mills, white workers at Lid., compelled the boss here to reduce the board bill from $1.45 per day to $1.10. They Sot in touch with the government at Victoria and exposed the exorbi- tant prices Charged. The boss, Mr. Beach, told the men that they could stay and work, if they wrote to Vic- and tdld the government that they wanted toria officer $1.45 refused, to pay per day for board. The men and instead protested that the board should be reduced. Increase Rent tor Bunkhouse The the Wage ehareing boss beats Act by amounts for rent for Minimum increased the bunk- houses. The sawyers were formerly charged 20 cents per day rent, now they are charged 50 cents per day. Packers paid formerly 70 cents and now have to pay $1.00. the This is how bosses beat the so-called labor laws of British Columbia. This ought show to the workers that the legislation is not worth the paper it to is written on unless the workers are organized strong enough to en- force it. © INTERVIEW WITH BRAITHWAITE Finding Mr. Braithwaite we asked him if he would make a statement on the United Front between -the C. P. and the C.Ci. He said that he was sorry, but he could not give an official opinion. “My opinion is not a political one; as a politician Yd make a good warsherwoman. EByentually there will be a United | Front.” When asked what chances the C.C.%. had in the Wederal elections he replied that they are not running all constituencies. said, have @ strone candidates in “Wowever,’ > he “we chance of forming a good working opposition.”’ Asking him about the police bru- talities Tuesday night Braith- waite was of the opinion that the unproyoked and on brutalities were unnecessary. Tf you don’t think the camps are military, ask a camp worker to show you his discharge! May Day In Nanaimo Open Air Meetings Called For Big Day NANAIMO, B.C., April 16.—A May Day Conference held here recently with wide representation decided to hold an open air meeting on May Day. Social affairs will be held on the same evening The conference went on record as being in favor of the unemployed workers having a holiday May ist, and every effort will be made to bring it about as well as calling for a holiday for school children. The conference Went on record as endorsing the Workers Bill for Unemployment Insurance. At the May Day meeting several organiza- tions will have speakers on the platform. RELIEFERS WANT USE OF OWN CARS Send Resolution To Premier Pattullo NANAIMO, B:C., following April 20.— The resolution was recently adopted here and ordered sent to Premier Pattullo at Victoria: RESOLUTION Premier Pattullo, Parliament Bldg., Victoria, B: €. Whereas, the unemployed Work- ers and Farmers now on relief have been denied the right to operate a also they haye been refused right to take out a _ driver's licence, Whereas, ear, the and the right to operate a ear is a necessity for the unem- ployed Workers and Farmers on re- lief in order meagre relief allowance go a little further; therefore be it that we, Nanaimo and District Work- to make the present Resolved, the members of the ers’ Association, numbering 240, at a regular business meeting demand that workers and farmers on relief be granted the right to operate a car; and be it further Resolved, we demand that free car licences and free drivers’ licences be supplied to Workers and Farmers on relief when called for. STRIKE VICTORY IN TWO DAYS Communist Aldermen Help Truck Drivers Get Increase WINNIPEG, strike April 18.—After a lasting two days the truck operators engaged in the excavation work for the new federal administra- tion building under here, gained an increase in pay of 10 cents per trip and a 50 per cent in the haulage distance. construction reduction The truckers, most’ of whom are owner-drivers, Were assisted in their Aldermen victory Communist Penner and Forkin. by ILLEGAL PAPER IN AUSTRIA VIENNA, April 10—(ALP)—Out of the mass of illegal literature on Which so many Viennese now rely for news, there sheet boldly entitled “‘Iileor,”’ an ab- brevation of “legal News Agency Correspondence.” It our illegal task,”’ the anonymous editor, “to keep you accurately informed about all Aus- trian affairs. Thanks to our first class connections with all minis- tries, with the Fascist armed bodies, the police and army, we Shall be able to give you the fullest information about illezal activities in Austria and place illezal newspapers and books has arisen a gay is writes at your disposal. ‘How and where you will have to pay your subscriptions you will be informed in one course through our own iUlegal channels by our own il- legal methods.”’ Tileor shows remarkable inside knowledge of conflicts at recent cab- inet councils. GORDON GRANT Room 29 163 West Hastings St. SOLICITOR FOR THE C.L.DL. NO SUPPORT OF LIB. MEMBER Munn Is Opposed to the Workers’ Bill Elphistone Protective record since last non-contributory insurance, and defin- itely opposed to? the bill of R. B. Bennett. We sent a letter to our sitting member, Mr. A. BE. Munn, in- forming him of this fact. We re- eeived the following reply: Ottawa, Feb. 8. Mr. A. J. Charman, Gibsons Landing, B.C. Dear Mr. Charman: I regret I cannot support your resolution. I must be honest with all the people in my riding. [I in fawor of a square deal for work- first, last and always. I have been an employer of labor for a ereat many. and I have al- ways played fair. There are people living in your district who at some time or another worked in our camps, if you will ask them they will tell you that they always received the best wages and the best treatment, I am in favor of unemployment insurance, but it must be contibu- tory — employee, employer and the state. I might say, however, that I am not satisfied with the present bill before the house. Favors Liberal Heelers We workers know Mr. Munn yery well, and we can truthfully say that he certainly gave the Liberal heelers in this district a good share of the Liberal Blood Money, if that what he means by good treat- ment and wages, etc. We are not satisfied with this answer, however, and we are going to carry the struggle for the Work- Bill into every organization where working people congregate. POLICE CHIEF INTIMIDATES Chinese Workers in Vic- toria Struggle for Equal Relief VICTORIA, B.C,, April 15—‘“Take a good look at this man and the next time you see him in a demon- stration, pick him up and throw him in the can.’ This is what the Chiet of Police said to the whole detective force, as he pointed to one of the members of a delega- tion of five (three white and two Oriental workers) who visited the police station in the struggle for re- lief for the Chinese workers. This was after a mass demonstration to the Relief Office, and to the Mayor. Threatens to Invoke Section 98. We also tried to intimidate the workers by stating, “We got Kroeger and we will get you under Section 98."". This is the reply of the city Workers’ Association are on February for employment un—- am. ers, years, and is ers’ here authorities to the cry of the Chinese, workers for bread. They are fsoing back to them, however, on Monday for the relief, and the chief will find that he cannot intimidate them be- cause they will add to their numbers until they get what they demand. FASCIST SPAIN FEARS REVOLT MADRID, Spain, April 9. (ALP)— In the attempt to smash the rising tide of revolutionary against Spanish fascism, an order is- sued by the Governor of Asturias re- inforces guards and police force by additions. Nine hundred more guards are to be sta- tioned in Asturias, 260 more in Leon, 45 in Palencia, and 50 more in San- Sixty-eight new fortified barracks are being built in Asturias, all of these in workers’ neighbor- hoods. Wortified to be erected in every mining village. struggle large “emergency” tander. barracks are also Police Await Delegates’ Return Excerpt from letter received by P.W.C. from Golden Workers Pro- tective Association: “Our delesates to the Provincial Workers Council Conference and to the B.G. Goneress on Work and Un- employment Tnsurance, arrived home on Saturday, 13th. Bennett had a delegation of three R-C.M-P.’s and a Provincial bull to meet them at the train, and to escort Clif Sor- ley, one of them, to a free break- fast. He is now out on suspended sentence of two months, under the Railways Act.” In the interest of workers who may be misled by statements ap- pearing the capitalist press, and who may be contemplating coming to the Cariboo with the idea that they can get rich, or even make a living on the bars in this district, I weuld ask you to give space in your paper to the following article: It should be known that the bars and benches here have been worked for the past G0 years and are pretty well These bars can, during in pawed over. of course, be worked only low water; on an average there are 100 days during the year when operations can be carried on. ‘This year on account of a heavy fall of snow and late spring, water will be unusually high, which will cut down the length of time be carried on. Vifty Cents a Day The average earnings of bar work- work can ers during the past season, accord- ine to reliable reports, was from 25 to 50 cents per day, even a conser- vative member estimated it at 60 cents. When you take into consid- eration the fact that a large per- centage of these were men of ex- "SOURDOUGH" IS RIGHT! GOLD’ MINERS RELIEF RATIONS Glitter of Goldfields Mirages Starvation Conditions Of Unemployed perience, it cuts the earnings of the inexperienced men to almost noth- ing. Much been said about the high price of gold, but I have yet to see the small has miner get more than $25 per oz. for gold. All the small miners are on relief, at.least during the winter months, and as the price of provisions here are high, the standard of living is of necessity low. Eyen experienced miners often times are on relief before spring. Bosses’ Lying Propaganda It is the general belief of old- timers here that the whole gold boom is an effort of finance capital to get money invested in low grade properties, and to entice the unem- ployed from the cities and camps to do their starving out of sight, and to business for a few local businessmen. boost Misleading statements by a local correspondent appear in the “Sun- day Province” with the evident pur- pose of encouraging the unemploy- ed to come here. “Worker” Quesnel, B.C. Correspondent, Individual Grievances Means Relief Being Cut Recently the Municipal Council of Cloverdale decided to cut the relief of all married men in half and to remove all the names of single men from the relief rolls. A United Front was formed be- tween the ratepayers’ associations, the local C.C.F. Clubs and the Farmers’ Unity League. Also hree hundred and fourteen signatures of taxpayers backed the following de- mands: cut. (2) Men. @n the oceasion of the council meeting, April 20, 150 attended. The council turned the demands down flat. A decision was taken in the mass meeting that the council should be prevented from leaving until the demands were granted. Mr. Swailes, the C€.C.F. member for the constituency, and the Rey. MANITOBA CAMP BOYS AID B.C (Continued from Page 1) Re-instatement of the Single Demand Increase in Rations. WINNIPEG, April 16—About single men struck Monday in the provincial government slave camps at Bissett and WVanson, demanding jnereased tobacco rations, better ac- commodation, more clothing and a better water supply. Immediately upon the calling of the strike the provincial authorities, fearful that the neighboring Rice Lake Gold and Metal Mining enter- lose their intended re- serve of cheap labor, assigned one of its chief strike breakers, E. Houston, to “settle’’ the strike. The workers in these two camps also protested en mass during last week when they successfully de- manded the return of one day’s “nay —twenty cents—which had been docked because they refused to work in wet weather. 75 prises may Have The DELICIOUS BAKERY Deliver Your Bread PHONE: HIGHLAND 705 1500 BAST HASTINGS ST. Peace Without Plenty (1) Restoration of the 50 per cent Wins At Cloverdale Frank, a CCF. preacher from White Rock, along with a delegate from the Delta District executive of the C.C.F., began to preach pacifism in preference to mass pressure. The situation was not helped when some- one informed the crowd that there was a machine-gun in the police ear. (Two carloads of bulls had been shipped in from New West- Tainster.)} ZLoeal militants and Pred Grange, organizer of the Provincial Work- ers’ Council, did their best to show that the Council must be compelled to make concessions before termin- ating the meeting. The barrage of “peace and goodwill” was too great, however, and a policy of taking up individual erievances was followed: The workers and farmers of Clov- erdale will learn that “advisory com- mittees’’ will prove a step towards a further cut. The only method to be adopted is militant mass United Action. ATTENTION! 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