BiajG es WreOERIIG ERs | SUPPORT THE CAMP BOYS EY OU £H EDITORIAL] Of the striking relief camp workers in Vancouver, the great majority are youth. These young men are striking against a ruthless military machine, which has isolated them Page Four NEWS BC. WorKERS NEWS Published Weekly by THE PROLETARIAN PUBLISHING ASSN Room 10, 163 West Hastings Street - Vancouver, B.C. THE CORBIN TERROR “The bourgeois of our day considers him- self the legitimate successor of the baron of old, who thought every weapon in his own hand fair against the plebian, while in the hands of the plebian a weapon of any kind FUTILE SEARCH | FOR JOB FORCED | TRUCK DRIVERS) ON UNEMPLOYED 7 constitues in itself a crime.”——Marx. s i see 2 er ae : : from society, militarized them, and attempted to bludgeon ae oo bscupiion Hates The murderous attack by the police on the : 9 aaa ; z 5 3 them into a state of servility tc serve its War purposes. : é ae = eats 50 Sage Copy 26 miners of Corbin has shocked the people of |These young men eaines to 4 sos they hore (ee the Are Given Hopeless Test|Slave Driving Contrac ontbs — a 1 Be sa = = u s 2 3 . : ee ee x Canada. The ruthlessness of the armed|camps in an orderly manner: they have laid their case be- By Contemptible tors’ Greed For Super. forces of the ruling class in assisting a gang : : Bureaucrat of Spokane exploiters by clubbing and fore the citizens of Vancouver ,and their actions have been Profits Resisted Make All Checks Payable to the B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS t found justified by the vast majority of these citizens, as Send All Copy and Manuscript to the Chairman of the een oil Baad Send All Monies and Letters Bee UeEae. wor nee men one Re ea Poe the support given them evidences. The funds which they| ~” eee eS eee te Caan WINNIPEG, April 16—The ow taining to vertising an irculatton to e Busine to drive home to the workers the real charac- |}. 2 = 2 = eouver, one who was blacklisted in 2 . : ee bs 5s : © |have received in support of their struggle are exhausted. ers and drivers of thirty trucks € = ATES ter of the capitalist dictatorship clothed in epert eo Sted. | jie Slave Camps because of his par- t gaged in the excavation work f£ Y the Federal administrath building now under constructir } here, struck this morning, deman: ing higher pay. : The trucks were lined up in fro} |) The responsible authorities have denied all responsibility. The camp boys are determined, even though hungry and homeless. ticipation in the strike of last De- cember, and who for some time has been on relief sudden visit from one of the spies of the relief office who snooped around his house and asked a number of : of the job with the drievrs formir } impertinent questions. i % : 7 The Work Test. a picket line. Most of those inyol aztet hypocritical democratic forms. The clumsy lies of the police and the dec- laration of the provincial government that they accept the word of their sluggers against the mountain of evidence piled up to show the unrivalled brutality of the police at- tack, fool but few. And neither does the equally clumsy attempt to win public sym- UNITED FRONT CF RED-BAITING new Not since the days prior to the arrests of the Communist officials in 1931 when Chief Draper, Attorney-General Price, R. B. Ben- nett and Company, were fulminating against the Communists, has there been a more Vici- ous or more slanderous attack against the received a Ask For Bread—Get Clubs They gathered at Victory Square. They held a peaceful meeting and elected a delegation to see Mayor McGreer to demand relief. Eleven of the delegation were arrestd. Qur mayor, who made many sweet promises before be- ing elected, proceeded to Victory Square and read the Riot Jan venteia oy: who own trucks are Communists than that launched in an edi- torial appearing in the Commonwealth of April 18th. _ Whis attack is part of an organized cam- paign by the C.C.F. leaders to cover up their refusal of the united front in the Federal elections proposed by the Communists, and is accompanied by an extensive whispering campaign along the same lines, all of which coincides with the recent attacks upon Com- munists by Pattullo and McGeer. In the first paragraph of the editorial re- ferred to, the provocative question is put squarely up to the capitalist state as to why the authorities do not make the paroled Com- munists serve the two and one half remain- ing years of their five-year sentences. It Says: “Tt is a strange situation where an or- ganization that is admitted by its leader, Tim Buck, to be ‘still an outlaw party’ un- der Section 98 of the Criminal Code is now permitted to function openly without hin- drance from coast to coast.” The deduction from the foregoing is that the Communists are working in collusion with the government in order to defeat the C.C.F., and that their release from the Kings- ton bastile was not the result of united front mass protest, or that the jailing of the Com- munists did not stop the revolutionary up- surge of the masses, but was the result of a deal between the imprisoned men and the terrorists who put them in prison. Can baseness stoop much further than this? This slander is the best answer they zan give to a proposal for a united front of struggle against the attacks being made against the workers of Canada. With this invitation to the capitalist state to renew the terror against the vanguard of the working class, there is a cowardly at- tempt at justification for the refusal of the united front, to wit: that inasmuch as the Gommunist Party is an outlaw organization any agreement with it would endanger the liberty of the reformist leaders who might enter into it. To fortify this excuse the name of the infamous Esselwein (Leopold) the Police Secret Agent is introduced, with the conclusion that the Communist Party is led by police agents. Any labor organization that fights for the workers, and whose leaders can not be corrupted, have the menace of the police spy and agent provocateur ever to contend with. Lenin had them to fight against and to up- root; one even from the Central Executive Committee of the Bolshevik Party. Leopold was discovered, unmasked and expelled from the party as early as the spring of 1928. Others have been discovered since, and will be discovered. But there is no need for the capitalist class sending agents into an or- ganization whose leaders support the fascist measures of their government. The Commonwealth editorial quotes: “Be- ware of the Greeks when they come bearing gifts.” This is completely in line with the support rendered Bennett by the C.C.F. leaders in the House of Commons. The “Greeks,” i.e., the enemy, are not the Ben- netts, but the revolutionary workers, whose “sifts” (the united front of struggle) must be rejected in order to prove to the capitalist elass that they can administer capitalism as pathy away from the workers by wild charges of “‘subversive”’ activities of Com- munists fool very many. A united front of the federal goverment, the Pattullo outfit and the Vancouver City Council is working, in the best Hearst style, to attract attention from their strike-break- ing activities, and at the same time work up a fascist sentiment and public hysteria to prepare the way for a reign of terror against all militant workers, and particularly against the Communists who are the most militant of all. : The attack upon the Corbin mniers has another sinister purpose besdies direct as- sistance to the Spokane gang. It is a move calculated to assist the Alberta government to put into effect their infamous Trade and Industry Act with its slave codes, by smash- ing the greatest obstacle in their way, the militant and heroically led Mine Workers’ Union of Canada. Unless halted, the terror in Corbin will sweep through the Crows Nest Pass and over the whole mine area. Only working class unity, and especially Trade Union unity, can defeat this diabolical plan of the bosses and their governments. NO CO-OPERATION WITH COMMISSION The impression given by the capitalist press of co-operation between the Relief Camp strikers and the Royal Commission supposed to be investigating conditions in the camps was for the purpose of restoring a measure of confidence in the Commission. The statement of Arthur Evans and other speakers on behalf of the strikers should help to remove such an impression. The strikers are NOT co-operating with the Com- mission; they are utilizing the sittings of the Commission to get facts before the public in spite of anything the Commission may re- sort to. Workers giving evidence openly told the Commission that they had no confidence in them and that their report would not be in favor of the camp slaves. well as either of the old parties. The Communist leaders fought against hunger, fascism and war before they went into prison, and while in prison. And since they came out of prison they have given strength to the anti-capitalist fight by fur- ther proposals of unity to other labor organi- zations in the struggle against the attacks being made against the workers. And if a Heaps or a McInnis go over to the side of Bennett they cannot expect to come off un- scathed. The united front means closed ranks against the common class enemy and those on the opposite side will get hit, whether it be a Kerensky, a Ramsay Mac- Donald or a Simpson. The attacks against the Communists is no answer to the united front proposals; on the contrary, because of their splitting effects they bring aid and en- couragement to the capitalists in their at- tacks upon the working class. The demand for a united front is growing in the ranks of the C.C.F. despite the efforts of their national leaders to prevent it, and joining the capitalists in Red-baiting, work- ine up a Red Scare and another Terror will not prevent its eventual consummation. FORCE AND VIOLENCE USED __ AGAINST B.C. WORKERS Monetary Reform mean showers of bullets for the workers? His high- sounding humanitarian utterances from the platform differ not at all from the hypocrisies of all capitalist tullo has a rival of Vancouver. By F. BIGGS. The most significent feature of in Mayor McGeer This Moses of West- class politicians. After the reading of the Riot Act the Pattullo policy of government] erm Canada, who is pontine. rant- ona. Shaoline of casters beepmss has been his anti-class ate aa ing aud raving about the Golden peace aS go SA attitude has expressed itself in his Rule,” ‘*The money changers in the refusal—through Pearson, his Min-| Temple,” about “Social injustice,” “justice” under the capitalist sys- ister of Labor—to recognize the rep- who infers that by striking the air] tem. Justice becomes another name resentatives of the Lumber Work-| with the rod of Monetary Reform] for force and violence when used ers’ Union during the strike nego- there will issue forth a stream of against the workers. tiations a year ago; in his Fascist- like Minimum Wage Acts; in his use of force and violence—through the brutality of the Provincial Po- lice—against the Corbin mine strik- ers who are striking for the right of collective bargaining, the right to organize into a union of their own choosing jand in his everlasting passing the buck to the Federal Gov- ernment when the unemployed de- mand adequate relief. The Work and Wages that Pattullo promised before his election, has brought work and wages only for the gans- sters of the Provincial Police, and for the high-salaried Brain Trust- ers of the Industrial Relations Board who invent schemes to de- prive the workers of a decent stan- dard of living. Force Their Trump Card Jn his anti-Labor attitude Pat- hunery passes and ifederal when they their insides talk. Starve quietly. the Riot Act by Wictory Square. blessing everything everybody needs—like a conjuror producing an empty hat—is also not averse to using force and violence against the unemployed they demonstrate for bread. MeGeer, who is being touted as a sreat man, a strong man, the feeding Camp strikers on to the Provincial Governments, demand food for their empty stomachs he threatens to fill with—lead§ How does he differ from other capitalist class politicians4 Only Bullets For Workers or be is what is means by the reading Mayor McGeer Do the showers promised SABbItS “GUE. of United Capitalist Front have dur- The Relief Camp Workers maintained a great discipline the strike. They patient, and what the capital- workers when] 125 have been very. ist press calls a riot, is the self- a a leader, | Protection of the workers when they of the Relief | 2re being clubbed and beaten by the These fights, at Corbin and in Vancouver, were forced upon the the Provincial Govern- police. and workers by ment and the Municipal Government of Vancouver. McGeer and Pattullo may conduct in his line of| wordy, frothy contests in the Pro- yvincial legislature, but when it comes to a question of the relations Corbin mine, and the miners, or the feed- ing of the Relief Camp Workers, they think alike and act alike—use ruthlessly the method of terrorism. shot! That] between the owners of the of in of in MecGeer’s the relief camp youth. a camp. Those of us who are Act. He gave them thirty minutes to disperse; his ultimatum being backed up by three hundred police, Royal Canadian Mounted, Provincial and City, representing a united front of the Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments to starve Our Fight Young people of Vancouver, this is our fight! ployed and employed youth alike! Those of us who are un- employed do not know when we-ourselves may have to go to cuts, due to the threat of unlimited twenty-cent-a-day labor. The fight of the relief camp workers is a fight to better the conditions of all the youth of British Columbia. and protest against police terror; join the united front of working class youth in support of the relief camp youth! Unem- employed cannot resist wage Organize When he was week he he next called for his relief told that henceforth each applied for relief he must submit a list of places, firms and in- dividuals where he had been look- ing for work each day during the week; either that or no relief. Treadmill Routine. The “‘chief investigator’ who laid down this rule gave not the slightest hint as to where work could be se- cured, the worker must £0 through this useless, humiliating dis- heartening and fatiguing work each Gay to satisfy this well-fed bureau- erat. so ing attack by police in Hudson’s Bay LEST WE FORGET! Section of huge demonstration in Victory Square, Vancouver, of Slave Camp Strikers and sympathizers, follow- In circle can be seen “Der Fuehrer’” McGeer reading the Riot Act. Store. Whales And By KE. GC. JONES Mrs. Maloney on her way from the Relief Office noticed a number of people clustered about a store window. Being in no special hurry, and moved by idle curiosity, she elbowed through the gathering until she had a view of the window. In- side was a large bowl made of solid gold and Silver. “What's that asked a man. “Oh, don’t you know?’ the man asked. ‘Why, that’s the sift of B.C. to His Majesty, King George, on the occasion. of the twenty-fifth thing fer?’ she anniversary of his coronation. It weighs twenty-two and a Half pounds.” “Why, it must be worth thousands av dollars,’ said Mrs. Maloney, ap- parently much impressed. “Yes,” said the man, “it is. But then nothing is too good for the head of our great Empire, is it? This beautiful gift carries with it the love, loyalty and devotion of his subjects in B.C.’ “Tndade,”’ said Mrs. “And would ye moind what thim two big fish “They're whales. You symbolic. The whales B.C. is a maritime province.” “Oh, is that that it is? after thinkin’ they might Pattullo and McGeer. The two big ones gobblin’ up the little fish. The the the Maloney. tellin’ me ise see, this is show that I was riprisint boys in frem camp bein’ little ones.” baa, will have you little Joke, I see.’ “And birds I niver saw a bird loike thim.”’ she said. “They're Thunderbirds. The Thun- derbird, you know, is entirely myth- the “You ha,’ laughed the man. what's thim at. the top? ical, ereation of imasination of the B-C. Indians. they represent His Majesty’s Indian a On the bowl subjects.” “How erateful poor, Injuns will be to know they are rip- the bowl!’ exclaimed “They'll be so filled won't want to the starvin’ risinted on ATrs. with pride they fer a month!” “My dear Maloney. ate madam!” protested the e Thunderbirds man, “It’s perfectly alright to have a little joke, but this ... . well, it’s eoing a little too far! After all, this is still British Columbia! It isn’t Bolshevik Columbiat’ — “True fer you!’ said she. “It ain’t Bolsheyik Columbia—not yit! Not yit, but soon! And whin it is we'll be after usin’ the gold to give the Injuns dayeint houses to live in, and good food to ate, and good schools to go to. And bedad, there’ll be no slave camps thin, Oi'm after tellin’ you! Half the people on relief hayen’t got a daycint pot to bile praties in, and here they go and give a solid gold and silver bow! to His Most Gracious Majesty! What gzood’ll it be to him? He won't know what the divil to do with it! Twenty-two and a half pounds av gold silver fer him, and not of food for the relief camp But after all, this Bolshevik Columbia!” She moved away from the crowd. “Thunderbirds!” she exclaimed, half aloud. “‘Thunderbirds! We'll give the birds thunder one of these foine days!’ anc a serap strikers! isn’t One Thousand Dollars Offered, Not Accepted OSLO, skater, Worway. — ‘The Berna famous Evensen, former world champion in skating, who re- eently joined the Workers’ Organization of Norway, received offer of $1,000 from Madison Square Gardens, New York, to put on a display there. in the offer that other appearances could also be arranged for him throughout United States. Bernd Evensen simply informed the offer- ers that he is a member of an ama- Sports an It was hinted teur organization, at the same time being a workers’ sport organization, and he did not consider it proper te help them exploit people for the of the Madison Square Gar- owners. good dens’ Eyvensen proves him- self a true Worker Sportsman, in his convictions. firm If you don’t subscribe to this Directory of Unions and Organizations Workers’ Unity League Council— Meets first Wednesday in the month at 19 East Hastings St. at 8 p.m. Executive committee meetS every Wednesday at 2 p.m. Send all com- munications to the Secretary, 19 B. Hastines Street. C.L.D.L. (Sam Carr Brench)— Meetings first and third Fridays in the month at 8 pm. Whist every Saturday at $ p.m., 4265 Main Street, Vancouver. Socials Held Jointly With W.E.S.L. Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League in Wancouver—Meets every Wednes- day at 8 p.m. at 122a Hastings St. West. Hall open every day. Secre- tary, B. Liss, at above address. C.L.D.L., 5393 Victoria Rd., South Vancouver—Whist Drive & Dance every Saturday at 8 p.m. Cash prizes, admission 15c. Swedish Drill every Thursday at 8 p.m., admission 5c. Business meeting every Sunday at 2:30 p.m. JOIN UP! Ronald Stuart Branch, C€.L.D.L., meets 8:00 p.m., first and third Mon- day of each month at 2616 East Pender Street. at The best and only way to fignt against MWascism and War is to build the United Front of Labor and fight “small mer | who drive their own trucks. strikers are demanding payment an hourly basis at the rate of $i. if per hour. Truck Drivers Going in Hole. At present the truck owners @ paid 55¢c per trip, which brings never more than $8.70 per day, ar most days considerably less. Out: this wages, gasoline, oil, and 7” pairs have to be provided. 4 In conversation with the worke: this morning it was learned that or} driver after being on the job sine it was started three weeks ago, We now twenty dollars in the hole. Amother owner-driver was fire ® off the job because he had a forty j two dollar break-down, which f§ | paid for himself. The contractors are Carter, Halli Aldinger & Go. Ltd, and at noon t day only trucks directly owned Bb this large firm were operating. Anti-Fascist _ Meet, W’peg Send Protest Resolu tions to the Spanish © Consul i WINNIPHG, April 21.—Over ni | teen hundred workers, Sunday | joined in protest against fascist te: } ror currently being exercised by th : Lerroux government against th Spanish working class. A. Brock ani C. Hichin, representing the C-L.Di and the Manitoba Conferens Against War and Fascism, spoke a i the meeting which was called by the C.L.D.L. in urging uniti” against fascism, Hichin drew atter — tion to the fascist terror in Corbitt BGs where police Wednesday, brutally attacked pickets, woundin’ forty-five. The meeting unanimously ef dGorsed resolutions protesting th Spanish terror, and copies of th resolutions were sent to the Spanis Consul in Montreal.and direct to th Lerroux government. TORY LEADER ADVOCATES OPEN GANGSTERIS¥ WINNIPEG, April 9. — (ALP) When the Manitoba legislature aad journed on April 1, charges of in citing to violence in a recent speeci at Flin Flon were laid against Ralpi Webb, member of the House ani Conservative organizer for Manitoba by S. J. Farmer, 1.L.P. leader. Farmer read extracts from thi Flin Flon Miner of Webb’s speec! ealling attention to “‘we must na depend too much on the police ani British courts of law in dealing wit agitators.” (Previous context refer to Communists) and advises that th people take the steps to put suc people out of town by giving them ; coat of tar. . ‘When a member of the Hous openly urges to take the law int their own hands, things have com to a pretty pass,’’ said Farmer. Attorney -General Major, whe asked by W. Ivens across the floo! what he intended to do about Web and his advocating of mob violence replied, ‘*Nothing.”’ Join the Union—Be proud to be a Capitalism. active worker. been held over from this issu tion of the editorial board to paper, send in a sub now. Important Notice! Several letters and reports of united front activity hav e of our paper. It is the inter commence with the next issu a special page or part page for this question. It will take o the form of an “open forum” write in their opinions on this question. vital importance to the workers of B.C. at this time. No matter whether you belong to the old line partie C.C.F., Socialist, or Communist organizations, or whethe you are just sitting on the side lines, you are invited to wri your opinions on this question to the News. Men, women youth may write into our paper on this. The discussion - wide open. Try and write legibly, and on one side of th paper only, and leave us room between the lines so that w can edit your letter. We are going to try our best to hay clarity on this question, so that when election time come the workers of Canada will elect some candidates to Parli: ment who will fight for the workers’ interests. Unless you article is extra good, please confine it to 500 words. and every reader is invited ft It is of the mos