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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

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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

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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
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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

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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 . :
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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

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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.”’

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