en Support Corbin And Cam Pp Strikers! oh | “The working class a ? cannot simply lay hold of the ready- ‘made State machinery, and ; @ wield it for its own purpose.” ae —Marx. <. To go back to the Slave camps without redress of grievances first, defeat. is an open admission of EWS Published Weekly Single Copies: 5 Cents SS No. 15 ay Ist @ VANCOUVER, B.C., April 24.— ‘gfoint Defense Committee for the hing fOFDin Miners was set up here to- Siiay, composed of six members of a ‘rganizations with wide influence. ‘hese six are the initiative croup, omprising the Provisional Commit- yee, Which will enroll others until jhe movement becomes wide enough 0 carry out defense worl for the ‘orbin Miners effectively. The six |) initiate the defense work are: Bob Skinner Jack Taylor Jack Price W. Braithwaite Malcolm Bruce Bill Purvis All of these workers carry much wiluence among wide numbers of rorkers and labor sympathizers, [oth inside and outside of their own pespective organizations. Investigation Commission of Labor ‘ > it is proposed to get a commis- ion set up composed of labor and | ibor sympathizers to proceed to Sorbin and hold an independent in- estigation into the strike, picket- ng and the police attack on the Oiners and their womenfolk on ee pril ifth. It is estimated that it "7 ill cost $300 to send the commis- “ion to Corbin. z -.. Mass Meptings -. "q Several mass meetings are ar- anged for tonight (April 26) in » ancouver. The final arrangements Wave been made to hold meetings as lows: © Moose Halil, Burrard St. ™ Maple Hall, fraser Ave. Olympia Hall, Hastings St. East. i Memorial Hall, Kingsway and =e Dyce. ea O'Brien Hall; igs. All of these meetings will com- 1ence at $8 pm. and prominent foeakers will be in attendance at ach, including miners from Corbin. Funds are urgently needed for the trikers and for the purpose of sndinge an investigation commis- 5 on to Corbin. It is hoped that rotessor Drummond will accept the Mivitation to head the commission. Homer and Hast- ole top Press! ‘| The proposals of Mayor Mc- “reer which were supported Sy some leaders of A. F. of L. “nions for the camp strikers +0 go back to the camps, were urned down cold by the camp vorkers’ representatives dur- ag a conference with McGeer sv esterdey. At a mass meeting on Cam- ie Street Grounds following he conference speakers de- iounced those labor leaders vho supported the strike- #reakinge “back to camp” pro- jiosals. The strikers, while #efusing to negotiate on the lasis of McGeer’s proposals, jifered to negotiate on the lasis of their own demands, ivhich are: (1) That immediate relief be granted to the strik- ers in Vancouver; (2) That the city finance a delegation to Ottawa while the strikers re- main in the city. The strikers were advised sy their officials to beware of wrovecation by the armed orces of the state. *‘McCGHER IS FASCIST” } VICTORIA, April 25.— Demands “at relief camp strikers in Vancou- ‘er be released and charges against jhem be withdrawn were contained a rider to a resolution condemn- ng the relief camps endorsed by a ; 250 supporters of the Wednesday. Referring to Mayor G. G. MceGeer’s reading of the fiot Act to the men; Mrs. Steeves i id, “He has come out in the open at last and shown himself for the “JOINT DEFENSE MOVEMENT SET UP FOR CORBIN MINERS Independent Commission to Go to Corbin To Investigate Police Terror ABCLISH CANIPS, FEED STRIKERS SAYS MEETING An indication of how the citi- zens of Vancouver feel about the Relief Camp strike and the stary- ation and clubbing by the author- ities was seen in the mass meet- ing of West Point Grey citizens on Wednesday night at which a resolution was unanimously passed, demanding: (1) Abolition of the Relief Canips. (2) All men in Relief Camps, nor- mally residents of British Co- lumbia, to be returned to their homes. Men whose honies are outside the province to be sent home if they so elect. Pending the outcome of the existing situation in Wancou- ver, the city to provide relief and shelter for the men on strike, and to be reimbursed by the federal government. A. HEAPS AND WOODSWORTH “EXPLAIN AWAY' (3) ie! — Resort to Red- Baiting Tactics WINNIPEG, April 21 — J. Ss. Weoodsworth, national leader of the C.CF., and his parliamentary col- league, A. Heaps, are haying a busy time here “explaining away’ their refusal to appear at the Ottawa conference on unemployment, held in February last, and why they sup- ported the Bennett anti-working elass insurance bill. Heaps had a particularly uncom- fortable time on Saturday, when, on appearing before the Manitoba Conference of Unemployed, I1.L.P. members of the conference and others flayed him with questions and criticisms on these two points. Heaps evaded direct answers, and under pressure resorted to branding the Ottawa congress being “Communist,” as well as branding as Communists well known 1.L.P. members (at least one of them an executive member), who are partici- pating in the local united unemploy- ed movement, as Cossacks. Mounted Police, led by Scanlon, startine to demonstration, Tuesday, followms reading of Riot Act by Mayer McGeer. A blood-bath was narrowly averted. Section of parade of Camp Strikers on Pender Street from Victery (All pictures of Camp Strikers by courtesy of Vancouver Sun). break up peaceful march of Camp Worlers Square mass demonstration. from Victory Square Note the of redress. and coolie wages swindled and betrayed, as There are reports from reliable sources that under cover of supporting the strike of the Camp Workers, representatives of labor organizations are approaching the Strike Committee urging them to fall into the trap of McGeer, by going back to the Slave Camps on the strength of promises This is treacherous, strikebreaking ad- vice, for which the terror of the police last Tuesday was a preparation. Pattullo have done everything within their power ever since the strike began, and even before it began, to defeat the men from the slaye camps and have been ad- vising them to return to the camps. The men striking against the rotten conditions in the Federal forced labor cempounds saw for themselves on Tuesday where McGeer stands, and they would be fools to pay the slightest atten- tion to any guarantees or promises from him or any other agent of the ruling class. The slave camp strikers last December made the mistake of listening to the siren songs of false friends and politicians, and soon thereafter found that they had been Beware Of False Advisers | & [LAN EDITORIAL ] generations, at critical periods of Snes. have been betrayed by those who quail be- fore the rage and demonstrations of power on the part of their oppressors, or who are agents of the employers in the ranks of the labor movement. Those who advise the men to quit and go back to the camps hold out promises of help from the Commission appointed to MeGeer and workers for friends. “investigate” the camps, or other induce- ments. This is a barefaced swindle, and is being endorsed by those labor leaders who fear the responsibility attached to the only policy and program which can win the strike for the slaye camp strikers. In other words, they shrink from calling out the employed workers in industry in sup- port of the embattled striking youth. The camp strikers have appealed to their class brothers organized in the yari- ous trade unions the Street Railwaymen and the Lumber Workers and other unions for assistance. This should be rendered, not only by giv- ing money, but by a mass walk-out. This is the line of success, not reliance upon the hypocritical promises of politici- ans or the treacherous advice of ES: to the Longshoremen, ‘Cruel Police Attack As Prelude To Effort To Rout Camp Boys Another Hell Broth is Beng Brewed It is reported from London that a War council composed of im- perial ministers and Dominion premiers will be held shortly af- ter the jubilee festivities. The usual line of “Empire ,defense’’ bunk is being handed out to cover up| the preparations for an im- perialist war for profits. The “Socialist’’ say MacDonald, will participate, as will also Bennett who with ing and Woodsworth signed a Statement to the effect that Can- ada’s foreign policy is a policy of Peace, and which called for class peace in the event of war bemg “forced upon us.” MANITOBA CAMP INMATES STRIKE IN SYMPATHY Solidarity With the B.C. Strikers Manifested _ In Walk-outs WINNIPEG, April 16.— Whole- sale deSertion of the slave camps throughout Manitoba has occurred during the past two weeks, due in part to the usual seasonal into Winnipes, but timed and aus- mented this year by a great unor- ganized sympathy felt by the Mani- toba camp workers for the B. CG. workers in their fight against the Slave camps. Police Thugs Active. No provisions for extra accom- modation for the workers leaving camps has been made by the au- thorities who conjunction with the police are resorting to every de- Spicable ruse to either drive the workers back into camp or disperse them via the boxear route. In an attempt to prevent day- time the relief office Sranting bed tickets during the day and then, with the pogeys over- crowded, pitching the men out on the streets in the middle of the nicht. laborite, Ram- influx in is protests, (Continued on page 3) MAY DAY PARADE REVIVES SPI Mass Turn-out From Cambie to Stanley Park VANCOUVER, B.C., Apr. Verbal permission from city authori- ties to the United May Day Cele- bration Committee has been obtained for a2 May Day Parade to be held on May ist, and to start from Cam- bie Street Grounds at 2 p.m., to fol- low a line of march to Stanley Park. A mass turn-out with appropriate banners is expected. May Day parades, demonstrations, and strikes, are of the most excep- tional importance to the workers of the world this year. Canada is no exception to this. They will be the rallying point for the against the slave camps, wage cuts and worsening conditions. Most important of all, Day Day this year will: be the signal call for mass united front of all Fascism and ap- imperialist war, and for defense of the workers’ Soviet, in the U-S.S.R. and in China. The workers in Canada will this year feel the strength of power of a mightier mass movement than ever 25. workers against a mighty toilers to resist proachinge Pascist that he is.’ before. The terror being inflicted IN VANCOUVER RIT OF MILITANCY @by the R.C.M.P. and Provincial Po- lice and City Police will not deter the workers from building a greater and stronger united labor front than ever existed in the Dominion of Canada. Rally to Cambie Street Grounds an hour ahead of the time of com- mencement im order to take your appropriate place in the proces- sion. SUPPORT FOR | CAMP WORKERS Mass Meet in Winnipeg Called to Aid B.C. Strikers WINNIPEG, 19. — Bight hundred single unemployed, most of dem- April ihem recently in slave camps, onstrated on the Market Square here yesterday in sympathy with the re- lief camp strikers of B. ©. QO. Wade and B. Black, in speeches calling for support of the B. C. workers, stressed the need for the organiza- tion of the relief camp workers of Manitoba. ‘Log Strikers Win Demands Complete Victory For Log Export Workers VANCOUVER, April 25.—Export Log Workers won a complete vic- tory here today when all employers agreed to the strikers’ demands. The Goodwin Johnson Co. is the only one holding out, and they are expected to concede the demands in a day or two. The victory affects 175 men and includes wage increases as high as 40 per cent, time and a half for over- time, no discrimination, of Grievance Committee and Union, minimum of two hours to whenever men ordered out to work, and several The Log Export Workers’ affiliated to the federated of Waterfront Workers. recognition be paid Small concessions. Assn. is body ANTI-SEMITISM BUCHAREST, Roumania, April 18 (ALP)—More than 100 Jews were beaten up on the streets here yester- day in an outburst of anti-Semitism. Others were injured in a second sud- den pogrom this afternoon. Most of the attackers were students. ETLER TERROR EMULATED AT CORBIN BY B.C. POLICE Seventy-five Injured — Women’s Feet Broken by Huge Tractor One of the bloodiest pages in the of written in the little mining village history Canadian labor was of Corbin, B.C., on April i7th. Miners, on strike since January 20, were peacefully picketting, when the police tried to open the road to the mine previous to starting oper- ation by means of scab labor im- ported from Calgary. With eleven police and scabs, armed with clubs, sledge hammers and crowbars, rid- ing of top of a tractor, it was driven deliberately over the picketters, who were massed close As the tractor advanced sear, men and women feil it, to be clubbed into insen- by the remaining force of sixty-five police. One woman was 3800 feet by the Three women got their feet into the “bulldozer,” the iron surface used for clearing the snow with, to be ground with defenceless together. in high before sibility dragged tractor. left writhing on the erushed and mangled limbs. Seores Injured To date the doctor has attended 77 persons, 28 of whom haye ser- ious wounds. Here are some of the casualties from a list supplied by Dr. Elliott of Corbin, which shows that the picketters were run over by the tractor and then clubbed over the heads by the police: Two broken feet; cuts in head: cuts in right eye; nine cuts in head; cut toes dragged by “cat,” bruised and mangled all over, bruised and broken fingers; drum burst; bruised breast; besides the head. ear this many were cut over The miners, although absolutely unarmed, defended bravely. Several police injured. One scab, actually injured by a wielded by another seab riding on the tractor. themselves and seabs were seriously hurt, was sledge hammer Fascist Police Terror The terror that prevails now in Corbin is beyond description. Seven- teen strikers are in jail. They are being kept in a small cell only con- structed to hold two prisoners. It a veritable “Black Hole of Cal- is (Continued on Page 2) Provocateurs Furnish Pretexts to Attack Peaceful Strikers Many Workers Injured and Arrested VANCOUVER.—An orderly dem- onstration of Relief Camp strikers here was brutally attacked by police on Tuesday. Entering the store of the Hudson Bay Co., where a number of strikers were peace— fully passing through the aisles, touching nothing, the police began. to eject them with the use of their clubs. The police were ably assist- ed by provocateurs to furnish a semblance of excuse for the brutal- ity longs forecast by the statements of Mayor McGeer and others. ’ Constant Provocation Although the exemplary conduct of the men ever since the begin- nins of the strike had won great Sympathy from the citizens, there has been constant provocation of the strikers. Policé and stool pis- eons have been stationed at the doors of the larse stores, a con- stant insult and invitation to hun-— ery men. When attacked by the police in the store on _ Tuesday ihe men ‘fought back in self defense and while a number of strikers were wounded, some police were also well beaten up. Damage to Show cases and other store fixtures and stock is said to amount to several thousand dollars. The attack of the police also fur- nisbed a pretext for the arrest of about a score of strikers who are Charged with “malicious destruction of property” and “vasrancy.’’ (Continued on page 2) ANGUS McINNIS MEETING ENDS © IN DISORDER Rank and File Resent- ment Against Support Of Bennett Policies Angus MacInnis, a stormy M-P., met with reception when he ad- dressed a meeting in Maple Hall, Vancouver Hast, last Sunday night. The Socialist Party and C-C.h. mem- bership from four clubs bombarded him with questions about his sup- port of Bennett’s Anti-Labor Insur- ance Bill. The M.P. got sarcastic and tried to evade the pointed ques- ions fired at him. But he was quite definite in stat— ing that he was opposed to the united front Proposed by the Gom- munists. This assertion was re- plied to by shouts from the floor that there would be a united front of the rank and file. He was also asked if he had par- ticipated in the slander campaign against the Communists by stating that there was collusion between the Bennett government and the Communist Party, and if he stated that the Communist leaders were released from Kingston on the un- derstanding that they would smash the €.C.,F., MacInnis shouted from the platform, “It’s a damn lie.’’ One of the audience told him that he was lying, and a woman mem- ber of the ©@.F. went on to the platform and demanded a retrac- tion from Mactnnis, and stated that although she yoted for him in 1930 she never would again. After hour of questions the meeting broke up in disorder. The meeting was a manifestation of the within the C.GrE. elubs over the actions of the na- tional leaders in their persistent op- position to the united front of the workers, while supportine Bennett. an dissatisfaction