Page Two B FE Wi ORE ROS = Nee Wes April 30, 1935 REACTIONARY SLANDERER ECHOES HEARST FALSEHOODS Ex-O.B.U. Counter-Revolutionary Sabotages Relief Camp Sirike ATTACKS SOVIET UNION KAMLOOPS, April 21.—The Kam- loops C.G.F. Club secured the ser- vices of the reactionary and self- called “‘dialectitian,’”’ Frank Roberts, for about a two-wyveek 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 men in relief camps, now on strike, had slave mentalities, 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 “eet this idea of foree out of your heads,’”’ and further urged them to “use their mental force to elect a C.C.E. government and do away with the economic effects of capi- talism.’”’ Wot one word was men- tioned as to how the workers are to exist until Socialism is brought into being. At one period he stated that “in Canada we need have no fear of Fascism’: and all their and later in his lecture he went so far as to say that “there is no need of demonstrating against War and Eiascism, that they were both inevitable under capitalism.’ Jt must be clearly understood by the masses of workers in Canada that this defeatist policy is similar to the one advocated by Social Democracy in Germany and Austria. The fruits of which today are ex- pressed in a ruthless fascist dictator- ship 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.F. repre- sentatives, he replied in the right direction.’’ He stated that the class struggle, according to Marx and Engels, was a mental and until the workers obtained a parlia- “it is a step intellectual struggle mentary majority. We concluded his vile slander by saying that “we do not want Gommunist Dictatorship in Canada like the Communist Party dictator- ship over the proletriat in Russia,” thus repeating the slanderous Trot- Will Durante and Hearst propaganda. This demagog, Erank Roberts, should be exposed by sincere work- ers wherever he may go spreading his vile slanders against the whole working class. a skyite, Communist Election Meetings Malcolm Bruce, Communist candidate for Vancouver Fast, 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 logger of Millardville, B. ©. Hans was born in Denmark and came to Ganada many years ago. He was “always an active union member. He Was 2a member of the Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union, and was DHlacklisted for his union activity m the logging camps of B. €. The ‘revolutionary labor movement will miss him. We suffered ill health through prolonged unemployment and meagre relief, but kept his chin up right to the end, even attending a meeting two days before he col- lapsed and died. NOTICE Any organization wishing to use the Wt... office, Room 12, Wlack Block, for meetings, iS requested to eet in touch with the secretary, F- Harrison, 746 Cardero Street, for rates and available dates. Sut MASS MEETING HELD IN ARENA Aims For Unity In Strus- gle Against Camps Bear Fruit VANCOUVER, April 20.—Forty- three trade unions and working class political parties and workers’ or- Sanizations responsible for staging one of the best united front meetings ever held The meetings, held last Friday night at the Arena, was called to protest against the action of the sgovern- ments in refusing to deal with the strike of two thou- sand workers who walked out of the camps of B.C. on April 4th. were in Vancouver. camp workers TI. Emery of the Longshoremen’s Union was chairman. Before he took 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.F.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 collection; Peggy Harrison of the Women’s Labor League; G McNeil and Mrs. Colley of the C.C.F.; Mal- ecolm 43ruce of the Communist Party of Canada (B.C. District; Frank Lueas of the Canadian Labor De- fense League (6-C. District); Pete Lowe of the United Front of Youth; Pat O'Neil of the Workers Ex-Ser- vicemen’s League. Wide Representation. Besides the above representatives, there were twenty-four delegates on the platform from trade unions, such as the Street Railwaymens Union, Electrical 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 eamp 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 camps 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 cheered the clarity with Gruce outlined the policy. which YOUNG PIONEERS » TAG DAY Watch for the Young Pioneers’ Tag Days, which are to be held April 28th and May ist. Tags will be sold at all Work- ing Class Halls. to support the funds to Do your share kiddies to raise make a successful summer camp this year. All pro- ceeds will go to the Pioneer’s Summer Camp. Younes UNITED FRONT 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 eentres. At a meeting of the FPederation of Trade Unions at Molndal, an im- portant textile centre, it was de- cided to enter a united front includ- ing Social Democrats, Trade Union- ists and Communists. Similar united fronts will be held at Vastervik, Soderham, WPoshallayik, Blomster- mola, Hudiksyall and in the large industrial centre of Jakarsstrom. Get a subscription from neighor or shop mate for your the B.C. Workers News. SHORT JABS quite understandable when S. Woodsworth complains in his Af reply to Sam Carr about scurrilous attacks and personal abuse being stock-in-trade of the Commun- when the ists; the slander-mongering racketeer who lives off the “Labor Truth’’ “the poisoned darts of communistic vituperation’ and when other clasS enemies of the workers act like a hen on a hot- plate when they are themselves de- seribed and exposed in proletarian terms, in the language of the work- ing class. talk of There another class of objectors, who admit that the ex- posures are alright, but they don’t like the language in which they are couched. They don’t like the ad- jectives generally and the substan- tives these are likely, they to offend the susceptibil- ities of some of our more cultured followers. is, however, sometimes; say, Now our movement is not a move- ment of ‘‘cultured’’ people, but of loggers, miners, fishermen, lons- shoremen, streetcar men, factory workers, ditch diggers, garbage col- lectors, School teachers, store clerks, stump farmers, chicken ranchers, cow Chambermaids 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 eets 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- ing if the boss is going to lay him off, with a payment due on the house and lot or the radio or the machine. If the stump farmer straightens up and leans on washing his hoe it is not to admire the beautiful sunset, but to hope the bugs will leaye him something for rain be- While the unemploy- ed worker has lots of time it is too full of the misery of existence to admire the beautiful architecture of the relief office. his share or that it may fore morning. We have not developed that kind of culture. And we are Jacking in 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 te balance the accoutrements of afternoon tea and at the same time discuss soul- fully ‘“‘Nirvana’ or the literary out- pourings of Rabindranath Tagore. Qur accent, too, smacks of the fac- tory and the fo’c’s’le, not of the drawing room or the salon. disnity. 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 G.B.S. 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). Qur language, like our actent, is the product of our experience of life. The class war is the most in- veterate of all wars. Those workers ‘ho most clearly realize this de- velop the greatest feeling of elass hatred, which is the greatest of all vitrues in a worker. Out of this frows 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- fainer in working class lives or or Bill kabels a bullying police thug as he should be 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 that nobody today can imitate. When we have anything to write don’t take 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 WHearst’s hirelings up (Gif there is any up), are not compelled to “‘try to act like gen- as Bouchette wrote in his we press, so we tlemen” column, as his instructions were, when he was sent to interview Hit- pervent butcher commanding Karlsruhe. ler’s the This 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 unprintabie terms, let them go among the work- ers fighting the bosses on the picket lines, among the relief camp strik- the lumberworkers in eriticism ers, amons Thousancads Ait Arena (Continued from Page 1) that the men had instructed the Ex- ecutive Committee prepare the ballot papers. Pete “Other unions would be canvassed to take action. are stopped in the interests of the camp workers, then the ruling class and settle the strike satisfactorily to the camp workers.’ Longshoremen’s Sirike Action. The Arena rocked with the tre- mendous ovation given the declara- tion by the Gongshoremen’s dele- gate, George Brown, that the water- front workers would strike on Mon- April 29th for one hour protest against the treatment meted out to the striking Camp Workers, and would also came out on strike on May Day for a 24-hour strike in of the Camp Workers. Everyone recognized that this is the highest point of working class soli- darity in the strike so far. Matt Shaw of the Camp Boys’ Strike Committee said, “Is it any wonder there are agitators, they have been in military controlled camps, working for 20 cents a day?” Matt expressed the gratitude of the boys for the mass support and called upon the workers to follow it up with greater nrass action. “Mother” Colley’s Rousing Call. Mrs. Colley, referred to “Mother” Dr. Telford who troduced her, called upon the wom- en to support the boys. Workers will remember as one of the first women to rally to the Wraser Mill in 1931, started the field kitchen for strikers there. Arnold Webster spoke of the sup- port of the teachers and the Parent- Teachers Pederation Convention. Harold Wineh spoke at length on the need for mass support, and Bob Skinner ably handled the chair. 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. to said, If the wheels of industry will quake in their shoes, day, as 32 support when as by in- her she the strikers when Irrom workers in the camps the Lumber Workers’ trial Union received $341. logging Indus- This has been turned over to the strikers. Five strikers are charged with “Assault’—two with “Damage to Property,’ and ten with “Vagran- ey’ 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 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. a Copy of tele=ram 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 great and noble struggle that you are undertaking.” Haye The DELICIOUS BAKERY Deliver Your Bread PHONE: HIGHLAND 705 1500 EAST HASTINGS ST. Patronize Clympia Steam Baths Private Baths Open on Thur., Fri., Sat., from 2p.m.to 12 pm. Experienced Masseur in Attendance. 85c Single, 60c a Pair 2558 EAST HASTINGS STREET the camps and the longshoremen on the docks and what they will hear Will still not be vituperation, be- cause it will sti be true. | WRATH! : Henri Barbusse, the international Chairman Anciens Combattants, Freneh equivalent to the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League, informs us our Comrade Graef, although incarcerated in a Nazi Concentration Camp, is in fairly good health, and there is n0 news of serious mistreat-— ment, por does his life appear im danger. UHowever, 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 World War Weterans, we urge the ex-servicemen of Ganada, individual- ly, and through their organizations, to send telegrams and resolutions to Werr Hitler in Berlin demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Hugo Graef. (From the Veterans’ Wews, U.S.A.) that German ODE TO A NINE-INCH SHELL Whether your shell hits the target or not Your cost is 500 dollars a shot. You think of flame, of noise, and power, You goree a hundred barrels of four. Each time you roar, your flame is fed 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’ Ex-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 p-m., May ist. Let’s make May Day, 1935, a Red Letter Day in Vancouver. LABOR HISTORY Ex-Servicemen Show Your Solidarity. Cc. B. Gowan states in “Lhe Veter- ans’ 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 yictims of the next war, and to establish in these post and encamp- ments real Rank and Wile leader- ship, that is opposed to PASCISAL and that will fight to the end any other IMPERIALIST News,”’ against 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. Sunday afternoon, owing to wet weather, the United Front meeting of Socialists and Communists called Gambie Street Grounds, given the use of our hall. At that Tom Uphill, M.L.A.; Harvey Murphy, miners’ or- for were meeting Banizer, and a miner of Corbin gave us a tale of the most brutal attack on unarmed men and women by Armed Thugs hired by the provincial government the writer has ever listened to—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. We would ask all citizens to protest to the provincial authorities. CAMPAIGN FOR A DAILY ‘WORKER’ Workers in B. GC. are rallying to the campaign for a Daily Worker in Canada. The drive for $6000 sus- tainine fund is meeting with good response in B. ©. Some organiza- tions have raised more than their quota, and are continuing to collect funds and subscriptions. Loggers Support Campaign One worker in a logging camp collected eleven dollars in a few The Worker Publishing Go. 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- days. bia ought to be in the running for this prize, if we speed up the col- jlections. There is only one week to <0. 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 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- yet. away. Linge class of Canada. WOMEN’S COLUMN Conducted by Peggy Harrisor 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 we're in the Pioneers nov.’ A woman in the crowd of Van- couver citizens who showed their 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 a 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 world was made safe democracy. for WOMEN READY TO HELP. The struggle of the camp boys is arousing a great deal of sympathy amons women in Vancouver. Three women, who are in no organization at present, dropped in to the Centre Granch 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. One woman had with her a letter she had written. “I 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 MeGeer as a mother.” All three women were very in- terested the Women’s Labor League, and are coming to the next meeting, in Cc. iL. K. writes in to ask advice, but as the problem is of a personal mature, will she write again and sive 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 get 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 Bast 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. Whe 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 can 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. We look upon the formation of this auxiliary as the doubling of streneth of the Boommien’s Union and further strengthening of the ranks of organized labor. Members of the W.L.L., whilst we have recorded quite an achieye- ment, let us not forget that the big task lies ahead of us, the task of bringing these pew 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 Working Up against the strike, but because they} ] were unable to undertake the ardus 7) ous march to Vancouver. Hyster1 (Continued from Page 1) Screaming about “revolution” anc § “uprising”? will avail nothing, and 1 used because all the old tricks to de” feat the strike have miserably7¢ failed. 4 Frantic Efforts. ie First there were the wild state @ ments about burning down the jj camps, made by the Minister of Der fense, Sterling, in the House of Com: mons. Next was the appointment oj a Commission under pretext of “in ~ vestigating”’ the conditions 3 camps in order to cause delay; ther | the si nates er i=) ch ina * seaiticsteLlsenatea! passing of the buck and thi) frantic efforts to get the men back § to the camps and thereby brealk thy strike. oa Riot Act and Police Terror. Failing in these tricks, and seeing that the organized labor movemeni was lining up behind the strikers, ¢ taste of terror was administered ir 4 the Hudson’s Bay store where the | strikers were peacefully demonstrat. 4 ins. There the police began rioting 4 and because the men defended them: j selves as best they could they a accused of doing the rioting. Then the unnecessary reading of the Riot Act by the mayor which | he says was done to protect the *publie.* There was no danger to the public from the camp workers ~ but there -was danger to the public from the police, and this danger was jnereased tenfold by the reading of the Riot Act. It is clear from the rayings of Me- Geer, Pattullo and Perley that, pe: cause of the solidarity of the strike ers and the united front supper they are receiving, that the class which is striving to herd the men back to the hellish Slave camps on pain of staryation are attempting to manufacture a public prejudice m order to launch a reign of terror, mass arrests against and lesal frame-ups the men and the unites workers they know they cannot beat except by open force and violence: Bosses Fear General Strike. What they fear, and they fear il because it will bring victory. to the slave camp workers, is the eneral Strike. And this they will preven) if they can. Lying propaganda, threats, working on the timorou) elements in labor ranks and down: right corruption of others, are the stock-in-trade of the oppressors @ the workers; and when these fai there is resort to force and yiolence General Strike Spells Victory. The general strike is portrayed 2! being, in itself, an act of violence It is no such thing, although genera strikes have been suppressed Db force and violence. The general strike is the most ef fective weapon of the workers. Th boss class and its political tool know this, and they fear it, hence their frantic efforts to head it of FISHERMEN. UNITE ON PRICE Joint Price Committee t Present Demands To Boss Packers Suecessful joint meeting of del gates from the Fishermen & Ca nery Workers, B.C. Fishermer Protective Association, United Fis ermen’s Union, Japanese TF ishe men’s Protective Association 2 Upriver Fishermen’s Union w held at New Westminster on Satu day last at which an agreement w reached between these unions on t prices of fish for the coming sé son. A price committee of two fr each union was appointed to press the price demands to the © M. and each union, through their -rep sentatives, pledged -to extend 7 unity of all the fishermen to act participation in the struggle on | srounds, should the packers rej the demands as presented to the The joint price committee was structed to meet the canners t week and to report back to the vz ous unions on the results. When you have read this pay pass it on to your friend. Bohemian Cafe & Kesher Delicatessen Limited HOME COOKED MEALS IMPORTED IBATS £& FISH 610 Robson Sé. Doug. 45: