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Workers’ Correspondence

REMEMBER
MR. KIDESTON

If He Cannot See Where
His Interests Lie,

Show Him

PRINCE GEORGE, May 26.—The
following is a copy of a notice re-
cently put up in the store at Shelly,
B.C. This was after the relief strike
was called in Prince George, which
also brought out on strike the Shelly
relief workers:

NOTICE

I do not wish to take part in
your strike, that must rest with
your individual consciences, before
relief was instituted in British Co-
lumbia, I furnished you with food
and clothes to the extent of thou-
Sands of dollars, and crippled my-
self in so doing and in many cases
did not even gain your goodwill
by so doing, for the last year this
business has been strictly on a
eash basis and that is the only
Way one can run a business nowa-
days, while you are on strile, of
course, your wages are cut off,
while your wages are cut off, I
cannot furnish you with supplies,
when you go back to work, notify
me, and I will again extend credit.
R. H. Gidston, Prop.

“It Is Up To Canada’”’

SUDBURY, May 16 (ALP).—Flat
refusal to reveal what proportion of
the annual nickel tonnage exported
by the International Nickel CGom-
pany to Germany, Holland,
Norway or Sweden, was made today
by Donald MacAskill, general man-
ager of the company.

Following statements made in the
British House of Commons regard-
ing the export of large quantities of
nickel to Germany, questions were
put to the British government and

goes

Capt. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy
Seal, answered that “It is up to
Canada.”

MacAskill stated that President
Stanley of NICO is in London, Eng-
land, now.

Both nickel and copper, essential
War metals, showed large produc-
“on gains in Canada during March,
the last month for which accurate
Statistics are available. The pound-
age production of copper was 37,-
$28,905, an increase over the previ-
ous month of 13 per cent and an
increase over the same month last
year of 22.6 per cent. Poundage out-
put of nickel was 10,619,462, an in-
erease over February of 20.7 per
cent, and 4 small gain over the same
month last year.

Water Festival
In USSR

MOSCOW, USSR, May 29 (AILP)—
At the recent All-Union water festi-
val held in Moscow, at which swim-
mers from Moscow, Leningrad, Gorki
and Transcaucasia participated, the
champion of the USSR, Nikolas Bor-
IiSSOvV, established two new records.

Im the 220 meters back swim, he
lowered the European record, his
time being 2.33.2. He also established
a new world’s record for the 400

markable time of 5.24.8. Borissov
is 20 years of age, an electrician by
trade, and has been swimmine since
he was 15 years of age.

Brilliants results were achieved by
Sportswoman M. I. Aleshina. She
lowered the world’s record for the
400 meters back swim, her time be-
ing 6.07.2. The record was formerly
held by Miss Grady of England. The
new champion is 24 years old, and
a salesgirl by profession.

Nazi Regimentation

BERLIN, Germany, May 25 (ALP)
—*“‘Listening in” on radio broadcasts
from Moscow has been upheld b:
the district “Labor” Court at Marien-
werder in East Prussia as good cause
for instant dismissal of a worker
from employment in Germany.

ANNOUNCEMENT

WHIST DRIVE AND DANCE:
Community Hall, Victoria and 43rd
Avenue. Door prize $2.50. Merchan-
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Tickets 15 cents or two for two bits.
Proceeds for June Campaign of the
“News.”

CORRECTION

In last week's account of the Deep
Bay Cannery workers’ strike a mis-
take occurred in regard to the de-
mands. The article stated that the
demands were for $6.00 per tray for
flats, ete. This should have read:
Wlats, 28 cans per tray, 150 trays
per tickets, $6.00 per ticket. Talls.
24 cans per tray, 150 trays per ticket
$6.50 per ticket.

Communists read our paper. S.P-
of Gers read it. €.€.Mers read it—
but not enough read it. Give ’ema
chance.

Our paper must be good. We're
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FISHERMEN, SUPPORT YOUR PAPER! Relief Work Strikes Are
Fertile Ground For Unity

The “B.C. W: ‘Goes’ News,” which
has carried the news of the fisher-
men from the fishing industry, for
the past two months and has been
officially adopted as the organ of
the Iishermen and Cannery Work-
ers’ Industrial Union, has launched
a campaign for sustaining funds.

This campaign is to be carried
during the month of June. In view
of the fact that this paper is the
only true working class paper in the
Provinee of British Columbia which
gives collective leadership to all of
the strugsles for reasonable liveli-
hood of the working population of
B.C., and is invaluable in organiz-
ine workers into trade unions and
defending the struggles of the un-
employed in the present extremely
difficult situation, we feel that the
fishermen throughout the entire
coast of B.C. should, together with
workers of other industries, render
full assistance towards makine this
campaign a success.

The management of the paper has
set a $1,000 quota for this sustain-
ing fund. We propose that the fish-
ermen and cannery workers, mem-
bers of our Union, and unorganized
workers in the fishing industry,
strive to collect at least $50.00 and
at the same time we propose that
aul our literature agents, elected by
the locals, will do their utmost to in-
erease the circulation of this valu-
able paper.

We know that only in this
will we be able to broaden the
lation and to make this paper a real
leader in the struggles that are pend-
ing on the grounds this summer.
In addition to this, it is alSo equally
important that our press corres-
pondents contribute to its contents.

Write As You Fight!

Live news from the fishing indus-
try should be forthcoming to the Na-
tional Headquarters of the Union
where they are edited and forward-
ed to the B.C. Workers’ News. If
we ean supply sufficient informa-
tion on the fishine industry from
various grounds to the fishermen
through the medium of this paper,
it will become sufficiently interesting
to the fishermen to warrant the
broadening of its circulation; from
which direct organizational benefits
can be expected.

The B.C. Workers’ News is a
weapon in the hands of the Fisher-
men in the fight for better prices.
Let us all use it!

CORBIN TACTICS
ARE RESORTED TO
IN MANITOBA

TRANSCONA, May 27.—Lives of
strikers and pickets at the Trans-
cona Creosote and Tie plant were
gravely endangered Sunday after-
noon when a scab herding car was
driven out of the plant at over
thirty miles per hour straight into
a group of pickets, injuring four of
them badly. Enraged at such wan-
ton jeopardizing of workers’ lives,
strikers and pickets smashed the
car. The drrest of five strikers and
three sympathizers soon followed.
The ear driver was allowed to go
secott-free by the police.

The police attempted to rush the
arrested workers to Headingley jail,
pending: trial, but were frustrated
by the efforts of Alderman Davies.
They are now out on bail of $2,000
each, with C.L.D.L. taking charge
of the defense.

When I. Minster
strikers sought, on Monday, to lay
charges against the driver of the
ear, the chief of police threatened
them with bodily violence.

way
circu-

and three of the

| TWENTY STRIKERS
TRIED IN WINNIPEG
RESULT OF STRIKE

WINNIPEG, May 31.— Twenty
strikers and pickets will be tried
here Wednesday on charges ranging
from obstructine police to assault
oceasionine= bodily injury. Bisht
workers are charged in connection
with the victorious strike at the
Transeona Creosote and Tie plant,
and ten women and two men come

up for trial on charges arising out
of the West Kildonan unemployed
strike.

Mabel (Mickey)

Marlowe Released

WINNIPEG, May 26 (ALP)—Mahel
Marlowe and Bill Ross, released Fri-
day from Portage la Prairie and
Dauphin jails respectively, were wel-
comed by over 1500 cheering worl -
ers on their arrival here Sunday.
Chaired in the rotunda of the C.P.R.
repot, they were carried out to the
street to head a demonstration to
the Market Square, where the crowd
rapidly swelled to 2500 in protest
against the impending deportation
of J. Coleman.

The leader of Socialist competition
in the June Drive for the B.G. Work-
ers’ News.

WANTED
SUMMER CAMP SITE: Give all
information to Children’s Summer
Camp Gommittee at 19 East Hast-
ings Street. Ask for Mr. Currie or
phone Bay. 7938-Y.

MISSING
JOE MALMGREN:
height 5 ft. 9 ins., blue eyes, fair
hair, weight about 165 lbs. Last
seen wearing a leather jacket with
belt and corduroy pants and blue
shirt. Wears no headgear. Com-
municate with Jack Hogan, Mani-
toba Hotel, 50 West Cordova Street,
Vancouver, B.C.

Aged 28,

A sub in the mail’s worth a mil-

lion expired.

Extend the united front by ex-
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News.”

STATE SECRET POLICE

“GESTAPO” |

(Continued from last issue)

The author of this article knows
of two cases where foreigners were
detained in the Sonnenburg concen-
tration camp. One, a Swiss, was
kept there thre months, and was
made to suffer all the ill-treatment
and tortures. Although upon inter-
vention of the Swiss government, he
finally was set free, he was never-
theless taken directly from the con-
centration camp to the frontier, In
another case, that of a Polish citi-
zen, although the matter had been
taken up a number of times, the
victim could not be rescued from
the camp. He had been driven by
the ‘‘camp life’ to attempt suicide
by cutting his yeins on his wrists,
and had to stay in the camp he-
his wounds had -not yet
healed. Both of these men were
workers, There are other foreign-
ers who are not regarded as ene-
mies of the State—for instance, the
white guard officers from the tsar-
They enjoy full right of
are not molested by

cause

ist army.
asylum; they
the Géstapo.
inmates of the concen-
recruited only

Thus the
tration camps are
from the wide masses of workers,
employees, petty artisans, and intel-
lectuals. Amons these again, there
is a special category of the ‘marked’
They are free game for the
A few examples
treatment

victims.
Gestapo torturers.
give an idea of the
these vyictims. A
Schenk, of Berlin-

will
meted out to

worker, Wranz

Moalbit, waS so mishandled in the
concentration camps of Sonnenbure
and Brandenburg that he was driven
mad, and had to be taken to the
lunatie asylum. He was a ‘marked’
man. He was accused of having par-
ticipated in an attack on a Hitler
youth. The prosecuting attorney's
investigations did mot even find
grounds for suspicion. The State
Attorney Councillor, Dr. Mittelsbach,
made a statement to this effect, in
June 1933, when Schenk was brought
before him on this charge. But the
Gestapo torturers did not consider
the State Attorney’s judgement au-
thoritive enough for them. Schenk
was beaten into insanity.

The worker August Ritter of
Brankfurt was ‘found hanged in his
cell’ in August 1933. He had been
imprisoned on the charge of having
called out ‘freedom’ The
Berlin lawyer Litten, a well-known
legal defender of the workers in the
conflicts with the swastika fascists
before Hitler had come into power,
was another marked victim. He was
so tortured by the Gestapo men that
a period of three weeks he
suicide.

in a cafe.

within
had twice
Both times he was
Gestapo believed

might still be found’

tried to commit
‘saved’ for the
that ‘material
on the basis of
could be legally tried.
These examples show that it is by
no means necessary to be ‘“‘promin-
ent’ in order to be listed amons the
marked yictims.

A particularly tragic case is that
of the worker Behrens, of Wuer-

which he

Their. Struggles Are a
Mighty Argument for
United Action

During the past few months
there Have been several relief work-
ers’ strikes in B. GC. Throughout the
country there have taken place
scores of such strikes. Some have
been bitter struggles, whilst others
have been more or lesS passive. In
Prince George there has been a
bitter struggle. In Princeton there
was also a grim battle to preserve
the right to live. In Nanaimo at
the present time the relief workers
are on strike. In West Vancouver
there is a strike of relief workers
in progress.

The policy of the governments is
to make the workers toil for their
relief, reduce the standard of living

of the workers all round, prepare
the labor battalions for Iascism,
and institute a war psyhcolozy

among the young, especially, in or-
der to erush out any labor activity
and increase the profits of the
parasites.

The toiling population of B
of Canada are facing a aanesreue
Situation. The entire policies of the
governments (federal, provincial and
municipal) are subordinated to the
Plans of attack on the standards of
the toilers, Capitalism is arming
to the teeth to crush the workers’
resistance. Hundreds of strikes and
Struggles are takin= place from
Newfoundland in the East to Van-

. ©. and

couver Island in the West. Not
only on relief projects, but also in
industry.

in this situation of rising resist-
ance of the workers to their oppres-
Sion on the one hand, and of the
rising fascist like measures of the
capitalist governments on the other,
the united front of the working
class, with the joint popular front
of the laboring masses of trade
unionists, unorganized, and farm
population, is of the yery greatest
importance. The scarcely disguised
language of one or two so-called
labor leaders betrays their inten-
tiens for unity, and means that
they do not want unity. They do
not decide the question, however.
It is the toiling masses of town and
country who will decide the ques-
tion.

In face of the capitalist offensive
this unity must be hurried. The
relief strikes are the battlegrounds
for building this unity. ‘Fhe unity
achieved so far in the relief strikes
speaks volumes for the desire for
united action on the part of the
workers. Extend it now to every
workers’ organization. Extend it to
industry. Make the assurance of
unity doubly sure in order to get
more daily bread, to get workers’
insurance that will be worth while,
to stem the rising tide of fascism,
and destroy the war plans of the
Canadian Capitalist Class.

Directory of Unions
and Organizations

C.L.D.L. (Sam Carr Brench)—
Meetings first and third Pridays in
the month at § pm. Whist every
Saturday at 8 p.m. at 4265 Main
Street, Vancouver.

Socials Held Jointly With W.-.E.S.L.

Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s Leasue
in Vancouyer—Meets every Wednes-
day at 8 p.m. at 122a Hastings St.
West. Hall open every day. Secre-
tary, B. Liss, at above address.

Fish Price Refused

NANAIMO.—Mishermen at jBre-
chin, Saturday, turned down a pro-
posal fixing the price of fish at 4%
cents on the pound and 5% cents
dressed, or approximately 10 cents
per fish. Only one man voted in
favor in an open ballot.

REPORTS OF THE
JUNE DRIVE

- - are slow in coming in. A
Little Lenin Library is the first
prize for the organization getting the
highest percentage of the quota. The
individual worker who collects the
highest amount in subs and dona-
tions will receive Palme Dutt's “‘Fas-
eism and the Social Revolution.’

Speed up the Drive!

BIG CROP FOR
SOVIET UNION

HARVEST PROSPECTS FOR
1935 ARE EXCELLENT

MOSCOW, May 26 (ALP)—spring
sowing in the Soyiet Wnion is ap-
proaching completion. By May 20th,
82,675,000 hectares, or 91 per cent
of the plan for the Soviet Union,
had been sown, almost 8,000,000 hee-
tares more than on the same date
last year.

Information arrivine from all parts
of the country show that an excel-
lent growth is taking place, due
largely to excellent field worl. Har-
vest prospects are good.

CORRESPONDENCE

Editor, B.C. Workers News:

Dear Wriend,—On beings told that
trucks, the property of Grones Stor-
age, were transporting police about
the city, the Camp Workers issued
a leaflet to the employees of this
company, asking them to refuse to
do this work as it was a strikebreak-
ing tactic. On receivine these let-
ters, the drivers came to the office
of the Pruckdrivers Union, and in-
formed us that they had refused to
do this work, and that the men
driving the truck in question were
not employees of the company.

On investigatine, we have received
information that leads us to believe
that the drivers of these trucks are
special police.

By publishing these facts, you will
not only clear the employees of
Crones Storage, but will also lend
more weight to the strugele of the
camp workers.

Thankinge you in advance, T am,

Fraternally yours,
G. E. Rea, Rec:-Sec.,
Truckdrivers, Swampers
& Messengers Union.

VICTORIA GAVE
AID TO STRIKERS

United Support for the
Camp Boys

.

VICTORIA, May 29-—An outline
of the Striking Relief Camp Work.
ers’ demands, also the situation and
events in Vancouver were fiven at
a mass meeting held here by the
Victoria Joint Committee of Action.
Pred Krauchi, local organizer of the
Camp Workers’ Union, spoke on the
seven demands of the union.

J. Winters of the R.G-W.U. from
Vancouver reviewed the progress
and development of the struggle in
Vancouver, and repudiated fhe lies
of Mayor McGeer and the press on
the situation.

Other speakers were W. B. Gaird
of the S.P.of GC., and . Goddman of
the Communist Party. J. J. Drum-
mond of the W.U.L. was in the
chair.

Convenor Publicity Committee,
Strike Committee of R.G W.U.

CORRECTION.

In the seventh paragraph of.
Strachey’s book, “‘Strachey and the
Economists,” we wish to correct
the following typographical errers.
Part of the paragraph should read
“Strachey traces the course of the
futilities and confusion of bour-
geois economists to this» one basic
fact their “REJECTION of Marx’s
Labor Theory of Value. Their
‘IMPOTENCE’ is due to this funda-
mental cause.’’

“OBSTRUCTING POLICE”

WINNIPEG, May 25.— Mounted
Police are searching for fifteen
women who are alleged to have been
connected with a demonstration on
the store of Councillor Sly at West
Kildonan during the relief strike.
The police are attempting to serve
the women with summonses for “‘ob-
structing the police.’’

“Government by Gangsters” is be-
ing born in Vancouver. Help to
suppress it with subs.

Get way up in the Boosters’ List.
Fight shy of the Blacklist.

brutally mistreated victims in the
whole history of the Sonnenburg
Stenwalde. He was one of the most
camp. Behrens had been sentenced
to a long term of imprisonment be-
cause of a conflict with members
of the Stahlheim. Although he had
served his term, he was carried off
to the Gestapo concentration camp.
There are no words powerful enough
to describe what he suffered there.
Finally in September 1933, Behrens
set free, and scarcely four
weeks later he was found murdered
in front of his home. Light will
never be thrown upon this Gestapo
murder, because Behrens knew the
names of the real murderers of the
Stalheim-fascist Gunter von Massoy.

Through sheer murders, all either
directly organized or shielded by the
Gestapo, hundreds of people who
were inconyenient to the Third Em-
pire haye been removed.

In February 1934, the German pro-
letariat got the horrible information
of its best had been shot

was

that four

“while attempting to escape’ in a
wood near Potsdam—John Scheer,
Hugene Schoenhaar, Rudi Schwaz
and Hrich Steinfurth. No one be-
lieves the Gestapo lie that these
four men had attempted to escape.
Every one knew these men, knows
that it is a clear case of murder. The
four had been imprisoned for
months, longest of all Erich Stein-
furth, members of the Central GCom-
mittee of the German Red Aid. If
he alone had been murdered then it
could not have been kept secret.

Briech Steinfurth was for months
the cell neighbor of the author of
this article. His thoughts in the
concentration camp were not of him-
self, but of his fellow comrades, and
how he could best advise them and
help them, in some way to lighten
theirdot. He had often had the op-
portunity to escape, but when he
was told that he ought to make use
of such an opportunity, he said that
it was impossible, for his fellow
prisoners needed him.

Yi