Page Two WO ROKER S27 NE wes Trollers Referendum Shows 120 for Original Demands, 5 Against VANCOUVER, B.C, June 19.—Be- ginnine from Wednesday of last week, when the boss packers decid-+ ed to apply all their efforts to smash the growing unity of the fishermen proper, this time not only resorting 49 declaring the strike ended through Mr. W. R, Gray utilizing the local ‘press aS a medium, the fishermen have applied their energy in great style to make ineffective the boss plans. Canners Hold Meeting With Hand-Picked Delegates Assisted by W. R. Gray, MacQuire, J. Pope & Company, the packers selected a few of their cronies, brought them into town, held a meet- ing with them and decided to end the strilce on the basis of a half-cent raise for the balance of this month. Wot placing full confidence in their so-called ‘“‘delegntes,’ the offer of five and six cents was made condi- dional, ie., that the trollJers must eBive “documentary evidence” by June 15th signifying the majority acceptance of the offer. This “docu- mentary evidence” was to be for- warded to the Secretary of the Can- med Salmon Section of the CIA, which previously made a publie statement that they had nothing to do with the dispute between blue- back canners and the trollers. To obtain this desired ‘‘evidence” the trusted few were instructed to re- turn to the areas when they came, each of them equipped with a peti- dion list on which they were to Col- Ject signatures of those willing to accept the bosses’ offer. Fishermen Expose Ganners’ Triclery These humble servants of the can- ners- worked speedily in order to eatch the troliers unawares; they selected, as their points of assault, the “bays and harbors” that they thougeht were the weakest. Pender Harbor, Nanaimo and Squiti Bay svere the first places to be visited. Towever, the expectations fell short as many of the fishermen who had been tricked to sigm their names on the dotted line decided to abide by the majority decision of the entire Gulf. Upon arriving at Rouses Bay their career came to an abrupt end when the trollers there refused to sign or to have anything to do with this strike-breaking scheme of the bosses. This first defeat was sufficient to the bosses’ “‘emissaries” to retreat ‘pack to town and to abandon the idea of conquering the entire eult; however, they succeeded in ecaptur- Determined To Win Their Strike off by a pretext that they are not anxious to can the bluebacks, but at the same time they dispiay their ever-growing anxiety by their con- tinuous manoeuyers to break the strike and thereby force the trollers to five them the fish for starvation prices against which they have waged determined stmiggle for over a month. cas Necessary Steps At this time it is gettin=e more ap- parent to all the fishermen that the issue confronting them now is not only of fighting for higher prices. but that the strugele is reaching a hizher plane. Whilst the canners are anxious to eet the fish they re- fuse to have anything to do with the committee of the strikers’ own jing one of the duly elected strike] cisco and surrounding cities, and thes committee, Bir, Bastulss> whom | Pacific Coast maritime workers) “the ave Since promoted to an esteemed position of Mr. MacQuire’s “rieht hand man.”’ Submit False Report Resolved to break the unity of the striking trollers, and by now realiz-— ins that the “Gocumentary evidence” would fall short to warrant the re- suming of fishing operations, the canners resorted to their old shop- worn methods, i.e. they published 5 statement on Saturday last jn the “Province” to the effect that seventy per cent of the trollers had accepted their offer of 5 and 6 cenis, and that the fishing operations would resume on the following Sunday. To counteract the bosses’ propa- feanda and to consolidate the strike, the members of the duly elected ne- sotiating committee who had been called into Wancouyer, were then dispatehed to their respective areas ¢o assist in combatting the rumors of settlement circulated by the can- ners in a further attempt to stam- pede the fishermen out to fish with- out any gains for over a month’s determined struggle. A telegram was sent to all the strike commit- tees on Monday last in quest of au- thentiec information on the strike situation. By Tuesday noon, all the strike areas, except Pender Harbor, had reported by telegram establish- ine the following true picture of the strike situation: Situation unchanged at Cape Mudge, Quathiashi Cove and Her- riot Bay. Deep Bay standing pat on original demands, Blubber Bay reports usual activities in connec- tion with strike relief, Rouses Bay solid; no word from False Bay yet. A later dispateh establishes the re- sults of a referendum completed at Deep Bay and vicinity at 120 in favor of the original demands and 5 against. This being the actual situation of the strike it certainly shows up the sinister intentions of Mr. MacQuire, Pope & Go., and gives the lie to the press reports emanating from the eanners’ greed to can the bluebacks at the lowest possible price, at the expense of the trollers. Canners Ignore Trollers’ Committee : Qn Sunday, June 2nd, a negotia- tions committee, representative of all areas affected, was elected. This committee has been continuously pressing for negotiations with th= canners interested in canning blue- back salmon. At every instance the canners have stalled the committee Sailors Charged WICTORIA, June 18.—Pat Dris- coll, union organizer, and ten sea- men aboard the $.S. Southolm were emilitant strike leadership, and tried choosins. This can mean only one thing: they are stalling off in order to smash the organized efforts of {he fishermen to better their con- ditions so that they may do as they have done in the past; that is, sive minor concessions and then immedi- ately after forget their obligations. They did this last year after several of the fish “pirates” entered a verb- al agreement to pay 5 cents extra for sockeye salmon and after the termination of the fishing season, which obligation they have refused to meet. : To guarantee any measure of as- surance that the canners will not continue similar practices, it is ne- cessary that the strikers demand the recognition of their committee through which all the transactions are being completed. Tt is of equal importance to the fishermen to maintain their ranks intact at all times, and that the or ganizational achievements that have heen attained through siruggle shall be consolidated by forming locals of the Union at all ports. Raise the slogan of the Union for the entire fishing indusiry of B.C. and thereby AUSSIES GREET B.C. JOBLESS Striving for Unity of the Employed and the Unemployed To the Unemplored of Vancouver and District. Dear Let us take this opportunity of ex- Comrades: tending to you fraternal greetings front 70,000 unemployed and relief workers in this State of the Com- monwealth of Australia, and which represents about one-fourth of those unemployed or on sustenance work. The unemployed and relief (suste- nance) workers of this State are ral- lying to the call of this Council for organization and struggle and by Way, of demonstrations and strikes we have won a succession of vic- tories, leadine to the~day when in unity with the workers in industry we go forth to our emancipation as a class. We are glad to report having made a step forward in baving the trade union movement of this country de- elare our council as the leadership of the unemployed and relief work- ers in this State. We sit in as delegates to a com- mittee of the Trades and Labor Council of this State in preparing plans for the mass organization of employed and unemployed against worsening conditions. We are vitally interested in the struggles of our comrades overseas for by building our united front in each country and linking up our struggles on an international basis we will assuredly reach our goal. Wve hope to have a constant inter- change of news with comrades over-— seas and trust you will convey to the workers of British Columbia our pledge of solidarity with them as with the workers of the world. With fraternal greetings, TOM PAYNE, protect your livelihood against the attacks of organized ‘fish pirates”! For the State Council. San Francisco Waterfront Strike And Its Lessons - Every strike is an important event in the class struggle. The present longshoremen’s strike is of the utmost importance to the workers of B.C. From the exper- iences of the workers in strugsle wwe can learn valuable lessons. In order to assist the longshoremen and seamen im their present strilxe we publish below axcerpts from an analysis and lessons of the San Francisco strike (by B. Sherman). The general strike in San Fran- strusae hich =f up to it, took place in the midst of the second big wave of Strike struggles sweeping the United States and continually rising in the level of militaney and displaying an ever more clearly de- fined political character. The longeshoremen’s strike on the Pacific Coast broke out on May 9, 1934, around the demands for higher wages, the 30-hour week, union control of the hiring halls, and a united West Coast agreement with 4 uniform expiration date. The strike from the first was under the leadership of the militant rank and file in the A.T of L. longshoremen’s union, the Industrial TLongshore- men’s Association, and was called in spite of every effort of the dis- trict and national officials to pre- vent it. The strike rapidly spread to the seamen, under the leadership of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, which forced the A.F.of L. seamen’s union to call their members on strike as well. In a short time, ten muritime unions were involved, with a total of 35,000 strikers, and all shipping activity on the Pacific Coast was completely tied up. In San Francisco, the strongest and most militant center of the strike, a united strike committee of 50 was set up, with five representatives each from the ten different unions. From the first the strike met with the most yiolent attacks by jhe police, armed strike-brealkers, and the National Guard against the mass picket lines, and in a number of pitched battles four strike pickets were killed and over 300 injured. At the same time the capitalist press launched a violent attack on the jo whip up an anti-Communist hys- feria without success. The sym- pathy of the svorkers for the strik-- expressed itself in the rapidly ers spreadine= sentiment for a general strike. Forty thousand workers at- tended the funeral of the two pick- eis killed, one of whom was a mem-— ber of the Communist Party. The A.F.of lL. district and national officials of the Il.A. worked day and night to prevent the strike irom taking place and, after it broke out, jo send the men back to work, but their every effort and their every manoeuvre was defeated by the local strike leadership which represented the sentiments of the rank and Tale» The firm stand of the strike jlead- ership in San Francisco also helped to influence and strensthen the posi- tion of the strike in the other Paci- fic Coast centers, where to a large extent the rank and file was also able to gain control. The National Longeshoremen’s Arbitration Board appointed by Roosevelt made stren- uous efforts to break the strike and submit the strikers’ demands to ar- bitration, but neither they nor the today arrested for refusing to un-} A of L. leaders succeeded in this. load unfair cargo. Driscoll is] When the A.F.of L. leaders signed charged with “inciting to strike,” | an arbitration agreement, the strik- and the ten sailors with “disobey- ing their superior officers.’ The Wictoria Branch of the C.L.D-L. has raised bail for all accused and is conducting a campaign of defense. A Jawyer has been retained and the ease has been remanded for one ers rejected it and Ryan, the I.L.A. national president, received such a hostile receptfon at ‘the strikers’ meeting that he was unabie to speak. The policy was to spread the strike, not only to all branches of the maritime industry on the Pacific ern ports. However, our extremely weak position in the A.FofL. unions in those other ports made it impossible to spread the strike into 4 national strike of longshoremen and seamen. Only in a few in- Stances was the Marime Workers Industrial Union able to call strikes of seamen on a few ships. In the face of the unyielding posi- tion of the employers, the question Emery Is An Ex-Serviceman. Gerry seems hot and bothered about Emery of the Loneshoremen’s Union stating that they imtend to visit the Ballantyne Pier, with or withecut consent. It was only lately that MicGeer was going to raise an army of 10,000 and. if necessary, to throw the sheriff in’ the salt chuck, but when honest working men are out to defend their living standards they are inciting to riot according to His Worship. Iemery, when his country called en him, joined up and went over- seas. This was supposedly to de- fend his home and livin®= conditions under Canadian democracy. Now Jet us see where was Mayor MeGeer during that strugsle. No! he was not in Irance, he was safe at home lettin®= the workers do the fighting for him. * Such bein the case, we call on all ex-Servicemen to give their sup- port to the Longshoremen, many of whom served Ganada in the last Wor. a ok = Vets Amons Camp Boys. Good news reaches us from the Gamp Strikers on trek to Ottawa, that at last the sovernment has de- cided to negotiate and is paying the expenses of a strong delegation to Ottawa. Meanwhile, the main body is to receive three meals a day and shelter. The discipline and organ- ization among these men is ereatly due to the number of Veterans tals- ine part in the march. This goes to show that a strong orsanization brings results. Vets should strengthen their rank and men’s League, and -.get some ‘of file club, the Workers’ x-Service- their pressing needs attended to. a a & Minister of Pensions- The Provincial Bureaw of the W2.S.L. have received a reply fron D. M. Sutherland, Department of Pensions, in reply to their Jetter pointing out the failure of the Hynd- man Report to recommend anything constructive for the Vets, He in- forms them that the question of un- employment among ex-Servicemen will be dealt with in the near fu- ture. Well, if you want anything we will need to put mass pressure on Parliament — letters are not enough. Join the W.E.S.L.! & se = What About It? - We are pleased to see “Ol’ Bill” is doine well in his drive to raise a sustaining fund for the “B.C. Work- ers’ News.” Wave we no readers of this col- ump who are in a position to save our face by sending in a donation of developing a movement fora gen—! eral strike -racitie Coast ports in “support of the Maritime strikers, be- came an extremely urgent one. Local union after local union voted in favor of the general strike. A mass meeting of 18,000 workers called by the Maritime Strike Com- mittee cheered the slogan of ‘“‘gen- eral strike’’ The A.F.of L. leaders of the San Francisco Central Labor Gouncil moved heaven and earth to head off the movement, and even wired President Roosevelt to inter- vene to prevent a4 general strike. President William Green tele- eraphed to the Seattle Central La- bor Council warning them that 2 general strike wouild violate the Jaws of the American Federation of Labor, and would be unauthorized. In San Francisco, the local jabor leaders set up a “Strategy CGommiit- tee,” to hold off action and dissi- pate the movement. Wowever, when the Maritime Strike Committee called a conference of the A-F.of L. unions to discuss a general strike, at which 26 local unions were rep- resented, the local labor miisleaders, fearing that the movement would eo over their heads and slip out of fheir hands, changed their tactics and decided to head the movement in order to be better abie to bebead it. They called a special conference aitended by 115 local qnions, where only three local unions voted against the general strike, and a eeneral strike committee was set up, to which each local was to appoint or elect five representatives. The General Strike began on July 46 in San Francisco, spreading on the following day to other nearby cities, Oakland, Berkeley and Ala- meda, until it involved about 125,000 workers jin a metropolitan area whose population was 1,200,000. Eyervthing was at a complete standstill, and the only operations permitted was a few restaurants, iruck deliveries to hospitals, etec., under strike committee permits. Every day, however, the misleaders headin the executive committee re- jaxea thetie-up by jssuing more and more permits for business activity, preparing for the final sell-out. Meanwhile, the press opened a4 hysterical campaign against the Communists, and shrieked about “revolution” and “insurrection.” The employers radioed an appeal to Roosevelt, on board a warship bound for Honolulu, to caneel his trip and come to San Francisco to settle the strike. Senator Wiaener flew by plane to Portland, and suc- ceeded at the last minute in avert- jhe feneral strike which threat- General Hush Johnson, head of the N-R-A., came to San Francisco and gave the Keynote for the terror wave which followed, when in a provocative speech he called upon the A-F of L. jeaders to ing ened there. wipe the Communist jnfluence out of the unions, and openly encour— aged fascist gangs to take matters into their own hands. The Mawor. and Governor made radio speeches that this was not a sirike, but a “Communist revolution,” and 7.000 troops of the National Guard were moved into the San Francisco area. Secretary of Labor Perkins tele- graphed that the fovernment would co-operate by deporting all alien Communists. With the stage then set, on the second and third day of week. Soast, but to the Atlantic and South- ~ Z SS the strike, raids began along the ~ \ to nis corumn, the month is nearly over and only 50 cents to hand. This is an S.O.S. call. a * + Gentre Branch Wemen's Auxiliary of the W.E.S.L. held their first meeting in the new hall at 150 Has- tings West, Monday evening, at § o’clock. All women interested are asked to leave their names at the office or to come at $8 p-m. next Monday. x * Wednesdays and Saturdays at 150 Hastings West, whist and dancing: are proving very popular. Come and * enjoy yourself with a friendly crowd. This Friday evening a concert will- be held. Collection at door. Come and fill the hall. iar Wews from outside points is Jack- ing. We would like to hear from readers of this column as to how they like it, how to improve it, and of their erievances, ete. All Veter- ans may write in. Bennett’s Iron Heel Of Ruthlessness Trod The Ballantyne Pier Last Tuesday The Spirit Of Our Class Mrs. V. Butler wishes to express appreciation on behalf of her chil- dren and herself to all the loyal eomrades who so ably assisted and comforted them in their sad bereayve- ment. The loss of her husband is a 1oSs_ to -the labor movement in Wancouver. Mrs. Butler wishes to take this opportunity to say that she and her children will continue the work of participating in the Struggles of the workers which her husband actively supported. Jate sa entire Pacific Coast by fascist gangs of ‘‘vigilantes,’’ followed by police, against the headquarters of the Communist Party, the “Western Worker,” the maritime unions, and homes of workers, where everything was wrecked, workers beaten up and arrested. The printing plant which printed the “Western Work- er’ was destroyed by fire: About 500 arrests were made, some com- rades were charged with criminal syndicalism carrying heavy penal- ties, and fourteen workers were held for deportation. (Continued next week) q j } _ .._ AtJass, -ask for a job... WOMEN’S COLUMN Conducted by Peggy Harrisor Women on Front Lines - Tuesday’s battle en the water- front found women in the front lines. The Women’s Auxiliary to the Longshoremen’s Union and women sympathizers were out in full force, marching with the strikers, lending first aid to the in- jured, and keeping a supply of coffee and sandwiches on hand. City, Provincial and Mounted Police clubbed women as well as men, one woman beine knocked un- conscious to the pavement by a mounted city policeman and taken to hospital in an ambulance. First Aid Headquarters Bombed. Several women suffered from the tear gar. The fact that the strike headquarters were being used as a first aid station did not deter the police from throwing tear gas in upon the injured and helpers. A mass meeiing of women called by the Longshore Women’s Auxil- jary at 130 West Hastings, Tuesday night, drew up a stronsly worded protest against the police brutality, to be sent to the mayor. The Mother's Committee called off their mass meeting at the Majestic Hall to support the striking long- shoremen and their Wives. Women Readers Support Drive Several thousand women every week read this column. That helps. We want increasing numbers to read it, but how about every woman reader sending in a donation to the sustaining fund, so as to ensure the resular publication of this paper? There are no highly paid advertisements, mo Subsidies, no erants—the paper relies solely upon the help given it by workers who see in its policy the voice and guide of their own struggles. How about it, women readers? Who will be next to send in a donation? _ Got a Quilt The winning number for the quilt drawn for at the Orange Hall, June 14th, by the Centre Branch of the Women’s Labor League, was No. 447. In the Heart of A Capitalist City Its hell, this waiting . - - I wait, after walking from South Vancou- ver, for the Star Laundry to ope >_ . and again I am told, “No job.’ [m so cold and hunesry, and I ask myself, “Gould I work, even if I did get a job?” I’m out in the street again ...T1 meet 2 young girl, her shoes torn at each side. “Gan you tell me where the Star Laundry is?” she asks. “Yes, ohne block away. - .- - How lone have you been out of work?” “Fyer since 1 left school. I’m do- ing housework for my room and pboard—a whole year now. That is why I’m looking for a job that will pay me decent wages.” T do the best I can and tell her to join the “Domestic Servants’ Union.” She thinks it’s time she joined some- thing because nobody seemed to care if the unemployed girls die by the roadside. ; - I say, “Good-bye, and good luck.” ‘A nice kid—pretty, too; I think of my own-girl, 12 years old, ill all the time, eyes so large because her little body is too thin. Her neck, arms, legs—so thin— Oh! I just can’t think of her too much. I feel ’m going mad. I must try again. Tomorrow ru try another jJaundary. Two blocks sway still another women asks, ‘Where can I find the Star Laundry?” One look at her and I can tell she is cold and hunery. T walk back with her, I ask, “How lone have you been out of a job?” “yery day for cleyen months.” I tell myself, “What a shame. Took at her, old before her time. Wer face and hands lool tired and worn. Her once blue coat faded a pale green.” T close my eyes, clench my teeth, ‘Workers Unite’? — “Organize and Fight, \Women, let us struggle for Non- contributary Unemployment In- surance in order to hold together our very bodily existence smece we are denied the right to work. —G. 8. THE TRUCK DRIVER GF BURQUITLAM BURQUITLEAM, B-C., June io uct me introduce you to Mr. Percy Partinguin, who is the son of Mr. J. HW. Partineuin, general merchant of Burquitiam, B.C. This man is alleged to have leit Burquitlam for Vancouver to act on the special police force to protect the seabs on the waterfront. Perey used to operate 2 truck in Burquitlam, but the trucking busi- ness has fallen off lately. It is ex- pected that the workers, farmers and wood-cuiters of Burquitlam will bear this in mind. It is expected that the truckine business will even get worse from now on, as far as Percy is concerned. Maybe his papa could make him see the light. TERS} worth trying. —Workers’ Sports Association— Masquerade Dance CLINTON HALL, JUNE 28th Three Cash Prizes for Best Costumes > 2nd, $1.50; 3rd,, $1.00 Admission—10c ist, 32.50 buy large stecks ing every kind of lickspittle trick to undoubtedly are not above scabbing: SHORT JABS By OP Bill SemUss pe ie ee eee $1.06 Gonscience Money ..-...-.-.. 1.00 Was SOMDS By ree ee ee -70 Se WrwTnONGrs-ce oe 15.90 Total to, Oates se. ee 345.80 ee Se Climbing up, but slowly. We have not yet reached the half-way mark. Comrade Drummond is still the val- : fi Wwe pep! : jant erusader and writes that he| 5 < e ee rine—4 Wa finds it so easy to raise money for ane ier alyine Just the “B.C. Workers’ News,” both ES for subs and donations, that he has] RR - - 2 f, 2 a &. 5 i oo j raised his own quota to $50. The Soa eeresiue ene IDES drive still has enough time to go| FH g a Soa E yer we’ f a p- | for some Socialist competitor to take ce BD STO EAS ORs him up and show that he is not a| q igine all Wapkers and & : lone eagle. How about it Pegsy? Gene = anes 2 Le'ts all get busy for the last half) p ark Gays don’t : a of the drive. The ““Workers’ News” strengthen ou Se is needed more now than ever. W oung Pioneers epee Des 3s = = * It would be interesting to Know how the “News-Herald”’’ gets its newsprint. The evening papers, with huge resources, are able to main- tain a large reserve of paper against such emergencies aS a strike, but this drooling imitation of a news- paper, which is run after the man- ner of a Greek restaurant, every- body being partners, has no funds mor the means of getting funds toe of newsprint, Are food union men using paper that has been handled by séab longshore workers? The sycophants who “manage” this dope-sheet are pull- get their rag adopted as the official organ of the strike-breaking Fascist racket, the Citizens’ League, and on the longshoremen. A little of the medicine the Hearst papers are getting would do them no harm! A bunch of Youngs Pioneers, L aughing and yelling we march Wo awinge and calling all workers A nd helping our parents to s W oune we may be, but—boy, h Summer Camp Is kinds of play equipment. seribblers, educational purposes, Summer Camp. donations of these and of finance help put over the summer camp workers’ kids. at 19 Hastines Street East, or pho Trinity 4732. ealled for 8 p.m., at 130 Hastings Street W: Send your delegates and let us ma a suceess of the summer camp f the kids. s ALWAYS READY. our way. rise, —organize! sight. Now Very Nea 1} We want baseballs, bats and We Ww. pencils and material while at Wre_ will welco: You may see Cu The enlarged Gamp Conference June 28th (Friday), ae = 3 At the time of writing Gerry’s Baby Bonds are a flop; they cer- tainly are not quintuplets. They were to be sold in three days and now, after seven days, only a little over half of them haye been dis- posed of. The workers are not go- ing to buy them. This is different from the reception that the bonds of the Soviet Government get. The Loan of the Third Year of the Sec- ond Five-Year Plan was taken up in five days, from May 5th to 10th, to the extent of 3,138 million rubles, which as things go now is almost] ° the fifty million corporati that many dojlars. And all con- which owns the town of Pow tributed by workers from their | River and the great paper m1 wages, not as advertising invest- there haye shamelessly lied aboug ments for canned milk and depart- ment stores. = = Father O'Boyle, the big mouth among the local dogan priesthood, is = one of our Most _9B4st=tSs = ywiders—ul-“rawunorder’—here. In ether places, Mexico for instance, he is a fomentor of bloody riot and disorder, For four centuries the church, for which he is the ballyhoo man in Wancouyer, has been op- pressing and robbing the Mexican Workers and peasants. The reli- gion of “Hather” O’Boyle was forced on the Mexican people at the point of the sword, by torture and fire. Millions were Slaushtered by the followers of the lowly Nazarene, that the Gross of Christ and the shrines of the Virgin might he planted in every village. Alone with the domination of the minds of the native peoples the Catholic Chureh acquired landed property till it became the greatest land- owner in Mexico. The peons who toiled on its lands were slaves in every sense of the word, living but little, if any, better than Asiatic coolies: = = or With the Mexican vreyolution came a change. The hatred born of hundreds of years of misery and degradation was vented against the priests whom they considered to be their immediate enemies. The man- oeuvres of the Mexican government are forced by the temper of the masses of workers and stringent jaws have been passed limiting the power of the church. She bas been shorn of her estates and the num- ber of parasitic clergy limited to hetween 300 and 400, all of whom must be natives of the country. The love of the Mexican for Mother Church is no stronger than that of the Spanish workers and peasants or than that of the peasants of Holy Russia. a tk = The Church, however, does not “surrender its temporal power with- out a strugsle any more willingsly than the capitalist will give up his title to the right to live on the backs of the workers. The same Scheming trickster p riests who foam at the mouth about striking workers in the ehurch-ridden countries, who preach to their doped flocks that it is a mortal sin to be a Communist, that Communists want to upset ordered government by force and violence are DoW ¢€n-— eaged in a campaign of terrorism, arson and murder in Mexico with the object of overthrowing the es- tablished Mexican government. The Pope’s cohorts are organized into the “boisteros’ who plan the blood- jest uprising in the history of Mex- ico, according to their own Cath- olic reporters. Already railreads are beine lynamited and bridges blown up by these gentle pacifist followers of Jesus. The dynamite is being smuggled into Mexico from the U-S. and is paid for by the Catholic bigots of the “Iather” O'’Boyle type in that country. 2 e The same lying propaganda is be- ing used by all “Father? O’Boyles, here and in the States, as the mani- aeal clown MeGeer is peddling against the longshoremen. The Mexican Government is accused of being Communist, under the dom- ination of 20 or 30 agents of “‘the Russian International.” demagogs, F. V- Williams of San Francisco makes the utterly lying assertion that “the Russian govern- ment has already spent 18 million dollars on propaganda’; a -state- ment absolutely without a grain of POWELL RIVER | Union Official Puts Fa to the capitalist press the offi conditions, ing up to the Jongshorenien’s str : and about their attitude to thei slaves. Ie land District Longshoremen’s Unio has issue’ a i refuting the statements given Oi by which were brazen attempts to lead the public, which is not fami With conditions there. employees loaded the Heian Mz When asked to prove it by the I he four new men had been hired morning and many men had been dispatehed from mill to load the ship. He could deny was worked by her Chinese crew jic believe that its whole purpose operating the plant is to provide living for workers, pay bountifully. ever, that the Powell River corpo tion is one of the most soulless g of profit-hungry pirates that ope ate on the Pacific Coast. They bru tally exploit boys as young a5 4% years of age and pay them as 1 as 16 cents per hour. accused Falconer of this he ind nantly denied that boys were ¢om pelled to do men’s work, but lat was compelled to admit it, claimisi that it was due to a “mistake.” and steel to Japan was set dur March, when a total of 175,719 t were shipped. One papish- truth and of a country that does na EXPLOITS BOYS coner ‘On the Spot’ ‘In many voluminous statem wages, the events lea The secretary of the Powell Ri he ee et EOE U officials Falconer and other Gives the Show Away. ~ # The company states that re refused because he knew ft inexperience that one ship, the Tantalu The company would have the pu and that The fast is, he When the union official, Har Getting Ready. ‘A new record for exports of irom This included 160, tons of iron and steel scrap, U most of which is to be used in the making of munitions, x Relief Workers Poisoned. INDIANAPOLIS, June 13:—Mo than 200 Relief Workers W stricken with ptomaine poisonu here within two hours after eats at federal transient relief “shelter Scab Hotel. The old passenger ship of C.P.R. was towed from Victoria house the strike-breakers wor as longshoremen. Others of thent are being kennelled up at the S0¥. ernment-owned Ballantyne Pier. Raising Bail VANCOUVER, District Executive C.L.D.L., is busy raising bonds Ww which to release the arrested Ss men and Longshoremen who W arrested in the struggle at Balla tyne Pier. The following have bee arrested: W. Kemp, Harold Maide A. Sandberg, ©. Carlson, J. Ni C. Smith, D. Panahr, D. McLeod, charged with assaulting police. Bea has been set at $1.000. I. Emery and Mrs. Grisonwaite, charged wil “inciting to riot’ has been refuse bail at the time of writing. Albert Stock and J, McKay are charged with carrying offensive weapons. not eyen have a political or tr representative of the Soviet govern ment, made out of the whole clot like the lies of Gerry McGeer and the Citizens’ League. The robbed and oppressed working class ne peasantry haye a long bill to settle with the Catholic priesthood, thé “Pather’’ O’Boyles, and the day ¢ reckoning is close at hand. ;