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BENNETT AND THE MARCHERS

The flat refusal by the Prime Minister to
grant a single one of the demands of the
Slave Camp strikers should arouse the en-
tire working class of Canada to a realization
of the course the master class of Canada are
determined to follow.

The Great Promiser of 1930 who was to
end unemployment, after five years of worse
than failure is now throwing off the mask
and does not even hold out the hope of ever
furnishing work and wages to Canada’s army
of unemployed. :

What he has done is to establish forced
labor camps after the Hitler pattern, and he
openly declares he will continue to operate
them, backed by the armed forces of the
State.

His threat to slaughter peaceful workers
on their way to present their grievances to
the government smacks of the slaughter of
the St. Petersburg workers before the Win-
ter Palace by the minions of the Czar on
Bloody Sunday, 1905.

Tt is clear that the sending of Manion and
Weir to Regina to induce the trekkers to
send a delegation was a ruse to halt the
march while the government mobilized its
armed forces, worked to sway public support
away from the trekkers, and with the hope
that the delay would cause demoralization in
their ranks. It was a shyster’s trick, and
while it enabled Bennett to gather his kil-
lers, it failed to disorganize the trekkers.

The Slave Camp strikers are demanding
the very things Bennett promised so lay-
ishly in 1930. Yet the answer of Bennett
is the raising of the Red Bogey, absurd rav-
ings about impending revolution and chaos,
and threats of State force and violence
against the working population.

The voice is the voice of “law and order”
but the hand is the hand of Fascism. A con-
spicuous failure, instead of improving eco-
nomic conditions during his five years of
misrule, conditions under his rule have be-
come infinitely worse. And now, to cover up
his failures, and to divert the attention of
the people from the crying grievances of the
victims of his forced labor camps and the
million unemployed, he poses as the Strong
Man who is “saving the country from the
Reds.” This was the slogan of Hitler in Ger-
many in his drive to Fascism—saving the
nation from Communism.

Canada is travelling fast on the road to
Fascism. Already in a score of places actual

fascist measures have been taken, its meth-
ods adopted and put into practice.

Tf ever the United Front of all organized
and unorganized labor, together with all
progressive and liberal minded people, was
needed, it is now. Mass support for the Camp
boys and to prevent the terror that is being
prepared for them must be mobilized. The
forces of black reaction must be defeated.

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE

Britain and Germany have concluded a
naval agreement by which Germany is per-
mitted to build submarines up to 45 per cent
of the British underseas fleet, with the door
left wide open for the quota to be raised to
100 per cent.

For a long time Britain has been secretly

encouraging and assisting Germany to re-
arm, while at home she was using the re-
arming of Germany as an excuse to increase
her own armaments.

This Anglo-German alliance is directed
against the Soviet Union, and is the most
drastic move since the occupation of Arch-
angel and Murmansk by British troops.

Hitler has never concealed his desire for
expansion toward the West, nor has he aban-
doned his hopes for grabbing Soviet Ukraine
and dismember and destroy the Socialist Re-
public,

Captain Anthony Eden, the agent of war-
making British imperialism, is moving about
Europe from capital to capital hatching war
plans, forging alliances, and organizing the
attack upon the Soviet Union while the
British government and the press with char-
acteristic hypocrisy represents him as being
on a mission of peace.

A great obstacle in the way, however, of
launching another war of intervention and
conquest against the country of socialism is
the Franco-Soviet pact which France, realiz-
ing her danger from the Anglo-German re-
approachment, found it expedient to sign
because it suited her immediate desires and
needs.

Another obstacle in the way of war against
the Soviet Union is the growing number of
people in Germany, Britain and every other
country who are opposed to such a war.

The Soviet Union, as the greatest world
force for peace and from a desire for a
breathing space to build up her socialist in-
dustry and defences, is compelled to ma-

noeuvre and form agreements with capitalist
nations; but her greatest defense against
imperialist aggression is the Red Army and
the millions of workers throughout the world
who wild defend her.

REDS AND THE UNIONS

The Shipping Federation has all its tools,
from Gerry to the Citizens’ League and Tom
McInnis, yelping about Communist agitation
as being responsible for the strike of the
Slave Camp workers, and now the Long-
shoremen and Seamen’s strike.

This is the same line the Federation per-
sued in the great marine workers’ strike of
last year in San Francisco. But with all this
screaming they did not stampede the strik-
ers. San Francisco and Vancouver in 1935
and Seattle and Winnipeg in 1919 are not the
same. The workers have learned much about
boss propaganda with its Red Scares since
that time.

They have learned, too, that the Commun-
ists in labor unions stand for democracy
within the unions and against the autocracy
of a few bureaucrats. In their struggles they
are learning that the policies and program
put forward by the Communists is in their
interests.

It is true that there are backward work-
ers who still are influenced by the anti-Red
ravings of the bosses and who do not yet see
that under reactionary leadership the unions
were degenerating into dues - collecting
rackets and, through the collaboration of the
union bureaucrats with the bosses, were be-
coming, not organs for fighting the battles
of the workers, but organs to further the in-
terests of the employers. Communist influ-
ence in the trade unions is changing this.
And that is why the bosses rave and rant so
much about it.

The claim that the unions are controlled
by Communists is as false as it is vicious.
Communists would not control unions even
if they were a majority in the trade union
movement, which they are not. What the
bosses and their tools are peeved about is
that Communist influence is bringing about
democracy in the trade union movement, and
putting an end to boss control which the em-
ployers exercise through their agents, the
reactionary trade union officials.

McGEER’S WIRE
10 OTTAWA

The Vancouver capitalist papers
printed copies of telegrams alleged
to have been sent by Fascist Mc-
Geer to Fascist Bennett. But the
papers didn’t print the one McGeer
sent immediately following the sayv-
age attack by the police on the work-
ers near Ballantyne Pier.

This telegram is printed in Han-
sard, Page 4126, and shows what
McGeer is capable of. It is a mass
ef falsehood from start to finish,
and shows what a rabid and un-
serupulous labor-hater the Vancou-

According to a
by the bureau of
Federal
How much higher

the Minister

This

for the

vation.

PUBLIC MUST
NOT GET WISE

statement issued

government,
Canadians paid income taxes on in-
comes more than $50,000 per

were the incomes is not known, as
of Finance would not
divulge the figures because “it would
not be in the public interest.”’

means that it would not be

enormous wealth wrune out of the
labor of the workers while millions
are starving or on the verge of star-

PROSPERITY
IN CANADA

Statistics of the
last year 307

LEAMINGTON, Ontario, June 17.

year. = =
than that figure (ALP)—Last W ednesday an unem-
ployed worker of this town was
evicted. The bailiff took all his

goods out of the house and set it on
the road, but as soon as he did so,
other unemployed workers grabbed

in the interest of the rich exploiters it ne mut backs 10 he house
public to Know of their revi
Today, when nobody was around,

the bailiff and county constable tools
three Leamington cartage men with
a truck and raided the worker's
home. They seized food, clothing and

ver mayor is. Here is the vile thing:

“Vesterday’s attempt of mob
incited by Communist leader to
flout constitutional authority and
to attack men lawfully at worl
. . . effectively suppressed. Wish
to publicly express the fullest
measure of appreciation of all law-
abiding citizens for splendid co-
operation extended to city police
by the officers and men of the

claiming complete

ver Aerie No.
Mayor RMcGeer,

EAGLES PROTEST
POLICE TERROR

VANCOUVER, June 21.—Although

Fraternal Order of
2057,

Attorney - General
Sloan and Minister of Justice Guth-

furniture, and stored it in a barn.
They only left two loaves of bread.
The workingeman, his wife and eight
children are out on the street to-
night with nowhere to go.

neutrality, the
Eagles, Vancou-
have sent to

WHERE WOMEN
ARE CARED FOR

June 19.—(A L P)—in

R.C.MP. force stationed here— | rie copies of 4 resolution stronsly SCOW,
McGeer, Mayor.” protesting the action of the police | the region of Moscow alone this
The workers are called a ‘mob’ of the three governments in ‘‘riding | year, one hundred new maternity
—A sample of McGeer’s contempt down defenceless men, women and |homes will open in the collective
for the Sronors: children” during the attack of the | farms. A large number of these
“tncited by Communist leader’’— police on strikers and their sympa- | homes are also being opened in other
a brazen falsehood thizers here on Tuesday, June 18. regions of the Soviet Union.
5 = é
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Abandonment Of Workers’ Struggle
Assures Development Of Fascism

By M. BRUCE

The capitalists, through legisla-
tion and in direct action against the
workers, are resorting more and
more to measures fascist in char-
acter. They are forced, after years
of vain effort and hope to overcome
the econemic erises that is strang-
ling production and impoverishinge
millions of workers, to recognize that
capitalism is doomed uniess they
ean erush the working class into
-helplessness before the offensive
which has for its object the reduc-
ing of the workers to a state of an
unorganized, helpless, hopeless
horde accepting cooliec wages and
Starvation for the unemployed.

Fascism Capitalism’s Hope

They are finding that the old
methods of foverning, namely:
bourgeois parliamentary demoeracy,
is becoming: obsolete, is not adapt-
able enough to meet the require-
ments of a decaying system fighting
to Save itself at the expense of the
producing class. They see in Fasc-
ism their salvation; they look to the
systems of Italy and Germany as a

way out; and while preparing the
way for and taking definite steps
in the direction of Fascism, they

hypocrmitically deny any such inten—=
tion, pose as the defenders of
“democracy” against “AIL forms of
dictatorship” and strive to plan the
blame for the introduction of Pasc-
ism on the revolutionary wing of
labor.
Defending Democracy.

It is not only the blame that they
Strive to fasten onto radical labor,
they also try to convince the lower
strata of the middle class and the
backward elements of the workers
of the necessity for the introduction
of repressive measures which they
deny to be Fascist, but as necessary
measures taken in the defense of
“democracy.”

The open Fascist terror in Van-
couver, as well as in other parts of
Canada, is prepared for well in ad-

vwanee along this line by all those
who attack radical labor and the
Communists in particular. In the

rabid editorials of the Vancouver
“Sun,” in the radio speeches of Tel-
ford, in theeditorials of “‘The Com-
monwealth,” in the rayings of the
megcalomaniacal MeGeer, in the
slander campaigns of the counter-
revolutionary Trotzkyists, there runs
a common line, to wit: that working
class struggle leads to Fascism and
therefore should be condemned, and
that the workers should place all
their faith in and limit their activ—

| CAPITALIST DISEASE

“The capitalist organism of
Eritain is diseased all over;
you are choked by asthma;
your Indian stomach and the
spinal nerve of Suez are dis-
eased; your nervous system
is completely out of order and
that is why your Canadian
and Australian extrimities
jerk independent of your con-
scious will; only your mouth
and gullet and belly are as
eluttonous as ever, so your
hands go reaching out for new
food, though they are unable
to carry it to the mouth.”

—Radek.

ities to talkfasts with the exploiter
and oppressor, and in “oppositional”
(in essence, co-operative) parliamen-
tary activity acceptable to and pro-

vided by the exploiting class.
Fatal in Germany.
in advancing this theory, so

deadly to the workers, they are not
presenting anything new. We have
heard the same story before — In
Italy, in Germany, in Austria; and
it always Was uSed to justify co-
operation and compromise with
capitalism in defeating the prole-
tarian revolution and the dictator-
ship of the working class.

This theory that working class
struggle brings on Fascism, mis-
leads the workers and disarms them
jn advance against the advance of
Fascism. Those who advance this
dangerous and false theory would
have the workers believe that Fasc-
ism is a system which the capitalists
introduce aS reyenge against the
workers who strugzle against coolie
wages and starvation; that struggle
provokes the capitalists to introduce
it in defense of democracy. And,
believing in capitalist _democracy,
and that it can be preserved, they
thus justify the introduction of
Fascism. >

A False Presentation

Pascism is presented aS something,
alien to capitalism, a weapon which
the capitalists reluctantly seize be-
cause they are forced to such an ex-
tremity by the “unreasonableness”
of the working class. Gut Fascism
is no such third alternative. Wasc-

ism grows out of capitalist demo-

eracy because of capitalism’s de-
generation and decay—unless ar-
rested and checked by working class
struggle. To abandon struggle,
therefore, is to permit the vile weed
of Fascism to grow to its terrible
maturity as it did in Germany. To
take up the struggle against all the
attacks of capitalism, not only
against the steps toward Fascism,
but against wage cuts, against the
resimentation of unemployed in
slave camps, against the withdraw-
jnge of-rights fought for and won by
generations of struggle, and against
imperialist war,—is to arrest the
erowth of Fascism and to defeat it.
And this can be aecomplished by
the united front of the working class
in struggle — which proved so suc-
cessful in Mrance where the united

front reached the highest develop-
ment and expression in action of any
the Fascist
such
misery to the toiling population of

menaced by
which has

country
scourge caused
Germany.

Both Are Dictatorships

The abandonment of struggle, with
a consequent increase of misery for
of
capitalism to make easy the develop-
and for the re-
will not
learn from the dire results of such
a policy in countries now under the
Fascist jack-boot it is a policy of
either despair or treason inescapable
relianee upon bourgeois de-
mocracy as furnishing the means for
and
from a lack of faith in the working

the working class, is a policy

meént of Fascism;
formists who can not or

from
the introduction of socialism,

elass:

Capitalist democracy and Fascism
are both methods of suppressing the
workers in the interest of capitalist

exploitation and class rule.
Both are dictatorships,
eoncealed under

direct,
finds itself

reformists, or by 2 coalition of beth,
either by

tatorship-
The Danger of Pacifism

The advocacy of No

yoeaey of capitulation,

The Great Importance Of The

By F. BIGGS.

The strike of the relief camp
workers is developing into one of the
most outstanding events in working
elass history in Canada. It is a

political event of paramount import-
ance. The issue of the strike —
forced Jlabor—is one that every

Canadian worker cannot help but be
interested in.

Starting in B.G., where the strik-
assembled In Vancouver, and
where they remained for two
months, it is spreading across the
eountry. The On-to-Ottawa trek is
responsible for this; it was a master

ers

move. The inhabitants of the stop-
ping places en route haye been
amazed, and the ‘‘constituted auth-
orities’ dumbfounded, at the high
deesree of organization of the
trekkers.
Politically Conscious
It was not a mob, a rabble, that

detrained at the divisional points of
the railway and paraded the streets.
It was a hishly disciplined body of
workers, both in self-discipline and
in the recognition of the discipline
imposed by the elected leaders. The
majority of them are not veterans
of the class struggle; they are young
workers, intelligent, energetic and
determined to fight for their future.
It doubtful if in the whole of
Canada there has ever been devel-
oped a body of workers more politi-
cally conscious than the relief camp
strikers.

is

Rejected Dangerous Advice

In Wanecouver, before they went
eastward, there were some people
who warned the strikers that if they
dia not stop strugeling there would
be danger of a fascist or military
dictatorship being introduced. The
strikers were agyised to go back to
camp until after the expected Fed-
eral election took place, when those

orced Labor

the one
parliamentary
forms, the other open, naked, brutal,
and resorted to because of
the difficulties in which capitalism
and which can not be
solved by the capitalists or by the

a continuation of parlia-
mentary (capitalist) democracy or by
Fascism, but can be solved only by
the abolition of capitalist rule by the
sworkers and the final extermination
ef capitalism by the proletarian dic-

Struggle
Against the conditions imposed upon
the workers by capitalism is an ad-
of turning
the other cheek, and of inviting the

More Relief |
Demanded b)
War Veterar.

Camp Before Relief BK

ministration Offices

WINNIPEG, June 21—Three b-
derd Canadian war disabled veter
are camped today, Friday, outg
the disabled veterans’ relief adr”
istration offices at Deer Lodge,
manding what is equivalent to ;
increase in relief. The vetei®
marched yesterday from the he)
quarters of the Canadian War ~
ability Pensioners’ Association —
place their demands before the ]—
relief administrat+-> at the J”
Lodge Veterans’ Hospital,
Meeting with the same bhi ,
passing that has been their lot.
more than eighteen months on”
their grievances, the veteran mai ©
ers hired marquees and pitched t
for the night before the relief
ministration offices, determinec ©
stay there until favorable reply

been received to their demand f
the Ottawa officials.

THREE FOR ONE
LENINGRAD. — Spurred on
the disaster of the giant ni!
‘Maxim Gorki,”’ workers in y¥*
ous plants in this city have ¢
iributed nearly five and a half i
lion rubles towards the construe!)
of three more air giants annoug
directly after the crash of
world’s largest airplane. Other ci
are pouring money into the funk

HIS BALLOT
FOR EMER

Editor, B.C. Workers News:
Capitalism has adopted the |
fense system of the skunk; ant
thing that defends itself in §&
manner has something rotten i
system.
When I vote at the next elect
I will vote for Emery, a victiny
capitalist beasts, If his name is?
on the ballot TF will write it on.
Je AS Tae

Vancouver, June 24.

S. U. FARMERS
BUILD THEATI

PETROVEA, North Cauca
June 21.—(A.L.P. Cable)—Moderr
every detail and fully equipped, 7
Soviet village has just opene
large collective farm theatre ¥
seatine capacity of 750 persons.
is the biggest village theatre in
Gaucasus.

Im addition to the usual st
dressing rooms, and other dist
parts of the theatre, there are %
reading and recreation rooms
tached. ;

go right ahead ¥
their setting up of the corps!
Fascist state with all its bruts
and murder. It is telling the capi
ists that the road ahead is ¢
that the workers will offer no
sistance, And since in this perio
capitalism’s decay, Fascism i
more suitable form a dictator
than capitalist democracy, the }
italists, haying need for the Fa:
state, will accelerate the temp
its development which carries 7
it increasing misery for the worl

The workers must reject and |
demmn such a suicidal theory and
licy and through intensified ui
strugsle scoteh Pascism in its
fancy, and march on the revolu
ary road to the proletarian dict:
ship which will assure to the w
ers a greater measure, not onl
the means and materials of Ii
but ap infinitely greater measul
real democracy than  fraudi
eapitalist parliamentarism ever
or even can provide.

Capitalists to

forced labor into Canada.
Bennett may use the strike a
excuse to declare: “That, in
opinion of the government, it is
jn the best interests of the G
dian people that there should Bb

Strike Against F

who had“ their interests at heart”

4
—

would see they got a fair deal. Those
who so advised the strikers were
actually aiding the capitalist class
in their plans for fascization. Pasc-
ism in its early stages is already
here. For the past few years the
process of fascization has expressed
itself in outbreaks of White Terror
in various parts of the country, in
the establishment of the forced
labor camps (disguised under the
name of relief camps), in the num-
ber of anti-labor pieces of legisla-
tion passed by the Federal and Pro-
vincial Governments, which are
working steadily toward the open
abolition of the right to strike, and
in the recent and present attacks on
the rights to organize into trade
unions. :
More Rapid in Canada

Compared with Germany, the pro-
cess of fascization in Canada has
been more rapid, even though there
has not yet appeared upon the scene
anything like a National Fascist
political party strong enough to take
over the Federal Government. Fasc-
ism, in its course of development,
makes steps and reaches points that
are similar, and others that are dif-
ferent, in different countries. The
aim is always the same, to unity
and consolidate capitalist control, to
smash all labor organizations and
manifestations of the class struggle,
to perpetuate the capitalist system
which large masses of the people,
driven by ruthless oppression and
robbery, are realizing must be done
away with.

Workers Must Struggle

Fascism does not succeed because
the workers struggle for the right
to live; it succeeds because the
wworkers do not unite and strugsle
hard enough to prevent the fascist
plans of the Gapitalist class from
being put into practice. The strike
of the relief camp men will in the
future probably be recorded as the

Canada.
yeceivyine
that
instinctively
Stake.

across

The Real Issue

a Communist plot. Knowing

say otherwise.

tawa.

first great strike against fascism in
The support the strike is
Canada is proof

the people are conscously or
aware of what is at

R. B. Bennett has said that it is
the
fear of the capitalists of Commun-
ism he could hardly be expected to
“We will stamp out
Communism,” he is reported to have
told the strikers’ delegation at Ot-
But Communism is not the
issue in the relief camp strike even
though there may be a considerable
number of young Communists in the
ranks of the strikers. The issue is
the attempt of Bennett and his ilk
to introduce the fascist measure of

election at this time,’ or, U4
cover of words to that effect
still farther forward in the pr
of fascization. This may be
either before or after parliame
dissolved, most likely after, fo
though parliament is dissolved,
til the election takes place the
ernment, or cabinet, is still in £
until voted out or reinstated a
polls. Their rulings until thei
law.
What “No Struggle’ Mean
There is no guarantee thai
election will be held. ‘Those
counsel the relief camp strike!
any other body of struggling 3%
ers, to wait until the elections
sabotaging the workers’
against fascism, are hastenin
coming, are helping the Can
capitalist class to fasten its shé

| of slavery on the Canadian p

By OBSERVER.
The publicity

cellent work.
are

invent arsuments
was not only justified,

Federation.
The

department of the
striking longshoremen is doing ex-
Its radio broadcasts
informative and well delivered.
and they are marked by something
that the broadcasts of the Citizens’
League are not—the ring of truth.
The longshoremen do not haye to
in stating their
ease. The naked truth of their strug-
ele, provided it reaches them, should
conyince everyone that the strike
but was
foreed upon them by the Shipping

broadeasts are being well
supplemented by the daily bulletins.
These, too, are up-to-date in the in-

Longshore Strikers’ Publici
Dept. Doing Excellent Wo

4 formation they contain, and th
gan at the bottom of the !
could not haye been better cil
“A Fight for the Rights of ©
ized Labor.’’

Truck drivers are playing a
important part in the strike
the Shipping Federation. The
hauling loads from the dock
relieving the congestion there.
is vitally important, for the
the congestion becomes the s
will the Shipping Federation be
pelled to open negotiations wil
Longshoremen’s Union.

Why not a jeaflet on this
of the strike struggle, addres
the Truck Drivers, and placed
hands of every Truck Driver |
city?