x ie Training Future Scabs. Page Two Be. G. WORKERS? NEWS = July 12, 1935 YOUTH COLUMN. YOUTH'S FUTURE IN THE LAND % The following is an address by a sixteen-year-old girl graduate of the Frunze District High School * Gn Moscow. Compare this with the ' prospects of Canada’s youth — * slave camps or starvation: “Comrades: It is very difficult to speak today and there is so much +o be said. One gropes for words to sive the appropriate answer to our dear older comrades, to express what is surging in our breasts—but words seem to pale. To think what enor- mous perspectives open before us, syhat inexhaustible possibilities! Wide and hospitable are the doors Jeadinge to a creative, joyous life. Molders, flyers, physicians, collec- five farmers, teachers, agronomists, literateurs, tractorists, electricians, administrators, technicians each and every one of us is needed in our young and beautiful Soviet Father- Jana! “The poet was right when he ex- claimed: ‘Life is good. It is so good to live? In such a land, in such an epoch. Wes, especially in such a Jand. In the capitalistic countries the boys and girls of our age cannot possibly know of such a day of lumi- nous joy as we are celebrating to- day. There the boys and girls gradu- ating from schools have no horizons. They are entering a blind alley. “We, the first graduating elass of ¢he Soviet ten-year school, have been particularly benefitted by the great, truly maternal care bestowed upon us students by the Party. _ “ye were trained not only by the pedagogues, we were trained, we were educated by the whole country. | Q@Qur Soviet land has brought us up on the examples of its splendid party and its leaders, its heroic sons and daughters, on the Ghelyuskin epic, on the flights into the stratosphere, on the building of the subway, among infinite dramas of creation. Jt has brought us up on the sweep of its construction. Tt has brought us up finally on the realization that there is nothing impossible in the Jand of rising Socialism. The best subway in the world is the subway of our city. The highest sky is the sky over our jand. It has been OF SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION of the stratosphere. The deepest areas are our seas. They have been deepened by our bathysphere. It is in our socialist land that they fly best, that they run best, that they study best, that they play best! This is the education given to us by our Party and our country. “Now we have graduated. Ten years of conscious, serious study are over. Ahead of us are work and study even more serious and more full of responsibilities. “And who are we? We are the future scholars, workers, engineers, chemists, flyers.~ We are the artists, the composers, the poets, the sculp- tors. We are the chess players, the athietes, the sharp-shooters. Yes, we are what the first generation born in the revolution ought to be. We are the makers of this land ealled upon to conquer time and space. We count the minutes and the years, the seconds and the cen- turies. We wish to, we must, we shall live long. Our great tasks need jong lives. It is for us, the youth, to carry out Lenin’s behest to build a Communist society- “We are reporting to you, our dear, our beautiful country, to you, our Party; to you, our own Joseph Wissarionovich: the cadres are here ready for work and defense. A new feneration is advancing and it will be able when necessary to take the place of the older Bolsheviks. ‘Heroism in our land doesn’t mean senseless tricks in pursuit of fame; it means serious day to day work and struggle. We know that cadres become hardened in vital work, in overcoming difficulties, im and out of school. We shall try to be valu- able citizens worthy of the first revo- Jutionary generation. “We shall always try te be men and women of the Stalin calibre — strong, with steady nerves and stub- born in our struggles. “Greetings to you our Soviet land, muost tender and flaming greetings from your sons and daughters, from that generation which counts its years with the anniversaries of Oc- tober, which together with you our Soviet loved, 1s reaching this year pushed further back by our heroes the age of majority.” Youth And Slave Labor MAURICE RUSH, Vouth Organizer, P.W.C.on U- In face of the present Grive of the Capitalist class upon the living standards of the working people of Canada; and in order to fight this concerted attack, it is important that an analysis be made of the various youth organizations that have recently come into being, and that are being financed by govern ment subsidies. Tet us deal here with one that is promising to become the most threatening to organized labor, namely, the Junior Porest Wardens. mMhe inception of this moyement on the part of the Provincial Govern- ment was first placed before the public in the May {8th issue of the ‘Vancouver Daily Province.” According to the “Province” the wages are to be exceedingly small. ™Mhere are also certain restrictions before being eligible to join. Amongst them are: “Ten years’ residence in B.C." ‘Good character,” etc. Pearson Explains. It appeared at first that there were to be only 350 youth placed jin ‘this work. Since its inception, hundreds more have been recruited. Huee camps are being built to ac- commodate them. Wollowing is the manner in which the government explains the inaug- uration of this scheme (the follow- jing quotations are from a statement by Hon. G. 8. Pearson, Minister of Labor): “They (the youth) will be organized into groups of 10 and sent to various timber areas to eut much needed trails.” He goes on to ex- plain it as follows: “Tn this way the government plans to train boys and at the same time give them the opportunity to make and save money during the summer.” But the ques- fion arises: Train them for what? Pearson answers in the following manner: “It is expected that the training received in this work will make these young men desirable ma- terial for timber operators to draw from.’ In the above statement the pur- pose for this movement is clearly explained to every clear-minded person. The young men recruited for this work are to be used to smash the militant Lumber Work- ers’ Industrial Union. It is clear that the Provincial Government is in direct collusion with the lumber parons in carrying out this further attack upon organized labor. The above analysis clearly points to the necessity of building a Strong working-class youth movement. The building of such a movement will be the greatest step towards the strugele against scab and slave labor. In which way will the building of such a movement counteract the at- tempts by the capitalists and their governments to utilize the youths as a spearhead towards their (capital- jst) realization, j.e., coolie wages for the working people? In the first place the majority of KILLED FOR PROFITS. GLACH BAY, N.S. July 4—Two miners here were seriously injured jast week in Reserve No- 10 mine. A pot between two chunks came down without warning and buried Hoth of them. The accident eccurred at the new long wall in the mine. youth who fall victim to such or- ganizations as the Junior Forest Wardens are unemployed, who are seeking ways and means of better- ing their conditions. Secondly, these youth are unaware of the role they are playing in the attack upon trade unions, resulting in the lowering of wages. Must Build Youth Movement. A strong Movement amongst the youth will be the ereatest answer to the attempts of the bosses in utilizing the working youth as a weapon of further exploitation of the wide masses of people. Such a movement that will raise the siruggles and the slogans of the working youth for the abolition of relief camps, for cash relief, at home, for the right of all unem-— ployed youth above 18 to work on relief projects at trade union rates of wages, for increased educational grants, for real non-contributary unemployment and social insurance, ete., will not only win the working youth for the greater struggles that are to come in the future, but it Will be a heavy blow to the attempts of the boss-class to set up a net- work of embryo-fascist youth organ- izations. PROGRESSIVE ARTS CLUB IS LAUNCHED Provisional reorganization of the left-wing movement in dramatic art in Vancouver is under way. A group of workers interested in the presen- tation of plays of social significance and with revolutionary implications has taken permanent headquarters and rehearsal rooms at 404 Homer Street (small hall). Here, any one interested in the *yarious branches of dramatic art— acting, scene construction and des- sien, costume, lighting, translation— are welcome. Membership applica- tion forms may be obtained by writ- ing to the secretary at that address. The first play to be put in re- hearsal is the new and exciting ‘Waiting for Lefty” by Clifford Odets, the young playwright whose work has made such a success dur- ing the season just closed. Meetings of the Workers’ Group will take place on Tuesday and Fri- day evenings and the first reading for parts will be held on Tuesday, July 16, at 8 p.m. at the elub’s head- quarters. The “P. A.C” is the Vancouver branch of the movement which has active units in most of the eastern Canadian cities. There is no admis- sion fee, and only workers who can give something of value to the or- ganization should consider becoming members. CHARITY OUTFIT PLEAD POVERTY Wictoria,; B.C:, July 9, 1935. To the Editor-—The local charity organization has refused to supply milk to invalids and under-nourished children with the usual cry of “no funds.” Clothes constitute another item which has been the subject of discussion. Delegations from the women’s organization and those who have been privileged to view the east-off rags and battered shoes ar- rayed for their inspection, have re- fused them. An attempt to raise more funds with the threat to the Relief Com- mittee that unless the City Council “came through’ the whole burden of “special privilege’ would be thrown on their shoulders, has pro- duced no results. The City Council also cries “‘no funds.” So the Friendly Help uses the same tactics as industry and eovernmental departments and insti- tutes wage-cuts and part-time em- ployment for its over-worked staff. Provincial Workers’ Council, Per B. Caley, Sec’y. Red Airmen Set Record KHARKOV. — Two young Red Army men set a new altitude rec- ord without the use of oxygen ap- paratus today, after climbing 27,129 feet in one hour and forty minutes, descending in 33 minutes without mishap. - Pilot Tkachuk declared “‘the only aim of my flight was to prove that without oxygen apparatus the height of 27,129 feet or even consid- erably more could be reached in a P-f airplane of the lightened type.” Engineer Gutovsky took notes of many new effects of the upper re- gions on the body. Defence News PRINCETON, July 3. seorge Dobie and H. Hayes were today sen- tenced to two months each in Oak- alla jail on tframe-up charges of vagrancy. The sentence of these two are being appealed, together wWwith the other eight Princeton cases. VANCOUVER, July 5.—Jack Har- rison, striking seaman, arrested and Charged on assault on a seab. Charge against him was dismissed, due to the scab not showing up to press charges. NEW WESTMINSTER, July 3.— James Smith, Harvey Richards, John Donaghue, longshoremen, ar-— rested and charged with assault and obstruction, came up for trial today. James Smith was Sentenced to two months in Qakalla jail. and Harvey Richards was sentenced to one month. John Donaghue was ac- quitted. NORTH VANCOUVER, July 8— Morris Duruisseau, secretary of the North Wanecouyer Jongshoremen’s Local, was today sentenced to one month in jail on a charge of assault on a scab. Durings the last few days the fol- lowing workers have been arrested and charged: Ernest March and John Scheidel, “threatening.” Charles Leighton, assault. Alex. Meleod, “inciting to riot.” John Pocock, who was badly beaten by the police during the June 18th riot, upen beine discharged from the hospital, was immediately arrested and charged with “‘riotins”” and “‘unlawtul assembly.” This worker is only 20 years of Age and his head is still bandaged, due to the terrible beating ‘he re- eeived. Due to loss of much blood it was necessary for two men to hold him up while appearing in court. Thomas Hardy, “threatening.” Tony Morrelli, inciting to riot. Jack Hughes, inciting to riot. Guy Prentice, doing grievous bod- ily harm (to a scab). James Millroy, intimidation. All the above are striking long- shoremen and seamen and are now out on bail supplied by the C.L.D-L., which is defending all cases. The Ganadian Labor Defense League appeals to all workers and sympathizers to come to our assistance by supplying property bail. Anyone having property and is willing to put it up, please phone Trinity 5806, or call at Room 28, 163 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, A branch of 96 members has been set up in New Westminster. This response comes as a result of the recosnized need of a defense organ- ization by the striking longshore- men. In Vancouver scores of longshore- men and seamen have joined the CL.D-L. The prestige and recogni- tion of the work of the G.L.D-. at this time on behalf of the arrested strikers is such that a strong cam-— paizn will be carried on by. the lead- ers within these unions to get every seaman and Jongshoreman to come into the ranks of the defense move- ment, Due to the enormous expenses in fightine all the labor cases in BASy the @C..D.L. calls upon all working class organizations, as well as mem- bers and sympathizers, to help fin- ancially to carry on the defense to a suecessful conclusion. Send your donations or call personally at the District Office of the C.L-D-L., Room 28, 163 Hastings West, Van- couver. YOUR SUPPORT IS UR- GENTLY NEEDED. SHORT JABS By OP Bill Site JDyaticrtcjpaul > - 33s 5 5 $10.02 Potal’ toy dates... - ss $85.07 ee SS Less than $15.00 to go, fellows. Hurry up, the 14th will soon be here. er ag og 5 The Right Reverend Lord Wil- liam Gascoyne-Gecil (quite a mouth- ful even for a2 member of the para-— Sitic family of erd Salisbury), says he agrees with Mussolini, that de- mocracy is essentially i mmoral. “Democracy,” according to this aris- tocratic priest who -never did a pennyworth of useful labor for so- ciety in his whole worthless life, “tends to demoralize people, to make them selfish, to think of their own interests and not of the com- munity’s.’ He, of course, does not think of his own prelatical paunch filled at the expense of the Starving millions of Enesland. He is indig- nant that any measure of democ- racy should be extended to the hun- dreds of millions of Indian people, plundered, harried and raped by him and his fellow imperialistic buccan- eers. ‘Better for India’s 350 mil- lions to remain under the benevolent rule of British civil servants,” he says. He means better for the Risht Reverend Lord William Gas- eoyne-Cecil so that his fat, well- larded carcass may not Srow Jean and that he may continue to live in Juxury and idleness. * = * Anyone who has been in India and seen at first-hand the utter degra- dation and misery of the masses in that “great jewel of the Empire’ knows what two hundred years of Civil service rule has done for the long-suffering slaves of Empire, particularly among the workers and peasantry. Ti a hundred average Bombay workers or Bengal peasants were stood in line and we went along and’ weighed them one. after the other, we would not find more than four out of the hundred that would weigh over 100 Ibs. When waees of city laborers are 16 cents a day .and not many days at that) and peasants work in the fields of the Madras Presideney for 5 cents a day, rice is too expensive to eat, and millet is* the staple food, this lordly theocrat wall guzzle as much at a meal as would feed a Hindu worker for a whole year- Millions are unemployed; there are more beg- gars in India than in all Hurope and America put together. Ninety-six per cent are absolutely illiterate after almost two centuries of Brit- ish rule, whereas, in the Soviet Union almost the same percentage of literacy has been wiped out in less than 18 years of working class democracy. This kind of democ- racy will help India better than the noxious interference of a slothful, esreedy, pot-bellied churchman, blue- blooded scum of the British vampire peerage. a a = Various explanations, interpreta- tions amd what not haye been cir culated to explain why Arthur Byans was not immediately arrested, hung, drawn and quartered on that historic afternoon when he told R. B. Bennett the truth — when he named Bennett a liar. Workers who know Comrade Eyans and his activity in the labor movement don’t need any explanations. They know he spoke the truth without any ver- awe Next Moneéay night at § o'clock the Centre Sranch of the W.E.S.L. is holding a Diass meeting for Vet- erans and their wives at 150 Has- tings West. @he pressing need of more adequate relief will be taken up and the great fight of the small pensioners at Wuinnipes for beiter treatment will be discussed. They hoped that from this meeting plans may be laid to bring pressure on the local authorities to improve condi- tions among the ex-servicemen. All readers of this column are asked to notify their veteran friends of this meeting. See 2 A comrade writes in from Alta Lake calling on all ex-servicemen to write R. B. Bennett protesting the arrests of G. Black and Cos- erove, two Vets who helped lead the camp trekkers in the “On to Ot- tawa’’ march; also that Arthur vans and all others arrested at Regina be immediately released. He Suggests all letters be mailed on July 13. Further he is sending in a dollar to support the “B. ©. Work- ers’ Wews.’”” Good work, comrade. e Bch ced ae A news item in the “Worker’ states that 25 veterans from Whit- by, Qnt., who went on land under a scheme of the Army and Navy, “who had bought 1,000 aeres of land out of funds raised by a Sweep- stake gamble,’ have drawn no wage in the last three months nor have they received any share from the sale of produce. The city paid 40 cents a day to the A.& N. for all men taken off the city relief and are still drawing it as far as the correspondent can find out. The A.& N. was also to supply an instructor, but after three months they are still waiting to see him. The moral is: Don’t be fooled by “back to the land schemes.* Fight for a square deal in town. * * * Small pensioners at Winnipeg are still camped outside Deer Iodge Hospital and standing firm in their determination to win better relief and medical attention for their wives and children. They are receiving support from the workers and citi- zens. Letters of solidarity have been sent by the branches of the W.E.S.Iu. here, who are in sym- pathy with their demands. * * aE On August 18th the Workers’ Ex- Servicemen’s League is to hold a pienic on the north side of Hast- ines Park. All veterans, their wives and families are invited. W.E.S-L. branches will have stalls, and sports will be held. There will be a popu- jar ladies’ contest among the branches, ete. Come and enjoy yourselves. = a eo Camp trekkers are pack in town undefeated and although they may return to camps the fight will con- tinue until they are finally abol- ished. The boys state they learned more in the last three months than they would ordinarily in six years. Many organizers have gone east to strengthen the cause. West, there will be a concert in aid Tonicht, Friday, at 150 Hastings MALNUTRITION | PLAYS HAVOC Kiddies Corner | _ WITH CHILDREN Victoria Kaddies Suffer From Anemia, Poor Vision and Teeth VICTORIA, B.C., July 6—Alder- man Dr. Hunter has revealed some of the most appalling condi- tions existing among the school children in the city of Victoria that has come to light for a long time. The following report made public recently shows the need for a militant unemployed organ- ization that will fight in the m-— ferests of the workers’ children. This report was published in the local press: “T have inspected, examined and observed school children in yarious parts of the continent, but never have I seen physically and mentally inferior children in such a propor- tion as I saw at the display at the Parliament Buildings grounds on Queen Victoria’s Birthday this year, carried out by twenty-four hundred school children of this community. “Any onlooker, close to the chil- dren, who could not see that they were inferior, both mentally and physically, to school children in other centres, had no opportunity of comparative observation. Sutfering from’ Semi-Starvation- “The overwhelming majority of the children who marched before us were quite obviously badly trained; jll-adjusted to their environment; suffering from marked constitutional conditions, such as: Mainutmtion, faulty posture or anaemia and such local defects as goitre, decayed teeth, overgrown adenoids, or defec- tive vision. “These conditions, child’s personality, impairing his physical and mental health, were seen on inadequate observation.” DIGEST OF LETTERS We are in receipt of a copy of a Jetter of protest sent to the “Van- eouver Daily Province.” The pro- test centres around a news report emanating from Ottawa, wherein Me. Bennett blames all and sundry for the attack on a peaceful meet-— ine held in Regina cn July ist, where hundreds of workers and citi- zens were clubbed or shot and one detective was killed. The statements attributed to the Prime Minister were made to the House of Commons, Mr. Bennett seeks to vindicate His sangsters and himself by claiming that the Slave Camp inmates were happy and contented until agitated by the Communists. The writer brands Bennett's state- ment as a gross misrepresentation of camp conditions and the attitude of the men toward them. marring the PAYING UP. Minister—Rastus, don’t you know its wrong to play cards on the Sabbath? Rastus—wYes, parson, an’ believe of “B.C. Workers News.” me, Ah’s payin’ fo’ mah sins- biage, embellishment or camouflage, jin the open manner of a real fight- er for the workers; one who has no need to conceal anything from them. Notwithstanding this, there are en- emies of the working class who eall themselves revolutionaries, who are set on slandering him by insinuat- ine that there must be something wrong with him since he was not arrested in Bennett's den. * * a Another breed again is represent- ed by the unprincipled reptile who wrote in the counterfeit Jabor paper, the ‘“Iuabor Statesman’: “It has often been said that the R.C.M.P. always “get their man,’ but we won- der if they will get the man who recently said that there were not enough mounted police in Canada to stop the relief camp strikers from going to Ottawa.” It was Arthur Evans who said that, and this is a bare-faced appeal to the police to arrest him. It was published be- fore he was arrested on July 1st, our glorious Dominion Day; issued by the fake labor leaders of the Vancouver Trades and Labor Coun- ceil, who have been exposed as such by Evans in the past and places them in the category in which they truly belong—stoolpigeons, the low- est and most degenerate section of the lumpenproletariat. House- cleaning operations are long over- due at the T. and Lb. ©, and when f#his does take place the time-server editor of the “Labor Statesman” will have to find himself a new job. * % % The sincerity of the Claim of this imposter to inscribe the banner of labor on a paper he edits is demon- strated by a Story In the same is- sue, supposed to be a joke. It is entitled “A. Knotty Problem” and goes on as follows: “Phe saying is that heaven will protect the work- ing girl, but wo will protect the suy she is workins’ his is not due to a powerful sense of -humor, but eenerally in line with the anti-working class stand on all ques- tions of policy taken by this fawn- ine lickspittle, whose toadyinge to the bosses stinks in the nostrils of all honest workers, workings girls as well as working men- x? a = is The capitalist jpress, when report- ing the interview of the Relief Camp Strikers delegation with Iron Heel Bennett, stated! that a couple of mounties stood pn each side of the delegation “unkhown to the dele- sates.’ It is not true that the strik— ers did not know they were bulis— they smelled them thougli they couver Hunger March Committee, has written to the “B. ©. Workers’ News’? requesting that the follow-— ing open letter to Mayor G. G. Me- Geer be published: “The above committee in session on Wednesday, July 3, wish to take the strongest exception to your statement made to the City Council and published in the daily press to the effect that a “Communist Or- eanized Hunger March’ is to take place on July 22. “this Hunger March was first de- cided at a full meeting of the Pro- vincial Workers’ Council on Unem- ployment on April 6, and the plan was endorsed April 7, in Vancouver, by the B.C. Congress on ‘work and Unemployment Tnsurance.’= At that eongress there were’ represented 25,800 persons from 101 organiza- tions of the widest character. Dele- eatés attended from many trade unions, unemployed organizations, political parties, churches, friendly and benevolent societies. ‘You are well aware of these facts, for you received a resolution from that congress stating that the demands. on which this hunger march is based, viz.: “(1) The enactment of the Work- ers’ Bill for unemployment imsur- ance. : (2) Work at real wages, not work for relief. “And pending authorization of (i) and (2), (3) 50 per cent increase in relief. “These and similar demands are voiced by Conservatives, Liberals, C.C.F-ers and Communists alike, for they may be embodied in one—the ‘right to live!’ “your further statement that this committee is responsible for the re- lief camp strike and the longshore lockout, and that we aim at con- yertine the hunger march into a general strike is only one more ridic- ulous labor hating and red baiting policy. ‘We insist that in full knowledge of what you were doing you delib- erately misrepresented the truth, and aS mayor of this city that the only SCIENTISTS SEEK NORTHERN ROUTE ARCHANGEL. — Headed by Geo. Uschikoff, assistant manager of the Russian North Sea route, a Soviet scientist expedition set out today to find an Arctic passage from Europe thought the snpell might be from Bennett. j { 4} to Asia. Hunger March Committee - Castigates Mayor MicGeer y. A. Bowles, secretary of the Van-f honorable amend you can make will pe to issue a public statement apolo- gizinge to this committee for this gross misrepresentation- “We shall be glad to hear from you by return.” PRIZE WINNER The winning ticket in the draw for a hat was No. 178. The holder ean get the hat by calling at the Dominion Hat Co. ALLGOING WELL | away to a good start on July ist, three | Pioneers, : Junior Section of Women's Labor 4) League attendine. Si: will be interested to Know that he © was the first in camp to receive the: honorary 1 cleaner. morning. tent “vanguard” won top place io a clean and neat tent with a score of toya’’ came second with 12.17 points — and “Tim Buck" brought up the rear E SUMMER CAMP. | The children’s summer camp got organizations, Renfrew Clinton Halil _Pioneers and All those who know Roy Taylor title of porridge pot | This title was gained by — being last in line for “jerks’’ in the 7) After a week of battling the girls’ | 13.3 out of a possible 20. “Whatset- with 8 points. At a mass meeting held in our new club house the camp voted unanimously to support the long shore strike. Our camp, comrades, is a workers’ children’s camp and one of our rule is that you must be clean both phys- ically and morally, but how Comrad dna broke that rule! She slippe: slipped and slipped again, then down : she went into the mud. Volunteers -4j were needed to clean clothes. Comrades, the camp is still in need ; of sports equipment. Anybody wil- ling to donate anything along this | line should leave it at 19 Hast Has ings Street, Vancouver. Any of you who haven’t heard Georgie’s yarn about the banan should have been at our concert o Saturday night in our auditorium; | Arm yourselves, folks, with a good yarn or a song when you come oO 2 our concerts because everybody mu do something, you know, ; The sum of $5.40 was realiz from a radio lamp, raffled in aid the Children’s Summer Camp. Thi winning ticket was Io. 305. lhiteracy Forced On Childre SHERE, B.C. July 3—The res dents of Shere, B.C., have been an ine for nearly two years to set school established in this district s that children ranging in age up to 14 years would he able to acqui at least an clementary education. This long struggle has to; da brought nothing that might be het ful to these children- At every tur the residents were met with _oppost tion from the officials, but mostly from the inspector of schools, sho. all this while was opposed to 4 school at Shere with eleven children. and one time thirteen children © school age. While in the course of this cam= paigsn to get a school at She “which is very urgently needed, wit! the aid of voluntary labor and £ material, an old sawmill bunkho was repaired and hand-made desis ete., put in, and, last but not lea : the services of a voluntary teacher; ’ a young lady who came from Wanai- mo, and rendered her seryices gratis. And still there has been no favor. able response from the Departmen of Hducation, and no prospect of school for the next term unless again be yoluntary. Why should it be necessary — hold voluntary school in old bu houses, while there is plenty of good material for a proper building? ~ ‘ Qo. HF. (By an eye-witness of the attack by police in Regina, July Ist.) Our meeting, at which 3,000 at- tended, including 300 Camp boys, had just started, Toothill of the C.C.F. had been the first speaker. He spoke for fifteen minutes. Trol- lowing him was Winters of the Re- lief Camp Strikers. He had just started to appeal for funds to pro- vide meals for the boys and was asking. for dollar bills when City Detective Chas. Miller, who was and the fight was on. Back and forth across the square the fight raged. ‘Ten minutes from the start city police ran amok with their suns, several workers fell from the fusilade, others dropped to the sround to syoid being Shot, then mounted R.C.ALP. charged the rider. Fishtine extended from the Capi- tol Theatre north to the railway tracks, and from Ostler Ave. to Albert St., an area six blocks square, Camp Boys, acting as First Aid men, were rendering aid to all in- jured, police and citizens alike. One of these men had just administered First Aid to a fallen “Wounty ’ when he was attacked by other Mounties. One of the Birst Aid men The Police Attack On The — Camp Marchers In Regina was arrested, while carrying out hi mission of mercy, but was later re leased. 2 Arthur Evans and Geo. Black were arrested almost immediatel} after the attack began. Millar, th “dick” who was later killed, well down after he blew his whistle. Le had a broken club in his hand which was broken in his attack & the workers. Several of the police were seen to be fighting amone themselves. It is alleged that tf M.P. mistook Millar for Evans ant standing a few feet away from the | were responsible for the “dick's road surfacing equipment, blew his | death. We was hated almost 2 whistle. About 60 uniformed city |much as Seanlon is here in Van police rushed from the adjacent pol- | couver. 4 ice Station, shouting threats and Wre were near the Capitol Theat cursing, Mounties closed in from |marching in formation, sinesp three sides with Jong riot clubs | «ola the Fort.” when the staccad swinging. The erowd gave Way, |of a sub-machine gun split the ai the citizens and camp boys steadied | We fell flat on our stomachs, a next morning we found a line o bullets in the wall ten blocks aways City firemen are reported to hay refused to aid the police, statin their job was fighting fires and me fighting camp strikers. One fir man was arrested and held yithol bail, charged with actively Thelpin crowd. Scattered, the fight renewed | the strikers. at various places. Some were Tear gas was first used whe driven to the tracks where crushed | Ryans and Black were arrested - reck ballast made good weapons.| the start of the fight. A machi These aimed at the horses’ legs | sun was brought into use from wt prought them down, spilling the|top of the Bank of Montreal. Many of the tear gas bombs d not explode instantly and we thrown back at the police with d moralizing effect. Wilson of the camp boys was Sp in the stomach by R.C.M.P- As fell he said, “Carry on, boys, 2£ finished.” : Militia are also reported to ha refused to aid the police. The figl ing lasted until 12 p.m., when was called off by the strikers: