“The proletariat has no other weapon in the fight for power except organization.” \ 2 \ \ @ @ ORKERS NEws Organize and Unite te Fight the Bennett Fascist Terror! Published Weekly “VANCOUVER, B.C., JULY 12, 1935 Single Cepies: 5 Cents SSS No. 26 -VOL.I FIGHT AGA NST SLAVE Dissension Breaks Out In Shipping Fed. As Strikers Hold Solid Longshore Strikers Re- ceiving Increased Sup- port from Unions VANCOUVER, July 16:.—The long- Shore lockout continues solid as more Support from the ranks of organized labor is beine received. Truckdrivers, Swampers and Mes- sengers have gone on record to re- fuse to haul Powell River paper from the docks after today, while the In- ternational Teamsters’ and Chaur- feurs’ Gnion have given financial assistance and will decide on the question of refusing foods. The crew of the French liner “San Antenic” refused to work cargo, and the “donkey man” was logged 50 frances for refusing to supply steam for the winches. Deckhands on the “Border Prince” walked ashore Sun- day night, claiming they to haul scab resular crew weeks ago. also walked ashore. SS: “Prince John’ hayvine erable damase both to pier. This is the second scab-manned C.N. fleet. ine snapped baci havine been cast off quickly enough AS IRR: S RWWBRIEN URGES ‘FORMATION OF CALGARY, July 10.— General Sir James Mac- Brien, head of Canada’s political police and chief strikebreakinge body, the Reyal Canadian Mounted Police, is touring Canada on the pretense that he is inspecting his forces. His real reason appears to be to organize fascist clubs throughout the country. While here he praised the hoodlum Citizens’ League in Vancouver and urged the formation of similar strike- FASCIST CLUBS had been Signed on under false preienses, her struck some The B. & W. barge crew ramnied the dock at Prince Rupert, doing consid- “essel and uceident of this nature that has befallen the The spring across the dock when the ship was backine out, not a result tyyo women who were breaking fascist gangs in Calgary and throughout the country. He trotted out the old tripe about maintaining “lor an’ order” and declared that such a league could give valuable moral support to the police, AND PHYSL CAL SUPPORT IF NEC- ESSARY. eaught in the flying cable’s path LIBERAL HEELER vere Seriously injured. Considerable optimism was ex- REJ ECTS MOTION yressed in Strike Bulletin No. 28, nd also in “The Heayy Lift.’ a At a recent meetine of the Liberal ittle paper that exposed and assisted m the ousting of the reactionary ex- cutive Some months ago. While this paper went out of print o make way for the “Ship & Dock,” -t promised to come back io the as- istanee of the longeshoremen when he opportunity arose. A statement to the Shippine Pede- ation by the Furness, Withy & Blue ‘unnel lines states that ‘unless we re definitely assured, by July 10th hat steps are being taken to end the rckout, we will cancel all our sail- igS to Vancouver and divert our aips to American ports.’ Longshoremen state that the cost [ “Keeping the port open’’ is $120,- J0 daily to the Shipping Pederation, nd that their bankers have notified 14em that further credit will be ithdrawnu if things do not alter. On the docks discontent is growing mons the scabs as some of them st all the work while others get uly a few jobs. Police are reported | have stopped several fights. Police were called to stop fighting hich broke out between union and on - union seamen aboard the merican tanker S.S. “ha Brea’’ at acliburm dock, Burnaby, where she berthed, Large numbers of the strikebreak- Ss have availed themselves of the portunity to get a clean slate and we reported for picket duty while large number are reported to have ut and Zone to their homes, VICTORIA, July 10—lLongshore- sn of this city decided Tuesday by vote of 67 to 4 to refuse to work y ships loaded by seab labor. Ivan nery, president of the Longshore- mand Water Transport Workers SS so advised yesterday. SHEMAINUS, July 9—One hun- sd and thirty-eight longshoremen this port registered a 100 per cent fe to Stay on strike in sympathy th their locked-out brothers in neouver. SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.—Dock rkers are still “thumbs down’’ on b-loaded vessels. S.S. Point Clear still tied up in port, with her scab <0, which longshoremen state ¥ will not touch until the strike settled in Vancouver. festerday the “Hmma Alexander” s forced to sail without a cargo of ap paper for B.C., because long- remen remained by their decision to work Ships going to or from ke-bound ports. XTEEN PLANES WILL REPLACE ‘MAXIM GORKI’ (OSCOW.—The Soviet Union has ided to build sixteen huge air- 1eS, each of which will be larger 1 any present land plane. he planes will be modeled after Maxim Gorki, world’s largest i plane, which was demolished erash several weeks ago. Then the Maxim Gorki crashed, ras decided to build three such res to replace it, the workers peasants subscribing heavily to nee the undertaking. 7@ Tesponse was so great the Association held on Victoria Road, Vaneouver, rank and file members endeavored to introduce a resolution condemning the City Council and the iiberal provincial Sovernment for refusing to srant relief to the desti- tute children of the longshoremen who are locked out by the Shipping Federation. The chairman would not allow the resolution to be discussed or acted upon, on the sround that the usine= of the weapon of starvation of wom_ en and children to force men back to Work on terms dictated by the Ship- ping Federation was “‘not a political issue.”’ fending himself. ATTACK OF POLICE ON REGINA MEETING Workers and citizens defending themselves after peaceful meeting was broken up by tear gas, clubs and guns. Wood-box in foreground provided defenders with improvised weapons. Note in right center, policeman taking point-blank aim at citizen, and latter de- (Courtesy of Vancouver “Sun.’’) Pas Lumber Workers Win Pay Increase Speed-up Policy Beaten By Counter-Move THE PAS, Man.,- July 5—Bm- ployees of The Pas Lumber Co. Ltd., at the mill here, have forced the company to give an increase of 214 eents an hour to all hourly wages, effective the first of July. The manager struck a snag in his speed-up program when he took after the sawyers to speed up the eut, for they in turn demanded an immediate increase and got it, not only for themselves but for all hourly paid men. The men are realizing that this Capitalist » enterprise is not all- powerful and other demands will follow, all of which will improve con- ditions for men used to working for as low as 25 cents an hour. Another improvement around the mill has been the introduction of a Swing man to sive every fireman one day off each week. CITIZENS’ LEAGUE USE ARMORIE Special Police for Ship- ping Federation Sworn in as Strikebreakers It is reported that last Monday in the Vancouver Armouries there was considerable stir. A large body of men were present—special police to help smash the waterfront strike. Semi-military gents were runnins around calling the new recruits into Sroups of 15 to 25 in number. These froups were taken into side rooms and given short lectures by a ser- geant of police, while awaiting the arrival of “some persons of import- ance,’ as the bulls said. Brass Hats Arrive, Soon two gents arrived, one a gen- eral and the other a colonel. The eolonel spoke of the “unrest’’ (strike) in Vancouver and of the arrival back in the city of the Slave Camp march- ers “whose objective is the gaining of their demands by means of FORCE.” After thanking the recruits for their interest in the ‘“‘publiec wel- fare’ (the interests of the Shipping Wederation) he spoke of the police being handicapped because so many are needed to work for the Shipping Federation on the waterfront (he called this “maintaining law and or- der’’). This leaves not enough police for the rest of the city, he said. BLUE SHIRTED STRIKEBREAKERS BRASS HATS S 10 ORGANIZE The W orker To Enlarge Sat. Edition Plans to make the Saturday edi- tion of “The Worker’ more attrac- tive by adding two more pages to it are set out by the editorial board in its July 6th issue. Page three of the new six-pager will take the form of a magazine or “Sunday edition.’ Stories of how the workers live in slums, hostels, on hunger marches or treks, working conditions in shop and factory will be features. A women’s column will feature women’s activities in organizations, home, patterns for dresses, recipes, and care of children. Working class education, written in popular style, will sive an ex- planation of the fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism. This will be conducted by Bill Sydney. A. comic strip is being considered, also a humor column, and, if it can be arranged for, a sports column. Subscriptions to this special Sat- urday edition will be accepted, and anyone who can help out in supply- ing material for these pages will he Fascist “Blue Shirts” So it is necessary to Swear in spe- cial police to relieve these now on the waterfront. The specials will be officers and will be armed. They will be given Blue Shirts, with a police badge, and will be used as patrols on the waterfront under the control of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The pay is to be $3.60 per day and food, and, if nec- essary, Sheltei >_ Excludine co:.nels, majors and generals and all] the various heel- ers, there were about 160 men pres- ent of all ages, but chiefly of the age of 25, with many mere youths. Big and little shots of the infam- ous Citizens’ League were in com-= plete control and used the building as if they owned it. All groups were called out “Coonel So-and-So’s group,’ “Major as icil decided to have thirteen ex- ships built. So-and-So’s group,” ete. welcomed. STCOL PIGEONS IN RELIEF OFFICE The cost to the city of Vancouver of the whitewash of the City Relief administration which has been drag- fing along for several weeks will exceed $5,000, it is said. The relief office “‘probe’’ has re- vealed some rotten conditions, among them the employment of stool pig- eons, known as “operatives.’’ These Slimy rats praise their bosses and portray them as modern Christs. The city is infested with these rats. They are employed by the city police, by the RCMP and by the provincial police as well as by the relief office, and no one knows how many more organizations—and the In Plain Clothes Not Known to R.C.M.P. The more the facts become known the more it appears that Detective Charles Miller was clubbed to death by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, The mounties were out to get Evans, the leader of the marchers. Not knowing that his ar- rest had been effected at the first mush of the police on the crowd, it is charged that they mistook Miller for Evans, both men being of about the same height and age. Plain Clothes Men in Gowda Miller was a member of the ~ Re- gina police force. The R.C.MP. did not know the members of the city police when not in uniform, many of the mounties being strangers in the city. It is known that plain clothes city police were scattered throughout the erowd before the attack, and Chief of Police Bruton of Regina has stated that the attack was prear- ranged and that the blowing of a whistle was the signal for the attack this was his undoing—he looked too much like Evans. In order to cover this up the authorities have arrested a striker and are preparing to rail- road him as the man, or one of the men, who killed the dick. R.C.M.P. officials have given the lie to the statements made in the House of Commons by government members that the R.C.M.P. did not have loaded guns, And Chief Bruton asserts that his men fired into the strikers and citizens, and that they did not fire into the ground or over their heads. It is abundantly clear that Bruton and the city police were advised of the plans for the attack and wWil- lingly cooperated with the R.C.M.P. in the slaughter. = Worker Shot in Spine The condition of J. Rothecker, an orderly in a Regina hospital, who was shot in the spine by a ricochet bullet, although not near the scene of the fighting, is in a serious con- COMMEMORATE LONGSHOREMEN SLAIN BY THUGS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 5. Twenty thousand workers marched over a two-mile route today, in com- memoration of longshoremen and seamen murdered one year ago by the hired assasins of the waterfront employers. Searcely a winch or wheel turned as erews from ships walked ashore immediately upon tying up at their berths; only the mail ship “President Adams” was allowed to work cargo. Police Vandalism Harry Bridges, militant leader of the San Francisco longshoremen, stood his turn at watch at the spot where Sperry and Bourdoise were shot down while they were return- ing to the union hall to report. The payement where these work- Signs, whereupon dockmen painted the sign on again and placed a fuard taxpayers foot the bills. ers fell was lined off with floral trib- The total number of camps now utes. Chalked signs kept the pe-| on strike is 25 with 2.000 men. The destrians off, but police kicked the | main group of the strikers is now flowers away and rubbed out the! situated at Port Arthur and Fort DETECTIVE MILLER WAS CLUBBED 10 DEATH BY MOUNTIES THINKING - HE WAS EVANS, STRIKE LEADER Slain Man Was Deseeed: dition in a local hospital. Meningitis has set in. David Lyon, a striker. Shot in the abdomen, of peritonitis. His condition is seri- ous. The bullet which entered his Stomach passed through the hip and lodged in his back. GERRY GETS AN INVESTIGATOR’ FROM BENNETT who was is in danger Expert Is Added to Anti- Labor Forces Gerry McGeer, patron of fascism in Wanecouver and Squanderer of taxpayers’ money to the tune of $50,- 000 for special police to assist the Shipping Federation to break the longshore strike’ and smash union- ism, has added to his forces against labor one Superintendent Darling of to begin. The plain clothes men ae “ : 2 were to attack from within the] t®e criminal investigation of the crowd as R.C-M.P. attacked from | &-C-M-P. without. Darling was ‘borrowed’ from Ot- Miller was in plain clothes, and | tawa for a year for the purpose of persecuting radical labor and Com- munists in particular, “Communist actiyity throughout the country, and the state of general unrest has made it necessary to bring our criminal investigation de- partment methods up to date,’ the mayor is reported by the press to have said. < “UNEMPLOYED CAN BE BURIED ANY WHERE’’ BURQUITLAM, B.C., July 10.—“Woods good enough to bury unemployed,” says MeDonald, Reeve of Bur- quitlam. When a member of the great army of unemployed died the other day the reeve took the stand that they should clear a little place in the woods in which the re- lief men are clearing the bush off for a cemetery site, as this would sayé the council the expense of a plot in a cemetery. Raids, Arrests On Mass Scale Used byBosses More Than 20 Arrested Since Police Riot On Bloody Tuesday Mass arrests are the order of the dsy—or night, rather—in Vancouver. Workers’ homes are raided at night and workers arrested and charged. Since the police riot on Bloody Tues- day 81 workers have been arrested in the effort to break the Strike for the waterfront bosses; 64 are out on bail ranging from $500 to. $5,000 and totalling $174,000. Twenty-three are in Oakalla prison serving sentences of from one month te 18 months. Ten of these in Oakalla are serving sentences for their activities in the Slave Camp workers’ strike. The terror rampant in Vancouver has been extended by Pattullo all over the province. Provincial police thugs raid workers’ homes through- out the interior and alone the north coast and confiscate working class papers, documents and books. C.L.D.L. on theJob The Canadian Labor Defense League is securing bail for the ac- cused workers and providing counsel for them in the courts. Intense resentment has been aroused among the workers and the people senerally against the mayor and the provincial government for their open, cynical use of the police and the courtS on the side of the Shipping Federation. Police Reinforcements Arriving Daily to Aid Bosses NIPIGON, Ont., July 5.— Over 2,000 lumber workers from all the largest and most important pulp camps in the Thunder Bay district have stayed solid in their strike. Eyer since two weeks ago, June 20th, when the first men came out from Thomas Falls camps at Ozone the Strike has spread and become more solid. The latest camps to join the gen- eral lumber workers’ strike to en- force the conference wage-scale Was the Pigeon Timber Company’s four camps at Neys, where 500 workers are out. Although the bosses were able to prevent the workers from joining the strike at the start, they have to admit that 95 per cent ONTARIO PULP CAMP STRIKERS HOLD SOLID; STRIKE SPREADING of the Pigeon Timber Co. workers have left the camps. According to the latest reports Camps No. 43, 42 and 41 are all empty of pulp cut- ters and other workers and only a few men are still left in Camp No. 40. Chas. Cox’s Camp No. 4 at Gay- ers is also beginning to empty out so that now only a few of the men remain. Cox’s Camps No. 20 and 21 at Black Bay are all empty with 160 workers out. Splendid Solidarity. William, while 500 strikers are stay- ing in Nipigon. Picket ganes are of honor there. JIsama, Nipigon, Port Arthur, Hur- kett and Fort William. So far the strikers have shown Splendid solidarity and pickettine is on a mass scale. Groups of 15 to 25 men with a leader are stationed at various points where it would be possible for strikebreakers to enter. Relief kitchens of the strikers are maintained at Nipizon, Port Arthur and Fort William, besides the picket kitchens at Long Lac, Ozone, Cay- ers, Hurkett and Kama. “Strike Bulletin” is issued daily. Two sub- Strike committees function daily in Nipigon and Fort William, while the Central Strike Committee meets in Port Arthur. During the past few days the con- tractors have raised the howl about “willing workers wanting to go back to work” and have tried to import scabs under police protection. The companies and contractors affected by the strike are hollering for more police and government interyention to break the strike. Weapons of Death. During the past few days a Very heavy concentration of armed police Staying at Long Tac, Gayers, Ozone, BOSSES FEELING STRIKE EFFECTS Official reports are givin= the lie to the “optimistic? propaganda of the Shippine Federation in the press and oyer the air. The effects of the longshore strike in New Westminster are shown in the shippine report which gives the or lumber loaded 53,404, as com- pared with 1S, in June, 1934. Total cargo tonnage handled in number of feet there in June Relief Camp Will Return To Camps _ After Heroic Struggle Greater Fight Will be Staged Later if Conditions Are Not Radically Improved 6 AMPS CONTINUES Strikers Will Keep Up the Fight Against Forced Labor The Relief Camp trekkers, to the number of 800, returned to Vancou- ver Sunday morning on special trains paid for by the Saskatchewan Sovernment. They flatly turnea down the offer of the Federal gov— ernment to go to the Lamsden con- centration camp which is surrounded by barbed Wire, and is in reality a prison. At meetines in the Empress The- atre on Monday and Tuesday they discussed their problems and decided to go bacle to the camps providing: there is no discrimination and black- listing and that they will be fur— nished food and shelter until placed. Struggle Well Worth While The boys feel that they have done a great deal to brine the camps with all their evils to the attention of the public, and that their Struggle has been well worth while. They feel. and quite properly, that the victory reported to be considering either ma- terialiy changing conditions in the camps or abolishing them altogether If they do not, nothing is more cer— tain than there will be another and greater fight against them. The stories of the boys, many of them eye witnesses, of the murder— ous attack of the police on them im Regina, all go to show that 2 mas— Sacre was planned. Had the boys not fought back in defense many would have been killed. MONTREAL CAMPERS ATTACKED BY POLICE MONTREAL, July 10-—A meeting of more than two thousand unem_— ployed and Slave Camp workers in Place Vigor here was attacked by police with clubs and other lethal weapons. The meeting was a peaceful one until the police began rioting, and was being held for the purpose of raising funds for the march to Ot- tawa to lay Srieyances before the Sovernment. Several arrests were made, and it is expected that efforts will be made to frame-up those ar- rested. WINNIPEG MARCHERS MOVE WINNIPEG, July 10. Three truckloads of trekkers eluded the police barrier here tonight and drove out of the city on their way to Ot- tawa. Mounted police in a car over took them at a village 30 miles away but did not attack them, no doubt waiting for reinforcements. The encamped 800 Relief Camp Strikers here are expected to follow at any time. It is reported that police are being concentrated on the Manitoba-On- tario frontier and a repetition of the Regina shambles is feared. STRIKERS EJECTED OTTAWA, July 10. Striking Workers at the Rockcliffe Airport Relief Camp were split up today by the Department of National Defence ejecting about 150 of the most mili-_ tant workers and making promises to improve conditions for those who were not removed. forces has been noticed here. Over 150 R-C.M.P., C.P-R., Provincial and Civilian police have arrived in the trains coming from the Hast. More are to come. Rumors are circulat— ing here that several hundred more will arrive and swell the total te 500. City Pays Big Sum To Aid Federation Vancouver city council affected to be surprised when Mayor McGeer informed them Wednesday that the cost to the city of police support of the Shipping Federation would amount to $50,000. In justification of the great ex— penditure the Mayor again raised the Red bozey in the approved Ben- nett manner, and intimidated that the ¢xpenditure for special police was not ended. It is not expected that the policy of making the taxpayers Pay the bill for intimidation of strikers on behalt of the Shipping Federation will be June was 34,361 tons, as compared With 66,438 tons in June, 1934. abandoned voluntarily by MMceGeer or the Citizens’ League. is theirs. Already the government is”