sre en | _ tions August 4th. ‘Combat War Preparations by Mass Anti-War Demonstra- B.C Workers News Organize and Unite to Fight the Bennett Fascist Terror! : Published Weekly VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935 Sinsle Copies: 5 Cents No. 27 UPPORT FO qualifies Delegate In a Election S VANCOUVER, July 17. — Jack inmn, progressive delegate to the Fades and Labor Council (A-F.of 1.) ere from the Steam and Operatine agineers Union, was suspended om membership on the Council last =@cht and disqualified for nomina- in for vice-president of the Coun- Charged With Advocating Cnity ; Complaint was lodged by the Milk jivers and Dairy Employees’ Union hich union has been bossed for the st 15 years by the notorious Birt owler), chargine Fiynon with “ad- _ @2ssing a meeting of the General -“uck Drivers and advocating a Snot meetine with a dual union.” )in other words, Flynn is charged Sth advocating the United Front of @: transportation workers to solidity : \Exbe ranks and gain better wages #2 working conditions and protect Gir jobs. The leaders of the T.& *-. Such as Colin MacDonald, Ben- igh and Shovwler, oppose all unity ethe TELE. Their watchword is Hick Reaction and Sell-out. The #14 of the Shippine Federation can »seen in this latest attack. : Rank and File Must Act! £ this bureaucratic clique are al- Wed to continue their reactionary Picy, then no delezate who honestly f resents the rank and file will be e from attack. The fight against = se agents of the boss will have = de carried on to the floor of every al, and protests made against | ir high-handed trickery used to 3t progressive workers from the = incil, n es i). Flynn Suspended | From T.&L.C. For Advocating Unity Want Burly Giants: Skin and Bone Pay VANCOUVER, July 17. —The notice printed below is pasted outside the Relief Office here. No doubt a miner whe refuses this seabbw pay will be cut off relief, “MINERS WANTED. The Britannia Mine is seek- ing miners preferably of the British or Italian type. Experience unn ecessary. Conditions: Preferably 160 Ibs. upward in weight, haye sound heart, good eyes and lungs. Strong, willing work- ers between ages 25 and 35 years. Any of those who are of the radical type need not apply as applicants will be hand-picked. Wages $3.70 per day; $1.40 for board. Apply foreman’s of fice.” : C) ENFORCING BENNETT'S FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW Sone Market Square, Regina, during the murderous surprise attack by R.C.M.P. and city police after breaking up gathering of 300 Slave Camp trekkers and 2500 citizens. (Courtesy of Vancouver ‘‘Sun.”) NEW THOUSANI UNION PAINTERS PICKET CHURCH HAMILTON, July 12.— Standing by its threat to picket Ryerson United Chureh unless Hamilton union men were employed on a deco- ration jeb for which a Toronto firm had the contract, and engaged sevy- eral Toronto painters, Local 205 of the Painters and Decorators Union Sent peaceful pickets to the church today. —— q INTARIO LIBERAL PREMIER ENNETT'S 'G-MAN' BECOMES B . Hatt Shaw To Stand ' Trial on Section 98 LORONTO, July 15—“Tll take > > responsibility for that,’ Pre- > er Hepburn said when Magis- ite A. L. Tinker declined to en- > cse the warrant Saturday, “We 2 not going to be a party to any mmons or warrant or convic- n under Section 98. The federal thorities made the arrest of © aw. Now let them make the _2secution. We have washed our nds of the whole business.” That was on Saturday. On Mon- Sy Premier Hepburn announced would instruct a Toronto mag- rate to sign a warrant authoriz- » Shaw’s removal to Regina for jal. He said ‘‘the issue isn’t big ough to fight over.” No Difference his turn-about face is no differ- = to the policy of Gerry McGeer. E-y both make a pretext of fight- Bennett, but in reality they have Same policy in dealing with the Biking class. The Liberals make Meve they are opposed to Section Sand eyen yote for its repeal, but fy know very well it will be coed in the Senate so they are Se >. haw will stand trial in Regina f= with Evans and the rest of militant leaders who have been med by both Tory and Liberal -ecrmments. They must be de- ded by the workers. Lawyers are Bded and must be paid for. That siot enough. They must be freed mass action of the workers. 9Y STRIKERS CHARGED WITH BEING NUISANCE (EW WESTMINSTER, July 12.— snty-three boys went cut on strike the B.C. Manufacturing Com- iy’s box factory here, and some at on strike at Westminster ok Mills. They are demanding |) cents an hour instead of the ‘vation 18 cents an hour being ito boys of 18 years. MeDonald, the manager of the ‘Panny, is using the minimum S@ aS a maximum’ wage, and this dS argument for not paying more, well as the old story that ‘‘the aness cannot pay more.” avo of the boy strikers, Elmer iy and B. Taylor, were arrested ‘Police tools of the company and rged with being a “nuisance.” > Charges against them were diS- Sed. Their arrest was for the Victoria Dock Men on Strike Bosses Attempt to Kill Union; Splendid Resistance VICTORIA, B.C., July 16.—One hundred longshoremen, belongings to the Victoria Riggers and Transport Workers were locked out here by the Shipping Federation Saturday, July 13. The union had decided by a majority vote, not to handle cargo from the Vancouver strike zone. The bosses were attempting to use the Victoria longshoremen to weak- en the strikers of the Mainland ports and tested the spirit of the Victoria men by demanding that they load seven sling-loads of black cargo aboard the Empress of Asia. Out of a membership of 107 in the union there were nine who broke away and scabbed. Two of these haye since returned to the union and asked to be reinstated, as they have readily seen the folly of breaking with their brothers. Strike Machinery Rapidly Set Up Seamen of Victoria, members of the Seafarers Industrial Union, who are also on strike, are co-operating with the striking longshoremen. Picketing is being carried on, with well organized committees of the Strikers preparing publicity, relief, ete. A few more scabs have been re- eruited in Victoria, some students, and some declassed elements, amounting to about 25 in all. Relief is needed immediately, as the longshoremen of Victoria Were not averaging more than ten to fif- teen dollars a week previous to the lockout. Island points especially, are urged to forward relief funds to the above longshoremen’s union at Vic- toria. . SRT BLACKLISTING IS DEFEATED SAN FRANCISCO, Gal., July 12.— Blacklisting of longshore gangs by employers has been stopped by the determined stand of the gangs not to unload the “Point Clear’ loaded by seabs in a B.C. port. When started, the blacklisting Was accompanied by an intense Scare campaign in the daily press, and threats of breaking agreements, pose of intimidation. removal of charter, etc. - - - The revolutionary crisis grows and matures even more rapidly in proportion as the bour- geoisie resort to terrorist methods of strugsele against the working class and toiling peasants.—(Stalin at the 17th Congress of the CG. P. of S. U.) . When the Bennett government concentrated its black hundreds at Regina on the never-to-be-foreotten Domimion Day, to shoot down the peaceful camp boys, they thought they had smashed the determination of these heroic youth of the working class of Canada. “ers are in prisons, some waiting trial, and some sentenced. Seven are stil im hospital at Regina, being treated for bullet wounds. Some hundreds have returned to camp to rest and plan a greater walk-out. A few, and these are infinitesimal, have abandoned the struggle for the time being, but new thousands have taken up the fight where it was left off. Militant Reinforcements These thousands of fresh fight- ers have taken over the fight to re- lieve the fatigue of the first con- tingents and to add to their ranks and reinforce the struggle. The camp boys who trekked East were an inspiration to all. New thousands have learned disci- plined organization, militant. strike Strategy, and revolutionary deter- mination and are now using it. Camp trekkers are on the move towards Ottawa from scores of points from Vancouver to Montreal. Four hundred have left Winnipeg escorted by carloads of R.G.M.P. and are now C Many of those first militant work S OF CAMP BOYS IN MASS TREK 10 OTTAWA Neither Betrayals Nor Bullets Can Crush Struggle of Canada’s Youthful Workers in Ontario. Citizens save them $2000 at a tag day. Trucks have been mobilized and 400 left for Qttawa- Three hundred are mobilized at Windsor, Ont., for the march. Lon- don, Ont., sent several truck loads this week. Further east, hundreds more are mobilizing to march on Ottawa. There are now more than 500 camped on the outskirts of Ot- tawa waiting for the army to ar- rive. . Enemies All Every known means is being adopted by the enemies of the work-— ers to either crush outright, or to sdiscourage the trek. Liberals like Hepburn, Premier of Ontario, are Showing by their actions that they are no different to Bennett. In Win= nipeg the Indépendent Labor Party of Manitoba has withdrawn its dele- gates from the supporting confer- ence. The party chairman uses the usual excuse for abandoning struggle when he says, “The best interests of the young men is not being served by such tactics”’ The workers are finding out speedily and clearly who are the real fighters in the interests of the workers. Undaunted in Struggle Harrassed by police thugs, perse- cuted and starved by both Bennett and Liberal governments, betrayed in their struggle by political oppor- tunists in the ranks of the workers’ movement, the camp boys are not daunted in their heroic fight for a decent living in this fertile country. The struggle is sharpening. The workers’ moyement is broadenins. The workers, organized and led by true working class fighters, cannot be stayed. Tremendous Building Boom Initiated In Soviet Union Socialist Construction In Contrast to Capitalist Stagnation MOSCOW .—Moscow is to be re- made into a modern city of 5,000,000 people under a gigantic ten-year plan visualized today by the govern- ment and the Communist party. Instead of ‘the present over- erowded city in which 4,000,000 peo- ple live in an area of 60,400 acres, Moscow will cover nearly 150,000 acres and there will be room for 5,000,000. The new city, in which will be preserved all historical buildings, will be extended out toward the Lenin hills and toward the Kuntzevo air- port on the Moscow river. The plans call for 530,000,000 cubic feet of new living quarters, includ- ing 2500 apartment houses of not less than six mor more than 14 storeys. The great Red Square, through which pour hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians on festival days, is to be doubled in size. Fac- ing it, on the site of the old ‘“‘Chinese city,’ will be erected enormous build- ings for the commiuissariat of heavy industry. Qld, overerowded buildings in the centre of the city will be razed in favor of big government department buildings. The plan includes ten new motion picture theatres, nine large depart- ment stores, 530 new schools, three culture houses, new and wider boule- vards, parks, nurseries, kindergar- tens, water, light and sewerage im- provements and six new hotel to ac- commodate 4,000 people. < OPEN FORUM CONDEMNS RCMP HOPE, B.C., July 15—The C.CEFr. eandidate for the Dewdney riding, J. Cameron, spoke on the aims and objects of the C.C_F. here tonight at a meeting held under the auspices of the Hope Open Forum. Delegates from the Relief Camps of the Princeton-Hope district, now on strike, asked for permission to state their case. This was granted and a young camp worker told of the injustices practiced. A resolution was adopted protest- ing the shooting of the camp trek- kers at Regina and forwarded to the authorities. SALE OF WCRKERS’ PRESS IS STOPPED IN BEER PARLOR The proprietor of the Dodson Beer Parlor has for- bidden the sale of working class papers in his joint. It may be that he is a member of the infamous Citizens’ League; at least, it appears that he is sympa- thetic te the union-smash- ing Shippins Federation. In any case, there are other beer parlors in the city: where such discrimina- tion is not practiced, and the boys with a dime to spend will bids this in mind. DATE SET FOR HUNGER MARCH VANCOUVER, July 16.— The Hunger March Com- mittee has set the date for the postponed march for September 20. Preparations are now being made for united labor day activities in support of unemploy- ment insurance at the ex- pense of the bosses and their government and for work at union wages. All Vancouver organiza- tions are asked to send delegates to 122-A Hastings Street West every: Wednes- day where the Hunger March Committee meets at 8 p.m. R DOCKERS SPELLS VICTORY Waterfront Strike Gains Wide Support; Huge Sums For Cops Mayor and Council Are) Tools of Shipping Federation That the mayor and city council have burdened the taxpayers with the expense of maintaining several hundred additional stoolpigeons at- tached to the police force was brought out during the trial of ex- police chief Cameron, et al, during the past week. Witness after witmess, including a former city dick, stated under oath that there were hundreds added to the force since 1934. Harrassing the Unemployed Cross-examined by Gordon Wis- mer, counsel for Cameron, Oliver Enis, a elerl in the police}depart- ment, would not deny that there were 600 “operatives” (Stoolpigeons) on the unemployed situation alone. “You know that the woods are full of special officers now, don’t you?” asked Wismer, “You can’t walk down the street without bumping over them?” “J have heard . » replied Ieims. Tiwo-Legged Rats Overrun City Although not brought out in court, for obyious reasons, it is well known that these undercover rats swarm all over the city, and almost all of them are engaged to support the Shipping Mederation and the Citizens League, its creature, in smashing trade unionism. In the struggle between the work- ers and the millionaire shipping magnates the taxpayers, including hundreds of longshoremen, are forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dol- lars to supply strikebreakers for the employers. CITIZENS’ LEAGUE AND FASCIST STOOL PRAISED BY HITLER RAG That Vancouver is infested with stoolpigeons and rats is becoming well known to all workers. There is 4 special kind of rat who worms his way into working class organi- zations for the purpose of getting information for the police, caus- ing friction and distrust and dis- ruption, One of these has served the tasc- ist elements im Vancouver so well that he receives special mention in a Hitler-controlled rag published in Winnipes. This sheet is called “Der Nordweston” and is printed in the German language. In the July 3 issue of this fascist rag there appeared an article of praise for the fascist Citizens’ League in Vancouver. Following is a trans- lation of the eulogy under a2 Wan- eouver dateline: “The newly formed ‘Citizens’ League’ here (Vancouver) has ap- pealed to all order-lovinge citizens and workers to join the league, in order to jointly combat the Strike Situation. “This organization is for the pur- pose of giving information to the people and believers in constitutional democracy. “The league serves and aids any government that has gained power in a constitutional manner. It spe- cially declares that it will be for the welfare of the worker as Well as the employer. “It does not advocate class-politics, nor does it serve any political party, but the people. It is therefore self- evident that great numbers are join- ing up, even a considerable number of relief men, married and single, are joining with the honest intention of helping to preesrve peace in the city. “It must again be mentioned that a very large number of German- speaking men have become members of the league. “Peace loving German speaking workers are requested to apply to Theodor Kuhn, 459 Bast 6th Avenue, Vancouver, for further information and admittance for membership into the league.” PROTEST LETTERS TO WASTE-BASKET The petty autocrat whom a gulled Vancouver public stuck into the mayor's chair has ruled that all let- ters from workers and working class organizations protesting against his use of police against workers or for any other reason will henceforth be elassed “Red” and will mot be considered by the council, but will be thrown into the waste-paper basket. The utterly useless human or semi-human rubber stamps and yves- men who clutter up the council try- ing to look like aldermen meekly agree with Der Huehrer. as —~ First Class Strike Buster Mr. Bert Showler Shows Bosses How Good He Is Mr. Gert Showler, business agent of the Truck Drivers Union (A..F. of L.) has made a public statement to the effect that the union will not assist the longshoremen’s strike in any way. No financial assistance has been voted, and the union has not resolved to refuse to handle Powell River scab paper. Showler States that “the union will continue its neutral stand regardine the Strike.”” Mr. Showler has been business agent for the truck drivers, milk Wagon drivers and some taxi drivers unions in Vancouver for the past 15 years or so. In all that time, no one can say that Showler ever took a stand in the interests of the work- ers. Rani and File Not Anti-Labor Showler does not represent the in- terestS of the truck drivers. When the union was near collapse some years ago, Showler jumped into the political party formed by General McRae, and acted as chief labor lieutenant for the Shaughnessy Heights millionaire. This latest statement of Showler is not surprising to those who know him. This action—refusing to take a stand in regard to scab labor— brands Showler as an agent of the Shipping Federation, and an able Strike -breaker with whom the “Citizens’ League’’ will be proud to be associated. JIMMIE SIMPSON JAILS TAGGERS TORONTO, July 15—Mayor Jim- mie Simpson, who claims to be a C.C.FVer, but who known from one end of the Dominion to the other as a notorious labor hater, ordered police here Saturday to arrest tag- fers soliciting funds for the On-to- Ottawa trekkers. There as much difference be- tween rank and file members of the C.C.F. and this mountebank as black to white. Raising himself by servility to the capitalist class in the trade union movement from one office to another, he has now reached the height where he can satisfy his lust is is for venging his hatred upon mili- tant workers. In spite of the ban, workers, in- cluding girls and boys of the Youngs Pioneers were successful in collect- ine considerable funds for support of the trek. Bill Pritchard Tours Van. island —— Bosses and Gov’t Weakening VANCOUVER, July 19.— Strenu- ous attempts are being made on the waterfront of Vancouver by police to provoke the striking longshore- men on picket duty to start a fight in order to give these special polict something to do. Mayor McGeer i: frantically seeline justification for Spending huge sums of money on Special police. Qver $50,000.06 was known to have been spent for this purpose up to last week, and the Sum is still mounting. MeGeer is confronted with two alternatives: either to provoke a Slaughter and thus haye some justi- fication for the huge expenditures, or to bring about a settlement in favor of the bosses and thus fain prestige as mediator between capi- tal and labor. Pressure on Federation Increasing On the other hand the Shippin= Federation, while losing hundreds depending: on McGeer to smash the longsshoremen and drive them back to work without a Union, The Med— eration is weakening daily. Pressure is being brought to bear on them on all sides. As the strike now stands the situ— ation is favorable for the workers. Victoria is out and well organized committees haye been set up. Che- mainus is solid, apart from one or two traitors. Port Alberni has is- Sued an ultimatum to the bosses to end of the month, or they will come out on strike. Scores of societies have cancelled their picnics, due to Scab erews employed on ships. Support for Strike Everywhere The inefficiency of scabs is illus- trated by scores of incidents such as the scab crew of the S.S_ Southolm, which discharged 480 rolls of paper in 14 hours (two shifts), and damaged 84 rolls. Longshoremen are Saining wide Support everywhere. Bill Pritchard, editor of the “Commonwealth,” who Knows the waterfront industry thor- oughly, has been touring the Island with Geo. Brown, strike leader. They met with wonderful response evyery-— Where. This action alone is respon- sible for rallying hundreds of work- ers to aid the strikers. Since the Start of the lockout there have been numerous arrests, as follows: Van- couver, 45; North Vancouver, 1; New Westminster, 4; Powell River, 6; and Victoria, 11. These have all been defended by the ©.L.D.1.. Two Mair Requirements for Victory it is the considered opinion of the leaders of the strike that the pros- pects of victory were never brighter than today. To assure this yictory, two main requirements are neces— Sary. They are, first, SOLID RANKS AMONG THE STRIKERS AND A FIRM STAND. Secondly, MASS SUPPORT BY THE REST OF THE WORKERS—PINANCIAL, MORAL, AND ACTIVE. The next two weeks will tell the tale. Seamen, longshoremen and their families have made valiant Sacrifices. They must not be in vain. Let us put every ounce of energy into the support of this strike and Sain the ereatest victory in labor's history in the province of B.C! RETURNED RELIEF CAMP BOYS STRIKE IN HOPE AREA VANCOUVER, July 17.—One hun_ dred and fifty camp workers struck work in camps in the Hope-Prince- ton area, and were evicted by. fifty Provincial Police despatched by the Pattullo government. Most of the boys had returned from Regina and went back to the slave compounds, only to find that the camps were more rotten than when they left them on April 4th. The chief sriev— ance was the bad food. Upon arrival in Vancouver, one hundred of the Striking camp boys applied to Hamilton Hall for relief and were told, “No relief, and no camps for you.’ Preparations are being made for mass action to foree relief for all blacklisted camp boys. California Lumber Weorkers Protest Reign Of Terror EUREKA, Cal.—Calling for a na- tional flood of protest and holding a United Defense Conference July 5, redwood lumber workers on strike here are preparing to take militant action as the result of the murder of two strikers, the wounding of nine others and the arrest of 150 pickets and strike Sympathizers_ of thousands of dollars weekly, are — Settle the Vancouver strike by the