Page Two B Ce WORKERS: NEWS July 26, | YOUTH COLUMN | Correspondence Members of the Young Communis Bid of the Longshoremen. Units in the city are going down and offering their ser- almost every unit has been down several individual mem- They have also been active in thé gather- _| A. is an anxiliary of the- Ukrainian in a body vices on the picket line, as well as who have more time. times, bers, ing of funds for the Longshoremen The Young Communist shoremen must win or all be smashed. The Young Communist tions to aid the Longsboremen ing of funds to enable them to carry on successfully against -the Shipping Federation and the Citizen’s League. J. Mcn- A Lesson For the Youth Jimmy Sambuco was only 16 years old. ut that early in life he under- stood his class position in society. He was raised in a revolutionary envirement, his mother being a member of the Italian Workers’ Club and the Women’s Labor Leasue. Little Jimmy naturally ibe- came a Pioneer. Jimmy's environment was one of poverty. His family being on relief, jie was naturally denied sufficient of the necessities of life. One day a few weeks aso Jimmy decided that he would hop a freight and go to the Interior Bb C553n: search of work. In the hope that he could make a little money to buy some of the necessities that his fam- ily lacked. A few days later found Jimmy in the Interior. Gut things were not as he expected upon arriving there. He found hundreds of men looking for work. He searched the entire In- 4erior for something that did not exist—work. Gy this time Jimmy was getune honiesick and, being unable to find any work, decided to return home to Vancouver. But he never arrived home alive. Monday at 11:30 am, in Moun- tain View Cemetery, Jimmy's freight torn and mangled body was laid to rest, before a crowd of fifty workers who gathered around his grave. A Jetter of condolence was read from the Italian Workers’ Club. A youth speaker from the P. W, C. of U. was also present, who in his speech bit- terly denounced the capitalist sys- tem which is responsible for the death of this youth and thousands of others. The lesson the youth have to jearn t League are showing their solidarity by participating in the picket line in League recognizes the fact that the Iong- trade winions of a progressive nature will League ealls on all Youth and their organiza- in every way possible, such as partici- pating on the picket line, or solicit- from this true to life experience i that there is no work for them any- where. The youth must stay at home and build a strong movement that will fight for the right of the youth to live at home at a decent standard of living. WM Wouth Section, U.L.F.Y.A. The Youth Section of the U.L.F-Y. Labor and Farmer Association, and is the Vancouver Branch of an out- standing revolutionary youth move- ment, which has over 2,000 members in Canada. A Central Committee at Winnipes functions as the National Executive body and gives the necessary jJeader- ship to all branches of this move- ment. The activities of this organization consist of musical, dramatic, physi- eal and educational culture, which is effective in bringing them closer to jhe revolutionary struggles of the working class. The “Young Worker,” as the Jead- jng paper of the membership, has accomplished much towards raising their ideological understanding, en- abling some of them to become out- standing leaders in the Canadian working class movement. Qur youth section in Vancouver has 35 members who are engaged in the cultural activities of our organ- ization. Among other things we have giyen our moral and financial support to working-class demon- strations and strike struggles, We are affiliated to the Youth Section, League Against War and Kascism. We have many practical short— comings within our organization, which are due to lack of discipline and revolutionary understandings, but we are determined to overcome these difficulties by means of eomradely eriticism, and a monthly educational bulletin, that we publish in order to give us a better understandings as to how to carry on our work. YOUTH SECTION MEMBER. “Young Worker” Picnic The District “Young Wrorker”’ Press Gommittee is making the nec- essary preparations for a huge pic- nic on Sunday, July 28th. The pic- nic is to be held in the North Side of Hastings Park. There will be music, games, Te- freshments, amusements, etc. Three valuable prizes will also be given away. A big popularity contest is to be held. In case of rain on Sunday, July 98th, arrangements have been made for the use of the Ukrainian Temple on that day. How Anti-Soviet Stories Of Starvation Are Made Bunco Man Who Spent Last Thirty Years in San Francisco Poses as Having Escaped From Russia If you read the Hearst morning papers on July 1 you picture of John Slivkoff who, ‘‘after six terrible years in Soviet Russia, once a rancher near Dixon, Calif., is back in the United States.” in Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner, Mr. Slivkoff just ar- “STX TERRIBLE YEARS SPENT probably saw the rived in Los Angeles after IN RUSSIA.” i He got off a Japanese ship tion, etc. If you didn’t read it then you should reproduce the important parts of the story he told, in the left hand column. In the right hand column are the facts about Slivkoff which Hearst overlooked. SLIVKOFF, ACCORDING TO HEARST i—“As mute evidence of the suf- fering, brutal treatment and hard- ships that he endured in the bayo- net-ruled land of the Communists, his nose slants grotesquely and his face and body are scarred from the blows of rifle butts and clubs. °—*FWor all of his American citi- zenship he is a typical Russian peas- ant, and even as 140 million peas- ants are suffering under the grind- ing heel of the Reds, so did he suf- fer when he escaped. 8—“‘Landinge at San Pedro a few days ago Slivkoff was ragged and unkempt. He could not make himself understood in English, and even his Russian was slow and halt- ing. 4“TIn 1929 ._. I decided to go back (to Russja) after the wife and three children I left in 1912 when I came to this country. ...- + After I bought my steamship ticket and paid in advance for my railroad fare to my village, IT had more than seventeen hundred dollars in good American money. 5—‘Slivkoff (in 1929) debarked from the ship at Vladivostok .... Then members of the OGPU, dread secret police that Slivkoff was Soon to fear and hate started to search each man... One policeman shoved me. In America I had learned to put up my fists when shoved ... One man hit me. I hit back One took his rifle in both hands and swung it at my head...I screamed and fell down?’ = his story, through Russian interpreters, to the Hearst press. It’s a terrible story, too. All about Soviet brutality, starva- é According to the story posed for a picture, and gave do so. We herewith SLIVEKOFE ACCORDING TO THE FACTS j—Slivkoff, whose real name is John Popov, and who is known to many in San Hrancisco as Harry Dickson, has never been in Russia Since the Revolution. He is sro- tesquely marked and scarred from a frightful beating he once recejved. One eye is blind. 29 purine his 30 years as a bum, cadger and stool-pigeon on San Fran- eisco’s South of Market skidroad, Slivkoff-Popoy-Dickson has never done a tap of work. During the last 12 years he has gotten a little funds recularly from the San Francisco police. 3-HWe left San Francisco a little over two weeks ago. Since he’s so crooked that he isn’t allowed even to enter under-cover “joints” here he probably felt the need of new hunting grounds. He is known as a bunco-man. 4—e left here with just $6 in his pocket. He “borrowed” $4 from a cigar store clerk on Third Street, and $2 from another party. Both of his benefactors consider themselves geypped, and would like their money back. 5——About 12 years ago a “gorilla man,” as the Hearst papers phrased jt, perpetrated a frightful attack on a San Francisco girl. Slivkoff-Popov- Dickson was rounded up in a police dragnet, and for some reason the officers became conwvineed he was the fuilty party. In an effort to get 5 confession they third-dezgreed him according to the American custom. His blind eye, twisted nose, and other evidences of a maltreating were the result of the terrible manhand- linge he received i San Francisco at the hands of the police. ANNOUNCEMENT The concert sponsored by the joint committee of the ©.L.D.L. Chinese Branch and Chinese Unemployed As- sociation which was due at Ukra- nian Temple July 31 has been post- TAKE NOTH Mr. W. lL. Maken, chairman of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers’ Asso- Glation at Lansley Prairie, refused a representative of the longshoremen the privileze of the platform there to appeal for support for the water- July 23rd, 1935. Editor “B. C. Workers’ News": Dear Comrade: I would like to draw to the attention of the public to the way the dead bodies of chil- dren of parents on relief are treated. T went to a funeral of a 3-year-old boy. The mother, beings on relief, is in terrible circumstances, she was not able to supply a thing for her little boy, her husband is away and she had no one to help her out, so relief was asked to bury the child, and it was the very worst funeral that ever I saw. They did not e€yen want to supply a car for the mother, and they asked her if she could not supply one, which, of course, she could not do. = The casket was just a plain box, covered with cheese cloth or muslin, and was not big enoush at that, any they did not even sing a hymn at the graveside. They never had a box in the graye to put the casket jn, and the grave was half full of water and very rough. That is the way the poor children are treated when their parents are on relief. The cause of the child’s death was ‘not enough wnourishnient” They are practically killing the children, and then don’t give them a decent funeral. Y am the mother of three children myself and on relief and, believe me, something ought to be done about these things immediately. I wonder when the mothers and fathers are goine to wake up and see to it at least that their children are looked after. (Signed) RELIED MOTHER. Editor’s Note.—We call attention of the Renfrew District Unem- ployed to this letter Militant or- ganization and action is needed to prevent this callousness of the profit-hunery fiends towards work- ing class mothers. Girl Jumpers’ Record Leap TOO HUNGRY TO WALK IN CAPITALIST CANADA MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—Six women aged 20 to basKed in public ac- elaim recently for their record mass parachute leap yesterday from an altitude: of four and one-half miies Without oxygen apparatus. Bach received her parachute a prize of 1500 rubles. The FEexperimental Institute is de- yelopinge new types of parachutes, including one which is 190 feet in diameter and which, it is claimed, can land a load of six tons. The parachutists landed in collec- tive farms 40 to 45 kilometers from 2 23 and Moscow where they were enthusi- astically sreeted by the collective peasants. Meetings were organized at once whieh decided to organize parachute clubs amone the collective peasants. DETAINED HOUR; DEATH STEPS IN VANCOUVER, July 20—Charles ©. Gergevin, 48, of Gold Bridge, B.C.. died in the admitting room of St. Paul’s Hospital yesterday, where he is allesed to have been detained for an hour while the attending physi- cian and hospital authorities wrangled over whether they would accept hing or not. Mr. Gergevin was suffering from call bladder disease and had been in the city previously, being a patient at the General Hospital, to which in- stitution he owed a bill. A bill was also owine the doctor, and this is the reason for so much of the delay in admitting him to a ward. Money talks at Wancouyer hos- pitals. By BENTON DRAYNETT Out of a blue sky the plane cireled to a perfect three-point land- ine (a little different to the camp strikers On-to-Ottawa but a grateful country is always ready to meet its obligations to its worthy sons), The three passengers stepped out on to the grassy lawn which anyone might see was not an official landing field. The bumptious individual first to alight was the famous politician Verry McQueer. The others were ob- viously of a different social milieu. There was a tang of Fall in the air. The maples and birches along the road were a veritable avalanche of russet and gold. At a little distance, a huge substantial pile of buildings filled out the scene. To Verry, Par- liament ill personified all his dreams, his life’s ambition, and here it was at last. It was only a few minutes’ walk up the hill. Verry MeQueer walked slowly. His companions, one on each side of him, were discreetly silent. Werry lived through a strenuous lifetime in those few minutes, as a drowning man is supposed to do. He thought how humble and industri- ous he had been. “~ worked hard as a moulder and joined 4he union and was a friend of Sam Gompers,” he mused. “They don’t like me now, but they can't kick me out. ’'m a lifer. But I would never have picked up 70,000 dollars in one haul if I had gone op mak- ing stove plates. Honest John helped me in that. Honest John, ha! ha! It makes me laugh! I did right to stick by the liberals, though I could have joined the C.C.F. Dr. Belford jnvited me to. I was right to turn them down.” “J put one over too when I ran for mayor. Telling them I would make it a crimeless city in three months went over good. They swallowed it, hook, line and sinker. Joe Salome a good line for getting me a body- euard. Ha! hat And the Oxford Group—that was 4 good investment though it is worn out now. I pulled a fast one the night I exhorted them from Sandy Sodom’s pulpit. That's one time I did have the reds on the run—right after me. Imagine them dames getting sore when I told them that the spirit of God was all right in the church but the city hall was for business.” “They must be nuts jf they think they can improve on me. They never had a man could do the things I did. {T read the Riot Act right on the spot where the unknown hero, who died for democracy, is supposed to be buried. It sure was 2 real soldier's farewell. And that was 4 good job TL did at Pal ©” Mine Pier. Yet Ben- nett had the gall to suggest that I was red—when the only thing red about me is my Dose. Fifty thousand smackers ain’t much anyway. I got more for a few minutes’ talk to the railway commissioners.” “~— sure smashed the united front of the Communists and the Interna— tional Bankers. I was the first to expose that—nobody thought of it ti]l] I blabbed it out—mnot even the GCC. Even though it was bull, it was justified. The Communists are always fighting for more relief or higher wages for unemployed or longshoremen or somebody. And be- sides, they tried to wreck my po- litical career but I fooled them by nominating myself in Burrard and now I am Premier of all Canada.” ‘Why don’t they all do as I did? TI married a millionaire’s daughter. They could all do the same if they were aS smart as IT am. The Citi- zens’ League are nice people. They sure like me. Just the same they didn’t come through with the price poned to Wednesday, October 2 front workers’ Strucele- for the Baby Bonds. But I may get made it look like Chi, and that was They Took Him To Right Place STEEL INVENTOR SAILOR TELLS OF CREW’S ACTION In our story of the longshoremen and seamen’s strike we listed the “Steel Inventor” as one of the ships operating with a scab erew. This should have been checked more closely. From one of the crew in whom we have every confidence, we got the story of just what occurred. We quote from his account: “On arrival’ in port (Wancouver) we refused steam for the winches, or to work cargo. The captain wired New York, and the ships’ delegate wired King, the firemen’s delegate in Seattle. “The answer to the crew's wire was that no steam was to be sup- plied, while the New York head- quarters of the International Sailors Union ordered steam sup- plied. F “The crew remained by the de- cision of the Seattle delegate and demanded of the captain that they be paid off, whereupon the captain asked for several hours while he sot in touch with the company’s office in the Bast. Meanwhile he called some of the firemen and told them to furnish steam, threaten- ing their arrest on a charge of mutiny should they refuse. “The I. S. U. in New York threatened members walking off the vessel with the loss of their books. “The crew test.” worked under pro- WORKERS’ HOMES RAIDED CAMP LISTER, B.C., July The homes of John Nygaard and Francis lL. Blakey of Canyon, B-C., were raided by Provincial Police. These two workers were leaders of the Young Pioneer goups in Canyon. Thus the tools of the Pattullo Lib- eral government assist in the pre- paration of making our children po- tential cannon fodder for the next war. 22. —— RELIEF DOCTORS TO STRIKE. VANCOUVER, July 23.—Threat- eninge to refuse treatment to Vancou- ver relief recipients unless they get double the remuneration they now receive, a delegation of doctors met the mayor here today. They now re- ceive $3,000 a month. The govern- ment has offered $4,000, but the doctors want $6,000. They threaten to down knives and swallow the pills if they don’t get it. a whack at the city hall yet. Dam the Communists anyway.” By this time they had reached the main entrance to the building. Verry walked with an assumed dignified step, in imitation of Caesar crossing the Rubicon. There was an official at the door to welcome them. Ad- dressing him Werry said, “JT shall commence by driving the money- changers out of the temple.” The official smiled and asked, “Who are you?” Verry bellowed, in: true mayoral style, “I’m the chosen of the people to run the country at Ottawa and I am here to take over Ben- nett’s job.” While the two guards snickered, the suave official, who seemed to be used to such outbursts, merely re- plied, ‘‘You bloody fool, this isn’t Ottawa. This is Hssondale.”’ Ex-servicemen. held a weil tended meetins July 22, The eatheringe was held under the auspices of the Workers Ex-Service- men’s League to hear the report of the action committee elected at a at- last Monday nizht, at 150 West Hastings Street. previous meeting held Juiy 15. following Gemands were and endorsed: _ Free medical, dental and hospital- ization for all veterans and their dependents. That small pensioners haye their old relief rate of $30 for single and $45 for married men restored. Won-pensioners to be placed on S.C-R., pending this that they be eranted relief on the same scale as the small pensioner. Wo veteran to be sent to a relief eamp, but has the right to eat and sleep where he chooses regzardless of domicile. The submitted Ls s* a * It was decided to send these out to other organizations for them to en- dorse and so bring pressure to have these reasonable demands granted. A committee was elected from the floor to carry on the campaign and to take up srievances. A member of the Army and Navy yolunteered along, with several others. The feel- ing of unity was great. An ex-seryiceman locked out from the waterfront spoke and was given a Sood reception. The meeting passed a resolution demanding the lons- shoremen be given immediate relief by the city. This resolution is to be sent to Mayor ‘“‘Hitler’ McGeer It was clearly pointed out that the W.ES.L. had through their steady agitation and publicity given to evic- tion cases of small pensioners (Cle- ments, etc.) also their representation on the Hyndman Commission had done the most to gain the increase just granted the pensioner on relief, We understand the Legion clazms the eredit, but we rank and filers know that without continuous agita- tion on our part nothing would have been done. Come to our open meeting; discuss things in common and then have your organization take up the needs of the yveterans.- In the collection taken up at the above meeting were two meal tickets. This Shows how veterans wish to help themselves and their fellows. It is a great sacrifice to give up a meal these days of inadequate re- lief. Comrades, we are proud of you! co s = * An ex-servicemanm who is still young, having joined as a boy in the last year of the war, asks vets who have sons to buy the “Young Worker’ for them. August 4 will soon be here again. None of us who fought Gverseas are able to forget this date. Next Sunday at 150 West Hastings Street, the headquarters of W-.E.S.L., a meeting will be held at which speakers from the League Against War and Fascism will address the audience and we hope all vets and their wives and families will do their best to attend, This League intends to hold a Peace Parade on August 4 and the W.E.S.L., who are strongly against imperialist war, are going to par- ticipate and we hope to see a great turnout of veterans, as none know better than we the horrors of war. x « = The danger of war is now greater than ever. Italy against Abyssinia may set the world ablaze any mo- ment. Germany's notorious plan to invade Soviet Ukraine has had a setback according to a report from A. G. Cummongs, London correspon- dent to the ‘“‘Province,’’ who states that owing to the U.S.S.R. treaty with Czecho-Slovakia by which they can use their air bases and so be within striking distance of the heart of Germany, Hitler thinks twice be- fore attacking the workers’ father- land. Great Britain has allowed the Ger- mans to rebuild their fleet and is no doubt in sympathy with Germany’s aims. It is up to us old soldiers to show our governmenth that we are absolutely opposed to any war of fhe imperialist for plunder of the workers’ State. Money spent by the Canadian gov- ernment for war preparations must stop and be used for pensions and relief for our unemployed. Get the zovernment Know that the common people and the veterans are not go- ine to be stampeded into another war. Make August 4 a mass protest against war and fascism, Don’t forget the Ex-seryicemen’s picnic, August 18, north side of Hastings Park. Take No. 8 car. Make it a mass affair. = + + Es VANCOUVER, July 22.—\Ex-ser- vicemen in receipt of relief from Shaughnessy Military Wospital have received an increase during the past week, Single veterans whose small pen- Sion was made up to $15 per month, now receive an increase of $3.75 per month, while married vets’ relief in- erease varies according to the size of the family. A man with a wife and family of five receives $2.60 per month according to new rates- This increase is due to the struggle waged by our comrades in Winnipes Tuxeda Hospital. %* at = * BURNABY, B-C., July 22.— Can- yvassers from the Citizens’ League are calling at homes in this muni- cipality for reeruits for the Fascist Blue Shirts. Ex-servicemen are asked for proot of army service; when this is es5- tablished, the canyassers offer them a job at $3:75 per day. These fascist bands have been drilling in Federal Government Im- * migration Sheds, prior to being sent SHORT JABS By Ol Bill Previousiy Acknowledged $ 94.90 Wre made the grade in the drive! We would have liked it better if Peggy Harrison or Iron Rations had beaten us, but maybe they will next time. Com. Drummond is mostly re- sponsible for this success. “Scotch Lassie” donated a hand-knit sweater which still awaits its owner, who is the holder of ticket number 104. It can be secured by bringing the ticket to this office. The result of this -drive is a guarantee that the workers of B.C. are behind the B.C. Workers’ News, and that they mean to keep it in existence as one of their weapons against hunger, fascism and war. The twenty-first anniversary of the outbreak of the great slaughter- fest finds the world with decks places as Abyssinia and on the So- viet borders of Mongolia. The review of 267 ocean monsters off Ports- mouth by King George, inspring Kipling, the poet laurate of imperial- ism, to belch another chauyinistic song of hate, the British agreement to allow the Nazis to embark on a naval program to give them control of the Baltic, and the manoeuvers of the Hitlerites to get possession of the Swedish armament industries, are signs that point to the imminent possibility of war on three con- tinents. Mussolini's refusal to arbitrate any border dispute with Abyssinia, Hit- ler’s demand for a naval establish- ment in the Baltic “at least as power- ful as Russia.’’ and the provocative demands of Japan for a Manchuo- kan “permanent resident’ and per- mission to build a Japanese military telesraph line into the heart of the Mongolian People’s Republic, are all indicators that warn the working class that they must stiffen their ranks if they do not wish to be the victims of another bloody holocaust like that of 1914-18. = = * = That Canada will be embroiled soes without Saying; in trade first, but later in real earnest. A cynical news item from Ottawa appeared in the local press a few days ago. Ghou- lish Slee was expressed that if Italy and Abyssinia should go to war, Canadian trade will benefit. Some of the possible exports were listed. It reminds one of nothing so much as the paen of joy in the business section of Vancouver that sreeted the news of the Japanese earthquake of ten years ago. The same evening the earthquake occurred, the timber pirates of B.C. held a special meeting to “discuss how they could best exploit the stricken areas by the sale of BC. timber. War, earthquakes, volcanic erup- tions, tidal waves, cyclones, famines, NERS Soe versa apie eae 1.00 AE Neb baked bated aI, Sei ci gk 2°35 Children’s Summer Camp, Sweaters ese e eee 6.98 Moody. B-C., July 16—Today a” truck loaded with 33 children a” Motalac see -.--$105.23 ing a big noise rolled into e 4 | The truck had no sooner come S ay’ e j eleared for action, ready for the next Sehr S CONES wes 2 i round in such widely separated The! root nearly ifted wie “a Sime laughing of the Kids. Tubby stop before the whole gang 715 woopinge and galloping in all qd y tions on trips of exploration. few minutes, however, they wen rounded up and noses counted. ¥ f do you think we found? There ; = seven boys and twenty-six siris Clean Tents : Wow let’s go to the tents. were two tents for girls. One @” “Lenin Tent’ and the other “Tim Buck Tent.” The tent for~ boys is called “Always Ready.7 4% are now all set for a week's bh: tk for to see who finishes with | cleanest and meatest tent. os “Tim Buck”? wins with 21 po) “Lenin” second with 20% po and “Always Ready’’ is last 4 1914 points. | Some Goncert. quette broke the dawn, and let | night fall. Jennie Chin’s acrohy { held the crowd in suspense. beth, Stella and Ruby all gained | cores with their singing. Joe, 3 chaw and Eddy made us all @4 with their tumbling act. Group) the future will have a hard 7 beating them. 4 We issued our first wall pg and it sure was a dandy. | —-Children’s Camp Correspong) Will Supply Pluguglies --No Book WES ea Ss ‘sb! a. “7 will use capital funds for mi taining law and order, but BE am) posed to using such money keeping libraries open.” So deel one of the Shipping Federal tools on the City Council—Aldem Lembke. j Translated, this declaartion ms that Lembke is willing to Sup Gerry’s squandering of public mo to supply strikebreakers fore Shippins Federation, but not a9 to supply reading material tae people who are unable to pure it themselves. A Mayor MecGeer, another friend the Federation, and bitter enemy the workers and of trade union was in favor of a grant to they ticular library under discussiea small one in the sticks. But the: traordinary man’s willingness) make a grant toward its mainn ance can be understood when & known that the library to set) douch is located in the constituk where Gerry expects to be the J eral candidate in the next Fed election. ; ¥ all are grist to the mill of the capi- talist “centlemen adventurers.’ Business is business! Es oF * ES Tf a “Weteran Trade Unionist” writes a letter to the Editor of the “Sn? about the longshoremen’s strike, about the red wreckers who are supposed to have brought it about, and finds a week later that the Anti-Labor Citizens’ League likes his letter so well that they use it as a display advertisement, recommend- ing its “intelligent, sober comment,” what kind of a “Veteran Trade Unionist” can he be if he does not sink into the ground with shame? The display ad. appeared in the “Sun? on July 15th, paid for by the strike-breaking Citizens’ League that provides scabs forthe Shipping Federation and blue shirt special cops to club pickets, as one of the avowed purposes of its existence. The address of the “Veteran Trade Unionist’ was given as Haro Street. There does live on Haro St. one of the most reactionary suppert-— ver T.&L.G., but this man is a semi- smattering of English grammer, and a vocabulary consisting mostly of swear-words picked up workings around a logging donkey—_a man quite incapable of composing the jJetter in question. Of course, he may have received some help from some of his fellow- Heelers among the “veteran trade unionists” or even from some priest- ly member of the company union- promoting Citizens’ League. When the bosses or their flunkeys praise the writings of a ¢rade unionist it is because he is either a bell-wether who will lead his fellows to the shambles or a disrupter who can be used to defeat them when they iry to better their conditions. “Veteran Trade Unionist’ should take a tum- ble to himself, go down to the North Arm of the Fraser, find a nice deep hole and drop quietly in. * * * * T have jyust received a letter from the Citizens’ League dated July 11th. One of the purposes of the League, as stated by Edgett who signs it, is “to afford a medium through which loyal citizens can band themselves together to protect themselves and their jobs.’ In the same letter he says “The League has no member- ship fee because some members are unable to pay.” Whose homes and jobs are these latter banded together to save? if members ofthis contemptible League cannot pay two-bits a month dues, is that not sufficient to eondemn “the democratic institutions and ideals” that ex-Col. Edgett, ex-Col. Coote and ex-Col. Perry ask us to save? = = ** The Bennett Government and its R.C MP. cannot invent jobs for the disinherited youth of Canada, but they can invent crimes to charge = ers of the bureaucratic machine that dominates the policies of the Vancou- literate Irish peasant, with only a = * : UKRAINIAN HAl WORKERS’ ASS Aug ust Campaign Raise Money for Taxes | Ukrainian ‘workers, organize the Ukrainian Farmer Labor Te Association, fully realize thai order to combat the concent forces of Finance Capital, they} be united with workers and f ers in other language mass org@ tions, and with the rest of th ganized workers. That is the reason our Orgs tion takes its share of the wal all the campaigns of the worke B.C In canyassing working ~ districts for finance to carry © elass struggle, our members their part. In helping the mi workers’ organizations to car their work, our organizations its halls and buildings at tht posal of the workers at all tim At present we find ourselv financial difficulties. Our hal buildings in Vancouver must bi served for use of the workers: are appealing to all class con workers, regardless of the ple birth, to assist us. Our exe committee has planned a cam for the month of August to rai finance to pay off the taxes ¢ the Ukrainian Labor Temple in couver. The building itself ; the main objective. It is the” plays in this epoch of intense strugele. FACE TO FACE The Boss: I want you com men to remember that the ow this mine has not earned a in the past three years. The Miner: I want you, Mr to remember that the owner | mine never earned a dollar lousy life—he stole them all! The Boss: You're a red! The Miner: And you're 2 th is well to know exactly wher of us stand —(N-S. Miner). ANNOUNCEMENT The winner of the electric clock which was drawn for : Marpole Workers’ Press Con on July 13, in aid of the B.C. ers News was Ticket No. 19! workers who won it lives in ce block Gartier Street, WWarpole ed in Regina was chargec “roaming up and down E Ave. with the apparent inten throwing a stone at an BR patrol.” What is it—mind- or 2a CGanadian version | Japanese law against “dal out on dock patrol. them with. One of the boys arrest— thoughts’’?