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Vancouver, B.C., July 26, 1935

THE C.C.F. CONVENTION

The Provincial Convention of the C655,
B.C. section, which is to be held within a few
day will have a great bearing on the ever-

,sharpening struggle against capitalism in
Canada. ;

The merger of the C.O.F. and §.P.C. which
is to be consummated at this convention will
either strengthen the fight against ecapital-
ism and the replacement of capitalist de-
mocracy by fascism, or it will contribute to
the development toward fascism by holding
the workers and all other anti-fascist forces
from struggle against it.

The question is will the C.C.F. and S.P.C.
at their joint convention take a line and
make decisions which will make of the nu-
merically strengthened party a political
workers party.

The naming of a party a “labor” party or
a “socialist” party, or by any other name,
does not make it a workers’ political party
even if the membership is overwhelmingly
composed of workers.

The Social-Democratic Parties of Germany
and Austria and the Labor Party of Great

Britain were generally regarded as political
workers’ parties when in reality and in prac-
tice they were, and are, bourgeois parties.

Whether the enlarged C.C.F. is to be a
political workers’ party will depend upon who
are selected to lead it and upon its activities
and tactics. A party, even consisting of
workers, if it is led by reactionaries and
with a policy of cooperation and compromise
with capitalism instead of a policy of class
struggle, is not a political workers’ party, but
a party which holds the workers back from
struggle and aids the bourgeoisie.

The delegates at the convention will have
a great responsibility in deciding upon a
policy and program, and in the selection of
leaders. Theirs is the responsibility to choose

the road of unity with all other workers in
common struggle against the capitalist of-
fensive on every front, or the road of con-
tinued division of the ranks of labor, which
objectively is unity with the capitalist class.

The sincere wish of the B.C. Workers News
is that the choice will be for the united work-

“ine class front of struggle and for the elec-

tion of leaders who will promote and cement
it, and who will fight to maintain and de-
velop it.

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THE STEVENS CAMPAIGN

Following up his 15-point fascist program,
H. H. Stevens has begun a country-wide
stump speaking tour, his first effusion being
a long harangue in Hamilton, Ontario. His
trimming on important questions, his vague-
ness and unbridled demagoguery is reminis-
eent of Hitler before the latter established
his fascist dictatorship. He raged and in-
veighed against: the Money Power just as
Hitler did; and Stevens is as much the tool
of big capital, of the Holts, Gordons and Ben-
netts of Canada as Hitler was and is the tool
of the Thyssens, Schachts and Krupps of
Germany.

The Canadian Hitler called loudly for lower
interest rates, square deals for the farmers,
wage workers, unemployed, veterans, and the
youth. With serpent tongue in cheek he
pesed as the champion of the ‘people’
against the “big interests’ in terms bor-
rowed from Hitler and Roosevelt.

Forgetting his role as a member of the
Bennett government, when he sent soldiers,
tanks and tear gas into Stratford to drive
the underpaid striking workers back to their
sweatshops, he now shadow boxes against
these sweatshops, condemns them, and prom-
ises to abolish them.

He promises, too, to do away with slums
and put into effect a house-building program
in every city in Canada. How and where is
he to get the money? Tax the rich? Not on
your life. He is going to ask the big money
interests to “co-operate.” “I expect them to
respond cheerfully,” he said.

Bennett in his campaign exuberance in
1930, when it was thought that the acme of
unabashed lying had been reached, was a
piker as compared to Stevens in making lay-
ish promises!

The big finance capitalists cannot use Ben-
nett in his present political capacity any
more, although he is one of them, simply be-
cause the arrogant and bombastic egotist,
drunk with power, was unable to bridle his
class brutality and thoroughly discredited
not only himself, but the corrupt Tory party
which he led. So a new man and a new party
is needed ; and the talk of this man (Stevens)
and the campaign literature he will deluge
the country with, is not the “‘iron-heel” blath-
erings of Bennett, but a mess of deception,
demagoguery, and lying promises. The Iron
Heel will come later—if Stevens gets power
either through a parliamentary majority or
by means of a National government, which
means Fascism.

Stevens and his “reconstruction” party
(attempted reconstruction of capitalism at
the expense of the workers, farmers, lower
middie class and the youth by means of a
fascist dictatorship) is a bold and cynical
attempt to secure a mass basis by fooling
the people as they were fooled in 1930 by
Bennett, and exploiting their despair and

dulling their senses with soothing, hypocrit-
ical promises. :

It is a crying shame that the mission of
Stevens is made easier by the praise be-
stowed upon him in the past by Woodsworth
and others of the higher leadership of the
C.C.F., who were unable to see through the
staged stunts of Stevens in the Price Spreads
and Mass Buying investigation, and who in
their simplicity and credulity went so far as
to hail him as a reformer and declare that
he was “on the right track,’ just as they
hailed Bennett's radio speeches as evidence
of his having seen the “light” and of “coming
our way.” It is only now when Stevens and
his fascist party are competitors for votes
that the C.C.F. higher leaders can find any-
thing wrong with the man whom they once
compared to Saul on his way to Damascus.

The persistent rejection of the United
Front by these C.C.F. leaders encouraged the
launching of the Stevens fascist party. Fast-
moving events, however, haye compelled
them to oppose Stevens and all his works,
while stubbornly maintaining opposition to
the anti-capitalist United Front.

The Hascist menace represented by the
ereation of the Stevens party is recognized
by thousands of rank and file members of
the C.C.F. even if it has no significance other
than another competitor for votes to the
higher leadership. These rank and file mem-
bers are pressing for united front struggle,
and in many localities will not be denied.

Only the united power of all the forces
who are opposed to fascism can stem its ad-
vance and smash it before it develops into
the full-grown monster it is in Germany.
This united front of struggle can deal a po-
litical death blow to Stevens and to his fas-
cist party, and to all the other forces of black
reaction in Canada.

A TRAITOR’S REWARD

Bennett, with the political rope dangling
over his head, is busy filling vacancies in
the Senate and on government commissions
with faithful tools of capitalism.

Among the favored ones is Lom Moore,
reactionary president of the A. F. of L. ad-
junct, the Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada.

Moore has been rewarded for his services
to the employing class and for his long years
of betrayal of the workers with a job at
$9,000 a year on the commission to admin-
ister Bennett’s anti-labor unemployment in-
surance swindle.

The notorious labor faker and hater of
everything militant in trade unionism has
been dragging down $5,000 per year for some
seventeen years as head of the Trades and
Labor Congress, and for special services to
capitalism he has had many junkets to Ge-
neva and other places.

His landing in a boss-given sSinecure was
assured when at the behest of the bosses he
journeyed to Winnipeg with Arthur Meighen,
Gideon Robertson and Jimmy Murdoch to
sell out and break the great general strike in
1919.

Moore hates the Soviet Union, commun-
ists and all militant workers as intensely as
he loves capitalism, the capitalist class and
the crumbs and chunks that fall from their
table or are thrown at him.

Shameless, cynical, sychophantic, mean
and unscrupulous, he is the best example in
Canadian history of the Labor Judas, of the
Benedict Arnolds of the classi war.

He has long stood on the backs of the
workers of Canada from which position he
has now stepped into a still more remuner-
ative job than he held before,and into a so-
cial position for which his social-climber
heart as always yearned.

THE GROWING OFFENSIVE

The offensive against the workers of Can-
ada continues with unabated fury. Clubbings
of slave camp and other peaceful strikers
are followed by mass arrests and framed-up
charges in the courts. Swarms of R.C.M.P.
undercover vermin infest working class poli-
tical bodies, trade unions and organizations
of the unemployed and the ex-servicemen’s
leagues. These social lice must j ustity their
existence and make some showing for the
millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money that
is squandered for their nefarious work, hence
their lying evidence in the framed-up trials
in the capitalist courts.

Even where there is no chance whatever
for a conviction for fear of destroying the
last illusions in the public mind as to capi-
talist justice; the police are given unlimited
freedom to make mass arrests under blanket
“vagrancy”’ charges for the purpose of in-
timidating the workers into slave-like sub-
jection to their masters’ will.

Youths in New (Westminster, striking
against coolie wages paid by the lumber pi-
rates, are arrested and charged with being
“nuisances.” In Regina the capitalist courts
are being used to outlaw trade unions. Under
infamous Section 98 of the bosses’ Criminal
Code, workers are facing long penitentiary
terms for belonging to the Relief Camp
Workers’ Union. The effort will be made to
declare that this union is a part or an affili-
ate of the Communist Party, a manifest ab-
surdity.

The purpose of the intimidation, terror,
mass arrests and imprisonments is to crush
the last vestige of organized working class
resistance, to remove obstacles to the intro-
duction of a fascist dictatorship and to crip-
ple organized resistance to the imperialistic
war which the capitalist rulers are hatching
and preparing to Jaunch.

The few remaining democratic rights
which were wrung from the capitalist dic-
tatorship by bitter struggle are being taken
away by the present-day capitalists who are
desperately, but futilely, trying to preserve
their rapidly decaying system of robbery,
exploitation, poverty and starvation.

Some Problems Facing

The C.C. F.

Convention

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By J. TAYLOR.

The C.C.P. in British Coiumbia is
assembling this week-end in con-
yention. The official business of the
convention is to put into effect the
merger between the S.P-of C. and the
G.C.F. clubs, adopt a constitution
and decide upon a name for the uni-
fied organizations. There will be
other questions discussed at the con-
vention, questions of great concern
to the entire working class of the
province and the country. namely
the united front and the attitude to
be taken by the C.C.F. towards
strikes and other immediate strug-
gles.

Before we come to some of the
questions confronting this conyen-
tion it 4S important to note the
change that this convention will
moark in the structure of the ©.C.F-.
It will no longer be a Federation of
different bodies, groups, political
parties and organizations. The
G.G.F. in B.C., as the tendency has
been right along throughout the
country, is dropping its loose, fed-
erated form of organization, elimi-
natine the independence and
autonomy of its affiliated bodies
and is attempting to establish a
highly centralized political party

in Vancouver, the
pact concluded between the Socialist
Party and the C.P.of ©. on the ques-
tion of the franchise for the relief
boys, the joint activities of several
units of the C.P., the SP. and the
C.C.F. in support of the Jongshore-
men’s strike—are some of the in-
stances.

The legend of “Communist disrup-
tion”’ is breaking down. A _ great
number of C.C.F. members are bes-
ginning to draw lessons from these
joint struggles. From their under-
standing of the situation, personal
experience, from the realization of
the unity in many instances comes
the urge for the continuation of
unity.

Main Question Is Unity

Unity is the central question to
be discussed at the convention, Life
itself has driven the GC.C.E. into
united action with the communists,
in spite of declarations and decisions
against it. Had the C.C.F. rejected
unity with communists in the last
several months in BG., it would have
found itself isolated from the com-
mon people, and it would have been
deserted by many of its members
and followers. Recent events found
the ©.C©.F. membership on the path

Peace Pol

The Soviet Union

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By F. BIGGS

The League of Nations has ap-
parently but a short time to live.
When its short life has been re-
viewed it is a wonder that it has
lasted this lone.

The Leasue was formed in June,
1919, supposedly to bring the na-
tions of the world together to pre-
vent future wars. This objective it
has utterly failed to reach, for
roun-the-table conferences can in no
wise do away with the economic an-—
tagonisms between the imperialist
powers. No two members of the
League trust each other; they would
deuble-cross each other in the
twinkling of an eye if they were to
gain financially by so doings.

Purely Voluntary Association

True, the members of the League
have drawn up and agreed to all
Kinds of treaties and agreements be-
tween themselves. There have even
been seventy League conferences
for the maintenance of these agree-
ments, but without noticeable effect
as regards halting war. The associa-
tion of members of the League is
purely a voluntary one. There is no
such thing as the League being able
to discipline its members even if it
wanted to. Japan, a member of the
League, launched a murderous war

SPREAD

Good God Almighty

Open up your eyes

And look at what I see
Tearing through them Urals
And leaping over that Volga!

It?s a bushy-haired giant-child,
Big-limbed and double-jointed,
Boisterous and bull-headed,
With
clothes!

Over railroads and above stackpipes,
Past skyscrapers and power plants,

Across farms and through forests,
By mine tipples and water dams,

He’s ploughing ferward night and day
Leaving cities rocking and Shaking as he goes!

Hoooly Christ!

What is that he’s got in his hands?
a bucketful of

By George,

sunrise,

in one he’s holding

And im the other he’s swishimg a Jong, tall brooni:,
And Jeeesus, the fool’s splashing crimson every-

where,
Just painting the whole world red!
Go on, Big Boy, go on!
March in your red brogans

And uproot the little fences between the nations!

Smear the capitols!
Coat the crosses on the steeples!
Dab every government buildine!

Say, when you come to Germany,

old Goering started:

Make that Reichstag blaze, and no foolirg!

great big muscles bursting through his

YOUR SUNRISE

7 RICHARD WRIGHT, in “New Masses”

Then, just for fun,

Flying a drop over in Rome on the Pope’s nose,
And if he squawks, slip him the quiet ha-ha,

And keep moving!

Gallop on, Big Timer, gallop on!

If anybody asks you who your Pa and Ma were
Show your birth certificate signed by Lenin:
UUUU! SSSS! SSSS! RRRR!

And tell them you’re a man-child of the Revolution:
Seed of fiery workers’ loins,

Fruit of October’s swollen womb!

Get along, Hot Shot, get along,

Gallop with a high hand and dash your brush of red!
Scud out across the Atlantic

And as you sliid toward the good old U.S.A.

Dip the bristles of your broom deep into the sumrise

And dress the
kimono!

iid!

Travel on, Man, travel on!
Slap-dash across the states
PU swing onto the cuif of

Chicago!

Tramp with your legs of steel,

Jar the millionaires in their summer bomies

And make them feel who’s on their trail!

Stride on, Big Shot, strike on,

Stride and spread your sunrise, red-wash the whole

finish the job

world!

Shucks, ain’t nobody never seen the like of you,

Shelve the Stock Exchange deeper into the red
And swab the dome in Washington!

.

Statue of Liberty in a flamime

in your Five-year boots!
your pants as you pass

directed towards the creation of a
purely electorial machine. in the
two years since its inception; the
C.C.F. has developed quite an effi-
cient apparatus of general propa-
ganda and has succeeded in estab-
lishine organizations among the
large sections of urban and rural
population in B.C.

Vital Problems.

The Vancouver “Daily Province”
in a news item states, that the
agenda of the convention will also
“include a discussion of the activities
of Communists in industrial strikes
and the position of the ©.C€.1*. in Ja-
bor . difficulties’ This news item
adds that “there is considerable dis-
agreement among- delegates on both
questions and some heated argu-
mnients are expected before the issues
are Clarified.” These two questions
will really comprise the most impor-
tant items of immediate and impor-
tant concern to the working class
and the common people of the prov-
ince. The division of opinion that
exists in the C.C.f—and its exist-
ence is dénied by no one—is pre-
cisely on these two questions.

Rank and File Analysis.

The C.C.&. membership, as well as
the entire working class are begin-
ning to realize with greater clarity
the existing situation. The policy of
the ruling cClass—the bankers and
manufacturers—through their Pro-
yvincial and Federal governments is
one of introducing greater hardships
and suffering upon the working
people.

The slightest resistence on the
part of labor is met with terror and
violent suppression. Fascism is be-
ing introduced rapidly. Fascist
cliques. gangs and organizations,
openly advocating and in many cases
carrying through the policy of vio-
lent suppression of working class
organizations are being established.

A new fascist party, under the
leadership of H. HB. Stevens, has
arisen. Section 98 is used to sup-
press trade unions, raid homes and
seize literature. C.C.F. headquar-
ters and homes of C€.C.F. members
were raided under Section 98 war-
rants in some places in the Interior
of B.C.

A section of the ©-C.F. member-
ship also realizes quite clearly that
the C.C.F. has no hope of winning a
majority in the next elections and
that struggles outside parliament
must be organized, if further on-
slaughts on the living standards of
the toiling people are to be halted
and if the growth of fascism is to be
prevented.

Lessons From Struggles

Above all, great numbers of the
G.C.F. members and followers went
through the experience of joint
struzeles with the Communists and
other sections of the working class
in the last several months in B.C.
The struggle of the relief camp
boys, the sending of a delegation to
Corbin, initiated by representatives
of the Provincial CGouncil of the
G.C.F. and the District Committee
of the C.P.of G., ‘their participation
in the great May Day parade and

of participation in the daily class
struggle. The attempt to revise this
line will meet with opposition at the
convention.
The Fight Against Fascism

The other big question to be dis-
cussed at the convention is the atti-
tude to be taken by the C.C.EF. in
the immediate economic struggles of
the workers and the fight against
fascism. The class siruggle and
class divisions in present day society
is generally “‘recognized’’ in the offi-
cial C.C.E. literature, resolutions
and speeches.

To recognize the class struggle, to
really acknowledge it means actual
participation in it. The class strug-

gle is not a vague, mnieaningless,
empty phrase. The class strugele

finds expression not only on election

The Building
Of Character

The utter degeneration of bour-
geois education was exhibited at a
gathering of delegates to the fourth
convention of Canadian National
Home and School Federation in the
Georgia Hotel, Vancouver, a short
time ago.

The speaker was Dr. Henrietta An-
derson, and she was deploring the
State of mind of the young people of
today. They have a “bitter philo-
sophy,” she said, The attitude of
the young men in slave camps was
deplored by the good bourgeois lady,
and she said such an attitude (re-
fusal to accept forced labor, military
discipline, lice and 20 cents a Gay
wages) is “slashing denunciation of
our educational system.”

So she wants our educational sys-
tem revamped to produce a different
attitude in the youth. She laments
that when the boys are confronted
with starvation or the slaye com-
pounds they “have nothing to fall
back upon.” Things she suggests
they might fall back upon did not
Inelude organization and the strike
weapon; not at all, but she opined
that collecting stamps or raising rab-
bits would be excellent.

Another good opiate would be to
poison the youth while yet in school
with bourgeois ideas of “‘character
building,”’ that is, the moulding of
the youth into scissorbills, scabs and,

what is infinitely more despicable,
police—only she did not speak so
plainly.

Like the venal doctors who stated
that the depression is responsible for
an improvement in the health of the
unemployed, she went still further
and said that people who had been
unempyloyed for as long as five
years have lived more “fully”? than
ever before, because, the depression
was “half economic and half spir-
itual.”

This mess of reatcionary tripe did
not come out of the mouth of some
obseure woman, but out of the mouth
of one of the teachers in the Proyin-

day, as some €.C.F. leaders imsist.
To acknowledge the class struggle
means to participate in the daily
Struggles of the working class,
around the relief office, on the job,
on the picket line, etc. There is
great demand on the part of the
C.G.&. membership that their or-
ganization participates in these
strugeles.

Were again, life itself has placed
many C.C.F. members and clubs in
the actual struggle. The Shipping
Irederation made no distinction whem
the longshoremen were locked out,
the C.C.F. unemployed membership
was not excluded from the cut in
relief recently introduced, nor were
they exempted from the Section 98
raids and terror in the Interior.

These issues must not be obscured
nor sidetracked. The issue of the
Federal elections is a part of the
joint united strugsles against poy-
erty, fascism and war. The capital-
ist parties and their candidates must
be met during the election campaign
by a united working class. The Com-
munist Party offered the establish-
ment of a United Front in the elec-
tion to the C.C.F. on several ocea-
sions. As the Communist Party
states in its letter to the convention
(printed elsewhere in this issue) it
“nlaces no obstacles in the formation
of Unity’? on the basis of a mutual
understanding and mutual agree-
ment.

Vital Issues Face Convention

These are the main issues facing
the convention. It is in the inter-
ests of the labor movement, if we are
to preserve the few liberties still
left to us, if further attacks upon
the living standards of the toiling
people are to be halted, if the tide
of fascism is to be stemmed and
mobilization of our forces is to pre-
vent another war, that unity in the
actual participation in the daily
struggles be established.

The interests and concern in the
G.C.F. conyention of others than
C.C.F. members is in the fact that
the convention is to decide upon
these questions relating to the very
existence and lives of the workings
elass.

The convention will add to the
erystalization of the forces favoring
and opposing the united front and
the active participation in the daily
struggles. That such a process is
en is obyious from the many resolu-
tions sent in by different clubs and
branches demanding unity.

The assurance of the realization
of these resolutions is above all in
the continuation and extension of the
joint activities of the C.-C. and the
C.P.C. presently carried on, and in
which many branches and clubs and
C.P.of ©. units and sections are in-
volved.

JOINT SOCIAL FOR
LONGSHOREMEN

Marpole €.C.F. Club and the Mar-
pole Unemployed Workers Associa-
tion staged a joint social and whist
drive Friday, July 12, in aid of the
Jlongshoremen. The feeling for unity
in struggle of the workers is grow-

on China, made Manchuria into —
subject state called Manchukuc
thumbing ‘itS nose at the Leasnu |
meanwhile. It is even now takiny
steps to carye another chunk out o-
China, and the League does not lit
a finger to intervene. a

Issues Futile Appeals

There was a war waged for thre ;
years in South America betwee} =
Paraguay and Bolivia. It has jus |
ended. All the League did in thi
War was to issue an appeal to na ~
tions to cease supplyine munitions
but the appeal was not issued unti ©
they had been fightine for two ant
a half years, and it was ignored any ©
way.
Now, Italy, a member of th)
League of Nations, is about to usi_
its greatly superior military migh
to subjugate another member of th
League, Abyssinia, and Mussolin |
doesn’t care a whoop whether th ~
League likes it or not. So as a pre ~
venter of war the League of Nation
is @ nice, respectable, futile teg
party.

Peace Policy of Soviet Union
But if the League of Nations fj
a failure in the cause of world peace —
the peace poliex of the Soviet Unior
has been very successful. Wars aris |
through the needs of the imperialig
powers for markets. Due to the out
rageous robbery of thé workers if
their home countries the home mar
ket dwindles away, so they embark
upon war to conquer weaker nations
or even to align themselves into war.
like groups to steal the markets gi
other imperialist groups. Capitalist
wars are based upon robbery by
violence. ;
The Soviet Union has never mada
a single move that would indicate
the slightest desire or intention for
foreign conquest. To the contrary,
its foreign policy with relation t
the Chinees EFastern Railway, which
Imperialist Japan hungered for,
should convince everybody that if
is willing to sacrifice much for world
peace. During the many disarma-
ment conferences the voice of the
Soviet Union was always the loudest,
the most forcible, the most sincere:
for world disarmament. It has for
years, as the war danger loomed
ever closer, made treaty after treaty
of non-aggression with any and
every nation that would agree to
one.

Compeliled To Arm |
Yet, in spite of all its efforts te
preserve world peace, the Soviet
Union finds itself today practically
surrounded by hostile capitalist na-
tions thirsting for its bleod. To de
fend herself against these menaces
of war the Soviet Union has heen
compelled, much against her wishes,
to spend millions and millions 6
roubles equipping and training a
large defence force, and in develop-
ing her war industries, It is nothing
less than a crime that when the peo-
ple of the Soviet Union are making
such giant strides towards Social
ism, they should be compelled to dé-
vote time, money and effort in pre
paration for a defensive war. Bu
she has no alternative; to allow tht
imperialist robbers to walk over then
would be to desert the cause 6
world socialism, and such a thin
is unthinkable however high th
cost; such an idea would never en
ter the minds of a Soviet worke
All Soviet workers are fully alive t
the ereat responsibility that i
theirs.

The Only Force For Peace
With every year, even  eyer
month, that the peace policy of Hh
Soviet Union forestalls war, th
prespects for its victory when 4
tacked increases because the Sovit
industries have that much mo!
time to expand and perfect their m«
thods of production. At the sam
time more and more WoOrkel
throughout the world recognize tt
fact that the Soviet Union is U
only force in the world for peac
they understand that the Sovyi
Union is the front line of defence ™
the world’s workers and poor farn
ers in the Class Struggle, and #
Class Struggle is nothing if not i
ternational.

The Soviet peace policy is not
pacifist policy, no matter what @
politically degenerate Trotzkyit
say. The Red Army men would fig)
to the last ditch for Socialism, ai
ijn doing so every blow they dez
capitalist armies would be a ble
in defence of the workers in eve
eorner of the globe.

Wo person sincerely opposed
war can invent any excuse for 10
support of the peace policy of t
Soviet Union.

BRITAIN SCRAPS
NAVAL TREAT

LONDON, July 23.—Sir Bolto
Eyres-Monsell, first lord ef tt
Admiralty announced in the Hous
of Commons on Monday th:
Britain would serap the Washin:
ton treaty of 1922 which fixe
naval ratios.

This move towards war was
logical one following the Angl
German pact by which Germany
permitted to increase her navy, i
cluding submarines.

The announcement is taken ge
erally as the signal for intensific
tion of an armament race whi
will culminate in a great world w
in the near future.

ANNOUNCEMENT

An excellent program of com*
ans, dancers, choirs, orchestras <
singers is slated for the joint ¢
cert being staged on Friday, July.
at 8 p.m. by the Centre Bran
C.L.D.L., and Centre Branch, WwW
S.L., at 150 West Mastings Stre
Patrons are assured of an enjoya
evening, and the admission is
cents. Three dollars’ worth of m
chandise will be given free to ~

cial Normal School.

ing in this locality.

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