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STALIN TO 17th CONGRESS (Pamphlet) Discount on bundle orders from FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION, Room 13, 163 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. ERATURE 7c monthly 1i6e monthly 50ce monthly eieiiecioe 80c every two months 20c monthly EMPIRE SHOE REPAIRING ot E. HASTINGS ST., near City Hall Men’s Half Soles & Rubber Heels 95¢ Men’s Half WHILE Solestrssr- <1.-- TO0¢ YOU WAIT Men’s Rubber ean Heels .-35¢ | Ladies’ Half Men’s Panco Half Soles --65¢ Soles .---.--- 75¢ | Ladies’ Rubber Men’s Leather or Leather Heels Heels .25¢ Rubber Repairs Keep Her Jacked Up We Have Hold of a Good Lever Now Campaign Final Report. July 31. — Donations previously acknowledged, $817.93. Receipts Since July 22nd: Press Com. No. 3, 18 cents; Domestic Servants, $2.00: Press Com. WNo. 4, $2.68; Press Com. No. 5, 10 cents; Press Com. No. 1, 75 cents; Women’s Labor League, 75 cents; Ol’ Bill, $8.30; Mine Workers, $10.00; Maxim Gorki Club, $1.90; Press Com. No. 12, $2.20: Victoria, $2.00, and one indiyidual donation of 25 cents; makine a grand total of $849.04 in donations. Besides this there have been a number of Subseriptions coming in regularly amounting to $28.35, which puts the total for subscriptions $178.63, and makes the list of sub- seribers just over the 500 mark and the total circulation 3,500. Highball Greanizations. These additions, while raising the total considerably, did not change the position of the leading orfaniza- tions as for the prizes. The highest mass organization beine= Teor, and the highest Press Committee being Wo. 4, with 168 per cent and 164 per cent, respectively. The highest individual collection card has not been found yet. The high spot in the whole drive was hit by Ol Bill, who in the excitement of raising the hundred dollars turn- ed in $7.25 twice, but he found his mistake in time to get the refund before the books were closed: trust the old warrior for that. Wext week we will have a few words to say on the maintenance of circulation at the peak of our drive figures. CORRECTION. — Last weel we only credited the Icor with the sale of $2.50 cents worth of draw tickets instead of $3.50. DIGEST OF LETTERS A long letter is to hand from C.H. of Prince Albert St., Vancouver. This letter is too lone for publica- tion in our columns. It deals with the profits of armament trusts, the huge profits made by the merchant princes, the heads of both Catholic and Protestant Churches and makes numerous biblical quotations. From Hope, B.C., we get a copy ef the local paper, and the “B. C. Butter Pat.” We have not space to analyze it in this issue, but will Keep it for possible future use. Received a letter from Bridge River on the situation of Congress and B.R.X. mine. We are with- holding comment till we get the real dope on the Conciliation Board next week. We want lots of letters from miners in the Bridge River area on this question. The company is building 40 houses on the Lorne property. They evidently intend to get married miners settled there with families. The company intend to make it another Anyox. On your toes, miners. Send us news resu- larly. From a Rivers Inlet fisherman we received a letter stating that a cir- cular has been distributed to the scabs on the Union Steamship boats. Fishermen at the canneries refuse to take the lines from the scabs on the §.S. Venture. The office staff have to come out and make the boat fast at the wharves. This is good work, fishermen. From a worker in Vancouver we receive a suggestion that the humor- ous story in last week’s issue should be carried further. He suggests a series of such light stories to give our paper a touch of humor. The editorial board has this in mind. From A. G. of the Canadian Labor Defense League we have a long arti- ele on the campbhoys trek and the police terror of July ist. The article is very well done. It brings out the role of collaboration of the Liberal Party, headed by Macisenzie Ising. We are cramped for'space for such a long story this issue. From our correspondent at Port Moody we receive the information that the Chief of Cops has stopped local women from collecting food and money for the striking long- shoremen. The reporter suggests mass protest. This is the right cure for such a thumb nail edition of Adolf Hitler. THESE FOREIGNERS. “These foreigners with strange and avid faces Crowding our shores; marring our pleasant places ... must be curbed .. .” So mused King Powhatan— Hundred per cent, red-blood Amer- ican. They Our paper must be good. We're drawing the enemy’s fire. Shoot us up some more ammunition. Send subs. RATES: One year, $1.80. 6 6) Monthstcnce ni = ie | Gity or Town SUBSCRIBE TO THIS FILLING GUT THE FORM BELOW Please send THE B.C. WOREERS’ NEWS to: for which if enclose $.....-...---<-. PAPER BY 50c. Months, $1.00. 3 Months, mee | om eat experience We give A better Mr. Pee ee ae eh a for it: Parliament voted $150,000 ent military forces in Canada. ber. iWoodsworth asked some Air force appropriation, $2 personnel compared with Page 2448). “valuable services rendered.” Page 4441). to be expended in connection Eo clubs, ete. Stirling answered “‘No.” (Hansard, Page 4001). the schools of Canada this year. opposed this appropriation. (Hansard, Page 2443). Five million dollars were voted by parliament for perman- Supine Parliament Supports War Preparations Program Millions Voted for Permanent Military Forces— Without Any Dissenting Votes The following facts will show that the Canadian goy- ernment of finance capital is not “drifting” innocently into war, but is consciously and deliberately getting ready 346 cadets in No member of the House for training 87 No objection from any mem- questions. ,630,000, including four fight- ing, ten trainine and seven bombing airplanes. The estimate provides for 969 permanent and 526 non-permanent air force 785 and 399 respectively. agreed to with no objection from any member. Item (Hansard, Fifty thousand dollars to the estate of the late Sir Arthur Currie, commander of Canadian Army in the World War, for McInnis objected. (Hansard, Sixteen airplanes are loaned out to private airplane clubs in Canada by the Department of National Defense. Parlia- ment agreed on June 27 to appropriate a half-million dollars with “civil” aviation, grants McInnis asked before the vote was taken “if any of the work would be done by relief labor.” Minister of “Defense” The item was then agreed upon. CLASS DUTY OF WOMEN IN CAPITALIST WAR By ANNE RODVERS It can be taken for =ranted that in the next imperialist war many of the methods of gaining the support of women for the slaughter of their sons that were used in the last war will be used again, together with new schemes. Women, due to the slavery of the home and discrimination against them, are unfortunately, as yet more under the influence of the clergy and other “respectable” ele- ments than are men, and in war times they succumb to the blan- dishments, lies and patriotic ‘“‘sacri- fice” bunk to which they are sub- jected by the warmongers. Who does not recoil at the state- ment of a mother who, upon learn- ing of the butchery 6f her only son in the interests of the profits of the capitalists, is alleged to have said that her only regret was that she had not more sons to give to her (?) country. ; Bourgeois War Propaganda During the last war, politician, priest, preacher, educationalist, press, and spurred and }sooted military of- ficers worked upon the emotions, pa- triotic prejudices, fears and ignor- anee of women to induce them toa give willingly their sons up to be torn to shreds by shrapnel or to rot on a barbed wire entanglement. Women, corrupted by bourgeois fashion, were made to feel “out of the fashion’’ unless they had a hus- band or lover in the livery of lezal murder, and to be in the swim they became recruiting agents to nae their men into uniforms. Empty-headed flappers, stunted in intelligence by bourgeois culture, were induced to pin white feathers, emblems of cowardice, on the coats of youths who had the courage to Swim against the moron tide and re- fuse to become cannon fodder for their expoiters and oppressors. What Happened After the War But women learned a great deal during the war, and still more after the war. They saw their husbands, —if they survived the hell of war— come home gassed, crippled, shell- shocked and with reason dethroned. They saw them receive a starvation pension, if they got one at all, while the brass hats got thousands per year and the widow of Chief Mur- derer Currie got $50,000. They saw, and still see, their husbands thrown on the industrial scrap heap; and if they protest against starvation re- lief rations or strike for a decent wage they see them clubbed, jailed or shot by desenerate feanesters eruited into the bosses’ police. Women in the Next War Wes, the women are learning, and not so many of them will support the next war as Supported the last one, or even be pacifists during it. They will go into industry, which is a sector of the war front, when ealled upon; but while there they will seek to paralyze industry in order to contribute to the discomfiture and defeat of their own murderous class sovernment, as a Part of the strus- e to end capitalism and its recur- rent robber wars and to bring free- dom and power to the working class in a Soviet Canada, when the only justifiable war will be war to prevent a capitalist restoration. Only in such an established state of the revolutionary workers will the Le- aoe” Penne as ee a ‘cs 6 aa soe esos Permanent Wave HEATERLESS CROQUIGNOLE, CLUSTER CURL OR ANY STYLE We have satisfied thousands in our specialize in srey, these permanents are not absolutely perfect. and Mrs. Downing, Permanent Ware Specialists Downing Beauty Shop: possibility of war eventually vanish. EES 2 ee = Bee years of with our safe, cool method. We white or bleached hair. you a money-black euarantee if permanent at a lower price. a Sa rector aa a ata a 130 WES®E LIASTINGS (Opp. Woodward's) - = SEYMOUR 241 a eS So eee eee eS nee te ee ne ne snes Saas nee i HUGE WAR PLANS OF GT. BRITAIN Monster Expenditure for Warships; Nothing for Unemployment Relief LONDON, July 29.—The Daily Herald today publishes an article Saying the government plans an elaborate naval building program, in- volving construction of 12 new capi- tal ships and 33 cruisers at a cost of $750,000;000. WASHINGTON, July 29.— Navy quarters today expressed interest in a London Daily WHerald article which said Britain plans to build al- most a complete new battle fleet by 1942 at a cost of $750,000,000. Some naval men said they were reluctant to believe the British Ad- ciralty planned such a move. It was said that it will mean the danger of a world-wide building race will increase. Congress has appropriated $23,- 000,000 to start construction of 24 naval vessels this year, while 54 additional craft, including 36 de- stroyers and i8 submarines, are authorized under the Vinson Treaty Navy Act. Seven-Year Plan. Under the reported program, the comparative strength of the British Pleet in “in date’? ships as of 1935 and 1042, allowing for ships which would become outdated under the Weashington and London Treaty rules, would he: In 1935, 15 capital ships, 50 cruis- ers, 84 flotilla leader-destroyers, 39 submarines, 8 aircraft carriers; in 1942, 14 capital ships, 72 cruisers, 142 # filotilla-leader destroyers, 57 submarines and 10 aireraft carriers. FOOD WORKERS CALL FOR UNITY Will Visit Union of A. F. of L. with Proposition For United Action VANCOUVER, July 30.—The Food Workers’ Industrial Union is calling on the Hotel and Restaurant Work- ers’ Union (A.F.of L.) to set up a Unity Comimittee of the two unions, to Sain better conditions and wages for the workers in the industry. There are around 200 licensed eat- ing places in the city. There are only about 30 of them which have any form of organization among the Workers employed. Ranks Are Split. Minimum wage laws for women are a joke in this line of employ- ment, Many of the workers do not want to belong to the militant union, and the sanie applies to the union of the A.I.of lL. Then, there may be Some who do not want to belone to either union. They will, however, when they see that there is unity of the workers. The Food Workers’ Industrial Union is sending a delesation to the A.P.of Il. Union at their next meet- ing to propose that united efforts be made to unionize the industry. Punk Smell In Hospital Is There Any Place Where a Scab Is Welcome? NEW WESTMINSTER, July 31.— Pat Moore, a seab from the water- front, is in Royal Columbian Hos- pital here. He became ruptured through fright, or lifting cargo. He is being moved from one ward to amother, because some of the pa- tients cannot stand the smell of a scab. This animal borrowed a pair of Slippers from the worker in the next bed without permission of the own- er. He was flagzed down and told to get his slippers from the Ship- ping Federation. The ward got too hot for him and he is again remoyed to another ward. The hospital authorities move him because they don’t want the discip- line of the institution jeopardized. The worker patients are glad to get rid of him. Dodson Beer Parlor Denies Discrimination A representative of the Dodson beer parlor called at the office of the B.C. Workers News and explained that the proprietor of that establish- ment does not practice discrimina- tion in regard to the sale of the workers’ press. He said that ‘‘there may haye been one paper seller asked to leave, but this was only at a time when there was excessive canvassin= for buyers of the papers.” He also said that he felt that this establishment should not be the tar- get of militant workers. when he was the first to sponsor a broadcast over the radio for the striking long- shoremen. The B.C. Workers News is pleased to publish this explana- tion. fioner at Hambure-Altona. never proven. Im their last breath world to fight against Fascism, Fascism! Red Front!’ The words of Demian Bjedny, Lena workers ring out, who does not avenge this blood.” shouting courageously: HORRIBLE COMMEMORATION MONUMENT TO ‘DEMOCRATIC WAY TO SOCIALISM’ Two years ago today (August 1) four young anti-fascist workers, Lentzens, Moeller, Wolf and Tesch, were beheaded by Hitlers execu- Offences they were charged with were ealled on the workers of the ‘Mown with they uttered after the shooting down of the “Accursed, accursed be he who forgets this day, Chemainus Frame-Up NANAIMO, July 31.—W. Cathey and F. Hiqueboan, Chemainus long- shoremen, Game up for trial today, charged with “assault on seap.% The accused pleaded not eguilty. However, the judge, siving little consideration to the circumstances, sentenced these workers to $12 fine each and $100 bond to keep the peace for six months. This is a contempt- ible frame-up on the part of the authorities, as there were absolutely no witnesses to testify that these men had assaulted a strikebreaker. cal ATTENTION! All organizations and all individu- als who have tickets for the affair of the Youne Workers’ picnic July 28 are asked to turn in stubs by Sat- urday, July 27 at 594 Wnion Street. FISHERMEN HELP DOCKERS RIVERS INGEL, BC, July 27.— Fishermen on these fishing grounds have collected $200 for the striking longshoremen. More will be collecte later and sent down. Another boat will cover the fishermen on Smith’s Inlet. ITALY SENDS MORE TROOPS TO AFRICA ROME, Aug. 1. — Another two thousand troops em- barked at Naples today for Ethiopia. Mussolini is expect- ed to protest against the time limits fixed in the draft of the projected peace formula. CRANBROOK BEER The Cranbrook beer parlor has forbidden the sale of the workers’ press among the patrons of the premises. Workers and farmers in this district are reminded that there are other beer parlors where this discrimination is mot practiced. Those with a dime to spend on a beer will bear this in mind. DANCE In Aid of the ‘Young Worker’ Jimmy Marks’ Strx-Piece Orchestra UBRALINIAN HALL, 805 Pender Street East WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7th, 9 to 12. Old Time and Modern Dancmg Men, 15 cents Women, 10 cents the labor movement with theoretically, the opportunists than the of ALL wars of defense. imperialistic powers, demand The of ‘its own’ gorvernment.’—Lenin. “In our program we should state: ‘defense of the fatherland’ in imperialist war is nothing else than bribing a bourgeois lie. “Such a definite answer to a definite question would be more correct more beneficial to the proletariat, and more annoying to And we could add: England, France, and the United States, has become so reactionary and obsessed with the struggle for world power, THAT ANY WAR OF OF THESE COUNTRIES MUST NECESSARILY BE REACTIONARY. proletariat must not only oppose war, On Social Chauvinism . ‘The slogan, and the acceptance of for disarmament and the rejection “The bourgeoisie of all the Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan THE BOURGEOISIE but must also wish the defeat INTELLECTUALS. WAR FEVER (Continued from Page 1) longer a “brother in Christ,” but a reptile whose head must be erush- ed. The following verse will give an idea of the “Joye thy neighbor as thyself’ propazanda: “Treaty breakers, poison throwers, baby killers, spume of swine, Heavy bellies, carnal feeders, buls- ing eyes of beer and wine; Cries of women, screams of chil- dren, rising o’er the shot and shell, Blast you with the curse of Heaven, in the hottest gulfs of Hell.” The above is from the pen of the meek and lowly follower of the low- ly Nazarine, Canon EF. G. Scott, who hurriedly jumped into a capitalist uniform, not to face the bayonets and bullets of the Germans, but as a major and chaplain to continue his duping of the soldiers. “Democratic” Czarist Russia And the professors in the univer- sities? Almost without exception, just as rotten, just as bloodthirsty, Just aS mendacious, just as much the pliant tools and lackeyes of the class that maintains the universities and controls their meal tickets, That a small minority of clergymen and bourgeois professors had the decency and intellectual honesty to refuse to be harnessed to the im- perialistie war chariot is true; and these honest and brave people arouse our admiration, evén if they adopted a bourgeois pacifist attitude toward War instead of the revolutionary at- titude of working for the defeat of their own governments. And the next imperialist war will find more from the same professions who will refuse to countenance, much less support their imperialist warmongers and war-makins governments. There was a professor in the Uni- versity of Manitoba, Prof. A. W. Crawford, who in the ‘Canadian Magazine’ of June, 1915; had an article under his name in which he undertook to “explain” why the “righteous” Great Britain was allied With the most undemocratic, the most autocratic, the most corrupt and most murderous government on earth, the sovernment of the Czar. im the article, which is a master- piece of sophistry and downright ly— ing, Prof. Crawford “proves” that the country regarded as the great- est foe of liberty (Czarist Russia) was really one of the great friends of liberty. Compelled to admit that Germany was more progressive, he got around the difficulty by saying that Germany was standing still while Russia was extending liberty (Sic). The “Peace-Loyine”’ Czar He hadto admit Czarist persecu- tion of the Jews, the obliteration of Poland, ruthless conquest of the Binns and barbareéous suppression, torture and murder of revolutionists; but these things were unimportant as compared to the circumstances that she had maintained a Pax Ro- mana among 48 nations (Czarist en- Slavement of national minorities by means of the kKnout and bayonet is “maintaining peace’). Tf it weren’t for the kindly Gzar, said the learned apologist for imperialist suppression and exploitation, these peoples would have destroyed each other. He goes on to say that the Czar ealled the first world peace confer- ence in 1899 (financed by Carnegie, another lover of peace who had his striking steel workers at Homestead shot down) “and hence gave an im- petus to the movement for world peace” (which bore the bloody fruit of 1914). The Czar is referred to as “a great benefactor of mankind.” But the exploited and abused work- ers and peasants were such ungrate- ful wretches that they wiped the “ereat benefactor’ out later. Crawford advanced his clinching argument by declaring that ‘“‘Ger- many jhas repudiated Christianity, while Russia is a follower of the Prince of Peace.” This, of course, was not true. The mass murderers of Germany prayed to the same God that the Czar prayed to, and that Asquith and Arthur Henderson, the “‘Socialist’’ leaders and Gorden’s Arthur Currie and Wilson and Holt and Morgau and every other imper- jalist scoundrel and enemy of the working class prayed to, and that Hitler and Mussolini and Stevens and Bennett and Pattullo pray to today. They all called upon the same power to bless their arms and give them victory. A Forecast The professor conciluded his ele with words that now seem phetic, although the outcome not the one envisaged by the seer of the classroom, nor were the changes wrought by the class he thought the only class which could make history. Here are his words: “In triendship with BGritam and France it is quite conceivable and highly probable that Russia may bear a great share in human prog- ress and in the emancipation of mankind, and may yet make some notable additions to the great tem- ple of liberty.” It was not in friendship with Bri- tain, the greatest slave-holding em- pire on earth, that the MRussian people showed the way to human progress and in the emancipation of mankind, but in spite of the guns of those two slave-holdine countries; and they have not made additions to any bourgeois “temple of liberty,” for no such edifice existed for them arti- pro- was to add to. Bourgeois democracy, so dear to the heart of the Crawfords, is a temple of slavery; and in Russia the revolutionary workers and peasants wrecked the bourgeois tem: ple and erected their own edifice, the proletarian dictatorship, which IS a temple of liberty for the producing class if not for the former exploit- ers and their hangers-on and apologists.—M.B. Tf you don’t subscribe to this paper, send in a sub now. a