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less of their reasons
should band together in mighty protest
against it and unite to make it impossible for
industry to be operated in the event of war
being declared.

The Canadian League Against War and

for that opposition,

Fascism is organizing a mighty mass protest

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Vancouver, B.C., August 2, 1935

PROTEST AGAINST WAR, AUG. 4

clouds are rapidly gathering,
Europe and Africa. The next

The war
especially in

world war is almost upon us.
after secretly assisting Germany to re-arm
for an attack upon the Soviet Union, is now
increasing her air, land and nayal forces.
The latest decision of the government to ex-
pend an enormous sum for an increase of the
to be followed by a similar increase by
Germany, will be followed by increases by
France, Italy and other imperialist powers,
and the naval armament race will be on,—in

navy.

fact, is is on now.

Mussolini is embarking on his robber ad-

venture in Africa. This may

a new and terrible world war. Factors mak-
ing for staying the warlike hand of Musso-
lini is the fear of Great Britain and France
of an uprising of the millions of colonial peo-
their oppressive yoke, and the

ples under

efforts of the Soviet Union for peace. -
proposed and imminent attack on the ancient
kingdom of the black race, Ethiopia, has
stirred the colored races of India, Africa and
Indo-China and throughout the world to the
depths, and has alarmed the white imperi-

alist oppressors and robbers

semi-colonial countries. They also fear their
rear. The opposition to imperialist war which

is growing in ever-widening

people of the home countries causes them

oreat misgivings.

They cannot forget the fate of the ruling
class of Russia when the Bolsheviks, re-
nouncing the bourgeois and social-democratic
slogan of “defence of the fatherland,” and

putting forward the slogan

of our own government,’ transformed the
robber imperialist war into a war of the en-
slaved class against its oppressors and over-
threw capitalist power and set up the revolu-
tionary rule of the workers and peasants,

the proletarian dictatorship.

Added to the revolt of the colonial peoples,
the organized united front opposition to im-
perialist war in the rear will stay the mur-
derous hands of the imperialist bourgeoisie.
Yet it must not be forgotten for a moment
that opposition to war does not mean opposi-
tion to all war. War by colonial people

against imperialist rule and

ways justified as is all wars for the libera-
fion of the people. Thus the black people of
Abyssinia are thoroughly justified in taking
up arms to turn back the mercenary troops
of the imperialist Mussolini,
forts must have the support of workers and
of all who are opposed to imperialist plun-

dering, everywhere.

The Canadian capitalists and their govern-
ment are up to their ears in international
imperialist intrigue and are preparing to hurl
the youth of Canada into another war on the
side of whatever sroup whose success would
further their predatory interests.

All people who are opposed to war, regard-

Great Britain,

Right.

non-partisan

tion.
well precipitate

The

of colonial and
class.

sections of the

throughout Canada against the war plans of
the Canadian government,
bankers and industrialists.
expression to this widespread sentiment of
hatred and protest against imperialist war,
the Vancouver section of the League is or-
ganizing a Peace Parade and mass meetings
on August 4th.

It is the duty of all who do not wish a repe-
tition of the bloody orgy of mass murder in
1914-18 to be in that parade and to attend
the mass meetings.

the Canadian
To give earnest

FURTHER TO THE RIGHT

The District Convention of the
(B.C. Section) which was held last Saturday
and Sunday marked a turn definitely to the
The rejection of the united front
with the Communists, the refusal even to
permit its clubs to affiliate with such @ broad

C.G.F.

organization as the Canadian

League Against War and Fascism, can bring
encouragement only to the forees of reac-

The determination of the leadership to
evade the day-to-day struggles against capi-
talism was reaffirmed following the lead
given by Skinner, retiring president, in his
speech opening the Convention, when he said
that the C.C.F. had not allowed itself to be
drawn into trifling struggles but had con-
fined itself to electing representatives to the
various legislative bodies.

This means also that insofar as the C.C.F.
leaders are concerned the policy is to be the
old one, passive waiting, of class peace, or at
best the fight on immediate issues will be
conducted on the basis of a divided working

A strong left wing within the convention
consisting of approximately one-third of the
delegates desired the united front of strug-

gle. These delegates represented the deepest

of the “defeat

feeling and desire for struggle of the great
mass of the rank and file of the membership.

One of the instructions to C.C.F. speakers
was that they must not say that the C.C.F.
is unprepared to take over the responsibility
of government. This means that the C.C.F.
are quite ready to take over the administra-
tion of capitalism as the British Labor Party
took it over in 1924 and in 1929, for there is
nothing in the C.C.F. program about expro-

priating the capitalists of the means of pro-

duction.

discontent of

robbery is al-

and their ef-

The more progressive minority in the con-
vention was an expression of the widespread

the mass of the membership

with the policies of the leaders, and their
voices will not be stilled by the decisions of
the convention.
offensive against the standard of living of
the masses and the bitter experiences of the
struggle for existence are driving thousands
of workers in the €.C.F. into united front
struggle alongs with the Communists and all
others who are willing and ready to fight.
The class struggle can not be stilled or
called off by resolutions of conventions, al-

The blows of the capitalist

though it can be hampered, impeded and

made difficult.
to live. Nor will the struggle against those
twin menaces,
for long, for the urgent need of the hour is
unity in struggle on these immediate issues
regardless of the differences that exist on
how to attain the great objective of socialism.

It is born of the struggle

fascism and war be hampered

In Flanders Fields

By RED EPAULETTES
In the black years of 1914-1918,
there were 619,636 enlistments in

the Canadian Army. Out of 426,531

who went overseas 60,000 never
‘e@ame back, and 25,000 have died

since they returend. Besides this
| there are 74,500 receiving inade-
| quate pensions, and of the rest, 13
per cent (29,500) are in receipt of
relief from municipalities.

That is the toll of the last war ac-
cording to the Hyndman Commis-
sion report, and this does not fully
cover the situation. Twenty-one
years ago, in 1914, the first 33,000
Canadian soldiers donned the uni-
form and took up arms to go out
and fight for what they thought
was a ‘war for democracy.”

Deluded by Lies

How we were extolled! Every
mealy-mouthed politician, every
imave who expected to make a profit
out of our “misery to come,” said
this piece as we entrained for the
front. The hypocritical parsons
spread the odor of sanctity over us,
and told us we were the “children
of God.” That was the situation
when we went over.

Biendish Warnmiongers

They kept us over there by the
same means. They lied, and lied
harder, as the war proceeded. They
set up their lie manufacturing ma-
chine with Lord Northcliffe at the
head. No lie was too dastardly for
the invention of these fiends. We
believed them. Our class brothers
died nobly. And when they died, a
poet lieutenant wrote:

“To you from falling hands we fling

the torch, :
Be yours to hold it high. Ii ye break

faith

With us who die, we shall not
sleep

™Tho’ poppies grow ii Flanders
Fields.”

The Land Fit for Heroes
We returned to the land we had
fought for—the land fit for heroes
to live in. As the troop ship neared
the coast of Canada, a huge electric
lighted sign could be seen:

“Welcome Home. Canada is proud
of you!”

That is 16 years ago.

The sign we read now is an ap-
peal in the daily papers:

“Weterans are in urgent need of
shoes. Anyone haying any dis-
carded shoes or clothes, kindly
phone the Returned Soldiers Club
and they will be called for.”

This is what we really fought for.

The same politicians, parasites,
officers who held bomb-proof jobs in
the last war, and some of the
preachers are again carrying on
their nefarious work. They are pre-
paring the state of mind of the next
erop for the slaughter.

Fighting Spirit is Not Dead
What of the veterans? Our ranks

are thinning out. Nevertheless the
veterans who demonstrated at
Tuxeda Hospital for increased pen-
Sion relief recently, proves conclu-
Sively that the faith which made
them enlist in 1914, is not dead, but
it is being changed inasmuch as it
is a faith in the unity of the rank
and file for struggle against the
capitalist class that made them
promises when they enlisted. There
are large mumbers of veterans who
are determined to continue this
strugele to make them fulfill the
promises made.

In Canada, the Workers’ Ex-ser-
vicemens League is the force that is
uniting the veterans to combat the
warmongers. This is the league of
veterans which is building unity by
extending the work of the veterans,
and reinforcing it with mutual as-
sistance in the struggle of the work-
ers in industry and on the unem-
ployed field. Many of the same para-
sites who beslavered us with their
flummery in 1914, are now speaking
of a “sane mnationalism’’ and de-
nouncing those who demand that
the promises of 1914 be fulfilled.

The Only Real Power for Peace

Only in one country did the vet-
erans win democracy — in Soviet
Russia. There, the veterans really

have democracy. They are now the
sreatest force in the world for peace.
In the rest of the countries which
were at war, the ruling classes are

| doing everything in their power to

promote another war in order to per-
petuate their rule.

In this they are assisted, just as
they were in 1914, by the betrayers
of the working class—the leaders of
the Second International. Many vet-
erans will remember how Ben Tillett
and Will Crooks and others helped
to enlist soldiers in Britain.

These false labor leaders,
though some of them are not
actively assisting, at present, are
Still doing nothing to combat war
preparations and are really assisting
when they vote in Parliament for in-
ereased armaments, and fail to pro-
mote peace pacts with the Soviet
Union. The armaments race is on
throughout the world, just as it was
in 1913 and 1914.

Lest We Forget
the stone and bronze monu-
ments to the fallen soldiers the
capitalist class have inscribed the
slogan, “Lest We Forget.”

We will not forget.

You buddies who fell at Vimy, at
Ypres and on the Somme, we won't
forget who murdered you.

It wasn’t the German
class.

We

even

On

working

won't break faith with you.
We will avenge your death.
We will not rest until we have
wiped out the crime committed upon

those left in Flanders Fields and
upon those who came back. Our
ranks are being thinned out daily by

casualties due directly and indirectly
to the war that enriched the eapital-
ist class and brought us nothing but
misery.

Wew thousands of young Canadi-
ans are growing up.

It is upon these workers that we
place our faith to drive back the
warmongers. It is with these we
must unite and help to organize to
prevent the last Shambles being re-
peated.

We have neglected them too long
whilst fighting for ourselves alone.
Once we are united with these
natural allies of the veterans we will
erush the warmongers and prepare
to make Canada a land of paradise
and peace that will be fit for any-
body to live in.

Imperialist

Must Be Hampered,
Impeded, Postponed

The July issue of “Action,” official
orfan of the Canadian League
Against War and Fascism, paints an

extraordinary picture of the boss-
inspired fatalism towards the im-
mediate inevitability of another

world war, the chief weapon of
which is to be the widely advertised
lethal gases.

Mass pictures of the French, Brit-
ish and Italian populace showing
their grotesque appearance in “‘gas-
proof’ suits, the low prices at which
they can be obtained, and the spe-
cial apparatus procurable only by
those with means; all discussed freely
over the radio and through the press
and thus insidiously fastening upon
the minds of the masses the ‘‘inex-

orable’’ nearness of a world blood
bath.
On the American continent such

nation-wide government campaigns
of the above character seem out of
place. “This is unthinkable in our
country,” will run through the minds
of thousands of Canadians. Possibly,
due to geographical limitations, there
will be little necessity of ‘‘gas drills’’
in Ganada, but, nevertheless, the ac-
ceptance of the idea that “war will
come anyway, so what is the use”
is prevalent among many who other-
wise could be quite influential in the
fight for peace by plunging whole-
heartedly into the anti-war move-
ment in Canada.

Biggest Task Now,
War Prevention
The old arm-chair theory that war
will bring about a quicker collapse
of capitalism (the logical conclusion
of such is, for the workers to help
organize an imperialist war), is not

a popular idea among those who
bear the brunt of such a war, And
yet, the lack of an energetic, posi-

tive campaign against the present
immense preparations for war can
be seen as an alarming prevalence
of the idea that ‘nothing can he
done about it.’

Engels, in his work “The Roots of
Socialist Philosophy,” concludes by
saying, ‘“‘Philosophers have explained
the world lone enough, our task is
to change it.” This must be the
Slogan of the readers of the B.C.
Workers’ News in the struggle
against war. Those of us who can
often quite lucidly explain the causes
of war and the correct position of
the workers towards war, have now
the most pressing immmediate task
TO HELP PREVENT THE OUT-
BREAK OF WAR.

et us be clear on three important
points: The first is that an outbreak
of war can be prevented or post-
poned. Secondly, that each day, week
or month of postponement (and be-
cause of the intense preparations,
we must think in such short peri-
ods) means that the victims are
spared, for that period, the mutila-
tion and death inseparable from such
a war. Thirdly: the anti-war forces
are given a further breathing spell
to mobilize the future war victims
against the warmongers and that
further, continuous postponements
means that we who stand to be mur-
dered wholesale will be in a position
to quickly turn the tables when im-
perialist war is upon us. Every or
ganized worker is in a position to
hamper the progress of war prepar-
ation. All elass conscious workers
Can influence unorganized people to
enter into this srim strugsle for
postponement. Peace lovers of wide-
ly differing viewpoints can reach
apathetic elements and awaken in
them a hatred of war.

Organized Labor Gan Be Greatest

Impediment
The theory that the next war will
be highly mechanized, with air-
planes, tanks, gas, ete., replacing

mass armies is but a half-truth. The
whole truth is that an immense army
of technicians, skilled workers and
mechanics must work as a civilian
army and with as much precision as
the military itself. And these can
only be provided by the working and
middle class.

The provision made for a quick
transtormation of the industrial
plants into smooth-runnins military

units, is the yulnerable part into
which the monkey wrench of or-
ganized labor can be flung. A mili-

tant anti-war spirit aroused in the
trade unions a preventative of
first value. This would disorganize
the rear of those intent on murder-
ous war plans.

This “weakening of the rear”
plays no small part in the desperate
attempts of the Shipping Federation
to smash organization in the B.C.
ports at the present time. The
Shipping Federation stand to make
millions in war-time should their
machinery run smoothly.

Going farther afield, the revolt of
the camp boys against militarized
Slave labor on the air ports is a
serious obstacle to the Bennett poli-
cies which are obviously those of
war. The wide movement aroused in
Support of the camp boys alarms this
pro-war government, hence its re-
eent Savage attacks at the suppres-
Sion of this sympathetic movement.

Anti-Capitalist Parties Must
Give Lead

The growth of anti-capitalist (and
therefore inherently anti-war) senti-
ment throughout Canada and in
British Columbia in particular has
shown itself in many concrete ways.

is

Outstanding is the sirength and
prestige of the Communist Party

and the Co-operative Commonwealth
Pederation among large sections of
the common people. These two po-
liiieal parties can place a barrier in
the path of the war machine which

would be a serious obstacle. The
CPlofG. and the sC-G:R. in} jomt
endeavor, can 4d sliver a smashing
blow to the war mongers by

crippling their plans in one of the

War

miost Strategic positions in Canada:

the Pacific Coast. Joint piatforms,
mixed speakers, a unified editorial
policy, the use of the radio, in fact

all the energies and enthusiasm that
such parties are capable of, can very
quickly and materially hinder the
plunge toward mass murder and
misery which is taking place today.

Literally tens of thousands of
workers, organized and unorganized,
will follow the lead of these two
parties. os

These are some of the quite con-
erete methods with which the forces
and potential forces for peace can
deliver a set-back to the present
eold-blooded planning of those who
aim at a “‘re-division’’ of the world:

August 4, 1935, the 2ist annivers-
ary of the last world war, will see
the Canadian League Against War
and Fascism organizing a Peace Pa-
rade.

Here is an opportunity for a dis-
ciplined march in the cause for
peace—a concrete, militant action
which will be duplicated in many
Canadian centres. Enthusiastic na-
tion-wide support of the peace pa-
rades throughout the Dominion will
have a strong bearing on Canadian
capitalism, the breeder of war.

Join the Peace Parade on August
Fourth!

Do your bit in the fight for Peace!

Bae.

TOM WiciNNES

The Goebbels of B.C. Fascism
that barks over the radio.

POLICE FAIL TO
INTIMIDATE

FANNY BAY, B.C., July 26.—Ef-
forts on the part of the Provincial
Police to browbeat the Board of Di-
rectors into cancelling the engage-
ment of the Community Hall here
failed.

The hall was booked for Aueust 3
for a dance in aid of the longshore-
men’s strike and interference by the
police aroused the community to
such a piteh that the authorities had
to back down.

Police wanted to haye the place
licensed at the excessive sum of $100,
when their efforts to cancel the rent-
ing of hall proved fruitless.

Gerry MecGeer’s latest labor val
have not brought forth ilicitim |

baby bonds to be peddled from dc
step to doorstep, but a ponder)
tome on the difficult science, —
tical economy. And the product’
confirms Carlyle’s description
economics as the “dismal science. #4

But the thing that counts is t
Gerry has written a good. A book ©
economics! Three hundred and fi jj
Nine pages of confused tripe <
muddle-headed bunk. Qne can sujj
the contents from the title, that ~™
“The Conquest of Poverty.” Nj
Gerry can speak with authority 4
from practical experience on sucl jj
subject, for he conquered his oa,
poverty by becoming a bourse -
lawyer and getting more than $70,
for a few trips to Ottawa on
freight rates question. =

The sub-title of Gerry’s book
“Money, Humanity and Christi
ity’ This alone will indicate w! |
a mulligan of bughouse eclectici |
the book is. According to Ger #
Lincoln paved the way for Roo jj
velt and, we are to infer, also ;—
Gerry. The international bank |}
who are today, according to the fa 4}
ist Citizens Teague, financing i:
communist parties, were respousii ;
for the assassination of Lincoln a¥
for all major crimes committ
against the human race—includi
the infliction of Gerry McGeer up
it, we might add.

1914 MUST

By FEF. BIGGS

It is a matter of history that in
the years preceding the 1914-18 war
the European Social Democrats, as
organized in the Second Internation-
al, discussed the war danger at a
number of conferences. They saw
clearly that a great war was then
approaching, and they passed reso-
lutions agreeing to down tools and
call for a general strike in their
home countries when war broke out.

It is also a matter of history that
when war did come these same Jead-
ers of the Huropean socialist parties
did none of the things they had said
they would. Instead they became
great patriots, accepting high posi-
tions in the war governments, and
calling on labor to postpone the class
struggle until the “‘enemy” had been
driven off.

This betrayal of socialism was so
complete that it is recorded that
when Lenin heard that the German
secial democrats had by an over-
whelming majority voted for the war
eredits, he at first refused to be-
lieve it. 2

British Reformist Leaders
Preparing Sell-out

Readers of the Hnglish Labour
Monthly will be aware that the situ-
ation as regards the war danger in
Europe is very similar to that of
1914. Similarly, too, the leaders of
British Labour are preparing ano-
ther great sell-out to the capitalists,
are doing everything they can to
hinder the growth of the United
Front of Labour against the war
menace, and are doing everything
they can to swing Laour into a posi-
tion of co-operation with the Nation-
al Government.

The National Government of
Great Britain is showing itself more
and more to be a war £overnment.
It 4s strengthening every branch of
the Imperial forees, land, sea and
air, at a feverish speed, and it is
counting on the Jabor leaders to re-
peat the betrayal of 1914. The Na-
tional Government is bending every
effort to see that the Nazi military
machine forms the speadhead of a
united Imperialist attack on the
Soviet Union.

United Front in France
Preventing Pascism

In France the situation is by no
means the same. There the Social-
ist and Communist parties have
joined forces in a great United Mront
against war and fascism, a United
Front so widespread that it com-
pelled the French capitahst gsovern-
ment to enter into a peace pact with
the Soviet government, a United
Front so powerful that it is passing
into something still greater—a Peo-
ple’s Front, embracing large sections
of the middle class and of the peas-
ant population.

The French people have staved off
attempt after attempt of the capi-
talists to Shackle them with a fas-
cist dictatorship, and they will not
be stampeded into another Imperial-
ist war. Least of all will they be
neutral in case of a war on the
Soviet Union, they will be decidedly
pro-Soviet Union.

Wilsonian Hypocrisy

The United States did not enter
the last war until April, 1917. Presi-
dent Wilson was elected on a “keep
us out of the war’ program. A posi-
tion of neutrality suited the mone-
tary interests of the American capi-
talists who were making millions
upon millions in supplying the Allied
nations with munitions and war sup-
plies generally.

When the German submarine
menace grew so strong that it was
eutting off the transportation of
these supplies overseas, when it ap-
peared that the Germans might after
all win the war, thus automatically
rendering a writing off of the Allhed
war debts, necessary neutrality was
cast aside.

President Wilson, posing= as a sreat
idealists, said at a sreat meeting that
“there is such a thine as being too
proud to fight,” and yet in less than
six months after he made that state-
ment he declared war on Germany
and the Central Powers.

The Policy of Neutrality

NOT BE REPEATED

pacifist attitude in industrial dis-
putes, is the policy of the CCF, as
stated by Mr. J. S. Woodsworth, on
the question of war. The election
manifesto states: “It is unalterably
opposed to war and it declares that,
if the great capitalist powers become
engaged in another war, Canadian
neutrality must be rigorously main-
tained.”

As ever, Mr. Woodsworth dislikes
referring to the class divisions in
Canada, so he mentions “‘Canadian”’
neutrality, omitting to say definitely
that the Canadian workers should
be neutral, although that is plainly
what he is driving at.

The CGE leaders have always been
opposed to strikes and demonstra-
tions against wage-cuts and union
smashing, and their slogan of neu-
trality towards war is uttered to
hold the workers back from struggle
against capitalist war.

Canada Will Be Involved

This advice to be neutral in event
of war is very dangerous to the
workers of every country, and it is
an insult to the intelligence of the
class-conscious elements within the
GCF itself. It is impossible for the
workers to be neutral in time of war.

It is the workers who are blown
into the air, buried underground,
shell-shocked, gassed, and slaugh-
tered and maimed on land, and sent
to a watery grave on the sea. To
say that the Canadian ‘workers
should be neutray means that they
should work peacefully for the capi-
talists who would clutch and grab
at contracts to provide war material
for the fighting countries.

And to assume that Canada will
not be actually involved in the next
war is to close the eyes to the un-
deniable fact that the next war will
be a world war, embracing every
capitalist country.

Fascist Dictatorship and War

Mr. Woodsworth has been close
enough to the center of things in
Canada to recognize that the present
drive for a National Government,
under the leadership of H. BH. Stev-
ens, is intended to do two things—
to establish a fascist dictatorship and
to prepare for war.

Wet on the question of the fascist
danger he has always said do noth-
ing or fascism will come, and on the
question of war he recommends neu-
trality.

This, together with his words of
friendship and admiration for Im-
perialist Japan, his hatred of the
Soviet form of government, his, ap-
parently, blind faith in British de-
moecracy, that is being wiped out
before his eyes, place him in the
Same company as Bennett, Stevens,
and other enemies of Canadian and
Soviet Union workers.

In eyent of an imperialist attack
on the Soviet Union the workers
should be neutral—such is the policy
of Mr. Woodsworth. It is only since
November, 1917, that the workers of
the world have been able to say
“We have a country’; outside Soviet
Territories the countries belong to
the capitalist class.

Should Be Pro-Abyssinian

The workers of Canada should not
be neutral in the war that Musso-
lini is preparing on Abyssinia. To
the Italian capitalist class this war
of conquest is a desperate ““‘way out,”’
an attempt to prevent revolution at
home.

Abyssinia Is a backward, semi-
feudal nation, the people are ruled
and oppressed by a monarch, but to
say that it makes no difference who
wins, to take a neutral position, is
to take the side of Mussolini, the op-
pressor, the gaoler, the hangman of
the Italian workers. Italian fascism
is making a desperate gamble, and
if it is victorious in this war, fas-
cism will be strengthened in other
countries as well as in Italy.

Therefore, all anti-fascist elements
should be pro-Abyssinian, not neu-
tral. If Italian imperialism is de-
feated, all imperialisms will be weak-
ened.

Objectively Supporting
Capitalism
There are about 100,000 Italians in

Thoroughly in }eeping with its

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workers who are reservists and wi |
will no doubt be called to the colo ,
to fight for their Italian fatherlan |
To fight for*their fatherland is |
fight for fascism, and only those r |
servists Should respond who are pr
pared to co-operate with the e]
ments in the Italian army who w
work to turn the war on Abyssin
into a civil war for the overthrow: |
Mussolini's fascist gangster govern |
ment, and the establishment of So -
iet Power. Revolution is the on

“way out” for the Italian workei
and peasants, the only way the wi-
can be stopped. Fe
The more Mr. Woodswerth tali-
about fascism and war the more }

exposes himself as objectively su’
porting fascism. Thousands of worl

ers in his own organization will tur
“thumbs down’ on his “neutralit
in war’’ policy.

Bourgeois Pig:
At The Trougt

There are numberless instance
when bodies of workers are face
with a shortage of food, showir
that they distribute it even
amongst themselves.

During the Jubilee Naval Revie:
off Portsmouth, gland, a herd ¢
eabinet ministers, members of pai
liament, foreign ambassadors, a8
other bootlickers of the capitalist
class, were invited after the revie
to have dinner on one of the ve}
sels.

With appetites made Keen by tk
fresh sea air and whetted with liquo
they rushed and serambled for th
tables. But for once there was
shortage of food in the trough. Th
press states: “Even the bread an
cheese gave out.” A woman wh
took part in the dinner struggle wa
quoted as saying: “I was holding u
my plate with a piece of meat on :
when a clutching hand came ove
my shoulder and took the mez
away.'”

These are the degenerate spec
mens of the human race that pré
sume to call themselves the “uppe
class.”

PRESENT FROM
LIBERAL GOVT

Once upon a time a large land
owner gave a present of a hors
to one of his peasants. The peas
ant thanked the baron profusely
but later, he opened the horses
mouth and saw by its teeth tha
it was too old for work on tht
land.

It it from the above fable thi
proverb was derived: “Never lool
a gift horse in the mouth.” (Fo!
us we should always take a. look)
The Male Minimum Wage Law :
B.C. was given to the workers t
the Pattullo government free. Tl
law applies to many occupation
Wages are fixed by a Board of ih
dustrial Relations. The chairman |
the board is Mr. Adam Bell, former
a member of a railroad grievan
committee of the B. & Q. Plan, ar
a member of the A. F. of L. A
other member of the board is M
James Thompson of the Trades at
Labor Council of Vancouver.

The board set the wages for st
tionary steam engineers. It set
minimum wage of 50 cents per hou

Bosses Accommodated

The owners of apartment buil
ines thought this wage was too hig
They immediately got together ai
made a holler to the board. Beir
possessed of the “anything to oblise
sort of spirit, the board prompt
held a meeting and issued anoth
decree, making it law “that 1
minimum wage for every stationa:
steam engineer employed in a1
apartment building shall be not le
than the rates fixed for janitors.”

The rates for janitors is 35 cen

Canada, among whom are many

per hour.