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WORKERS’ NEWS to: : | SINATYTO res wei ieee yicls els wie ele wie im mim opine elnino sein wie ole je iw s\nin\o ein ieieim i= PMO GTEBS ss closla cis sie else wleisjeisislviciwiwise) wisn ble viaje eremie ie miei sic einai City or Town .........-.--- ap Sno NSD SIO Foe Sa Foo GaSe sasdos5 for which f enclose $.....-.-.-- ASSAD for one year...........- S655 GeMOntHS = sccnc esse += By Wktyckests} 54a a9 5 oOo Sir.—We wish to take exception to a statement from a member of the Coast Vegetable Marketing Board, appearine in the “Sun,’’ issue of the 13th, that “the board is not discrim- inating against Orientals, but all the trouble to date has come from that quarter. White 2rowers have ac- cepted the terms of the Act because they realize it is to the advantage of the producer and consumer alike.” This statement is misleading and Written with the intent of creatine a false impression upon the people of B. ©, for the following reasons: 1. Chinese gsrowers comprise nearly 75 per cent of the farming population on the lower mainland, and it is only natural that the op- position to the board would be more marked than that from the white grower. 2. Growers in the areas affected have suffered privation bordering on dire poverty since the depression set in, and this winter will be one of extreme hardship if the Natural Products Marketing Act remains in force. Many of us will be wiped out completely. 8. The “advantage” to the con- sumers is that they have to pay higher prices for these products; for example, one year ago the price of early potatoes was 25 cents for 25 Chinese Farmer Writes On Coast Marketing Board lbs. or one cent per pound, this year the consuming public have to pay 25 cents for 14 1bs., or nearly two cents per pound. 4. The commission charze of the board made on potatoes is $2.00 per ton, and 50 cents per hundred for tag's, and $2.00 per ton for haulage, farmers not being allowed to use their trucks, all of which is added to the price paid by the consumer. 5. The “advantage” to the grow- er is that we have lost 75 per cent of the potato market on the prairies, we have lost almost 40 per cent of the lettuce market, and stand to lose, taking everything by and large, not less than 65 per cent of all our total products through the restrictive measures of this board. 6. We are in direct cut-throat competition with the Board acting for the interior farmer. The question arises, what are we to do with the products that we have cultivated all summer and now have left unsold, a total loss to us. As for the meetings held Saturday and Sunday, we plead snilty. This is our only recourse to discuss the Situation, and why should we not? Facing extinction we are bound to take some action to abolish this Act which will impoverish us beyond the point of human endurance. J. MARR. pamphiet exposing political the vote-catchers. attempted whitewashing Votes.”’ West, Vancouver, B.C. They Want Your Votes The Communist Blection Committee has the lying claims of the Steyens, The demagogic claptrap of the Fascist Stevens, of Liberal corruption by promises and the deathbed repentence program of Ironheel Bennett are dealt with in a manner that makes clear to every reader the capitalist Seurce of all of them. Everybody who intends to take part in the coming election should read this pamphlet, the title of which is ‘“‘They Want Your The price is 2 cents per copy; in quantities $1.50 per 100. had from The Communist Election Committee, Room 8, 163 Hastings Street just issued a new iing and Bennett further specious To be Wazi butchers in Germany is turning: many people who hitherto looked complacently, if not tolerantly, on fascism, into furious opponents. Everyone who not only opposes but who fails to extol the revived medieval barbarities, adapted to the modern needs of monopoly capitalism by Hitler is subjected by the Nazi Sadists to torture, agony and death. Jews, Protestants, and Catholies are alike made victims of pogroms: Sterilization is a common practice, and recent news dispatches inform us that even children as young as eight years are being herded into concentration prison camps, During the first six months of this year 93 women were sentenced to a total of 158.6 years imprisonment, while many were maltreated, ravished and murdered. The total number of years of hard labor and imprisonment giv- en in these six months was 5,607.2 years. And while all this is going on and with increasing fury against Catho- lie political opponents of Hitler and his Nazi regime, what is Father O’Boyle, Editor of the Monthly Buile- tin, published in the Fascist roost of the Citizens’ League in the Lum- bermen’s Building, Vancouver, do- ing about it? Not a line or a word of protest from his pen. He is too busy Slandering the Soviet Union and Communism. In the July issue of his fascist rag there is a page and a half of editorials, every one of which is a tirade against the vic- torious workers in the Soviet Union where despite the liars and slander- ers, freedom of conscience is guar- anteed, or else an attack against militant opponents of fascism and the leaders of that resistance the world over, the Communists. The Young Pioneers whose minds are kept from superstition; the progress- ive groups in the trade unions, Com- munist leadérs of strikes against forced labor, and the Soviet Union are attacked by the reyerend father; but of the butcheries of the Wazis, not a word. Nor is Father O’Goyle alone in this omission. There is that hydro- phobie fascist, Tom McInnis, whose mephitie breath contaminates the air over the radio, and who also nests with the wriggling mass in the Lum- berman’s Building. And there is, of course, the Citizens’ League of pro- moters of fascism and strike-break- ing. This unsavory gang have spent and are spending thousands of dol- lars in slanderous and lying adver- tisements in the local Press, includ- ing Father O’Boyle’s paper. Gut the men behind the driye to fascism are not content with the mediocre local talent, not even with the pen prostitute who is a “political expert” on a local daily and who does the hack writing for the Citi- zens’ League; they bring in fresh hacks and spellbinders to spread demazgogy to the more backward ele- ments of the population, in order to secure a mass base for fascism; for fascism needs a mass base, as well as the paralyzing of workers’ organiza- tions. It is no accident that such organiz- ations as the Citizens’ League were : GAMES SPORTS PRESS PICINIC SUNDAY, AUGUST 25th, All Day starting 10 a.m. B.C. ELECTRIC PARK, North Side HASTINGS PARK Take No. 8 Car to End of Line Proceeds in Aid of “Il Lavatore,”” Italian Workers’ Weekly MUSIC Preparing Fascism Here: Silent On Nazi Terrorism C The renewed mass terror of the fashioned out of a group of fascist Sanes; nor is it an accident that two spellbinders were making speeches in New Westminster and Vancouver, one named Anderson, on the beau- ties of Mussolini’s rule in Italy, the other,. Dr. Brown, on the “barbari- ties’ practised in the oviet Union, in the best manner of the paid Hearst liars or the mercenary and muddle- headed Dr. Durant. All this vile fascist propaganda is being broadcast at the time when the most determined efforts of the finance capitalists, who are furiously driving to fascism, are being exerted to smash the unions of the water- front workers and the miners of Cumberland, and is closely related to it. 7 It is high time for all people who do not wish to find themselves un- der the fascist jackboot of the Cana- dian Hitlers and Goerings to band themselves together to balk and beat back the drive toward the regimen- tation and degradation of the com- mon people and their ideological and organizational disarming in the pro- cess of fascization that is going on under their very noses to the tune of the preservation of democracy. —M. B. STRIKE LEADERS ARE RELEASED The criminal charges against Os- car Salonen, business agent of the Longshoremen’s Union, and ©. Cum- ber, secretary of the Relief Camp Workers’ Union, were dismissed. The fake charges against them were a part of the terror and intimi- dation used to break the strikes led by their respective unions. Their defense was handled by the Canadian Tabor Defense League, backed by thousands of workers and sympathizers, 35 Jap War ’Planes Crash TOKYO. — That 35 have been smashed to pieces and 46 pilots killed in six months as a result of the wild Japanese arma- ment drive against the U.S:S-R. is revealed in official figures here. The real figure is probably siderably higher. aeroplanes con- LE HAVRE, Aug. 7.—(WP)—The erews of the French Line steamers Normandie, Lafayette and Cham- plain went on strike today in sym- pathy with French maritime work- ers who are protesting against wage cuts enforced by the ‘“‘econ- omy” government. The Champlain was due to sail today, but the officers and crew re- fused to reconsider their decision. Officers of twelve ships joined the movement, refusing to accept their depleted pay envelopes. Patronize Our Advertisers 899O 9999S OO 99999009 REFRESHMENTS | } election | FRENCH DOCKERS ON LOOKOUT FOR B.C. SCAB CARGO PARIS.—The International Sea- men and Harbor Workers’ Union here has ordered its branches throughout the world to be on-the lookout for untair ships carrying Seab cargo loaded in British Co- lumbia ports under the protection of guns, clubs and terrorism. Recognition of the conumanding position of the Maritime Federa- tion of the Pacific was given by the 1.B.S. when it commended the Stand taken in the “Point Clear” and added: “Strike Vancouver will be victorious if Maritime Federa- tion organizes etfective solidarity.”’ Not In The Headlines! it took the B.C. Workers' News a month to find this out. It wasn’t in the headlines: “Vancouver, July 18.—For trad- ing in Wayside Consolidated Gold Mines, Litd., stock, contrary to the provisions of the Securities Act, fines totalling $20,000 were im- posed in police court today by Magistrate Mackenzie Matheson. “The fines were: Vancouver Stock and Bond Go. Litd., $17,000; Colquhoun, Wolfe and Co., Ltd., now in liquidation, $1,000; George St. John, director Colquhoun and Wolfe, $1,000; Purves E. Ritchie, managing director of Wayside, $1,000.” C.1. Program World Congress Submits Only Revolutionary Theory Comrade Pieck reminded the Congress of the 10,000 fighters in capitalist pri- sons. “But,” he declared, “there is No power on earth which con prevent the develop- ment of our fight for free- dom. “Our programme iS: “Resistance of the people against all suppression and plunder; “The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is the only revolutionary theory; “Socialism is the only salvation for humanity. “Our main slogan Soviet Power.” is ieee Is What We Mean ‘AORANGI' CREW (Continued from Page 1) NAZI TERROR (Continued from Page i) erew unanimously and emphatically deny that either Plemine or Murray or any other delegate misrepresented the conditions of your strike eithe in New Zealand or Australia, the Niagara or elsewhere. Consequent- ly, we cannot understand the insult- ing contents of the aforementioned letter, but a detailed reply will be posted to you from San Francisco. Trusting that in common justice to other members of the working elass you will also forward a copy of this letter to the Vancouver press. This letter was signed by 44 mem- bers of the crew. The ship carries a compliment of approximately 270 of a crew. Signed by 44 Members of the Crew. Meat for Italy Protest CAPE TOWN.—The Trades and Labor Council has protested against the fovernment’s decision to sub- Sidize the export of meat for the Italian Army. They declare this can only ap- pear as a friendly act towards Italy and that the exports may increase the price to consumers here.—Ex- change Telegraph. WE REFUSE! The following resolution signed by the ship’s committee, was passed by the crew of the S.S. Holmlea at Worth Shields: “We, the crew of Negroes on board the. S.S. Holmlea, on a voyage to Africa, alive to the war threat of Faseist and imperialist against col- ored people in Africa, fully agree to the proposals of the World Commit- tee Asainst Pascism and War sent to the LI.T. and 1.S.H. “We hail the decision of working- class organization in Worvick, Nor- way, to strike on August 1. “We also declare, in the event of this ship being loaded with war ma- terial of any description to immedi- ately approach the shore trade un- ions, dockers, ete., to stop the ship from sailing. “We refuse to carry implements of: war.” By Solidarity BLANTYRE.—Seven hun- dred miners of the Priory pit downed tools on Friday in a protest against the action of, the manager in dismissing the local branch secretary, James MecKendrick,. ANNOUNCEMENT. Lucky ticket number at the C.iL. D.G. Social, July 27th, was 86-C, and held by Mrs. ©. Cook. ter who is elected. C.C.F. Glub For Unity NEW WESTMINSTER, Aug. 13.—With only one dis- senting vote, the South Westminster C.C.F. Club voted to endorse the minimum demands in the program of the Communist Election Committee. There were about 25 members attender the meeting, which was held Aug. 9. The United Front program of the Communists was discussed at length at the meeting and the great need -for unity in the forthcoming election was felt and stressed on all sizes. The desire for unity was expressed when the meeting went on record as being in favor of co-operating with the League Against War and Fascism. Stress was laid on the fact that the club will strive for unity with the Communist Party or any other or- ganization of labor that will help to organize poor people for better living standards, either now during the elec- tion campaign, or after the election is over, and no mat- TREKKERS HELPED GRAVE During one of the patriotic drives organized by the bosses in the United States periodically, a strang- er noticed that nearly all the stores earried the slogan in the window: “Weare 100 per cent.” In a barber shop window, how- ever, he noticed a sign that read: “We are 200 per cent.” This in- terested him, and he proceeded in to buy a shave. He asked the barber, that slogan mean—what per cent?” The barber replied, “‘Those other people are only 100 per centers, and they hate everybody except Amer- icans; I’m a 200 per center, I hate everybody.” “What does is a 200 Whist Drive and Bingo To Be ‘held in Workers’ Hall, 2237 Main Street Friday, August 23rd, at 8 p.m. Auspices Workers’ Press Cash Door Prize Tickets i15c = 2 for 25¢ “Militarism permeates the whole public lite: Militarism becomes su- preme. Imperialism means hitter Struggle among the world powers to divide and re-divide the world —and this, therefore, militarizes even the small and neutral coun- tries. What will the proletarian Women do against this develop- ment? Condemn all war and all nillitarism, and demand disarma- ment? Never will the women of a revolutionary class accept such a conteniptible task. On the con- trary, they will urge their sons: ‘You will soon be grown up and they will give you a rifle. Take it, and quality in all military know!l- edge that is necessary for the workers, not in order to shoot at your comrades, as is done in this war of robbery and as you have been urged to do by the traitors of Socialism, but to fight the bourgeoisie to put an end to ex- ploitation and the misery of wars, not by pious wishes, but by over- powering and disarming the bourgeoisie.” “Those who refuse to carry on Such a propaganda, and such a propaganda particularly in connec- tion with the present war, should be kind enough to stop talking in grandiloquent phrases about in- ternational revolutionary Social- ism, about the Social Revolution, about war against war.’—LENIN. “Tt is not only in war times, but each day between ten o'clock and twelve—says he saw one child of eight years in his camp. He claims not to know yet the nature of his own alleged crime. One Jewish boy of 18—he happens to have an American mother, a non- Jew—is said by his parents to be in custody because of a 40-year-old srudge against his grandfather held by the grandfather of the boy who denounced him to the Seeret Police. Wor six weeks three brothers, aged between 14 and 21, have been con- fined in concentration camp. Their anguished parents have been able to get no clue to the charges. About June 1ith of this year, 320 youngsters in the neighborhood of Frankfort-am-Mein were taken into custody. Fish Prices SOINTULA, Aug. 14.—(By wire) Boss canners have offered follow- ing, fish prices at Kingcome Inlet and at Knight Inlet: Cohoes, 25 cents each; humps, 5 cents each. Rivers Inlet: Cohoes, 25 cents each; humps, 344 cents each. St. Johns Harbor, Namu, Bates Pass, trolling prices: Gohoes, 534 cents per Ib. Blacklisted Camp Boys Recent Trek As Told by a Young Camp Boy. At Kamloops, Vernon, Kelowna, and Penticton applications for relie= were made, but without result, al- though at Vernon the city police do- nated 60 loaves of bread. Twenty- four Provincials were mobilized at Kelowna to Keep us’ moving. Five Provincials met us at Pen- ticton when we got off the passen- ger calling us bums, and hooligans, they escorted us across the bridge to the Indian reservation, telling: us that should we return, they (the po- lice) would not be responsible for their actions. R.C-M.Police came along and or- dered us off the reservation. We refused to go unless promised food, as we had not eaten for two days. Three of our comrades were taken to the hospital suffering from lack of food and exposure, one of these exist on wild berries. contracted hives through trying to Don’t Give a Damn The sergeant of the Provincials was told we were all liable to go to the hospital unless food was pro- vided. He stated, “I don’t give a damn.’ Arrest was refused us, the police claiming the jail held four- teen prisoners, with accommodation for eight. We were finally moved out of town on the promise of food, but the food was only a promise. Passing through Princeton on the freight, the police who were there to keep transients off the train lined the tracks but kept us on. Arriving back in Wancouyver we again applied for relief, without re- sults. At the present time, with the help of the Single Unemployed Pro- tective Association, we are enlisting: the aid of all organizations and in- dividuals to bring pressure to bear on the authorities to gain relief. All through our trek in the in- terior, citizens made appeals to the Pattullo Government and to Grote Stirling, but no good came of them. The €.C.F. members in Penticton who are militant rendered us good assistance in the collection of food- stuffs. i THE FARMERS’ PLIGHT OTTAWA, Aug. 12. Canadian wheat in storage on Aus. 9th to- talled 193,799,296 bushels, an in- erease of 8,547,699 bushels over the amount in storage in August, 1934. MINERS FACE TRIAL IN ALASKA JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 5.—Good work on the part of the newly or- ganized Alaska Miners’ Defense Committee here has released all but three of the sixteen miners and longshoremen charged with “riot- ing,’’ and now facing trial in Sep- tember, with possible sentences of from three to fifteen- years. tions, including the unions of the miners, longshoremen and trollers, the Defence Committee is now con- tacting organizations in other parts of Alaska, to build a committee to embrace the entire territory. A petition drive embracing all Alaska has been already launched, and thousands of signatures are ex- pected, demanding of District Attor- ney William Helzheimer and Govy- ernor John W. Troy that the charges be dismissed and the men released. In addition, resolutions are begin- ning to come in to those officials in Juneau, from Alaska, Canada and the States. Of the sixteen riot defendants ar- rested following the attack of dep- uties and company guards on the miners’ picket line June 25, two are members of the International Long- shoremen’s Association, the others of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. whenever the political situation takes a critical turn, that govern- ments will threaten to crush out organized bodies, to seize their money and jail their leaders, and to let them bear other practical consequences for their actions. What of it? Is this a valid ground to excuse the opportunists, as Kautsky does? This really amounts to transforming the Social-Demo- cratic party into a national liberal party.”—LENEIN. The professor was psycho-analys- ing a member of a women’s. deleza- tion to the mayor. Professor: “You have an ority complex.” Woman: “You're all wet; good as you are.” Professor: “Please don’t contra~- dict me. I know my business.” inferi- im as A sub in the mail’s worth a mil- lion expired.