'way to victory.—Lenin. | Only a Charlatan could ‘promise the workers an easy Fy Cc. WorkKERS NEws Confound the Fascist War Plans in Ethopia by mass unity in Canada. Published Weekly VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1935 Single Copies: 5 Cents SS No, 32 LE ANTI-WA OTRA ngshoremen From Se- attle To San Pedro To Vote This Week-end FANCOUVER, Aus. 31. — Lone- @remen and seamen now in the #h week of the tie-up on the wat- sent received the eréatest encour- ment since the conimencement, en the result of the vote of the Mritime Federation of the Pacific ched Vancouver. The vote was iS8 not to handle scab B. ©. cargo 981 yoted to handle it. THe > was heralded by the pickets on waterfront as the greatest inter- ional display of solidarity wit- Sseq on this coast for many years. mmediate effect of the vote could S observed, when last night at Bal- tyne Doek approaches, the pick- né& took on a more marked mili- #t charecter than prevailed for te weeks. Scabs found cut to ir- regret that the road is not ined wet by a loneshot. The R. —.P. who had been withdrawn, fe called back to patrol the ap- paches, and cots, which had been loved from the dock were brousht = and installed for the scabs to Pp on, tses Fear International Solidarity “ast Monday there were 12 ships ort. | with scabs and crews, whilst 4 (= swingine at anchor, and one in Hock The Shipping Federation, ; imagined that they had broken spirit of the strikers, are begin- ss te realize that the workers fe power in solidarity of their ‘iw workers across the line, “mpleyers are attempting to min- |e the yote of the Maritime Ped- ion and claim that they “are not ried.’ They are depending upon leaders of the international ‘gshoremen’s Association to in- nee the dockers to offset the They miss their guess. Harry izes, a progressive and militant er of the longshoremen of ‘Fris- ill be able to influence rank and dockers to stand loyally in sup- of trade union principles. Guarter Million Dollars Bail ae Central Strike Committee is open to negotiation with the ‘pine Federation. They report 130 of their members have been Sted to date. Twenty of these put over to the fall assizes. The adian Labor Defense League, 2h organization has defended all victims, has raised $245,000 in bonds to gain the liberty of the sted workers. meshoremen’s wives, sons and zhters are all being drawn into strugele. Qrganizational work oine forward, and even though W weak members of the union > crawled through the picket s; and deserted the ranks, the zee is steadily gaining reali sneth. felief is greatly needed. Mayor Peer, who has been working in ; (Continued on page 3) 1OTHER LOGGER KILLED IN WOODS AMPBELL RIVER, Aug. 20. — auel Steel, 35, a truck driver for & EK. tloggine operations at wns Bay, was insttnily killed *n his truck got out of control an incline. Caused evidently by sudden application of the denied the shelter of jails, be- @€ all of the jails in B. ©. are Seven of them were Work— Waterfront Strike Gains Mass Support From U.S.A. Seamen SAM CARR OVER SEVENTY SHIPS TIED UP To Handle Scab that another vessel has been tied up in San Francisco Bay because of la- bor trouble, raising the total of ships tied up in’ Pacifit--Goast ports to 71. The boat was the motorship Borgstad, docked at the pier of the American Smelting & Refining Co. at Selby. Union workers at the smelting plant went on strike Monday and the LL.A. stevedores refused to ON PAC. COAST ILL.A. Dockers Refuse Cargces SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. — Waterfront employers announced behalf of their class. under the infamous Section 98. for the right to have a decent union. t= 5 Tim Buck and Sam Carr, two outstanding leaders of the Canadian working class, are te arrive in Van- couver for one meeting on Ausust 28th. Their part in the struggles of the Canadian workers is well known to the readers of the B.C. Workers’ News. imprisoned in Bennett's dungeons for their activity on They were released through the mass pressure and protest of Canadian workers and farmers, immediately took up the strusele where they left off — when they were sentenced to five years in Kingston Wot since the day of their release have they let up in furtherine the strusg- gle for bread, for the right to organize, and against the war plans of the Bennett Government. At the height of the fascist terror in Wancouver against the longshoremen, Tim Buck sent out a rousing- call across Canada to the workers to mobilize their forces and stand behind the dockers in their strugele $s peals to the nati Both were Tim Buck And Sam Carr HEAR THEM AT THE ARENA —=s Sam Carr is the Dominion manager of the Commu- nist Election Committee and repeatedly has drafted ap- i onal leaders of the ©C.C.F. to form : united front movements in protection of workers’ needs. ‘Buck is the Communist Gandidate in N.B. Winnipeg. They come from the East on an important mission. and they reaction. ‘Communist Party, ‘ringine message aces. “They come to urge the masses of workers and farmers in VWaneouver and District to unite against capitalist They come to rouse the members of the of the C.CF., of the Socialist Party -and the trade unions to united action for defense of their civil liberties. At the Arena on August 28th they will send out their for united action against Canadian <“ascist Measures and against Imperialist war and for ‘unity ef all workers in strugele azainst these twin men- It will be your only chance in Vancouver to hear them. EVERY WORKER SHOULD BE THERE! FRAMED MARINE WORKERS ASK FOR NEW TRIAL MODESTO, Galif., Aug. 15—Con- victed on a framed up charge of “possession of dynamite,’ the eight San Francisco maritime workers are Slated to appear in Judge Maxey’s court here Monday for hearings on the defense motion for a new trial. The eight are Rogers, Borrows, Silva, Johnson, Fitzgerald, Siza, Ci- ambrella and Stanfield. A ninth, Alphonse Buyle, was taken sick in jail and was too ill to appear for trial. The workers were convicted sole- ly on the basis of “testimony” given by police agents, some of whom ad- mittedly were also in the pay of the Standard Qil Company, the firm re Sponsible for the frame-up. Durine the trial, which lasted sev- eral weeks, the Standard Oil Com- pany hired a ‘‘special prosecutor’ to aid in sending the workers to jail. handle the ship’s cargo of concen- trates. All but 50 of the plant’s 500 em- ployees refrained from work, seeck- better working conditions. Two hundred pickets patrolled the entrance to the factory, but made no attempt to keep the 50 men who re- fused to join them from working. Twenty sheriff's deputies were stationed at the plant to forestall any violence. Denied Right To Travel, No Relief, Forced To Beg for Food VANCOUVER, Aug. 20. — Single unemployed workers here have to bee their food in order to live. They sleep in any holes or corners ayail- able. For the past two weeks they have been passed around from one Sovernment official to another with no results. Delegations have visited every kind of official from the president of the Prohibition League, Rev. Macintyre, to Acting Mayor Tisdale. Alderman Wilson referred them to Gordon Wismer, Liberal member, who in turn referred them to Tis- dale. Waiting for the Mayor Here they were told that the City Gouncil had passed a decision not to receive any delegations in connec- tion with the Longshore Strike or the Relief Camp question until May— or McGeer got back from his cam- paigming in Alberta. The delegation replied that “it was quite within the realms of possibility that McGeer may die in Alberta.” Premier Pattullo replied to a wire sent to him to the effect that the boys must make individual applica- tion for reinstatement in a camp and then wait 30 days. In the meantime they will get no relief. This is the situation as it exists today. No relief, no money, no place to sleep, unable to go to the prairies to take in the harvest, because the police are pulling all transients off trains at the border to Alberta, no room in the jails, because they are full, and Attorney General Sloan has not yet devised a plan for relieving the overcrowding in them, so what are the boys to do? : Women of the Mothers’ Council are staying solid with the boys, and rustling food for them. Sometimes the boys eat three meals in one day and sometimes one, or none at all. The Only Remedy Those workers who believe that mass demonstrations, militant lead- ership and solidarity in mass action are not the best weapons in gaining relief from the authorities, should cast their memories back to the miil- itant demonstrations last May. Pleading with the authorities is get- tinge the boys nothing, Sympathetic words butters no parsnips. Militant mass action will make the Govern- lendously overcrowded. ment come through. BLACKLISTED CAMPBOYS ARE DRIVEN FROM PILLAR TO POST [POSTCARDS TELL WHERE TO VOTE Post cards notifying each registered elector of the polling place at which he or she is entitled to vote will be mailed by, returning officers October 8. Election day is October 14, There will be separate polling places for every 250 to 300 voters, the polling places being situated with- in the area where the vot- ers are domiciled. ing higher wages, shorter hours and} SCAB LABOR PROVES COSTLY By G. S. THOMAS WICTORIA, B.C., Aug. 19. — In] an eifort to cover up the high cost of scabbery the bosses constantly try to give the public the impres- Sion that everything is as it should be on the B.C. waterfront. They at- tempt to hide the important fact that it is this same public that must foot the bill for all the frantie efforts of organizations such as the Shipping Federation to crush orgsanized labor. Increased taxation pays for the spe- cial police used for throwing tear-gas bombs at workers and elubbing them while added freight rates imposed on merchants importing merchandise helps to defray the expenses involved in employing and maintainine scab labor. Dangerous Stowing By employing scabs the shipping bosses are actually riskin®= the safety of cargoes and passengers at the hands of inexperienced Fink seamen and longshore Workers. A> typical example is observed in the quotation of a recently issued bulletin of the local Longshoremen’s Union, which states: “Reports coming to us from the S.S. Darlington Court,’ which is now loading at Ogden point dock, are to the effect that the crew is not sure whether they will tale the ship to sea, as the deck load is In such poor shape.’ Inexperienced scab labor is the cause of this danger. The bulletin further states, ‘“‘Undoubtedly the ground is being prepared for an at- tempted suppression of all trade un- ions and militant working-class or- fanizations of this coast and the con- tinent.”” In view of these self-evi- dent facts, the actions of the work— ers are commendable in the rallying of their forces against further ex- ploitation. JAPANESE GRART FOR NAZI OLYMPIC TOKYO.—At its buaget meeting held here on Wednesday, the de- partment of education decided to ask an allotment of $00,000 yen for the Odlympice fund to send the Japanese athletic delegation to the XI Olym- pic games chedulesd to be held next year in Berlin. /all and sundiy. McGEER GETS HOT RECEPTION AY DRUMHELLER DRUMHELLER, Alta., Aus. 19. — Mayor MeGeer of Wancouver re- ceived a hot reception at the Ice Palace here on Saturday night last. Twelve hundred people jammed the Arena. As soon as McGeer mounted the platform the crowd booed and Shouted for him to fet off. As he Stepped up to the microphone, there Were cries of “‘Read the Riot Act” and “What About the Relief Camp Strikers.” It was a full five minutes before Gerry could get in a word. Appealed—Threatened—Geered. Appeals to the erowd for a hear- ing Were made by the chairman and other speakers, but the vwtorlcers booed him incessantly. McGeer tried the old clap-trap about ‘sportsman ‘Ship’ and when that failed, he threatened, jeered and denounced When he referred untayorably to Slim Evans as the Jeader of the camp boys. the miners Fame fhe Pend erie /of Drumbeller loudly denounced Me- GEGE in hostile PaNigae The attitude of the miners of Drumheller is an indication of what the workers of B. GC. and Alberta feel towards this enemy of the Longshoremen and the rest of the workers of Vancouver. © TIM BUCK B.C. ELECTRIC LIGHT IS FREE TO CIT. LEAGUE Rent Is Gratis, Too NORTH VANCOUVER, Aus. 20.— Rent, light and janitor services are given sratis to the Citizens’ League by the B. C. Electrie Go. The Giti- zens’ League are located at Room 7 in the Aberdeen Building, which is owned by the B. C. Electric. In carrying out the rules and resulations of the company, the em- ployees refused to accede fo the de- mands of Et-Col. Perry, the “bie shot” in the Citizens’ Leazsue, and turn on the lights, until he got an order from the head office of the company. This was readily given by the B. GC. Blectrie Company. HOW CHINESE POTATO GROWERS ARE ROBBED BY MARKETING B'D Are Paid One-third Less Than Promised VANCOUVER, Aus. i17.— There are Some people who possess the idea that vegetable growing is a profitable proposition these days, and also that the situation of the Chinese growers is one to be envied. The recent trouble around Mar- pole bridge, involving Chinese srow- ers, is enough to convince any right- thinking person that all is not well with the situation of the Chinese growers. In the early part of July, seven carloads of early potatoes (15 tons to a car) were shipped to the prairies by a group of growers through the B. C. Coast Vegetable Marketing Board. Forty dollars per ton was the Frisco Longshoremen Refuse To Scab Picket line of the Maritime Federation in front of the dock where the steamer “Point Clear” has been laying idle since June 29. Refusal of San Francisco longshoremenp to penetrate this line and work the scab cargo in the holds of the ship has resulted in accusations by employers that the agreements are being violated. As a matter of fact, the agreements state very clearly that the men are entitled to choose their own jobs. The whole contro- yversy over scab Vancouver cargo has been precipitated by maritime unions. employers in an effort to split the unity of Pacific Coast price promised, $5 per ton was the amount deducted for the brokerage commission at both ends, but the net returns to the grower was only $22.60 per ton. The board stated that the market price had declined. hence the difference of $13.40 hbe- tween price promised and the sum returned to the grower. At a Disadvantage. The board in the interior of B.C. places no restriction on potatoes coming from Asheroft, which are not Sraded by the grower there, but we in the lower mainland must erade our product. As the Ashcroft potato is a drier type it is thus more in demand. This places us in the posi- tion where we are compelled to mar- iset ours first in order that our crop will ke of any use to us and to com- pete with the interior farmers. Now, relative to the cost of pro- duction, we present the following list of expenditures: Rent See $30000 to $35.00 Fertilizer, $1.75 per cwt., 1,000 Ibs. per aere........ 17.50 Drilling, per acre ..........,: 2.00 Planting, 35 hours per acre. 7.00 Cultivating, four times at o1-25) sper aere 2.8. ee 5.00 Weeding, labor at 20c per hour, per acré .........-. 7.20 Digging, per acre ......... 18.00 Seed potatoes, 10 sacks at Si225> per acre. = oe eee 12.50 New sacks cost 7 cents apiece. This does not include miscellan- eous Jabor, which has to be paid for keeping fences in repair, all of which has to be paid out of our marketable products. In dry years, like 1935, we are for- tunate if we harvest from 314 to 4 tons per acre. The late potatoes will be gathered by the middle of September and are bound to be rise in prices as the board will no doubt impose the same restrictions on our produce as has been placed previously on the early potatoes. This will mean that more produce will be destined to rot on the ground. Two-Thirds of Crop Will Rot. These effects are strongly felt by the growers and it is bound to pro- duce the same results as the plough- ing under of Jarge sections of the eotton crop, ete., in the United States, the difference being that we will not be compensated for the pro- duce that oes to rot. Hoping the facts outlined aboye will clarify the question of discon- tentment and indignation of the has led them to the days. growers which action taken in the last few TIONS! Italy Determined To | Plunge Nations Into War To Save Fascism Anti-War Demonstration Getting Under Way Everywhere LONDON, Eng., Aus. 22.— British banks have declared 4 boyeott on Italy and recalled Ttalian credits. The Government Cabinet has been in se€ssion and it is expected that Strone economic and financial press- ure will be brought to bear upon Italy. In addition to the above, the Cabinet is reported to have decided to maintain the ban on war muni- tions to both Italy and Hthiopia. The above decisions are unofficial. Anthony Eden, Minister for the Teague of Nations affairs is said to have reported on the abortive con- ference in Paris with France and Italy. Premier Baldwin is leaving for France tonight. ZAGREB, Yugoslavia, Aug, 22. — The newspaper “Istra’’ today report- ed that Italian deserters are arriv- ing daily, 61 having found their way to Zagreb. The deserters, the newspaper said, told of food shortages in their home districts in Italy, which they said were caused by military requisition- ing of all available supplies. MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 22.—More than 3000 men, womien and children, includine a group of Italians, tonight held an anti-war demonstration, sin fine native songs and crying, “Shame upon Mussolini.” Children chanted, “We want bread, not mustard gas.” WINNIPEG, Aug. 22.— A state- ment issued today by the National Council of the Native Sons of Ganada ealls on the Canadian League of Na- tions representatives to support pro- posals for economic action by the League against Italy if it attacks ithiopia in violation of obligations. Seeing possibility of Canada being drawn into a conflict arising from the situation, the statement declares no expeditionary force should be sent out of the country until a nation- wide plebiscite has been taken. As the war clouds gather over Europe, the Goneress of the Gommu_— nist International in sessions at Mos- cow plan to preserve world peace. BENGOUGH GOES TO HALIFAX VANCOUVER, Aug. 21. — Perey Bengough will represent the Trades - and Labor Council of Vancouver and District at the forthcoming conyven_ tion of the Trades and Labor Gon-— gress of Canada to be held at Halj- fax o nSept. 16. This decision was arrived at during the meeting of the Council held here last nieht, The annual conyention of the American Federation of Labor will be held at Atlantic City during the Same month, but it is not expected that a delegate will attend from the Vancouver unions or the Council. GOLF CADDIES STRIKE VICTORY Quick Action By Boys Stops Wage Cut VANCOUVER, Aus 21. — Golt caddies at Langara Links won a Short, swift strike here last Satur- day. Caddies were paid 75 cents for “one round” up to last Saturday. On this day a tournament was sched— uled to take place, and the manage- ment of the links considered that this was a good day to reduce the wages of the caddies. Picket the Links Caddies were accordingly informed that they would receive only 606 eents per round henceforth. The caddies refused to accept the wage- cut and went out on strike. BEstab- lishing a strong picket line at the entrance to the links, the caddies showed remarkable organizational ability. : Realizing that the caddies were determined to resist the cut, and fearing that the tournament would have to be called off unless the cut Was restored, the management de- cided to pay the former rate. FLASH! LADYSMITH, B.C., Aug. 22.—Fiye Chemainus long- Shoremen arrested and charged under act contrary to Sec. 236-F of Criminal Code. Preliminary hearing Friday at Duncan.