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“WORKER CORRESPONDENTS’
CLASSES” TO BE SET UP IN B.C.

How To Write To The ‘‘Workers’ Press’’

B.C. Workers News to have
network of correspondents

throughout the Province. This is very important in order
to make the paper a real wor
the interests of the toiling masses of people in B.C. and
assist in building the united front of the toiling people.

With this in mind, we are commencing correspondents’
classes in the City. Outside points are asked to get a few
workers together who are now, or who can become, inter-

kers’ press which will reflect

a class. We are printing ex-

cerpts from the little booklet, “Worker Correspondents”
by Bill Dunne, in order to assist outside points on how to
write. We begin the series of short instructions and sug-
gestions with an article on “writing news stories.”
NEWS STORIES
Put the important facts in the first paragraph .._.
WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHO, WHY, should be told in the
first paragraph. The arrangement can and should be varied
but in pure news stories this rule should seldom be broken.
Sample of this method: “New York City, May ist.—
Five hundred longshoremen, members of the International

Local 999, struck this morn-

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to load munitions on the Ad-
The munitions were for the

Italian Army for use against the Colonial People in

It is better to use short sentences. This method adds

and is a simple style that is

both impressive and easily read.
(a) Be accurate. Get the facts straight. Learn to know
what is important and put emphasis in this part of the

The workers’ press, in contrast to the capitalist press,

has to show a detailed and unquestionable knowledge of the
struggles of the oppressed people whose cause it champions.
One or two inaccurate statements in a story will be picked
on by the enemies of the working class and used to distract
the attention of the workers from the issues involved.
Don’t drag comment into a news story by the heels.
If the story is written properly it will speak for itself. This
does not mean that all interpretation must be eliminated, but
it does mean that long dissertations are not necessary, and
serve merely to detract from the force of the story.

4. Five hundred words and less is the best length for
ordinary news stories. A column of the B.C. Workers News

take about 900 words. It is
most of the news items need

not run more than a quarter to half of this length. Space in

our paper is necessarily limited. News stories should give

the essential only. The best news writers write briefly.
Next week we shall deal with “Giving news stories the

some technical details.

Deck Workers, Seamen,
Women and Campers

To Stand Trial

VANCOUVER, B.C., Sept. 2.
Thirty-four workers will stand ac-
cused when the Fall Assizes open on
Sept. 16th. The funds needed to de-
fend them are beine raised through
the sale of “‘Labor Defense Bonds’’
issued in denominations of from ten
cents to one dollar, by the B.C. Joint
Defense Committee.

Out of forty-one workers who will
appear at the <Assizes, twenty-nine
are longshoremen and seamen, ar-
rested on various charges during or
shortly after the events of Bloody
Tuesday, June the 18th, when the
combined forces of the R.C.M.P., Pro-
vVineial and City Police attacked a
peacertul parade of longeshoremen and
ex-servicemen at Ballantyne Pier,
with clubs, tear gas, and in one in-
stance used a Shotgun on one young:
worker who was not in any way con-
nected with the strike.

Women Charged

Two women are charged with “in-
citing to riot.’ They were arrested
during the time police were throwing
tear gas bombs into the Strike Head-
quarters which was being used as a
First Aid station to take care of the
riot victims June i8th.

Three Camp strikers are charged
with “malicious damage to property”

and “assault on a police officer,

THIRTY-FOUR LABOR PRISONERS
FACE COURT AT FALL ASSIZES

ete.” Two of these workers were ar-
rested on April 23rd in the Hudson’s
Bay Store (the day McGeer read the
Riot Act), where the police started
the “riot” by their brutality. The
other Camp Worker was arrested on
his retum to the coast after the
events of Dominion Day in Regina.

Labor Defense Procured Bail

All these workers are on liberty
eon bail bonds of $1,000 each, with
the exception of Ivan Emery, presi-
dent of the Longshoremen and Water
Transport Workers of Canada, who
is free on bonds of $5,000. Tail and
defense is handled by the Canadian
Labor Defense League.

Ernest Cumber, Relief Camp Work-
ers’ secretary, will appear for trial
in New Westminster on a charge of
“obtaining relief under false preten-
ses.” Two juries have already dis-
agreed on two different occasions,
and a third was dismissed on a tech-

nicality. Following these defeats, his
ease was traversed to the Fall As-
sizes.

The “Labor Defense Bonds” issued
by the B.C. Joint Committee should
not be confused with the Liberty
Bonds issued by the Regina Citizens’
Defense Committee. The former
mentioned bonds will be used for
the defense of the longeshoremen,
while the latter are being used in
defending the victims of Resina’s
Dominion Day.

The B.C. Joint Defense Committee
here is working in close co-opera-
tion with the Regina Citizens’ De-
fense Committee.

Ex-Soldiers’

I-SERVICEMEN’S PUBLIC MEEING

- THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, at 3 P.M.
i150 West Hastings Street

Speaker: PAUL McD. KERR
He will speak on the Hyndman Commission and the

Problems.

MBERLAND NEWS

Personals.
wife of Sam English, one of
iners’ leaders, is in the Cum-
id Hospital. We are glad that
English is improving and we
that she will soon be in good
again, so that she will-be
0 take her place in the strug-
of the Cumberland miners’
and children for a better

2rland €.L..D.L. Carries on the
shtinge Anti-War Traditions
of “Ginger” Goodwin.
Cumberland branch of the
jan Tabor Defence League is
resent actively organizing a
er’ Goodwin fund. The pur-
9§ the fund is to care for the
of this heroic working-class
r who was shot and murdered
$ in his fight against the im-
St war of 1914-18.
Cumberland branch also nD-
to place a headstone on the
of “Ginger.” Aj] those friends
re Carrying on and who intend

Telephone Workers’
Conference
VANCOUVER, Sept. 3—Members

of the three branches (Nanaimo,
Wietoria and Vancouver) of the B.C.

Telephone Electrical Employees’
Association, are holding a district
conference in Nanaimo Saturday,

September 7, to discuss their wages
and working conditions.

There is a two and a half per cent
wage-cut in effect at the present
time, and the plant employees are
Working on a five-day week basis.

Defend the Longshoremen—Buy a
Labor Defense Bond.

to carry on the struggle against
war and for peace, are cordially in-
vited to subseribe to this worthy
eause and so carry on the militant
struggle against war as “Ginger”
himself would have fought against
war if he lived. Send all monies to

John Morrison, secretary, Cumber-
land C.L.D.L., Cumberland, B.C.

Says G.

Brit. Parliament Labor

Leader Sees USSR As
Bulwark Against War

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LONDON, England, Aug. 27.
“Our only hope now is the Soviet
Union,’ George Lansbury, leader of
the Labor Party fraction in Parlia-
ment, declared in an interview on
the war crisis today with the Lon-
don correspondent of ‘‘Pravda,’’ the
organ of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union.

“The state of the economic founda-

tions of capitalist Europe is not
bright,” Lansbury admitted. He
pointed out that the capitalist dic-

overcome agsression
“The German and
are sufficiently

tators hope to
and conquest.
Tialian examples
elear,” he stated.

Greatest Post-War Achievement.
“The greatest post-war achieve-
ment was the creation of the U-S.S.
R. on unprecedented foundations,
mamely anti-imperialist,’” he said.
“The fact that various peoples,
speaking various tongues and hay-
ing reached various stages of de-
velopment, are living under condi-
tions of absolute peace over the
vast territory from the Baltie Sea
to the Pacific Gcean, from the
White Sea to the Black Sea, must

Soviet Is Only Hope

Lansbury

be admitted.

“All the peoples of the world
know that the Soviet government
cherishes no intentions of conquest.
It fully recognizes the independ-
ence of the states which formerly
belonged to Czarist Russia. The
Soviet Union is armed not far ag-
eression, but for defense. The unity
of the various peoples of the U-S.
S.R. points the way to the unifica-
tion of the whole world.

British Workers Want Peace.
“The British masses want peace,’
showed Lansbury. “They have sin-
cere and deep sympathies for the
Soviet working ; state. They
follow your country’s development
with the greatest attention~’
declared his hope that
not far distant when
such an international friendship
will be established between us on
the basis of tolerance and good-will
that we shall be able to fight
against the fascist danger, not only
to prevent its expansion, but to
bring about its complete elimination.

‘*T wish to transmit the best
hearty wishes to all the Soviet peo-
ple, especially to my personal
friends whose hospitality I enjoy-
ed.’ the Labor Party chief conclud-
ed. “I hope to visit your country
onee“anore after the elections and
see your achievements.”

Lansbury
“the day is

Founded World Veteran
Organization at End

of Last War

MOSCOW, Aus. 30.— Henri Bar-
busse, world-famous French revolu-
tionary writer, died at 8:55 this
morning in the Kremlin Hospital.
The most outstanding physicians in
the Soviet Union fought for eight
Gays to save his life. Tuberculosis
and other chronic ailments which
resulted in paralysis of breathing
finally caused his death,

Horemost Wighter Against War and
Fascism.

Henri Barbusse was world famous
not only as a writer, but as a leader
of the international movement
against war and fascism. In 1916
he wrote a publication of ‘le Reu”’
(Under Tire), which startled the
world, being a fiery denunciation of
the war and ealled for struggle
against imperialist slaughter. This,
his most famous work, was trans-
lated into twenty languages and
achieved the largest circulation of

When the World War broke out
Henri Barbusse volunteered as a pri-
vate in the 21st Regiment. His ex-
periences in the Grext War disillu-
Sioned him greatly and his passion-
ate hatred of oppression is embodied
in his great novel, “Under Wire’

In 1919 he founded the Clarte
Moyement, ‘A league for intellectual
solidarity for the international
Cause.” This movement included
such intellectuals as Romain Rolland,
H. G. Wells, Anatole Franee and
Thomas Hardy. It was in the strug-
ele against war and fascism that
Barbusse found out that these twin
evils are inseparable from capital-
ism. He abandoned his pacifist at-
titude and joined the Communist
Party of France.

BGarbusse Initiated World Anti-

War Movement.

He was the one most responsible
for the great Amsterdam Congress
against War and Fascism held in
August, 1932. This historic meeting
was the Source of the present world
movement in many countries against
War and fascism.

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Henri Barbusse Dead;
Enemy Of War And Fascism

Dr. Banting
In Moscow

Pays Tribute to Social-
ized Medicine In
Soviet Union

Dr. Wrederick Grant Bantine, the
noted Canadian medical scientist,
and co-diseoverer of insulin, is on
an extended visit to the Soviet Union
and will attend the 15th MInterna-
tional Physiology Congress being
held in Leningrad. Dr. Banting paid
tribute to Academician Pavloy’s
work and the splendid worl of his
associates in the U.S.S.R.

Dr. Banting and his associates are
worlang on the problem of silicosis,
a disease of the lungs caused by
breathing in fine particles of quartz
dust, in his Toronto Laboratory. It
cecurs among sand blasters, mould-
ers, hard rock miners, stone cutters,

SD OO Ch oun ane etc. Silicosis predisposes to tuber-
culosis.
a sse FE ht i hes F 3
Barbusse Fought in the Trenches. Before leaving Moscow for the

Congress to be held in GLeninerad,
the Canadian scientist stated that
“socialized medicine is better than
any other, and the facilities for ad-
wancement and progress of science
in the Soviet Union will certainly
bring forth further results that will
surprise the world.’

Seattle Teachers Given
10% Salary Increase

SEATTLE, Sept. 4.—Seattle school
teachers, beginning a new year, to-
day were granted a 10 per cent sal-
ary increase by the Schoo] Board.

The raise will aggregate $412,000
for the 1950 teachers. It brought
salaries to 8234 per cent of their
pre-depression levels. Teachers in
King County outside of Seattle re-
ceived no increases.

but his great service to mankind
Stands as an inspiration and a chal-
lenge to all of us to carry on this
fight with greater determination and

HE FELL DOWN...
| DON'T THINK!

Tom McInnis Has Some
*““Shiner’’!

TOM McINNIS

McInnis, the Fascist dema-
gosue who stands “at daggers
drawn’’ before the ‘mike’ and pours
out his vials of hatred against the
militant working class over the radio,

Tom

has a “black eye.’ It happened a
week ago. A worker who has a nod-
ding acquaintance with him was

eurious to know just how it hap-
pened. He accosted Tom and asked

him, “How come?”

Tom looked at the worker out of
his good eye and replied: ‘I fell
down.”

Ed. Note—Cheer up, Tom, you’re
lucky the ©.C_F. and the Commu-
nists haven’t established the United
Front, or it might have been twice
as bad. But it’s not too late yet.

STUDENTS PROTEST
FEE BOOST

TORONTO, Sept. 4.—Mass protest
against a tuition fee increase of 25
per cent which will be introduced
this year is being contemplated by
University of Toronto students, it
was learned today. Medical students,
facing a $75 higher fee, are said te
be solidly behind the movement.

Defend the Regina Victims—buy a

His death a tremendous loss, | deeper devotion.

is

Liberty Bond.

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send representatives to parliament to “throw
money-wrenches” into parliamentary ma-
chinery, nor to blow it up from within; the
abolition of capitalist parliaments will be
effected from without in the interests of the
vast majority of the people. The real and
immediate destruction of parliament or the

limiting of its powers is being planned by
such organizations as the fascist Citizens’
League, and for the purpose of setting up a
fascist dictatorship in Canada on the Hitler
model as a more effective means of suppress-
ing the majority of the people in the interests
of a handful of finance capitalists.

It is not only the Communist position on
parliament that the Citizens’ League falsi-
fies, but also the position of militant unions
such as the unions comprising the Workers’
Unity League, as well as the role of commu-
nists in refermist trade unions, many of
which are officered and led by corrupt labor
officials who are agents of the employers.

In a slanderous and lying pamphlet titled
“Communism in British Columbia,” the Citi-
zens’ League hypocritically and demagogic-
ally poses as the friend of the workers and
the defender of their interests. It labors to
try to show that the Communist Party and
the Workers’ Unity League are not concerned
about the welfare of the workers it leads in
strikes, but that they proceed on the princi-
ple that “the strike is the thing.”

Just because the Communists openly and
honestly state that there can be no guarantee
of winning every strike in view of the class
character of the State and the use of its
armed forces on the side of the employers,
the Communist Party is accused of organiz-
ing and leading strikes for the fun of strik-
ing.

True, there can be no advance guarantee
of winning every strike; that is why Com-
munists regard strikes as serious matters,
and prepare for and organize them so that
they can be won. Communists earnestly de-
sire the success of every strike, although
they know that every strike cannot be won.
But while skirmishes may be lost here and
there, the class war will eventually be won.
From this point of view, and with this broad
perspective, no strike is ever wholly lost,
providing it is militantly fought and ably.
fearlessly and incorruptly led.

The Communist Party has been compli-
mented—unwittinely, ’tis true—by the Citi-
zens’ League, the capitalist press, McGeer,
Pattullo, Bennett, and all the amnti-labor,
fascism-lovine leaders of the attacks upon
the common people, when they say that the
Communist Party has organized and led
nearly all the strikes in Canada during the
last five or Six years.

This is true. When the collapse of capi-
talism’s temporary stabilization occurred in
1929 the Communist Party knew that the
capitalists would try to solve the erisis by
placing an even greater burden upon the
workers. And this is what happened. Wages
were cut, the unemployed were starved,
clubbed, and imprisoned. And because the
Communist Party successfully led the re-
sistance to the capitalist offensive, its lead-
ers were imprisoned and the party itself
outlawed.

Although reactionary labor leaders advised

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THE CITIZENS’ LEAGUE

meek acceptance of wage cuts, and decried
strikes with the defeatist claim that strikes
were foredoomed to defeat because of the
great number of unemployed, just as the
Citizens’ League claims today—in spite of
this the Workers’ Unity League organized
and led many successful strikes which pre-
vented the standard of living being driven .
down to a coolie level, and in some cases se-
cured wage increases. And the unemployed
in most instances, instead of breaking the
strikes, militantly manned the picket lines
and helped win them.

The magnificent strike of the Relief Camp
Workers -galls the fascist Citizens’ League.
And that strike saw Communists in the fore-
front of the struggle. The Communist Party
does not deny that of which it is proud, i.e.
its leadership of the struggle on all fronts of
the class struggle. And when it is not par-
ticipatine in the leadership of strikes, it as-
sists in every way to ensure victory, whether
the strike is led by reformist unions or by
the militant Workers’ Unity League.

People such as the ex-colonels and other
fascists as well as the governments and em-
ploying class cannot get over their chagrin
as a result of the exposure of the slave camps
and the magnificent struggle of the seamen
and dockers.

The exposure of the slave camps was on 2
national seale, and that is an example of a
strike which, although the immediate de-
mand for the abolition of the camps was not
yet won and the boys went back to the
camps, will eventually bring about the aboli-
tion of the camps because the struggle will
be renewed again and again on an ever-in-
creasing scale until they are abolished.

: The Citizens’ League is a promoter of fas-
cism in Canada. It resorts to lying demagogy
and slander against the Communist Party
and the militant fighting unions of the Work
ers’ Unity League because it recognizes in
them the incorruptible leaders of the masses
against the attacks of the Capitalists and
their governments against the toiling masses,
The Citizens’ League is a venomous enemy of
the common people of Canada and the Com-
munist Party demands that it be disarmed
and disbanded.

The Communist Party not only refutes the
lies of the Citizens’ League, but will continue
in its leading role as a fighter for the preser-
vation of the existence of trade unions and
the right of the workers to organize. It pre-
fers a condition of legality to do it in, but it
will do it anyway. It will persist in the fight
for the use of the workers’ greatest weapon,
the Strike. It will fight for the right to
picket, the right of free assembly and free
speech, and for the retention of civil and
democratic rights and privileges against fas-
cist encroachments and against plunging the
people into predatory, imperialistic war for
the aggrandisement of the few finance im-
perialists who own and rule Canada and fi-
nance such labor-hatinge aggregations as the
Citizens’ League, while never losing sight of
its ultimate aim, the defeat and abolition of
capitalism and the emancipation of the peo-
ple of Canada from capitalist rule, which can
be realized only under a Soviet form of gov-
ernment.

—Communist Party of Canada

(B.C. Section).