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Published Weekly

VANCOUVER, B.C., F

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935

Single Copies: 5 Cents

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No. 34

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B. C. Maritime Bic eate
| Enters Fourth Month;
Picket Lines Militant

| Support Eros Points as

) vate citizens and organizations for a

FE. ar Distant as Alaska
and France

VANCOUVER, Sept. 5.—The pro-
tracted lock-out of the loneshoremen
and seamen is now entering into the
fourteenth week, with the establish-
ment of a Board of Conciliation hint-
ed at and referred to by the Federal
Minister of Labor, despite the many
requests to his department from pri-

settlement of the dispute.
In a wire to W. A. Gordon, Labor
Minister. on Sept 8rd, the loneshore-

i men ask what Steps have been taken

ji

or are contemplated by his depart-
ment, as they would like to be in-
formed on such matters. No reply
has been received to date-
Support Continues
Support to the embattled workers

© continues to come in from various

and widely separated places. The

» International of Seamen and Harbor

> Workers of France
- addition to 3,000 francs
» some weeks aco,
» They stated in their letter
© are particicularly

have sent in
forwarded
another 1500 franes.
that they
pleased with the

-support rendered by the U.S. seamen

/which is quite in line with support

/siven them last year.

'“thumbs down’

EY picket the Shipping Federation hall
» on Dunieyy Avenue, where scabs are
+ Gispatched to work and conveyed in

From Juneau and Skagway, Alas-

® ka, reports state that the longshore-

men in these far northerly ports are
cn “hot cargo.”

one thousand lons-
seanien massed to

Last Friday
shoremen and

police prowler cars. Police swung
jnto action with their clubs, injuring
several pickets and arresting three.

' Mass picketing was renewed the next

_ day, and police were also massed

-ready at the slightest provocation to

-elub and arrest the pickets, but this
Sopportunity did not materialize.
A further meeting of a committee

ze of Jongshoremen and individual mem-
= bers of the Shipping Federation will

possibly .be held today, to discuss

' the opening of negotiations.

5 Rupert”
' damaged a fishine schooner,
1 Sf ad
| mornings.
» on her way,

F Court”

The scab-manned C_N. “S.S. Prince
inbound here yammed and
“Anna
in Seymour Narrows yesterday
The “Rupert”? proceeded
leavine the crew of six
to look after themselves.

At Ghemainus, the S.S. “Dallington
sustained $1,600 damages to

her deck: railines, plates and winches

caused by inefficient scab loadine.

- while

RELIEF WORKER
KILLED ON JOB

TRATL, B.C. Sept. i. — Henry
Murray, 70, an old relief worker em-
pioved by the Department of WNa-
tional Defense, was killed near here
working on the WNeison-

Welway highway. We was struck

| dead by a swingine crane of a £aso-

|SPEED- UP KILLS
ANOTHER LOGGER

CAMPBELL RIVER, Sept. 3.—
Another logger paid with his life to
the profit-hungry lumber barons
here today, when Felix Kohenak,
employed as bucker at the camp of
Buc River Timber Co., was crushed
to death by a log. He died a painful
death, and leaves no known relatives
in Canada.

He had worked for E.R.T. for the
last seven months and had been in
B.C. for the past twenty years, com-
ing from Poland. The inquest re-
turned the usual verdict of ‘“acci-
dental death.” This makes over
thirty loggers killed this year so far
in the mad speed-up instituted by
the boss loggers, which is being
assisted by the Provincial Govyern-
ment through helping to eliminate
union loggers who are attempting to
organize resistence to the break-neck
Speed-up in the woods.

LIBERALS WHINE
OVER STEVENS’
PROGRAM STEAL

Liberal M.P. Avers He
Proposed Inflation

First

Gapt. Ian Mackenzie, M.P., and
Liberal candidate for re-election in
Vancouver Centre riding, is lament-
ing because Stevens in stealing
some of his demazgogy. Since the
success gf Aberhart in Alberta the
leaders of the Conservative, Liberal
and Reconstruction Paities are com-
ing forward with more unbridled
demagosy than ever before, and the
most exirayvagant promises are be-
ing made, each one claiming to
have made the demagogic proposals
first. :

Wants “Scientific Enquiry”

Macikenzie is all heated up be-
cause Stevens stole his inflation pro-
posal from him, and is calling atten-
tion to the fact that a year ago he
proposed that the currency of the
country be watered (inflated) to the
extent of an additional $500,000,000
of printings press money. And like
his leader, Mackenzie King, he now
advocates a “‘scientifie inquiry’ into

the “merits” of the Social Credit
quackery.
line shovel. The usual verdict of
“accidental death’” was brought
down by the Trail company doctor,
Dr. Thom,

Here is another case of a worker
beine Killed while working for his
miserable relief, when he should
have been in receipt of the old age

pension.

GOVERNMENT TO "INVESTIGATE’

THE WATERFRONT SITUATION

See Possibilities of Util-

izing Strike in Fur-
therins Election
4.—A news

VANCOUOVER, Sept.

| item in the capitalist press intimates

that the government will intervene
in the present situation on the Van-
eouver waterfront. It has not been
made clear as to whether the inter-
vention will take the form of a con-
Ciliation board or an investigating
commission. One insinuation in the
above mentioned news item must be
mailed as a lie, and that is that the
longshoremen ana seamen have
placed obstacles in the way of ar-
Tiving at a settlement. This lie is
used in an endeavor to hide the
eriminal policy deliberately planned
by the Federal, Provincial and City
authorities who have by every means
possible, sought to aid the powerful
Shipping Federation in their attempt
to drive the men back to work—de-
moralized.

Eyery leader, every bulletin
Speech of the longsshoremen and
Men proves that no stone was
unturned to make the path to a sat-
isfactory settlement easier. This also
applies to the various labor orgamniz—
ations, fraternal bodies and the group
of ministers who are standing by the
meén in their heroic fight which has
lasted over thirteen weeks.

As a matter of fact, the shoe is
on the other foot. The waterfront
workers haye consistently Sought a
decent seitiement in spite of the fact
that the overwhelming vote of their
fellow workers over the line has
considerably strenethened their po-
Sition.

This encourasement further steeled
the pickets to intensify their fight
aeainst the protected scabbery. Lhe
mass demonstration of 1000 water-

and
sea-
Jeft

front workers last Friday along with
other activities are sure indications
that the greatest determination pre-
vails to win back their jobs and pre-
serve their organization.

Cndoubtedly the intervention that
was planned by the government has
as its main object to crush the strug-
ele of the waterfront workers, especi-
ally with the scent of a profit-mak-
ing war in the air. The longshore-
men do not forget the majority
award of the’ Conciliation Board last
year.

Every effort should ec made to com-
pel a full investigation by the Board,
and the Board's sittings utilized to
expose to the public the brutal at-
tacks which were planned by the
government and the Shipping Meder-
ation. In the meantime, one of the
most decisive factors in gaining a
favorable settlement is to strengthen
the picket lines. Mass picketing has
won more strikes than all the con-
ciliation boards put together. Let us
learn from past experience,

HITLER TO GET
CATHOLIC PLEA

BERLIN, Monday, Sept. 2.— The
Catholic hierarchy made it known
today that it would appeal direct to
Hitler to guarantee that Germany
would remain Christian.

The appeal was decided upon aiter
the reading of a pastoral letter in
all Catholic churches yesterday, ex-
horting all members to ‘stand fast in
the faith,” and to resist the on-
slaught of the chureh’s assailants.

The letter was the outgrowth of
the recent conference of Catholic
bishops at Fulda and was read in
all the churches of the faith in
Germany.

VEG. GROWERS
ROBBED BY GOV.

Valley Farmers Plough
Under Many Tons of

Lettuce

VANCOUVER, Sept. 4—Vancou-
ver Growers, Litd., the largest grove’
ers of green vegetables in Vancou-
ver, comprising an organization of
50 farmers with an area of 700 acres,
launched a suit against the B. GC.
Coast Vegetable Marketing Board
on Tuesday in the Supreme Court
through their counsel, Prank Hig-
gens.

A full accounting is sought of all
their shipments between May 27 and
July 15 of mixed vegetables, mostly
lettuce to the prairies, for which the
beard sent the growers a check for
$82.97 as settlement because of levies
and charges.

Chinese Farmers Gypped.

The check was returned to the
board, stated Mr. Yet, claiming that
there is owing to the growers an
approximate sum of $1,400.

Vancouver Growers, Lid. seek a
decision from the courts that the
Natural Products Marketing Act
(Dominion), under which the B.C.
Marketing Act is based, is ultra
vires, because the restrictions and
resulations are too severe on the
srowers.

Mr. Yet stated that only 44 cars of
vegetables were shipped to the
prairies by the Vancouver Growers,
Ltd., as against 108 cars last year,
resulting in a difference in returns

MRS. E. MAHON
IN VAR. CENTRE

To Carry Banner for Re-
construction Party

VANCOUVER, Sept. 3—Stevens’
Reeonstruction Party held a nomi-
nating convention here tonight and
chose Mrs. E. Mahon to carry the
Stevens banner in Vancouver Cen-

tre, out of a slate of three nomina-
tions.
Opposing her for the candidature

were Wm. Dennies, former minister
in the Tolmie Gabinet, and Mr. C. F.
Millar, a merchant of Vancouver.

Mrs. Mahon is well known in Van-
couver, haying held many offices in
connection with educational work.
She was a member of the School
Board for several years, being chair-—
man of the Board last year. She is
a leader in many women’s ograniza-
tions, and is associated with the
Little Theatre movement.

The Chairman of the nominating
convention was the Rev. C. BE. Batz-
old, who is remembered as the leader
of the Ku Klux Klan movement in
Vancouver some years ago.

Mrs. Mahon will be opposed in the
constituency by Mr. E: G. Sherwood,
conservative, Hon. Ian Mackenzie.
and Mr. W. W,. Lefeaux, C.CF.

to them of $14,000.

Due to the restrictions and the
control laid down by the board about
15 cars of lettuce was ploughed un-
der this Spring by the farmers of his
organization.

Woodsworth Flatly
Refuses United Front
In Federal Election

‘We Will ea. Our Own
Way,’ Says C.C.F.
Leader In Aud.

120 CANDIDATES

VANCOUVER, Sept. 4. — A sur-
prisinsly small audience enthusias-
tically applauded J. S. Woodsvworth,
National leader of the C.C.E., who
spoke at the Auditorium on Wed-
nesday evening. With Bill Pritch-
ard as chairman in place of Mr.
Midgeley of Victoria, and six candi-
dates for the Federal elections on
the platform, Mrs. Steeves, M-L.A.
spoke first for half an bour on the
question of women in the coming
elections.

Mr. Woodsworth was given a rous-
ing reception as he arose to speak.
Stating that the C.C.F. were run-
ning 120 candidates throughout
the Dominion, the C.C.E. leader

©
crananen the western provinces as be-

ing the stronghold of the C.C.F. Al-
though he coneeded Several ridings
to the Liberal Party, B:C., he felt
sure, would be swept by the C.C_-F.

Reading extracts from Bennett's
radio speech, Woodsworth raised a
laugh when he said, “R. B. must
have learned his socialism from the
Soap-box.’’ Whilst claiming that
Bennett had “‘ignominiously failed”
the speaker said, “I give Bennett
eredit for attempting to introduce
the Marketing Act, Central Ban),
and other measures.

“R. B. tried to do an impossible
thing when he said he would abolish
Various evils in capitalism. He can-
not do these things while capitalism
exists,’”’ He also said: “Mr. Bennett
eame back from BHurope and reported
that there were no markets, and Mr.
Mackenzie King is now under the de-
lusion that markets do exist.”

Mr. Woodsworth was definitely in

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Oregon State
Fed. Of Labor
Swings Left

Opposes War and De-
nounces Profit

System
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug, 28—The
thirty-third annual convention of
the Oregon State Federation of

Labor astonished even its partisans
this week by declaring in favor of
“production for use’ and adding a
Strong denunciation of the profit
System: “We declare that the re-
tention of profits by any commer-
cial or financial institution is im-
moral so long as there is any cCiti-
zen willing and able to work who
is not employed.’

Never before has a similar con-
vention in the Pacific Northwest
fone so far left, and it has stirred
the embers of last year’s campaign
on the Coast. The session even went
beyond Sinclair by voting for a new
political party.

The federation also loudly con-
demned Governor Charles H. Martin
for his activities in the lumber
strike, and berated law-enforcement
officials.

Anti-War Vote Praised.

One of the most widely discussed
resolutions was passed without a
dissenting vote. It commended the
late Senator Harry EK. Lane of
@regon for casting his yote against
the World War and urged that in
all memorials condemning his stand
in 1917 it be noted that history has
vindicated the position of Lane and
the other five Senators who voted
with him. Another resolution, also
passed unanimously, commended
the principles of the Townsend old-
age pension plan in asking= a pen-
sion of $200 monthly, but stipulated
that the Townsend transaction tax
was a vicious burden on the poor
and should be replaced by steeply
eraduated income levies.

What the ultimate fate of this
program will be is problematical. It
ean be fairly predicted, however,
that Oregon will have a definite
third party in 1936.

LAKE WINDERMERE, 3B. C.,

Aug. 29.— Resolutions condemning
the relief camp system, proposing
right of organzation for camp
workers, and for repeal of Section

98 of the Criminal Code were pass-
ed at the western seminary of the

Student Christian Movement.

The Citizens’ Le

(Statement by the Communist Party)

The Communist Party has handed us a
statement on the campaign being con-
ducted by the Citizens’ League of Vancou-

ver, which we print in full
torial Board.

The Citizens’ League, a clique of fascists
with offices in the Lumberman’s
Vancouver, has for months been carrying on
a vicious campaign against the Communist
It is financed by powerful financial
interests and spends tens of thousands of
dollars in large advertisements in the daily
press, in pamphlets and other forms of propa-

Party.

ganda.

In a recent advertisement it resorts to its
accustomed falsehood and slander, and gives
“quotations” which it claims are taken
from the “‘Statutes of the Communist Inter-
national” and from a pamphlet published by
the Communist Party of Canada, “What the
Communist Party Stands For.” Of these four
quotations, three are sheer inventions of the
diseased minds of the fascists who head, and
‘compose, the Citizens’ League, while one of
the quotations contains a grain of truth, al-

four

though garbled.

“The Communist Party enters such in-
stitutions (parliament) to BLOW UP THE
WHOLE MACHINERY and the parliament
itself from within” (emphasis ours), is one
but no such words
ean be found in the Statutes or in the

of the “quotations,”

pamphlet referred to.
Another “quotation reads:

“We go to the law-making institutions,
not to tinker them up, but to be a MON-
KEY-WRENCH IN THE MACHINERY,
preventing them from working’

sIS ours).

‘Such a statement can be found neither in
the Statutes, nor in the pamphlet, nor in any
other publication of the Communist Party or
the Communist International.
of the Citizens’ League in using its own crude
language in fake quotations is to’ work up

below.—Edi-

Building, | slandered by

emancipation

effected only

of in the day

to unite with

(empha-

The purpose | war-makers.

a Red Seare to furnish a false basis for prop-
agatinge its fascist aims.

The advertisement referred to is but one
of many in which the position of the Com-
munist Party is distorted and misrepresented.
and the Party itself villified, lied about and

these notorious scab-herders

and strike-breakers.

The Communist Party knows full well that
capitalist rule can not be ended through capi-
talist parliament alone.

It knows that the
of the toiling population and

the opening up of the possibilities of a full
and free life for the intellectuals, the pro-
fessional people and the middle class, can be

by a Soviet government; but

the Communist Party also knows that capi-
talist parliament is here and can be made use

to day struggle against wage

and relief cuts, foreed labor, and against the
nurturing and development of the social can-
cer of fascism, of which the Citizens’ League
is one of the malignant growths.

The Communist Party,

therefore, strives
other working class organiza-

tions in order to send Communists as well as
C.C.F. members into parliament to defend the
interests of the common people, to prevent
the enactment of anti-labor legislation, to re-
peal such undemocratic laws
of the Criminal Code, and the infamous anti-
labor provisions of the Immigration Act; and
to use the prestige and position gained to
oppose and expose the agents of finance
capital in parliament and the government,
to organize and unite the masses throughout
the country in defense of the interests of the
workers, farmers, and middle class in de-
fense of the democratic rights and privileges
of the common people which are menaced by
the advance of fascism, and to fight against
and block the war plans of the imperialistic

as Section 98

The Communist Party, therefore, does not
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BRITISH MINERS
THREATEN STRIKE

LONDON, Sept. 3.—A national
miners’ strike will be declared in
Great Britain if demands for higher
wages and better working conditions
are not met, Ebenezer Edwards, sec-
retary of the Miners’ Federation, de-
clared in a manifesto Friday night.
The manifesto asked the public to
help the miners to ayoid a crisis.

“The hour has struck.’’ it said.
“After years of patient submission to
conditions fit for Slaves, the miners
haye decided to enforce their de-
mands for the payment of reasonable
wages. Their wages are a shame for
a civilized community.”’

POLICE ATTACK
TRUCK DRIVERS

Chinese Producers Fisht

for Free Marketing
of Goods

“INo violence used’ claim the
police in their report to the Vancou-
ver “Province” on Saturday, Aug.
3ist, when potatoes were seized by
order of the B. C. Vegetable Mar-
keting Act.

Approaching the bridge at Mar-
pole, about seven trucks of potatoes
were stopped by the Provincial
police. Seizing one truck and attack-
ing the driver in a savage manner,
they beat him black and blue because
he dared to defy the board by not
leaving his produce to rot in the
field.

The “Province” states that ‘‘no
violence was used.’ Evidently it
seems that when the police beat up
a poor farmer, it is no violence, but
when a worker or farmer dares to
defend himself against a brutal at-
tack from the police, it immediately
becomes “violence’’ Only by unity
between the Chinese and white
farmers will these attacks be stopped
and the proposed foreed curtailment
ef production while many suffer
from shortage, be rescinded.

Party Leaders Fire Opening Guns
As Dominion Election Campaign
is Launched Throughout Country

>
J. Woodsworth and Tim

Buck Spoke in Van-

couver

Bennett Here Sept. 22-3

With still five weeks to £0 before
the election on Oct. 14, there are a=
ready 556 candidates in the field, and
by nomination day it is expected that
there will be at least 900 in the field.
The number of candidates nominated
So far is greater than the number

nominated in the past two elections '

at the close of the nominations for
the 245 seats in Parliament.
Seeking Mass Support

Tt is estimated that there are 5,-
948,503 eligible voters in Canada. All
the capitalist parties are exerting
every effort to prevent these mil-
lions of the people of Canada from
getting away from under their in-
fluence, and hundreds of thousands
of dollars ae being spent directly and
indirectly by the Tory, Liberal, and
Reconstruction parties to fain the
support of the workers and farmers
in the coming election.

Sop to Social Credit

Premier Bennett is manifesting his
unmitigated sall by declaring that
he will speak in Regina on Sept. 16,
and in Vancouver on Sept. 22 and
23. These speeches will be preceded
by a flood of demagogy over the
radio. In order to offset as much as
possible the swing away from the
old line parties in Alberta, Bennett
has assured Aberhart that the Do-
minion Government will deal “‘fairly’”
with Alberta regarding the empty
treasury inherited by the Aberhart
government.

Whilst all of the capitalist parties
are using every effort to strenethen
their own influence over the masses,
the steps towards fascism are being:
Slowly ‘but surely taken by them all.
The Bennett Government stands for
retention of all anti-labor legislation
and enforcement of it.

Everyone knows that the Liberal
Governments in Quebee and B.C.
have led in enacting fascist measures
incorporated in legislation intended
to pull the wool over the workers’
eyes.

The Reconewucson Party is rally—
ing all the reactionary elements to
its side from the ranks of labor and
from the professional ranks as wit-

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Minimum Wage Laws
Futile as Weapon for
Employees

WICTORIA, Sept. 4.—The Provin-
cial Government is doing all possible
to aid the Tiberal Party in the Ped-
eval election and in this connection
is making gestures to the effect that
the government is about to crack
down on employers in B.C. who are
violating the Minimum Wage Act.

The joker in the deck can be seen
inl the last paragraph but one of the
Statement of Minister of Labor Pear-
son. The statement reads as fol-
lows:

Under a new policy announced
by Hon. G. S. Pearson, minister of
labor today, there will be no more
friendly settlements between goyvern-
ment inspectors and delinquent em-
ployers. Instead, all employers found
violating the law will be taken into
court promptly and fined if they are
Suilty.

Lenient With Scoundrels

“Wp to now,’ Mr. Pearson said,
“Wwe have been lenient. Where we
found an employer failing to pay

minimum wages we did not prose-
eute if there was any possibility
that he misunderstood the law or
was not fully aware of its import.
In all such cases we lave been satis-
fied if he paid up the wages due to

his employees.
“But we find that employees are
getting the idea that this depart-

ment is a collecting agency, and to
collect back wages is costing the gov-
ernment more than it feels it should
have to pay. Some employers on the
other hand are beginning to think
that they needn’t fear the wage act,
that they can pay less than the
legal minimum and take a chance
on being discovered. If they are dis-
covered then they can escape merely
by paying what they legally owe
anyway. In future we shall prose-
eute in all cases of violation and let
the courts decide what should be
done. In such cases guilty employ-
ers will have to pay fines and the
back wages as well.
How To Violate the Act

“But there is another class of
case in which the charge will be
merely that the employer failed to

keep records. In such cases he will
be fined if guilty, but will not have
to pay back wages since there is no

record of what he did pay. The em-

LABOR MINISTER MAKES FAKE
THREAT; AIDS WAGE ROBBERY

|\VETS. PROTEST

REGINA ARRESTS

VANCOUVER, Sept. 3.—All veter-
ans’ organizations in B.C. are being
circulated with the followin resolu-
tion by the Workers’ Ex-service-
men’s Association of Vancouver.

RESOLUTION.

This meeting of Ex-Servicemen
held under the auspices of the Ac-
tion Conunittee, composed of rep-
resentatives of all veterans’ or-

ganizations held at 150 Hastings

Street Wrest on Ausust 28th, 1935,

it was resolved .to ask all Veter-

ans’ organizations te send resolu-
tion to the minister of Justice de-
manding the withdrawal of charges
against Comrades Blake and Cos-

grove, indicted under Section 9§

of the €riminal Code for activities

in connection with the protest
against relief camps.

These tvo comrades served
three years and more in theatres
of war and both being unemploy-
ed, were forced into relief camps
and were arrested in Regina fol-
lowing protest meeting against
sending unemployed veterans to
camps in need of unemplowment
relief.

HEPBURN COMING
TO VANCOUVER

Premier Mitchell Hepburn of On-—
trio, who is travelline across Gan-
ada on a speaking tour, will arrive
in Vancouver at 9 am. Tuesday
over the Canadian Pacific.

Following his address here Tues-
day evening, the Premier will sail
to Victoria on the midnight boat,
spending Wednesday on the Island,
He will return to Vancouver on
Thursday, September 12, leayinge for
the East again at 5:15 p.m-

Ployees thus will not get their back
wages. It is to their interest, there—
fore, to assert their own rights and
not depend on the government to col-
lect their wages. We are not a col-
lecting agency.

“This year we shall collect about
$50,000 in back wages. This shows
rigorous enforcement of the law is
of tremendous adyantagze to the
working people, but it will cost us a
third of that sum, and this is too

much.’
ye