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COMMUNIST ELECTION MEETINGS

JESDAY EVENING
SEPT. 24—NORQUAY COMMUNITY HALL
(Kingsway and Clarendon)
EDNESDAY EVENING
SEPT. 25—1.0.0.F. HALL
(Kamloops and Hastings)
RIDAY EVENING
SEPT. 27—RENFREW COMMUNITY HALL
(22nd Ave. and Nootka)

MALCOLM BRUCE
Communist Candidate in Vancouver East
pported by other Communist and Labor Speakers
and members of the Young Communist League

ELECTION RALLY
1.0.0.F. HALL, 6th & Main St.

' THURSDAY, SEPT. 26th at 8 P.M.
pporting Arnold Webster (C.C.F. Candidate, Burrard)
: — speaker —

ALCOLM BRUCE, Communist Candidate, Van. East

Musical Program, etc. :
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IME AND HELP DEFEAT McGEER IN BURRARD |

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Cemmunist Candidate

Issues Statement to
Electorate

Again after five more years of

Capitalist rule, these people of Can-
ada who are not excluded from exer-
cise of the franchise by the many
restrictions of capitalist democracy,
are given another opportunity to
elect representatives to the federal
parliament.
Dive years of <overnment by the
Conservative Party, headed by the
multi - millionaire Bennett, has
brought the plain people of Canada
to a condition of greater privation,
misery and imsecurity than they
have ever experienced.

The decay of capitalism has not
been halted by the Gonservative
Party, and neither can it be halted
by the Liberal Party. of Wing, nor
by Stevens’ fraudulent Reconstruc-
lion Party.

All three of these parties seek to
save capitalism at the expense of
the poor who, if they do not sub-
mit quietly to starvation and loss of

democratie rights, are subjected to
the whip. the lash and imprison-
ment.

Notwithstanding the impossibility
of @ven beginning the buildine of
Socialism within the framework of
capitalist parliamentary democracy,
much can be done in the interest of
the immediate needs of the workers
in parliament by representatives of
the common people, if those repre-
sentatives are clear as to their tasics,
and possess the courage to fight for
them.

Parliament As a Tribune

Labor representatives can carry
on the class strugele in parliament
as well as outside it. They can op-
pose and expose anti-workine class
lesislation introduced by the Ben-
netts, Kings and Stevenses, using
parliament as a tribune from which
to organize and call the workers and
other sections of the suffering popu-
lation to united strugsle against
capitalism, against the government
capitalist agents in parliament and
their masters, the exploitine capital-
ists of the banks and factories.
Working class members of the
sfouse of Commons can submit legis-
lation in the interests of the toilers,
and, backed by united support out-
Side, compel a reluctant Sovernment
to srant concessions.

It is as one pledged to follow this
line that I, a Communist, offer my-
sel— to the electors of Vancouver
East in this federal election.

Main Issues in Election.
The main strugsles confronting
the common people of Canada are:
i. The fight to stem the offensive
of the capitalist class on the living
Standards of the common people;
2. The fight to uphold the demo-
eratic rights of the masses and pre-
vent fascism being introduced in
Canada, and <
3. To fight for peace and repel
the menace of Imperialist War.
These dangers make absolutely
necessary the establishing of a
broad united front of the common
people to fight asainst them. Only
the united front can successfully re-
Sist the encroachments on our stan-
dard of living, can preserve such
democratic rights as haye been won
through generations of bitter struz—
ele, and which are being withdrawn
in preparation for a fascist dictator-
ship, and to prevent the country be-
ing hurled into the catastrophe of
world war
Communists, realizing the impera-
tive needs of the people, and the
necessity for a united front of stru-
Sle, have for years sought to bring:
about unity of all anti-capitalist
forces, and a united front with the

The Reason Brace Is
Running In Van. East

C.C.F. in particulatr.
Where the Responsibility Lies

Some of thetop national and dis-
trict Jeaders of the GC.CE. have
fought against this proposed united
front, and where and when success-
ful in their opposition they must
bear the responsibility for the divi-
sion in the ranks of labor today.

Communists not only strugele for
unity with the C.C.F. and other anti-
capitalist forces in the every day
Strugeles, but also strove and still
strive for a united front in the fed-
eral elections. and in seme constitu=
encies have met with success.

Ansus MeInnis, G.C:F. candidute
in’ Vancouver East, is one of the
most inveterate opponents of the
united front; and this position of his
is in consonance with his support of
Bennett's anti-labor lesislation in
the House of Commons, such as his
Support of the infamous Unemploy—
meént Insurance Bill.

The record of McInnis in the
House, and as a bitter enemy of the
united front, show clearly that he
is incapable of represetinge the inter-
ests of the common people.

A Communist can represent these
interests, and fight for them, far bet-
ter than can MeInnis, and in doing
So he will be advancine the cause of
the united anti-capitalist front.
Whatever ability nature may have
endowed me with will, if I am elect-
ed, be used in the House of Gom-
mons in the fight against oppres-
Sion. as I have endeavored to use it
in the day-to-day strugeles outside
of parliament.

MALCOLM BRUCE,

Communist Candidate, Vancouver

Bast Riding, Vancouver.

CITY COUNCIL
DICTATOR HOLDS
ELECTION MEET

McGeer Rattles Empty
Cans To Make a

Noise

VANCOUVER, Sept. 16. — Me-
Geer’s election meeting at the Fair-
mont Academy last night drew hun-
dreds of people, curious to see the
dictator's iron hand towards the in-
evitable heckling auiience. which
haunts him now-adays. The WVan-
eouver “Sun,” an ardent supporter
of McGeer, designated it an “over-
flow rally.’

Gerry spread himself high, wide
and handsome over-a number of
eolorful promises, which he said he
would fight for in parliament:

as Work for all able to work.
(Where have we heard that before?)

2: Pensions on a decent living
standard. (Another empty can.)

4. Taxation merely as a refula-

tion instrument, (Convenient resu-
Jation.)
4.. Health, education and recrea-

tion to the limit for all.
police recreation.)

Bordering on the radical, he said,
“Ii we finance a war, we can also
finance these things.”

Claiming that monetary reform
was the thing most needed, he said,
“Inflation need not he feared be-
eause the fovernment would inflate
immediately should it be confronted
with revolution.”

MeGeer professed to be sure of a
big majority at the polls. His only
references to the €.C.F. was to take
exception to their “manners” and
that they were “‘Godless.” :

There was plenty of heckling, and
plenty of “dicks.”

(He means

SEVEN HUNDRED |
DEMAND RELIEF

B.C. Liberal Government
Denies Them Food
and Shelter

200 ARE STARVING

VANCOUVER, Sept. 19. Seven
hundred men and women demon-
strated in front of Hamilton Hall
yesterday. when a delegation inter-
viewed Relief Officer Thompson, de-
manding that the single unemployed
men be given “the right to eat and
sleep where they choose,’ this be-
ing denied them in a previous ruling
which introduced “approved” and
*‘Sinapproved”” restaurants, r.sultine
in increased food prices.

The second demand of the delega-
tion was that the “200 blacklisted
men, now destitute and walking the
streets of the city, be given imme-
diate relief or allowed admittance
to the relief camps.”

Relief Officer Thompson passed
the buck on to the provincial gov-
ernment. He acceded to the pres-
sure of the demonstration which de-
manded that he at once “telephone
Victoria.”’

The Victoria Liberal zoyvernment
refused to move in the matter even
in the face of such destitution,

“JT will use every legal means in
my power to put you behind the
bars where you belong,” said
Thompson to Fred Grange, leader of
the delegation.

One hundred police, along with the
“red squad,” attempted to provoke

trouble by pushing and shoving
people around. :
“The fight will go on.’’ said the

delegation on leaving the Hall.

BENNETT AND HIS PAL KING.
— Through the co-operating of the
Conservative Dominion-Nova Scotia
organization, a half hour previously
reserved by the Conserytaive Party
in that province has been made
available to complete a broadcasting
coast-to-coast hookup for Right

Hon. Mackenzie King for his even-
ine.

Correspondence

Editor, B.C. Workers’ News.

Sir,—In view of the excessively
distressing times the Canadian
workers have gone through during
the past five years, and which they
are still enduring, the miseries and
insults they have to put up with at
the hands of tht wealthy Canadian-
born capitalists, it is high time that
we called a halt to it, and appealed
to Britain, no matter whether we
are Oriental or colored, we are Brit-
ish subjects.

The time has come for us to
peal to Britain to send out some
statesman to this Dominion who
understands the traditions of British
justice, to take the responsible po-
sitions and administer justice, but
they must be subject to recall as
this will eliminate the idea of “I’m
here forever.”

I am writing a letter and stating
this five years of misery of the Ca-
nadian workers (in condensed form)
to the secretary of His Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales.

Mrs. A, Head.
719 BE. Pender St., Vancouver.

ap-

Ed. Note: While it 1s correct to
state that the workers have suf-
fered the injustices noted by the
correspondent, the remedy offered
is of little avail te the Canadian
workers. The MSGritish capitalist
class practice inhuman and
unjust treatment upon the British
working class as do the Canadian
capitalists. The only remedy is to
build the anti-capitalist front in
Canada and replace the present
rulers with workers and farmers
who will administer worlcers’ jus-
tice.

CONSERVATIVES. — Placards in

eastern cities displayed by the Con-
servative Party carried a slogan at
the bottom: :
party, considering that Bennett is so

“Vote Bennett.” The

thoroughly discredited, pasted an-

other piece of paper over this which
now
The iberals claim they have thus
“ribbed Bennett out.”” How we wish
it were true—literally.

reads: “Vote Conservative.”

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SHOP, FACTORY AND
JOB NEWS

Of all the news which the labor
press carries, that of the conditions
of the workers in industry is most
important.

The working
eight to twelve hours out of the
twenty-four at labor from which
all joy has long since departed.
Modern industry has made of work
a deadiy, brain-sickeninge monotony
—a penalty to be paid for the right
to live. The machine drives the
worker at an ever-faster speed. The
pessure of the capitalist and all his
hirelings on the backs of the worlk-
ers becomes heavier. The robhery
becomes more and more shameless
and protests meet with stverer pun-
ishment.

Under these conditions the work-
ers in industry sweat and suffer.

What Is the Mood of
the Workers?

What do they think of the giant
corporations, such as the C.P.R., the
Shipping ederation, Consolidated
Mining and Smelting Go. and others
who dominate their lives? What do
they think of the petty shift and
Straw bosses and the foremen who
drive them for the capitalists for a
few cents a day more than the or-
dinary worker receives?

What do they think of the ruth-—
less system that seraps human be-
ings more callously than it does the
machines in the plant?

What do the workers think of the
inhuman manner in which they are

elass spends from

numbered and herded in the gi-
gantic hives of modern industry?
What do they think of the filthy

holes in which they have to work
and live?

What do they think of the risks
they bave to take as part of their
jobs, or if they refuse. to lose them?

What Do the Workers
Think and Say?

What do they think of the com-
pany “welfare systems,’ the hospi-
tals and the deductions of supposed
hospital treatment, the company
doctors, and the mad rush of the
claim agents to release the company
from any responsibility, as soon as
the injured worker resains con-
sciousness after an accident where
he is crushed or mangled?

What do they think of the police
protection afforded the bosses; the
company suards, the spies, the
courts. the sitmkebreakers, the de-
tectives, the use of troops, of the
whole state machinery of terroriz-
ation and suppression organized for
and owned by the capitalists?

This Information Is Very
Important

What do they think of the wage-
euts or of the present miserable
wages? Of the unions? Of the lack
of unions?

What do the workers propose to
do about these thin Do they ac-
eept them as inevitable? Are there
Signs of revolt against them? What
form does this resentment take?

When the workers’ press imnows
and tells of these things it is really
a mass organ.

Without worker correspondents it
eannot be a true reflection of the
lives of the masses.

Such news is not hard to get, but
to get it one must be a worker.
When he writes he becomes a worl-
er correspondent.

SZ

(Gontinued next weels) .

‘Make The Rich Pay’ —

Communists Tell How

A REVIEW

“Make the Rich Pay.’ This sim-
ple. eloquent slofan, formulated by
the Communist National BElection
Committee is the basis for the most
concrete inclusive program ever-of-
fered to the Canadian People for the
betterment of their lives under the
capitalist system.

Tim Buck aptly described the rule
of the old line parties as ‘being
parties,”” with a common program
of unbridled exploitation extendine
over 67 years with 15 full term in-
nings. This is amply borne out in
the contents of the pamphlet, ‘Make
the Rich Pay’

The logic of this slogan is proyed
up to the hilt by showing that it is
precisely because the rich have re-
fused to pay that:

“@ur country shoulders the stu-
pendous national debt burden of six
million dollars’; that

“OF the national wealth amount-
ing to 30 billion dollars, 90 per cent
is owned by 10 per cent of the popu-
lation and vice versa’’; that

“The farmers staffer under a bur-
den of 2 billion dollars’; that

“Wages are down 50 per cent over
the last five years of robber rule’;
the middle class and professionals
driven distracted by inflation and
debt and finally the hopelessness of
the youth. All these have paid
enough—now it is time to ‘Make the
Rich Pay.”

In a very clear and detailed man-
ner, the pamphlet shows how a £ov-
ernment of elected Communists and
Progressive C.C.If. candidates will,
with the help of a united common
people, set about the task of extract-
ing the funds from the rich.

Here is a typical extract: “The
taxation of large fortunes should be

carried out as follows.’ A frada—
tion then follows which taxes in-
comes of from $30,000 to $50,000

3 per cent, reachin= one million dol-
lar incomes 15 per cent, to over ten
million dollar incomes 25 per cent.

“This taxation carried through in
one year by a thorough investiza-
tion and public exposure of large
fortunes of the 60 big financial rul-
ers of Canada and the few thousand
capitalists would provide an imme-
diate 25 per cent increase in the
Canadian living standard”

Wext in the program is an “Ex
ceptional Tax” on CAPITAL, with
which to meet current immediate
needs in the present economic crisis.
This is the alternative to INPLA-
TION, which the capitalists use to
make the common people pay for
the crisis. The “exceptional tax” on

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capital is presented in a descriptive
chart.

4nd so on down the line. A solu-
tion to the railway situation, which
would brine in substantial reyenue
to the government, is outlined.

Punishments to be imposed on
those rich who seek to evade.

The creation of those conditions
to make possible the enactment of
the Workers’ Bill for Social Insur-
ance, is a high light of the pamphlet.

Limited To Tinimediate Needs
It must be noted by the reader of

the program, that it is Jimited ta
the immediate economic demands
and DOES NOT REPRESENT

SOCIALISM IN ANY sense. As is
Stated “the basic solution of all the
economic problems of the Canadian
people is by the achievement of So-
cialism, through a workers’ and
farmers’-sovernment.”'

The pamphlet closes with a call to
unity upon whieh depends the suc-
eess of this concrete plan, which
reads as follows: “The United Front
of the common people must force the
rich to pay to save Canada from
poverty.”

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Address all manuserips to:
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Telephone Workers Object )
To Health Insurance Bill

Employees Assn. Already
Have a Beiter Plan
‘in Operation

WANCOUVER, Sept. 12. — Objec-
tions to the proposed government
Dlan for Health Insurance for B. G,
were laid before the sovernment
commission set up for “hearinss’” by
ihe B. C. Telephone Electrical Hm-
ployees’ organization, today, at the
Vancouver Court-house.

A memorandum was presented by
the representatives of the orgzaniza-

tion, the main argument of which
stated “‘the employees of the B. GC.

Telephone Co., who number approxi-
mately 2100. are protected by a bene-
fit plan which is non-contributory
and assures our members of full pay
for 13 weeks, half pay for 39 weeks,
and for a further period at the dis-
eretion of the Administering Com-
mittee.”

Also, the fact that “‘we have two
practitioners and a trained nurse to

attend to minor illnesses among the
operating staff.’’

The employees’ memorandum also
proves conclusively by comparins the
Various clauses of the proposed new

posed by the government.

i. Whereas the government plan lim-
iis itself only to those who earn
up to $200 per month, the employ-
ees’ plan has no such restrictions.

2. That the government plan has too
many loopholes at the expense of
the insured; there being no guar-
antees for what the government
may decide as being “too expen-
Sive treatment.”

3.In the government plan, “@.B2?
and mental disorders are not in-
eluded.

4. Limiting dental services to that of
“preventative” nature only. Why
not full dental services?

These and many other arguments
are put forward by the employees of
the B.C. Telephone €o.

bers, sympathizers and others, the
“iB. ©. Workers’ News’ publishes
questions which were written and
sent to Malcolm Bruce by a member
of the C.C.F. The answers by him,
of necessity are brief, nevertheless,
are to the point and can be elabor-
ated Im discussion. These questions
which are bona-fide are undoubtedly
agitating the minds of many who
are interested and the accompany-
ing answere should help to clear up
much of the perplexity and confu-
Sion prevailing.

QUESTION:

1. If, as is the concensus of pub-
lic opinion, the Communist Party
has no chance whatever of winning
Vancouver Burrard seat on Oct. 14,
whilst Armold Webster is conceded
by the same public opinion to have
an exceptionally good chance of do-
ing so, what good has the C.P. done
for the working class by supporting
Arnold Webster? Have they not suc-
ceeded in linking the C.C.F. with a
diseredited party and thus lessened
the chances of a working class can-

didate, Arnold Webster, being
elected?
ANSWER:

The Communist Party by support-
ing Webster, is uniting the anti-capi-
talist forces against the fascist Me-
Geer. There is nothing in Webster’s
record which shows that he will not
fight for the immediate needs of the
workers, against fascism and war.

In whose eyes is the Communist
Party a discredited party? Certainly
not in the eyes of the working class
whose battles against wage cuts,
speed-up, fascism and war it has al-
ways led. The view that the C.P. is
discredited can be held only by petty
bourgeois minds, steeped in ruling
elass legalism. These people think
that because the ©.P. was declared
illegal in Ontario by Bennett and
company, completely overlook the
fact that the workers rallied to its

support and the party has tripled in

BRUCE ANSWERS QUESTIONS
RE COMMUNIST SINCERITY

Tor the benefit of the C.C_F. mem-,™Membership since 1931, the year of

the raids, arrests and imprisonment
of its leaders. ,

As to the possibility of C.P. sup-
port lessening the chances of Web-
ster defeating McGeer, I may say
that those who fear such an out-
come place more faith in and lean
upon bourgeois support than upon
the workers and some sections of
the middle class. Events in Alberta
where the C.C.F, rejected the United
Front should have taught them
something. Also Windsor, where
C.P. support elected the @C.C_F. can-
didate for mayor by 7,000 majority.

QUESTION:

2. How can the C.P. support the
C.C.¥. in Vancouver Burrard -and
not support the C.C.F. in Vancouver
East, where the candidate is acting
on and bound by the same CCE.
manifesto?

ANSWER:

It must be remembered that the
CP. holds that there can be no
united front that does not include
the C.P. The C.P_ is contesting only

one seat in B.C., where the G.GE
candidate spurned our efforts toward
unity. the C.C.F. haying all the rest,
and with CP, support in them.

That Meclnnis is the sittine mem-
ber does not matter. He is the sit-
ting member who supported Ben-
nett’s anti-labor, fascist-tending
legislation, thereby discrediting him-
self and the entire ©. @.F., as well as
contributing to the division and de-
moralization of the working class,

Moreover, McInnis is a determined
opponent of the united front, while
not hesitating to co-operate with
Bennett. McInnis does not and can-
not be depended upon to represent
the interests of the common people.

QUESTION:

3. Why did the Communist lead-.
er influence the Relief Camp Strik-
ers to leaye Vancouver when they
were in a position to gain some
concessions, and take them to Re-
gina to be absolutely smashed up by
the Federal Police and sent back to
camp with no concessions?

ANSWER:

Jf the Relief Camp Strikers had
remained in Vancouver, they would
have been smashed up, perhaps
more so than they were in Regina.
This was because the united front

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Cooks and Flunkeys

MALCOLM BRUCE.

HELP WANTED

We Want One Thousand

Stenographers and Typists} People with Cars

MEN—_WOMEN—YOUTH—CHILDREN

We want one thousand helpers to work in the Election of

You will receive your remuneration in the

pride of the fact that you haye helped to elect a fighter to
Parliament.

Apply any time to Communist Election Headquarters at
1892 KINGSWAY for assignment to a task.

Speakers and Chairmen
Ushers and Messengers
Financial Support

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