BC WORKERS NE Wes HOW TO WRITE FOR OUR PAPER Start Class for ‘Worker Correspondents’ In Your District Page Iwo UNITED FRONT 7 FOR GARLAND AT BOW RIVER Adopts Militant Stand In Fight for Economic Needs CAIGARY, Alta. Sept. 24.—E. J- Garland, M.P., will get the undivided support of all labor in his election campaign here. The Communist Blection Committee, the CCF. and 4il labor groups have formed a united front to put Garland back into par- liament. Garland has pledged himself to fizht for the immediate needs of the eammon people, and has signed the following three-point platform: (1) War: I would not send or sup- port the sending of a single Cana- dian to fight another imperialist war, no matter of what origin or ayhat place of conflict. (2) Economie needs: RED BOGEY AT FLIN F Tories Attack Opp ents of Sec. 98 Demand The Citizens’ League Be Disbanded Copy this resolution, get it endorsed everywhere and forward it to the Victoria Government. Social Credit Leader Calls Upon Electors To Send Premier Bennett Back By Acclamation “T have known Mx. Bennett for many years and, to be frank with you, I have given him my personal support before now. I have never regretted that I have done so. I don’t know of a more intelligent, capable or efficient man in Canada. I do know that no one else from Calgary has ever risen to the eminence which Mr. Bennett has achieved. He has brought credit and honor to this Province. He has been our leading citizen. We may not all agree with him in all his policies, but we must admit that Mr. Bennett is the best man West Cal- gary can tind to represent that constituency whether or not we agree with all his political views. Hach of us must honor and respect Mr. Bennett for his unselfish devotion he has shown to his duties. “Therefore, I can see no other answer than that Mr. Benentt should be elected by acclamation. As the leader of his party and as the Prime Minister of Canada, the honor is due him.’—Declaration by Premier Wm. Aberhart of Alberta on the eve of his departure from FLIN FELON. MMan., Sep Conservatives, Knowing th lost out in the comings gene tion, are resorting to every + propaganda—tlies and misrep tions—to attempt to swine their way. 5 Throughout Canada they ing to build up a “Red” bo are advocating the mainteng Section 98. Flin Filon, the a wonderful militant strike With the strike leader now as C.C.F. candidate, has be a wonderful poster to da taining a clause of Section | ealls for retaining it as a prevent the workers from o ins : Resolution Demanding the Dissolution of the Citizens’ Leasue of British Columbia These articles on “How to Write For Gur Paper’ are myaluable to our correspondents. Clip them out and follow them when you hare news to write in for the “B. C. WAORGIE Nas 7a: Attorney-General Sloan, Victoria, B.C. WHERBPAS: The Citizens’ League of British Colum- bia was formed for the express purpose of openly com- batting the protests and struggles of the workers and their organizations which are striving to better condi- tions for themselves and the working class as a whole; and WHEREAS: The spokesmen of the Citizens’ League utilize the radio to conduct a campaign of incitement against individuals and organizations that do not con- form to their particular theories; and WHEREAS: The extra legal nature of this League is dangerous to the democratic rights of the people, in (Continued from last week.) EXAMPLES OF WORKER CORRESPONDENCE Appended are a few examples of the stories sent in by worker cor- respondents and published in the “Worker.” They are as near per- fect as our correspondents are cap- able of turning out at present. They have been edited very little, some of them not at all, and can be studied by workers to advantage who are just beginning to write. Attack on €.C.E. Though this attack is app TI am pre- aimed at the Liberals it is r 9 fight i arlament and in Be eee ae cconorite injus- Calgary to Ottawa as ask the Federal Government for seis eae ee a ae that that it ats th il 26 igilant ittees and wie to be later drevied (=a i i ‘4 ada. = = 5 have m mimon, iS 1a at i orms e nucleus for vigilante comm ees * fice in any part of Canada 9a loan of $18,389,000. And after all this fawning at the they tellcok someliine: tink has Pee d Ae : d £ CG. C.I candidates, whom > is based on terrorism; ani = present M.P. for Churchill, (3) I am, as in the past, pre- pared to resist any encroachments on the workers’ liberty and stand for the abolition of Section 98. The candidate agreed that state- feet of Bennett the banker, the living personification of Canadian capitalism, Aberhart got only $2,250,000. How far must be go to get the $18,000,000? EDITOR’S NOTE.—Springing from this miserable happened affecting large numbers of worlers, tell it clearly and in siniple language and are entirely devoid of all flambuoyancy. a Communist because of his tion with Marlowe, Ross sman last summer. The facts are that no arr WHEREAS: It has served as a tool of the Shipping Federation in the present lockout of the Longshoremen and has become altogether obnoxious to all right-minded, HHH4H9HOGHH4H4SHH4HHH4HH94H4H4HHSSHSDSOHSHASADAAASSAASAAAASADAAS DAAAAS44H4H4H4HHHHOHOHNSH SM NOP ns tel Bodin nA Ort Er Dt nd Nf brn rd AANA Ant tr ts td Of ALN Dr dA ds dtr SA Brinn Dr tren Ss Laid a Tt will be noted that the th . $5 3 : ee of the agreement be made stand by Aberhart,grank and file followers of the following examples deal Bee es liberty loving people; made under Section 98 at Pili AWorkers hail the development as “Social Credit” party have succeeded in forcing their buddmg trades, coal! mining, steel : BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED: That this meet- See a ee a Be ee Gucet (aiocable “umitee front leaders to oppose Bennett in Calgary by putting up a Estes: aud ca public, tunetion ing held at_...-....---.-- (Place) a -nn ana en nen n covered by Sectione| omen es iu |S cecil Create? candidate. stisel Bugive Menees on of Me 1S ae (ED) at which... 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These are concrete illustrations (Signed) pe shape nessa sso ses eS ea TSsS atest Chairman. 0404406409O00440040049000440040O000000 9490000000090099094000090000000O909004 00040 45004050O004090460000040004050505004404594090990090090 5900909999990 909 ELECT MALCOLM BR J and will serve better than thou- = < The next day, EPrenchy talked to the C.-C. I*. on the advice of Stalin.” = 2 se = Saat - A TRUE STORY the faller’s partner, whom he had; The other logger replied, “You're sands) OS wOLds Oh iustrcuion: b signed up a few days ago. He ar-—| crazy. Stalin wouldn’t tell him to TE t ar ED y ranged with him to work on his} build a party in opposition to the STEEL WORKER VIGUMIZE Communist Party.” Then there was a hell of a hullabulu. All the los- pariner. “TOP LOADER” Open Shop and Speed-up in Sydney _the following RENCHY couldn't get a job any more in Black’s Office. He'd been active in the loggers’ strike. Hie was lucky to get this job. It was 4 small camp. He looked around at the fellows that evening in the din- ine room. He knew only one logser syell, and that was big Olson, the delegate. They exchanged glances. Frenchy recognized a couple more from seeing them around the slave market or on the skidroad. We talked to Olson that night in the bunkhouse, Olson told him there syere only six union men in the camp, out of a full crew of 36. After working a month Olson pulled out and ieft Frenchy as delegate with 42 men signed up in the union. Frenchy started in to get the rest ef the crew into the union. The syorst of it was, there were only four men in his bunkhouse. He started in to get more literature into the camp- One day he tackled an old-timer. The old man said: “I’m 67 years of age: what good can I do in the qnion?’’ Wreneh kept at him, and at the finish said, “Well, suppose you can’t do much, you want to dcnow wiat's going on in the woods, don’t you?” The old man had to admit he did. “Well, why not take out a subseription for the loggers’ paper?” “Yes,” said the old-timer, “711 do that much,’”” and so one more paper came into the camp. A Tough Guy Frenchy couldn’t get one of the fallers into the union. He was 4 hard nut to crack. He bad more ar- euments with hint than with any ether logger in the camp. One night Frenchy was lying on his bunk ¢hinkine over the problem, when he whit on a scheme. This worked, A few days later it was pay-day, and the tough nut came up to Frenchy and said, “Say, I suess I want to join the union. Give me a card!” Frenchy worked found out the way steadily. He to talk to each fers were into the argument and all talking at once. Frenchy Settles the Argument After Mrenchy got back with his tobacco, and setiled down to smoke, a stream of loggers piled into a little one. The boss had two sons im the} shack. The leader of the argument eamp, one fourteen and the other.| sjiq\ “Say, Frenchy, we've got an who was a whistle punk, was only|a;syment to settle’? They told 12 years old. He got the 14-year Jad into the union and he was a good one. The young punk he couldn't get in. Developing Various Tactics Frenchy sent to town for “Science and History for Boys and Girls,” by Bishop Brown. He passed it on casu- ally: to the kid with the demand that he return if as Soon as he had read it. Before the kid could get through it, his mother had swiped it and read it herself! Then the boss read it; then the loggers started to read it. Frenchy soon realized that there wasn't half enough literature in the camp. He got in “The Worker,” the “B.C. Workers News,’ the organ of the “Friends of the Soviets’; and then he did the best thing he ever did. He set up a Communist Party unit in the camp. A Noisy Debate on Politics After Frenchy had been in the camp four months, he was going past the big bunkhouse one evening for a packet of tobacco at the office. We heard a heated argument in the big bunkhouse and paused outside to listen. One logger was shouting “IT tell you there’s no difference between the Communist Party and the C.C.I. because I know that Woodsworth went over to Russia a few years ago, and Joe Stalin had a talk with him; and when he came back, he formed Frenchy all about it. Frenchy then started to tell them the difference between the Communist Party and the C.C.F. It took about an hour, and you could haye heard a pin drop. After Frenchy got through, the logger said, ‘Well, that clears me up, I guess I got my wires crossed about Woods- worth.”’ After that it was easy for Frenchy. A few days afterwards a logger got hurt. They had no stretcher. The loggers had to cut a couple of sap- lings and put coat sleeves through and carry out the injured man. As the man laid on the floor in-the of- fice, Frenchy asked, “How long did it take to make that bum stretcher?” The boss pricked up his ears. In- side of a week there was a new stretcher came on the boat from town. Frenchy kept careful account of all monies collected. : He quit after six months in camp and left another delesate to take his place. Altogether he collected that camp among 36 men- He signed up all the erew but two. The election and the united front is the chief topic of conversation in that camp now. Theyre a fine bunch of loz@sers, and the conditions are good too. $375.00 in The Liberal Leaders @rode down men and women who were By G. D. British Columbia people during the past two weeks have shown that they have very little use for the Gennett sovernment, both on Van- couver Island and on the Mainland. The Liberal Party leaders, how- ever, feel that many of the electors will vote Liberal candidates into of- fice on election day. They figure that five years of Bennett is long enough to make them forget the record of the Liberals under the Jeadership of Mackenzie King when they were in poywer. They forget that the workers es- pecially, and many of the formers, have now realized that the B.C. Lib- eral government is just a taste of what they can expect from a Federal Diberal government. What is there jn the record of the B-C. Liberal gov- ernment to recommend them? There is No Difference One thine can be said about Ben- mett: he means to use Section 98 and he makes no bones about it. The Ziberals try to fool us by telling us fhat they stand for the repeal of Section 98. The B.C. government has a record as black as any Tory gangs that ever sat in the House, as brief analysis will show: : FEB. 1935, BOUNDARY ROAD MiltL—Shingle weavers went on strike at Bloedel’s Mill at Boundary Road in Vancouver against low ayarzes. Immediately the strikers formed their picket line, 200 armed police, including RGCAM.P., Provincial and City police. armed to the teeth, arrived. They took along with them earloads of gas bombs, gas masks, steel helmets, machine guns, rifles, revolvers and clubs. The Liberal sovernment of B.C. sent their armed forces there to pro- qect scabs and the bosses’ property and to intimidate the strikers even ¢housh the pickets were 4horoughly peacetul. moarching on the picket line in an at- tempt to persuade scabs from going to the mine property to open a vein and take the bread out of the mouths of their families. Sixty Provincial police made a slashing attack on defenseless men and women and sent 25 to the hos- pital, some of them so seriously in- jured that they will be crippled for life. Then, the police tried to turn the blame on the strikers and ar- rested several in order to Cover up the attack, APRIL, 26, VANCOUVER CAMP- BOyS—Here again the Pattullo gov- ernment sent the police to attack un- armed workers who were on strike against rotten slave camps. Tt is well known. MAY 13, PRINCE GEORGE.—\Pat- jullo’s police attacked unarmed vre- lie= workers at this place. Workers were on strike against starvation re- lief allowances of the Proyincial gov- ernment. MAY 14, GOLDGBRIDGE.—Miners of the Bridge River district went out on strike for decent wages. The em- ployers of one mine were taking out around $270,000 worth of gold a month. It cost them $60,000 a month to take it out. They were making about $200,000 a month profit, and they had even cut the wages of the miners at the time the price of gold was goings up- What did the Liberal government of Pattullo do? The miners were Not organized. They had no union, red or reformist. It made no matter. Pattullo sent 25 armed Provincial police to protect the gold mine pro- perty of the capitalists. JUNE 18, VANCOUVER. — Most everyone knows the part the Pattullo police played at Ballantyne Pier when, on this day, one of the most savage attacks was made upon the dockers and the citizens who marched to the pier to interview of Vancouver for a long time to come. JUNE 25, PRINCETON.—Pattul- Jo’s police searched workers’ homes with warrants sworn out under Sec- tion 98. They went to 25 miners and other workers’ homes at the dead of night. They arrested eight on fake charges of yagrancy and some on charges of failing to support their families (be- cause they refused to scab on strik- ers), and the Pattullo government sent them to Oakalla jail for three and six months each. AUGUST, 1935, VICTORIA.—The Pattullo sovernment let it be known today that they have a plan. Ttas 2. plan to; cut relich Unemployed are to be istered. They are to be made to work for their relief. They are to be classified. Those unable to do a hard day's work are to be set aside as “unem- ployables” and will eradually he starved to death on a reduced relief allowance. Those able to “hit the ball’ are to be exploited for Slightly more than the relief allowances now doled out. re-reg- The above chronology is only a year and a half of operations of the policy of the B.C. Liberal govern- ment and is only a sample of what a Liberal government would do on a nation-wide cale. The Bennett goy- ernment has a black record. It was fizhting to retain its rule in a severe erisis of Capitalism. = The Liberal government will pur- sue the same course if elected. Let us unite at the polis to defeat them in B.C. at any rate, and send a majority from this province of working class fighters—C.C.F ers, Laborites and Communists—who will cause the capitalist parties to think twice before they attempt to crush out of existence our unions and or- eanizations. Unite at the polls! War means super - profits for the rich—horror and des- pair for the poor. Prevent it. scabs to attempt to persuade them APRIL, 1935, CORBIN.—Here the police of the Pattullo government did great credit to the Liberal when they to come off the job. That page will darken the history ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE! By Worker .Correspondent Sydney, April 20—‘‘Safety first’’ committees have become the pet angel of the steel trust. In reality they are nothing but “open shop” propaganda committees, trying to force their dope on the workers. No- thing is ever given for the benefit of the workers. Here is how it works out in the mill where I am em- ployed. There are paid men who 20 around the mill every day in the week, preaching how much better the place is now than it was ten years ago, and try to convince the workers that they are in heaven; but it is the op- posite. It is the worst hell that it is possible to imagine. Always Blames the Workers This safety committee is supposed to try and cut down accidents and sive reasons why accidents take place so that men can avoid them in future. That is what they say they are doing, but there is nothing of the sort. What they do is to place the blame on the shoulders of the workers for every accident that takes place. Regardless of whose fault it is, they are called careless. There was a young worker fired because he had received a few cuts on his hands in one week. Another was fired because he refused to handle heavy bars with an injured hand, There was ayother worker whose job it was to oil the rolls over which white hot rails run. He could not oil them while the rails were running, so he told the foreman to stop them, which he did, but not long enough for the worker to finish the job, with the result that a hot rail went clean through his body. At the next “safety meeting” a paid speaker of the conYpany came and stated that a man had been killed, and, as much as the company resretied it, it was mainly through the worker's own carelessness, who, he said, had no business in that spot. This, although he had been ordered there by the foreman! And then the speaker went on to State the difference in the accidents now and ten years ago. “All Time Want More Worlx’’ A good many of the foreign-born workers can see through this safety meeting trickery. I spoke to one to- day and althougda he could not under- stand the Enslish language very good er even speak it, he said, “All time want more work.” The company has its spies all over the plant who will report on any tallk of a union that they hear, and some excuse is immediately found to fire the one who advocates organiza- tion. The wages are so low that the workers have hardly enough to live on and if any sickness takes place they haye to trust to the charity of others. The company is afraid that the men will organize once again. They organized once and they will do it again. Working people have paid in hardship, misery and suf- fering;—make the rich pay. now. ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE! BANG! BANG! BANG! The Victoria Riggers and Transport Workers wish to announce a show that is dif- ferent, at the Empire The- ater, Victoria, on Friday, October 1ith. Fifteen big vaudeville acts, including the Whizz Bang Vaudeville Troupe, magicians, acrobats, dane- ers, ete. Tickets on sale in town, 25c¢, 35c, 50c and 65c. By CHARMION SINCLAIR “Ts it because you don’t love me, Ted? “You know very well I do, but you Know how I hate the bourgeois marriage bunk. I don’t want to get married; it’s the hypocrisy of the darned thing I hate.’ “well,” said Mamie, “‘what is the use of planning and looking for rooms? I’m not going to double up with you if we can’t get married and get a certificate.” “Gee whiz, Mamie, you're funny. Surely you're not getting religious.” “T'm mot. Its you that is so damned narrow-minded.” “Now don’t start lecturing me. I know more about it than you. I’ve read Engels and Bertram Russell,” said Ted. Mamie argument. for nearly a year. active in the movement. Hie was an organizer for the packing plant workers, and Mamie was working in the Defense Movement. Ted took her in his arms and kissed her. He told her how pretty she was. He called her his “reyolu- tionary queen.” They lingered on. Ted lived with Mamie after that. They worked in the movement every day from early: to late. They helped each other to develop politically. They discussed the problems of the workers each evening over a cup of cocoa before they went to bed. They lived another year through pouted. It was the old They had been courting They were both Her Wedding Night the depression and then the main- tenance support was cut off both of them because fierce Struggles were taking place. Defense costs were mountings. Scores of campboys, dock- ers and other workers were beings ar- rested. Mamie and Ted discussed the situation that night at the sup- per table. They decided that they would have to apply for relief. Ted went to see the relief officer the next day and was told that the “Investigator” would call in a day or two. A lady called™the next day. She was the “investigator? A snoopy eat. She took everything in at one elance. Her eyes missed nothing. She asked such intimate questions, concluding with: “Can I see your marriage certificate?” It had come. Mamie looked at Ted. They hadn’t one. They weren’t married according to capitalist law- They were only living together. The investigator made it plain that there was no chance of getting relief un- Jess they were to get married. She agreed to get them married at the Relief Office, free, the next day- Mamie couldn’t keep it a secret. She told the District Secretary that evening that she and Ted were going to be married the next day. The secretary asked all about it and then said, ‘“‘We never knew you were not married or you would both ave got hell Thousands of work- ers get married every day. You two are a couple of freaks, livyi that.’ They went to the relief o the appointed hour. The mini there. They got lesally marr they left the building Mami Ted. Ted was nearly ready up. As they walked down th Ted blurted out, “Christ, I had the strength of a whale I could swish my tail around relief office and swipe them out of there.’’ Mamie still had a couple a4 lars in her purse. She stopp looked at the fish market. ’ cided to get a couple of s codfish. ae As they ate supper they 4 that as they had no meeti night, they would go to a sh said, “Shall we take in a B for once?” Mamie thought aboui dollar-eishty leit in her p said, ‘No, we may be shot week. Let's take in the Rex The usher led them to a As they got settled Mamie her am through his under ft rest as she looked loving! : face. Ted was staring at the say Jn a surprised voice he turned Mamie and said, ‘“Well wha know about that!’ Mamie looked at the sereen read: ‘Metro - Goldwyn - Max sents the most collossal, thi stupendous, the most superb | of 1935, entitled: “HIER W NIGHT.” To the leaders, all hail! They would lead us to glory, to ve To the leaders all hail, do we echo, Who would murder the infants or € We were told of the serpents they *Hre the chivalrous same of the m Des sauvases ecoses, Who ever in mercy deliver the foe From the shame of the captive by We were told of the Turk, the uns Who condemns our religion and sc Who would Kill every Christian who Tf we let him continue his murder To the patriots bow. We were told of the Hun, of the horrible Hun, fouse Out our eyes. of the ladies from And whose money is bullets that buy but Of a nation of pirates, the scourge of the main, Who would walk all their rivals on earth by the plank, HEIL! HAIL! AND HOW? While ships of our commerce they scuttled and nzeance and fame | we suffer the strength of the Ansle to gai, Till the nations all tremble at sound or our name. and how. sent out as spies ighty besun. nel: As they reach f laying him low. to sell. shame, peakable Turk, orns our wine; bows to our shrine ous work, As the dog to it Who would lead "Till the nations Of the infidel dogs who the prophet deride As they make proselytes at the point of the s Of the Jew as he dreams of his slittering ho And the Salen he'd build on the dust of our pridi But never a word that in each troubled land The suffering masses for peace fondly pray, Though they worship their god in their own fun We have slaughtered and suffered. We are suffering yet as they settle the score. They would bid us return to our slaughter and Then, hail! to the leaders! The leaders so dread But let it be hail of their virtuous lead. or the grasp of a brotherly hi In sorro Ss vomit, the moth to the flame- us to glory, to vengeance and} all tremble at sound of our nami How Do Wom By ETHEL V. “No capitalist State, not even the most progressive, has given complete emancipation to women. The Russian Soviet Republic, how- ever, Immediately swept away all legislative traces of the inequality of women, and assured her com- plete legal equality.”,—Lenin, in 1921. How do women fare in Canada? Capitalist politicians will tell you at this eleetion that Canada deals fairly with women. They will proudly point to the fact that women have the vote. But where is the com- plete equality, as exists in the Soviet Union, where Communists play a leading part in the administering of affairs? Where was the voice of protest, for instance, at the last session of parliament when BGennett brought down his infamous ““Employment In- surance Act’? which sets one scale of benefit for men and boys and a lower scale for women and girls? Where is the voice of protest when the provincial governments are set- ting the scale of minimum wages to be paid in any industry? All of them en Fare In Canada And In Russia? Seventh Congress, 1935—378 en delegates. Farm Women Are Exper The same applies to the Co of Collective Farmers. The fa of the Collectives have held © than for men. Women in Soviet Russia Are Really Equal These same politicians, us see how drudgery there. cow. until the Fifth Congress, held May, 1928. The Seventh held in February, 1935. The delegates came from all parts of the Soviet Union. Lhe following table will show how women are, in increasing num-— bers, learning to govern the country where Socialism is being built. Com- pare it with the number of eandi- dates in this election in Canada, where the capitalists brag that women are “free.” First Congress, delegates. Wiftth Congress, delesates. 1922—40 women 1928—258 women e set lower scales of wages for women such as MecGeer and the leaders of the cap- italist parties, will tell us that women are driven out of their homes and ‘“nationalized’’ in Soviet Russia. Let women do get out of their homes and away from kitchen In December, 1922, there was held the Wirst Soviet Congress in Mos- Others were held each year, for which we haven't the exact fig- ures of how many women attended in one was far. At the first one there wes women farmers attended. Aj second one, which was held in there were 442 women del Twenty-seven of them were dents of collective farms. Oné dred and two were brigade 1 Thirty were expert dairyn Twenty-two of them were exp eattle breeding, and so on i These women work collectiy They are able to get out of the chen. They are educated. i ported that the speeches of son these women at the last €¢0O (where there were over a thous deleeates present). made a las and profound impression on th egress. Eyer greater number © women are developing organiza talent. They read and unde the most political questions. W« in Canada have nothing to fear Communist candidates. They everything to gain by sup] them. Let’s get some trade 1 Soviet Russia;—open nego tions. a ELECT MALCOLM BRU!