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October 4, i9

Speed The Unity Of Friends Of

Peace And Freedom; Disband

By D. G.

Who are the wealthy capitalists,
Tich industrialists, Government Min-
asters and high officials and police
heads behind the Citizens’ League?

What are their names? Why are
they hiding their identity and refus-
ine to make public the names of the

Banizers and officers of this or-

fiization if they are really the good

izens and Christians they profess
be? Why is it that they dare not

& saw: open their books and issue a

’ statement as to where they get the
thousands of dollars to carry on vi-
cious propaganda against the Com-

/ munists, G.C.F. and other labor or-
fanizations in Canada, and in B.C.
especially?

The reason is because capitalism
ada is adopting extra-legal
is in preparation for the time
€ capitalist class will use the
s Abridled and brutal force in

maintain their rule and pro-
ven the jnternal antagonisms

& = sharpened; when the workers
farmers in their mighty awaken-

Voay ery out, enough of this say—

heayjoitation and in united ranks

Sce to vigorously fight bacls.

les

port From the Masses
- Besides this, the Citizens’ League
5 not yet carried out enough pre-

ie the working class and lower
je class sections of the popula-
+ even though it may haye some

5nal people, but even these are

hall in number and are chiefly ex-

h Klux Klan xriff-raff and political

mgers-on.

"is heir hope to win some of the
“rorkers and farmers, white collar
| tor os, and unemployed who have
Ye divested themselves of Ccapi-
‘ecology, and by whipping up
smi and the red bogey, or-
and set them at the

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The Canadian Citizens’ League

@sling toilers of town and farm:
Wore Are Foremost Enemies
of Fascism?

Who are the foremost enemies of
the Citizens’ Leazue?

Who are the chief enemies of the
exploitation of the common people
and the champions of their demo-
eratie rights and the most determined
fighters for peace?

Who are the most militant fighters
against Fascism?

Who are the most determined and
persistent fighters for the achieve-
ment of the united front of labor
and the most industrious laborers for
the building of the people’s front
for bread, freedom and peace?

The answer is The Communists!

That is why the secret hordes of
capitalist henchmen, lackeys and
dupes are hiding behind the fence of
anonymity, sniping at the militant
jeaders of the toiling people, and
preparing the ground to destroy the
Communist Party and militant
trade unions first.

G.G.F. Is Target of Fascist
Blements

While all of their bulletins, leaf-
lets and letters have so far been di-
rected against the Communists, their
radio propaganda makes it plain that
the C.C.E&. and Socialist Party and
their leaders will also be the target
for aitack by the potentially fascist
Citizens’ League. :

Wo leaders of the struggles of the
common people against capitalist en-
cronchments on the standard of liv-
ing, and no organizations which de-
fend the democratic rights of the
people of B.C. and Canada will be
immune from this vicious gane of
secretly organized hoodlums.

The Citizens’ League is striving to
secure a mass base. The leaders are
utilizing every avenue open to them
to get it. Coupled with issuance of
bulletins, radio talks, ete., they are
pushing their echauyinist and decep-
tive propaganda through the medium

of
by

periodicals supposedly
Veterans, Christians,
otie organizations.

What Can Be Done About It?

published
and Patri-

The immediate question remains:
“What are we to do about it?’
The broad masses of the toiling

population are no doubt anti-fascist.
3ut they are not united. They are
split up, and thereby weakened.
There is only one effective way of
combatting the rise of fascism and
that is by building the united front
of the common people.

The preventing of the Citizens’
League from securing a mass base
depends entirely on the success
achieved in building the united front.

Blsewhere in these columns there
is a copy of a resolution calling for
the disbanding of the Citizens’
League. This should be utilized by
every organization and group of free-
dom loving people for a mass united
movement to remove this menace
against our democratic privileges
and preserve for all people of Canada
the right to spealk openly, to organize
in unions of their choice and in any

other form of organization that is
set up for the betterment of the
masses,

Contains Germs of Fascism
The Citizens’ League contains the
ferms of fascism. It is attempting
to spread and grow without making
its identity Known amongst the un-
suspecting masses, and especially
among the youth. It must not be al-
lowed to do so.
War follows the rise of Fascism
just as surely as night follows day.
Our people must be guided to save
themselves while they may.

Don’t allow the Citizens’ League
to secure a mass basis in B.C!

Unite the forees of the common
people and crush it in its infancy!

Build the united front to fight
for security of a peaceful, happy
liie for the common people of
every community!

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Communist
Unite The
a Make T

By BOB LEALESS
“he election of Communists to

Ficance to the people. The incoming
tderal government will make de-
_ sions that will be of momentous
yArtance io our lives.
} + economic attack against the
> workers, small farmers, store
, rs and ‘professional people will
tinue and be sharpened unless
(munists are elected to warn and
} the people to resist every piece
bactionary. legislation that fur-
burdens the Common people and
s the rich to £0 scot free.
amunists will transform parlia-
from the quiet scene of sterile
and sweet words into a Na-
Sounding Goard from where
sds and struggles of the peo-
Te Salt ring: in rallying calls through-
zy 2he country.
irliament will be used by the
imunists to electrify the masses
0 political consciousness and
\ sugele around the dangers of cap-
wlist lesislation and around their
‘=n burning needs.
Initiated Great Movements
proof of Communist leadership,

he Rich Pay

lief.

M.P.’s Will

Masses lo

employed to fight for and win re-
They initiated and eonducted
the struggle for genuine unemploy-
ment insurance and succeeded in in-
fluencing= the progressive jmembers
of the G.C_F. to organize the unem-—
ployed section of their movement,
and to inscribe the advocacy of Non-
eontributory Unemployment Insur-
ance into the C.C.F. program. A
strong bond of unity between the
membership of the two parties was
thus established.

The Communists will go into par-
jiament as the national organizers of
these same struggles. They will then
be even in a better position to rally
the people against their exploiters,
the capitalists. They will be in a
petter position because at govern-
ment expense as M.P.’s they will be
able to travel around the eountry
with their fares paid, organizing and
Jeading struggles and explaining
their proposals anda the necessity of
defeating the capitalist attacks.

First to Analyze World
Conditions :
are pledged to the

Communists
fight against Fascism. Just as they

were the first party to warn the
people of the prolonged nature of

is they who first rallied the un-

the crisis and the permanent ehar-
SSS

: >T BE BLINDED BY BOSSES’ LIES ——
[IE WORKERS’ PRESS!

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acter of unemployment, so the Com-
munists were the first to organize
the united struggle against the de-
velopment of Fascism in Canada.
They warned the workers in time
that fascism Can come to Canada un-
jess all unite their ranks and de-
fend every thread of democracy
which the ruling class is now cur-
tailing.

The fight against curtailing the
powers of parliament as was done
during the Regina struggle when
Bennett rushed through an “Order-
in —- Council,” must be further
strensthened both imside and outside
parliament.

They therefore declare to all pro-
eressive and justice-loving people
that they will fight together with
them to defend these rights.

Best Fighters For Peace

The world stands today on the
brink of a greater human Slaughter
than the murderous Imperialist war
of 1914-1918. Here again is where
jhe Communists can be of the great-
est service to the people of Canada
in preyenting war and in fiehtine=
for peace.

Communists in fighting for peace
are fighting against the capitalist
way out—war. “‘AJl war funds to the
support of the unemployed,” is the
Communists’ rallying ¢all to the peo-
ple. The interest on the last war
debt now amounts to more than the
principal. Communists right now
are calling for a moratorium on the
interest on the war debt. They fight
for the cancellation of this interest,
which amounts to about $124,000,000
annually, in order to relieve the peo-
ple of this huge burden. All Com-
munist M.P.’s will fight for the
breaking off of all alliances with
Great Britain which entail a repeti-
tion of 1914-1918.

Big Force in Parliament
Communists call upon the people
to elect their candidates into parlia-
ment, to arouse the widest agitation
and organization against the present
intolerable injustices, and by this
means force the rich to carry the
burden. With these policies firmly
advanced inside and outside parlia-
ment, the Communist and CC:
fighters will strensthen the faith of
the people in their own power and
in this way will defeat the attempts
to grind us down economically and
politically.

SUPPORT AND ELECT MAL-
COLM BRUCE IN VANCOUVER
WAST!

ELECT PROGRESSIVE CGE
LEADERS.

Demand a moratorium on
debts of farmers and- small
business men facing bank-
ruptcy.

IMMENSE WAR
PREPARATIONS
BY GT. BRITAIN

Will Build 21 Warships
In Next Three Years

LONDON, Sept. 28——Great Britain

is launchine® a huge warship build-
ing program covering twenty-one
ships to cost over fifty million dol-
lars expenditure in 1935 and will ex-
t

construction.
Tt is also reported that the British
sovernment has approached the

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French government to find out in
which manner Prance will assist in

By SPARE-BGOARD MAN
Railroadmen of Canada, this
your election!
Wext

is

to the unemployment prob-
lem, the railway problem is the
most important immediate question

in Canada today.

Sir Edward Beatty, president of
the C.P.R., has given addresses to
every Chamber of Commerce and

Board of Trade of importance in the
Dominion on the railway problem.
He has issued several booklets on
the subject, and widely distributed
them to all C.P.R. employese and
shoreholders and others. He proposes
to save $75,000,000 by means of
UNIFICATION of the two systems—
the C.P.R. and the C.N.R. It is not
necesasry to shout out loud that the
universal method of cost reduction
is the lowering of labor costs. This
means unemployment for another
50,000 railwaymen. Figure it out for
yourselves. The government's sta-
tistics for 1935 show the average
wages to-railroadmen at $1,302 per
year. $75,000,000 from payrolls will
lessen the number of workers by
more than 50,000.

Many are now far below this wage
average. Many get as low as $700
for a full year’s work. Others are
working on a relief systemr of part
railway work and part relief. Others
are allowed to work only 18 days a
month.

Capitalist Unification Plan
Means Layotts

This unification plan will cut the
workers not merely to the bone but
through the bone into the marrow,
if the reductions are carried out fur-
ther than they haye already been
driven.

Government Statistics indicate
clearly how the staffs of the rail-
ways have been cut during the last
few years.

In 1929 the Ganadian railways em-
ployed 178,568 persons.

In 1933 the Canadian railways em-
ployed £11,789 persons.

This is a decrease of 66,779 em-
ployees—37 per cent of the total.

Now comes the threat of another
50,000 after the election. Sir Edward
stated that no matter what party
gets the government, the unification
or amalgamation will be put into ef-
fect.

Abandoned Railroads

Already hundreds of miles of
tracks have been abandoned. Freight
terminals have already been amalga-
mated, The people of Canada have
had less service. The profits of the
two systems have been increased,—
for what? To pay the $150,000,000
interest on bonds. The funded debts
of the railways of Canada are three
billion dollars—averagins five per
cent, Then there is the attempt to
pay dividends on stock issues of
nearly one and a half billions.

The policy of the political agents
of capital, both Bennett and King,
are pledged to protect these monied
interests at all costs. What chance
have the workers unless they are
represented by a strong militant
power against these capitalist agents?
The railway workers built these
roads, the engines, the cars, and
operated them. Shall we allow this
splendid railroad system to be
abandoned after we haye built it?

Mr. Gennett has set_up his own
Economie Council to effect these de-
structive economies. We have already
suffered five years of capitalist

RAILROADMEN

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economic destructiveness. The work-
ers Know the crimes and tyrannies
committed in the name of capitalist
economy. This election should be the

advent of the Workers’ Economic
Councils. They could astonish the
world with their constructions.

The railwaymen will have to face
these issues seriously, and this elec-

tion is the opportunity to stoutly
face them — Bennett's Economic
Couneil, on the Railway Question;

Sir Edward Beatty’s Unification.
Proposed Unification Will Ruin
Towns and Villages

This unification or amalgamation
(the term is Synonymous), will mean:

1. About 50,00 more railway em-
ployees will be thrown out of the
services.

2. The employees who have seni-
ority enough will haye to work
harder and faster for the same or
less wages; less—uniess they struggle
against it.

8. The eriminal destruction of
thousands of miles of railway tracks,
closin& scores of railway Shops and
yards, desots, freight sheds and tele-
graph offices.

4. Depriving
sands of peopie

5. The ruin
Villages. They
towns.

6. Bigger profits and dividends
for the financial interests who con-
trol the railways of this country.

7. The railway employees’ unions
and brotherhoods will receive a
heavy blow, which in turn will affect
all labor unions in Canada.

Railwaymen, as we first pointed
out, after the UNEMPLOYMENT
problem, yours comes NEXT. Next,
unless you you move with determina-—
tion to prevent the destruction and
abandonment of the roads and equip-
ment you have built. Unless you do
this you will move up to the NEXT

hundreds of thou-
of railways services.
of many towns and
will become ghost

place in problems — UNEMPLOY-
MENT.
Support Militant Working Class

Candidates

It is useless to look for friends of
labor among the capitalist politicians.
It is worse than useless to continue
to lobby and supplicate them for
special favors. The railwaymen must
now be their own friends;—must no
longer allow their legislative repre-
sentatives to be mere appendages to
the political kite of employers.

Shake off the bony hand of the
past .The future belongs to the
workers. Look over all your candi-
dates and support the most militant,
courageous and working class eonsci-
ous working class candidates. Vote
for the one who is willing and able
to carry your fight to retain your
jobs and place in human society—
striving for you in the House of
Parliament and standing alongside
with you in the struggle on the out-
Side.

Five years ago Bennett told the
world that prosperity was around
the corner. It is still there. Let us
eet up steam, load up a trainload of
CGP. and Communist candidates,—
strong, courageous, militant, ready
to tackle the upgrade. Then instead
of capitalist destruction and aband-
onment and unemployment, you will
daring your train around the BEND
to WORKING CLASS PROS-
PERITY.

Your candidates are the Com-
munist and the C€.C.F. candidates.

BREAD WAR [iS
STILL ON IN ’PEG

By CARL HITCHIN
Winnipeg Correspondent
WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. 17.—The
bread war still rages in Winnipeg.
For some weeks back the war has
been going on between the Neal
3rothers, Canada and Spiers Parnell
bakeries, for supremacy in the Win-

nipee markets.

The Bakers and Drivers section of
the Food Workers Industrial Union,
having anticipated the tremendous
effect it would have on the standard
of living of all bakery employees,
and wishing to co-operate with the
0.8.0. units of the bakery2mploy-
ees, made certain proposals to the
O.B.U. for joint action for the de-
fense of the workers. -The highlight
of these proposals was the calling of
4g joint committee composed of rep-
resentatives from both unions, and
included the organizing of the unor-
eanized bakers. So far no official re-
ply has been received.

United Action Only Remedy

The intervention of the govern-
ment, called by the officials of the
bakers and drivers union, will be
against the best- interests of the
bakery employees. They can expect
nothing from the goverhment, but
only through the united action and
through the united efforts of all
workers regardless of union affilia-
tion in a fight to improve existing
working conditions.

Open the way to improve
the living standards of the
suffering people!

Super tax on real estate
sharks to save the homes of
the unemployed.

Penalize the wage-cutting
profiteers!

her obligations
mae of Nations Coven-
ef war between
in the Mediter-

earrying through
under the Lea
ant in the event
Italy and Britain
ranean Sea.

The new warships planned to be
built are, three cruisers, nine de-
stroyers, three submarines, one sub-
marine depot ship, four sloops, one
survey ship, and several

vessels.

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Victim Of Shooting
Sues Chief For $50,000

smaller

Leonard Binns, Injured
Near Ballantyne Pier,
Demands Damages

VANCOUVER, Sept. 30.—Leonard
Binns, who was shot on June 18th
near the scene of the police attack
upon the longshoremen at Ballan-
tyne Pier, is suing Chief Foster for
$50,000 damages and has so filed a
Statement of claim. This followed a
writ issued by the Supreme Court.

Leonard is a young worker em-
ployed by the Wilson Paper Co. and
as reported at the time, was walk-
ing down Powell Street when a car
drew up alongside of him and a man
poked a gun out of the car and shot
him’ in the leg, and as the youngster
limped and fell, the brute pulled the
gun again and let him have the other
barrel of buckshot in the back.

It was reported to the B.C. Work-

ers News reporter at the time by the
boy's mother that the police visited
the victim in the hospital on the
night of the. wounding but the boy
was suffering extreme pain and the
hospital authorities would not allow
the police to disturb him.

Leonard has suffered permanent
injuries from the hands of his at-
tackers and should receive support
from ail justice-loving people whoa
resent the high-handed actions of
Mayor McGeer, whose avowed policy
durine the lJloneshore dispute has
been to assist the Shipping Federa-
tion regardless of who suffers.

It’s A Tough Old World!

Tiss. hard ire!

The Canadian Credit Institute, a
concern that teaches young business
men how to get on in the world
and make money, as well as how to
keep out of debt and avoid bank-
ruptey, is broke and in default in its

financial operations, according to a
report in the daily press. Sad, eruel
fate!

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COMMUNISTS OUT
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By CARL HITCHIN
Winnipeg Correspondent

WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. 18.—The
Communist election campaign, for
the election of Tim Buek, is in full
swing now.

Bezsinnine with the banquet, held
last Saturday, and the election meet-
ing at the St. Johns Technical
School, at both of which Tim Buck
anag Sam Carr spoke, further ar-

A number of radio broadcasts :
being made.

The Winnipeg Elecior, an elect
paper, is being issued every wet
end until the elections, in 15,000
20,000 copies per issue.

Minimum wage is relatis

rangements have been made for them change the relations.