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NEWS

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MR. PANTER
C.C.F., SKEENA

ANGUS McINNIS
C.C.F.. VANCOUVER E.

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Saw Healthy, Smiling
People; Crowded
Theatres

By JOSEPHINE DANZEL
“Por the first time I’ve seen life,
Isrugele, working towards a goal.
“y whole idea of success has been
Aansed. FT used to he out after
soney, 2 famous name> now all I
sant is freedom of expression, the
mrt of thine I found in the Soviet
nien. I’m going back if IT have to
yim the ocean!”
-This is the way Aiex Rothoy,
/neimg comedian, talks after return-
= from a three months’ yisit in the
S-S.R. under a theatrical contract.
/““‘It was the fairest contract I ever
id’ remarked Rothov, with a
alle. “From the moment I crossed
Ie border, every day, even those
»-ys when I was travelling between
aiermances, was counted as a
orking day. If I worked on my
see day, I was eiven 100 per cent
tra salary for my time. My fare
is paid over and back, second class.
Was given first class accommoda-
ons in the Soviet Union, my food
‘id rent were taken care of, and

| Comedy Dancer Back

From U.S.

S
lesqued a Hindu snake charmer. As

5.R.: Elated

the charmer pipes before the tradi-
tional wicker basket, a String of sau-
sages instead of the customary
Snake, rises from its depths.

After the performance some one
came up to Rothoyv and consratu-
lated him, “The best criticism of
Hitler I’ve ever seen,”’ he told him.
Rothoy looked so blank that the
other explained. “Of course, the

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JOHN McINNIS
C.C.F. CARIBOO RIDING

German people. being fond of sau_
Sases, are represented’ by the string
of sausases. and they dance to the
fune of Hitler’s flute. selling them-
selves for a little piping.”

Rothoy has staged shows in Paris
and New York, and been all over Eu-
rope. But the enthusisatie reception
he received in the Soviet Union, and
the genuine livins interest in cul-
ture, and especially in the theatre,
there, makes him say now, “I don’t
Care if I never see Europe or New
York again. I’m fo0ine back to the
U.S.S:R. if I have to swim the
ocean!”

Keep Canada out of Brit-
ain’s war entanglements!

“Was given 1,500 rubles a month
Sides.
“As for all this talk about starva-
‘@on, © saw absolutely none, and I
is left to ¢o anywhere I wanted,
d allowed to see anythine I wanted
See. There was plenty of food in
'e stores and restaurants. Food
ices are goins down.
| ‘In the workers’ Colléctives the
tinge is good, too. Por instance in
Music Hall Collective an every-day
nu might consist of borscht (beet
ap), meat, potatoes and some other
fetable, with bread, and then
seri—some sweet—with, of course,
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Healthy, Happy Wids
*As for the kids, they have no
rries. In the sumimer the parks
2 full of them, playinge, fo0ine to

ecial open-air children’s plays.
hey all look healthy and happy.

‘And that goes for everyone,” he
ded. ‘People in the streets look ©
Pve and happy. Why, whenever six
» seven people get together in the
viet Union they sine.”’

Rothoy danced in several cities,
se and small, during his three
mnihs’ stay. He appeared in the
Pisic Hall and in the Park of Cul-
ce and Rest in Leningrad, in the
‘rmitage in Moscow, and then in
> circus in Smolensk.

No matter how big you are you
ive to play small town as well
jJaree,” said Rothov, “‘every class

and adequate education for
Canada’s youth. j

MR. CAMERON
C.C.F., COMOX-ALBERNI

W.W. LEFEAUX
C.C.F. CANDIDATE,
= VAN COUVER CENTRE

ARNOLD WEBSTER
C.C.F., VAN. BURRARD

= E.G. GARLAND, MP.

PROF. KING GORDON
' C.C_-F., VICTORIA

Ba,

C.C.F. CANDIDATE,
BOW RIVER, ALTA.

From All and
Sundry

BOB SKINNER
C.C.F., VAN. SOUTH

Provide work, recreation

gines

KENASTON, Sask— With his en-
in reverse and his courage
ebbing fast, the high-powered bailiff
hired by the MeCraney municipal
council to seize crops, cleared out in
a hurry when a local farm woman
chased him off her premises with a
bar of iron. Mr. Collector has dis-
covered that metal and mettle male
a formidable combination,

Figured Women Basy

-Arriving at the house when the
husband was absent, the bailiff
Wanted the wife to act as his as-
Sistant and seize her husband's crop.
When she refused he tacked up a
Seizure notice. Wasting few words,
this courageous farm woman tore
dewn the notice and grabbed an iron
bar. The collector left hurriedly; but
the woman Says the nice little brass-
headed tacks he left behind will
come in handy around the house.

Council Grabs All

Hiring the same collector that was
used last year at a listed cost to the
taxpayers of $274.10, the McCraney
council is out to grab everythine
possible, no matter whether any-
thine may be left to maintain the
farmers who grew the crop. The col-
lector is seizing right and left. He
Seizes for last sprine’s seed and feed,
where such was issued, and also in
the case of a farmer under a crop

Crep Seizer Gets Boot

Farmer’s Militant Wife
Chases Bailiff Away

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share agreement for taxes. =

EGds Take a Hand

The collector is meeting with some
resistance. In addition to the farm
woman who made him fly, a farmer
he “visited’* told him to get out of
the way of the binder or be run over.

Wot liking this reception, the col-
lector went over to the house and
tacked up a notice of seizure for All
taxes due. The farmer’s kids dis-
liked the look of the notice so they
tore it down, and, what bothers the
farmer most, destroyed it so that he
could not even read it.

CAMP WORKER
HANGS SELF

BELLEVUE, Alta. — Discovered
hanging from a beam in a deserted
barn. a middle aged, foreign-born
worker, name unknown, put a
quietus to his life of misery after
having quit the Gellevue slave camp.

The authorities determined that
he had been dead for three days, but
they could not quite decide on the
necessity of holding an inquest. This
indecision is no-doubt inspired be-
cause cold facts would bring to light
at such an enquiry exactly why this
worker lost courage for the future.

Police terror in the Crows Nest
Pass makes the work of organization

difficult and consequently living
conditions are harder than else-
where. Foreign-born workers are

especially hounded in this district.

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GRANT McNEIL
C.C.F., NORTH VAN.

WRITE UP THAT
SHORT STORY NOW!

Every reader of the “B. GC. Work-
ers’ News” is eligible to enter the
“Short Story Competition,”’ except
the staff of the paper. The writer
of the best story submitted in Octo-
ber will win a prize of $2. Send in
your stories now.

No quarter to the exploiters

cf the common people.

artist must play to every type of

am. There’s no sort of Broadway
idition, and never is there an
ipty theatre. Everyone in the
S:S-R; even up to the wildest sec-
ms of Siberia, wants music, cul-
te, art. Amateur theatricals are
ringing up all over the country.
jere is actually a shortage of
tists as everyone demands enter-
iament.

Constructive Criticism
“Critics never say a thing is bad,”
_ remarked “They point out what
food, and then suggest how parts
nich are not good can be brought
» to that level. It’s constructive—
al criticism.’’

In some places the audiences put
‘ir own interpretations on his
mees. In Smolensk he did an In-
an street scene in which he bur-

‘TOM McINNIS

British Dogs Of

War In Mediterranean

J. S. TAYLOR
C.C.F., NANAIMO

REV. BAKER __
C.C.F., WESTMINSTER

—

By T. NELSON
Ever since the besinnine of the
longshoremen’s and seamen’s strike
on June 4th, a veritable Teien of
terror has been conducted by the
combined forces of R.C.M.P., Pro-
vincial and City police under the di_
rect supervision of Mayor McGeer
and the Shippine Federation.
Brutal clubbing and jailing of
peaceful pickets (men and women),
are an everyday occurrence. Up to
the time of writing there have been
over 200 arrested in the waterfront
Struggle. Charges such as “iIncitine
to riot,” “inciting to strike,” “unlaw-
ful assembly,” “watehins and be-
settings,” ‘intimidation,’ “obstruc-=
tion,” “assault,” and “vagrancy,.” to
mention only a few that have been
laid against those arrested.
When hailed into court these men
and women receive the most unjust
and harsh sentences by capitalist
class judges who are appointed to
their positions by the elass that
rules,

Over Fifty Sentenced

As a result, over fifty have been
Sentenced to terms of imprisonment
ranging up to ten months, and scores
of others are awaiting trial at the
present Wall Assizes.

This is what happens to honest
Working people that are fighting for
trade unionism and a decent stan-
dard of living for themselves, their
Wives and kiddies.

Now, compare this to the treat—
ment meted out by the same judges
to strikebreakers, stoolpigeons, and
other scum of society. Only recently
a Strikebreaker was arrested on Bal-
lantyne Pier with a fully loaded re-
volver in his possession (penalty for
such an offence is two years): inside
of two hours this individual was out
on $100 bail, and the next day he
was sentenced to a fine of $5! This
Is only one of innumerable examples
of the Kind of British justice and
fair play meted out by the “black
robed, pious gentlemen of law and
order.”

Militant Union is Obstacle
to War
What are the underlyine reasons
for such an unbridled terroristic at-
tack by all the forces of reaction
ainst the heroie seamen and dock-
? Another bloody Imperialist War
is rapidly approaching and the B.C.
ports are strategic points fer the
Shipment of War material, and in
order to have a free hand, the cap-
italist class must of necessity remove
the main obstacle in their way of

establishing an open port. ‘This ob-
Stacle is the militant Longshoremen
& Water Lransport Workers Union.
To counteract such a move, as
well as to fight against terror and
frame-ups of militant workers, the
seamen and dockers must solidify
their union, strengthen the picket
lines, and at the same time build up
the only working class defence move-
ment that is at all times defending
the interests of the common people,
viz., the Canadian Labor Defence
Teague.

Workers’ Choir Formed

P.A.C, MUSICAL GROUP
ORGANIZED

Possibly the thousands of persons
who sing the ‘Internationale’ nigthly
do not know who composed the !
miusie to the stirring song which has | i
been so universally accepted by the
workers of the world. Lhe composer
was a Frenchman named Pierre

reports as we go to press.
Donald was a strikebreaker.

Over 200 Arrests In
Waterfront Dispute

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BOSSES BON’T LIKE
A RED FUNERAL

PRINCE GEORGE.—At the
funeral of Comrade B. Winka, who
was killed by a C.N. freight train,
the authorities denied the commit—
tee in charge of the funeral arrange-
ments the privilege of draping the
coffin with the red flac.

A well attended funeral meeting
was held by the workers in the hall
of the Canadian Tabor Defense
League, and pall-bearers carried the
coffin at the head of a procession
through the town.

A. #, Burton spoke at the grave=
side. .B.

HEAD OF CAMPS
HAS FAT SALARY

Capitalist Government
Pays Pirates; Starves

Workers

Hon. Grote Stirling, Minister of
Wational Defense in the Bennett
Government. got a hot reception at
the Arena in Vancouver last Mon-
‘day night from a large number of
campboys who have been blacklist-
ed, and who are practically Starving,
being not only blacklisted from the
camps, but also beings cut off from
any kind of relief at all.

The honorable gentleman (Sic) had
the following to Say in the House
of Commons on Tuesday, June 18,
1935 (at the time the campboys were
on their trek):

“Yesterday, in replying to 2
question of the Hon. member for
South Perth, I stated that the sal-
ary which the Chief of the Gen-
eral Staff was to receive was
$7.500.00. What I should have said
Was 38,000-00” 2
This was in reference to Major
General Ashton, the chief in ques-
tion. He is the head of the “slave
camps,"’

Plenty For Parasites—Nothing
For Workers.
The campboys get $5.00 a month

for hard pick and shovel work in
the disgraceful camps, and this mili-
tary officer gets $666.66 a month for
Keeping them
they object in persen at the Arena
(and this is the only chance they
will have to object to Stirling and
Bennett for another five years) then
these camp workers are called “hooli-
gans’’
the zoos” by these Parasites, and
threatened with Sec. 98.

in bondage. When

and “raving mobs from

This is another reason why you

should yote Communist and GG

Bargain sales are no good

when you’re broke; make the
rich pay.

ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE!

STRIKEBREAKER

DIES OF INJURIES

Colin MacDonald, injured at Bal-
antyne Pier Thursday, died Friday
n the General Hospital, according to
Mac-—

Degeyter, and it is now proposed to

honor his memory locally by formine
a Workers’ Chorus, of mixed voices,
to be known as the “Pierre Degeyter
Choir?

The choir is now forming and
meets at 404 Homer Street, Vancou-
ver, every Wednesday evening at 8.
Mr. L.- E. Gibb will conduct, and he

invites all singers interested in the
proposal to attend, preferably young
Singers with some experience. Afr.
M. ISunka is secretary and Mr.

Greenwood membership orfzanizer.

Break the strangle-hold of
Capital; —elect Communists
and C.C.F Jers.

RIOT ACTOR

ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE!

ONWARD CHRISTIAN —

iid Unity In The Elections

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