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October 25, 4

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Vancouver, B.C., October 25, 1935

THE LASH IN LABOR DISPUTES

The open terror against the workers by
the Pattullo government which has been
shown in the crippling of women in Corbin
by police-directed tractors, the raiding of
workers’ homes in interior towns and the
confiscation of working class literature and
papers such as the Worker, the B.C. Workers’
News, and the Commonwealth, the bludgeon-
ing of peaceful strikers, mass arrests and
imprisonments, reached a new righ stage
in the sentencing of Bill Squires, longshore
striker, to three years and five lashes on a
trumped-up charge of robbery with violence.

The administration of capitalist justice by
Pattullo’s Attorney-general Sloan in the in-
terest of the alien mine-owners of Corbin
and Princeton, and in support of the Ship-
ping Federation and the infamous fascist
Citizens’ League to smash the labor unions
of the province is a denial of all established
civil and democratic rights, and a challenge
not only to all trade unionists but to every
person who desires to maintain those civil
rights and democratic privileges.

A wave of horror, anger and resentment
has swept over the city and province at the
cynical savagery of introducing the use of
the lash alone with the club and the gun
to compel workers to accept the dictates of
the bosses without a struggle.

The subterfuge of charging strikers with
eriminal acts of violence to cover up the
real reason for arrest and imprisonment of
workers is wearing thin, and fools no one.

It is high time that all decent people
swung into mass action and let Pattullo,
Sloan, McGeer and the whole gang of servile
tools of the Shipping Federation, that the

sadism practised against workers struggling
for their elementary rights and for bread
must be ended. .

Bennett got away with his iron heel game
for a time, but the public put the boots to
him as it will put the political boots to the
Pattullo gang.

This is no time for any single organization
to assume the task of defense of Squires and
to end the reign of terror and frame-up. It
is the task, and the duty, of all organizations
and individuals. And to do the job, unity is
necessary.

Protest mass meetings must be held, the
Pattullo government must be showered with
letters and telegrams of protest. The public
as a whole must be aroused and made aware
of the Hitlerist methods of the provincial
Fovernment, and mobilized to end them.

UNITE FOR RELIEF

Qne of the most pressing problems before
the working people of Canada today is the
question of unemployment relief. Winter is
approaching, and more than a million men,
women and children are facing extreme hard-
ship.

Prime Miunister-eleet King has declared
that his first move on the question of un-
employment will be the calling of a confer-
ence and the setting up of a National Com-
mission, on which will be represented agents
of private charity racketeers.

This was all King would do after the col-
lapse of the stock market in October, 1929,
until he was defeated at the polls in July,
1930. One conference followed another while
the people starved. That he is about to start
the same game is not surprising to those
who know that the purpose of these costly
confabs is to quieten the unemployed by giv-
ing them false hopes of something about to
be done for them.

But the million and more who have been
on hunger rations for the past six years have
learned a great deal about such tricks. They
have also learned that the only way to get
results is by organizing, uniting and strueg-
pling.

Unemployed people cannot and must not
wait for King’s palavers with provincial
premiers, nor for his National Commission.
He is calling the Pattullos, the Taschereaus
and the Hepburns together to work out a
unified policy of hunger and suppression for

the jobless and other penniless people of
Canada.

The job before the unemployed of B.C. is
to effect unity among all unemployed or-
ganizations backed by support ot all trade
unions, regardless of affiliation, and of all
political parties of labor, to compel the Pat;
tullo government to disgorge, and feel, clothe
and shelter the needy, at the same time
compelling him to call off his provincial po-
lice and end the reign of terror they have
been carrying on throughout the province.

THE WELFARE FEDERATION

The organized charity racketeers are at
their old game. This time they are out for
$350.000, most of which they are organizing
to cajole and coerce from the workers who
are employed.,

This centralized gang whose job it is to
make the employed workers pay for keeping
the unemployed, instead of making the gov-
ernment pay, is the Vancouver Welfare Fed-
eration, whose president, Howard T. Falk,
receives a salary of $6,500 per year out of
the huge amount collected from the shrunken
wages of the workers.

More than forty various charity-monger-
ing agencies, private and otherwise, are
grouped in the “Welfare” racket. And not all
who get their cut out of the swag make any
pretense of feeding the needy. The Boy Scout
organization, for instance, gets a substantial
cut out of it; so also does the pogies, one of
them being the Central Mission, as lousy as
it is notorious, and which sought to shed its
foul reputation by changing its name to the
“Abbott House.”

Employees are receiving letters from the
Welfare Drive Committee asking them to
submit to a check-off, which would be a di-
rect tax on their wages.

The bosses boost the racket by soliciting
direct contributions in such a way as to let
the workers know that failure to come across
will mean loss of the job.

A glance at the names of some of those
who endorse the racket will alone condemn
it__Canada’s chief war-monger in 1914-18,
Sir Robert Borden; millionaire W. H. Mal-
kin, ex-mayor of Vancouver, whose regime
was characterized by a brutality towards un-
employed workers surpassed only by the ad-
ministration of the unspeakable McGeer;
Paddy Draper, reactionary president of the
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada; the
Shipping Federation, the fascist Citizens’
League gang, and every outstanding baby-
starver and enemy of labor in the country,
as well as many misguided, simple souls,
filled with the milk of human kindness, who
think charity-mongering a beautiful expres-
sion of sympathy and brotherly love.

It would not be so bad if the money se-
cured by these panhandling and hijacking
methods was taken from the rich, and the
small earnings of the workers were left in-
tact. But the whole charity business must be
condemned as a means of making the unem-
ployed workers bear the further burden of
the cost of unemployed relief.

All workers’ organizations should protest
this shameless racket and put an end to it
by making the governments and the rich
assume the cost of the consequences of the
depression. ,

THE HAND OF HOLT

The domination of finance capital in the
new government of MacKenzie Kine is evi-
dent in the selection of the members of the
cabinet, but in the handing out of port-
folios it is shown most clearly in the selec-
tion of Dunning as Minister of Finance.

Dunning, who is held up as one of the
common people because he began life as a
homesteader in Saskatchewan, is a trained
seal of the money kings of St. James Street,
Montreal. When the King government was
defeated in 1930 and Dunning lost his seat in
Regina, he was at once given a well-paid job
by the C.P.R., taken to Montreal and given
intensive training for months, made vice-
president of a large insurance company and
a director of several corporations. And now
he is in the place for which he was given all
the extra training.

Dunning is an outstanding example of a
man of talents who could have been of great
service to the class from which he sprang,
but he chose to go to the fleshpots of af-
fluence and bourgeois social standing.

He first came to prominence as a leader
o fthe United Grain Growers in Saskatche-
wan. Using his influence among the trusting
farmers, he was elected to: the provincial
legislature, thence by way of a provincial
cabinet position, to Premier of the province,
and then to a cabinet position at Ottawa as
the trusted agent of Holt, Gundy, Bennett
and the rest of the financial barons who own
and control Canada.

ELECTION IS OVER -- NOW WHAT!

workers to abstain from struggle and
leave everything to the C.C.l. mem-
bers in the House of Commons for
another five years in the hope of

being cut off

entirely,

some day haying a majority in par-

condemning | ~ x :
liament? And while five

of an elementary education.

‘last Convention

L militant unions

The federal elections are over and
the Liberals are in power with a
comparatively ineffectual group of
€.C.\F. members in the House of Com-
mons. And the workers, employed
and unemployed, as well as many
small business men, professional
people, intellectuals and tens of
thousands of youth have the same
problems to face as before.

The government of Mackenzie
King is a government of financial
eapital just as much as was the gov-
ernment of Bennett. And their policy
will be to maintain high dividends at
the expense of the poor in the old
eapitalist way. :

WMuneger stalks. the land, the Im-
perialist world, including Canada,
moves toward war. The drive

against wages goes on. Plans are be-
Ine hatched to reduce relief allow-
ances, and relief in many cases 15

the victims to starvation. Civil and
democratic rights are. threatened.
The rizht of workers to organize for
the protection of their living stand-
ards is being attacked, while the
courts are more than ever the servile
instruments of the boss class. Social

democracy has outlived its useful-
ness to the capitalist class, first, be-
cause of the disillusionment of the

masses with the policy of class col-
laboration and depending solely on
parliamentary action and, secondly,
because social democracy, which at
one time, could hold the masses back
from struggle, can no longer do so to
a degree suitable to the requirements

of declining capitalism which turns
to Fascism instead.
In this situation what are the

C.C.F. leaders going to do? What are
they going to do with regads to the
needs of the workers? Are they going
tc follow the old line of urging the

waiting
years or more for that majority will
they continue to keep the workers
divided by rejecting the United Front
of strugele outside parliament?

It should be clear to the leaders of
the C.C.F.—as it is becoming clear to
an ever increasing number of the
rank and file—that the old role of
social democracy is played out, that
a continuation of its policy can Jead
only to dissolution while during the
Process the workers will suffer de-
feat after defeat and Fascism will
triumph.

The present situation demands
more than the feeble voices of C.C.F.
members in parliament. It needs, and
most urgently, the Wnited Front
strugele of all working class political
parties, trade unions, unemployed
workers, anti-Fascist forces and of
all who are desirous of and are will-
ing to strive for peace M.B.

Danger Of Canada Engaging In
War And What Can Prevent It

By E> Biggs:
The British capitalist class seem
determined to have a- knock-down-
and-dras-out fight with Italx. In
doing so they are not motivated by
any altruistic desire to rescue the
Isthiopians from the danger of Fasc-
ist oppression, and neither are they
concerned with bringing about the
advancement and enlightenment of
the Ethiopian people, who are held
in illiteracy and feudal darkness un-
der the rule of the absolute monarch,
Haile Selassie.

The history of the conquest of the
backward peoples, who comprise the
bulk of the British Empire, shows
that the “civilizinge misson” of Brit-
ish Capitalism has been to exploit
those peoples for the accumulaton
of profits, and at the same time deny

them the opportunity of bettering
themselves through learning and
education. The Untouchables of In-

dia are just as untouchable now as
when Britain first occupied the
country, and the few Indians who
have attended [British universities
have been mostly higsh-caste Brah-
mins, The overwhelming majority
of the British subjects in India and
Africa are denied even the rudiments

Britain’s Predatory Motives.

When movements for national in-
dependence arise in India and other
parts of the Empire, the British cap-
italists have always replied that
“they are not yet ready for self-
fSovernment,’ yet at the same time
they subdue with military might
every cffort of those peoples which
would be steps for self-development
as a people, and for self-government.

The British capitalists are opposed
to Italian Fascism only insofar as it
threatens the safety of the Empire
upon which the sun never sets, only
to the extent that it threatens -to
interfere with or impede the steady
centuries-old stream of gold that
has been extracted through the ruth-
less exploitation of the millions and
millions of the dark-skinned Bast-
erners,

And British capitalism may well
be nervous at the latest military
moves of the Italian capitalists, for
if Mussolini sucéeds in doing what
he has always said he would do,

“make the Mediterranean an Italian

lake,”’ it means that the short trade
routes to the rich Eastern parts of
the Empire are gone, and also the
quickest route to rush battleships
and troops to subdue any uprising
ofr national freedom and independ-
ence. The massing of forces in the
Italian colony of Lybia, bordering on
Bevpt, indicates that the Italian
commanders have something of this
sort in mind.
War Preparations in Bast.

These are some of the reasons why
Gritain is strengthening the forti-
fications and increasing the garri-
sons of Gibraltar and Malta, why she
has undertaken the greatest concen-
tration of sea-power in the Mediter-
ranean that has been seen since the
the world war. There has also been
a Strengthening of the defense forces
at Singapore, the great British naval
stronghold in the Far East.

This also gives cause for belief
that Britain fully expects to tangle
With Italy. as onee Britain and Italy
are engaged in warfare Japan may
be expected to Swoop down on
Hong-kone and Singapore in an en-
deavor to drive out British imperial-
ism from China and the ar East.
“Asia for the Asiaties’’ is the pro-
Sram of Japanese Imperialism, and it
really means “Asia for the Japanese
capitalist class.”’

If Japan sueceeded in her strugele
with British interests, the United
States would lock horns with her for
domination of the Pacific. The strug-
ele between Britain and Italy would
inevitably spread until it embraced
the world.

Canada and the Empire.

Canada would be involved, due to

her 2eosraphical position on the
Pacific, being sandwiched hetween
thetwo greater powers; and in the

war With Italy, Canada, as part of
the British Ismpire, could only re-
main on the outside if the Canadian
people were united against taking

part.
Although Canada is one of what
the politicians and bourgeois

patriots love to call the British Com-
monwealth of Free Nations, she is
not an independent country. The
Canadian capitalists are free to ex-
ploit the workers and farmers to the
fullest extent, to pass Section
Ninety-eights, to shoot down work-
ers when they demonstrate for

bread,, and to develop imperialis-—

tically through the export of capital
to other countries. But when the
Empire is at war, Canada is at war.

The Canadian capitalists would
support Imperialist war Sladly, be-
eause they have interests all over
the world and it would, to them, be
a fight for profits.

What Can Resist War?

The Commandér-in-Chief of the
Canadian military forces is the Goy-
ernor-General, who is appointed by
the Imperial Government, or, as they
like to say, the Crown. Even if it
were possible for the Canadian Par-
liament to be united in opposition
totakine part in an Imperialistic war,
the Governor-General could order
Gut thetroops, and set the military
machine in motion, and, furthermore,
order the enforcement of the Con-
seription Act of 1917, which has
never been repealed. 4

There is only one thing that pre-
vents the workers and farmers spill-
ing their blood to safeguard the prof-
its of the Canadian and British capi-
talists, and that is their united or-
ganzed determination not to do so.

Faith in the new parliameat to do
this for them is futile. Only the
Communists could absolutely be de-
pended upon to oppose war in the
House of Commons, and even then
their voices would not be sufficient.

The great struggle against war lies
outside parliament; its Succes depends
upon the unity of ereanized and un-
organized labor, the farming popula-
tion, and all other elements opposed
to War.

Time to Act is—Now!

Such unity has been started, but it
canot be said to be much more than
started. The time to achieye it is,
apparently, getting very short. No
labor organization can afford a day’s
indecision asto whether it should en-
ter the movement against war, and
any leaders who oppose such action
should be brushed aside as quickly
as possible.

The convention of the Canadian
League Against War and Fascism
(3.C. Section) te be held in Vancouver
in November will be a test of British
Columbia's anti-war spirit, and as
such it will be judged by the Cana-
dian capitalists. It should resister
the widest, more unanimous, most
definite opposition to the threaten-
ing world war that the province has
yet seen.

The Workers’ Unity League
Congress To Record Immense

Gains; A Three Point Agenda

The Third National Congress of
the Workers’ Unity League will be
held in the city of Toronto on WNo-
vember 9, 10, 11. The first session
will be ealled to order by Jim Mc-
Lachlan, the president, and three
main items will be placed on the
agenda for consideration by the
delegates assembled from all parts of
Canada. These are:

1. The advance towards Trade

Union Unity. |

2. The war situation and Cana-
dian Trade Unionism.
Unemployment and taslis in
coping with it.

These are the questions proposed
by the National Executive Board for
discussion and decision. The whole
work of the Workers’ Unity League
and its affiliated unions since the
in 1933 will be re-
viewed and plans laid for future
work with the greatest stress laid
on the building of Trade Union Unity
in Canada,

During the, month of October the
various sections of the W. U. lL.
throughout the country will hold
special meetings, conferences and
district conventions in prepaartion
for the Congress so that when the
delegates assemble in Toronto they
will have a complete picture of the
situation of the workers in industry
throuzshout the country.

B.C. District Convention
This Week-End

Jn BGritish Columbia the members
of the Workers’ Unity League have
called a district convention to be
held in Vancouver on October 25
and 26. Affiliated unions that will
be represented are the JUumber
Workers, Miners, Relief Camp
Workers, Food Workers, Fishermen
and some other groups.

Under the guidance and direction
of the Workers’ Unity League the
in B.C. have con-
ducted some of the most profitable
strugeles in their history. and have
succeeded in many instances in re-
pelline the wage-slashinge attacks of
the employers.

The Lumber Workers’ Industrial

Union =

The Lumber Workers’ Industrial
Union has gained between five and
six hundred new members this year.
The sirike conducted by this union
in 1933 lifted the wages of the work-
ers and compelled the employers
and the government to accede to the
men’s demands for better working
conditions.

The Union

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Oo.

Steamship Company,
who charged the loggers per
meal Soine up on the boats, was
compelled to reduce the price to 50c
per meal through the activity of the
Union.

This union has set up four wom-
en’s auxiliaries of the union, three
of them being located near the places
of work, one at Port Alberni, one
at Cowichan Lake and one at Camp
6, Youbou; the remaining one being
at Vancouver.

This union collected in the camps
$1.600 for the relief camp boys in
their struggle, and for the longshore
lockout they collected over a thou-

75e

Psand dollars and at the present tim
the Union is Werking jointly with
the defence committee and have a
boat travelling up the coast into the
camps collecting funds for defence
purposes.

The Union prints its own paper
weekly, ABIBVS B.C. Lumber Worker,”
issues 1600 copies and sends them
into the Camps. This paper is widely
read and is a real organizer of the
loggers,

Desirous of Trade Union Unity

With A. EF. of L.

Por several years the Union has
struggled to organiez the sawmill
workers. From an intimation thai
the American Federation of Labor
is going to attempt to organize these
workers, the &%. W. i. UW. is now
ready to co-operate with them. The
Lumber Workers’ Union is ready to
assist them by every means in their

power vezardless whether these
workers are organized into the

United Brotherhood of Carpenters or
any union the workers may desire.
Union is Preparing to Raise
Wages in 1936
The Union is preparing to launch
a Wide struggle in the coming year
for a 50c per day incerase in wages
for every worker in the woods of
British Columbia. This Union thor-
oughly prepares its actions and a
strike fund is being built now in
ease it may be needed. It is deter-
mined to raise the standards of the
loggers to a decent level. The union
is carrying out a determined cam-
paign against the lack of safety
measures in the camps. Thirty-six
loggers have been killed this year in

the woods of B.C.

Fishermen and Cannery Workers
Are Militant Trade Unionists
Another strong union affiliation
to the W-.U.L. is the Fishermen and
Cannery Workers’ Industrial Union.
This Union conducted a militant
strike of Blue Back fishermen at
Deep Bay this season. Through this
strike ihe Union was able to get the
first agreement signed in years, with
the best wages and working condi-
tions for the fishermen and the
cannery workers (men and women)

in a long time.
The Union has 17 locals through-

out the province and has gained 535
new members to its ranks this year.
This is the first year that the Union
has had its own boat for organiza-
tional purposes, and it has brought
excellent results.
Coal and Metal Miners in B.C.
One other major union affiliated
to the League is the Mine Workers’
Union of Canada. Lhis Union com-
menced to build in Princeton, where
the conditions of the miners were
fast becoming intolerable. The em-
ployers resented the worlers orean-
izing and carried out a vicious cam-
paizn against the Union and the
leadership; even going to the extent
of kidnapping Arthur Evans. The
f2overnment lent their assistance
when they sent Evans to QOalkalla
prison for organizing the miners.
On Vaneouver Island the Union
organized the miners of Cumberland
and conducted a strike that bettered
the conditions of the miners there,
and gained a real agreement. At
¢he present time the Cumberland
miners are engaged in a struggle
and a conciliation board is about to
sit. The company have discriminated
against 45 of the most active Miners
in the Union.
War and Unemployment Have
Been in the Background
The Unions of ‘he Workers’
Unity League in B.C. are striving to
pring about trade union unity, but
lave neglected the other two items
on the agenda of the National Con-
gress. These two questions must
be considered in the light of major
importance to the B.C. workers.
Metal miners and smeltermen,
railroad workers, waterfront work-
ers and seamen are very important
in the war industries. To the extent
that these workers are organized
and educated to protect their own
and the rest of the workers’ inter-
ests, will the war plans of the cap-
italists succeed or be foiled.
It the historical task of the
Workers’ Unity League to build up
trade union unity that will compel
the employers and the governments
to give a decent living wage and
conditions to the workesr in indus-
iry and peace to the people of

is

Canada.

perhaps recounted. @&

SEATS IN HOUSE BY PARTIES

TORONTO, Ont.—Latest returns on the federal general elections give
the following standing of the various parties in the next House of
Commons. At least four of these seats, at present listed for Conserva-—
tive (2), Independent Liberal and C.C.F. are disputed by the Liberals,
Next week when the ballot boxes are opened they will be checked and

TIbSTaAls eo ee eee ee eee peeieemertie isessss5 555 169
Gonservatives =... 7-5. + --- =e fis eee ab
Soctal: Gredit: =. 2.2 S22 oe eee re ee eee 17
(Gee Gk a NU ae ARM a ooo Sao Aste 3
Independent Liberals ......---.-------++* ++ ++572- 4
Liberal-Progressive and Progs. ..-.-.---- ae oe 2
Reconstruction =. Sena see oe eee ee eee gf
Independent Conservative ......----+----- 9 -+++5225' AL:
Independent ..... 22-2252 .ss- + ee te Qiao aL:
United Farmers of Ontario ......-.---:+- + +-++s2>= L
Vacant or Doubtful .........---.-.-.------ 97 Ee ee Sa sA

AIO} U8 Bye a ae ee on eG ea seep SS 245 245

* Includes U.F.A., LL.P., Ind.-Lab., and U.F.O. ....-.-.-- --++-- --+-+:-

SHORT JABS |

By Ol Biil

The Community Chest racketi3§
are. again waving the proleta4
alms-basket. The $350,000 objec:
of the local charity-moneers, |

proof of the truth of Marxism. Ga4aj
Feudalism the serf had a chancy
erow into the ranks of the pe™
bourgeoisie and the petty-boure #
could become a bourgeois with 34
improvement and development oi |
dustry; but under capitalism ~
wage-worker and the petty-boure #4
can only develop downward and®
come paupers. DPhe incompetence: |}
the bourgeoisie is demonstre}
more clearly every day; it is pia]
ing its unfitness to rule since it;
not ensure an existence to its slz 4
within their Slavery but has to:
them instead of being fed by th
The bourgeois cannot provide ¥
so that the workers can functior
cogs in his system so he dons 4
cloak of benevolence; and lik.
food bourgeois he tries to m
someone else foot the bill. Theref ©
in the guise of the Welfare Fed |
tion he goes to the factories and
Stores and, like any ordinary st
up man, by intimidation takes hb
from the employed workers som: j
What they haye already earned
Wwages.- Already, also; the “S$
Claus Fund’ and the “Mil
Neediest Gases,” like Hitler's “y)
ter Hilfey’ are being heard ip?

These are social activities in wr
the capitalist Countries are Stilt)
longs way ahead of the Soviet Gni
In that Watherland of the Work
there are no charity-monger!!
tarry-fingered jackals, no Welt
Federation, no “Santa Claus iun-
no “Thousand Weediest Cases.” 4
nearest approach is the Mopr, an
ganization which collects funds fr
the Soviet workers to feed and 9
tect the persecuted victims of a
hatred in capitalist countries. 7
Soviet workers have “rights”

everything they produce in tt
country—they need no charity. —

?
Another business leader ret
to tell us about the passing of Ga
munism in the Soviet Union. Ini
columns of the “Sun,” we learn fp
this wise bird, Hermat by
that, although everybody can ge
job and if they fall sick they {
cared for by the State, a man ¢
walk about the streets with
pocket full of rubles and still no
able to buy many things we co
commonplace. Thai’s in the Sov
Union! In Vancouver a man ¢
have no job, and if he is sick hee
die and go to hell or he can wi
around the streets with emj
pockets and not be able to buy 7
most commonplace things like
bread, mush, spuds, hamburger, c
beef and cabbage or coffee and |
nuts, i

Hermat says the Torssin stores
the Soviet Union only sell |
valuta (foreign currency); and u
it is a crime punishable by death
Soviet citizens to possess vyalt
Who then buys the goods that;
sold in the Torgsin stores? It ¢
tainly is not the tourists who kr
600 Torgsin steres going busily
over the Soyiet Union, The peo
who use them are almost entir
natives and not fereign Visitors.
investigated this personally 4
most of the trade carried on in th
is done, not in yaluta but in &
These stores were opened by —
Soviet government for the expi
purpose of coaxing the hoarded t
sures of the old ruline class oui
their hiding places—and they &
ceeded. A beiter selection of g¢
than could be procured in the
operatives, mostly imported
Europe and America, was offeret
the Tsarist and capitalist rabble 1
still remained in the country—
their gold. They did not nee
worker’s card as they would in
co-operative stores; all they net
was gold. They took the bait. &
sold is now finding its way into
vaults of the Soviet State B;
from where it goes to pay
foreign-built machinery. When
gold stops coming the Torgsin st
will close down, then these 7m
of class society will either ge
work or starve.

Wot so very long ago we use
read in all the capitalist pay
without exception, of the ter
pass that Bolshevism had bro!
the people of Russia to. There
a shortage of everything neces
to sustain life and naturally the
uries that brin= enjoyment to
good bourgeois. All the calam
from which Russia suffered ~
blamed on the Bolsheyiks by
newspaper political economists
historical critics. Famine, block
insurrection and war, these tt
were not taken into considerati
only Bolshevism was to blame
the rationing of food and bread
were stock items of news when 1

ups, bank robberies, finance sv
Jers and Hollywood love tai
failed. Now the German wo!

are going on short commons. 7
is a shortage of the necessary
stituents of every kind of w
The German worker cannot hay
sausage like he used to, even
when he was living on Social D
eratic relief. Armed guards

been placed on all the grocery
butcher stores; everybody is }
rationed—that means every wo
In the Soviet Union when there
a shortage, everyone suffered:
eept the children. In Deutsch
now that there is a shortage ¢
one will suffer except the

overlords and the rich who hav
price, Only passing referenc:
this situation have been made i
capitalist press, and none of —
have yet suggested that the s
age is the result of the pol

system of the Nazis—Fascism.