_ War.—LEN IN. _ Social-Chauvinism is adherence to the idea of “defending the - Fatherland” in an Imperialist B.C. WORKERS The lash is now being used on striking workers. Unite io smash the Pattullo terror! EWS VOLS1 Published Weekly. VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1935 Single Ss Copies: 5 Cenis —<— No. 43 a esa ETI i Conservativ Goiinisise Bs Polls Decis- ive Labor Vote in N. Winnipeg THANKS _TO PRESS | Liberal Blames ‘‘Slimy Tactics’’ for Heaps’ Election To show the trickery of the Gon- Servatives and Heaps in Winnipeg tion results and a comparison with the figures in the previous election in 1930. | It can be readily seen that Tim Buck polled the decisive labor vote, } getUine more votes by 500 than Heaps received in 1930. Had Heaps not had a united front with the Conservatives whereby around 5000 votes were switched over to him when the Conservative Party with- ' drew their candidate and called upon Conservatives to vote for | Heaps to defeat Buck, Heaps would have gone to the “political ash- can.” | Comparison With 1930 Returns 1930— Blake (Cons.) ....... Boma EE) ieaps: (GC Ga) seskn 6911 Morris (Comm) sos ce ose 2164 Motel eee ose eee 14087 ) 1935— Booth Lib.) wae ey yeinnee ce 8,307 pelebns: (OREN S) Esa scn ess 12,148 Wellwood (S.C.) .......... 870 T. Buck (Comm.) ........ 7,418 Total Im 1930 56 per cent of the Beco ate voted. In 1935 76 per cent voted. After making all allowances for ad- ditional territory added to the con- stituency, the Conservative support ef Heaps is readily seen in the above figures. Woodsworth Thanks the Boss Press Wor did J. S. Weodsworth fail to express his gratitude to the Con- servative press for it after the re— sults were published. The Tribune reports him as expressing thanks to the Canadian Press and some Canadian newspapers for their as- sistance (Winnipes Evenings Trib- une, Oct. 14, page i). Liberal Booth after the publica- tion of the results also stated that, “Among the Ratepayers at a meeting in Emer- son Hall, Kingsway. Reason for the change, he said, is that it is not fair to permit 2 childless couple to get the same deduction as a couple with children. It is proposed to allow a man and wife to keep $10 ofsearnings free of deduction, plus $2.50 for each ehild up to four. The increase is expected to go into effect as soon as approved by the City Council. The city’s relief cost would be increased by its percentage of the extra money that will go into fam- ily budgets instead of being de- dueted from relief. RELIEF CAMP WORKER KILLED BOSTON BAR—Joseph Rissi, 55, powder man at Camp 348, was in-= Stantly killed Saturday when he slip- ped off the trail over the mouth of the C.N_R. tunnel at Chapman’s and fell 60 feet head first, landing on the tracks. A coroner's jury returned a dict of accidental death. ACERS 3 YEARS AND FIVE LASHES &G ‘JAPANESE ISSUE VEN STRIKER Physical Torture Added To Prison Term By Boss Court In The Drive To Smash Unionism IVAN EMERY Longshore leader who faces 2 charge of “‘incitine to riot” at the Court House on Nov. 7. This trumped up charge is a result of the mass picketing at Ballantyne Pier on June 18. | first six months of this ye Savage Sentence in Rottenest Frame-up of Recent Years Shows Vicious Desperation of Shipping Federation B.C. TELEPHONE WORKERS TO GET WAGE-CUT BACK VANCOUVER, Oct. 24—Owing to the increased demand of tie organ- ized workers of the B.C. Telephone Company, the 2144 per cent wage cut will be restored on November 1 and at the same time all wage cuts in effect to unorganized workers of the company will be restored. The company states that this re- storation of the wage cut is due to the tremendous increase in tele- phones installed and to an increase in Jong distance revenues for the Cal: It is well known that the Union ef the telephone employees was pre- paring a referendum for the mem- bership on the question of the ‘“re- storation of the wage cuts.’ This will now be unnecessary. 60G British Planes In Mediterranean ROME. — British naval forces in the Mediterranean comprise 600 air- planes, including 100 hydroplanes, according to ‘‘Lavoro Fascista.’”’ Communists Are Nominated For Aldermen In Winnipeg Penner and McNeil Are Unanimous Choice Bilecki Is Nominated for School Trustee WINNIPEG, Oct. 20—Over five thousand workers through their more than 75 elected delegates at the Communist Municipal Blection Con- ference, held here, Sunday, nomin- ated Alderman Jaceb Penner and School Trustee Andrew Bilecki to be Ward 3 Communist candidates for alderman and school trustee respec- tively, in the cGivic elections to be held November 22, Penner and Bilecki are seeking: re- election. after two years on the City Couneil and the School Board. spent with Considerable success in gaininge= econeessions for the workers of this CLV. Well IXnown Railroad Worker Nominated In Ward 2, pohn (Joek) McNeil is to be the Communist aldermanic candidate, the nomination for schoo!) trustee being left temporarily in abeyance. All nominations were unanimous, no other names being put forward. Jock McNeil, presently and for the past fourteen years employed as a machinist in the C.P.R. Western Shops. is the popular militant Ghair- man of the Western Railroad Work- ers Organization. His trade union activities during. the past several years have gained for him the high esteem of not only his workmates in the shop but of workers and un- employed of all trades and indus- tries, Alderman Penner received appre- ciative attention As he recorded the many gains achieved in the eoun- cil, through his and Forkins’ efforts, for the workers of Winnipes. Dis- eussion during the convention was One of the most dastardly attacks yet perpetrated against the working class by the Fascist organization call- ing itself the Citizens’ League of British Columbia appeared n a half- page scare advertisement in the cap- italist papers of Vancouver last Sat- urday and Monday. The League reprinted a _ story which appeared in the Province newspaper on October 15th, which told of a scab having been assaulted and badly beaten, endangering his sight. The Province story clearly Stated that the police said that he was NOT assaulted by strikers, but | by a gang of hoodlums. A Dirty Implication. Nevertheless, the Citizen’s League Screams “WHO ARE THE INCIT- ERS OF THIS SORT OF THING2” and seeks to blame the assault upon the waterfront pickets. In order not to conflict with the statement of the police that it was not strikers who committed the assault, the vicious Teague asserts that the locked-out were determined resistance of the talian merchant seamen to the Italian seamen declare: We won’t go to Africa! longshoremen do not constitute 10 per cent of the pickets, the other 90 “organized lawless in boldface type: These Lawless per cent being Zanes,” and asks “Who Organized Gangs?” JicGeer’s Fake Clean-Up. This and other questions in the paid-for Space, following the stream of slanders against the Reds and the locked-out workers, are for the pur- pose of making people believe that it is the Reds and the Unions that have crganized them. Despite the ravings of Mayor Mc- Geer about his cleaning up the city of its criminals, the fact is that Van- couver infested with gangsters, the old sangs having been aus- mented by the special police recruited from the dregs of humanity and armed by McGeer, the Citizen’s League and the Shipping Federation, at great expense to the taxpayers. And at times these plugeuslies are too drunk, or too indifferent, to dis- tinguish a seab from a decent man, it beine only money they want. There’s a Reason. The scurrilous attack by the Giti- is zens’ League has a well defined pur- pose. It is more than just another which Foul Slander Of Citizens’ League falsehood. Tits purpose is to create a public sentiment to offset the deep resentment aroused in the hearts of all decent people against framing Strikers on charges of “Robbery with violence,”” and sentencing them to lone terms-in prison, with lashes. People Are Not Fooled. The people of Vancouver are sick of the vemon emanating from the the foul nest of Fascism on Riehards Street. The people are disgusted with papers so devoid of common bour- seois decency as to print such foul Slanders for a price. The decent people of Vancouver will not be de- ceived and misled by such mendac- ity into antagonism azainst the workers who are strugsline heroical- ly for bread for themselves and their families. For they recognize such advertisements as of the me cehar- acter as that of the press campaign worked up public hysteria against Tom Mooney in 1916, and the Hascist rages of Hearst and tecoz- nizing it as cuch, will support more heightened by Strongly and loyally than ever, the strugeling waterfront workers. Tim Buck, general secretary of the Communist Party. when he clearly outlined the necessi- ty of entering Communist Candidates in elections as part of the strugele for the united front of labor, which has been so often turned down by leaders of the C.G.F. and I.L.P., and as part of the fight to elect an anti- capitalist majority of I.L.P. and Communist candidates. Workers, General Public. Aroused Against Flag- rant Use of Courts WILL BE APPEALED Establishing a new high standard of brutality against the workers, a capitalist court in Burnaby, B.C, presided over by Magistrate Gillis, inflicled a sentence of three years AND FIVE LASHES on Williana Squires. The trial of Squires was the most open, shameless and cynical frameup amiong the many frameups of the police at the behest of the anti- union enemies of labor yet perpe- trated. The charge upon which Squires Was convicted on the evidence of a scab was Robbery with Violence, but the “erime’’ for which he re- ceived the savage sentence was that he was a striker. Rewarding Heroes Squires is a longshoreman, aged 22, 2 World War veteran who was awarded the Distinguished Gon-— duct Medal and also the Military Medal for bravery in the field. He is now afflicted with Bright’s dis- ease and in danger of losing his small pension. The charge on which he was tried Was of beating and robbing a scab named Nicola Silverstone, a well-to—- do receiver of an income of more than $100 a month on property Lold— ings. He also has a fat bank ac— count. He had not worked for five years until the lockout of the long— shoremen when he went to work for the Shipping Wederation. Falked Evidence Although the beating up of the Scab took place on August 10 it was not until September 19 that the po- (Continued on page 3) Useless Tramping Forced Upon Relief Recipients Make F ar Eni Trek To Employment Office for Non-Existent Jobs Vancouver City Council last Mon- day added another burden to unem- ployed workers on relief. In addi- tion to other bureaucratic iniposi- -tions the Council has decreed that each recipient must tramp to the effice of the Unemployment Service of Canada at Jeast onee in every two weelks and go through the motions of asking for a job that does not exist. The relief authorities and the Unemployment Service of Canada have the names and addresses of all on relief, If a job is available they can easily notify anyone they wish to give it to, without forcing upon the jobless the humiliation of tranmiping to their offices applying for jobs without hope in their hearts. The aim of all such bureaucratic red tape is to harass the relief re- eipient aS much as possible in order that in dispair he or she will stop asking for relief. Such unnecessary hardship, hu- miliation and discouragement is de- vised by the authorities chiefly to attempt to Jill the fighting spirit of the workers and if not combatted effectively with organization vill succeed, and even in some cases will often drive workers to suicide. Max Farber Wins Freedom TORONTO,Ont.—Max Farber, shoe worker sentenced to two years for strike activity in the Tilley-Williams shoe workers’ struggle, will be re- leased from Kingston penitentiary. He started his term in November, 1934. Farber’s wife, after receiving intimation of his release from Ot- tawa, phoned the Department of Justice and was informed he would be released on ticket-of-leaye. A wire from Farber himself said he would arrive in Toronto. Shoe and Leather Workers’ Industrial Union, of which Farber is a member, has arranged a reception for him at the railway Station. ANNOUNCEMENT The Mother’s Council is holding Afternoon Whist and Tea at 2 p.m. Tuesday, October 29th at the Majestic Hall, corner of Hastings am and Homer Streets, Vancouver. WORKERS LOSE VOTES AT SHERE By Workers Correspondent. . SHERE, B.C., Oct. 15—About 20 railroad workers, and nearly all of these G.C.If., were robbed of them vote here on October 14th, because no arrangements were made for ap—- Ssentee voters; they being absent from their polling district. Now that the elections are over there is no recourse left but to srim and bear if, but it Clearly shows the workings of capitalist democracy, Which professes to be so anxious to See that all eligible shall cast their yote. Im this particular poll 23 per— sons voted, and if proper provisious had been made there would have been another 20 votes recorded. King Chooses ‘His Cabinet Ian MacKenzie Is Head of National Defense OTTAWA, Oct. 23.—Prime Minis-— ter Mackenzie King has chosen his cabinet. Among those to be selected is Tan MacKenzie of Vancouver Centre. He has been chosen to take the place of Grote Stirling as minis— ter of national defense. This means that the relief camps are now under Gis supervision, at least until the Liberal government withdraws the camps from under the control of the department of national defense, if they really intend to ever do so. The campboys should lose no time in setting in touch with this new minister and placing their demands squarely before him. REFUSE TO INSURE ITALIAN SHIPS LONDON. — Bombay firms have been informed by insurance com- Panies that policies will not be is Sued for cargo ships Sailing under the Italian flags, reports Reuter. Wor Cargoes sailine from India through the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, the rates for insurance against losses liable to he incurred as the result of war have increased by 4006 Ber cent, a |