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Dialectical Materialism Procram tof the7 CA 22s a NOTICE - Meeting of the Childrens’ Sum- = Camp Committee will be held in Lumber Workers’ Union hal st Hastinss St., Vancouver, rember 13th, Wednesday at 2 delesates are respectfully Sted to attend. Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky In Defence The above Literature can ordered through the District fice, “The Worker,’ Room 1, 130 on. p.m. re- PSSASRBa ea BaBEEE EERE REDE DEEEEnEDREET Acquire Knowledge! Our paper must be 2ood. We're drawing the enemy’= fire. Shoot us Send ===, 50c 26c 30c be Of- 5, 163 W. Hastings St., Vancouver. Cash with order. Postage extra. SBD SESS DEBUG SEY SE SY BEEBE EEE to 1) G SAAR ARBRRRBEBREBDEKRUREDR EERE REDE H EEE DOT TH CCRRESPONDENCE Dear Sir: Owing to my absence from the city for Several weeks your letter appearing in the “B.C. Workers’ News” of July 26th has just re- cently been brought to my notice. I wish to contradict your state— Ment that Charies Bergren was de- tained for an hour in our Admit- ting Office receiving medical atten- tion, as he had immediate care in our Emergency and everything Possible was done for him—even to the administration of oxygen. We treat many emergency cases every day, and nobody is refused treat- ment on account of lack of funds. Very sincerely yours. Sister Anne Philomenia, R.M. Superior. Ed. Note: — Information was brought to the “B.C. Workers: Uews’ by a fellow workers of the jlate Charles Bergren of Bridge River, and we published the story in good faith, accepting his report of the case. However, since that time we have further word from a near relative of the deceased, who States that as far as that part of the story dealing with the treat- ment he received at the hospital is concerned, our report was correct. The capitalist press even stated that “he die@ in the admitting room.” His relative states that the only discrepancy in our news item is that “he owed a bill at the Gen: eral Hospital.” Our first informant Was mistaken in this, as he owed no money to the \V.G.H. We are glad to receive the in- formation from the Sister Superior that “nobody is refused treatment because of lack of funds.’ Commission Campboys One Has Unlimited Funds—The Other Is Broke By 8S. HALL While the commission set up by the Saskatchewan government to in- quire into the Regina riots of July ist has unlimited funds at their dis- pesal for the calling of witnesses and for the gathering of evidence that will shift the blame for the riots from the state forces and place it upon the campboys, the workers who are to be defended from the attacks of the police and courts that will at- tempt to send them to prison, have little or no money in the treasury; for getting witnesses to the inquiry. The B.C. Joint Defense Committee is appealing to all people sympathe tic to the camp workers in their struggle to come to the assistance of ihe imprisoned camp workers and their leaders in this instance so tha they will not be handicapped so much in the inyestization. Send all donations to the financia secretary, B.C. Joint Defense Gom mittee, 150 Hastines St. West, Van couver, B.C. Editor’s Note—The B.C. Work- ers’ News heartily endorses this appeal and calls attention of its ‘readers to the glaring example of the recent longshore commission Where huge sums were certainly expended by the soyernment and the employers for lezal assistance and for gathering of evidence that would help to deceive people into believing that the longshoremen were to blame for the lock-out. Regina will be little different un- less we are able to build mass united support for the sufferine campboys and put forward hun- dreds of witnesses to overvhelm the lying propaganda of the capi- talist government and their lackeys. ITALIAN PAPER IS BEING ISSUED Classes for English and Music Italian workers in Vancouver haye commenced a wide program of acti- vity for the winter months led by the “TI Circolo Layoratore italian’’ (Italian Workers’ Circle) which is carrying our educational work for beth young and old. Classes for children include music Jessons, and 25 children are now at- tending a class for reading and writing music. Another class of children are studying the TItalian languaze. There is also a class for adult Italian workers for the studying of English. This educational work is carried out at the hall of the Italian workers at 505 Georgia St. Bast. To Have Weekly Newspaper 4B Lavoratore’” (The Worker) Italian workers’ weekly newspaper will be out on November 22nd. This will fill a long felt want in Wan- couver and B.C. There are about 6 to 7 thousand Italian people in Van- couver and around 20 thousand in SES Gt, The subscription rates for the paper are $2.00 a year, $1.00 for 6 months, and 70¢e for three months. The “B.C. Workers’ News” takes this opportunity of greeting the out- coming of “Il Travoratore’”’ as an- other militant working class paper that will greatly assist in leading and organizing the struggles of the Italian speaking workin= class of B.C. Qur readers can greatly help to make it a success by getting all their Ttalian friends to subscribe to it. Tf you don’t think the camps are military, ask a camp worker to show you his discharge! | $500 to $3000. Tacoma Smeltermen’s | Union Will not Handle Scab Concentrates 3 SCABS KILLED Boss Brags in Seaitle “Times’ That He ‘Led Assault on Picket Line’’ JUNEAU, Alaska. — Thirty-three miners and longeshoremen will face riot charges in court here within the next few days. Conviction on these charges would mean a sen- tence of from three to fifteen years. Additional arrests are being made. following the secret indictments handed down by the Grand Jury late Priday. Up to the time of these in- dictments, sixteen had been charged and released on bail ranging from All charges are the result of a clash between pickets and company euards ana Strike- breakers Jast June, when the Alaska- Juneau Company attempted a re- openings. Two of these charged are members of the Juneau local of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association, the others are members of Juneau Mine and Mill Workers Wocal 205, LW.M.M.& SW. Both are A.T?.of L. unions. Protest to Seamen’s Union. THIRTY-THREE STRIKERS TO FACE RIOT CHARGES IN ALASKA association. Mr. L. Metzear, man- ager of the Alaska-Juneau Company, had a Confidential session with the leaders of the fake union, and told them to get busy. and get results. as he had already spent over $50,000 of A.-J. money and things are not setting any better. Ted Danielson has been removed from the presidency of the bosses’ association . (Danielson is the man who spent several weeks in the Seat- tle hotels, and who boasted to Seat- tle papers that “he led an assault on the picket line and came off win- ners.’’—Seattle ‘Times,’ Aug. 11.) Tt is this assault which furnishes the flimsy basis for riot charges against 33 union men. A-F of I. Miners Renounce Sca Union. Danielson organized the scab union with the promise that it would be the regular union, with an A. of L. charter. Wailing to get a charter in the miners’ international, it is re- ported that the association applied to the United Mine Workers. The U.M.W.A. replied with a very sharp rebuff, it is reported, saying that they could not and woulda not recogs- nize any association that was form- ed during a strike, as it was only a. Strike-breakine union. Even the workers in the mine are refusing to join the association. de- Spite its widely published “club facilities’ and the offer of free beer at its meetings, Company Dominates Press, Hospital, Morgue. The union has protested to the seamen’s union in Seattle, following the unloading of the Steamer De- pere to company barges manned by scabs. Although other boats have recognized the picket boat, which meets all incomine boats forty miles from Juneau, the erew of the De- pere paid no attention to ealls from the picket boat. In a similar case, the §$.S. Alaska took on a load ef concentrates in Tey Straits, forty miles from Juneau. In this case, howeyer, there was no picket boat. The union immediately wired Below of Tacoma and Selby, and re- ceived a wire from the Tacoma Smeltermen’s Union, a local of the T-U.0f MEM. & S.W., that they would not handle these concentrates. Things are not rosy for the scab At least three scabs are reported to have been killed since the mine re- opened in July. The secrecy sur- rounding these accidents makes it hard to get definite facts. Neither the local papers, the morgue or the hospital will sive the trie facts, as they are under AJ. Company dominance. - One man was lost some time azo in one of the chutes. The ore was kept running just the same. but when it failed to force the body out aman was lowered with a rope. who brought out the body. The head was missing. It is now rumored about the mine that another man is now similarly missine. Several bodies have been buried or Shipped out without any public- ity and the hospital is full of A.-J. patients. What price seabbins? By OL’ BILL Dr. Telford has not yet thought it incumbent on him to disown or apologise for, the slanders he launch- ed against the Communists from his funk-hole in the radio broadcasting Station durine the election campaign. He has seen fit, however, or been eompelled by events, to “explain’’ his complicity in what seems to have been nothing short of a racket. These were his own words in dis- sociating himself from the trading scheme known as the “Plenty for All” products, organized by some Socialist party members, for ex- ploiting the earnest and sincere fol- lowing who support Telford's radio broadcasts. In his explanation over the air, the windy ranter of the Challenge told how he had been approached by i Mr. Morgan who had a plan to get funds for radio broadcasting by col- lecting a royalty from the market ing of a Jine of goods to be called the “Plenty for All’ products, to be advertised by Telford on the radio. 50 percent of the net profits were to be paid to the Challenge radio fund in return for Telford’s services. He fell in line with this proposal and now after many months he screams over the air that the thing has been so badly mismanaged (can it be true that this means graft and corrup- tion, I wonder), it has become little better than a racket and the radio fund has not received a nickel out of it. I am informed reliably, that men who have to deal with racketeers, are agreed that the “pay-off’’ is the source of most of the machine-sun- Plenty For All—'T Wonder!’ ning and killings in the gangster industry. When some of the members of a gane figure they have been “sypped" in the split, the suns be- sim to bark. Everything is Now “Settled” Matters did not go the leneth of Shooting in this case, as Telford, in the following address a few days later, announced that everything had been amicably settled. Those re= sponsible for the mismanagement had come to heel, agreed to be good boys, leave the whole thing in the hands of Telford, who is to be wholly and solely responsible, and ALI the profits are to go to the Telford chal- lenge radio fund. Of course Telford's books will be open to Gerry McGeer or any one else who has a bona fide inquiry to make. If it was a racket before the change, will it be any less a racket now that Telford has it all to him Self? Will it improve, I wonder, fo business is business, male no mis take about that? I am of opinion that, although “ours is a task of ser- vice for all,’ rest assured that the main part of the radio programs wil be “Remember the Plenty for Ail products.”” The royalties from milk bottle caps, bread, tea and tobacco package wrappers, cordwood sale and so forth will interfere with the Socialist planning that aims at tak ing over the industries of B.C. at the next election, “FHorning-in"” on a racket was Al Gapone'’s method but it did not kill any racket. A cankerous mess like this should be cleaned up by the C.C.F. before it smothers them. Re- member the “Common Good.”’ Use of Courts in Labor Disputes Scored VANCOUVER, Nov. 1.—Defence of labor from the vicious sentences meted out, was the theme of all speakers at a mass protest meeting in the Anditorium., last Friday night. Mildred Dougan, recently released from Oalkalla jail, compared the treatment of workine class prisoners, particularly the case of Mrs. Turn- er, a mother of six children convicted of “inciting to riot’’ and now avwait- ing sentence in Oakalla jail, to the treatment accorded Joe Celona, con- vieted white-slaver, who is given every privilege. She roused the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm, to rally behind the Canadian Labor Defence League. A Whitewashing Device Matt Shaw, youthful trek leader, touring B.C. for support on behalf of his comrades, who alone with himself are facing lone prison sen- tences on various charges when their eases come up at Regina in January, related the events leading up to the} Dominion Day riot, he stated that the commission to investigate the riot “was nothing more than a face- saving device to justify the use of tear 2 and bullets in Regina on that evening of July ist,” and urged s2s the audience to rally fo the defence of the camp trekkers. longshoremen, Speakers At Great Protest Meeting Demand Release Of Strikers Facing Trial ——_ 2) and Corbin miners. A. M. Stephen, expressing satis- faction over the defeat of Premier Bennett, stated “The Davis investi- gation was a pre-election gesture of the Bennett government,’ that the lock-out of the longshoremen was 2 premeditated plan to smash th transport unions all over the world as a prelude to war. Protest Davis Report The Rev. Hy PP: Davidson, Fellowship for a Christian Social Order, pledged support to Ivan Emery and his brother longshore- men. He read a lettersram from his order to the minister of labor pro- testing the report ef Judge Davis’ findings in the longshore dispute. Other speakers were Mrs. Gleed, of the Vanccuver Mothers’ Council, who asked for support on behalf of of the the blacklisted camp strikers and longshoremen; Ivan Emery, long- shoreman, Malcolm Gruce, and Wil- liam Mahoney. who closed with an appeal for an all-inclusive conference to work out ways and methods to better defend the longshoremen and camp strikers, and the defence of labor. Resolutions of Protest Two resolutions were passed wun- animously by the 1,500 people in at- tendance, one was sent to premier- elect W. L. MacKenzie King and Attorney-General Davis demanding the release and dropping of all charges against the camp trekkers in Regina. The other demanded release of all imprisoned for labor activity. GIRL GYPPED OUT OF WAGES: Sunset Seed Farm Uses Sweat - Shop Practices A girl, a resident of Esquimalt, 21 years of age, answered an adver- tisement in the Help Wanted col- umns of the Victoria “Colonist” last September. The ad ran as follows: “Woanted—Girls for sorting peas. Apply Sunset Seed Farm, Royal Gak.” The sirl was engaged and started work the following Monday. She Worked ten days, eight hours each day. At the end of the ten days she asked for her wages. She re- ceived $3.85 for the ten days’ work. Out of this sum she had to pay two dollars transportation, find her own food, cooking utensils. bedding, ete., and then sleep in a leaky hen house. A Neat Triclx. On the day she received her “wages” she was approached by a young woman who was working on the same job, who asked her for de- tails about her pay, stating that she was an “investigator for the govern- ment ’’ quired information by the victimized girl, this woman expressed the opin- ion that it was scandalous, and told the girl not to worry, because she would take it up with the gsovern- ment and get it fixed up. She told the girl she would hear more about it shortly. One month has passed and the 2irl has heard no more about it. She is wondering if the youne woman was really an investigator for the Zov- ernment or if it was just another dirty trick of the Sunset Seed Farm used to keep their victims’ mouths shut. Upon beings viven the re- TRICKED INTO KEEPING QUIET © I.L.P. NOMINATE QUEEN FOR MAYOR WINNIPEG, Oct. 31. — Mayor Queen Was again nominated a mayor- alty candidate in the civic elections, Novy. 22, at a meeting of the 1.1. central council held Wednesday evening. The I.L.P. platform for the elec- tions was adopted. According te 2 verbal report received by the Work- er, there is great indefiniteness on the unemployed relief plank The Plank it is stated merely states that relief should be sufficient to pre- serve self-respect. This it is pointed out evades specific mention of the demand of all the unemployed or- fanizations in the city for an im- | mediate ten percent increase in the food vouchers. FUR WORKERS IN "PEG MAY STRIKE WINNIPEG, Oct. 31—A general Strike in the Winnipes fur trade is dependent upon an eagerly awaited reply from the New York, gfeneral executive board of the Pur Workers’ Union, A.E.L., according to a state- ment made to the Worker, Thursday Imorning, by Max Federman, officer of the union. Instructions to take general strike action, should they deem it neces- sary, were given the local executive of the union at a mass meeting of the membership held im the Trades and Labor Hall on Monday nicht, Irederman stated. Qver two hundred fur worker members attended that meeting: Workers’ Celebration Committee Sends Reso- lutions To Many Organizations Qne of the most constructive methods of celebrating the 18th anni- yersary of the Russian Revolution has been adopted by the Workers’ 18th Anniversary Committee in Van- couver, which has sent copies of a resolution printed below to 76 labor and other organizations of peace- loving people, and has asked them to adopt the resolution and forward it to Premier Baldwin in Tondon, Eng- land. Any organization which has not received a copy of it should cut it out of this paper and copy it and forward it on in the interests of World Peace, The resolution should also be pre- esnted and adopted at all mass meet_ ings and concerts that are held to celebrate the anniversary of the vic- tomious Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Calls For Britain To Aid Peace By Treaty With Soviet Union London. England. Whereas, The Imperial Govern- ment of Great Britain has facili- tated the rearming of Germany and has concluded the Anelo-Ger- man Naval Pact; and Whereas, These actions have nullified the Treaty of Versailles; aided Germany to become a war menace and have increased the probability of World War iniwhich our homeland, Canada, may be involved. Now therefore be it resolved, That this meeting of Workers of British Columbia urges the British Imperial: Government to withhold further support of Fascist Ger- many and aid the interests of World Peace by a. treaty with the Soviet Union, upon the same terms as the Franco-Soviet Peace Pact. This meeting further urzes that the British Imperial Government withhold shipments of war mater- ials to Japan and take Steps to ob- tain action by the League of Na- tions to halt the war of ageression of the Japanese Imperial Govern- ment against the Chinese people, and restrain the Japanese war RESOLUTION : threats against the Soviet Union. Submitted by “The Workers’ 18th Approved by meeting held at Anniversary Celebration Com- | ................._.. this) ..02. 23 E miuttee”’ rolepeieoe eave Mone days 0f- 4. , 1935. To the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Chairman! oo ee Prime Minister of Great Britain, Name of organization....._....... Smith Report Endorses Boycott of Nazi German Olympic Games VANCOUVER, Noy. 5—Delesates to the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Tabor Council. tonight, were unanimously opposed to the Smith report on transportation in this city. wherein the report stated that the wages of the platform men, (conductors and motormen) were 15 percent too high, also that 70 percent of the present street cars should be one man cars instead of 22 percent as at present in operation. Estimates show that no less than 500 men would be thrown into the ranks of the unemployed, if the Smith report was put into practice The delegates also unanimously endorsed the resolution passed by the Trades and Labor Congress, held in Halifax a short time ago, to oppose Canadian participation in the Olympic Games to be held in Berlin next year, on the efrounds that the Nazi resime is opposed to organized labor. The letter from the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada stated that 17 union officials had been shot by Hitler’s orders, many hundreds were in concentration camps, and many others had fled the country. NEEDLE TRADES INSTALL OFFICERS " WINNIPEG, Oct. 31.—Officers and executive board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, local 216, was officially imstalled by W. J. Nelson, president of the Win- nipez and District Trades and Labor Council, at a general meeting of the membership held Wednesday night. A brief review of the successful efforts of the union to obtain col- lective agreements with the employ- ers, were given by Disenhouse, who Stated that was the first time in Winnipee such an agreement been secured. He reported that about 700 men and women engaged in the ladies’ garment trade are now mem- bers of the union. had | Opposed By Van. Trades Council WEBSTER ELECTED VAN. BURRARD Majority of Four Votes: McGeer Granted Recount VANCOUVER, Nov. 6. — Arnold Webster, GG. candidate. was for_ mally declared elected this morning by a majority of 4 votes, by Return- ing Officer Phipps, to represent Vancouver Burrard in the Dominion Government. Since election day, October 14, Webster and McGeer haye been the central figures in a see-saw contest for the right to represent Burrard. On several occasions Webster was declared successful, only to lose to MeGeer. All decisions were laid aside until today by R. O. Phipps until he had received all absentee ballots. One envelope said to contain four bal- lots, when opened was found to be empty, the votes having been sent elsewhere by mistake. Absentee Ballots Go to Webster. The four ballots in question were received this morning, two were de- elared spoiled, the other fywo were for Webster, giving him a majority of four votes over his Liberal oppon- ent, G. G MeGeer. James McGeer, on hehalf of his brother, G. G. McGeer, js understood to have made application for a judi- cial recount this afternoon. The vote as it now stands is: Arnold Webster 10,185 43 13,123 Local Ab- vote séntee Total A. Webster... 10,185 43 10.228 G. G. MeGeer. 10,191 33 10.224 Application for a recount has been granted, and Judge J. w. Ellis wilt begein the recount today, Friday. at §°a.m: Tt is expected that the recount will take 10 to 15 days. The best and enly way to fight against Fascism and War is to build the United Front of Labor and fight Capitalism. na