masses.—LOZOVSKY. The united front strengthens | the fighting capacity of the B.C. Workers News Intensify the strugele for peace by joining the League Against War and Fascism. - Published Weekly VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1935 Single Copies: 5 Cents SS Wo. 44 ?for Ottawa to Demand Wide Enquiry t.c.F. SUPPORT Will Address Meetings in Winnipeg and Toronto REGINA, Noy. 12.—(GBy wire) — iot enquiry meeiine held here Jast ght was huge success, city hall was icked, hundreds were turned away, ressed by all speakers. The resolu- on demanding the repeal of Section $ and release from custody of all irikers, passed unanimously. ) A delesation will leave immediate- | for Ottawa. The delegation will »mprise Matt Shaw, Rev. East and (e ©.CF_ Provincial Executive will ioose a delesate to proceed with sem. This delegation will address Peetings in. Winnines and Toronto, phere the delesation will be en- ‘reed. They will present the de- sands of the strikers to Premier acKenzie Kinf= at Ottawa for Do- inion-wide enquiry. Evans describes Samson, K-C., who trying toe get strikers to turn stool eons, as an utter skunk, and one the worst labor haters in Canada. 'Eyans has stated that he can iden- ty the Killers of Detective Miller if » is given a complete police line- »). The two thousand dollars reward at is being offered for apprehen- on of the killers would be turmed rer to Miller's daughied, stated vans. : Commission Sitting Postponed a Week. According to the latest reports in e boss press the sittings of the Sas- Vpeseiees: commission to investigate e riots of July 1 at Regina have én postponed yor a week. peakers were the Rev. Bast; M. J. coldwell, M.P.-elect; George Scho- eld of the €.G.¥.M., and Arthur > vans. The demand for a Dominion wide )mimission to investigate relief Waps and the Regina riot was) If Given A Police Line-up’- A. Evans < = = 5 Delegation Left Regina Anti-War Sentiment Grows In Italy ITALY.—Posters and stickybacks bearing Slogans against war and eallinge upon the workers for a Struggle against Fascism as ‘the only enemy of the Italian people” were stuck all over some Italian Ships and in the port areas in Fenoa. The srowing sentiment of the Tialian people against war is finding more and more open expression. In Milan, a group of women laid down on the rails before a train carrying soldiers to the front to prevent the train leaving the station. Railway militia had to clear the track by force to enable the train to leave. NEEDLE TRADES UNITE IN W'PEG Trade Union Unity Is Achieved in Overall Maters’ Trade By CARL HICHIN. WINNIPEG, Nov. 9.— Another Sreat step towards achieving trade union unity in the needle trades was taken here Thursday, when leaders of the Trades and Labor Council and ef the Industrial Union of Needle Trades, announced to a mass meet- ing of shirt and overall workers the eommencement of a united drive to organize the local workers in this section of the trade. There are over $00 shirt and overall workers in this city. : Encouraged by the announcement of this progressive move, over fitty of those workers present filed appli- eations for membership in the new union, Local 35, United Garment Workers’ Union. Ammons those who addressed the meeting Thursday were IL. Vassil of the Industrial Union, W.U.L., and J. Graham of the Zrades and Labor Council, oridge River Miners Not Satisfied With Board’s Findings : Although it was pointed out in ese columns last week that the jajority of the recent conciliation ,ard Tinindes favored the miners re- ardine the wage-scale, it did not low time to make a full analysis | the report, due to the fact the 2m appeared just after the report the findings was made public. ome of the important points taken > at the hearing were not even entioned in the majority report. A complete-evasion of these points as the case. As in the Davis re- rt on. the Longshore situation, the 1\quiry merely went into gsreat de- il on the mechanical workings of e union. The motive apparently Jind this was to find out the ethods adopted in building unity of € workers, so that the company n offset any future attempts of e workers to organize. The board mpletely ignored the working and ane conditions of the miners. -eal Problems of Workers Ignored in the majority report no mention aS made of discrimination; the read between the miners’ and uckers’ wages; high cost of living; e bonus system, ete. The report vored the 48-hour week, which is pposed to be the legal working ur week in any case — and, of urse, the recommendation to move e employment office to a more nvenient place, was such a glaring sce of nonsense that could not be erlooked. When we take into consideration at the miners already had the ssent wage scale “‘definitely”’ reed upon, it was clearly under- od that in the event of any “‘fur- sr erievances’” the men had the erty to apply to the Dominion De- rtment of Labor for conciliation. ese facts are borne out by the tements made by the government d company authorities, in their Sotiations with the men during the ike. Workers Should Fight For Full Agreement. The report can only be taken as complete, and, while the few mts that are favorable should be septed, the workers should make sry effort to have the important mts which were left out in the re- rt included to form the basis for | companies. ONCILIATION BOARD FAILED 10 CONSIDER IMPORTANT PROBLEMS The union is almost 100 per cent in the larger mines, and the feeling is general that an agreement with the companies should be made. This can be done, but the workers should try to include in such an agreement something more than the recommendations of the majority report. iS MEETINGS ON NOVEMBER 7th IN VANCOUVER Mifteen meetings were held in and around Yancouver on the evening of November 7 to celebrate the 18th Anniversary of the Russian Golshe- vik Revolution of 1917. Im the downtown area the meeting halls were packed with workers and friends of the Soviet Union. As speakers related the numerous achievements made by the workers of the Soviet Union and the estab- lishment of a Socialist Society, the erowds cheered ftumultously. Even the capitalist press the next day had to carry news of the wide interest and support accorded. CORBIN MINERS APPRECIATE AID Ed Pearce, secretary Mine Work- ers’ Union of Canada (B.C, District), las received a letter from Florence Apponen, secretary of the Corbin Women’s Auxiliary of the Miners’ Union, expressing thanks for the re- eeipt of parcels of clothing and other necessities. The contents of the parcels were collected by Ukrainian workers in Wancouver and given to Pearce for forwarding. Other workers would do well to follow the example set by the Ukrainian workers, for clothing is badly needed for the children in Corbin where the miners have been condemned to siarvation by the mine owners, supported by terrorism by provincial police. PACIFIC COAST UNIONS DEBATE UNFAIR CARGO Gulf Ports, B.C. Strike Questions at Con- vention SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. i138. — Bighty delegates representing 35,000 maritime workers, met at 10 a.m. in the California Hall, at Polk and Turk Streets, in this city yesterday, to debate among other things the question of “hot cargo.”’ This is the first convention of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific Since it was organized early last year. The convention meets at a time when great struggles are tak- ing place, such as the strike of the Gulf Port longshoremen, the lock-out of the B.C, Maritime Workers, and the atempts of the Waterfront Em- Ployers Association to smash the waterside unions of the Pacific Coast as a prelude to wage-cutting and blacklisting, thereby paving the way for an unhampered Imperialist war. Two Canadian delegates. William Mitchell and Stan. Blake are in at- tendance from the Longshoremen and Water Transport Workers of Canada, who have been locked-out since June 4. They will press for a complete shutdown on all hot cargo from B.C. ports, and ask for further financial and moral support. Harry Lundebers, militant mem- ber of the Seattle local of the Marine Firemen and president of the Mari- time Federation of the Pacific, will preside. PATTULLO GOVT. TO MILITARIZE B.C. YOUTH Premier T. D. Pattullo, during a public address on Priday, November 9, made some startling statements that should rouse the youth of Brit- ish Columbia against the plans of the Provincial authorities to mili- tarize the youth of this province as a part of the Dominion government’s preparations for war. “The only reason that we have not been gobbled up by foreign nations) is the protection afforded us by Great Britain,” he remarlx- ed. He further added: “This would be an opportune time to afford some of our young mien, who are being inculeated with ideas subver- Sive to orderly government, the opportunity to serve in our land, sea and air forces.’ Supports British Inperialisni. Premier Pattullo now comes for- ward as a supporter of British Im- perialism, apparentiy favoring Cana- dian assistance to Great Britain in any imperialistic venture upon which she may embark. : From the premier’s statements we can only gather that the Provin- Sovernment will in the very future conduct an intensive the militarization of the Goncéuied behind the smoke sereen of the Young Men's Forestry Training Scheme, Young Men’s Mining Training Camps, etc., this drive has already commenced. cial near drive for youth in B.C. Statement By Canadian Labor Defense League On Willia In reference to an item which ap- peared in Wednesday mornines’s Wews-Herald to the effect that Wm. Squires, longshoreman, charged With “unlawful assembly’ announces that appeals on behalf of his retrial are being handled by a committee of ex-servicemen and that any solicita- tion of funds for his defense is un- authorized and that the Canadian Labor Defence League and W.E.S.L. has been granted no authority to deal with the case. A list of veter- ans’ organizations followed. We wish to emphatically state that the Squire family prior to Squire’s release telephoned our office every day asking us to get Squire out of jail. They asked us to lodge the appeal, and we did this through our lawyer, Mr. Gordon M. Grant, who spent three weeks working on the case. At no time did we ask Squire or his family to pay any of the expenses, which amounted to over $250, nor have we any inten- tion of doing so. Squire is charged with “robbery With violence” and not with “unlaw- ful assembly.” He was sentenced to three years and five lashes by Mesis- irate Gillies of Burnaby and the sey- erity of the sentence, the fact that we were convinced of Squire’s inno- eence, and above all because his pro- secution arose out of his labor activ— ities was the motive for us to work on the case, to gain an appeal and faise bail pendine the outcome. Our organization defends any worker who is arrested for labor ac- livities. The fumds raised for this Purpose come from donations of our members and from sympathetic workers and lovers of justice. Veterans’ organizations in the city. apart from the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s Leazue, failed to support our organization in the case of Squire until this moment. We would cer- tainly have welcomed their assist- ance. When Squire was sentenced, and when we made application to appeal the sentence; our representative, alons with Gordon Grant, our attor- ney, visited Squire in Qalkalla, who expressed complete Satisfaction with the way we were conducting his case. This is the first time, as far as we can ascertain, that a man convicted of “robbery with violence’ has ever been released on bail. We are glad to see that these in- fluential weterans’ organizations are taking up the case. In isolated cases, it often happens that individuals can successfully carry out an appeal of this nature by utilizing political in- fluence. These cases are rare—espe- cially among workers such as work on the docks. We, therefore, depend upon our method, which in the maj- ority of cases, is the only successful method, and that is mass pressure of the widest scope. Canadian Labor Defence League (B.C. District), Per FE. Lueas. Acting District Secretary all-round agreement with the REPARE the machinery cember Drive for the “WORKER” and the “B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS” for a two thousand dollar war chest and increased circulation! NOW to put over the De- m Squires Case eS Princeton Terrorized By B.C. Police Workers Cut Off Relief for Meeting Matt Shaw PRINCETON, 3.C., Nov. 11. So intense is the police terror here that it is very difficult to find anyone to sell or to distribute the B. C. Workers’ News. Provincial Police work hand in hand with the Relief Agent and anyone seen selling the paper is cut off relief. G, Dobie and J. Geronich were cut off relief for going to the railroad station and meeting Matt Shaw when he visited here. The B.C. Workers’ News sells good, as the workers like to read it, but the chief difficulty is in heing able to get some one to handle it. Editor’s note—The only remedy for this terroristic attitude of the police and the government of B.C. is united mass protest action. In another column ofthis issue of our paper appears a condensation of an article by Walter Citrime. This should be widely read and circu- Jated among thousands of iork- ers in the C.C.F. and in Reformist Trade Unions as it is a distinct warning of what will happen to the workers of Canada if we do not organize wide united action to repel such police terror. OSSES’ COURT CRACKS DOWN ON STRIKERS “Can Identify Killer Longshore Leader Sentenced To Three Months In Oakalla; wo Get One Year; Seven, 9 Months SABOTEURS IN SOVIET UNION BROUGHT TO HEEL ARCHANGEL, U.S.5.R—Gounter- revolutionary remnants, financed by foreign capitalists, haye been active in the North. Retkin, of the collective farm of Petronox, and a group of his accom- plices were arrested for sabotaginse. They were sending reindeer herds to the same pasture lands they had grazed on for three years. Depletion of the publicly-owned herds as a consequence amounted to $000 head of reindeer. MAYOR McGEER USES ‘BIG STICK’ Rules Resolution for a Plebiscite on City Hall Site ‘Out of Order’ Mayor McGeer ruled the resolution of Ald. De Greaves calling for a plebiscite on whether a new City Hall should be built on the Central School site or at Strathcona Park, out of order last Tuesday at a meet- ing of the Gity Couneil. The council chamber was packed with spectators lone before the coun- cil met, most of them being people from the Strathcona Park area. Heated discussion between Ald. De Greaves and the mayor followed the mayors ruling. The alderman ap- pealed the ruling but on a vote be- ing taken, the mayor was sustained by a vote of 7 to 5. A two-thirds majority was necessary to upset the rulins. Mayor McGeer, straight from a month’s vacation, spent in a sani- torium in California, threatened the couneil that if they cannot agree on the Strathcona Park site, it is time that “a more stable form of fovem- ment be provided for Wancouver.” Later on in the proceedings Mayor MeGeer again warned the council that if they cannot agree upon con- struetive civic projects “it is time that an administrator was appoint- ed.’ Throughout the whole proceedings the mayor continued to use the “big stick”’ on the council. He was vigor- ously opposed by “a minority of the aldermen. The majority, however. jumped whenever he said“Go” and the decision to take a plebiscite on the question of the City Hall as agreed upon when the mayor was absent was dropped by the majority of the aldermen when the mayor held the club over them. UNEMPLOYED TO GET CLOTHING Unemployed ‘workers of Coquit- lam are going strong, haying won a 40 per cent clothing allowance for all striking Joneshoremen in this area. Demands for extra relief allowance are being presented and the unem- ployed are prepared to fight for them, A man-power stump-puller is also a centre of attention, on which the unemployed refuse to work and will take strike action of necessary. Striking longshoremen in this area have added a momentum to the un- employed struggles that the council will not find easy to cheel:. Must Work To ‘‘Earn’’ the Miserable Dole EDMONTON, Alta., Nov. 9.— The voters who looked for salvation while preservin= capitalism, and who voted the charlatan Aberhart into power, are having the scales torn from their eyes. The $25 per month dividend Aber- hart promised befere the election is not forthcoming. The evangelist humbug who talked discouraged and dispairing people into making him provineial premier. as soon as safe- Iy esconced in office announced that it would be 18 months or tio years before he could pay the Social Credit dividend. Pressed by the bamboozled and hungry farmers and workers, he now announces a “dividend” of $5.00 a month from the provincial goverm- | ment, to be supplemented by $2.50 | 2a month from the municipality, but the recipient must work in return for the dividend. Thus the Social Credit dividend is ! nothing more than relief at Social Credit ““Dividend”’ To Be Camouflaged Relief starva- tion wages, which may set an even lower standard of relief than that which prevailed before. 14 Ships Discontinue Service To Naples The economic sanctions of the League of Nations are beginning to be felt in Italian ports. A number of foreign shipping companies have de- cidede to stop their service to Naples. Two British and two Dutch, as well as one Anglo-Eeyptian com- pany, have taken such decisions. This entails 14 ships of these vices not calling at Naples any long- er. Up till now these ships traded there regularly for passengers and cargo. SCr- ITALIAN TROOPS. ARE ROUTED One Thousand Italian Colonials Taken Pris- oner; Tanks Are Captured Press reports state that one thou- Sand Italian colonial troops have eenn taken prisoners by the Ethio- pian army in the fighting at Anele and 12 Italians killed. Six Italian tanks have been captured, and Itak ian troops routed and in retreat. Another attempt has been made by British diplomats to induce Italy fo withdraw troops from Libya. where they are reported to menace Gritish interests in Beypt. BURRARD RECOUNT MAY BE UPSET VANCOUVER, Nov. 14. — Court proceedings were taken yesterday by ex-solicitor for the city, Williams, to make the re-count of ballots in Bur- rard illegal. The writ was filed on be- half of a bona-fide elector, A. Kood, longshoreman. The suit is based on the question of who is the senior County Court Judge. Mayor McGeer claims that the present Judge conducting the re-count, Judge Hllis, is senior, while others claim that Judge Har- per is Senior. A Judge of the Supreme Court will decide who is eligi- ble to make the re-count. Up to late (Wednesday Mc- Geer was winning in the re- count by 16 votes, thus changing the lead of Webster of four yotes to a lead for Mc- Geer of twelve votes. It is expected that the Judge will announce who is elected on Saturday, Nov. 16. “Keep Your Chin Up!’ Shouted by Spectators as Emery Is Led to Police Van 6 GET 9 MONTHS “Keep the Picket Line Going”’ Is Hurled Back at Crowd by Con- victed Victims Crowds of workers cheered and shouts of “Keep your chin up’ came from numerous Jonsshoremem whilst convicted strikers replied, . “Keep the picket line up,” when Ivan Emery, longshore leader who- Was convicted of counselline an un— lawful assembly in connection with~ the strikers’ march on Ballantyne- Pier, was sentenced to three months- in Qakalla Jail by Mr. Justice Mur— phy as the Assizes this morning. A number of longshoremen and their sympathizers who partici— pated in the march en to Ballantyne Pier last June were sentenced to nine months. The jury had recommended merey for Emery. Sentences included the following= ivan