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face Two
“SOVIET RUSSIA BETTER
PLACE TO LIVE IN”’

“Soviet Russia is-a better place to
‘live in than Germany,” was the sub-
ject in question Guring an inter-
- collegiate debate between a team re-
presenting the University of British
-Columbia and the University of
Saskatchewan taking the affirma-
-tive with students from McGill Uni-
“versity (Montreal) taking the nega-
vtive.
Judges of the event cast their
votes unanimously in favor of the
-affirmativye.

STUDENTS OPPOSE WAR

In a debate in the University of
British Columbia Parliamentary
Forum Tuesday night, U.B.C. stu-
dents refused by a vote of two to
one to fight if military sanctions
are imposed on Italy.

YOUTH BODIES UNITE

A joint convention of the Co-
operative Commonwealth Youth
Movement (©. C.¥.) and the Young
Socialist League (Y.S.L.) held in the
O'Brien Hall, recently, decided un-
aAnimously for a merger of both
youth sroups. The name for the new
ody will be the Young Socialist
Teascue, B.C. Section of the C.C.Y.M.

To Issue Joint Organ

"The official organs of both
sroups, the “Amoeba,” of the
@cy., and “Spark” of the Y¥.S.L.,
re to be suspended and replaced
‘by a new monthly publication repre-
senting the united body. The new
‘paper will be under the editorial
direction of Richard ©. Morgan.

The new president of the organi-
-gation is Roy Woodrow, with Mary
“Gower as corresponding secretary.

Unity Will Win Youth

Iraternal delegates irom the
C.C.F., Young Communist League,
and Sparticus Youth brought frater-
mal ereetings to the convention and
pledged further support to the new
-ginited body.

Tt is felt that the unification of
-the two sSroups will be instrumental
“in winning larger sections of the
youth in British Columbia into the
prosressive youth movement.

OPPOSED TO OLYMPICS

MINNEAPOLIS. Noy. 21.—Ma-
‘dame Sonja Branting, daughter of
the late Prime Minister Hjalmar
Branting, of Sweden, declarea on
Sher arrival here that American
-youth should refuse to take part in
the 1936 Glympies in Berlin.

“Tf they do,’ she said, “they will
he used just as were the delegates
to the international penal law con-
~@ress—for the propaganda purposes
of Hitler, Goebels, Goering and other
Wazis.”’ Mme. Branting was a dele-
zate to the penal congress.

REFUSE GRANT FOR OLYMPIC
TEAM
WINNIPEG.—Application for a
#rant of $500 towards cost of send-
ine Canadian girl athletes to the
@lyanpie Games in Berlin next year
was rejected by the civic finance
<ommittee today, because of anti-
Semetic, anti-labor activities in
Germany. Alderman John Blumberg
5nd other aldermen said they could
mot support any proposal of send-

MAURICE RUSH

EGYPTIAN YOUTH LEAD FIGHE
FOR FREEDOM,
University students in Egpyt are
playing a leading part in mobolizing
all sections of the Egyptian people
to fight for the emancipation of
their people from WGritish Imperia-
lism
Students March at Funeral
Five thousand students in Cairo
marched at the funeral of Maham-
med Abdel Hoakenm, instructor of
the Faculty of Arts at the Univer-
sity of Cairo, who was killed in the
anti-Imperialist demonstration last
week by British troops. Many anti-
Imperialists have been killed and
wounded in previous attacks upon
demonstrators by Gritish troops.

4 Ttalian Invasion Stirs Colonial
Peoples
One of the reasons why Great
Britain opposed the invasion of
Ethiopia by Mussolini and tried to
prevent it was for fear that it would

rouse the enslaved peoples in the

colonial countries to struggle for

their National liberation.
Mussolini's policy is now having

its repurcussions in Egypt and will
probably spread to other colonial
eountries.

UNITED FRONT MOST DANGER-
OUsS

Mussolini was discussing the vari-
ous Ethiopian fronts with his miili-
tary staff. Turning to one of his
generals he said, “‘which front do
you think is the most dangerous to
use i

“The
lency,”’
feneral.

United Front. your excel-
immediately responded the

IS IT STRANGE TO YOU THAT—
The United States Department of
Justice records more arrests of 19-
year-old youth than in any other age
£roup.

The Younes Communist League in
France has increased its member-
ship from 4,000 in February, 1934,
to 20,000 in November, 1935.

For every casuality in the World
War (1914-1918) financiers and mu-
nition makers earned $12,000.

The Gonscription Law still remains
upon the Statute Books of Canada.

U.S. Member International Olympic
Committee Opposes Olympics

NEW YORK. — Ernest Lee
Jahneke, one of the United States
members of the International Olym-
pic Committee, said he would do
“Ail IT can to persuade my fellow
Americans that they ought not take
part’ in the Olympic Games “if they
are held in Nazi Germany.”

Jahncke aired his views on the
current Olympic dispute in letters
to count Henri Baillet-Latour, presi-

dent of the International Olympic
Gommittee, and Dr. Theodor Le-
wald, chairman of the German

Olympie Organizine Committee.
Have Nothing to do With Games
“Tt will be a calamity, in my
opinion,”” said Jahneke in a Jetter to
Dr. Lewald, “if America does parti-
cCipate, for it now appears as if the
Olympic idea can be saved only by
the refusal of Americans and of
other peoples to have anything: to
do with the mes if they are held in
Germany.

“Although it srieves me to have to
Say so, I simply do not believe that
the German pledges with respect to
Jewish athletes and other so-called

ga

Aine athletes to Germany.

non-Arvyvan athletes, have been kept.”

+}

Defence News|

SPEEDY TRIAL

Five longshoremen, and seamen,
*—. Olsen, E. Smith, HW. Moffatt, A.
Snooks and R. Daniles, committed
40 trial by Magistrate Matheson,
=vere brought in to Vancouver from
Oakalla Jail last Monday and elect-
ed for speedy trial before a County
Court judge on Tuesday, December
8rd. All sympathizers are asked to
be present at the trial.

PRISONERS IN GOOD SPIRITS

Visited by representatives of the
©.L.D.L., all labor prisoners in Oak-
Alla Jail are reported to be in good
spirits. All who are conyicted are
wrorkinge at various jobs. Emery is
playing nursemaid to a cow, several
are kalsominine cells, some are
workings in the fields. All are receiv—
ine the tobacco being sent to them.

PRISONERS STRIKE

It seems that strikes are not con-
fined to the waterfront. In Oakalla
Jail, Scab Garlson, was assigned to
“work in the machine shop. Immedi-
ately on arrival he found himself
ostracized, and the other workers
refused to work as long as Carlson
remained on the job. The warden,
at a loss as to what to do with such
4S specimen, placed him all by him-
‘self in a large field picking beets.

MACDONALD AGAIN USES
SECTION 98
From Nelson, B.C., the District
Committee G.L.Di. has received
-word that Inspector MacDonald, of
the Provincial Police, is continuing

his nefarious activities and invok-

ings Section 98. The Ukrainian Labor
Temple there was raided by this
red-baiter, and books, dues stamps
and other materials were confiscated.

All workers and workers’ organi-
zations should immediately lodge
protests with Attorney-General
Sloan, Parliament Buildings, Vic-
toria, B.C. Other labor papers please
note.

PRISONERS RELEASED

This week has seen the release of
five labor prisoners from Princeton
and vicinity and others from Van-
couver. The D.EB.C. extends the
warmest greetings to these class
fighters and welcomes them back
to the ranks of labor. Thirty-three
still remain in OQakalla Jail.

BALBAR FREE

Frank Balbar was acquitted and
Stewart Stone and Cecil Rhodes
were remanded this week when they
appeared before Magistrate Mathe-
son on charges of “assault.” Stone
and Rhodes have been remanded
about five times. The cases are be-
ing conducted by the CL.D.L. with
Gordon Grant as defense attomey.

LOCAL DELEGATE COUNCIL

All branches of the C.L.D.L. in
Vancouver and vicinity are request
ed to send representatives to the
next meeting of the Local Delegate
Council meeting which will be held
in the District Office, 28 Flack
Building, on Sunday, December ist,
at 11 a.m. Matters of vital import-
ance to all members will be discuss-
ed.

to Your

Orders of Ten or Over, each

Send a Revolutionary Greeting Card

—_- Prices for Greeting Cards
Single Cards with Envelopes to Match

Friends!

5e

—. Order from “B.C. Workers’ News’ Office
Announcement North Vancouver. We have asked

The Women’s Labor League of
Worth Vancouver have formed a
«Corbin Miners’ Children Club, and
‘are soliciting donations of clothing
or the miners’ children. All do-
mations will be receivel at the Work-
ers’ Gentre, 200 First Street East,

the local C.C.F. Club to co-operate
with us in this respect in every way
they can.

The best and only way to fignt
against Fascism and Wer is to build
the United Front of Labor and fight
Sepitalism.

WANT BIRTH
CONTROL CLINIC

Capitalism Causes Abor-
tions, Cancer, Death
To Women

IT read in one of our local papers
the other day that the City of Wind-
sor, Ont., is to have a birth control
clinic, legalized I presume. What a
boon that will be to the Harassed
mothers of the working class in that
city.

Now ! Why should we not have a
bicth control clinie in Vancouver,
where God knows. we surely need it
in the worst way. A lot of talking
and propaganda has been started in
this connection in Wancouver and a
ereat number of resolutions have
been signed. I hope that when they
are presented at Victoria, something
eenuine will be accomplished_

At the present time, right here in
Vancouver, there is pot 4 day passes
but what some woman is rushed to
a hospital in a serious condition
through tryinge, or getting Some one
on the cheap, to induce an abortion.

Children Orphaned; Homes Made
Miserable

A little boy came to my house one
morning last winter and said, “would
I come, mamma is sick.” I went to
see her and there the poor thing sat,
huddled beside an old heater, shiver-
ing. with her face flushed and her
eyes staring. Taking her tempera-
ture I found it to be 105, well, she
got better, but a few hours longer
and it would have been too late as
septicemia was surely setting in. To
get “fixed up,’ as she called it, she
had parted with what little jewellery
she possessed and finally, their only
means of enjoyment, the radio.

Cases like this are happening
every day and the tragic part of it is
that some never return from the
hospital. Others come home miiser-
oble invalids, many with the seeds
of cancer sown in the reproductive
organs. Little children are bereft of
their mother, homes are made miser-
able through fear, all for the want
of a little scientific Knowledge.

Wronien Must Continue Fight for
Free Clinic

In countries where they are build-
ing Socialism everything is done to
help the mothers so that they alone
shall determine the number of births
she is willing to have. Motherhood
should not depend on blind chance.

In those countries birth control
knowledge is within the reach of all,
not that they are worrying about
controlling the birth rate, in order
to prevent abortions. When the day
comes that we have birth control
information and contraceptions dis-
seminated by the State through local
clinics it sure will bring happiness
to many homes.

We, the women of this city, must
intensify the fight for this clinic,

—A. C.

@ur paper must be good. We're
Grawing the enemy’= fire. Shoot us
up some more ammunition. Send
subs.

Help Bring Measure Of
Cheer To Working Class

Political Prisoners
APPEAL BY C.L.D.L.|

The only time of the year when
relatives and friends of prisoners
serving sentences in jails are allow-
ed to send Tittle comforts into jails
is just prior and during the Mmas
season.

At this time, the
line and regulations are relaxed
shelitly and candies. cigarettes,
fruit, ete.. are permissable to be
sent In, and given to prisoners.

The Canadian Labor Defense
League has always made it a prac-
tise to take advantage of this con-
eession to the prisoners and has
Seen to 2t that prisoners in jail at
Nmes tint® who are serving sen-
tences for their activity In the labor
movement set a few extra comforts.
Wee Need Your Assistance to Comfort

Prisoners

This year the District Executive
Committee of the C.L.D.L. is faced
with the problem of preparing to
Send some comforts to more prison-
ers than ever before, while at the
some time conduct the defense worls
necessary to cope with increased
strageles of the working class.

prison  discip-

Not only that, but this year has
tuxed the resources of all the
branches and members of the
League on account of the water-
front and camp workers’ struggles.

The raising of finance has been
intensified sreatly and much work
has been accomplished in defending
hundreds of B.C. workers. Those
now in Oakalla have received tobac-
co, tooth paste, etc., from the Ci
D.L. However, they wall all look to
the C.L.D.L. to send them a few
luxuries this Scamas.

Our treasury is empty_

We are therefore appealing ta all
supporters of the labor moyement
on behalf of the class war prisoners
and their dependents to come to
their assistamee at this time and
help us; to send the prisoners a few
items that will help to lighten the
Prison monotony during the Ssnas
season:

You are invited to send: donatioms
for this purpose to “Prisoners? Re-
lief umd Canadian Labor Defense

League. Roonr 28 Mack Block Van-—

couyver..
rank Teas.
Acting Dist. Organiser.
C.L.D.L. (B:C. Dist):

Witless Fascist Presents
Faked Anti-Soviet Pictures

Vancouver Labor Haters
Brings Sorry Specimen
From California To
Spread Slanders

“T belongs to an organization which
put the Criminal Syndicalism laws
on the statute books in California.
And we not only put ‘em on, we
make ’em stick !”

This proud boast came from the
lips of an elderly ferret-like individu-
al imported here by the Vancouver
Fascists and unleashed on the plat-
form of the Horticultural Hall, on
Fraser Avenue, Thursday night last.

Ex-Chief of Police Edgett presid-
ed. The hall was filled to capacity,
but the Pascists were in a minority.
The audience was regaled for half
an hour with spicy extracts from the
master-works of Ripley (Believe it
or not), one of Hearst's chief sland-
erers of the Soviet Union.

A Bright Suggestion

The speaker added a few genial
remarks of his own. In these one
easily deteced, under the thin veneer
of ultra-Christian godliness, the
lurking threat of force against all
liberal opinion of whatever shade.
Here are a few of the brighter
Christian gems that decorated his
discourse:

“In my home town we don’t al-
low anyone to use a schoolroom,
to speak to a class, or to an audi-
ence in a school, unless he swears

Canadian People Must
Refuse Financial Aid;
Increase Protests

In spite of the thousands of let-
ters and resolutions expressing
mass resentment against Canadian
participating in the Olympie Games
in fascist Germany by leading
sportsmen and progressive people
throughout the Dominion, the dele-
gates to the annual meeting of the
Amateur Athletic Union of Canada
in Halifax on November 22nd, voted
for Canadian participation in the
Olympic Games.

Participation Means Supporting

Fascism.

Canada’s official participation
would mean that we in this coun-
try are not opposed ta the persecu-
tion that is being conducted by the
Nazis in Germany against Jewish,
Catholic and Masonic and all pro-
eressive-minded people.

Let us see what Stella Walsh,
world champion sprinter, who re-
cently returned to New York on
the S.S. Pilsudski, has to say in
regards to the Olympics. Miss
Walsh was a member of a Polish
track team which competed with a
German girls’ team in a duel meet
in Dresden this summer.

Fascist “Sportsmanship.”

“Nobody can compete in an at-
mosphere like that,”? she said, de-
scribing her experience in Ger-
many.

“Phere was a Jewish girl on our
team, her name was Mary Frie-
wald, and she’s been the Polish
hurdles champion for three years.
When we got to Dresden some of
the girls on the German team
wouldn’t compete because we had
a Jewish girl on our team.”

“After arguing, the meet was
finally held,” Miss Walsh said.

“When we were leaving our bus
Was surrounded by a crowd. They
kept hissing and boomg us. They
would yell her name and then
when she would look up they
would spit and shout ‘Jew.’ She
felt terribly, of course. No, no-
body can compete in an atmos-
phere like that.’

Sign Death Warrant for Olympics.
The delegates to the convention
tried to blind themselves to these
conditions that exist in Germany.
By so doing they have virtually
Signed a death warrant to the Olym-
pic Games, that is, providing Cana-
Gian sportsmen and liberal-minded
people support their stand and help
to finance the campaign. The final
word rests with the people of Can-
ada, if they say ‘‘no’’ to the appeals

for finances Canada will not be

A.A.U. Defies Protests
Against Nazi Olympics

represented.
Insult to Founder.

It is high time that Canadian
amateur sportsmen took steps to
oust those self-styled sportsmen del-
egated to the convention who take
advantage of the healthy desire for

sport activity to recognize as
Civilized the Nazi regime in Ger-
many, where even sport is made a

promoter of fascism.

Baronet de Coubetin, the founder
of the Olympic Games, will roll over
in his grave at this outrageous
stand of the A.A.U., which is an
insult to his memory.

Olympics—Empty Show.

if Canadian teams do go to Ger-
many to attend the games they will
not participate for world amateur
championship honors. With lead-
ing sportsmen either being barred
from Germany or refusing to parti-
cipate for very good reasons, the
Olympies will be nothing more than
a caricature —a shadow of fits

)} former self.

MILITANT LOST
BY SPLIT VOTE

Left-Wing Poll Increased
At Kildonan Municipal
Election

By CARL HICHIN

EAST KILDONAN, Man., Nov. 23.
—Only twenty-nine votes separated
John Prossak, militant workers’
candidate from election to the East
Kildonan council as representative
for ward 1, at the elections held last
Friday. ;

Witih six candidates in the field
Prossak polled a total of 385, against
415 polled by the successful candi-
date Taylor, I.L.P. Taylor entered
the contest after the nomination of
Prossak at an open nominating con-
vention.

A further split in the labor vote,
eame in the candidature of Legge,
who was entered on chauvinist
grounds. Legge’s 178 votes so fur-
ther split the labor vote as to block
Prossak’s election.

The vote accorded Prossak marks
a great increase in Support now giv-
en militant candidates in this work-
ing class suburb of Winnipes.

Unity of labor was successful in
returnine to office Reeve Larsen,
LLP. With a total of 1,181 votes he
was 105 votes ahead of his nearest
opponent of which he had two.

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1

allegiance to the American flag

and constitution. I tell you this

because if may be a helpful sug-
gestion to you.’

“Someone I know has a mighty
<ool idea. Why not put the Ameri-
can flag up m the hall where any-
one is to speak and put the Red
flag on the floor by the door. Then
if anyone is not willing to step on
the Red flag as he enters, then let
hini stay out !*

Hearstian Wit

Here’s one to show Mr. Rogers’
sparkling: wit: A picture is thrown
on the sheet representing scores of
dead men said to have been shot by
the Bolsheviks recently. A patent
fake. Taken no doubt during the
war somewhere.

A voice at the bacikx:

“That's a war picture !”

“Tl bet you weren’t in the war
replies Mr. Rogers.

This brilliant piece of wit charm-
ed his Fascist admirers, but fell flat
With most of the audience,

Wee were shown a series of pictures
of a Russiai that never was on land
or sea, except perhaps in pre-Soviet
days. Here we had the same old
mouldy lies in picture form; starving
children, cannibalistic parents, all
fresh from the factories of the Rus-
Sian Bible Society, or the MJBritish
Israel Federation.

Faked Pictures

Then we were suddenly transport-
ed back to San Francisco. Pictures of
the dock strike, with mobs, and over-
turned ears, and bombed buildings,
ete., are Shown as a hideous warn-
ing of what is to be expected if we
do not beware of the triple menace,
viz, Atheism, Communism and So-
cialism. :

Finally we were privileged to look
at religious pictures, crudely colored
and sickly with sentiment, among
them, as a final Knockout, a picture
of Christ looking like a girl in ring-
lets on a chocolate box.

The audience behuved with admir-
able restraint all through this intel-
leetual treat. There were some par-—
donable interruptions, but no real
disorder, and Edgett’s bluster in
haying one man ejected was entire-
ly unnecessary.

It is of course obvious that the

vr

Citizens’ League and the MBritish
Israel Wederation are sponsoring

these attacks.on the Soviet Union
and on Liberal and Radical thought.
Refused to Face Questions

Mr. Edgett promised the audience
that there would be a time for ques-
tions. But as soon as some one got
up at the end and began to ask a
question, they flashed the picture of
the king on the sheet and started
the National Anthem. That is typical
of the dishonest tricks of these labor-
haters. They have neither the cour-
age to face opposition nor the neces-
sary information to answer ques-
tions. The speaker that night was
as ignorant, superstitious and mean
minded a specimen as can be found
even in the decaying bourgeoisie.

Two Opposing Forces

One thing that night must have
Struck any sensitive observer. The
air was electric with two opposing
currents of ideas. One, represented
by the speaker, is the trend to
Fascism, to reaction, slavery, bar-
barism and death, The other, repre-
sented by two-thirds of those pre-
sent, is the spirit of the future, the
spiriti of hope, freedom and the new
world being born. =

Not a blow was given that night
in the Horticultural Hall. But the
two forces were there present—the
force of evil and the force of sood.
Gapitalism in decay met its suc-
eessor, Socialism. All the lying pic-
tures of the Rogers and Rinleys and
Hearsts in the world cannot avail
to save capitalism. It is doomed, and
some of its high priests are besin-
ning to know it.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.
A chess and checker club has
been started by the Carleton branch,

W.AELS.L., at 3366 Kinesway. For
further information enquire at hall,
Above address, or leave a note,

should no one be in atendance.

A mass meeting will be held at
150 Hastings Street West Sunday
night, December ist. Malcolm
Bruce and others will speak. Col-
jection in aid of workers’ press.

Wext Monday night W.ES.L.
business meeting. 150 UHastings

Street West. All members are re-

'to approve of the imposition of samc-
| tions and

|; authorities to prevent Shipments: to)
' Ttaly

WITNESS WOULD

‘Probe Lawyers Seekings

SANCTIONS HAVE
NO MEANING
IN VANCOUVER!

The big business interests. of Brit
tish Columbia are paying mot the |
slightest attention to the sanctions

allegedly imposed by the many
nations, imcluding Canada, wponm
italy.

Prom the Port of Vancouver there
is being sent to Italy, fish, lumber,
including spruce for airplane build- |
ing, grain and flour to enable the
Fascists to conquer and rayish: }
Ethiopia. i
The exporters assert that the fede~ i
ral sovernmment, althomeh professing.

entorcing them).
given mo instructions to the

have |
port

NOT GIVE NAMES
OF COMMUNISTS

Information for Police

Are Blocked
UPHELD BY CHAIRMAN

REGINA, Sask—Flatiy refusing:
to disclose mames of members of the
Communist Party who were mem-
bers of the Regina Citizens Emer-
gency Committee during the slaye
camp workers’ trek to Ottawa, Eric
M. Bee, himself a member of the
same Committee, representing the
C.C.F. defied the lawyers appointed
by the governments to defend R. B.
Bennett and the R.C.M.P., and was
upheld by Chief Justice » Martin,
chairman of the commission appoint-
ed to investigate the attack by po-
lice en a citizens’ meeting last Do-
minion Day during which one police-
man was killed and scores of citizens
and slave camp trekkers were injur-
ed by the police.

Too Raw Even for Judge
So raw was the work of the law-
yers in converting the probe into a
piece of detective work against the
Communist Party that the chairman
was compelled to ask what differ-
ence it made what organization the
Emergency Committee belonged to.
Me further stated that they might as
well ask who were the Emergency
Committee members representins the
ehurehes, ete.

Real United Front

Representation included the Co-
Operative Commonwealth Wedera-
tion, Communist Party, Trades and
Labor Council, Unemployed Asso-

ciations, Malk Drivers’ Wnion, the
United Action Committee, Local

Council of Women, United Church
of Canada, League Against War and
Trascism, Labor Defence League and
others.

RCMP Snoop

On Fishermen

Investigate Those Sus-
pected of Wintering
South of Canada

VANCOUVER, B.G., Nov. 24.—At
the coneluding session of-the B.C.
Trollers’ convention on Saturday
afternoon, when amendment No. 14

to the fishery regulations, which
reads, ‘to prohibiti the issuing of

licenses to fishermen who, for in-
stance. had left the country, say, for
a vacation and who had not return-
ed to B.G. six months before a fish-
ins license was wanted again,” was
l being discussed, Major Motherwell,
of the Dept. of Fisheries, made the
statement that the amendment was
submitted by the R.C.:M.P. on the

basis that there is a Canadian
Seine boat, who’s crew lived in
Washington during the winter
mionths.

Mr. Motherwell thought it was 4
shame that these poor fishermen
should spend the money that they
made in B.C. in the U.S.A. He never
mentioned the boss canners, who
every year spend the winter in Cali-
fornia and other “health” resorts.

Major Motherwell also reported
that the Department had the R.C.M.
P. investigate all foreign-born fish-
ermen to see if their - citizenship
papers were O.K. These ‘“onardians”
of the fishing interests, undertook
to create an obstacle to any fisher-
men from taking a holiday, (Gf such
were possible on their meagre carn-—
ings) by proposing amendment Wo.
14.

All fishermen’s organizations will
protest this amendment, in fact the
B.C. Trollers’ Association, Fishermen
and Cannery ‘Workers’ Industrial
Union, and the Japanese JF isher-
men’s Association have already done
so

BREAKING ’EM IN

“Tt has been some job to break
in native labor to the white man’s
methods,” reports the Bulola Gold
Dredging Co., who has its principal
office in Vancouver and its opera-
tions in New Guinea.

Im 1935 the value of gold bullion
produced was $4,447,870 and of this
$3,385,181 was profit.

All equipment must be flown in,
and as the entire working costs for
the year were only $763,779 is is
evident the “white man’s methods”
were bitter exploitation and speed

} called cafes that have proper ice—

| leading to an increase of prices.
| the Chinese restauramts are not fit”

| it they are granted licenses to oper

RELIEF VOUCHERS.

At amass meeting of Ex-Service— |
men held at i150 Hastiness Street

‘West, Monday night last, under the
'auspices of the W.E.S.ILL., the sub-
» ject of relief was discussed. It was
| agreed by
: food youcher could only be made to ~
ldast three or four days: Part of the
-blame for this wus placed on the
‘relief authorities for their restric-

all present that the $2 —

tion of the restaurants to the so-

boxes and fair paid help:
ing really

This rut
constitutes a monopoly
Tt

for relief recipients to eat In, how is

ate and feed mnon-relief people?
After the discussion, it was de-
cided to elect a Gommittee of Six to
start a campaign for “a dollar a
weel: increase in the: food vouchers
and the right to eat in a restaurant 7%
of your own choice. Up until the
middle of last summer we had this
latter concession, but for want of
a strong organization it was Iost-
The comnittee was instructed to

zations interested,
R. Lealess opened the meeting by —
siving an outline of the relief situa- ~
tion in B.C. as a whole, and was”
well received. Ihe committee would -
appreciate any data on the actual
increase im the costs of food Stuffs; ~
meals, etc. If you have facts they
may be left at 150 Hastings Street!
West for the committee. at
We call om all veterans’ organiza:
tions to press for this most neces-
sary increase for the non-pensioner,

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WOMEN ORGANIZE. :

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Wives of the members of the
Garieton Branch of the W.E.S.G,
3366 Kingsway, met last Wrednes-
day, November 20, at a members”
house and formed a women’s auil-
jary to help the men’s section to
win better conditions for themselve
and families, and to look after the
interests of the children in par-
ficular.
We congratulate these progres—
sive women and wish them every
success in their undertakins.
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MOUNT VIEW HOUSE
HELD.
Mount View Branch, W-.EAS.L,

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raise funds for organizational pur-—
poses, November 20th. The wives
of the members of this branch mee
with the men, at present not hav-—
ing set up a separate section.

The Women’s Auxiliary of the)
Centre Branch of the W-E.S.L. is)
now making preparations to put on}
a Christmas treat for the children’
of ex-servicemen. Gifts for same
will be appreciated.
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THANKS FOR BOOGS.
All who donated books to thé
Centre Branch. You are invited to)’
make use of this library. Your work”
in the movement will be better for
a thorough knowledge of working
class literature. Sound theory put!
into practice means Success. |
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MASS PRESSURE NEEDED.
According to press reports the
Hon. Ian Mackenzie has taken the
control out of the hands of the”
Brass Hats in the Department of)
Deputy Minister.

It is high time thhe blacklisted)
eamp boys were restored to the:
relief lists. 3

What is the Minister of Defense?
doing for these discriminated men?
The Centre Branch, W-E.S.L., has!
taken up the case of two ex-Service?
men who were on the blacklist and”
have received a reply from the min-
ister’s secretary that the nratter”
will be placed before him on his)
return to Ottawa. More pressure”
is needed. :

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BINGO AND FRITTERS. 7
The Women's Auxiliary of tbe
Centre Branch, W.E.S.I., in co-
operation with a committee of the
men’s section, will hold a bingo
night with banana fritters and
5 cents for the purpose of

coffee at 5
raising funds for Christmas cheer
for ex-servicemen and a Christmas
tree for the children.
Time—8 p.m., Thursday.
Place—150 Hastings Street West
Date—December 12th.
Good prizes; come and enjoy
yourselves at the same time as you
give your support.

JOINT DEFENCE
XMAS DANCE

Fifteen hundred can dance on tht
Trianon Ball Room floor and there:
room for more. Len Chamberlain:
10-piece orchestra is about the las)
word in Vancouver when it comes &
dance music. Have you heard it o!
the radio?

Then what of the lucky ticke
holder who will be able to tune B
that World Cruiser Radio on Tt
Christmas program? See this radi
at Ward's Music Store, “334 Wes
Hastings. All these things are opé
to you if you will remove 25c frox
the old stocking and purchase |
ticket for theXmas dance at #h
Trianon Ball Room, on Friday, De
20th, the proceeds to be in aid ¢
the slave camp trekkers facing frit
in Regina.

Books of tickets, single tickets, 6
any information can be obtained é
B.C. Joint Defence Committee heat
quarters, 150 West Hastings St.

DANCE
November 30th 8:30 p.m,
Ukrainian Labor Temple
Hugarian Farmers and Workers
Club
Hungarian Orchestra.

quested to attend.

Cup.

Silver Coilection,

SOCIAL —

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