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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1935

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No. 46

VOL. I

omen esar

Defense Circular Gets
Under Commission-
ers’ Skins

EVANS ON STAND

REGINA, Sask., Nov. 27.—Pursu-
ng a policy of avoidine an investi-
zation of the Dominion Day riot
aere and fixing the blame on the
suilty parties. the commisison ap-
,einted by the fsovernnmient is mak-
ns the “inquiry” an attack upon
he actions of the slave camp strik-
‘rs prior to the trek to Ottawa.

Stool Pigeons Give “Evidence”
Assisted by four lawyers appoint-
d by the federal and provincial
rovernments to defend the Benneit
rovernment, the R.C.M.P.. and city
»olice at all costs, the responsibility
or the murderous attack by the no-
lee is not being investicated at all.
“he evidence submitted to besmirch
he trekkers is bein= given by
teol pigeons and rats, with trekkers
efutins their lies.
The commission and its battery
of lawyers are investigating the
‘fracas in the Hudson’s Bay Store
in Wancouyer, on May 23 last,
while refusing to accept evidence
on the conditions in the slave
»camps which caused the strike and
subsequent trek.
. Circular Punctures Skins
Chairman of the Commission,
udge Brown, expressed extreme
ispleasure over a mimeosraphed
reular, allezed to have been dis-
ibuted by the Regina Citizens’ De-
»nse Committee, which they thoueht
reflection on their “dignity.”? The
fendin= circular exposed the class
laracter and line of the commis-—
on, their refusal to grant the
rikers’ counsel an adjournment,
sked if the commission intended to
‘ine out the facts in connection.
fith the riot, and predicted a coat
Whitewash would be applied by
© commission to coyer up tke anti-
riker elements just as the Mac-
snald commission which sat in
aneeuyer at the time the strike
‘gan, whitewashed the slave camps
an effort to alienate public sym-
thy from the strikers’ cause and to
scourage the strikers,

MacDonald Commission Roasted
While Arthur Eyans was in the
itness box, Judge Brown by his
aesUons Sought to blame the
“mp strikers for going on the trek
. the ground that they should have
pended on the MacDonald com-
ission’s findings, and remedies by
© government. But Arthur Evans
necked his game in the head by
ling him flatly that the personnel
_the MacDonaid commission was
ased, that the Strikers had no con-
jence in them, and that in their
leged inyestiszation they confined
emselves to petty grievances, such
: bum hoteakes and disagreeable
remen, and did not concern them-
Ives with the more serious com-
aints of the men nor deal with
eir demands.

yoviet Union

Eradicates [B

“You rarely see a case of tuber-
losis that requires bed treatment
Soviet Russia,” so stated Sir
edrick Banting, noted Canadian
eter, and co-discoverer of insulin
the Hamilton Health Association
ently at Hamilton, Ontario.

Phe doctor, who has recently re-
med from an extended visit to
; Soviet Union stated that he had
ind a very high standard of medi-
work there.

‘his is in distinct contradiction to
'Slanderous propaganda carried
in Vancouver last week by a doc-

of divinity from the United
tes, who lectured and showed
e€ pictures of “suffering” in

det Russia under the auspices of
Citizens’ League.

vans’ Tour Cancelled

Due to having to be pres-
; at the sittings of the
mmission on the Shootings
Regina on Dominion Day,
y ist, Arthur H. Evans,
eduled to tour many places
B.C., has been forced to
ice] all arrangements.

laces which have been
ified of Evans’ itinerary

Commission Evades
Issue In Regina Probe;

RCMP Stools Testify

FRENCH FASCISTS
DISBANDED BY
PEOPLES’ FRONT

PARIS, Nov. 27.—Disbandment
of all Nationalist forces, amongst
them the Croix de Feu, (armed
leading Fascist organization in
France) followed today as Premier
Laval yielded to the demands of
the anti-Fascist People’s Front to
save his cabinet from disaster.

The demand of the Peoples’
Front followed the shooting of
thirty Socialist workers near Li-
moses on November 16th, by the
Croix de Feu, which proved that
they were arming for a Fascist
coup. :

Communist, Socialist
eal Socialist Parties instructed
their deputies to yote non-confi-
dence in the Layal government at
the earliest opportunity in the
Chamber of Deputies unless they
disbanded the Fascist organiza-
tions.

W’p’g Bakers
Win Strike

Thirteen Firms Grant
Closed Union Shops;
Three Holding Out

INCREASE IN WAGES

By CARL HICHIN

WINNIPEG, Noy. 21.—Thirteen
out of the Sixteen bakeries, affected
by the strike of the North Winnipes
bakery trade workers, Wednesday
Signed union agreements, and the
Strikers returned to work victorious.

Im these thirteen plants, the
drivers have made substantial <ains,
which will set them one cent per
loaf on all their sales. For the in-
Side workers, union wages haye been
extended from five bakeries to the
whole thirteen.

The union agreement guarantees
closed union shops, with the union
enjoying authority to prevent in-
fractions of the agreement by any
driver. This affords the drivers ef-
fective protection from the previous-
ruinous results of price cuttin= so
much practised in this trade in the
past.

The three bakeries, which up to
the present have failed to concede
union conditions are, National Inter-
national, and Star.

EDMONTON HAS
NICKEL CARFARE

EDMONTON, Alta., Noy. 26—
Street car fares will be reduced here
by order of the City Council and
tickets formerly selling at 20 for a
dollar will now sell at 5 for a quart-
er.

The street railway system at Ed-
monton is owned by the city.

In the first ten months of this
year the system made a net profit
for the city of $20,000.00

This will not be featured in the
B.C. Electric “Buzzer.”

and Radi-

MINERS AWAIT
BOARD'S REPORT

Cumberland Workers
Preparing for Strike
Action

CUMBERLAND, Nov. 26.—wMines
here are awaiting the findines of
the conciliation board which sat for
three days commencing November
19 to adjust the complaints of the
miners against the coal company.

The two points in dispute are:

1. In violation of the agree-
ment between the tio parties, the
company has introduced the con-
tract systeni without talinge up
the question first with the men’s
ecomniitee,

2. The company refused to ro-
tate the work in the mine, and

discriminated avainst 25 men
(the leading members of the men’s
committee were included in these).

The conciliation board is composed
Of a millionaire, for the company;

a lawyer for chairman, he is a
KC., and a streetcar conductor for
the miners.

The mine iS working seven days a
week (Which is contrary to the
hours of work act) and the Federal
Sovernment pays the coal company
a subsidy of $26,000 per annum.

Miners are expectine the findings
of the board will be made public in
about ten days. :

In the meantime the miners, who

QUEBEC ELECTS

Stormy Election; Ma-
jority Reduced To
Six

Q@uebee has just witnessed the
completion of one of the stormiest
elections in its history.

The Taschereau fovernment was
again elected to office but instead
of the huge majority it held pre-
viously, it now has a marsin of only
Six seats. The tremendous yote roll-
ed up against the old party was an
expression of the desire of the people
to vid itself of the reactionary Tas-
chereau government.

Of the two ministers defeated, one
Was Minister of Labor Arcand, spon-

sor of the anti-workine class Dill
bearing his name.
Montreal and Quebec, the two

largest cities in the province voted
definitely against the old party.

The opposition in the next parlia-
ment will be composed of CGon-
servatives and Action Liberale
National’s who had a pre-election
asreement as to the composition of
the cabinet if elected.

have a strenge union, being members
of the Mine Workers’ of Canada,
are making preparations to compel
the company to relinquish the rank
discrimination against their union
leaders by strike action Should the
findings of the board ¢o against

them.

Two-Point Resolution Is

Drafted; U.S. Dele-

gates to Investigate
Lock-out

In an earnest effort to move to-
Wards settlement of the waterfront
Situation in B.C. the Central Strike
Committee has drafted a resolution
and submitted it for consideration
to all locals of the Longshoremen
and Water Transport Workers of
Canada. The resolution contains
two points, as follows:

G) We, the men now on strike,
will agree to nezoliate the termina-
tion of this strike in the B.C. marine
industry, if an acceptable suarantee
is given by the employers that the
men now on strike, when given eni-
ployment, will not be compelled to
join any of the unions of any of the
crafts now workine on the water-
front, and that any man employed
on the waterfront reserves the
right to belong to a union of his
own choosing;

(2) That all locals be given the
right to negotiate with their own
employers on further terms of re-
turning to work (providing always
that the provisions of Clause No. 1
of this resolution is agreed to), and
that the results of the negotiations
be referred back to the Central
Strike Committee before further ac-
tion is taken.

Two delegates from the recent
convention of the Maritime PMedera-
tion of the Pacific are expected in
Vancouver ta investigate the situa-
tion and to recommend what action
the Maritime Unions south of the
line should adopt to assist the work-

ers here in reaching a settlement.

Caretakers Call Meeting
Over Head of Adam
Bell to Resist Attack

On Wages

ACT IS USELESS

VANCOUVER, Noy. 26.—Evasion
of the Minimum Wage Act is prac-
ticed by owners and agents of
apartment blocks in this city, in an
agreement sent out to caretakers of
no less than 75 blocks and apart-
ment houses.

The agreement provides that the
janitor shall agree that not more
than five hours is performed by
him in one day, that he shall col-
ject rents and do other duties. In
return for such services his rent
is raised, he will pay for light and
fas, and receive a wace reduction.
Should such an agreement be signed
by the janitor, it would then be-
come in many instances retroactive
as from May ist.

Mr. Crowther, secretary of the
Janitors and Heating Engineers’
Association, stated that signatures

ase note.

Ap’t Block Owners Violate
B.C. Minimum Wage Law

of either party are Jiable to $50 fine

under the provisions of the Mini-
mum Wage Act.

Sixty-Five Per Cent of Owners

Fevade the Act.

Out of 28 blocks canvassed by
Mr. Crowther only one was found
to be living up to the terms of the
Act. Sixty-five per cent of apart-
ment owners or agents in this city
are operating contrary to the Mini-
mum Wage Act.

At a meeting last Friday nicht
when Adam WBell, Provincial De-
partment of Labor representative,
at which the question of agreements
with janitors was dealt with, Adam
Bell is reported to have “blown up”
because the association of the jani-
tors went over his head in calling
such a meeting.

Janitors are called upon to per-
form numerous tasks apart from
their regular duties, such as kal-
somining, polishing floors, washing
eurtains, plumbing and electrical
repair work. Sixteen hours gener-
ally constitutes a day’s work for
this class of labor. In return for
such services, the average mionthly-

wage of $44.30 is paid them.

The winning number for the
Communist Election Committee draw

Waterfront Workers Again
Try Attempt At Settlement

| GENERAL STRIKE
UNLESS FASCISTS
ARE BROKEN UP

MENICO’ CITY.—A eeneral strike
involyine several hundred thousand
workers will start in Mexico unless
the Cardenas government has be-
fore then ordered dissolution of the
anti-Semitic, anti-labor Golden
Shirts.

A ‘resolution orderin= the strike
Was voted by the National Gommit-
tee for Proletarian Defense as a
Sequel to the clash Wednesday be-
tween its members and the Golden
Shirts. Several persons were killed
and scores wounded in street fig¢ht-

ing.

RECORD CANADA
COPPER EXPORTS

Increased Shipments
Beat Date Set For
Sanctions

Exports of copper from Canada
during the month of October reach-
ed a new all-time record for any
month in its mining history. The to-

tal exports exclusive of serap for
the month was nearly 50 million
pounds.

This is well over 20 million pounds
greater than October last year and
is about 20 millions of pounds ¢reat-
er than October, 1933.

An unusually large amount was
Shipped to the U.S.A. for treatment
in refineries over the line:

Such rich companies as Hudson's
Bay, at Plin Flon, Noranda, and
companies operating in the Sudbury
Basin will benefit from these huge
shipments of war armament materi-
ale

Copper exports jumped to new
high levels by virtue of the propos-
ed sanctions being imposed on Italy
by members of the League of Na-
tions Council, to which Canada be-
longs and which incidentally voted
to impose sanctions.

It was in preparation for increased
production and export of this war
material with its consequent profits,
that attacks were made upon the
miners at Flin Flon and at Noranda
by the companies and by police of
the Bennett and provincial sovern-
ments.

ALDERMAN SPEAKS
ON DEFENDER PLAN

About fifty women were present
at the O'Brien Hall, Noy. 26th, when
Alderman MacDonald gave an ad-
dress on his “Public Defender
Plan.’ After outlining the plan the
Speaker gave some instances of
where lesal aid was necessary.

Qne case which bad been brought
to his notice was that of a relief
worker who had been injured. Back
again at work he applied for the
compensation due, only to find that
this had been handed over to the
city authorities. Legally the city
cannot do this but without anyone

held Noy. 13, was No. 272.

to take up the case the worker is

LIBERAL GOV'T

COMMUNIST-CCF GAIN IN 2 CITY ELECTIONS

ne Contests At Winnipeg

Communists Alderman
Penner, School Trustee

Bilecki Head Poils

JOHN QUEEN MAYOR

Labor Majority Signifies
Relief Increase for
Unemployed

WINNIPEG, Nov. 25. — John
Queen, L.I.P., is re-elected mayor,
Jacob Penner and Andrew Bilecki,
Communists, are returned to the
city council and school board, res-
pectively, for ward three. Both head-
ed the polls and were the only candi-
dates in this ward to pass the quota
required by the proportional repre-
Sentation System used. A labor
majority is certain of return to
council, The Communist vote was
increased in both wards contesed. In
Ward two if increased by four hun-
dred first choice votes.

Possibilities indicated are that
both the school board and the city
council may have a larger labor re-
presentation than previously.

Communist support for Queen, in
order to ensure the retum of an
anti-capitalist council, sent the
IL.P. mayoralty back into office
with the overwhelming majority of
11,000 over anti-Labor Gunn. Queen
polled 32,013, out of a total vote of
53,083, which is almost 3,000 short of
the record poll of 1983. Tast vear,
When Queen turned down unity of-
fers, he just scraped into office with
a Majority of 500.

Communist Tops the Poll for

: Alderman

Penner, Communist, passed the
quota set for ward three aldermanic
candidates, topped the poll and was
elected. The voting was, Penner,
Communist, 41,549; Blumberg, 1.1L.P.,
41,243; Barry, anti-Labor, 4,157;
Cornes, I.L.P., 1,265; Jedstadt, anti-
Labor, 2,998; Harris, Jewish Nation-
alist, 806. The quota was 4,505.
These figures indicate that Blum-
bere and Barry will be re-elected
with Penner.

This is the first time that a Gom-
munist candidate has passed his
quota on the first count.

The poll for Penner passed all pre-

vious votes given a Communist in
Civic elections.
The increase in Penner’s vote was
obtained despite a last minute viru-
lent radio attack on Communists
by Mayor Queen, and despite bour-
Seois attempts to split the voting on
chauvinist lines by the entry of Har-
ris.

Communist School Trustee Heads

Poll

Bilecli, also topped the poll, and
passed his quota. This was in the
sehool trustee contests in ward
three. The polling was Bilecki, Com-
munist, 4,499; Donner, Independent,
1,266; Hubicki, Nationalist, 2,358:
Lowe, I.L.P., 2,763; McGrath, IIE ee.
3,781; Dr. Smith,; anti-Labor, 3,046.
Indications are that McGrath will
be re-elected and Dr. Smith elected.

In ward two, Jock McNeil, Com-
munist, raised the vote from 400 to
1,195,

Should the possible Labor sain on
council materialize, it would prevent
a4 repetition of the anti-Labor
Manoeuvering to block passage of
the Communist proposed ten pereent
increase in relief. It would place the
i.L.P. aldermen with open expres-
sion for or against.

Scabs, Stools
Head ‘Sport’
- Organization

FLIN FLON, Man—How strike-
breakers, stool-pigeons and ex-
mounties gradually take hold of the
leadership of all organizations in
any place where an industrial strug-
gle has been lost is well exemplified
in Flin Flon.

William 8B. Maitland, a  stool-
pigeon in the O.B-U. some years
ago, was elected president of the

Flin Flon Community Club, a com-
pany organization, recently.

Two scabs of the Flin Flon strike
of 1934 also hold prominent positions
in this organization. Colin Harrel, a
miner who scabbed, is on the sports
committee, and Johnny Spencer, a
elerk in the machine shop who re-
mained in with the scabs, is assist-
tant secretary-treasurer.

helpless. =,
The meetine was arranged by the
Vancouver Mothers’ Council and

PATTULLO’S BOARD
FLEECES FARMERS

An example of how Pattullo’s
Vegetable Marketine Board fleeces
the farmers of the province is fur-
nished by the experience of Jang
Loues, farmer, who by law was
compelled to deliver his produce
te the above mentioned Board for
marketing.

On Nov. 4th Loues delivered
five tons of potatoes to the Board
Which the later sold for 570, but
they paid Loues only $23 (cheque
No. 2962). =

On the statement issued to
Loues by the Board there appears
this “explanation” of deductions
among others: “Unusual Allow-
‘ances, $37.00.

CCF Enters
City Election

Program Calls for Radi-
cal Change in Civic
Administration

WANT FREE SPEECH

Communists Support

CCF Candidates to De-
feat McGeer Men

After several district council con-
ferences on the question, the GCP.
in Wancouver has decided to carry
out a campaign to elect candidates
to Civie bodies.

The first candidate to be chosen
and supported by Grandview Club
for Ward 3 is J. T. Giddings. Others
are to be nominated immediately.
It is also intended to run candidates
for the school and parks boards.

The main points adopted for a
program for the city council elec-
tion are:

1. Assumption by the Dominion
fovernment of the entire cost of
unemployment. Work for unem-
ployed at current wages, as far
as possible, and adequate main-
tenance for those for whom no
worl: is provided.

2. Public ownership of public
utilifies.

3. Election
sioners,

4. Election of aldermen at large,
instead of by the ward system.

»- Votes for all adults, instead

(Continued on page 3)

of Police Commis-

And Regina Record Great Labor
Victories; United At The Polls

Tabor Mayor, Aldermen

in Majority on City
Council

ELECT COMMUNIST

Result of Workers’ In-

tensive United Front
Activity

REGINA, Nov. 26.—Bringine to
fruition the tireless efforts of labor
forces in this district in building the
united front, labor gained a sweep-
ing victory over reaction in the
Civic election when a majority of
labor aldermen and a labor mayor
were elected with huge majorities to-
the city council,

Those elected were: Ellison,
chairman of the Regina Prades and
Labor Council, for mayor, who
polled 4.313 votes, having a majority
of over_750 over his opponent,

The following aldermen were
elected on a labor ticket- Fines,

School teacher; Mikkelson, proyvin-
cial government of the Saskatch-
€wan UWnion of Unemployed; Men-
zies, printer; the well-known Gom-
munist, McManus, who withdrew in
the last Federal election in favor of
a C.€¥*_ candidate in Moose Jaw.
The last named polled 1,102 votes,
having a Majority of 414 over the
opponent. Toothill, a C.C.F. can-
didate;, had a majority of 549, whilst
Olson, a labor candidate, completed
the slate elected:

Huge Demonstration of Workers
Greets Election Returns,

A huge demonstration led by the
victorious labor mayor and alder—
men marched to the city hall after
the election results were an-
nounced amidst cheers and applause
from the working class electorate.

Labor circles in Regina are elated
at the success of their efforts and
consider this a fitting reply to the
attempts of the sovernment commis-—
sion now Ssitunge in Regina, to
whitewash the late Bennett sovern-
ment and exonerate the city and

Saskatchewan sovernment from
blame in the Regina riots of
July 1st.

The Regina civie election victory
will mark a distinct upturn in
building unity of labor throughout
Canada, and sets an exampie for
the rest of Canadian workers to
follow.

NVioney To Club Workers
Plentiful; None To Feed
Blacklisted Camp Boys

MayorAdmits Banks Dic-|
tate Policy and His Wil-
lingness to Carry Out
Their Orders

A special meetings of the Vancou-
ver City Council was held on Thurs-
day, Noy. 21st. Iecal MEPs and
M.L.A.’s were invited to be present
in order that they may become ac-
quainted with the dire plight of this
city ana to secure their support for
an eight-point program for rehabili-
tation of civic finances.

The innumerable figures and sta-
tistics given showed clearly to the
workers present that the burden of
the depression has been placed
Squarely on the backs of the work-
ers and lower middle class. ‘Those
who have struggled te get together
a home and lot of their own have
had to suffer.

Social Services Suffer

659 properties with a value of
$77,000 were put up at the tax sales
in 1930. Tf such a sale had been held
this year 12,334 properties valued at
$3,000,000 would have been up for
Sale. $300,000,000 of the accumulated
Savings of small property holders in
Vancouver have been lost since the
commencement of the depression.

Maintenance on all public and so-
cial services haye been deferred for
the past five years. The city is $5,-
000,000 in debt and will go another
$5,000,000 in Gebt this year. Mayor
McGeer stated that there will be a
financial erisis before the end of the
first quarter of 1936 if no assistance
is forthcoming from the provincial
and federal governments.

Mayor Admits Soviet Success

Harold Winch, M.L.4., pointed out
that social, health and educational

was preceeded by a whist drive.

Services should be increased rather
than curtailed, but could not see how
this could be done under the present
System, to which MeGeer replied:

“At the risix of being called a
Bolshevik or a Communist, T main-
tain that a safe, sound government
Cans 306) -Sts eee The Soviet
Union can finance the building up
of indusiry, educational and
health services, police and army
by national fmance and we also
can do it.”

Angus McInnis, M.P., stated that
he didn’t think Vancouver would re-
ceive any more assistance from the
Liberal government than it had from
the Conservative. The normal rate
of profetess under this System, he
Said, was that of foing further into
debt. He further reminded MecGeer
that the Soviet Union had reached

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CNE MORE LOCAL
UNION IS SET UP

VANCOUVER, B.C. Noy. 28—
4 new local of the Fishermen and
Cannery Workers’ Industrial Union
was set up in Vancouver on Tuesday
Jast, this makes the nineteenth local
of the union on the B.C coast and
the third local in Vancouver, meet-
ings will be held throughout the
winter at 136 Hastings St. West,
(Lumber Workers’ Hall) every Tues-
day afternoon, at 2 p.m. At the next
meetings there will be a report from
the delesate attending the Seiners
convention in Seattle: union mem-_
bers are expected to attend; as this
report will be of great interest to
the fishermen on this Side of the
line. The secretary of the new local
can be got in touch with at Room
22—615 Hastings St., West.