__of appreciation of an exposure by _-take the liberty from time to 2aze Two Bir Se ee WHO sRaie aca a NEI Wes December 20, i835 COLUMN | YOUTH Conducted by MAURICE RUSH YOUNG TREKEKER ACCUSES BR.C.M.P. OF FIRING SHOTS REGINA, Dee. 16.—Accusing the R.C.M.P. of shooting at the camp- boys and citizens during the Dominion Day attack upon the re- lief camp strikers, Harold, M. Dunn, a trekker, and former member of the Co-operative Com- monwealth Youth Movement, said before the Domion Day inaguiry on Saturday, that he saw an auto with five steel-helmeted R-C.M.P. in it, and heard bullets singing in the air as the car sped through the street. The next time he saw shooting from a car loaded with R.C.M.P., was when he crouched in the en- trance of a departmental store. He heard glass shatter and saw that a window of the store had been broken. Chief Justice Brown, of the in- quiry committee, pooh-poohed the evidence by remarking that the statements were ‘too general for me.” Further stating, “I can hardly imagine the mounted police firing at random like that unless they were crazy.” LEADING ATHLETES CONDEMN NAZI OLYMPICS Eddie Tolan, 100 and 200 meter Olympic winner in 1932, and world renowned for his sprinting capa- bilities, has joined the anti-Nazi Olympic campaign. He was the principal speaker at 4 mass meeting in the Y.M.C.A. Auditorium in Detroit recently. “7 will not attend the 1936 Olympics because I consider the games will be held in an un- Olympie atmosphere under wun- Olympic conditions,” declared Zack Farmer, managing director of the 4932 Olympics. Racial discrimination was cited as the basis for the Olympic broad jump champion, William De Hart Hubbard's opposition to the Olym- pic games. YOUNGSTER ORGANIZES GAME CLUB We are in receipt of a letter from one of our correspondents who writes of an enterprising young man in Burquitlam, who is so fond of animals and birds that he has organized a club for the con- servation of wild birds and animals. Classes are held to study animal and bird life. Examinations are given and a2 weekly paper is printed. Hach week a collection of 5c per member is taken for the purpose of buying peanuts to feed the squirrels. This example is worthy of con- sideration by youth in other parts of B.C. YOUTH BENEFIL£ FEDERATION PROGRESSES The establishment of the Youngs People’s Section of the Independent Mutual Benefit Federation is progressing rapidly in Canada. Following the Hamilton confer- ence of November 24th, four clubs of the Young People’s Section have already been established in Niagara Falls, Welland, St. Gatherines and Bamilton. Lhese elubs are prepar— ing: for a winter of activity which includes socials, educational acti- vities and a variety of sports which should prove attractive {0 every young person. The newly elected National Board wishes to announce that registration and membership cards, folders and attractive . ¥.P.S. emblems are now on hand. Individuals or groups of young people who are interested in this movement can obtain all necessary =information and material from the Young People’s Section of the In- dependent Mutual Benefit Federa- tion, Room 32, 274 College Street, To Conduct Sham Investigation of Relief Camps in Canada After investigatine the Conservation Corps’ camps in the United States, the committee ap- pointed by Hon. Norman Rogers, Canadian minister of labor, lefi Ottawa recently for Western Can- ada where they will conduct an investigation into the present re- lief camp system. Civil Minister of Ibabor Rogers, time the committee was elected, expressed the hope that it would be possible to close the relief camps during the comme year- It is evident that the Dominion government has something up their sleeve. While planning to do away with the present form of Slave labor through the elimination of the relief camps, they are investi- gating the possibilities of intro- ducing&= in Canada a worse form of slave labor. regimentation and iso- lation such as expressed by the C.¢€.C. camps in the U-S.A- Young men in the €.€C. camps receive $1.00 per day for working on highways and other government projects. Monthly wages are $30.00. Of this amount $25.00 is withheld by the authorities and forwarded to the young man’s parents, who are on relief and which in turn is at the deducted from theic relief allow- ances. Jsnlistment in the G.C.G. camps is “voluntary” (they are really forced in at the point of staryva- ison) but upon entering the camps a person must remain for a period of six months. These camps are at present under {he administration of the war department. The men in the camps are supplied with army clothes and in many cases military train- ine is enforced. Working people in Canada must be more alert now than ever, and not be lulled by the investigation into the relief camps. The com- mittee is merely trying to dampen the mass resentment expressed by the Canadian people, which re- sulted in foreing the hand of Premier ting to remove the camps from the Department of National Defence. Tf successful in quietening down this resentment the Canadian government will institute 2 scheme similar to the G:G.G. in the U.S.A. STIRRING APPEAL TO YOUTH FROM C.C-Y.M. PRESIDENT TORONTO, Dec. 7—‘I call you here, you youth of Ganada, to a new task To the crusade of build- ing in this world a new society, 2 society dedicated not to war, but to peace,” Rey. LT. C. Douglas, jexenn member of parliament for Wey- burn, Sask., and national president of the Co-operative Commonwealth Youth Movement, declared at the conclusion of his remarks at the mass meeting in Wictoria Theatre, preceeding the opening of the anti- War congress. Rev. Douglas dealt extensively with the problems of the young Canadian generation. And remarked {hat capitalism was “a living Hell,” for the youth . < He asserted that Canada should have no hesitation in applying: sanctions against Italy for being the aggressor nation. IS If STRANGE TO YOU That while the Canadian popula- tion has only doubled since 1871, mental defects have increased five- fold? That the United States govern- ment has spent one Dillion dollars on the GGG. camps since 1933. Of this amount $420.000,000 was paid Toronto, Ontario. for personal services: Orders of Ten or Over, each LAST CALL TO GREET YOUR FRIENDS! Send a Revolutionary Greeting Card to Your Friends! Single Cards with Envelepes to Match —_— Order from “B.C. Workers’ News” Office 5e Letter Digest From Rabbi Cass The B.C. Workers’ News editorial staff are indebted to Rabbi Samuel Gass, of the “Congregzation Beth Jsrael,”’ of Vancouver, for his letter J". BGigges, in these pages on Nov. 22, of the anti-Semitic propaganda peine circulated locally by the Brit- ish Israel Prayer League in the form of a book entitled ““The Truth About the Protocols,” by Gerald Winrod, Kansas. Rabbi Cass repeats that “The Protocols” are tank forgeries and have been exposed time and again. We appreciate the short resume of the history of the Protocols en- closed in the Rabbi's letter, wherein TLloyd W. Hshbleman, the American scholar, “interprets the Protocols,” and shows the “sgurees’ irom which they were gathered. We will time, according to space available, to re- print excerpts in our columns. Wanted... Ten People to Sell Tickets on Commission, for the CONCERT AND DANCE . GRANGE HALL Gorner Gore Ave. and Hastings Friday, December 27, at 3 p-m. __ Free Drawings for Turkeys — Proceeds to “Worker” and the “BG. Workers’ News” Good Talent and Excellent Orchestra Ladies 15c Gents 25c DANCE and DRAWING Orange Hall (Cor. Gore Ave. and Hastings St.) Monday, Dec. 23 Dancing 9 to 12 — Admission — Gents 25c : Ladies 15¢ Ten Dollars and Five Dollars in merchandise given away in prizes. Pamphlet By A.M.Stephen ‘‘Hitlerism Im Canada”’ Now On Sale A new pamphiet, “Hitlerism in Ganada,” by A. M. Stephen, presi- dent of the League Against War and Fascism (3-C. Section) will be off the press next week. This $2-pagze pamphlet is pub- lished under the auspices of the above numed organization and will be reviewed in these pages in the next issue_ TWive thousand copies are being printed and it will sell on the news stands for 10 cents a copy. it is a valuable little anti-Fascist publica— tion written by one of Canada’s leading labor writers. Co-operation of all interested in the maintenance of peace and democratic rights for the people is requested to get this pamphiet into the hands of those who are not yet aware of the dangers of Fascism. be obtained at 7 cents per copy, at Bundle orders of 10 or more can G15 West Hastings St. or at Room 5. 163 Hastings St. West. information for Students Of Political Economy Bob Lealess Dec. 7, at a ijn the Ukrainian on the trade agreée- ment between the U.S.A. and Canada, discussion arose as to the relative amounts of British and American capital invested in Can- ada, some saying one, and some that the other countries predomi- nated. Tt was agreed by the class that more accurate information should be secured and published in The B.C. Workers’ News. The following is the information: After a lecture by delivered on Sunday, class of workers, Labor Hall, It is estimated by the Canada year book on page 947, 1934-35 edition, that the total amount of capital invested in Canada amounts to $17,500,000,000- Of this sum it is estimated that 65 percent or $11,500,000,000 is owned in Canada; 21 percent or $3.- 725,000,000 in the U-S-A.; 13 per- cent or $2,228,000,000 in the United Foaingdom; one percent or $171,000,- 000 in other countries. Get subseription from your neighor or shop mate for the B.C. Workers News. a DOCUMENT EXPOSES ROTTEN CONDITIONS IN SLAVE CAMPS econ this pro-Hascist, such as; the Report of Foreman To Superiors Shows Some ef Things Which Cause Strikes The B.C. Workers’ been handed a copy camp foreman’s superiors for a Six month period. ending March, 1935. This docu- ment, too lone fer publication, is a complete exposure of the rotten eamp system and of the crawling, servile- Semi-Fascist creatures that are in control of Canada’s) unem- ployed youth. The document commences “Tife Experiences 4jons” of this B.Sc. SLE:LC. ex- army miajor. apparently rendered to imzpress his superiors of his. won- Gerful abilities. Some idea of his ability cam be suaged from his re- port that of mem enrolled in camp over 4a Six months period, 122 men were fired “for cause.’ 97 left of their own accord and seven left to go to work. Reportime on discipline of men, he states that this is very bad in men who bave only been in camp fromm a few days up to two weeks, but very good in those who have been in eamp one month or News has of a Slave report to his with 253 the more. Referring to three major disturbances in which men were fired, he states, “the men were organized and I had no alternative put to act as I did or let them take over and run the camp.’ “Liaison with police. Very satisfactory,” he further reports. He believes that a record, as in the ‘‘army,” of clothing a man leaves camp with should be kept in Vancouver and that he should “not be given new articles to re- place these articles unless he can produce the old ones so badly worn as to be unserviceable.” Tough Meat, Stinking Peaches Are Served Rations come in for quite a little criticism. “Meat has at jimes been from aged beasts, very tough and much too high a percentage of bone.” . ~.- Dried peaches are very poor, to such an extent that when being cooked they stink, they are not fit for human consumption. .-.- Lhe men won’t eat the black figs and after these have been served up several days’ running they have to be thrown out. A few recommendations follow It’s Not Too Late To Get Going—But—Get Going! Only $500 has come in for the Press Drive so far, declares the Drive secretary. Pull together and put it over. PRINCE GEORGE proves that ihey are ready to carry out the task of building the They are in with 88 per cent of their quota, and if the rest of the cities will not take immediate steps to improve their work and put some more pep into it, they will be badly beaten by Prince George, and loose the prize given away by the District Press Committee to the best locality. CUMBERLAND writes: “Well, comrades, I think that we are 0° ing well over the top with the Drive here. We have already col- lected more than our quota, which i= $25. — Wwe challenged each other in the campaign and it has had wonderful results.” VICTORIA'S secretary for the Grive tells us that they sent $9.75 of their quota and three subs and are very determined to show the rest of the district what can be done with a drive properly organ ized. NANAIMO writes as follows: “T am sending in 62 per cent of our quota. The money is beginning to come in now and judging by the activities around here our quota will be considerably inereased.” We are confident that Nanaimo workers will keep their promise. Special mention should be give to the Swedish-Finnish supporters of the papers and also to the Maxim Gorki Club. The latter, which challenged the Ukrainian Mass Or- eanization, is in the lead and doesn’t Ours Is A Crimeless City > When Gerry McGeer, during nis | his election campaign for Mayor of the city of Vancouver, said he would make Vancouver ‘a crimeless city in three months,” he certainly said a “mouthful.” It is now twelve months since he made his famous prediction. It was no doubt due in part to his prom- jses, such as this, that he earned his reputation of bein= an “extra- ordinary man.” He is. If there is any man in B.C. who could make Vancouver a ecrimeless city under the present system, then its Gerry. He cer- tainly tried. We hired extra police; special police, he got the loan from Ottawa of an inspector of the RC. MP. by the name of “Darling”; he asked for, and received, several score of Provincial police and he paraded them either on foot or in Crone’s moving vans to a down- jown restaurant three times a day to eat: he had a bodysuard wher- ever he went, even though extra police were placed around the en- tranee to the City Hall, Gerry had bodyguard hiding behind his office door on the fifth floor; he was responsible for all kinds of stools, informers, and voluntary police assistants cluttering up police and public places; he caused the arrest of an unfortunate group of pootleggers, etc., but still crime in Vancouver persisted. But Gerry has an alibi. It was the campboys who were the cause of all the trouble. If they would only “leave the city,” then he would clean it up. They left- Wext he invented another alibi. It was the longshoremen. Of course, the ‘Reds’? were really at the bottom of the whole plot to prevent him from “cleanin= her up.” The strike is over. And now the local press reports “Twelve burglaries and eighteen thefts were reported to police Monday night.” ; Ottawa ought to be informed that fhe member from WBGurrard, who will take his seat in the next par- liament, is not only an extraordinary men, he is a “Mexican athlete.” BG = Somebody’s Laying Down On The Job! Workers’ Press. f intend to give the U.L.F-T.A. 2 chance to win the banner. We must not forget that we don’t intend to sive up our paper and that it would be the greatest achievement of the workers to have a daily by May. With 2 little more work and effort we will be able to enjoy the results of our collective activities Let's go, Comrades. Send all monies collected into our office now, and we will help you with more publicity. and Qualifica- | ‘should be constructed to eamp system sould work much more smoothly, at no increased cost, if a low daily wage was. paid |, for days worked and the men charged for board and clothing; } that men should be shipped to camps from National Defence of— fices as lack of co-operation with ihe Department of Labor is “ap- palling?” as the powder house is within the distance prescribed for 2 50 box arsenal, but carries pow- der for two camps, 2 new one “conform with regulations.” Then this boot-licker himself has a grievance, he becomes an agita— tor. Some machine operators re- ceive more money per month than the foreman. This is unjust. [f he is eapable of directing the work he should receive at least aS much as | the highest paid man, or be re- placed by someone more capable. Had Heard of “Plot” to Burn Camps Clause two, general observa- tions, reads “If if 1s true that mm the next strike the sirixers in- tend to destroy the camps by fire the best pretection: would be to have allowed two extra paid watchmen.” (The report was submitted a few days prior to the April 4th strike of the camp worlcers)_ These are the camps of Which R.B. Bennett said to the On-to- Ottawa trek Teaders “Lhis country has taken care of its unemployed and there was contentment, nay even happiness, in those camps until Gommunist agitators came in and spoiled it.” The repert from this jingoistic, senri- Fascist exXy major gives a clear insight into the type of man that our youth of to- day are given over to, and to some of the things which are responsible for strikes. i Marpole Gym Club To Stage Gymnastic Pros. A eymnastic display and three boxing bouts will be the attractions on the program which will be held in the Granville Hall, Seventieth and Granville Streets, on Friday. December 27, under auspices of the Marpole Gym. Club. This program will inelide an exhibition by the Wesley United Church gymnasium class, under the tutorship of In- structor Albert Amderson. On the same program will be an exhibition boxing bout, Bob Hickey, amateur welterweight champion of British Golumbia, vs. Billy ‘Kid’ Gardner; also Jimmy Sym vs. Lorne Baron, and Pred Steele vs. Tommy Sym. A dance will follow. DEFENCE DANCE Friday—December 20, At Trianon Hall, 1313 Granville St. 1936 Westinghouse Radio (value $129.00 to be given away.. 10-piece orchestra. Admission 25 cents. Dancing 9 to 12. Auspices B.C. Joint Defence Committee. In aid of Regina trekkers. Qur paper must be sood. We're drawing the enemy’= fire. Shoot us up some more ammunition. Send subs. Defence News CAMP BOYS HELP PRISONERS. VANCOUVER, Dee. 14.—Through the Relief Camp Workers’ Union the district Committee is in receipt of the following donations toward the Qakalla Class War Prisoners’ Christmas Relief Fund from Oliver Airport Relief Camp: One hundred and two packages of tobacco, twenty-three packages of cigarette papers, seven tooth- brushes and fourteen shaving brushes. In expressing appreciation, the D.E.C. wishes to point out that these men, earning 20 cents per diem, have deprived themselves of comforts so as to show their class solidarity. COLLECT FOR CHRISTMAS RELIEF The following branches have col- dected on cards and lists sent by the District Committee to assist in. providinge relief for class war prison- ers and their dependents: Amal. Building Workers’ Union (A.C.C.T)...-.--=-- $5.00 Gliver Airport Relief Camp 1.50 Centre Branch C.L.D.L..... 8.85 Italian Workers’ Club. .---- - 1.80 Websters Gorner Branch, GUD ee ee ee 10.45 Ukrainian Branch, C.L.D-L. FAS Chinese Branch, €.L.D-L..-- -70 A MeOWIS) een eee 1.00 South Wellington Branch, Gal DMG es Se eae 2.00 Jugo-Slav Workers’ Educa- eational League .....-.--- 3.35 Relief Camp 406 ...---..---- 4.13 Nelson Branch, C€.U.D.L-.:. 3.50 Mc We aye 52 3 ee 1.00 Norquay Branch, €.L.D.L See W. J. Mitcham .....-.----- 1.50 Lake Cowichan Branch, CSDSn se eee ee 8.20 Lake Logging Co-, per Lake Cowichan Branch .-.----- 12325 The above contributions are those ef a dollar and over. In publishing this statement the CL.D.L. as 4 whole wishes to thank all those who made these contributions in the name of the workers serving sentences in Oakalla and for their dependents. SMOKING GIFTS. VANCOUVER, B.G.— Besides turn- OUR NATURAL ALLIES. VANCOUVER, Dec. 18.— From Okanagan Mission, Joseph Ivens has written the © LL.D... stating that he has shipped four boxes of apples for Christmas relief for Oak- alla prisoners. He states, “We are all broke, so accept this as a dona- tion. I had to borrow the three cents with which to mail this letter, so it will give you an inkling of our position.” In reply, the District Executive Committee wishes to state that this makes the apples more acceptable and that we appreciate the spirit in which the apples were given. FRIENDSHIP DAY. Patrons of the affairs staged by the C.L.D.L. are urged to attend Prisoners’ Friendship Day at 150 Hastings Street West, on Sunday, December 22, at 2 p.m. The G.L.D.L. has the reputation of always staging good functions and workers should not miss this opportunity of spending an enjoy— able afternoon. Célebrated artists will assist in the program of music and dances, and gifts will be eol- lected for the Christmas Keliet eampaisn. SOCIAL Staesing a social at 2279 East Forty-sixth Ave., the Victoria Road Branch has invited C. J. MeKen- drick as guest speaker. The social will be held on Thursday, December 79, at $8 pm., proceeds to go to Christmas Relief Campaign. OPEN FORUM. Continuing their Open Forums, the Sam Carr Branch will have a good speaker on hand at the Work- ers’ Hall, Twenty-sixth and Main, on Sunday, December 22, at 2:30 p.m. Workers in the vicinity of ihe Sam Carr Branch are urged not to miss the splendid lectures being eiven at the Workers’ Hall. ing over $5.27 to the Christmas Re- lief Fund, the Norquay Branch of the G...D.L. collected twelve pack- ages tobacco, two packages cigar- / workers and -of Vancouver have just had, iplace part of a pledged council in | Stve action in the interests of the workers and lower | were eelcted there. It is time that 'ealled to form a Canadian Labor i Party. Correspondence .The B.C. Workers’ News is not responsible for any ideas or opinions expressed in letters to the editor and published under necessarily the opinions of this paper. Editor, The B.C. Workers’ News: Sir—It is a shame to see the apportunity passed which the lower middie classes to middle classes,. an ‘all in’ labor congress Should be Labor is supposed to be repre- sented by a certain political party locally, but they are dead from the neck up. It is controlled by a kind of closed corporation. Power, and. responsibility, appears to be the very last thine they want. They nominated one candidate in Van- couver for the council and then only in a luke warm way, conse- quently, he was beaten. Parks boards, and school boards do not | eount very much in the struggle. YVre have a longer fight m Bur- aby. We have got to have the coun- cil reinstated before we can pro- vide a labor front for any election, but I believe that the fight is about te start in Burnaby. Wake up Vancouver, and get a jlabor council and then carry the idea into the provincial and’ federal’ house. But be sure that all candi- dates sign on the dotted line, to act in the interests of the: common: people. —S: Re Ei PACKED HOUSE HEAR EVANS ON CAMP PROBE Demand Postpone Trials Till After Commission Reports “yen if the workers in the camps received turkey every day this would not be justification for the continuamee of the camps,” stated “Art”? Evans to a crowded audience in the Moose Temple on Sunday night. Hundreds gathered at the CPR. station Sunday morning to give Evans a rousing welcome on his return to Vancouver. Walf an hour before the time an- nounced for opening the meeting in the evening the hall was packed to capacity. Hundreds were unable to gain admittance. Tumultous cheers greeted Bvans as he made his way to the plat— form, on which were seated mem- bers of the B.C. Joint Defence Committee, under whose auspices the meetings was arranged. A brief outline of the role of the ‘Canadian Labor Defence League was given by C. J. MecKendrick This was followed by a Short ad- dress by one of the trekkers, W. Davies, who has been blacklisted from the camps since the strike. Present Commission Too Limited. Speaking in his own inimitable style, punctuated by applause and laughter from the audience, at his sarcastic remarks about R. B. Ben- nett, ete., Evans during his speech covered all the major happenings after the trekkers left Vancouver. Describing the limitations of the present commission, which cannot investigate anything outside of the Province of Saskatchewan, he stated that the commission should be broadened so that the trekkers could demand access to necessary government records and communi- cations and so that R. B. Bennett and ex-Minister of Justice Guthrie ean be called to the stand. Two counsel are appearing for the R.C.M.P. and ex-Premier Gennett, one for the Regina city police and two more who are supposed to be impartial counsel for the commis- sion. Copies of all wires and ecom- munications sent and received by the strikers are in their hands and they are even able to get army rec ords of one camp worker from the U.S.A. The trekkers have no ac- cess to any wires or communica- tions sent by various officials ana government bodies and are repre- sented by only one counsel. Trials Must Be Postponed Until Commission Reports. Unity of action and support of wide and varied political beliefs, trade unions, ete., had made it pos- sible to continue to the present stage. Evans stated, and called for greater unity to demand that trials of the trekkers in Regina be post- poned until after the commission had concluded its investigation and made its report. Evans concluded his speech with 4 stirring appeal for funds im order to earry on the work of procuring further evidence to place before the eommission,, of ensuring that camp workers may be able to travel to Reeina to give necessary evidence, and to assist in the defence of those arrested. A collection of $109.11 was taken up and pledges received for further donations. A resolution callings for postponement of the trials until after the report of the eommission had been given was unanimously endorsed. Efforts will be made to hold an- other meeting in Vancouver, at which Evans will speak, prior to his return to Resfina, in order that all may have an opportunity of efte papers and four packages cigarettes. Thanks. Norquay branch! tent,”” he said, not come from. sources in Canada.” ered ‘“‘Moscow gold.” broken-down colonel, who has been story colonels,. cents a day that causes strikers in He’s Still a Colonel. S = sSeN Lieut.-Colonel F. W. G. Miles, this heading. Any opinions eS {camp superintendent, Dundurn pressed in this columm are not | Gamp, Sask., told reporters it had been known for some time agitaters ~ were ut work and he charged these agitators were paid to do the work. “They are paid. to spread discon- “and their funds do Looks like the colonel has disco- The poor old action lke they did in Regina. given a camp job to keep him off Gouncillors, pledged to agsres- the bread line, does not know this has whiskers on it- He will Lave to-make better excuses. for his boys striking than this if he wants to hold his job. Any intelligent man Knows if is the poor food, overcrowding and petty tyranny of these decrepit alone with 2a measly 20 the Slave Compounds. Blacklisted Ex-Servicemen- The Centre Branch of the WE. S.L. took up: the eases of two vet— erans who had been blacklisted, with the Hon. Ian: Mackenzie: Wis reply was a straight “pass- ing of the buck” He said, “All these men have to do. is write te the officer commanding this military district, at the same time showing” as this. officer is.a ust mam” every- thing will be alright.” We claim as ex-seyicemen they were wrongfully semt into camps in the first place, and secondly that as the Hon. Ian Mackenzie is now in the position of Minister ef Na- tional defence, he has the power to rectiry these grievances. Write the Minister of MNational Defence demanding that all black- listed men be re-instated_ Solicitation of Funds tor Veterans Under the signatures of T. M. Harnett, chairman Vancouver Zone Council, Canadian Lesion; J. Hades Ward, provincial secretary Army and Wavy Veterans’ Association;: John Curran, president Amputations”™ Association, and H. R. Ede, M-M., president D. V. A. (ne), a letter appeared in the “WNess-Herald,”” warning the public against siving= donations to ex-servicemen’s organ— izations unless they make a thor— ough enquiry, the suggestion is that none are bonafied unless under ths above signattres. Wo one wishes the public to be misled imto supporting racketeers, but if the people signing this letter would name the high pressure col- lectors whom they claim are out to fool the public, it would not lead to misunderstandine= as there are many well established veterans’ eciubs that do not come under the Zone Couneil. A New Subscriber Speaks A new subscriber to this paper Since the DRIVE started, upon Meeting the man who sold kim the © sub, an ex-seviceman, stated, “That's a real