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workers of the country, then these workers
who have suffered in the camps under the
late Bennett regime should see to it that the
Commission does not get away irom B.C.
without hearing their proposals for the fut-
ure, and their protests of the past and pres-

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WORKERS’ NEWS

WCE: has

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

been heard of the Christmas

-** spirit during the past few days. Blazoned
in electric lights, streets aglow

with neon

stars and streamers, radios resounding with

Vancouver, B.C., December 27, 1935

THE COMMISSION OF THREE

ONE of the chief factors

the ignominious defeat of the late Ben-
nett Government was the strike, and the or-

ganized trek of the campboys

Canada towards Ottawa in their fight against
the forced labor camps. With a clear realiza-
tion of this fact, the King Government wisely
took steps immediately upon assuming office
+o ameliorate the conditions,
take contro] of the camps away from the De-
fence Department of the government, and
place them under the control of the De-
partment of Labor. This move is to be com-
however, must realize
that the chief concern of the King Govern-
ment in doing this, and in setting up the
Gommission of Three which is now in B.C.,
was also in order to allay the discontent of
the mass of the people in regard to the slave

mended. Workers,

compounds.

The Commission now in B.C. will be able
no doubt to glean much information from
conferences with the heads of departments
such as the officers in charge of the camps
in the district and the Provincial Minister of
Labor; but in order to get a true picture of
the situation they must go further afield.
Tt is not enough to confer with Government
department heads, nor is it enough to inspect
the camps and interview camp officials and
camp inmates, because it is well known that
camp officials will receive ample notice or the

visits of the Commission.

There are several hundred former inmates
of the camps who are now out of them. Many
of these boys are blacklisted from camps and
are cut off relief for thei activities in or-
ganizing the workers. No report to the Gov-
ernment can be complete without inclusive

C nsible for
peek oe only a day.

across Wester

by moving to

Christmas messages from kings, ministers
and movie stars, the people of Canada could
not help but become imbued with a feeling of
good fellowship. This, in itself, cannot be
found fault with. Pity it is that it lasts for

Great masses of the common people, how-
ever, realize only too clearly that it is super-
ficial because it is commercialized.

To realize it is not enough. The need for
good fellowship must be acted upon. One of
the finest examples of this declaration of
good-will towards men (fellow workers) was
seen in the action of the United States sea-
men at Victoria, when they stood by their
brothers on strike.

Let us have more such actions in 1936!

Extenuation

When I was but a little lad,
My mind was warped in such a fashion
That all my thoughts and deeds were bad *
And influenced by evil passion.

And as I grew from year to year,

T’d rob an

Unmindful of my parents’ strictures,
T learned to be a racketeer
By going to see the moving pictures.

No crime too brutal for my brain,
Wo role too foul for me to fill it;

orphan’s bank for gain,

Or else abduct a child and kill it.

But now that I am filled with years,
And my activity’s suspended,

My mind becomes obsessed with fears
Of where I'll go when life is ended.

And though repentance comes too late

For all the deeds I used to shine at,

evidence and recommendations which these

workers can give to the Commission.

Not only that, but organized labor itself
should be consulted. Work projects aplenty
have, and can be proposed by organized labor
that will fit in with the government’s plan
to abolish the camps. And if the Commission
does not see fit to confer with organized labor
and with these hundreds of camp boys who
are best situated to give evidence and advice
on how to deal with the single unemployed

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Fascist Art In Italy —

A Vanguardist Painting
The Museum of the Revolution was
opened to celebrate the tenth anni-
wersary of the March on Rome. Its
fremendous significance can be
judged from the fact that two years
after it had opened it was still front-
page news, Banner headlines carried
the news that the King of Siam or
some other official visitor had visited
the Museum in the company of some
fascist dignitary. Although there is
no important painting in the Mu-
seum, the arrangements and decora-
tions were chiefly the work of paint—
ers, and consequently it should be
mentioned in an analysis of Avan-
guardist art.
The exhibit consists of photo-
graphic material and newspaper ac-
* eounts from the entry into the World
War until the establishment of fasc-
ism. The Italian painters were
ealied upon to arrange this material,
and to do some painting when neces-
sary to illustrate the material, or to
Go other artistic work. For example,
there is the story of the fascist hero,
Berta, who was thrown off a bridge
in an encounter with some workers.
This is commemorated by a bridge
puilt against the wall, with the name
“Berta’ written in huge letters
above it. Apart from the interest-
ins display of the material, the
artists designed symbols to sive
meaning to the exhibit. Huge flags,
faces, and words are represented in
full relief. They are massive, sim-
plified, and overpowering in their
rhythmical repititions.
Of sreatest interest is the treat-
ment of the word, which assumes a

sort of independent existence.
“Dux,” which appears often, is given
an appearance of power and

STAKHANOV AND
STEPHENSON

George Stephenson imvented the
steam engine 110 years ago. .- -
That was in the days when the
bourgeois class broke through old
mummeries to set the world on its
ears with new discoveries, new in-
Those days are over.
... Today the proletariat, the
working class, is alone capable of
record-breaking feats in science and
industry. ... The Stakhanov move-
ment in the Soviet Union, land
where the workers and peasants
rule, proves it... .-

Stephenson, who embodied the
new bloom of the bourgeois system
of society, smashed feudal science.
Subsequently, science made tremen-
dous strides.

The new, the second, the great-
est technical revolution that
mankind has ever seen is led not
by a few individuals but by an en-
fire class, the triumphant elass of
the first Socialist country, in 2
conscious and organized way, and
they lead this revolution for the

strength, and architectural fixity
which even transcends this expres-
sion in the representations of Mus-
solini. It becomes by association a
superior portrait of Tl Duce. Im its
fixity and solidity it proclaims the
imperishable and eternal nature of
fascism, just as the pyramids of

<ypt proclaimed the eternal endur-
ance of its earthly gods, the kings.

Glorification of War

This same character of perman-
ence and solidarity is found in Ayan-
guardist painting. For example,
Santagata’s murals for the House of
the Mothers of the Mutilated. Here,
drawn in an arehaistic classisistic
style, are gutless, massive figures,
marching in a pageant glorifying

war. Byven the Ayanguardist skier
by the same artist is Shown as 2
granite-like figure, holding the skis
as an attribute.

Ayanguardist painting is unpleas-
ant, unimaginative, and of little
artistic merit. The message of this
art is actually stated in the Hall of
Honor of the Museum of the Revolu-
tion. There, on either side of a tre-
mendous statue of Mussolini (beneath
which is his verbal portrait, “Dux,”
jin letters three meters high), are
Mussolini’s favorite maxims:

Believe — Obey — Fight, and
Order — Authority — Discipline.
This is Mussolini's interpretation

of the fascist ‘“‘revolution”” for the
general public. Here is a frank state-
ment of the barracks nature of the
fascist ‘‘civilization”’ for the masses.
—wNational Research League.

On To New Heights In 1936!

“(nity of action of the toiling people on a National and Inter-

national seale is the mighty weapon which renders the
Working class capable not only of successful de-
fense but also of successful counter-offen-
Sive against Fascism, against the
the class enemy.”

—Dimitroff.

‘Tt is now sixteen centuries, al-
most to the year, since a dangerous
party of revolt made a great com-
motion in the Roman Empire. It

undermined religion and all the
foundations of the state; it flatly
denied that Caesar’s will was the
supreme law; it was without a
fatherland, international; it spread
over all countries of the Empire
from Gaul to Asia, and beyond the
frontiers of the Empire. It had
long carried on an underground
agitation in secret; for a consider-
able time, however, it had felt it-
sel fstrong enough to come out into
the open. This party of revolt,
known by the name of Christians,
were also strongly represented in
the army; whole legions were
Christians. When they were or-
dered to attend the sacrificial cere-
monies of the pagan established
chureh, in order to do the honors
there, the soldier rebels had the au-
dacity to stick peculiar emblems—
crosses—on their helmets in pro-
test. Even the wonted barrack cru-
elties of their superior officers were
fruitiess. The Emperor Diolectian
could no longer quietly look on
while order, obedience and disci-
piine in his army were being under-

first time in history for the good
and welfare of all toilers.

mined. He intervened energeticaliy,
while there was still time. He

Early Christianity

@passed an anti-Socialist, I should

say, anti-Christian law. The meet-
ings of the rebels were forbidden,
their meeting halls were closed or
even pulled down, the Christian
badges, crosses, ete., were like the
red handkerchiefs in Saxony, pro-
hibited. Christians were declared
incapable of holding offices in the
state, they were not to be allowed
even to become corporals. Since
there were not available at that
time judges so well trained in ‘re-
spect of persons’ as Herr von Kol-
ler’s anti-revolt bill assumes, the
Christians were forbidden out of
hand to seek justice before a court.
This exceptional law was also with-
out effect. The Christians tore it

,down from the walls with scorn;

they are even supposed to have
burnt the Emperor's palace in Nico-
media over his head. Then the lat-
ter revenged himself by the great
persecution of Christians in the
year 303, according to our chron-
ology. It was the last of its kind.
And it was so effective that seven-
teen years later the army consisted
overwhelmingly of Christians, and
the succeeding autocrat of the
whole Roman Empire, Constantine,
called “the Great’ by the priests,
proclaimed Christianity as the state
religion.”’—Frederick Engels in his
introduction to The Class Struggles

i nf'rance by Karl Marx.

The World This Week

in connection with British Im-
perialism there are some sayings
used so often that they have be-
come proverbial. One is: “England
always blunders through,” meaning
that after a series of blunders she
always wins out in the end, and
the capitalist press in “discussing
the eyents of last week concerning
the peace proposals has not been
backward in stating that the Brit-
ish government committed a colos-
sal blunder.

On the surface it seems as if it
were a blunder, but underneath it
looks more as if England in her
time-dishonored manner had gained
her end through deliberately ap-

pearing toe commit a diplomatic
blunder. The Baldwin government

did not blunder. It'set out to wreck
the growing insistence for the ap-
plication of sanctions, and it suc-
ceeded. News comments from Lon-
don contained statements like
these: “Government sources have
made it clear that the idea of a
League embargo against oil ship-
ments to italy is definitely ‘tabled’
until present uncertainties have
been cleared up’; “For some time
nothing will be done to devise fresh
sanctions against Italy.”

Does this mean that Baldwin was
willing to risk a cabinet crisis in
putting his scheme across? It does,
and it also shows how confident he
was that he could hoodwink those
labor members of Parliament upon
whose Open support he could not
depend. When Baldwin says that
at the time Hoare made the peace
proposals they were unknown to the
cabinet he should not feel insulted
if a lot of people think he is an in-
fernal liar. The situation in Europe
is too tense to turn a man loose
on his own initiative, and whether
Hoare was conferring with Laval
in Hrance or skating in Switzer-
land, where he is said to have brok-
en his aristocratic nose, there is
no doubt that he was in telephonic
communication with London. Hoare
willingly became the scapegoat and
resigned, but it is said he will very

{shortly be given another cabinet

post. His argument that he acted
as he did to prevent an attack on
British forces was no doubt de-
sigped to create such an atmos-
phere of national peril that Parlia-
ment would unite behind the gov-
ernment.

However, if Britain has killed,
for a time at least, the application
of sanctions by the League of Na-
tions, there are on the other hand
some yery hopeful signs. In a num-
ber of American seaports the crews
of some vessels loaded with war
supplies for Italy refused to sail
and walked off. This is the kind
of sanctions that works!

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Another proverbial English say-
ing is: “England never won a battle
and never lost a2 war.’ However
much there may have been in this
in the past, it won’t hold much
longer, because Pritain’s recent ma-
noeuvering was inspired by a night-
marish fear of losing the greatest
of all wars—the class war. The
British capitalist class has won
many battles in the class war. Lhe
general strike of 1926 is one exam-
ple, and the November general elec-
tions when Baldwin was given the
mandate he asked to increase the
military forces is another. In both
instances he won because he had
corrpted Labor's leadership. The
rank an dfile were betrayed by
MacDonald and Thomas during the
great strike, and by the present
leaders of the Labor party who re-
fused to build up a united front of
all anti-capitalist elements before
the elections. ‘

But however many times the rank
and file of labor is betrayed by its
false leaders, however many en-
gagements may be won by the class
enemy, the B ritish workers are
learning from these setbacks that
the class-collaboration policy is a
policy of the bosses, and that final
victory, “Socialism in our time,”
ean only be achieved through a
united front under militant leader-
ship.

‘Union.

The class war is one war that

British capitalists will not win by
“blundering through” tactics.

Although her immediate plan
calied for the conquest of five
North China provinces, Japan is
haiting to complete the subjyuga-
tion and reorganization of two of
them. The task of subjugating them
was not a difficult one, as they
were practically handed over to
Japan by the Nanking government
headed by Chiang Kai Shek.

These two provinces, among the
richest in all China, have a popu-
Jation of 55,000,000, and under Japa-
nese control are to be administered
as:

1. The Hastern Hopei Communist

Prevention Autonomous
Council.

2. The semi-autonomous Hopei-

Chahar Political Council.

In reality they will be as little
autonomous as Manchukuo, which
is completely under Japanese sov-
ereignity. When Japan occupied
Manchukuo the Great Well of
China proved to be no obstacle to
her troops. In her further penetra-
tion of China she will sooner or
later encounter the living wall of
the Chinese Red Army, the wall
that Ghiange Kai Shek with all his
highly trained soldeirs and unlimit-—
ed resources has found unsurmount-
able.

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The Mongolian People’s Republic
lies besween the conquered terri-
tories and the Soviet Union. The
People’s Republic is not part of the
Soviet Union, although they are on
the most friendly terms.

In its transition from a backward,
feudalistic country inhabited large-
ly by nomadic tribes to a Soviet
state it has been aided by the
Soviet government. Two hundred
Japanese troops are reported to
have crossed into Mongolian terri-
tory and killed a number of its
troops with machine gun fire. This
is further evidence that Japan’s
occupation of Worthern China has
a dual motive,—a step towards the
domination of all China, and a prep-
aration for an attack on the Soviet

The situation in the Far Past is
as full of world war possibilities as
that of Hurope-—F. B.

The Workers Of The W
They’re Ready To Apply Sanctions

One of the reasons why Britain
and France feared the imposition
of sanctions really being put into
effect was the ready determination
of the International Proletariat to
use the economic sanctions to stop
war. From this action there was
erowing up among the worlers of
the seas an International solidarity
that would hasten the doom of
capitalism.

A tew of these solidarity move-
ments exercised by workers in
various parts of the world clearly
show the trend against the
butchery now taking place in Ethi-
opia.

Intormation listed below comes
from the International Seamen and
Harbor Workers Information Press
Bureau.

Organization and First Actions of

Vigilance Committee in Marseille

On November 3 all trade union or-
ganizations in the Port of Marseille
were convened at the initiative of
two of these organizations for the
purpose of establishing a joint vis-
ilance committee in this port for the
purpose of “preventing all T[talian
shipments and a strict watch on the
application of Sanctions with the as-
sistance of all trade union organiza-
tions and the general population of
this town.’”’” The following organiza-
tions are represented in this vigil-
ance committee: Unitarian Dockers
Syndicate, Confederated Syndicate of
Grain Sackers, Confederated Syndi-
cate of Bunkermen, United Syndi-
eate of Railwaymen, United Trade
Union Councils of the Seamen (deck
and engine room), Unitarian Sea-
men’s Syndicate, United Syndicate
of Teamsters, Unitarian Syndicate
of Taxi Drivers, Independent Syndi-
eate of Customs Employees, Uni-
tarian Local Union, Committee for
Strugsle Again War and Fascism.

In an appeal issued by the vigil-
ance committee the population of
Marseille and especially the dockers
are called upon to “‘refuse to work
ships carrying goods to or from
Italy.

A few days after this
issued the committee
doekers out for a first action. On
November 9th work was stopped for
half an hour on the Italian steamer
“Cesare” loading scrap iron.

Colonial Dockers in Bone (French

Algeria) Apply. Proletarian
Sanctions.

We are informed from the French
colonial port that the dockers have
refused to work Italian ships and
other ships loading hay for Eritrea.
Port employers and authorities were
able to herd poor natives from the
interior to replace the dockers.

Strike of Seamen on Two
Greek Ships.

Reports from Port Said state that
the erews of two Greek ships—the
S.S. Phassos and the S.S. Sifnos,
chartered by the Italian government
for the transportation of oil to
Hritrea went on strike after a de-
eision to refuse all transport destined
for the Italian armies in Africa.

British Crew on Strike Against

War Cargo for Italy.

The crew of the British 3000 tons
steamer “Farnham” left their ship
in Goston, U.S.A., when this vessel
took a cargo of steel and rails. The
erew suspected the cargo to be
destined for Italy, despite assurances
to the contrary, which the captain
gave to hold them back. This crew
consisted of one Spaniard, several
Czecho-Slovakians and about six
Englishmen.

British Crew Refuses to Take

Cargo of Munitions for Italy.
The British S.S  Tredenick was

appeal was
called the

orld Show

scheduled to take a cargo of muni-
tions for Italy at Antwerp recently.
The men refused to sail with this
cargo and left the ship. The owners
were successful, however, in signing
on a crew in Cardiff and sent them
to Antwerp to man the ship, The
new crew were not informed as to
the nature of the cargo and the rea-
son for the signing-off of the old
crew.

Here is another instance proving
the necessity of vigilance committees
in every port to keep watch on and
expose and prevent such death-deal-
ing cargoes. -It also shows the ne-
cessity of international co-operation
in the struggle against war.

U.S. Seamen and Longshorenien

Stop Oil Shipments for Italy.

Dockers in San Pedro refused to
work the Aemrican steamer Qregon
and the Norwegian steamer Rignor.
Both ships were loading gasoline al-
leegzdly destined for Singapore. The
workers, however, suspected that
these cargoes would ultimately reach
Britrea. The longshoremen were dis-
missed and the employers succeeded
in getting others who, for a time, be-
lieved that the cargoes were really
destined for Singapore.

The crews of the two ships then
took a hand and refused to take the
ships out with those cargoes. The
Maritime Wederation thereupon aAp-
plied to the government with the re-
quest for assurance of the safety of
the seamen. The State Department
refused to give this assurance and
in its reply stated that the crews
of cargo yessels travelling in the
war areas do so at their own risk.
In order to protect the lives of its
members the Maritime Wederation
then called upon its more than 40,000
members to refuse to sail in any ship
carrying cargoes into the war zone.

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RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS
AGAINST WAR TRANSPORTS
Dockers in Port of Spain (Lrinidad)
Endorse 1.S.H. Attitude m
Struggle Against War
There is a growing response to the
appeals for establishment of inter-
national united action of all trade
union organizations regardless of
race or political convictions which
the International of Seamen and
Harbor Workers has addressed to or-
ganizations in all countries. A reply
has just come to hand from the
Stevedores’ and Longshore Workers’
Branch of the Trinidad Labor Party,
affiliated to the British Labor Party,
to the Labor and Socialist Interna-
tional, and Registered with the

League of Nations at Geneva.

In their letter to the International
of Seamen and Harbor Workers the
Trinidad Harbor Workers state that
a special meeting was called for the
purpose of discussing the appeal of
the I.S.H. and that a number of in-
teresting addresses were delivered
relative to the subject matter, after
which the following resolution was
unanimously passed and published
in the local press.

Whereas the League of Nations
have declared Italy the aggressor
in the prevailing Italo-Abyssinia
Wear;

And whreas the International of
Seamen and Harbor Workers have
resolved that their main task is to
defend the economic interests of
their menibers and seamm, dockers
and fishermen in general and to
stand unalterably opposed to Fasc-
ism and all aggression and im-
perialist wars which are designed
to hamper the imterests of the
working people and of the colonial
and oppressed peoples;

Be it resolyed that the members

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of the Stevedores’ and Longshore
Workers’ Branch of the Trinidad
Labor Party pledge themselves to
refuse to load or unload Italian
steamers and ships carrymeg goods
for Italy callmg at Trinidad and
to adopt all other forms of protest
as may be practicable towards as-
sistance to Abyssinia; “
Be it further resolved that a copy
of this resolution be sent to the
secretaries of the International of
Seamen and Harbor Workers,

France.
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Belgian Transport Workers Call
for More Effective Applica-
tion of Sanctions.

The Belgian Transport Workers
Unios has potsed a notice in all
Belgian ports calling upon the trans-
port workers to take active part in
the enforcement of sanctions against
Italy. This organization demands
still more rigorous sanctions as re-
solved by the League of Nations and
expresses a desire for co-operation
of the Second and Third Interna-
tional to bring these about.

Swedish Seamen’s Organization

Calls for Boycott of Ship-
ments for Italy,

The branch meeting of the Sunds-
Yall branch of the Swedish Seamen’s
Union passed a resolution demanding
the prevention of all shipments of
war material for Italy.

Irish Transport and General Work-
ers’ Union Against Italy’s War
of Aggression.

The Belfast branch of the Irish
Transport and General Workers
Union, the biggest and most influ-
ential trade union body in Northern
Treland, has passed the following
resolution calling for action against
the Fascist war makers:

“Be it resolved that we, the mem-
bers of the Branch Committee of the
Belfast branch of the Irish Trans-
port and General Workers’ Union,
protest in the most emphatic man-
ner against the indefensible invasion

sider that this action outrages all
¢he canons of Civilized rule and is
calculated to destroy the indepen-
dence of the Abyssinian people, and
place them under the iron heel of
Fascism.

“We call upon the working-class
movement of the world to take steps
to repel the Italian fascist invaders
and safeguard the interests of the
Abyssinian workers.”’

Workers in La Seyne (France)

Demonstrate for Sanctions

On October 30 workers in this port
near Marseille demonstrated to the
Ttalian sailing ‘vessel “Nuovo Car-
melo” loading scrap metal for Ttaly
and protested against such ship-
ments to Italy while at the same
time demanding sanctions to be en-
forced. Workers on the way home
from their work joined the demon-
strators, Shouting, “Down with War!
Down with Mussolini! We want
Sanctions!”

STRACHEY WRITES
ON AUDIENCES

Wrtiing in New Masses, John
Streachy in describing his audien-
ces, says: “Within certain limits,
my audiences vary in their class
composition. . . - Some - are
composed predominently of upper
middle class and high capitalist
elements. And the standard of
their political literacy, and of their
general intelligence, seems to me
to vary in inverse ratio to their

of Abyssinia by the Italians. We con-,

By OF Bill
Your attention, please, while ic i
eress on the sly technique of Hie
bourgeois press, that ventures for 4p
in subtle ways, to hide the try =
behind a phrase. ig
The year that is dying has pr
vided us with many glaring exaz
ples of the way that news of @
labor movement is distorted or sz
pressed. The reporting of the strii |
struggies of the slaye camp worn)
ers and the marine workers in Vay jf
couver occurred close enough :
us to Know that lying is not
fined to men who commit per
in the witness-box. This is na
when we consider where the owne
ship and control of the capi
press lies. Bee
Wri |

Wumerous books have been wii

ten exposing the methods of ney {)
gathering and presentation of itt |
the public. Upton Sinclair’s “Brat.

Check” contains an invaluable fay ©
of data on the journalism that >
for sale in the same way as tf
ladies who used the brass cheel |
soid their love. Another work hi |
just been published by a disgust |)
Brass Check newspaperman, Geor |
Seldes, who started his career
the Pittsburgh “Teader.””

After twenty-five years’

Sion that the advertisers exert 4
all-powerful influence on the preg ]}
it expresses the interests of 17
bankers and business men and the
political heelers, and that it invay
ably distorts or suppresses the trifj ”
about labor and its struggles, |
Andy Mellon is the most |
standing figure in the city wh
the Pittsburgh “Leader’’ is @P
lished. Mellon launched a divo)
suit against his wife. Seldes
thousands of words on the case
not one of them was ever prin
mor did any story of the case:
pear in any of Pittsburgh’s sey
capitalist papers. They were all
the clutches of Mellon’s banks. *
bankruptey of the “dheader,” fa
showed Mellon’s bank a creditor
the tune of $360,000- Ss
Seldes also dus up facts concer |
ine the U.S. Steel Trust which §
testified to at a sovernment hearing |
in Washington. He produced pro
that the grasping corporation Wa
advertising for cheap foreign It
to displace American workers, Alo
the same time he put in as evident |
a Steel Trust blacklist with 2,000
names and addresses of “union oF
Sanizers,” “socialists,”  “‘troubit
makers.’ It was not published, oj
was buried, and in such form as t
kill the story. He learned that neni :
can be buried as well as killed ih;
capitalist papers. ££
This is why we need our oF
press. This is why the “B-C. Work
ers’ News” and “‘The Worker’ mini
be supported by all workers in BG

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These papers are free from the in
fluence of advertisers; no bankers
mortgage puts a halter on them ang
they print the truth about labs)
struggles. If you have not alread}
done so, send alone your share ‘|
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the $2,000 at once.

Christmas is over. here is ay
more need for cheer; no more rail
auction sales to exploit the comma
sympathy and good-heartedness th
belongs to the race as a who
Christmas is a good demonstration
of the fact that men and women ar
not inherently self-seeking and the
if we did not live in a class sceiei
the selfish dog-eat-dof= policies
Capitalism would find no bie
amone us. -

The efforts to disguise this cap
italist gred that pervades society 6%
more pronounced at Christmas ee
at other times. Seme of these effor
inspire nothing but disgust. Mor
stance, one capitalist newshawk
apealine over the air on behalf @
local dopesheet, told his hearers hi
backward they are in Soviet Ru
They miss a lot of fun that we
“There’s lots of.fun in the capil
ist world,’ he told his hearers, “Ji
imagine the pleasure that one
get from spending a dollar in
five-and-ten-cent stores.”

Such a sparkling imagination 2
must be part of the fun of living
capitalist society. Qne cannot im
ine such brilliance, such a super
tellect, having its origin in
Soviet Union or in any other pia
where people haye a sufficiency
the things they need. We
imagine the fun it would be to th
journalistic hack to spend his on
dollar in the fur department of
fifteen-cent-store selecting 2
for his shivering wife or at the
counter pickin= out fifteen cen
worth of serviceable boots for
barefoted bairns. As a Christm
gift to such a hypocritical slobber
one could almost wish he has to 8
his Christmas turkey in the fiy
and-ten-cent-store so he could ha
all the fun he desired. q

The optimism of Mr. Woods
yorth’s election days has alread
worn off according to reports of Te
marks made by him in Vancouvé
last week. The political power whid
some of the G.CF. members expet
to have at the next Provincial ele
tion does not look very big to @
C.C.F. leader—“It does not mes
control of the Province’ — the
wretched B.N.A. Act is still in
way! He does not “know what
do about it” but thinks that se
day we may have to break awa
from constitutional means. There ai
many who see efforts to weld &
forces opposed to fascism inte @
effective mass movement haye bee
held back by Mr. Woodsworth 2
other leaders like him. Consultatie
with those G.C.F. members migt
help him to see what to do abot
the wretched B.N.A. Act.

LUCKY TICKET

Winning ticket in the draw at &
Trianon Ballroom last Friday nist
was No. 779-B, and the 1936 Wes
inghouse Radio has been delivere
to the lucky holder, J. BH. Mebor
ald, 3659 Franklin Street, Vancot
yer, by the B.C. Joint Defence Con

incomes.”

mittee.