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DOMINIO BED OUTFITS Full-size bed complete with eable springs and felt mat- tress. | $15.95 : 1062 GRANVILLE STREET I | 150 West Hastings St. 2301 Granville St. : (Five Doors Below Province) Big Store cor. 7th Ave. Se Chain Stores RENDEZVOUS | ‘BALL ROOM 404 Homer Street DANCING EVERY NIGHT Admission 15¢ Week Nights Saturday, Ladies 15c, Gents 10c Before 9 p.m., Every Night, Ladies 10c G MUSIC BY LeRoy Williams & His Rendezvous Orchestra v AUDITORIUM FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 8 P.M. “CANADA AND COMMUNISM” HEAR... STEWART SMITH Chairman of the Canadian Delegation to the World Communist Congress, held in Moscow in Aug. 1935. One of the Leading Canadian Authorities on Marxism - Leninism QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION Tickets now en Sale at Room 5 ... 163 West Hastings Hdbdhddbobohboabhoadb VY EE EV EVO VO SOV OC OC OSS ' 114646464464 4464h4h4h4h4 STAR THEATRE - - - 330 Main St. Offers you only the Best Pictures selected from the major producers Adm. 5e and 10c all the time — No Pictures Repeated THE ROYAL THEATRE Best Show in the City BIG STAGE ATTRACTION : 2 SELECT PICTURES New Show Monday, Wednesday and Friday PRICES . . . 10¢ in Afternoon; 10c and 15c Evenings Children always 5c SPC OSE SSC OOS O OOP OOO DOO OOO DOGO OCC COEDS OES SOOO OD B REX CARE 089 oy Highest Quality Food—Well Cooked, at Low Prices CAMPS VISITED BY COMMISSION Investigation is Shallow; Retreat at Slightest Sign of Militancy {CUT AND DRIED On their return journey to Ot- tawa members of the Rige Commis- Sion, appointed by the King goy- ernment to investigate relief camps and to make recommendations, en- tered several of the camps in B.G. but failed to make any statement as to the nature of their recomenda- tions. Casual Questions Visiting a camp in the Princeton district, accompanied by ““Adolph”’ Whittaker, district superintendent, they asked one young worker, “Are you satisfied with $5 per month?” Other members of the camp let the commission know in no uncer- tain terms just what they thought of the camp system. A member of the commission vaguely mentioned something about work and wages, but did not stay lone enough to explain it. The whole visit lasted only half an hour, during which some bunkhouses were glancingly inspected. At Yale two bunkhouses were visited and men asked if the ‘‘cook Was Q-K.”’ and also if they ‘‘wished to buy their own clothing?” The workers brushed aside these minor questions and wished to bring for- ward burning issues confronting the camp workers. The commission then retreated from camp, failing to visit any other bunkhouses. Commission Powerless. Workers in Cheam View camp were told that the commission had all their recommendations ready but they were powerless to put them into effect. At Laidlaw no bunkhouses were visited After complaints had been made re food, shelter and living conditions in the camp, none of Which were recorded or answered, the workers were told, “You are much beter off now than we were twenty years ago in either a lum- ber or mining camp.’”’ Workers in the camp are not interested in con- ditions twenty years ago and feel by this time the Tiberal govern-— ment know that the most pressing complaint throughout the country is for work with decent wages. - At no camp which the commis- sion has visited have the men been ealled together to lay before the “investigators’”” their durninge grievances. CORRESPONDENCE To the Editor, Workers’ News: On Sunday, the 5th of January, Eddie Cantor offered a tempting prize to radio listeners. The prize was $5,000 to go to the writer of the best letter on “How to keep America out of the War.” We like to think of Eddie as 2 humanist and we believe that his offer was prompted by humanita- Tian motives, but at the same time we think that someone has sug- gested to him the title. Let us examine it: On the face of it, the title has the loftiest of ideals, had it read “How best can America help main- tain World Peace?” The one title—a slogan—pre-sup- posing a world war, offers 2 policy of isolation, the other slogan posi- tive, invites constructive effort to solve the world’s greatest problem —How to maintain peace—S.GB. pr Seer Bereeweserereurruecenucruueuw ‘ GIDEON HICKS * Announces the installation of in his Vocal Studios. Courses arranged in Microphone Technique. Full information by interview at the Gideon Hicks Vocal Studios by appointment. Studios: 1860 Hosmer Avenue (Cor. Pine Crescent) Telephone: Bay. 6240-R ABBBALEEEDEEKEEEDEEEEDATE SD pL ABBeeeutreunnnuana BeBe eB eeeBewrexc uu s=uxe=e “Play and be Popular’’ Barney’s Music Studio Associate Teachers of Music, Singing and Dancing Phone for Particulars: Studio: Sey. 5338 - 679 Granville (Opp. Hudson’s Bay) “Music appeals to more people than any other thing” Meeting Halls FOR RENT at rea- sonable rates. .... Call at 341 Gore Avenue or Phone SEYMOUR 2861-L Hearst Adds Five Papers Notorious Pro-Fascist to Intensify Propaganda SAN FRANCISCO.—Hearst Con- Solidated Publications, Inc., formal- Ty announced the acquisition of the Baltimore News-Post, Baltimore Sunday American, Atlanta Georg- jan, Atlanta Sunday American, San Antonia Light and the realty hold- ings of the Atlanta and Baltimore companies. Consumation of this important move by Hearst Consolidated Pub- lications, Inc., is effective as of December 31, 1935. The diversified holdings of Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., now include: American Weekly Magazine, At- lanta Georgian, Atlanta Sunday American, Baltimore News-Post, Baltimore Sunday American, Chi- cago Evening American, Detroit Times, Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Herald-Express, New York Evening Journal, Oakland TPost- Emquirer, Pittsburgh Sun-Tele- graph, San Antonio Light, San Francisco Call-Bulletin, San Fran- cisco Examiner and Seattle Post- Intelligencer. MICROPHONE IN MUSIC STUDIO Following suggestions made re- cently by J. Radford, manager of Radio Station CRCV, when address- ing the Music Teachers’ Federation, Gideon Hicks has! installed com- plete microphone equipment in his studios, for the purpose of giving Special courses in microphone tech- nique to Vancouver students. After discussing the matter thoroughly with Mr. Radford, Mr. Hicks is convineed that the future holds wonderful opportunities for Suecessful students in the field of radio broadeastins. Radio singine is an exacting: branch of the singer's profession and teachers who wish to keep pace with the times must be prepared to Bive students the necessary in- struction. It is with this thought in mind that Mr. Hicks has added microphone technique as a special branch of his studio work. SHOES CRIPPLE KIDDIES’ FEET Want Shoes Repaired At Shops of Own Choosing By CARL HIGHIN WINNIPEG, Jan. 9.—The Great- er Winnipeg Shoe Repairers’ As- sociation with over 150 members, will shortly appear before the Civie and provincial relief bodies requesting that the present system of shoe repairing for relief recipi- ents be replaced by a voucher sys- tem which would enable the un- employed to have ‘their cobbling- done at stores of their own choos- ing. At present half of the relief shoe repairing is done at a central depot, With one person enjoying a mon- opoly on that half of the trade and hiring non-union labor. The cobblers’ demand coincides with recent representations made to the Winnipeg School Board, by the Manitoba Conference of Un- employed. The shoe men also ad- dressed their demands to this body at its last meeting: Both organizations Point out that kiddies’ feet are being crippled by the inferior repairing of the central depot due to the speed-up there. The Unemployed Q’er our land poor men are wallk- ing, Walking one by one; Numbed with cold; and drenched by rain-fail, Blistered by the sun. Worm and gaunt they stumble on- ward, Hunger drives the band; Young men, old men, frail and burly, Walking through the land. Through our land the Poor are seeking, Seeking work to do; Work by which to earn a livy- ing, Any work would do. Miners, sailors, men of learn- ing, Seeking everywhere, Cursed and damned, they beg for labor, Beggars in despair. Every hand is turned them, Branding each one thief; Power and Greed are rich with grinding, Grinding gold from grief! ‘Ah, but Strength like flame is leaping, Leaping through the land; Right and Might shall blast the grinders— _ Blast them from the land. —Stuart Stanton Taber. against DELEGATION OF CAMPBOYS FOR OTTAWA All Canada Representa- tion with Trade Union Support to Present Demands Decision of the Workers’ Unity League to organize a representative delegation of relief camp workers to Ottawa to present their demands to the King government is wel- comed by the Relief Gamp Work- ers’ Union in Vancouver. A campaign will be launched to enable two workers to proceed direct from the camps of British Colum- bia to join the other members of the delegation. All trade unions and organizations will be asked to Support the camp workers and to make this possible. Against Section 98. The same six demands which were presented to the Bennett Govyern- ment will be presented to Mr King. Additional demands will be the pro- gram of the Regina Citizens’? Com- mittee for the broadening of the scope of the commission investi- gating the Regina riot; immediate cessation of victimization for union activity; greater enforcement of health hygiene, and dropping Sec- tion 98 charges against leaders of the camp workers’ trek. Other Unions’ Help Sought. To strengthen the case of the camp workers the National Execu- tive of the Workers’ Unity League will attempt to secure the co-opera-— tion of the All-Canadian Congress of Labor and the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. Present plans call for a delega- tion, comprising delegates from every province in Canada, to ap- pear in Ottawa in Hebruary, dur- ing the first session of the Liberal Government. CAMP EXPOSURES LEAD TO FIRING PENDER HARBOR, B.C. —“Dis- charged for agitating; writing to Communist papers — distributing: same.”’ This is the crime for which a young worker was fired from relief camp 901, Pender Harbor. The foreman in charge uses his own judgment as to CGommunist papers, the papers intended being the “B. C. Workers’ News’? and the “Camp Worker.”’ = This worker had exposed the con- ditions in the camp, where a first aid man arbitrarily sets the hours when he will see sick men; where men are working two miles from camp with no first aid equipment and no first aid man on the job; where some bunkhouses have not been scrubbed for weeks; where there is no urinal in the camp, and where the drink- ing water is full of lime. The foreman in charge, who is often away from camp, or drunk, apparently considers any paper printing these exposures as ‘“Com- munist.”” TREY MURDERED AN INNOCENT (Continued from page i) to care for her 20-month-old child. She tramped down to the relief of- fice after Harold had been sent to OQakalla and had to literally beg on her knees, or else fight the relief officers in order to get her relief and rent allowance. They brow beat her and attempted to compel her to leave her house and go into a room Somewhere until her husband paid for his “‘crime.’’ The relief authorities allowed her one pint of milk a day for herself and her 20-menth-old child. When She was about to have her baby, the doctor wanted to send her to the hospital (he could see that she was ill nourished), but the Victorian Qrder of Nurses promised to attend to all. They got in touch with the relief office and it was promised that a woman would attend to her at childbirth. The V.O.N. also prom- ised to see to it that she got some bedding. Weither of these promises were fulfilled. An Innocent Victim Was Murdered Mrs. Maides was with her small child in her house with no one to assist her when she became sick and had to go out herself and phone for a doctor even though it rained hard that night. Her husband still lies in Oakalla jail with a broken arm. His baby was born dead. It was murdered, and the blood of that dead baby is on the head of the Shipping Weeration and the hypocritical mayor, who sponsored a day of humiliation and prayer for the City of Vancouver just two days after the death of Harold Maides’ baby. The latest blow to be delivered at these victims of oppression is from the Vancouver General Hos- pital. There is a bill owing for five dollars for X-raying Harold’s arm So that the doctor could treat it. This bill has been turmed over to expert brow-beaters, the Credit As- sociation Bureau, and they have threatened to start suit for the five dollars. Only Mass Pressure Will Release Harold Maides Women belonging to the Van- couver Mothers’ Council in co- operation with the €.L.D.L. collect- ed mames on a signature petition for the release of H. Maides. Over a thousand names were signed to the petition and forwarded to Ottawa. Even the judge who sentenced him as well as the prosecuting attorney were willing to sign the petition, the Department of Remission prom- ised “consideration” but nothing has been done to release him. The Canadian Tabor Defence League have assisted Mrs. Maides with a little financial support, but the facts prove conclusively that only by mass united efforts will Maides be wrenched from the clutches of his jailers. Gratitude is the hope of favors to come. She climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. Dominion Wil 1 Collect Manitoba Taxes In 1937 By CARL HICHIN WINNIPEG, Jian. 9.—An omi- nous step in the direction of tighter federal control of provincial mat- ters is seen in the announcement Wednesday, that commencing in 1937, the federal authorities ‘will take over the provincial machinery for the collection of provincial in- come tax. Extension of the proposed prac- tice to cover not only Manitoba, but also Saskatchewan, Alberta, On- tario and Prince Edward Island, will be discussed at the conference of provincial treasurers with Fi- nance Minister Dunning, in Ottawa commencing Monday. cS 1AT THE ARENA EFRIDAY night, Jan. 17—Amateur Hockey; Bankers League, four teams. SATURDAY, Jan. 18—Skating, morning, afternoon and evening. MONDAY, Jan. 20 — Amateur Hockey; four teams, Arnold and Quigley, Irvines, Fogg Motors and Home Oil. TUESDAY, Jan. 2i—Skating; after- noon and evening. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 22 — Skating, afternoon. THURSDAY, Jan. 23—Skating, - afternoon & evening. Auditorium, evening, Wrestling Program. ““Hitlerism in Canada’’ By A. MW. STEPHEN Published by the Canadian League Against War & Fascism (B.C. Section) Price 10c per copy Bundle orders of 10 or over, Te per copy. Obtainable at: Room 5, 163 West Hastings St. and at 615 West Hastings St. FRIDAY, Jan. 24—Stewart Smith, Canadian delegate to the 7th World Congress of the Commun- ist International at Moscow, will speak in the Auditorium at 8 p.m. A woman has two views of 2 secret—either it is not worth keep- ing or it is too good to keep. Taylor St. Woodyard SEY. 6849 ANY COAL at CITY PRICES wood Gord 144-Cord Wo. i Inside Fir... .$6.25 $3.50 No, 1 Bush Fir ....$5.75 $3.25 (with heavy bark) Wo. 2 Dry Fir ..... $4.50 $2.50 (suitable for cook stove) Wo. 3 Fir (the very best for your furnace.$2.50 Heavy Bark Slabs. .$450 $2.50 Slabs (mo bark) ...$4.00 $2.00 All Wood from Fresh Water Logs — i#in. length, hand split. Guaranteed measure — Evening for Information —Phone Doug. 4829-1. Relief orders gladly ac- The best thing to tale for 2 headache is whisky the night be- fore. Geo. L. Donovan Typewriters and Adding Machines Supplies and Service New and Used Machines from 31C.00 up — See US First — 508 W. Pender St., Sey. 282 cepted. 163 E. Hastings St. 4 Keep Your Wife for a Pet and Eat at the GOLDEN GATE CAFE Phones: Sey. 4954 - Sey. 345 Vancouver, B.C. Entertainment — PAT Canada’s Premier NORDIC CAFE - - - 122 Ww. Hastings St. MeCULLOCH Tap Dancer and Master of Ceremonies Cabaret 6 Nights a Week — Frank Wilson, Neted Los Angeles Chef — No Cover Charge — Colored Orchestra ““A Home Away from Home’’ COMMERCIAL HOTEL PAUL BEDNER, Mer. Fully Modern -- UP-TO-DATE 340 Cambie Street Rooms at Reasonable Rates LICENSED Phone Sey. 431 ee eo / CLASSIFIED AD CUOLUIVIIN HOTELS AND ROOMS RAND CENTRAL HOTEL ROOMS, 7-A West Hastings St, “Ihe Place to stay.” Modern, Com- fortable, Homelike. Wrop., Bertha Swanson. d emer mf UBILEE ROOMS—alLi, NEWLY refovated. Fully modern. Rates reasonable. Prop., Mrs. Edith John- son, 244 Fast Hastings Street. FUEL RY INSIDE FIR—MARPOLE SAWMILLS LTD. Phone Mar- pole 931—(We pay calls). CAFES 4 eee LOG CABIN LUNCH—52 E. Hastings Street. A Good Place Log Cabin. Open day and night. TAXIS Cs TASI—-SHY. 988—The Log- gers’ Friend. BARBER SHOP | Bee BARBER SHOP AND Beauty Parlor—2528 Main St, next door to Broadway Theatre. Phone Fairmont 1837. AY’S BARBER SHOP—Beaity Parlor. Corner Broadway and Cambie St. Phone Fair. 3268: PHYSICAL CULTURE URLEY BARRIEAU—PROFES- sional Routines by a profession- al . Tumbling, Acrobatic, Novelty Tap, Physical Culture. 344 West Broadway, Phone Fair, 2995-1. ANNOUNCEMENTS Support the Workers’ Press Whist Drive and Dance... . 4265 Main Street, Tuesday, January 21st at 8 p.m. Door Prize. Admission 10 cents, ATTENTION! To all Members of Genter Branch, C-E..D.L.: On the 22nd of January, 1936, at 150 West Hastings Street, a business meeting will be held, when | the annual election of officers will take place. The Vancouver Mothers’ Council will hold a Valentine bazaar and rummage sale on February 11 at O’Brien Hall in order to raise funds for the defense of arrested camp- boys connected with Regina riots. Home cooking, afternoon tea, tea- cup reading and eyenine entertain- ment. : A faney hand-worked bedspread is being raffled. ‘Tickets are being Sold at 10 cents each or three for 25 cents. Anyone who can donate cash or kind are asked to do so, as it will be greatly appreciated. Donations may be sent to O’Brien Hall on tne morning’ of Pebruary 11. Acknowledgement. Vancouver Mothers’ Council has donated $1.00 to the “B:G. Workers’ Wews” Radio Fund. THE NEW STATE POWER. “The Republic of Soviets of workers’, soldiers’ and peasants’ delegates is not only a higher type of democratic institution, but is ~ also the form capable of. ensuing. the most painless realization of Socialism.”—(Thesis on the €on- stituent Assembly.) Auspices Com: Party of Canada Lenin Memorial Meeting SUNDAY, JAN. 19, at 8 P.M. VICTORY HALL, 535 Homer St. Orchestra, Recitations, Music MALCOLM BRUGE, Main Speaker to Hat. Relief tickets go far at the Hastings Steam Baths Always Open Expert Masseurs in Attendance igh. 240 764 E. Hastings :: “It pays to look well” 32 Visit The Oyster Bay Barber Shop 306 Carrall St. - . and wear one of our most up-to-date natural-looking hair- cuts, and a clean face devoid of hair and roughness. HASTINGS BAKERY 716 EAST HASTING ST. We deliver from house to houses in Grandview and Hastings town- site districts. Gall High. 3244 and our driver will be at your door. Support Those Who Support You DR. W. J. CURRY DENTIST 301 Dominion Bank Building Vancouver, B.C. Phone ~- - - Sey. 3001 SBS Bee eeer er ueseswe ex se sre sey ise per day up ST. JAMES HOTEL Modern throughout, Central, Downtown SPECIAL WHEKLY RATES Y 52 E. Hastings St. : Sey. 1817 , BESS BBE eeeeesresreruecruurl LOTUS TAXI SEY. 831 City Rates. All passengers fully insured. Tate model sedans, radio equipped. Day and Night Service. Qifice: 440 Abbott Street ABBE Es 1 ’ ‘ ‘ 4 4 ‘ 1