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‘B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS

January 17, 1936

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Vancouver, B.C., January. 17, 1936

LENIN, REVOLUTIONARY GENIUS

WELVE years have passed since Lenin,

the greatest revolutionary thinker and
leader since Marx and Engels, if not of all
time, breathed his Jast. Theoretician, philo-
sopher, strategist, tactician, teacher and
leader of the struggle of the world’s Op-
pressed for freedom, he led the great move-
ment that proved in life itself that it is not
only possible to overthrow capitalist rule, but
also to prevent its restoration, and to build
socialism-—all upon the solid rock of the pro-
letarian dictatorship.

It would take volumes to enumerate the
services rendered by Lenin to the workers,
farmers, all oppressed strata of the people.
colonial and semi-colonial peoples and to the
people comprising small nations. When the
reformist leaders of the Second and Amster-
dam Internationals split the working class of
the world in 1914, leading the great maj ority
into the camp of the class enemy, the robber
imperialist governments, it was Lenin who
led the comparatively small group which re-
mained loyal to the working class, opposed
the imperialist war, and called for the defeat
of one’s “own” government and for the trans-
formation of the imperialist war into civil
war for the liberation of the people from
capitalist slavery and exploitation.

Patiently, over a period of many years,
during the dark days of reaction following
the defeat of the 1905 revolution in Russia
and during the days of revolutionary up-
surge, in prison and in exile, and on his
native soil, he combatted opportunism as
well as leftist sectarianism and organized the
yanguard of the proletariat into the Bolshe-
vik (Communist) Party which led the masses
to victory in 1917, and which, under his
guidance, and later led by Stalin, consoli-
dated that victory and is leading the masses
of the Soviet Union to greater and ever
greater successes, building up industry and
increasing at a staggering rate the material

‘and. cultural well-being of the people.

The passing of Lenin was a great loss, but
not an irreparable one, FOR LENINISM
LIVES. It lives in the mighty Soviet Union,
that impregnable fortress of the world revo-
lution, an inspiring and a guiding beacon to
the oppressed peoples of the capitalist cursed
world; it lives in the Communist Parties of
the world, in the Communist International
and in every struggle of the people against
want, oppression and capitalist-imposed and
maintained slavery.

Lenin’s place in history is assured and his
stature will grow as history unrolls itself.
He will be gratefully and lovingly cherished
in the memory of the people when the states-
men and other “heroes” of the bourgeoisie
are forgotten, or remembered only for their
erimes against humanity~

As the great monument to Lenin’s genius,
the Soviet Union, grows and proves the
creative ability of the workers and farmers,
once the fetters of capitalism are sundered,
to organize production and provide comfort
and plenty for the people, while alongside it
the capitalist world sinks into decay and de-
generation, the capitalists resort to fascism

to prolong their rule. The workers can best
commemorate the life and work of Lenin by
forging the united front of all who suffer
from capitalist oppression in common
struggle against it, by building a People’s
Anti-capitalist Party and uniting the scat-
tered trade unions into one mighty effective
body for the defence of the interests of the
workers and for a more decent standard of
living.

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OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY

HIS week marks the first anniversary of

the B.C. Workers’ News. That in this
province the most advanced workers were
able to launch a weekly paper and maintain
its uninterrupted publication for a year con-
stitutes an achievement of which they can be
proud.

The B.G. Workers’ News has played a
prominent and leading role in the great
struggle of the workers during the year of
its existence; and whatever its shortcomings
and imperfections may have been, and are,
no one can doubt its class loyalty and devo-
tion to the cause of the workers and of ali
people who suffer from capitalist misrule
and exploitation.

We are grateful to all those loyal support-
ers who made possible the existence and
maintenance of the paper and whose con-
tinued support guarantees its future ex-
istence, enlargement and improvement.

The second year of its publication will see
more and greater struggles in which the
“News” will play its part. The forces of re-
action are gathering and uniting; the ex-
ploiters of labor are organizing and planning
to reap even larger dividends than ever be-
fore, and all at the expense of the workers
and farmers; the existence of the unions of
the workers is threatened; civil and demo-
cratic rights and privileges are being abro-
gated, and an offensive of the massed forces
of the enemies of the people is in the making.

It is the aim of the “News” to materially
assist in uniting the workers and all their
natural allies in struggle against those
forces, realizing that the great strength of
the capitalist offensive lies in the divided
state of those against which it is directed.

POLICE AND CRIME

oe the second half of 1935 there were four

bank holdups in Vancouver. In the first
15 days of this year there have been two. In
no case has there been a conviction and in
none so far has there been a promising
arrest.”

So wails the Sun newspaper less than two
weeks after it gave great publicity and en-
dorsement to the mayor’s proclamation for
a day of prayer in which the citizens were
asked to give thanks to Gerry and God for
making Vancouver a crimeless city.

Police recruited and trained for strike-
breaking are not the most efficient in com-
batting criminals. Indeed, in strikebreaking
it is often the dregs of the criminal world
that are recruited as “special” police. And
while they cannot apprehend a third rate
gangster, they can club unarmed workers,
to the complete satisfaction of the mayor,
the Shipping Federation, the “Citizens”
League” and the bankers who now howl for
an additional $350,000 of taxpayers’ money
to be spent on all kinds of police equipment
except brains and jncorruptibility.

It is high time that the long-suffering peo-
ple of Vancouver and of B. C. united their
forces in a popular people’s movement that
will sweep out of office the tools of the big
interests who are incompetent in everything
but in their extravagance and their brutality
towards the workers.

“UNIFICATION” OF RAILWAYS

IBERAL candidates in the last Federal

elections hornswoggled many railway
workers into voting for them by promising
that the amalgamation of the C.P.R. and
C.N.R. railways would be prevented by a
Liberal government at Ottawa.

Sir Edward Beatty, president of the C.P.R.,
thought otherwise, however. Three months
before the election he deleared that “unifi-
cation” of the two railways would take place
no matter what party would be returned to
power. |

Since 1932, 60,000 railway workers have
been laid .off because of the pooling of
services of the two railroads, which is the
beginning of amalgamation. And this pool-
ing of services is maintained by the Liberal
government in violation of their pre-election
promises,

All lodges and unions of railway workers.
as well as unions in other industries, should
deluge the government with protests against
amalgamation and demanding the abolition
of the system of pooling as at present in
operation.

For Unity In The Ranks
Of The Lumber Workers

Toronto November 9, 10 and ii, a
move towards unity with our
American brothers has been made
and certain results have been ob-
tained. Im the near future a refer-
endum vote will be taken of all the
members of the L.W.1.U. in B.C.

dustry,

and not only

the workers | on the question of affiliation to the

By A. JOHNSON.

The year 1936 bids fair to become
a banner year for the lumbering
industry of B.C.

According to statements appear-
ing in the January issue of the
“British Columbia Lumberman,”’
official organ of the B.C. Loggers’
Association, it is almost certain
that last year’s production will be
exceeded.

Gontrary to the situation which
existed prior to 1929, when the
United States and the home mar-
Ket absorbed the greater part of the
output from B.C. mills and camps,
overseas countries, the United King-
dom in particular, are today the
Dest customers of the B.C, lumber
industry. Of the 800 million feet of
Jumber exported from this province
in 1935, the British Isles took more
than half; while on the other hand,
the shipments to the U.S. were only
a smajl percentage of the total ex=
ports.

With these prospects for the fu-
ture in iew, the workers in the in-

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actually employed in the camps and
mills, but the population of the
whole province, are naturally con-
vinced that they had a just claim
io a greater share in the profits
from the lumber industry They feel
that they sacrificed enough during
the depression period by accepting
lower wages, and above all, in more
intense speed-up and exploitation.

The lumber workers also realize
from their past experience that the
only time the lumber barons raise
wages is when the unity of the
workers forces them to do so.

The first step in bringing wages
in B.C. woods and mills nearer to
the U.S. level is to bring about
unity of the workers within the in-
dustry. The sawmill workers and
loggers, by uniting their forces, and
with the active support of the
American lumber workers, will com-
pel the operators to recognize their
claim for a higher standard of

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Since the Third Congress of the
Workers’ Unity League, held in

American Federation of Labor. The
outcome of the referendum will
likely be in favor of merging our
Union with the A.F.of L., as the
membership will readily see the
added strength this will bring to
the whole labor movement in this
province, and at the same time link-
ing up the organization with the
Lumber and Sawmill Workers’
Union in the U.S. with more than
50,000 members.

Recognizing the important role
the labor press plays in the strug-
gle of the workers for better con-
ditions we feel that the “B.C. Work-
ers’ News’’ can be of great assist
ance in achieving unity of the work-
ers within the lumber industry in
its second year of publication as it
has been in its first year. On be-
half of the workers organized in
the Lumber Workers’ Industrial
Union I want to extend hearty
greetings to .the “B.C. Workers’
News.”

SMITH HAS LIFE OF
LABOR ACTIVITY

Stewart Smith, born in Brandon,
Man., Communist leader and chair-
man of the Canadian delegation to
the Seventh Congress of the Com-
munist International, which was
held at Moscow last August, is a
speaker of great force and clarity
of expression. He is a Marxist-
Leninist without a superior in
Canada.

His revolutionary study, training
and experience began during his
boyhood, having at that time been
a student of Marx and the history
of the struggles of the working
class.

He joined the Young Communist
League while in his teens and soon
became its leader, assuming the
national secretaryship. After the
arrest and imprisonment of the
Communist Party leaders in 1931,
he led the party in those difficult
years of reaction, and his abie
leadership contributed much to
rally the party, steady it and ac-
tually increase its membership, its
effectiveness and usefulness to the
workers of Canada.

The people of Vancouver will
have the opportunity of hearing
him in the Auditorium on Friday,
January 24, at 8 o'clock.

Welcome Ivan
Emery Back

On January 29 a banquet will be
staged to welcome Ivan Emery,
class. war prisoner back into the
ranks of labor. He will be released
from Qakalla prison on the 23rd of
this month, and this affair prom-
ises to be one:of the most enter-
taining ever held in Vancouver.
Wo end of talented artists have
volunteered for the program.
Tickets are available at 35 cents
each at the C.1..D.L. District Office,
Room 28, Flack Blk., and only a
limited number are available. The
sale is being restricted to 500 to
ensure room for all patrons.

Qn March 26, 27 and 28 the
Orange Hall will be the scene of the
G.L.D.L. annual district bazaar.
The fact that more labor prisoners’
dependents are being assisted by
the CL.D.L. than ever before
makes it imperative that this af-
fair Should be a success. The first
bazaar meeting will be held at the
District Office on Saturday, Jan-
uary 28th, at 3 pm. Any person
who wishes to participate in this
work is inivted to attend.

February 3rd has been set as the
day for the opening of evening de-
fense classes. A splendid curri-
culum has been prepared with ap-
proximately ‘eighteen instructors
taking part in the course. Te be-
come enrolled, students must have
their application in writing deliv-
ered to the District Office no later
than January 31st.

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage
that vice pays to virtue.

The World

This Week

Hitler and his National Socialist
Party came to power in Germany
January 10, 1933. The results of
three years of Nazi rule should shat-
ter any illusion any worker in any
country may have as to the nature
of Fascism.

Political parties of the workers,
their trade unions, are lilegal Only
the National Socialist Party and the
Fascist, or company, wnions are
legal. Concentration camps, or
prison, or torture or death, is the
fate of those caught protesting and
fighting against the terrorism of
this worst of all capitalist govern-
ments, bad as all others are.

Germany has a population of
60,000,000. Of this number half a
million are Jews. The bestiality
o£ the Nazi officials find an outlet
in persecuting the working and
middle class members of this weak
minority. They cannot be citizens,
are denied all civil rights, and are
being pauperized and condemned to
starvation. Roman Catholics and
Protestants, to a lesser degree, also
suffer from the mediaeval fury of
the Nazi beasts.

Under these frightful conditions
it is not to be wondered at that
many give way to despair. Suicides
during 1933, the first year of Nazi
rule, totalled 18,934. During the
first half of 1934 figures, for towns
of more than 15,000, show 4,328
suicides. Murders, starvation and
death are the fruits’ of Fascism.

Those who expected Fascism in
Germany to bring back prosperity
have been disappointed. Under
Fascism German industrial output
has decreased to 87 per cent of that
of 1928, and the total national in-
come has dropped 60 per cent.

As time goes on things get worse.
Fats, such as butter and lard, are
so scarce as to be obtained only at
exorbitant prices. The scarcity of
all food products is so great that
food cards have been issued.

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Germany is a very highly indus-
tralized country, its workers are
highly trained, but 4,000,000 of those
workers are unemployed, and the
others working for a bare subsis-
tence. GConsequenily, the domestic
market for industrial productions is
very low; and the foreign markel,
due to keen international competi-
tion, is also very low.

Capitalist Germany must have
markets or die, and the Nazi gov-
ernment ever since it came to power
has been building up a great mili-
tary machine to conquer new ter-
ritories. Simultaneously with Po-
jJand, Italy and Japan-—all Fascist
—it says: “We must expand, we
must have colonies.” Japan and
Italy are taking them in Asia and
Africa, and Poland and Germany
have said many a time that they
intend to take the whole of Soviet
Ukraine, even to the Bleck Sea
ports. Who can deny that Fasc-
ism leads to war?

In 1920 the newly independent
state of Poland, supported by Bri-
tain and France, attacked the
Soviet union, having as her objec-
tive the capture of Moscow. But
the Red Army, ill-equipped and
ragged as it was at the time,
counter-attacked so fiercely that

fhe Poles were in a short time
thrown back on Warsaw.

spread opposition of the-

throughout the country.

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premier, Molotoy, addressing

the same moment.

en her defence forces.

When this attack comes

of Socialism will
world. ‘
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closer Japan is growing more arro

aboard.

him over to a Soviet patrol,

machine.

“the spirit that wins.”
ee se:

off diplomatic

the country.

neighbor,
been an uprising of the
against capitalist oppression.

The Soviet has

off all trade relations with Uru

Britain
was prevented from going to Po-
land’s aid then only by the wide-
Labor
movement, by the formation of mili-
tant Hands Off Russia Committees

@n January 11 Soviet Union's
the
Council of People’s Commisars, de-
clared that the time was near when
Poland and Germany might be ex-
pected to attack the Soviet Union.
Japan, through a secret treaty with
Germany, was to attack Siberia at
He regretted
that, although the Soviet Union de-
sired peoce with the whole world,
she was being compelled to strength=

the
Fascist forces will find no friends in
the Soviet Union, but the Red Army
have allies not
only in Poland, Germany and Japan,
but in every country in the entire

As the time to attack becomes

gant. Two Japanese aviators Jand-
ed their plane on the prairie near
Wiadivostock. One of them stopped
a peasant’s cart and at the point
of a pistal tried to compel him to
£0 where the plane was and get
But the peasant instead
captured the Japanese officer, bun-
dled him into the cart and turned
who
eaptured the other ayiator and the
It is supposed they tried
to kidnap the peasant to get him to
divulge something of the disposi-—
tion of Soviet forces in that. area.
The spirit this peasant showed is

One of the smaller South Amer-
ican countries, Uruguay, has broken
relations: with the
Soviet Union and sent the Soviet
Government representatives out of
This was probably
done at the instigation of her big
Brazil, where there has
people

retaliated by
choosing to do without Uruguayan
Ministers in Moscow, and breaking

guay. Uruguay will suffer far more

By
OL’ BILL

The statement recently brought to
our ears that the Shipping Federa-
tion spent half-a-million dollars to
break the marine workers’ Strike is
only one more proor that the bosses
will let go of a great deal of their
stolen wealth to enable them to hang
on the right to exploit and rob the
workers. Strike-breaking has been
developed into a science, and duplic-
ity as well as brutality used for their
purposes.
Besides labor spies they pay real ‘
money to strike-breakers who or- i
ganize whispering campaigns by
frained “sentiment spreaders.” A :
company in Toronto provides rats for |
this “work’ at sums from $15, and
expenses, per day. Agents of this
company go to work in the mines or
factories, and immediately start cir-
culating rumors or stories about the |
. | leaders and other members of unions }
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who talk like radicals or discuss
strike as a means of bettering their |
conditions. This is done skilfully so t
as to disarm criticism, and the lies i
and slanders once started are left to fl
do their dirty work.

Another of their methods is to go
into an area where a strike is in
progress and sow suspicion and dis-—
trust in the minds of the wives of
the strikers. QOne of these snakes
goes round the doors peddling can
openers or potato peelers, gets talk-
ing to the women and draws the
conversation round to the strike. Of
course he claims to be a good union
man, says the strike is a fizzle,
everything is lost, all because of the
corrupt leaders, who, of course, are
always lining their nests, but the
poor ordinary strikers hayen’t got
the price left to buy can openers Or
potato peelers.

A fayorite rmimor these birds set
going in mining camps is that if the
Miners go on strike the company
will close down their operations and
there will be no jobs for anybody.
This one was pulled recently in B.C.
#yery unionist should watch out for
this type of shunk, because he is
- | more dangerous than a bluecoat with

a bludgeon in his hand. ‘

by this break than the Soviet Union,
for she has found the Soviet Union
a good buying customer for the

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Another Liberal solution for un-

cheese she produces in large quan
tieies. To find another custome

to spite her face.
Turkey has applied to the Leagu
the Dardanelles Strait, claiming sh

fears an attack by

Czarist Russia.

that today she fears

Georgia, is fortified —F. B.

these days will be no easy task, and
Uruguay is just biting off her nose

of Nations for permission to fortify

Italian forces.
Hor generations Turkey had to fight
for her independence against old
It is significent
capitalist
powers only; she is well aware that
there is no possible chance of be-
ing invaded by Soviet forces, and
hence her Eastern frontier, border-
ing on Soviet Armenia and Soviet

- | employment, at least for some un-
r | employment! Tom Reid, the Liberal
M.P. for New Westminster, speaking
to the Lions Club lately, told them
that “‘our side of the line,” at the
e| Peace Arch, is “an eyesore and @
disgrace to Ganada.” Any American
e | casting his blue-eagle eye over the
‘“nictur-squee skeenery” there, would
“think we were bankrupt.”

But Mr. Reid, M-P., bless us, tells
how it can be changed. He proposes
that we hire a trained landscape
gardener to supervise the building
of a beautiful park at the Peace
Arch, on our side of the line. “Man-
ual labor,” he stated, “could be pro-
vided by nearby relief camps if suit-
able transportation for the men

could be arranged.”

technical problem of

create a network of agents ..--

test their strength in

LENIN ON ‘‘THE PRESS”

The role of a paper (working class) is
the spreading of ideas, to political education, and to procuring allies.
A paper is not merely a collective propagandist and eollective agi-
tator, it is also a collective orgunizer.
pared to the scaffolding erected around a
it marks the contcurs or the structure, and
tiion between the builders, permitting them
and to view the common results achieved by

With the aid of, and around, a paper, r
develop an organization that will be concerned, not only with local
activities, but also with regular, general work; it will teach its mem-
pers carefully to watch political events, :
and their influence on the various sections of the population, and to
devise suitable methods to influence these events. ... -
procuring a regular supply of material for the

its regular distribution
seer a ae who will be in close contact with
each other, will be acquainted with the general situation, will be
accustomed to fulfil the detailed function of the work, and who will
the organization of various kinds of revolu-
tionary activities.—Lenin (The Iskra Period).

not confined solely to

In that respect, it can be com-
building in construction;
facilitates communica-
to distribute the work
their organized labor.

there will automatically

to estimate their importance
The mere

will make it necessary to

The Dominion Drama Festival
will this year witness a new type of
play when “Waiting for Lefty,”
that popular play by Clifford Odets,
is produced by the Progressive Arts
Club.

The local competition will take
place in the Empress Theatre, on
the nights of January 30, 31 and
February 1, when it is expected
that nine different contestants will
participate. The competition takes
place on a regional basis, winners
in the various provinces coming to-
gether in the grand final at Ot-
tawa.

In order to comply with the time
limits of the competition it will be
necessary to cut two scenes from
the play, Scenes to be eut will be
the “Industrialist’”” and “A ctor.”

The Dominion Drama Festival
(Incorporated) was established by
Tord Bessborough while Governor

Do You Wish To Be Well In-

formed on Labor, Economic, So-

cial, Political Questions? .-.
then read

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‘Waiting For Lefty’
In Drama Festival

Sing a song of “Welfare,”
A pocket full of tricks

To soothe the weary worker
When he groans or licks.

!
If he asks for shorter hours
Or for better pay,
Little stunts of “Welfare”
Tum his thoughts away.

Sing a song of “Welfare,”
Sound the horn and drum,

Anything to keep the mind
Fixed on Kingdom Come

‘Welfare’ loots your pocket
While you dream and sing,

“Welfare” to your pay check
Doesn’t do a thing.

Sine a song of “Welfare,”
Forty ‘leven kinds,

Blevate your morals,
Cultivate your minds.

Kindergartens, nurses,
Bathtubs, books and flowers,
Anything but better pay

General of Canada. Leading mem-
bers at present include the present
Governor General, lord Tweeds-
muir, Right Hon. Sir Robert Bor-
den and the Hon. Vincent Massey.
Intimation has been received
from Ottawa that mo objection will
be taken to the staging of “Waiting
for Lefty.’ This is in striking con-
trast, and a rebuke, to the attitude
of local police officialdom and City
License Inspector Urquhart, who
informed the Ukrainian Labor
Temple that the play was of “‘such
a character” that “recurrence of
such a type of play” would result
in cancellation of their license.
Tickets for the Empress Theatre
on the night “Waiting for Lefty”
will be produced, can be obtained
from the hall of the Progressive
Arts Club, 326 West Hastings, Van-
eouver, priced at fiity cents.

You Must Read ;
, Dimitroff’s
Report

The famous speech which the
hero of the Leipzig trial deliv-—
ered to the Seventh World Con-
gress, in attractive pamphlet
form. 60 pages—5 cents. Bundles
of 10 or more at 3% cents.
Order from:
Room 8 — 163 West Hastings St.

Or shorter working hours.
—Will Hereford.

THIS WEEK IN
LABOR HISTORY

gian troops occupy Ruhr.
Jan. 12th:
expelled from

onstrations in Germany;
French hunger march to Paris.
Jan. 13th:

WELFARE SONG

Jan. 1ith: (1923) French and Bel-

(4916) Karl Liebknecht
Social-Democratic
Reichstag fraction because he op-
posed the war and led peace dem-
great

(1924) First appearance

I suggest that the transportation
difficulty can be overcome by the
men walking to the Peace Arch,
headed by Tom Reid playing his
bagpipes, and the fascist maniac,
Tom Macinnes, could be drawn in to
beat the big drum,

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“Daily Worker’ has sent to the of-

fics of that paper two volumes of 4
working class paper, “Black Dwatrt,”
published in the early years of the
nineteenth century—i822-23. The
volumes were found under a stair- |
case in a London house that was be-

ing demolished. They had probably |
been placed there by their owner to
avoid arrest during one of the police
raids that were common then, just

as they are in most countries today.

One article quoted in the “Daily
Worker’ deals with the suicide of

the most hated man in England cf
that time, Lord Londonberry, better
known by Shelley's description as
“Bloody CGastlereagh.” It reads,
“Come sir, Ill show you clearly
how he died.” ‘‘Pray spare your
trouble, we are satisfied.”

“The lower orders,’ says “Black
Dwarf,’ “of course would never
think of disputing the right of their —
superiors to take what road to the
next world they might prefer. The
only anxiety, my friend, is that they
should go!’

If Jim MacLachlan was just a wee
bit older we might think he had
something to do with writing that
paragraph.

A correspondent in the ITLondon™ |
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Somebody has sent me 2 clipping
of a Happy New Year message—a
pastoral letter—issued to the Cath-
olics of America by a gentleman
named Cardinal O’Gonnell. It is a

of “Daily Worker’ (New York).
(1935) Paul Delisle, French-Cana-
dian Communist leader died.

Jan. i4th: (1918) First attempt at
assassination of Lenin in Petrograd
(gon Leningrad); mass strikes in

Vienna; (1930) mutiny in German
fleet.
Jan. 15th: (1919) Murder of Rosa

Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht by
eratic control.

Jan 16th: (1927) D’Aragona and
other reformist trade union leaders
go over to support of Mussolini;
(1984) threat of strike wins demands
for Vancouver streetcar men.

Jan: Lith: (1915) Copenhagen
conference of Socialist Parties from
neutral countries; (1921) formation
of Communist Party of Italy; (1929)

activity.

revolt in Afghanistan; (1935) 97
members of Ziniovev - Kamenev
groups in Moscow and Leningrad

sentenced for counter-revolutionary

Bachelor—A man who eouldn’t
take ‘‘yes” for an answer.

vicious attack on the Communists
and the language would lend one to
believe this Red Hat had studied
English under Tom MacInnes, oF
the fascist mouthpiece had learned
his Billingsgate at the feet of the
Cardinal. It breathes hatred and
yenom, not against social injustice,
misery, unemployment, exploitation,
hunger and war, but against those
who would end those dehumanizing
realities, The Cardinal is a stalwart
defender of “that fundamental free-
dom of conscience in defence of
which religion has blea for cen-
turies.” ‘Yes, your Eminence, and
we know some of those whom your
religion has bled too. Bruno, Gali-
leo, the victims of the Inquisition,
all who expressed any progressive
thought —they bled and burned in
your dungeons and auto-da-fe. We
are glad to hear you attack us in
the language of the gangsters, the
slums and the fascist hirelings be-
cause it tells us you are afraid of

us!