- ous. _ Bach Jost around 6 per cent. The Page Two B.C. WOREERS’ NEWS January 31, 1936 Miove On Foot To Launch Wide Campaign For The Repeal Of Section 98 Prominent Progressives Head National Movement TORONTO, Ont. Jan. 25.—(ALP) — Within the next few weeks a powerful committee, composed of active liberal and progressive people in all parts of Canada, will ‘come into existence for the one task of bringing about the repeal of Sec- dion 98 of the Criminal Code. Dr. Salem Bland, dean of Toronto clergymen and a prominent mem-— ber of the national bureau of the Ganadian League Against War and Fascism, is to call prominent pro- eressive individuals in Toronto to- gether, it was jearned, and from this group the national committee Will be formed. One preliminary meeting has al- ready been held and a general plan of action adopted. It is understood that, for one thing, an extensive pamphiet is to be prepared with egal assistance exposing the full reactionary character of Section 98, Fevealing the dangers of the sec- tion to the Canadian people. While leaders in the new move- gnent for the repeal of the reac- #ionary section are reluctant to re- weal complete plans until they are # little further advanced, it became Zenown today that J. lL. Cohen, well known Toronto attorney, and A. A. Wiacleod, national chairman of tht @anadian League Against War and Fascism, are included in the list of Prominent people who have signi- fied their willimgness to be asso- @iated. ASK BREAD; GET FORMALDEHYDE AND TEAR GAS FL. SCOTT, Kans—(EP)—A 63- “year-old man is near death and ‘sseyeh WPA strikers were taken to 4the hospital, as a result of assaults “with formaldehyde and tear gas on 250 hungry men, women and chil- dren, who had occupied the -Bour- “bon county courthouse at Ht. Scott 4n protest against ‘balanced budget’ felief policies of Gov. Landon. In an attempt to dislodge them, suthorities ordered nightly ‘fumiga- ¢#ion’ of the courthouse, burning formaldehyde candles three succes- sive nights. A contingent of demon- «strators held out against the fumes, some lying on the floor halfconsci- HEARST BOYCOTT PROVES EFFECTIVE CHICAGO, Til.— @P) — Though American newspapers averaged a gain of almost 5 per cent in adver- #ising in 1935 over 1934, William Randolph Hearst's two Chicago qgailies, the Herald-Examiner and ¢he American, made bad ad records. earst dailies were the only Chi- eago papers to print less advertis- ing in December than in December @ year ago. Hearst's New Work dailies, the American and the Journal, also 10st during the year, and were the only dailies in that city to slip during December. 5 : A.F.L. UNIONS AID RELIEF WORKERS CHICAGO, Til. — (FP)—Highteen American Federation of Labor local qinions, with 17,000 paid-up mem- bers, formed a WPA council Janu- ary 19 to fight for prevailing wages op WPA jobs and for redress of grievances. Unions represented, Some with several locals, are Car- penters, painters, machinists, black- CANADIAN ITALIANS OBJECT TO WAR AID WINDSOR, Ont., Jan. 26—{ALP) —Objection to a meeting to be held here Sunday at which it is alleged two members of the Italian consul- ate at Toronto will make a plea for money to aid the Italian army dur- ing its present Mmanoeuvers in Ethiopia, was registered at a mect- ine of 100 members of the Italian Cultural Club here last night. A resolution by G. K. Ketcheson of the League Against War and Fascism, protesting “against the emissaries of the Mussolini Fascist government” being allowed to hold meetings for the purpose of raising financial support for the “war of Fascist aggression against Ethio- pia,” was approved by those present. NEGRESS GETS $150 DAMAGES SHATTLE, Jan. 27.— Miss Alice Lewis, 21, mnegress stenographer, was awarded $150 damages by Judge Howard M. Findlay here in her suit against the Up and Up Cafe for refusing to serve her be- Cause she was colored. She had asked for $750 damages. This at- tempt to practice race’ discrimina- {ion and the decision will assist in prevention of the spread of Jini Growism to the Northwest states. The “Up and Up’? had to climb down. : : UFA To Stay In The CCF EDMONION, Alta] Jan, 24--—— Farmers of Alberta stood solidly be- hind their organization today. By an overwhelming majority dele- sates to the annual meeting of the United Farmers of Alberta voted to carry on in the political arena. The present status of the co- operative farm body was maintain- ed by a vote of 280 to 20 yesterday. Delegates stamped with approval a program to press forward with edu- cational work as an economic group, jo carry on political activities and +o build’ up co-operative societies. The association will continue to function as a political autonomous unit in the GCo-operatice Common- wealth Federation, under the lead- ership of Robert Gardiner, former U.F.A. member of parliament for Acadia. Norman FE. Priestley was chosen vice-president. Repeal of Section 98 of the Crim- inal Code, long sought by Labor or- ganizations throughout the Domin-— ion, was urged in a resolution en- dorsed by the U.F.A. After hearing an address by Matthew Shaw, youthful leader in the “March to Ottawa’’ of relief camp Strikers, the farmer delepates adopted the resolution without debate. Shaw. described conditions in Fed- eral relief camps and the “hope- lessness and despair” of the youths of Canada, unemployed and forced to seek shelter in the camps. Shaw, whose home is in Regina, appealed for aid for the 25 men, in- cludine himself, who are to face charges in Regina, late in March, arising from the Dominion Day riot in the Saskatchewan capital. By A MOTHER. Our local capitalist papers haye been “capitalizing” on the recent tragic hold-up, and still more tragic and bitter death of two of the participants in this bank rob- bery. ~ Our Mayor, according to a “Sin” flash, looked at the body of one of the young victims and said: “There he lies, he was beyond the pale. He was of no use and he must have contaminated every- one with whom he came in con- tact. here’s the result of a life of crime.” I wonder .. . which the greater erime that of the youth, or that of the man who has risen to seat of mayor, on 2 wave of notor- jety and sham promises which he never intended to Keep; who called out his “specials’’ with tear gas bombs and machine guns to attack our gallant Longshoremen on that day at Ballantyne Pier; who re- fused bread to the campboys and said they would get bullets instead; who poses as a Union man, but who is, after all ..- only a thing of shreds and patches? Qur daily papers print slush about crime not paying, and paint a pic- ture of horror in connection with these young men. On the other hand, Mrs. Hyslop, one of the mothers, ‘sobs out her heart for the son who participated in the hold- up—a mother who knew and loved that son, who watched him from a-good boy, and he helped them all so willingly at home, and was al- ways a good worker. Tt must have been the DEPRESSION which got him.” DEPRESSION —that is a word with little or no meaning to those who still can enjoy the luxuries and comforts money can buy, but to those who know the pangs of the ers, bakers, pressmen, fur workers, pocketbook makers, butchers, ladies garment workers and technical and smiths, building watchmen, teach- research workers. Admission 15¢ RENDEZVOUS BALL ROOM 404 Homer Street DANCING EVERY NIGHT Saturday, Ladies 15c, Gents 20c Week Nights tender years; to her he “was always | Our Mayor Smeers; A Mother’s Tears economic pressure DEPRESSION is a hideous MONSTER of dread, which brings hunger and want, dis- ease and fear. They know what it means... to See little children go hunery and cold because Dad cannot get work; to see expectant mothers grow emaciated and babies born who have no chance to live; to See youns women and men haggard and pre- maturely aged by want and worry; to see youth grow up and driyen to erime in order to live and as an outlet for their energy. Because work is denied them—and they have a right to expect something out of life—and because society denies it to them in a legal way, is it not natural that they will wake up and get it in the only way they know? The system which promotes such erimes and fosters the corruption Vand graft so apparent everywhere is responsible and must be con- demned. ‘These boys were not nat- urally wild, cruel killers—they were moulded into shape by a system so diseased with vice and greed and eraft that one wonders how youth remains as straight and fine as it is today. It can only be because youth naturally is fine and strong and clean. I repeat the words the mayor uttered as he gazed on that young victim's riddled body, with some changes to express 2 worker's standpoint: “There he sits, in his comfort- able Mayor's chair. He is of no use to us as a Mayor, He con- taminates everyone with whom he eomes in contact. He is the result of graft and greed and false ideals. He is a tool of that system which forces the working man down into the gutter, and raises the leeches to positions of eminence and affluence. He cannot continue . . . for long.”’ VETS’ VOLLEYS At the Returned Soidiers’ Billets in Vancouver, the rations are fair as such things go in “‘Pogies” and at present there is no overcrowd- ing in the sleeping quarters, but it is still a “warehouse.” It is over- staffed. This is the way authorities buy loyaity, and most of the in- mates are old men, but they say that if a war should break out the first casualty would be the recruit— ing sergeant—*Donegal Pete.” At a recent meeting called to set up a post of the Legion in Burnaby most of those present objected to the constitution and walked out.. Burnaby veterans are examining various constitutions to find one democratic enough to meet their needs_ Wext week the Ex-Servicemen’s: League announce they will re-com- mence publishing the “Rank and Pile Vet.’ This mimeographed paper, they inform us, will be full of news of real interest to all re- turned men. A married ex-serviceman with 2 wife and three smail children is threatened with eviction. Our com- rade is on city relief and his land- lord refuses to accept the small rent allowance by the city. These people have no heater for the upper floor so the bedrooms are bitterly cold these frosty mornings, and to add to their misery, the veteran is ex- pecting to go to hospital any day, only awaiting accommodation there, having been instructed toe hold him— self in readiness. This means leav- ing his wife to face the bailiffs alone, so he has called an the Ex Servicemen’s League in his diffi- culty. The League has investigated and will do its best to see that this family does not suffer more hard- ship through being evicted. Picketing will be conducted if ne- cessary. WEBBS GREET SOVIET WORKERS MOSCOW, Jan. — New Year's greetings were received here from two of Britains greatest writers, the Webbs. 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