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January 31, 1936

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police from blame and hang it onto the trek-
kers, was an astounding statement of Jus-
fice Martin which aiready shows that the
trekkers are to be held responsible for the
riot. He said: “If some of the strikers and
so-called citizens had behaved themselves
there would have been no riot.” What is this
but fixing the blame on the trekkers before
the “investigation” is over?

Not only is the “investigation” for the pur-
pose of absolving Bennett and the RCMP,
it is also being used by the present Liberal
federal and Saskatchewan governments to
arouse prejudice against the trekkers who
are facing trial on criminal charges and to

The World
This Week

By F. B.

If there is one thing more than
another that demonstrates the in-
ability of the Imperialist powers to
reconcile their irreconcilable an-
tagonisms, it is the unfailing regu-
larity with which their interna-
tional conferences collapse. Opening
with the blare of press ballyhoo,

Labor To Fight Back;
Will Retaliate With
Strike on Atlantic

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28.—A
further step in the lockout of mari-
time workers on the Pacific Coast
was taken today when the Ship-
owners’ Association announced
that they no longer will recognize

Sii/P-OWNERS MOVE T0 LOCK OUT
PACIFIC COAST MARINE WORKERS

a

ITENERARY OF
BILL KASHTON

Bill Kashian, leader of the Cana-
dian delegation to the recent Con-
gress of the Young Communist
International, held in Moscow, will
present his report on the proceed-
ings and decisions of the Congress
in various parts of British Columbia.

connection with the passing of

iS By
OL’ BILL

The shouting and the tumult im

The:

King George YW is over.
bourgeois world returns to the pur—
suit of profit that was interrupted
b yhis death. But was the pursuit
of profit interferred with in any

His itinerary will be as follows:

Wednesday, February 5 — Arrive
Vancouver 9 am.; 7:30 p.m., en-
Jarged District Bureau meeting of
the Young Communist League.

or deal with the Seamen’s Union,
which has a coast membership of
6,800. ;

That the shipowners were plan-
ning to lock out union maritime

they either drag on to a lingering
death or are postponed to recon-
vene at some future date months or
years later.

Whenever they foregather at a

outlaw their union.

One of the Commission, Doak, is detailed
to visit Vancouver to gather evidence, chiefly
from McGeer, the bitterest enemy of the

OPEN IT UP, MR. KING
NE thousand workers were added to the
‘army of the unemployed by the arbitrary

i reer ory in Sher- = itali
cee ae oe as eee ee. Ae campboys, accompanied by legal counsel for | round table conference their hatred, workers was revealed Some days Thursday, February 6 — Mass way? Or was the capitalist ereed
Cee ae eee ee the police paid for by the governmmet, while | *°2™ 2nd suspicion of each other ago by Harry Bridges, able and | meeting, Maple Hall, 8 p.m. for profits merely exploiting the
owned by the great Dominion Textile Com- ye eteneen t of 2 flares up, and each seeks to accom. | fearless leader of the great mari- Friday, February 7—Mass meet. | Patriotic feelings of the millions of
e is not given any such privileges. | piish its purpose at the expense of | time strike of 1934. ing, Moose Hall, 8 p.m. Britishers and the “human interest”

tendencies of the people of other

pany, Limited, whose managing director is
nations? We might find an answer

Blair Gordon, millionaire son of the multi- Sunday, February 9—Membership

meeting of Wounge Communist

The Shipowners’ Association had

The government, while spending money lav-
the co-operation of the reactionary

: : /-| the others. They have a common
ishly to supply lawyers and witnesses for

aim—the exploitation of weaker

millionaire Sir Charles Gordon, associate of the prosecution, refuse to pay for transporta-| Peoples 2nd robbery of their nat leaders of the International Sea-| League at 150 West Hastings at to these questions in the Press— |
Sir Herbert Holt, and one of the group of St. tion for witnesses for the trekker ] the’ ural resources. Outside of the|™en’s Union who the day before |10 a.m. Members of fhe Young ,700ms of the Vancouver EEIEELSE
S tor e trekkers unless e the action of the Shipowners’ | Socialist League are invited to at- | M©WSPaPers- i

When the news of the King’s il- |

Soviet Union and Soviet China they
have the world pretty well divided
between them, and the globe not be-
ing large enough to satisfy the de-
mands of them all, they are con-

James Street bankers which owns all the
large banks and nearly all the major indus-
tries of Canada.

Japanese competition with the lowering of

tend.

Sunday, February 9—Mass meet—
ing, Edison Theatre, New Westmin-
ster, 8 p.m.

Monday, February 10 — Mass

Association revoked the charter of

the Seamen’s Union, thus splitting

them off from the parent body.
Prime moyer in this act of be-

defence tells them first just what their evi-
dence will be. This, of course, the trekkers
will not do, for to accede to Such a preposter-

ness was received in the office of
the “Sun” a special was immedi- |
ately set up. It consisted of stories |
of his life and such material as |

uy

the tariff on textile imports was given as the
reason for the closing down of the plant. The
company has simply declared a strike against
the government, and their act constitutes a
threat to aggravate the already serious un-
employment situation unless the government
raises the tariff on textiles to a height suit-
able to them. That 1,000 workers are thrown
out on the street to starve is an incident of
no importance or concern.

The reply of MacKenzie King is the ap-
pointment of a Royal Commission to “inves-
tigate” the industry—as if the inhuman ex-
ploitation of the workers in the textile in-
dustry were not already known.

During the last federal pre-election cam-
paign, King in speech after speech declared
that if elected he would open up and operate
any and every factory that was deliberately
closed to force the hand of the government.
This is what he promised, and not stalling
with Royal Commissions.

The C.G.E. and other members of parlia-
ment will have the support of every working
class political party as well as that of every
trade union and progressive Organization in
Canada in their fight to compel King to im-

plement his pledge and re-open the Sher-.

brooke factory. On such an issue a powertul
united people’s front can easily be achieved.

REPRESENTATION DENIED
paliLLo has given another proof of his

hatred of democracy and his fear of in-
creased G.C.K. opposition in the legislative
assembly in his announcement that the by-
elections in Burrard and Omineca will not be
held before the next session of the Legisla-
ture. Thus the people of two constituencies
are to be deprived of representation. This is
another sample of democracy under S.P.A.
Pattullo. The Premier should remember that
England lost her thirteen colonies in North
America against the slogan of “No Taxation
Without Representation,’ and while his auto-
cratic ruling will save him from facing two
more opponents in the House, he is only
postponing the day of reckoning.

The disenfranchisement of the people of
two constituencies, one of them being the
most populous in the province, has aroused
the people, already incensed and disgusted
with the government of Promising Pattullo,
to greater resentment. The CCF. members of
the House can count on the support of every
working class political party and trade union
and of every progressive organization and in-
dividual in fighting against this latest out-
rage perpetrated by the fascism-inclined pet-
ty dictator who hornswoggled the people into
voting him into power by false promises.

The next election is not so very far away,
and now is the time to begin the strengthen-
ing of the present opposition to the Pattullo
government by bringing in all progressive
forces into a federated body which will have
the support of the people,—in short, to begin
now to build the People’s Front against pro-
yineial reaction.

WITHDRAW THE CHARGES
ee class character of the Commission ap-

pointed to “investigate” the Dominion
Day riot in Regina is being glaringly re-
vealed as the preparations for the white-
washing of the R.C.M.P. and the former Ben-
nett government goes on. The government
and the police have unlimited funds to pro-
cure the ablest lawyers and bring witnesses
from any place, near or far, while the de-
fence (trekkers) are hampered at every turn
by lack of funds and adverse rulings.

That the so-called enquiry is for the pur-
pose of giving weight and authority to the
contemplated whitewash, and to remove as
much as possible the stigma that attaches
to the police and the Bennett government
for their premeditated and murderous at-
tack on the trekkers and Regina citizens, is
shown clearly by the statements blurted out
by the Commissioners, harried and angered
by the evidence submitted by the defence
(the Commission is not carrying on an en-
quiry so much as they are conducting a pro-
secution of the trekkers to cover up the gov-
ernment and the police). :

The Commission accepts as unvarnished
and unquestionable truth the statements of
the profligate and degenerate RCMP stool-
pigeon Leopold, alias Esselwein, who has
been demoted for drunkenness, but stigma-
tises as “preposterous” anything a defence
witness says that interferes with the pro-
jected use of the whitewash brush.

The most flagrant instance of class bias,
and evidence that the Commission is going
to absolve the Bennett government and the

ous demand would be giving the enemy an
opportunity to prevent its being admitted, or
to arrange its rebuttal by any means.

The conduct of the “investigation” by the
Commission to date is a stench i nthe nostrils
of everyone who has any sense of decency or
fair play. And the role of MacKenzie King
is especially despicable in that he is continu-
ing Bennett’s policy of proSecuiting workers

‘and outlawing working class organizations
under infamous Section 98, which he prom-
ised to repeal and which “he so often de-
nounced.

All progressive forces must be rallied to
united struggle against the doings of the
Riot Commission. The government must be
deluged with protests against its conduct of
the enquiry and with demands that the
charges against the trek leaders be with-
drawn and that Section 98 be repealed.

BALDWIN, HOARE AND WAR

Vee announced intention of British imperi-
alists to bring the notorious Sir Samuel
Hoare back into the Baldwin cabinet is yet
another warning of the maturing war plans
of the government, and plans that are not
laid on the basis of war against Italy because
of the application of sanctions, as our anti-
sanctionists fear, but a war in alliance with
Hitler Germany against the Soviet Union.

Hoare was the agent of British imperial-
ism in the cabinet which tried to put over, in
cahoots with Laval, the “war settlement”
swindle which, had it succeeded, would have
given half of Ethiopia to Italy, and given
tottering fascism a respite. Hoare, the for-
mer Foreign Secretary, and now slated to be
First Lord of the Admiralty, served his ap-
prenticeship in imperialist intrigue as an as-
sociate of Czarist White Guards, the most
degenerate and blood-thirsty ex-ruling class
that ever encumbered the earth, and his
value to the Baldwin imperialist government
is undeniable.

One noted imperialist observer in England
recently stated that “It will not be long be-
fore the menace of militarism in Germany
will burst over Hurope,” expecting the people
to forget that the rearmament of Germany
was encouraged and made possible by Great
Britain. The same observer also said that
“international relations are swiftly reverting
to their pre-war status.’ With the existence
of the Soviet Union, the foremost champion
of peace, the statement is not wholly true,
but what is true is that insofar as the im-
perialist powers are concerned, because of
their antagonisms, their desire to find a way
out of the crisis, and their overweening de-
side to wipe out the Soviet Union, they are
reverting to conditions similar to those of
1914.

Mere pious declarations against war will
not prevent its coming. There is a wide-
spread horror of war and’ a desire to avoid it
among the overwhelming mass of the people,
but this opposition to war must be organized
and united and given concrete expression
NOW. The beating of the drums and the
blare of martial music must not find the
people who desire peace unorganized and 1m-
potent.

THE KING AND LITVINOFF

HAT a bitter pill it must have been for
the die-hards of British imperialism to
swallow when the new King received
Maxim Litvinoff a few days ago. The rene-
gade counter-reyolutionary Trotzkyites will
let another series of howls out of them and
charge the “Stalinites’” (as Trotzky before
the revolution used to sneer at the “Lenin-
ists”) with another betrayal.

The further recognition of the Soviet
Union by the King is another victory for the
country of socialism—not from the point of
view of “honor,” but because the action of
the King was added evidence of the power
of the Soviet Union and its important influ-
ence in world affairs. No longer can the im-
perialist powers ignore the Soviet Union or
treat it as an outlaw nation, no matter how
in their hearts they hate it.

Those who may disapprove of the action
of the Soviet government and Lityinov in the
incident of Buckingham Palace only reveal
their deep-grained slave complex. Litvinov
visited the King, not as a social climber, not
as an inferior, but as the proud representa-
tive of the government of a mighty nation.
Tf the attitude and bearing of the King
toward him was gracious, so much the better,
as the desire of the country represented by
Litvinov is to be on the friendliest of terms
with all nations and peoples in the interest
of peace.

stantly bickering and bargaining
for a re-division of it. In addition to
the constant haggling that goes on
betwene them, they are all sharpen-
ing their claws and filing their
teeth, getting ready to slash each
other’s throats.
* * * *

Japan has withdrawn from the
Naval Gonference because Britain
and the United States refused her
demand to have a navy as strong as
theirs. For the past seventy-five
years both these powers have en-
couraged Japan to go ahead and
develop like they did themselves,
and Japan has not been slow to
jearn. She copied their industrial
methods, their hypocrisy, their
building up of military and naval
strength, their acquisition of
foreign territories whose inhabi-
tants were too backward to defend
themselves. Japan has been so apt
a pupil that now she is threaten-
ing to displace her teachers in the
Orient, she has now reached the
stage where instead of having to
salaam before the Western powers
she can thumb her nose at them
and make them like it. A Japanese
admiral is reported to have said:
“Tf the Japanese navy is called upon
to fight the combined power of
America and Great Britain, I am
confident we will win, even if the
ratio is ten to one.”

These are strong words, and may
not be altogether pure boastfulness.
Be they boastful or not, there is
small likelihood of Japan being
compelled to face the united forces
of Britain and the United States,
for Britain is so jittery of what is
happening in Hurope, that Japan’s
threats of further encroachment in
Ghina and the Bast generally, be-
come, temporarily at least, of sec-
ondary importance.

©f far greater importance to the
British Empire is domination of the
Mediterranean Sea and the Suez
Ganal, these two constituting the
vital artery which feeds the British
capitalists with the blood and gold
of the Bastern portions of the Em-
pire.

Britain has ne confidence in her
own fleet being able to handle the
situation, and has won, by some
sort of dickering, the support of the
French fleet, the bulk of both these
powerful units of destruction being
concentrated in the Mediterranean.

Japan has taken advantage of the
antagonisms of the Western powers,
to tell them in diplomatic language
to go to the devil, that she will
build as many ships as she has a
maind to build.

If Britain and Italy come to
blows, Britain will have to recall
most of her Asiatic fleet, thus re-
moving from Japan’s front door
some of the British bull-dogs that
are in the Hast primarily to keep
Japan a safe distance away from
Britain’s Eastern possessions.

* a co *

Rudyard Kipling, author and
poet, who has just died, wrote, as a
young man, one very fine poem. It
was, ‘The Sons of Martha,” an ex
cellent picture of the class division
in society.

He passed through Vancouver in
the year 1899, and the press reports
him as writing after his visit here:

“Ajy] that Vancouver wants is 2
flat earthwork fort upon a hill—
there are plenty of hills to choose
from—a selection of big gums, 2
couple of regiments of infantry,
and later on a big arsenal. . . The
Canadian Pacifie is a real and ac-
complished railway which is to
throw actual fighting troops into
the East some day when our hold
on the Suez Canal is temporarily
loosened.”

It was his ability to garb such
imperialistic sentiments as this in
poetic and romantic language that
earned Kipling the title of “The
Poet of Empire.”

When he died he left nearly four
million dollars.

1800 FISHERMEN
SAFE ON ICE FLOW

MOSCOW, Jan. 27. — The entire
group of 1825 fishermen carried out
in the Caspion Sea with 2000 horses
on a huge field of floating ice are
safe and sound today, according to
later reports here.

After driving three days on the
stormy Caspian, the ice reattached
itself to the main ice bank many
miles from where it had first broken
away.

WHAT PRICE PATRIOTISM?

Mr. Murrin of the B.C. Hlectric
does not appreciate Mayor McGeer’s
loyalty in declaring Tuesday 2 pub-
lic holiday as it means he has to
pay time and a half to his workers
on all public holidays.

It is hard to be patriotic when it
hits the pocketbook.

trayal was the notorious Paul Shar-
renberg, executive members of the
Seamen’s Union, who was expelled
by the latter because of his trea-
son to the union as an agent of the
employers.

The heads of the International
had been demanding that Sharren-
berg be reinstated, but the union
members would haye no more of
him.

The expulsion of the union from
the parent body was seized upon
by the shipowners to break their
contract with the union. Their ac-
tion means that a real fight against
being robbed of the gains the
workers haye made in the last year
and a half, and the preservation of
the unions of seamen and water-
front workers, will take place, de-
clared Harry Lundeberg, head of
the Seamen’s Union and president
of the Martime Wederation of the
Pacific, organized after the 1934
strike and representing 36,000 sea-
men and dockers.

Already coastwise ships to the
number of 62 are tied up as a part
of the lockout.

Bridges declares that if the ship-
owners persist in their lockout
plans, the strike will spread to the
Gulf and Atlantic ports, and, recall-
ing the number of murders of strik-
ers by soldiers, police and gang-
sters in 1934, he fears the conflict
may lead to civil war unless the
government intervene to restrain
the shipowners.

meeting at Haney, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, February 1i1—Victoria.
Wednesday, Feb. 12—Nanaimo_
In addition a meeting will prob-
ably be arranged at Cumberland on
Thursday, February 13.

HOW THE SICK
VETERAN DIED

Two weeks ago a member of the
Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League
accompanied a sick and destitute
veteran to the police station in Van-
couver to inquire as to the best
method of getting the sick comrade
into the hospital for treatment.

At the police station he was told
that ‘nothing can be done by the
police unless he is ‘picked up’ on
the street.”’

Owing to persistent action the
sick veteran was later admitted to
the hospital and died that same
night.

The Ruler for whom the veteran
fought so loyally to defend died
about the same time. But what a

difference.
HONORED.
Gollege Professors Son: “My
father holds the seat of- applied

physics at Yale.’

Eix-convict’s Son: “Tut, tut, your
father has nothing on mine. He
held the seat of applied electricity
at Sing Sing.”’

Many complacent people assert

culture, rules that country today.

unbridled demagogy poisoning the
for fascism in Canada!

The propaganda of the Citizen’s
League copies that of the Nazi In-
ternational, with headquarters in
Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse, T0A. We
list below some of the many counts
upon which it stands indicted of
trying to foist Hitlerism upon the
public of British Columbia:

1. It is violently anti-Commun-
ist and anti-Socialist, endeavoring
by distortion of historical truth and

the invention of falsehoods to
arouse popular prejudice and
hatred.

2. Tt is ultra-nationalistic, appeal-
ing to blind and thoughtless patriot-
ism by flag-waving, jingoistic atti-
tudes, and other trappings of a
narrow, stupid and offensive antag-
onism to everything “foreign.” (See
Hitler's Nordic complex.)

8. It incites to acts of sadistic
‘terror and violence by arousing
class and racial prejudice and by its
advocacy of ruthless suppression of
its political opponents,

4. It is totalitarian (fascist) in
its conception of fair play. It is
absolutely amnti-British in this re-
spect.

5. It is anti-labor. It supports
the interests of the bankers, the big
industrialists and big business in

general. Witness its support of the
Shipping Federation against the
longshoremen.

Facist Organization in Canada.

THE GANADIAN CITIZEN'S
LEAGUE, founded in B.C, which
has been used to destroy the Trade
Umion movement on the Pacific
Goast. It is violently anti-Commun-
ist and anti-Socialist. Its chief
spokesman is Tom Macinnes, an
unscrupulous hireling, who has, in
the past, sold his voice and pen to
further the interests of Japenese
Imperialism. The League has of-
fices in Vancouver and North
Vancouver.

THE KNIGHTS OF CONFED-
ERATION, a Fascist group, recent-
ly founded in Calgary, Alberta . = =

THE NATIONALIST PARTY,
founded in Winnipeg by Ex-Mayor
Webb and a Canadian Legion of-
ficer named Webb. ‘Their official
organ is “The Nationalist,” which
is anti-Semitic, aniiRed and anti-

CGF This group assumes the
full Hitler prosram, including

brown shirts and Nazi regalia.
THE NATIONAL STATE PARTY,
which appeared for a time in To-

ronto. It is better Known as the
“White Shirts.” Its leader is
Frederick Mullen. It maintains
headquarters.

THE BLUE SHIRTS, of Windsor,

Ontario. It has now faded out of

Citizens’ League,
A Fascist Menace

cism in Ganada. The people of Germany, after overthrowing Kaiserism
and setting up democratic government under the Weimar constitution,
thought the same thing. But fascism with all its terror, sadism, mur-
der, destruction of all labor and democratic organizations and ruin of

living in the Fool’s Paradise of their own illusions, the sinister forces
of fascism are quietly working, secretly and subtly organizing and with

The following is taken from the pamphlet “Hitlerism in Canada,”
by Mr. A. M. Stephen, and should do much to arouse the people to
the danger at their very doors.—E DITOR.

that there is no possibility of Fas-

While many people in Canada are

minds of the people in preparation

existence.
| THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST
| PARTY OF CANADA, of Montreal.
It advocates the Corporate State.
Its paper, “The Beacon,” is sup-~
ported by the Catholic hierarchy.
Its program is absolutely Fascist.
THE CANADIAN UNION OF
FASCISTS has groups in a num-
ber of Canadian cities. It has or-
Zzanizers. It recently held a con-
vention in Halifax, NS.

THE LABOR CLUBS, established
by Mayor Houde of Montreal. They
are terrorist groups, recruited from
the gangster elements in the city
slums, and used to terrorize work-
ers and te break strikes.

THE “CHALIPTOUX” LABOR
CLUBS of Montreal, who recently
supported a candidate on an open-
ly declared Fascist platform. Their
slogan, in the election campaign,
was “A Soacialist and a Jew from
every lamp-post!”’ These clubs
supply hoodlums who act as Hitler
storm-troopers in breaking up
workers’ meetings. In many such
instances of Fascist terrorism, they
have had the passive and, at times,
the active support of the police.

THE FPRIENDS OF NEW GER-
MANY, a part of Hitlers propa-
ganda machine, exists in Many cities
and towns in Canada. Tt also
carries on its work among the Ger-
man clubs and in our colleges and
universities.

ITALIAN FASCIST groups, who
wear black shirts. They exist in a
number of * Canadian cities. At
present the Italians in Toronto are
planning an “Italian Centre” — a2
clubhouse for workers and a centre
for propaganda. The centre will be
in the bands of the Italian consul,
a Fascist official.

CORBIN MINERS
STILL FIGHTING

Qn strike now for over a year,
the Corbin miners are still bravely
carrying on the strugegle-

The winter has been one of un-
told suffering, brightened only by
the support of workers throughout
the Dominion, the sending of fin-
ancial support and of clothing. Al-
though the weather on the coast is
good, winter has not reached its
eld in the little mining camp in the
Crows Nest Pass. Clothing is still
urgently needed.

Thanks to all those who haye so
generously donated clothing is ex-
pressed on behalf of the people in
Corbin by the secretary of the

specials generally carry. This was-
all ready early on Saturday evening:
and would have been on the presses
if news of the King’s death arrived
before 9 o’clock. After that time it
would be too late for a special as-
they
marketing it. The same thing hap—
pened in the offices of the “News—
Herald”

would haye no means of

but they went a little
farther, They actually printed their
special. ;
King George did not die on Sat—
urday. But on Monday evening,
when the news of his death came
over the wires, the ‘SNews-Heraid”’
got a beat on the “Sun’’ because
their papers were already printed
two days ahead, and were being
sold on the streets while the “Sun”
pressmen were putting their paper
on the machines.

Wothing is sacred to the ghouls.
of “business.” Profit is the be-all
and end-all. The “business” that

before it occurs for the profit that
is in it would also tell two days in
advance about the crucifixion of
Christ if there was any money in it.
* = = *

If indictments against capitalisn=
are needed they are to be found
every day in the daily press. In the
story im the “Proyince’ of the
death of the two men who had been
implicated in the Powell Street
bank hold-up, Hyslop was referred
to as “a good boy who had gone
wrong.” The “Province” says young
Hyslop left school, got a job as a2
delivery boy, saved up and bought
himself a bicycle, and from then on
‘maintained the family,” consisting:
of his father, mother and a couple
of sisters. A nice introduction te
life for a boy of 14 or 15 years!
People who knew him say he was
a very nice lad. He went to Sunday
school, was helpful in many ways
to all kinds of people for whom he
worked and with whom he came in
contact in every way. In spite of
Tom Macinnis and other emotion—
ally intoxicated windjammers this:
boy was not a “killer,” at least E
never heard of him broadcasting
over the air that “the Communists
would get bullets in their heads
and ropes ’round their necks,” as
MacInnis has done.
The change in him was brought
about by the general conditions of
capitalist life and more immedi—
ately by the methods of the Van-
couver police. \In the eyes of this:
body of strikebreakers every boy
raised in the east end of the city is.
a criminal. If they are prominent
they are considered “sang-leaders,””
Fast End people who knew this boy
Hyslop maintain that the police
“framed” him the first time he was
sent to jail. It was this jailing, ang
the fact that the police kept riding”
him, that made him into a eriminal.
The police are very largely respon—
sible for the killing of the unfortun—
ate bank clerk and the blame
should properly be placed there.
This is the reverse process to
what takes place in the Soviet
Union. Here we make “good boys’”
into criminals; in the Soviet Union

they make ‘criminals into good
citizens.’ The building of the
White Sea Ganal demonstrated
that.

™ * * *

“The Buzzer” is at last pointing
a way for the B.C. Collectric te
solve the problem of the over-—
crowded East End and South Van-
couver street cars. They don’t pro-
pose what the man of common, Or—
dinary intelligence would — more
street cars—but, elastic street cars-
This is humor probably in the mind
of the stone-age editor of “The
Buzzer,’ but the long-suffering pas-
sengers who are almost crushed to
death daily must go on taking
chances of meeting up with the un-
dertaker every time they board a
street car. The big word in the vo-
cabulary of “The Buzzer” is
“service,” but it is a word and no
more. ;

Right now while the B.C Elec-
tric agreement is in the air agita-
tion should be organized in every
area in which people live more than
half-a-mile from a street car or bus
service; in every district, for more
ears and better cars; for the im-
provement of the roadbeds and the
proper maintenance of the tracks;
and for reduction of fares to a Tea-
sonable charge. The B-C. Electric
will only make “service” a reason
for existence if they are compelled
to—their whole purpose is profit;
that is why they soak the passen-
gers, gouge the City, and skin their
employees-

Jump on your alderman, give him
no peace, see that he fights for you
against this octopus.

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