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B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS

February 7, 1936

By BENTON DRAYNETT

VANCOUVER (Time: Present).—
Premier Paytoolow along with most
ef his Cabinet Ministers lingered
over their coffee and cigars after
eating a well-cooked dinner at the
Hotel Vancouver.

It was a very formal gathering.
They were all dressed in evening
elothes, and the Premier’s starched
collar chafed his neck.

The ladies had retired to their
rooms to powder their noses and put
‘on their wraps 4s the party was to
leave presently for the theatre.

A flunkey announced: “The ladies
are ready. and the cars are waiting.”

Tt was a lively party. The only
Cabinet Minister absent was Fi-
Hance Minister John Smart, who

had been left behind at Victoria to |

finish his arithmetic. Liveried
ehauffeurs drove the party across
the street to enjoy the picturiastion
of the immortal Dickens’ “‘Tale of
Two Cities.”

The Premier
pressed.

After the show the party drove
back to the hotel and knocked over
a few cocktails, later driving onto
the midnight boat for Victoria.

Supper was served on the boat,
and Premier Paytoolow cleaned up
4 double order of lobster salad with
Half a dozen oysters on the side. He
felt that he wanted to forget the
play, so he helped himself to a few.
shots of whiskey and soda, and
then turned in.

Minister of the People’s Money

WICTORIA (Next Morning.) —
Finance Minister Smart sat in his
©ffice poring over figures. He was

was greatly im-

'terrupting me with a lot of tripe

“trying to figure out the profits of
4he liquor stores, when Premier
Paytoolow breezed in. Looking up,
fie could immediately detect that
#he Premier had something on his
mind.

Reaching for the decanter on the
sideboard the Premier began: “Say,
Sohn, I had the most terrible dream

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with a bunch of French aristocrats
awaiting death. The guillotine was
erected on the high ground near the
impress and the rabble were filling
the causeway shouting ‘Down With
Paytoolow!’ I remember plainly
speaking to Marie Antoinette and
Louis XTDV just before their heads
dropped into the basket.

“Then it Was my turn, and I
could see the knife coming down on
my throat .. .”

Wot Under the Collar

Were Finance Minister Smart
angrily interrupted with, “Say,
| what’s the idea, coming in here in-

like that when you know darned
well I’m trying to balance the
budget? In a couple of weeks we
shall haye those C.C.E. bounders
Camping on the doorstep; here I
am, trying to get the money to run
the show, and you waste my time
like this!” He was really angry.

Walking over to him the Premie:
said slowly and quietly, “Take it
easy, old man — I’ve already told
you that if you can’t raise the wind
and if the worst comes to the worst
I can always put over the sales tax
—now don’t start telling me that
sales taxes are not fashionable! T
know all about that; but remember
we have a friend in Verry. McQueer
Hasn't he kept the people's minds
off it for the past two weeks with
the Tucker racket?”

Here Smart came back with
“Don't let that fool you; remembex
he’s hollering for the closing of the
all-night liquor store in order to
stand in with the Oxford Group-
ers.”’

“Yes, yes, I know, John; but any-
way, we'll be rid of him in a few
days, and Ottawa can handle him.
Besides, hasn’t he started some

may get Aberhart to come to the
Goast and spreaa the bull with the

Stampede. How does that strike
you, John?
“And say, what about the Coro-

nation of the King?
another break for us.

“Say, honest though, John, don’t
you think we are really getting the
breaks this session?

Minister of Work

“How about Minister of Labor
Pearsome? Has he got some more
minimum wage schedules lined up?
You know, John, its best to have
some lined up reaGy; the rabble are
getting restless.”

Opening his shirt collar and feel-
ing his throat the Premier re-
marked in an undertone: “I can’t
forget the sight of that guillotine.”

“Yes, yes, yes,” irritably replied
Smart. “He is now working out the
details for mechanical dentists’
wages with the Dentists’ Associa-
tion. He has a minimum wage scale
all set for the egg candlers, to be
put into effect right after Easter;
apd after the cold weather goes he
will spring 2 minimum wage for
snow shovellers.”

“Well, Jonn, i guess Ell drop in
on Attorney-General Hoam and see
if he has cooked up his police esti-
mates so they won't disagree with
the C.G.F. appetite. The chief thing
is not to worry.”

As the Premier was about to
jease Finance Minister Smart apolo-
eised for being so cranky, remarlkx-
ing, “My nerves are all ragged; but
what was that story you were tell-
ing me about when you came in
and I so rudely interrupted?”
“Oh, yes,” replied Premier Pay-

That will be

VETS’ VOLLEYS

Claiming to represent the inter-
ests of the Coast veterans, three
prominent Legionaires are reported
to be leaving for the East shortly.
We much doubt whether the Legion
is capable of truly presenting the
case for the ex-seryicemen of B.C.
te the incoming government fan
MacKenzie made many promises to
the ex-soldiers during the election,
going so far as to say, ‘The Hynd-
man Report did not go 20 per cent
far enough. It will need the pres-
sure of all veterans” organizations
to see these promises carried out.”

WINNIPEG, Man., Jan. 28—Re-
fusing to accept as final the federal
government's week-old decision not
to grant disabled ex-servicemen a
$7.50 increase in relief allowances
for January, the Canadian War
Disability Pensioners’ Association
are petitioning local disabled men
to support the association in its
deman@. Officers of the associa-
tion during the week-end presented
one petition bearing over one hun-
dred signatures to the local relief
administrator. He promised to for-
ward it to Ottawa.

All other veterans’ organizations
are to be approached to take sim-
ilar action, it was decided at a mass
meeting of pensioners called by the
association, which points out that
relief food allowances are now be-
ing paid out by their members to
cover doctors’ fees:

The Ganadian War Disability
Pensioners Association has an en-
rolled membership of 1800, and is
probably the largest single post in
the Dominion.

toolow, ‘I was telling you about the
guillotine. As I was saying, last
night I dreamed that the knife was

thing that will help us later on?
What about the Vancouver Jubilee?
That ought to help us; and by the
way, IT just got it that Mayor
Hourde of Montreal has promised

fast night. I dreamed I was lined up

to come for the Jubilee, and we

just coming Gown on my throat
when the wife awakened me with
a dig in the ribs and hollered, Why.
don’t you take that stiff collar off

before you go to bed. First- thing
you know you'll cut your throat!””

17 Million Are
JoblessIn U.S.

|. WHEW YORK.—(FP)—A gain in
unemployment of 116,000 in the i2-
month period ending November,
1935, has increased the total of job-
fess workers in the United States
to 17,029,000, the Labor Research
Association annual unemployment
estimates discloses.

‘Increase in. employment in
Manufacturing industries, domestic
and personal services and trade, be-
tween November, 1934, and Wovem-
her, 1935, was partly offset by a de
cline in employment in agriculture
and coal mining, while other in-

dustrial groups registered only
slight changes,” the report de
cilares. ‘Whatever remained of

gains in employment was Com
pletely offset by the increase in the
army of young workers coming of
working-age and seeking jobs.”
Industries in which the research
agency found particularly heavy
unemployment included:

Agriculture -.--------- 1,760,000
foal mining .---------- 211,000
Building ...----------- 2,054,000
Manufacturing ...----- 2,452,000
Railroads ...-.--------- 621,000
Professional services -- $59,000

At the same time the report indi-
eated a decline of 953,000 in the
number of people on PWA, WPA
and GGG projects in the year start-
ing November, 4934, when 3,007,000
workers were receiving government
checks.

New

Fashions for Soviet Women

A pretty

mannikin at the House of Models in Moscow displays

one of the latest Soviet-designed evening gowns to representatives

of the state clothing factories and dressmaking shops.

Winning

dresses in the style competition are picked for mass production—
and soon they'll be worn by working girls all over the workers’

republic.

‘“Chapayev’ Soon At Beacon

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run in the Hast, where it actually
far out-distanced the long engage
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which will be remembered by many
Vancouverites who saw it as the
first Russian film to be shown at
the Beacon.

Whereas ‘“‘The Road to Life” was
a dramatization of the economic
struggle in the USSR. ~ Chapa-
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World War as a common soldier
and led the workers against the
armies of the Whites in 1917. This
true son of the working people, al-
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training, possessed all the qualities
of a born leader, and his brilliant
victories on the Eastern front form
a part of the dramatic narrative
written by the Commissar D. Fur-
manov.

“Chapayev” is a picture which is
doubly interesting to those who fol-
low the development of the Soviet
Republic, and the Beacon Theatre
is to be congratulated upon its cour-
age and enterprise in bringing it
to Vancouyer.

Correspondence

Editor, B.C. Workers’ News:

Dear Comrade,—I wish to use up
a little of your space to reply tc
some misconceptions in the article
of Guy Glover in the B.C. Workers’
News of January 24, replying to a
previous contribution of mine.

He says there that he could go on
for pages showing how wrong I am
in many of my most important
statements about art. I wish he had
pointed out some of these mistakes
of mine in this article of his, then
I might have had something to dis-
cuss.

As it is, Mr. Glover did not get
me right when he says I disclaimed
any knowledge of art and then pro-
ceeded to write an article on it.
What I said was that I was not an
artist—something entirely different.
Egon Erwin Kisch is not a China-
man, but he has just written a very
excellent book about the Chinese.
T never laid an egg but I know a
rotten one when it is placed under

‘my nose. And so, without being an

artist, lL may be interested enough
in art to discuss it from my partic-
ular angle, just as T would discuss
religion, law, or whatnot.

I should thank Mr. Glover for the
“ivory tower,’ for he has built one
around himself in this article of his.
When anyone says, as he does, OE
allowed myself to be influenced by
no one—on one side or the other,”
he is merely leading up to the state-
ment of his belief that it might be
demonstrated by a neurologist that
the artist’s nervous system is built
differently from that of other men.

Apart from the fact that no
histologist HAS attempted to dem-
onstrate that the nerve ganglia of
the artist and the people of com-
mon clay are compounded of a dif-
ferent kind of neuroplasm, this isa
new slant on class differentiation.
Wot so very long ago, we were told
that our betters, the aristocracy,
were different. They had blue
blood in their veins instead of red.
But so many aristocratic jugulars
have been opened up lately by
plebian jocktelegs that that argu-
ment doesn’t hold water any more.

I hope Mr. Glover is not very
serious in this line because it leads
to “‘the elite’ of Pareto, the philoso-
pher of Ttalian fascism, and to the
“high culture’’ which is inseparably
pound up with luxury and wealth,
of Spengler, the true philosopher of
the German Nazis whatever minor
differences he may have had with
them.

My object in writing the original
article was to show that the revo-
Jutionary artist can only play his
full role by placing his art in the
service of the proletarian revolu-
tion, not in bondage to it, and that
art is conditioned by the same
forces that mould all other social
activity. This is the view of Marx,
Engels and Lenin.

Mr. Glover and I are agreed any-
how on the necessity of the struggle
against fascism, SO I would like to
quote to him the last sentence of a
speech of Dimitroff’s at an anti-
fascist meeting in the “Writers’
¥iome’’ in Moscow last spring:

“Creative art should be placed at
the service of the great revyolution-—
ary ideal of the millions of workers
of humanity.”

WM. BENNETT.

SCOTTSBORO BOY

SHOT BY SHERIFF

Attempted Murder
Follows Refusal to
Drop Lawyer

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—(FP)—Of-
ficial lilyowhite Alabama “justice”
put a bullet into the brain of Ozie
Powell, one of the nine Scottsboro
boys, after weeks of bullying had
failed to make him and his fellows
renounce their lawyers, and after
Powell, apparently believing his life
was in danger, had been provoked
into fighting back the deputy who
struck him.

This is the picture which emerges
from the latest sensational develop-
ment of the Scottsboro case, as
Powell, hovering between life and
death, tosses in delirium on his

prison cot in a filthy Jim Crow jail
ward at Birmingham, his right foot
chained to the foot of the bed.

A deputy sheriff was slightly cut
and Powell critically shot while 2
motorcar Was transporting the
handcuffed Scottsboro defendants
from Decatur to Birmingham jail.

Powell, handcuffed to two com-
panions, Glorence Norris and Roy
Wright, was in the rear seat of a
car driven by Sheriff J. Street
Sandlin of Morgan county, beside
whom sat Deputy Sheriff Blaylock.

At Decatur, a jury had just found
Haywood Patterson, first of the de-
fendants to go on trial, guilty of
criminal attack and fixed his pun-
ishment at 75 years in prison. Trials
of the other boys may come up in
April. Additional indictments may
be sought against Powell, Norris
and Wright.

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Workers News.

The Worid
This Week

By F. B.

That there has been no scream-
ing headlines in the press, arising
from the European situation, dur-
ing the past week or so, does not
mean that the international fires
have been quenched. The fires are
well banked, only the opening of
the drafts is required to bring the
flames of war to a white heat-

Six weeks ago the matter of the
application of sanctions against
Fascist Italy was pushing every-
thing else out of the limelight.
Looking back over this period there
is nothing to indicate that Musso-
lini needed to lose sleep worrying
about where he was going to get
oil for war purposes. The nations
were agreed that there should be
sanctions, but they could not, or
did not want to, agree to put them
in force.

When the common people of the
world demanded sanctions against
Italy's robber war in Ethiopia, the
governments of Great Britain and
France came to Mussolini’s aid
with what were known? as the
Hoare-Laval proposals for peace,
proposals which; if accepted by
Ethiopia, would have delivered her
over to the domination of Italy. The
threat of sanctions did not cause
Mussolini to halt, and while the
League of Nations was discussing:
the question he was buying extra
quantities of oil from the United
States. Im the month of November
78.284 barrels of gasoline were ex-
ported to Italy, although none had
been shipped in October. Shipments
ef lubricating oil direct to the war
zone from the U.S. increased 1,700
per cent during November.

Wow it is announced that in con-
sideration of payment in gold Rou-
mania has contracted to supply
Italy with all the oil she needs for
1936. It is also stated that Musso-
lini has just warned the Italian
people that they will soon have to
be content with one meal a day.

= * = *

The failure of the Hoare-Laval
peace proposals had wide effects.
Premier Baldwin had to publicly
apologize and Hoare had to quit the
British Cabinet. In France, Premier
Laval had to resign, being replaced
by a new ministry under Premier
Albert Sarraut. Sarraut, although
he belongs to a left Democratic
party, is just as much an enemy of
the People’s Front as was Laval.
Wevertheless, in the substitution
the power of the People’s Front is
strikingly shown; if they can cause
the downfall of Laval they can, in

the future, should the occasion
arise, overthrow Sarraut.
Eyents in France are rapidly

coming to a head, to a struggle be-
tween the forces for peace and
against Fascism, as organized in the
People’s Front, and the capitalist
forces in the Fascist organizations.
The next great test between them
will be in the general elections in
France, which are to be held in
three months’ time,

The Hrench Fascists are openly
friendly to the German Nazis, and
it is just possible that it is to
strengthen the French Fascists in
the coming struggle that the Wazis
are preparing to send armed forces
to the Rhineland, a territory that,
under the Treaty of Versailles, was
to be demilitarized. A Fascist
France would be a great encourage-
ment to Hitler when he attacks the
Soviet Union. He would hardly dare
to attack the Soviet Union with a
People’s Front fovernment back of
him in France. The peace of
Europe depends, to a very great
extent, on the power of the People’s
Front in France.

* * * =

Although Baldwin had to eat
humble pie for the part played by.
his government in the Hoare-Laval
peace proposals, He at the same
time capitalized the situation to his
own advantage. Both he and Hoare
stated that they acted as they did
to prevent an Italian attack on
British forces in the Mediterranean
area, And then on top of this they
added the fear of Japanese agsres-
sion in the Far East. Both situa
tions were used to pave the way
for the announcement of the gov-

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"CLOSE CAMPS”
SAY RIGG COMM.

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and that a certain amount of their
‘wwages’’ be held back every month
in order that they may only stay in
camp for six months, presumably
being expected to live the other six
months of the year on the meagre
amount they would receive on dis-
charge.

It can easily be seen that under
such a system: the plight of the un-
employed youth wall be far worse
than it even has been in the past.
The majority of the relief camps
of Canada are in B.C, and when
one realizes that most of these camps
are situated on highways leading
through mountain passes, the ridicu-
lousness of the Commission's state-
ment that the recreation hall “sgen-
erally faced on a playing field where
outside sports were enjoyed” is very
easily seen.

The red bogey is played to the
limit in their finding that young

tions “have become an easy prey to
the subversive influences of commu-
nistic or anarchistic philosophy,
sedulously propagated by experi-
enced agitators.”” Also “they are
viciously rebellious against and de-
fiant to authority; they shirk work
and are determined to do so.”

They completely blind themselves
to the fact that ambitious yeuth
forced into these camps, cut off from
all social life, all culture, working
for 20 cents per day, with no future
before them, will naturally rebel
against such conditions, and that the
blame for this situation lies at the
door of the Bennett and now the
King Governments,

The people of Canada gave won-
derful support to the camp workers
jast summer in their fight against
the intolerable conditions, and it will
take more than a commission draw-—
ing in the red bogey to convince
them that all is well in the relief
camps.

Mr. Woodsworth, ©€.C.F. leader,
stated this week that “men in relief
camps should be given real wages
for real work,” a statement with
which all workers will heartily agree.
It now remains to force the King:
Government to abolish the camp

men suffering from thwarted ambi:

system.

LOCAL GYMNASTS
STAGE DISPLAYS

Junior tumblers were given 2
sreat reception at the sym display
and dance staged at Webster's Cor-
ner, February ist, by the Red Star
Athletic Club as part of the drive
to raise sufficient funds to send
Allan Puttonen, member of the club,
to the Workers’ Sports training
school in Ontario.

Another gym display and dance
will be staged at the Clinton Hall on
Saturday, Feb, 8th, all proceeds to
go to the student fund.

ermmment’s plan to spend a billion
dollars in inereasing the military
and naval might of the Empire. The
plan includes the’ appointment of =
supreme defence minister, for which
post two names are suggested, these

LONDON BOBBIES
PROTECT SCABS

LONDON, Eng.—Thirty-five hun-
dred striking meat salesmen in
Smithfield market were joined by
those who unload the trucks, and
others, making a total of 10,000 men
now on strike. The strike is a pro-
test against the Arbitration Board's
delay in giving its finding on the
demand for increased wages.

Six hundred police guarded the
moving by scabs of cold storage
meat from the docks to the retail-
ers in the suburbs. Another attempt
to move supplies was frustrated by
pickets. Hundreds of police are on
guard at the docks and at various
railroad depots where meat is held:

Announcement of the organizer of
the Transport Union that the bosses
would discuss the grievances as soon
as the men returned to work, and
hints that the strike did not have

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MacDonald.

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