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Vancouver, B.C., February 14, 1936

PRODUCTIVITY AND REWARD
66RIORTH AMERICAN Communists deplore

the speed-up system of our major indus-
tries, while on the other hand Soviet Russia is
heaping high rewards on its fastest workers.”

So reads part of an editorial in the Sum news-
paper, and the writer of it professes to see an
inconsistency in the communists supporting ef-
ficiency in production in the socialist country
while opposing it in capitalist countries.

The Sun editorial writer has, perhaps unwit-
tingly, shown that there is no inconsistency
whatever in the situation! The last eleven words
quoted supply the explanation: “Soviet Russia
is heaping high rewards on its fastest workers”
(our emphasis—/d. ).

And the workers in the Soviet Union reap re-
wards in proportion to their ability and willing-
ness to produce because they are not working
to produce surplus profit for private owners of
industries, but, owning the industries then-
selves, collectively, the more they produce the
more they have.

In North America the speed-up in industry
while adding to the volume of commodities pro-
duced, does not bring higher rewards to the
workers. On the contrary, it throws hundreds
of thousands of workers out of industry and into
the breadlines, whilst those who remain on the
job receive not higher but lower rewards be-
cause of the competition for jobs and the greed
of the capitalist owners of industry for profits.

Increased productivity in the Soviet Union
résults in the standard of living constantly and
rapidly rising, the working day being shortened
and the complete absence of unemployment.

The speed-up in Canada results in a lowered
standard of living (unless bitterly struggled
against), im vast armies of jobless workers and
in hunger, misery and destitution.

The conclusion of the perplexed editorial
writer of the Sun is that “Communist Russia
has been driven to recognize that the collectivist
principle will go only so far—that there must be
individual rewards to inspire initiative.”

Tt is precisely because the collectivist prim-
ciple is applied in industries in the Soviet Union
that there is individual reward and the greatest
Initiative is inspired.

The individual reward in the socialist econo-
my of the Soviet Union, however, is for the
workers, and that is what inspires initiative,
whereas in Canada there is nothing to inspire
initiative in the workers when the product of
their toil, above a meagre subsistence, goes to
the class which produce nothing, but reap the
reward because they own industry.

The workers of the Soviet Union understand
this, and the workers of Canada are in inereas-
ing numbers coming to understand it too, even
if it is puzzling to the bourgeoisaminded who
ean see that the profit system imspires jnitiative
in the eapitalist—initiative to increase the ex-
ploitation of the workers for his own gain , but
#ail to see that forced speed-up in his work for
the enrichment of his exploitation jnspirzes no
initiative in the worker,—except initiative to or-
ganize and unite against the speed-up, for higher
wages and a shorter working day, and for the
abolition of exploitation of a numerically large
useful class by a small, useless and parasitic
class.

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER
RITISH COLUMBIA is notorious for the

murder of workers in industry. The log-
ging industry is responsible for most of these
mnuneeessary killings, but in all industries there
<< a callous and criminal disregard for the satety
of the workers.
During the last month John Bilton, a miner,
was killed in Number 1 mine in Nanaimo, and

FASCISM

BERLIN (via Zurich), Feb. 3 (ALP)—Latest sta-
tistics from Germany under Nazi rule show, accord-
ing to the official and considerably falsified figures
on unemployment that there are at least 2,500,000
walking the streets, jobless, after three years of Hitler
rule. To this should be added another 1,300,000 per-
sons in the so-called invisible unemployed, or those
who are Officially prohibited from taking employ-
ment, such as certain classes of women, Jews, Com-
gnunists, Socialists, and others. :

But there is feasting in the midst of the Nazi
plague. For example, Wirtschaft and Statistik re-
ports that the consumption of champagne has gone
up enormously since 1933. In 1935, a total of 13,000,000
bottles were consumed, whereas in 1933 only 5,480;000
bottles were consumed.

A good example of the growing bankruptcy of
German industry is the textile industry. Eighty-five
percent. of the workers were permitted to labor for
only eight to thirty-two hours up to two months ago.
But 2 new wave of dismissals is predicted for the
near future. The reason given for the coming slash
is the lack of raw materials. This holds true not only
of the textile industry but of the metallurgical indus-
try as well.

a worker, Henry Mumbray, was killed on the
new Post Office building under course of con-
struction in Vancouver.

In the Nanaimo case, although there was over-
whelming evidence to show that Bilton’s death
was caused by a faulty coupling pin which per-
mitted a car to break away and run down a
slope and crush him to death, nevertheless the
company-controlled coroner’s jury did not fix
the blame on the company.

The coroner’s jury in the case of Mumbray
did not fix the blame on the contractors, although
the evidence showed that the seatfold which gave
way when a plank broke under Membray was
constructed of old discarded lumber. That the
company was to blame for his death was umplied
in the jury’s verdict, which recommended that
more supervision over scaftolds be given by the
building inspector. i

Political heelers in positions of inspectors wall
not enforce the regulations which are supposed
to safeguard life and limb of the workers in
industry. Inspection of mines and scaffolds
should be in the hands of inspectors appointed
by the trade unions and paid by the government.
Only im this way can the murdering of workers
for profits be reduced to a minimum.

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SUPPRESSING EVIDENCE

(Est the police and the courts were used by
the Shipping Federation to smash the unions
on the waterfront during the lockout of the long-
shoremen was strikingly revealed durine the
hearing of the appeal for a new trial by William
Squires, sentenced to three years imprisonment
and five lashes. :

_ It was brought out that the police had been
informed by several eyewitnesses to the beating
and robbery for which Squires was conyited and
sentenced that the crime was committed by men
under the age of thirty, whereas Squires is more
than fifty years of age, and that Squires was far
from the scene of the erime at the time it was
committed.

The police suppressed the imformation, ac-
cording to the statement of Squires’ counsel, this
was to make the frame-1p of Squires stick.
Although the crown prosecutor is supposed,
theoretically, to bring out all the evidence relat-
ig to the case im order to reach a just verdict,
erown counsel in this ease did not bring evidence
favorable to the indicted striker before the jury.
And it is difficult to believe that he was ignorant
of the information possessed by the police.

Such goings-on by the police and the courts
conyinee the workers that the courts are imstru-
ments of the capitalist class, and that a worker
who too ably and loyally works in the interest
of his elass and against the profit interests of the
ruling elass cannot except any justice in a eapi-
talist court except capitalist justice.

TRADE URNICN PROGRRESS

EALIZING that the-divided state of the

working class eripples the efforts of the
workers to resist the capitalist offensive of wage
cuts, mass layofis, speed-up and the drive to-
wards fascism and war, the members of all trade
unions are moving irresistibly im the direction
of unity of the trade union movement.

Most encouraging recent developments are the
steps taken to merge the W.U.L. unions in the
metaliferous mining industry with the Mine,
Mall and Smeltermen’s Union of the A.F.1L..
and the definite progress beme made towards
unity by the Amaleamated Miners of Nova Sco-
tia and the United Mine Workers of America.

The deyelopment of the movement for trade
union unity together with the growing desir
wtihin the American Federation of Labor for
industrial unionism to replace the out-of-date
eraft unionism reflects the needs of the workers.

The organized drive, led by John L. Lewis,
for organizing the workers engaged in large
mass-production industries into industrial
mnions is a warning to the die-hard Greens and
Wolls to meet the changed situation or be pushed
aside.

In British Columbia definite steps towards
trade union unity have been taken by the work-
ers in the lumber and fishing industries. Still
ereater efforts along this line and for the trans-
formation of existing craft unions into indus-
trial unions must be made or the very existence
of trade unionism, whether W.U.L., A.F.L. or
independent will be endangered.

SOCIALISM

MOSCOW, Feb. 3 (By Cable to ALP) — Another
great “proletarian parliament’’—this time that of the
Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic—opened
its session here yesterday in the great hall of the
Kremlin.

Representatives from the forty-one sub-divisions of
the B.S.F.S.R., extending from Leningrad and Mos-
cow in the west clear across the continent of Asia
to the Pacific Ocean, heard Chairman Karp of the
State Planning Commission report on the progress
made in the different fields to date.

Karp gave some startling figures on the progres¢
of this first among equal republics. He stated that
the capital investment in the German Volga Republic
alone trebled in 1935— from 6,000,000 to 18,000,000
rubles.

In 1936, 35,221,000 persons—five million more than
last year—will be enrolled in schools. During the
coming year, 1,804 schools, mainly high schools, will
be built in villages together with 19,000 smaller read-
ing rooms. The number of libraries is to increase
from 5,300 to 7,070 and the books from 30,000,000 to
42,000,000.

Three hundred and sixty-four hospitals and 44 gen-
eral clinics will arise in 1936. The network of ma-
ternity homes in the collective farms will be more
than doubled. When completed they will number 2,900

DROP IN RENTALS CRIME IN

A striking indication of what the
depression period has meant to the
small business man was‘ the state-
ment made before the Vancouver
eity council, sitting as 2 Gourt of
Revision, February 10, that a piece
of property in Vancouver on Has-
¢#ings Street, close to Carroll, which
had been rented for $1,100/ per
month ten years ago is now rented
for $100 per month.

The increase in

the population.”
ada Vear Book.)

*Tt may be stated that during
the thirty-three year period from
1900 to 1933 crimes Increased from
4,853 to 32,942, or 579 per cent-

during the same period was but
101-5 per cent, revealing that the
increase in the crime rate was be-
tween five and six times that of
(Page 1091, Can-

FOR REPEAL OF SEC. 338

MONTREAL, Que., Feb. 5—(ALP)
—P. M. Draper, president of the
Trades and Labor Congress of Can-
ada, here to discuss arrangements
for the Trades and Labor Conyen-
tion next fall, stated his organiza-
tion will closely follow debate in
the federal parliament when ques-
tion of Section 98 comes. He said
his organization favors immediate
repeal.

CANADA.

the population

Scottsboro Deienders Protest

lin, head of the defence committee

Speakers at a protest meeting

ealled by the Scottsboro Defence
Committee in New York rapped the 75-year team handed Haywood Pat
terson, Negro boy tried for the fourth time on #2 rape charge, and the
shooting of Ozie Powell, another defendant. Left to right, Asst. Sec.
Ray Wilkins of the Nat'l Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People;
Robert Minor of the Communist Party; Angelo Herndon; Morris Sha-
piro of the League for Industrial Democracy; and Gol. William Schieff-

. (Federated Pictures.)

WO days before Alan Wade,

noted British dramatic critic,
awarded first place to the Pro-
gressive Arts Club's production of
“Waiting Hor Lefty,” by Glifford
QOdets, there appeared in “The Re-
i view,’ a little boilerplate weekly
paper printed in North Vancouver,
@ screed in which a writer using the
initials of ‘“E. M. undertook to
lambaste not only the play, but the
players as well.

The public, not only of British
Columbia, but of Canada to a lesser
extent, are aware of the high praise
bestowed by Mr. Wade on the his-
trionic ability of the cast which
played ‘Waiting For Lefty.”

Because the play revolved around
workers instead of salaciously por-
traying the pornographic preludes
to fornication in the bedroom farces
and sexy bourgeois plays which are
manufactured by hacks to satisfy
the jaded senses of the exploiters of
the people, — because of this the
would-be critic felt sure that ‘““‘Wait-
ing For Lefty’ didn’t have a chance
in the regional contest. Of a truth,
“Fools step in where angels fear to
tread.”

E& begins by calling the play a

“dramatic absurdity” and com-
plains that there is propaganda in
it. He calls it “foreign,” “crude,”
“vulgar,” “indecent,” and ~“offen-
sive.’ The presumptuous cracker-
box critic has the gall to offer
Odets advice on how to go about
writing a play! “I would recom-
mend him to gather some experi-
ence, etc.,”” he advises, because as
it stands it ‘‘repels’’ and “there is
no art in it,” it “substitutes inde-
ecency for originality,’ it “confuses
vocal thunder with dramatic effect”
and “what it supposes to be cour-
ageous frankness is insolent, bare
and grotesque effrontery” and so on
ad nauseam.

From the way he regards “Wait-
ine For Lefty’ and the ill effect it
had on him, it is clear that what
would lift him to ecstasy and gap-
ing admiration would be such mas-
terpieces as “Hast Lynne,” “Ten
Wights in a Bar Room,” and ““Polly-

By MALCOLM BRUCE

The WNews-Herala newspaper,
official organ of the strike breaking
Citizens’ League, printed an insult-
ing, slanderous’ and, reactionary
leading editorial in last Monday's
issue against the unemployed work-
ers.

It begins by eriticizing “defenders
of jobless itinerants’’ in California
who are fighting against attempts
of the Los Angeles police to keep
unemployed persons from entering
the State, and blackguards the up-
employed by calling them “tramps
upon the face of the earth,” who
“cannot be given much considera-
tion as citizens.”’

It then argues that since unem-
ployed workers carry no “obliga-
tions” as citizens they “cannot ex-

pect to retain their rights’’ because
they are “leeches upon the body
politic.”

That the workers condemned to
idleness because of the ownership of
industry by a propertied class, and
the small business men driven to
bankruptey by the decay of capi-
talism, have the “obligation” to live
is not recognized by the fascist
Citizens’ League sheet.

Tt lies about and slanders the
slave camp strikers and the trek
to Ottawa by ignoring the rotten
conditions in the forced labor camps
which caused the strike and trek,
and by ascribing the latter to a
“summer time urge’ to go East.

Tt charges that a number of
young unemployed men in Vancou-
ver exist by erime and by begsing,
and that these men are content
with living by such means. Can
downright slander and vyillification
go further?

Obviously they are referring to
the ex-camp boys who are denied
re-admittance to the camps and are
denied relief by the authorities, The
jmcrease of crime in Vancouver can
be attributed to the gangsters and

drégs of society used as strilke-

Proletarian Playwright
And Renegade Reviewer

un- |

anna.’’ And what would make him
euffaw and double him up in belly-
Jaughter and cause him to bray as
hilariously as he writes maliciously
and ignorantly, would be such ape-
tickling= tripe as “‘Abie’s Irish
Rose,” ‘‘Charley’s Aunt,” and “The
Cohens and the Kellys.”

pee technique of using part of
the audience as the audience in
the play itself our critic did not
understand at all. He says. there
were “‘rooters” who were planted in
the audience and who “when the
lights go out, unashamedly and vo-
ciferously applaud their own ef
forts’! This is how he accounts for
the thundrous applause the produc-
tion evoked from every audience
before which the players performed,
and from Mr. Alan Wade.

The talented young girl who
played the part of “Edna,” it will
be remembered, won especial praise
from Mr. Wade, who said she gave
a superb performance. And yet the
“Review’’ critic cannot forgive her
for “the shrill shock she gave the
ears.” The whole cast “howl, shout
and yell at one another,” “they are
acting-up rather than acting,” and
he complains that they “offended”
his long ears!

HIS is how “H.M.” wrote; and

such an appraisal of the play
as he made would brand him as
abyssmally ignorant, as uncultured
and as stupid as an ox. But that
might be a wrong conelusion, for
there are many pen prostitutes
(such as Walker, Lang, Beal, Trots-
ky and others who sell themselves
to Hearst, U.S. Public Enemy Num-
ber One), who write what they
know to be false. And we are in-
clined to believe that the alleged
critic who threw his filth at Odet's
play and the splendid performers
of the Progressive Arts Club knows
better. For “E.M.” is a renegade
socialist and former editor of the
“Western Clarion,” official organ
of the Socialist Party of Ganada.

BARS have passed since he de-

to the class enemy. First he went
to the reactionary Conserva-
tive party and became the lackey
of General MacRae—who when he
had used him as a bell-wether and
decoy as long as he was of any use
to him, threw him aside. Since then
he has been trying to get his head
into the Liberal tent. And that is
what he is trying to do today
through the medium of a subsidised
Liberal sheet and by whatever
means known to the renegade and
sycophant. =

TTHER the meaunderings of a

mediocre mind warped with the
bourgecis prejudices or the boot-
licking of a degenerate renegade
looking for slops from the trough of
a class that has already flung him
aside and despises him, or a com-
bination of both, explain the sibila-

tions of “E.M.’ in his attempt to
“criticize’ ‘‘Waiting for Lefty.”
Whether he enjoyed “Waiting

For Lefty” and wrote as he did to
eurry favor with the rich, or wheth-
er he is just a dolt, incapable of ap-
preciating the worthy, the flunkey-
ism in the one case or the perverted
taste in the other will lead him from
the artistic pearls, which the per—
formers of Odet’s play cast before
him, back to the swill-barrel of dec-
adent bourgeois drama; for “the
dog will return to his vomit again,
and the sow that was washed to her
wallowing in the mire-”’

At the end of his vapourings he
laments that he used two tickets
to see the play instead of one. Well,
give him back his four-bits or what-
ever it cost him—if it cost him any-
thing—for taking even that amount
from thirty pieces of silver works
a hardship.—M. B.

Go And See
‘Chapayev’

Outstrips ‘“The Road To
Life’’ in Every Way

Not since the “‘Road to Life”
startled film audiences on this side
of the ocean, has any Russian pic-
ture roused such universal acclaini
as “Chapavey,” the dramatic story
of one of the most momentous chap-
ters in the Russian MReyolution
which is coming to the Beacon
Theatre for the week starting Fri-
day, February 21. Indeed, it is the
universal opinion that “Chapayev”’
far out-strips “The Road to Life,”
both in the technical excellence of
its production and the melo-drama-
tic excitement of its plot. The
ehorus of critical acclaim includes
these enthusiasms:

Walter Winchell—‘Sprint to get
a squint of “Chapayey,” the Soviet
Wow, and sit through the show
three times to get the love scenes.”
The New York Post—“Matchless

its tempo and surging power
and has the richness and
humor of a rare personality.”

World Telesram—‘“Too go00d a
film to miss for any reason.”

Toronto Saturday Night—“A mag-
mificent picture. Violent as its
material is, it has at the same time
gaiety, good humor and eyen a sort
of innocence.”

Literally sheaves of such critical
comments, unanimous in their
praise, could be quoted at length,
but no one in Wancouver, who is
interested in social economy and
developments in Soviet Russia will
need to be urged to see the great-

in

est picture that has been produced
in the Soviet studios to date when
it comes to the Beacen Theatre for
the week starting Friday Pebru-

serted his class and went over

ary 21:

Mouthpiece Of Reaction Slanders
Unemployed As Bums, Criminals

| breakers and special police, and re-
eruited at the instance, if not by,
the Citizens’? League, the Shipping
Federation and the Mayor and City
Gouncil who acted as tools of the
posses to break both strikes.

The working class 4s well as
many more decent people who ad-
mire, sympathize with and assist
the camp boys hurl the challenge
back in the teeth of the lying fascist
rag which makes a plea for further
starvation of the unemployed youns
men, except for the erumbs and slop
given by professional charity rack-
eteers. Others are advised to compel
on pain of starvation, these men to
slave at menial tasks for the rich
for a pittance, for the privilege of
mere existence.

It has the effrontery to susgest
that there are enough “odd jobs”
to absorb all the unemployed if the
latter would only consent to do
them for a dog’s ration. Any relief
without them doing these menial
tasks would “rob the recipient of
the incentive to work,’’ it avers.

It is no accident that the seurri-
lous editorial appeared the day be-
fore the Mothers’ Council staged a
bazaar to raise money to help feed
the blacklisted camp boys in the
city who are denied relief.

And neither is it an aceident that
it appeared shortly before the open-
ing of a session of the provincial
legislature during which Pattullo

plans to put through relief cuts
$ B.C. Workers’ News $
¢ L >
: Radio $
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; Broadcast 3
$ EVERY FRIDAY $3
D4 8:45 to 9 P.M. 3
$ CKMO 3

while slapping on a sales tax on
the necessities: of life.

Nor is it an accident that it was
timed to appear one week before a
member of the Riot Commission on
the Dominion Day police riot at Re-
gina arrives in Vancouver, to g0
through the motions of an investi-
gation, and at a tme when the
frame-up of the camp boys’ leaders
in their trials, to begin in Regina on
March 31, are being perfected.

The yenomous diatribe of the re-
actionary rag is not merely excre-
ment from the gangrened brain of
a degenerate bourgeois hack,
Rather has it all the appearances of
having been inspired by those very
parasitic social elements which in-
stituted forced labor compounds
with 20 cents a day as a wage scale,
the very class which seeks a white-
washing of their murderous attack
on the camp trekkers and citizens at
Regina, and desires to terrorize the
camp inmates into meck acceptance
of forced labor slavery by imprison-
ine their leaders and outlawing their
union.

The despicable action of the
Wews-Herald fits into the whole dia-
bolical pattern, and is designed to
divert attention from the work and
wages which was promised by Pat-
tullo and King.

The unemployed are neither bums
nor criminals, and they do not want
to be degraded by charity. They are
determined to have the forced labor
camp abolished. They are willing tol
work providing they receive decent
wages for it. They want the work
and wages that was promised them
and to which they are entitled. And
with a united front of all labor and
those who sympathize with them In
their plight, for which they are in
no way responsible, they will
achieve their ain: despite the lies,
villification and slander of such con-
temptible tools of reaction as the
journalistic strumpets of the capi-
talist press and the social leeches

By
OL’ BILL

Stalin misses no chance to drive =
home the necessity for developing
technicians. He tells his fellow
Soviet citizens that the whole
future of the Workers’ Republic
depends upon the mastery of tech-
nique. Howard Scott has built up
an extensive movement in America,
technocracy—with the technicians
aiming at the control of the nation’s
destiny. But these are only pikers
when compared with the spread of
technique in our own home town-
This is proved by an advertisement
in “The Vancouver Sun,” a few
days ago, that read as follows>
“Wanted a man with fourth class
engineer's papers to peel vegetables.”
No other country in the world has
advanced to such a high stage of
technical development as is indicat—
ed in this desperate and tremuluo=
appeal. In all other countries, back-
ward technique compels them to
peel spuds and carrots in the same
old way that Sir Walter Raleigh’s
flunkey did—with a knife stuck in
his fingers. It is reasonable to sup-
pose also Since fourth class papers:
are necessary for undressing the
lowly spud that the concoction of
mulligan, slumgullion and the ol@
Spokane will call for nothing less
than an extra chief ticket. This is-
in line with the high degree of in-
telligence of B.C. wage-slaves pos-
tulated in another advertisemient of
about a year ago, “Wanted hed-
maker. Must be collége graduate.”

= *% = *

The difference in city councils be-—
comes glaring if we consider the-
difference in the press reports of
the Vaneouver Council's actiyities—
lately with those of the ~lkegina
Council, The composition of these-
bodies is entirely different. Vancou-
ver is blest or cursed rather with a.
menagerie of yes-men babbits with=
a jumping-jack mayor who places-
all his reliance on days of prayer—
and investigations. Although they
put every obstacle in the way of
finding funds to feed the hungry
children of the unemployed they
never make any objection to payin=
out the costs of investigations in-
augurated by McGeers stooges-
The latest investigation into charges:
of MicGeer’s fellow Oxford Grouper
Tucker, who should be in jail for
stealing books from the library has
finished up with the exposure of the
stool and the approval of the pay-
ment of $1,500 to the stenographers
who took down the evidence. This
$1,500 would have bought a lot of
milk but was absolutely wasted-

Jn Regina the City Council has a
majority of labor members—the
Babbits are in the minority. They
have investigations there too but
they are different from those we
are pestered with in Vancouver. On
January 30, a committee was ap-
pointed to imvestigate charges of
eress negligence against the City
Health Officer. Alderman McManus
laid the charges on affidavits of un—
employed workers.

Even if such an investigation
should cost $1,500 it will bear de—
sirable fruit. It will not be Money

frittered away on the petty jeal—
ousies of City Hall employees.
Gerry McGeer’s new CGity Halk

might make more progress also if
the same relations existed here as
in Regina, between the Council ang
the organized unemployed. In 2
letter to the City Council the Re-
gina Union of Unemployed offered
¢o repair the floor of the City Halt
in appreciation of having had the
free use of the hall for meetings an®
dances.

It is also inconceivable that the.
Vancouver Council should hold up
contracts for printine on the basis-
that “fair wages could only be as—
sured when the employees organized
and that the union label on the
printing was the assurance that fair
Wages were being paid.” But this
happened in Regina at the meeting
referred to above.

= = * =

An indignant Liberal in the Al-
berta Legislative Assembly called
upon Aberhart to make good his
promise of $25 a month basie divi-
dend without increasing the public
debt or taxation. Aberhart only
smiled, although some of his fol-
lowers got hot. under the collar and
denied that any promise to pay $25
had ever been made by the Social
Crediters—Aberhart is just a wee
bit behind Pattullo because Pattul-
lo does not smile any longer over
his broken. promises of “‘work and
wages.” While Aberhart smiled, one
lone prairie wolf went out and col-
jected his dividend without waiting
for any legal formalities. He merely
wrote Aberhart’s name on a cheque
for $35, cashed it in a store and has
not been seen since. This is the first
and will likely be the last payment
of 2 basic dividend. But though
Aberhart is hedging on his $25 @
month promise he is getting in his
dirty work in other ways. Unem-
ployment relief is to be cut 25 per
cent. The work of the school teach-
ers is to be re-organized. The grades
are to be joined up into sections
so that one teacher can handle four
grades. By this means it is proposed
to cut down the number of teach-
ers—150 will be eliminated in Cal-
gary alone. This will hardly saves
enough money to pay the $25
monthly dividend but it will help
you know. The school teachers may
have been picked out for the sacri-
fice because their federation sent
ereetings to the trekkers. B.C.
teachers will have to keep ~ their
weather eye on Pattullo Jest he
emulates Aberhart and tries to float
a “work and wages’ program by
saddling the burden on their shoul-

that pay them for their foul work.

ders.