« B.C. WOREERS’ NEWS Page Three Srebruary 21, 1936 atronize The Tradesmen On. This Page «A Year Of McGeer Waneouver has gone RED. The Reds did not capture the city by a In 1910, Clara Zetkin of Germany proposed before the Gongress of the Second International, being held at Denmark, that a day be set aside (March 8) as a day of mass meet- ings and demonstrations for womi- en’s rights throughout the world. Gapitalism in decline has made living conditions for the masses of women more and more difficult. In countries where there is a Mascist dictatorship women are at the beck and cal] of the government, being forced from business and industry to breed cannon-fodder, and when it suits, to be dragged into concen- tration camps and munition fac- tories to release their menfolk for military service. = International Women’s Day is not ealculated to arouse sentiment in placing women on a pedestal, but it is to be used to bring out the or ganizing ability and spirited strug- gies of women in various countries of the world as well as data on the eonditions facing women of Canada today, especially women in indus- try, more than a half million of them—with little more than two per cent organized. No wonder the highest average wage based on 1931 figures was $918 and the lowest $252. Since then wages have gone down considerably until we find that in Quebec women have been getting as low as four cents an hour. Workers in domestic service receive wretchedly low wages and many are getting less than $252 a year. Im some industries such as textiles the majority of the workers are women, yet women’s wages show on the average thirty to forty per cent less than men. Women are beginning to recog- nize their importance in the pro- ductive activity in society. This is demonstrated by the many exam- ples of their participation in strug— gles for improved conditions for their families. Iocal examples of women upholding the banner of unionism can be cited in the long- shore strike, the part played by the loggers’ union auxiliaries on the Is- jand and the heroic Corbin miners’ auxiliary, etc. On Women’s Day in Russia, in 1917, women respond- ed to the cries of “Bread and Lib- erty,” they closed factories, and joined their brothers in the revolu- tionary struggles. The Soviet Union offers a guiding example of what women may look forward to and strive for in the final emancipation of the world’s workers from capi- talist domination. At the Golonial Theatre, on the night of March Sth, women of Van- couver will meet together to show their willingness to co-operate in the effort to improve their lot. The committee, sponsored by the Women’s Labor League, are lining up a program of outstanding wom- en speakers, interspersed with mus- ical items. They ask that every women who is at all interested in a better life for herself or sisters, keep that date open and come to the meeting. Get a your neizhor or shop mate for the B.C. Workers News. subseription from Prove the value i100 PER Eiannel Suits 1 W. 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There are no Hollywood heroes or heroines; no dramatic incidents that are overdrawn; Chapayev’s army is ragged, short of food, am- munition and equipment. A Communist organizer (Com- missar Furmanov) is despatched by. the Executive Committee of the Party at Moscow to join Chapayev’s regiment. This is part of the plan of the Party to bring about disci- pline and to organize the Red Army better,- so that they can more quickly defeat the ““Whites.”’ Chapeyey has only learnt to read two years ago and whilst he is a Communist, still he has had no op- portunity to learn what the Party really is. Chapayev is resentful of the Commissar’s interference in any way with the troops, but it is not very long before Furmanoy wins him over completely. i The Psychological Attack Chapayeyv is loved by his men and hated by the White officers. A deserter from the ‘‘Whites’’ brings word that an attack is being planned upon Chapayey’s army. It is to be a “psychological” attack. It is intended to throw fear into the hearts of the peasant army. Just before the zero hour of the expected attack some of the Red Army decide that they have had enough. Qne soldier calls upon the soldiers to“‘quit’’and to ‘‘go home.” Chapayeyv shoots him down, and, addressing the soldiers, shouts at them: *‘Men are dying for the revo- lution; what are you going to do?” When the leader of the cavalry is shot down CGhapayey tells the soldiers: “I will lead you myself.” The Whites approach. They are marching in mass formation on both flanks and in the centre to- wards the little army. One woman handles a machine gun in Chapa- yev's regiment and she waits until the Whites are quite near before she mows them down. She is sav- ing every possible shell. Again some of the Reds want to desert. Chapayev calls upon them to move forward. He rallies the stragglers and leads them on. The great difference is shown be- tween the Red headquarters and those of the Whites. The former are stables and huts:: Chapayev demon- strates his strategy to his comrades on a kitchen table with some raw potatoes. (Incidentally, he eats one of the potatoes after wiping it on his coat sleeve, like it was an apple after he is through demonstrating). The quarters of the White officers are the fine mansions of the no- bility. Uniforms with gold braid, wine and food aplenty exists for the headquarters staff of the Allied counter-revolutionaries. Red Humor In a little revolutionary Humor Ghapayev is exposed for his ignor- ance of politics. A peasant burgo- master of a village asks Chapayev whether is is for the Bolsheviks or the Communists. Chapayeyv is stumped. 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His revo- lutionary instinct comes out when he asks, “Which International is Lenin for?’’ Upon being told Lenin is in the Third International, Chapayev replies, “Then I’m for the Third too!” | The finale shows the Whites making a surprise attack at dawn in which Chapayev is wounded. He is helped down to the banks of the Volga where he tells his comrades, “I can look after myself.” He swims the river but machine gun bullets follow him and he goes under in midstream. In the mean- time the woman member, Antka, hes gone for help. The nearest regiment of Red Army men arrive and catch the Whites in the rear, annihilating them. It is one of the best pictures shown yet. It should go a long way towards proving to more work ers that without a revolutionary party steeled in struggle the Masses are helpless against the Whites (the capitalist class). Obituaries The death took place at the Roy- al Golumbian Hospital at New Westminster on Feb. 17th of Wil- liam Mettinen. Brother Mettinen was a staunch member of the Fishermen and Can- ney Workers’ Industrial Union, the executive committee of which -ex- tends deepest sympathy to his fam- ily in their bereavement. Mae Alcock of Field, B.C. and formerly of Vancouver, died on Sunday, Feb. 16th at the age of 32 in Revelstoke Hospital. After an operation, complications in connec- tion with her illness set in which caused her death. She leaves three children, aged Six, nine and eleven years, and her husband to mourn her loss, as well as her father and mother, six broth- ers and one sister at home in Van- couver, one sister at Lacombe, Alta., and a sister at Westlock, Alta. Mrs. Alcock was formerly active in the Vancouver Women’s Labor League and in amateur dramatics. RED SOLDIER TEACHES HIS COMRADE MACHINE GUN TECHNIQUE (Scene in “Chapayev”) CLASSIFIED AD COLUMN | } HOTELS AND ROOMS ip? ROOMS—_ALL NEWLY renovated. Fully modern, Rates reasonable. Prop., Mrs. Edith John- son. 244 Mast Hastings Street. 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