aie

| -senile aged people who were housed

| thus relieving the congestion at Es—

, ental in Essondale had cost the
“province $15,000.

Jands should be re-surveyed, red
“He abolished, there should be fig-
‘gn every government agent’s office

“homesteads should be made avail-

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B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS

February 28, 1936

EIGHTEENTH
LEGISLATURE
_ AT VICTORIA

(Continued from page 1)

r

-gard to B.C. legislation great num-
bers of women of the province.

Then she went on to tell of the
-good work in this respect by citing
the £-B addition now being made
-to the General Hospital in Vancou-
ver costing $200,000 and spoke of
“the travelling dental clinics in ope-
ration in the Peace River country
and near Welson, where one thou-
‘sand children have had teeth treat-
ment. Next she told of the Home
for the Aged and how a number of

in Essondale have now been re-
moved to the home for the aged,

sondale (here some wise cracker
anterrupted, but the remark was
mot caught by the press gallery)
sand resulting in financial savings.
“She told the house that one Ori-

She welcomed the fact that Ot
aawa was considering (according to
press reports, she said), lowering
the age limit for old age pensioners.

She advocated a change in the
veducational system as in operation
an Vancouver, which has cost the
=province $60,000 more than neces-
“sary. This system is called the 6-3-3
‘plan. Children attend public school
for 6 years; 3 in Junior high and 3
in Senior high. It was the Junior
high in Vancouver that had been
-so costly.

Im dealing with the department
-Oof labor she lauded the Board of
Gndustrial Relations as a great
benefactor to the common people
of the province. After quoting the
benefits derived from the hours and
“wages legislation by sawmill work
_2rs, taxi drivers, janitors, ete., she
Said that the abuses carried on
“ainder the cloak of part time work
among the workers of offices, such
=s stenopraphers, and now been
remedied’ through the activity of
-the Board. :

"Po show how the government had
“used great acumen and foresight in
“Helping our young men to find suit-
“able remunerative occupations she
-cited the fact that 470 young men
tad been trained last year in the
Forestry camps of B.C. and now
some of them had found work in
the woods. The same applied in a
lesser. degree in regard to training
prospectors and some have found
=work in the mines.

She intimated that a formula had
mow been found for amending the
BNA. Act that will be favorable
to all, and this is solely due to our
reat leader, Premier Pattullo, as-
Sited by Attorney-General Sloan.
She intimated that this will also
prove to be the formula to deal ef-
fectively with the provincial debts,
through refunding.

She intimated that the Hederal
Soyernment will disband the relief
‘camps later on following the trans—
fer of the camps from the defence
department to the department of
Gabor, and that reasonable rates of
pay will be provided for the young
‘men in the camps at productive
work.

The only real solution for unem-
ployment, stated Mrs. Smith, is Na-
ional Contributory Unemployment
insurance.

With a few more complimentary
remarks to the government, Mrs.
Smith moyed the address from the
throne and sat down amidst ap-
splause.

Mr. E. T. Kenney, the member
for Skeena, seconded the motion,
and raised a titter early in his re-
qarks when he referred to the ab-
sense of G. G. MceGeer and stated
that our loss is Ottawa’s gain. He
was not evidently of the same
‘opinion as Mrs. Smith in regard to
unemployment when he said that,
#4 solution is still to be found.” In
analyzing this plague of capitalism
he classified unemployment into
three categories: Used labor (unem-
ployabies belong to this category) ;
suseful labor (as advocated by the
=overnment); and useless labor (as
mow being carried out in the form
mt task work by the present gov-
ernment. Ed.)

Te said that what the govern-
“nent wants is relief from relief.
Only for the unemployables should
money be spent that will not pro-
duce some returns. He advocated
¢he development of the mineral re-
sources of the province on a large
scale by employing our unemployed
workers.

ie inferred that mine owners
should be assisted to employ more
“workers for this development work.
Assistance to other industries was
favored by this member. To clinch
€he argument that this policy was
=oo0d business he reminded the
House of the changed situation with
regard to the P.G.E. which was
«considered a white elephant and
swhich is now 2 profitable institu-
tion due to the development of min-
ins up nerth.

Ge suggested that all government

tape attached to these lands should

sures, locations and prices of land
in all parts of the province and free

-gbie to settlers in the Qmineca dis-
trict and what is Known 4s third
elass land should be made available
for farmers for grazing when Aas
adjacent to their farms.

we told the house that the C.N-R.
—will want a million railroad ties
From B.C. and the Board of Indus-
rial Relations should make proyvi-
sjon that settlers get fair returns
for cutting these ties.

In dealing with the BNA. Mr.
Alexandra stated that all the prov-
$nces want is revised. There are
ereat difficulties, of course, because

People’s Bloc
Frees 30,000
By Amnesty

Left Wing Captures 376
Seats in Spanish
Election

MADRID, Spain, Feb. 21.—Spain’s
30,000 political prisoners walked
out of the jails free men today,
thanks to the great People’s Bloc
victory in the recent elections
when President Niceto Aleala
Zamora signed a total amnesty bill
and the Standing Committee of the
Gortez (Parliament) almost im-
mediately approved it.

Qnly about one-third of al] the
political prisoners were freed in the
last few days before the present
amnesty. The Standing Committee
of the Cortez has the power to_leg-
islate while the Congress is not in
session. Its approval made the
amnesty bill law.

Mass action on the part of the
people forced President Zamora to
take a definite stand on the total
amnesty bill although he had
wavered even after the results of
the election were known. Angered
at the failure to declare the
amnesty, chief electoral plank of
the People’s Bloc, the masses had
begun to carry out the amnesty by
their independent action.

The extent of the left wing vic-
tory in the election was emphasized
by publication today of returns for
8376 of the 473 seats in the Cortez.
The left wing won 216 seats, the
right 123 and the centre 37.
Martial law is still in effect in
Murcia, Alicante and Tenerife, Ca-
nary Islands. A general strike was
called today in Malaga in protest
against the death of a demonstrator
last night.

Headquarters of the Popular Ac-
tion and the Workers’ Action, right-
Wing organizations, were closed
and several members were arrested.

At Coruna, 20,000 workers and
peasants marched to the jail and
demanded that all the political
prisoners be freed. Guards halted
them but freed seventeen of the
political prisoners. The people car-
ried the prisoners to the City Hall,
cheering, and then dispersed peace-
ably.

Correspondence

B.C. Workers’ News:

A letter has appeared in the Vic-
toria Colonist under date of Febru-
ary 20th, and in the Nanaimo Free
Press about the same date, also
copies were forwarded to all the
Churehes in Vancouver, in which it
was inferred that the Vancouver
Gitizens’ Defence Committee was a
Communist organization, parading
under false colors. The letter
rambled all over the place, making
indiscriminate charges against
various organizations and individu-
als. The letter is signed by (Gol.)
CG. E. Edgett, on behalf of the Giti-
zens’ League of Canada.

it is not my intention to reply
to these misleading and untrue al-
legations, but simply to say that
the Vancouver Citizens’ Defence
Committee is composed of promi-
nent citizens whose work is, in the
main, the defence of the defence-
less, Or in other words, providing
counsel for those unable to do so
themselves. Qur organization will
continue this service until such
time as our public men see the
wisdom of providing “Public De-
fenders,’’ as is done by most of the
leading governments of the world
today. The idea of “public defend-
ers” is to prevent ‘railroading”’ of
accused persons ... to see they get
a fair and impartial trial, thus cre-
ating a greater respect for British
justice and fair play. If it is a
erime to carry on this noble work,
then we are ready to pay the pen-
alty.

I repeat that the charges levelled
against us are misleading and un-
true, and I further say, as a Colonel
to a Colonel, come out in the open,
Colonel Edgett, and let us meet face
to face, before any public body,
preferably the ministers to whom
your letter was forwarded, and de-
eide the issue like men worthy of
being called men! If you can sub-
stantiate your charges to the satis-
faction of the Church leaders, we
will retire from public life and for-
ever hold our peace; if you cannot
make good your charges, you will
be required to make a public apol-
ogy for your indiscretions. What
is your answer?

COL. H. BE. LYON,
Chairman,
Wanecouver Citizens’
Defence Committee.

WINNIPEG, Man. Feb. 20—Re-
belling against measures taken by
the faculty to make attendance at
lectures compulsory, theological
students at United colleges held a
protest meeting Wednesday. The
budding preachers are indignant
that in future all absentees from
lectures will have to give ex-
planations in writing.

Russell Peden, president of the
student body, after the meeting
stated that members of the faculty
would be asked to meet the stu-
dents on the matter later in the
week. He saw no reason why the
students should be treated like
“school kids” and added, “if the
lectures were worth while the
faculty wouldn't have to worry
about our attendance.”

UNION OFFICIAL
TO VISIT LOCALS

VANCOUVER, Feb. 27. — George
Miller, president of the Fishermen
and Gannery Workers’ Industrial
Union, left today on a tour of the
Island, on behalf of the union.
Towns where a local of the Hish-
ermen are located are Nanaimo,
Deep Bay, Quathiaski Cove and
Werriott Bay. All of these locals
will be visited by Bro. Miller, who
will discuss union matters with the
local unions.

interests were termed the unholy
alliance, namely, the Industrial, Fi-
nancial and Transportation inter-
ests. He deplored the high freight
rates, stating that it is in some in-
stances dearer to ship goods from
Winnipeg to Vancouver than it is
to ship them from Great Britain
to Vancouver.

In dealing with the unfairness
existing at present regarding the
operation of the B.N.A. towards
B.GC., he stated that of the grants
made by the Dominion Government
to provinces in Canada, B.C. was
the worst done by all. Our province
has paid a high price for confeder-
ation, stated the Member. At the
close of his address the House ad-
journed.

Att-Gen. Sloan has left for Ot-
tawa to confer with the Dominion
Government, and speculation has it
that he may come back this session
cf the House, or he may not come
back until it is over, in which case
the Premier will join him at Ot
tawa.

There is also much speculation
as to how far the government is
willing to go with the Bill for State
Health Insurance. In some quar-
ters it is felt certain that the Bill
will come out after a lengthy de-
bate in such a form that it will not
be recognized apart from the name.
The C.C.F. members are al] in
their seats taking copious notes,
preparing their contributions to
the debate on the speech from the
throne, and although only the mov-
er and seconder of the motion have
spoken so far, it is easily discern-
ible that the Government expects
stiff opposition to their plams of a
nickle for the wage earner and a
doliar to the rich mine-owner and
industrialist, as outlined already by
the Government. The sharp jabs
aimed by Mrs. Paul Smith were
meant expressly for the C.CF.
members. Of the rest of the Oppo-

economic interests conflict; these

sition the Government is unafraid.

United College Students
Rebel Against Faculty

"TWAS HENRIETTA
CONJURED THiS UP

WICTORIA, Feb. 25—‘‘All labor
camp troubles are to be laid at the
door of the educational system.
Young men were never taught to
select proper reading material and
cultivation of entertaining and in-
structive hobbies.’

That is the declaration of Dr.
Henrietta R. Anderson of the Pro-
vineial Normal School at a lecture.

Dr. Anderson closed by stating
that ‘‘teachers were deeply. con-
cerned in outlining a curriculum

which would prepare young persons
to weather the next depression?

In other words, if half of the
40,000 young Canadians now in the
relief camps had learned how to do
fretwork and the other half had
learned how to entertain with a
comic sons, then R .B. Bennett
would never have had to order the
Regina riots, and he may have eyen
been re-elected. Why didn’t he
think of that?

ANIMAL BLOOD
INJECTIONS CURE
STOMACH ULCERS

Operations Unnecessary
to Remedy Disease

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R.—Small doses
of animal blood injected into the
organism of a person suffering
from ulcers of the stomach, a
seyere rheumatism of the joints,
chronic anemia or a slow form of
blood poisoning results in rapid
blood building and enables the or-
ganism to resist the disease, has
been proven by experiments at the

Moscow Institute of Blood Trans-
fusion.

The case of patient with a severe
case of ulcerated stomach was
brought to the Imstitute clinic. A. A.
Bogdasaroy, director of the Insti-
‘tute, decided to resort to tranfu-

sion of goat’s blood. After the first
injection vomittinge stopped; after
the second pain disappeared, while
after the third and fourth injections
there was a steady improvement in
the composition of the blood so that
after six weeks the patient was
able to return to work without hay-
ing undergone an operation.

Tranfusion of animal blood can-
not be used as a substitte for
human blood, since the latter is used
not only as a stimulus to increase
blood formation, but mainly to com-
pensate the patient’s loss of blood.
The transfusion of animal blood, in
small doses ranging from one to
eight cubic centimetres, at inter-
vals of from five to seven days, is
used only as a stimulus to increase
the patient’s resistance to the
disease and is based on the principle
of shock therapy,’ explained Dr.
Alperin, secretary of the institute.

The idea of injecting animal
blood, which is quite different in its
composition from human blood, be-
Jones to the French scientist,
CGruchet, who, by means of experi-
ments, proved as far back as 1928
the possibility of using animal
blood in transfusions.

VETS’ VOLLEYS

Parliament recommends cuts for
the higher ranks of pensioners,
hospital allowances for officers,
etc., says a news item:

Cannot the government find
enough war profiteers from whom
it can raise money without attack-
ing those who risked life and limb
for the country, in their economy
drive? Is this the way they intend
to live up to their promises to the
returned men? Their next attack
will be on the smaller man unless
we protest in no uncertain voice.

Militia heads arrive in Vancouver
on their way to a gathering of the
Canadian Infantry Association at
Victoria. ;

The list of Lt-Colonels, Majors,
Captains, ete., shows that Canada
has the top apparatus all ready for
the next war. We old soldiers
should realize our duty to the young
people of this country by showing
them the horrors of war, also that
the lying promises made by the
government are quickly forgotten
as soon as they have finished with
your services.

Winnipeg and District Command
of the Canadian Lepion have en-
dorsed a resolution from the Weston
and Brooklands bracnh urging the
government to increase assistance
to unemployed veterans. The basic
rates asked are $30 per month for
single unemployed and $60 per
month plus children’s allowances
for married unemployed, it was
stated.

HIGH COST OF
STRIKEBREAKING

Police Dept. Estimates
Show Tremendous
Increase

Out of last year’s,police budget
of $676,189, an additional $103,036
of the taxpayers’ money was used
by the Police Department in close
cooperation with Mayor MecGeer
to assist the Shipping Federation
of B.C. to smash the longshore-
men’s strike and the camp strike
of last summer.

Ward Four Ratepayers at that
time protested strongly at the ex-
pense which they claimed was un-
justified, but this year’s estimates
presented by Police Chief Foster
are even higher by $139,500, bring-
ing the grand total for police
work and strike protection up to
$865,689.

From April to August inclusive
the Police Budget was squan-
dered at the rate of $80,000 per
month, while this year’s estimates
will provide almost $72,150 per
month for the whole year.

EAST YORK LABOR
REEVE:RE-ELECTED

BAST YORK, Ont., Feb. 22.
(ALP)—Arthur Williams, Bast York
township unemployed leader, was
siyen an acclamation this afternoon
as reeve of the township. Reaction-
ary forces failed to find a candidate
who would dare run against him.

Williams was unseated February
$ by court action on the grounds
that lhe was behind in his rent to
his landlord. We owed $2.50 more
than the arrears allowed by law.

A member of the Ontario provin-
cial council of the C.C.E&., Williams
was leader of the relief strike last
Wovember and December and was
candidate of the Hast York Work-
ers’ Association for the reeveship.

This afternoon reactionary Sroups
tried frantically to find a man who
would run against Williams, but a
“stooge”’— William's term—could not
be found. Five minutes before the
official time for nominations end-
ed, ex-Deputy Reeve A. J. Cheese-

man announced that a candidate
could not be found.
Williams immediately took the

oath and then headed an enthusias-
tic parade of workers from the
township hall.

John Hollinger, who polled 1378
voted against Williams’ votes
at the elections, had been men-
tioned as the candidate for the re-
actionary and he was present in the
township hall at nomination time.

The crowd in the township hall
made it quite clear that they were
in favor of an acclamation for
Williams and they received the offi-
cial announcement with jubilation.

RELIEF COSTS UP

“OTTAWA, Feb. 12. — Returns
tabled in the House of Commons
today revealed that 1,206,429 per-
sons were receiving relief at De-
cember 31, 1935.

The lowest month was Septem-
ber with 969,745 and next lowest
was October with 988,804 on reliet.

Relief camp population ran the
seale from $8,236 in May, 1933, fo
27.098 in December, 1933, Decem-—
ber, 1935, Showed 19,382 according
to preliminary estimates.

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“CHAPAYEV’’ IN
TEN OF BEST

Initiated by “‘Wilm Play” of New
York, a questionaire, asking for a
selection of the world’s ten best
moyie productions in 1935 was sent
out to noted film critics by the
Association of Film Critics.

O@f the ten best selected, four of
them are Soviet productions, they
as follows: “Chapayev,”’ which
just completed a week’s run at
the Beacon Theatre, “Youth of
Maxim,’ “Peasants,” now showine
jn Wastern Canada and expected
here shortly, and ‘New Gulliver.”

Replies were received from 451
film critics of leading American
newspapers and magazines by the

are
has

Fhe World
This Week

By F. B.

Towards the end of 1935 the
Capitalist press headlines claimed
there was a working class revolu-
tion goine= on in Brazil, but since
this statement it has had nothing to
say on events In that country. Now,
at long last, some news has got
past the censorship established by
the Brazilian sovernment, and what
the press said was a Moscow-inspir-
ed plot to foment revolution is
seen to be nothing of the Kind.
Together with other countries
Brazil has felt the full weight of
the general crisis of the capitalist
system, and the conditions prevyail-
ing there were in general the same
as conditions elsewhere, that is, the
capitalists and feudal landowners
were reducing the standard of living
of the workers and peasants who
were driven by their hardship to
unite. Side by side with the growth
oft the fascist Brezilian Imtegralist
Party there grew up a peoples
League for National Freedom,

The condition of the working peo-

ple has indeed been terrible in
Brazil. The northeastern part is
periodically visited by droughts,

during which the poor, if they are
unable to buy water, die of thirst.
In the salt and saltpeter mines and
on the railways—all controlled by
the Great West Company, which is
dominated by British capital—the

workers are a prey of starvation
wages, hunger, ill-treatment and
disease. Protests were met with

police beatings and gaol sentences,
and when the railway workers were
driven to strike they were joined
by workers in sugar and coffee
plantations, and in a short time a
general strike developed in WNorth-
ern Brail. The slogans of the
strikers were: “Down with the
Great Western!” “‘Down with feud-
alist and imperialist exploitation!”
“Nationalize the imperialist plants!”
“We want a popular government!”
Troops were ordered out to “‘pre-
serve the law and order and res-
pect for constituted authorities.”
One regiment refused to obey and
joined the workers. The movement
Was so successful that in one prov-
ince a people’s government was
constituted, the members being
mainly from the middle class. It
was not a Soviet government.

In the more highly industrialized
centres the movement, due no doubt
to lack of organized preparations,
was not so successful, but in Rio
de Janeiro, the capital city of
Brazil, in one military barracks a
captain, a lieutenant and a hundred
non-commissioned officers, mutinied
when the regiment was called out
against the workers and were only
subdued after a fierce hand to hand
fight. In the Military Aviation
School’ the fliers joined the strikers
and being unable to take their
machines with them destroyed
eigzhty of them.

Troops loyal to the fascist goy-
ernment finally got the upper hand,
and fascist terror is now being used
against the workers and peasants.
Qver five thousand men and
women have been thrown in prison.

The efforts of capitalist publicity
to make this appear as a Commun-
ist plot, inspired by Moscow, are
condemned by the facts of the situ-
ation. It was a struggle of the peo-
ple for the elementary right to live,
and although it ended in their de-
feat the very conditions that drove
them to action this time will drive
them forward again, when, it is to
be hoped, their experiences in this
defeat will teach them how to or-
geanize for victory over capitalist
persecution.

= % %

The Spanish elections resulted in
a triumph for the Leftist forces who
now control the Parliament. Among
their first acts was the amnesty for
political prisoners, 25,000 of whom
have been in prison since the up-
rising against fascism 4n October,
1934.

Spain is not a hishly industrial-
ized country. Seventy per cent of its
population live on the land, and six-
ty per cent of the land is owned by
erandees and landlords who are
hand in glove with the clergy, the
industrialists, and the deposed royal
family, for the establishment of a
fascist government which would be
favorable to Mussolini.

The defeat of the fascists in the
elections will have far-reaching re-
sults. It is a blow to Mussolini, and
it will do much to strengthen the
People’s Front in France, which
faces its supreme test in the elec-
tions two months hence.

Reports have it that many
wealthy people are fleeing from
Spain, making one wonder where
the Buropean parasites will flee to
in a few vears time when the whole
continent will be under Soviets or
People’s Governments. If they try
to go straight up and don’t come
down no country will be the loser.

* = = *

There are some people who al-
ways insist that there is little or
no graft in Great Britain, that there
is something in the British charac-
ter, even of the British capitalists,
that is essentially honest. However,
thea ldwin rearmanent program
has created such a wild and samb-
ling speculation im stocks and
shares of armament industries that
their values have soared. If the
country and empire is in such
danger that it must spend billions
ef dollars on armament, this fact
has not prevented some capitalists
from taking advantage of their
country’s peril to increase the al-
ready huse amount of their il-
eotten gains. A number of arma-
ment executives, including T. O. M-.
Sopwith, the ereat “sportsman”
who squealed so much when his
yacht was defeated by the Amer-
ican, have made a million pounds

The Ruling Clawss
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“Wiadame is having a nervous breakdown — we just lost

the dog show.”

By REDFIELD

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NEWS NOTES

TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 7—(ALP)<
—On the motion of J. W- Bruce, the
Trades and Labor Council last night
decided to consider the creation of a
radio fund to broadcast “im defence
of the workers’ economic  conai-
tions.”’

LONDON, Eng., Feb. 7—(ALP)—
Damages of one farthing—half a
cent—were awarded today to sir
@swald Mosley, leader of the British
Fascists, in a slander action against
John Marchbank, general secretary
of the National Union of Railway-
men.

PARIS, France, Feb. 20.—(ALP)—
How sanctions against Italy are be-
ing applied by France are shown by
French trade figures for the last”
month published today. In Jan-
uary, 1935, Hrance imported from
Italy goods valued at 35,328,000
franes. This past January France
imported only 4,191,000 frances worth
of Italian products.

In January last year French ex-
ports to MItaly totaled 47,331,000
franes. This year exports are only
18,636,000 francs.

FROM AFAR

Mikail Toukatchevsky, the youngest
marshal of the» Soviet Army, met
France's general staff yesterday -
to draft the first measures of mili-
tary co-operation between the two
nations in the face of the “menace”
of Nazi Germany.

SHANGHAT, China, Feb. 8.—
(ALP)—Ten thousand workers em-
ployed in the salt mines in the
Provinces of Szechuaw and Kiangsu
have declared a strike in protest
against a wage cut.
TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 7.—(ALP)
—Divyidend disbursements by Can-
adian corporations in January, at
$16,044,122. were ereater than for
any Similar month of the past four
years,

GORLOVEA, U-S.S.R., Feb. 18.—
(ALP)—Fourteen miners entombed
in the Yakir coal mine by a cave-
in were rescued this morning after
forty hours’ imprisonment. They
had been fed through a three-inch
pipe ordinarily used for compressed
air for drillers.

R. R. HEADS PLAN
TO MERGE SYSTEMS

TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 20.—(ALP)
Railroaders here revealed today
that a meeting of union general
chairmen is likely to take place in
the United States in the face of the
order issued by Joseph Eastman,
“New Deal’ railway co-ordinator,
for the merger of eleven of the
country’s most important terminals.

Bastman’s order is preliminary to
the ‘‘New Deal’? plan for wholesale
merger of roads, terminals and
abandonment of lines, a plan closely
allied to the idea in Canadian big
business cirelés to amalgamate the
Ganadian National and Canadian
Pacific railways. ‘‘Co-ordination” of
more than 5000 terminals has been
studied in the U.S. a plan that
would bring an annual saying,
mostly from wages, of $56 million
annually to railroad stock and bond-
holders.

“The effect of Eastman’s an-
nouncement was to tighten the de-
termination of railroad labor to re-
sist layoffs through consolidations,”
the Associated Iuabor Press inform-
ant said.

The clause of the Emergency Act
under which Bastman functions ex-
pires on June 16. Strangely enough
this is the same day upon which
the clause affording railroaders pro-
tection also expires. Title 2 of the
same act, the railway unions in the
states point out, is permanent and
under it the Interstate Commerce
Commission can carry through the
process ordered by Eastman with-
out the hindrance of the clause
now protecting the workers. East-
man is cordially hated by both the
managements and the men but his
elimination from the scene will not
solve the problem.

Railway labor
was Stated, is
agreement as
and most
jobs.

in the states, it
aiming at a national
the safest, quickest
logical step to protect

“And the unions have discovered
that a threat of strike, given in
dead* earnest, is the best way of
fetting any agreement.”

“This whole process in the United
States is of extreme importance to
railroad labor in Ganada,” a jeader
in railway union circles told the
Associated Tabor Press, Vand we
must watch it very closely.”

The union officer requested that
his name be withheld because he
is at present employed and there is
an understanding that statements
be issued only by paid officials of

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apiece out of the armament boom,

POLICE SPOTTER
SYSTEM DEPLORED

WINNIPEG, Man., Feb. 21.—The
practice of employing police ‘‘spot-
ters,’”’ came in for bitter condemna-
tion from several St. Boniface alder-
men when police estimates came be-
fore the council, this weelc.
Alderman Van Belleghen objected
to using public money for such a
purpose. Aldermen Herbert. Imwvin,
and Hansford, €.C.F., joined in the
seathing denunciation. “The spot-
ter Was more to be despised than
the offender,”’ it was said.

Chieif of Police Beaudry, claimed
“spotting’’ was necessary in the
French Canadian cathedral city.
Finally the estimate was re-
duced but passed.

MINERS DONATE
CASH TO REGINA
TREK DEFENCE

KAMLOOPS, Feb. 25.—Gold min-
ers working at the Wind Pass Mine,
60 miles north of here, responded
very well to the appeals of two
Vancouver Citizens’ Defence GCom-
mittee delegates, and contributed
$41.00 to the defence of the Regina
Camp Trekkers.

No obstacles were placed in the
way of J. Kelly and M. McLeod, the
delegates, by the mine officials.
There are 50 miners working in the
mine.

At the WNicola Gold Mine, 30
miles south of here, the miners on
one shift donated $21.50 to the same
cause, and retained two collection
lists to contact the miners on an-
other shift.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, local lodge, in conversa-
tion with the delegates, promised to
take up 2 collection at their next
meeting for the Camp Strikers’ de-
fence.

NEW WESTMINSTER, Feb. 25.
—Application for a tag day for the
defence of the Regina Camp Trek-
kers was turned down flat by the
City Council here last night.

WINNIPEG, Feb. 21.—Bill Ross,
¥.C.L., has been invited to partici-
pate in the discussions of Grace
Church Young People’s Society on
Tuesday next. The subject under
discussion will be, “Christian Youth
and Politics.” ~

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drawing the enemy’= fire. Shoot us
up some more ammunition.

the unions.

subs.

PARIS, France, Feb. 8.—(ALP)— -°

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