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FULL NO. 65

VOL. II, No. 13

Mass Evictions Of |
Relief Tenants As

Jubilee Approaches

More Families Evicted |

In Three Months Than
Whole of 1934

LOW RELIEF RENT

NVIANCOUMER, April 8§—Real
estate companies, trust companies.
and rapacious landlords are raising
rents in Vancouver in anticipation
of an influx of visitors for the
Golden Jubilee, and throwing out
tenants who are unable to pay the
exhorbitant trent demanded. There

have been more families evicted
from their homes in Vancouver
Since the first of this year then

there were in the whole of 19384.

The seriousness of this situation
was brought to the attention of the
relief committee of the City Coun-
cil this week. Two suggestions Were
put forward to cope with it. but
decision was postponed pending a
conference of Aiderman W. W.
Smith and Relief Officer W. R. Bone
With officials of the Provincial Gov-
ernment.

Wretchedly Low Rent Allowance

For Relief Recipients

At present the shelter rate fer
unfurnished accommodation is from
$5 to $8 a month, according to the
size of the family. The rate for
furnished rooms is from $8 to $14
a month, accerdine to the family.
Jn the furnished accommodation
the landlord must provide heat and
light. :

Pointing to the great increase in

evictions of relief cases by land-
lords, Ald. Smith, chairman, sus-

gested that the shelter allowance
be fixed at one-and-one-hali times
the annual iaxes, with a maximum
of $120 a year ;

An alternative suggestion of an
jncrease of 20 per cent in the pres-
ent rates was made by Ald. G. C.
Miller.

REGINA LABOR
TO HAVE PAPER

REGINA, Sask., April 6.—{ALP)
— Publication of a Labor paper in
Regina is being considered by the
Central Labor council here it was
reported at a meeting of the as-
sociation today.

Mass meetings at which the labor
aldermen of Regina would report
their work may be held at monthly
intervals in the future was one of
the praposals by the delezates to
the council as a method of keeping
their supporters in touch with the
work done by labor councillors.

rPEVERY DOG HAS
HIS DAY HERE

ISAMLOOPS, April 6.—Mayor
Scanlan was-influential in hayins
a ruline passed in council that
when a dog is caught without a
license tag on its collar and placed
in the City Pound, the owner
must pay for its keep at the rate
of four dollars and fifty cents a
day.

Relief recipients (human beings)
are allowed relief at the rate of
ten cents per meal, and have to
work for it. It’s more fortunate
te be a dog im Kamiocops than on
relief.

HOW B.C. TREATS
ITS NATIVE SONS

After a Lifetime of Toil,
Denied Relief

DURIBU, April 5—Frank Garry-
pil is 60 years of age and a native
Son, having been born at BHburne,
B-C., now called Marpole. He has
remained nearly all his life in Brit-
ish Columbia, worline in the woods
around the Mission district, clearins
land, building roads and doing what-
ever work came to hand. Now he

is broke. He*has been out of work
for over two years, and is denied
relief by the Provincial Govern-
ment.

They have told him he can £o to
a relief camp, but Frank feels that
ii the Sovernment can give relief
to other men who are Single, and
who live in the district in which
they were born, then why not give
it to him.

Not only has Frank given more

ENGLISH FASCIST

Dressed like a European drug
store cowboy, Sir Oswald Mosley,
British Fascist Blackshirt leader,
sticks to his job of making Ene-

land “heil’” conscious. Workers
give him the laugh when he
pleads for friendship with his more
successful brother (Pascist-in-
armis Adolph Hitler.

Terrible Toll Of Life In

Canadian

Industry In ’35

Big Increase in Nickle,

Gold, Coal Miners’
Fatalities

TORONTO, Ont. March 31.—
(ALP)—A hattalion of industrial and
agricultural workers marched into
the valley of death last year. Fig-
ures released by the department of
labor show that 972 workinsmen’s
lives were taken in the factories,
mines and fields of this country dur-
ing 1935->

These figures of death are climb-
ing upward in a startling way. But
the department of labor does not
place the blame on speed-up Systems
and lack of safety devices. The soyv-
ernment report would have us be-
lieve that the killings are “appar-
ently arisine out of increased em-
ployment in these industries during
in ex-
posure to risk.”

Fatalities in mines increased fron:
144 im 1934 to 170 in 1935. In manu-
facturing, the jump was from 103
to 123. Transportation took 180 lives
Jast year. One hundred and twenty-
two went out in agrculture and 114
in logein=s—and so goes the ghastly
story. Blood splotches the dividend
eoupons of the affluent gentlemen
of St. James and Bay Streets. te

The figures released, terrible
though they be, are, however, not
complete. Agriculture, for instance,
has no way of reporting deaths to
the department of labor. The depart-
ment relies on seeing items of news
in the press regarding the fatalities
in this category. If the news is not
printed, or seen, then that death is
not counted. Again, it is apparent
that there is no count of these fig-
ures of the dozens of young lads
that are killed each year while rid-
ing freights in search of work. It
Seems very doubtful also if fatal-
ities in relief camps are recordea.

How about the young lads that
went under in the terrific snow
Slides in British Columbia last

Sprine. Evidentiy, they are not con-
Sidered “industrial” accidents.
However, this “Labor Gazette's
report Suffices to give workingmen
Some glimmer of knowledge regard-
ing the pyramid of dead and dying
and the trail of broken hearts,
broken homes, and broken lives that
Canadian Capitalism’s cold-blooded

a

HEROES OF LABOR
AT PR. GEORGE

April

PRINCE GEORGE, 4.—
Saturday, March 28, was a hitter
cold day here with nearly a gale

blowing. Very few farmers came in-
to town and no one came down
town unless they had to. Pay checks
for the railroad workers failed to
arrive. but still, regardless of all
these handicaps, the tag day for the
camp boy victims facing trial at Re-
gina was a success, netting over
$50.00
Great Solidarity

Phe tag day was held under the
auspices of the Citizens?’ Defence
Committee with the CCF. branches

grasping after profits leaves in its
wake.’’

and the Canadian Labor Defence
League leadins the work. Many of
the taggers were women, and they
stood out their shift of two hours
each in the bitter cold without a
murmur. One C.C.F. woman mem-
ber organized coffee and eats for
the taggers as they came off duty.

Corbin Strike
To Be Probed

Labor Organizations In-
Sist on Investigation

OTTAWA, April §—Investigation
into the Corbin mine strike and the
possibility of Té-openine the moun-=
tain of coal is under consideration
by the government.

This full enquiry has been de-
manded by labor organizations
throughout the Dominion for sey-—
eral months, as has also the de-
mand for the release of five miners

Sui held in a Nelson jail. a sixth
Striker died there recently. A peti-
tion to this effect having been

Signed by 32 members of the B.C.
legislature.

A suggestion is also being con-
Sidered that the Royal Commission
on Penal Institutions investigate
complaints regarding the treatment
of the strike prisoners and the con-
ditions in the Nelson jail which is
reported to be a veritable fire trap

than forty years of hard toil to the
Owners of our province, but he
served in the army during the Great
War. This is only one of the cases
of many existing in our midst.
Labor in G&.C. could do nothing
better than to unite to blot out the
shameful pages in the history of
B.C. in regard to how our govern-
ment treats its aged native sons.

ETHIOPIA NOT
SUING FOR PEACE

Will Fight to Defend
Native Land to
Last Ditch

ADDIS ABABA, April 7.—Em-
perer Haile Selassie, in a statement

issued here on Tuesday, said he
would accept peace only in ac-
cordance with the framework of
the Covenant of the Teague of
Wations and in the “spirit” of the
Leasue.

“Ethiopia is not defeated,” the

Emperor said. “My armies are pre-

pared to fight until not a single
Italian aggressor is left on our
termitory. We are not suing for
peace.”

MORE RELIEF
CUTS COMING

King Gives Warning;
Protests Pour In

OTTAWA, Ont. April 4.—(ALP)
—Premier King gave notice in the
House of Commons last night that
a new relief cut is in the offing.

Qn a question from T. lL. Church,
Conservative member for Broad-
wiew (Toronto), the premier said that
the 15 per Gent cut for April now
in effect was only a starter.

“We might haye made 4 50 or
7s per cent cut,” King said, adding
that the government had stayed its
hand for the moment.

“There may bea further cut in
the subsequent month,” he said.

Protests are pouring into Ottawu
from municipalities all over the

country and the lives of members
of parliament “are beins made
miserable” by appeals fron coun-

cils to take action against the cut.

HANS KIST DEAD
BY NAZI HANDS

Well Known Vancouver
Militant Beaten to
Death

Hans Kist, formerly a member of
the Communist Party in Vancouver,
who was deported to Germany by
the late Bennett Government and
landed there just previous to Hitler
coming to power. is reported to have
been beaten to death in a Nazi con-
concentration camp, accordine to
press statements this week.

Hans was well known to Vancou-
ver workers in the labor movement,
being a fearless militant worker in
the cause of labor.

Whilst it was pointed out to the
Bennett Government by Labor De-
fence Teague representatives that
deportation to Germany ai that
time may mean that he would face
death at the hands of the growing
reactionary Nazi officials, the Ben-
nett cabmet refused to intervene
and thus virtually sent him to his
death.

25,000 U.S. Lumber Workers
To Clamp Embargo On Scab
B.C. Logs; Back Is. Strikers

WOODSWORTHIS
IN AGREEMENT

Favours Resolution to
Amend Unemployment
Insurance Act

WRETCHED WAGES

OTTAWA, Ont., April 2—(ALP)—
Agreement with the resolution or
the Ontario Relief Improvement
Conference which urged upon the
sovernment to amend the wunem-
ployment insurance act into a non-
contributory one and called on the
€.C.F. members of the House of
Commons to fight agzainst the action
of the Kine government in refer-
Ting social legislation to the su-
preme court. has been expressed by
J. S. Woodsworth, national presi-
dent of the C.C. F. and leader of the
C.CF. group in parliament, in a
letter of W. G. Harris, secretary of
the conference.

Labor Exploiters should Be
Jailed Urges Woodsworth

OTTAWA, April 3—(ALP)—Jail
terms for iabor exploiters were
urged by J. S. Woodsworth, C.C.F.
leader, during the Gommons debate

last night in second reading of the

government bill to establish an emi-
ployment Commission.

The C:C.F, leader told the House
that he had been informed by Ot-
tawa social workers that the
Chateau Maurier, Canada’s luxury
hotel patronized by parliament mem-
bers in Ottawa, paid such low wages
to some employees that they were
forced to seek part-time relief.

FLOATING MOVIE HOUSES
MOSCOW, Apr. 6 (ALP)—Soviet
lumber workers, floating Jumber
down the Volga in the summer will
now be served by some 30 floatins:

movie houses.

Communist Party “Peace Rally” ~

On Cambie Grounds April 19th

Permit has been granted to the
hold a ‘‘Peace Rally’? on Cambie Stre

commencing at 2 p.m.

Communist Party in Vancouver to
et Grounds on Sunday, April 19th,

Loudspeakers will be set up for the Rally. Malcolm Bruce and Jack
Taylor will address the crowd, and explain to the Vancouver public what

is required of the common people in the strugegl

war.

e to keep Canada out of

War Budget

Is Increased

—___

Japanese Militarists Ex-
tend War Prepara-
tions

HARBIN, Manchukuo, April 4.—
(Special to ALP)—Manchukuo’s war
budget for 1936 amounts to $73,000.-
000.

This sum kas been approved by
the Japanese authorities, according
to information here.

The total appropriation for edu-
cation is $5,000,000.

There is a military agreement be-
tween Manchukuo and the Japan-
ese government wherehy this coun-
try bears a certain percentage of
the military expenditures in Man-
chukuo. Thus the sum announcea
by the government does not rep-
resent the whole cost of military
operations and expenditures within
—and beyond—Manchukuo’s borders.

In the Japanese budget the sum
of 83,000,000 yen has been set aside

eSOVIET FREIGHTER

DOCKS AT HALIFAX

HALIFAX, April 1.—(ALP)—
Under its red flag and golden
sickle the 3,000 ton Soviet freight -
er, Stari Bolshevik, entered port
here yesterday, for a cargo of
grain for the United Kingdom.
This is the first Russian ship to
arrive In Halifax since the Revo-
lution,

Differing from all freighters
which have come to Halifax, in-
terested observers noted, the
crew's quarters are amidships.
They are large, bright and airy,
scrupulously clean, each provided
with two berths, desk, reading
lamps and plenty of movine space.
They are lighted by large port-
-holes.

GEN. SMEDLEY BUTLER

will speak at the Auditorium
Wednesday, April 15.

Sea Safety
Rules Broken

Danish Steamer Forced
to Participate in Nazi
—Wlanoeuvres ——

PARIS.—(By Mail)j—In the course
of Nazi naval manoeuvres off Stet-

tin recently the Danish steamer
“Dronning Maud,’ in port at the
ime, was compelled to douse all

lights and also the position lamps.
In this manner the Danish ship was
forced to act a Part in the German
naval practise. When the Steamer
was about to leave port accordine
to Sailing schedule the captain was
ordered to show no lights what-
ێver. This is strictly against the
international resulations for Safety
at sea, and could have lead easily ta-

@ Collision and loss of life.

BENGOUGH AND
EWEN CONFER ON
UNITY QUESTION

Extensive Itinerary for

W.U.L. Organizer

During a brief stay in Vancouver
in the campaign for Trade Union
Unity, Tom Ewen, national organ-
izer of the Workers’ Unity League,
has met Percy Bengough, secretary
of the Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council, alone with some of the
executive members on two occasions
concerning questions affectine unity
of trade unionists in B.C.

Mr. Bengough agreed to commun-
icate with headquarters of the
United Mine Workers of America
regarding coal miners of B.C. now
in the Mine Workers’ Union of

for the army in Manchukuo.

The four-year occupation of the
country by Japan has already cost
more than one billion yen.

Big May Day Parade Is

Planned For Vancouver

to the U.M.W.A., and as to what
district they would be affiliated. The
question of organizing shard rock
miners in the Cariboo and other or-

ganizational questions were also
briefly discussed.

Ewen will be speaking at mass
meetings in several points in the

provinee during April, as well as at
meetings of trade unionists. and in-
formal gatherings of small groups
of workers of various occupations
to take up with them problems of
organization affecting their particu-
lar shop, mill or mine, as the case
may be.

He will visit, among other places,
Victoria, Sointula, Nanaimo, Deep
Bay and will 2ttend the Relief Camp
Workers’ Conference to be held in
Kamloops on the 26th and 27th of
April. It is expected that he will
then go into the Bridge River coun-
try and to the Cariboo to discuss
organizational questions with the
hard rock miners. -

Connell Speech Violates All
C.C.F. Principles

HE SPEECH delivered by Mr. Connel] in

the Kine Edward High School on Tuesday
evening and given front page prominence in the
local daily press, may have far-reaching regulis
on the entire course of events in the strugele to
defeat capitalist parties in the fight for a better
life. Mr. Connell’s speech, the poliey outlined
by him threaten the very existence of the C.C.F.
Reactionaries of all trends will rejoice over the
sible consequences of his speech. Mr. Connell

Poss

[AN EDITORIAL]

is today.

The €:C.F. 1

‘Rhat the C:

moyvine to the

CAne

s pledged to unite all forces op-
posed to capitalism, and favoring socialism. Mr.
Connell’s open defiance and expulsion threats
to outstanding leaders and builders of the C.C.F.
in the province is a elaring violation of the
principles of the C.C F.,
fude to those who built the movement to what it

and express ingrati-

clubs and membership are
left is unquestionable. This is

Canada who may want to affiliate |

Cambie Sit. Grounds to
Stanley Park; Ask for
School Holiday

NUMEROUS FLOATS

Vancouver's Jubilee May Day
Parade and demonstration will be
a monster one if plans being pre-
pared by the committee are carried
out to their conclusion by May 1.
At the last meeting held Saturday,
Roger Bray, well-known leader of
unemployed activity in the C.C.F.,
opened the proceedings when 24
C.G.E. Clubs, 24 Trade Unions and
other organizations including two
representatives of the Communist
Party made plans for the widest
Participation.

Permit Already Granted

Decision was arrived at to hold

is playing with the question of leadership. Far
too much is at stake to allow any inner party
squabbling over leadership. The welfare of the
people of British Columbia, their possibilities
of victory over the forces of reaction and sup-

pression, are thines no one ean afford or has -

the right to play with.

the general trend of the labor and progressive
movement throughout the country. The leftward
movement of the masses is not the invention of a
single man or a single party. It is growing in
present day conditions. The sooner Mr. Connell
and those supporting him take cognizance of
(Continued on page 4)

the parade from Cambie Street
grounds. proceeding along Georgia
Street West to Stanley Park It
was reported by the Initiative Com-
mittee that a permit had already
been secured from the authorities
te hold the parade.
Arrangements for assembling at
the destination in the park is not
yet complete, but a committee will
Wait on the Parks Board on April
9, Thursday, to discuss with them
the details.
Expect Large Number of
Floats

A special committee was selected
to interview all trade unions and
to urge them the desirability of par-
ticipating, and to get all their
views in regard to what floats vill
be sent by these bodies. It is ex-

pected that every organization, as
well as many private people, such
as business concerns, will have

colorful floats in the parade. Unions
wall have floats depicting the pros-
ress of labor in the past 50 years
in the province, and in Wancouver
in particular.

School Kids Pep Up the Parade

An action committee was elected
to drive the work ahead in connec-
tion with the arrangements.

It is expected that thousands of

Puget Sound Council
Prepares to Raise

Wases in Woods
SOLID WITH B.c.
EVERETT. Wash, April 6—

Twenty-five thousand lumber and
saw-mill workers of Washington are
preparing to go after ten cents an
our increase in wages, bringing
the minimum wage up to 60° cents
per hour. This was decided upon at
the Puget Sound Distriet Gouncil
two-day session of Saturday and
Sunday last, when 200 delezates
from 150 locals representine. 25,000
men employed in the woods and saw-
mills of the Puget Sound area voted
for the increase,

The delesates also voted to place
an embargo on non-union cut Brit.
ish Columbia logs.

Two delegates from British C€o-
lumbia representing the Lumber
Workers’ Industrial Union reported

strike of the Gowichan Lake log—
gers and on the conditions in the
woods and mills in B.C. They were
given a hearty reception and the
Councit voted to support the B.G.
Loggers backing it up with a dona-
tion of $250.00 as a starter.

Urge Charter to be Granted
Lumber Workers
Locals of the Lumber and Saw-
mill Workers’ Union were instructed
by the Council to send resolutions to
the International office of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters, the
parent body of the Lumber and Saw-
mill Workers’ Union, urging that 2
charter be granted to the Lumber
Workers’ Industrial Union of Brit-
ish Columbia regardless of whethtr
the loggers are on strike or whether
the strike is settled when the log-
mers apply for it.
The L.W.L.U. of B-G is not yet
an affiliate of the American Ped=
eration ef Labor Union, but the vote
as stated below indicates that they
soon will be.
Friendly relations exist between
the A_-F. of L. members in B-G. and
the loggers and with the vote com-
pleted it is expected that a Sreat
wave of solidarity will stir the
whole labor movement on the trade
union field in the province.

Huge Majority Favor Into
A-F. of L.

B. C. loggers, members of the
Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union
have voted 1,048 in favor of affili-_
ation to the A.F. of L. against 23
not in favor, according to the first
official count made at union head-
quarters Wednesday.

Officers of the Lumber Workers’
Industrial Union are optimistic in
regard to the strike situation at
Cowichan Lake and to the situation
throughout the industry. Wage levels
will rapidly be improved in B.C.
with the support of the rest of labor
and with the threat of an enrbarso
against non-union cut B.C. logs by
the unions of the U.S.A. Carefully
laid plans are beine perfected on
both sides of the line by the union
workers in the industm: to raise
the standard of living of the loggers
and saw-mill workers, and one of
the main methods bein= adopted is
the buildine of a powerful organi-
zation of the workers engaged in
the industry with sympathetic, fra-

ternal, and organizational econ-
nections with the millions of
workers engaged in kindred and

basie industries.

KILLED MINING
PRECIOUS GOLD

Trade Union Unity Will
Present These Deaths

KIRKLAND LAKE, Ont, April
4._{ALP)—Strueck on the head by a
heavy piece of loose rock while at

work underground at the lLake
Shore mine here late Wednesday
afternoon. John MTaakkonen, 38-

year-old Finnish miner, was almost
instantly killed when he suffered a
broken neck. A wife and 12-year-old
son residing here survive.
SUDBURY, Ont., April 4—(ATP)
—Struck by a falling boulder, §S.
Dokniak died on the way to Cop-
percliff Hospital today. -He had
been working with an excavating
gang at Coppercliff.

ANOTHER MINE FATALITY
EDMONTON, Alta., April 6—
(ALP)—Plunging headlong down a

160-foot shaft at the Beverly Coal,
Mike

Ltd., mine near Edmonton,
Belys, 36, was instantly killed Sat-
urday.

school children will be in the

parade. It is the youngsters in the
parade that give it the pep, as well
as encouragement to labor to forge
ahead and raise the standards of
living of the toiling people through
mass solidarity. In order to bring
Vancouver's children into the cele-
brations it was decided to petition
the School Board to declare a holi-

day for all school children on May 1,

to the delegates assembled on the

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