not pay rent exceeding &
course not able to pay the increase, and the city

will not pay it for the
not afford to pay the imerease except they take it

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April 17, i836

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Vancouver, B.C., April 17, 1936

THE MAY PRESS DRIVE
LSEWHERE in this issue there appears an

announcement of the great May Press
Drive that is to be conducted under the joint
auspices of the B.C. Workers News and Lhe
Daily Clarion, published in Toronto. The work-
ers’ press is not at this stage of the class struggle
able to carry on without financial aid apart from
subseriptions and the small amount of advertis-
ing it is able to procure; and that there is in
existence a growing workers’ press is due to the

self-sacrificing support of its friends and syi- _

pathizers who see the great need tor such a
medium.

The workers’ press is more than a workers’
press. It defends the interests not only of the
wage workers, but more and more is becoming
the champion of the interests of the farmers, the
middle class, the small busimess men, the pro-
fessional people and of all sections of the popula-
#ion which suffer from capitalist degeneration
and oppression.

Without an anti-capitalist press there can be
no effective struggle against the capitalist of
fensive on the living standards of the people and
their civil and democratic privileges. Without
such a press the fight against the inroads of fase-
ism and the danger of another and more destruc
tive imperialist war would be feeble indeed.

Fourteen years ago there was launched in To-
ronto a weekly paper, Lhe Worker, which grew
in circulation year by year, and from a weekly
to a twice-a-week publication, thence to a three-
-times-a-week paper, and on May First will ap-
pear daily under the name, The Daily Clarion.
The Worker in its fourteen years of existence
proved itself the champion and organizer of the
masses of Canada. That it was able to fulfil that
role so splendidly was due to the support ac
eorded to it by its many readers and supporters,
a support which can be depended upon to sus-
tain and build up Phe Daily Clarion.

The B.C. Workers News is but an infant in
eomparison with its great contemporary. Yet
although scarcely out of its swaddling clothes,
it has played a not unimportant part in the
struggles of the people of B.C. against reaction
and for improvement of the standards of laying

of the victims of capitalist exploitation.

The poison-spreading publications of the ex-
ploiters and oppressors of mankind are numer-
ous and deadly. A potent antidote to their poison
is the anti-capitalist press which is at the same
time the organizer, educator and leader of the
ficht against the disseminators of this class
poison. a

The joint Drive sets as its task the gaiming
of many new subscriptions, increased sales and
the sum of $2500 in order that the two journals
ean keep up the fight and continue to serve the
eommon people. We feel confident that the ob-
jective will be obtained because we have confi-
dence in the workers and sympathizers, a conii-
dence which is reinforced by all past experience.

VANCOUVER’S DEATH TRAPS

f ees daily newspapers have been telling with

shockine regularity and frequency of ac-
eidents and deaths caused by the death-trap to
motorists that is Granville Street bridge. On one
occasion a man and a woman met death and sey-
eral more were seriously injured because of this
antiquated structure.

Coroners’ juries can come to all the verdicts

_ necessary as to the cause—always attributed to

intoxication on the part of
fact remains that even a2
faculties is in danger,

either negligence or
the driver—but the
driver possessed of all his
and his passengers as well. :

The daily papers, compelled to take notice of
the mounting fatalities, do no more than advo-
cate a lowering of the speed limit at those dan-
gerous places. This does not meet the need at
all. One look at the Granville Street bridge ap-
roaches, with their upright steel girders in the
middle of the bridge, will convince anyone of the
menace they constitute to the drivers and oceu-
pants of cars. ;

Granville Street bridge, and Cambie Street
bridge as well, were all right in the ox-cart or
horse-and-bugey days, but are not only a DUis-
ance but a death trap as well in these days of
motor vehicles.

Instead of useless expenditure for unnecessary
bridges over the Fraser River at New West-
minster, the provincial government would do:
better to remove, rebuild or at least remodel
these bridges in order to meet modern require-
ments. Here is a practical way to institute, 12
a measure at least, a program of Work and

Wages.

JUBILEE BY EVICTION
| & LREADY, months before the beginning of

Vancouver's Jubilee celebrations, the work-
ers, employed and unemployed, and the common
people generally are fecling the ill effects of the

coming debauch. In anticipation of increased
demand for accomodation by suckers lured to
Vancouver by means of expensive ballyhoo and
high pressure salesmanship, the real estate
sharks, property owners, including the City of
Vancouver with its thousands of houses taken
from impoverished people who could not pay

taxes on them, are serving notice on tenants to
vacate or pay rents increased by from 20 to 40
per cent.

for whom the city will

Unemployed workers
8 per month are of

them. Employed workers can

mouths. Such is the cele

bration of the fifty years of Vancouver's ex-
istence.

All poor tenants must resist eviction to the
utmost. If finally evicted let it be at the maxi-
mum cost in legal proceedings to the greedy Jand-
dords. No poor tenant should accommodate the
landlord and vacate merely because of a notiiica-
ijton to do so. Such resistance will take some of
the cream of the profit he Lopes to squeeze out
of the need for habitation by a population arti-
ficially increased. Only when he and his belong-
ings are put out on the street should the tenant
pay any attention to the ukase of the profit-
hungry property owner.

Meanwhile, and without delay, all poor ten-
ants should organize into a Tenants League that
will call a halt to the evictions on a mass scale
that are being prepared by the landlords of
Vancouver.

ONTARIO C.C.F. REJECTS UNITY

HE provincial convention of the C.C.F., re-
cently concluded in Toronto, rejected the
proposal of the Communist Party for a united
front against reaction and war and for strugele
for the immediate needs of the workers. This is
as regrettable to the oppressed people of Canada
as it is welcome to the capitalists and their poli-
ficians. That astrong minority in the convention
was in favor of such a united front shows that
among the membership of the C.C.F. there is 3
erowing opposition to the diehard attitude of th
reactionary section of the top leadership.
Refusal of a united front means adherence to
a policy of class co-operation and compromise
with the bourgeois parties, whether declared or
not. The class-collaborationist leaders of the
C.C.F. know that co-operation with the Com-
munists would mean a break with the whole
policy of reformist collaboration with the
bourgeoisie. That such collaboration is desired
by some of the leaders of the C.C.F. was clearly
reyealed by MacInnis in a speech in the conyen-
tion in which he declared that he does not care
who brings in socialism, and that if Mr. King
or Mr. Bennett want to establish such a system
he would help him.

Tt is easy to understand MacInnis’ rejection
of a united front with the Communists when he
thinks it possible that King or Bennett might
bring in socialism. If they think such people
could even assist in bringing socialism into <x-
istence it follows that they would adopt a policy
of collaboration with them and the class they.rep-
resent. Such an attitude leads straight to coali-
tion government, the path taken by the socialists
ot Germany and Austria, and which led imevit-
ably to fascism.

The Communists never did and never will ask
for a united front with the C.C.F. on a basis of
a united front, or collaboration with, the parties
of capitalism. The Communists sincerely desire
a united front with the C.C.F. and all prog-
ressive forces to fight for a better life for the com-
mon people, and against all actions and forms of
reaction. Such a fight ean be successful only if
it includes an uncompromising fisht against the
Kings and the Bennetts, their parties and the
class whose instruments they are-

Unfortunately for the struggle against reac-
tion, there are some leaders of the C.C.F. who
preter to place reliance upon the Kanes and Ben-
netts than to be associated with Communists
against them, just as the socialists of Germany
preferred collaboration with the Bruenings, and
as the socialists of Austria with the Dolphuses
than a united front against them.

The minority within the C.C.F., including
progressive leaders, who are in favor ot the
broadest unity, includine unity with the Com-
munists, is the hope of the C.C.F. Should they
fail, the path trodden by the social democratic
workers of Europe is the path the workers of
Canada will be led upon, and with the same pain-
ful end. In ever increasing numbers the members
of the C.C.F. are realizing this and are pressing
on for unity despite the dead hand of con-
servatism and isolationism.

DEMONSTRATE FOR PEACE

WENTY years after the “war to end war”

the siens are all the more definite, econelu-
sions more unavoidable, that the world is about
to be plunged into another orgy of blood and de-
struction compared to which the “Great War”
was but a curtain-raiser.

The threatened horror that adyances on ¢ivi-
lization has become so pronounced that even pro-
fessional soldiers like Generals Smedley Butler
and Graves of the U.S., and Crozier of the
British armies are taking the stump to arouse
public opinion against this danger.

Hitler and Mussolini prove by their actions
that the logical end-product of fascism is ageres-
sive war for the conquest of territories. Hitler’s
tearing up of the Versailles and Locarno treaties
is inspired by his declared object of destroying
France and grabbing off the Soviet Ulkzaine,
and Mussolini’s attempt to subjugate the last in-
dependent black nation in Atrica are sufiicient
proof of this. The hypocritical talk of sanctions,
never meant to be applied, on the part ot the
leading imperialist nations, has merely served
to cover up the manoeuvres of the big imperialist
robbers.

Only one thing can hold back the launching
of this social catastrophe. Only a thoroughly
aroused and organized public opinion, supported
by the ability and willingness of the people who
produce and transport the materials necessary
for war, can maintain peace.

During the American civil war when the
sympathies of the British ruling class were with
the slave-owning South and they proposed to use
the Trent affair to throw their weight into the
scale against the North, the workers organized
publie opinion and prevented even one pro-war
meeting being held in Britain, while at the same
time they flooded the country with propaganda
against participation in the war. Again in 1922
when the warmongers with Churchill at their
head proposed to launch a war against the Soviet
Union, the workers’ Committees of Action pre
vented it.

A similar task confronts us today. The Peace
Rally on Combie Street grounds on Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock, April 19, 1s part of thts
work. Hveryone opposed to War and Fascism
should be there.

ue
The Worl
This Week

ByF.B.

Se

In the Soviet Union they fre leap-
ine the final hurdles before reaching:
Socialism. The socialization of the
means of production and distribu-
tion of wealth has already been ac—
complished and now the last steps
are being taken towards the class-
less society.

The government has just made an
important ruling, the restrictions on
the children of mnon-proletarian
parents haye been removed, and
they are now given all privileges in
the way of education and social ad-
vantages hitherto accorded to pro-
lJetarian and peasant children only.
This means, for example, that the
children of former kulaks will be al-
lowed to pursue any vocation they
wish.

The kulaks, or better off peasants.
were always a class enemy of the
workers and poor peasants. When
the program for the collectivization
of agriculture was adopted the ku-
Jaks opposed it by every means at
their command. Rotten with bour-
gfeois individualism as they were

Athey sabotaged the farm collectives,

even going to the extent of poison-
ing and slaughtering the livestock.
They were then rounded up and put
to work on the
projects such as the Baltic-w hite
Sea Canal. The establishment of
250,000 mechanized collective farms
supported by the bulk of the peas-
antry has been so successfully car-
ried out that there is now no fear
or possibility of any Kulak elements
being able to influence the farmers
to return to the small-scale, private-
property-owning system of agri-
culture. In the field of agriculture
in the Soviet Union socialism has
been achieved almost completely,
class division, a relic of backward

eapitalism, has been abolished.
Further steps towards the class-
less society are seen in the amend-
ments to the constitution that are
to be operative about the end of
this year. Changes in the electoral
system show that in the urban, as
well as in the rural, parts of the
country, the danger from the elass
enemy, remnants of the bourgeois
and petit-bourgeois classes, no long-
er exists. The great majority of the
population has become proletarian-

ized. :
According to the new regulations
all Soviet citizens, except the men-
tally unfit, will have the right to
vote and run for office. Formerly
priests and other Czarist elements
were denied this right. The voting
in elections is to be secret with
absolutely no restraint placed upon
voters in voting for their own
choice, and there will be direct
elections to all. including the high-
est, governing bodies, The changes
in the voting system will tend to
destroy all traces of bureaucracy
that still exist. Certain enemies of
the Soviet Union will say at once
that these changes indicate a return
to capitalism. This displays their
profound ignorance for they are just
the opposite, they are steps away
from capitalism, steps that will
never be retraced. What they do
indicate is that the internal condi-
tion of the country is such that the
power of the one-class government
is so secure that they can afford to
ease up the pressure of the dictator-
ship on the few non-proletarian
groups who have still survived.
Were it not that the Soviet Union
was surrounded by a ring of capi-
talist powers It is doubtful if the
dictatorship of the proletariat would
not wither away rapidly from now
on, but to lessen the vigilance or
streneth of the armed forees of the
proletarian state in the present
critical period would be a betrayal
of the revolution. The danger to the
Soviet Union lies from the class
enemies outside its borders, not
from within.
“&

ao *

Ttems in the press hint that there
will soon be trade relations estab-
jished between Canada and the
Soviet Union. If correctly reported,
this move is long past due, particu-
larly with Canada in its present
state of chronic mass unemploy-
ment through lack of markets for
Ganadian products. It is peculiar
that it was 2 government headed by
Mackenzie King that closed up the
Soviet consulate and trade offices
in Montreal back in 1925 on the
trumped up charge that the mem-
bers of the delegation were con-
ductin= Communist propaganda.
However, it is better that the trade
embargo with the Soviet Union be
lifted late than never.

In the year 1925 Canada exported
to that country goods to the value of
$11,669,352 and during 1935 this
promising beginning had sunk to
$2,912. If trade relations between the
two countries had never been inter-
rupted Canada would probably have
been exporting by this time from
fifty to a hundred million dollars
worth of goods annually, putting
thousands of Canadian workers into
much needed jobs. The Soviet gov-
ermment did not suffer as it bought
what it required elsewhere.

DEPORTATION FOR
STRIKEBREAKER

VANCOUVER, April 14.— Immi-
eration officials caught up with Cc.
P. O'Donovan, secretary of the de-
funct Canadian Amalgamated Asso-
ciation of Seamen, and are holding
him for investigation regarding his
entry into Canada-~

O'Donovan has been in bad favor
with waterfront and other labor or-
ganizations for his activity in re-
eruiting scabs to man vessels, the
erews of which had gone on strike.

Only recently O’Donovan was in
Ottawa pleading for more white
crews on government subsidized

ships of Canadian registry, and in
this he was not representing any
bona fide sailors’ union, but was in-
vited there by Tom Reid, M.P., who
has been carrying on a fight along
those lines. 5

It is alleged that O’Donovan, when
a fireman, signed on under the
name of Frank Woodford, aboard

the “Northwestern Miller,” and
jumped the ship in this port.

large construction |.

LHE

NEW “MAN

testing a new siren apparatus

start raining down.

ON THE STREET”

No, Johnny, this isn’t a ghoul; it’s just an Englishman

to warn of gas attacks when

the next war to save the world’s civilization gets under way.
He wears a gas mask and carries a portable loud speaker to
warn the London citizenry to run and hide when the bombs

Demand for a higher minimum
wage for the teachers of the proyv-
ince was urged at the annual con-
vention of the B.C. Teachers’ Fed-
eration Convention last Wednesday,
after discussion revealed dissatisfac-
tion with the present minimum of
$750 a year as inadequate,

The convention was officially
opened on Monday night in the
Crystal Ballroom of the Vancouver
Hotel at a meeting to which the
public was invited. The grip the
Pattullo government holds on the
teachers’ organization through some
of its higher officials was evident
throughout the meeting. The
“feature’’ speaker was the Liberal
politician, G. S. Weir, member of
Pattullo’s cabinet. who, with bad
taste, took advantage of the oppor-
tunity to make a partisan political
speech, in which he tried to defend
the Pattullo regime.

The Role of Weir.

We also acted as bellwether to
stampede the teachers into support
of the King report, a pernicious
feature of which is the proposal to
abolish school trustee boards and
place the school districts under the

Proposal To Destroy
Teachers’ Federation
Meets With Opposition

domination of a dictator chosen by
the provincial government out of its
motley crew of political healers.
Another and even more reaction-
ary measure proposed by the Pat-
tulo crowd was advocated by Mr.
Wreir. This is to set up a compul-
sory membership “‘society”’ of teach-
ers of the province over which the
provincial government, through its

OL’ BILL

Will the comrade who borrowed:
“lenin on Organization’? from Mike—
Dushnitsky please return it to Old
Bill at this office, pronto.

= = * =

“Accursed be he who forgets this
day, who does not ayenge this-
bloodr’ These words were written-
by Demyan Biedny in the “Prayda”™
twenty years ago. The Lena gold—
fields in Siberia were being worked
by English capital. The miners were-
being driven like slaves; their living
conditions were worce than in any
other part of the Tsar's dominions-
They went on strike and on ths:
21th of April the Tsar sent his Cos-
sacks in to bring them to their
senses, just as Iron Heel Bennett
sent his Cassocks into Regina last
Dominion Day- These Russia
miners refused to be cowed and the
Cossack rifles, blessed by the
priests, were turned on them. Oyer
500 miners were.Slaughtered that
day and that was the occasion of
the words of Biedny at the begin-
ning of this paragraph.

Five years after, the workers of
Russia ‘avenged the slaughter of
the Lena miners. The Tsar met 2
just fate, and, with him, his Tsarina,
who declared after 1905 that “One:
drop of kingly blood is more valu-
able than millions of dead serfs.’”
The blood shed by these heroic Lena
miners led to the victorious prole—
tarian revolution of 1917. In al?
capitalist countries there are stilP
erimes like the lena massacre to be:
squared.

* * s *

I saw a notice on a bookstore
onee that said, “Come in and browse
around.” I have a feeling that this
should be the frontispiece of every
bookstore—that is every worthwhile
bookstore. When my eyes fell om
the New Age Bookstore at the cor—
ner of Pender and Homer, I didn’t
see such an invitation, but I went im
anyway. This is a good place te
browse in. There are so many goo@
things on show that I never felt
a lack of money so keenly in my
life.

I wont mention anything in par—
ticular that I saw displayed there,
but that the works of Marx. Engels,

ee ee Education, would | Tenin, Stalin, Losovsky and hosts
emp. £ © control. : of others will make your teeth
Such a “society” would be the} water. ‘

They have a goodly variety
of theoretical and popular literature,
novels, magazines and papers at ald
prices from a nickel up—too high
up for me. The best advice I can
give you is to go and look it over
for yourself. You will be treated
courteously and if you need any
advice or information it will be read-
ily forthcoming.

equivalent of a company union in
industry, and many teachers ex-
pressed themselves as opposed to it
as a move to destroy the right of
collective bargaining.

Purpose of Government.

From the speeches of Weir and
Charlesworth, secretary of the
Teachers’ Federation, and also from
the two proposed government meas-
ures referred to, it is evident that
the aim of the provincial goyvern-
ment is to destroy local autonomy,
the further centralization in the
government of educational training,
the smashing of the Teachers’ Fed-
eration and the setting up of a
Hitlerist state-controlled teachers’
organization in its place.

* * * =

In the “B.C. Workers’ News” last
week we had a good word to say for
a priest, the Rey. East, who has
earned it for the part he played in
the struggles of the boys from the
slave camps. Unfortunately for the
working class, priests are not all the
same. A Havana paper, “El Crisol,”

‘MODERN TIMES’ AT
DOMINION THEATRE

“Modern ‘Times,’’ Charlie Chap-
lin’s latest and greatest film, comes
to the Dominion Theatre for one
week's engagement, starting Thurs-
day, April 30th. Many workers who
were unable to see this picture on
its first showing in Vancouver, will
now have an opportunity to see it.

Banned in some capitalist coun-
tries, it depicits the terrific speed-
up and exploitation of workers in
present day industry. Charlie rep-
resents the simple bewildered work-
er, who through the speed-up and
maddning routine of employment in
a huge factory, finaly becomes a
nervous wreck and ends up in a
hospital. In due course he recovers
and when released is jobless. After
a time he secures another job and
works a short time when a strike
is declared. He is arrested. beaten
up and jailed on framed police
evidence.

Paulette Goddard represents the
part of the waif. You will long re-
member her as she bends over her
jobless father, shot dead by police in
a demonstration. Her acting is
straight stuff and around her you

find the element of protest against

recently carried a dispateh from
Santiago de Cuba telling of the in-
dignation aroused against a priest
there who had baptised a child an&
a few minutes later de-baptised it
when he discovered that the parents
were too poor to put up the ante.
This is the same type of priest who
lines up with the bosses on eyery
occasion on which the workers try
to better their miserable living con-
ditions; and they are- not confined
to any particular denomination.

Tt is interesting to note here alse
that this brand of cleric is the most
vociferous in proclaiming that the
Communists get their orders from
Moscow. It is a little awkward for

“LEFTY? LEAVES
AFTER GOOD RUN

VANCOUVER, April 14—Sched-
uled to play im the finals of the
Dominion Drama Festival in Ottawa
on Wednesday, April 22, the “Wait-
ine for Lefty’ cast left Jast night
for Kamloops, where they are book-
ed to present their play at the Elks
Hall.

Prior to leaving here the play was
shown at the Orpheum Theatre pre-
view Sunday night, this was the
twenty-eighth time the play has
been shown ih this province, and

3 ; s such people that Al Smith, the

like all other recep s t se | « ey 5 ¥

=—- ea receptions the house | «Fappy Warrior,” a leading mouth-
Sa GRD inGe ORIasS ee ss piece of the fascist Liberty Leagues

in the U.S., made a patriotic speech
at Washington lately that was word
for word the same as that of the
Catholic dignitary, Monsignor Sheen,
at the FHucharistic Congress at
Cleveland, except that the Liberty
Leaguer. Smith, substituted “consti-
tution” for “Christ,’’ ““Washington”
for ‘“‘Rome,” and “The Star-Spangled
Banner’ for the “Panis Angelicus.’”
Orders from M Rome!

* s = *

“Waiting for Lefty” on the trip east-
ward are Regina and Winnipeg.

KAMLOOPS, April 14.— Permis-
sion to place advertising cards in
empty Stores was refused, here by
the manager, A. E. Meighen, of the
Leland and Placer Hotels, to the
committee publicizing “Waiting for
Lefty,”” scheduled to appear here
this evening.

The stores are owned by the Le-
land and Placer Hotels €o. and, al-
though empty, Mr. Meighen, cousin

A mistake crept into this column
recently that I wish to correct. In
the item dealing with a speech of

Billion and a Half In-
terest Charges

OTTAWA, April i: — (ALP) —
Grant Dexter, Ottawa  correspon-
dent of the Winnipez Free Press,
has compiled details of Canada’s
Great War eosts for Clifford Sifton
of Toronto, who has turned them
over to the League of Nations So-
ciety for publication with the com-
ment that “they may shed some
light on the probable cost of Can-
ada’s participation in the next
war.’

These are the salient facts:

This country is still paying about
$160 million a year for the last war.
Up to 1935 (that is, adding interest
charges) the war cost Canada over
$4,300,000,000, or $200,000,000 yearly
since 1915.

Peak year was 1918-19, when
$536,000,000 was paid out. Since
1922 the yearly payment for the war
which ended eighteen years ago
has been about $160,000,000.

In 1934, latest year for which de-
tails are available, the cost was
$169,000,000- Partial returns for
1935 show little change from 1934.

Canada’s annual federal revenue

Canada’s War Costs Great

Sis around $3875,000,000.

hunger, death, the police and of Sen. Arthur Meighen, of Section | — ; s Af
juvenile court officials. 98 fame, thought it best not to ad-. Sir Beattly to his fellow chisellers
vertise the “Lefty” play. at Toronto, a reference’ to the Hol-
5 : ; The committee have other hotels | inser Mines stated that this com-
If you don’t subscribe to this] i mind where the “Lefty” cast will | Pany “gouged $60 millions a year
paper, send in a sub now. be housed after their performance | °Ut of the Canadian miners.” This
- - should have been $6 millions. Six

million dollars does not cover by
half the robbery of the miners who
get a bare subsistence out of their
jabor and the privilege of contract-
ing silicosis. As far back as ten
years ago, the manager at that
time, who had licked up too many
Scotches, boasted that they were
making a milion a month out of it.
Tt is better today with gold at nearly
double the price.

The “Sun” mining expert, Sidney
Norman, spread himself last week,
over the death of Noah Timmins,
the big boss of the Hollinger, who,
he said, had added $200 million to
Canadian wealth. Not Noah Tim-
mins, but the miners, millmen and
smelter-workers. the hard-rock men
of Northern Ontario added those
milions to the wealth, not of Can-
ada, but of the Canadian capitalist
class.

Payments
for the last war, therefore, conmsti-
tute about 40 per cent of the total
revenue collected.

That interest on the war debt
paid to holders of war loans is
ereater than direct war expendi-
tures, and twice as much as that
paid to the chief victims of the
war is seen in the following table:
Direct war expenditure

(Geo) UEES >) Ss e543 Sssio5 $1,696,898,653
Pensions (to 1935) ..... 641,836.554
Soldiers’ Civil Re-estab-

lishment (to 1935).--.
WrantPraves: tps 4,811,237
Halifax explosion ..... -6,000,000
Interest on war debt.. 1,743,402,150

es

VOSS SE 65a Gare $4,341,488,904

Worker Is Held

For Deportation

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GOLDEN, B.G., April 14—Hilding
Richardson, a ©.P.R. employee, is
being held here for deportation to
Sweden. His medical examination
has been completed, and the auth-
orities are awaiting the arrival of
an immigration officer.

Reasons for his deportation have
not been disclosed.

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