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Toronto To
Have Biggest
. May Day Yet

Tom Mann Coming From
- London as Guest
Speaker

TORONTO, Ont., April $—{ALP)
—Three district meetings, attended
by delegates from all sections of the
Toronte labor movement, were held
last nisht to speed plans for the
biggest May Day celebration in the
city’s history.

GCF. members, trade unionists,
Communists, representatives of cul-
tural orsanizations and unemployed
delesates. met to work out the zone
details for the three monster par-
ades that will conyerge and marcn
on Queen’s Park.

Nest Tuesday night the Rey. Ben
Spence, chairman of the Toronto
Regional Council of the C:C.E., will
speak on the united May Day over
station CKCL, using the time of the
Tabor Forum of the Air of which
Tim Buck is the main regular
speaker.

The yeteran British Labor leader,
Tom Mann, who this year reaches
the ase of 80 years, has accepted an
invitation to be the principal speak-
er at a monster mass meeting in the
evening. 5

McCORMICK SCALE
ROUSES INTEREST

VANCOUVER, April 15.—Consid-
erable discussion is taking place
around the McCormick scale of
wages published in the “B.C. Lum-
ber Worker’ last week. In some
eases this discussion is forming into
2 resentment at the operators of the
Jogsing camps, who in many in-
stances are the same who are pay-
ing the high wages outlined in the
MeCormick scale.

This McCormick scale,
paid in the camps of Ghas. R. Mc-
Cormick Lumber Co., in the U.S.,
was gained by four months of
stubborn strugsie on the part of
the American lumber workers, and
are now paid throughout the states
of Oregon and Washington.

THere is no comparison between
the B.C. scale to that of the Mc-
Gormick, the latter being so much
hieher. The loggers here are saying
in effect that if such a scale can
be paid in the camps to the imme-
diate south of us, then there is no
reason why it can not be paid here.

HUGE RELIEF CUT
IN NOVA SCOTIA

HALIFAS, WS. April i3—
(ALP)—A reduction of 27.7 per
cent in payments for unemployment
relief in Wova Scotia during the
year ended Nov. 30, 1935, was shown
in a report submitted to the legis-
lature by Hon. Michael Dwyer,
minister of public works, mines
and labor.

Payments were discontinued in
Wew . Glasgow, Trenton, Windsor,
Dartmouth, Truro and SBridge-
water, and reductions were shown
in Amherst, Halifax and Sydney.
The scale of allowances remained
unchanged.

Last Respects
Paid Heckert

Soviet Workers Honor
Briliant Leader

MOSCOW, April 11—Today the
ashes of Fritz Heckert rest in a
tiny crypt in the Kremlin wall with
a simple tablet bearing the inscrip-
tion “Fritz Heckert, March 28, 1884
April 7, 1936.”"

Thousands of workers lined the
route of the funeral and as the urn
containing the ashes passed, flags
were dipped in salute.

During the stirring days of 1919
in Germany, Heckert was a mili-
tant leader of the Spartacus Bund
and co-worker of Karl Liebknecht
and Rosa Luxembure. Later he as-
sisted in founding the Communist
Party of Germany and became one
of its most outstanding leaders, be-
ing a member of the political Bu-
reau of that party up to the time of
his death last Tuesday. Since 1928
he was a member of the Executive
of the Communist International.

Many Communists were repre-
sented at the funeral to pay their
partys last respects to a brilliant
leader of the Communist movement.
Tim Buck, general secretary of the
Communist Party of Canada, sent
his party’s condolences to the Gom-
munist International on the loss of
such a great fighter for the German
people and the world proletariat.

Miss Guitridge will speak on
“Planning Problems” at the South
Hill CCE. Open Forum, Forty-
seventh and Fraser, on Sunday,
April 19th, at 3 p.m.

which is

Clarion, News Start _

Big May

Arthur Evans Asasteca|
as Manager; Will Tour
Province

On May First the opening guns
will be fired in the great May Drive,
for subscriptions, increased sales
and $2,500, to be conducted jointly
by the B.C. Workers’ News and the
Daily Clarion of Toronto, successor
te The Worker, which as such is
discontinuing publication after 14
years of splendid service on behalf
of the oppressed people of Canada.

Arthur Evans, leader of the
camp boys’ historic trek to Ot-
tawa, has been placed in charge
aS manager of the drive. He will
tour the province during the
month of May, visiting many
places hitherto not reached by our
press. He will address public
meetings, meet with and set up
committees, appoint salesmen of
the papers and solicit subscrip—
ions and in other ways increase
circulation and extend the influ-
ence of the two publications.

In every previous press campaign
the people of B-G. have responded
in a manner beyond all expectation,
and have always gone over the top;
and although the quota is some-
what larger in this drive, there is
no doubt that it will be reached.

The following quotas have been
proposed for the various localities
and districts of the province:

Wancouver, $850; Burnaby, $65:
Worth Shore. $60; New Westminster,
$%5; Haney, $75; Surrey; $25: Mis-
sion, $25; Langley, $25; Bridge
River, $25; Cumberland, $50: Gib-
Sons Landing, $15; Hope, $10; Nanai-
mo, $65; WNelson-Granbrook, $5;
Prince Rupert, $30; Prince Georse,
$50; Quesnel, $15; Revelstoke, $5;
Sointula, $25; Salmon Arm, $30;
Stewart, $10; Wernon;.-$5:- Victoria.
$100; Labor Defense League, $50;
Czecho-Sloyvak Educational Club,

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Press Drive

ARTHUR H. EVANS

ANTI-FASCISTS GET .
HEAVY SENTENCES

PARIS, April 11.—(ALP) — The
anti-Fascist newspaper, Giustiza
Liberta, published today a list of
ten Piedmont intellectuals sSen-
tenced to a total of 121 years in
jail by an italian secret tribunal
for “active propaganda ° against
the Fascist regime.”

The newspaper also stated that
seventeen “unidentified laborers
employed by Regio Emilio” were
sentenced to a total of 102 years,

Official dispatches from Rome
announced today that ten Pied-
mont intellectuals. headed by Pro-
fessor Michele _Giua.. have _ been.
arrest and Chareed with form-
ing an association to overthrow
the State. Professor Giua recerved
a ten-year prison sentence.

Ontario CCF Convention
Turns Down United Front

Strong Minority Sees
Need for More Pros-

ressive Policy

TORONTO, Ont., April 11.—({ATLP)
—Following a five-hour debate in
whieh Reeve Arthur Williams of
East York staged a one-man fili-
buster, the Ontario convention of
the Co-operative Commonwealth
Federation late last night turned
down a resolution that would have

opened the way to political co-
operation with the Communist
Party.

The resolution which started the
fiery discussion and on which the
convention early split into two
camps was presented by the Wood-
bine Club as follows:

“Resolved to end, once and for
all, the controversy over “United
Front” activities, this convention
strongly urges the National Coun-
cil to call a joint conference with
the executives of ali other Social-
ist, Farmer and Labor groups in
Ganada, “Right” and ‘Leit”’ wing,
for the purpose, if found possible,
of amalgamation and the establish-
ment of one, nation-wide political
organization, united in DEDgEn
and policy.”

An amendment from the Oakwood
Club favored ‘no alliance with any
other political party or =£roup.””

Amendment Won

The amendment was Immediately
challenged as being contrary to the
motion but, on the amendment be-
ing ruled in order by chairman John
Mitchell, the battle began. When
the smoke had cleared away and
the vote taken the count from the
press tables was 18 for the motion
and 76 for the amendment.

Another resolution, from North
Toronto GCF. Club, favoring re-
vision of the C.C.F. constitution tu
permit co-operation with Commun-
ists on such issues as ‘‘war, relief,
May Day and like demonstrations,”
was voted on, 33 for the resolution

LONDON COUNCIL
SNUBS NAZI REICH

=., April 7.—({ALP)—
Declaring that ‘‘Local self-govern-
ment has ceased to exist in Ger-
many and this makes the proposed
centres inappropriate for such a
conference at this time.” the London
Gounty Council, the governing body
of the County of London, turned
down today an invitation to send
representatives to the International
Union of Local Authorities conyen-
tions to be held in June at’ Berlin
and Munich.

The Labor party, under Herbert
Morrison, holds the majority in the

LONDON, En

council.

and 61 against, accordin= to
count of the tellers.
No Effect on May Day
Today the Rev. Ben Spence, chair-
maan of the Toronto Regional Coun-
cil of the C.C-F., made a statement
on the floor that the effect of these
resolutions and of the voting on
them will have no effect on the joint
May Day demonstrations in Toronto
when Communists, Trades Unions.
the C.CGF. and many oftlier bodies
will take part in three huge parades
to Queen’s Park and a joint meetine
there. At night a mass meeting is
to be held in the Coliseum and Tom
Mann, Gritish Communist veteran,
is to be the main speaker.

Dom. Textiles

Under Probe

Low Wages, Long Hours
Disclosed by Workers

the

MONTREAL, Que., April 6—
(ALP)—Average pay envelope in the
Sherbrooke mills of the giant 75 mil-
lion dollar corporation, Dominion
Textiles Lid.. is $13 for a 55-hour
week it was disclosed from company
records at the Turgeon textile in-
vestigation today.

Mrs. Rose Provencher, mother of
ten children and only breadwinner
in the family.
$5 ,she told the commission. Mrs.
Provencher said her husband was
unemployed while she worked on an
average of two days a week, start-
ing at 7 a.m. and finishing at 6 p.m.

Bight empty pay envelopes for
two-week periods were produced by
Diane McLure. One was for $5.10.
one for $7.15. She testified that she
worked fifty-five and a half hours
in one week for $9.30.

Mrs. Millie Deiziel told the com-
mission she earned $1.70 in a ten-
hour day for removing spools from a
machine. Marie Fertier testified she
earned $25 for two weeks work.

Operating eight silk machines
Bernard Riel, 25, received 62 cents
for each 100,000 picks he handled.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 11. —
(ONS) — Industrial organization is
fayored by Bargemen’s Tocal 38-101
of the International Longshoremen’s
Association.

“Tndustrial unionism is positively
the next step to be taken by the
entire labor movement that the
workers may emancipate themselves
from the bondage imposed upon
them under the present capitalist
system,” says a resolution adopted
by the local in support of the
Sailors’ Union of the Pacific.

worked 40 hours for }-

Peace Ballot
Is Sponsored

League of Nations Soci-
ety Submits Reso-
lution

VICTORIA, BC, April 13.—
(ALP)—A resolution submitted to
the national conference by the Vic-
toria branch of the League of Na-
tions Society, preposes “that the
Society consider the practicability
of a peace ballot for Canada.”

Such a peace ballot, if acted upon
by the national conference of the
League of Nations Society in Ot-
tawa next month, would be similar
to the peace ballot held in Great
Britain last year, which brought out
more than it ,009;000 affirmative
answers, representing 97 per cent
of the total votes cast, to the ques-
tion: “Should Great Britain remain
a member of the League of Na-
tions?”

B.C. Gkoupeet Conduct Ballot

Regional peace ballots have been
conducted by 11 groups of young
people in British Columbia. In a
report made recently to the national
headquarters of the League of Na-
tions Society, J. S. MacLachlan,
president of the--.Young People’s
Union in Chilliwack, B.C., stated
that ‘*2,300 ballots bearing the ques-
tions of the British peace ballot
were collected, of which 943 per
cent favored Canada remaining a
member of the League of Nations;
96.6 per cent favored the prohibi-
tion by international agreement of
the manufacture and sale of arma-
ments for private profit, and the
use of economic and non-military
measures on an aggressor nation;

and 80.5 per cent favored the use.

of military measures if necessary.”

Trade Unity
Being Forged

Mine, Lumber and Fur-
niture Workers In

Move

TORONTO, April 11. — Three
large Workers Unity League unions,
mine, lumber and furniture work-
ers, have been granted disaffiliation
from the W.U.L. recently.

Loeal 239 of the Mine Workers’
Union (metal section) in Sudbury
have just reecived their charter
from the American Federation of
Labor now making them Local 239
of the International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers.

A sudden impetus has been given
the new local in their campaign for
100 per cent organization of the In-
ternational Nickel Company. Sim-
ilar moves for unity have been made
by the miners in Timmins and
Karkland Lake, and charters are ex-
pected within a few days.

Miners in Alberta will discuss a
Single miners’ union in the Alberta
coal fields at the May conference
called by the Alberta Federation of
Labor. Home locals, Mine Work-
ers’ Union of Canada, United Mine
Workers of America, and unorgan-
ized workers are invited to attend.

Unity with the A_F.of L. is taking
Shape in the lumber industry. The
Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union
in Ontario and B.C. have applied for
charters from the A.F.of L. In the
Coast province the L.W.I.U. immedi-
ately applied for a charter from the
United Brotherhood of Garpenters
and Joiners, when the union re—
ceived an almost solid mandate for
unity.

The Furniture Workers’ Indus-
trial Union are now a part of the
American Federation of labor, hay-

ing been accepted a few weeks ago.

Taxpayers’ Threat Defeats.

Boost In Civic Mull Rate}

Sinking Bona Payments
Deferred to Cover
Deficits

VANCOUVER, April 14——-Threats
of a Tax Strike by the ratepayers
of this city against any proposed in-
erease in the mill rate soon changed
the minds of Mayor G. G McGeer
and the City Council when they met
this afternoon to discuss ways and
means of overcoming the $1,740,204
deficit in the budget.

The deficit in the budget was ex-
pected to be cared for by grants
from the Provincial Treasury, how-
ever, this belief was soon dispelled
when the Hon. Wells Gray stated
no definite promises had been made
in this respect, but that the whole
question of the municipalities would
be reviewed at the fall session of
the legislature.

Barrage of Protest

Since that time Alderman Miller
proposed a boost in the mill rate
from 37.886 net to 39.886 net or an
increase of two mills. This proposal
has met with such a barrage of
protests from the ratepayers and
particularly those with highly as-
sessed property that the tax boost
has been abandoned, instead the
payments to the sinking fund,
which is now eight and a half mil-
lion short, will not be made this
year.

Huge increases in ten of the
city’s departments is partly res-
ponsible for the large budget deficit,
chief among these is $96,800 for
pelce and justice, $10, 000 increase

(ONTARIO CGE.
AFFILIATES TO
DEFENCE GROUP

TORONTO, Ont., April 9—(ALP)
—The Ontario section of the Co-
operative Commonwealth FPedera-
tion, through its provincial council
has formally affiliated to the Giti-
zens’ Defence Movement of Toronto.

In a letter addressed to the de-
fence movement, Mr. HB. Orloff, sec-
retary of the C.C.F. provincial ‘coun-

cil announced the decision of the
council appointing Major Fred Tish
as their delegate to the defence con-
ference. A contribution of $5 to-
wards the defence of the 22 “‘trelk-
kers” facinge trial at Regina, April
14, was also enclosed.

TORONTO, April 13.—(ALP)—De-
tails of merger will be worker out
this week between the Teamsters

and Chauffeurs International Union
and the Moving and Storage Men’s
Union.

Announcement that the indepen-
dent body is to affiliate to the in=
ternational was made by Jack
Kellythorne of the former union.

in interest charges.

Mayor McGeer stated that “If
the City Council were forced to
budget to provide for its full sink-
ing fund requirements, along with
unemployment relief, which is a
national responsibility, we should
have to increase the mill rate on
the present assessment by some-

thing over eight m mills.”’

MAY DAY CELEBRATION
TO BE GREAT SUCCESS

VANCOUVER,

April 16.—Permission having been

granted by the Board of Park Commissioners to the
United Front May Day Committee to hold a meeting in
Stanley Park, and with a permit from the police for a
parade already in their possession, preparations are going
forward to make Labor’s Golden Jubilee—May first—
equally as good or better than last year’s historic cele-

bration.

A speakers’ rostrum will be erected on the east side
of Lumberman’s Arch in Stanley Park where there is a

natural amphitheatre in a setting
of the May Day proportions.

suitable for a meeting

During the period between now and May Day a series
of four fifteen-minute radio broadcasts will be given over

CI OR.
On Saturday,

April 18,

another conference will be

held in the O’Brien Hall, 404 Homer St., where delegates
will work out more thoroughly the arrangements already
made at previous conferences at which fifty-two or-
ganizations were represented.

Some organizations have already made arrangements
to have their own floats in the parade, which will start
out for Stanley Park from the Cambie Street grounds.

PEOPLE’S FRONT VICTORY SEEN IN FRANCE

Threat

SPANIARDS WILL
ELECT PRESIDENT

MADRID, April 14. — (ALP) —
Political mterest in Spain is to-
day: focused on the various candi-
dacies for president of the repub-
lie, as yet not officialy announced.

A total of 473 presidential elec-
tors will be chosen at the polis
May 10, and these will meet with
an equal number of parliamentary
deputies May 17 to elect a new
president.

The Popular Front, which tri-
umphed in the general election
Feb. 16 last, had not yet decided
on its single candidate for the
presidency, although two names
have been rumored to be consid-
ered by the Popular Front, Julian
Besteire, leader of a very small
moderate intellectual fraction of
the Socialist Party, and Largo
Caballero, Socialist leader.

Camp Boys
Remanded

Thirty-four are Released
On Own Recognizance

VANCOUVER, April 15.—Thirty-
four rejected camp boys who were
arrested last week on charges of
“obstructing police’ were remanded
until Friday when they appeared
this morning in police court before
Judge Matheson.

_ The-boys were allowed their free—
dom on their own recosnizance and
warned by the magistrate not to go
on the streets with their collection
cans.

Ten of the boys were arrested last
Eriday and when they appeared in
police court the next morning they
were remanded until today without
bail. On Saturday, twenty-four
more were arrested on the above
charge, and held until today without
bail.

Eifty-one of the boys are being
cared for at the Abbott House soup
kitchen, some of them only tempor-
ary, pending investigation of their
cases.

These boys have been in town for
some weeks now without any relief
and no effort has been made by the
authorities to keep them off the
streets by giving them any assist-
ance.

Their only means of obtaining a
livelihood was by going on the
streets with their collection cans,
relying on citizens donating their
money, while at the same time pro-
testing to the authorities the treat-
ment meted out to them.

WASHINGTON. — Wages for
wage-earning mothers during ehild
bearing periods were urged before
a United States Senate labor sub-
committee during a hearing on the
Frazier-Lundeen social security bill.

Left Parties Unite
In Struggie Against

Of Fascism

People Alive to to Danger of
Duplication of Terror
in Germany

FASCISTS ARMING

PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
(Special to Federated and
Associated Labor Press).

PARIS.— (ALP). — The People’s
Front will poll a majority, probably
up to 85 per cent, of the votes in the
Wrench general elections to be held
the last Sunday in April and the
first Sunday in May,

On the first ballot, each of the
parties represented in the united
front will vote for its own candi-
date. On the second ballot! a week
later, they will
vote for the can—
didate of that
united front party
which obtained
the most votes im
the first turn
This is the agree—
ment, The watch—
word is: “Ghase
the Fascists from
parliament! Beat
reaction!” With
the aid of the
P. Van Paassen Radical Socialists,

\powerful middle
class liberal party led by Eduard
Deladier, victory is assured in spite
of all the maneouvres undertaken
by reaction to throw the electorate
into confusion.

Among the tricks yet to be. tried
are a financial seare, false rumors
of a German invasion, possibly 2
political assassination or twe and
wiolent manifestations by the Fuasc-
ist leaguers in the streets,

Embraces Many Organizations

In the People’s Front are repre—
sented: the liberal party ted by
Edouard Deladier and Edouard
Herriot; the Socialist Party Ied by
Leon Site and Jean Longuet, the
latter the grandson of Karl Marx;
the Socialist Union under the lead-~
ership of Paul Boncour; the Pupist
Party (that is, the party of prole-
tarian unity) and the Gommunists
under Sen. Marcel Gachin and Pani
Vaillant-Couturier.

Further represented in this united
front are: an ex-soldier organization
of two million members; the school
teachers’ federation of France, 180.-
000 strong; the anti-Fascist intel-
lectuals comprising the foremost
figures in France and a majority of
university professors: the League
for Human Rights; the women’s
peace leapue; the association of
revolutionary artists and writers;
the society to combat anti-Semit-
ism; and 41 minor nation-wide civic
organizations.

Fascists Prepare Violence

The greatest single victory of the
People’s Front so far was the just-
completed merger into one body of
the Socialist and Communist trade
unions. They are one organization
from now on. But the reaction is
not beaten yet. The Fascists

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Disease - Carrying Ro-«
dents Overrun
Prison

BURNABY, April 14—Prisoners
in Qakalla Jail struck yesterday
against what the capitalist press
termed a “too much beef’ strike,
but in reality was against a num-
ber of uncalled-for injustices the
prisoners are expected to endure
without protest.

Men who have just recently been
released from the institution when
asked what the conditions are in
Oakalla, invariably reply ‘rotten’
r “terrible.”’ If pressed further for
specific cases they state, ‘“‘The grub
is rotten’; and while the word “rot-

WORKERS EXPELLED
FROM RELIEF CAMP

EDMONTON, Alta., April 11—
(ALP)—Following a brief strike
twelve camp workers were expelled
from the provincial relief camps at
Cadomin, according to word re-
ceived here by provincial relief of-
ficials.

There are some 500 men in the
camps, and under the new scale
are to get 50 cents a day for each
day they work. Threats of a general
strike for a flat rate of $15 a month
have been made, but all camps are
still in operation according to the

report.

Poor Food, Rats Cause
Oakalla Prison Strike

ten” is not used in its literal sense,
Vit means that the food is poor and
insufficient.

Four-legged Rats

Rats over-run the place. One man
when asked how rats got in, since
the jail is constructed of steel and
concrete, replied that “they come i
where the pipes enter through the
walls.”

This released man stated it was
not uncommon for a prisoner to
wake up with a rat or two running=
over his cot.

Disciplinary action has been taker
against some of the men. Camp
workers who have been sentenced
for their labor activity in the relief
camps are particularly singled out
for punishment on the charge that
they are “ringleaders.”

Saskatchewan Farmers
Are In Difficulties

CRANE VALLEY, Sask., Apri IZ.
—ALP)—Repairs for seeding urEe=
ently needed and few of the farm
ers in a financial position to pur-
chase them, a mass meeting of
farmers of this district. held under
the auspices of the Northside Rate-
payers’ Association of the rurag
municipality of Exxrel, No. 71, adopt-
ed a resolution requesting the Pro-
vincial fovernment to furniss
repairs.

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