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Vancouver, B.C., April 24, 1936

_AN EXAMPLE OF CLASS CONCERN

CREAMING headlines, sensational radio

announcers’ talks and other forms of bally-

hoo acompanied the reescue of two men buried

in the Moose River, Nova Scotia, mime. The

plight of the entombed men was exploited in the

most diseusting manner by the proft-hunery
press and radio companies.

That many were interested in the great eftort
made by the miners to rescue the men is true;
and everyone was glad that they were reached
and taken out.of the mine. But why all the pub-
licity 2? Miners have been buried alive—scores
and hundreds at a time, and barely received
notice on even inside or back pages of the cap-
italist press.

The Province newspaper wonders why the
story of Moose River seized the jmagination of
Worth America more than many greater dis-
asters have done, and says that you could argue
forever about that question without finding the
answer. How naive!

The answer is that the entombed men are cap-
italists, owners of the mine. Robertson-in his
capacity as doctor has, and likely will, render
service to humanity ; but he wasn’t trying to help
any sick or crippled person when he went down

-snio the mine. It was as a capitalist and future
exploiter of the yery men who later risked their
lives to save his life that he visited it. And it
was because they were capitalists that the fed-
eral and Nova Scotia governments spared neither
energy nor money to assist in effecting their
rescue. There was no such publicity when the
miners of Coalhurst were trapped and murdered
a few months ago. Im many cases where miners
were trapped the mine was sealed so that the coal
could be saved for the owners, although the seal-
ing also sealed the doom of the buried miners.

Publicity-seeking politicians took advantage
of the opportunity to make the front pages ot
the press and pose as heroes. Micky Dwyer, pxro-
vincial minister of mines, was the most notorious
of these. The press speaks of him as “affection-
ately known by the miners as “Mike’.” Dwyer is
not held in affection by the miners of Nova
Scotia. On the contrary, he is hated and detested
as a tool of the coal corporations that control the

Liberal provincial government as it controlled
the Tory government which preceeded it. He is
Imown as an enemy of the miners and as slippery
a politician as ever wrecked a union or slashed
workers’ wages.

The whole disgusting sensationalism con-
nected with the rescue shows the different atti-
tude of the capitalist press when it is some of
their own class who are buried in a mine. Miners
buried alive while doing useful work in produe-
ing wealth receive little more attention than so
many cockroaches, and far less than mine mules ;
capitalist exploiters in the same fix are the con-
eern of the whole capitalist class.

“LEFTY” AT OTTAWA

Le impact of rising proletarian art on even
the highest strata of the bourgeoisie was
seen in Ottawa when the Progressive Arts Club
of Vancouver presented ‘Waiting For Lefty” in
the Dominion Drama Festival on Wednesday
night. The Vancouver players tool: the house
by storm, and “Waiting For Lefty” made the
competing bourgeois plays seem flat and uninter-
esting by comparison. And there is no wonder
that it did. For the Odets play depicts realisti-
eally life and the struggle for existence of a class
not only the most numerous and most nseful in
society, but a class destined to be the ruling class

and one that will save humanity from destruc-
tion.

The adjudicator. Mx. Granville-Barker, was
unstinted in his praise for the pertormance siven
by the “‘Leftyv” cast. but his bourgeois prejudices
protruded like a sore thumb when he spoke dis-
parinely of the theme ot the play. For instance,
of the scene wherein the doctor in a hospital is
prevented by capitalist control of the institution
from properly treating poor patients, and where
incompetent medicos are retained and promoted
because of “pull” with the millionaires who en-
dow and control the hospitals, he declares that
such inhumanity was unbelievable and therefore
Odets was untair.

The adjudicator, it is clear, is far removed
from the stark realities of life. Perhaps seeime
“Lefty” will contribute something to his
awakening and edueation which latter has
largely depended, in so far as the theatre is con-
cerned, on the bedroom farees, petty love difh-
culties and other trivialities woven around the
lives of well-to-do idlers and wasters, or on the
superficial cleverness of the plays of Shaw, who
likes to prod and shock the most benighted and
smug: of the bourgeoisie of which he is a part, all
because he is ashamed of them. :

It remains to be seen if Granville- Barker has
the courage to defy the high priests. Hunkeys and
apologists of capitalism by awarding first prize
and place to the “Waiting For Lefty” cast, as its
appreciative reception by the audience has al-
ready done, or if his aversion to a working class
play will cause him to close his eyes to the ex-
cellence of the production given by the Vancou-
yer cast.

VANCOUVER FASCISTS

cE there are any persons who have held to the
belief that fascism cannot flourish on Ca-
nadian soil they should become disillusioned
by the persistent underground and open work
of the Citizens’ League and by the vicious rav-
ines of their unprincipled fascist tool, Tom
MacInnes.

Fascism is characterized, among other despic-
able features, by its rotten demagogic appeal to
the lowest and most reactionary prejudices of
the most backward and most gullible sections of
the people. And this creature MacInnes, who
has always been at the disposal of the highest
bidder for the product of his degenerate mind,
is a one-cylinder Canadian edition of Hitler,
whose outpourings over the air are designed to
fool just this backward and most bigoted section.

These aspiring Goebbels are not very original.
One and all they pose as defenders of the
“home,” the “nation” and “our institutions,”
that is. of the most obsolete, decadent and reaec-
tionary of them.

Another feature of their ravings is their vici-
ous anti-Semitism. MacInnes is aping the sad-
ists and sex-perverts who rule, plunder and mur-
der the people of Germany by vicious J ew-bait-
ing, narrow, jingoistic nationalism and ineite-
ment against workers of foreign birth.

In typical fascist desperation he makes the
wildest attack upon Communists. Knowing of
the great progress being made in the Soviet
Union and also aware of the social and economic
degeneration in capitalist Canada, he must needs
try to divert the attention of those who still have
the stomach to listen to his fulminations by the
rehashing of old lies about the workers’ republic,
and with distortion of all Communism stands
for.

That the fascists of Vancouver are organizing
secretly is seen im the advertisement of the
Citizens’ League in the daily press in which fase-
ist members are summoned to meetings and more
sinister doings in cabalistic lingo. It is shown by
other manifestations. And it is mo secret that
they are secretly and illegally arming—with the
authorities turning a blind eye to their subvers-
ive activities.

Men of the stripe of MacInnes should be de
nied radio facilities for propagating their fase-
ist filth, the purpose of which is to prepare the
eround for the destruction of all existing civil
and democratic rights and the duplication in
Canada of a terror regime of the sort that has
destroyed the culture and economie life, as well
as the lives of tens of thousands of the flower
of the people, of Germany.

Babies Welcome
n Soviet Union

children’s dining-rooms where all
furniture is in miniature, bore out
how well these principles are put
into practice for the children of the
workers’ republic.
High Birth-Rate

In spite of the fact that birth
control is freely available for all -
women, the birth-rate is constant-

Little

By PEGGY WILSON

The work in regard to birth con-
trol being done at present in Van-
couver by the Women’s Labor
Teague and other interested organ-
izations and persons raises the ques-
tion of how this vital issue is
handled in the U.S.S-R., where the
first consideration in approaching:
the problem is the well-being of
mother and child.

Perhaps no better example of this
attitude could be found than the
“Institute for the Protection of
Mother and Child” in Moscow,
which the writer recently had the
privilege of visiting. :

Mhis spotless institute, presided
over by a2 woman whose motherly
appearance helps to make : her
supremely suitable for her position,
gives a complete picture of all that
is being done for mothers and babies
in the U-S.S-R.

Mothers Cared For

The first floor, through pictures
and exhibits, is devoted to the
mother, her work and care during
presnancy and childbirth. Here are
shown pictures of the typical light,
well-ventilated factories where
women work.

Attached to each of these fac-
tories is a modern clinic with a staff
of doctors and nurses part of whose
work is to regularly examine and
advise pregnant factory women.

Two months before the birth of
her baby and two months after is 2
Test period with full pay for the
woman factory worker. : :

The Knowledge of this vacation is
becoming general in all countries,
put what is not so well known is
that women on the collective farms
fow have 2 Holiday too, in their

case, one month before and after
childbirth.
To worried, over-worked farm

women in Eastern Canada, on our
great prairie and on the small farms
in the Fraser Valley and the interior
of B.C., this will seem like a dream
from another world. and actually,
the Soviet Union has become an-
other world for women and all
toilers.
Painless Childbirth

At childbirth, women are attended
as a matter of course by competent
doctors in well-equipped hospitals.
It is typical of the whole attention
being paid to motherhood that the
government has recently conferred
its highest honor, the Qrder of
Lenin, on a doctor for his work in
making childbirth painless.

This care does not end with the
birth of the baby. There are special
Daby Clinics which check regularly
on the baby’s growth and give ad-
vice to the mother until the child
is two years old.

Babies’ Rights

Part of this floor is devoted to
exhibits of scientific birth control
appliances, which are available
along with a doctor's advice, to
every woman in the U.SS.R.

Every baby in the Soviet Union
is sure of that first right of a baby.
a warm welcome into the world,
because conditions where birth con-
trol is available and living stand-
ards are constantly rising, ensure
that every baby is a wanted one.

The top floor of the institute is
given over to exhibits and pictures
on the care of the child from birth
fo six years. Air, food, sun and
water are their principles of child

eare, and pictures of playgrounds,
sunny nurseries, shower baths and

ly rising and the infant mortality
rate is falling.

The women of B.C. are to be con-
eratulated on their fight to estab-
Jish free government birth control
Clinics. Linked up closely with this
fight goes the struggle for better
living conditions. higher wages and
more relief.

When Canadian women come into
the trade unions and militant or-
ganizations of the people in their
thousands they will be able to force
from the rich these prerequisites
for healthier children and Rhappier
homes.

JOAN PERON TO APPEAL
“EXPULSION FROM C.C.F.

MONTREAL, April 21.—ALP)—
Joan Peron, member of the National
Council of the C.C.F., is to appeal
to that body against his expulsion
by the Quebec provincial council.

“TJ shall appeal to the Wational
Council and shall try to be at the
next national convention to state my
case,’ Peron said.

Joan Peron is the sole link be-
tween the Quebee Provincial Coun-
cil of the C-C.F. and the French-
Canadian people and his expulsion

will do great harm to the develop-,

ment of the movement among this
eroup, the largest and most impor-
tant in the province, it is claimed
by friends of Peron.

The Provincial
charged disloyalty.

Peron recently accepted the post
of editor of Clarte, militant French-
Canadian workers’ newspaper, and
the Fascist papers here are gloating
over his expulsion.

C.c.F. Council

PERE

Girl Gets Big Ha

Joseph Stalin’s warm smile belies his oft-repeated description as “Russia’s iron man.”
He is shown welcoming a school girl, one of a delegation of peasants who journeyed to Mos-
cow to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Georgian Soviet Republic.
In the center stands Premier Molotov, also ob viously pleased.

nd From Stalin

The Worid
This Week

By F. B.

The outstanding feature of the
recent conferences of the League of
Nations has been its proposal that
Mussolini negotiate an armistice
with Abyssinia to end the war. Mus-
solini rejected this proposal, prac-
tically defying the League's right to
interfere, as he is confident that in
a very short time Haile Selassie’s
government will capitulate leaving
him in complete control of the
country without any League of
Nations strings attached to his vic-
tory. Seeing that Mussolini was go-
ing ahead regardless, the League,
trying to save its face, has given
him until May 11 to end the war.
What it proposes to do then it does
not say, but even if this does not
give Mussolini's troops time to an-
nihilate the Abyssinian forces with
poison eas, it is not without the
bounds of probability that the
League would give him an extension
of a few more weeks to finish his
dirty work. Mussolini is so confident
that his troops will enter Addis
Ababa shortly that its occupation
is to be celebrated nationally in
Italy jointly with the celebration of
the two thousand six hundred and
eighty ninth anniversary of the
founding of the City of Rome.
Within the League itself the only
two nations who are still in har-
mony appear to be the Soviet Union
and France, both sticking stead-
fastly to their Pact of Mutual As-
sistance. Great Britain is apprehen-
sive of “‘where Mussolini will go
from here’’ when his present war is
over, as the presence of 190 British
war vessels in the Mediterranean
Sea well attest. She knows that
even as the conquest of Abyssinia
was embarked upon to avert a seri-
ous Italian crisis the coming of
peace will bring another, in order
to avert which Mussolini may em-
bark upon another and greater
scheme, such as the domination of
the whole Mediterranean area. With
the conquest of Ethiopia) he has a
potential source of another million
soldiers, for he could. and no doubt
will, use conscription in Abyssinia,
training the natives there in modern
warfare to use them as cannon
fodder in his future ambitious plans.

Then Great Britain and lWrance
are not on the best of terms.
France has been disappointed at
Britain’s vacillating policy towards
the German military occupation of
the Rhineland. France is not exact-
ly sure just what Britain will do if
she is attacked by Germany, and
this uncertainty of British support
has made her take a lenient at-
titude to Mussolini, hoping thereby
to win his support against Germany,
and knowing that there is great
rivalry between Germany and Italy

for control of the small Central
Buropean countries. The French
government is pro-Italian, but the

French people have always consist-
ently expressed, through the Peo-
ple’s Front, a strong demand for
complete sanctions against Italy’s
present war.

But however indistinct the Enueo-
pean alignments appear at present,
there is no Jack of clarity as to the
attitude of Germany and Italy to-
wards the Soviet Union. Both of
them regard themselves as the bul-
warks of capitalism against -Social-
ism, and Japan is shoulder to
shoulder with them in this regard in
the Fascist trinity. Japan is mark-
ing time in the Far East, waiting
until Hitler starts a war in the West
on the Soviet Union.

Great Britain is determined not
to be caught napping whichever
way Mussolini Jumps, she is pre-
paring to defend her interests should
he soon decide that the time has
arrived to ‘make the Mediterranean
an Italian Lake.’’ She is promoting
the formation of the United States
of Arabia, which would really be an
Arabian Empire within the British
Empire. The Arabians are Moham-
medan in religion. and Britain hopes
by this plan to rally the Moham-
medan people throughout the world
to her support in event of another
world war, or at least in event of a
war with Italy.

Turkey also fears Italian ageres-
sion, and it is very noticeable that
she is not seeking the support of
any of the great Imperialist powers.
Instead she has fostered friendly
relations with the Soviet Union,
knowing full well that there is no
possibility of the Soviet government
ever haying imperialist designs on
herself.

To protect herself against possible
Italian aggression Turkey has vio-

Jated the Treaty of Lausanne, 1923,

A Ist Of May And

Its Consequences

By Georgi Dimitrov r

The TWirst of May was celebrated
for the first time in Sofia in 1898
with street demonstrations. There
were serious clashes with the police
as the demonstration had been ban-
ned. We defended ourselves with
bricks and cobble-stones, and there
were many wounded. The excite-
ment amons the bourgeoisie was
tremendous.

At that time I worked as a type-
setter in the printing shop of the
Liberal party where their party or-
gan, “Narodni Pravo,’’ was printed.
The chief editor was Dr. Radosla-
voy, the leader of this party. His
handwriting was very illegible and
only two typesetters in the shop
could decipher it—an older type-
seter and I. As the other typesetter
had been ill for two weeks before
the Hirst of May and did not come
to work. I was at this time the only
person who could set Dr. Rado-
slavov's article.

On May 2 Radoslavoy wrote a
leading article on .the turbulent
events of the day before. He used
the most slanderous expressions
about the “anti-government demon-
stration’’ and about the demonstra-
tors whom he called “‘street loafers,
drunkards, robbers,” ete.

“We must thoroughly wipe out
this band’’—he wrote—‘“which had
the audacity to come out against the
State power with cobble-stones and
bricks, if we do not want this so-
Cialist band to develop here to the
extent which it has already done in
other countries.”

I begin to set thearticle and sud-
denly I come to these lines of invec-

tive. “I don’t set such articles,” TI
said to the technical manager of the
printship.

“Why not?”

“Because what Radoslavoy writes
here is slander.”

“But that doesn’t concern you.
The whole paper is ready, only the
leading article is missing!’

But still I stuck to my decision
that I would not set this stuff. They
had to send for Radoslavov. He
came within an hour and yelled at
me:

“What does this mean? You are
a worker here, I pay you for your
work, it is not your business to
eriticize what is being written and
how it is being written! A type-
setter must set everything; that is

unheard of, it won't do. You are
fired!”
ZT said: “I know my business as

typesetter very well. Up to now I
have set everything although I was
very often indignant, but this stuff
I won’t set. If you can find a type-
setter who will set it—please go
ahead! But I hardly believe that
you will find anyone to do this.”

He looked at me enraged and went
back to his editorial office. The
manager of the printshop tried to
talk me into giving in as otherwise
I would be dismissed. Then he turn-
ed to another typesetter, but he
eouldn’t make out a word. Finally
he himself tried to do it, but nothing
helped.

After a while Radoslavov came to
me again and asked: “What the
devil doesn’t please you anyway?
Such a thing has happened to me
-for the first time in my life?’

Then he took me into his office.
I said to him: :

‘We are not robbers, not bandits,
not a gang—we don’t deserve these
names, Wwe are workers.”

“Yes.”’ he said, ‘““you may perhaps
be a decent fellow, but how can
you believe, how can you guaran—
tee that all of them are as decent
as you are? The others are not such
decent people’

“The workers are decent people
and especially those who demon-
strated yesterday, they are not a
gang; and no typesetter will set
those words.”

“AT] right, then,”
sigh — “then we'll
words.’’

And he deleted the whole para-
eraph so that the paper could come
out in time.

* >= = =

In 1915, during the war, I was a
member of Parliament and Dr. Ra-
doslavoy was Prime Minister.

with a
those

said he
delete

and marched troops into the Dar-
danelles zone which according to
that treaty was to be demilitarized.
But what else could she do? She bas
had the example of how the great
powers Stand off and watch one of
their fellows subdue a weaker
nation, and cannot be blamed if she
is now taking steps to barricade her
front door to prevent a similar fate

*terests and the honor of the work-

Once I spoke in Parliament about
the shameful treatment of the war
prisoners. When I came on to the
tribune, Radoslavoyv, who sat quite
close by, looked at me sideways and
smiled. :

When I spoke about the horrible
treatment of the Serbian war prison-
ers he called out:

““You only defend the Serbians be-
cause your wife is a Serbian.”

“J am proud’—I answered him—
“that my Wife is a Serbian. You
know very well that I and my Party
stand for the fraternization of the
Bulgarian and Serbian peoples and
for a Balkan federation.”

Then I spoke about the war cen-
sorship.

“This persecution of the press is
unprecedented suppression of public
opinion.”’

Then Radoslavoy suddenly jump-
ed up and cried:

“You want to speak about cen-
sorship, of all people you, Dimitrov.
Can you remember how, when you
worked for me as a typeseter, you
even tried to censor my article ”

“That is an entirely different
question,” I replied.

“TJ at that time defended the in-

ing class just as I do teday. But at
that time you suppressed the opinion
of the masses of the workers and
you are doing it again now. You
now make use of the censorship to
suppress the workers just as you
made use of your paper at that time
to use invective against the work-
ers. I came out against this at that
time and TI do the same thing today.”
How that First of May must have
rankled in the gentleman’s mind if
years afterwards he remembered it
and its consequences so well!

CANADIAN IN
SOVIET FACTORY
WRITES OF LIFE

The followmeg letter was re-
ceived by Mr. C. W. Springford,
of Blackfoot, Alta., from a former
neighbor, Mr. W. Truscott, an
Englishman who is now in Odessa,
U.S.S-R. Contrast conditions there
and here in Canada.—Editor.

“TJ am now past 50 years of age
and I see my dream coming true.
Tf 1 get old or weak or have bad
eyesight I have only to ask for an
easier job and it will be given to
me.
“At present I can retire at 59, but
when the 5-year plan is finished Gn

you and I—did very well in the
fort to raise funds for the Worke
Press. We raised over one hun ae
dollars. I don’t know whether all 4}
who helped then, still read this”

column or not, but I am going
ask you all to help again. We won't
set any quota, but iet us see if
can beat the last mark.

anybody

MacInnes. However. I have been
formed by some of the editors
Managers around here that the
are others. If there are and th
Want the OI

and start right away helping
beat the figures of last year
finance “The News” and “TD

Daily Clarion.”
column is worth a place in
paper, send in a dime or a dollar
more. If you have no dimes of yo
own £0 after your friends who ha
and send them to Ol’
MaciInnes won't contribute,
body will have to make up for him”
To the contributor who makes ¢
best showing I will see that a worth
wee prize is awarded. What it
e,
drive.

Myself, I am not so sure th
reads Ol Bill; the on

inveterate regular reader I ha
been able to locate is the I
Goebbels, “‘buliets in their brain’

Bill Jabs

Tf you think

Bil. As To
soni

will be announced after th

* * * %

: Three minin= speculators trapp
in a cave-in in a haywire mine
Nova Scotia, became during
past week, an outstanding “‘huma
interest’ story for the i |
radio. These parasites got More
columns of space and radio tim
than all the miners who have b
Sacrificed to capitalist greed duri;
the past seyeral years. The fir
Sunday extras of MHalifax ne}
papers since the war were issu
the programs of the Canadian Rat
Commission and the N.B.C. in thi
States were cancelled to allow
nouncements of the rescue work t
be made over the air. '
Today, in the capitalist press thi
rescuers are heroes, tomorrow,
they ask for a two-cent raise they
will be Reds and Bolsheviks, for
dangerous rescue work was carri
out by miners, hard-rock mei and ©
Colliers, heroic members of the |
working class. Neither Sir Herbert
Holt, Sir Edward Beatty, Ross Me
Master nor any other of their us
less robber breed, did any of th
drilling or mucking that opened th
new. shaft.
Angus MacDonald, Liberal pre-
mier of Nova Scotia, visited th
operations near the finish and got
himself into the picture by shovte
ing to the entombed capitalists, “D
you want any more soup?’ H
never extended such an invitation 1
the starving unemployed mine
and steelworkers of Cape Breton,
the slaye-pen of North America,
Whose relief he and his chisellin;
government cut by 27 per cent dur.
ing the past year. The difference is
that the business men. buried
the mine, are of the same class hi
belongs to and vrepresents._
barrage of publicity proclaimed:
Sympathy shows the reco
unity of interest of the class
owns the mines.
While this rescue work and bail
hoo was going on, the follow
item got six lines!in a Port Arth
paper; no Sunday extras, no rad
broadcasts, no ballyhoo, no symp
thetic messages from W. L. Ma
Kenzie King: i
“Port Arthur, April 15.—Dragad
Radagovich, 37, machine operator —
Was instantly killed and his helper,
Alex Gudnik, severely injured, a |
terday, when a platform on which,
they were working, collapsed at
Ardeed Gold Mines, 40 miles east of
here,”’ ‘
My sympathy goes to the miners”
and the widows and orphans they
Jeave behind them. The class viey
point always! An idea pounded into
me by an Old Scots radical father!
All I got from him in the way ol

two more years) I will be retirable
at 55 with pay; but I will not want
to rest as long as I can work to
help build Socialism, as I have had
this wish for over 30 years.

“All the reports in the capitalist
press about trouble here are delib-
erate lies. This is the most orderly
place I ever lived in. Drinking of
alcoholic liquor is dying out fast,
even smoking is being gradually
lessened. F 5

“Soviet Russia will soon surpass
America in production. and then we
will eat what we produce and wear
what we make, and as mass produc-
tion advances we will further re-
duce our working hours, Just one
or two more years, not more, and
we will live better than people in
any country in the world.

‘we are already short of labor
for this year by several millions.
We continually leap ahead of our
plans. I shall soon be living well
for the rest of my days. We will
make Soviet Russia a model for the
rest of the world.”

PEACE AGAIN ON
"FRISCO FRONT

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 22.
—After a week of hovering in the
clouds peace again decended to the
waterfront here. Had the shipown-
ers been successful in isolating the
"Frisco longshore local from the sup-
port of the remainder of the coast,
there is little doubt but that an ex-
tended struggle would have ensued.
The employers learned early in the
week, however, thas the other coast
locals would support the Bay City
lonzgshoremen, and this fact, no
doubt. was the chief factor in caus-
ing the waterfront employers to talk
terms. ‘Today, 1800 men are being
despatched through the hirine halls,
the very halls which the employers
formerly stated, they would not rec-

a heritage!
= = * = e

Vaneouver’s own Mussolini Lor
Mare is a bum prophet, even if he
does aim to be an Oxford Group
Jeremiah. In his address to his
Humble subjects, last Friday ov i
the air, he foretold that people
would be sleeping in the street dur-
ing the Jubilee racket. This is not
prophecy but a plain statement oO}
conditions today. The hundreds a
families that are being evicted by
grasping landlords to make room
for Jubilee tourists, have nowhere
else to go than the streets; the re-
jected camp boys, condemned to
starvation, are in the same plight
with the alternative of jail. These
are the ones whom McGeer wants
to sleep in the streets; not the clients
of the Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions
windbags and super-salesmen and
the petty larceny side-show politi
cians who are using the Jubilee as @
build-up for their bank accounts.

No better reason for the building
of a powerful, unified unemployed
movement could possibly be founé
than the necessity to stop this move
of the Shylock landlords to capital.
ize on Vancouver's 50th anniversary

Willie Gallacher, West Fife’'s
Communist representative in the
‘British Parliament, will be in Van:
eouver during the Jubilee but he
won't sleep in the streets, thougt
the MceGeer tribe would like to make
him.

= * * =

“It’s preposterous,” blustered oni
of the judges, when Slim Evans tol
the Regina investigating committe
that he saw the Mounties. batterin:
Detective Miller to death. He re
fused to believe a Mountie would d
such a thing. Last week, one o
these “highly moral’ Red Coat
murdered his wife and then com
mitted suicide. A man who woul
murder his wife wouild have n
compunction in beating anothe

for herself.

ognize . Another victory for unity.

dick to death.