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FULL NO. 67

TRADES COUNCIL
TURNS DEAF EAR
TO DELEGATES

Union Official Thought
May Day of Foreign
Origin

VANCOUVER, April 22. — Dele-
gates nominated by the Vancouver
May Day conference last Saturday
night were unable to make their plea
to the delegates of the Trades and
Tabor Council last night for par-
ticipation in the May Day celebra-
tions.

Some of the executive members
were rather sharp in their refusal
to grant the floor of the Trades
Couneil te the May Day delegates.
Birt Showler sharply asked Mr.
Braithwaite “why should you be al-
lowed in to the council.?”’

Golin McDonald was of the opinion
that May Day is of foreign origin,
put was informed by delegate
Braithwaite that it originated in
the country to which the A.F.of L.

' pay their per capita.
¢€.C.F. Preparations.

VANCOUVER, April 18—Arnold
Webster, provincial president of the
G.C.F., opened the May Day confer-
ence meeting tonight with an ad-
Gress to the 63 assembled delegates
Stressing the need for an Impres-
Sive demonstration this year on the
first of May.

Mr. Webster contended that there
are two reasons fora good turnout—
one of these he cited as the fear of
War, the threats of which are very
immiment today in Europe. The
other reason was the fear of unem-
ployment.

Roger Bray, chairman, reported
that permission for a parade had
been obtained from the chief of
police, who paid tribute to the or-
@anization and discipline of last
year's parade and meeting. The
Parks Board, Mr. Bray reported,
had also complimented the way care
had been taken, not to cause any
undue damage to the flower beds.
Permits were readily given.

Committees were brought up to
full streneth, after reports were re-
celved from the various commit-
tees. Preparations are being made
to have the labor press represented
in the parade with a float.

Many floats will be entered in the
parade. outstanding amone these
will be a banner of greetings from
35,0600 workers organized in the
Maritime Federation of the Pacific,
who have sent a check to cover.

Mr. Buckley, Commonwealth col-
umnist, gave a short address in
which he urged the conference to
leaye the petty squabbles that don’t
amount to anything, and keep the
cause to the forefront. He ended
his address with hope to see a
People’s Front develop very soon.

JOBLESS WILL
FIGHT EVICTION

West Vancouver Unites
to Fight Rent-Raising
and Evictions

Threatened evictions in West Van-
couver are the basis of a broad com-
mittee composed of delegates repre-
sentine the following organizations:
Canadian Legion, Disabled Veterans’
Association, Unemployed Associa-
tion, Communist Party, CCF. and
the Ratepayers’ Association.

Several families on relief have
received notice to vacate their
houses, rents are being raised, and
the housing shortage is so accute
that unoccupied houses cannot be
found.

At a meeting of the committee
held in the Legion Hall, on April 4,
the followins proposals were adopt-
ed:

1. That the name be changed
from eviction committee, to simply
a committee representing various
organizations.

2. That other organizations. such
as the churches, I1.0.DE., Towns-
women’s Guild and the Orange Order
be approached to support the com-
mittee.

3. That the committee should
take up any questions relating to
the well-being of the citizens.

4. That the committee shall be
non-political and non-partisan.

QUEBEC M.P.P. FEARS
SOVIET COLLECTIVES

QUEBEG, April 17.—(ALP)—“You
cannot let literature circulate, de-
seribing the success of Russian col-
lective farms without the possibil-
ity that the people, making com-
parisons with their own conditions,
may suddenly overturn our social
order,” warned Prancois Joseph Le-
duc (Aln-lLaval), Montreal alderman,
in his attack on the colonization
plan in the Quebec legislature last
night. The fovernment, he pointed
out, was placing settlers on poor
soil.

Chargine that the unemployed in
the metropolis were disappointed in
relief erants, Mr. Leduc asserted
that if it were not for aldermen’s
work in aiding Montreal’s unem-
ployed, “you would not have been
able to sit here in Quebec, so violent
would have been the revolt. Do not
forget that in certain wards there
Was nearly 1500 unemployed in half
a square mile.” x

fuses Overtures of
Labor Council

VANCOUVER, April 22—Placing
responsibility squarely on the shoul-
ders of the Loggers’ Association, the
Provisional District Council of the
Lumber and Sawmill Workers’
Union, set May 4th as the deadline
for a general strike of the industry
to force recognition of the union
and an improvement in wages and
conditions.

This step was taken after it was
learmmed that the Loggers’ Associa-
tion had flatly refused to consider
the overtures made by Perey BGen-
foueh, secretary of the Vancouver
and New Westminster Trades and
Labor Council. thus leaving the
unions no alternative but to call a
-feneral strike.

A. Moir, international representa-
tive for District 6 of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners, has wired the Indianapolis
headquarters for charters for Van-
couver, Lake Cowichan and Alberni.
Meantime the Lumber Workers’ In-
dustrial Union, which is the largest
for the attack of the Victoria Lum-
ber and Manufacturing Co. on the
loggers of the Lake Cowichan Dis-
trict, has been assured full support
by the International, and its officers
duly credentialled as representatives
of the Brotherhood.

The Provisional District Council
Was set up Monday, April 20th, at a
meeting representative of locals of
the loggers, Sawmill, sash and door,
and shingle weavers.

Mack MacKinnon of the L.W.1.U.
was elected president, and R. Nichol
of the Shingle Weavers secretary.

LOST SOVIET
FLYER IS SAFE

TIKHAYA. BAY, Franz Josef
Land, U.S.S.R., April 20—(By Radio
and Cable to ADLP)—Contact with
Michael Vodopianoy, lost Soviet
flyer, was made by radio last night.

Seientists clustered around the
radio hut of this arctic station and
cheered when the first clear mes-
saze from the flyer crackled
through.

Vodopianoy and
Panions are alive and well, forced
dowm by fog and snow on one of
the smaller islands of the Franz
Josef Land group.

“Crew in geod health’’ was the
welcome flash received here from
Vodopianov.

his two  com-

Loggers Association Re

Strike Of Loggers And
~ PMullworkers May 4th?

Spanish President

liberal

Diego Martinez- Barrio,
leader of the Spanish Cortes, auto-
matically stepped up into the presi-
dency when the People’s Front
ousted former President Zamora,

one-time monarchist. He'll serve
until the new elections in May.

FLASH
REGINA, April 24 (By Wire)—
Jack Weedin, trekker, was con-
victed and sentenced to 15 months
on charge of rioting last Do-
minion Day, and also given three
months for wounding.

GOLDEN POLICE
SHOW HATRED

Worker To Be Deported
for Class Activity

Hilding Richardson, active leader
ef the Scandinavian Workers in
B.C., has been ‘singled out by the
Provincial Police and Immigration
Department for deportation to Swe-
den.

This active worker has long been
the target of police in an effort to
stop his workins-class activity, and
this latest discrimination culminates
the efforts of the sadists of Golden,
B.C

Employed by the C.P-R. at Golden,
Richardson. oyeér a period of five
years, was arrested three times on
trumped-up charges. Five years ago
has was sentenced to three months
for “‘breaking a restaurant window.”
About a year ago was picked up for
“being drupk and disorderly.’ He
was sentenhed to three months or
$50 fine. The fine was paid. At the
beginning’ of April, Richardson was
again arrested for being drunk, al-
though the examining doctor stated
there was no evidence of drink
about him.

The Provincial Police immediately
recommended him for deportation
“on the basis 6f his previous sen-
tence five years old.”’ and an order
for this was handed down by the
Immigration Department in Van-
couver. ;

The people of Golden are incensed
at this rank discrimination and the
police have fully exposed themselves.

SEVEN MONTHS ON EVIDENCE
OF RCMP-—REGINA SENTENCE

RG M.P.- Officers Give

Contradictory Evidence
to That at Prelimin-
ary Hearing

“RIOT” WITHDRAWN

Found euilty of “‘common assault’
and sentenced to seven months’ im-
prisonment, Joe Mottl and Sidney
Stevens were the first of the trek-
kers to face the court in the Regina
trials.

Qriginaly charged with “rioting,”’

the charges were later changed to |

the lesser one due to no evidence
being submitted to prove that a riot

Indian, Oriental Workers
Benefitted by F.& C.
W.I.U.

By TOM EWEN

DEEP BAY, V.L, April 21.—Pend-
ing the opening of the oyster can-
ning season the Deep Bay local of
the Fishermen and Cannery Work-
ers’ Industrial Union on Vancouver
Island has presented the Deep Bay
packers with a new wage schedule
of demands. These include an in-
crease of 246 cents per hour for all
workers, bringing the wages of the
men to 30 cents and the women to
25 cents per hour. Payment for time
going to and from the oyster beds is
demanded, along with the abolition
of all “‘piece” and contract rates.

Over and above this the workers
ask that the packers supply all
gloves, knives, aprons and oiher
needed equipment. Im the past the

Deep Bay Cannery Workers
Gain Improved Conditions

| noesssitee of having to purchase

these materials has meant a consid-
erable outlay from the meagre
wages of the cannery workers.

The Deep Bay cannery is the only
one of its kind in Canada. It is ex-
clusively engaged in the canning of
oysters, clams and other shell fish.
A fish-reduction plant for the ex-
traction of oil is also operated by
the Deep Bay Packers Limited. :

The majority of the workers in
the Deep Bay cannery are Indian
women, and their solidarity with the
efforts of their union to improve
wages and conditions has set a
precedent for other cannery workers
on the B.C. Coast.

T. A. Ewen, general secretary of
the W.U.L., addressed a public
meeting at Deep Bay on April 18,
and on the issue of trade union
unity, found staunch supporters for
a single fishermen’s and cannery
workers’ union on the Pacific. In-
dian and Oriental workers, and more

x
took place.

The words of Judge
McDonald (the same judge who
conducted the trials of the Estevan
miners) that ‘‘the trouble is we have
no idea why the police were on the
Square,’” need no comment to show
that the situation did not warrant
the police being there, which places
full responsfbility for the oecur-
rences on the Square upon the R.C.
M.P.
Judge Hostile.

Heated arguments between Mr.

Justice McDonald and the defence

(Continued on page 2)

particularly these women workers,
are—the—most Hitterly—-and--shame-
lessly exploited of all Canada’s in-
dustrial workers. The signing of
the Deep Bay agreement will prove
a great stimulus to other fishermen
and cannery workers to press for a
stated agreement and prices before
the salmon run is on. It has been
customary on the part of the pack-
ers at the opening of the run to,
reluctantly state a price, and just
as soon as the run iS on and the
catch mounting up, to reduce the
prices to a Jeyel which has meant
ruination for the fishermen and
canners. The Indian women of Deep
Bay have set the pace and are
standing solid with their union.

AS we go to press word reaches
us that the agreement between the
company and the union was sisned
on April 18th, covering the period
of the oyster canning in that can-
nery. The agreement is as follows:

A raise in wages of 214 cents per
hour for both men and women.

That there be no contract work
during the term of the agreement.

Time and a half for overtime, in-
cluding Sundays and holidays.

Wo discrimination for union actiy-—
ities. and that there be a cannery
committee.

This agreement is the first one
Signed directly with the union.

©

England Can Halt Hitler’s War

Preparations Against Europe

FRENCH RIGHTS
FACING DEFEAT

Trying Frantically To
Win Peasantry For
Fascism

PARIS, Franee. April 18.—(ALP)
—By the time nominations close late
tonight, it is expected that more
than 5000 names will be in the run-
ning for the next Chamber of
Deputies.

Preliminary ballotting will be on
April 26, with “run off’? elections
on May 3rd.

Nominations for this-Chamber are
an all-time record, the highest pre-
vious number being in 1928, when
about 3,800 fought for seats.

Although the political scene has
been fairly quiet for many days, the
large number of nominations are an
indication of the tremendous import-

ance which the people of France,
both “Right” and “Left,” attach to
the coming voting. It may be that
this will be the decisive election in
French history.

The battle lines are clearly drawn
between Fascist and anti-Fascist
forces, with the scales swinging to-
wards the left People’s Front.

Fascists are using eyery verbal
weapon in their arsenal in an at-
tempt to seduce the peasantry away
from the anti-Fascist front. They
are telling the middle class people
and the peasants that the Commun-
ists and Socialists, the leading par-
ties in the popular front, are at-
tempting to lead France into war
against Germany. This line is hay—
ing a certain effect and forces on
the left are turning their electoral
Suns on this question with vigor,
pointing out their position on war,

on the occupation by Hitler troops

TO TOUR CANADA

TORONTO, _April 18.—(ALP)—
William Gullagher, €ommunist
meniber of the British parliament
for West Fife, will make a coast-
to-coast tour of Canada during the
month of August. His itinerary
has not yet been announced by
the Communist Party of Canada
which is spnosoring the tour.

Gallagher, who is the first Coni-
munist to sit in the British house
since Saklatvala, is a powerful
speaker and, although the lone
Communist M-P., he has been
playing a leading role in the
battle of labor against the Nation-
al Government.

LONGSHOREMEN
ARE VICTIMIZED

VANCOUVER. April 23.—Despite
the fact that the striking maritime
workers of B.C. terminated the long
drawn out struggle on December
9th last, on the understanding that
the ex-strikers would be reinstated

as opportunity arose, to date less
than 120 of the 700 ex-strikers of
the V.& D.W.W.A. have been re-
instated.

@n February 19th the Shipping
Federation informed the Harbor and
Utilities Committee of the Vancou-
ver city council that the ex-strikers
would be re-instated forthwith.

Nevertheless, while 500 experi-
enced longshoremen, all of them
employed on the Vancouver water-
front for from ten to thirty years,
are still idle, the Shipping FWedera-
tion, according to officials of the
union, are daily picking new men
off the street and putting them to
work.

ef the Rhineland, ete. Fascism, the
popular front parties point out,
means war and betrayal of the
French people.

Spain’s People’s Front
Ousts Fascist Deputies

|

Right and Centre Seats |
Won by Fraud and

Terror
MADRID, Spain, April 5.—(By
mail to ALP) — Spain’s People’s
Front Government cleaned out

dozens of fascists from the CGortes
when it was discovered that the
deputies had been elected through
fraud, terror and worse.

When the People’s Front Govern-
ment invalidated these wrongsfully
Sained seats, 160 of the more than
200 Center and Right Deputies with-
drew from the Cortes in protest.

It was upon the concrete evidence
laid down before the government by
Deputy Fernanda de las ios that
the invalidating action was carried
by an overwhelming majority of the

deputies.
A few days before the election of
February 16, related Fernando de

los ios, describing to the Cortes the
methods used by the Right at the
election in Granada, two companies
of Storm Guards from Paen and
Malaga, a division of the Civic
Guard from Burgos, an armoured
car from Madrid, and a large quan-
tities of “‘Lafitte’’ hand grenades ar-

<;

rived in Granada. These ‘‘election
arguments” of the then reactionary

government were accompanied by a
general arming of all the reaction-
ary elements in the Province.

In January and February, the evi-
dence continued, about 4000 permits
to carry arm were issued. In the
last few days before the election
applicants for these arms lined up
in queues in the corridors of the
governor’s offices. On one day arms
dealers sold pistols to the value of
4000 pesetas.

Immediately after the election, the
new municipal council of the Peo-
ple’s Party in Guadahortuna was
able to hand in to the governor a
list of 369. persons possesing 1005
firearms—503 rifles. § long-barrelled
pistols, 13 hunting rifles, 3 carbins
and 479 revolvers. This arsenal in
one small village!

To date, the reporting deputy
pointed out, no less than 10.435
weapons had been confiscated in the
Province of Granada, of which more
than 10,000 were firearms.

The Socialist deputy then read a
document in which a military com-
mander remitted a case of muni-
tions to an election agent of the
Right.

People’s Front deputies showed no
surprise when the Right withdrew
from parliament under the leader-
ship of the Catholic ex-minister, Gil
Robles, at the revelation of these
terrorist election tactics.

(issued by: Communist Party
of Canada, B.C. District)

@n the First of May, the laboring
people of the whole world will cele
brate the Fiftieth Anniversary of
May Day, which was born on this
continent in the fight for the eight-
hour day and which lies deep in
the hearts of millions.

Into the streets we have built let
us go in solid ranks of opposition to
the handful who control our lives,
and who, in the seventh year of the
crisis, bear dowm upon us and make
our lives miserable and increasingly
insecure. Let the profit-gatherers of
this Dominion fee] that the working
people of Canada are on the march
against war and for peace, for bread
and security for their loved ones,
against the dark forces who want
Fascism, in defence of those liber-
ties for which their forefathers
fought and shed their blood.

Let unity on this May Day show
the way to unity of all the common
people of Canada against the forces
of barbarism and cruelty!

Stop the Reactionaries!

Make no mistake! The most reac-
tionary capitalists are preparing
Fascism for Canada. with all its
horrors, its deadly poison, its con-
centration camps and headsmen.

Let United May Day demonstra-
tions decisively thrust back these
plotters against the liberty of the
common people!

For More Bread and Less Profits!

The so-called “recovery’’ of busi-

ness is not recovery for the workers

All Out For A Mighty

ay Day Parade!

and farmers. A million and a quar-
ter of our people are living on mis-
erably low relief. Youth is frustrat-
ed and driven to crime and demoral-
izing idleness.

Despite the already scandalously
low living standards of the Canadi-
an toilers, wage-cuts proceed, the
speed-up grows more intense, and
the farmers are squeezed harder by
big capital.

What to Do on This Fiftieth
May Day?

The workers’ organizations must
unite on a common program direct-
ed against the bankers and the gov-
ernments and for the needs of the
people.

For bread, houses and a good life
at the expense of the profits of the
despoilers of Canada, the destroyers
of the home and the enemies of de-
mocracy! For a united May Day
to achieve these, our burning needs.

A Better Life for Youth
and Women

Our young folks and the women
bear an added burden. Youth, with
its high hopes flouted, must be
drawn into the labor movement and
saved from the wiles of the militar-
ists and Fascists. Opportunity—to
learn a trade, to work, to marry;
these are the needs of the young
working-class people today.

Unite the best of Canadian
woman-hood against those who plan
another feast of murder and
crippling by preparing to plunge us
into another war.

Every Worker a Union Man!

May Day was conceived and born
in the trade union movement of
America.

brations and pledge to organize un-
organized working people into
strong trade unions.

Destroy the menace of company
unions. Advance further on the road
to a single, unified trade union
movement embracing every man,
woman and young person of the
working class.

Fight For Peace!

The Fascist rulers of Italy, Ger-
many and Japan are striving to hurl
the world into war. The world
stands on the brink of the frightful
hell of another world war.

The dominant groups of Ganadian
imperialists are hand in glove with
the British reactionaries who are
supporting Hitler against the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics and
France. It is our duty as lovers of
peace, on this May Day to compel
the Canadian government to break
with the war policies of the Baldwin

MacINNES TARGET
OF INVESTIGATION

VANCOUVER, April 20 —The gen-

eral meeting of the Vancouver and
District Waterfront Workers’ Asso-
eiation has instructed its delezates
to the League Against War and
Fascism to present a resolution to
that body demanding a s¢overn-
mental investigation into the affairs
of the Citizens’ League and the ac-
tivities of Tom MacInnes. The
league will also be asked to enquire
if the government is behind the

utterances of MacInnes: calline for

violence against the workers and

Join the May Day cele- workers’ organizations.

group in Britain and to support the
proposals for collective security
made by the U.S.S.R., the champion
of world peace.

ixeep Canada out of war by help-
Ing to keep war out of the world!

Defend the Citadels of the
World’s Oppressed!

In the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics. one hundred and eighty
millions of happy workers and col-
lective farmers are entering into
the joyous and happy life of So-
cialism. The great victory of social-
ist society has thrown the oppres-
sors and fascists of the world into
a blind rage. Let us, on this May
Day, once again pledge our brother-
hood with our comrades of the free
Soviet Union, and aid their fight for
peace by every means within our
power.

. We greet Vancouver's united May
Day!

On this May Day we call the
C.C.F. to join with the Communists
in a solemn pledge and so cement a
leadership of the two main workers
political groups which will rally all
discontented people, all those who,
in seach for a better life, gave their
support to Aberhart or Stevens, in-
to a genuine people’s party.

Greet the Daily Clarion!

Greet our new voice, the Daily
Clarion, which appears on May
Day! Gather around it and build it
into the most powerful weapon for
labor unity and the cause of So-
cialism.

Support the “B.C. Workers’
Nevws”’

On the occasion of the golden

Jubilee of May Day, we call the

and the progressive professionals to
join the ranks of our Party, the
true and tested leader organization
of the battles of the people for
higher standards of living, the bat-
tles of the people fighting their way
towards a Canada forever freed from
the chains of exploitation.

All into the streets for bread,
freedom and progress! Forge unity
on May Day!

Build an all-embracing farmer-
labor people’s party in Canada!

C.C.F. and trade union brothers!

Let's mareh shoulder to shoulder
on May Day!
Stop the reactionaries’ schemes

for fascism in this Canada of ours!
Defend the liberty of the people!
Dissolve the Citizens’ League! Ban
Tom Macinnes off the air!

For the six-hour day and five day
week. and jobs at union rates!

For the right of the youth to a
decent living!

Stop evictions!

Tax the rich to feed the poor!

Higher relief, genuine unemploy-
ment insurance at the expense of
the coupon-clippers!

BEyery worker a union man, Van-
couver a union city!

Help to save Ethiopia from the
fascist invaders!

Keep Canada out of war by help-
ing to keep war out of the world!

Support and defend the U-.S.S.R.,
the citadel of the world’s oppressed,
the srowing edifice of victorious so-
cialism!

Free all prisoners of reaction and
fascism!

Forward to a Socialist
and real democracy for the

Canada

workers, the impoverished farmers,

people!

©

By Refusing To Float Loan

COMMUNST M.P. ‘Will International Bane

ers Help Butcher of
Europe to Save
Fascism?

HITLER DESPERATE |

By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN.
(Special to Mederated and Associat
Hl Labor Press.)
VIENNA—(ALP)—Although Ge

man armament firms are working

up to 24 hours a day, shortage of
raw materials and insufficient funds
to buy them abroad will in a short
time lead to a situation where the
Nazi regime must slow up its colos-
sal preparations for a war two years
hence. In six months’ time the
government will be face to face
with a devastatine= economic crisis—
unless the FPuehrer can obtain a bie
money loan abroad in the meantime,

Hitler looks to England for the
lean. This fact places the fate of
humanity in the hands of Britain
and her people.

So grave is Germany’s financial
position that only a great loan will

common

enable the great “‘‘Apostle of Peace’”’
to keep on manufacturing heavy ar-
tillery, millions of shells, tanks,
bombing planes and airdromes and
finish thé yast fort-conglomerations.
on the borders which are to be
jumping-off places for attack
against Paris, Brussels. Prague,
Wienna, Amsterdam and Moscow.

Wathout that loan materializing
this summer or fall, Hitler will have -
millions of armament workers in the
streets next winter as a potential
reyolutionary force, which cannot
be held in check eyen by the fan-
tastiec terroristic apparatus of the
Gestapo.

Foreseeing an hour of grave in-
ner crisis, German diplomacy is
therefore exerting its utmost to lull
the world asleep by assurances of
Hitler’s peaceful intentions. Pspe-
cially England must be impressed
with the pacific ambitions of the
Fuehrer. If the loan is not forth—
coming, the Nazi regime runs the
risk of being swept aSide. Heinrich
Mann and other well informed Ger-
mans think the brown foyvyernment
is on its last leg even now. But if
the Nazi regime collapses and is re-
Placed by a liberal government in
Germany. the entire race in the
world comes to a halt. Will the in=
ternational bankers and armament
trusts who installed Hitler allow
this to happen

France will not grant a loan to
Germany. Of course, the same
French armament trusts which made
donations to the Nazi party before
Hitler came to power would be most
willing to help -him, if only to pre-
vent the international armament
race from coming to an end. But
there will be an anti-Fascist, anti-
war left wing government at the
helm in Paris in a few weeks’? time.
This government will prevent the
granting of private and secret loans
to Germany. It will also put a stop
to the present wholesale supply of
raw material to Germany-by French
steel and mining interests.

Russia made a decision a few
weeks ago to stop its exports of
raw material to the Reich. That
was a most logical move, for the
Reich’s armament campaign is prin-
cipally directed against the Soviet
country. Russia badly needs Ger-
man machinery, and German indus-
try did its utmost to dissuade Mos-
cow from stopping its Rurchases, but
Moscow looked further than to-
morrow.

Italy has no money to advance.
Italy will be leoking for a loan in
America herself to begin exploita-
tion of the conquered Ethiopian em-
pire aS soon as peace is signed be-
tween Rome and Addis Ababa,

Only England and the United
States remain as potential saviors
of the East regime. In America,
however, there is a distinct senti-

ment against foreign loans. The last
batch of foreign loans has not been
repaid and will never be repaid.
There remains England.

In England there is a broad cur-
rent of sympathy for Hitler and
his system of government, especial-
ly in banking circles. The senti-
ment is quite natural. Certain Eng-
lish trust magnates also helped in
financings the Nazi campaigns in the

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ASK WAGE BOOST,
ENGINEERS FIRED

VANCOUVER, April 22.—Fired
for having taken their request for an
increase in wages directly to the
office, three engineers, with from 7
to 15 years service with the Main-
land Ice and Cold Storage, now find
themselves jobless.

Two weeks ago the men gained a
Wage increase one of them being
fired the next day, on the grounds
that he was the cause for gaining
the increase. The two other en-
gineers walked off the job in pro-
test with their brother engineer,
and on Monday last they too were
fired.

The engineers were told some time
ago to take their complaints direct-
ly to the office, and haying done so,
proved to be the means for their

discharge.
As these mien are now getting on
in years, younger and less ex-

perienced men are being trained to

take their jobs.

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