al a fener Page Four B.C. WORKERS* NEWS i May 1, 1936 B.C. Workers NEWS Published Weekly by THE PROLETARIAN PUBLISHING ASS'N Room 10, 163 West Hastings Street - Vancouver, BC. — Subscription Rates — One Year ___ $1.80 Half Year _______ 1.00 Three Months _$ .50 Single Copy —— .05 Make Ali Checks Payable to the B-C. WORKERS’ NEWS Send All Copy and Manuscript to the Chawman of the Editorial Board —- Send AH Monies anc Letters Per- faining to Advertising and Circulation to the Business Manager. Vancouver, B.C., May 1. 1936 FOR BENEFIT OF TOURISTS EARLY 10,000 tourists from the U.S. and Canada are expected to visit the Soviet Union this year, according to a statement issued by the Soviet Travel Trust. They will go indi- yidually and in groups. Collective farms, magnificent apartment houses, new theatres, new buildings for recrea- tion and cultural entertainment, rest homes and fhe marbletiled Moscow subway—all for the workers—are the magnets that are attracting the people of the world. : _ There will be tourists coming to Vancouver, too, this year. And they will have an oppor- tunity to see our slums, vile tenements and shacks, our thousands of unemployed and their emaciated children. They will observe that about the only buildings being erected are new jails for the workers, addition to old ones and the $4,000 addition to Gerry MecGeer’s house. _ They will see the grime and filth of the city, its vacant lots accommodating garbage and its corporation-owned Toonerville Trolley street ears tin-canning along on worn-out rails, shatter- ine the ear-drums and shaking the liver and lights out of the unfortunate passengers. : Of course we can show them a great new build- ing, the C.N.R. hotel, a monument to capitalist planning, magnificent and empty, while working class families live in bedbug-imtfested, disease- breeding hovels. The tourists will see Vancouver after 50 years of capitalist rule and exploitation, an eyesore and an oftense, a blotch im repulsive contrast to its magnificent natural setting. The tourist to the Soyiet Union will see the beautiful miracle wrought in a land where un- employment has been done away with, where the old, outworn and useless is being replaced by the useful, the comfortable and the beautiful, and a people buoyant and hopeful. The tourist to Canada will see the desolation and decay, the millions on starvation relief and the general all-round disintegration and despair of its enslaved majority. For the one country is building socialism and the other is in desperation and with brute force holding on to capitalism. A FASCIST MOUTHPIECE OM MacINNES, local fascist, is earning his pay these days. What with the lumber workers threatening a strike for decent wages, and the May Day demonstration in Vancouver and other manifestations of the will of labor to unite and struggle, he is jumping frantically from one hymn of hate to another. Last Sunday night over the air it was the lumber workers’ union he was slandering and handine out gratuitous advice too, with vicious and lying sideswipes at Communists and the @G.F. On Wednesday night he was foaming at the mouth about the approaching May Day demonstration, with his usual red-baiting. Wis Sunday night’s ranting was chiefly an appeal to the lumber workers to accept what rotten conditions and low wages were imposed upon them all in order to keep peace in industry, to facilitate the smooth working of the Vancou- ver Jubilee racket and for the “general welfare,” i.e., the welfare of the lumber barons. All this advice was woven into a thoroughly fascist in- citement against foreign-born workers and mili- tant labor officials, and ended with a suggestion for a “National” (Nazi) government for Canada. gs : As a mouthpiece for the boss class to which he has prostituted whatever talents and educa- tion he ever possessed, MacInnes is a menace to the workers aud common people generally of Vaneouver and British Columbia. Of course MacInnes in the role of a tool of wealthy corporations is nothing new, but within the period of the last three years he has covered himself with infamy. During the lumber workers’ strike in 1934, he was a prominent windjamming strikebreaker for the lumber barons just as he is today. The government and city council used him against the Slave Camp boys in their heroic struggle in 1935 and the Shipping Federation found him a handy tool in its attack upon the waterfront workers’ unions. And now he is pouring his yenom on the lumber workers because they are making demands for a share in the benefits ac- eruing from improvement in the lumbering in- dustry- The role of MacInnes is well Imown to the workers of B.C., but many of them do not fully realize the danger because they do not know the darlx forces he represents. They do not know common people. SCORES CONNELL’S that althoueh the voice is the voice of the indi- vidual. the hand is the hand of fnance capital, whether represented by the B.C. Loggers’ Asso- ciation. the Shipping Federation, the fascist Citizens’ Leasue or whichever gang of exploiters are handing him the meal ticket at a given time. As such he is a menace, not only as*an un- principled hater of the workers, but also as a mouthpiece of subversive secret fascist orzaniza- tions, provided with ample funds, whose purpose is the destruction of all labor organization and the abrogation of demoeratie rights and privil- eges in Canada, and the settinm up of a fascist dictatorship of murder and rapine on the Hitler model. Tt is high time that the lid was litted and these fascist vipers and seeret fascist organizations such as the Citizens’ league were exposed to the gaze of the public. The growing demand for a Royal Comm*eision, the personnel of which would include a representative chosen by organized Jabor, is deserving of the support of every decent citizen. ANOTHER RAID ON THE TREASURY HE MAYOR and Aldermen have made the first move im another raid on the city treasury. This time they are going to imerease the salary of aldermen by 50 per cent—if they can set away with it. The City Council is not the only body play- ine the salary-erab game. The Police Commis- sion in secret meeting came to the conclusion that Police Chief Woster cannot possibly make both ends meet on a paltry $5,500 per year. So they rained it to $6,500. And to prove that Vancou- ver can get alone without the Chief they send him away on a two-months vacation to Europe —with pay, of course. This same Council is unable to balance the budget, yet it can loot the treasury in this fashion, increase the appropriation for more police, spend $100,000 to smash unions for the Shipping Federation and otherwise squander the taxpayers’ money. They can also exact the pound of shrunken flesh from the unemployed worker and evict him and his children from houses at the dictates of the landlords. They let children perish for lack of proper food and medicinal treatment, all on the plea that money is scarce. But for them- selves they vote huge sums that they do not need at all. The organizations ot taxpayers should become galvanized into action and by protest and tax strikes make these aldermen and the Police Com- mission put the additional money they took for their own personal use back into the city treasury. TEMPTING THE A.C.C.OF L. iE proposal of business men of Vancouver .to finance broadcasting by unions of the All-Canadian Congress of Labor is an ofter of collaboration of the boss class with one section of organized Jabor in an attack upon another section. Coming at a time when the boss loggers have begun an attack on the lumber workers by dis- criminatinge against workers because of their union activities, and when the bosses and worl- ers of the Jumberine industry are eirdinge their loins for strugele—comine at such a time, the proposal is an obvious attempt to divide the or- ganized labor movement and strengthen the hands of the bosses. It is an attempt to enlist the A.C.C.of I. unions on the side of the enemy and against the workers. The Iumber Workers’ Industrial . Union (W.U.L.), in order to effect trade union unity as the indispensible prerequisite for successtully resisting the greed of the bosses, aftiliated with the A.F.of L. unions im the industry. This unity strengethened greatly the forces of labor and gave them renewed courage and hope. It would be nothing short of criminal were any A.C.C.of L. union to form a united front with business men, representing or acting for the boss Loggers’ As- sociation, in attacking the unions which embrace the overwhelming majority of the men working im the woods and mulls. No errors or faults of the A.F.of L. nor any organizational rivalry in the trade union field ean,for a moment, justify such an attack as the business men propose and offer to finance. The workers in the A.C.C.of L. unions should contemptuously reject such an insulting pro- posal; they should, instead of attacking fellow workers about to enter into struggle, jom hands with them in a united effort to defeat the com- mon enemy. EDITORIAL COMMENT Adolph Hitler is reported to have got quite indignant when he learned that a prize bull had been named after him. Press reports do not state how the bull felt. Aberhart thinks a fortume could be made if he was toured “round the world in a cage. Getting cagey now, Abie g Some people are conceited. Rising house rentals, resulting in evictions of relief recipients, occupied attention of the City Couneil on Monday.—News item. Perhaps that is the reason the city fathers are considering a raise in wages for themselves! —_—_——> Mainly, however, | C.C-F. policy and other problems of REJECTION OF UNITY Editor, B.C. Workers’ News: Mr. Connell, ML.A. for Victoria, spoke to a capacity audience in the Jubilee Labor Hall on Sunday, April 26th at 2:30 p-m., during which he reiterated, vehemently and often, the necessity of Parliamentary Con- stitutional action as the only means of alleviating the dire meed of the common people of this country. With earnest emphasis he stressed those “fine old British traditions” and the “British way of doing things,” maintaining at the same time that the C.C.F. is a particular type of national soicalism as oOp- posed to Marxian socialism. Mr. Connell displayed a character- istic spirit of isolation from and nop-co-operation with other work- ing class organizations towards a bettering of the conditions of the the Communist Party of Canada was the chief recipient of his spleen. Even the League Against War and Fascism was favored with a passing shower of abuse. He appeared to be an inspired zealot absorbed in his divine mission of exorcising the Communist devils and excommunicating the class- conscious element of his own oOr- ganization. The persistent opposition to unity of the common people, which was the constant theme of the Sunday afternoon address, is hardly in keep- ing with the keen thirst for a united stand against a predatory class or- ganized and united capitalism shown by a not inconsiderable por- tion of C.C.E. adherents. The speaker encountered difficulty in answering satisfactorily several questions of a pertinent nature per- taining to his interpretation of vital import to the working people. However, the meeting was not entirely without redeeming features. A prominent C.C.F. woman, Mrs. Corker, raised the question of May Day. A brief but eloquent appeal from her resulted in the setting up of a May Day committee, which met after the meeting and took immedi- ate steps to ensure fitting represen- tation from this district on that his- toric occasion. By your leave, Mr. Connell, that’ committe has, and rightly so, repre- sentation from the Communist Party of Canada. There is evident apathy in this district when it re- quires the presence of the Victoria M.L.A. to provide us with sufficient incentive to set up a May Day Com- mittee. However, we are humbly erateful. One of the Audience. Skiing is a pleasure when you don’t have to work, these soldiers in the Soviet Union’s Red Army found when they attached ropes to a tank and glided effortlessly over the snow. This picture was snapped during the army ’s winter maneuvers. The World This Week By F. EB. The general elections in France are in full swings, the first ballot- ing having taken place last Sun- day. There were nearly 5000 can- didates for the 618 seats, between fifteen and twenty parties and feroups being represented. Accord- ing to the French system the win- ning candidate must receive more than half of the votes in an elec- toral district or constituency, and where no one receives this majority a new election must be held. Sun- Gay, May 3, will see the final elec- tions. At the first election the parties in the People’s Front eaca ran their own candidates, but in the second they have agreed to give united support to the People’s Front candidate receiving the highest num- ber of votes in the first election. Already a sweeping victory for the People’s Front is being fore- casted, and it is estimated that when the final votes are counted the Com- munist representation in the Cham- ber of Deputies will have jumped from eight to nearly sixty. The issue on which the election campaign has been fought is clear. The People’s Front parties have united in opposition to the war dan- ger and the menace of an attempt on the part-of Colonel De la Rocque’s Fascist organizations to seize state power. With the new government in power there will be no question as to the non-adherence of France ito her Mutual Assistance pact with the Soviet Union. This pact will be strengthened, bringing the peoples of the two countries closer together, and stiffening all anti-Fascist op- position throughout the Fascist countries themselves. This great victory will, or at least should, correct the mistaken arguments of those who have al- ways maintained since Hitler came to power that Fascism was inevit- able in all countries. It is proof that if the people only unite in common struggle they can get gzov- ernmental power and prevent their capitalists from adopting fascism and from turning to war as “a way out” of their financial and commer- cial difficulties. Qn the other hand, if the French fascists try an armed seizure of power. as they possibly will, the People’s government will emerge victorious provided they lose none of ythe unity they have displayed dur- ing these elections. * Slt * Winston Churchill has told the British House of Commons that dur- ing 1935 the Hitler government spent four billion dollars on arma- ments. This is an another example of how fascist governments drive towards war at the expense of the people. One of Hitler's war prepara- tions consists in having the chem- ists and scientists find new substi- tutes for food. They have even ex- perimented in the production of a sort of food from sawdust, and if they succeed in this they will prob- ably tell the German people that the Jews are to blame for such poor rations. The monstrous persecution of Jews still proceeds in Nazi Germany. Those who are not in a position to leave the country are being slowly starved to death. Under Hitler the Jew has absolutely no rights of citi- zenship; he is the prey of every Nazi bully whose diseased mentality takes delight in torturing him, and he can seek no redress in the courts. The Jew is not allowed to attend hos- pitals, theatres, hotels, holiday re- sorts and other public places, and no German barber is permitted to Shave him. His children are denied the right of education in the schools. In some places the Shops are forbid- den to sell him food. There are over 60,000,000 people in Germany, of whom 600,000 are Jews, and in spite of this wide disparity the Nazis claim that the Jews have & monopoly on the better paid and professional positions. But accord- ing to Nazi figures this claim is a gross lie. These show that only 16 per cent of the lawyers are Jews, 10 per cent of the doctors, less than 3 per cent of the judges, about one- half of one per cent of the school teachers, and less than 3 per cent of the university students. The so-called Nazi “cleansing”’ of employment has been te give the Jew's job to some Nazi heeler. as it cannot be truthfully said that such a weak minority constitute a men- ace to the “‘pure-blooded”’ Germans. The persecution of the Jews is used to divert the minds of the people away from their real enemy, which is capitalist exploitation, the Jews having been made a bogey against which the suffering German are en- couraged to vent their discontent. sections in B.C. Club accept? to beat. Nanaimo challenges Socialist Competition Features Press Drive By ARTHUR EVANS (Manager of Press Drive Committee) It is fitting that the great joint B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS - DAILY CLARION May Drive for funds and sub- scriptions should begin on the Golden Jubilee of Interna- tional Labor’s own day, May Day. That the workers and other supporters of the two papers appreciate this and are swinging into organized action to make the Drive a thump- ing success is apparent from the news of preparations coming in to the Joint Drive Committee. Prince Rupert challenges all B.C. in cur May Press sus- taining fund drive for the B.C. Workers’ News and the Daily Clarion, and as a start have substantially increased their bundle orders. They enter the drive determined to lead all The German Workers’ and Farmer’s Association have is- sued a challenge to the Italian Workers’ Club to over-sub- scribe their quota by a large percentage. Does the Italian Mass language organizations are on the move. The Maxim Gorki club challenges the Croatian mass organiza- tion to fulfil and over-subscribe their quotas. The Serbian mass organization has also chosen the Croatian comrades. This places the onus on the Croatian comrades to stage a comeback and challenge one of the other mass language organizations. How about it? Icor has jumped to the frent already by raising 64 per cent of their quota a week before the drive actually, started. If this pace is maintained during the drive, Icor will be hard mined to win. What has Cumberland to say about this? Incomplete reports regarding Sections and Mass Or- ganizations plans are coming in. and pienies are being planned. The Drive Committee requests that all individuals, Sec- tions, Press Committees and Mass Organizations send de- tails of their plans to: Drive Committee, Room 10, 161 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, as soon as possible. Cumberland, and are deter- Socials, house parties Rev. S. B. East Ex-Alderman Mikkelson Given Stormy Ovation REGINA, April 29.—Rev. 5S. B- Bust, prominent United Church pastor, has been nominated by labor to be their candidate in Ward 3 by- election on May 18, to fill one of the vacancies on the City Council caused by recent unseating proceed- ings against two aldermen on relief. The candidate has been active in the campaign for the release of the Qn-to-Ottawa trekkers, and also in- terested himself in the affairs of labor, being very proud of the labor majority on the council. There has been no candidates nominated to oppose the labor stand- ard bearers to date. REGINA. Sask., April 27.—The nomination convention sponsored by the Ward One Labor Association for the purpose of nominating and endorsing a labor candidate to con- test the aldermanic by-election to be held May 18, was attended by over 350 residents of the ward. The meet- ing was held in Scott Collegiate auditorium. A Derby, teacher, was chosen from a slate of three nom- inees. The two losing nominees pledged their support in electing the labor candidate. Ex-Alderman P. Mikkelson, who was recently unseated for being in- debted to the city, was given 2 stormy ovation when he arose to speak. The question of equal rights for the man on relief would be made an issue in the first by-election in the provincial field if and when the opportunity arose, he said. “We will challenge the Liberal Government in the first provincial by-election on the issue of democracy and exten- sion of the franchise and will carry this struggle into every corner of this province asking for a mandate from the people demanding that the provincial government amend the present legislation on the statute books enabling relief recipients to hold public office on municipal councils,” declared Ex-Alderman Mikkelson. Speakers during the evening in- cluded Mayor A. C. Ellison, who made a strong appeal for unity to Zo over the top in this by-election; Alderman J. M. Toothill, C. M. Fines, V. Olson and A. Derby. Election committees in all polling sub-divisions have been set up and mass canvassing in every block has been started. Ex-Alderman P. Mik- kelson is campaign manager. The meeting unanimously en- dorsed two resolutions protesting against the vicious sentences meted out to the four camp trekkers. Matt Shaw spoke briefly on behalf of the boys. To Contest Regina Election And A. Derby YOUTH WILL MARCH ON MAY DAY Working class youth organizations in Vancouver have been busily en- gaged in recent days making prep- arations for a large youth contin- gent to participate in the May Day parade. Many progressive youth organiza- tions have been approached for their participation with satisfying results. A surprise in the form of a, float will, as well, be exhibited by the youth. To make the necessary last min- ute arrangements and to form the contingent, all youth are requested to gather at the Chinese Children’s Playground, just below Pender Street on Carrall Street, on Friday, May ist, at 12:30 p.m. sharp. The detachment will then proceed to where the main body is assembled on Cambie Street Grounds. HEY, SKINNAY! CMON OVER! Children’s Council Ap- peals for Funds for Camp ‘Waye you heard the latest? Well the Children’s Council is going to buy a summer camp near Belcarra Park, and say its a honey. But gee! The worst part of it is they hayen’t got the dough. They need 400 bucks for it and to keep us kids at the camp. Wish I had it I'd sure give it to them, for I sure had a swell time last year. But us poor kids never haye any money even to go to a show.” “Gwan, things ain’t as bad as all that, why the Children’s Council has collection sheets out. How much have you got on yours? And then there are some of our clubs that €an raise some dough through 4 concert or something. The unions have been asked to help.” The foregoing is just to show you that we intend to operate a summer eamp this year as we haye done in the past. and to avoid needless run- ning around looking for a desirable camp site, we are endeavoring to purchase one and it takes money. Children at camp are meyer left to themselves; there is an adult for every ten who looks after them. Tf any of the readers of this paper can afford to help out in our effort to raise the necessary funds, just send it alone to Don Currie, Room 20, Burns Block, 18 East Hastings house of the Taseko A miine in the Lillooet country. miners lives were snuffed out. months later. the other were found, not a body for a coroner to pass a yerdict on Morrison has presumed that Gordo Stewart, miner, is dead, so that hi recovered six Only a few bones of of the bodies were Now in the Supreme Court, Justi old father in Brockville, Ont., can collect $563 wages owing to the boy by the Taseko Motherlode Gold | Mines Ltd. This is all the esta he left and the only charge against it is a $20 deduction by the com pany “for fencing Stewart’s srave,” ~ Vultures and buzzards will gorge | themselves on the soft parts of a” dead body; hyenas and jackals wil} — follow them in the night and eat | up the bones; if there is anything | left the maggots and the worms Willi” clean it up; but it takes the ghoul 7) ish mind of the capitalist to con: celve the idea of following the dead’ so far as to deduct $20 from a four” or five months’ overdue pay cheaue, | for putting a fence round the graye ~ of a body that has to be presumed: dead by the Supreme Court. ye In other circumstances, the own-) ers of this mine might have been buried in the slide and Gordon Stew art might have operated a rock drill or worn a Draeger outfit and little’ children 4000 miles away would contribute their pennies to show they appreciated him as they arse) doing now for his heroic fellow workers in Nova Scotia and north. ern Ontario — but the capitalists were on top of the Motherlode Mountain slide. i J | The methods of counter-reyolution: | are being exposed today in Switzers= land. A white-suardist rogue, link. |} ed up with Petlurists, is being hailed before the courts in Lausanne. He has been operating an anti-Soviet racket known as the oe = x = * League. collecting money to feed the starving vietims of Bolsheyism in -the Soviet Union. | Of about $50,000 collected in the past eighteen months, Somethings like $600 is supposed to have been sent to the hunery and the palance! What | has gone to administration. actually happened to it is that it Was spent on anti-Soviet propagan in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, United States and Canada. in the) United States the “United League”) engages in the same scoundrelly , fraud and should be exposed in the same way. * ES *= & : In the Press Drive last year this, column had the support of a very) able lieutenant, in fact our business manager maintained he was the cap-|, tain, not the licutenant. Jim Drum | mond of Esquimalt, himself, collect-— ed over $70. This year he is linked up with a Press Committee on the. Island. Who is going to take his) Place in this drive? Or maybe it. would be a good idea to set a team: together to do the work that Jim. Drummond did himself Jast year. = Last century the oppressed classe in Canada had their papers: “Satur day Times’ of Montreal, the “Peo ple’s Voice’ of Winnipeg,” the “In: dustrial Banner” of Iondon; the! “Bree Lance,” Ottawa, and “Le Trae | vail,” Quebec. They have all passed out. We need papers worse today) than ever. with the threat of Fasc- ism and war in the air. If you are not busy on some press committee | get behind the drive with this col- umn and make up for the loss of Jim Drummond. ; : a 4 | 1 i i =< * * * I never tried writing a la sports | bage, which has a language all of | its own, but I felt like it on Sature day night. By accident I strayed — into the regular weekly wrestling — and boxing show of the S.U.P.A, Sports Club at- 61 Cordova Street West. I don’t know the fine points of the “rassling’’ game, but the tough babies or pachyderms, orf whatever the sports reporters calf” them, all acted as if they were. training for real struggle against fascism. They all looked as though ~ they used pig iron instead of spear= mint and when one bird was lifted by his ears and thrown out of the” ring, I felt sure he was going to” land in Joe Kelly’s hat. ; : However they seem to haye 3 limit. Wone of them appeared to” want to follow out the instructions issued by the Y.M.C.A. to the Amer ican doughboys when they were leaving God's country to slaughter > other members of the ¥.M.C_A. from Saxony and Schomberg-Lippe, “on how to gouge out your enemies eyes with your thumbs if you have no other weapons handy.”” The boxing Was more in my line, one bout ace tually approaching championship class. The persiflage from the ringside was different from that heard in the average Sports club, Wor instance, | one spectator remarked that we could not expect a man on relief to put up a classy fieht. This was met by a retort that Jim Braddock was” on relief when he won the world’s championship, to which a third in- terjected that he will go back on relief after he meets Joe Louis: B.C. Workers’ News Radio Broadcast EVERY FRIDAY $:45 to 9 P.M. CKMO 4990999O09O9OO0O0O Street.