May 15, 1936 WOREERS’ NEWS Page Three AGE AND PURITY -GUARANTEED BY $10,000 BOND! COAST,-BREWERIES [VANCOUVER A NC TORIA : Ee WESTMINS Teg _ IN DISGUISE © PE O'Donovan has announced that his organization has changed )its name from the Canadian Amal- gamated Association of Seamen, to the Canadian Seamen’s Union. This )is the Union which was active in supplying strike-breakers during the Strouble of last summer. Prior to that, ufter the amalgamation of the }seamen’s unions in B.C. in 1935, O'Donovan, stil holding the name of Sis organization, though his mem- Sbershp had gone over to the amal- Samated body, attempted to supply *mon-union crews to replace the uinion crews on coast vessels. The + Seafarers’ Industrial Union, the -dody which resulted from the This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Contro) Board or by the Government of B. C. OUR ESTIMATE WRONG? A letter has been received from a Subseriber “lambasting”’ this paper for its extremely moderate estimate of the participants in the May Day celebrations. Space does not allow us to print the letter this issue, but we assure the correspondent that there was no intention on our part to deliberately under-state the crowd. Editor. report that O'’Donovan’s member- Ship is negligible. The change of name is looked upon as in the na- ture of a dissuise. Q@’Donovan wus recently arrested by the immigration authorities. He is allesed to have entered Canada under the name of Frank Woodford, merger of the three former unions, in 1925, on the Northwestern Miller. 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NEW AGE BOOKSHOP, 350 WEST PENDER ST., VANCOUVER Mail Zh APOLLO CAFE OYSTER AND CHOP HOUSE $4.50 MEAL TICKET for $4.00 304 MAIN STREET : 3 Theo. Angell, Prop. Men’s Half Soles Men’s Heels ees 904 Ladies’ Half Soles _.G65¢ et Ee 35¢ Ladies’ Heels, 15¢é - 20 aos x= Boys’ and Girls’ in proportion. NEW METHOD SHO 337 CARRALL STREET Millmen And Loggers Strike (Continued from page 1) to bring about a settlement. “Yours very truly, “GEO. S. PEARSON, Minister.” Since that time two months have passed, and the Labor Department has done nothing towards bringing the strike to a close. Mr. Pearson, and his department have, however, definitely lined up with the log and lumber manufacturers, to break the unions of the men. Mr, Pearson says in his letter, that the Victoria Lumber and Man- ufacturinge Co., claim that these two men (the two who were fired) were acting detrimental to the interests of the company. In what way? When Mr. King of the M. B. King Shingle Mill, North Vancouver, was asked why he had fired a man on May 2, he replied, “When you joined the union you showed that you were against me, and I don’t want any- body against me working for the company.” You have read Mr. Pearson’s let- ter of March 21. A few days ago Mack McKinnon, president of the Loggers’ Union, interviewed Mz. Pearson. Mr. Pearson told him that no union organizer had a right in any camp. He would not stand for intunidation, and to try and organize in the camp, was intimidating the men. In a statement issued to the press May 13, Mr. Pearson reiterated the same statement. What we would like to know is what has happened to Mr. Pearson Since March 21. Following the actions of the Department of Labor through the longshoremen’s strike, and the Cumberland miners, we know that the Department of Labor is not representing the workers, in fact, its only activities are on the Side of the employers but we can only take a man at his word. If Mr. Pearson meant what’ he said on March 21, what has inspired him to change over since then? Mr. Pearson is not interested in the welfare of the 20,000 loggers of B.C., or of the people of B.C. Mr. Pearson is interested only in the nurrow handful of big exploiters of labor, and those fellows do not like organized Jabor. So now Mr. Pear- son is out to break organized labor. Meantime the strike is spreading, 12 logsing camps, chief amongst them, Camp § and 10 of V.L.C., Cowichan Lake, Camp 3 and 6, Youbou, and the Rock Bay Camp. Camp 2, Comox, which struck Tues- day, returned to work Thursday. After striking, the fallers left Comox for Vancouver, and taking advantage of their absence, the com- pany persuaded the men to take another vote, which resulted in a vote to return. Twelve shingle mills are also closed. A.M.W. MEN RETURN EN BLOC TO U.M.W. GLACE BAY, NS., May 9.— (ALP)—With the mergine of the two miners’ unions here on a proeram of strugsle for higher wages and better conditions, and the assur- ance of full autonomy for the dis- trict within the United Mine Work- ers of America, the prevailing feel- ing among the miners is one of con- fidence that they can build a strong union in District 26, Wnited Mine Workers of America, with a militant poley and leadership. Since the final decision was made on April 26 that the Amaleamated Mine Workers of Nova Scotia should enter the Wnited Mine Workers of America on the basis of the four- point policy accepted by both unions and by the International executive of the latter union, a number of joint meetings have been held at which the conditions of entry have been approved. Already at some U.M.W, meetings blocks of A.Mw. members have been enrolled. ‘The ‘rank and file of both unions wel- come the spirit of unity and mili- taney which has been introduced in the locals by the merger. CANNOT ATTEND SCHOOL; NO SHOES It was only a little shoe, jut -it brought to light the condition facin= relief recipients of this “Jubilee” city. Tiwo months ago a charitable organization had given a little girl a Pair of shoes, today all that was leit was a battered sample of what used to be, and there it lay on the polished top desk of the school trustees, mute evidence of why a child cf this “Jast great’? west was unable to go to school. It sugsested a question, also, “was the clothing issue arrangement, a racket? Dia not all recipients find the same thing, that they had no Choice, but had to take just what the clerk dished out, which invariably proved to be inferior?’ Anyway, the schocl trustees Monday night decided that the superintendent would invyesti- fate: (7 >) GRAND WHIST DRIVE AND DANCE to welcome back the last of re- leased longshore prisoners from Oakalla...at 150 WEST HASTINGS ST. on FRIDAY, MAY 15th 8 te 12 PM. All Welcome Tickets 15¢c Auspices Can. Labor Defence and Longshoremen — Lf HASTINGS BAKERY 716 EAST BASTING ST. We deliver from house to house in Grandview and Tastings town- Site districts. Call High. 3244 and our driver will be at your door. Support Those Who Support You Comintern Honors Fallen Leader Thousands of workers, led by members of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party and high officials of the Commu- nist International marched to the Kremlin walls in Moscow at funeral ceremonies for Fritz Heckert. Heckert, a member of the Comintern’s executive committee and a leader of the underground Communist Party of Germany, died in the U.S.S.R. April 7th. Enough Seamen To Man ‘Queen M C.P.R. Lets Out Wail To Squeeze Subsidies From Taxpayers Editor, B.C. Workers’ News: Captain Aikman, of the C.P.R., presenting the case of his company before the parliament at Ottawa, in defending the employment of under- paid oriental seamen on the C.P.R. Trans-Pacific liners, stated that there were not sufficient competent seamen in B.C. to man his com- pany’s vesels. He cited the instance of the S:S. Niagara, which was manned in Vancouver last summer by a crew which turned out to be inefficient. Many statements of this nature haye appeared in the daily press, and on May 8 was given over the Vancouver Daily Province news broadcast. Scabs Inefficient What Mr. Aikman did not state, and what is not generally known, is that the erew supplied the Niagara Jast summer was a erew of strike- breakers, replacing the bona-fide seamen who had refused to sail with “black” cargo loaded by “seabs,” during the longshore strike. These men were recruited by Pat O'Donovan, secretary of the Cana- dian Amalgamated Association of Seamen, who was the chief instru- ment used in the herding of strike- breakers for the steamship 2om- panies last year, when the bona- fide deep sea seamen were on strike. At that time, the seamen and long- shoremen, through the colunms of their paper, “Ship and Dock,” pointed out to the travelling public that they were taking their lives in their hands by going to sea with such a motley crew of ‘‘sanesters.’”’ At that time “there were no com- plaints from Captain Aikman, or ary Says S.I.U. & ) from any other official of that com- pany, or from the Canadian Australian Line, owners of the Niagara, regarding the inefficiency of the crews. Confusion Reigns Today the same applies to many ofthe coast vessels, manned by strike-breakers hired during the Strike last summer. When the Prince Robert, with a ‘“‘scab’’ per- sonnel plowed into the dock there was no broadeast about the ineffi- cient crew. Reports are numerous that coast shippers have lodged endless complaints with the steam- ship companies because of fheir freight consignments Soinge astray, or beings over-carried, consequently delaying delivery until the return call of the ship. Meantime, ample bona fide seamen to man all the vessels, seamen who haye been em- Ployed by the companies, with very little exception, for periods of five years and upwards but who are now blacklisted because of strike acti- vities last summer are on the roles of the Seafarers’ Industrial Union, looking for employment. Sufficient Men Here The S.LU. has sent a brief to the Committee of Industrial and Inter- national Relations, Ottawa, stating our case, and we assert that it is not the question of inefficiency that it agitating the mind of Captain Aikman, or the company he repre- sents, but the scheme for digsine bigger subsidies out of the pockets of the Canadian taxpayers. We are confident that there are enough capable seamen ‘fon the beach” in Vancouver, to man, not only the CPR. trans-Pacific vessels, but the “Queen Mary” as well. (Signed) Wm. Stater, Sec’y, Seafarers’ Industrial Union. 17 Powell St., Vancouver, B.C., May 12. Nogami And McKinnon Sentence Exasperated Camp Boy Tells Judge ‘‘Go to Hell’’ REGINA, May 12.—Stanley Mc- Iinnon, 26, Regina citizen astounded court officials here today and left them aghast when -he told Mr. Justice Embury to Go to hell,” after sentence of five months was passed on him for contempt of court. Before sentence of seven months for rioting and two months for as- sault was passed on him he turned defiantly on the jurymen and said, “T hope you get yours” and to the judge he retorted, “I hope you get what’s coming to you.” MeKinnon refused to plead yes- terday because he held that the judge's methods were reminiscent of hell. The sentence of 14 run consecutively. REGINA, May 7.—Fred Nogami, 26-year-old Canadian-born Japanese from Haney, B.C., was sentenced to- day to ten months for rioting and two months for assaulting Constable Craig. The sentences, a result of the police attack on the citizens’ meet- ing held here on Dominion Day, 1935, are to run concurrently. Charges of rioting against six other trekkers were dropped some two hours before Nogami was sen- tenced. The six acquitted are Mike Mattiesh, Mike Zaharuk, Tony Costello, S. Wells, Harding and Smith. Dropping of charges against these six followed unsuccessful surrepti- tious police efforts to have some of them plead guilty on promise of being given suspended sentences. This move was obyiously intended by the authorities to strenethen the prosecution and vindicate the police in the eyes of the people. Nogami took the sentence with a smile. months will d Regina Court Editor’s Note: Though the B.C. Workers’ News does not condone the expressions used by McKinnon, still it must be obvious to all that not McKinnon but the attitude of the court is at fault. On April 28, at the trial of Forsythe, Defence Coun- ceil Makaroff, addressed the judge as follows: “The accused is under the no illusion as to the outcome of this case.” Such a statement, made by an eminent and able counsel, in an open caurt, cannot be taken lightly. Since then the procedure of the trials, camp boys sentenced to 6, 9, 18 months, ete., on purély trumped up evidence given almost solely by R.C-M.P. operatives has given the basis of Makaroff’s statement. Mc- Winnon apparently was.under no illusion either. DEFENCE MOVE BROADCAST The B.C. section Defence Movement will broadcast the latest developments of the Re- Sina trials and the appeal cases now under way over station CJOR, Tues- day, May 19, at 7:45 p.m. Funds are needed to carry on the defence of the trekkers, now under arrest in Regina as a result of the Dominion Day police raid. Send all donations to 828 Vancouver Block. B.C. Workers’ News Radio of the Citizens’ Broadcast EVERY FRIDAY 8:45.to 9 P.M. 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Work- ers’ News extend their deep- est sympathy to the bereaved family. [= FRENCH PEOPLE’S FRONT TO WAGE WAR ON REACTION By EDOUARD DALADIER Former Premier of France PARIS, France—The forces of the left are at last united in France. They are not merely standing to- gether to bar the road to Fascism, but they will presently form a Zov- ernment in order to carry out a positive program of reforms. We members of the Liberal Party are happy to be associated with our Socialist and Communist brethren in the task of fighting for freedom, peace and well-being for all. We will, no more than our allies, shirk the responsibilites which our com- mon victory gives us. As to our own particular program we are determined to re-establish freedom in this country. We be- lieve that the salvation of the coun- try rests upon individual liberty and not in setting up a totalitarian re- Sime. Individual freedom demands destruction of the privileges of a handful of feudal families who rule the destinies of France at the pres- ent moment. These privileges were Slowly weedled out of the hands of the democratic state. We intend to take them back and destroy them. To restore democratic freedom against Fascism and its allies, to dissolve the financial oligarchy which rules the roost at present, to nationalize the Bank of France and make it the bank of the French people, to put an end to the private manufacture of arms by nationaliz- ing the armament trusts and their auxiliaries which have exercised such a nefarious influence on former governments and on the in- ternational situation. These are some of the most urgent reforms which must be tackled right away by the government of the People’s Front. We Liberals will not hesitate to carry these reforms through. There is Plenty for All Thanks to enormous technical progress, Our civilization stands as a token of superabundance. There is enough and plenty for all. That is why we do not intend to permit this insanity of poverty in the midst of abundance to persist any longer. An elementary human dig- nity demands that our young people shall have work. We intend to ereate work for all. We intend to see that educational and culfiral facilities are brought within the reach of the masses. Art and the finer things of life have too long been the exclusive privileges of a leisure class. That situation must end, and it will end. We will also wipe out the shame and terrible anguish of the old who cannot work any more and whose evening of life is passed in physical insecurity and want. We intend to set up condi- tions which will make it possible for every citizen to have a decent and honorable old age. Problems of foreign policy will dominate all others. If peace is not solidly organized, how will it be pos- sible to solve the essential problems of our national life? Our sovern- ment’s policy of zig-zagging has lost us much confidence. The new government intends to propose a re- organization of Europe and to call a conference where every nation will be invited to state its hopes and desires freely, including of the Soviet Union of course. We will de- clare what we consider necessary Suarantees for our security and the security of others. ACME WIRELESS Waves any hair easily Hair always comes out TONS Ges Controlled steam under pressure, found only in the “Acme Wire- less’ — that’s why we guarantee Better Waves, Wide Self-Setting, also Curly Ends CLARKE’S Hairdressing Parlors 2506 MAIN STREET (Above Vancouver Drug) FAIR. 1039 NS J) (r >) Phone SEY. 9501 New York Wave Shop ._ oS Eee = Come and = > let me ex- .plain why. our waves are awlays soft and natural. [7 We Welcome Visitors Two doors from Dale’s. 531 GRANVILLE ST. (Upstairs) CLASSIFIED AD COLUMN HOTELS AND ROOMS UBILEE ROOMS—ALL NEWLE renovated. Fully modern. Rates reasonable. 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