ahi Page Two B.C. WORKER Se NEWS May 22, 1986 Probe White- Washes Police (Gontinued from Page 4) and at Calgary they had picketed the employment office and held the relief officers in custody for several hours. All this had been done to enforce their demands for relief and dicey were boastful of their accom — plishments in that regard. 5. Their numbers had increased as they moved eastward and had they reached Ottasva unopposed their mumbers would probably haye in- ereased at at least 5000. 6. Being absolutely without means of subsistence on the way to Ottawa they would have been a menace to peace, order and good government Sf every town or city in which they stopped unless and until their needs were supplied. 7 On arriving at Ottawa, unless their demands had been fully met, one can readily surmise the danger involved. It probably would have been necessary to call out the militia §m order to preserve the peace, and @ worse riot would likely have oc- @urred than that which actually took place at Regina. Discounting the large number of witnesses during the probe who re- ported of the attack by police on the Market Square meeting, the commission then excused the action of Regina and Mounted police by stating that confusion in police signals might have been a factor gn the start of the riot, but intimates that ¢he riot would likely have en- sued as soon as the strikers were ware that their leaders were in eustody. The commission in reviewing the organization of the Relief Camp Workers’ Union in British Columbia proceeds as follows: “from all the evidence we have no hesitation in stating that the Workers’ Unity Jueazue was organized by the Com- Mmunist Party in Canada and is in reality the working organization of that party.” FOR SERVICES RENDERED Bditor, B. GC. Workers’ News: e Put this one in your hat. One of the 1934 logeing camp scabs got a job as a strike-breaking seamaiz during the seamen’s strike last summer. He has since been fired by four mates off four different Union Steamship vessels. Finally he went +o Harold Brown, the general man- ager of the company, appealed to hhim on the grounds of being a faith- ful servant during the strike. He sot hhis fifth chance aboard the Venture. While these faithful strike- breakers are masquerading as sea- ™men, we still have half the bona fide seamen of the U-S:S. Co. idle as a result of the blacklist. TORONTO, Ont., May 16—{ALP) —Tom Mann, veteran British Com- munist leader, lying ill in Western Hospital here, was reported at the improyed.” Tt is now expected that he will Jeave the hospital within the next few days. wm SSS ESQWBESTSETSPSSeseese=e=s=e==— STANLEY HOTEL 21-25 West Cordova St. Rates: Daily, 50c and 75c. Weekly, $2.50 and $3.00. Hot & Cold Water in Every Room Ho. D. & M. 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Bosses Change Front Previous to the time the Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union decided to affiliate with the American Ied- eration of Labor, the lumber oper- ators had repeatedly declared them- selves willing recognize a union iwth such affiliations, giving us to understand that they would offer no opposition in the event that a move was made to establish it in the woods. Obviously they considered the pos- sibility of Such a move being made very remote, and felt quite safe in makine such statements, for their actions afterwards showed them to be not only unwilling to allow the organizing of their employees into an A.I?. of LL. union, but prepared to go to any lengths to prevent such a plan being carried out. Shortly after the Union Executive Board had decided to conduct a ref- erendum ballot on the affiliation question. a delegation from that body, together with a member of Local 52 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, inter- viewed Mr. Wilson, one of the part- ners in the Merrill, Ring and Wilson Logging Company, with a view to securine permission from him to take the vote openly in his camp at Rock Bay. He would give no defin- ite mswer at that time, but hinieo that he did not favor the proposal. He telephoned his reply within a few days, having taken it up with the Loggers’ Association in the meantime. No vote would be allowed! Less than two weeks later two union representatives attempted to enter the Merrill and Ringe camp at Squamish, only to find the road to the camp guarded by the provincial police. The operators had refused us permision to take the vote in arm other important camp. . re Discrimination A short time previous to this the Victoria Lumber Company, formerly independent, had joined the Log- gers’ Association. Up until then, union activities had been carried on more or less openly without any opposition from the operators. How- ever, the policy of the Victoria Lumber Company underwent drastic changes once it had become a mem- ber of the Loggers’ Association. Without warning they cracked down on the Union in Camp 10 at Cow- ichan Take and fired the delegate who had been responsible for the taking of the vote in that camp. A few days later they carried the dis- eriminatino a step further, and fired the “B.C. Lumber Worker” sales- man. The crew immediately held a meeting, deciding that these men must be reinstated, The boss, how- ever, refused to back down, and on March 9 the men’s threat to strike was carried out. Still the company officials refused to reinstate the men, or to even negotiate with the strikers. The result was that by March 20 the Victoria Lumber Company's operations were at a standstill, the crew at Camp 8 having struck in support of the Camp 10 men. Trades and Labor Council When this failed to bring results, the question was taken up with the Trades and Labor Council, com- munications being sent to the min- ister of labor in an attempt to have him intervene and open up negotia- tions between the Union and the operators. His reply was to the ef- fect tha the company refused to consider reinstating the men dis- eriminated against, and that his de- partment could do nothing under the circumstances. Communications were then sent direct to the company officials, to which they replied stating that they would negotiate with a commitee of their own employees, but refusing to meet an official trade union dele- gation. An interview was arranged, five of the strikers meeting Mr. Humbird at Chemainus. He would sive no more satisfaction that at the beginning of the dispute. to Saav Mills About this time discrimination commenced in the sawmills, and within the space of a few days three men had been fired form a single plant, the last of the three being told by the manager that his union activities were the reason. With two logging camps already involveG in a strike on this issue and the very existence of the union threatened by the tactics of the operators, the union was compelled to act quickly or be driven com- pletely out of the industry. The newly organized B.C. Coast District Council of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ Union, which had now replaced the Lumber Workers’ Industrial Wnion, took the matter up, deciding that the only course left open, since the operators re- fused to allow peaceful organization in their camps and mills, was to spread the strike. A wage scale was drawn up as a basis for action and copies forwarded to every operator on the coast, together with a letter inviting them to meet representa- tives of the union to discuss it in an effort to arrive at an agreement on higher rates and recognition of the union. May 4 was set as the dead- PUBLIC CAFE (Under New Management) 286 Columbia St. Catering to Waterfront Workers, Loggers, Miners, Fishermen. MEALS THAT SATISFY UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Mrs. Erikson - Alf Olsen Lanning Apartments Single and Fiousekeeping Rooms 318 MAIN ST. - SEY. 310 GREATLY REDUCE line for these negotiations to end, afier which a general strike call would go out. When all but a few small companies failed to acknowl- edge the communication, the re- mainder of the operations in the Cowichan Lake district were brought to a standstill when the crews went on strike, and many more camps at different points on the coast were closed down. From these facts it can be readily that the union did everything possible to avert a tie-up of the in- dustry. The charge made by the operators and the minister of labor seen PRICES! Wew and Used Radios from $19.50 up. $5.00 Down Buys a Radio, Washer or Vacuum Cleaner MEIKLE ELECTRIC & RADIO SERVICE RADIOS and TUBES TESTED FREE IN YOUR HOME $ 900096 SSOOPOLO LOO SLO OS SSOOS LOVE PPO SOP OPI O VP OPT ESOS POO ES Only 10 More Days Winging Towards Goal. Sd Hp TT 500 te 1000 HT Tain ene J 1500 2000 2500 to suit Tom MetInnes ? bird can get on its way. Press Committee No. 4 is about it, Happy ? lumber workers’ endorsement before the drive ends. place if you don’t get going. Readers! If the B.C. Workers’ News and the Daily Clarion are to be kept going, you will have to hurry. Just a little more than a week to go, and you can see where the bird is. At this deriod of the December Drive we were $150.00 ahead of where we are now, and this time our quota is $500.00. more. This is serious. The News and the Clarion are your papers, carrying a working-class message. Do you want these papers to carry on? The Daily Clarion has just re- cently appeared as a daily. Do you want it to continue? Do you want the News to continue? Then you will have to knuckle down and put this drive over the top. _ Tom McInnes and his fascist Citizens’ League would like to see these papers out of business. Are we going to lay down We think not! Maybe things are not as bad as they look. Maybe com- mittees have funds that have not been turned in. mittees are requested to remit immediately so that our little quota, thanks to the two stalwart shock workers, Happy and John. John is leading with his fourth card filled and started on the fifth to an over-fulfillment of the challenge. The Serbian Workers’ Club head the list for mass or- ganizations with 76% of their quota attained. Good news from Mission. They have passed the 60% mark, and say, they have only started. Port Alberni has helped the drive with a substantia] col- lection at the Arthur Evans meeting, Sunday. This is the B.C. Workers’ News. “Art” is campaigning -around that neck of the woods, so probably we will hear lots more from up there Prince Rupert is still leading, and is going to take first Remember, the drive ends May 31st and we have to raise $2,500.00 before then. You will have to hurry. FLASH.—Cumberiland over the top. Also some subs and inerease in bundle order. How about it, Nanaimo? All com- first to complete 50% of its What of the Daily Clarion and the B.C. YOUTH OFF TO _ OTTAWA CONGRESS (Continued from Page 1) toria. Mr. Ennells was elected from an oratorical contest out of ten contestants from the ten or- ganizations.” Plans for Future. Gan you enlighten the readers of the labor press as to what initial steps will be taken in B.C. when the delegation returns? “As yet, no definite plans have been laid. However, 2 great deal will depend upon the Congress itself. I feel that the Congress will stress the question of build- ing local youth councils to carry on the work of the Youth Con- gress. The delegation will per- haps be utilized to popularize the deliberations of the Congress and work towards the formation of a Youth Council in British Colum- bia, as well as preparing for Brit ish Columbia representation at the World Youth Peace Congress in Geneva next September.” OPTION TAKEN ON CAMP SITE Definite progress towards the establishment of a permanent ‘summer camp for Children who would otherwise be deprived of the benefits of holidaying in the open air and sunshine at the sea- side, has been made by the Chil- dren’s Summer Camp Coniunittee, when an option on a splendid camp site at Coombe (mear Belcarra Park) was signed on May 21. The camp site consists of one acre of ground, with 90 feet of water frontage and includes a spacious furnished building cap- able of housing 75 children com- fortably. The committee is now Jaunch- ing a drive to raise the necessary funds to complete the purchase of the property. A payment of $500 | is required before the property can be occupied, and the commniilttee is confident that this can be raised in a short time. The balance of $1500 to complete the purchase 1s to be paid within six months. The Children’s Summer Camp Committee is composed of dele- gates from various organizations and trade unions and their work is gaining sympathetic support from business and professional people throughout the city. The worl: of providing an oppor- tunity for those children of our city whose parents are not able to take or send them holidaying at the seuside should appeal to all- Organizations and individuals who are interested in this great work should communicate with Don Currie, secretary, Children’s Summer Camp Committee, Room 20, 18 West Hastings St., Vancou- ver, B.C. NEW ENGLAND FISH SERVED WARRANT VANCOUVER. May 16.—Gordon Grant, lawyer for the fishermen (who were beat out of their 5 cenl bonus in 1934), served warrants on the New England Fish Company on behbalt of J. Lahtinen, fisherman. This will be the second case against this company to force the payment of the bonus. Judement was Siven in favor of the plaintive in the first case tried and the above company paid in full, later when they were asked to meet the other cases, they refused, and the action above is the result. The ease is expected to come up for trial about the middle of June. that the strike was called without the employers being given an oppor- tunity to settle without a strike is without any foundation. The facts show the operators to be the ones responsible for the tie-up. C.L.D.L. News TOURING PROVINCE Reports from the Interior, show that the two C.L.D.L. organizers have covered the Nelson and Cran- brook districts. Joe Kelly and Al Bahr, travelling by car, plan to cover the entire province and the G.LAD.L. District Committee asks all of its members to co-operate in making this tour a success. Within the next few days, the District Committee of the €.L.D.L. will issue a special appeal for finances. The lists and covering letters are self-explanatory and clearly show the tremendous burden which is on the committee. Those of our supporters who wish to take out a list can’ obtain same from the District Office, Room 28, Wack Buildings, Vancouver. IS TOM SLIPPING OR (HIC) SIPPING? Editor, B. C. Workers’ News: It appears to be about time the bourgeois bosses hired another mouth-piece. Tom MacInnes seems to be slipping. If one may judge from the raucus raspings of his vocal cords during his Sunday eve- ning effort, there seems to be an alliance between him “and John Barleycorn. With one other in the trinity the layout would be com- plete. I do not know what Key he whines in, but on Sunday evening it sounded like WHIS-KEY. Usually an ass brays like an ass, but he was unlike anything heard over tHe air since radio was invented. To get down to brass tacks, Mr. MacInnes is washed up and if he had the gumption of a half wit he would keep off the air. Wis treatment of the question: “The Jews and Communism’ was a laugh. He got so tangled up that he met himself coming from no- where on the road to the same place. If he want to woo the goddess of oratory by way of the jug, it would be better for him to stick to poetry. —E. M. HUGH HUNTER LAID AT REST Led by the firm young voices of a eroup of Pioneers, the strains of the Internationale were sung over the grave of Hugh Hunter, socialist and trade union stalwart of the Street Railway Men's Union, Division 101, at Mountain View cemetery, Satur- day, May 16. R. LealesSs made an impressive speech to a good-sized gathering of friends and comrades of the de- ceased, calling on them to continue the work that Hughie had quietly and enthusiastically accomplished in the general movement of the work- ers. The Rev. R. N. Matheson offict- ated at the funeral parlors, giving a comforting address to the relatives of the deceased and stating his phil- osophy on life and death. He said that he would be well satisfied should he pass out with the same record established by Hugh Hunter. “We was a true worker who never iurned a deaf to those who needed help.” ear A grand Empire Day dance will be held in the Swedish Community Hall, Hastings # Clark Drive, on Monday, AL 5. A T-piece orches- tra will render music for dancing from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Bingo is sched- uled for S p.m. Admission is 15 cents. Proceeds are for the Press Drive. Suggestions For Jubilee What if Gerry’s Chain Gets Tangled with the Goat’s Whiskers? Editor, B. GC. Workers’ News: During the past two weeks there have appeared several satirical let- ters in the Vancouver Sun giving suggestions to the City Council and the Jubilee Committee. From these and many other remarks one can hear, it is evident that the people of the city have very little use for the Jubilee racket. Amone the many suggestions given in the letters re- ferred to are the following: That since the promotors of the racket are spending huge sums of money to bring “celebrities,” they bring Haile Selassie here. He would be more of an attraction than the Lord Mayor of London in whom no one is interested. The writer in the Sun says that Gerry will likely tell Selassie that he would have saved his throne if he had read the Riot-Act at Addis Ababa. He also says that it might be possible to give the fallen Emperor a job on the police depart- ment only that not being from Al- berta would be against him, or, being a Christian, he might be per- suaded to run for mayor were it not for the fact that the people of Van- eouver have concluded that one Christian mayor in 25 years is enough—and too much. Another Sun correspondent says that his old aunt in Glasgow has a trained goat that plays on the bag- pipes, and suggests that the goat be brought here and the percocious animal be permitted to wear Gerry’s gold chain and mayor's robes, while Gerry plays the goat’s bagpipes. Another valuable suggestion he makes is that still another section of Stanley Park be fenced off from the citizens and that the City Council and Parks Board be placed on ex- hibition there for the amusement, edification and wonder of tne visitors. He adds strength to his proposal by pointing out that bringing Selas- sie and the goat here would cost only a fraction of what it would cost to bring the Lord Mayor of London, and would be far more valuable from both an entertainment and an education point of view. I think you should take up these sugges- tions and support them, perhaps adding a few concrete proposals of your own. Wours truly, Vancouverite. CRUEL DICTATOR TRIAL OPENED MOSCOW, U-S.S.R. May 18.— (ALP)—The trial of Simenchuk, former chief of Wrangel Island Polar Station in the Soviet Arctic, and Startsev, employee of the sta- tion, both charged with murder, opened here yesterday in the Su- preme Court. The defendants’ are charged with slaying of Dr. Wolf- son, attached to the Polar Station. They pleaded “not suilty.” That the Soviet government con- siders the trial of great importance is seen by the fact that the state prosecutor, Andre Vyshinsky, is in charge of the case. According to the indictment, I. D. Simenchuk, on arrival at Wrangel island in the summer of 1934, besan to disorganize the work and “as- sume the role of dictator.’’ He ter- rorized his subordinates and the local population, particularly the Eskimos. Aecording to the evidence, the de- fendant forbade Eskimos from hunt- ing sea animals, thus depriving them of meat and, as a result, there were a number of deaths from star- vation. Dr. Wolfson, aroused by Simenchuk’s rule, made sharp criti- cism. The latter decided to dispose of Wolfson, and selected Startsev as his tool. Wolfson was sent to Blason Cape in response to a fake sick call. Startsevy accompanied the doctor as part of the plot and killed him on the way. Later a letter was found in which Wolfson, whose suspicions The Ruling Clawss REDFIELD “What! The men are complaining about heat? Are they crazy?” jock. Tayi: Chelleneea. Tom McInnes te Show Source of Funds Two thousand people attended the second of the series of monthly public meetings at Cambie Street grounds, Sunday afternoon, May 17, held under the auspices of the Com- munist Party of Canada. These meetings are to be a regular month- ly feature, and judging by the at- tendance, and the interest displayed at the first two meetings, the workers of this city are eager to hear the message of the Communist Party. : Maleolm Bruce, the first speaker, likened the role of the right wing of the C.C.F. movement here, Connells, Pritchards, ete., to the role of the Kautksyites in the Social Democratic parties of Germany and Austria. Through their policies the working class of Ger- many and Austria had been led into a bloody shambles, and fascism had become triumphant through the col- laboration of the right wing re- actionaries. Conell, Pritchard, et al, were def- initely out to split the C.C.F. move- ment, and render it- useless as a weapon of the workers of Canada in the struggle against fascism. Pascisni can be prevented in this country, the same as it has been prevented in France and Spain, through the building of a united working class movement. Connell, Pritchard, et’al, were definitely set to oppose this unity, and therefore must be checked and ousted, and the left wing become the leaders of the @.C.F., in the struggle to build the united front of the workers of Canada against fascism and war. Jack Taylor said he had been singled out as a special target for attack by the red-hating Tom Mc- Innes. Answering the charge that the Communist Party here was financed by Moscow, the speaker the - reactionary * Big Attendance Communist Meet At Cambie Grounds — show where he got his funds. Taylor said that the party had been accused of plotting the destruc- tion of the Commonwealth, to clear the field for the B.G. Workers’ News. The B.C. Workers’ News was willing at any time to co- operate with the Commonwealth to build a mass working class paper for B. GC. The speaker remarked that it was significant, that following McInnes’ embrace of the Common- wealth in a recent radio broadcast, the Gommontealth had issued no statement repudiating McInnes. CONSTRUCTIVE CO-OPERATION Editor, B.C. Workers’ News: It is with great satisfaction .that I view the step forward that has been taken by Six fishermen’s or- fanizations in makin®= their Joint Committee a permanent body. In these turbulent times, when the standards of livine are being cut on all sides, only Such active co- operation on the part of all fisher- men’s organizations will result in maintaining fish prices in the future. Tf we forget small technicalities and petty grievances, and come to- gether to work out the fundamental questions that concern all fisher- men, both organized and unorgan- ized (the main one is the question of fish prices) all fishermen will be drawn together in a stronger bond of unity. Many past differences between different categories of fishermen can be ironed out through mutual discussion of the every day needs. On the other hand, if these small srievances are allowed to split us In the future, we are doomed to fur- ther antagonism between each cate- sory, which will mean a lower price in the future. J. Gavin: to form unity Get a subscription from your neighor or shop mate for the B.@ offered to throw the books of the party open to McInnes if he would STEP OUT THIS SPRING .. Were aroused, wrote that if he were killed, Simenchuk would be to blame. Professor Schmidt, head of the Northern Sea Route Administration, learned of Simenchuk’s activities and sent representatives to investi- gate the whole matter. Th presiding Judge Berman, vice- president of the Supreme Court, is assisted by Babushkin, one of the heroes of the Chelyaskin rescue; Kruglova, secretary of the Pederal Employees’ Union, and Buturlin, steel worker of the Hammer and Sickle plant. NO CLASS SOLDIERS MADRID, Spain, May 18—(ALP) —A cherished privilege has been lost to upper class Spanish youths by a decree abolishing the class of “sentieman soldiers” who by paying $300 were released from nine of the twelve months compulsory military service. Gentlemen soldiers enjoyed other benfits too. They had no or- derly duties and were not compelled to eat or sleep in barracks. All they had to do was to attend the drills and do sentry duty when their turn came. Hastings Steam Baths Always Qpen Expert Masseurs in Attendance 240 T.igh. 764 E. Hastings DR. H. C. 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