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B.C. WORKERS’? NEWS

June 5, i836

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Vancouver, B.C., June 5, 1936

IT’S UP TO BLUM

HE NEW government of the People’s Front

in France will soon be put to the test. Great
strike waves are sweeping over the country as
the workers, flushed with victory in the general
elections, are depending upon the new govern-
ment to assist them in raising their living stan-
dards and improving: their conditions generally.

Premier slum can regard the sigantie strikes
as an “embarrassment” to his government, or he
can welcome the powerful mass moyement
throughout the country as of tremendous assist-
ance to him. The great strike movement will be
an embarrassment to the government if Blum
and lis fellow ministers desire to carry on in
the same old social-democratie way of the Ram-
say MacDonald labor governments and the
social-democratic governments of Germany and
Vienna. If he desires to alleyiate the burdens
of the people he will welcome the great strike
movement, tor 1t shows him that he has powerful
support in the country.

The attainment of a majorty im parliament
and the government of the country does not mean
that the struggles of the Popular Front are oyer,
mor does it mean that the Popular Front is
needed only in parliament, or that outside of
parliament there is no need for it.

Quite the contrary. The Popular Front and
the United Front of Socialists and Communists
and the trade unions which brought victory m
the elections is needed today more than ever be-
fore. The Communist Party, the organizer and
leader of the Popular Front, realizes that its
maintenance and growth is more necessary than
the securing of ministerial posts in the govern-
ment.

The Communist Party while declining to par-
ticipate in the government, will support it as
long as it loyally and resolutely puts into effect
the program upon which it was elected, and wall
use its power and influence to compel it to do so.
The Communists Inow that the fascists will
strive for power regardless of parliament, and
are determined to preyent them from gaining

their ends.

The masses outside the Chamber of Deputies
are demandine more wages and better condi-
tions and are looking to the Blum government to
protect them in the struggle against the fascists
and police which are beimg mobilized and sent
against them by the 200 families which rule
industry.. The issue is being clearly defined for
the government—either for and with the workers
in their struggle for higher wages and better
conditions, or against them.

THE HISS OF FASCISM
ANCOUYVER’S fascists are becoming bolder
as the war danger grows and the workers are

pniting against growing oppression. From the
ravings of their hireling, McInnes, over the radio
they are planning another attack against or-
ganized labor.

Wednesday night McInnes expressed fear that
transport workers, of sea, railroad, hishway and
air, might organize and “prevent the movement
of troops.” The Citizens’ League must have been
tipped off that Canada is preparing for war to a
greater extent than appears on the surface.

The malodorous fascist radio ranter is also
predicting another major strike in Vancouver,
planned by Reds, of course, and for the purpose
of interfering with “our” prosperity and the
Jubilee. :

Since no labor man, Red or otherwise, sees
any major strike in the immediate future, we
ean take it that the Citizens’ League and other
labor-hating organizations, through the mouth of
their tool, is preparing the public for another
major attack on organized labor through a lock
out, in the same way that they smashed the
longshoremen’s uni0n. :

There are ample grounds for believing that
their next attack will be on the Street Railway-
men’s Union. Already they have been trying to
corrupt and undermine the union. by planting
scabs, stools and rats they used in the watertront
attack into jobs on the street railway.

Only the vigilance of the Union prevented
these social lice from becoming entrenched and
able to carry on their disruptive and prvoocative
work. The Union was able to smell these rats out
and kick them out of their jobs. And still ereater
yieilance will be needed in the future.

"The voice of the McInneses, the Edgetts and.
the anonymous labor-hating radio spouters 1s the
hissing of the hydra-headed fascist reptile that
as raised its ugly and venomous head jin Canada.
Tf the people of this country wish to be spared
the horrors of a Hitler Germany, they must unite
as they did in France and Spain, and crush the
rising monster before it 1s too late.

THE VICTORIA BYE-ELECTION
HE EFFRONTERY of the Tories knows no
- pounds. In spite of the mess that Tolmie
made as premier of B.C., svith his sorry exhibi-
tion of incompetence, extravagance and con-
tempt for the common people ot the province,
the party of Bennett is again putting him up as
sts candidate in the Victoria pbye-election.
Once a bourgeois politician eets a taste of the
political swill-barrel he deyelops an ineurable
itch for oftice. Booted out of office by the people
at the last provincial election, he is trying to un
jnto the House of Commons through the bac
ia: election.
Bee ae Bennett needs another er
ber to add to his shrunken gang of diortes in the
House. The Liberals, with a top-heavy a S ity,
are not worried very much about the ictoria
seat, although they svould like to ye: ee
The Pattullo liberal government mes : g =
eredited the Liberal Party in B.C. almost 10

the extent that the YLolmie government dis-
eredited the Tories. This makes the goine touch
for the Liberals, and the death of Mr. Nicholas
removed the only candidate of any strength or
popularity they could find.

The C.G.F. has nominated Prof. hinge Gordon
who made such an excellent showing in the same
riding in the last federal election. All progress-
ive people should rally to the support of Gordon.
Tolmic and the Liberal aspirant, whoever he may
be, must be turned back. There are already too
many of their reactionary stripe in parliament
and the small progressive group there need,
and should be given, the reinforcement that the
election of Prof. Gordon would bring.

&
FROM BAD TO WORSE!

T MUST have been with a shock and a feel-

ing of shame that workers and all other haters

of fascism read in the May 29th issue of the

Commonwealth a news story boosting: the Olym-

pic Games being sponsored in Germany by
Hitler.

The pro-Hitler story tells of the elaborate
precautions bems taken by the fascist butcher
to ‘prevent profiteering” in the housing and feed-
ine of the athletes and visitors, of the beautitul
woodland parks that are being used as sites for
buildings to accommodate the contestants, of the
“House of Comradeship” erected at the orders
of Hitler for the women competitors.

Comradeship! The “comradeship” of Hitler!
The comradeship of the blood-bespattered muzr-
derer of tens of thousands of the workers of Ger-
many, the comradeship ot the fend who tortured
uncounted thousands of the flower of the German
working class, progressive people and intellec-
tuals, Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant,
Communist, Socialst and Liberal. :

The Commonwealth boosts the Hitler Olympic
games and members of the C.C.F. conduct trials
for them at their sport meet, knowing that all
over the world there has arisen a mighty wave
of protest and boycott movement against them.
Not only revolutionary and socialist workers,
but trades unions, workers’ sport organizations,
mass organizations, anti-tascist members of the
intelligentsia, student bodies and mnumerable
other organizations haye registered those pro-
tests and have called for the boyeott—and for
very good reasons.

The Berlin Olympiad is, first of all, a broad
propaganda measure for the spreading of poison-
ous ideas and doctrines of German fascism in
capitalist countries. It is an attempt to breals
the rine of isolation in which oficial Germany
finds itself as a result of Nazi terror. The prep-
arations, includine the trials conducted on Em-
pire Day at Hastings Park which the Common-
wealth praised so highly, are being used by re-
actionary elements im all capitalist countries for
strenethenine the militarization and fascization
of sport.

And it is all this that the Commonwealth, in
line with the Hearst press, supports in its news
columns. What would the thousands of Social-
Democratic workers tortured in Hitler’s concen-
tration camps think of such support? What
would the thousands of exiled workers from the
Nazi terror think of it? And what do the anti-
fascist members of the C.C.F. think of it?

Tt is unfortunate that with so few papers and
periodicals being published by and in the name of
the working class, the enemy class is still able to
procure support in such quarters. The B.C.
Workers’ News welcomes all labor papers which
appear in the field of the class strugele as fiehters
for the workers and as opponents of war and
fascism, and up until quite recently it was glad
that the Commonwealth, in spite of its many
shortcomings, was being published. But we can-
not remain mute when such glaring anti-working:
class material as diseraced its columns in its last
few issues has been printed.

Again we would point out that opposition to
the United Anti-capitalist Front, if persisted in,
leads inevitably to a united front with the bosses
of the Loggers’ Association type, thence to a
united front with fascism, and even with the
warmongers as in 1914.

SUPPORT THE SHINGLE WEAVERS!

HE WORKERS in the Capilano shingle mill

are still out on strike against discrimination
and a wage reduction. The company wants to
put through an “adjustment” of the wage rates,
which means that, if effected, a few men would
Teeceive a slight increase whilst many would re-
ceive substantial wage cuts.

The men are organized 100 percent in the
Shingle Weavers Section of the United Brother-
hood of Carpenters and Joiners (A.F-of L.) and
are holding out solidly for their demands. The
whole power of the organized trade union move-
ment should be mobilized in support of the em-
battled workers who are fighting for the funda-
mental rights of trade unionism.

All workers and sympathizers, and prticu-
larly trades unions, should contribute generously
towards the upkeep of the men on strike, for such
assistance is not only necessary but decisive.

FACTORIES TO BE PUT ON WAR BASIS
EFENCE Minister Ian MacKenzie dis-

elosed in the House of Commons recently
that a survey of manufacturing establishments
in Canada was being carried on with a view to
ascertaining: their efficiency for the production
of arms and munitions in time of war.

Tn Eneland, with the connivance and eo-opera-
tion of the reactionary type of reformist trade
union leaders who betrayed the workers in 1914
by supporting the imperialist war, the unions
are being led into the signing of a three-year
truce with the employers.

Such a diseraceful truce was signed during the
last world war, but this time they are taking time
by.the forelock and shackling the workers to the
war-preparation machine before the war actually
breaks out. :

The statement by the Defence Minister again
shows the established connection hetween the
Kine government and the national wovernment
of British imperialism. The people of Canada
must not permit themselves to be deceived by
declarations of a desire for peace by the govern-
ment. The warmongers, including the federal
sovernment, are getting ready for war now, and
it will require vigilance and united mass action
of the people to thwart them in their murderous
almis.

The World
This Week

By F. B.

Japanese Imperialism has pulled
on its seven-leasue boots again, this
time to take a sSiant stride into
North China where it is evidently
about to finish the conquest of five
Chinese provinces begun ijast fall.
Large numbers of troops equipped
with tanks and artillery have been

transported to this area, and the
Peiping railroad has already been
seized.

When Japan carved out the pup-
pet state of Manchukuo a few
years ago she used the excuse that
she had to have colonies io relieve
the over-population at home, but the
subjugation of Manchukuo with its
great possibilities for colonization
has apparently not been used as an
outlet for the so-called surplus
population of the Japanese Islands.
So there must be a deeper reason
for the newer plan of expansion.
The Japanese government say that
they want to crush Communism in
China, another excuse that is ex-
pected to win the approval of the
capitalist world.

Japan’s purpose in invading North
China is that of all imperialist ex-
pansion, to secure sources of raw
materials lacking at home and to
find a market for the output of
home industries. Briefly, the Japan-
ese capitalists want to increase their
profits at the expense of a weaker
people, in the same manner as Mus-
solini did in Ethiopia, Britain and
France in Africa and other parts of
the world.

The five provinces aimed to be
eonquered are Shansi, Chahar,
Hopei, Shantunge and Szechwan.
They have a population of one hun-
dred millions, potentially an enor-
mous market for Japanese products,
and they are rich in mineral de-
posits. Shansi is said to have more
than half of the coal supply of all
Ghina; Chahar has very rich iron
deposits, and Hopei and Shantuns
are eminently suitable for the pro-
duction on a large scale of wheat
and cotton. Japan has not been able
to get cotton and iron from Man-
chukuo, she has had to buy both
abroad. Her cotton was purchased
mainly from British possessions,
taken home, manufactured and then
disposed of in the world’s markets,
textiles being one of her main in-
dustries. Japan, like all other capi-
talist nations, aims to be as far as
possible self-sufficient in order that
she may not have to share profits
with any other power, and if she can
get all the cotton she wants from
Worth China, British and American
eotton interests will suffer heavily,
increasing the antagonism that al-
ready exists over Japan’s menace to
their Pacific possessions.

In China as a whole there have
been two views towards Japanese
ageression. One adyanced by Chiang
Kai Shek and the capitalist govern-
ment of co-operating with Japan, of
refraining from doing anything that
would provoke her. This policy is
one of betrayal of the Chinese peo-
ple to Japanese exploitation and is
just what Japan wants as the less
opposition she encounters the
cheaper and easier will be her oc-
cupation of the country. But Japan
will not have in North China the
walk-over she had in Manchukuo,
for in the five provinces are Soviet
territories the government of which
has been for some time appealing to
all sections of the Chinese people to
unite in armed resistance to Japan-
ese troops before it is too late. This
appeal is having effect, judging by
the fact that Chinese Sarrisons in
the North have been strengthened
and attempts haye been made to
destroy bridges and damage vrail-
roads so as to interfere with trans-
port of Japanese troops. Encouraged
and supported by the Red Army of
the Soviet territories, it is almost a
eertainty that the troops of the
Nanking government will, even in
spite of their pro-Japanese com-
mangers, offer a stiff resistance to
the Japanese, and there is an even
chance of their repelling the in-
waders. There will be heavy fight-
ing there in the near future.

Keady for a trip to Al-Bulak

visible only in the U.S.S.R.

= Siberia, is this 14-foot Carers to recon
the total eclipse of the sun June 19 for the National Geographic
Society and the National Bureau of Standards. The Soviet Union’s
government is making elaborate plans to study the phenomenon,

The 1936 Convention Of
C.C.F. --- Pressing Issues

To Organize and Lead the People in Fight Against
Injustice and Oppression Should be the Issue

The coming convention of the
C.C.F. in the provinee of B.C. will
be the most momentous in the his-
tory of the movement in this prov-
inee, This convention will decide the
road that the C.C.F. will take for
Some time to come. The matters
that will be decided are not small
issues. Underlying the personal at-
tacks and animosities of certain
leaders lies the real issue. The C.C.F.
is seemingly divided into followers
of Winch, Connell, Telford or Prit-
chard; in reality this is not the real
division. The real issue is that of
POLICY.

Which Road?

Will the ©.C.E. carry on an ener-
getice all-sided fight against capital-
ism? Will it organize the people
and teach them to fight against in-
justice? Will it carry on agitation
and propaganda amongst all the op-
pressed, helping them to organize
and fight against oppression? Or
will it restrict itself to a purely par-
liamentary, a purely passive, policy
of standing aloof and discouraging
any participation in the real issues
which life places before us, restrict-
ing every struggle in the interests
of retaining the respect of the ruling
class? THIS IS THE CENTRAL
POINT ON WHICH THE CON-
VENTION WiLL HAVE TO DE-
CIDE.

The C.C.F. is not an homogeneous
organization. It is well that it is
not. If the C.C.E. ever becomes such,
—i.e., a narrow organization of peo-
ple who hold exactly the same views,
then its great possibilities will be
lost. The power and importance of
the movement is that it draws into
its ranks people from every walk of
life; all those who are tired of capi-
talism and its tyranny, injustice and
oppression, and who wish for a new
social order.

There may be a thousand different
views as to how this new social or-
der will be brought about; but the
real significance of the great growth
of the movement is to be found in
the desire of the people for social-
ism.

Tf the C.C.F. is restricted in its
program; if a right wing or a leit
wing is cut off, nothing will be
gained. There still will be a right
wing and a left wing, only the or-
ganization will be smaller; that is
all. No expulsions either from the
right or the left. We must not do
anything that will narrow the C.C-F.
—restrict its influence or its power,
providing that power is (and this is
the important point) directed to-
wards the improvement of the eco-

Co-ordination of Efforts
Will Herald Progress
For Canada Youth

By MAURICE RUSH
Provincial Secretary, Young
Communist League
On Monday, June §, at § p.m., rep-
resentatives of numerous working
elass youth organizations, amongst
them €.G.F. youth clubs, branches
of the Young Socialist League and

Youn= Communist League, etc,
meet at the Cedar Cottage C.CP-
Club at 3691 Commercial Drive to

form a federation of socialist youth
organizations from Vancouver and
surrounding vicinity.

Jn response to a call issued by the
committee for a Socialist Youth
Council, representing the ¥.S.L. and
¥.C.L., numerous youth clubs haye
responded and elected delegates.

The fact that the proposal is so
enthusiastically accepted and acted
upon is an indication of the political
awakening of the youth and ex-
presses an unmistakable desire for
co-operation, a desire which can best
be expresed at this time through the
formation of a Council of Secialist
Youth.

Such a federated group will bring
the working class youth organiza-
tions into closer contact with each
other and will co-ordinate their
activities for the betterment of the
conditions of the young people and
for 2 new social order. Such mutual
relationships will ultimately raise
before the whole youth movement

Socialist Youth Bodies In
Conference Here June 8

©
the question of organic unity and
the building of one United Youth
League.

The importance of such unity, to-
wards which the youth are heading,
is of extreme importance at this
time with the attacks upon the
working people become sharper as
the powers that be strive to make
the impoverished people carry the
weight of the economic erisis.

The Socialist Youth Council will
undoubtedly strengthen the fight
for jobs for youth, for more educa-
tional and sports facilities, ete. In
general, it will-strengthen the ef-
forts of our people for a better life.
The struggle against war and grow-
ing reaction will likewise, take on
added impetus as the movement
gains ground.

Not only will the existence of such
a federation unite the presently or-
eanized youth, but will act as 4a
stimulus to the whole socialist youth
movement. It will attract large
numbers of youth who have re-
mained unorganized till this day, in
many cases because of the division
which existed in the working class
youth movement.

This Federation will be able to
carry on a campaign for the organ-
ization of the youth in industry,
who, due to lack of organization,
work under terrible conditions and
are bitterly exploited.

Not only will the effects of this
growing unity amongst the youth
of British Columbia be felt in this
province, but will likewise have its
repercussions on the entire youtn

nomic and political position of the
masses of the people and the aboli-
tion of capitalism. If the C.G&. fol-
lows this road we must not narrow
it; we must widen it.

Unity in the Struggle
The question of unity in the ranks
of the working class organizations
will *undoubtedly come up at the
convention. In order to prevent fas-
cism, to defeat reaction, and to win
power, we must have unity. This is
an axiom that will not require dis-
cussion with any but political in-
fants. Formal unity, however, will
not decide any great problems. Some
people are ready to sacrifice every
principle on the altar of unity. Sure-
ly this is not correct.
Why do we need unity? Is it not
clear that we need unity in order to
Carry on a broad mass fight against
capitalism? We do not desire that
people who are oppressed should re-
frain from fighting against oppres-
sion in order to preserve, unity.
This would be wrong; this would
widen the channels of passivity and
would in reality be worse than no
unity at all. We desire unity in or-
der that we can better conduct a de-
termined struggle against capital-
ism, not merely because we like the
look of the word in print.
The conventon should not waste
its time with academic and contro-
versial discussions of formal unity
with other political parties which
would be meaningless unless put
into life by a policy of active par-
ticipation in the issues of everyday
existence.
The questions of relief, of wages,
of evictions—these are the problems
that must be met and dealt with.
The convention should aim at hay-
ing the movement take a more ac-
tive part in these everyday ques-
tions and work for unity with all
those who are working in the same
field no matter who they may be,
whether Christians or Communists.

Must Stop Red-baiting

The convention should call a halt
once and for all to the despicable
policy of “red-baiting.” Is it not
enough that every reactionary ruling
elass periodical does this? Is it not
enough that every fascist or semi-
fascist organization follows this pol-
icy? Is it not enough that the whole
of capitalism devotes pages and
pages to attacks upon communism,
the name which they give to any-
thing that they do not like? We
now have the parliamentary leader
of the G.G.F. raising his voice along
with this pack of hyenas. Surely
Mr. Connell could devote his time to
some more worthy object.

Mr. Gonnell is not the real leader
of the C.C.F. He is the leader of the
parliamentary Opposition, and there
is a distinction. The real leader of
the movement is, or should be, the
provincial president, who is duly
elected by the membership in the
convention. It would appear that
Mr. Gonnell is assuming a role
which he does not fill as an elected
person. This would not be so bad;
but when in doing this, 2 policy is
carried on that is resulting in a split,
then it is time to sound a warning.

Mr. Connell

manifesto.”” Good! “The

stands

tutional versus revolutionary action
is not the issue facing the conven-
tion. The issues facing the conven-
tion do not lie outside of the mani-
festo but within its bounds.
To organize the people to fight
oppression is not unconstitutional.
To assist and promote unions is not
unconsttiutional. To carry on 2
fight for the everyday needs of the
people is not against the law.
Tt is all very well to say, “We stand
for the manifesto and constitu-tional
action.” This places those who Op-
pose the policy of “red-baiting”’ and
isolation as being AGATNST eonsti-
tutional action and AGADNST the
manifesto. This is not so! The
delegates to the convention who
favor a broader moyement should
not allow themselves to be manoceu-
vered into any such position.
(Continued in Next Issue)

ARE YOU LUCKY?

Ticket number 576 won the two

Ash Hall, 19th Ave. and
The draw was in aid of the 5B es

‘| could well do without.
comes in this-category is the budget § ||

Mr. Connell says, “I stand by the
C.C.F.
for constitutional action.”
What of it? The question of consti-

oil paintings drawn May 30 at the
Fraser.

OL’ BILL

Although May
as gone, it is not
too late yet to do ©
your bit for the
Press Drive. We have so far fallen
a long way short of the quota we set
out to get for this column. We can-
pot do without the working-class
press, but there are numerous
papers, magazines and organs we
One that ©

B.C. Collectric
Once More

of bad news we get for nothing
every Friday morning on the local
torture-wagons that help to keep @
full house at Hssondale. It is im-
possible to avoid returning to this
subject of the B.C. Gollectric at this ~
time after reading the last issue of

the “Buzzer.”’
: The agreement, re-
The Public cently signed, be-—

Be Damned! tween the street-
car monopoly and

dinginess, called for an extension of |
the Grandview bus line from 29th
Ayenue to Kingsway. Now comes
the propaganda organ of the snatch-
penny corporation to inform us that
the Grandview Highway bus is,
running to Kingsway and that the
bus that ran to Slocan and Kings-
way will only run to Grandview -
Highway in future. The people in
the Slocan area may go plumb to
hell as far as the B.C. Collectrie is
concerned, for you know the
“Buzzer” tells us consistently that
“service” is the great objective of
Murrain and his money-grubbing as-
sociates; not profit—“service.” [I
would suggest to Mr. Murrain that

the near future, not to snitch on the
passengers or the streetcar-men’s
wages but to cut out the “Buzzer.”
If anybody loses it won’t be the
streetcar riders.

At this distance it
Leg- looks as if there has:
Rolling been some log-rolling.

done around the City
Hall. You know what log-rolline is?
“You scratch my back and Ill
scratch yours,” in politics, city or
Dominion, parish pump or prov—
ince. It accounts for the avidity
shown by the Dogberry type wher
their names are méntioned as can-
didates. @f course, they all want te
“serve.’ Just like the Toonervyille
Trolley company we are saddled
with. I have been in 25 different
eountries and have forgotten how
many cities and towns, but I have
only been in one town that did not
have a better streetcar system than
Vancouver. That was Venice, Italy,
where they have no streets and do
their travelling in canal boats or
gondolas (pardon me, I had for-
gotten Victoria and Westminster)-
Until we get a workers’ city council
the Murrain gang will go on in im-
perturable serenity and we will con-.
tinue to be gypped.

‘Waiting For Lefty’
A “Lefty” still makes news. Ac—
Protest cording to an item

in the “Sun” of Fri-
day last, Guy Glover, who had so
much to do with the success of
“Lefty,” is at a loss to understand
the reception their production met
with in Sudbury before an audience
of “toughened miners.’ Wot alt
these “toughened miners” but “cer-
tain persons in the audience” ap-
pealed against the language used in
“Lefty.” Personally, IT am not sur-
prised that “certain persons” pro-
tested in Sudbury. In fact, that is

just the kind of place to expect
protest.

The hard-rock min-
ing industry of this
country is organized
on a company town
basis, as to a large extent coal-min-
ing is also. Sudbury, Coppercliffe,
Timmins, Flin Flon, Noranda, Trail,
Anyox and Britannia—these are all
company-dominated camps, and as
S. G Blaylock, manager of Trail,
once stated, they “will not be dic-
tated to by any organization or
muckpile oratars.” If “Lefty” went
into Trail it would get the same re-
ception as it did at Sudbury, the
centre of the International Nickel
Company, because it is propaganda,
and would be considered “muck-pile
oratory.’ The mining corporations
to whom these towns belong are
without exception anti-union, and
the “objectors” at Sudbury were not
“toughened miners’ but company
heels, and the real objection was
not to “vulgarity” but to the final
inspiring appeal that climaxes the
play, “Strike! Strike! Strike!”
Aberhart, wonder-
Social worker by the grace of
Credit God and the galaxy of
great whales of finance
gathered around him is due fora
rude awakening. It seesm to be
coming sooner too, than some people
think. The show-case piety dis-
played by Aberhart since taking
power into his hands has not done
one jot towards feeding the hungry
unemployed workers and farmers
of Alberta. It is not surprising then
to hear of a hunger march being
organized in Drumheller to put de-
mands before the Social Credit
demagogue at Edmonton.

Company
Towns

Forty workers and
Hunger farmers will leave
/ Drumheller, and their
“BEER numbers will be added
to at every place on the way. Their
demands are for 15 per cent increass
in relief and the firing of the local
relief official and others of the Al-
pberta Relief Commission. I hope
Premier Aberhart will be pleased
to meet the leader of this hunger
mahch, Gharles Adams, member of
the Social Credit group in Drum-

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