—————————— ——— B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Page Thres GOLOEN JUBULEl @s Ordinary Beers AGE AND PURITY GUARANTEED BY $10,000 BOND COAST BREWERIES LIMITED VANCOUVER - NEW WESTMINSTER = VICTORIA This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor The Soviet Prize Picture Peasants The Drama of Collective Farms © COMING Friday, June 19th to the BEACON THEATRE Balcony (Except Saturday) I0e till 6:00 — i5c after 6:00 control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. 5 FS gE REESE WORKERS’ PRESS FIRST Editor, B.C. Workers’ News: During a recent canvass for funds and subscribers we were im- pressed by the large number of readers of the “B:C. Workers’ Wews.’* However, a considerable proportion of our readers are not customers but borrowrs of the paper, a friend or relative passing it on to them each week. This is very good, we want the paper passed along. Now almost every household buys one or the other of the capitalist papers with their distorted news and reactionary propasanda. How much better would it be to reverse this condition by becoming sub- seribers of our own class papers and borrowing the capitalist papers? May I suggest Mr. Editor that a subseription form be inserted in the paper in order that uncanvassed readers may send in a subscription. Yours for a Jarger circulation. W. G. 5S. (S. Van.) U.P.T.W. DRAW WINNERS Winners of the Unemployed and Part Time Workers’ Association Lucky Drawing, May 31, 150 West Hastings Street: { First prize: No. 356, no name. Second prize: No. 260, no name. Third prize: No. 131, W:. 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Men’s Half Soles ____ GOe Men’s Heels Sbeé NEW Ladies’ Half Soles __G65¢ Ladies’ Heels, 15¢ - 20Q:¢ Boys’ and Girls’ in proportion. 337 CARRALL STREET Make-Believe In Recitals Tragedy of Youth, Want and Poverty, Not Depicted Wow is the season when the vari- ous teachers of music, the dance, Singing, ete., are winding up a Wanter of activity and instruction by presenting their budding artists in recital, Those who have large classes and the financial standing, of course, utilize the Hotel Georgia, Hotel Vancouver, Empress Theatre, etc. Others not so well situated financiat- ly present their pupils in recivai = their studios or homes. Possibly the most pretentious was June Roper’s “Stars of Lomo-sow,” presenting her most advanced dance pupils at the Lyric Theatre recently to an audience of over eleven hun- dred people. The impression was of girls, sirls—and more girls! Some eighty of them, aged from four years upwards, although most of them were in older childhood and early "teen age. Here we saw the daushters and egrand-dausters o1 our “best famifies’” such names as Malkin, Rogers, Cherniaysky, Wood- ward being represented. Here we could see how these families spend Some of the money sweated from the backs of their employees to en-= able their daughters to become cul- tured. There were gorgeous costunmies of satin and silk, particularly in the spectacular feature, a “Bird Gallet” when the dancers depicted birds of brilliant plumages in an enchanted forest. The five babies of four and five did feats of skill and daring as they were tossed from one mais dancer to another. Previous to this Wwe saw Spanish dancers, Grecian dancers, comedy, tap, soft shoe, ete. The girls were all beautiful er save the illusion of beauty by reason of their youth, grace and rythm of motion. But not once in the whole pro- sram was there a dance depicting life, as we live it today, or those things which hover over the mass of our people—war, poverty, desti- tution. Not once did the teacher or pupils portray the fact that for most of us today life is not a gorgeous land of make-believe, of glamour, color, rythm and romance. Iuet us hope that by recital time 1987 some progressive dance in- Structor or the P.A.© dance group will perform for us a group of danees such as those bein= pro- duced in seme of the larger centres in the the United States. Let us see such topics as Decadence, In- quisition, Speaker, the Workers: Dance on the Soil, Peace, ete. re= cently produced in New York. Per- haps we can look to the P.A.c dance group to do for the dance what the P.A.C. dramatic sroup did for the drama with “Waitine for Lefty.” Workers and Students Demonstrate Against Japanese Aggression TIENTSIN, China, May 15—Stu- dents from twelve schools, includ- ing Nankai University, and work- ers from Yu Yuen Cotton Mill and Pei Yang Match Factory and other factories walked out of their class rooms and shops and staged a big demonstration against Japanese ag- gression in China. The manifesto distributed by the demonstrators called for Opposition to the anti- Communist agreement and support for all bodies and forces which are anti- Chiang Kai-Shelk and anti- Japanese. FRENCHY BOUDEN OUTBOXES HOGAN AT SMOKER MEET Gordon Evans (75, V.S.C.) boxed three rounds to a draw. with Prankie Clark (73, City) in the opener of the weekly sock and squirm show Sat- urday night at the Wancouver Sports Club, 143 Cordova East. Eric Smith (160) and Bill Murin (1455) of Con Jones’ went three rounds to a draw. Murin had the edge in the boxing, but Smith ecar- ried the fight to the other man and obtained a draw. renchy Bouden (142) and Jack Hogan (146) featured the mitt end of the card. Hogan tried hard but was no mafeh for Frenchy: Bouden outboxed and outfousht Horan to win by a wide margin. Ted Garbut (140, W.S.G) went three four-minute rounds to a draw With Jack Copeland (144, VJHLA.C) in the wrestling opener. Tiger Dunn (169, Burnaby) won from Stan Sowden (155, V.S.C.) in a three five-minute affair: The Tiger pinned Sowden in the second frame With a reverse body press. Chuck Dunn (135, Burnaby) won from Bill Noyes (130, Burnaby) on a foul. Bill had pinned Ghuck in the second with a reverse flying mare. Eat Carson (145, V.S:C.) and Bill Chapman (140, V.S.G.) went five five-minute rounds to a draw with a fall each. Bill got his fall in the fourth with a leg nelson and back flip. Carson nailed Bill in the fifth wtih a series of flyine mares and body presses. DCMESTICS ATTEND Y.W.C.A. PICNIC The tion has meetings tions for Associa- business funce- its Domestic Workers’ discontinued its and indoor social the summer months. members, who are confined in houses so much by the nature of their work, prefer to spend their Thursday afternoons and evenings out of doors whenever the weather permits. They sent a delegation to the ‘x to interview the social service Worker in charge of the activities of domestic workers who frequent the “Y" functions, concerning picnits. They received a cordial reception and made arrangements to attend the next “Y" pienic on Thursday aftermoon. Some thirty-five gris ai- tend a “Y¥°’ picnic featuring tennis, swimming, ete.. each fine Thursday. So the Domestic Workers’ Associ- ation felt it would be much better to atend these picnics rather than to start plannine independent picnics of their own. pare U.S. PREPARES FOR WAR DICTATORSHIP WASHINGTON, D.C. June 5. (ALP)—Labor in the United States will be “forced to work, fight or starve” in the next war under a military dictatorship as severe as that in any Pascist country. This is the charge made by the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee, headed by Senator Ger- ald Nye of North Dakota. Plans for the dictatorship are all framed and ready, the Senate Gom- mittee charged, including measures to regiment industry and stop pro- fit-making. But these latter plans “as full of holes as a Swiss cheese,”” according to the Nye in- vestigators. While big business would be able easily to circumvent the regulations for their control during war time, the people would not be permitted a word of dissent. The dictatorship plans are con- tained in Senate Bill 1721 now await- ing debate and decision. Chinese Millworkers Are : i Virtual Slaves To “Tyee’ Compelled, Under Immi- gration Contract, to be Used as Toeols of Bosses By SHINGLE WEAVER It has always been the policy of the bosses to play white workers against the Chinese with disastrous results on the wages and conditions of both races. Chinese have been kept under strict control by the method of employment that was used. A Chinese contractor known as a Tyee would pay their trans- portation from China and _ their head-tax into Canada. Immigrant Chinese would then stay in the Tyee’s rooming house, eat at his restaurant, and buy clothes and in- eidentals from the Tyee’s. store. This placed the immigrant Chinese under financial obligation to the Tyee, who in turn approaches the mill-owners and offers to contract the whole crew at lower wages than the whites could accept. A Chinese refusin= to work under these con- ditions is threatened with deporta- tion by the Tyee. The Tyee always took a certain percentage of the Wages and was able to maintain his position as crediter. The low wages Sliven these men, combined with only temporary employment, kept the Chinese workers in debt all the time. When once out of the Tyee’s debt the worker would be replaced by another victim. The whites, in the past, never analyzed the situation yery thoroughly, but merely became em- bittered against the Chinese. They did nothing to assist the Chinese workers in overcoming the Tyee Grip, until last year, when the shingle weavers made a determined effort to organize the Chinese into an auxiliary of the Umited Brother hood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, and have succeeded in set- ting up the base of the apparatus that will abolish Tyee control, and so a long way towards settling the racial quarrel. The boss has also used the Chinese as a weapon to keep the white work- ers in submission to his wage scale, also stating that if the whites did not work for the wage offered, he would get Chinese who would. Youth Parade TURN MEMORIAL DAY INTO A UNITED YOuTH DAY AGAINST BrASCIEM | eS OQ Rue More than 15,000 young people belenginge to organizations affili- ated with the American Youth” Congress paraded through New York City streets on Memorial Day to celebrate their own holi- day—United Youth Day. Liberals and radicals joined to protest against war and fascism. BALLROOM REOPENS TheRendezvous Ballroom, which has been closed for the past two months on account of fire damages, has again opened up, having been redecorated and remodelled into one of the most up-to-date ballrooms in the city. Vicktor Nyland, the pro- prietor, announces that he has ar- ranged with the Cariboo Cowboys’ orchestra for old time dances Mon- day and Wednesday evenings, in addition to their own Leroy Will- jams Rendezvous orchestra with modern dancing on Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturdays. STEARA AND TURKISH Expert Masseur and Masseuses ALWAYS OPEN : BAY. 9274 Private Baths, 50c 1235 ‘WEST BROADWAY U.P.T.W.A. Moved To New Quarters, 339 West Pender Whist Drive and Dance, Music and Gymnastics to Feature Opening The Unemployed and Part Time Workers’ Association is opening its new Jarge and well ventilated hall at 3309 Pender Street West on Fri- day, June 12, at 8 pm. with a whist drive and bingo, music and Syninastics. - I'ree refreshments will be pre- pared by the Women’s Auxiiary. Cash whist prizes, and a door prize will be given. A good time is assured, all for the price of 10 cents. If there is any Surplus over expenses, a donation will be made to the Children’s Summer Camp. Data on eviction cases continue to pile into the office. A recent case is that of a man and wife with sev- eral children, who are living in a house whieh has already been con- demned twice this year. The roof is leaking, the whole house is infested with bed-bues and the toilet has to be flushed with a pail. The city has refused to do any repairs, despite the fact that the wife is under doctor’s orders. Finally the man was given twelve Gollars to find another house, and five Gays in which to do so. He was not told, however, where to find another house. BATHS HOSPITAL COTS Public Baths, 25c raURPS IS SRDS (ie Sa OE TASTY MEALS — FROM 15¢c UP Our Specialty — Balkan-Hungarian Relief Wouchers Accepted 779 EAST HASTINGS STREET and German Dishes A woman residing in a city-owned house, has received a court order to vacate. ' A woman, resident of Vancouver for 30 years, has been cut off relief beesause she refused to accept same at the Hostel. The association is also taking up the cases of the evicted camp boys. Committees have heen formed for this purpose. The association urges all to send in particulars of evictions, ete, to the headquarters, 339 Pender Street West. The next meetine will be held June 18 at 8 p.m. You are cordially invited. FEBRUARY DAYS IN TOKYO EXPENSIVE TOKYO, Japan, June 6.—(ALP)— Pebruary assasinations have proved quite expensive to the government according to reports filed here today. Nakadzima, parliamentary under- secretary of finance, has announced that the expenses in connection witn the February events in Tokyo amounted to 816,000 yen at the end of March, including: Home Ministry, 56,000 yen; War Ministry, 669,000 yen; Naval Ministry, 67,000 yen; and expenses of the Kwantunge authori- ties, 24,000 yen. “INDEPENDENCE” OF INNER MONGOLIA PEIPING, China, June 6§6.—(ALP) —The Japanese military command, according to information current here, is making preparations to form an “Army of Inner Mongolia’ con- sisting of 10:000 men by the end of summer It is stated that the Jap- intend to proclaim the “In- dependence of Inner Mongolia” this SautumnN. HASTINGS BAKERY 716 EAST HASTING SBE. We deliver from house to house in Grandview and DWastings town- Site districts. Call High. 3244 and our driver will be at your door. Incipient _ Fascism? Commissioner Has Full Control of School Administration Editor, B.C. Workers’ News: The following account of a mee.- ing held at Bradner, B.C., May 2y, called by Mr. Sheffield, school com- missioner. may be taken as a sample of Similar meetings pre- viously held throughout Matsqu: and Sumas municipal school ureas, together with that of the village of Abbotsford, over which Mr. Shef- field has absolute administrative control for approximately a year. e After showing a miovie ‘reel of Property in the respective areas. Mr. Sheffield, then told a story, in substance as follows: Sheitfield’s Story ihadies and Gentlemen: “The ex- periment which has been in opera- tion in the three school areas of Matsqui, Sumas and Abbotsford, has I belieye demonstrated the de- Sirability of continuing it in a per- manent basis. It was ‘because the School’ trustees had got into finan- cial difficulties, with the conse- quenee that school property ‘was falling into a state of disrepair; teachers’ salaries unpaid for two months, and schoolS were over- erowded that the Provincial Council of Education appointed me to under- take the task of effecting improve- ments. As I haye indicated, we have been able to effect many economies, and in this way have met our obligations Without any increase in taxation. We have climinated overslappinge and duplicating of services. In all I have undertaken I haye been as- sisted by the respective school trustees and municipal councillors. Wor instance, we built and equipped a new room to the school at Pear- donville. Your Reeve and council co-operated by supplying ‘frelief labor for the construction, so that, in this instance, which is typical of others, the improved and enlarzed School at Peardonville has not cost you a cent. Come Into My Parlor have also instituted full time, dental and nursing services. All these improvements, economies and general blessings are yours for the future if you will endorse the following resolution, which is simply to haye the taxpayers’ endorsation of the provisions of Clause ‘U’ of Section 12 of the Public Schools Act as} amended iby sub-section 3 of Section 3 of the Public Schools Amended Act 1936, And now, Mr. Chairman, if you will please present the resolution to the meeting. ) MR. DOWNING, Specialist Eleven years’ experience in Support Those Who Support You All Waves Permanent Guaranteed, Viens Grey, White Croguignole & Fine Hair, BS eee, Cail with con- ACN IESE fidence at— soe a Downing Beauty Shop e elcome Visitors + =e : aS, | sax Ce ee eee (ee W. Hastings St. - SEY.-241 JJ ReriecsensN