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STRIKES |

Published Weekly.

TRENGTHEN BLUM GOVERNMENT

SHINGLE STRIKE.
STILL SOLID AT
CAPILANO MILL

Picket Line Maintained;
U.S. Workers Refuse
Scab Shingles

The strike at the Capilano Shingle
Mill is still solid. Out of the ocfginal
erew, only seven men have Sone
scabbing, the remainder, 68 men, are
actively engaged in the picket line
from 7' a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The
mill is being operated, after a
fashion with a mixed Chinese and
white scab crew.

Prosperity mill closed down at
the besinninge of the strike. is still
closed. At the Cedar Cove, our
machine is working with scabs. The
other two machines are idle.

The shingle werkers are fighting
for a wage increase, and against dis-
crimination. The wage increase asked
amounts to a total of $94946 for
3i men, for a 6-hour shift,

Recently 4 members of the crew
of the Hunting and Merritt miil
met the Shingle Workers’ Council.
The four men were shown affidavits
that the Capilano operators
said that the Hunting and Merritt
crew were willing to act as strike-
breakers at the Capilano Mill. Hunt-
ing and Merritt denied this state-
ment, and the crew stated emphati-
cally that they would not scab.

Forty sections of B.C. cedar logs
are tied up in the booming ground
of the Seattle Cedar Co., Seattle. The
union crew there refuse to cut them,
During the week, a car, partly
loaded with B.C. scab shingles was
Switched into a shingle mill at An-
nacortes, Wash., to be completed.
The union Annacortes crew refused
to load shingles into the same car.

Every longshore local on the Paci-
fic Coast has been notified of the
Situation here, and every parcel of
unfair shingles is closely checked,
and the information sent ahead to
the consignee point.

The shingle workers here state
that full co-operation of the U.S:
@oast unions has been promised
and is being exercised wherever
scab shingles- make their appear-
ance. Officials state so lon= as the
| shingle manufacturers here refuse
to deal with the men, the industry
will never be on a stable basis. The
Sooner the operators recognize this
the better for the industry. At the
back of most of the trouble, they
State, is the fight between different
‘shingle manufacturers, to ved
down prices. Meantime the industry
is crippled. and will remain so until
the chisellinge operators get it into
their heads that the union men here
are determined to carry on the fight
for decent conditions.

The shingle workers’ strike com-
mittee states that there are two dis-
tinct sets of police on duty at Capi-
lano, one the regular force of city
police, who escort the scabs to and
from work, and a second force ui--
derstood to be supplied by the Citi-
zens’ League. They state that they
have been told that Mavor G. G. Me-
Geer is a large shareholder in the
mill.

C.P.R. Wants
Company Site

Two Cabinet Ministers
Investigate Trail and

Kimberley
REGINA, Sask, June 8—(ALP)
—The Consolidated Mining and

Smelting Company wants ‘‘Company
Towns” established by law in Sask-
atchewan.

Two provincial cabinet ministers,
the Hon. W. F. Kerr, minister of
natural resources, and the Hon. T.
G. Davis, K.C., attorney-general,
are in British Columbia at present
investigating the company towns of
Trail and. Kimberley. Their trip is
on request of the Consolidated
Mining and Smelting.

The company, in an effort to
block union activities, is seeking to
have a closed company town at
Goldfields which would be,complete-
ly under the rale of the conipany,
compiete with puppet council, com-
pany appointed police, company-
owned houses, stores, and all the
other characteristics of the typical
company town.

LATIN AMERICA
YOUTH TO MEET

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, June 6.—
(ALP)—Sponsored by the Association
of Socialist Students of Mexico, stu-
dents of Latin America will meet
here in congréss: June 20. The World
Student Moyement for Peace, Wree-
dom and Gulture-Has “been asked to.
send representatives.

The agenda of the Congress is as
follows: Organization of the Latin
American Students’ Association; the
Inti-mperialist moyement; relations
oetween the Latin American stu-
jents and the workers and peasants
Ireanizations and organization of
he Socialist student press in Amer-

had

grown from 800,000 to one and a

BURNABY RELIEF
WORKERS STRIKE

The Burnaby relief worliers
employed on the Still Creek drain-
age project, struck work June 6,
because of discrimination asainst
tyro of the foremen.

Three hundred men were ef-
fected.
The foremen were reinstated

but since then operations have
been held up owing to high water:

At present the men are debat-
ing whether to demand cash or
accept scrip. Meetings are being
held throughout Burnaby and a
collective decision re future action
is being worked out. It is expected
an amicable arrangement will be
arrived at.

Deaths Mount
In B.C. Camps

22 Killed From Jan. Ist
to June 9th — Four in
: Two Weeks

Discrimination and fatal accidents
are the highlights of the situation
in the loggin= camps, followtus re-
openine of the camps after the
Strike. Gn June 9 Ed. Bosworth was
inilled at the Lake Logsing Camp at
Gowichan Lake, making the second
fatality, at that camp, and the fourth
in the industry since the strire
ended May 26. There haye been 22
fatal accidents in the camps up to
June 9 this year, which is consider—
ably higher than in the same period
a year ago. Morenver.-.with the ex-
tended layoff durimg the winter,
and the closing of the camps during
the strike, there has been more
than a month less logging this year.

Logzers. point out that the only

Mill Operators’
Lies Are Exposed

Bill Trainer, Victim of Bosses’ Ruse Never Worked
in Shingle Mill, and Did Not Authorize Use

of His Picture
8

Wo trick is too scurvy, no eutter
is too filthy for the owners and
operators of industry to dabble in,
in order to prevent workers from
gaining a wage inerease or joining a
union.

@ne such trick was pulled off on
an unsuspecting Citizen of Vancou-
ver during the recent strike of the
lumber workers which affected a
number of the shingle mills and los-
ging camps. 7

Among the many large adyertise-
ments emblazoned on the pages of
the daily newspapers blaming agita-
tors and reds for the ruination of
the lumber industry, there appeared
one on May 16, bearing the caption,
“I am a Shingle Mill Worker ,, , ,
and I Want to Work;’”” under this
was a picture—a picture or Bil
Trainer, a single man, who lives
on, Alberni St. é

Bill does not know a shingle bolt
frem an ordinary stick of cordwood,
because as he says he never worked
in a shingle mill in his life; however,
this was no hindrance to the British
Columbia Shingle Operators, i fact
it was some help.

Trainer was ‘mugged’ at Abers
Studio._on Georgia St, by these
agents of the shinsle manufacturers,
and for this seryice he was given
$1.50.

When Bill was asked by a repre-
Sentative of this paper the other day
what he thought of his picture
being in the dailies, he expressed
himself as being ‘“* As sore as hell,”
and that he never authorized any-
one to use his picture.

Trainer works occasionally in the
Medical Dental Blds. on Georgia St.,
he also does other odd jobs for a
liyang. All the rest of the advertise-
ment about the threatening reds is
just a lot of fictitious poppycock, an
art in which he shingle manu-
facturers are adept.

CHINESE WOMEN

way to stop this slaughter is
throush organization. Speed-up and
Slaughter go hand in hand, and in
order to maintain the speed-up, the
logging operators are fighting des-
perately to stop the organization of
the loggers.

Diserimination is rife. The follow-
ing letter to the “Lumber Worker’
received during the week from one
of the Island camps, tells the story.
This is the letter:

June 8,

Editor, — Enclosed please find
money order for $5.00 which T have
received for “Lumber Worker’ dur-
ing the last five weeks.

ZT am sorry to state, that, due to
being forced to cease all union acti-
vities in the camps,: you will have
to discontinue sending the papers. I
think most of the fellows here who
buy them now, will subscribe.

I had a polite warning from the
super, that if I wanted to continue
working here, I would have to quit

selling the “Lumber Worker.”
Three or four of us are some

around takin= subs aS soon as we

get settled.

I will send you a letter in a couple

of weeks and let you know just how

haywire this camp has fone.
(GName withheld).

Soccer Championship

Of The Soviet Union

LENINGRAD, June 8—(ALP)—
Gompetition for the football cham-
pionship of the Soviet Union which
began here Jast week is to continue
throughout most of the summer,
when it will touch most of the large
eities of the country, it was shown

here.

The first game played was be-
tween clubs of Group A: the
“Dynamo” Club of Leningrad and
the Moscow ‘‘Locomotive”’” Club. At
the same time competitions took

Place in the Stalinets Stadium in
Moscow between players in Group B.
This was followed by a game be-
tween the Stalinets team, playing
on its own ground, and the Moscow
Hammond and Sickle Factory.

Union Centre Gains Members

PARIS, June. 6—ALP)—Result-
ing from the unity recently estab-
lished between the two great trade
union centres in France, a great
increase in membership has taken
place, it is revealed here,

The trade unlon membership has

quarter million workers.

BERLIN, June 6.—(ALP)—Post-
men are being eiven political in-
structions by the Gestapo (state
secret police) in many cities of
Germany to hold up any suspicious
mail until the police examine it, it is
revealed here.

The postmen have been promised
immunity from any penalties for

Ca,

CEST STI ents aisle
ee eae

this service to the Nazis.

DEMAND RELIEF

Poverty - Stricken Be-
cause of Crop Failures
Last Year

SOOCHOW, China, May 15.—(Gy
Mail)—Twenty-five hundred farm
women in Wuhsien, poverty stricken
because of crop failures last year
and desperate because of lack of
financial aid, staged two separate
demonstrations demanding that im-

mediate relief be given them. The
first group of 500 women at
Chinmiaohsiang, near Soochow, the

Second group of 2,000 at MHsiach-
wanghsiang, surrounded the offices
of the local officials and requested
loans and seeds for the spring plant-
ing. The police and peace preserva-
tion corps wre immediately mobil-
ized, but the demonstrators were
quiet and dispersed when the armed
forces appeared on the scene. The
farmers in Wuhsien were unable to
pay their land taxes last year, and
it is reported that the government,
while willing to reduce the taxes,
will attempt to foree the farmers
to pay up their back dues which,
it is estimated, total about $100,000.

SOFTA, Jun 6—{ALP)—After a
three-day strike 40,000 tobacco
workers throughout the country won
their demands 100 per cent today.

The employers were forced to give*
in when not a2 single scab could be
obtained.

KING GORDON
IN CLOSE VOTE
AT VICTORIA

C.C.F. Will Contest By-
Election in Burrard
and Omenica

VICTORIA, B.C.—Professor Kane
Gordon, son of the famous CGana-
dian writer, “Ralph Connor,” just
missed winning the Wictoria seat in
the Federal Parliament for the
C.C.F., when the final count of votes
Was announced last Monday night.
Gordon was defeated by 97, votes,
the seat going to Dr. S. FE. Tolmie,
reactionary Conservative and former
provincial premier.

Total votes were as follows: Tol-
mie, 5,966; Gordon, 5,869; and Mc-
Dowell, 5,693.

Toelmie campaigned on an out and
out reactionary platform, including
heavy defences for British Colum-

| bia’s coast. Conservative voters were

filled with hair-raising iales by
many speakers of what would hap-
pen if and when the Japanese
should decide to shell Vancouver and
Wictoria. \

Dr. Tolmie also promised to op=
pese any attempt in the House of
Commons to grant citizenship rights
to Chinese or Japanese.

Professor Gordon declared for
nationalization of finance and in-
dustry. ?

Labor forces here are heartened
by the showing of King Gordon,
pointing out that the ©. CE. votre
Was increased over the last election
figure. :

Two provincial by-elections will
be contested by the €.C.F.-this year,
in Qmineca which votes this month,
and in Burrard where a by-e.:ection
will be held in the early fall.

Youth Council
Plan Favored

‘Committee to-Work for

Affiliation of Other
Groups.

VANCOUVER, June §—Twenty-
five delegates representing 15 youth
clubs, amongst them C.C.F. Youth
Clubs, branches of the Young Com-
munist League and Younes Socialist
League, met in conference last night
in the Cedar Cottage C.C.F. Hall at
2691 Commercial Drive, and de-
cided unanimosuly in favor of the
formation of a Socialist Youth
Council.

The conference was called at the
initiative of a committee set up by
the Young Socialist League and
Young Communist League a number
of weeks ago.

A Jenethy discussion on the tenta-
tive constitution presented by the
initiative committee ensued with a
number of amendments and inclu-
sions being made.

It was finally decided to elect a
committee representing the confer-
ence to work towards securing fur-
ther endorsation and affiliation of
other workings class youth groups to
the Socialist Youth Council, As well
as making the necessary prepara-
tions for the calling of a further
conference within the next few
weeks to definitely form the body.

Officers elected to the committee
were Charlie Gower as chairman
and Elsie Edge as secretary, inelud-
ing four other delegates to comprise
the committee.

Tie Up Cruiser in England

LONDON, June 6. — (ALP)—A
lightning strike of welders on the
eruiser Penelope at Belfast stopped
work completely on the cruiser.

Trades Unions Demand Halt
To Shipment Of Munitions Of
War To German War _Lords

OLYMPICS WINNER
DENOUNCES GAMES

STOCISHOLM, Sweden, June 8.—
(ALP)—Brie Larson (“Kiruna-Lars-
son’), winner for Sweden of the
gold medal for the highest number
of points at the Winter Olympics
at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, has de-
nounted the “Hitler Olympics” in a
newspaper interview here. He ad-
vises boycott of the summer games
in Berlin.

Coming from one of the country’s
best Known athletes, and the firsc
to win for Sweden the highest honor
in the winter games, the interview
is of unusual significance and has
created a furore in athletic circies
here.

Rabbi Wise
Against War

Warns His Hearers That
Fascism Would Plunge
World Into Carnage

NEW YORK, June 8—(FP &
ALP)—"I know that if war comes,
my country must ultimately go intu
War. My hope, my dream, is to keep
my country out of war by warring
against fascism to keep war out of
the world. I am against fascism
because I am an American, a be-
liever in democracy. Democracy is a
religion with me.’

Thus, in the eloquent tones and
With the deep conviction which
have made his name famous among
men of all creeds, Rabbi Stephen
S.- Wise spoke to- an-“audience of
Wew York publishers, waiters, lib-
erals, vadicals and old-fashioned
American democrats, gathered under
the auspices of the United Citizens’
Committee to finance activities of
the American League Against War
and Fascism. His talk was broad-
east over WEVD, pro-labor station.
W. W. Norton, publisher, was toast-
master.

“Mussolini cannot last a few
years without war, Wise de-
elared. ““Another two or three years
of peace and the entire economy of
Nazi Germany would break down.
Fascism means war, and war means
fascism, and together they must go

to the hell to which they would
consign the world.’’

Dr. Harry F. Ward of Union
Theological Seminary pointed out

that nations are basing their whole
economy on war preparations.

“A world which builds its eco-
nomic life to this extent on war
preparations cannot keep out ot

war,’ he declared. “If you are going
to stop war you must use a force
that has not been used against war.
War is not so much a matter of
arms as of propaganda and eco-
nomie organization. We are going to

mobilize the masses, both in the
trenches and behind the  lines—
and that is the only way you can

halt war.”

Citing Florida flogeers and Black
Legion killers, Ward said: “‘All the
elements of passion exist to be
struck up like a prairie fire through
stubble at the right time by the
right people,” addine= that only
united aggressive opposition of dem-
acratie elements could safeguard
civil liberties and defeat fascism in
America.

Communist Party Of Canada

Prepares For Oct

@ficht for peace and against reaction

TORONTO, June 6 (ALP)—Meet-
ing in Toronto for four days, from
May 30 to June 2, the Central Com-
mittee of the Communist Party of
Canada held its tenth session and
decided on a number of highly im-
portant matters, the Associated La-
bor Press is informed by officials
of the Party. Representatives were
present from all parts of Canada to
discuss the fight for the united
working class front, the state of
the party organization, the Daily
Clarion and the problems of the
young genération.

Tim Buck, general secretary of
the C.P.C. delivered the main re-
port, in which he brilliantly covered
the trends of Canadian economy
and polities and the powerful forces
determining world history today.
He paid special attention to the
problems of the Canadian people,
and indicated that clearly the re-
sponsibilities of the Party in regard

to the C.C.F., the trade unions, the

ober Congress

and the daily problems of the Cana-
dian working people. -

Announcing the Eighth Congress
of the Party as meeting in Toronto
in October, the session decided on
the following agenda: 1. Opening of
the Congress; 2. The road Ahead
for Canada: 3. Building a New
World—Socialism Victorious; 4. The
Party of the Working Class; 5.
French Canada Awakens; 6. Young
Canada’s Tomorrow; 7. The Daily
Clarion—Peopie’s Tribune; 8. Re-
ports of Committees and Resolu-
tions; 9. Election of the Executive
Committee; 10. Closing of the Con-
egress.

These points embody the crucial
matters affecting the life of every
Canadian, the delegates felt. To as-
sist public discussion of these ques-
tions, the C.P. will publish a paper
from July 1 to September 15, called
“Discussion,” in which these prob-
lems will be epenly discussed.

it was announced that prominent
world figures will be invited to the
Congress, which will hold public
Sessions. Those mentioned were
Earl Browder, Harry Pollitt and
Andra Marty, leaders respectively
of the U.S., British and French GCom-
munist Parties.

ast November the Party set it-
self a membership aim of 10,000.
Figures cited at the session showed
that this figure has been reached.
The aim of 12,500 members has been
set, to be secured by the time of the
October congress.

Perhaps at no time in the fourteen
years of the Party has it been in
such an’ effective state, in such a
solidly unified condition, Tim Buck
stated to the Associated Labor
Press. The speeches at the session,
closely examining the victories won
and the obstacles still hampering
the united front, clearly indicating
the path ahead, were without par-
allel in the annals of Party meet-
ings, he said.

People’s Fronter

Bi

MME. IRENE J OLIOT-CURIE,
daughter of the discoverer of
radium, wc honors in the world
of science several years ago when
she was awarded the Nobel prize
in chemistry. She has accepted
the post of undersecretary of sci-
entific research. Two other women
are included in the new French
cabinet.

SOVIETS SHOW
TRADE GAINS

Achievement Marks De-
velopment of Inde-

pendence
MOSCOW, U.S:SR. June 6—
(ALP)—A favorable foreign trade

balance for the Soviet Union for
1935 was reported here after figures
had been computed in response to a
request of the League of Nations.

This achievement marks the devel-
opment of Soviet independence from
foreign countries by means of the
reduction of imports and the liquid—
ation of foreign indebtedness.

Although a favorable balance of
foreign trade was established by the
Soviet Union m 1933, the past year
Was the first in which the actual
Payments showed an excess of ex-
ports over imports. The goods sent
abroad during 1935 were for the
most part paid for during the same
year, thus finding immediate ex-
pression in the balance of payments.

Soviet exports, ineludinge lumber,
oil, flax, furs and metal ores, were
mostly sold for cash, with but an
insignificant part sold abroad for
short-time credits.

The favorable balance on current
accounts was 1,155,000,000 rubles.
The favorable balance of foreign
Payments is reflected in an increase
of 135,000,000 rubles in foreign cur-
rency in the State Bank of the
U.S.S-R.

Fascist Officers Arrested

MADRID, Spain, June
—Arrested for leading 2 mutiny of
the garrison in Alcala de Henares,
eighteen officers were taken to Mad-
rid for trial, it is reported here.

The mases of people are eailings
upon the government to put a stop
to fascist undermining in the army
in the case of these officers.

Agitation in German Factory
BERLIN, June 6—(A LP)—Being
unable to issue a leaflet due to
technical difficulties, anti-fascists in
an arms factory in central Germany,
made three placards with anti-
fascist inscriptions and passed them
on the conveyor belt making it pos-
sible for all workers to read them.

JOE KELLY TOURS
FOR NORANDA MEN

WELLS, B.C., June 7.—Attempts
by individuals to disrupt a meeting
here tonight brought protests and
contempt from the rest of the audi-
ence.

Joe Kelly, who is touring the proy-
ince on behalf of 16 Noranda miners
held for deportation, reviewed brief-
ly the conditions existing in Canada
today, which necessitates a strone
defence movement to offset them.

The strikes of the miners of Cor-

bin, Noranda, the ‘strikes of ‘relief
Camp workers, lJongsShoremen ~ and
loggers were recounted by the
speaker to show to what leneths
the bosses will €o to maintain their
position.

Provincial police were conspicuous
in the audience, carrying on their
silent method of intimidation.

The meeting was held under the
auspices of the Canadian Labor
Defence League.

6.—(ALP) -

TBlum Warns Fascists

Violence Will Not Be
Tolerated

WILL STRIKE HARD

By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN

PARIS (By Federated and Asso-
ciated Labor Press). — That the
spectacular, strikes of more than
1,000,000 French workers have
brought magnificent gains and
spurred enrollment into the or-
ganized labor movement of hun-
dreds of thousands of the hitherto
unorganized is a matter of careful
Planning rather than of fortunate
chance.

While corres-
pondents of they
American busi-|i
ness - controlled
press emphasized
the picturesque
aspects of the oc
cupation of fac
tories and depart
ment stores, they
neglected the so
ber thought and
disciplined strate-
gy that helped to
assure victory. An Pierre
example of the Yan Paassen
sort of preparation that works hang
in hand with the strikers’ militancy-
is seen in the “commissariat of ac=
tion,” composed of trade union lead—
ers. It provides the liaison between
the People’s Front government of
Leon Blum and working class or-
Ganizations.

The trade unions refused to let
their leaders accept portfolios in the
Blum cabinet, but they did vote to
Support the government on three
conditions. They want the immedi-
ate cessation of the export of war
materials to Germany by the French
steel and munition trusts, national-
ization of the armament industry,
and a levy on capital to furnish the

money required for a vast program

of public works to abserb unemploy—
ment.

he “commissariat of action” is
to Keep the government informed
day by day of the desires and aspira-
tions of organized labor. The Fas-
cist press in France calls the new
commissariat a camouflaged Soviet
and tries to frighten the employers
With daily-repeated predictions of
rapine, massacres, financial chaos,
churches aflame and other disas-
ters. The Fascists still hope to see
right wing liberals secede from the

the ranks of reaction. :

To prevent dissolution by the
Blum government the Fascist
leagues are transforming them-
Selves into fraternal organizations,
They are opening soup kitchens and
engage in other charitable work,
but proceed with recruiting and
drilling in a clandestine manner.
every apartment block and ever
street in order to note details of the

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Olympic Trials
Bars Negroes

Amateur Athletic Union
Draws the Color
Line

WASHINGTON, D. G., June 3—
(ALP)—Nesro athletes are being
barred from all Olympic trials hela
South of the Mason and Dixon line,
it Was revealed here.

Application by Negro athletes for
participation in the Olympic trials
to be held near College Park, Md.,
were rejected by Dorsey Griffith,
Amateur Athletic Union regional
track chairman. No Negro events
are Jisted on the program, claimed
Mr. Griffith.

Charges of the racial discrimina-
tion were made by Dr. Frank Cole-
man, chairman of the board of ath—
letie control at Howard University,
Wegro school, in a telegram to Wil-
liam J. Bingham, chairman of the
Olympic track and field committee,
A promise, that Negro athletes
barred from southern competition
would be permitted to participate at
the Harvard ‘semi-finals was ob-
tained from Mr. Bingham.

LUMBERMEN WIN
$65,000 BACK PAY

CHBEHATIS, Wash—Two hun-
dred locked-out lumber workers of
the Carlisle Lumber Co. of Ona-

laska won an award of $65,000 bacl=

pay. The National Labor Relations
Board has also ordered the com-
pany to bargain collectively with

the Lumber and Sawmill Workers’

Union.

People’s Front and come over to.

Fascist spies are to be installed in

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