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COURT TURNS
DOWN REGINA
TREK APPEALS

Delegation Will Petition

Lapointe for Sentence
Remission

APPEALS ABANDONED

REGINA, June 16—Appeals of
Joe Mottile and Sydney Stevens, two
of the Qn-to-Ottawa trekkers who
Were sentenced to seven months,
were dismissed today in the Sask-
atchewan Court of Appeal.

Im dismissing the appeals, Chief
Justice Sir Prederick Haultain des-
eribed the argument presented by
Defence Counsel Makaroff as with-
out merit and absolutely frivolous,
he was supported in his remarks
by Justice Gordon, who stated that
the trekkers had received a splendid
trial and wonderful defence, and
that he would not have agreed with
the trial judge in withdrawine the
rioting charges.

Defence counsel told the court
after completion of Jack Weedin’s
case that if the first two cases were

considered without merit it was
useless for him tos argue against
further cases and dealt only with

the severity of the sentences meted
out.

Kenneth Forsythe was the only
trekker to gain anything from the
appeals, his sentence was reduced
from six to three months, but he
has also been informed by immigra-
tion officials that he is subject to

deportation and may be deported be-~

fore his sentence is completed.

In’ view of the biased statements
of Chief Justice Sir F. Haultain,
Bigelow and Gordon the Citizens’
Defence Movement have issued the
following statement today:

“The attitude of Chief Justice
Sir Frederick Haultain when he de-
clared that the cases of Sidney
Stevens and Joe Mottle, youthful
trekkers, were without merit and
absolutely frivilous has convinced
us that we can expect little from
the Court of Appeal.

We have therefore abandoned the

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DEMANDS MADE
BYEXTRA GANGS

Marked Ganeaverment Is
Due to the Workers’

Vigilance

The following are the conditons
that prevail generally on all rail-
road extra gang projects at the
present Hime:

Wages, 25 cents per hour; hours
of work, 10 hours per day; board,
$5.50 per week; bedding, 50 cents per
week; medical attention, $1.75 per
month. ss

The Poll Tax of $5.00 is also taken
from the wages.

Extra panes in the past haye been
noted for the miserable conditions
under which workmen lived and
worked under with a slave driver
for a boss:

The food lacks variety or quality
and the sleeping accommodations
are anything but congenial. These
@re the conditions that the tormer
relief camp workers are endeavor-
ing to remedy and some improve-
Ment has already been made in this
direction.

Cooks on the extra gangs work
on a bonus system with the conse-
quent lack of wholesome food being
served to the workers. On a number
of the projects this is beine changed
due to the activity of the workers,
who have called in the Roadmasters
and pointed out the discrepancies
prevailing, with the result that the
esoks have been warned that if no
improvement was brought about,.
they would be replaced.

This has resulted in a marked
improvement in variety of food of
better quality. Sleeping accommoda-
tion is being= dealt with in a like
manner.

Demands for time and a half for
Sunday work have been put forward
with the result that the workers
have not been asked to do any more
Sunday work and no discrimination
has been shown to anyone so far.

Preparations are now going for-
ward to deal with the auestion of
the 8-hour day and the enforcement
of the Minimum Wage Act on the
extra gangs.

TRADE ENVOY TO
VISIT U.S. S/R.

OTTAWA, QOnt., June 15.—{ALP)
—W. .D. Buler, Minister of Trades
and Commerce, has announced he
would visit the Soviet Union soon to
study the possibility of re-establish-
ing trade relations between Canada
and the Soviet Union.

Buler will leave next week on a
include Great
Germany, Poland

Britain, France,
and the U.S.S.R:

“I go with the’ sympathetic ap-
proval of the government towards
the buildings up of trade between

the Soviet Republic and Canada,”
Euler said.

Trade between Canad and Russia
has been practically at a’ standstiil
for many years because of a ban
the

imposed on Soyiet goods by
King government in 1927.

FRENCH STRIKERS WIN BIG GAINS

Pay raises and shorter hours were won in a few days by a million French workers whose strike al-
most halted industrial activity in Paris. The walkout had the backing of the newly-elected People’s
Front government. Shown above are strikers in a Paris factory taking life easy in the plant’s court-
yard as the walkout got under way. :

ILA Dockers
On First Ship

Event Heralded as Step
Towards Organization

of B.C. Ports

FLASH!

us that a ship, here to load South
South American cargo, is held up
in New Westminster, the union
crew refusing to let strike-breal-
ing longshoremen do the loading.
An ITL.A. local has just recently
been set up in the River port, and
the crew demand that EL.A. men
be used. An aitempt on the part
ef the shippers to transfer the
eargo to Vancouver was stopped:
when the crew notified the com-
pany they would not accept the
cargo unless loaded by LL.4. men.
The daily papers have much play
on the story that formerly Van-
couver “union Jlongshoremen’’ have
accepted cargo declared unf2ir-—in
Wew Westminster. Pending the
placing of an T.1..A. charter in Yan-
couver, the ex-strikers here did not
demand that the American seamen
eause an issue which might de-
velop into a coast conflagration, by
refusing to take cargo loaded with
mixed gangs. Since, however, an
LL.A. local has been established,
and the unino longshoremen and
Seamen of U-S. ports will demand
i.L.A. men be used here. It is ex-
pected that the same stand will be
taken by union crews on New Zea-
land. Continental and other vessels.
For the first time since 1923,
members of the International Long-

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CLERGY DISCUSS
RENTS, EVICTONS

VANCOUVER, June 16.—Evic-
tions and rising rentals in this city
occupied some time and concern of
the Vancouver Presbytery of the
United Church of Canada at their
meeting: today.

Threats of evictions and a large
number of evicted families have
been brought to the attention of the
ministers during the past few weeks.

A resolution was endorsed ask-
ing the City Council to call a con-
ference of the landlords, relief of-

ficials, and all interested organiza-
tions to work out of stabilizing
rental charges, assuring citizens

Some measure of comfort.

‘AS we go to press, word reaches, |

NO UNITED FRONT
WITH COMMUNISTS
SAYS REV. CONNELL

REVELSTOKS, June 9.—On June
8, Rev. Connell, leader of the C.C_F.
#roups in the B.C. parliament, spoke
here to a good crowd. In the ques-
tion period a local worker asked,
“Considering the triumph of fascism
in several Huropean countries, and
its growth in Canada, would Rey.
Gonnell support a People’s Front
against Fascism?”

Rev. Connell replied that there is
“no fascist movement in Canada
powerful enough to be taken seri-
ously. Moreover, the only people
with whom the C.C.F. could form a
united front against fascism, were
the Conimunists, and he would not
co-operate with them.

The remarkable part of Mr. Con-
nell’s answer was that earlier in
the meeting, Mr. Jack Price, CC.F.,
M.A. from Wancouver East, had
described the fascist attrocities at
Corbin, and also that in the crowd
were €.C.E. workers who had, last
December, in the John Balsam case,
taken united action against fascism
with a Conservative lawyer, Liberal
party members, and the R.C.wW.U.

“PADDY’’ MORAN
UPHOLDS LAW

PRINCE GEORGE. June 13.—Re-
lief recipients here haye recently
taken to raising a hog to heip out
their meagre relief allowances, but
the bye-laws of the city forbid keep-
ing hogs within the city limits.

To enforce this bye-law residents
were notified through the press to
either dispose of the hogs or have
them taken outside the city limits.
Those who failed to do so were
summoned before Magistrate Paddy
Moran.

Moran, a local hotel keeper,
Showed the defendants no mercy,
one woman with three small chil-
dren was sentenced to Seven days
when she failed to pay a fine off five
dollars,

The magistrate was spoken to by
a citizen, explaining the circum-
Stances the woman was in, being
the sole support of the family while
her husband was away looking for
work, but Moran in a very arrogant
and domineering: attitude asked him
what he had to do with the case.

Friends paid the fine and. the
woman with her three children were
released.

All That Is Left, After
Mine Owners Take
47 Million!

ZHouie Le Bourdais, well-known
telegraph operator of Quesnell, B.C.
is in town, the same Louie that the
Writer knew 16 years ago, except
that he is now displaying a fine
crop of sideburns, grown, he informs
us, for the purpose of adding a
touch of “gold rush’ color to the
Cariboo miners’ contribution to the
Vancouver Jubilee celebrations.
When -I knew him first he was
an ardent member of the Commer-
cial Telegraphers Union of America,
but in 1926 the Canadian  Tele-
graphers broke away from the AF.
of L., and following this split dis-
organization set in and today the
Union of Canadian Government
Telegraphers is practically mnon-
existant.
Louis Le Bourdais’ family history
in the Cariboo dates back to the
gold rush days. Today we talked
about his family and the early
Cariboo days, the miners then and
the miners now. Many are coming
to Vancouver for the Jubilee cele-
brations, and for this ‘occasion”’
they have diligently cultivated for

months huge shaggy beards, remi-

Jubilee Racketeers Now
Exploit Miners’ Whiskers

»niscent of the old days. That is all
that remains reminiscent of the
“Gold Rush.” Today the miners of
the Cariboo, are as the miners of
the rest of Canada; those who had
the opportunity of helping to pro-
duce the 47 million dollars dividends
for the coupon.clippers in 1935, and
those who had no job both have
their whiskers to recall the pros-
perity of the Cariboo.

Today the Cariboo miners are rec:
ognized. Like the Nova Scotia
draegermen who figured so promi-
nently in the Moose River mine
rescue, whom showmen rackateers
boosted sky high for exploitation
purposes, the Cariboo miners are
now being exploited by the Vancou-
ver Jubilee racket. We don’t alto-
gether blame the miners. This is
probably the first time since “pay
dirt’ days that most of them haye
had the price for a trip outside. At
least they will have a few days
away from the presence of want and
ill care which is the lot of them and
their families. When they go baci
the same fate will face them. If they
protest too loudly, the provincial
police will gas them and club them,
whiskers and all. When another
Jubilee rolls around, the rackateers
will again recognize the Cariboo
miners as citizens of the country,
that is; providing they can e2row

“gold rush” whiskers.

Toronto Police
On Warpath

Over Injuries

Whole Force Endorses
Strong Resolutions

TORONTO, Ont., June 15.—(ALP)
—Toronto policemen, who have dis-
Dlayed militancy in the past, are on
the war-path again.

Immediate issue before the ‘Lo-
ronto force, which has an Associa-
tion that is anything but a ‘“com-
pany umnion,’’ is the case of Con-
Stable Proctor who was jammed
against a telephone pole from the
running board of a car when he was
attempting to make an arrest in the
line of duty. He lay in hospital for
nine months and then, the men
charge, was forced to resign on a
$15 a week pension:

Three Mass Meetings

Three huge mass meetings were
held yesterday, with practically all
of the 900: men on the force attend=
ing, and stinging resolutions were
passed demanding that police of-
ficers injured when in the pursuit
of criminals should be guaranteed
full pay until the regular -retire-
ment age.

Vigorous applause followed state-
ments that police “should take no
chances”’ if they are to be treated
in the same manner as Proctor.

“If you do you should have your
head examined,” one officer said.

Just a little over a year ago the
Toronto force threatened to xo on
strike and quickly brought the au-
thorities to time. Local newspapers
branded the threat as ‘‘subversive”’
and “revolutionary.”

POLICE SUED FOR
ALLEGED WOUNDING

VANCOUVER,

June 16—William

Preymak, truck driver, 1771 West
Fourth avenue, today entered suit
against a city policeman, Charles

Campbell, 2654 Vine street, for $170
special and unstated general dam-
ages. Constable Cambpell is alleged
to have driven up in a police car be-
side Preymak at 11:45 p.m. on March

21 last, and to have fired a shot,
wounding Preymak. It is reported
that the accident occured when

police were checking up on a stolen
truck.

Chief’s Salary Boost
' Passes City Council

VANCOUVER, June 16.—The Van-
couver City Council, at Monday’s
meeting authorized the payment of
a bonus of $742 to Police Chief W.
W.. Foster.

Recently Chief Foster's pay was
increased from $352.68 monthly to
$414.56, and when it was found
legally impossible to make the in-
crease retroactive to last year, the
difficulty was overcome by granting
the amount in the form of a bonus.

Beside the increase and bonus, the
chief was given a month's holiday
with pay. He is now on his way
to the Vimy pilgrimage.

GERMAN WORKERS
PAY DEDUCTIONS

BERLIN, June 12.—(ALP)—In-
roads upon workers’ wages to the
extent of 30 per cent were disclosed
during a meeting here of the “Im-
perial Chamber of Labor,’’
director of the Botschke nitrate
plants in Bavaria.

Deductions were made for the
sick fund, unemployment insurance,
invalidity totalling 9 per cent, with
deductions also for taxes, dues for
fascist organizations and com-
pulsery subscriptiom to Nazi news-
papers.

Indians Protest Tax
CALGARY, June 11.— (ALP)—
Claiming they are exempt from
taxation, Alberta’s 11,000 Indians
have entered a protest against pay-
ing the new provincial two per cent
sales tax.

TOM BARNARD
B.C. DELEGATE
SOVIET UNION

One of Five Veterans
Invited by Soviet
Ex-Soldiers

WILL VISIT VIMY

VANCOUVER, June 16. — T. A.
Barnard, of Nanaimo, British Go-
Iumbia representative on the Do-
minion Command of the Canadian
Legion, will be one of a delegation
of five Canadian veterans to visit
the Soviet Union this summer as
guests of the veterans’ organization
of the U-S.S.R.

Ontario will be represented by
several ex-seryicemen, while one
each will go from Quebec, the Mid-
dle West and possibly the Maritimes.
The Canadian delegation will likely
attend the unveiling of the Cana-
dian war memorial at Vimy, Hrance,
in July, arriving in Leningrad on
July 3ist.

Mr, Barnard, a past president of
the B.C. Command of the Legion,
will bear credentials to the Soviet
veterans from General Alex Ross,
Dominion President, and from W. J.
Buell, British Columbia President,
as well as from J. S. Woodsworth,
C.G.F. leader. Barnard is a Social-
ist and has stood for parliament
three times. He is a machinist by
trade.

Trades And Labor
Council To Combat
Tom MacInnes

VANCOUVER, June 17.—Plans
Were started last night at the reen-
lar meetine -of the- Vancouver and
New Westminster District Trades
and Labor Council to counteract the
radio attacks of Tom MacInnes
against organized labor.

A plan of assessment was pro-
posed to finance a weekly broadcast
which besides combatting the labor
hater, would acquaint the public
with the aims of the American Fed-
eration of Labor.

Perey Bengough, secretary, was
of the opinion that the organized
labor movement was getting some-
Where, when such individuals set
out to knock it.

The question of the broadcasts
will be sent to the local union ask-
ing for their opinions and ratifica-
tion.

The 10-hour day which former re-
lief camp inmates are compelled to
work, at the rate of 25 cents per
hour, drew the council’s protests. A
resolution of protest will be for-
warded to the congress meeting in
Montreal on September 8.

A resolution, asking endorsement
of a thirty-hour week was ratified
by the council. The resolution came
from London, Ontario.

Mary Gower, A. M.
Stephen To Address
Anti - War League

The monthly meeting of the Van-
couver Council of the Canadian
League Against War and Fascism
will be held at 8 pm., Thursday,
June 25, at the O’Brien Hall, 404
Homer street.

port of the activites of the Cana-
dian League in this province durins
the past month and ‘Will lead the
discussion on plans for International
Peace Day and proposals for a Pro-
vincial Congress on August 4, and
5. He will also speak on the advis-
ability of joining with other Peace
organizations in an endeayor to
raise a Peace Fund and also in re-
gard to a fitting Jubilee celebration
for Peace.

The recent Canadian Youth Con-
gSress and its relation to the Peace
forces of Canada will be discussed by
Mary Gower, one of the delegates
from Vancouver.

Resolutions and plans for
strengthening the Peace Movement
will be welcomed.

Mr. A. M_ Stephen will give a re-

LIFE TERMS FOR
NAZI ENEMIES

EBERSBERG, Germany, June
16—(ALP)—Lifclongs imprisonment
in concentration camps is in future
to be punishment meted out to
“corrigible enemies of the state,’
according to statements made by
Minister of the Interior Adolf
Wagner in a speech here today.

The Munzeh Gestapo, secret po-
litical police, recently arrested a
large number of Communists who
turned out to be old offenders, he
declared. The mistake was made,
he said ,in having released these
men the first time they had’ been
detained.

“But now I am determined that
enemies causht a second time
shall never be let out of concen-
tration camps,” he threatened.

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All For The
Corporation

Powell River Car Qwners
Prosecuted for Carry-
ing Passengers

Greed on the part of Powell River
bus owners has recently led to the
prosecution of workmen who own
private automobiles and who have
been thoughtful of their brother
workmen, by giving them a life to
and from the job at the Powell
River plant. By exploiting so-called
highway laws and resulations, the
bus ovwners are showing their con-
tempt for those who prefer to risk
the careful driving of a neighbor in
preferance to questionable drivins
of a bus driver who was found
guilty a short time ago of negligent
driving.

Ten dollars and costs seems to be
the pleasure of vested interests,
while th victims are struggling in
every manner possible to make ends
meet. The hardship of the poor
workman, who, in the past, has en-

joyed the privilege of free trans-
portation will now be greatly in-
ereased, to satisfy the selfishness

of capital.

It is reported that some fifty peo-
ple are facing similar charges in the
near future in the Powell River
court. If as usual the fine is ten
dollars and costs, the treasury of the
police will show a prosperous turn,
while on the other hand the victims

will be compelled to kneel before
high finance once more. Powell
River citizens are greatly aroused

and resent this action.

The local press is attempting as
usual to run with the hounas and
hide with the hare. A carefully com-
Piled editorial greets the victims
with left handed sympathy, while at
the same time pointing out that the
law must be observed im spite of
these seeming acts of brotherly
thoughtfulness, on the part of these
who daily toil for every nickle that
comes their way.

UNION TO DECIDE
ON AFFILIATION

CALGARY, Alta.. June 16 (ALP)
—Whether the Mine Workers’ Union
of Canada should amalgamate with
the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca will be decided on June 30th. The
amalgamation proposal, approved
by union executives, will be voted on

then by the union membership.

Show Boat Employees
Forced Back On
Relief

VANCOUVER, June 16. — Em-
Dloyees of-the Novelty Amusement

by the

Go., are unable to collect wages due
them for renovating the hulk of the
Laura Whelan, former cannery ves-
sel, and until Jast Tuesday intended
for a Show Boat. Eighteen men
were employed on it since the
middle of May.

Today the company is bankrupt
with all supplies bought on credit
and their employees holding an
empty sack.

Men working on construction were
hired at the employment office and
were paid 18 cents an hour for the
first two days, then some publicity
was given to this state of affairs
and the promise of 40 cents was
made, with one dollar a day being
deducted for board of poor quality
and skimpy quantity.

Qn May 14 the men were paid for
two days work. The next pay day

was scheduled to fall on the first of

No Wages For Employees
Of Showboat Promoters

June, but on this day the men were
stalled off with 4 dollar or two, some
of them were given rubber checks
for their labors.

Two days of 17 and 20 hours were
worked by these men to get -the
Show Boat in readiness for the open
ing night, while other days were
worked out at ten hours per day.

The men slept on board the vessel
in much the same condition it had
been as a cannery boat, no attempts
had been made to clean it up.
Blankets were supplied by the men
themselves,

Harry Leach, manager, with of-
fices at 206 Royal Trust Bld=&, had
suggested to the men that they
should draw their relief while work
ing for them. T. Howard, managing
director, is reported to be a Jubilee
sales supervisor, these two formerly
had offices in the same building as
the Jubilee Committee.

Two men are now employed on
the Show Boat by the sheriff, one
,of them was the electrician who
along with the other men cannot
collect his wages.

Sie waitresses are also unable to

Strike Continues
At Capilano Mill
U.S. Unions Aid

Washington Unions Collect $1500 for Support of
B.C. Workers; Have Placed Ban

on all Unfair Shingles ae

HH. Pritchett, executive board
member of the B.C. District Coun-

eq] of the Lumber and Sawmill
Workers’ Union, and president of
his local, visited the northwest

Washington locals last week on be-
half of the strikers of Capilano
Mill, and the B.G. lumber workers
in general. :
The financial result of his trip
was the raising of $1500, over half
of which has already reached Van-
couver. The Grays-Willappa Harbor
District Council pledged $100.00
monthly as long as the strike lasts.
The Aberdeen local is puttine= on
a smoker, proceeds to be donated to
the B.C, locals. pare
The Washington locals asert that
they will not handle any unfair B.C.
products, and are taking steps to
get the same action from all or-
ganized labor. U.S. locals are being
notified of all parcels of unfair
Shingles destined to their locality,
Reports, unconfirmed as we go to
press, are that several carloads of
unfair shingles have been returned
to B.C. mills this week.
The Capilano situation
changed. The ranks are solid, and
the picket line is bein= maintained
100 per cent.
The company still refuses to nego-
tiate wtih a Committee of the men.
The Capilano boys are fighting
for the right to organize. The issue
is one that effects every worker in
the country, and is deseryine of the
backing of all union spirited work-
ers. Show your sympathies by ex-
tending financial support. Send
money to R. Nichol, Secretary, B.C.
Coast District Council, Labor Head-
quarters, Beatty street.

FRENCH LABOR _
RECORDS GAINS

Strrkers Demonstrate
To Celebrate Their

Victories

PARIS, France, June 16—(ALP)
—Victory on almost every striking
front in the recent labor battles in
French industry have been recorded
here, according to summaries which
have been drawn up and published
here today. Gains had been made in
Practically every demand fought for,
including the forty-hour working
week, collective agreements, closed
shop, shop delegates and increases
in pay from 7 to 15 per cent.

The total membership in the
French trade union centre, the unic
fied General Confederation of iuabor,
has reached figures higher than in
all French union history, estimates
have revealed. The total membership
now amounts to 2,500,000 and is
rapidly swelling. The trade union
membership doubled during the
strike.

Despite the considerable victories
which have been realized, a number
of industries and firms are _ still
deadlocked, unable to reach an
agreement Satisfactory to all sides.
These stalemates exist primarily in
department stores and insurance
companies, where the employers are
making an effort to retain existing
conditions.. The more important ac-
eords reached were in the auto and
metal industries. ,

Demonstrations were held by. the
victorious strikers to celebrate their
achievement. Many of these demon-
Strations carried large pictures of
Maurice Thorez, General Secretary
of the French Communist Party,
and of Socialist Premier Leon Blum.

While the Chamber of Deputies
has already passed Blum’s reform
bills, they are still to be acted upon
by the Senate before becoming law.
It is expected that more opposition
will be encountered in the Senate
than in the Chambers.

BOYCOTT HELPS
CLOSE LOG CAMPS

Four logging camps have closed
down during the past two weeks,
the reason given by the operators
being that the prices for hemlock
and cedar are not conducive to fur—
ther logging at the present time.

The boycott of Canadian logs by
the American unions to the south is
a big factor in these camps closing:
down. This boycott was planned at
the conference of lumber workers
in Everett some months ago, be-
eause the Canadian operators are
paying a much smaller wage than
is in effect in the United States. To
allow these logs to go into the Amer-
ican market would tend to reduce
the wages of the American workers
and help smash their unions.

The camps which haye closed
down are the Vancouver Bay Log-
ging Co., Broyles and Moore's,
Broyles and Grove and Gustayson’s.

ator of the motor launch, who was
under contract at a salary of $150
per month, is also holder of an
empty sack.

Several of the men have been re-

collect their wages, while the oper-

instated on the relicf rolls.

is un~’

Sy Ge are AS