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-C€. WORKERS’ NEWS

June 26, 1936

New President At Next
A.F.of L. Convention?

group, and his insistence that there
js room within the A-F_of L. for in-
dustrial unions, place him as a
likely successor to Green.
Split May Be Averted

The expulsion of the insurgents
will require a two-thirds vote. With
the Railway Glerks throwing their
lot in as opposed to this expulsion,
it is possible that the split in the
AF .of L.. may be averted. That Har-
rison will be suitable to the Com-
mittee for Industrial Organization
is evidenced in the similarity of
their stands, since Lewis and his
supporters are not interested in
stepping into the building trades
and other fields where they are
ready to leave the eraft unions un-
molested.

Possible Candidate

If Harrison continues to maintain
his compromise position, he may be
able to muster the necessary votes
to become the next president of the
A. F. of L. It is practically certain
that he will not be overlooked by
the G.1I.0. At the age of forty-one,
be is now heading the Railway
Glerks, with a membership of 114,-
000. His rise in the union has been
rapid, and since he became presi-
dent of the Clerks’ Union in 1929,
he has been re-elected without a
break.

Aches, Pains Cured;
Stomach Pays Bill

HOPE, B.C. June 23.—This yil-
lage of over 490 persons is left to-
day without the services of either a
doctor or dentist.

The greatest hardship as a result
of this situation is wrought on the
recipients of relief. Should such a
thing as a pain or ache develop,
then A. P. Grant of New West-
minster, must be got in touch with
in order to procure from him an
order to either of these professiogzal
men in Chilliwack for treatment of
their ailments.

While this procedure may take
from four to five days, a pain of 4
different kind is developed. The bills
for medical and dental services are
deducted from the relief recipients’
meagre food allowances,

Steps are being taken here by the
resident relicf people to petition the
authorities to end this state of at-
fairs, and demand relief allowances
to cover required medical and dental
care.

MORE JAP TROOPS FOR
INNER MONGOLIA

Geo. M. Harrison, Head
of Rail Brotherhood
To Oppose Green

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Within
the inside circles of the A.F.ofL.,
fFumors are piling high that George
@M{. Harrison, head of the Brother-
food of Railway CGlerks, is being
groomed for the job of next presi-
alent in place of Green.

Fights Expulsion of C.LO.

Although his name has not yet
gppeared in the headlines, Harrison
«vill come into greater prominence
as the fight develops between the
Green old-guard craft unionists and
4#he Lewis insurgent industrial un-
jonists. His alignments are with
neither side, but he is said to have
the confidence of both. His position
of fighting against any punitive
measures which the die-hards were
ready to take against the Lewis

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Ne Stability in Shingle
Industry Under Slave
Conditions Existing

A delegation of the striking Capi-
lano shingle mill workers called on
the City Council Wednesday to ex-
plain the men’s side of the dispute
and ask permission to hold a tag
day. The matter was referred to
the city’s utility committee.

The delegation explained that as
the B.C. wage scale was much Jess
than the U.S. scale, allowing the
B.C. manufacturers to undersell the
U.S. manufacturers, the shingle mill
workers of the U.S. were compelled
to fight the entry of B.C. shingles
into that country. The men there
had fought to gain a wage increase,
and now it was profitable for the
U.S. manufacturers to move their
plants to B.C. to take advantage of
the cheap labor. For that reason
union men of the States were obliged
to fight for a reduced quota on Ga-
nadian shingles.

Up to the Operators

Until the B.C. operators get it
through their heads that there will
be no stability in the industry here
until wages and conditions of the
men are on a par with those across
the line, then the shingle mills here
will continue to close for the want
of a market. The workers of Wash-
ington and Oregon are organized,
and the starving or blaspheming of
a erew of union men in B.C. does
not alter that fact

Too Bad Gerry, But It’s True

Mayor McGeer though a willing
tool of the sawmill and lumber in-
terests, as much as he hates to ad-
mit the facts, stated at the Wed-
nesday council meeting:

“T look for trouble between the
United States and Canada, where
Ganada has a lower scale of wages.
That is why I cannot see much
benefit from trade agreements.”

The striking Capilano workers
are determined not to put them-
selves at the mercy of the mill
owners. The management recently
submitted a list of 39 men whom
they said they were willing to rein-
state. The 39 men included strike-
breakers, men who had never work-
ed previously in that mill, and a
few of the strikers. As the com-
plement of the mill is 80 men, the
strikers point out that there is no
question but that the owners want
to discriminate against the great
majority of the strikers. The men
are holding meetings regularly,
and except for the 9 men who went
seabbing at the beginning of the
strike the ranks are solid.

Shingles Unfair

The Trades and Tabor Council
has placed all shingles manufac-
tured in mills employing strike-
breakers, on the unfair list, and a
runner follows every parcel of un-
fair shingles to its destination in
U.S. ports.

It is announced that steps are
being taken by the city council to
arrange a meeting between the
operators and the workers, with
members of the city council at-
tending.

SWEDEN BOYCOTTS
BERLIN OLYMPICS

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 20.—
(ALP)—Sweden’s mnon-participation
in the Olympic games to be held in
fascist Germany this summer is con-
ceded a strone chance, it was an-
nounced here today, as one reso-
lution after the other was recorded
in the growing list of boycotts be-
ing organized.

Bach day Swedish newspapers
publish resolutions from various
workers’ organizations advocating a
boyeott of the Olympic games. At
the closing session of the congress
of the food workers’ trade unions
4 decision was passed obliging
union members not to participate in
the Berlin games under any condi-
tion.

Prominent Swedish sportsmen and
athletes are to an increasing extent
also throwing their weight against
participation, it was revealed. The
well-known skier, Eric Larson, who
participated in the winter gaimes in
Partenkirtehen where he won a gold
medal, has protested against the
arrest of a sailor 1amed Janson.

| SEAMEN ISSUE
STATEMENT

(Continued from page 1)

benefit from such
employers.

Mr. Mosher has been in the labor
movement too lon2= not to realize
this to the fullest extent. Such tac-
tics, however, are the results of the
class collaboration tactics which
have been and are being pursued by
the A.C.C. of L. officials. To "any
one who understands the National
and Intemational labor movement,
the tactics of Mr. Mosher closely re-
semble the tactics of Mussolini and
Hitler, who foree, with the aid of
the employers, the workers into
unions controlled by the financial in-

division of their

terests. Wailing to accomplish this.
they send them to concentration
camps.

Where do the splitting tactics of
Mr. Mosher lead to. Look towards
Italy or Germany, brother, the con-
centration camps and forced labor.
All for the sop-vhich is being: dished
out now in the form of an agree-
ment for a few men with underpaid
jobs. Is it worth it? We think it is
not.

Where do orgunized and united

tactics lead to? look towards
France and Spain, brother. Higher
wages, shorter hours, the right of
collective bargainins, vacations with
full pay.

We are convineed that the sea-
men on the Pacific Coast wili take
the constructive road, with the Sea-
farers’ Industrial Union and the

Maritime Iederation of the Pacific,
which means, join now and unite
With our brothers south of the line
who supported us 100% during our
recent dispute with the shippinse
barons.

Issued By the Executive
Board of the Seafarers’
Industrial Union, 47
Powell St., Vancouver,
James Maskell, Secretary.

SPANISH YOUTH
SHOW THE WAY

A Communication from
the Young Communist
International

At the end of March of this year,
the leading organs of the ¥.C.L. and
Y.S.L. made a decision to unite into
one organization on the basis of the
decisions of the Sixth World ¥:C.L.
Congress.

This decision on uniting both rev-
olutionary anti-fascist youth organ-
izations was accepted with great en-
thusiasm by the broadest strata of
the young toiling generation ofr
Spain.

The two months of work of the
Communist and Socialist youth
leagues of Spain to create a united
youth organization have brought
unprecendented results in the his-
tory of the working youth movenient
of Spain.

In February, there were 14,000
¥Y.C.LWers in Spain. As a result of
work and carrying out the decisions
to unite, that is, by the first of
May, the ¥.C.L. already had 50,680
members and the Y.S.L. 65,600.

The united organization now has
140,000 members.

In the most important centres of
the country, as for instance in
Asturias, where there are 5,900
Y.C.L.ters and 9,000 Y.S.L/ers, in
Madrid, Moorsie, Valencia, Ceildad
Real, Seville and other places, unity
has already almost been achieved.
In a few districts there are already
being prepared provincial county
congresses.

The press of the united youth also
has great successes. The newspaper
of the ¥.C.L., “Juventud Roja,”
which was published in 9,000 copies
in January, 20,000 copies in Febru-
ary, increased its circulation by the
end of March to 40,000 copies. Bach
issue of the united newspaper,
“Renovacion—Juyentud Roja’ has
been printed in 70,000 copies.

Beginning with the first number
of the “Juventud” (organ of the
national unity commission) subserip-
tions reached 150,000.

The first great successes show
not only to the Spanish youth, but
to the youth of the entire world,
that the path of uniting their forces
and creating a united mass organ-
ization of anti-fascist youth is the
only path.

Dept. of Propaganda and
Mass Work of the Younes

Communist International.

18 to 20 Years for tabae
Activities; I.L.D. Will
Appeal

NEW YORK, N.Y.—(ALP)—On

June 13, the Georgia State Supreme
Court handed down a decision up-

holding the constitutionality of the
Georgia slave insurrection statue,
and ordering Angelo Herndon to

serve 18 to 20 years on the chain-
ane under a sentence based on this
statue. The International Labor
Defense immiediately announced an
application would be made for slay
of execution of sentence, and an ap-
peal will be taken to the United
States Supreme Court. The Interna-

tional Tabor Defense has also ap-
pealed for funds, to be sent to its
national office, 80 East BHleventh

Street, New York City, to support
the legal steps which must be taken.

By ANGELO HERNDON.

The decision of the Georgia Su-
preme Court ordering me to serve
18 to 20 years on the chain-gane is
a sentence equivalent to death by
torture. But as I have said time
and again, I repeat now, the im-
pertance of the Angelo Herndon case

lumbia. :

is not so much what will happen to

—6>

Bedoneled Wadeer

Ancient Slave Statute

me personally. The important thing
is the Georgia slave insurrection law
which the state court has upheld in
its decision, and the threat it holds
for all labor organizers, all Negro
people, and all progresive-minded
| individuals.
| The fact that 18 Negro and white
persons were charged in Atlanta last
week under this law because they
possessed literature which the Chat-
tanooga News immediately charac-
terized “trade union news’ (Lhe
Southern Worker), and because they

>re Negro and white
> under one roof, is
the threat this law

as

of

Significant
holds.
The decision,

which is not a sur-
prise to me, since I have tasted

fia justice for the last f
years in many a bitter dose (I spent
28 months in a hell-hole of a Geor
prison pending the first appeal
this case) is a challenge to all
eanized Jabor and to the Nesgro
people. Already action is under way
to fight it.

United action of all labor, the
Neero people, and all their friends,
is needed to defeat this law. Jt is a
threat not only in Georgia, but na-
tionally, as the American Federation
of Labor recognized at its fifty-fitth
annual convention last year.

Geo

in

Oor-

SAN FRANCISCO
SETS UNION PACE

(Continued from page 1)

the job, the foreman fires him. If
on the other hand, a worker breaks
the working rules, and persists in
speeding up, he too, gets fired.

If in either case the man cares
to complain, his case is taken up by
the gane who makes the decision.
lf a foreman oversteps his mark the
gang also decides his fate.

The gang delesate system works
100%. Job matters are settled right
on the job, the ganse stewards act-

ing as business agents for their
gang.
TRADE UNION UNITY
The’ Frisco longshoremen haye

won the confidence and respect of
all the “Frisco unions. Recently the
operators of a certain Ship laid plans
to lock out the union men, and em-
ploy seabs. Bridges appeared before
the union of teamsters and truck
drivers, outlined the case, and the
union notified the employer, that in
case scabs were employed, not one
pound of freight would be hauled
off the docks. The employer came to
terms.

Dealine at length with the ‘re-
actionary officials of the Coast dis-
trict, all of whom were repudiated
by the convention. Blake summed
up with the statement, “‘The re-
actionary Morris-lewis machine is
out; out for all time. The rank and
file control.”

In terms similar to those describ-
ing the San Francisco longshore

local, Stan Blake spoke of the
Sailors’ Union of the Pacific. Be-
eause of its militancy, the MInter-

national office of the International
Seamen’s Union revoked the charter
of the S.U-P., and had injunctions
issued against the funds and prop-
erty and use of name. The Inter-
national then sent a “phoney” or-
fanizer out to the coast to form an-
other union, but the seamen did not

bite. Within a week after their
charter was revoked, 759% of the
members had signed pledges of

loyalty to the S.U-P.

There is 100% co-operation be-
tween the coast longshoremen and
seamen, 14,000 longshoremen and
22,400 seamen, all welded togetner in
the Maritime Federation of the
Pacific, all 36,400 pledged to aid in
reorganizing the ports of B.C.

The speaker outlined in detail the
plan proposed to be followed, a plan
which secured the endorsation of the
coast unions.

COMPARISONS

Other points of extreme interest
were: An outline of the conditions
in Mexico, where a workers’ govern-
ment rules. There police are used to
protect the strikers. Comparatively
good as are longshore conditions in
"FW risco, they are put to shame by
Mexico.

In contrast, the conditions on the
east U.S. coast, where the longshore
chairman opens the meetine with a
gun, and puts over decisions the
same way.

The constitution
national Seameén’s Union allows no
meetings of the membership and
outlaws all strikes. At the head is
Andy Fursuyth, 86 years old, so long
away from the sea he can’t remem-
ber what the old ships looked like.

The comparison that in Vancouver
in 1923, twelve hundred longshore-
men handled two million tons of
cargo, while in 1934, nine hundred
and forty men handled five niilion.
During those eleven years, the
unions were employer-controlled.

The deplorable conditions of the
HMawaiian longshoremen, recently
organized, and with the aid of the
U.S. coast workers, standing fair to
revoluntionize their conditions.

For more than three hours Stan
Blake held his audience with what
Was one of the best trade union re-
ports ever delivered in these pafts.

G. B.

NO MORE RELIEF
FOR SINGLE MEN

(Continued from page 1)

of the Inter-

same interests, has voiced this
policy as the intention of the in-
dustrial barons,

On that point the industrial
barons and their paid speli-builder,
is in perfect agreement with the
most reactionary officials of the

local National Labor Council of the
INGER OR (ore IPE

The closing down of the relief
camps and the logging camps, and
the cutting of the single men off
relief is part of this plan. With the
resumption of work in the logsing
camps, following a period of home-
lessness and starvation for thou-
sands of B.C. workers,
operators hope to have a
where they can impose wage cuts
and worsened conditions to their

hearts content.

Recently Vancouver witnessed the
starvin=
youth begging on the streets, jailed
ins
un,
with thousands of victims
instead of dozens? It will be a fit-

spectacle of a few dozen
for doin= so, and then back b
afain. Is this to be repeated a

this time

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Club, Saturday night, when they
slugged through three two-zninute
rounds of fast boxing. Gordie put
up a good scrap but Al carried the
day with his aggressiveness and
forced Gordie to back up and fall to
the canvas several times. This bout
was adjudged the best of the eve-
ning.

Bill Keenan (V.S.C.) 88 lbs. and
Walter Street (V.S.C.) 95 ibs., fought
three two-minute rounds to a draw-
Pat Healy (V.S-C) 77 Ibs., fought a
three round draw with Bill Baley
(V-S.C.) 82 ibs.

Mel Breen (V-S.G.) 195 lbs. and

Harold Sparks (V.S.C.) 200 Ibs., two
good heavyweights, fought three
good rounds. Both boys went down
for a long count and the referee
made a popular decision when he
raised both hands for a draw.
Bill Noyes (Burnaby) 134 lbs. and
Jack Copeland (Burnaby) 135 I1bs.,
wrestled four five-minute rounas tu
a draw. Copeland took a fall in the
second with an arm stretch and a
body press. Bill evened the score in
the third with a crotch hold and a
body press. Both boys fought bit-
terly for the advantage. At the end
of the fourth round the boys were
all tangled up.

Tarzan Burns (V.S.C.) 184

Ibs.,

Stan Sowden (V.S.C.) 155 lbs. Tarzan
had the advantage in weight but he
found Stan to be plenty tough and
smart.

Stan Alford (Burnaby) 130 lbs. and
George Henderson (Vancouver
Heights) 134 Ibs., wrestled three five-
minute rounds and put on one of
the best wrestling shows ever seen
in this club. Henderson took a fall
in the first with a hip throw and a
body press. Alford took a fall in the
third with a flying mare and body
throw. Draw.

Mickey (Legs) Milliken (V.S.G.) 140
lbs., wrestled Ted Garbut (V.S.C.)
138 lbs., one fall to a finish, frve-
minute rounds. Mickey took it in the
third stanza with a flying head
scissors.

MINERS PREPARE
VOTE ON UNION

BLAIRMORSE, Alta., June 23.—
(ALP)—Alberta coal miners are
preparing for the ballot on June 30
which is expected to unite the two
unions now active in the provincial
coal fields, the United Mine Work-
ers of America and the Mine Work-
ers Union of Ganada, the latter a
former Workers Unity League af-
filiate.

B. Levitt of the U.M.W. and J.
Stokaluk of the M-W.U. are ad-
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