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FULL NO. 76

OUSTED CLUBS
FIGHT AGAINST
CCF EXPULSIONS

Toronto Meet Expresses
Lack of Confidence

in Executive

TORONTO, Ont., June 20—(ALP)
—Unanimously endorsing resolutions
calling for an appeal to the nutional
council of the C.C.I. against action
by the provincial council in expel-
linge four Toronto G.C. EF. clubs and
in dropping three more upon their
refusal to oust individual members,
a meeting of C.C.F. members in
the Labor Temple last night carried
the fight for unconditional rein-
Statement one step further. Express-
ing solidarity with those expelled
and a lack of confidence in the pro-
Vineial council, the meeting called
for an unofficial membership con-
ference prior to the Nationa: Con-
vention in August to guage the
feelings of the Ontario membership
on this issue.

The clubs expelled were charged
With participation in the May Day
parade which took place in Toronto.
These clubs were Lakeview C.CF.
Club, Bast York Workers’ Associa-
ion, Earlscourt C.C.F. and the New
Dawn C.C.Y-M., a club in the youth
movement. Three other clubs were
ordered expelled on their refusal to
conform with a decision emanatin=
from the provincial council that in-
dividual members who had partici-
pated in the May Day meetings be
aiso dropped. These were the Rev.
Ben H. Spence, of the Bedford Park
Club, J. M. Connor, of the Independ-
ent Labor Party, and Mrs. Jean
Lang, of the St. Paul’s Club.

Insistine on the futility of taking
the case of the expelled clubs to the
national council, Reeve Arthur Wil-
liams, of Bast York, leader of one
of the expelled clubs, suggested that
the continuing executive o1ganize
regional meetings throughout the
City by way of protest in order that
“something Cleaner and better may
result.””

SPAIN BOYCOTTS
BERLIN GAMES

‘People’s Olympiad’ Of-
fers To Pay Expenses
of Canadians

BARCELONA, Spain, June 20.—

-special to ALP)—An offer has
been made by officials of the
“People’s Olympiad,” being held

here late in July, to help pay the
expenses of Canadian athletes to
Spain to take part.

This offer, transmitted through
the representatives of the Associ-
ated Iuabor Press, applies particu-
larly to runners.

Enthusiastic reSponse has been
received to the call for an Olympiad
that is definitely in opposition to
the Hitler propaganda games in
Berlin. France alone is sending
more than 1.000 athletes, Switzer-—
Jand 150, Belgium 60, more than
100 are registered from the Soviet
Union, and there will also be teams
from Palestine and from Algeria.
Entries are being received daily.

Although definite registration has
not yet been received, cabled advices
are that there will be teams from
the United States.

“In view of the great importance
of the Olympiad as a mighty mani-
festation against Hitler militarism
and against the fascization of
sport,” an official of the games said,
“it is absolutely essential that Can-
ada should be represented.”

“We realize that time is very
short,” a spokesman of the organiz-
ing committee told the reporter,
“and, even if you cannot do more,
We suggest that Ganada at least
send from four to six athletes, par-
ticularly runners.”

“In order to facilitate matters we
are prepared to pay the greater part
of the travelling expenses of these.’”’

Free board and lodging are being
Supplied to all athietes during the
games.

CLERGYMAN HISSED
AT SEATTLE MEET

SEATTLE, June 24—The City
Council public safety committee
Tuesday pigeon-holed a bill to pro-
hibit mass picketing during labor
troubles, after a fiery hearin= in
Which spectators boged and hissed
the Rev. John N. Lyle, elderly head
of the Religious Educational Work-
ers’ Association, for his defense of
the bill. :

“Some day, because of men of the
cloth like you, labor will rise up and
close your churches,”’ expostulated
James J. Duncan, School Board
member and business agent for the
Automobile Mechanics’ Union,
Whose strike has closed Seattle’s 40
new-cCar dealers’ repair Shops and
affected 800 workers.

Duncan said the union may open
@ large repair shop to serye the pub-
lie pendine settlement of the strike.

The union demands the closed
Shop and union wage guarantees of
30 cents an hour and $25 a week.

Coast,

C2

JAMES LITTERICK

1 hing

Communist Party Candidate in the
Maniteba Provincial Elections

J. Litterick
To Seek Seat

Is District Secretary of
Manitoba Communist
Party

WINNIPEG, Man.—Jimmy Lit-
terick, an old fighter in the labor
movement, and a Communist party
member of long standing, was nom-—
inated at the district conference of
the party here recently. The con-
ference pledged mobilization of the
membership and the working masses
for a successful election. The follow-—
ing program was formulated by the
conference:

Repeal wage tax; extensive pub-
lic works program; abolition of fi-
nancial and political restrictions on
municipalities; radical extension of
relief to needy. farmers and rural
workers; assistance to farmers dur-
ing seeding and harvesting without

soup kitchens and relief camps; ex-
tension of educational and cultural
facilities for youth and a raise in
the minimum wage.

U.S. COMMUNISTS
TO NOMINATE

NEW YORK, June 23 (ALP) —
William Z. Foster will swing the
gavel when the Ninth National Gon-
vention of the Communist Party of
the U.S.A. opens here tomorrow,
Wednesday.

On Sunday the Communist Party,
at a mass nominating convention,
will name a candidate for the presi-
dency. A section of this meeting
will be broadeast over two net
works, Columbia from 5 to 5:30
Sunday afternoon, and the National
netword from 5 to 6 o'clock.

Eid. Note—Pacific Coast time
for these broadcasts will be over
the Columbia from i to 1:30 p.m.
and the National from 1 to 2 p.m.

hampering restrictions; abolition of

San Francisco Sets Pace In -
Pacific Coast Unionism

36,000 Maritime Work-
ers Welded Together

In One Federation

Painting a glowing picture of the
Suecess of the maritime unions of
the U.S. Pacific Coast, Stan Blake,
of New Westminster, who was dele-
gated by the deep sea union longs-
Shoremen of B.C. to represent them
at the recent convention of the In-
temational Longshoremen’s Associ-
ation, and the Maritime Pederation
of the Pacific, has been busy since
his return, givine his report to the
various groups of ex-strikinge mari-_
time workers of B.C.

A story that puts the best suc-
eesses of our union movement to
shame, is the story of ’Mrisco. Under
the able, and we must say, remari-
able leadership of Harry Bridges,
and a corps of able and honest co-
workers, the ‘’Friseo local out-
maneuvered the shipping interests
in their several attempts to provole
premature strugsies. On the job, the
membership, through a series of
short, quick job actions forced the
employers, to concede point after
Point, until today, earnings and
conditions of the ’Frisco. longshore-
men are the best on the coast.

Today 4500 longshoremen are
working on the “Frisco waterfront,
all making an average of more than
$50 monthly. Before the 1934 strike
there were only 2000. Why the dif-
ference?

THEN AND NOW.

Before the 1934 strike the ship-
ping barons had full say on the
waterfront. The size of the load was
limited. only by the lifting power of
the winches, the length of the work
ing day was controlled solely by the
boss. Since then they have forced a
6-hour day from the employer, and
working regulations which has cut
down the speed-up. Highteen thou-
Sand is the limit load, not a pound
more. Qn the dock the jitney is not
allowed to pull more than two dol-
lies. Bach gang has a hatch boss,
despatehed from the hall with the
Sang. If a worker “lays down’ on

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Union Crew
Cops Honors

Cape Lazo Fishers Set,

and Haul in Nets in
15.49 Minutes

Completine the contest in 15 min-
utes and 49 seconds, the Cape Lazo,
captained by Joe Cirezin, won the
purse seiners setting and hauling
race at the Mishermen’s Day regatta
in Vancouver -Harbor, Monday,
June 22.

The prize was $80 cash, and a
Pair of rubber boots for each mem-
ber of the crew. Fishermen’s Wnion
circles are highly elated at the vic-
tory, The Cape Lazo carries a 100%
union crew, all members of the
Jugo-Slay section of the Fishermen
and Cannery Workers’ Industrial
Union. This crew, and skipper, all
ardent and active members of their
union, are well known up and down
the coast. Their motto is, ‘Wwe are
organized.”’

At work or play, this crew is gov—
erned by union brotherhood prin-
ciples, and they tell the world that
it is because of the spirit of unity
that the crew works so efficiently.
Good luck, Cape Lazo!

VANCOUVER, Ju June 22. — Mr.
Mosher, president of the A.C.G. of
L., was in Vancouver to negotiate
an agreement with the C.N.R. of-
ficials for forty stewards who 2re or-
ganized into the C.B. of R.E. on the
C.N-R. vessels running out of Van-
couver. There must be a reason for
Mosher rushing to Vancouver from
the East to make a deal with the
C.N-R. officials for a few stewards.
Have no doubt brother, there is a
very good reason. Mr. Mosher knows
that the Seafarers on the WPacific
through their organization,
the Seafarers’ Industrial Union, are
negotiating for a charter from the
Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, for all
seamen sailing out of B.C. ports.

This being the case, Mr. Mosher is
bringing forward a dual organization
which is a detriment to the Sea-
farers on the Pacific Coast.

Dual Organization

There is at present an “‘organizer’”’
on the waterfront representing the
A-C.C. of L. This “organizer’ is dis-
tributing leaflets which call for the
organizing of the Seamen under the
auspices of the National Seamen’s

ANTI-JAPAN MOVE
IN MANCHUKUO

TOKYO, Japan, June 23:—({ALP)
—Serious fighting between 120 in-

surgents who attacked a detach-
ment of Japanese guards on the
Harbin-Beiyane line near Lunyi-
angmio, was revealed here today

after it was learned that the in-
surrectionaries had captured the
commandr of the guards. During the
fishtine four uards were killed

and two wounded,

‘Red Johnson and others,

Sailors’ Statement On Non-

Union Policy Of A.C.C.L.

i Working for this union are
who were
identified with the notorious scab-
herder, €. P. O'Donovan, in supply-
ing strikebreakers for the ship own-
ers during the recent waterfront dis-
pute. These “gentlemen” are a
stench in the nostrils of all honest
seamen on this coast.

The interests of the seamen on the
Pacific Coast are best seryed by
linking up with their brothers south
of the line an@ working in Close co-
operation with their brother seamen
in the interior on the lakes. This,
however, does not seem to suit the
individuals of Mr. Mosher’s calibre,
as it is becoming clearer every day
that they are workings hand in glove
with the shipping interests instead of
the rank and file, the men who are
paying them. We had the assurance
from the local National Labor Coun-
cil of the A.C.C. of L. officials onty
recently, that they would not impede
the progress of S.1U. by starting
dual organizations. They also agreed
that the S.1.U. is the only bona
fide organization of seamen in Van-
couver.

Benefits Bosses

In plain language, Mr. Mosher is
splitting the Seafarers on this coast
into factions and fractions. Such
tactics can only be to the benefit of
the shipping interests in this parti-
cular case and to the industrial
barons in other cases. This is the
reason we state quite frankly that

Mr. Mosher is being aided aud has
the full co-operation of the ship-
ping interests, since the shipping

interests are the only ones who will

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FRENCH SEAMEN
IN GEN. STRIKE

68 Ships Tied Up, Red
Flag Floats Over the
Waterfront

PARIS, June 23—Sixty-eight ves-
sels of the French Merchant Marine
were tied up today as thousands of
workmen downed tools in a general
strike.

The strike spréad to the naval
shipyards at Saint Nazaire and
stopped construction work on six
submarines and two cruisers. Other
shipyards were expected to strike
momentarily.

Red flags fluttered from the hal-
yards of the struck vessels, and
officers who moved to haul them
down were barred by striking sea-
men.

The Marseilles port is completely
erippled. Ships are allowed to de-
part, but arriving ships are evad-
ing the port. The striking crews
will mot permit the tricolor to be
flown anywhere along the water-
front.

Simultaneous with the strike ac-
tion of the seamén and the naval
workers, the Chamber of Deputies
delivered a smashing defeat ot the
reactionaries by an overwhelming
confidence vote of 382 to 198 on
Leon Blum'’s foreign policy. The
People’s Front cabinet has served
notice on the power that they will
demand permanent international
control of war industries.

Section 98
Off Statutes

Repeal Legalizes C. P.,
Is Toronto Legal
Opinion

a

R.C.M.P.
Is Charg

OTTAWA, June 22—(ALP)— Sec-
tion 98, the law relating to “unlaw-

ful associations,, which was made
law in 1919 by an order in council
in forty minutes, is off the statute
books today.

This section, under which Tim
Buck and seven other Cominunist

Party leaders were sent to Kingston
Penitentiary and the Communist
Party declared illegal, has been a
major political issue in Canada for
years. Leading the fight for its re-
peal has been the Canadian Labor
Defense League.

In the House of Gommons the act
was repealled five times, only to
have the repeal vetoed by the Senate
This time the Liberal Party, under
the Rt. Hon. W. i. Mackenzie King,
managed to get the Senate to grant
repeal by substituting new clauses
designed to deal with “subversive
activities.’’

On Saturday night, after a lone
day of debate on many other ques-
tions, the Senate voted on Section
98 and wiped it off the books.

Leral opinion in Toronto today is
that the repeal act legalizes the
Communist Party, which in-spite of
nominal illegality, has been con-
tinuing to function and now has a
membership of over 10,000 with
prospects of a membership of an
additional 500 by October_}

Support Summer Camp
Tag Day On Saturday

The Children’s Summer Camp Committee, which is com-
prised of prominent Vancouver citizens of all walks of life,
have been granted a tag day for Saturday, June 27th, for
the purpose of raising ‘funds to purchase outright a per-
manent camp Site at Alohma Beach, the estate of the late
Mr. Bamfield, fifteen miles from Vancouver up the North

Arm of the Inlet.

This Committee has, for the past six years, annually
provided a camp for under-privileged children. Last year,
two hundred and eighty-five children were accommodated.
The facilities were inadequate to meet the demand. This
year, the Committee, in purchasing this location, hope to
be able to accommodate a minimum of five hundred needy

children of Vancouver.

A successful tage day should raise sufficient funds to
purchase the site, erect necessary buildings and provide
equipment. In order to do this, a great number of taggers
are needed, as well as cars or trucks to transport taggers to

and from outlying points.

All sympathetic men, women and children who can as-
sist for any period of time as taggers on Saturday are
requested to come to the Taz Day Headquarters, 330 Cam-

bie Street, downstairs.

NO MORE RELIEF
FOR SINGLE MEN

Closing of Relief and
Logging Camps Timed

Simultaneously
Single men applying for their re-
lief issue at Hamilton Hali this
week have hen notified that this
is their final issue. That means

hundreds of single unemployed are
to be thrown on the streets in the
same manner as were the rejected
ecampboys last winter, and forced
to beg, steal or starve. With thou-
sands of dollars squandered in wage
increase and bonus to the Chief of
Police; in the building of a fountain
in the centre of Lost Lagoon; in the
expenditure of hundreds of dollars
for paint and bunting for the decora-
tion of the business streets of Van-
couver, so as to hide the slums, the
cutting off relief of the single men
of Vancouver is significant.

Simultaneous with this policy
comes the closing of the Federal re-
lief camps, throwing a further six
or seyen thousand single men on
the streets.

At the same time the logging
companies announce that camps will
elose this year July ist. What is
in the offine?

As a result
strike threats
mill workers

of the strike and
of the loggers and
recently, warzes
throughout the B.C. industry were
increased about 50¢ per day.

Shingle mill and logging operators
writhe under this forced increase.
They have intimated that a war will
be waged to cut wages. Certain
tools of the lumber barons, masquer-
ading under the fuise of union lead-
ers have proclaimed their threat to
smash every A.F. of IL. union in B.C.
and set up company unions under
the wing of the A.C.C. of L. Tom
MeInnes, paid mouth-piece of the

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TORONTO, Ont., June 25.— (ALP)
—The Canadian Youth Congress
has asked the federal povernment
for a $5,000 grant to help defray the
expenses of youth delegates to the
World Youth Congress in Geneva
this summer.

“We haven't had any reply as
yet,’’ an official of the Congress said.

The World Congress is to be held
at the seat of the League of Nations

from August 31 to September 7.

EDMONTON, Alta., June 23.—
(ALP)—With a C€.C.F. candidate in
the field against her, Alderman
Crane polled 6,428 votes in her run

for the Alberta legislature. She was
defeated by Dr. Morris, Liberal, who
polled 9,979 votes.

STREET SCENE 193?!

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Ca

Charming picture of civilization
is this photo of an English mother
Carrying her daughter through
the streets during a gas mask
erill. Scenes like this are increas-
ingly familiar as Europe girds
itself for the coming second world
war.

FATAL ACCIDENTS
INCREASE IN WOODS

VANCOUVER, June 23.—Acci-
dents m the logging camps of
B.C. have taken a toll of 23 fives
since the first of the year, accord-
ing to a report from the Lumber
and Sawmill Workers’ Union to-
day.

Francis Fors, 18-year-old boom
man, was drowned Sunday when
he fell from a boom at Stave Falls,
where he had been employed by
Walter Patterson.

Fors was a recent arrival from
Alberta, and his death brings
the total number of fatal accidents
in the logging industry to 23.

In the corresponding period for
1935, twenty loggers had met their
death in fatal accidents m the in-
dustry.

Soviet Russia |

Country, Says A. McLeod

England, ©

“I travelled through
Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Finland,
ete., on my way to and from Russia
and found the people of the Soviet
Union by far the most progressive
of all.” So said Alex McLeod, a
motorman on the Vancouyer street
railway, who has just returned from
a visit to the workers’ republic.

Wo Unemployment

“There are no unemployed there.
The spectre of unemployment and
want has been banished completely.
The youths are not spending their
time in slave camps or tramping
the streets looking for a job. They
are working. Everybody is busy
building the new world.”

Alex spoke of the spirit of the
people, happy and enthusiastic.
Wases are good, and living costs
low. His sojourn in the Soviet Union
cost him five dollars per day, in-
cluding meals, transportation, hotels
and guide. “However,’’ he added,
with a smile, “I soon learned that it
did not pay to cultivate a taste for
oranges. They cost a dollar each in
Moscow.’ But that applied only to
oranges. Oranges were scarce, but
all other fruits were plentiful and
cheap.

A Moscow

“The May Day celebrations in
Moscow were the greatest sight I
ever saw. Seven thousand aeroplanes
flew overhead, while the guardians
of the workers, the Red Army,
marched past in their thousands.
Then came hundreds of thousands
of workers, armed and unarmed,
from the mines, mills and factories,
from the transportation industries,
from offices, colleges, and univer-
sities, all celebrating their muaemnifi-
cent victory over the forces of ex-
ploitation.””

The street cars of Moscow are
crowded with jostling, smilin= peo-
ple. Despite an excellent service, it
Seems impossible to provide enoush
cars. Everybody has some place to
and the price to get there.

A Beautiful Subway

May Day

£0,

s A Great

most beautiful and efficient subway

in the world, in fact there is no
comparison,’” says Mr. Mcleod.
Speaking of food, Mr. Mcleod

Searched for a comparison with the
City of Vancouver. “Well.” he said,
“Chicken and turkey come under
the heading of ordinary meals.’
Soviet Women

Mr. McLeod Taid special emphasis
on the vast difference between the
condition of the working women of
Finland and those of the Soviet
Union. In Finland the women were
obliged to perform the hardest kind
of work for the smallest pay, while
in Russia the Women draw equal
pay to the men, and are free to
choose the employment they want to
follow.

“All in all,”” says this conservative
young man, “the Soviet Union has
a great and glorious future ahead.’’

Communist Parley
Proceedings To Be

Head
ed With

rovoking Riots

il J. S. Woodsworth De-

mands Release of Nine
Camp Boys

DISMISS McBRIEN

OTTAWA, June 23——(ALP)—J. S
Woodsworth, M.P., national leader of
the €.C_F., in the House of Com-
mons today, demanded the dismissal
of Sir James MacBrien from his
position as Commissioner of the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
charging him with responsibility for
the riot on Regina’s Market Square
Dominion Day last year, when a
peaceful meeting
of Regina citizens
were attacked by
‘combined forces
of the City Police
and R.C.MEP-

The C.C.F. lead-
er in pressing for
the release of the
nine- men now
Servange sentences
on charges of as-
sault, argued that
the relief camp
workers were jus-
tified in coming to
the seat of government for redress
of their grievances, and there was
no need for the action of the police,
which claimed the lives of three
people.

Hon. Ernest Lapointe, minister of
justice, partially admitted the
blunder of the authorities Jast
July 1, as he held that “hindsight
was preferred to foresight,’ stating
“that no g00d purpose was Served

J. S. Woodswortn

by saying that authorities should
have acted differently than they
did~’’

Asnes MacPhail, MP. for Grey-
Bruce, took exception to the $12, 000
per annum Salary of the Commiis-
Sioner, and urged a reduction.

The Commissioner was charged
with being over-paid by Miss Mac-
Phail who said it seemed ridiculous
that the head of the R-C.M-P, should
receive almost as much as the
Prime Minister and more than a
cabinet minister.

R. B, Bennett, M.P:, Conservative
leader, stated he was not ashamed
of the previous government’s action
in allowing the Commissioner his
present Salary, which also provides
food, fuel, light, medical care, a
car and chauffeur besides other al-
lowaneces and pickings.

Grits Weaker

In Omineca

C.C.F. Increase Shows
Grit Riding Swinging
to Left

BURNS LAKE, B.C., June 24,—
Despite the fact that the Pattullo
administration has studiously nursed
the Omineca Riding, the MWTiberal
hold on this constituency got a
severe jolt at yesterday’s elections.
In 1931 Omineca gaye the Liberal
candidate a plurality of 541 over the
C.C.E. candidate. Yesterday’s eléc-
tion cut this fizure down to 189.
Talking into consideration that the
Liberal government concentrated all
its forces towards winning the sup-
port of the miners and farmers of
this riding, the narrow margin over
the C-C.I*. candidate, is not very en-
couraging to the Liberal Party.
Omineca has always been considered
amy “ace in the hole’’ for the Liberal

Party.

The former incumbent, A. M.
Manson, saw to it that his riding
receiyed special favors from the

Zovernment in the manner of road
improvements, etc. During this cam-
paign, the premier himself, and:
three of the cabinet ministers per-

Heard At Picnic

The International Picnic to be
held at the North Side of Hast
ings Park on Sunday, June 28th
will be international in more
than name and in the fraternity
of nationals attending. It will lis-
ten in on the mass nomination
convention of the Communist
Party of the U.S.

The convention, Ninth Nation-
al Convention of the U.S. party,
presided over by William Z. Fos-
ter, will choose a candidate for
the presidency. A section of the
Convention will be broadcast
over the Columbia Network from
1 to 1:30 pm., and over the
WN.B.C. from 1 to 2 p.m.

Lhose attending the pincic
here will be able to sit in on the
New York Convention. Loud
speakers are being arranged on
the picnic grounds, and all are
assured a good reception.

“The Moscow Metro subway is the

sonally stumped this part of the
eountry in aid of their candidate
Still the swing is decidedly to the
left.

The vote of 34 out of 39 polls is:
Connelly, Gab): 23s eee 837
Godwin (Cl Cat) ins eee 648
Thompson (Con.) .......-. Ss lik.

CITY COUNCIL TO i
CALL CONFERENCE

VANCOUVER, June 23.—Decision
Was made today by the City Council
to call a conference of interested
parties and organizations to find=a
method of stabilizing rental charges
which have recently caused a great
deal of inconvenience to families on
relief. >

Last week the Vancouver Presby-
tery of the United Church of Can-
ada, in a resolution, asked the City
Council to call a conference of
landlords, relief officials and in-
terested organizations. Ald. H. L.
Corey moved that a date be set for
the conference. It is planned to in-
vite the Minister of Labor, relief
officials, real estate men, and social
service bodies in the city to attend.

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