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FULL NO. 77

FRENCH FASCIST FO

MOVE TO SPLIT
SEAMEN FAILS

Local Union Official De-
livers Threat to
Sailors

Qn Thursday, June 25, the local
Wational Labor Council of the Ali-
Canadian Congress of Labor, called
an open meeting of seamen, with the
intention of forming a branch of the
National Seamen’s Union in B-C., in
opposition to the existing union of
seamen, the Seafarers’ Industrial
Union, oe

That the plan did not meet with
the approval of the B.C. seamen was
Soon made evident. Qutside of the
five delegates of the N-L.C. the re
mainder of those in
(some 33) were members of the Sea-
farers’ Industrial Union. 2

A. Fiett, Lecal No. 3 Engineers,
was chairman. Qpening the meeting
he explained the purpose of calling
the seamen together, and then in-
troduced J. Williamson, of the Amal-
famated Buildme workers, as the
organizer when asked if Willamson
Was an organizer for the National
Seamen’s Union, the chairman
evasively answered that Viliamson
Was an unofficial organizer.

As far as the purpose of the meet-

ine was concerned, there was
nothing accomplished, the entire
eudience being supporters of the

Seafarers’ Industrial Union.

A member from the S.1.U. gave a
brief review of the formation and
activites of his union, claimed for
it the honor of winning sreat i1m-—
provements in the weges and con-
ditions of the seamen, and of haying
the respect, not only of its member-
ship, but also of the great majority
of the unorganized seamen, who hau
shown, by their non-attendance at
¢his meeting, that they would not be
a party to the splitting of the ranks
of the seamen by setting up a dual
union. The member deplored the re-
actionary actions of a small coterie
of the leadership of the A-CC. of L.,
and suggested that if they would
devote aS much energy towards
pbuilding the S.1.U., as they were de-
voting towards splitting the sea-
men, then the organizing of the
workers would be boosted consider-

ably.
A sinister note was struck when

Williamson stated that it they
(meaning apparently Williamson,
McKinley, etc.) could get enough

£ B.C.
pressure put on, the seamen Of

would be forced into the National
- Seamen’s Union.

LOGGERS ARE
COMING TO TOWN

Gerry’s Jubilee Racket
Hopes to Profit by
Shutdown

Vancouver papers accept with
glee the announcement that the
logging camps are closing down,
and 22,000 loggers will have nothing
to do for the next few weeks but
Spend their money on Gerry's Ju-
bilee.

A few weeks ago the same papers
were lamenting that a few thou-
sand loggers, who had quit work in
an attempt to stop disrcimination
and gain a wage increase, were los-
ing wages. :

What position the papers will
take, when, 22,000 loggers, and the
thousands of single unemployed and
relief camp boys who have been
turned loose to starve, begin to take
steps to alleviate their destitute con-
dition, remains to be seen, but it is
certain the ballyhoo surrounding
the loggers today will have disap-
peared.

There are two reasons for the
logging camp shut-down. At this
time of the year the closing of the
camps, because of fire hazard is

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ITARY PARADE
MN OPENS JUBILEE

Vancouver’s Golden Jubilee was
officially opened Wednesday with
@ parade of the military, naval and
air force units, which incidentally
was the largest since the war. The
only civilians mear it were specta-
tors standing on the curb.

As the 1800 men marched along
onto Georgia street shortly after
10:30 a.m. with their rifles at the
slope, scattered applause broke out,
apparently the hand-clapping being
for the units in which relatives or
friends were parading.

Bands and troops were brought
here from Victoria aboard the H.M-.
©S. Skeena and E-M-CS_ Vancou-
ver.

Some discontent was prevalent
amone the troops here who threat-
ened to withdraw from the parade
if the bandsmen were paid. The sol-
diers’ annual camp has been cancel-
led in order to participate in the
Jubilee celebration.

In former years bandsmen have
‘been paid for their services on Do-
‘minion Day, but this year the parade
Was taken over by Military District
Wo. 11, and no remuneration was
“mentioned.

attendance

B. C. LOGGERS
IN CONVENTION

The Vancouver local of the log-
gers’ section of the U.B:of C.& J.
(Local 2783) commenced their two-
day Convention in the O’Bren
Hall, Homer and Hastings street,
Thursday niorming.

Fraternal delegates from all

B.C. locals in the sawmill and
logeinge industry are in attend-
ance.

The “Lumber Worker,” official
organ of the lumber and sawmill
workers of the A.F.of L. (B.C. Dis-
trict), has held back publication
this week, but will come out next
week with 2a special Convention
Issue.

25 Killed In
Log Accidents
Profits of ctry Writ-

ten in Blood of
Loggers

Logging fatalities in B.C. woods
continue to mount. Since the last
issue of our paper two more loggers
have paid the price to the god of
Mammon, bringing the year’s total
to 25, five more than at this time
a*year ago, despite the fact that this
year because of the strike and other
reasons there has been at least one
month's less logging than in the
eorrespondine period in 1935.

On June 26 John Ochman was
killed when struck by a falling limb
at Camp 4, Alberni Pacific Lumber
Company's Camp, Alberni Canal,

James Murphy, chokerman, 25
years of age, was Kilied on June 29,
at the M.& LT. Camp, Harrison Lake.
Yardinge was being done on a side
hill, when Murphy was hit by a log.
We died instantly.

Recently officials of the Compen-
sation Board and of the logging
companies discussed ways and
means of cutting down accidents in
the woods. The net result of their
deliberations was the posting of
Warning notices. Wo attempt has
been made to reach the real cause of
the accidents, speed-up, and loggers
State that the public announcement
of the compensation and logging
officials re their concern over the
number of accidents was merely a
camouflage to fool the public, as a
prelude to an intensification of the
speed-up.

The accident ratio has increased
and will continue to increase until
the loggers, through proper organ-
ization are able, without fear of ais-
erimination, to put the brakes on
the mad orgy that is claiming four
lives a month.

C.C.F. Convention
Faces Vital Issues

Future Policy, Leadership and Control of Paper
~ Some of the Problems Which Will Confront
the Three-Day Meeting

, This evening (Friday) at the Vic-

tory Hall, Homer street, the annual
convention of the C.C.&. (B.C. Sec-
tion), will get under way, to continue
Saturday and Sunday, in what prom-
ises to be the most vital and im-
portant convention in the history of
the party.

Some 300 credentialled delegates
are expected to be present; and with
visiting delegats; it is expected the
number will be swelled to beyond
the 400 mark.

The national leader, J. S. Woods-
worth, will attend. -

Already more than two hundred
resolutions have been sent in by
elubs throughout the province, reso-
lutions covering practically every
activity of the party.

The Communist Party of Canada
has addressed a letter of greetings
to the convention, urging the neces-
Sity for unity between all working
elass groups.

It is xpected that most of the de-
bate will centre around three main
points—Party leadership, Party pol-
icy, and the obtaining of a Party
paper.

On Wednesday your correspondent
talked with a number of out-of-
town delegates. For that day they
were holidaying, Yet the serious
problems of every day life, and their
part in the approaching Convention
were uppermost/in their minds.

From delegates representing both
right and left wines came the com-
mon assertion that “‘a united €.C.F.
can win the next B.C. election.”

The delegates were unitd, too, on
the principle that not the personal
ambitions of any leader or srowp of
leaders, but the good of the move-
ment, must be the main considera-
tion. And all were agreed that the
party must have an official publica-
tion owned and controlled by the
party. :

Unity Essential

All delesates. deprecated the ap-

parent split which had developed

amongst the leadership. Some were

of the opinion that it was not
serious, and would be ironed out at
this convention. Q@thers felt that it
was deliberately engineered by the
Rey., Connell and his faction to pre-
vent the C.C.F, from becoming the
majority in the next House. Some
of them thought the convention
would demand the removal of Rey.
Connell from the leadership of the
Opposition in the House, but the
#eneral opinion was that the leader-
ship was not the issue, but that it
Was a question of this policy of the
party, and the participation of the
party in the immediate struggle of
the workers.

The recent events in France were
quoted as an example of what could
be accomplished here through unity.
Unity with all working class poli-
tical parties and trade unions on
an anti-capitalist program. United
on such a program, the C.C.F. would
win the next B.C. election,

Threaten to Smash A.F.

of L. Locals of Loggers
and Millworkers

At a meetine of seamen Thursday,
June 25, called by the NGC, for.
the purpose of setting up a dranch
of the National Seamen’s Union in
opposition to the Seafarers’ Imdus-
trial Union, J. Williamson, business
agent of the Amalzamated Building
Workers, stated that if they (pre-
sumably the reactionary officials of
the N-L.C.) could get enough pres-
sure put on, the seamen of B.G
would be forced into the Nutional
Seamen’s Union. :

Recently Williamson threatened
the secretary of the shingle weavers
that he would smash eyery AF. of
L. union in the lumber industry
(logeers and mill men) and organize
the workers into the A.C.G. of L.

Some time ago Williamson and
McKiniy, the latter, president of the
Wational Labor Council, and » vice-
president of the All-Canadian Con-
Sress of Labor, announced that “in-
terested parties’? had donated $200
to the council to pay for radio
broadcasts to be used to put over
Canadian unionism. This was during
the early stages of the loggers’
strike, when the logsin= operators,
and the Citizens’ League, through
their paid mouthpiece, Tom Mce-
Innes, and through the capitalist
press, were carrying on their bitter-
est attacks against the AE of L., to
which the loggers and mill workers
had just affiliated. Looking at this
donation in the nature of a bribe to
the leaders of the N.L.C., several
rank and file delegates demanded to
Know the source of the donation,
which both Williamson and Mc-
Kinly refused to divulge.

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A:C.C.L. Union Officials
Collaborate With Bosses

MOSLEY STONED
IN MANCHESTER

MANCHESTER, Eng., June 29.
—(ALP) Angered by a fascist
demonstration at the Town Hall
here yesterday an angry crowd of
More than 3,000 stoned the auto-
mobile of Sir Oswald Mosley,
would-be British blackshirt dicta-
tor.

Windows of the Fascist Club at
Hulme were smashed.

Mosley, surrounded by a body-
Suard of fascist storm troopers,
left the hall amid shouts and boos
from the crowd which tore down
the fascist emblems and attempted
to overturn the trucks in which the
British Hitlers were riding.

BRITANNIA MINERS
KILLED BY SLIDE

Crushed beneath a large rock, two
miners, Jas. Thompson, 45, and W.
EH. Brockbank, 25, were inmantly
killed Monday night, while working
in a slope of the Victoria Mine at
Britannia Beach.

A slab of rock sixteen feet in
length, three feet wide, fifteen
inches thick and weighing several
tons crashed down on the men from
the roof of the mine, which accord-
ing to miners who have worked
there is dangerous because of its
loose rock.

Brockbank leayes a wife in New
Westminster, while Thompson’s
nearest relative is a sister-in-law re-
Siding at Bickle, B.c.

An inquest was held at Britannia
Beach on Tuesday, and a verdict of
accidental death was returned.

REGINA SEEKS
SPECIAL CHARTER

Taboo Council Wants
Act of its Own

REGINA, June 26—(ALP)—Re-
gina’s labor civic government has
found a hurdle in the Saskatchewan
City Act which is blocking plans
for a superannuation scheme and
for a re-organization of the relief
System.

Mayor Pllison announces that Re-
gina will seek to have a special act
of its own passed by the provincial
legislature giving the city power
to work out its own destiny, a plan
under which many municipalities in
other provinces operate.

At the present itme all cities in
Saskatchewan are foverned by the
Provincial Act. Such cities as HEd-
monton, Winnipez and Calgary
operate under special charters.

Mayor Ellison has a draft of a
Civic charter prepared and will sub-
mit it to the city council at an early
meeting.

CES IN FULL

Thousands Of New Members

Flock Into Unions, Socialist
And Communist P

FRENCH SOLDIERS’
WAGES DOUBLED

PARIS, France, June 27.—41ALE)
—The Council of Ministers has ap-
proved a decree doubling the pay of
Soldiers and sailors and increasing:
their food allowances.

In addition, the Council has
abrogated the Laval decrees of econ-
omy thus exempting the smaller
paid civil servants from the ten per
cent tax, benefiting them to the ex-—
tent of 1,300,000,000 francs.

Another bill receiving the cab-
inet’s approval would nationalize
War factories and initiate a public

Works program.

Great Victory Of

Spanish Seamen

By HENRY MORICE

The Spanish seamen haye won an
important victory. In a four days’
general strike throughout the coun-
try (May 1 to May 4) they have won
conditions by which they have risen
from one of the lowest to one of the
best in international Shipping.

Bight-hour day throughout Span-
ish shippings and for all departments
including the catering departments;
a general wage increase of from 50
to 100 per cent according to the
different departments; crews have
won the right to control the use of
food allowance which, by the way,
was inereased; engasement by rota

in uniform shippin= offices in every.

Port; payment.for overtime Work; 20
days paid holidays annually tor the
lower ranks and one month for of-
ficers and engineers: increase in
manning corresponding to the strict
application of the eight-hour day.
Added to these they have Gained a
condition which is a sensational
novelty, i.e., the owners are opliged
in the event of their ships being laid
up to sign daily a crew of watch-
men and for other tasks aboard idle

FARMERS DEMAND
DOLLAR WHEAT

CALGARY, Alta, June 25.—(ALP)
In a resolution forwarded to the
Dominion government at Ottawa,
the United Farmers of Canada are
demanding a minimum price for
wheat. They demanded 4a guar-
anteed price of 8714 cents a bushel
at least, and $1.00 a bushel if pos-
sible.

RELIEF STOPS
INNORTHBAY:
MANY HUNGRY

Unemployed Association
Refuses Responsibility

For What ‘‘May
Happen’’

GOVW’T. REFUSES AID

NORTH BAY, Ont., June 30.—
(ALP)—Unless the unexpected hap-
pens, North Bay's 2,500 relief recipi-
ents will starve from tomorrow
morning onward by joint decree of
the city council and the provincial
government.

In a telegram to the Hon. David
A. Croll this afternoon, the North
Bay Unemployed Workers’ As-
sociation warned that actual starva-
tion conditions exist and that the
“unemployed are on the verge of
riot.”

Ten days ago, with less than 310,-
000 in the relief treasury, the relief
committee of the council decided
that, unless money came from some-
where, relief would have to cease
on July 1. City council refused to
pass a special levy to take care of
the situation, throwing the onus di-
rectly to Queen's Park. The result
was the decision to end relief.

Rank and file of the unemployed
association have been restless, urg-
ing that some form of mass action
be taken to force a change in the
Situation before the financial crisis
actually arrived. They were re-
strained by the executive.

Council places the blame for the
situation squarely on the province.
When the city budget was struck
this spring council was prepared to
put in a $67,600 item for relief. This
was slashed to $45,000 by A. J. B.
Gray, expert for the Department of
Municipal Affairs which is also ad-
ministered by Mr. Croll.

Ships. These men to be seamen of
45 years of age and over.
Union Recognized

Finally official recognition of the
trade union organizations of the
seamen was won as well as intro-
duction on the ships of elected dele-
gates of the crews on every vessel.
Shipowners have thereby been com-
pelled to acknowledge trade union
rights and their unrestricted exer-
cise aboard ship.

These are the most important of
the gains won by the splendid move-
ment of the Spanish seamen. ‘he
Popular Front Government has is-
Sued a special decree in which as-
surance is given that the  ship-
Owners comply with the conditions
of the new agreement. 2

Unity Brings Victory

The most essential reason tor the
victory is to be seen in unity. Span-
ish seamen united for the strugele
and established united action. On
April 9 of this year all national or-
Sanizations of the seamen, from the
unions of the officers to those of
the lower ranks and including all
trade union opinions (U.G.T., CNT
and autonomous) agreed to a pro-
.2ramme of joint demands and on
the basis of this establisheu the
National Alliance of ‘Seamen’s
Trade Unions. In this manner the
united front of all seamen, from of-
ficer to deck boy, was set up.

A second and also important
cause of the victory can be seen
in the fact that the dockers, who
are also united in a national al-
liance of dockers’ trade unions,
came to the assistance of the sea-
men the moment the struggle begzan
and ceased work in all ports.

Tactics and Stratesy

The strike was conducted ‘‘on the
spot,” ie. on board the ships in-
Stead of the traditional practise of
Seamen to leave the ship in the
event of a strike being declared. The
seamen remained on board, ovcupied
their ships and organized feeding of
the strikers aboard.

There can be no doubt that this
new strike stratezy as employed by
the Spanish seamen has proved its
effectivness and it is to be expected
that it will be used in the coming
struggles of the seamen of other
countries,

RE
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WOMEN’S LEADER

ah — it fe OED

IN. K. Krupskaya (above), widow
of Lenin, has taken an active part
in developing educational facilities

in the Soviet Union. She was one
of the chief speakers at a recent
All-Union Wemen’s Conference in
Tioscow.

ORGANIZATIONS
FOR PEACE MEET

A gettogether of peace organi-
zations in Vancouver will take
place in a few days in support of
the World Peace Congress to be
held at Geneva, Sept. 4, 5, 6.

With the League of Nations So-
ciety taking the initiative and with

the co-operation of the Ganadian
League Against War and Fascism
and the International “Women’s

League for Peace and Freedom, Brit-
ish Columbians wil be fully informed
of the world-wide efforts for peace,
as well as the imminence of world
war.

A proposal to send a  Sritish
Columbia delegate to the Geneva
Congress will be on the agenda of
this joint committe meetings: one
who will be duly elected as repre-
senting wide public opinion in this
province. All peace lovers should
be on the watch for anouncements
and invitations to participate in this
provyince-wide effort to strengthen
the peace forces of the world.

STRIKE CONTINUES
AT CAPILANO MILL

The strike continues at the Capi-
lano Shingle Mill, with the ranks
Still solid. To date the management
has refused to deal with the men,
meantime Capilano shingles are ta-
boo on the American side.

The City Council has arranged a
meeting between the strikers and
the operators, and a committee of
the council for this morming. At
this meeting the question of wages,
and the company’s attempt to dis-
criminate against the union men,
will be aired.

Lumber, Sawmill Work-

ers of Northwest Pledge
Support to B.C.

Fifty-three delegates, representing
five district councils of the lumber
and sawmill workers union of the
U.B.of C&J_ of Washington, WOre-
gon and B.C., met in convention at
Centralia, Wash, June 27th and
28th, with William Plestead, presi-
dent of Gray’s Harbor District Coun-
cil, presiding.

Harold Pritchett, president of the
B.C. District Council, was the B.C.
delegate.

Delegate Pritchett gives a siowine
report of the proceedings ut the
Convention, and the enthusiasm of
the delegates. A wonderful recep-
tion was accorded him by the Ameri-
Can delegates, and any mention of
B.C, was greeted with spontaneous
applause.

A significant feature of the gatnh-
ering was that both the Seamen and
the Longshoremen of the U.S. Pa-
cific Coast were represented, and an
open invitation was extended by
these delegates to take part m the
council meetings of the Maritime
Federation of the Pacific. The dele-
fates also suggested that the Lum-
ber and Sawmill Workers and the
MLY.of P. meet in joint convention.

The close link between the two
bodies was emphasized, and no doubt
was left but that in future there

63,000 Workers Represented

At Northwest Convention

PROTEST FROM ’PEG
POGIES GETS ACTION

WINNIPEG, June (ALP)—Action
by unemployed single men who have
been eating at the city’s central din-
ing halls has brought some results,
although not the full measure de-
manded by the men.

Arrangements have been made by
the Single Men’s Relief. GCommis-
Sion to give the men, mostly youths,
free use of the public parks baths
on presentation of their identifica-
tion cards.

A physician is to check the qual-
ity of the food at each civic dining
hall to see that it is up to the
Standard demanded by the men, The
men, however, are askne for res-
taurant meals.

ETREAT

arties Daily

Blum Has Support of
Overwhelming Majority
of French People

COMMUNE LIVES AGAIN

By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
PARIS, France, June 22 (Federat-
ed and Associated Labor Press) —
The organized workers of France
are victorious all along the line,
Fascism has been smashed into
helplessness by the People’s Front
victory at the polls. The bosses have
been compelled to agree to a general
inerease in wages amounting to 15
per cent through the gigantic strike
movement. The department store
Owners held out,
but they too have
accepted the
Strikers’ basic de-
Imands. They had
to, as the govern-
ment has given
the wage increase
the power of law.
Without a shot
having been fired
or a single dis-
turbance having
occurred, a com-=
Van Paassen plete transforma—
tion of social life
in Brance has taken place. It is
the greatest victory of the working
class in Europe next to the Rus-
Sian Revolution.
Commune Lives Again. i
Phe workers’? flag is up on
hundreds of buildings in Paris
and in the provinces. In a day of
celebration ail state theatres and
operas were opened freely to the
people. In the Pere Lachaise cem-
etery, on the Rue des Federes,
where the last defenders of the
Commune fell in 1871, hundreds
of wreaths of poppies have been
hung by the victorious labor un-
ions. Above them hangs a banner
which proclaims in flaming letters
Six feet high: “The Commune
Lives Again!”
The fascists are howling calamity
and the “patriots”’ are shipping their

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NORANDA MINE
STRIKERS FREED

Fifteen Men Released;
Two Held for De-

portation

MONTREAL, | Que, June 30—
(ALP)—Pifteen of the WNoranda
strikers, who were sentenced in
Wovember, 1934, te serve two years
each for their part in the de-
termined strike at the Noranda
mines, arrived in Montreal today,
free.

The men were released from St.
Vincent de Paul Penitentiary after
Serving about two-thirds of their
sentence, less time off for good be-
havior, and following an agitation
for their release which included rep-
resentations= on their behalf by.
many members of parliament,
headed by the €.C.F. members.

Announcement that the men had
arrived in Montreal came from the
Canadian Labor Defence League
here.

Two Ordered Deported.

Two of the men, M. Persil and J.
Shulantich, were ordered deported
to Jugoslavia on the grounds that
they had been but a short time in
the country prior to taking part iz
the strike.

Although the men were sentenced.
in November, 1934, an appeak
against their conviction took five
months to pass through the courts.
The men were held without baik
and the time spent waiting for the
decision on their appeals did not
count on their terms.

The men who went to prison
were: L. Oreskeyich, L. Shustar, T.
Majerle, T. Zopon, T. Brusmich, F-
Dukoyvaec, J. Hhulentich, B. Ballke-
vitch, J. Wissila, A. Behikainen, M-
Bundiak, T. Cludmovitch, G Evanik,
W. Logac, N. Skubin, K. Bachickh
and M. Persil.

would be the closest cooperation be-
tween the organization of both in-
dustries.

Vice-president Mason pressed the
need of cooperation between the
workers of B.C. and the U.S. In
this connection the followings resolu-
tion was endorsed:

“That this Convention of dis-
tricé councils, representing the
basic industry, namely the timber
industry, goes on record as sup-
porting all district councils, and

industry rather than allowing the
question of international boundar-
ies, which is being raised by the
bosses in order to split our ranks.”

Amother far-reaching resolution
which definitely puts all scab prod-
ucts, regardless of their source, on
the “hot” list, states that ‘No prod-
uct of our labor to be used in any
Strilke-breaking activity.”’

Delegates also represented the
Brewery, Flour, Cereal, and Soft
Drink Workers. Following a report
from the representative of the Brew-
ry workers, the Convention went

cooperating all of our activities, on
the basis of workers in the lumber

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