ee TLE ee ene] Ieee July 10, 1936 B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Page Five Introducing... 3 NEW GRAPE WINES Rupert Unemployed Protest Conditions PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., July 2. —Several of the unemployed here fHave been mobilized to repair the G.N.R. tracks which have been con- siderably damaged with the floods on the Skeena river. When the men get out on the jobs they find that the conditions are terrible. The men have to sleep tivo in a bunk, the food fit for pigs, and no sanitary arrangements. This all has the in- €vitable result—spontaneous strikes. The workers are showing that they are not goins to submit quietly to these “middle age’’ conditions, ut are ready to fight to better their position in life. Several small con- cessions have been won, but, still that is mot enough, and they are consolidating their position to try and wrinf more coneessions out of their task masters. The local relief authorities are threatenine to cut all men off re- lief who do not go to work on the extra ganes, The unemployed organ- dzation is taking the matter up and “Will endeavor to strengthen the position of the unemployed. The Canadian Lesion and the Trades and Labor Couneil are protesting against the system that forces men to go and work for 25 cents per hour and the intolerable conditions that the men are forced to work under, 1 C. P. of Spain Congress MADRID, Spain, July 6—(ALP) —The political bureau of the Com- munist Party of Spain has fixed the date of the party congress for Aus- ust 15. Local and district confer- ences are already being held all over the country, demonstrating every- wyhere the growth of the party, Patronize Our Advertisers! | Marine Fuel & Transfer Co. 44 Cord Inside Fir - $3.25 Slabs, = = = 3250 Light Mill Fir - $2.50 ALL LARGE LOADS _ 902 B. Hastings St. HIGH. 3131 —— >) ~DANCE 805 PENDER ST. E. Saturday, July 11th Good Floor Good Music Everybody Welcome! Dancing 9 to 12 Admission 15c 30% Proof Spirit Calona Red—Med. Sweet & Dry Calona White—Med. Sweet “THE LIFE OF THE PARTY” CALOWA Grape Wines j CORSON TOO GOOD FOR ANGUS McLEAN Alvin Baley (V.S.C), 77 lbs., and Pat Healey, 80 jbs., boxed three two-minute rounds to a2 draw in the weekly boxing and wrestling show put on by the Vancouver Sports Club, 148 East Gordova Street, The second boxing event brought tegether Iroing Baley, 70 Ibs., and Art Sempt, $0 Ibs., in a three two- minute round match, Baley wining the referee’s nod. Angus MeLean (V.S.C.), 140 Ilbs., and Warner Curson, 140 lbs., boxed three two-minute rounds in the feat- ure boxing bout of the evening, Cur- son winning the match. Stan Sowden, i155 Ibs., and Kit Carson, 145 lbs., wrestled three five- Minute rounds to a draw in. the opening wrestling bout of the night. Bill Chapman, 140 Ibs., and Don Lott, 150 Ibs., both of Wancouyver Sports Club, wrestied to a draw in three fast rounds. Bill Reenun, 88 ibs., secured the winning fall from Peter Patterson, $7 Ibs., in a three-round match. The last bout of the night brought together Bill Noyes (@Surn- aby) and Stan Alfred ((Vancouver Heights), 130 lbs., in a three-round match, Noyes securing the only fall in the second round. Domimion “Under Two Flags,” now playing a the Dominion Theatre, and ac- claimed a great picture by the entire sereen world, gives us an inside flimpse of one phase of life in col- onial territories under complete im- perialist conquest. The scene is laid in the Sahara, and tends to glorify the role of the French Foreign Legion. However, in view of the struggles of the oppressed peoples in both French and British colonial terri- tories, goine on today, workers who see this picture and who can read between the lines. cannot fail to realize the exact role of the Foreign Legion, or for that matter the role of the British armies in India, ‘Egypt and other places where these peoples are putting up aé terrific fight against imperialist oppression today. Ronald Colman, who starred in that ereat picture “Beau Geste,”’ plays a leading role, other famous artists in leading roles being Clau- dette GColbert, Victor McLagien, Gregory Ratoff and others. SOFTA, Bulgaria, July 6—ALP)— The discovery of a Communist print- ing office has led to great police ac- tivity and the arrest of a large number of anti-fascists. The editors printers.and distributors of a secret- ly published paper were all seized. "UNDER TWO FLAGS” _with... 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Gallacher in House; ef Commons on Ex- posure of Thomas Two Members of this House are being placed in the dock before the House and before the country. But it is not enough to condenin these men, important as that is. Everyone can only hope that this example of moral collapse will be a Warning: to those who have been travelling, or are attempting to tray- el, the road which has been trav- elled by the ex-Colonial Secretary, in whom I am specially interested. It would be folly to condemn the ex-Colonial Secretary as though this particular act on which the Tribunal has founded a decision had been some sudden aberration, dissociated from his past or from his colleagues. What has the genesis of this pres- ent Government to do with this moral and political collapse that is evident on the part of the ex-Colon- jal Secretary Has the formation of the National Government nothing to. do with it? Here is one who, we are told, was an honoured Member of the House. Men and women suffering in poy- erty spent their shilling and six- pences and pennies to make him a leader of his union, and you cor- rupt him and take him over there. Has that nothing to do with what has been going on? Not just now should he have been prosecuted, but when he openly, cal- lously and deliberately betrayed those who had spent their money and pinned their life’s hopes on him. You corrupt the ex-Colonial Sec- retary. He was once an engine- driver—an honest occupation, an oc- cupation to be proud of. : He left that because his colleagues had confidence in him, and he was made a leader of a great trade un- ion. a man in whom his colleagues had confidence. What went wrong with him to cor- rupt him? He did not suddenly develop cor- ruption in himself, but he got into contact, as a result of being a trade union leader, with captains of in- dustry, and politicians representing captains of industry. They took him to the bar and they patted him on the back. An HON. MEMBER: And dressed him up. MR. GALLAGHER: The expert in corruption may well smile. He knows his own handiwork, and, when his handiwork is cast out, he is ready to go on with the job with somebody else. Members on this side of the House have had a great lesson; Jet us hope that it will affect every one of us. The working - class movement ought to be protected against the corruptive influences of capitalism. The ex-Colonial Secretary has fone and we must see that the Goy- ernment of which he was part goes. I do not want to deal with indi- vidual members of the government, but.the Lord President of the Coun- cil (Ramsay MacDonald) should be associated with the ex-Colonial Sec- retary and should be with him now. The ex-Colonial Secretary was al- ways known as the “Artful Dodger” in the Labor movement. But the Lord President of the Council was a Fagin, who knew how to dangle before the eyes of his vic- tims the delights of illicit activities. “Get a career,’’ this was always on his tongue. Never any suggestion of coming into the Labor Party to get an opportunity of fighting the work- ers’ enemies—but “careers.”’ We do not want careers. We want a great united movement which wall put those responsible for corruption out of business, and we will put them out of business. If you are not prepared to make a prosecution of these two, there is not a man who should be in prison. Men have been hanged on less cir- eumstantial evidence than you have in this case. Deny it if you can. Make a prosecution, and, when you make it, understand that you are making a prosecution which will expose and end the rule of the Na- tional Government, which was founded on corruption and the be- trayal of the working-class. (Inter- ruption). Laugh at your handiwork. The ex-Colonial Secretary was not laughing when he walked out today. An Hon. Member: You were the only one to laugh. Mr. Gallacher: Yes, I had the richt to laugh. For years and years he carried on every kind of duplicity, and when any charge was brouesht against him he could always get out of it by saying, “It is the Commun- ists. I have not done anything wrong; it is these dirty Communists who are spreading these stories.’”’ It was not the Communists who spread the stories about the budget leakage and he cannot use the Com- munists today to get out of that. What a happy man he would have been if he could have got up there, and, instead of talking himself to tears, an old practice, had said, ‘‘Oh, it is these dirty Communists who spread the story.” He could not do that today, now he is finished. I want to that if there is a prosecution— An Hon. Member: “Swine.”’ Mr. G. Griffiths: “On a point of order. Has an hon. member the righc THE and say ALWAYS OPEN Private Baths, 50c STEAM AND TURKISH BATHS Expert Masseur and Masseuses BAY. 9274 —— 1235 to call an hon. Speakine= a swine?” member who is Hon. Members: “Withdraw. Mr. Deputy - Speaker (Captain Bourne): It is certainly not Pariia- mentary. 1 Want to demand a presecution, but while I demand it, IT must malkc it clear that a prosecution would so expose this National Governnient, which is founded upon corruption and has carried on a Career ef cor- rapison as evidenced by subsidiss enc what not. An Hon, Member: What about murders in Russia? I am dealing with this particular miyitter, but if there is any occasion *o make a discussion on Tussin, please arrange with your Front Beneh, and I shall be only too happy to diseuss it. if there is a prosecution, this Gov- ernment, which has been based upon corruption and which threatens the country with wholesale corruption and destruction, will come to a speecay and a well-deserved end. Tam glad that the cx-Colonjal Secretary has gone from the scene, and I shall be happier still, a thou- Sand times happier, when his col- Iessues have been forced to follow him to obscurity. The C.C.F.. Convention The Reflections of an Observer The outcome of the C.C.F. conyen- tior: should be received with general Satisfaction by all rank-and-file members of the movement, as well as by those who at present are on the sympathetie side-lines. The most dynamic member of the movement has been elected presi- dent and, although he has been ser- tously attacked in the past, chiefly by those who have axes of their own to grind, he is in his first utter- ances as president already showings that he is large-minded, and pre- pared to forget as much as for the Seneral well-being of the movement Should be forgotten. Despite many insinuations to the contrary the doctor, unlike most of his detract- ors, knows that the €.C.F. is bigger than any individual member, no mater how highly. placed in the movement that individual at the moment may be. Comments on the convention on the part of writers in the capitalist press are not yet in evidence. Yet there is no question but that the old line parties and their financial backers will sit up and take serious note of what has occurred. Their long hoped for split in the C.C.F. has not materialized, and certain individuals whom they might have looked to to foment such a split have emerged from the convention with little remaining credit. A stif- fening of the capitalist ranks may confidently be expected and we shall doubtless hear more, much more, in the near future of proposals for Liberal and Conservative fusion in the “‘national’’ interest. Notable work was done by the eonvention in its ratification of resolutions presented to it with the object of uniting the workers’ ranks. Parliamentary representatives were distinetly instructed to guard them- selves against any further anti- communist speech and action, and to look rather for opportunities to work with left-wing groups not yet Within the €.C.E. organization. The C.C.E. house leader at Victoria, al- though confirmed in his position for the time being, received such a substantial vote against him as to make him more suarded in the fu- ture and much less inclined to at- tempt by his personal fiat to read out of the party others in a more leftward position. The farmers who, by the general tone of their remarks, felt, and with some justice, that the provincial executives of the past had been more concerned with Vancouver and district than with the upper coun- try, have now gone back to their homes with a feeling that they made themselyes heard and that the new executive and its planning commission will, during the coming year, always have them in mind. All in all, the C.C.F, (B.C. section) is deservin= of congratulation and real progress may be expected from now on. YOUNG PEOPLE’S PICNIC On Sunday, July 12, commencing at 11 a.m., the young people of the east end are holding a picnic on the flats (near Campbell avenue and Prior street), for the purpose of en- ablinge the youth of this vicinity to have a day’s entertainment near their homes. There will be a day of real tainment, softball, wrestling, ing, music, Singing, children’s races, refreshments, games, etc., will be on the program—everybody is welcome. The preparations are being speeded up and it appears the picnic will be a success. Ali those who are in- terested in the welfare of the youth are invited to attend a meeting being |} held on Friday evening, July 10, at $05 Bast Pender street at 8 p.m, IRIS enter- box- : HOSPITAL COTS WEST BROADWAY Public Baths, 25c ee FSD BALKAN CAFE TASTY MEALS — FROM i15c UP Our Specialty — Balkan-Hungarian 7738 EAST HASTINGS STREET and German Dishes Reltef Vouchers Accepted CCF LABOR CODE Introduction The C:C-F., a political organiza- tion appealing for a mandate to re- piace the present system of ‘‘Pro- duction for Profit’ wtih a planned economic order of “Production for Use,” must emphatically declure its unalterable determination to put its principles into practice immediately Upon assuming office, When it tukes up its responsibilities it must have data compiled, executive machinery prepared and the assurance of or— fanized worker participation in ad- ministration, as a basis upon which to begin its task. The C.C.F. pelieves it is so neces- Sary that workers, either in pro- ductive or distributive services be made conscious of their economic pewer that, by compulsion if need be, they must be brought to estap- lish their own portion of admin- istrative machinery. The C.C.F., upon taking must declare its fundamental duty To be the guaranteeing to every man and woman the right to work. power To those unable to work, the as Surance of sufficient of the neces- sities of life to provide physical comfort must be made. To this end the C.C.F. Labor Gode and its provisions must he enacted and effective before the closing of the first C.C.F. legislative session. The provisions of this Code shall supereede all existing legislation covering Wages, hours and working conditions and shall be obligatory upon all persons employed or em- ployinge within the Province of British Columbia. . The Right to Work Article 1: The C:CJF_ government of British Columbia through its BEeonomie Council declares that: “It is the inherent and inalienable right and obligation of every human being to work in order to live.” Society ewes no man a living but Society owes to every man the right and op- portunity to provide his ovn living by free access to raw materials and the machinery of production.” Alone with the recognized right to work, the €C.C.I*. believe’s there exists the corresponding responsibil- ity to work. It must be Society’s rizht to compel all physically fit peusons to labor upon socially need- ful work. All citizens of the prov- ince shall be under obligation to labor with age and physical qualifi- cations exceptions as outined in sul)- sections) <2AS2 493274 S63) Dry sand “3,” subject to appeal rights and under working conditions drafted by worker organizations 1n agree- ment with employers, shall not be- come operative without endcrsation of the Department of Labor, whose decisions, as in all labor issues, shall be final. Remuneration and Living Standards Article 2: The remuneration min- imum in all B.C. works sand enter- praises shall be sufficient to provide a Standard of food, clothing and shelter as will assure full physical development and personal comfort. This minimum standard shall be ap- plicable to both employed labor and the unemployed reserve labor. The remuneration shall be determined by worker organizations jointly with employers and in consultation, be- fcre such remuneration becomes ef- fective, with the Department cf Labor whose decision shall be final - in cases of no agreement beings: reached between the first two groups. Workers shall be aligned in enregories by the Trade Union Coun- eil or Professional Association and remunerative standards shall be de- termiined by a consideration of such factors as: Type of labor. Amount of risk. Amount of skill, education, experience and responsibility en- tailed. Consideration shall also be Siven the effect of work performed upon the workers’ physical condi- Gon. Overtime work, with exceptions of « character in line with public necessity, as outlined in Article 4, shall be limited to not more than four hours monthly and paid for at least at double time rates. Remu- neration may be made in cash, serip or kind, special permission bein obligatory from the Labor Depart- Inent before scrip or kind payment is valid. Payment shall be made it least twice monthly. Worl: cessation, due to causes beyond worker control, shall be paid for. A direct charge on industry shall supply remunera- tien to the unemployed labor re- serve. Every worker shall possess 2 labor booklet indicating time worked, etc. Labor Exchange and Distribution Article 3: The right to werk shall be secured from the Labor Exchange Committee acting in conjunction with worker orsanizations. All workers shall register with the Ex- crenge. Employers shail apply for workers through the Exchange, stating number and +yp2 of work- ers required. No person revistered Shull refuse work and workers shall be employed permanently or re- jected following A Permanent Wave - - - for Summer = Holidays. Phone us. Let us tell you about our ACME WIRELESS Per- manent Wave Machine. 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