Leth L8 fit oeth OCI Sith of ILE SEN te bee ey A ¢ i < it Page Six B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS July 10, 19386 THE STANLEY PARK STOCKADE. UBLIC resentment against fencing off part of publicly-owned Stanley Park and charg- ing admission for entering it has had its effect on the managers of the Jubilee racket. The barbed wire stockade tence surrounding the appropriated area has not proved efficient in keeping the people out of a place to which they consider they should go without being held up for an admission fee by a group of private pro- motors. The citizens are reported as cutting the wire enclosure and entering the prohibited (ex- cept at a price) area, and it takes too many police to keep them ont. Furthermore, there is a silent, but extensive boyeott against the much-ballyhooed doings in the park because of the admission charge. The attendance since the opening day has fallen off until now it consists of a forlorn handful, with the result that the jitney Jubilee Barmnums have been compelled to remove the fence and to do away with the admission charge altogether. It may be that in order to pump some life into the sombre “‘eelebration” they will yet have to pay people to go into the park. The fact is that the managers of the Jerry- built Jubilee shot their bolt on openimg day, July ist. They put everything they had into that one punch, and have nothing left. And even the bie doings on July ist left a bad taste in the mouths of the people of Vancouver. They cannot forget the insult flung in their faces by the presence of R. B. Bennett and the diseusting mutual back-secratchmg indulged in publicly by that reactionary and the equally reactionary demogosue, McGeer. Nor can they forget that in addition to hay- ine Bennett as official opener, the day chosen as opening day was the first anniversary of the police attack on the trekkers in Regina under instructions of the police of the Bennett gov- ernment. The capitalist press bewails the lack of en- thusiasm for the Jubilee by the citizens of Van- eourer. But what haye the vast majority of Vancouver to be jubilant about? The McGeers the Woodwards and the other rich exploiters can celebrate 50 years of piling up wealth wrung out of the workers of the city and province; when the workers shall have conquered power and own Vancouver their day, and days, of cele- bration will be at hand, and not before. Meanwhile, the barbed-wire entanglement is to be removed and the people will again have free access to Stanley Park as heretofore. The intention of the Jubilee managers was to fleece the citizens by charging them 25-cents to get inside the barbed-wire enclosed section of the People’s Park, but the scheme backfired on them. ‘They have had to climb down, not out of consideration for the citizens, but because the scheme didn’t pay —the people wouldn’t hold still for the touch. CITY COUNCIL’S EVICTIONS. N TRYING to excuse the eviction of children from city-owned houses, Mayor McGeer once again sought to becloud the issue with his usual red-baiting tactics. The Mothers’ Council’s ef forts to keep a roof over the heads of a family were attacked by the Riot Act artist as “Com- munist propaganda.” He tried also to make it appear as if the defense of evicted families was used merely to convert the council chamber into a sounding board for Communism. Tn characteristic lawyer style he tried to ab- solve the city council from blame by stating that the city council could not override a ruling by the court. But all the court does is to give an order permitting an eviction. Tn the ease of a private landlord evicting ten- ants there might be some ground for the city council not interfering, but in the case of the house being owned by the city it is optional with the city as to whether the eviction takes place or not. Tt has the legal right, given by the court, to evict, but the action by the court does not make it obligatory. And there eould not be a court order unless application was made tor such by the owner of the house, which is the city. The tricky legal squirmings of MceGeer will avail him nothing; and neither will his fuming’ about red propaganda. The fact remains that unemployed workers and their helpless children are being eyicted from city-owned houses at the very time when the city is squandering huge sums of the taxpayers money in lavish enter- tainment of rich and titled parasites and other- wise assisting financially in Jubilee: activities for the benefit of private jndividuals and cor- porations. B.C. WorRKERS NEWS Published Weekly by THE PROLETARIAN PUBLISHIN : Room 19, 163 West Hastings Street - fest - — Subscription Rates — One Year _____ $1.80 Half Year ______ 1.00 Three Months __$ .50 Single Copy —__—.05 Make All Checks Payable to the B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Bend All Copy and Manuscript to the Chairman of the Editorial Board —- Send AH Monies and Letters Per- fainting to Advertising and Circulation to the Business Manager. Vancouver, B.C., July 10, 1936 THE C.C.F. CONVENTION. HE provincial convention of the C.C.F. (B.C. Section) which was held oyer last week-end marked a definite advance in the his- tory of the party and of the forces struggling against capitalism. The split which the Liberals and Conservatives so earnestly hoped for did not take place. True, there were sharp differences of opinion as to policy and tactics expressed, and the delegates fought hard for what they con- ceived to be a right program and policy, but toleration and courtesy was rarely abused and the fine impartiality of the alternating chair- men, Arnold Webster and Wallis Lafeaux, con- tributed much to the success of the convention. Whilst in the program, labor code, ete. there may be some projection of ultimate aims which can not be realized except through Soviet power, and which seem to have precedence, in some in- stances over immediate issues, nevertheless, the program adopted is one in support of which all workers and other progressive people can rally. The conyention is to be commended for the steps it took towards unity with all labor organ- izations in the struggle for power and against reaction. It is clear that the significance of events in France and Spain, as well as the growth of fascist organization in Canada, and in B.C. particularly, were realized by the delegates, and that an increasing number in the C.C.F. is de- termined to face the uniting forces of reaction with an all-inclusive anti-capitalist front. The tasks confronting the workers, intellec- tuals, professional and middle class people are s0 gigantic that it is imperative that no amuni- tion and energy be wasted in labor parties arid organizations attacking each other, hence the decision by the convention that all Red-baiting by speakers and writers of the C.C.F. cease. This decision is welcomed by the revolutionary workers who expect attacks from the’ Hearsts and Tom MacInneses and can and wall meet and repel them. The forward step taken by the convention will make much easier the fight against the reaction- ary Pattullo government or any coalition of re- action that the enemies of the people can bring about. The common people of the province will be heartened by the decisions of the convention. Tt is the duty of those whose views did not meet with the approval of the convention to loyally accept its decisions and close ranks in support of the new executive and for victory in the next proyincial elections. i THE MARKETING BOARD. FQNEE highhandedness of the Pattullo govern- ment was aired in court recently when a Chinese, Chung Chuck, was granted an injune- tion restraining the B.C. Coast Vegetable Mar- keting Board from interfering with the use of public highways in marketing potatoes for export. Pattullo’s provincial police extended their raiding of workers’ homes in interior towns and confiscating working-class papers to holding up produce-laden trucks on the highways and seiz- ing their trucks. They even went so far as to seize 120 sacks of potatoes in a C.P.R. car on a siding. The provincial Marketing Act is a vicious law which has caused ruin and imconvenience to hundreds of farmers. Although the Marketing Board must keep its hands off farm produce transported for export, it can and does levy tribute on the products of B.C. farms for local marketing. One of the first jobs for the C.C.F. govern- ment which will be established after the next provincial election will be to overhaul the Mar- keting Act and remove the provisions which play into the hands—and pockets—of commis- sion men and political appointees, and put in provisions that will protect the interests of the toilers on the farms. 75,000 YOUTH IN SPORTS MARCH NORMAN CLARK PASSES The Communist Party and the working class generally lost a valuable comrade and leader in the death at Regina on June 28, of Norman Clark, sec- retary. of the Saskatchewan District of the Com- munist Party. Comrade Clark was in the flush of young man- hoon when stricken with the illness which brought about his untimely end. Not thirty years of age, he had many years of devoted service to the op- pressed people to his credit. : The B.C. Workers’ News recognizes the great loss to the cause of labor and extends its sympathy to his associates and to his wife in her bereavement. The B.C. Provincial Committee of the Commun- ist Party sent the following telegram: K. G. MacMANUS, 1817 TORONTO STREET, MOSCOW, U-SS.R., July Tt — (ALP)—Moscow witnessed one of the most brilliant spectacles of the year yesterday when 75,000 Soviet youth in an annual sport participated parade. Under the slogan, “Ready for La- bor and Defense,” the city’s youth, attired in smart athletic suits, Marched through the streets and then past the Red Square in review before Joseph Stalin,, V- M. Molo- tov, Mikhail Katlinin and other lead- ers of the government and the Com- munist Party. Their tanned faces bared to the July sun, this new generation of Soviet citizens afforded one of the most stirring sights in the memory of Soviet citizens. Scores of bands and gaily colored floa¢s, imagin- ately contrived, added color to the gigantic sport spectacle. There were strapping, vigorous young men and women and thou- sands of light-footed boys and girls. runners and cyclists Swimmers, participated in the parade. There were thousands of students from culture institutes, and physical L jmembers of factory and collective farms, sport organizations. During the course of the parade, groups performed sport exhibitions pefore the reviewing Stand, which climax REGINA, SASE,, DEEPLY SHOCKED AT DEATH OF COMRADE CLARE OF WHICH WE LEARNED TODAY. BRITISH COLUMBIA PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE OF CoM MUNIST PARTY AND MEMBERSHIP EXTEND CON- DOLENCES TO THE PARTY IN SASKATCHEWAN AND TO HIS WIFE WITH OUR ENTIRE PARTY WE FEEL THE TREMENDOUS LOSS TO THE LABOR MOVEMENT CAUSED BY HIS DEATH. WE DIP OUR FIGHTING BANNERS OVER THE GRAVE OF A VALUED COMMUNIST LEADER. MALCOLM BRUCE, FOR PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA. ‘ game. a TRAVELING STORES FOR MOSCOW “Bring goods right to the people,’ seems to be the new slo i i : : 1 i gan of the People’s Commissariat of Home Trade in the Soviet Union. At any rate, it has outfitted five trucks like these to travel through the streets of Moscow to do curb selling of groceries and merchandise. The new-style stores seem popular. The World This Week By F. B. _ When Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 she broke the League of Na- tions Covenant, yet the League did nothing whatever to protect China. This was where the League first weakened. Encouraged by this Ger- many quit the League Disarmament Conference’ in 1932 and began to re- arim at a rapid pace. Under the Treaty of Versailles the Saar Basin and Danzig, former German terri- tories, were placed under League of Nations control. On March i, 1936, a plebiscite returned the Saar to Germany. Thast fall Mussolini encouraged by the failure of the League to curb Germany and Japan began his at- tack on Ethiopia, and got away with it. On March 7, 1936, Hitler, en- eouraged by the League's passivity towards the MItalo-Ethiopian war, sent troops to reoccupy the -Rhine- land, and got away with it. Now there are news of an expected Ger- man march on Danzig. Danzig was formerly Germany’s chief port on the Baltic, and in 1920 under the Treaty of Versailles it was taken away from Germany and made a Free City under League of Nations supervision. It was intended te be a@ seaport for Poland, which had no martime outlet of her own, but Po- Jand only made use of Danzig until she had built another port, Gidynia, in her own territory. Poland’s ter- ritory in this region is the Polish Corridor which separates East Prus- sia from Germany. Thus the Nazi designs on Danzig will be but a preliminary step to occupation of the Polish Corridor, and there is no doubt Hitler has been encouraged in this step by the spinelessness of the League of Na- tions so clearly advertised by its lift- ine of all sanctions against the rob- per Mussolini. Byery Nazi advance in the Baltic is a step towards com- pletion of Hitler’s plans to attack the Soviet Union. z = + Conditions in Germany are getting worse. The Nazi chieftains have begged and pleaded the people of Germany to raise big families, in spite of the fact that they: permitted thousands of adults to pine away through semi-starvation, due to un- employment. But notwithstanding their efforts to boost the birth rate it is steadily falling. During the last three months of 1935 there were 18,000 fewer births than during the same period of 1934. At the same time the death rate in- creased 10 per cent in 1935. The fact is that German women are refusing to have children when they can see no prospect of them being cared for in the future. Every. day they can see young men and women snatched from their homes for criticizing the Nazi regime and hurried off to prison or an inter- ment camp, from which places few ever return. The Nazi statisticians are much alarmed at the decrease in popula- tion and estimate that by 1960 the present population of 65 millions will have declined to 40 millions. The Nazi demands for return of German colonies in order that the ‘“‘over- population’ may be relieved, are not made with a view of bettering the welfare of the people. When Germany had large colonial tracts in Africa very few Germans settled there. The colonies were used as a source of raw material for Ger- man industries, and now when Hitler is raising the colonial question again the only people who stand to benefit from it will be the German capitalists. Nazi Germany should not be al- lowed another foot of territory. There are too many people already condemned to suffer under the ter- roristic Nazi government. It was a disgrace that Mussolini was permit- ted to bring ten millions of Ethiopi- ans under Fascist rule, and it will be another disgrace if the League of Nations agrees to Nazi Germany expanding one inch. The Treaty of Versailles was an iniquitous thing, but the contention that former German possessions should be restored to the German people is utterly false. By no stretch of the imagination can the Nazi government be termed a government of the people. It is the most blood- thirsty enemy the German people ever had, and its domination should be restricted to as narrow a sphere What French Communist By MARCEL THOREZ General Secretary of French Com- munist Party and Member of Chamber of Deputies The Communists fought, and are still fighting, against reductions in wages and incomes, for the forty- hour week without reduction of earnings, and for a real system of social insurance, giving protection against all risks, at the exclusive cost of the employers and the State. They support the demands of the unemployed, and in the Commun- ist municipalities have organized soup kitchens and the distribution of milk for children, and of coal, while they also demand higher grants for unemployment relief. They protect the interests of chil- dren and young workers, defend Givil Servants and ex-Service men, and support shopkeepers, independ- ent craftsmen, and peasants by de- manding the reduction of rents and taxes, a moratorium for debts, the provision of crisis assistance, loans free of interest, and the distribution of seed and fertilizer. Winning Middle Class In this way the Communists come forward as protectors of the most diverse strata of the middle classes, whom they try to bring into association with the working class in the fight against their com- mon enemy; big capital. In all spheres of political, economic, and social life they act in defense of the workers’ standard of living and of liberty and peace. In organizing the fight of the masses of the people against fasc- ism as the agent of foreign inter- ests and enemy of the French peo- ple, the Communists strive to draw away from fascist influence the sections of the middle classes who have been duped by the demagogy of would-be dictators acting under orders from the financial oligarchy. But through all the parliamen- tary and extra-parliamentary struggles in which they engage, in support of immediate demands and in defense of the workers’ stand- ard of living, the Communists do not lose sight of the great final aim of their struggle—Revolution, Dic- tatorship of the Proletariat, Soviet Power. They know that this is the Party Is Fighting For column written by some journalistic meat-hound named D.F.H., propos— ing that all “us public-spirited citi- zens” chip in and buy a real, smart, velvet instead of the poverty-strick— OL’ BILL The following letter came out of the mail— bag since the last issue. Out of the Past. was a cutting from that alleged newspaper, the “News-Herald,” a& © honest-to-goodness outfit for our bombastic mayor,—real ermine ang en clobber he wore when he got mugged, wearine the mayoral dog— collar. The column was labelled “Be a Booster!” Here is the letter: ; “Bill be a Booster: A word re- Sarding the invitation to “‘public- spirited citizens” to “chip in’’ and buy our leading Political Belch a velvet robe trimmed with ermine, No doubt you remember how the chain of office was gotten. Some of the ‘public-spirited citizens™ (pre-war) demanded that the City Council buy a chain so that Ata- Inan Findlay would be able to re- ceive the Gov.-Gen., His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, on his visit here, in fit and proper it woke up old memories, and I give it to you as I got it. Alone with it e state. The dissentients in the Seonee were in the majority and E ; i g 0. e ‘p.s.c’s’ if they w. eee aCe away with crises. chain to go buy and eee na + di whe ey pee war. : themselves. Put on their mettle, | ifthe y a minority of the| they said they would, but all they i hes French working class now enters | ‘chipped in’ was a couple of h : the fight with the resolute deter-| dred dollars——enough for a de oat | : mination to establish Soviets. This, with the order to Birk's Full o 1 Be aS the most class-conscious and en-| Price, twelve hundred. : e BE lightened vanguard of the working “The Duke came. Iindlay wore BY class. And that is why the setting | the collar. The Duke passed on to a up of Soviets cannot be the im-| Victoria. The bill was promptly a) Se mediate aim of the fight against] Presented to the Council. There |» fascism. Nevertheless, the Gom-| WS 4 Roisy row. The Council sai@ e munists can and must lead the} they would not order payment, ie majority of the people who are de- let those who ordered it pay for uae termined to repel fascism. And it 35 ESE: Findlay meantime calling ie is In the course of this struggle that £08 SUSE, 2s the ‘Duke was in’ vice i } a they will be able to convince the | ‘v2. 1 don’t believe it is fully pe masses of the necessity for a So- paid ton ver Ut reposed in’ the) City, & = viet Republic in France. nee eon ene after the war-/ | |) : got it back to include it im ~~ 4/ ae taets of Gee one : an exhibit they were sending to 2 + W eople's ront program will} Gold-and-Silyersmiths’ Exhibition” | |! 4 shake the economic and political | in Toronto, and held onto it. Mc- i bait power of the capitalist class, and | Geer now speaking, ‘I found out that: will strengthen the forces of the | where it was, put on my KCG’s | of working class. The Communist] silk and got photographed, and i | a Party will give full support to this | 2 wow. : a4 th government, and in certain even- “My guess is he promised that tualities might participate init. The | the aldermanic scared rabbits ~ c government will have to carry | Would order payment. Until Mc- ~ | 2 through the People’s Front pro-| Geer, Findlay was the only one to | = gram. It will have to give bread | Wear that chain. Bindlay who reag A and liberty to the workers; it will the Riot Act (Bloody Sunday, June, par have to smite the oligarchy and it |) 1912); After the war, late one nignt am Fi will have to give effect to a policy Findlay was in his office and the! Ai of peace in close association with thought occurred to him that the e the Soviet Union. pistol he was ‘cleaning’ and the ‘i 3 But there must be no illusions. sae Me Spe cee a € Me ae | 5 The success of the People’s Front] oner See ‘pall ieee ee jeu will mean the recrudescense of the | qdeath.’” mp ens ae class struggle. The oligarchy will s th not surrender without a fight; the of RAS ‘bu reactionary and fascist onslaught! Another ‘Vhich teminds me of A will be brutal and immediate. In any | W7o.t another peacock who jth event, France is advancing towards Bake likes to decorate him- | fi great and imminent battles. eee Hitler taking umbrage at the || ' And, through all the vicissitudes O92 SEHE 2a foreign minister, Frick, if of the fight between fascism and noes Bee ee iy 5 = or ‘¢ ae sees people of France, | the super-highness of Der Puehren 4 roug he growing resistance Of | are; a couple of weeks he had tom vpcl the masses to the fascist offensive | return and aati ae Goebbeliaa 7 and their passing over .to the propaganda minister aoe next te Be) counter-offensive, the truth of what| eo but was ordered t¢ t “pp Marx said in THE CLASS STRUG_| Be. eases ic GLES IN FRANCE will once again be proved: if the revolution organizes the counter-revolution, the counter-revolution in its turn, by an application of the dialectical law, arms the revolution by giving | received a wire that read: “Crown- | it a real revoluntionary party, | ed with success; Pope in flight; a steeled in battle against the| Vatican in flames; tried n Papal if enemy. necklace, it’s a wow.” : only means of once and for all By Kk. C. JONES The day after the opening of Vancouver's Golden Jubilee, Mrs. Maloney had to go down town to turn her relief scrip over to the landlord. It was terribly hot, and to rest up before the homeward journey she entered a restaurant and or- dered a cup of tea. While she was sipping it two men, obviously Amer- ican tourists, sat at the same table. “Pardon me,” said one. “Do you live in Vancouver?’’ “T do,’’ answered she. “My friend and I arrived in Wan- ecouver today. Perhaps you could tell us the sights we should take in?’ “J could indade,” said Mrs. Ma- loney. ‘‘We’ve some of the slummiest slums here you iver saw, and thin we've a lot of men jist cut off relafe that’s wanderin’ round the skid- road—” “But that’s hardly what I mean, madam. I understand you have the largest electrical fountain in Can- ada here.’’ ‘well they say It is. I dunno, it looks to me loike 2 horsetrough. It’s just a plain concrate circle, as plain AS the ones we used to drive up to twinty-five or thirty years ago on a hot day and say ‘Drink, horsey, drink” It’s set in the middle of Lost Tagoon. Ye'll see it on the way to Stanley Park. It only cost thirty- foive thousand dollars, jist a mere bag o’ shells to the city fathers. If they spint that much in increasin’ relafe thim that’s on relafe would've had a Jubilee and a Santa Claus rolled into one. I could do with some of it, belave me.’’ “Tyve been told you have a very fine public park here. Stanley Park, T believe it’s called.” ‘Well, I will say this, it used to be the foinest park I iver jaid me eyes on. It was beautiful. I used to as possible. loike to go there of 2 Saturday or Hot- Dog Jubilee Sunday afternoon and spind the day on the grass near Uumbermen’s Berlin as he had not been any more successful than Frick. WHitier then played his trump card. He sent Goering. In a space of time not much greater than it takes to travel from Berlin to Rome, Der Fuehrer ree ee oes Suffer Little The preachers who 5 attempt to put inte t : Children! practice the teach= ines of the lowly Nazarene must be prepared to face a struggle as fierce and inveterate almost as that of the Arch. I always loiked the smell of the sea. I could rist there. But now —well it’s spoilt fer me. They’ye put up a half-acre stand fer dancin’ at So much per dance. And thin there’s a tea room, a vaudeville show and God only knows what ilse; and last but mot least there are siveral hot dog wagons and stands. Wow instid of the fresh smell ay the sea the air is filled with the smill of hot dogs! But after all, what kind of a Jubilee can ye have without hot dogs! No hot dogs, no Jubilee! And it’s no longer a public park. They've put a big fince about part of it and they soak ye two-bits to git in. Two-bits ain’t nuthin’ to a we've me family. Yis, The tourists rose to go. you for the infromation,” said one. “No thanks at all, at all,” chape as the Jubilee. Ye’re welcome Good day to ye.” League Committee tourist, but itl provide a male fer got some foine sights in Vancouver! A public park that ain’t a public park! That sounds loike a puzzle, but it ain’t.” “Thank Said Mrs. Maloney. ‘“Me information’s as To Meet In Moscow GENEVA, Switzerland, July 6.— workers engaged in the fight for better conditions. Others of their own religious groups, the learned hirelings who consider themselyes the cream, and the ignorant and superstitious in the congregations act as a barrier to following the teachings of Jesus. Bishop McCon- nell of the Methodist Evangelical Church in the U. S. is finding this to be the very truth, Jesus said, ‘‘Suffer little children to come unto me,” and for believing that and acting on it, for fighting for the rights of the eight million’ children under 16 on the breadline in the United States, he is being hounded and chivvied by the type of Christians referred to above. He is accused of being a Bolshevik, of attempting to undermine the eternal and unchanging democratic institu- tions that are the foundation of American liberty, of desiring to sub- stitute for these inalienable priv- jleges, a planned economy that is alien and Zodless. For denouncing the platitudes of the M. EB. Church leaders, while one woman (Mrs. Gloria Vanderbilt) gets $48,000 for a week-end entertain- ment for her child, and one item of $125 for two months care of a cat, ten times as much as the commun~- ity allows for bread for starving