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Reactionary Pattullo

labor.

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CONVENTION

FULL NO. 78

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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1936

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VOL. Il, No. 26

C.C.F. CONVENTION MARKS REAL ADVANCE

Suppo ) ges Grows

Militant Leader

BURRARD STREET
FAMILY EVICTED

Family of Five Forced
Out on Street Under
Police Surveillance

At 1055 Burrard street was the
Scene of a Jubilee eviction, Monday,
July 6, between 10 and 11 am. The
¥ictim, H. B. Hungerford, salesman
of militant workins class papers.

Protected by seven city police and
a squad of bailiffs men, a gang re-
moved the entire contents of Hung-
erford’s home out onto the street.
Apparently the sight of the effects
out on the streets, with the mother
and three children crying over their
plicht, was more than the Jubilee
rackateers cared to let the visitors
see, so a truck was ordered and the
effects hauled away and put in
storage. The father was giyen the
usual $12 to find another home, but
where to find one was not told him.
Eventually, late that night, Hung-
erftord gave up the hunt and lodged
the family in a down-town hotel,
which he paid for out of the $12.-

Eviction the Rule

This case, one of hundreds of
Similar cases, shows the farcial
mature of the relief-rental problem.
Should the tenant, by some hook or
crook, manage to get some landlord
to accept $12 for the first month’s
rent, when the second month comes
Gue, and the $7.50 allowed by the

_ ity is presented, eviction is the rule.

This is the third eviction of the
Hungerford family. This man has
recently been the victim of attack
and threats of attack by thugs, in an
undoubted attempt to stop his
activities, A few weeks ago he was
brutally attacked by a stranger in
broad daylight at Carrall and
Hastings, but when his assailant
Was arraigned in court the following
Morning, the case was dismissed
Without a witness being called.
Clothes Taken Away

The case of Hungerford is one
borderine on highway robbery. Once
all the furniture and effects was
Piled on the streets, the poor Jubi-
lee publicity of thescene worried
the officials. Nurses from the Saint
Paul's Hospital were prone in pass-
ing to sympathize with the hyster-
ical mother and children, and all
this did not add to the respect for
the administration. An attempt was
Imade to move part of the effects to
a less conspicuous side street, but
this was protested by Hungerford
on the grounds that he could not
watch his stuff if it was spread ail
over the city. Shortly, however, or-
ders were given to load the effects
on 2 truck and take it to a storage
warehouse, and this was forcibly
carried out, despite the protests of
the owner that once his furniture
was put on the street it was no
longer under the control of the
sheriff,

To the warehouse it went, furni-
ture, clothing, food, utensils and all,
leaying the family with what they
lad on their backs, the children in
their play clothes and the mother
in her house dress,

Another feature of this case was
the decejt used by the authorities
in putting over their coup. Hunger—
ford had been assured a short time
before that stay of proceedings had
been granted for ten days, presum-
ing that a house would become
available within that time. But on
the date of the original order the
eviction was carried out.

WON’T BEAR BABIES
FOR SLAUGHTER

GPNEVA, Switzerland, July 6.—
(ALP)—Miss Kerstin Hesseleren of
Sweden, the only speakier at the
present asembly of the League of
Wations, stirred the delegates from
their boredom over routine speeches
by woicing the “intense anguish” of
the women of the world because of
the threat of a new war.

sarding the declining birth rate
in some countries, she said: “How
could women wish to bear children
into a world which is so hopeless?
Do you want the collaboration of
women? You can get it whole-
heartedly if you work for peace.’

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Chess Players Refuse’
Olympic Participation

OSLOW, Norway, July 6—{ALP)
—BHyen the chess players are refus-
ing to participate in the WBGerlin
Olympics. The Tondelage district of
the Norwesian chess federation has
fone on record as refusing to par-
ticipate in the Olympics, and urges
the national officials to withdraw
their acceptance to the Olympic in-
vitation.

LONDON, Ene, July 6—(ALP)—
The ravages of child labor and un-
employment are being seen as more
than a third of the applicants at
army recruitine offices in England,
Scotland and Wales have been re-
jected as physically unfit for ser-
wice, the government announces.

P

Again

Has Workers’ Confidence

HARRY BRIDGES
Militant leader of the Pacific
Coast Maritime Workers.

Poor Farmers
Beat Racket

Injunction Restrains the
Seizure of Products
on Highway

VANCOUVER, July 8—The poor
farmers of B.C. won a victory today
over the B.C. Coast VYegetable Mar-
keting Board, when Mr. Justice
Murphy granted Chung Chuck, po-
tota grower of Ladner, an injunc-
tion restraining the Marketing
Board from interfering in his use
of public highways in marketing
potatoes for export-

Four affidavits were presented by
the plaintiffs. These stated that on
June 24 a trmickload of 52 sacks of
potatoes had been stopped at Fraser
Avenue Bridge by an officer of the
Vegetable Marketing Board, and
the potatoes seized.

On June 26, 10 sacks were seized
by another officer.

Qn Monday, July 6, another affi-
davit stated, Chung Chuck received
an order from Calgary. He loaded
120 sacks into a car on a © PR.
siding. These were seized.

The same evening another 30
sacks were seized from a truck
stopped on the highway.

The injunction affects produce
intended for warehousing or export
out of B.C.

it was the first court ruing made
on the federal Agricultural Prod-
ucts marketing Act, declared ultra
vires recently by the Supreme
Court, and though there had been
as yet no judgment taken in the

rt For Brid

NO SETTLEMENT TOM McINNES

Endorsed

Elected Head of Pacific Coast Longshoremen and
Council of Maritime Federation of the Pacific.

SEATTLE, July 9.— Progressive
unionism on the U.S. Pacific Coast
seored another victory yesterday,
when the longsshoremen of the coast,
14,000 strong, elected Harry Bridges,
militant leader of the San Francisco
longshoremen, and Mat Meehan of
Portland as president and secretary
respectively of the Pacific Coast Dis-
trict of the International Longshore-
men’s Association, by overwhelming
majorities over GC. Thurston of Port-
land and E. Bruce of San Pedro,
remnants of the Paddy Morris’ reac-
tionary machine.

More Bridges’ Support.

Further support for the Bridges
kind of leadership was demonstrated
last week by the election of Harry
Bridges to the presidency of the Bay
Area Council No. 2 of the Maritime
Federation of the Pacific by a vote
of 136 to 18 for his opponent Diet-
rich. Only the bloc of 18 votes of
the Sailors’ Union executive com-
miteee were cast against Bridges.
@pposition to Bridges found no sup-

port from the Alaska fishermen, the
radio telegraphists, noilermakers,
the two machinists locals, the mar-
ine cooks and stewards, the marine
firemen, the marine engineers, the
masters and mates, mor from any
of the others besides the S.U.P-
executive committee represented on
the council.

Another overwhelming victory for
this kind of militant leadership was
scored in the smashing election of
Barl King, secretary of the marine
firemen, who polled 116 votes for
vice-president of Council No. 2,
against 21 for Tillman-

LUMBER WORKERS
WIN MORE WAGES

PORTLAND, Ore., July 7—(ALP)
—Ten thousand lumber workers in
the Columbia River region returned
to work with considerable gains,
after a two months’ general strike.
An agreement was signed between
the Lumber and Sawmill Workers’
Union and the Columbia Basin Log-
gers’ Association. It expires next
Mareh. The workers win higher
wages, shorter hours. Control of hir-
ine halls to be in the hands of the
state labor commission.

matter of the Agricultural Products
Marketing Act, Justice Murphy stat-
ed he was bound to take cognizance
of an opinion expressed by the Su-
preme Court.

The terminology applied to the
working of the marketing board by
the market gardeners is “a racket,”
and the poor farmers have fought
the monopolistic actions of the
board since it was set up.- With the
declaring as ultra vires of the fed-
eral Agricultural Marketing Act,
the matter has again been taken up
with the above result.

New Organization Holds
First Provincial Meet
at Kamloops

July 11 and 12 are the dates set
for the first convention of the new-
ly organized Relief Project Workers’
Union, to be held at Kamloops.

Only a few weeks old, coming into
existence with the closing of the
Relief Camps and the draftine of the
relief camp workers into frailroad
and highway projects, the new
union has shown remarkable growth.
Some projects are almost 100 per
cent organized, and every project in
B.C. has its quota of union men.

The spirit of organization is
Strong amongst the project men.
Dumped into military cesspools by
the thousands, forced under military
Suard and military discipline to°
Slave on road and airport huilding.
etc., for the pittance of $5 a month,
these men were compelled to unite
their forces and rebel against the
conditions imposed upon them hy
the Bennett government. The strike
in the spring of 1935, culminating in
the historic “On to Ottawa ” trek,
which resulted in the abolition of
the slave camps, and contributed to
a large extent in the defeat of the

Barbers Win Pay Raises

NEW YORE, N.Y., July 7.—ALP)
—Twenty thousand New York bar-
bers, according to fifth vice-presi-
dent Anthony Merlino, of the Jour-
neymen Barbers (International
Union, will receive wage increases
of $5 to $10 a week by the ending
of their strike. The walkout was

terminated Saturday.

Relief Project Workers’
Convention, July 11-12

Bennett regime, were products of
the unity and progressiveness of the
Relief Camp Workers’ Union.

The spirit and ery for organiza-
tion is predominant, and the signing
of the men into the new union is
only a matter of setting the mach-
inery in motion to contact all pro-
Jects_

There are many grievances, chief
amongst them hours of work and
wages. The men are formed into
fangs, and are being employed as
extra gangs on the railroads, grad-
ing and laying rails. They work
ten hours daily and receive 25 cents
per hour. Out of this they pay
$5.50 weekly for board, 50 cents for
bedding, $1.75 monthly medical fees
and the usual compensation and
Jones tax.

They are crowded into box cars,
double decked, with straw for bed-
ding and no sheets, despite the fact
that they are charged 50 cents
weekly for bedding. There is no
sanitary equipment, nor bath facili-
ties. In practically all camps the
food is “‘outrageous.’’

The work is hard and speed-up is
becoming the general thing. Already
the weeding out of “kickers” has
started, and it is apparent the rail-
read corporations are planning on
taking full advantage of the plight
of the single unemployed in the
proyinee to get their railroad work
done under coolie wages and condi-
tions.

The original plan of the govern-
ment was to withold part of the
wages, and then dish the held-back
pay out as relief during the winter
months. The union, young as it is,
has been suecessful in squashing

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CAPILANO STRIKE

Company [Ignores City
Council Proposal
To Negotiate

INo progress has been made to-
wards settlement of the Capilano
Shingle Mill strike. The Harbor and
Utilities Committee of the city coun-
cil attempted to open negotiations
between the men and the company,
but the company flatly refused to
meet. {

Meantime the strikers’ ranks are
solid, or practically so, having lost
only 11 men out of the 86 original
employees. Two of the eleven, Prank
Bailey and Gharlie Thomas, broke
ranks this week and went scabbing,
the first to do s@ since the begin-
ning of the strike.

U.S. workers are refusing to han-
dle scab shingles from B.C., and it
is reported that more carloads of
Shingles sent from here have been
returned this week.

Reports from mills are that orders
are dropping off at an alarming rate
because of the U.S. workers ban put
on Canadian shingles produced by
underpaid labor.

Australian workers, according to
an Island operator, has also taken
up the fight of the B.C. mill work-
ers and are refusing to take shin-
gles produced by underpaid B.C.
mill men.

According to mill men here, the
market for Canadian shingles will
be restricted so long as the Cana-
dian wage scale remains below the
American, regardless of the attitude
of the mill owners.

Park Fence

Comes Down

Public Shows Opposition
by Staying Away

That the Jubilee ballyhoo has not
been successful in filching the quar-
ters out of the pockets of Vancouver
citizens is revealed in the discus-
sions now taking place on the prob-
ability of abolishing the present 25-
cent admission fee to the Golden
Jubilee area of Stanley Park.

At the time this area was fenced
off, protests were lodged by many
organizations and individuals
against this unwarranted exclusion
of the working people of Vancouver
from their park, -but the Jubilee
racketeers were sustained and the
fence was built. Now, however, in
face of the failure of the racket, the
people of Vancouver may again
have access to the park.

JAPAN PREPARES
HUGE WAR FORCE

TOKYO, Japan, July 6 (Special to
Associated Labor Press)—Japan is
preparing for mobilization, it is in-
dicated here with news that the
government is considering plans for
a territorial army of more than a
million men.

Former Home Secretary Goto and
Lord Privy Seal Matsudaira have
placed before the cabinet and the
Army a blueprint of an ‘‘All-Japa-
nese Reservist Organization” built
on the British idea of a non-perma-
nent territorial foree of non-profes-
sional soldiers on a volunteer hasis.

This plan will provide the machin-
ery for speedy mobilization of the
total man-power of the country for
war,

In the opinion of the initiators of
the scheme, the formation of the

organization is required ‘for the
wide preparation jof the country
for general mobilization even in

peace time, and also to help the
government carry out the proposed
reforms of the state administration.”

The Reservists would be a “kind
of intermediary between the Army
and the population in carrying out
these tasks.”’

Wyoming Convention
Supports CI. O.

LARAMIE, Wyo., July 7—(ALP)
—Full support to the Committee for
Industrial Organization was voted
by the convention of the Wyoming
State Federation held here.

The convention, in addition to for-
mal support of the group now try-
ing to organize steel and other basic
industries, also defeated every at-
tempt to split the oil field workers
alone craft lines. Louis Bauer, pro-
eressive president of the Casper
Trades and Labor Assembly, was
applauded when he declared during
the debate: “The American workers
ean be effectively organized into no
more than six or seven big unions.”

Resolutions against Communists
and those against the foreign-born
workers got so little support they
were killed in committee.

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2. The members of the Union
shall operate, in crews, such fish-
ing vessels supplying fish of the
-kind stated below to the Company

TELLS ANOTHER

Manufactures His Radio
Material Out of Whole
Cloth

SEATTLE, Wash—The five-week
old strike of 500 auto mechanics
Zained strength this week with every
pasing hour. Additional companies
signed the union agreement, and the
dealers’ association retreated from
its original stubborn position and
Submitted terms for settlement to
the union.

The dealers in a signed advertise-
ment offered the auto mechanics
the minimum scale demanded, 90
cents an hour and $25 a week guar-
antee.

The other two union demands—
union shop and the 40-hour week—
are still to be negotiated before the
men wall return to work, auto mech-
anies’ officials said.

Provincial President

Qver the air last Sunday, Tom
McInnis, Vancouver's fascist radio
Tranter, made the assertion that
5000 Seattle citizens had ganged up
on the striking auto mechanics,
cleaned up the picket lines, and

opened the pljants. He remarked,
however, that it was strange that
the daily papers had not reported
this clean-up by “patriotic’’ citizens.
Why the papers did not report it is
evident, as the above dispatch shows,
it was one more of those pure con-
coctions of McInnis.

AID FOR PRESTES
PROMISED MOTHER

LONDON, Eng., July 6—{ALP)—
A long list of British members of
parliament, including D. N. Pritt,
KGn’s counselor, and Sir Stafford
Cripps, K.C., promised every possible

DR. LYLE TELFORD

Well known radio speaker, was
elected unanimously to the post
of President of the C.C¥F. (B.C.
Section) at the annual provincial
convention last Monday.

(Photo Courtesy Vancouver Sun)

1400 Fishing

assistance and support to the mother
of Luis Carlos Prestes, imprisoned
leader of the Brazilian liberation
movement in the fight for her son’s
release.

Mrs. Prestes, who has arriyed here,
will speak at a demonstration of
welcome in Hyde Park here.

During her visit in Paris recent-
ly, Mrs. Prestes was received by
general secretary of the French Fed-
eration of iJabor, Jouhaux. M.
Jouhaux then sent a cable to the
Brazilian president and to the par-
liament in Rio de Janeiro stating:
“At the request of the mother of
Prestes I ask you news of Prestes’
fate. We hope the inquiry will be
received favorably. It is inhuman
not to answer a mother’s call.”

Koreans Sentenced For
Communist Activity

TOKYO, Japan, July 7.—ALP)—
The Supreme Court in Keijo has sen-
tenced eighteen Koreans to death for
Communist propaganda. Two other

Boats Strike

Gilnetters Demand Fifty
Cents for Sockeye

Although the sockeye salmon fish-
ing season at Rivers Inlet is nearing
its height there is no fishing in that
district today:

On strike for a price of 50 cents
per sockeye instead of the 40 cents
they have been accepting, gillnet
fishermen did not put out today at
the end of the weekly close season.

Between 1350 and 1400 boats are
reported idle.

A strike committee is reported as
claiming that at a meeting on Sat-
urday the fishermen voted 800 to 116
to strike for the higher price.

A much smaller number of boats
at Knight Inlet in the Alert Bay dis-
trict is also on Strike today.

The strike committee is reported
to have sent delegations to Smith’s
Inlet, the Skeena and the Naas, urg-
ing the gillnetters there to join in

accused have been sentenced to 15
years hard labor each.

the strike.

U.S. Fishermen Will Not
Actas Strikebreakers

Canadian Buyers Offer
Higher Prices to Break
Strike

That the fishermen of the U.S.
North-west will support the striking
B.C. fishermen has been assured by
the U.S. locals, The Salmon Purse
Seiners’ Union of the Pacific has
recently signed an agreement with
the Puget Sound operators, which
we reprint below. In a letter ac-
companying the copy of the agree-
ment, over the signature of J. F.
Jurich, secretary-treasurer of the
S.P.S.U. of A., the support for the
B.G ‘fishermen is shown in the
following extract:

A buyer from the Canadian side
was at Neal Bay about a weelx
ago, and was willing to pay a
higher price than we are asking.
But we have ordered our boats
not to sell any fish to Canadian
buyers or any organization that is
shipping fish over there till you
have reached an agreement with
the Canadian buyers.”

The agreement between the Sal-
mon Purse Seiners’ Union of the
Pacific and the companies is as
follows:

WITNESSETH:

1. The Company agrees to recog-
nize the Union as the authorized
representative of all Purse Seine
fishermen employed on boats selling
fish to the said Company.

during the season of 1936, and shall
faithfully perform the duties of
their employment, on the condition
that the terms of this Agreement
are complied with. e

8. The Company shail pay the
following schedule of minimum

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the season of 1936 at Cape FPlattery
and in Puget Sound:

(b) Pinks, 10c¢ each.

(a) Sockeye 18” or over, 60c each.

(ce) Cohoes to start or until aver-
age 6 Ibs-, 25¢ each.

Cohoes, 614 Ibs. or over, 314c Ib.

(d) Springs (Qutside) 14 Ibs. or
over, 75c.

Springs (Inside), $1.00.

Springs over 7 Ibs. and under
14: Ibs., Cohoe price.

Springs under 7 Ibs., Pink price.

4. This Agreement is subject, how-
ever, to the reservation that the
Puget Sound Cannerymen reserve
the right individually to cease oper-
ations at any time when conditions
get beyond their control and are
thereby released from their obligza-
tions hereunder while closed down
except that at least 48 hours notice
must be given to the Salmon Purse
Seiners Union of the Pacifie at 84
Seneca street, Seattle, and to each
fishing boat then fishing for the
Cannery closing down or the inten-
tion to close, and all fish offered by
Said fishermen within said period
must be taken and paid for at not
less than the above stated prices,
and if any above mentioned can-
neries closes down temporarily, and
again resumes operations all terms
of the above Agreement shall be
immediately reinstated.

CORRECTION

In our last issue, reporting the
Centralia, Wash., convention of the
Lumber and Sawmill section of the
U.Bof C&T. of Washington,  Ore-
fon and BC, we inadvertantly
Stated that Harold Pritchett was
president of the B.C. district coun-
cil This was an error. H. Pritch-
ett is a delegate of Local No. 222,
and an executiye beard member of

prices for all salmon caught during

the B-C. District Council.

Harmony Prevails As
Large Delegate Body
Moves Toward Unity

Way Opened for Co-
operation with Labor
Organizations

TELFORD PRESIDENT

Left-Inclined Provincial

Executive Is
Elected

Opening Friday night on a note of
considerable apprehension, the an=
nual CCE. (BC. Section) Gonyven-
tion closed on Monday in contident
enthusiasm, after haying Swunge de-
cisively to the Jeft in policy and
personnel, tightened up control of
the organization, and established
principles of the greatest conse
quence to all workers’ organizations.

Sharp Swing to Left.

The progressive trend was shown
by many ‘tesolutions and changes,
both in platform and in the execu—
tive elected.

() Principle of United Front en-
dorsed almost unanimously by the
formation of an Unemployment and
Industrial Council admitting ali
labor organizations.

(@) Demand that all ‘“Red-baitine”
cease on the part of C.G.F. s
and writers. ee

(3) Demand that the Common-
Wealth come to an agreement with
the Provincial Executive under pen-
alty of withdrawal of CCE support.

(4) Placine of the propaganda and
fund-raising activities under con-
trol of the movement.

(5) Placing of ail elected repre-
Sentatives under the control and
Strict discipline of the convention,
and of the Provincial Executive be-
tween conventions.

The convention was opened by
Arnold Webster, who referred brief=
ly to the fact that the C.C.F. held
annual conventions where the rank
and file might rule, in contrast to
the usual capitalist Party procedure
of calline a select convention about
once every ten years. After an ap—
peal for reasonableness and cool con-
Sideration of the problems before the
delegates. he introduced the next
speaker, J. S. Woodsworth, president
of the National Executive.

J. S. Woodsworth Explains

Mr. Woodsworth congratulated
British Columbia on having been
the first province to achieve a Hed-=
eration of labor STOupS under ths
CCE. banner and build 4 smoothly
running organization in the pro-
Vincial field. His address, as had
been that of Arnold Webster, was
Somewhat marred by an under.
peaeee a apprehension that at
imes left the speak = ing
Suitable words. RESP EY JB ene ee

He reviewed the political prozress
of the party in the various Prov-
inees, and explained the circum-
stances that had led to the discharges
of several clubs in the Toronto dis-
trict for joining in an United Front
May Day parade. He claimed that
they had been removed only as a
Matter of discipline, as the Provin-
cial Executive had banned collabora-—
tion with the Communist Party on
May Day, and not on account of
their left attitude. He read an offer
of the Provinical Executive to again
receive them into the fold, and
Stated he expected that the whole
trouble would shortly be cleared up,
His explanation was received with-
out enthusiasm, although cheering
broke out when he said that ‘‘dis-
cipline must be established in the
party.”

He emphasized that the old parties
were endeavoring to administer
Capitalism and had absolutely failed,
due to ‘those contradictions inherent
in capitalism,’ a phrase which later
drew from Wallis Lefeaux, vyice-
president, the remark that he was
#lad that ‘at last Comrade Woods-
worth was able to recognize these
contradictions ’”

SEE PAGES 3 AND 5 FOR
FULL STORY OF- C.C.F.

(Continued on page 3)

LOGGER KILLED
AT KELLY’S CAMP

Speed-up claimed another logger
victim in the person of Gunnar Ride
dar, who was killed at Kelly's Camp,
Queen Charlotte Islands, during the
last week in June.

Riddar was hit in the stomach by
a sapling while fighting a hang-up
(clearing a log that had become
caught while being hauled in) and
died on his way to hospital.

His death makes the twenty-sixth
fatal accident in B.C. logging this
year.

H. P. Wager, mill worker at
Wanny Bay, V.1., was drowned on
July 6th. He was working on the
boom and fell, apparently striking
his head, rendering him unconscious

before he hit the water.

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