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B.C. WOREERS’ NEWS

July 17, 1936

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Vancouver, B.C., July 17, 1936

UNEMPLOYED AND KIDNAPPING

ENDING before nation-wide protest, the

Liberal government of Mackenzie King
abolished Section 98 of the Criminal Code. But
the Liberal government of Premier Hepburn ot
Ontario has found another section to provide
legal covering for a reign of terror against
hungry unemployed workers who protest
against further reduction in the already meagre
reliet allowances.

The section being used by Hepburn against
the working class is Section 297, dealing with
the crime of kidnapping. When unemployed
workers, protesting against relief cuts, detained
two reeves of municipalities until the cuts were
withdrawn, 33 of them were arrested in mid-
night raids by police and charged with the crime
of kidnapping, which upon conviction carries a
maximum penalty of 25 years’ imprisonment.

Hepburn was swept into office on a_ wave
of mass protest against the reactionary Henry-
Price government, and by the use of Hepburn’s
notorious demagogy. The use of Section 98 by
the Henry-Price gang against the Communist
Party in 1931, in a fruitless effort to destroy it,
contributed greatly to the Tory defeat. The use
of the kidnapping section of the Criminal Code
by the Hepburn-Croll outfit will help drive it
out of office.

Hepburn has signally failed to solve the
problem of unemployment, despite all his lying
promises, just as Pattullo’ failed to provide work
and wages, and as the King government has
failed completely to provide work for the unem-
ployed, but has succeeded in cutting relief
appropriations.

Hepburn is attempting to stifle the erowine
mass protest against his program of increasing
hunger. His weapon is terror, but he will find
that in the face of his terror the workers will
unite their forces to meet it and he will not
succeed.

In this province the lead given in 1931 by
the Ontario government was followed by Pat-
tullo, who also used Section 98, and now that
that weapon was torn from the hands of the
ruling class, he will try to follow the Hepburn
lead and invoke the Kidnapping Section of the
Criminal Code and the remaining anti-labor
sections. For Pattullo will attempt relief cuts,
if he believes he can get away with it.

The time to organize against relief cuts in
this province is now, and also to organize and.
amite to meet and repulse the offensive which
Pattullo and Sloan may attempt to launch.

PATTULLO’S STRIKEBREAKERS

ALMON fishermen (gillnetters and seimers)
and cannery workers of B.C. are on strike
for an increase from 40 cents to 50 cents a fish.
The bosses are determined not to pay the in-
erease, although well able to do so and still make
a handsome profit, for the small independent
eanners have declared that they can pay the
higher prices.

The fish canning industry is almost wholly
owned and controlled by the powerful Cana-
dian Fish Company, a subsidiary of the power-
ful Wall Street-owned monopoly, the New Eng-
land Fish Company, and is atfiliated to the
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association.

The offer of the low price of 40 cents a fish
with the threat of closing down the industry if
it is not accepted is a continuation of the well-
planned and well-organized scheme to smash
¢rades unionism on the Pacific Coast, a contin-
uation of the work begun by the Shipping Fed-
eration in 1935.

The Pattullo government is acting true to the
despicable strikebreaking role it played in the
Slave Camp and Longshore struggles. The in-
famous provincial police are on the scene with
their provocation, and have entered the struggle
as open recruiters of scabs, posting up notices
assuring potential scabs that they will be on
their side if they go to work. The fishermen
and cannery workers tear down the scab-
recruiting notices as fast as they are put up.

The C.C.F., the Communist Party and all
trade unions should bombard Pattullo and
Sloan with protests against the use of their un-
iformed scab-herders against the workers who
are struggling for a decent living, and demand
that they be withdrawn from the scene of the
strugele.

ALBERTA C.C.F. FOR UNITED FRONT
' A GAINST the offensive of the capitalist

class expressed in the well organized at-
tack against trades unionism, in relief cuts, in
evictions of the families of workers, in the grad-
nal encroachment on civil and democratic rights,

in the whole program of reaction. the workers
and progressive people are turning in increasing
numbers to unity.

When the Communists, who first saw the
danger of growing reaction, made sincere pro-
posals for a United Front against it. many lead-
ers of working class organizations saw, or ariect-
ed to sce. in the proposals a “Communist trick,’”
and did their utmost to keep labor divided and
helpless. And many rank and file workers
either supported those leaders’ splitting policy
or made no effort to establish unity with the
Communist Party.

The growing boldness of reaction, however,
is working a deep-going change in the ranks of
labor. This change is most noticable in the
members and in many leaders ot the C.C.F.,
although some leaders at the top still repeat the
old areuments against unity, one of which is the
false one that the C.C.F. itself provides the
means for the United Front.

The value of the United Front in France and
Spain in blocking the advance of fascism, and
the gains to the workers from the United Front
in Windsor, Regina and other places m Canada
——a]] this, as well as the demonstrated unselfish
sincerity of the Communists in their proposals
for unity, has had its effect in breaking down
much of the opposition to the United Front in
Canada.

The more tolerant and friendly attitude of
the G.C.F. (B.C. Section) expressed in the
recent provincial convention, and its definite
move toward unity, was followed this week by
the decision of the Alberta C.C.F. conyention
to begin negotiations with the Communist Party
with a view to effecting affiliation.

These progressive steps toward unity is as
encouraging to the exploited and oppressed
people of Canada as they are discouraging to
the forces of reaction.

The march towards the united anti-capitalist
front goes on despite the howls of the infuriated
agents of reaction who see im the erowing wnity
movement an effective obstacle to their netar-
fous designs. Although a few timid leaders may
become panic-stricken by the strident Red-bait-
ine, the great mass in the ©.C.F. and trades
unions will respond with still greater unity, a
more powerful United Front, for they know that
the way to scotch incipient fascism is by united
struggle, and not by capitulation to appease the
enemies of the people who with every retreat
of the workers advance with inereased boldness
their program of hunger, mereiless exploitation,
fascism and war-

CRAFT VS. INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM

TITANIC struggle is being waged in the.

trade union movement of the United
States on the issue of Crait Unionism vs. Tndus-
trial Unionsm. The forees of conseryvativism
are led by William Green, successor to Sam
Gompers as president of the American Federa-
tion of Labor, and the forces of progress are led
by John L. Lewis, president of the powertul
jndustrial union, the United Mine Workers ot
Aamieriea.

Tt has been abundantly proven that the worl=
ers in the mass production industries can not
be organized into craft unions. Tm such indus-
tries as steel, rubber, metal, textile, and in the
automobile industry, the workers can be organ-
ized only upon an industrial basis—all workers
jn a given industry to be in one union, instead
of those of each trade or craft in an industry
being split up and placed into a score or more
different local unions with fellow craftsmen of
other industries.

Green is a reactionary labor leader who clings
stubbornly to the outworn forms of erait union-
ism which have served their purpose, but which
no longer suit in this period of machine mass
production. As president of the A.F.of L. he
wields great power and is using it, to the extent
of threatening the splitting of the labor move-
ment, to prevent any further progress toward
industrial unionism.

John L. Lewis is the leader of the Committee
for Industrial Organization, which has been set
up by the officials of eight or ten powertul
international unions affiliated to the A.F.of L.,
and embracing approximately one million work-
ers of the A.F.of L.’s three and a half million
affiliated members.

The powerful steel corporations are support
ing Green and fighting against Lewis, who has
set as the first task of the C.I.O. the organiza-
tion of the half-million unorganized workers in
the steel industry. With Green there are arrayed
against Lewis such “friends” of the working
elass as America’s Puble Enemy No. 1, William
Randolph Hearst, the fascist American Liberty
League and every other enemy of the working
class.

John L. Lewis has often done things which
wwere not in the interest of the workers, and
he has been denouneed, and quite properly, for
those actions. He still opposes the formation
of a Farmer-Labor Party and supports the cor-
rnpt millionaire-controlled Democratic Party.
He is still unfriendly to the Soviet Union. But
at_the same time he wants to organize the maiil-
lions of workers in the basic industries, and he
wants to organize them into industrial unions.
This being so, he represents progress and is de-
serving all revolutionary and progressive sup-
port and should receive it.

WHY WILLIAMSON AND CAMPBELL .
WERE EXPELLED FROM C.P. OF C.

line of the G.P:, which as an al-
|lezed Communist, he had repeatedly
pledged to uphold and work for,

Williamson was able to involve

Desiring information on the |free interests of the workers and coe Coase in ne own un-
1 « icy. wij_| tenable and wunprinciple position,
: the National Labor | t»® policy of the C.P. of C., Wil i
BEES bye liamson as business agent of the and to influence Cambell up to the
Council on Tom Ewen, well- Amalgamated Building ‘Workers point where the latter’s expulsion
Imown tirade union organizer, and | continued in poaching members| Was inevitable.

the causes of the expulsion of J.

Williamson and Gordon Campbell Ee FAUS sbroadine
from the Communist Party, a rep- nee

resentative of the B.C. Workers’

Secondly,
Wews interviewed the B.C. organ-

from parallel unions in the A.F. of

all ranks of the building

that long prior to his

The organizer of the C.P. stated
to the ‘33.c. Workers’ News’ re-
porter that in spite of the necessity
of Gampbell’s expulsion, there was
A wide difference between William-
son and Campbell. While the former

general disrup-

fzer of the Communist Party and
the following imformation was
elicited. EDITOR-

First, that WiGamson and Camp-
pell were expelled from the C.P. of
G.,, last May for anti-working class
activity in the A-C.C.l. unions.
After being repeatedly warned that

hiis activities were in opposition to AVF. of .

expulsion he continued to oppose
the trade union policy of the GC.P.
on the unification of the trade
unions; to misrepresent this policy
by chauvinistic and other undesir-
able methods of agitation, and in re-
fusing to reveal the source of funds
during the loggers’ strike for A.C.
G.L. radio broadcasts, popularizing
“Canadian” unionism as against the
In nis fight against the

has carried on an anti-working class
policy in his union activities, moti-
vated by the desire to collaborate
and eater to the employers and
screening his actions upon the al-
legation, that carrying out the C.P.
policy which he chose to distort,
would constitute a betrayal of the
workers who paid him his salary.

Campbell’s incorrect defense of

The World
This Week

By F. B.

With startling unanimity observ-
ers of BHuropean affairs state that
Europe is in a far worse condition
than it was in 1914, some even go-
ing so far as to say that war can-
not be much longer delayed.

To dismiss such views as “alarm-
ist’’ would be extremely foolish. It
would be much wiser, indeed it is
imperative, to sound the alarm
louder than has heretofore been
done in order that ever wider circles
of the people be aroused to the
great danger that confronts them.
This grave danger is the possibility
of world domination by the Fasc-
ists.

The principle of collective secur-
ity as embodied in the League of
Wations seems to have been thrown
into the discard and replaced by the
idea of individual security express-
ed in an intensification of arma-
ment building. What destroyed the
principle of collective security?
Litvinoff, Soviet Minister of Hor-
eign Affairs, says that it was de-
stroyed by the overwhelming fear
of a great danger. He meant the
direct menace of a rearmed Nazi
Germany, from which no country
is safe. The capitalist nations
which nursed and cherished the
Nazi regime from its infancy sowed
the wind; now they are terrified at
the prospect of reaping a whirlwind,
and instead of jointly erecting a
giant stockade around Germany
during the past three years, they
are all now on the spot, and in a
panie of fear each is trying to bar
its Own door. The breakdown of
collective security may lead to the
greatest tragedy in human history,
the triumph of Fascism.

The French government has pro-
posed a system of regional pacts,
supervised by the League of Na-
tions, intended to link economic
and military sanctions against an
aggressor. It proposes, too, the
elimination from the League Coyv-
enant of the article that says a
unanimous yote is’ necessary on
measures required to safeguard
peace. The League of Nations As-
sembly does not meet again until
September, when no doubt these
proposals will be discussed, but in
the meantime the world may go up
in flames.

While the democratic countries of
Europe, in spite of the oft-repeated
warnings of the Soviet Union, have
failed to unite against the Fascist
menace in a practical system of
eollective security, the Fascist na-
tions of Hurope have united in an
alliance of collective aggression.

Wazi Germany and Fascist Italy
‘have settled their differences over
the control of Austria, and have
united with themselves Poland, Fin-
land, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria,
Jugo-Slavia and Roumania, in what
they hypocritically call a peace
pact. This “peace pact” brings the
danger of war to our very doors,
and anyone who says that this move
is directed against Soviet Union
alone is hiding his head in the
sand, refusing to think when the
elearest of thinking is necessary.

Nazi Germany is not turning out
submarines on a mass production
seale, she is not fortifying Helio-
land and other nearby islands for
use against the Soviet Union. These
measures are for war against Bri-
tain and France, and, it would be
foolish to ignore it, against Can-
ada. italy and Germany plan to
smash Britain and France and
bring all their colonies and domin-
ions under their Fascist rule.

The press reports that Britain,
apparently awakened to the dan-
ger at last, is exchanging military
information and secrets with the
Soviet Union, France and Czecho-
Slovakia. This is all to the good;
let us hope this step has not been
taken too late.

Futile pacifism, which sits with
folded arms waiting for the sunrise,
is in effect an aid to the Fascists.
The task facing the people of the
democratic countries is to prevent
the sun setting on what is left of
democratic institutions.

As a preparatory and preliminary
step for the great life-and-death
struggle that lies ahead, and which
at present appears so inevitable,
the Canadian people should demand
with one voice that the Federal
Government take immediate steps
to investigate and disband all Fasc-
ist organizations, including the Na-
tionalist Party. They should fur-
ther demand that the Wascist
periodicals be suppressed and that
Fascist radio orators be muzzled.

FARM MACHINERY
PRODUCTION HIGH

MOSCOW, U.S:'S:-R., July 10.—
(ALP) — The Kharkov Tractor
Plant in 5 months and 23 days
manufactured 18,627 tractors and
haulers and 6,014 motors. The pro-
gram for the half year for tractors
was fulfilled by 109.5 per cent, and
for motors by 106.2 per cent. The
factory manufactured 4,811 motors
for combines instead of 4,500, ac-
cording to the half-year plan.

Tots Sent Out of Hot City

MOSGOW, U.S:ISERS July, 9-——
(ALP)—Moscow will remove some
80,000 school children from its hot

city streets into the many eool
summer camps this year.

Large numbers of children have
aiready departed for the camps,
many thousands of whom were sent
by factories and institutions. All
camps have been located in the
most picturesque spots of the

countryside.

A.C.C.L. policies and placing of this
in opposition to the policies of his
party, all was done with sincere if
albeit, misguidea@ concern for the

welfare of his union affiliations.

This new office building, located in the heart of Moscow, now
houses the Council of People’s Comimmissars, representatives of the
Soviet peoples.

By BARRY POLLITT.

The decision of the National Gov-
ernment to abandon sanctions
against Italy has evoked a sterm of
indignation against this latest proof
that the National Government is the
greatest friend and supporter of
fascist aggression.

The whole situation lends point
to the growing belief that the peace
of the world is not safe until the
National Government has been de-
feated. This is perhaps the right
moment to recapitulate the history
of the policy of the National Goy-
ernment in relation to the Abys-
Sinian situation. 2

It will be remembered that at the
League of Nations Council Assembly
last September, Sir Samuel Hoare,
then Foreign Secretary of the Na-
tional Government, made a speech
which won for the National Goy-
ernment a widespread conviction
that peace was safe in its hands.
Hoare’s speech won the applause of
practically every section of the
press of this country.

This declaration deceived millions
of people who had taken part in the
Peace Ballot that had been organ-
ized in the summer of 1935, and in
accordance with this trend of pub-
lic opinion, we find that Mr. Neville
Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, on October 14, 1935, de-
claring the following:

“Tf the League were to abdicate
its functions under the Covenant,
every weak nation would first be-
gin to arm, then to seek alliance
with its strongest néighbor, and
before lone the peace of Hurope
would be at the mercy of the bis-
gest and strongest Powers of
Europe.”

Tory Peace Propaganda

Shortly after this came the an-
nouncement of the General Hlection,
All government propaganda and
speeches were directed towards pre-
tending that they were the custo-
dians of peace, and in particular
that they looked upon the violation
of the independence of Abyssinia as
something that could not be toler-
ated.

It was on this basis that the Gen-
eral Election was won by the Na-
tional Government and a new lease
of power secured. It was not longs
before the government showed its
hand, and did everything possible
to try and rescue Mussolini from the
bad position he was in at that time
in Abyssinia.

It has always done everything
in its power to buttress up a fascist
country and hep save a fascist
country from collapse, in the hope
that some time a fascist country
Will be strong enough to carry out
a war of intervention against the
Soviet Union. It was this which luy
behind the National Government
policy of support for Japan in
Manchuria, and explains its pro-
Hitler policy.

Eden’s Pose

When in December, 1935, Italy
was experiencing very acute diffi-
eulties in Abyssinia, and a resolute
operation of economic and financial
sanctions, and especially of oil sauc-
tions, could have easily terminated
war at that moment, the MHoare-
Laval Pact was signed. Immediately
throughout Britain there surged a
wave of indignation which compelled
the National Government to throw
Hoare temporarily on one Side.

Eden was chosen to stave off the
whole popular indignation against
the National Government, and to
raise false hopes that now a resolute
policy in accordance with the de-
mands of the people would be car-
‘ried out.

It soon became clear that Eden
was to be the pliant and willing tool
of Baldwin. It was the National
Government which now commenced
to sabotage with all the powers av
its command any suggestion for the
application of oil sanctions. It was
known that countries that were not
members of the League of Nations
like the United States of America,
would support an embarge on oil.
The main aim of the National Gov-
ernment is proved. by the instruc-
tions to Eden that whilst he must
pose as a League of Nations man,
he must remember that Britain was
not interested in bringing about the
defeat of Mussolini, and because of
this policy nothing of an effective
character was done.

Wo Practical Step Taken

Then, as Italy commenced to re-
cover from its previous bad position
in Abyssinia by the use of the most
devilish means of modern warfare,
again a great ery went up in this
country that something must he
done in order to stem these atro-

mass indignation,
Anthony Eden, on behalf of the Na-
tional Government, addressing the
League of Nations Council, said on
April 20:

“So far as His Majesty's govern-
ment is concerned, we propose to
maintain those economic and
financial sanctions which hare

Abandonment of Sanctions

Isa Threat to World Peace

| certain that by

dition, His Majesty’s government
are ready and prepared to consider
the imposition of any further
economic and financial sanctions
that may =be considered effective
for the settlement of the dispute,’

Wot one single practical step was

taken towards the carrying out of
such a policy.
Finally Italy entered Addis Ababa,
and a widspread propaganda began
to develop amongst all the pro-
fascist forces of Britain that a new
Situation had arisen, that the
Italian occupation of Abyssinia was
an accomplished fact, and that steps
should now be taken to reverse our
policy.

WMiussolini and Chamberlain
How sure Mussolini was that he
had nothing to fear from the Na-
tional Government is best judged by
the fact that immediately after the
Italian flag was flying over Addis
Ababa, he sent his representative,
Signor Pirelli, to address a meeting
in the House of Commons in Lon-
don the object of which was to try
to persuade responsible people to
use their influence for the launch-
ing of an Italian loan in order to
help Mussolini jut of the acute
economic and financial crisis which
he was facine in Italy itself.

We had not long to wait before
the National Government showed
its hand. This government which
at Geneva had pretended to be the
foremost advocate of the sanctity
of the Covenant, this government
which won power by deceiving mil-
lions of peace-loving people, sent
the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Neville Chamberlain, to a  well-
known Tory club, and at this club
he made his famous speech demand-
ing the ending of sanctions against
Italy and declaring it to be “‘mid-
summer madness” that they should
be continued.

Fear Leftward Swing

Once again public opinion in Bri-
tain was outraged, but the National
Government came out with its whole
policy at the debate at the House
of Commons last week, when Eden
presented a sorry spectacle in hay-
ing to admit that he sponsored the
policy of the National Government
in their decision to end sanctions
against Italy.
It is becoming clearer every day
that the foreign policy of the Na-
tional Government is based on an
alliance with Italy and Germany in
the hope that this alliance will be
able to stem and intimidate the
great Leftwurd swing of the work-
ing masses that is now sweeping
throughout Europe.
Wow the policy of the government
is perhaps seen more openly than at
any time since it took power. Cer-
tainly the danger of this govern-
ment is now more widely recognized
than ever before. If unity were es-
‘tablished in the working-class move-
ment, if on this basis a nation-wide

campaign were organized whieh
would attract to its support all

those people who desire peace, it is
the most intense
forms of mass activity the National
government could be swept from
power and a Labor Government
elected. Under the pressure of the
masses, such a government would
ally itself closely with the MLeft
soyernment of France, with the So-
viet government, and the collective
power of these three countries would
then be sufficient to deter any
further acts of fascist aggression
and become the basis for a real
strengthening of the principle of
eollective security.

COMMENDATION FOR
6-PAGE B.C. W. NEWS

Many favorable comments on
our 6-pase C.CF. convention
issue both by callers to our of-
jice and by letters have rewarded
our efforts to give the publie 2
full and true report of the C.C.F-
convention,

Wews-stands were quickly sold
out, and had their supply replen-
ished. Street salesmen substantial-
Iy increased their sales, and there
has been a parallel imcrease in
bundle orders. Though 800 more
copies were printed than the
former issue, the supply has been
used up.

From one up country ugent we
received the following wire: “In-
crease my bundle to 50 copies un-
til further orders;” from Victoria
a letter, which said in part: “Rush
fifteen more copies, Increase my
bundle to 100.” From Salmon Arm,

a new order for 20 copies, and

similar orders from different
points.
“The B.C. Workers’ News” ap-

preciates this support and would
like to continue a six-pase publica-
tion. That is up to the readers-
For the time we are compelled to
hold to four pages, but will change
to a six, and continue to improve

By
OL’ BILL
: if we read the
Romantic capitalist presse
Spots. with a discerning

eve we often dis-
cover the truth in ways and places
not intended by the hacks who selb
their talents to the Cromies, the
Southams and the Hearsts. For in-
stance, in the Vancouver “Sun” of
June 24th is a full page of paid-for
blurbs, advertising Romantic Spots
of BG. Three columns of this tripe
is donated to boosting the wares of
Wanaimo business men. A three-
column screamer informs us that
“They Nestle Amid Glorious Scen=
ery,” and a tywo-column sub-head
under that advises us that they arc
“Progressive, Charming Spots for
Visitors,’ and the first of these
charming spots, nestling amid glor—
jous scenery is “Chapman's Fun—
eral Home.”

If we smile at this we may be
doing the writer an injustice as he
may think that the visitors are en~
titled to as much consideration as
the natives. And if he knows any~
thing of the history of the Vancou—
ver Island coal miners he undoubt—
edly would place a funeral home as
the most restful and desirable place
in Nanaimo.

In the eighty years that coal has
been mined in’ that district, for the
miners the most dangerous coak
field in the world, dangerous be-
cause of the greed of the mine own-
ers, the lives of hundreds of miners
have been snuffed out and as little
thought given to them as though
they were dogs. Miners have been
killed in gas explosions, as many 25
4148 in one case at Protection, and
when gas-committee men reported
fas, as required by law, they have
been fired and blacklisted; miners
have been drowned like rats, as at
South Wellington through en=-
eroachment on old flooded work=
ings; they have been precipitated
in cages and buckets to their death
at the bottom of the shafts through
the breaking of rotten cable and
purned to a cinder in mine fires,
all so that Robert Dunsmuir could
have Dunsmuir Castle built for him
and Alex Dunsmuir could live 2
life of profligacy in New York; that
the Western Fuel Go. could pile up
profits for American shareholders
and that MacKenzie and Mann
could unload on English inyestors
for 15 million dollar properties that
cost them ii millions.

The “Sun” story comes near the
truth on the second reading; 2
funeral home is a “charming spot”
if mot for the visitors at least for
the miners of Nanaimo, Ladysmith,
Wellington, Extension and Cumber—
land.

It was undoubtedly the philos-
ophy of the Vancouver Island mine
owners the makeup man on the
“Province” had in mind when he
used another unintentional truth as
a filler on the religious page OD
May 23rd last, that read: “Enter
the Open Door, Worship, Rest,
Prey!”

* * * x

Lumbering is an-
other industry
that places smalk
store on the lives
of the workers who make it pos-
sible for the lumber barons to
puild castles and live riotously. We
are not many moons removed front
the day when the local press used
to report that “The Cassiar left
yesterday for Jervis Inlet with 15
passengers and 24 loggers.” A log-
ger was to them a “timber beast”
dressed in a wooly shirt, stag-pants
and caulke shoes and nothing more,
Tf it was not for the blacklist little
would be known of the lumber-
worker even yet by the bosses who
exploit them.

We have all read of “the body of
a logger” killed by a rolling log, 2
widow-maker snag, or a snapped
line, brought to town, to learn that
“nothing was known of him.” The
newspapermen write “It is believed
he had a father and mother. He is
thought to have been a Swede and
his age appears to be about 30. But
nothing else is known about him.”

Wo! nothing is known about him
except that he is dead. And if last
year had 65 weeks in it instead
of 52 there would still have been
one lumber-worker killed every
week in the year.

= * * =

Only a
Logger.

A power in the
Roman Catholic
Church in Amer-
ica has just pass
ed on to the arms of Jesus, the
Prince of Peace. Not a red-hatted
cardinal, used to blistering the
heretics with a withering tongue in
the name of Him who taught his
followers to beat their swords into
plowshares, nor a lowly priest
addicted, by the same token, to
chastening the recalcitrants among
his flocks with a stick, but a cul-
tured gentleman who devoted his
time to the betterment of humanity
jin the mame of Jesus, who orig-
inated the slogan, “Love ye one an-
other’’—the Rev. Dr. Julius Arthur
Wieuwland, chemist, priest of the
Roman Catholic Congregation of
the Holy Cross, onetime Dean of
the University of Notre Dame Col-
lege of Science.

Society is richer since he lived.
In his religiously cultured way he
emulated both the lordly cardinal
and the humble parish priest. We,
heretic and Catholic alike, will mot
lose either the blistering or the
ehastening as his chemical Te-
searches gave to mankind “Lewis-
ite” (the deadliest of war gases).

Let Us
Prey.

our paper, as fast as your support

already been put into force In ad-

allows.

Again—Let us prey!

Susans Se ey

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