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Organize financial assistance for
Spain’s heroic fighters in their

struggle against the Fascist
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FULL NO. 84

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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1936

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VOL. IL, No. 32.

TRADES COUNCIL
CUTS DOWN ON
REPRESENTATION

Lumber Worker Dele-
gates Out of Propor-
tion with Members

Delezates from five local unions
of the Lumber and Sawmill Work-
ers’ Union were suspended from the
Trades and Labor Geuncil Tuesday
night on the grounds that their rep-
resentation to the council was out of
all proportion to their membership.
The locais had an ageregate of 23
delegates. :

The recommendation of the ex-
ecutive was that representation to
the council should be from the
Coast District Gouncil of the unions
in question and not directly from
the unions themselves.

in arriving at this decision Sec-
retary Bengsough, reportine for the
executive, Stated that they had been
in communication with A.F. of L.
headquarters and with the Inter-
national representative of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners, who agreed that representa-
tion on the council does not apply
to non-beneficiary unions.

W.. J. Seribbens, Civic Employees’
delegate, was immediately on his
feet asking what right the A_P. of
L. headquarters had to do with who
Should be seated on the council as
Gelesates and who should not, and
demanded ta see the communication
read out by P. R. Bensough He re-
marked that the representation of
the lumber workers was no more
out of proportion than was the
jewelers or like unions, which were
only on paper.

President McDonald immediately
demanded the. withdrawal of the
Statement. “I won’t withdraw,” in-
disnantly retorted Scribbens. Asked
to withdraw from the council meet-
ing, he again emphatically refused
to obey the order of the chair, Pres-
ident McDonald ruled that the
Civic Employees’ delegate was sus-
pended pending retraction of his
statement.

Scribbens demanded to know un-
der what section of the constitution
he was suspended, when this was
mot answered to the satisfaction of
Some of the delegates, the request
Was pressed, the president stated
that it was his ruling.

Qther delegates entered the debate,
Some of whom inferred that the
eouncil executive had arrived at the
decision as a result of the oppesi-
tion they had met. =

Upon demand of delegates who
questioned the former vote, the ex
ecutive’s recommendation was sus-
tained two to one by a Standings
vote.

Council concurred with the re-
quest to boycott Shell Oil products

S.C DOLLARS
CHEAT WORKERS

Constitute Another Sales
Tax on Duped
Population

CALGARY. — William Aberhart,
Alberta’s Social Credit prophet and
premier, has taken what he con-
Siders a great step towards Social
Credit.

His government has issued “Dros-
perity certificates,” or “velocity dol-
lars,” to use instead of real money
when paying off relief workers.

These scrip dollars are printed in
green and purple, and carry the in-
scription, “fhe provincial treasurer
will pay to the bearer .... $1.00 on
the expiration of two years from
date of issue upon presentation ....
provided there is attached to the
back hereof 104 one-cent certificate

stamps.” Qn the reverse side are
104 squares for the Stamps. Two
hundred thousand of these have

been printed in the denomination
of $1.00.

It is claimed that this spurious
money will circulate rapidly, be-
cause holders will want to pass it on
before they have to affix the one-
cent stamp, hence the term ‘‘vejo-
city dollars.’’

The effect of this scheme will be
to place a one-cent sales tax on
consumers’ goods. Some Social
€reditors are furious with Avberhart |
claiming that it has nothing to do
with Social Credit, but the workers
in the ranks of this organization
are learning that such a racket un-
der any name would smell just as
rotten, and that Social Credit propa-
ganda was just bait to lure them
into voting for Aberhart's gang of
land pirates.

GOV’T. MUST
SUPPLY RELIEF

WINNIPEG. —The drought in the
Prairie provinces is proving so dey-
astatinge that it is estimated that at
least $25,000,000 will be required for
relieE purposes to tide the farmers
over until another harvest.

Southern Saskatchewan is* the
Worst hit, 275.000 farmers being prac-
tically destitute in that area.

Food and clothine for the farm-
ers' families, fodder for their live-
stock, and seed srain for next spring
Will all have to be furnished by the
fovernment.

Alberta farmers are already think —
ing of Slaughtering their livestock
because of the almost complete loss
cf fodder crops.

Volunteer fighters for the People’s Front Governmen
in Madrid to defend it from possible Fascist attacix.
joined hteir brothers in the fight to protect democracy.

Spanish Workers Protect Madrid

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t are shown

posted top a government building
Wotice the girls at the right; thousands of others

made by letter from the  Inter-
national Association of M:zchinists,
who charged that the Shell Oil Go.
had refused to negotiate with their
employees and were attempting to
form a cOmpany union.

A recommendation from the ex-
ecutive of the Bakers No. 468 re-
questing the council to petition the
lesislative to enforce the 8-hour day
in the baking industry. was also
concurred with.

Delegate Seribbens again de-
manded to be informed what section
of the constitution under which he
Was Suspended. but Colin McDonald
abruptly adjourned the meetings. De-
bate was carried on between Serib-
bens and McDonald for several min-
utes after the adjournment.

Profits And

~ More Profits

TORONTO.—_({ALP)—Durine three
short months—the 91 days in April.
May and June—International Nickel
made net profits of $9,070,186. A
Hundred thousand dollars a day!

This single quarter's profit was
nearly as large as that for the whole
year 1935, and was about $4,500.000,
or 66 per cent, greater than in the
Same quarter of 1935, and represents
the highest “earings” per share of
common stock for any quarter per-
iod in the history of the company.
That is the way world-wide war
preparations are lining the pockets
of the capitalists.

But just how big is nine million
dollars? A report just issued by the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics en-
ables us to tell. Nine million dollars,
the profits for three months of this
colossus of the north, is almost as
large as the total wages paid out by
the whole nickel copper industry
in Canada during the full year of
1935. (fhe industry comprises the
International and the much smaller
Falconbridge and two other com-
panies which are active, but not
producine.) The wage bill of these
companies in 1935 amounted to only
about ten and a half millions.

Between 1933 and 1935 the esti-
mated value of production of the in-
dustry more than doubled. It was
$25 millions in 1933 and $59 millions
in 1935. This rise was much gereat-
er proportionately than either the
rise in the number of workers em-
Ployed or amount of wages paid out.
Thus between these two years the

‘value of production per earner rose

by 12.6 per cent and the value of
production per $1 of wages by 11.2
per cent. Wigher prices for the
product had something to do with
this increase, but so had speedup,
and the net result was—more profits.

TRUE REPUBLIC
AIM, SAYS DIAZ

Will Not Rest Until Rebels
Are Completely

Vanquished
MADRID, Spain. — (ALP) — “Our

country will create a true Republi-
can Spain, a free and peaceful
coutry, with honest labor and pros-
perity for all,’ declared Jose Diaz,
secretary of the Spanish Communist

Party, in a speech broadcast here
last night.
Tens of thousands of workers

crowded the streets of Madrid to
listen to the words of the Commun-
ist leader.

“Fascist insurgents reckoned on
taking the country unawares,’’ said
Diaz, “but the people took the offen-
Sive and will clean these traitors out
ef Spain.

“In our. country
Struggle is takinz= place between
Fascism and Democracy, between
the forces of hatred and slavery, be-
tween the forces of peace and the
forces of war.

“We Communists will always be
in the front ranks, holding high the
banners of Labor, Peace and Lib-
erty, which we are defendine today
with our lives.

“We will not rest until we have
completely destroyed the rebels.’’

a mest heroic

Foreigzm Capitalists
Fear C. 1.0. Setup

NEW YORK, N.Y—(ALP)—Ac-
cording to the Labor Research As-
Sociation here John L. Lewis, strong
man of the €.1.0., has bie interests
in Canada worried too.

More than 608,000 shares of United
States Steel, the biggest of the huge
corporations now being worked on
by steel union organizers of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion are held by owners outside of
the United States, the research body
reports. A goodly part of these
Shares are owned in Canada.

British capitalists are the largest
holders of U.S. Steel stock outside
of the 48 states and some shares are
held in Holland, France, Switzerland,
Belgium, Germany, Austria and the
West Indies.

Large blocks of U.S. Steel pre-
ferred as well as common are held
outside of the United States, the re-
port reveals.

and District Relief Workers’ Union
iS undergoing reorganization, a new
Slate of officers being elected at the
last meeting.

It is hoped that with the injec-
tion of new blood into the union
there will be an upsurge of mili-
tancy, and that there will be a de-
cided increase in the active member-
ship, although in Saying this there
is NO aspersions cast at the old ex-
ecutive who worked hard during
their term of office.

Due to the rising prices of food,
particularly bread, a definite fight
will have to be waged to obtain
corresponding increases in relief al-
lowances. To the average workine
class family on direct relief, or
working on a job, the increases in

lies get around fifteen loaves Iess a
month...

It is to be noticed that although
the Master Bakers’ Association has
increased the price of bread there
has been no inerease in the wages
of their employees, who receive a
wage of from twelve to twenty dol-
lars a week, with the average run-
ning to the lower figure.

The Vancouver Sun devotes an

bread prices means that their fami- |

Relief Workers Act To
Meet Mounting Prices

i izi enefit
VANCOUVER. —The ectugnae (ESE to emphasizing the benefits

to accrue to various people through
the rise in potato prices, but it
fails entirely to make mention of
the hardship rising prices will bring
to those on relief.

Workers on relief, and also on di-
rect relief, are urged to join the
union and fight for a decent living
standard. Next business meeting
will be held August 26, 8 p.m., 505
Bast Georgia street.

NOTE CHANGE OF
GALLACHER MEET

William Gallacher, Communist
member of the British House of
Commons, will speak at a meeting
in the Empress Theatre here on
Saturday, Aug. 29 at 8 o’clock. The
MTeeting was formerly advertised
for the Auditorium. AH tickets sold
for the Auditorium will be accepted
at the Empress Theatre.

Gallacher speaks Sunday in Na-
naimo, culminating his east to west
tour of the Dominion.

The British working-class MP.
is considered an effective speaker
and has a colorful background of
many years’ endeavor in the Old

Country proletarian movement.

[Trotsky And Hitler Unite
In Foul Terrorist Plotting

|Stalin Assassination Aim
of Trotskyites
Says ‘Pravda’

MOSCOW, U-.S:S-R-—Sixteen men
charged by the Soviet government
as counter-revolutianists faced open

trial on August 19 before the Mili-
tary Colleeium of the Supreme
Court.

Investigations have revealed that
groups of terrorists had been organ-
ized in 1932 on instructions from
Leon Trotzky who, in a phamplet
widely circulated abroad, advocated
a “surgical operation” in the Soviet
Union—in other words, remdval by
force of the leaders. Heading the
Sroups brought to trial were Zino-
viev, Kameney, Yevdokimoy, Bakei-
yev, Smirnoy, David and others.

When Kirov was assassinated
Zinoviey and Kamaney were indict-
ed and at that time were given
prison sentences.

All of the accused pleaded suiltyv
in court, Fritz David declaring, “I
tried to kill Stalin.’ Prosecutors
charged that the murder plot was
directly organized by Trotzky from
Norway, and that he hoped to bring
about a condition where the imper-
ialist powers would intervene to
overthrow the government.

The prisoners faced three eharges:

1. Organizing a center to scize
power by terror.

2. Organizing terrorist groups to
Shoot Stalin and other leaders.

8. Actually killing Sergei Kirov,
Communist party leader, who was
assassinated in Leningrad December
1, 1934.

Voroshbiloff, Soviet commissar for
war, was one of those marked for
death by the killers.

Workers through the Wnion* on
hearing of the arrests immediately
held meetines demanding that the
court show no lénieney to the suilty
conspirators, and demanding the
penalty of death. They also called
upon ihe government to root out all
Trotzky sympathizers.

MOSCOW.— (By Gable to ALP)—
Pravda, newspaper of the GCom-
maunist Party of the Soviet Union,
today bitterly assails the so-called
“United Centre’? which is charged
with plotting the death of Soviet
leaders under the direction of Leon
Trotsky. The editorial, entitled
“Enemies of the People Caught
Redhanded,” follows:

“The investigation has disclosed
the whole picture of a monstrous
plot against the life of leaders of
the Communist Party and of our
Soviet country. The entire Soviet
Union, the entire international
proletariat, learn with profound and
bitter indignation about the new
crimes of these degenerate scound-
rels whose names long since have
aroused nausea among all honest
workers. Their numbers are insig-
nificant.

“This is a despicable handfull
of bankrupt and corrupt people who
have sunk to the very depths and
who have no support in the country,
They represent no one but them-
selves. These political nonentities,
armed with the weapons of terror
ism, succeeded in murdering Sergei
Kiroy, one of the best of our peo-
ple, a fiery Bolshevik with a charm-
ing personality who was loved by
the whole country. The threads of
foul conspiracy stretched from the
Maurderers to JZinoviey and
Kameney, Bakaey and others of
this contemptible band. They have
long since lost their socialist per-
sonality. They have even lost their
human form. All that remained
was the insatiable, frenzied hate
of fascist hounds. In this Suise
they appeared before the workers at
that time but all facts were not
then expoesd; then all the informa-
tion was not in the hands of the
investigators. The arrested crim-
inals continued to cover up their
tracks. They willingly befouled
themselves and their confederates
and accepted ‘moral’ and ‘political’
responsibility for the crime. But
this was all part of the same trick-
ery, aiming at the concealment of

¢Continued on page 2)

BALDWIN AIDS
FASCIST REBELS
AGAINST PEOPLE

British Labor Aroused
Over Policy of National
Government

During the past week neither
Side has made any great gains, but
the rebel attacks seem to be stif-
fenine.

In San Sebastien, Bay of Biscay
port, the loyalists are still holding
on despite attacks from land, sea

and air by fascists. Fascist bombs
have killed hundreds of women and
children.

Paseists are getting support

through Portugal and all alone that
border there has been some yery
bitter fightine recently.

For about the tenth time Generu]
Irranco has announced he expects
the capture of Madrid within ten
days. It is reported the fascists plan
to blow it off the map from the air.
This is the only way they will eyer
occupy it as every working man
and woman capable of carrying a
rifle will defend the capital with
their lives.

Mussolini, it is said, has ordered
mobilization of his sreat air force
to be ready for possible intervention
in Spain.

Fascist forces are being reinforced
by bringing over Moorish troops
from Morocco.

Great Britain has imposed an
embargo on the export of aircraft,
civil as well as military, to Spain.
The national Board of Trade has re-

voked all licenses already granted
for the shipment to Spain of 30
types of war weapons including

tanks, armored cars, flame-throwers
and cannon. However, these meas-
ures are not what the labor move-
ment has been demanding. Largs
sections of British labor have been
advocating that the National Goy-
ernment permit war supplies be
Sent to the Spanish-~ Government,
and that shipments to the fascists
be cut off. As it stands, these
measures are of help only to the
fascists, as the fascists receive sup-
plies from Italy and Germany, and
the People’s Government have dif-
ficulty in getting munitions any-
where.

BIG UNIONS
SUPPORT LEWIS

DETROIT, Mich.—Support for
John IL. Lewis and the Committee
for Industrial Organization has
been pledged by the executive board
of the United Automobile Workers’
Union here.

The Federations of Labor of Chi-
cago, Philadelphia, Detroit, CGolum-
bus, Birmingham, Fall River, Mass.,
Akron, Centralia. Tl, MeKeesport,
and Coshocton, Ohio, Green’s home
town, have all protested against the
Splitting tactics of the A.F_ of L.
officialdom.

The decision to definitely suspend

the big unions affiliated with the
C1.0., which is undertaking ua
sreat campaign to organize the
steel, auto and rubber industries,
will not become formally effective
until Sept. 5, which is the ‘dead-
line’? set by Wm. Green for the

CI.O. to “come back into the fold.”

Immediately following the suspen-
sion order the Amalgamated Cloth-
ing Workers’ Union pledged to do-
nate $100.00 to the fund for organ-
izing the steel workers.

Heywood Broun, president of the
American Newspaper Guild which
has just been admitted to the G.1.0.,
has said that he will ask President
Green to conduct a democratic ret-
erendum in the A.F. of L., to get
the opinion of the rank and file

American Ship Crews

Turn Thumbs Down

On F ake

o

Fascist

Newest Fascist ruier in Europe
is Gen. John Metaxas of Greece,
who gained power by using the
threadbare story that a “strong
me2n”’ was necessary to protect
the country from “reds.” His first
act was to dissolve all workers’
organizations.

QUE. ELECTION
A LANDSLIDE

MONTREAL. Last Monday's
elections Swept the reactionary and
corrupt Liberal party from power
after it had held office for 39 years.
The near-fascist Union Nationale
will form the next government

Following the exposures of 2ratt
and coirruption a few months ago,
Premier Taschereau resigned, being:
Succeeded in Liberal party leadership
by Adelard Godbout. Now Godbout
has gone down to defeat in as crush-
ing defeat as this province ever wit-
nessed.

The Union Nationale party was
composed of both Liberals and Con-
servatives. 77 seats to

It received 77

the Liberal 14. Its program was one

of “reform,” and, as in the last Al-
berta elections, the vote was not so
much for the Union Nationale pro-
gram as it was against the misery
and unemployment rampant in Que-
bee, and against the scandalous dis-
honesty and corruption of the Tas-
chereau sovernment.

Demand Governments
Assist Spanish People

PARIS, France. — (Ai-P)—Siened
by the Communist Parties of France,
Belsium and Great Britain, a pro-
clamation has been issued here call-
ings upon the peoples of the world to
help the lawful, recognized Spanish
government.

Im a special appeal, published in
Humanite, the C:P. of France de-
mands that the Blum government
open the rench frontier, permit the
recruiting of a People’s Army to aid
Spain and also allow the shipment
of arms and munitions to the anti-
fascist Spanish government.

Capitalist Parties Open
Their Burrard Campaign

SaaS >
VANCOUVER. — The Burrard by-
election campaign was opened by
Premier Pattullo on Tuesday night
when he addressed a Liberal rally in

the Alma Academy, in support of
the Liberal candidate, J. Howard
Forester.

Pattullo devoted a considerable

FOOD PRICES
ARE RISING

OTTAWA, Ont.—(ALP)—It costs
20.2 per cent more to buy food today
than it did at the very bottom of the
depression in’ March, 1933. the Do-
minion Bureau of Statistics reports.

Prices today, however, are still far
below the high points reached in
1929:

According to the Internal Trade
Branch of the statistics bureau
prices were up slightly in July over
June, butter, eggs, cheese, onions,
potatoes and most meats being
higher. Milk and Jard, shoulder
beef and mutton eased off slightly
in price.

While August figures are not yet
avallable it is likely that a _ still
greater price boost in food will be
recorded because of the continued
drought in most sections, Unseason-
ably heavy runs of cattle due to
the drought would have depressed
prices under ordinary circumstances
but speculation has stepped in and
held yalues up on the markets.

part of his speech to the Red Bogey,
Waining his audience against the
growth of Communism. WHe criti-
cized the €.C@F. and Conservative
parties. He also tried to whip up
interest by going into what his Boyv-
ernment is supposed to have done to
bring back prosperity in B.C., but
appealed for support so that his
party would be strong enough to
continue negotiations with the Fed-
eral government for aid.

Replying to a heckler’s remark,
“What about Corbin?” he said that
the government had taken ‘what
steps it deemed necessary to main-
tain law and order in Corbin and
would continue to do so in future.

Conservatives Nominate.

Dr. Frank P. Paterson was chosen
Conservative candidate for Burrard
at the nominating convention held
in the Oddfellows Hall on Tuesday
night.

One of the speakers protested
against Mayor McGeer'’s implication
that the provincial grant of $50,000
to help the Jubilee Committee out
of the hole should be answered by
electing a Liberal.

Dr. Paterson took much the same
line as Pattullo in criticizing the
C.C.EF. for their “Communistic” ten-
dencies, and stated his party would
not stand for the enfranchisement of
Orientals. He accused Pattullo of
being autocratic and dictatorial, and
criticized the government for taking
so Many joy-rides to Ottawa to beg

Union Rats

Shipping Bosses’ Anti-
Union Policy Disrupts

Port Trade
SHIPS NOT WORKED

Continuous refusul by the Ship-
ping Federation of B.C. to re-employ-
any of the longshoremen who par-
ticipated in the six months’ dispute
of last year is haying disastrous ef
fect on this port and its trade.
Scarcely a week passes without one
or more vessels leaving port with
her inbound cargo still stowed away
in her holds, or outbound Cargo con-
Signed to her left on the docks.
The latest arrival is the S.S.
Golden Cloud of the Oceanic Line,
berthed at Pier A—C.P.R., arriving.
Tuesday morning, her crew refused
to allow dock Sangs to discharge
her general cargo because they
Were not I.L.A. men, or longshore=
men with strike clearance cards.
The crew are under instructions
from their union office in San
Francisco to refuse to allow any
scab longshoremen +o work the
cargo, The Shipping Mederation wiil
not sanction the employment of any
members of the Vancouver & Dis-
trict Waterfront Workers? Associ-
ation, apart from the few already
hired, and so the vessels, Particu-
larly those from the U.S. Pacific
coast ports, steam hither and
thither seeking a port where car-
Soes can be discharged. .
While the crews of Pacific coast
vessels were the initiators and are
the mainstay of this tactic in re-
fusing to allow any, but bona fide
longshoremen discharge their ship’s
Cargo, the local men have literally
Sent a call around the world ask-
ing the unions of sailors en all
vessels plying between this and
other ports to give them the same
assistance as these of Pacific coast

registry. ‘
Action is expected from French,
Norwegian, Australian, and New

Zealand ship’s crews when they ar-
rive here, after having received the
appeal.

TWO FISHERMEN
FACING TRIAL

Boss-Class Courts Used
Te Punish Workers
For Striking

Two fishermen, Frank Mills ane
Tim Hornbrook, have been arrested
by the provincial police and charged
With “intimidation.’ There is also
a Warrant Sworn out for the arrest
of Axel Anderson of Gibsons Land-
ing, on a similar charge. ~

These charges arise out of the re-
cent fishermen’s strike at Rivers
and Smiths Inlets in which-the ar-
rested workers took an active part.
The warrant was Sworn out by a
Strikebreaker, Oscar Knutson, who
claims that the Strikers made
threats of violence against him
when conveying fish from Welsons
Camp to Namu Cannery.

This charge is a direct threat to
organized labor, who by united ac-
tion try to better their economic liy-
ing standard. Because whenever a
labor dispute occurs the authorities
use the charge of intimidation in
order to railroad to jail all trade
unionists who take an active part
aS was witnessed in the recent jong-
Shore and relief camp workers’
Strikes in Wancouver. By this
method, the authorities who always
defend the bosses’ interests hope to
crush the resistance of the strikers
and at the same time glorify the
lowest scum on earth, the scabs.

The .Canadian Labor Defense
League is handling the defense of
the arrested and this organization
appeals to all trade unions and
working class organizations in B.C.
for moral and financial support in
order that the accused may secure a
fair trial.

Send resolutions of protest to the
attorney-general and GS. Pearson,
minister of labor, Victoria, demand—
ing the withdrawal of the charges
and for the reinstatement on relief
of all fishermen who took part in
this strike.

PARIS, France. — (ALP) — Leon
Jouhaux, leader of France’s General
Pederation of Labor, has flown to
Toulouse, en route to Madrid to in-
vestigate “ways and means of help-
ing the Spanish sovernment.”

Mr. Jouhaux was designated to
make this survey as a member of
the committee appointed by the
European Anti-Fascist Coneress.

COL. LINDBERG TO
SPEAK ON PEACE

BRUSSELS.—Col. Ghas. A. Lind=
berg has accepted an invitation to
address the first World Peace Con-
gress, which meets here September
3 to 6.

More than 1,500 delegates, includ-
ing thirty Americans and fifty Ca-
nadians, are expected to attend the
congress designed to co-ordinate ef-
forts of the various countries

for money.

Sponsoring peace movements.

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