4 Gallacher, M.P., on Sat. August 29 at Empress Theatre! - Hear Willie Your subscription has expired if the number on your label is below this number Renew it NOW. B.C. WorkKERS NEws Organize financial assistance for Spain’s heroic fighters in their struggle against the Fascist rebels. * Published Weekly VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1936 Single Copies: 5 Cents <> VOL. I., No. 33 FULL NO. 85 BURRARD VOTERS SWINGING TO TELFORD Willie Gallacher One Of -Labor’s Finest Fighters Friend and Co-worker with Lenin, First British Communist M.P. Has Long Record of Struggle on Behalf of Workers in the Old Country William Gallacher, British M.P., who speaks in the Em- press Theatre Saturday night, has a life-long record of fight- ing in the battles of his class. During the war he was deported out of Glasgow for his activities in the Shop Steward movement which was organ- izing to stop the output of war materials. He Was one of a committee that was sent to inter- view the Glasgow Council. On ieay- ine the buildin= the committee were set upon by the police and knocked out cold on the steps. This was when the Glassow workers erected barricades of street cars and pack- inf cases in the Streets to fisht the police and militia. Once when runnine for parliament as a Communist candidate he sppke at an election meeting when Win- ston Churchill, also a candidate, was on the same platform. Churchill raised the Red Bosey and launched a bitter attack of Slander against the then young So- viet Republic. He was followed by Gallacher who countered by going into all the hideous details of the Churchill family for hundreds of years. He told how that family had a record for corruption in personal and public affairs that*-was not ex- eelied in the whole of Great Britain. His attack was so smashing and so true that Mrs. Churchill who was also on the platform burst into tears and left the meetins. His iife story shows that as u working class scrapper he has few equals and none better. As an orator he is the ‘‘tops.”’ Labor Council Scores Green Resélutisn Demands A.F.of L. Cancel Sus- pension Order TORONTO, Ont., Aug. 20.—Dele- Sates to the Trades and Labor Council meeting last night adopted & resolution demanding that the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor cancel the sus- pension against the 10 international unions comprising the Committee for Industrial Organization. “This split created by the A-F. of I. council is an inviiation to the great corporations to begin a drastic wage-cuttine policy,’ de- clared Fred Collins, delegate of the Wpholsterers, Carpet and Linoleum Mechanics, and mover of the mo- tion. “We must preserve the unity ef the trade union movement,” Said Gollins. The council will forward the reso- lution to the 59th ~annual ctonven- ion of the A.F. of L., meeting in Montreal early in September. There Was no definite opposition to the resolution, but resident John Woble expressed fears that if the council adopted the resolution a split would be created in the coun- ceil.) He savas of the opinion that the matter should be left in the hands of the A.B. of LL. Council and the convention. Several delezates rose to reply to the president’s remarks, the Gar- Ment Workers’ Union delezate Stated that “the suspension date is drawings near, and although our in- ternational president yoted against it, we locally believe the suspension order is detrimental to the trade union moyement.” D. Nesbitt, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, questioned the wisdom of the chairman’s judge- ment. “‘We should settle the issue here,’ and it was. SPEAKS SAT. NIGHT bd — WILLIE GALLACHER British Communist M-P., who will address a mass meeting in Wancouver in the Empress The- atre, Saturday, August 29th at 8 p-m. NANAIMO WILL HEAR GALLACHER Willie Gallacher, Com- munist member of the British House of Commons for West Fife, Scotland, will address a mass meeting to be held in Oddfellows’ Hall, Nanaimo, on Sunday, Au- gust 30, at 8 p.m. In the afternoon of the Same day he will address a meeting, beginning at 2 p.m. in Cumberland. DOCKERS WIN AGAIN CHEMATINUS, Aug. 26—Another victory in the struggle to put the blacklisted longshoremen hack to Work, Was scored here this week, with the arrival of the S.S. Rose- bank. of the Kingsley Navigation Company. The Rosebank, chartered to carry Jumber from Chemainus to U-S. coast ports, docked at the Island Port Monday. The crew, members of the Seafarers’ Industrial Union, Was contacted by delegates of the Victoria J.L.A. local and the local ex-strikers, and asked to demand ex-strikers, endorsed by the I.1.A., be employed. A meeting was arranged with the company, the outcome of which was that the company signed an agree- men to meet a committee of the T%.A_ to arrange terms for the em- ployment of men through the 1.1.A. in future to work ships of that eompany arriving here. The situation in Chemainus is parallel to that in Vancouver. Over 100 of the 150 ex-strikers are still black-listed_ Veterans’ Low Scale Of Wages For Jubilee Work Receive Four Dollars eee With the result the boys were Work; Princely Rate Of 2c Per Hour By TOM CLINTON All things come to an end—even if they are good for nothing. The series of military displays by the Veterans’ Battalion saw its finale a few nights ago and, as was Predicted, the actual profits accru- ing to the rank and file were as in- finitesmal and small as the relief dole many of them are compelled to exist on, the final split being $4.00 per man. The expenses of the combined dis- Plays were no doubt heayy. Even So. The attending patronage owas huge: Packed grandstand and bleach- ers with standing room only at nearly every show is reported. The parting of the ways came last Monday night when a balance Sheet was presented and accounts (Squared up)), if you know what we left holding the sack with the above mentioned amount of chicken-feed tucked away in one little old comer; which, computed on an hourly basis for the period of training, rehear- Sals, etc., dating back to last April, works out at Jess than two copper cents. Tt is reported that a new agree- ment and “‘Constitution’”’ has been drawn up and presented to the men for consideration of the formation of a new association after the cur- rent exhibition displays are over which contained a brilliant fore- running paragraph that prospective members haying Socialist or Com- munist beliefs or inclinations would be opposed and denied entrance. Such is the (progressive) fold from which doth flow the galactic bril- lianey of the moth-attracting-but- Singing-schemers, basking in the Milky Way, who can smell a dollar out on the horizon and who make hay while the making is possible. | Leading figures in the Soviet Union, including (left to right) Dimitrov, Antipoy, Stalin and President Kalinin, were marked for death at the hands of plotters in November, the government charged. Sixteen of the terrorists died before a firing squad. PLACER CAMPS "DEATH TRAPS FOR YOUTHS Live in Wet Tents, Sleep in Wet Bedding, Dress in Wet Clothing To what degree are youth to be Sacrificed to the continually shrink- ing eonomy of decayed capitalism? The farm-training homes on Van- couver Island, where Qld Country youth are incarcerated, might be Shrouded in mystery if we did not know that the managing committee includes such individuals as R. H. MeMillan and Gen. Victor Qdlum, and similar enemies of democracy. Erom this we can estimate the kind of ‘trainine’ the farm ‘homes’ are forcing on the youth. The B.C. Liberal goyernment has not been slow to duplicate these farm-homes by even more unhome- like institutions such as Forestry Training Camps; and now come the Training Camps for Placer Mining. An inmate writing from one of these Placer Camps says the straw boss is a typical Hitler axe-man and bullies the boys all the time and he threatens instant dismissal for dis- obedianee—and dismissal means cut- off relief. During work one of the boys shouted: “‘Let’s all quit and call the boys off the other jobs,” this scared the foreman and he piped down for awhile. The boys live in tents that are continuously wet and they sleep in wet bedding and have to dress in wet clothing every morning. The result is they all have bad colds and some have developed a severe catarrh that may lead to permanent lunge trouble. These youth haye to cook all their own meals in their sleeping tents and wash their dishes before work every morning. Thus there is not a moment's spare time. The letter goes on ot say, “you have to be eareful up here as there are snoop- ers behind your back all the time.” The worst grievance is the com- plete Jack of sanitation as each tent is provided with a garbage can “that stinks to high heaven.’’ Some of the boys think the pur- pose of these camps is to make the youth so completely miserable that they will welcome war as a release. Others think the purpose is to iso- late boys from democratic influ- ence so that their minds can he transmuted into’ fascist-spawn to grow into scabs and black-shirts, ~ JEW-BAITING BEING. REVIVED BERLIN, Germany—As the an- nual Nazi convention approaches the government gives indication of further persecution of the Jews in order to detract people's attention from actual conditions. It is reported that Jews will be re- quired to surrender their passports so that they will not be able to travel abroad and tell people in other countries about the horrible condi- tions in the Reich. Wholesale confiscation by the State of Jewish-owned real estate acquired since the last world war is also expected_ Persecution of the Jews always is the fore-runner of more severe anti- labor decrees. RICH GET RICHER TORONTO, Awe 294 “Noranda Mines Limited reports estimated net profit of $4,203,445 for the first six months of 19386, or $1.87 a Share. Total recovery was $8,520,058 and costs of production and general ex- penses as well as reserves for taxes and depreciation took over 50 per cent of the gross income. Fascist Powers Threatening Intervention In Spain GOLDEN CLOUD DEPARTS, WEST IRA RE-ROUTED Departure of the SS. Golden Cloud last Friday, from this port, without dischargine cargo and with- out loading any, chalks up another point in the longsshoremen’s areu- ment for union recognition. The Golden Cloud arrived here on Tuesday, August 18, to load 75,000 feet of lo=s and other general cargo. The erew standing by their union principles refused to supply Steam to dock gangs unless they were either ILA. men or had strike clearance cards The Shipping ‘Pederation refused to entertain any such Scheme to re-employ these men and keep the trade of this port moving without a hitch, with the result that three Ships have left port without dis- charging their carso, or taking on their consignments. Latest reports are that the SS. West Ira, of the McCormack Line, has been re-routed to Seattle to avoid any stoppage by her crew, and her cargo destined for this port or New Westminster will be sent by rail, The S:S. Hollywood crew has re- fused to supply steam on two oc- casions, when she arrived here, while the S.S. Mana is another ves- sel whose crew tool the same stand. Just how long the American ship- owners will remain quiet about the Shipping Federation, dictating who shall work on the waterfront and who shall not, causing a huge loss to these American lines that ply here regularly for the trade, eannot be guessed at. AXEL ANDERSON FACES CHARGES Axel Anderson of Gibsons Land- ing was arrested by the provincial 2 police on the fishing grounds and taken to Ocean Falls on August 10, charged with intimidation and un- Jawful stopping of transport of fish from Nelson's camp to Namu. He was kept in a small cell for five days before the police finally brought him to Vancouver to stand trial, together with two other fish- ermen arrested under similar charges arisice out of the fishermen’s strike. Upon Anderson’s arrival here the Canadian Labor Defense Leasue im- mediately secured his release. This case is a glaring example of injustice practised by the fish trust and the Pattullo government against the fishermen who have been de- mied relief. and now they haye a chance to make a few dollars in order that their dependents may not suffer privation, they are arrested on trumped-up charges and their families left destitute. DIVIDE AND RULE, CONNELL’S POLICY VICTORTA, Aus nell, former jeader the Victoria House, and recently ex- pelled from that organization, an- nounced that he will launch a new party of his own after Labor Day, September 8. A series of meetings in the Okan- agan will launch the new party, and 25.—Robt. Con- of the C.G:E) in the insurgent leader will be sup- ported in all likelihood by Jack Price and R. B. Swailes. two other lesislative members, who were ex- pelled along with Connell when they refused to abide by the convention decisions, held early in July. At a later date, Connell proposes to call 4 convention to erystalize the .gaged in Sroups which are reported to be in the process of organization. Mutineers Rumored To Be Using Poison Gas; U.S. Workers Send Help AS the Spanish civil war con- tinues, the interventionist hands of “neutral” Nazi Germany and fascist Italy grow ever more apparent, Military reports indicate that the Spanish fascists, backed by modern air flotillas supplied by ‘‘peace- pratine” Hitler and Mussolini, are gambling on a desperate lunge at Madrid. Lacking the support of the people, the Spanish rebels are forced to fight on two fronts: against the People’s Front forces facing them and the guerrilla forces that spring up behind them as they pass. From Rome come reports that Italian fascism is rapidly dropping all pretense about its sympathies. Mussolini has ordered all Italian fliers to be ready for an attack on Spain should the French government “intervene,” which means giving legal aid to the legitimate Spanish government, the People’s Front goy- ernment. Neither Hitler nor Mus- Solini have yet deigned to explain how German and Italian planes are in the hands of the rebels. Raids by the Catalan government on Nazi headquarters in Barcelona revealed that the Brown Network of Nazi spies and propasandists is active in stirring up the fascists in the city against the government, and supplyine them with money and arms. Discoveries included a letter from Hitler, as well as communica: tiens from the German consulate, and letters orderine the kidnapine= and murder of Spanish and German anti-fascists. Rumors of the use of poison gas float over the battlefields. The reb- els announce the imminent use of a “new, unused weapon,’’ and Gen. Cabanellos boasts that the rebels have enough poison gas te ‘wipe out half of Madrid.’ World Wide Support tor People’s Front Gen. Francisco Franco claims to haye “eaptured” Badajoz, on the Portugese border, although the Short, pot-bellied General was able to sneak only 4,000 picked men of his detachment of Moors and For. cCigsn Legionnaires out the city and send them on to Madrid. The rest of his forces were either hemmed in by fighting peasantry or still en- “capturine”’ the already “captured” city. That column of 4,000 was almost entirely destroyed by government bombing planes. Wear the Freneh border, the People’s Front defenders of San Sebastian and Irun fought desper- ately to hold off the fascist attack- ers. One of the rebel cruisers, the Almirante Cervera, was badly dam- aged by government shells, and had to limp to fascist port for repairs. San Sebastian and Irun are both located in the province of Navarre, breeding spot and native heath of Spanish reaction and counter-revo- lution. Meetings and demonstrations for the aid of the Spanish People’s Front are sweeping the entire world. Soviet workers continue collections for funds, which are later converted into military weapons for the de- fenders of Spanish democracy. From Great Britain comes word that over a million pounds, or $5,000,000 has already heen collected. New York held a meeting in Mad- ison Square Garden, at which Clar- ence Hathaway analyzed the strus- gle of the Spanish workers. $5.750 was collected, The Communist Party announced a contribution of $1,000 from its own Red Fiehtine Fund to the Spanish Defense Fund headed by Dayid Dubinsky of the Inter- national Ladies Garment ‘Workers Union. The drive for the Spanish Defense Fund is for $100,000 in all, and funds are pouring in from trade unions, anti-fascists, and other or- Sanizations throughout the country. —_—— Bankrupt Liberal Stooges Vainly Try To Obscure Issues FOUND GUILTY AND EXECUTED MOSCOW-—The sixteen con- victed Trotskyite terrorist, in- cluding Zinoviey and MKamenevy, faced the firing squad August 25- They met death twenty-four hours after the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union had pronounced them guilty of organizing a plot to murder Stalin and other Soviet leaders, and of haying in Decem- ber, 1934, murdered ikiroy, a prom- inent Leningrad Communist. According to the pronouncement of the Supreme Court the death sentence was not by way of pun- ishing the guilty ones, but was “the highest measure of social defence.” Leon Trotsliy, still in Norway, has declared that he will seek re- venge. ORGANIZATION URGENT NEED OF WORKERS Single Men, Cut Off Re- lief, Drop in Streets from Exhaustion A young man staggering on Hastings street caused scores of people to stop and stare. He Stag— gered for several feet into an alley where he toppled over in a2 stupor. Police arriving on the scene dis-— covered the fact that he had not eaten for eight days. Hundreds of young men in the past month have been cut off re- lief. The Single Unemployed Pro- tective Association’s delesation who were endeavoring to have these men reinstated were ‘replied to by Mr. Thompson with a definite refusal to do anything in the matter. He Pointed out that the Pattullo gov- ernment in Victoria had a special man sent over to carry out investi- gations and drop the transient men from the relief rolls. The secretary of the Unemployed and Part Time Workers’ Associa- tion has stated: ‘Wwe Jointly with the Mothers’ Council, the Ex-Sery— ice Men's League, and the S.U-2:, took up with Mr. Thompson the case of a young man who had been re- fused relief, and although he was Siven three days’ relief after a lone discussion he was told not to re- turn. The conditions existing among all single unemployed are real bad. This is not only due to inadequate allowance but also to the adminis- tation of relief. Discrimination at the Relief Bureau is rife. At the Present time we are handling 12 to 14 srievances each weelx, most of them beine so petty there should not be any need of us having to take them up. They are attempts to intimidate the relief recipients. False Issues Raised To Cover Up Paitullo Re- actionary Regime MINISTERIAL BUNK Hitlerist Tactic To Make Issue One of Commu- nism vs. Fascism Haced with a hostile electorate, the hard-pressed Liberal party and its stooge candidate, Forester, are trying desperately to direct atten_ tion from the crimes of the Pattullo government and in true Hitlerist demagogic-fascist style are raising a hue and ery against Communism. Although knowing that Dr. Tel- ford is not a communist, and that there is no confrontation of a “Com- munist dictatorship” versus a Has- cist dictatorship, they nevertheless insult the intelligence of the voters by seeking to make this the issue. But, judging by the reaction of the audiences; their shells which proved of some potency a decade and a half ago are proving to be the worst sort of spluttering duds. Telford has the Pattullo Sane of tools of the brewers and other ex ploiters of labor on the run, and he is rubbing it in by. exposing their real role to the extent that in des- peration they raise thec ry of “Com- MTaunist dictatorship,” in the hope that in defence of the “homes” that the workers do not possess, the electors will vote for the agent of the party of reaction. The “Work and Wages” swindle is played out, and this is why the Uiberals are fanning up the embers of the Red Bogey. Telford is relentlessly—apart from asides—turninge the Searchlight on (Continued on page 2) NOMINEES FOR BURRARD ELECTION Four candidates were declared officially as nominees for the Bur- rard provincial by-election Wed- nesday next, September 2, when Returning Officer Robert M. Mc- Ginn closed nominations at the Vancouver court house at 1 p.m. Wednesday last. They are: John Weward Forester, Liberal, nominated by Thos. Braidwood, seconded by Mrs. Marion Gert- rude McGann. Frank P. Patterson, M.D., Conser- vative, nominated by Francis A. Brodie, seconded by Mrs. Ethel Mae Barnard. Lyle Telford, M.D.-, C.C.F., nom- inated by Arnold A. Webster, seconded by Mrs. Elizabeth Hanson, Robert Christopher Waller, Social- ist Party of Canada, nominated by John HW. Grace, seconded by Alfred L. Dowe. Convention Condemns CIO’ Suspension From A.F.of L., 100,000 Restaurant Workers Opposed to Labor’s Split NEW YORK.—A heavy blow was delivered to the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor this week, when the Rochester con-_ vention of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Alliance Sharply condemned the Green-Woll_ Hutcheson splitters of organized labor, in a ‘resolution unanimously passed by the convention delegates. The blow was all the more tell- ing, unionists pointed out, as it came immediately on the heels of an address by William Green, president of the A. of L., in which he vir- tually pleaded for support in the Executive Council’s suspension threat against the affiliated CLO. unions. The Restaurant Employees Inter- LEON TROTSKY TO STAY IN NORWAY OSLO, Norway, Aus 26 — The sovernment of Norway has decided that Leon Trotzky, chief instigator of the murder plot against prom- inent Soviet officials. may be per- mitted to reside in this country un- til December 18. This decision was made despite the ruling of the im- migration office that Trotzky has violated the re=ulations Sovernineg his stay here, x national Alliance has a membership throughout the country of more than one hundred thousand. Other unions and labor bodies, many of them craft set-ups, added their voice to the Srowing opposi- tion against the suspension move of the Green leadership, which has brought the American Pederation ot Labor to its most serious crisis in its fifty-two years of existence, Seores of local unions, city, state and international bodies, have reg- istered severe protests in the offices of the A.” of LL. Executive Coun- cil. Suspension adyocates in the leadership of the A.F. of LL. are be- comin= alarmed at the increasing clamor of opposition, reports from Washington, D:C., indicated this week. From the most unexpected sources, resolutions condemning the Splitting tactics of the Executive Couneil, are pourine into Federation headquarters, Among the latest takine= issue with the Green group of A.F. of L, leaders is the Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Craftsmen, of Brockton, Mass., a union not affiliated with the American Ifederation of Labor. Despite President Arthur QO. Wharton of the International As- sociation of Machinists, one of the most rabid CIO. baiters in the Federation, three of the Youngs- town, Ohio, locals of the LA.M. voted overwhelmingly against the reac- tionary decision of the Executive Committee. Take d ate ce we merges Seri beae Re