ia % Page Two B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS September 4, 1936 P-I. STRIKE MAY SPREAD Wnion Labor Bans San Fran- cisco Examiner, a ‘Hearst Sheet SHATTLE, Aug. 31. — Since -Auisust 14 the Post-Intelligencer has “been tied up by a strike of the edi- “torial staff, and despite all efforts sof the Hearst interests to break it =the strike is still solid. The Gentral Labor Council has supported the strike and has listed the Post-Intelligencer as unfair to organized labor. The strikers who are editorial writers, reporters and eameramen, are organized in the American Newspaper Guild. Fifty Pacific Northwest mnews- @aper publishers meeting here have protested to President Green of the ALE. of Ls. against the “Jawless acts of certain affiliates of the A.F. of Z.. in Seattle.’ They are attempting ¢o misrepresent peaceful picketing as being= against the law. Sponsored by the notorious anti- Zabor publisher, William Randolph Bearst, a ‘law and order league” is eing organized to break the strike. The strike may spread to all iearst publications on the Pacific Moast. Already union men have re-> #used to handle copies of the San Wrancisco Examiner which were sshipped to Seattle. : Jn the eastern part of the U-S. Snterest in the strike is quite keen. The American Mederation of Teach- ers meeting in New York resolved to Set up committees to conduct a eampaign for the boycott of all Wesarst publications. Hearst was _eharacterized as America’s out- atanding jingoist, and the chief pro- ponent of fascism in the United States. : - Though the Seattle P.-1. strike still eontinues, the Wisconsin News, an- ether Hearst-owned newspaper has ‘settled its walkout, The employees =yon a five-day week and a mini- mum of $25 weekly for Guile mem- _ Hers employed less than three years. - Before the strike a six-day week prevailed with no minimum wage provision. Though agreeing to wages and working conditions, no contract Has been signed recognizing the Guild. A weary looking fellow who had opened all the doors looking for * OSes 5090909990000 APOLLO CAFE 283 West Cordova St. OYSTER AND CHOP HOUSE $4.50 Meal Ticket for $4.00 Prop. THEO. ANGELL || AULD ACQUAINTANCES By JACK PHITLTIPS E It was a “Scotch Night’ at the Embassy Ballroom on Tuesday even- ings, when Wancouver workers and progressive people fathered to give “Willie Gallacher’ a fitting send- off. Pete Munro, well known trade unionist, marched into the banquet room at 8:30 sharp, dressed in kilts and blowing away at the bag pipes. Two more doughty Scotch warriors marched behind him, Willie and our own Tom Ewen. The crowd arose as one and gave them a splendid ovation. Tom wen was in the chair and opened the banquet. White coated waiters from Iocal 28 hurried to and fro with steaming cups of bullion. Malcolm Bruce gave a very witty speech and closed with a touching and appropriate quotation: ““Will ye no come back again?’’ Fergie McKean, district organizer of the Communist Party, spoke next and assured Comrade Gallacher that the Communist Party of B.C. was inspired by the close co-operation be- tween the British Labor Party and Commons. Jack Taylor delivered a short but well worded speech, concluding: with the following words: “We are im-— measurably stronger because of Comrade Gallacher’s visit. We must fight to strengthen the bonds between the Canadian and British working- Glass. We must also fight to defeat Pattullo and elect a C.C I". govern- ment in B.C.”’ RENEWED AT BANQUET Mrs. MacDonald, Maurice Rush, Bill Bennett, Fred Lowe and Arthur Evans also spoke, and delivered greetings to Comrade Gallacher. One of the highlights of the evening was the ovation given to Fred Lowe, leading Chinese workers’ organizer. Comrade Gallacher, in reply to the different greetings and farewell mes- sages, said that his Canadian com-=- rades had shown him no mercy. His visit to Canada had been one con- tinual debarking from trains and on to platforms to speak. He admitted, however, that he had enjoyed him- self in B.C. _ Willie pointed out that a broad people’s movement is shallow until it includes the trades unions. He also stressed the burning importance of giving much attention to the organ- ization of the youth and women, without which, he said, there can be Mo strong labor movement, He provoked gales of laughter with his superlative Scotch jokes. One of them had it that a Scotch- man always walks when he is play- ing the bagpipes because he wants to keep away from the noise. The assembled guests adjourned to the dance floor after the banquet and enjoyed the music of a six-piece union orchestra. Willie danced with nearly all the women and showed that he was still young enough to deserye his membership in the Y¥-C. LL. of Great Britain. The affair broke up at 1 a.m. and ended with the sing- ing of “The International” and a rousing cheer for the famous Scotch NEP TRADE PACT WITH S.U. EXPECTED MONTREAL, Aug. 29 (ALP)— Resumption of normal trade rela- tions between Ganada and the Soviet Union and the signing or re- vision of trade agreements with other countries are seen here with the return of the Hon. W. D. Euler, Minister of Trade and Commerce. Euler, with members of his staff, visited Moscow and other capitals. Hitler, he said, “‘is convinced that Russia intends to force communism on the world.”’ Moscow, according to the Minis- ter, is a wonderful city and he saw more motor trucks than in any other place he had visited. Building is going on everywhere in the Soviet capital and ground has been eleared for the Palace of Soviets which will be “‘taller than the Em- pire State Building in New York” — the tallest building in the world. GOV’T ONCE MORE AIDS THE BOSSES VICTORIA. — Minimum wages have been fixed by the Board of Industrial Relations for male and female workers in seed packing establishments. As in fruit and yveeetable canning, adult male work- ers must be paid 35 cents an hour and youths, under 21, 25 cents an hour: Experienced women must be paid 27 cents an hour and in- experienced women 25 cents. Under an amendment to the male mercantile order, the board pro- vided that where a messenger boy supplies his own bicycle the em- ployer must pay all reasonable ex- penses of maintaining it. These orders became effective September 3. The board heard requests for a minimum wage from milk manu- facturing concerns in Vancouver, but has reseryed its decision on this question. _ : 6 LONDON, England, Aug. 3p (ALP) — British firms up until August 19 supplied thirty airplanes to the Spanish mutineers, according to a survey conducted by “The Week.”’ This total excludes numerous air- eraft sold to obscure continental firms which suddenly decided to “modernize’—and, the paper’ hints, most of these planes found their way to the fascist camps. “Jnside information” on the crash of two British aircraft in Hrance, half of a flicht of four planes which the Wrench government suspected were for Spain, has been obtained. The heads of the company which had shipped the planes by air stated that they had been sold to a Polish company. “The Week” reveals that the ships were really consigned to a German-controlled company in- corporated in Danzig: under a Polish name. The same paper draws attention to what it infers is a “diplomatic slap in the face’ to the Madrid govern- ment in the appointment by Great Britain at this moment of crisis of Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes as Charges d Affairs at the British embassy in the Spanish capital. i eilvie-orbes, the paper states, is a devout Roman Catholic and was Charges d’Affairs for Britain at the Watican. He has close association with the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. His only sister and his aunt are nuns. His father was Privy Chamberlain to four popes. Britain Sends Thirty Planes To Spanish Rebel Forces By REDFIELD PEPPER SCANDAL AND POISON GAS Germany Buys Increas- ing Quantities Petent Ingredient Last years pepper scandal in London, which made English news- papers talk of an Hinelish Stavisky affair, has never been satisfactorily explained. An Armenian merchant, Garabed Birshirgian, quietly bought up and stored all the pepper offered on the world market. Suddenly, Brit- ish banks withdrew credit, forcing the speculators into bankruptcy, and at the instructions of the Eng- lish government, got pepper mto their own control. It all sounded like comic opera un- til recently when some light was shed on the affair. Pepper is mot only a burning spice, but a war material, and a potent one. It con- tains ingredients which are basic in the manufacture of certain poison gases. Ever since Hitler erasped the reins in his hands, pepper has been imported into Germany in ever in- creasing quantities, and it is the German daily, The Frankfurter Zeitung, which lifts the veil by ex plaining that pepper today is con- sidered to be one of the most dan- gerously effective war weapons. Many hints have been dropped that the pepper bought up so quiety in London last year was destinated for Germany, as the principal buyer of pepper on the international market is the I. G. WFarbenindusirie, the great German chemical trust that supplies the German army with its deadliest weapons. The Ruling Clawss “Shh-h-h-h-h .. .? RELIEF WORKERS MOVE FORWARD By a majority yote the members of ihe Vancouver and District Re- lief Workers’ Union decided to change their name to Workers’ Alli- ance and will in future be known as such. The organization is now dré@wing up a constitution which they elaim will be broad enough to include all workers on relief and for those in outlying districts, and a bulletin is being published to inform the publie of the change, and their regular business meetings. Rising food prices concern the or- ganization, and a committee is now working on a definite plan of action for the Workers’ Alliance to carry out. Job stewards will be on all jobs where relief workers are engaged, and they will collect dues from the members, issue new cards and take applications for membership. Their next buSiness meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 9, at 505 Hast Georgia. LABOR RALLIES TO British Columbia’s labor rallied to the cause of the Spanish People’s Front government during the past week with donations in excess of $300.00. The Empress Theatre meetings Nanaimo $66 was realized and Vic- toria contributed $80 to the cause of the Loyalist forces fighting for their democratically elected gov- . ernment against the forees of Fascist reaction. This is only a start, $23 was for- warded a short time ago to the same cause, FISHERS’ LOCAL SUPPORT OF SPAIN raised well over $125, while in- RECEIVES CHARTER noted Canadian political figure and Another link has heen forged in| ciety affairs, brought the Institute the chain of Pacific Coast maritime] to attention by declaring his sup- organizations with the granting of a| port of the peace policy of the charter to the Seiners’ local of the | Soviet Union. Fishermen and Cannery Workers’ And, he said, if anyone does not Industrial Union. The local is now} accept the Gommunistic ideology a branch of the Purse Seiners’ See | the only way to answer it is to in- tion of the Sailors’ Union of the] yent a better one. Pacific, A.F.of L., an affiliate of the ee a eS CANADIAN COID OUTPUT GREATER | the Deep Bay Fishing and Packing Co., of Vancouver Island, has agreed that the blueback fishing season will ter- TORONTO minate September 15. This was the : original argeement, under which a ANTI-WAR LEAGUE TO ASSIST SPAIN Support for the democratic gov- ermment of Spain aroused an inter- esting discussion at council meetings League Against War and Fascism, held in the Victory Hall on Monday evening. The need for active assist- ance to the embattled Spanish anti- was agreed upon and a decision to hold a mass which would launch a financial cam- paisn, was unanimously Delegates reported that wide sym-— pathy exists and that a properly conducted campaign would be suc- instructed to go ahead with The attendance of representatives from three more unions at this coun- cil meeting showed the possibilities of enlisting the aid labor in the Trade union delegates urged a more intense canyass of the unions the membership of which are Sympa- A.M. Stephen in his report to the Soviet Union Peace Policy Is Endorsed YOSEMITE, Cal., Aug. 27 (ALP) J. W. Dafoe of Winnipeg, one of the last of the great “personal edi- tors’? and whose name is a by-word in Canadian news rooms, supports the collective peace system. Dafoe, editor-in-chief of the Win- nipegz Free Press, hailed the collec- tive organization of peace through the League of Nations as the world’s only hope when he spoke pefore the Institute for Pacific Relations here yesterday. The Hon. Newton W. Powell, prominent in League of Nations So- council Gealt with the possibility of a united peace movyve- ment in this province. The return of the delegates from Peace Congress held at Brussels, during this week, will mark a re- mnewal of peace Radio broadcasts are daily to further the cause of peace, establishing “Can you beat it?’’ “What now?’ “They sold me this stuff on the ‘pay-as-you-can’ plan and now they insist IT pay when I can’t.” ANNOUNCEMENTS. E, Winch, M.1L.A., will speak at the South Hill Open Forum, Forty- seventh and Fraser, on Sunday, September 6, at 3 p.m. His subject will be, “‘Problems of the C.C.F.” Grand Labor Day danee will be held in the Swedish Community Hall, Hastines street at Clark drive, on Monday, September 7. Doors open at § p.m. Excellent program of en- tertainment, novelties and special “prizes will be featured throughout the evening. Dancing till 1 p.m. Tickets now on sale at New Age Bookshop, 350 West Pender Street. Special attention to delegates of the provincial conmyention of the Communist Party of Canada: We invite youto our Grand Labor Day Dance, where you will haye an op- portunity to relax after your stren- uous efforts in the convention. Rehearsals of the Progressive Arts Club's choir are now in full swing at their clubrooms, 326 West Has- tings street, eyery Thursday even- ing at 8 o'clock. Singers who wish to apply for membership are requested to attend these rehearsals for auditions. “THE NOTEBOOK’’ This issuance of a publication by the league executive, “The Note- book’? (a digest of news and views against war and fascism) was well received by the council, This paper will be sold at five cents. Copies are obtainable at the magazine stands in the city. All clubs and groups in- ~ terested in the work of the league can obtain further information from ~ K. W. Clark, secretary, Canadian ~ League Against War and Fascism, Room 22, 615 W. Hastings St. THE NUMBER OF THIS ISSUE IS If the number on your Address Label is below it, then your subscription has expired. Renew it now! SEND IN A SUBSCRIPTION NOW! Rates: One year, $1.80. 6 months, $1.00. 3 months, 50c. Please send THE B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS to: City or Town for which I enclose 5 Aug. 29.— Ontario's gold production for the first seven|#| 6 months 2. montnss--3==--= While the paper does not charge the diplomat with being “undiplo- matic’? himself and says that he will not interfere in Madrid anti-clerical affairs, it does state that “this does not prevent his appointment ap- pearing in Spanish public opinion as A pro-fascist move by the SBritish Sovernment” particularly at a time when the diplomatic corps in Madria is “intriguing furiously against the fsovernment.” A PORTRAIT When John’s horse has worked his days, Then John will turn him Joose to graze. When John is old and wasted— well— Bell work until he swaps his hell. PROBE DISCLOSES ANTI-STRIKE GUN WASHINGTON, DG. Aug. 27 (ALP)—The Senate Civil Liberties Committee is preparing to serve subpoenas On arms manufacturers believed to be outfitting strilke- breakers, it was learned today. A special undercover investiga- tion has been started in several in- dustrial cities preliminary to the is- suance of new Subpoenas in the in- quiry into interference with the rights of labor to organize, officials disclosed. Committee investigators said they had discovered an entirely new in- dustry—the manufacture of weap- price of G cents for rounds and 7 cents for dressed was set to apply to the end of the season. ‘The com- pany had broken the agreement and has been paying 4 cents and 5 cents This shortage will now be refunded to the fishermen. ANY RAGS, ANY BAGS, OR BONES Many of the clothes that you are contemplating on purchasing to Complete your wardrobe this winter may not be all that they are sewn up to be, for, according to those in charge of an exhibit now on display at the Ganada Pacific Txhihition, old clothes, burlap and flour sacks, rags, moth eaten and torn can be made into expensive looking wear- ing apparel. The Self Help eroups who are sponsorins the exhibit claim to have 10 centres in the city to reno- vate and rejuvenate any old rags. They are also reported to haye an Agreement with the UHudson’s Bay @o., whereby any of these rags left at their mezzanine floor office will be delivered to their headquarters. @ther firms have also contributed odds and ends of material for these groups to fix up for an unsuspect- ing public. ons especially designed for use in labor watfare. Typical was the finding of a gas-machine gun said by committee officials to have been especially built to protect strike- breakers and break up picket lines. months of 1936 was more than $4,000,000 greater than in the period from January to July 31, 1935, the provincial mines department report- ed tonight. Production was $45,911,114 this year, compared with $41,661,245 in 1935. There were 4,363,488 tons of ore milled, compared with 3,959,718 in 1935. Police Too Busy Strikebreaking, crowd to the © RAINIER fi —— Headquarters for MINERS ° LOGGERS Thieves Rum Free BELLEVUE Ont, Aug. 2%— (ALP)—Old time cattle rustlers are operating freely in Hastings and Northumberland Counties — and there are no police officers to stop them, according to mervous farnyers who are standing guard at night over their herds. The police, according to Inspector Frank Gardiner of the provincial force, are in Cornwall where 1,700 rayon workers in the giant Cortauld mills are on strike. Gordon Calvert, for whom a war- rant has been issued chargsine him with the theft of 45 head of cattle, is being sought over two counties. Farmers claim that he has been seen driving the animals on the road’ be- tween Crookston and Ivanhoe. The cattle, stolen from Northum- berland County farmers, have been Teecovered but Calvert or whoever the rustler was—is still loose. If you don’t subscribe to this paper, send in a sub now. OTEL FISHERMEN A Warm Welcome Always Awaits Where Old-timers Meet — and Strangers Feel at Home Why Not Come Down and Talk it Over? Carrall at Cordova Sir eet Phone, Sey. 236 “aacceapeaw team ke