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FULL NO. 87

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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1936

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VOL. IL., No. 35

C.P. CONVENT

APS ROAD TO

Trocadero Cafe Strike
Ends; Favor Employees

Union Pay, Conditions
Gained; Strikebreaker
Is Fired

Armed with a union agreement,
which calls for $12 and $14 per week,
to be paid for dinine room and coun-
ter help respectively, the strikers
from the Trocadero Cafe returned
to work last Saturday at 11 am.
after a week of successful picketins.

Other conditions under which the
employees returned to work were
that Grace Hensler, strike-breaker,
be fired and that the waiter and
three waitresses who stayed on the
job during the strike join the union,
also that the employer contribute
$1:40 per month towards laundering
and upkeep of the uniforms.

The employees were out on strike
for exactiy one week, having de-
cided on that course after a week of
fruitless attempts to settle their dif-
ferences amicably.

Customers of the cafe supported
the strikers by staying away from
the restaurant as though it had been
stricken with a plague, so deserted
did it look.

Bight of the fourteen employees
are still without a job, but it is un-
derstood that as the business regains
its former status they will be the
first to be employed,

Durine the week of sirike, at-
tempts were made by the Cooks and
Waiters Union, local 28 of the Hotel
and Restaurant Employees to nego-
Hiate, but failed to produce results.
When Saturday came, however, the
strike was settled in quick order, the
employer agreeing to the above can-
ditions.

The Trocadero Gafe is now another
100 per cent union house, for the
first time in twenty years.

Support For
Spain Grows

Jewish Conference Do-
nates $1400; Unions
Rally to Cause

TORONTO, Ont., Sept. 2—(ALP)—
Toronto's contribution towards the
anti-fascist forces of war-torn Spain
Was boosted by $1,400 when organ-
izations affiliated to the local Jewish
Anti-Fascist Conference rushed in
With donations at a mass meeting
in the Labor Lyceum, Spadina
Avenue, last night.

OF that sum $1,000 was cabled to-
‘day and another cable will be sent
shortly.

Speakers from many oreaniza-
tions, including Co-operative Com-
monvwealth Federation, the Gommu-
nist Party, Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, Poale Zion groups, Inter-
national Ladies Garment Workers,
Socialist and Anarchist bodies,
Teague Against War and Fascism,
Workmen's Circle and other soci-
eties, called for the maximum of
Support for the Spanish people in
their hour of struggle against the
fascist reaction.

€.C.F. Action Urged

Graham Spry, chairman of the
executive committee of the Ontario
Provincial Council of the CCrE.,
called for united action of all labor
organizations to defend Spain. He
announced that the G.C.\F. plans to
Jaunch a call to all labor orfaniza-
tions to join hands in the current
campaien.

“We have a lesson to learn from
Spain,” he said, “and the fight in
Spain should be an example to the
people of Canada.’”’

“We must be prepared to defend
Canada itself against Fascism and
We must be ready to face the day
When we will have to meet ,the
enemy that the people of Spain are
meeting now.”

The C.C.F. leader called for united
action.

Donations turned in when the
Chairman for funds included: $500
from the International Ladies Gar-
ment Workers, $365 from the Labor
League, $200 from the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, $200 from the
Fur Workers’ International Union,
$100 from the Dressmakers, and a
Pledge of another $100 from the
Same union.

Alberta Miners Aid
Spanish Brothers

DRUMHELLER, Alta., Sept. 7.—
(ALP)—John Digman, on behalf of
the executive committee of the
Drumheller Valley section of the
Communist Party, has forwarded $24
to the secretary of the International
Federation of Trade Unions to be
used for the support of the Spanish
0vermment in its fisht to retain
democracy and to defeat fascism.
The money was collected at a meet
ang at which William Gallacher was
the main speaker.

PRESS DRIVE
STARTS OCT. 1

A 1937 Gheyrolet car will be the
prize awarded to the purchaser of
the lueky ticket sold during the
B.C. Workers’ News-Glarion press
drive. Tickets will be sold at 50
cents ‘each and will entitle the
buyer to a month’s Clarion and
B.C. Workers’ News sub. and a
free chance on the car. A wide
sale of tickets is planned and
there will be a full time sales force
on the job. $2500 is the quota for
B.C. and the drive committee,
headed by Arthur Evans, is con-
fident that this sum will be over-
subscribed.

Delezates from nearly every
point in B.C. attended the confer-
ence and discussed the various
problems of the labor press.. The
ticket sale will commence on the
15th of September. The drive
proper will start on the Ist of
October and continue until Octo-
ber 3ist.

If enough money is raised over
and above the quota a motorcycle
will be purchased to help speed up
press delivery in Vancouver and
nearby points.

Ten per cenf commissions will
be given to all ticket salesmen
and the seller of the winning
ticket will receive a grand prize.

TWO FISHERMEN
COMMITTED TO
~ TRIAL BY JURY

Frank ‘‘Pinky’’ Mills Is
Freed on Intimidation
Charges

Frank “Pinky” Mills, fisherman,
Was set free on tyro charges of in-—
timidation when he appeared before
Magistrate C. L. Fillmore in Dis-
trict Court, last Friday.

Two other fishermen, E. L. ‘‘Tim’’

On Thursday when they appeared
before Judge Pllis in the County
Court their case was traversed to
the Fall Assizes, where they will
be tried by a jury. At present both
men are released on bond.

The charges of intimidation arise
out of the recent fishermen’s strike.
Anderson and Hornbrook are al-
lezed to have intimidated ©. Knut-
sen and R. G. Johnson at Schooner
Passage, River’s Inlet, on July 7th,
to prevent them from transporting
fish from WNelson’s Camp to Namu
Cannery on the grounds that they
were scabs.

Gordon M. Grant, counsel for the
Canadian Labor-Defence League, is
appearing for the accused, while
H. L. Bird will represent the Crown,

Fisherman Sought

Ed. Lande, fisherman, of Rivers
Inlet, is asked to communicate
with the Fishermen and Cannery
Workers’ Industrial Union office,
Room 8, 18 West Hastings street.

PRINCE RUPERT, Sept. 3—Rock
Sane workers employed by Landen
and Peters at Pacific, B:C., have
rallied to the support of the two
fishermen, who face two charges of
intimidation arising out of the fish-
ermen’s strike.

4A collection was taken up among
the workers there which is reported
as $1120:

TORONTO, Ont., Sept. 2.—(ALP)
—There were 5,515 accidents re-
ported to the Ontario Workmen's
Compensation Board during August,
as compared with 5,772 during
July, and 4,955 during August last

Hornbrook, Wancouver, and Axel
Anderson, Gibson’s Landing, were
committed for trial on similar
charges.

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Women Shoulder Arms For People’s Front

Women are taking their places beside men in the fighting ranks of the Spanish People’s Front
Government to hurl back the thrusts of the Fascist rebels. Here are some members of the so-called
weaker sex who volunteered to join 2 workers’ militia Squadron as they drilled in the streets of Madrid.

‘No Relief’ Family
‘Begs’ On Streets

Citizens swarmed around and
expressed their indigation at the
treatment meted out to the desti-
tute Pyuda family who stood in
front of Woodward's department
store last Saturday afternoon
with collection cans in their hands
and placards describing their
plight on their persons. In two
hours the familly realized a col-
lection of $26.27, contributed in
nickels and dimes by the generous
citizens,

The family have been refused
relief, in order to force them to
return to Manitoba where they or-
iginally came from two years ago,
having lost their farm through re-
peated crop failures.

The Unemployed and Part-Time
Workers’ Association have so far
been unsuccessful in having the
family reinstated on relief.

Last spring Mr. Pyuda gained
work on a section agng but was
later lzid off to make room for
the relief camp workers. The

family state that unless they are
Siven relief by the time the pres-

CHINESE ARE
ILL TREATED

Vendors Request for Protec-
tion Given to Market
Committee

One hundred and fifty Vancouver
Chinese vegetable vendors have
asked the Gity Council to protect
them against operations of inspec-
tors of the B.C. Coast Vegetable
Marketing Board, who, it is alleged,
are making it “impossible” for the
Orientals to make a living.

The letter from the Vegetable
Peddlers’ Association to the coun-
cil charges that board inspectors
dump the potato sacks out into the
streets and fail to replace them.
The vegetable vencors ask that the
city protect them against such
molestation. Otherwise, the letter
intimates, they may have to resort
to legal action.

The letter from the vendors was
accompanied by a seventy-three-
page petition signed by approxi-
mately 1500 customers of the as-
Sociation’s members.

“Hach of our members (there are
about 150) pays the city a license
fee of $60 per annum,” the asso-
eiation’s letter states.

The vendors’ protest was referred
to the City Market Committee after
aldermen expressed sympathy to
their request for protection.

THIRD DEGREE FOR
RELIEF RECIPIENTS

For the umpteenth time during
the past three years the relief re-
cipients are being subjected to an-
other searching questionnaire. This
time it’s a Dominion census.

Since the archives of Wamilton
Hall hold stacks and stacks of min-
ute detail and data concerning every
man, we fail to see the necessity for
these continual insulting and humili-
ating third degre interrogations.
They know everything from the
Jenegth of a man’s leg, his girth,
height, weight, color of hair, ete.
They seem to have overlooked the
color of his srandmother’s eyes and
the reason for his birth. We would
not be surprised if they tried to in-
stituts finger-printing and “mue-
Sine”’ next.

This petty tyranny over the un-
fortunate has reached its limit of
toleration for the express purpose of
finding jobs for political heelers.

year. Fatal cases numbered 88, as
against 32 in July.
Benefits awarded amounted to

$358,807.61, of which $266,559.68 was
for compensation and $72,247.95 for
medical aid.

Spanish Delegate Under
Barrage of Questions
on Spain

GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 2
(ALP)—Indignation among 500 dele-
gates gathered here at the World
Youth Congress at the action of Ger-
many and Italy in withdrawing their
delegations was the keynote domi-

nating the Congress.

Meeting under the shadow of
world war threatened by the fascist
dictators, delegates from youth
movements al] over the world throng-
ine this congress voiced their opin-
ion that Hitler and Mussolini by
withdrawing their delegations even
before the Congress had opened, had
brazenly demonstrated their hostility
fo this peace conzeress, while they
intensify their preparations for a
new, slaughter of youth.

The delegates represent between

Fascist Move Seen As War
Threat By Youth Congress

them more. than 45,000,000 of the
world’s youth in thirty-six countries.
The Soviet Union is represented by
a delegation of ten members. repre-
senting 25,000,000 Soviet youth.
Meeting under the chairmanship
of Senator Henri Pollin of Belgium,
the delepates have before them a
lengthy program. Worl will be di-

vided between four committees, to
prepare reports on various aspects
of youth problems and resolutions

to be submitted to the final session
of the Coneress next weel.

Groups of stud and
leaders in many
crowd the streets of Genevy
Sroups until late each eyvenine dis-
cussing the vital problems facing
youth all over the world today. An-
tonio Munoz, secretary of the Span-
ish Youth Front and a leader of
the Young Left Republicans, is un-
der a constant fire of questions con-
cerning the Spanish people's war
against fascism.

youth

GREEN EXPELS
SAM LAWRENCE
FROM A. F. of L.

HAMILTON, Ont., Sept. 7—
(ALP)—Sam Lawrence, only
€.G.F. member of the Ontario
provincial parliament and active
trade unionist, was yesterday
ordered expelled from the A.F.
ofl. by President Green on the
charge of being a Communist.
The Hamilton Trades and Labor
Council immediately passed a
vote of confidente in Lawrence
and took no action on the ex
pulsion order.

Green's letter was read before
the semi-monthly meeting on
Saturday just before adjourn-
ment and the “information”
contained in it claiming that
Lawrence, a delegate from the
stonecutters’ union, was an
avowed Communist. The letter
claimed that the information
was laid over the signature of
the sceretary of the Operating
Engineers’ Union and states that
the claim of Lawrence's mem-
bership in the Communist Party
Was made to John WPossodel,
president.

Lawrence denied the allegation
and demanded an investigation
into the authorship of the claim.

GREAT LABOR
DAY PARADE
IN TORONTO

Former W.U.L. Unions March
Under the Banner of
the A.F.of L.

TORONTO, Ont., Sept. 7.—(ALP)
—live thousand trade unionists
marehed to Exhibition Park here to-
day sharp on the heels of a drivine
rain that marred Toronto's Tabor
Day celebrations.

Unions
separate

that marched last year as
Sroups under the banner
of the Workers’ Unity MDeague
marched today with the American
Pederation of Labor.

Harold FE. Clay, national secretary
of the Transport and General
Workers’ Union of Great Britain
and fraternal delegate to the annual
convention of the Trade and Labor
Congress of Canada, delivered a
slashing attack on° war preparations
at the noon Labor Day luncheon at
the Canadian National Exhibition.
Loeal labor leaders were suests of
the exhibiton director’.

“Better a century of conferences
| than five years of war,” Clay quoted
ia Soviet diplomat as Saying in an-
| swer to those who objected to the

endless wrangling in the League of

Nations and in disarmament
peace conferences.

The British labor leader
the horrors that would accompany
the next war and he urged the
strensthenine of the collective peace
Systm, the League of Nations, Brit-
ish Labor, he asserted, is workings
with the world labor movement to
Strengthen the bonds of peace.

and

told of

Undernourishment

“In 1933, 60 to 90 per cent of the
ehildren in Tondon schools were
suffering from dise Known to
come from malnutrition. In the
poorer parts of Paris 20 to 30 per
cent of the children are wunder-
nourished. In certain parts & Po-
land the percentaze is and 7
per cent are threatened with tuber-
culosis. In 1933 there were 7,500,000
undernourished children in the
United States: In 1917 nearly all the
negro children in New York were

25,

suffering from rickets.”

RHUROPE SPLIT
IN TWO BLOCS

Two Camps With Armies Are
One Million Stronger
Than in 1915

BERLIN, Germany, Sept. 2—
(ALP)—Adolf Hitler has raised the
minimum service period in the new
German army to two years, and in
So doing has torn aside the camou-
flage which to some extent veiled
the terrifying armament race in
Europe.

The standing armies of Hurope
are greater by a million men then
they were in 1913. The military
budgets have probably tripled, as
the two main camps in Europe pre-
Pare feverishly.

Great Britain seeks to avoid the
necessity of entering the alisnment
represented by either of the two
Sreat assemblies, and more or Jess
vasuely denies the compulsion.

Berlin and Rome are working
steadily to weld Poland and Bul-
Safia to the four-power bloc com-
posed of Germany, Italy, Hungary
and Austria. The democratic front,
headed by France and the Soviet
Union, is a powerful combination
and it is against the background of
this dangerous balance of power thar

, the civil war in Spain assumes tre-

mendous importance. Victory in
Spain for either side will tend to
swing the scale of the entire

European line-up.-

Mooney Defense
Prepare Argument

FRANCISCO,

SAN Sept. 5.—
(ALP)—Defense counsel for Tom
Mooney are preparing their final

arguments over the 15,000-page rec-
ord of the year-lone habeas eorpus
hearings recently finished in San
raneisco. Date for the oral arcu:
ments, which will probably take
place in January, 1937, will be set
Nov. 2, while Referee A. ©. Shaw
estimates that he will need six
months—at $50 a day—to renew the
transeript and submit his findings
of fact.

Barcelona Gets Food

BARCELONA, Spain. — (ALP)—
Two train loads of food sent to
Spain by the working people of

Paris have arrived in Barcelona.

ent money runs out, they will go
on the streets again.

Police ayoided interfering with
the collection, probably from fear
of the indignation of the citizens.

Ninth Lawsuit Faces
Jubilee Committee

Suit has been started in County
Court here by Bulman Bros. B.C.
Lithogsraphing & Printing Lid. to
recover $640 from the Yancouver
Golden Jubilee Committee for soods.

Named by the company as defen-
dants are A. E. Shaw, W. S. Pearce
and John S. Pearce assemembers of
the Jubile Sales Committee.

This is the ninth law suit taken
by firms against the Jubilee Com-
mittee to recover monies due them
for soods delivered or work done
through contracts.

FARMERS ARE
OPPOSED 10
RAIL MERGER

Railroaders’ Problems
Similar to Those of
Agrarians

SASKATOON, Sask, Sept. 7:
(ALP)—Western farmers have join-
ed labor in solid opposition to any
merger of the Canadian WWational
and Canadian Pacific Railways.

At a meeting of railwaymen here,
George Bickerton, president of the
United Farmers of Canada. declared
that farmers’ problems and those of
the railway tnions are very similar
on the issue.

The meeting proposed joint coun-
cils of railroaders at each terminal
town for the purpose of working:
against the proposal to link the con-
tinent’s two sreatest transportation
systems. Such a merger, it was
pointed out, would throw 40.000 men
out of work, would create many
“ghost towns,’ would result in
higher freight rates for the farm-
ers and would eliminate railway
Service for many farming commun-
ities, thus cutting the farmers off
from their markets.

Representatives were present from
Melville, Wilkie, Bigesar,
Sutherland, North Battleford, Moose
Jaw and Saskatoon.

Regina, }

Steeled Army Is Forged
In Battle With Fascists

Rebels Lose Twenty-nine
Generals; More To

Be Tried -

By F. VON BRIEGEL
BARCELONA, Catalopia. Sept. 1.
—(Special to the Associa Labor
Press)—In Spain generals do not die
in’ bed. Lhe civil war; a war of
Swift and terrible movement be-

f death's hand, takes toll both

t and small in the loyalist
and fascist ranks.

Qn the of the republic’s en-
emies twenty-nine generals have
been lost, eleven by death and eigh-
teen in prison. Of the eleven, one
Sanjuro, was killed in -ortugal
when his airplane crashed.
others, Fanjul- Goded and
died before Fovernment firing |
squads.

In Madrid alone trials are now

proceeding of three

twenty majors, seventy-six captains,

108 lieutenants and 55 others, a total
of 273 trials. Of these not one is a

common soldier.

Accused are not only
penalties of imprisonment or death
and, under certain charges to con-
fiscation of property, but to huge
fines. Damages paid up to Aucust
fiscation of property, but to huge
(about $60,000,000.—da.)

A new People’s Army is being
forged in the heat of battle, an army
that will no longer be thé plaything
of the feudal militarists, but instead

subject to

an instrument of the people, the
peasants, the workers, the mer-
chants.

In less than a month the ill-armed.
untrained, enthusiastic militia units
developed into disciplined troops
under loyalist officers and N.C.Os.

In the barracks, which are under
the control of militia committees, the
men are bein= turned into real Sol-
diers. Recruits, young and old, men
and women, drill in the barrack
yards with a discipline that for
Spain is amazing. In an ineredibly
Short time raw militia men learn to
mount and dismount the most com-
plicated machine funs.

A Running Commentary

On The Main Sessions

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Membership Of Party

Tripled Since it Was
Outlawed in 1931

By JACK PHILLIPS

“The Communist Party of B.C. is
a mass party!’ “The Communist
Party in B.C is a legal party and
one that plays a decisive role in the
lives of our people!’ So declared
Communist party leaders at the
opening session of the provincial
convention of their party. The first
session, open to the public, was held
in Victory Hall on Homer Street,
Friday, Sept. 4th.

Jack Taylor opened the conyen-
tion and introduced the chairman of
the evening, Fergie McKean, B.C.
provincial organizer.

The first speaker was Bill Ben-
net, foundation member of the B.G.
party and well known labor journal-
ist. Bill gave a clear picture of the
party’s history and frowth, remind-
ing his audience that whereas in
1929 the B.C. district had only 400
members, it can now boast of over
1700 paid-up members.

His closing quotation is one that
Can well be cherished by all progeres-
Sive and freedom-loving people:
“Yesterday the world belonged to the
capitalists. Today their rule is chal-
lenged. Tomorrow the world is
ous?!"

Maleolm Bruce, editor of the B.C.
Workers’ News, told of the past
Party conventions, prior to 1931, be-

ing held under the threat of Section
98. “The fight for legality showed
the fighting power of our party. We

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New Strikes

Sweep France

French Labor Demands
Blum Government

Aid Spain

PARIS, Sept. 9—Vaves of new
Strikers are Sweeping through the
country. Ereneh Jabor is making
demands upon their Front Populaire
sovernment ta reconsider and study
the ban placed upon arms and am-
munition shipments to the People's
Front government of Spain.

The General Confederation of La-
bor, which has a membership of
five million, asked the sovernment
to re-Study its ban “in accord with
Great Britain and other democratic
countries.”

Meanwhile thousands of workers
are resorting to a new sit-down
Strike in ordér to Sain their de-
mands, Intermittent Strikes have
been going on for Some time.

In LeWHavre, the crew of the
French passenger and cargo steam-
er “Belle Isle’’ of the Chargeurs
Reunis Co., struck When they learn-
ed that a 1500 millimetre sun was
being loaded, bound for the Span-
ish insurgents, via Lisbon, Por-
tugal.

LE HAVRE, Sept. 9.—All activity
in this port ceased today as dock-
ers joined a new strike wave sweep-
ing France, demanding that the
Blum cabinet reconsider its stand on
neutrality in the Spanish civil war.

LILLE, Sept. 9—Thirty thousand
textile workers struck work here to-
day. Whe workers occupied the fac-
tories and adopted the same method
of strike action that they used in
the May-June strikes.

The question of a 10 per cent
increase in wages and recognition
of the workers’ shop delesates are
involved, they are also demanding:
the government render aid to the
Spanish loyalist forces.

CANADIAN WHEAT
SOLD TO SOVIETS

EDMONTON, Sept. 5. — Rust-
resistant wheat of Sood hard mill-
ing quality from the best new Can-
adian types are bein= brought in
experimental qualities by the Soviet
Union through A. S. Essipoy, who
has charge of erain experimental
farms throughout the U.S.S.R.

The Soviet’s representative arrived
here to confer with Dr. K. W. Neat-
by, professor of the field ereps divi-
Sion of the University of Alberta.
Mr. A. S. Essipoy declared that the
Soviet Union is not in the export
market in competition with Canada
as far aS grain is concerned.

“I would like to see general trade
relations with Canada re-estab-
lished,”” he said.

RAIL WORKERS TO
SEEK HIGHER PAY

ST. PAUL, Minn, Sept. 2.—(ATP)
—Canadian members of the Brother-
of Railway Trainmen today
were authorized by the annual meet-—
ing of the organization to seek wage

onvention decided to seek
Slation restricting the length of
sht trains to 70 cars. Tonger
ht trains were described hy.
peakers as dangerous and unweildy.

“an