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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936

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= VOL. Il., No. 36

MOROCCAN TRIBESMEN LOOT AND R

Jail Terms Face Vegetable
Market Board Members

Injunction Violated,
Claim Chinese Potato
Shippers

Violation of an injunction fSranted
by Mr. Justice Murphy on July §
against the B.C. Coast Vegetable
Board, ordering them to discontinue
prevention or any interference with
export of onions and potatoes,
brought charses asainst three of the
Board’s members and three in-
Spectors.

The charges were filed
them by four Chinese potato
onion shippers.

A. H-. Peterson, Les. Gilmore, and
A. W. McLellan, members of the
Board have been summoned to ap-
pear in Supreme Court on Friday,
to give and show cause why they
Should not be committed to jail for
violation of the injunction.

W. Gosse, H. Patterson, and S.
WV. Creech, inspectors for the Board,
Will also appear on the same
charges.

Protection Sought

Chinese yendors and shippers
have complained to civic and pro-
yvincial authorities at the actions of
the Marketine Goard, who have con-
tinue@ to raid warehouses, -stop
trucks and dump their contents on
to the streets, since the Dominion
Marketing Act was declared ultra
Wires late this spring:

The city council's marketing com-
mittee decided to report to the coun-
ceil that the civie officials have no
authority to interfere in the mat-
ters which Chinese vendors placed
before them last weck accompanied
by a 73-page petition bearing signa-
tures of 1500 customers.

The yendors asked protection from
the B-C. Coast Vesetable Marketing
Board from interfering and dump-
ine their products on the streets,
and makin= no move to replace
them. Pedlars claimed that they pay
licenses to the city which should
protect them. The complaints will
be forwarded to Victoria.

asainst
and

MADISON. Wis. —(ALP)— News
writers and typesetters moved to-
ward sreater unity of labor over the
weekend.

The Madison Newspaper Guild
voted to support the Madison Fed_
eration of jlabors sharp candemna-
tion of the suspension of the CLO.
nnions.

The International Typographical
Union local adopted a resolution
disapprovine of situations like that
on the Wisconsin News, where the
Printing crafts worked while the
Wewspaper Guild was on strike.

HAMILTON DOCKERS
SIGN AGREEMENT

HAMILTON, Ont, Sept. 12-—
(ALP)—Hamilton longshoremen are
back at work today following -the
Sigminge of an agreement with the
Tree Line and Canada Steamship
Lines.

The end of the strike here re-
moves the necessity for a sympathy
strike of Toronto longshoremen,
members of the Toronto longshore-
men’s union, The Toronto men were
scheduled to stop work today.

Night work is to be paid for at the
rate of 45 cents an hour and day
work at 42 cents, under the agree-
ment reached between the union and
the lines.

Wo discrimination and union rec-
OSnition are also covered in the con-
tract.

EUROPE’S MADMAN

who talks of peace, vet casts
greedy eves towards the rich rezions
of the U.S.S-R. and shouted for war
at the Nurembure conference dur-
ing the past week. Economic ard
financial breakd6wn of his Nazi
resime are forcing the blood-thirsty
dictator to look towards the Soviet
Union.

P. M. DRAPER
AGAIN HEADS
TRADES BODY

P. Bengough Re-elected
on First Ballot as

Vice-President
MONTREAL, Que. Sept 12—

(ALP)—P. M. Draper of Ottawa was
re-elected president of the Trades
and Labor Congress of Canada by
unanimous yote.

The only other nomination offered
was that of Joseph Corbett of Lon-
don, ‘but he declined to stand and
Mr. Draper was given his second
term by acclamation.

R. J. Tallon of Montreal, was also
re-elected secretary—treasurer by: ac-
clamation.

Seven delegates contested an elec-
tion for three posts of vice-president.
On the first ballot James Sinupson,
Toronto, and Perey Benzough, Wan-
couver, occupants of the office last
year, were re-elected. Second and
third ballots were taken for the
third post.

The third ballot resulted in the
election of D. V. Morrison, Glace
Bay, N-S., also a vice-president last
year.

The other candidates were Arthur
Martel, Montreal: J. Salzbere, To-
ronto; A. Mathieu, Montreal: and
Joseph Corbett, London.

Provincial executives elected for
Qntario follows: Ed Walker, Toronto,
chairman; Rod Plant, Ottawa: A.
Garrow, Toronto, and J. R. Patti-
son, Fort William.

B.C. Accepts Alberta

and Saskatchewan

Challenges

The joint B.C. Workers’ News and
Weekly Clarion October drive plans
for $2,500 maintenance fund and
thousands of new readers is well
under way, and is receiving wide-
Spread support and approval. Mass
organizations and Press Committees
are maline final preparations to put
the Drive over the top and win for
B.C the coveted trophy for the lead-
ing district in Canada. Quotas are
being accepted, which, when totalled,
exceed the district quota.

Challenges are being issued for

the speedy filling of quotas 100
per cent. Wancouyver East Press
Committee has agreed to raise $125
and have challenged all other
Press Committees to fill their
quotas 100 per cent by October 21.

The Czecko-Sloyak Workers’ Club,

a new supporter of the progressive
press, have come to the front offer-
ing tc raise $15. They are confident
of over-fulfilling this pledge and of
leading all other mass organizations.
Good luck to this Srowing youne or-
Sanization!

CHALLENGES.

The Alberta Drive Committee have
challenged both WBritish Columbia
and Saskatchewan to over-subscribe
their district quotas. The B.C. Dis-
rict Drive Committee, on behalf of
all mass organizations and Press
Committees, have accepted this chal-
lenge from Alberta, and haye chal-
Ilenged both Ajberta and Saskatche-
Wan to a contest for insereased press

Canada And Soviet Union
Reach Trade Agreement

Both Countries Scrap
Embargoes Made
in 1931

OTTAWA, Ont., Sept. 12—(ATP)
Hailed by labor and farm groups
with enthusiasm, Canada’s nine year
Period of “no truck nor trade with
the Soviets’ was officially ended
last night when Prime Minister
Mackenzie King announced resump-
tion of trade relations between the
two countries.

First broken by the King govern-
ment in 1927 and then finally ended
by the imposition of an embarzo by
Kine’s successor, R. B. Bennett, in
1931 trade between Canada and the
US:S.R. has been virtually at a
Stand still.

Moscow. retaliated against Canada
in April of 1931, two month’s after
Ottawa's provocative action, and
Placed an embarzo against GCana-
dian producis.

Hor some years the issue of trade
20d relations with the U.S.S.R. has
been a seething one in Canada. With
the forces of progress from trade
unions, the C.CE., Communist
Party, Friends of the Soviet Union
and other organizations, bringing
pressure on the government to make
an end to a situation that was
looked upon as making Canada
Vidiculous and on a par with
Uruguay. Some big business inter-

Vests also desired Soviet trade and

added to the pressure. although re-
actionary forces fought against its
return.

The Jast general election saw this
issue, together with repeal of such
repressive anti-labor legislation as
Section 98, loom large and the elec-
tion of another ane government
placed a group in office at Ottawa
pledged to renew relations with the
GSS

It is expected that the Hon. W. D.
Euler, minister of trade and com-
merece, will make a statement short-
ly revealine the clauses of a formal
trade agreement, or at least thé
points of an understanding With the
Soviet authorities.

Chief Canadian products which
will find a market in the Soviet
Wnion are expected to he dairy

cows, horses, seeds, and metals.

Soviet hard coal, which is amone
the best in the world, will likely be
imported. Much of Canada’s anthra-
cite now comes from the United
States.

Rumors here today have it that
Canada is to extend certain credits
to the Soviet Union but the exact
nature of any such arrangements,
nor of the amounts involved nor the
terms, is not known.

The entbarso of 1931 imposed by
the Bennett government was specifi-
cally against Soviet wood pulp,
Wood, pulpwood Products, furs, coal,
oil, asbestos and lumber.

‘Clear Decks For Action’
In $2,500 Drive Objective

S ERSTE Gan Alberta is challenged to
circulation increases of 500 and Sas-
Katchewan 250 with B-C. to increase
circulation oyer the combined circu-

lation of both Alberta and Sas-
katchewan.
District Press plans this year

make it possible for eyeryone who
realizes the need of a prozeressive
people's press to help in this drive
and put it over the top. Plans
are based on introducing more at-
tractive methods for raising both
maintenance fund and building mass
eirculation. Special subscription rates
have been arranged for both the B.C.
Workers’ News and the Weekly
Clarion for the duration of the drive,
These special rates enable the drive
committee to offer a five-weeks’ sub-
scription to both papers and a
chance to win the award of a beauti-_
ful new 1987 Chevrolet sedan for 50
cents.

SALESMEN EARN MONEY
AND PRIZES

As an extra inducement to sales-
men, a $50 cash award is provided
for the seller of the lucky ticket.
One ticket in each ten sold, to-
gether with the five-weeks’ sub-
scription to both papers with the
chance on the sedan may be re-
tained by the salesmen, or he may
sell the tenth ticket, retaining the
50 cents. One other award of $50
in cash is provided for the person
raising the highest amount durine
the drive.

Twenty per cent of all monics
turned in on the special subscrip-
tion tickets will be credited to the
mass organization or Press Commit-
tee for whom the tickets are sold.

Ticket sales have already com-
menced and will continue until No-
vember 15th when all stubs and un-
Sold tickets must be returned in
order that all sold tickets may be
included in the award for the new
19387 Chevrolet sedan. This and an
other awards will be made at a
Srand wind-up concert and dance on
Wednesday, November 18th at 339
West Pender Street.

OFF WITH A BANG!

Two salesmen have already sold
and turned in over one book of
tickets each, one having sold eleven
and the other thirteen. They report
that tickets are readily sold by can-
vassing factories, mills, trade unions,
residential areas, ete. Other press
drive plans being developed hy yvari-
ous mass organizations and Press
Committees for the month of Oc-
tober include, bazaars, socials, mass
meetings, concerts, plays, dances.

The District Press Committee

have arranged for 4 2rand social
evening at 339 West Pender Street
(upstairs) on the evening of Wed-
nesday, September 30th commenc-
ing at 8 p.m. This social evening
will provide a real enjoyable time
for all who attend, with a concert,
luncheon and dancing, and the
awards of diplomas for the May
Press Drive will be made.

This social evening will officially
open the October Press Drive. Wrom
present indications, based on matur-
ing plans and the expressed deter-
mination of Press Comimittees, mass
organizations and individuals to
over-subseribe their guotas, this con-
cert will find all plans under way,
and will marix the rallying point for
a concentrated drive to bring the
national trophy to B.C.

All hands to the Drive! - . B.c.

will lead the whole of Canada and
win!

TRADES COUNCIL |
PUTS CON JONES
ON UNFAIR LIST

Ten Thousand Custom-
ers Respond to Milk
Drivers’ Petition

Con Jones tobacco stands and
ball park remains on the Trades
and Labor Council’s “We Do Not
Patronize” list, after a motion to
have the problem settled by Local
452 Carpenters and Trades Gouncil
executives was lost.

Football enthusiasts wanted the
park declared fair, and the con-
troversy raged for some time before
the debate was ended.

The council also adopted a reso-
lution “Deeply deplorine the fact
that no musician or labor man has
been appointed to the governing
body of the new radio board.”
Copies of the protest will be sent to
the Canadian Radio Commission
and Premier King.

One delegate thought some of the
personnel of the new board was so
dumb as to believe that an or-
chestra pit was a place to put
bad saxaphone players.

fen thousand persons had _
signed the petition circulated by
the milk drivers for continuation

of the present system of late de-

livery of milk, according to a
Statement of delegpste Showler.

Study Housing Act

The Legislative Committee was
given the task of studying the Do-
minion Housing Act and to bring
in a report to the next meeting.

Colin McDonald promised to look
into the affairs of the Jubilee Com-
mittee, when a delegate brought up
the question of Miss Violet Barlow,
who had been denied a trip to the
Old Country, who had fulfilled her
obligation as Jubilee Queen. The
delegate thought she should be sent
along with the mayor to look after
him.

President MecDonald’s actions
were endorsed in protesting to the
postal authorities for not allowing
some of the employees to have
Labor Day off. General delivery
wickets were open four hours on
that day. J. G. Elliott had replied
that the course was necessary due
to pressure of the public.

Labatt's Brewery products will
remain on the unfair list, despite a
letter from the MWLiquor Control
Board to the effect that 4 shipment
of the goods is on its way here, and
that B-C. hops are used in its manu-
facture.

LOS ANGELES
TO MOSCOW

FLIGHT ENDS

Soviet Flyers Are Rewarded
By Grateful Workers’

Government
MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Sept. 14 (As-

sociated Labor Press Gable).—Pilot S.
Leyanevsky and his navigator, Ley-—
chenko, landed their powerful low-
winged, American-huilt monoplane
at Seholkove Airport here yesterday
after a leisurely flight from Tos
Angeles, California.

The two airmen immediately found
themselves surrounded by an ad-
miring throng, with Premier Molotov
in the van. Thousands of people
lined the Moscow streets as the fly-
ers, the first to make the perilous
flight which lay over the frozen
tundra and treacherous seas of the
north, were driven to the airport.

Levanevysky, wearer of the Soviet's
hishest award and of the Order of
the Red Star, was awarded a further
honor in the Order of the Red Ban-
ner of Labor, and received, by order
of the Soviet sovermmena, a money
award of 25,000 rubles (about
$5,000).

Levchenko was awarded the Order
of Lenin and 15,000 rubles.

Both flyers were fiven letters of
Sreetin= and congratulations from
Joseph Stalin, general secretary of
the Communist Party.

STRUGGLE FOR
BLACKLISTED
MEN GOES ON

Three unemployed — Workers, ar-
rested and charged under ‘Was. A.”
while out soliciting funds, have
been released.

These men, members of the S.U.
PA-, are three of 4 Sroup of fifty
who have either been cut off or
denied relief and are now soliciting
funds from householders, store-
keepers and office workers. Groups
take in the beer parlors during the
Tush hours and take up collections.

$318.24 was collected from August
14 to 31. $316.35 was spent for bed
and meals.

The response has
and the SU.P.A.,

been very good,
from whose hall

the strugele js beine conducted,
thanks all those who have donated.

These men are in different cate-
sories. Some are medically fit and
others are unfit. All asic for work
or relief.

APE

Orgy Of Fascist Beastiality
Spurs Spain’s Popular Front

Forces To Quell

World Toilers
Assist Spain

Funds Pour In From
Every Country in

the World

BARCELONA, Catalonia, Sept. 16
(Special to ADLP).—PFrom under-
Sround sources in Nazi Germany and
the corporate state of Il Duce, from
every country in the world, funds
are pouring in to aid the anti-fascist
forces here and in Madrid.

About $5,000,000 has been sent by
Soviet trade unionists up to the
middle of August. In addition to the
millions of franes from France,
Italian refugees in that country have
sent 20,000 frances.

funds haye come from Roumania,
Holland, Sweden, England, Ireland,
Canada, United States and Mexico.
Telegrams of solidarity have flooded
the presidents of Spain and Cata-
lonia.

Red Cross hospital units, fully
equipped with funds raised by trade

Tune In On Spain
And Get The News

MADRID, Sept. 15 (ALP).—
Daily news broadcasts with facts

- Straight from the theatres of war

are conducted daily from both
Barcelona and Madrid.

Daily reports in English, Ger-
man, French and Russian are
broadcast from this city under
the auspices of the powerful
Spanish Trade Union Federation.
The broadcasts come on at 9:30,
9:45 and 10 p.m. Other broadcasts
come on at 7:15 and 7:30 a.m.
Pacific Standard time.

The Anti-Fascist Militias of
Barcelona are using an exception-
ally powerful short wave length
of 42 metres, Broadcasts from
Barcelona are in English, Span-
ish, German, French and Italian
and come on at 7:30 a.m. daily
Pacific Standard time.

unionists are already in the field:
others are soon to be ready for their
work in caring for the wounded.

Eleven nation-wide subscriptions
have been taken in Belgium, and
the twelfth, incompleted as yet, has
yielded 316,000 franes.

National Labor Council In
Toronto Scene Of Fracas

Affair Seething for Some
Time Finally Comes

to Head

TORONTO, Ont.. Sept. 16 (ALP) —-
Charges and counter-charezes flew
bael: and forth at last night’s meet-
ing of the Toronto National Labor
Council, finally leadine to the with-
drawal from the room of the build-
ing workers’ delegates.

Mrs: I. Patton, organizer of hotel
and restaurant workers into a na-
tional union which American Fed-
eration of Labor leaders charge is
nothing more than a “sceab-herdinge
outfit,” was unceremoniously turned
from the door when both factions
in the squabble that later developed
refused to seat her delezates.

“Well be back,” she shot at the
meeting.

Scabbing Not Condoned

Afairs among the national unions
in Toronto haye been seething for
some time, with the activities of
Mrs. Patton in “organizing”? 2
restaurant, Bassell’s, where a strike
of an A. EF. of L. union is in pros-
ress, bringing the whole matter to a
bitter head. When employees of the
restaurant picketed the shop, claim-
ing low wages and bad conditions,
Mrs. Paton supplied cabs, gave
them cards in a national union, put
a card in the window lauding the
pay, the conditions and the pro-
prietor, and enabled the latter to set
injunctions against the picketers_

When the wave of protest amone
unions in Toronto became too hot
for the National Labor Council to
Stand, she was ordered to remove
the card. Such national unions as
the Canadian Brotherhood of Rail-
way Employees backed up the pro-
tests against the Patton action.

Twice durine= last night's meetings:
the secretary threatened to resign
and finally withdrew with Amalga-
mated Building Workers of Canada
delegates when the fire became hot
from the C. B. of R. BE. men.

Oldest Labor Prisoners’
Freedom Petitioned For

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—(ALP)—
A petition for pardon for James B.
McNamara and Matthew A. Schmidt,
imprisoned for life in California on
murder charges in connection with
the Los Angeles Times explosion of
1910, signed by prominent citizens,
has been sent to Governor F. J.
Merriam, it was announced today
by Mrs. EBlinore M. Herrick.

Mrs. now New
York campaign of the
American Labor Party, formerly
New York regional director of the
National Labor Relations WBoard,
Said the petition was initiated and
circulated by herself, Clarence Dar-
row, famous Chicago labor layyer,
and the late Lincoln Steffens. Mr.
Darrow was counsel for McNamara
at his trial in Los Angeles 25 years
ago, Mr_ Steffens was also involved

who is
director

Herrick,

in the defense at that time.
Amone the signatures, which in-
elude trade union leaders, Writers,

officials and members of the U.S.
Senate and House of Representa-
tives, is that of Warden Lawes of
Sing Sing Prison.

VETS’ BATTALION
ASKS ACCOUNTING

Considerable discontent prevails
amongst the members of the ist
Veterans Battalion, over the treat-
ment meted out to them by the
Jubilee Committee. They fail to see
the basis for Mayor McGeer’s
statement over the radio that all
accounts have been met and that
the jubilee was a success. With
something like nine lawsuits pend-
ing, the disgrace of the Violet Bar-
low affair, and the treatment of
the ist Veterans Battalion, the in-
ference that all’s well, in the words
of one of the yeterans, draws the
query, “For whom?’’

After drilling for a month prior
to the opening of the Jubilee, and
then performing every Saturday.
night before capacity crowds during
the entire Jubilee, the men from
the ist Veterans Battalion received
the princely sum’ of $5.00; and this
amount was paid only after threat_
ened action on the part of the vets.
Finally, during the last week of
the Jubilee the vets refused to be
strung any further, and called a
“strike.”

According to members, the issue
is far from settled. What is in
the mind of the men can be
fathered from the fact that an in-
dependent audit has been ordered
by the rank and file. and a full
accounting will be demanded.

PORT ARTHUR, Ont., Sept. 9.—
(ALP)—The Thunder Bay Co-opera-
tive Dairy Company have recognized
the newly organized Milk Delivery
Men’s Union and now Wages, work-
ing hours and conditions are being
negotiated.

K

Reaction

rerroriow, Matched By
Heroism of Workers’
Battalions

By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
Federated & Associated Labor Press

ON THE SARAGOSSA FRONT
IN SPAIN.—(By air from Barcelona
to Paris)—As the life and death
Struggle between freedom and fasc-
ism in this world enters 4 phase
more bitter than any vet known, it
finds the people of Spain creating
ene of the most heroic epics in
human history.

The atrocities of the reactionaries, .
surpassing in gruesomeness any-"
thing yet known in the middle ages,
do not deter them. ~

Breach Is Filled

But the working class organiza-—
tions, without a Single exception,
placed themselves at the disposat
of the government. Inexperienced

almost barehanded, against the
perfectly-trained legions of the
regular army. There were no arms
to speak of. Communications had
broken down. Food was growing
Scarce. Yet the discipline and ab-
negation that will be remembered
in years to come, the workers step—
ped into the breach and hurled bacix
one offensive after another. :
Every hour that -was gained
meant improvement of the govern—
ment’s situation. While workers’

dreds of thousands of others threw
themselves into the organization of
the war industry.

What was a chaotic mob six weeks
ago is now a perfectly disciplined.
army. Equipment is pouring out
In a steady stream from the fac-
tories and in a few weeks will be-
Sin to offset the initial advantage
which the rebels had in their su-
perior armament.

Will Use Gas

if the non-interyention agree-
ment between the powers of Europe
is really kept, the Spanish Republic
will triumph over the insurrection
in spite of the 400 bombing planes
delivered by Hitler and Mussolini.
It is clear that the battle has not
been won at the present moment,
Franco and Mola will not lay down
arms until they have made their
long-promised supreme effort to
reach the capital. If they cannot
manage it by slow regular move-
ment, it is almost certain they will
utilize the 20,000 cylinders of poison

¢Continued on page 2)

LOW HARVEST
FOR FARMERS

OTTAWA, Ont., Sept. 11.—(ALP)
—After a bitter fight with rising:
costs, lowering grain prices, and
then a severe drought, the farmers
learn from the government today
that the Dominion yield this year is
lower than -any crop for the last
twenty-nine years. Widespread want
among farmers who cannot meet
mortsage Payments and 32 scarcity
of wheat this year will substantially
enrich the wheat barons at the ex=
pense of the common people.

The farmers can be forced to sell
at a ridiculous price while “because
of the scarcity’ bread will cost the
working man more than ever.

The wheat yield of the prairie
Provinees this year was 216,000,000
bushels.

Ban On Unfair B.C. Logs
Agitates U.S. Millowners

Vancouver Union Dock-
ers Support Loggers’
Boat Fund Drive

Reverberations from the recent
B.C. loggers’ strike are still being
heard around the logging and mill
centres down the coast, according
to a Washington mill worker who
has been visiting in Vancouver this
week.

According to this man there are
still quite a few million feet of logs
from the E.R.T. camp tied up in
Washington waters, the organized
mill men there refusing to cut the
logs until the company recognizes
the loggers’ union in B.C.

it appears that the sSuperintend-
ent of the North West Fir and
Cedar Co. mills, who consume the
E.R.T. logs, is a rank anti-unionist,
and it is he who is mainly respon-
Sible for the non-union status of
the company’s camps in B.C. Rum-
blings from the last meeting of the
board of directors are to the effect
that the directors are tired of hav-
ing the union ban erippling their
industry, and unless the superin-
tendent, Cobb, alters his attitude,
it will be necessary to remove him.

The loggers’ union reports that
three of the operators on Vancouver

Island have signed up with the
union, and as we go to press it is
understood that an agreement is
being signed with Morgan's Camp,
Queen Charlotte Islands. The un=
ion reports a substantial increase
in membership during the last two
months, and as demonstrated by the
tesponse of the loggers to the ap—
peal for funds for the purpose of
buying a boat for organizatinal
Purposes, the union spirit is high~-

The boat is at present in the
Queen Charlotte Islands, where the
crew report they have been treated
regally.

- Thanks, Dockers!

One little incident of the Queen
Charlotte tour is getting loud ac-
claim around the loggers’ hall this
week. About a month ago 29 black
listed Vancouver longshoremen em-
ployed to load a cargo of logs at
Morgan’s Camp, Queen Charlotte
Islands. As soon as they received
their first pay, every man sent down
a full month's dues to the union,
the V.&D.W.W.A. and the bunch
donated $20 to the loggers for the
boat fund. In view of the fact that
it is the first money any of these
men haye earned since the lock-out
of June 4th, 1935, the loggers feel
that the support given the long-
shoremen during their strike was
not in vain.

workers’ militias throw themselves, -

battalions held the foe at bay, hun—

aS ins.

seers