iS Chea Sea SASS) moe Ae ened ph tore o. uee ch orn Shy SS Gy palate e Page Four B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS October 2, 1936 B.C Workers News Published Weekly by THE PROLETARIAN PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION Room 10, 163 West Hastings Street - Vancouver, B.C. — Subscription Rates — One® Year === = $1580 Half Year _______-__ $1.00 Three Months 50 Single Copy ee 03 Make All Checks Payable to the B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Send All Copy and Manuscript to the Chairman of the Edoitorial Board. Send All Monies and Letters Pertarning to Advectising and Circulation to the Bustness Manager. Vancouver, B.C., Friday, October 2, 1936 Violence at the Bakery Strike HE strike of the Robertson’s Bakery workers is a justifiable strike. It is the strike of workers in a bitterly-exploited industry, for union wages, hours and conditions of work; for the right of collective bargaining. Called by the Bakery Salesmen’s Union, the strike has been orderly and peacetul throughout. The workers have picketted their jobs peacefully, which is their right by law. Prior to the strike every effort ment was made by the union officials. The strike has the endorsa- tion _of the entire Jabor movement of Vancouver and district. To strike and picket is the workers’ only recourse when all other efforts are ignored by the employers. Yet the Vancouver public were exhorted to violence against the strikers as recently as September 26th, through the medimn. of Vancouver's daily papers, both morning and evening, in the publishing of a radio speech made by the fascist McInnes, mouth- piece of the Citizens’ League, Tndustrial Council, Incorporated, and other odorous conglomerations of “‘publie spirited” (7?) employers. Under the caption, “Exposure of the Labor Gangster,” the public were treated to an alarming “conspiracy” ot trade union- ism, directed from the United States, operating for the destruction of industries in British Columba. Tt was obvious that the Vancouver papers, printing this fascist tirade against the trade unions, knew they must use tongs when handling fascist filth. Im the explanation of the “why and wherefore” of the fascist harangue, the press tendered the public an apolosy for its appearance in a polite foreword, much as Pilate did in washing his hands as a symbol of his mnocence in giving Christ to his executioners. Posterity has not accepted Pilate’s gesture, and it can hardly be expected that the trade ynions will accept a similar one from a venal press. The article is more than a frothy denunciation of labor ac- tivities. It is a deliberate incitement to violence against Brother Bert Showler, secretary of the Bakery Salesmen’s Union, and against the workers engaged in peaceful picketting of their jobs. We may disagree with Brother Showler on many points of policy in the realm of labor struggles, but in this struggle, in his efforts to win union conditions for the bakery workers, we are with him one hundred per cent. The fascist tirade against the loggers, longshoremen, bakery workers, and Bert Showler, concocted in the diseased mind of an alcoholic racketeer, is not new to the Vancouver public. The extortion of protection money from timid business men, driven to the point of alarm by lurid pictures of legions of trade unionists marching over their unprotected bodies, is bad enough, but when it carries with it the urge to personal violence, it passes the demarcation line of absurdity, and becomes menacins. When it urges the public to bodily smash through a peaceful picket line, it is then time, in the interests of civil peace, for the authorities to take a hand against the publishers and their fascist scribes, who would wilfully and deliberately destroy the peace they so pretentiously and so noisily uphold. The trade unionists are asking the authorities of B.C. for action, for some assurance that union organizers and union men ean pursue their lesitimate rights without molestation inspired by fascist maniacs or a subsidized press. Bie Such a request no government can ignore and hold its right to govern. ; Build a New Granville Bridge! | CONCENTRATION point for traffic accidents in the City of Vancouver is the old, obsolete Granville Street Bridge. A week ago, George Mawson, of Seattle, a stranger to this city, used to driving his car over thoroughfares from which death traps have been removed, piled into one of the many obseured stan- chions of the Granville Street bridge and was lulled instantly. This year so far, seven people have been killed or injured in the game manner on the same bridge. It is only luck, and because mainly the same people daily drive over this bridge and know its hidden dangers that the toll has not been much higher. - The Granville Street bridge is obsolete. Tt was built to ac eommodate only a fraction of the tratiie which goes over 1t daily. Poor lighting, and inadequate clearance makes it dangerous to even a fraction of its present requirements. The cost of construction cannot be allowed to stand in the way of replacement of this death-trap. The life of George Maw- son, the life of any one of those who have gone the same way, or of one of the many who will meet the same fate if the death-trap is allowed to remain, is worth more than the cost of an adequate ridge. ? ‘The authorities are concerned over the probable influx of 15,000 unemployed into this city this winter. The advance quota of these hungry men are selling flowers on the streets and facing jail sentences in their desperate efforts to stave off starvation. ‘All the municipal, provincial and Dominion governments have so far offered these men is jail. The Federal and Provincial governments have promised to embark on a work program to provide the unemployed with work ; proper wages. = oohe puilding of a new Granville Street bridge would supply many men with work, and at the same time remove a notorious Geath-trap. 2 Clean Out the Council! WN an address to the public Tuesday night over a Seattle radio station Mayor John Dore emphasized the benefits of trade mnionism to a community in the following words: “Ninety-five per cent of Seattle's main industries are 100 per cent organized.” He commended the organized workers of Seattle for their dis- eipline. Though longshoremen, seamen, loggers towards an amicable agree and a host of industrial workers had taken part on the picket line of the Rel. strikers, there had been no damage to property, “not even a chalk mark.” He commended the maritime workers for making Seattle a union town, and said it was going to remain that way. “Further,” he said, “the days of using police to break strikes are past.” What a difference exists between the union town of Seattle and the non-union city we live im, where the mayor and city council condoned strikebreaking on the Vancouver waterfront last summer; where unemployed single men are forced to sell flowers on the streets to gain food and shelter; where we have hundreds of families in similar distress to the Puyda family, who are awaiting sentence for trying to provide for their small chil- See js work to be done in Vancouver; work for the trade union movement, the C.C.#., the Communist Party and the citizens, to rid ourselves of the present incumbents of the city eouncil who are only “yes men” to a political swash-buckler who has time and money to go ealavantinge where he desires while The World This Week By F. B. By an overwhelming vote the League of Nations Assembly meet- ing at Geneva adopted a resolution to seat EXthiopia’s delegates. A num- ber of small nations, led by the So- viet delezate, Maxim Litvinoff, sup- ported the Ethiopian demands fer recognition. as did Anthony Eden, Britain’s representative. The Italian delegates withdrew and said they would stay withdrawn as long as the League recognized the Ethiopian delegates, which practically consti- tutes Italian withdrawal from the League altogether. In a rousing speech on the war danger and the mounting armament race, Mr. Eden said that the stan- dard of living was being sacrificed to the standard of armaments, and added that civilization must end war or war would end civilization. Tlese remarks are uite true, they are very fine words, but Mr- den did not mention that even then his own government Was Wasing a2 War against the Arabs in Palestine, who are fichting for independence from British Imperialism, and that the British were figchting in much the same way as Mussolini did against the Ethiopians, namely, shooting the Arabs down from airplanes. “54 Die; 41 Mowed Down From Air,” says a headline, Haen’s support of the Hthiopian delegates in the League was not so much sympathy with the plight of @ conquered people as it was to weaken Britain’s Mediterranean Yival, Mussolini. This rivalry keeps continually cropping up, and the two ereat powers use the national strug- eles of the weak nations like figures on a chessboard. = ae x * eon Jouhaux, official of the General WPederation of Labor in France, charges that the WFascists are planning an uprising to over- throw the People’s Front Govyern- ment in October or November. Al- though some time ago Premier Blum ordered organizations like the Cross 6f Fire to dissolve, the Fascist or- ganizations kept their membership intact and reorganized under other names and are still carrying on. There is no doubt whatever that a Fascist uprising in France is on the agenda of all European Fascists, but they first hope to destroy the People’s Front Government in Spain and establish Fascism there. Al- ready the French Fascists have been using Spanish Morocco as a base from which to organize in French Morocco, hoping to use Moorish troops from there as was done in Spain. But the French Government evidently aware of these plans has closed the border to trade between the two colonies. * = * * Glaiming that a Japanese citizen was killed by Chinese in Shanghai, Japanese marines and troops haye been landed there and-have occu- pied Chapei, Chinese district of the city. Ghapei was demolished four years ago by the Japanese, follow- ing a similar incident. At that time the 19th Route Army surprised the world with the wonderful resistance they. made to the much-advertised troops of Imperial Japan, and they were forced to retire only because Chiane-Ixai-Shek refused to send them any reinforcements. Japanese authorities threaten far more ser- ious measures this time. and eight warships loaded with marines are reported as Speeding to Shanghai, Japan uses the excuse that she must protect her nationals, a very flimsy one at the best, but excuses for imperialist conquest have al- ways been very easily manufac- tured, and peculiarly enough these ‘Sncidents”’ always arise exactly on time to suit the aggressive plans of the imperial power. If a Japanese citizen or two had been lxilled in Chinese territory the killers should be tried and sentenced in the Chinese courts, as would be the case if a Japanese citizen had been killed in any other country. Japanese troops have killed thou- sands of Chinese people, driven them out of their homes and seized their land and property; they haye been doing this for the past half dozen years and never yet have they failed to create a pretext for so acting, Japanese plans appear to be on a much larger scale than they were in the same district four years ago, and every step taken in South China is treading on the toes of Johnny Bull and Uncle Sam. What will these two say if Japan should de- cide to remain in permanent miili- tary contro! of the Shanghai area? MEETINGS ON HIGH COST OF LIVING A city-wide movement against the high cost of living is being de- veloped, the initial women’s confer- ence on this issue being held last Wednesday in South Vancouver. Qn Wednesday, October 7th, at 2 p-m., a tea conference will be ad- dressed by Miss Gutteridge of the C.C.F., Mrs. B. Ewen of the Com- munist Party, and Mrs. Kinloch, Grandview. This meeting will be held at the Swedish Community Hall, 1320 Bast Hastings Street. A conference on a city-wide scale is being called by the Workers’ Al- liance for 10 a.m. October 15th, at the O’Brien Hall, Homer and Hast- ings Street, which will unite all ele- ments on this issue. Strong demands are to be made on the government against manipu- jations of the Marketing Act, the milling corporations and trusts re- sponsible for the present situation. All forms of activity will be de veloped on province-wide and local the city fathers are left to argue about the height of cafe booths. scale. Moscow showed that it couid welcome its heroes as enthusiastically as New Work when it greeted three flyers who blazed a long-distance trail of 5,600 miles over the frozen Arctic to Nikolayevsk-on-Amur. They were in the air 56 hours and 40 minutes without stopping. Just Like Broadway SAS Political Cheating Does the Republican Party think that it can carry California for Landon as things stand now? NO! Do Republicans have any plans m the offms, which if car- ried out, might give them Cali- formia? YES! Does the waterfront trouble brewing in San Francisco and coming to a head September 30 have political significance and a relationship to Republican plans? YES! Is it possible that Jabor strife is being deliberately fermented for political reasons? YES! These are serious questions af- fecting our economic and political futures. The public is not being taken into the confidence of the inner councils of responsible Re- publican Soups, and consequently is not being told the inter-relation- ship of present labor disputes and the November elections. It has a right to know and must be told. A PLOT Intelligent and prominent Re- publicans will admit, confidentially, that there is little chance to carry California, unless the Democratic administration can be embarrassed and belittled in the eyes of a con- fused public. They will admit, con- fidentially. that if the National goy- ernment could be put on the spot concernins California’s labor prob- jem, this would be excellent am- munition with which to bombard the wavering confused middle class .. . the small merehants and farmers . . into voting Republican. They Will admit that a GENERAL STRIKE similar to the San Fran- cisco 1934 waterfront dispute, would put the administration on that de- sired spot. ‘They reason that the Government (Roosevelt) would be forced to show partiality to either the striking workers or the self- righteous employers. Gy confusing the issue, through falsely terming the workers’ leadership “Commu- nist,” Republicans reason that if the administration favors the strik- ers, a strong blast could be levelled at Roosevelt, accusing him of pro- Communism. This _would frighten the timid, wavering, pre-conditioned middle class into the Republican camp. If on the other hand, the Administration fayors the employ- ers (who are already committed to Landon and would not switch), it would lose the large labor vote and a portion of the middle class sympa- thetie to labor. Republicans well re- alize that IN PRACTICE IMMPAR- TIALITY IS IMPOSSIBLE. This is jhe position the Republicans are trying to maneuver Roosevelt into. using as weapons the red herring, as in the State Gubernatorial cam- paign, together with Labor's bread, butter and lives. x A LA HEARST For over a year California’s largest newspapers, the Hearst chain, Los Angeles Times and others, have been preparing the ground- work for the plot. They have mali- ciously linked every bit of labor trouble with Communism and have accused the Administration of being pro-Communist, in a deliberate ef- fort to condition the minds of the public for the final stroke: Labor has been cognizant of this move and has warned the public as best it can through its limited resources. In San Francisco, the large ship- owners, banded together in a single association, are trying to foree the waterfront unions into a position where they will be either compelled to strike in self defense, or see their working conditions and living stand- ards undermined, The agreement arising out of the 1934 strike ter- minates this September 30. Both sides agree, for different reasons, howeyer, that the agreement needs revision before renewal. The ship- owners last month approached the unions with a general proposal that PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF NEGOTIATIONS, BOTH SIDES AGRED THAT ALL DIFFER- ENCES ARISING IN THE NEGO- TIATIONS BE SUBMITTED TO ARBITRATION BEFORE A NEUG- TRAL BODY COMPOSED OF ONE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE EM PLOYERS, ONE OF THE UNIONS, AND ONE APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATDS. Seems fair on the sur- face, but the plot thickens. ARBITRATION Roosevelt is being maneuvered unto the spot. Both the administra- tion and labor are aware of the pit- falls in such a blanket agreement. The unions, due to their sad ex- “ing what subjects would be up for periences at the hands of ereedy shipowners, tricky courts and pro- employer impartial arbitrators, re- fuse to commit themselves to such a blanket agreement, prior to know- negotiations. They wish to submit the question of arbitrating the in- dividual items to a referendum vote of their membership, to assure com- pliance with the settlement reached. They believe in democratic prin- ciples. Unions realize that some pro- posals cannot be arbitrated without destroying their very existence. Can one arbitrate the basic differences between a burglar and his victim? Should the unions agree to such a blanket proposal when basic ques- tions established by national policy. precedent and law, such as the length of working days, the speed- up system, the right to organize, strike and picket, might be forced into arbitration by the shipowners? Realizing these possibilities; the unions hawe justly refused blanket arbitration, and negotiations are virtually deadlocked. 20 MILLION SUBSIDY | In the controversy, shipowners aceuse the waterfront workers of not having the public interest at heart. Seamen argue that it is self evident that the workers who re- ceive a starvation wage of $800.00 per year, and who have neither asked for nor received a Govern- ment subsidy, have the public in- terest at heart more than the ship- owners who receive more than 20 million dollars in Government sub- sidies, upon the pretense that it is necessary to maintain high living standards for their employees. This sum is sufficient to pay the entire pay roll, cost of fuel, feed and main- tainance of their vessels, they argue. The shipowners side has been given wide publicity; the union side either bare mention or ridicule. Thus the non-subsidized unions are painted in the light of public enemies, refusin<= to arbitrate, whereas the government subsidized, self-righteous shipowners (who con- trol the news organs) are shown to be public benefactors, by agreeing to blanket arbitration’ in adyance. Thus is public sympathy swung be- hind employers. The memoranda underlying question of arbitration have been passing between the parties for two months. Tension is increasine and the time is draw- ing near for either a settlement or strike. The public should realize the political consideration that motivate the shipowners (mostly Republicans) regarding this Book Review SEVEN RED SUNDAYS — By Ramon J. Sender, This novet is written in a novel manner. Sometimes the author tells what is happening to his characters, more often he Jets them tell the story. In one chapter the moon de- seribes what its light shows of 4 skirmish between some workers and the police. Tt deals with a general strike situ- ation that developed in Madrid over the killing of three workers by the police. The time is in the early years of the Spanish Republic that fol- lowed the abdication of King Al- fonso. The strike was to have grown into an insurrection that would spread over the whole country. The workers’ movement of the time was dominated by anarcho- syndicalists, and the leading figures are anarchists. However much the reader may admire the heroism and fighting qualities of the anarchists, he cannot close his mind to their romanticism and the futility of their methods. Nor can he overlook the fact that the anarchists had no pro- gram to proceed with should they succeed in overthrowing the goyvern- ment. In the name of ‘Liberty’’ they rejected the idea of forming a workers? government; all forms of government interfered with freedom. Their ideas were utopian, and im- practical. : Anarchism has survived in coun- tries that are backward or feudal. As capitalism deyelops the workers lear that anarchism is an impos- Sible theory, one of no value to them in their struggles, and they turm to socialism of communism: Sender recognizes this fact when one of his figures muses: “‘The coun- try is anarchial, the city commu- nist.’’ In the past hundred years there have been more revolts and insur- rections in Spain than in any other country. Reading this book, beauti- fully written and graphic in-~ its narrative, one can appreciate as mever before the ereat fisht the Spanish people are waging today— they have such a magnificent tradi- tion of struggle. In the present civil war the anarchists have thrown overboard a lot of their former ideas and are supporting the great People’s Front. ; In his own country the author is @ writer of note, having been awarded the National Prize for Literature of 1935. (On sale at the New Age Book- shop—350 West Pender street—at $2.50). TREASURE TROVE ANNUAL— Always Ready Publishing Go., Room ii, 18 Grenville Street, To- ronto. Price 25 cents. To use a hackneyed expression, this book fills a long felt want. It has been compiled for children’s reading, and is a very welcome re- lief to the trashy pulp stories that workers’ children are poisoned with. It consists of a collection of well- chosen stories and articles, none of them being too long and all simply written. Every child can learn to swim by following the instructions in the article on how to learn to swim, and every boy will welcome the one on how to pitch baseballs. The book has a weakness. Be- tween the stories are scientific fill- ers. These unfortunately are often misleading and incorrect, particular ly the one, “Did Men Come From Monkey?’ The writer intimates they did in a sense, but unless some yery recent discoveries have been made on this subject such an idea is un- scientific. Science does not teach that man came from monkeys but that man and the anthropoid apes -probably had a common aucestor. In the filler, ““Water Pipes and Little Fishes,’ it is difficult to fathom the writer's meaning or intention. But as stated these bits are fillers, and constitute a minor defect only in the whole contents, One lons poem, “Silicosis in Our Town” is a gem, particularly in these days when so much trash is being writtten in the way of free verse and called poetry. This poem tells a vital story simply and with in their carefully laid plans. a very attractive rhythm. More Confessions O1 A Radio Stooge (Picked up on Robson street in front of a bootlegging joint). Sunday ... another week ahead of me, and what am I to do? My stomach seems to be going back on me. Can't stand the booze Jike I used to. I think of those days when my Chinese friends would, on my slightest hint, fill me up with all the wine I could hold. Those good old days. But now these gin fizzes are dynamite. I feel very depressed. I’m off the payroll. I’m off the air. Laid off. Just like an ordinary longshoreman on the waterfront. No work, no salary. The bastards have laid me off! Me—the only man in Vancouver with the guts to go on the air and fight Communists, or the @C.G.F. or the working class generally. And now I’m laid oft just like any ordinary working stiff on the waterfront. And the Citizens” League has no money to pay me! This puts me in one hell of a position. If the Communists ever hear of me being laid off, they will certainly rub it in. After I have earned the hatred and contempt of every worker in British Columbia (no small achievement in itself), at- ter fighting with my brains for the lousy Shipping Federation, here I find myself “laid off.” The Citizens’ League is broke? They say they have no money, but they “‘think”’ theyll have some more soon. They “‘think”’ Who fhe hell ever told them they could think? But I know that somebody has been collectine it! Pinky can blah-blah all he likes but I know somebody is ‘I:nockine”’ it down. He says he'll have me back in a couple of weeks, but it looks like a Stall. If they're broke, then I’m through! Perhaps I will have something sweet to sell then! Sell? nothing! So Pinky calls me a Menshevik! The little pink-faced bastard! What does he know about Mensheyiks or Bolsheviks, or Communists? All he can think about is the Jews and all that Nazi hokum that somebody has been feeding him with. He ought to know that that Jew stuff won’t go down in Wancouver, and will only irritate the B.I.’s and their allies. I’m convinced Pinky is just a poor, ignorant stiff. T must look up this bird Buchman. I think that Oxford stuff would be more in my line. I wouldn’t have to Hell, ’'a give it away for meet and do business with these erude Shipping Federation mag- nates, none of whom never read more than one book a year, and then only such tripe as Mrs. Dilling’s. Buchman and I could get along. He knows the ropes and can shake the bastards down heavily. This would be better than tying up with the Germans and their little Haag. Another thought. Perhaps this in San Francisco. Well, Pinky, if it does, and if ’?m to be off the air for good, perhaps TU sell out to the . Pll think it over. Meanwhile I’m off the air. But Um saying nothing. could say plenty. Do they think Pm going to Starve, eration? That bastard Pinky! Drive. carry on anti-wworking class and anti-progressive more necessary the maintenance of our press, of papers like the “B- Workers’ News” and the “Clarion, Tf all the readers who say they lik reading this column would send ; dollar, we could raise the objectiy of the drive ourselves; cannot, because most of them are” like myself—they don’t Haye thi dollar. So to the others, read la week’s offer and send your dona tions to Ol’ Bill. longshore labor war is coming off And [I just like an or- dinary longshoreman, aiter haying sold my soul to the Shipping Fed- By OL’ BILL The launching of the Industrial Gouncil I: corporated with an in itial fund of $50,000, te Press activities makes but they A Traitorous in this column Record. gave you an ow line of the politi eal background of one-half of the ~ Wationalist Party of Canada, B: Section, Tom McInnes. Today am going to tell you some of the history of the other 50 per cent. Until a few days ago I thought the riotmonger, McInnes was thi whole works, but I learned last week that there are two of them; © the other one is McInnes’ body- guard, Bob Gosden, an individual with the most unsavory reputation that ever blackened the labor moye— ment of this province. McInnes, it appears, is afraid his © slanders on the air will bring him what he justly deserves, a beating- up, and the function of the other half of the Nationalist Party is ’ see that no one administers that well-earned reward. Gosden’s sem vices are undoubtedly hired as Me- Innes himesif is a hireling of the Shipping Federation and the lum- ber barons. T have known Gosden personally since about 1910 when he was prominent member of the I.W.W, —one of the most anarchistie 9; that conglomerate of religious en: thusiasts and political confusion— ists. > = * Jailed in 1911 for takin part in a strike of road: graders in Prince Rw ert, he earned a certa amount of prestige in the worki class movement in town that he” was not long in capitalizing for his own benefit. He came to be looked upon by the Wobblies as one of their leaders. : We was one of their representa- — tives on the Miners’ Liberation League in 1918. At a historic meet- ing of that League, held in the old Horse Show Building, early in De- cember of that year he made @ | speech that played right into the _ hands of the mine-owners and en= — couraged “the rapacious hell-hounds that growl in the kennels of justice” to soak the miners of Nanaimo, ~ Ladysmith and Cumberland. 4 His words on that occasion were ~ to the effect that his organization would use all possible peaceful moeans to secure the release of the imprisoned miners till the end of the years—after that, Premier Mc Bride and the members of his g0¥- ernment had better not go out hunt ing or they might get shot and they ~ | had better get some workingman to ~ taste their coffee before drinking it, — and that a million dollars worth of — property would be destroyed per” week. Because the League did not adopt this policy he resigned his of- ~ fice of president. % * Bob Gosden. i 2 : C * * } His next try forfame was in the “plug-= scandal in A Good | ce te ging” | EME eer 1916. M. A. MacDon- | ald, Liberal attorney-general in the Brewster cabinet, had been elec! in a bye-election and it developee that “pluggers’” had been prougat to Vancouver in boatloads from S& attle to vote for MacDonald, who 4 was referred to locally as ‘the mem~ 3 “4 ber from Seattle.’ Gosden was his — first lieutenant. In his own story | Gosden claimed that MacDonald © paid him the money, several thou- ~ sand dollars, on the street in Vic- toria. The thing stunk so badly that” Brewster had to get another attor ney-general. os] The next act showed Gosden as a window-cleaner or janitor in the © Parliament Buildings in Victoria, & — job given him by Sir Richard Me Bride, probably on the Gompers plan of “rewarding your friends.” He disappeared from the scene till the Western Conference met im Calgary in 1919. On a question of — privilege, one of the Alberta miners’ — delegates rose to inform the Confer= ence that ‘there is a man here masquerading under the name of Smith; at Hillcrest he was know# as Brown; his real name is Gosden. He was known at one time in Cal- gary, then in Edmonton, and later in Vancouver where he became fam= ous in the ‘plugging’ scandal . 4» = * * Now in 1936 he is Riff-Raff. bodyzuard to the fascist radio-orator — (or is it ex-radio-orator?). Such are the known members of the Na-~ tionalist Party, riff-raff ready 10 ~ prostitute their manhood for the — measly dish of pottage the lords of © society hand out to them for doing — their dirty, scabby, strike-breaking — work. Es Judas got 30 pieces of silver. Whatever McInnes gets, Gosden certainly does not get more than 30° pieces of copper. If a gang of thugs were as well organized as, and meant business like, the Shipping Federation hoodlums who beat up Ivan Emery, Gosden would be “2 proken reed” As a bully; he would And now for a cup of coffee. not even earn 30 cents.