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B.C. Workers NE

Mal

Hunger and poyerty must not be-
allowed to continue stalking the
lives of our citizens. . .

. Make
the rich pay.

FULL NO. 91

Published Weekly

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1936

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VOL. II., No. 39

JOBLESS DEMONSTRATE AT POLICE COUR

Labor Seeks Investigation
Of Industrial Council Inc.

Trades Connell Asks Ot-
tawa For Royal
Commission

Charges by P. R. Bengough, sec-
retary of the Trades and Tabor
Council that the Vancouver Pubiic
Forum, Citizens’ Leasue and the
Industrial Council Incorporated are
subversive and illefal organizations
and should be looked into, moti-
wated the delesates to the Trades
and Labor Council, DPuesday night,
to unanimously coneur in a motion
requesting the government at Ot-
tawa to appoint a Royal Commission
to investigate them.

Mr. Bensough charged that union
officials connected with the strike
of union bakery salesmen at Rob-
ertson’s Bakery had been the objecv
of libelous statements made in a
radio broadcast by Tom McInnes.

Loeal dailies had accepted the
broadcast and published it as ad-
vertising copy at the regular rates,
The Vancouver Sun had changed
the wording in some of his copy in
reply to the charges made by Mc-
Innes, stated Mr. Bengough.

The Trades Council executive had

received legal advice on the libel--

ous Statements and radio station
CJOR had been notified.

“Qf the three organizations the
industrial Council Incorporated is
the most dangerous,” said Mr.
Bengoush. “It it a racket which
thrives on creating industrial strife,
and as such it should be inyesti-
gated.”

Mr. Benzough chargéd that these
organizations are composed of un-
employed militarists whose business
it was to stir up trouble to justify
their existence. !

“In a circular letter sent out
they are appealing for $50,000 I am
informed that aleary the Shipping
Federation and the Loggers’ As-
Sociation haye contributed $25:000,”
said Mr. Bengough.

Hall Wrecked
‘By Hoodlums

Police Arrive Too Late
to Make Any
Arrests ?

MONTREAL, Oct. 5—{ALP)—In
@ swift raid, occupying in all but a
few mimutes, 200 men, variously
described as fascists, hoodlums and
students, wrecked a hall here often
used for labor meetings.

The police arrived too late to
make even one arrest. The raiders
had scattered when radio and squad
Cars careened to a halt before 1408
Montealim street, scene of the or-
ganized vandalism.

Smashing their way into the hall,
Which was deserted at the time, the
mob wrecked doors, windows and
fixtures on the second and third
floors of the building. Chairs and
benches were hurled to the street
below, and by the time the job was
finished the street was filled with a
mass of debris.

The raid took place shortly after
noon. At 12:53 the police depart-
ment, unable to clear the wreckage,
called on the fire department for
aid. Doors were boarded up and
tarpaulins spread over the smashed
Windows. About 50 police officers,
with the help of the fire department
Salvage Corps, went to work on the
mass of broken elass, smashed
chairs, lumber, window sashes and
doors strewn about the street.

Police “have no idea who coula
have done it,” but suspect the raid,
Which was apparently well planned

and organized, was the work of
some “anti-Communist organiza-
tion” bent on intimidating hall
owners,

The hall, the police explained, is

often used for Communist and other
labor meetings.

GENEVA, Oct, 2. —(ALP) — Pre-
mier King of Canada was named to
represent his country on the new
disarmament board set up by the
Teague of Nations, after his speech
on peace at the League opening.

ord Robert Cecil and other dele-
fates from the World Peace Con-
Sress at Brussels were invited tou
‘Speak to the League assembly this
evening.

WIDE SUPPORT
FOR STRIKERS

Shipping Federation Dictates
On Dock, Council
Hears

Financial support from the Trades
and Labor Council to the Spanish
fovernment was endorsed, but
evoked a reply from President Mce-
Donald that the council had not
the funds to spare at present,

The motion was made by Dele-
gate Page to “send the Spanish
workers some money to shoot with.’

Two other appeals for funds by
union strikers, the Flint Glass
Workers in Hamilton and the Amer-
ican Newspaper Guild on behalf of
their members on strike at Hearst's
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, were
filed. ¢

Birt Showler reported that Adam
Bell. the Bakery salesmen and the
management of Robertson’s Bakery
had held three meetings last week
to arrive at a settlement of the
strike.

The bakery officials wanted the
salesmen to return to work for a
period of thirty days in order to
replenish their finances and at the
end of that time would reconsider
the whole situation.

The men refused the offer, Kknow-
ing the promises made in the past
and never fulfilled. Wonderful co-
operation has been received from the
public and from several firms, and
the men are quite confident of vic-
tory, Delegate Showler reported.

Delegate Hillier from the Interna-
tional Longshoremen’s Association
reported that his organization, quite
unexpectedly, had been notified by
the Kingsley Navigation Co. that
they will refuse to hire members of
that organization.

The delegate stated that this
company, although not members of
it, are being dictated to by the Ship-
Ping Federation, who are prepared
to stamp out unionism on the docks
at any cost. Thirty men had been
lined up to unload a ship when the
organization had been notified that
they were no longer required.

Reporting of unions on the assess-
ment for the radio fund, the street
railway delegates stated that they
had $700 on hand waiting until the
unions had raised and turned
theirs in.

BRITISH MEDICAL
UNIT IN SPAIN

Attends to Wounded On

the Saragossa

Front

BARCELONA, Catalonia, Oct. 4.—
(ALP)—wWithin 48 hours after it had
arrived in Spain, the first British
ambulance unit was at work tending
to the wounded on the Saragossa
front.

One other ambulance unit is now
en route to Spain overland from
England and a campaign is now in
progress in that country to raise
funds for a third.

At least a dozen ambulance units,
bought and equipped by popular sub-
seription, are now in the field with
the government forces on various
fronts. They come from France,
Scandinavia, Great Britain and
other countries.

The first Gritish unit is manned
by 26 people, nurses, doctors, tech-
nicians and drivers, all of whom
were recruited in the British Isles.

The supplies most urgently need-
ed by the loyalist defenders of the
Spanish republic are:

Two million units of insulin; 12
blood transfusion apparatus; two
thousand ampules of diptheria anti-
toxin; two thousand ampules of
tetanus antitoxin; two thousand
ampules of anti-gangrene serum;
twenty sterilizers; twenty water
purifiers, and kits of surgical in-

struments.

Domestic Workers To Form

AF of L Affiliated Union

, Organization of the domestic
Workers into,a trade union affiliated
te the Trades:.and, Laber: Council;
yagi be: the objective of a~-meeting to
be held in the, Labor Headquarters,
529 Beatty ‘Sireet, on. ee
' October is Rapin

The Domestic Workers’ Ae ooa®
tion, a-ciub for domestics, whose re-
cent activities have been mainly of
@ social character, now feel that
they should have a trade union of
their own, in order to improve their

Workine conditions, secure shorter
hours, and have this class of female

(anor placed under the jurisdiction
‘of the Minimum Wage Act.

The domestic” workers who are
‘sponsoring the” meeting ‘have se-!
cured’ the co= operation | of Percy
Bengeough, general secretary of the
Trades and Labor Council, and he
will address the meeting stressing
the necessity for a trade union
movement.

All women and girls engaged in
housework, either full or part time,
nursemaids, cooks and general ser-
vants are eligible for membership
and are cordially invited to attend
and join the union.

tario’s: gift’ to the Spanish’

Spanish Chiefs Visit Front

2S:

Dressed in denim like their loyalist militia, Premier Largo Gaballero
(third from left) and Foreign Minister Alvarez Del Vayo (wearing
glasses) on a tour of inspection in the Guadarrame2s north of Madrid.
At Geneva, a little later, del Vayo protested to the League of Nations
against munition shipments by Italy and Germany to the rebels, while
the Republic is virtually blockaded by the so-called neutrality pact.

Workers Gales Three
Million Dollars for
Loyalists

(By Associated Labor Press Radio)

ODESSA, Oct. 5.—Riding low with
3,100 tons of food in her hold, the
Soviet ship “Ziryanin”™ sailed from
this port for Spain today carrying
aid to the women and children of
the anti-fascist Spanish forces.

The “Ziryanin’” is the third ship
to sail within as many weeks and
the the campaign initiated by So-
viet women workers for funds to
aid Spain is still going full blast.
The other two ships were the
“Neva,” carrying 2,000 tons of food,
and the “Kuban,” with 2,500 tons
on board—a total for the three ves-
sels of 7,600 tons.

Included in the “‘Ziryanin’s” careo
are 2,180 tons of wheat, 640 tons of
sugar, 375,000 tins of meat and 125,-
000 tins of milk, coffee and cocoa.

MOSCOW, Oct. 2.—({ALP)—Soviet
workers to date have given almost
$3,000,000 to buy food and medical
Supplies for the wives, mothers,
sisters and children of the Republi-
can fighters in Spain. The exact
figure is 14,061,162 rubles according
to announcement of the Central
Council of the Soviet Trade Unions
today.

Since the last announcement sey-
eral days ago no less than 6,964,040
rubles have been turned in to the
eentral fund administered by the
trade unions, The money has large-
ly been raised on the initiative of
the workine and professional women
of the US.S.R. and is being ex-
pended by the trades unions at the
direction of women’s organizations.

Toronto Labor

Aids Loyalists

Over $2,000 Handed To

Schevenels I.F.T.U.
Head

TORONTO, Gct. 2.—Fascist dicta-
tors have been out-bluffing the
democratic countries so often and so
successfuly that they will bluff the
world right into a new interna
tional conflict, worse by far than
the universal holocaust of 1914-18.
This was the warning voiced by
Walter Schevenels, general secre-
tary of the International Federation
of Trade Unions, at three meetings
in Canada, at Toronto, Windsor and
Hamilton.

More than $500 was raised at the
three meetings for Spain, exclusive
of several hundred dollars more in
pledges.

Mr. Schevenels left Toronto this
afternoon with one check for $1000
and another for $900 in his
case—second installment on On-
anti-
fascist: fighters.

The two checks were presented at
a luncheon at noon to the trade
union Jeader tendered by the Com-
mittee to Aid Spanish Democracy.

The Rey. Ben H. Spence, provi-
Sional chairman of the committee,
presented the larger check. He was
followed by Norman Freed, Ontario
Secretary of the Communist Party,
who tendered the $800.

brief |

THIRD SOVIET FOODSHIP LEAVES
ODESSA FOR SPANISH FIGHTERS

| Leper Patients
Strike Victors

OKAYAMA, Japan, Oct. 4—Fol-
lowing a militant strike lasting ten
days, eight hundred patients of the
Wagashima Leper Colony won a
promise of the establishment of
self-government and enlargement
of the sanatorium by the Home Min-
istry at a cost-of 300,000 yen.

The course of the strike was
marked by clashes with the police
and stoning of one building in the
colony. Fear on the part of the
authorities that the strike might
spread to other colonies throughout
the country led to settlement of the
dispute.

CCF NOMINATES
FULL SLATE FOR
CIVIC ELECTION

Mayoral Candidate Left
to Regional Committee
to Decide

Decision to contest all civie of-
fices made vacant this year upon
expiration of the present incum-
bents tenure of office was made at
the C.C.F. nominating convention
held last Sunday in the Maple Hall.

Co-operation was the keynote of
the 152 accredited delegates present
from 33 clubs, and the healthy dis-
cussion which was indulged in on
the proposed candidates and the
platform lasted over five hours.

While the nominee for the office
of Mayor was not decided on at the
convention, the decision to find a
suitable candidate was left in the
hands of the C.C.—. Regional Com-
mittee, subject to the approval of
clubs in the city.

The platform as adopted shows
that the C.C.F. have taken a step
towards a more democratic stand in
civic affairs, than any other candi-
dates who have contested these of-
fices.

The eight candidates nominated
include two women in the slate for
alderman, while one has been nom-
inated for the School Board.

- Por alderman: J McCue, A Hurry,
Helena Gutteridge, HE. Robinson, A.
M. Anderson, S. Wybourn, R. P.
Pettipiece, and Mrs. D. Berger.

For School Board: W. Offer, Prof.
F. E. Buck, Susie Lane Clarke Mrs.
J. A., W. Black, and W. Wallace.

For Parks Board: D. Gordon, N.
E. Sadler, and Collin Gillies.

The convention was presided over
by A. Johnston, the Regional Com-
mittee chairman, while Mrs. D.
Berger was elected secretary.

(Continued on page 2)
See CCE. PLATFORM

Air Route Mapped
From Méscow to U.S.

MOSCOW, TiS.S-R., Oct. 3\—
(ALP)—A Moscow-Seattle air route
across Siberia was mapped today by
officials in prepartion for a rezular
service when conditions permit.

The route selected extends from
Moscow to Krasnoyarsk, Yakutsk,

Oimekon Bay, Gizhiga, Anadyr (Si-
berian coast), St. Lawrence Bay
(Berin Strait), Wome, Fairbanks,

White Horse and Seattle.

The distance is 7,203.6 miles.

Hunger Strike Against
Food in Local
Jail

Twenty-five single unemployed
men who were arrested on Saturday
charged with “obstructing” are now
engaged in a hunger strike in police
eells, and are noisily demonstrating:
their protest against the food served
them.

Despite a steady downpour of rain
on Saturday, the men, most of whom
are in their early twenties, took up
positions on busy corners of the
downtown section of the city to sell

NOTED MEDICO

Factory is Centre of Life

on Twenty-third Ave. I met Dr. B.
A. Victor,
nipes,
day,

PRAISES SOVIETS

and Medicine in

U.S.S.R.

In the parlor of his brother’s home

noted physician of Win-
here Wednes-
his wife, on

who arrived

accompanied by

their artificial flowers, as they have
no relief nor any other means of
supporting themselves.

were set at $500 in
each case, and their cases will he
heard on Wednesday. Nineteen sim
ilar cases are before the courts now,
and will be heard on Friday. The
nineteen were remanded three times
last week.

Bail bonds

Hach inbound freight train brings
its quota of men from the extra
gangs, prairies and the interior of
B.C., foreed to leave for the larger
cities as such work as they were
able to obtain is now finished.

Canada Moves

Towards War

Four Air Bases, Seven
Fishtmg Machines
on Order

VICTORIA, Oct. 7.—Four new
air bases to defend British Colum-
bia’s rugged coast line are among

the ‘substantial developments’ con-
sidered in the expansion of the
army, navy and air forces of the

dominion, announced the Hon. Tan
MacKenzie, Minister of National
Defence, upon his arrival here to-
Gay.

While the minister did not dis-
close the cost of the proposed air
bases, nor any details of the ‘sub-
Stantial developments,’ the proposed
sites of the bases are at Prince
Rupert, Esquimalt, Alert Bay or on
the west coast of the Island, an
advance base‘in the Queen Charlotte
Islands. and the additions to the
Jericho Beach station in Vancou-
ver would complete the chain.

Some idea of the cost can be
gleaned from the minister’s state-
ment while in Vancouver, that
$375,000 will be spent at once on
the Jericho Beach station there.

Seven of the latest Blackburn-
Shark fighting planes are on order
from England, as a step towards
modernizing Canada’s line of air
defenses.

This will tie in with the projected
military highway through northern
Alberta, linking the United States

(Continued on Page 2)
See CANADA MOVES

United Church

Slaps Fascism

Compliment Paid To
Communists is Also

Challenge
OTTAWA, Ont. Oct. 2. — «A
slashing attack on fascism and a
compliment to Communism which

Was nevertheless termed a ‘“chal-
lenge’ is contained in a report
adopted today by the General Coun-
cil of the United Church which
numbers 2,000,000 followers in Can-
ada.

“Tdealism of a high order’? was
accorded the Communists and the
report said that in order to ‘‘meet
the challenge the Church must have
@ social passion that matches
theirs.”

“We must have as much concern
for the material welfare of the
masses as the Communists seem to
have,’’ the report, that of a special
commission on church policy, said.

Qn fascism, the report pulled no

punches but condemned it com-
pletely.. It referred tothe ‘fascist
state as one which “abrogates to

itself the place of God, making an
ethical monotheism for the world
or a Christian universalism impos-
Sible.””

It said that dictators “are men
who emphasize the iron qualities of
life. They fear the emphasis which
Christianity places on brotherhood
and self sacrifice.”” It declared: “The
absolutist modern nationalistic mind

and Christianity are incompatible.’

DR. B. A. VICTOR

the last lap of a round-the-world
tour, which took him into the So-
viet Union.

On the subject of Biro-Bijan, the
doctor was very enthusiastic, he was
e-livine the Sewviet scene again.

From aé practical wilderness

1922, when it was first opened and
Settlement really began in 1926, the
country is now an autonomous Jew-
ish republic, where the cultural life
is out of all proportion to that of
the cities, it is farther ahead, stated
Dr. Victor. i

The country has been tractorized,
and the Jewish people liberated 100
per cent. The doctor carried the
feelings very impressively of the
Jewish people, who feel very proud
that they are the builders with a
country, where for the first time
they have their two feet rooted on
their own soil.

In reply to my question. on how
he compared his own profession in
this country to that of the Soviet
Union, fhe doctor Stated that ‘‘the
factory is the centre of life and is
also the centre of medicine.’

“Each factory had its own hos-
Dital unit, where patients able to
walk home are treated, bed patients
are removed to a hospital or sani-
tarium. All workers are fully in-
sured,” said the doctor.

This system works so well in the
collective farms, towns and Cities
that very soon the country will be
covered.

The doctor had actual experience
by living and dining with the people
and was, on numerous occasions,
asked to examine the patients,
sample their diets, and methods of

in

Hundreds March to Police
Station Demanding Release
of Forty-seven Flower Sellers

1 Man Garnricds From Court

Room Weak From
Hunger

Two hundred wunemploved men
lined the curb in front of the police
court, Cordova Street, Wednesday,
and demanded release for 26 of
their number arrested last Saturday
on “obstruction” charges. The cases
were remanded until Friday.

A man named O'’Donnell, weak
from hunger, had to be carried from
the courtroom, The magistrate of
fered to release him, but he pre-
ferred to stay with his comrades.

Banners carried by the men bore
inscriptions of “‘Release the 26 men”
and “Drop all charges azainst the
47." The 47 are the total number
of men arrested for selling flowers
on the street,

Offers of leniency were made to
a delesation demanding the men’s
release, provided flower selling
would stop. This was refused on
the srounds that the men have no
other means of a livelihood.

The 200 men, after standing at
the police court for two hours,
marched to Victory Square, after
the cases had been adjourned, fromm
there they paraded back to theiz
hall. 3

Il Duce Kills. —
Film Chances

Attack on Jews Gancel=
Plans for Italian
Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct. 5—
{(ALP)—Mussolini'’s “recent blast at
the Jew spells finis to his ¢randiose
plans for American aid in building
a Roman Hollywood. The plans
were supposed to Haye been per=
fected during the visit of Carle
Roncoroni to the film city here.
Walter Wanger, with a fine roster
of stars under contract, was to sen@
Stars and technicians to Italy an@
be in charge of production. Warner
Brothers were going to relezse thenz
in the United States and Canada.

Now Wanger is a cousin of the
German novelist Lion Peuchtwanger,
exiled by Hitler, and the Warners
are also of the people chosen for
persecution of the Nazis. So the
gentlemen felt out Roneoroni on the
Jewish question. The Duce’s emis—
Sary damned Nazi persecution of
the Jews for barbarism, and swore
Mussolini had no such sentiments.

Benito’s recent statements
brought Wanger and the Warners
to their senses. After conferring
with the Warners, Wanger cabled
the Duce asking for an explanation
of his anti-Jewish pronunciamento.
None has been forthcoming. Things
being as they are, all Wanger-
Warner-Mussolini arrangements are
indefinitely cancelled.

LITTERICK, M.L.A.,
MARRIED IN ’PEG

treatment.

Their sanitariums are unequalled
anywhere in the world, and the So-
viet physician is @ager for eriticism
and to learn, said Dr Victor.

Many people had asked the doc-
tor if there was not a possibility of
abusing the privileges rendered the
workers in the sanitariums. This
might have applied in the days of
the N.E-P., but no worker will stay

in hospital any longer than is
necessary.

Regarding the new constitution,
the doctor stated that there was
Some criticism of it, but only on
minor points; as a whole, it is taken

very seriously and is one of the
main topics of discussion.

Of the 16 terrorists executed some
few weeks ago, Dr. VWictor stated
that the whole country demanded
the extermination of them in no un-
certain manner, and after the sen-

WINNIPEG. Oct. Oct. 7.—James Lit—
terick, Communist M.l.A-elect to
Manitoba legislature was married
in the Court House today to Molly
Bassin, a local clothing worker.

Jimmy, as he is popularly known,
was first elected to the Manitoba
Legislature on July 20, polling the
second highest vote in the propor-
tional representation system of bal-
loting.

tence of death was carried out the
people went about their business as
usual, Satisfied that justice had been:
done.

The doctor is scheduled to ad—
dress a meeting in the Jewish Com_
munity Centre, Saturday night, un—
der auspices of the LC.O.R.

He will leave for Winnipee om
Sunday and will speak in Calgary,.
Edmonton and Regina on his way
east,

Union Railroad Men Seek
Return Of Basic Wage Rate

MONTREAL, SEE 2.—{A LP)—An-
other step in the campaign of rail=)
Way unions in Canada to win pay-
boosts putting the 100, 000 odd work
ers back ta the _basic rates, has
been taken, it is announced here.

Application has been made by the
conference committee of the vari-
ous unions for a board of concilia-
tion under the terms of the Indus-
trial Disputes Act to consider the
demands of the men for a restora-
tion of the 10 per cent cut in effect

Since May 1, 1934,
General agreement was entered
into at the time of the cut that

ae July 1, 1935, ‘either'side might

Serve 30° days notice ‘of ' desire to
end the agreement:

Cepies* of thé application “have
been forwarded- tothe management
of both the Canadian Pacific- and
Canadian National Railways.

Union leaders today considered
the CPR. announcement that the
Present system of non-contributory
pensions is to be altered to a con-
tributory system on January i,
1937. A contributory system in
which the workers would have a
voice has Jong been demanded by
the crafts.

frdtinn RNa Id