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Why Hitler Howls

HE indignant howls of protest raised by Hitler after the
speech of Maurice Thorez, Secretary of the Communist
Party of France at Strasbourg last Sunday, will cheat no one
who knows the Nazi program in relation to France. Thorez
ascribed to the Nazi god nething more than his own blasphemous
pronouncements. “

The version of “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”) by Hitler—
the Nazi bible—that cireulates in Germany differs im its outline
of foreign policy for foreign consumption in English, French and
other languages. The inevitable hatred of that mad demagogue
towards I-rance had to be toned down for the outside world, but
still must be made an inspiration for Nazi yilitarist and im-
perialist aims.

All that Thorez
from the German
a couple of them:

“T+ must be understood that in general the will of the Ger-
man nation should no longer be limited to mere passive defense,
but on the contrary, should be steeled for a final, active settlement
with France in a death grapple for the realization of German
aims.”

“Ty, the annihilation of France, Germany sees merely the
means for our uation to cbtain full development jn another di-
rection. Our foreign policy will only have been correct when
there are 250,000,000 Germans, not crowded like cookies in a
factory, but free peasants and workers.”

«<Almightly God, bless our weapons!
freedom! Lord bless our combat!”

These are some of the plans of the mad scourge that is 1m-
flicting the miseries of physical and intellectual slavery on one
of Europe’s most cultured people. Not only is the Ulazaine to
become a Nazi province dotted with concentration camps, but
all of France also. It is not surprising that the Communist Party
of France demands that every boy and girl in French schools
and collezes be compelled to read Hitler’s “Mein Kampf’ and
#4 is not suprising either that Hitler should become infuriated
when he was exposed by Thorez last Sunday.

McGeer In London

ANCOUVER’S peregrinating Mayor is being given -nuch
publicity in the Vancouver daily press these days im « rder

to keep him “hot” for re-election as the city’s chief magistrate.
McGeer, the man who hornswogegled the credulous voters into
electing him to the mayoralty by ranting against the money
changers, threatening to bounce them out of their temples of
finance and to throw the sheriff imto the saltchuck, is now 1
London being wined, dined and otherwise entertained and further
corrupted by the wicked bankers. ae :

While over there he nas been busy seeking publicity. This
meant, as is his wont, tallang, And when Gerry talks he always
displays his ignorance as well as his gifts of deception. In the
course of one of his harangues, he told his well-ted audience
that B.C. could accommodate and provide a living for no less
than ten million more people than the present sparse population
of 700,000.

Of course he didn’t tell them that B.C. under its present
system cannot feed and clothe half of its present population
decently. He didn’t tell them that because of this, instead of
jnyiting ten millions to come to the province and partake of the
flowing milk and honey,

did at Strasbourg was to quote a few passages
edition of the Hitler masterpiece. Here are

Judge if we have merited

his city administration and the provin-
cit] government are driving many of the present residents out
of the province with clubs, tear gas and guns. Neither did he
tell them that the B.C. government has made a frontier of the
Alberta-B.C. boundary where armed forces of the province stand
guard to prevent even Canadian workers from entering B.C.
B.C. under a Soviet system could feed, clothe and give liesure
to ten million people, butit can never do it while sufteringe under
capitalist exploitation which is now being carried on under the
administration of McGeer, the pliant it mouthy tool of the
bankers, and Pattullo, also a trained lackey of the same parasite

gang.

An Impudent Protest

ITLER, the mad dog of Europe, is not satisfied with throt-

tling free speech in Germany, he has the insolence to demand
of the French government that no unfriendly eriticism be made of
him in France.

The occasion of this latest outburst was the references jmade
to him by Thorez, Secretary of the Communist Party of France,
during the course of a speech. Thorez is alleged to have said that
“The French people prefer an honorable negro to a dishonorable
Hitler.” To the fascist mouther of the Nordic virtues, such a
statement was leseamejeste. But Thorez spoke with restraimt; he
could just as truthfully have said that the French people, and all
the decent people of the world, for that matter, preter a dishonor-
able negro to a dishonorable Hitler. For no man, white, black,
yellow or brown, with the single exception of the traitorous
Trotzkyist counter-revolutionary murderers, could possibly be as
dishonorable as Hitler, the butcher, starver, torturer and mur-
derer of the flower of the German people.

Whilst the vanity of the tool of German finance capitalism
wvas wounded by an unfavorable comparison, the real purpose
of the protest and the furions anti-French outburst of the Niazi-
owned press was to advance his war plans against France.

The People’s Front government treated the protest of the
world’s leading war-instigator with the contempt it deserved.

Shock Troops Against Fascism

TE Soviet Government has served timely warning on the goy-

ernments of Germany, Italy and Portugal that if their yvio-
lation of the neutrality pact does not cease, if they do not stop
their supplying of airplanes, bombs and other munitions of war

to the fascist rebels of Spain, the Soviet Union will render
military aid to the democratically elected people’s government.
Tnternational law recognizes the right of any legal government
to purchase supplies, military as well as other materials, trom
countries with which it has relations. The Spanish government
had. and still has, formally at least, friendly relations with other
nations, Great Britain imeluded, and yet the British government
refused to sell coal for the warships of the Spanish government,
thus aiding the rebels—just as Great Britain aided the slaye
owning Confederacy of the southern states during the American
civil war. : ee
Hitler, Mussolini, Salazar, and secretly, Baldwin, are aiding:
the rebels against a friendly government; all of which, among

Republicans ee
Of Ireland
Help Spain

A meeting in Dublin under the
of the Trish Republican
recently cabled the fol-
message to Senor Cabailero,
Prime Minister of Spain, denounc-
ing:

“The so-called Christian Front
and fascist O'Duffy is an anti-Re-
publican and anti-labor minority,
and assuring the Spanish Catalonian
and Basque people of our sympathy
and support.”

Messrs. Frank Ryan and George
Gilmore, Republican Congress jJead-
ers, have received an acknowledge-
ment from Premier Caballero.

The following resolutions ‘were
unanimously adopted:
“That this meeting of Dublin

City supporters of the Republican
Gongress draws the attention of the
Republican and Labor movements to
the revival of fascism in Ireland.
We declare that the so-called Chris-
tian Front is a disguised fascist or-
ganization, a puppet of the ‘‘Inde-
pendent” newspaper trust and is in
underhand league with General
Q@’Duffy and his fascist party. That
this combination of the so-called
Ghristian Front, General O'Duffy
and the “Independent” is shame-
lessly and recklessly trying to use
the name of religion to further the
rise of the discredited fascist groups
in Ireland for further attacks on
the rights and liberties of the Irish
people and to obstruct national ad-

Jose Hugues is 75
Fascist who makes himself a target on the Aragon front in Spain

part alongside men,

Hitler and Mussolini.

Not Too Old To Fight!

years old, but he’s a crack marksman, aS any

will quickly find out. You couldn’t
women and i6-year-old youngsters who have
turned out en masse against mercenary invaders, provisioned by

keep the old from doing their

Book Review |

EASTER WEEHK—By

Bri

“brief explanation” of an historic
event. It is a comparatively short
book, but even if it were twice or
three times as long there would be
the same desire to go through it
at one sitting, it is so absorbingly
interesting.

Dublin, where the uprising oc-
curred, had slums comparable only
to those of Warsaw. It was not a
manufacturing city; its workers
were employed in the transporta-
tion industry, transporting English
manufactured goods inwards and
Irish cattle and farm products out-
wards. Their condition was truly
deplorable until Jim Larkin organ—
ized the Irish Transport Workers’
Union. In 1913 a great strike took
place, one so militant that besides
the police forces of the entire
country, troops were brought in
against the strikers. Police brutal-
ity culminated in what is still
ealled Bloody Sunday. The strike
jJasted for months and was only
ended by the starvation of the
workers.

After the strike James Connolly,

vanee and hinder the movement of
the working class.

“That we call on all Irish men
and women, regardless of creed or
class, to repudiate the right of the
so-called Christian Front, General

In view of the setting up of 2
new chiselling, anti-labor racket

O'Duffy or the Press trust (whose in Vancouver, to wit: the “In-
instruments they are) to speal: in dustrial Council,” the following
é. 3

the name of Christianity, and that
we call on the people of this country
to unite their forces for the libera-
tion of their own land from all
vestiges of foreign domination and
the injustice of imperialist, financial
and economic dictatorship, and to
advance towards the Irish Republic:

article deseribing the criminal
activilies of its counterpart in
the U.S. should serve as 2 warn-
ing not only to the workers, but
to employers who will have the
sleeve put on them by the Van-’
eouver gang.—Editor.

“That this meeting of Dublin City
supporters of the Republic Con-
egress, appalled at the news of the
trasedy in Arbour Hill (Prison,
where a political prisoner, in Ssoli-
tary confinement, was found hangs-
ing in his cell, conveys its sympathy
to the relatives of the dead man.

“That we call for the immediate
release of all political prisoners, for
the repeal of the Coercion Act, and
for a public inquiry into conditions
in jails where political prisoners are
held.”

That the ancient and dishonor-
able art of red-baiting is a sordid
pusiness rather than a ‘“natriotic”’
pastime was abundantly Shoayn at
the labor spy hearings before the
Larollette committee in Washing-—
ton, D.C.

The Pinkerton agency, for in-
stance, was revealed to have col-
Jected about $1,000,000 last year
from large corporations for fight-
ing union organization with the aid
of the neat formula that all labor
union efforts were “Communism.”

A succession -of officials of the
Pinkerton concern all testified that

PROPHETIC WORDS

A- glorious people vibrated again their anti-labor activities were di-
The lightning of the nations; Lib- | rected against Communism. But

erty
From heart to heart, from tower to

none of them admitted having ever
seen 2a Communist or could define

tower o’er Spain exactly what he meant by Com-

Scattering contagious fire into the munism.
sky, Finally Senator lLalvollette de-
Gleamed. .... manded: “Frankly, don’t you re-
—Shelley. gard any attempt by men to or-

CHRISTIAN FRONT

(Tune: “Off to Philadelphia in the Morning”’)
My name is Owen O'Duffy, and I’m rather vain and fluffy;
The side of every Bolshie I’m a thorn in,

But before the break of day Ill be marching right away
For P’m off for Salamanca in the morning.

With the gold supplied by Vickers we can buy blueshirts and knickers;
Let the Barcelona Bolshies take warning,

For we lately took a notion that we’d cross the briny ocean,

And we start for Salamanca in the morning.

There's a boy called Paddy Bolton with a heart that’s soft and molten,
Wet the first to face the foeman, danger scorning;

Though his feet are full of bunions, yet he known his Spanish onions,
And he’s off to Salamanca in the morning.

Wow the Irish Christian Front is a Lombard-Murray stunt—
Hark! the ghostly voice of Connolly gives warning—
And Professor Hogan’s pals can don their fal-de-lals,

And start for Salamanca in the morning.

When they get kicked out of Spain, and they travel home again,
Let them hearken in good time to this our warning:

If they try their Fascist game theyll be sorry that they came
Back from sunny Salamanca in the morning.

—‘Trish Worker.”

struggle against reactionary Spanish eenerals and their mercenary
troops; it is a strugele between international fascist reaction and
the intermational forces of democracy and progress.

The forces of international reaction are led by Hitler and
Mnissolini, assisted by the finance capitalists and their agents and
dupes in Britain, France, the U.S., Canada, and every other capi-
talist country. The forces of international democracy are headed
by the Soviet Union supported by the defenders of progress
throughout the world.
Ever alive to their class interests, the forces of reaction are
united and inflicting the maximum damage to the progress and
peace of the world, whereas, unfortunately, the forces opposed to
fascism are divided.

Tt is a tragedy that in the hour of direst urgency, leaders of
the Second International and of the International Federation of
Trade Unions are bitterly opposed to the united front of struggle
against fascism. And in Great Britain and Canada there are
leaders of labor who parrot the old anti-unity eries, who, like
Citrine. Otto Bauer and others, intensify their campaign against
the United Front at the very moment when it is most needed as
the indispensible condition for repulsing the fascist world of
fensive.

The heroic Spanish people—Socialists, Communists, Anareh-
ists. Liberals and thousands of the poorer clergymen—are bleed-
ine and dying in the front line trenches of this historyanakine
international struggle between fascism and democracy for which
Spain is the arena today, but for which, if fascism is successful,
France, England and Canada will be the arena tomorrow.

The advance of fascism must be halted. The more concessions
that are made to Hitler and Mussolini, in the short-sighted and
foolish hope of appeasing them and thereby preventing war, the
bolder and more insatiable they become, the more they are as-
sisted in their war plans for fascist military world conquest.
The people of Canada must declare against its Holts, its
buddine fascists, its finance-controlled press and all other open
and secret sympathisers and supporters of the fascist rebels of

Spain. The people of Canada must recognize that the people of
Spain are fighting for all the peace-loying and democratic peoples

of the world, and must come to the aid of those history-making

other things, shows, that the struggle in Spain is more than a

defenders of democracy.

The Red-Baiting Industry

ganize in labor unions as Commu-
nistic?”

“17s Communistic until we find
out different,” replied Joseph Lit-
lejohn, the Pinkerton official on
the stand.

Less Baiters Than Creators

Qne beauty of the business of
red-balting is that it can be en-
gaged in without any reds to bait.
In fact, it should really be called
red-creatinge. For the art consists
in making as’ many people as DOS-
sible look red.

The more reds you thus create,
the more of a “menace” you have;
and the greater the menace, the
more rich businessmen are inclined
to shell out for you to protect them
against it.

Dire evidence of the “Commu-
nism”? rampants in a Chevrolet fac-
tory was reported by one Pinkerton
spy.

“People should boycott the
Elearst newspapers,” he reported
a working foreman as saying. “Tve
quit taking the paper, because
every time the President tries to do
something for the people, the paper
attacks him. Landon will put us
back where we were four year be-
fore and the Lord knows what will
happen.”

Wm. Randolph Hearst, the man
who has made less red paint
stretch further than any other red-

) pbaiter in existence, would doubtless

agree that such sentiments
Communism of the crimsonest.

But lest anyone shrug and think
that he at least could never be
ealled a Communist, let him con-
sider the fate of the reporters, who
dared to laugh at an official of the
Lake Erie Chemical Co. after he
had been telling of plans to gas
bootleg coal miners.

Angrily he turned on them, with:
“You're all a bunch of
Communists!”

are

Wishing For Violence

But violence is the more serious
side of the red-baiting business. A
few bricks thrown or a dynamite
explosion—eyven if it all has to be
done by the red-hunters themselves
—are worth more in creating 2
“menace” than a dozen fictitious
reds.

“JT wish a hell of a strike would
get under way,’ Herrick Foote, gas
salesman, wrote to his company.
“T am doing a lot of missionary
work in anticipation of a strike,”
and “I hope the strike develops and
matures and will be a damn bad
one—we need the money,’ he wrote
on another occasion.

Another salesman reported he
was “surrounded by strikes, but
they are all too peaceful to suit
me.”’

A Class-Gonscious Business

The red-baitine business, how-
ever, is above all things class-con-
scious. It is always against labor,
never for it. Tear-gas company
representatives testified they would
sell their products to “any legiti-
mate business man whose door is
open,” but had refused to sell to a
labor union.

Against strikers they are willing
to go the limit, as shown in the
instance of one salesman who rode
around with the police im the
San Francisco waterfront strike of
1934. He co-operated in training
them by firing one of the bombs
himself, which exploded in a crowd,
severely cutting a striker’s face.

The same salesman wrote his
company how unfortunate it was
that ‘the reds did not kick up any
trouble’ Angeles to aid sales.

“The cops here, when they hit a
man over the head, are not satisfied
unless he goes down and a good
split occurs,” he wrote. [Our
clubs are too light for this.”

Unionism Ends tt All

While respectable employers may
try to wash their hands of all the
shady, disreputable and violent
methods of fighting labor which the
LaFollette committee has brought
to light, the record shows that
nearly every big unorganized mass-

production employer of any promi-
inence is listed among the clients
iof the Pinkerton, Railway Audit

and similar agencies.
Only where the employees are
thoroughly organized and union

one of the most profound thinkers
and Marxists of that day, assisted
| by Larkin organized the Trish Citi-
zen Army which was to be a work-
ers’ defence corps in future strike
struggles.

When the Great War came Con-
nolly denounced it as an Imperial-
ist one, condemned the leaders of
the Second Internation for their
support of it, and said it was the
duty of workers in every country
to overthrow their capitalist gov-
ernments,

The Master Uprising was not an
attempt at a proletarian revolution.
Tt was a struggle for national in-
dependence, but for the first time
in Irish uprisings against foreign
imperialism the proletariat had its
own organized forces in the Citizen
Army and its own independent
Jeader in the person of Connolly.
Connolly Knew that the proletariat
must have allies, so he entered an
alliance with the Irish Republican
Brotherhood, a purely nationalist
organization with middle class
leadership and headed by Padraic
Pearse.

The uprising was to have taken
place all over Treland on Easter
Sunday, but certain I1.R.B. leaders
weakened and sent out messages
countermanding the previous or
ders. Pearse and Connoliy tried to
offset the countermanding orders
put without effect as later events
showed. On Haster Monday when
they seized the Dublin Post Office
and other buildings they were able
to muster a bare one thousand
fighters. From the P.©. they pro-
claimed the Provisional Goyvern-
ment of the Irish Republic under
the presidency of Pearse. Gonnolly
was military commandant of the
Dublin forces, a post he was pre-

pared for, for besides studying
Marx he had studied military
strategy.

In spite of two wounds, one being
a shattered ankle that turned
gangrenous, Connolly directed his
forces throughout the five days.
After the surrender the leading
insurgents ‘were court-martialled
and shot. Connolly was carried to
the firing ground on a stretcher,
lifted onto a chair and then ex-
ecuted.

O'Neill quotes Lenin to show that
he hailed the Irish Uprising as a
heroic struggle of an oppressed peo-
ple for self determination. Lerin’s
main eriticism of the event was
that it was two or three years pre-
mature; he poured verbal vitriol
on Radek for describing it as a
“putsch.”

The author does not deal with
the Anglo-Irish War of 1918-21; it
is to be hoped he makes that the
subject of another book,

(On sale at the New Age Book-
shop, price 60 cents). —T.M.

SOVIET ART AND
MUSIC LINKED

Former Tzarist Count Is
Lecturer at the
Exhibition

TORONTO, Oct. 12—{(ALP)—So-
viet art and music were linked here
during an exhibition of paintings
and drawings by Soviet artists at
the Toronto Art Gallery. The exhibi-
tion opened last week-end.

About 30 painters and 50 graphic
artists are included in the exhibi-
tion. Boris Berlin of the Torontyv
Gonservatory of Music, a visitor to
the U.S.S-R. this summer, is in
charge of several programs of Soviet
music.

Nicholas JTenatieff, former eount
of the Czarist regime and now 4 de-
fender of the Soviet, will speak dur-

The whole exhibit is open for one
month.

The exhibition was organized two
years ago in the Soviet Union by
the Society for Cultural Relations
with Foreign Countries (Vox) on in-
vitation of the Pennsylyania Mus-
eum of Art,

recognition firmly established is
there no place left for the spy, the
thug, the agent provocateur, the
dynamiter and the gas and gun-

O’NeilL
In an appendix the author states: Soo
“This is not a history of the 1916
Uprising; it is the story of the
principle events and a brief ex B
planation of the background and y
significance of Haster Week. ft is
no credit to us that twenty years OL’ BILL
after, there is no detailed history
of what Pearse truly called: ‘the
“most glorious chapter in the later The Archibishop of;
history of ireland! Democracy Vancouver has called
However, the reader cannot but 2 upon all good Catho-
thank the author for even this DE +--+ m :

ing the exhibition series of lectures.

lics to pray for Spain’
during the month of October. Speak--
ing of “the blackest, most corrupt,
most obscurantist priesthood in the
world” as they were described in
Jast month’s ‘Labor Monthly,’ and_
their Ghurch, he says, “Once she
realized that Communism—with its
three-point, Godless, class-warfare-
and abolition of private property
program—was in control of her gov—
ernment, her people rose up against
it. Her true patriots have chosem
to take up arms in defense of Chris-;
tianity, and the death strugele, still
in the balance, is being anxiously
awaited by the entire Christian;
world.’’ :

The revolution of 1913 spelled the
finish of one of the most ferocious
despotisms in HBurope. The Consti-
tution of the Republic established
the relationships of the social
classes and institutions under which
the life of the country is at pres-
ent guided. Article 27 of that Con-
stitution provides that: “‘‘Freedom of
conscience and the right to practice
freely any religion are guarantee@
in Spanish territory, provided pub-—
lic morals are safesuarded.””

ch — This religious free— |
Christ or dom is one of the |
Barabbas? essentials of demo- |
eracy that does not |

meet with the approval of the aris- |
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tempt for democracy is notorious.

Lying around our shack here is
a copy of a pamphlet called “Christ —
or Barabbas” by Father O'’Boyle ~
which we use for swatting flies, 2 4
purpose for which it is admirably |
fitted. I looked
one day and found this contempt i
for democracy expressed in a few |
words—‘‘the disorganized electoral ©
machine of modern democracy
which motley
erowds decide technical issues of ©

‘and in which minorities are notori-
ously without a voice.” i
Church, Cardinal Villeneuve, seated

Session of the near-fascist Quebee
Legislature probably brought joy te
the hearts of these anti-democratic

followers of the lowly Carpenter of
Nazareth.

|

2 Z Rather than> see
Aristocratic Spain under a dem-
Venom. peratic regime,

these priestly trad-
ers in the name of God would bring
the torch of Torquemada back toe
burn eyery vestige of liberal thought
and political freedom out of
country; they would again inflict ©
the tortures of the Inquisition on

the common people of Spain rather ©
than see them improve their lot at
the expense of Feudal grandees and j
militarist thieves. {

It is natural they should take this
attitude since the Catholic Church
is the largest landowner in the
Peninsula. Two years ago twenty-
one million Spaniards had one hun-
dred and ten thousand priests ly-
ing off them, one priest to every
200 people, but no attacks were
made on the Church or its priests
except when they took up arms
against the Republic, when they
used the churches, monasteries anc
nunneries as arsenals and machine-
2un nests to shoot down the sup-
porters of constitutional democratic
government that they hate as does
Father O’Boyle and Archbishop
Duke.

The lies and slanders on which
Archbishop Duke bases his appeal
are already answered by members
of his own faith and profession. The
priest, Father Juan Garcia, broad-
casting from Madrid about a month
ago, stated that the proletariat has
always respected those priests who
have propagated real Christianity
and it is probably useless to refer
the Archbishop of Vancouver to @
letter of a Catholic Bnelishwomanr
in the October number of “Woman
Today.” This lady, Monica Whately,
was in Spain during much of the
fighting and offered her letter to
the Catholic press in England but
could not get it printed.

Her observations were that nuns
and priests went about ‘without
fear that they. would be shot or mu-
tilated so long as they were acting
as priests. On the other hand, she.
tells the tragedy of Biratou, where
the fascists massacred 2000 young
Loyalists for defending their Goy-
ernment. These Loyalists showed n0
fear and only made one request—
that they be allowed the ministra-
tion of a priest before being shot.
One of the fascists put off his mili-
tary uniform and donned his priest
ly garb and performed the neces=
sary ceremonieés.

The common people
Are They; are not the concer
Blind? of the high-placed

ehureh dignitaries, oF
they would not be with the Nazis
and fascists. The Catholic Prince
Hubertus Lowenstein has warned
them already of the suppression of
all Catholic activity in Germany
and now the Duteh Catholic paper
in Lemburg, Holland, opposes the
marriage of the heir to the Dutcb
throne to a broken-down WNaz
princeline, because in his country
“the State is suppressing many
things which are sacred to our
free and Christian people.”
Again the high priests have
chosen Barabbas! We must support
fhe Spanish people’s Government

man.—‘“‘Unity.”

and ‘law and order.’

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