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B.C. WORKERS’

NEWS

October 23, 1986

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Feed the Boys—Now!

MM: TUCKER, a trained and competent investigator, was
given the job of investigating the police department. Most
‘“Gnvestigations’ are whitewashing stunts. ° But it appears that
Mr. Tucker really wanted to investigate. He wanted to know
about the “secret fund” used by the police. And Chief Foster and
the other city big shots won’t give him access to the records.

The capitalist press holds up its hands in horror at the very
suggestion that the taxpayers should know where their money
goes if it means that the police secret expenditures be revealed.

The Sun becomes hysterical over the business. “Obnoxious
secrecy,” “perverted curiosity,” “maddening meddling,” “stupidly
illogical,” “publicity-seekers,” are some of the terms it uses in its
panic over the possibility that the lid may be lifted on the cesspool
of the secret police fund.

The public is asked to rely on the integrity of the heads of
the police because they are “‘officers and gentlemen.” But it is
significant that it is the use of secret funds during the period of
the Relief Camp strike and the strike on the waterfront that they
are so fearful of having disclosed.

The puerile pretext is given that to disclose the use of the
secret funds would be of service to the underworld. This is dust
thrown in the eyes of the public. What they fear is that the pub-
lic, and particularly the workers, will discover just what means
were adopted by the police to railroad strikers and unemployed
to jail and other nefarious services to the union-smashing em-
ployers. :

By all means have the lid lifted; it may be that the stench will
awaken the people of Vancouver. The fear of the higher-ups of
an exposure shows that there is something rotten, and it should
be aired.

Keeping the Lid On

Spee STAGED police riot at Hamilton Hall to discredit the
unemployed youth and make them appear as hooligans, all
for the purpose of turning the sympathy of the citizens of Van-
couver away from them, has ignominiously failed. The police-
provoked fracas was also used to furnish a basis for eriminal
charges against leaders of the unemployed youth. This is why
Grange, Molland and a score more are facing charges of “rioting”
because, blinded by tear gas and with clubs cracking on their
heads, they defended themselves as best they could.

The reception given the unemployed boys in the churches last
Sunday, the declaration of support by the ministers of the city,
by the Trades and Labor Council and other bodies, have shown
that instead of losing support, the boys have gained even greater
support.

There is a danger, however, in the well-intentioned efforts of
many sympathisers to provide for these homeless and hungry
youths. All will agree that relief of those youths, as of all un-
employed, is a federal responsibility. But placing emphasis on
this plays into the hands of the Vancouver and provincial authori-
ties. A federal responsibility, yes. But the immediate demand
must be for food, and shelter—now, and not wait until the federal
bureaucrats unravel their red tape.

The demand must be for relief from the local authorities, and
they can later be reimbursed by the federal government. The local
authorities can wait for this reimbursement far better than the
boys can wait for the federal government to act. And it there are
boys here who should be fed by other provinces, they they should
be fed now, and the other provinces can pay later. It will cost
the Saskatchewan or Alberta governments, for instance, no more
to pay for adequate relief for their charges here than it would
cost in their respective provinces ; even less.

These youths, denied work and relief, must be fed, and the
local authorities must be made to do it, and at once. The demand
must also be made that all charges arising out of the police-staged
riot to blackguard them, be forthwith dropped.

The “Sun’s” Conclusion

T IS reported in the capitalist press that Mr. Angus McInnis,

C.C.F. MP. for Vancouver Hast, was unable to enter the
Soviet Union. No explanation has been given for his failure to
gain entry other than that his papers, passport, visas, ete., were
not in order.

Without waiting to learn the reason, the Vancouver Sun
newspaper jumps to the conclusion that the “furtive” Soviet
Union has so much to cover up from the eyes of.“‘investigators, ©
the government feared the presence of Mr. McInnis.

The Sun concludes that Socialism is not working very well in
the Soviet Union, hence the Soviet Union’s reluctance to the
presence of anyone with “the keen and professional interest 1m
and knowledge of Socialistic technique” possessed by Mr. Mce-
S it would ‘not be good for Russia’s
prestige.” oe ee

Without passing judgment on Mr. McInnis’ abilities as a
student and investigator of Socialism at work (he found Socialism
apparently working very well in capitalist-controlled Scandinavian

Woodsworth found it working well in Austria

eountries as Mr. J ustria
some years earlier) we would remind the Sun that the Soviet

Tnion welcomes all who wish to observe and study the progzess
made in the land of Socialist construction.

Mr. W. W. Lefeaux, former vice-president 7-6
(B:C. Section), and certainly as keen a student of Socialism
as Mr. McInnis, had no difficulty in getting mto the Soviet Union
and was @iven every opportunity to investigate freely everything
he wished. The Soviet Union particularly welcomes Social pee
arcts to visit the country where they can contrast the puilding of
Socialism under the dictatorship of the proletariat with conditions
in Germany and Austria where the policy of Social Democracy
bore its deadly fruit. : —

The Soviet Union welcomed the leader of Austrian Social
Democracy, Otto Bauer, who spent many months investigating
conditions. And it welcomed the greatest investigators ne
Social Democracy ever produced in the English-speaking world,
5 not in the whole world, Sydney and Beatrice Webb. who in a
monumental work attested to the bankruptcy of Social Democratic

of the C.C-F-.

policies and to the mighty strides of the Soviet Union in the os
tension of real democracy for the masses and the building of
Socialism.

We would also remind the Sun that its late owner, Mr. Robert
Cromie, a capitalist, was admitted into the Soviet Union, given

Wis A GREAT,
SYSTEM!

By JOHN PAINE
Federated Press

ie

William Randolph Hearst, whose
motto is Buy American, has just
bought $70,000 worth of antique
Flemish and English art in Amster-
dam.

The duPonts, international muni-
tions makers, have bought $338,000
worth of peanuts for the G.O.P. ele-
phant. On the theory that an ele-
phant never forgets?

“Charley Schwab got only $250,-
000 in 1934. He had to work for
$1,000 an hour.’—Steel Labor.

Tike his daddy, the 18-months-old
son of a Hearst newspaperman had
to swallow Landon. The baby did
so literally, - swallowing a Landon-
for-president button. When he
eouldn’t stomach it, a physician re-
moved the button, rescued the child.

“Charles A. Beard, eminent edu-
eator, said of Hearst: “No decent
person would touch William Ran-
dolph Hearst with a ten-foot pole.’
I guess maybe Landon is closer to
Hearst than that.” — Howard LL.
Sherman in the Dowagiac (Mich.)
Gommunity News.

Soviet Military Chiefs

Marshal S. M. Budyenny, red cavalry inspector (left), and
Marshal A. L Tegeroy, chief of general staff, are shown near
Moscow, watching msaneuvres of the troops which may soon be
ealled on to defend the U-.S.S-R.

Book Review|

REVOLT ON THE C¥LDE—An
Autobiography By WiLLIAM
GALLACHER, MP.

This is written in the simple, di-
rect style in. which Gallacher
speaks, which adds to, rather than
detracts from, its power.

Gallacher’s life story is more
than the story of a workingman’s
life, it is an account of the labor
history of his time, for he sprang
into leadership in workers’ strug-
gles at an early age and is still
carrying on. No better narrative of
the great strikes of the Clydeside
workers has been written, and no
one is more qualified from experi-
ence to write of them.

Appearing in these pages are il-
luminating glimpses of men we
have read about, and Gallacher’s
opinion of them. There are labor
fakers like Ramsay MacDonald,
capitalist political tricksters like
Lloyd George, the noble-hearted
iE. D. Morel, and the great John
McLean, school teacher, Soviet
Gonsul, the greatest revolutionary
fighter Scotland has produced.

In describing the Battle of George
Square Gallacher has soared to lit-
erary heights. This occurred at a
great meeting of strikers who were
demanding the 40-hour week as a
means to relieve the unemployment
situation in 1919. Without provoca-
tion the police attacked the work
ers, beating up all within reach of
their batons. The leaders were ar-

BY TOM EWAN

Ganada is a farming country. Its
economy is largely an agrarian
economy. Its greatest single farm
product is WHEAT, and wheat is
bread. Canada’s transcontinental
lines were built on WHEAT — to
earry the rich product of her mag-
nificent granary to the seaboard
and to the world. All the gigantic
network of line and terminal ele
vators, lake ships and huge “pro-
cessing” elevators was constructed
to distribute this wheat this
BREAD. :

We grow plenty of wheat in Can-
ada. Wo less than an average yearly
crop of 300,000,000 bushels. If every
man, woman and child in Canada
ate what the Federal Government
says (in the statistical record) they
should eat, viz, 4.6 bushels per an-
num in bread, we would still have
an annual carryover of approxi-
mately 242 million bushels. Truly
a land where hunger might be ever
a Stranger. The crop of 1936 is con-
siderably below normal as a con-
sequence of the severe drouth, yet
the visible carryover, with a new
erop less than nine months away,
is capable of carrying all bread re-
quirements at the full 4.6 ration
for the next two years. Yet the
price of the worker’s loaf is soar-
ing upwards. Why? Therein lies
a tale of monopoly greed that has
brought ruination to tens of thou-
sands of farmers and starvation to
added tens of thousands workers
and their families over a period of
years.

Monopoly Capital Cuts the Loaf

The great bulk of all visible wheat
in Ganada is in the hands of eleva-
tor and milling companies. The big
grain companies control all the big
milling compannes; in fact they
are one and the same gang, with
very few exceptions. Four or five
milling companies control a large
section of the bread baking indus-
try, the section that sets the pace—
ana the price. If someone with
plenty of time and a flair for nosing
facts out of the record would deyote
a little time to research, he would
be well repaid (by enlightenment)
for his effort. He would be surprised
to learn just how many slices of
bread a fine Canadian like Sir
Herbert Holt, and all the lesser fry
of Holts, cut off the worker’s loaf.

Wor would this be their only rec-
ompense; they would be surprised
(not pleasantly) at all the methods
of refined robbery practiced by
these Holts to rob the farmer, the
worker, and that unknown quantity
—the ultimate consumer.

We will begin with the farmer
who grows the wheat, and from
whom the organized stomach-rob-
bers take the first cut from the
toiler’s loaf. The “Canada Grain
Act,” page 28, defines what con-
stitutes “No. 1 Manitoba ‘North-
ern,’ and how the definition is
made; not by scientific laboratory
test, but by an appointed Grain
Standard Board. The basis of ap-
pointment may be anything but sci-
entific a knowledge of wheat. Gen-
erally it is a reward for services
rendered in the political arena.
Weight, color and hardness, note
these three elements, constitute the
basis for establishing a No. 1 wheat.
Al] other grades are based on this
legal definition of No. 1, although
very few of them are mentioned in
the Canada Grain Act at all. To-
day, as a result of the steady op-
posing of a scientific method of
erading on a gluten and protein
content basis, there are approxi-
mately some 1700 grades. It is this
profusion of grades that serve the
process of robbery.

A farmer brings in a wagon-loaf
of wheat to the line elevator, say
65 bushels. The line elevator man,
supplied by his company with a
set of grading standards based on

Slicing The Toilers’ Loaf

rested including Gallacher, who in
the melee had handed the Chief
Gonstable a swift uppercut to the
chin. The Glasgow “Herald” stated
that the civic and national authori-

wheat, weighs it, bites it; estimates
the number of foreign grains. One
bushel, two bushels, sometimes three
—dockage for seeds, dirt, nad other
grains. No. 8, well, no; it has had
a shower of rain or two while in the
stook and is’ a little bleached — a
number 5. The margin of price be
tween No. 1 and No. 5 may be 20,
80 or 40 cents per bushel. The
farmer is docked the margin on
every bushel, plus the i, 2 or 3
bushel dockage for alien material.
This is how line elevators can ship
more wheat to their terminals than
they have bought!

The big baking companies pro-
vide the last and decisive side to
the unholy trinity. The side that
gets you at the point of consump-
tion, that sets the price for bread and
determines all the distributive fac-
tors that bring the loaf to your
door.

Goncentrated to the last word,
this huge food monopoly of grain,
wheat and bread, with all the visible
supply in its grip, can render the
bread of your children almost pro-
hibitive. With the big companies
bread-baking is a mass production.
industry.

The baker has become an auto-
maton a@ machine-tender, and
wages are determined upon bags of
flour baked. “These combines de-
termine the price and the little fel-
low must follow, or go under. Their
drivers anu delivery men are hound-
ed to increase their sales, and
threatened and scolded when “bad”
sales accumuate beyond a certain
minimum. Then the loss is thrown
onto the delivery man by a filched
pay-envelope.

A market disturbance, ever so
slight, a war — and war is on the
agenda today with excellent oppor-
tunities to reap profits — and up
oes the price of bread. Why? They
control the supply of wheat and
flour—and wheat and flour is bread.
What they do not control would not
Jast the population of Canada three
months. Well do the stomach-rob-
bing plunderbund know this, and
they miss no opportunity to profit
by it. This plunderbund and their
network of subsidiaries have se-
cured a monopoly on the bread
supply of the Canadian people.

What is the solution? Not a “bust
the trust” campaign. This would
only enable a bunch of smooth dem-—
agogic politicians to reach the public
pork-barrel at the expense of the
half-starved populace. A huge popu-
lar mass movement against rising
living costs, bringing pressure to
bear upon the governments, Fed-
eral and Provincial, is what is
needed, with the demand for a
“Food Prices , Regulation Board”
on which would be representatives
from farm organizations, trade un-
ions, housewives, and the unem-
ployed. This is the only type of
Board and movement that will stop
the systematic thieving of our
bread.

The “Gost of Living’ Conference
sponsored by the unemployed, CCF’,
and women’s organizations have a
big job abead of them, but they
have all the elements of victory if
they can pool their forces in a
mighty provincial campaign against
the food profiteers.

Harvest thanksgivine celebrations
and the daily supplication to “Give
us this day our daily bread” seem
like a blasphemy against a boun-
teous Nature that provides annu-
ally ten times more than we can
consume. Canada’s bread has been
provided. It is the business of the
producers of this bread to see to it
that they also become the con-
sumers.

To wrest it from the stomach-
robbing gourmands of monopoly
capitalism is the task.

Wo. 1, takes out a measure of good ,

The “cost of living’ conferences
ean contribute tremendously to-

he witnessed.

but in Canada as well.
Tt is to be regretted that Mr.

every facility for independent and free inyestigation, and came

back and spoke and wrote in glowing terms of the achievements

But any incident at all serves the reactionary Sw2-as a pee
npon which to hang an insidious slander agaist the Soviet Union
while slyly supporting the efforts of fascism not

only in Spain

McInnis did not visit the Soviet
Union. because a visit to the land of Socialism might have dispelled
many of his illusions and broken down
At the same time we are sure that his failure to get there was

not because of the Soviet Union’s fear of him.

many of his prejudices.

ties had expected an armed upris-
ing, to which Gallacher replies:
“This is correct. A rising was ex-
pected. A rising should have taken
place. The workers were ready and
able to fight; but the leadership
had never thought of it.”

The General Strike of 1926 is
not dealt with to any length. Gal-
Jacher was serving one of his many
prison sentences at the time.

This book should be in the library
of every workers’ organization that
has a library. The anti-war activi-
ties of the Clydeside workers form
one of the greatest fighting tradi-
tions of the English speaking peo-
ple, a tradition Gallacher played
no small part in establishing.

(On sale at the New Age Book-
shop, Pender and Homer streets,
Price $3.25). —T-M.

B. C. Marketing Board Robs

Small Grower And Consumer

wards breaking the stranglehold of
the food trust, and put an end to its
confiscation of the toilers’ bread.

Gan’t Happen Here Dept.

Sheriff J. G. Fawcett of Union
county, S.C., doesn’t believe in doing,
things by halves. He not only ar-
rests union men, but when a fed-
eral labor conciliator showed up, he
threw him in jail too. He said the
conciliator made a speech.

A religious organization issues an
“election day prayer” with this pas-
sage: “Make us cast our ballot in
harmony with Thy will and to the
glory of Thy name, conscious that
it will be correctly counted in heav-—
en, if not no earth.”

1936, we find the following in para-
graphs 2, 3, 4 and 5:

‘Murine the past season it was
found that in order to endeavor to
market the production of Early
and Second Barly potatoes, it was
necessary to so extend the selling
period that the Early varieties in-
terfered with the Second Early
marketing and the Second Early
varieties interfered and delayed
the marleting of the Mam crop
varieties.

“This, therefore, is to advise all
growers that the marketing of
early varieties will not be con-
tinued beyond July 31, and the
marketing of Second Early var-
ieties will not be continued after
September 30. .

“An endeavor is also being made
to stiffen up the grades that will
be permitted to be sold, which
means, that a grade equal to the
present grade Canada No. 1 will
be the only grade permitted to be
marketed from the tonnage of the
1936 crop.

“Tt is therefore necessary to
warn growers that the board will
only endeavor to market for any
individual grower a tonnage equal
to that which has been marketed
for him during the past season.”

The Working of the Swindle.

It should be obvious to any person
that cutting short the marketing
season for the Barly crop potatoes
has in no ways benefited the pro-
ducer, but has in reality left stocks
of otherwise marketable potatoes on
his hands to rot that otherwise
would have been sold to the consum-
ing public had the selling season

To all outward appearances the
Act governing the B.C. Marketing.
Board, the published methods of
electing farmer representatives to it,
and the powers vested in the board
may give the people of B.C. the
impression that all is well and that
the interests of the producer and
consumer are being cared for.

Such is not the case, however- The
B.C. Vegetable Marketing Board is
controlled by a small minority of
large vegetable producers who, by
manipulation (which the govern-
ment-appointed board members are
a party to), have been selected and
drafted on to the board, denying the
mass of producers any opportunity
of selecting their representatives.

The Marketing Board had been in
existence for some time before any
attempt whatever was made to have
an election. Theelection, or rather
selection, was not made until the
spring of 1936, and not until the
B.C. Vegetable Marketing Act was
under fire. It took place just before
the Supreme Court of Canada de-
clared parts of the Act, particularly
the part dealing with “export vege-
tables”? ultra vires.

Hand-Picked Representatives.

A letter of the B.C. Vegetable
Marketing Board, dated March 16,
1936, signed by its secretary, Mr. A.
Peterson, and sent to some large
producers concludes with this para-
graph:

‘Jn order to SIMPLIFY the
election, we would suggest that
you get in touch with other pro-
ducers in your district and en-
deayor to decide upon someone to

be your delegate, this would pre-
vent TOO LARGE A NUMBER
OF NOMINATIONS being re-
turned’ (Emphasis ours.)

The zovernment appointees “then
selected from the few nominees the
representative suitable te the Lib-
eral regime. The control of the
Vegetable Marketing in this prov-

Orientals, are opposed to the B.C.

(a)

times. (b) Large producers

important as only No.

first and second

of an alleged abundance of

potatoe crops:
Fake Reasons By Board.

“After a survey of the Early
potato situation bad been made,
we found we had approximately
1,000 acres, and owing to the wet
spring, the crop was practically
double that of last year, and we
were faced with an apparent large
surplus of Early potatoes.”

released by the B-C. Coast Vegetable

Marketing Board, dated March 17

ince, therefore, is on the basis of |;ato crop. This would have given
political patronage. At least 75 per the producer the opportunity of
cent of the producers, including completely marketing his crop, aes

Marketing Board as at present con-
stituted for the following reasons:
Undemocratic methods used in
the selection of farmer representa-
other
than Orientals are favored by man-
ipulation, through larger quotas and
the less severe grading of vegetables
produced by them—the latter being
j grade of
early potato erops
were accepted as being marketable,
the board justifying the acceptance
of only No. 1 grade potatoes because
early

A bulletin circulated to all regis-
tered producers by the B-C_ Coast
Vegetable Board, dated September 1,
1986, paragraph 4, reads as follows:

Not only has the mass of produc-
ers suffered by the board accepting
only No. i grade early potatoes as
being marketable, but in a bulletin

been extended to exhaust all avail-
able potato supplies before com-—
mencing the sale of the Second early
crop of potatoes.

Wad the time of the First and
Second Barly crops been extended
and the Second early crop been less
severely graded, the sale of the Sec-
ond early crop would have extended
far into the season of the main po-

rivine a greater return for his labor,
,and by extending the season for the
Second crop of potatoes to com-—
pletely exhaust all available stocks,
jJeaving the consumption of the main
erop of potatoes for a later part of

Coo
By
OL’ BILL
We are going be-~
A Backward hind in our share
Quota. of the Press Driye-

Our $100 quota is
a long way from accomplishment
yet and the drive is now half over
The response in one way, however,
is very good; the contributions are
coming from workers, some of them
old warhorses, in small sums that
are mighty, because of the sacrifice
they stand for, the memories they
bring up and the promise they give
for the future.

While waiting for a street car
one evening, a worker came up and
asked me “Ar'n’t Ol’ Bill?” When f
told him I was, he handed me two~
bits ‘for the column.’ I asked him
his name to put on the list but he
answered, ‘Just put it down to the
memory o? Johnnie MacLean.” If
this had only occurred before Willie
Gallacher’s visit, it would haye
pleased him to take the story back
to Paisley, where John MacLean
was a shining star in the revolu-
tionary movement until he was
hounded to his death by the minions
of the capitalist class, Lloyd George
among them, It is good to know that
the memory of John MacLean, the
old stalwart who .was the first So-
viet Ambassador in Britain, is kept
alive in this faraway corner of the
world.

Something
To Copy.

A Hindu worker on
Vancouver Islang@
sent a letter regret-
ting that he could
not do anything to help the papers
and along with his regrets he sent
the price of ten trial subs. If all
the workers in B.C. ‘‘could not de
anything’ as well as that, there
would be no need to worry about
our press.
I repeat the offer already made
to the readers of this column. Te
the individual making the best ef-
fort to raise our quota of $100.00,
I will give a large photo of Karl
Marx, and to everyone who donates
a dollar or more,
copy of the forthcoming booklet
“50 Years Labor Struggles in» Van—
couver and B.C.” by Ol Bill. All
the money sent in will be accepted
as straight donations.
Let us go over the top in the
next round.
In view of the merci-
Soviet’s less and brutal treat-
Nineteenth ment of the young
Vaan lads who are trying
. to prevent them-
selves from dying of
starvation by selling flowers on the
streets of Vancouver, it is interest-
ing to read a couple of extracts from
recent visitors to the Soviet Union,
quoted in the invitation sent out ‘by
the Friends of the Soviet Union, to
a conference to be held on Nov. ate
to plan the celebrations for the 19th
anniversary of the U.S.S.R.
Lord Passfield (Sidney Webb), for
two generations a dyed-in-the-wool ~
Fabian, actively opposed to every-
thing that savored of revolution,
has been compelled to admit that
revolutionary methods have accom-
plished more in these 19 years, than
all the years of reformism promise
for the future. He says, ‘*There is no
unemployment in the U.S.S.R. There
is no one who cannot be told where
to get a job. There is no compulsion,
people need not work if they don’t
want to.”

The Wice-President of the Belgian
Senate, E. de Vince, who cannot be
accused of being a communist either,
in his contribution says, “Soviet
young people do not haye that hope-
lessness in their eyes which we seé
in America, in France, in Germany,
in every capitalist country.”

When we see the plight of the
Indian natives of B.C. dying out
through the ravages of the white
man’s diseases, augmented in recent
years by starvation, it is pleasant
to read the comment of Mr Leonard
Barnes of the Advisory Committee
on Imperial Affairs, formerly on
the Staff of the Colonial Office, and
certainly not a communist; ‘‘Soyiet
Russia has done more effective work
with the backward peoples in twelve
years than Great Britain has done
in five generations.’’

And, lastly, the London Univer-
sity Professor, Sir Bernard Pares,
one of the most inyeterate anti-
Bolsheviks, admits: “Consumers
goods are plentiful. Finance is sat-
isfactory, wages are rising. Scienti-
fie research is helped on a scale un-
known elsewhere in the world. The
production has increased five-fold.”

We wish success to the F.S.U.
Conference.

g The Cid is the national

‘Three hero of Spain. About

the season, thereby preventing the
present high cost to the consumer
and a greater supply for the coming
winter.

Enriches Private Brokers.

A matter of extreme importance
to both the producer and the con-
suming public is the financial state-
ment issued by the B.C. Coast Vege-
table Marketing Board on Income
and expenditure to May 31, 1936.
It records an income of $52,000 and
an expenditure of $47,000. One item
amounting to $16,617.78 is listed as
an expenditure to G. H. Shaw, 2
brokerage firm of Vancouver and
WVietoria, is significant. This firm:
is a private coneern. Jf the board
functions as a .Marketine Board
why is it necessary to pay such 2
large amount of its income to pri-
yate concerns when the board should
be in a position to market all vege-
tables without using any private
brokerage concern.

A Vegetable Board, if properly or-
ganized and functioning in the in-
terest of the producer and the con-
sumer, is very essential. This board,
however, if justice is ta be done to

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Women.” the time Columbus dis-

covered America. El Cid
drove the Moors out of Spain where
they had ruled for 500 years. Today
Franco and his fascist murderers
are heading a second Moorish in-
vasion of Spain and nobody is play-
ing a more heroic part in the strug-
ele to keep Spain for the Spaniards,
than the working and peasant

women and girls, with arms in their
hands, who are shedding their lifer
blood for the government they
elected.

A few short years ago the work-
ing women of Soviet Russia were
serving their country in the same
Way and to honor them, their ex-
ploits have been filmed im~ one’ of
the masterpieces of the Soviet
screen. Watch out for this picture
“THREE WOMEN.” Coming te
Vancouver, November 8, next.

the producer and consumer, in the
first place should haye representa
fives who are democratically elected
by the mass of producers and not
carefully selected by political ap-
pointees.—4.5.E.

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