EI MPN EL Pied Foes te Your subscription has expired if the number on your label is- ~ .g below this number Renew it NOW. ——— = -C. Wor ERS NEws Demand the release of the Youth who are imprisoned because they demand food, and compel the boss class to give them relief? VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1936 Single Copies: 5 Cents SS VOL. IL, No. 41_ Published Weekly FULL NO. 93 REBELS LOSING SUPPORT IN NORTH AFRICA TRADES COUNCIL TO AID SPAIN AND JOBLESS Firefighters Given Sym- pathetic Hearing by Delegates Definite action’ in support of the Spanish People’s government and the single unemployed men now in Vancouver was taken by the dele- gates to the Trades and Labor Council, Tuesday nicht. Power was yested in the presi- dent of the council to select a com- mittee of five members to devise Ways and means of raising funds for Spain’s government. Qn recommendation of the ex- ecutive, Jack Patterson was Eranted ten minutes to outline the Case for the single unemployed men now facing the police courts. A recom- Mendation of the executive that the council bring forcibly to the at- tention of municipal, provincial and federal authorities the plixat of the jobless men found ready support among the delegates. Eoeal Suspended Suspension of Local No. 18 of the International Association of Fire- fighters and revocation of the local’s charter touched a sore spot among many delesates when the order was read from a letter from the Inter- national office. Delesate Secribbens, Civic Em- pPloyees” delesate, and President Jamieson ensased in a verbal battle when the former attempted to take That Spain aS & May Be Free A farmer from Aragon Kisses his youngest child farewell as he leaves with his rifle to join the loyalist militia and fight for land and liberty. MARINE DISPUTE TIES UP LOCAL KINGSLEY SHIP Union Seamen Strike in Protest Against the Blacklist Demanding that the blacklist be lifted from the union seamen who took part in the strike of last sum- mer, the union members of the S:S. Rochelle, Kingsley Navigation Go., due to sail at 5 p.m. Wednes- day, struck work at 11 a.m. on that day, and up to a late hour yesterday the vessel was still tied up, unable to get a crew. This company just recently be- came a member of the Shipping Federation of B:G,, and since entry into that union-smashing body, has joined in the campaign to blacklist the men who took part in the mari- time strike of last summer. Pre- sumably awaiting the outcome of the negotiations between the U.S. ship-owners and the U.S. maritime unions, the vessels of the Kingsley line have been laid up in Vancouver for about two weeks. Scabs Employed @n Monday the “Rochelle” was put into service again, and began loading for San Wrancisco: but in- stead of employing the longshore- men who have done the work for this company for years, both before and after the strike right up until the last trip in, two weeks ago, the company called men from the strike- breakers’ union. Rumblings Of Revolt In Morocco Threaten Rebel Main Base Oj Operation PUBLIC MEETING 10 COMBAT HIGH COST OF LIVING Following a conference called by women members of the Grandview Section (Vancouver)) of the Commu- nist Party at which 94 housewives attended, definite steps are being taken to combat the rising cost of living. Committees have been set up to investigate the whole question of the high cost of potatoes, milk, flour, and other commodities, and the threatened further increase in the price of bread. To further mobilize and organize consumers, a public meeting will be held Wednesday, October 28, at 2 p:m., in Olympic Hall, corner Bast Hastings street and Garden drive. Prominent speakers ineluding Miss Susie Lane Clark and Arthur Evans will address the meetine at whieh reports on the results of in- vestigation so far conducted will be made. Mayor Dore Hurls Threats At Bosses EVERETT, Wash., Oct. 19.— Threatening to take control of the Seattle Police Department to pre- vent use of policemen as strike- breakers, Mayor John F. Dore of Seattle addressed a meeting of 1500 persons in the Labor Temple here last night. He told the meeting, sponsored by the Washington Common- wealth Federation and Longshore- men’s local, that shipping operat- ors would get “a taste of hell” if they use “guerilla guard” tactics against maritime unions. ASLEEP AT THE MIKE CHICAGO (FP) — Neither the Chicago Tribune nor the Chicago Daily News, leading dailies® here, listed the radio address of GChair- man John LL. Lewis of the CIO over WCHEL, labor station, and other outlets Oct. 17. Scripps-Howard editors have re- ceived orders to play down Lewis in their sheets. Paris) Franco is far from brilliant, in Spite of optimistic reports ema- nating from rebel headquarters. in fact he is in a grave predica- ment. -communication Several places, but he is no longer iImaster of Morocco, his main base. the fire. most redoubatble fighters of north Africa, who destroyed the entire. Spanish army of 26,000 men in 1926 and who were not conquered till France sent a force of 150,000 men commanded by thirty generals and two marshals, are up in arms. The tribe of the Andghera, by far the most numerous and war-like in the zone between Ceuta and Tangier, has beaten back the Foreign Legion and seized the important military. post of Meloussa. : [Warren Capture and Burn 7 New Savoia Bombers By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN Federated Press MADRID (FP) (By air to — The position of Gen. Wot only are his lines of threatened in In Morocco the fat is definitely in The Riff Kabyles, the Tribes Burn Rebel Planes Answering the broadcast appeals of Radio-Madrid, Arabs, Berbers, Moors, Kabyles and various Bedo— In an endeavor to avoid tieing up the vessels during the period of truce on the U.S. Pacific Coast, the longshoremen decided not to take action at this time. uin tribes of north Africa are plac— ‘ ing themselves on the side of the ; people’s government against the fascist marauders. in Meloussa warriors captured all! the side of the Firefighters. Serib- bens was suspended from the Coun- cil on Sept. i$ for alleged derogatory remarks made by him in referrence to the Jewelers’ Union at the time aribou Challenges Terrorism, Jailings All B.C. Miners when 23 lumber worker delegates The seamen, also anxious to avoid Of Un ern lo ed Men the military stocks and burned seven. i Sveneunscated: trouble, protested to the company of Franco’s new Savoia bombing t Birt Showler, under report of against the employment of non- Planes. At the last moment T learn d unions, stated that the bakery sales- union seamen, but the company re- we that the tribes of. Udras Bent Asee = f men now on strike are waging a O ou e UO as fused to recognize the protest. Con- and the Beni Messaud have joined. ' campaign against the Western Mill- sequently, Tuesday morning the On imues Ra a e the revolt. ing Company, as they are the real peut union men e the crew gave : Franco has 24,000 men, mostly irae RESENS ema e€ company twenty-four hours to Ses Foreign Legionnaires, in Mororeet i bosses behind Robertson’s Bakery. Bakers Poorly Paid __ No response was made to the larse ads appealing to the employees to return. to work, so that now a large Sigm is displayed at the plant stat- ing that no help is wanted. Two checks are in possession of replace the strike-breakers ‘with union men, and at ii 4.m. Wednes- ‘day, quit the vessel, ‘accompanied, it is reported, by two of the non- union men. A picket line was put around the dock. Company Adamant He intended to transfer them to Spain at the end of this week for a the final” drive on Madrid. That a plan misearries. Not only will the i legionnaires have to Stay in Moroc- ‘ co, but Hranco is compelled to send fascist yolunteers—‘“‘phiangists” —— FLASH — Of seventeen men who appeared in-police—court.on _ Thursday morning, fifteen were convicted and sentenced to vari- ous terms of imprisonment rang- ing from six week to three months. One man was dismissed, and 37 Many Money-Raising Affairs Planned in Intensive Effort to. Make Press Drive a Smashing: Suc- cess; Rounds District Does Excellent Work. CARIBOU’S CHALLENGE: We, the miners, workers and farmers of the Caribou, through our newsboy, challenge all in Hamilton Hall) Sept. 13, when they-were’ tear=gassed;- two-of -that number, Donald Garner and Geo. Gale, were dismissed. The other nine were remanded to Friday for trial. The case of Win. Bodaly, 18, is pending. the business agent of the Milk! mining districts in B.C. (or in Canada if you like) to double| an efforts of the company to} are scheduled to come up at 2:30 Grange and Molland, both o¢|t© reinforce the colonial forces if Baker caleamen ameentie ‘2®| their cash quotas and press circulation. We realize that this | sien on a non-union crew were un] 2 yee afternoon. whom are charged with “rioting” | he 1s to hold his chief base. Franco Bakery Salesmen amountine to CAN and MUST be done in all districts in our own interests, successful. A part crew was ob- Thirty more arrests were made and have veiled threats of having $7.14 and $7.15 for six days’ work at the bakery. Mr. Showler an- nounced that he is going to obtain photographs of them. Application for affiliation to the Trades Council from the B.C. Coast District Council of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ Union was re- ceived and its four delegates seated. Delegates Stewart, of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees, an- mounced that the Palace Cafe on Cordova street, has signed an agree- ment with the union and is now 100 per cent organized. Firefighters Lose Charter and as far as the Caribou is concerned, it WILL be done. Let’s go! This is a direct challenge to the following mining districts : Atlin, Bridge River, Cumberland, Nanaimo, and Princeton. What are you going to do about it? NOTE.—The newsboy referred to above has built up a paper route and at present distributes 75 B.C. Workers’ News, and 90 Weekly Clarions per issue. The route was started less than six months ago, and covers a distance of 75 miles from Quesnel to Barkerville, which is covered weekly (mostly on foot). Art’s trips are looked forward to eagerly by the miners, farmers and people of the Caribou in general. Cumberland Cumberland reports that the drive in that district is progressing quite The Haney Press Committee in con- junction with a Committee from the Finnish organization will hold a bazaar and dance at the Webster's Corners Hall. Carefully prepared plans by the Joint Committee as= sures all who attend this affair a pleasant and profitable evening, Progressive Germans Active Sunday, October 25, the German Workers’ and Farmers’ Club are holdine a concert in aid of the Press at their Hall, 2237 Main Street. Admission free, silver collec- tained from the sailors’ home, but when they men arrived at the ship and found out the strike Situation, they quit and came ashore. The Seafarers’ Industrial Union has applied to the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific for a local charter, and have been notified that their application has been accepted, and that the charter will be forthcoming immediately after the negotiations between that organization and the shipowners have been concluded. It is assured that even should the “Rochelle” succeed in getting a strike-breakine crew in Vancouver, the vessel will tied up by the union men in *F'risco. CALGARY GRANTS JOBLESS RELIEF Thursday morning of the Single unemployed men. Ruthless and unabated terrorism continues here daily with mass ar- rests and trials of some 300 single unemployed men, who have been denied work or relief. Wo less callous or brutal are the civic and provincial authorities who remain adamant in their refusal to do anything for them, but order the arrests and jailings to proceed. Of approximately 250 men ar- rested on “obstruction”? and “vag- rancy’ charges, some on two or three occasions, 53 have been con- victed, two were sentenced to three months, 44 were given two months, and seven got ten weeks. One hun- dred and nine are still awaiting trial of their cases on Friday. additional charges laid against them are at present out on bail fo $3,000. On Tuesday Magistrate Mathie- Son felt “put out” when the ac- cused would not consent to trial en masse, which would have facili- Stated their conviction and sen- tence. Demonstrations are a daily oc- currance in the city police cells, as the men protest against the food served to them in dishes of badly. wrecked enamel ware, and have engaged in a hunger strike since Tuesday. While the men were waiting for their cases to be called in court, they kept up their spirits in the doleful surroundings by singing “Hold the Fort,” a trade union song. Contrary to inferences in the *Frisco (Continued on Page 2) See REBELS LOSE PACIFIC COAST TENSE WHILE VOTE PROCEEDS Fish Dealers Give in to Closed hop SAN FRANCISCO (FP) — The west coast continues tense over the. Maritime situation, as the Maritime well, Thanks for the good news. A | tion. Thirteen men who appeared in ! 3 litie on account would make the Benefit Smoker CALGARY, Oct. 19.— Faced with Police Court on Wednesday on the z Federation of the Pacific prepared ay Strike Vote Not Reasons scoreboard look better. The Vancouver Sports Club is the determined resistance of | more serious charges of “rioting” (foes eS on page 2) to announce the result of a coast- t for Suspension Coming Events Staging a benefit smoker in aid of | Some 2000 unemployed men to the | arising out of the attack on them See TERRORISM wide strike poll Oct. 25. Unions are = | Order “A number of large scale events|the Press Drive, Monday, October] government authorities’ policy of prepared to continue working x in aid of the Press Drive is sched- | 26, at their club rooms, 143 Fast| “no relief,” Mayor Andy David- pao Ger 28, the last day of the } renewe ruce, be Negotiations were awaiting the arrival of Admiral Hamlet from the U.S. maritime Son was compelled to grant relief to the men. Cordova street. The boys at the club appreciate | : Revocation of the charter of uled to take place during the next week. Your support to these affairs Hitler Nazi Agents Out | Local 18 of the International Assn.| Will help materially to maintain = Some hazy plans of the Federal se J ! 2 : 5 ee ec”? (Continued on page 2) govrenment to f = = commission. The strike vote was | of Firefighters by the International | “your press. arm out the job- F Gonreatos held in Asbury Park, Haney, Saturday, October 24—! See CARIBOU GHALLENGES Jess men under a Federal farm n pen n ancouver oe pee. Meya: See 16 3 Tation said, ecause ¢ = relief scheme are not made known WN-J., last September, was heard by unions were unwilling to sacrifice | delegates to the Trades and Labor Bey fo 7 [ : Je = yet, and until such times as the 5 a : : Council Tuesday night from the Legality Of he Shipping scheme is embarked upon the Fascist Flags Flaunted; {there was a meeting of these “Heil | ‘the fundamental rights they fought : former delegates of that union. men will receive relief. : ” | Hitler” cheerers in the smal] |for and won in 1934 — the hiring i | A. EL Young, president of the F d e I Q e ———Seee Song on Pimp Horst | Moose Hall. About seventy people nets oene day for longshoremem = - = EAS al es t t d SAN FRANCISCO EEtSy attended. an “hour day for seamen, cash ‘ local, informed the delegates that e era 10Mn $ ues 10ne hand of Hearst is seen in a8 Hae Wessel Sung No" Questions’ Allawed payment for overtime, and habitél- ft NO stions Avlowe z px : ble living quarters on ships. these fundamental union rights can be guaranteed, there will be =a _ cause for lifting the charter did not hinge on the strike vote taken in April, 1935, but on cancellation of cisco's latest anti-labor agereza- Hon, an orgiinization which cloaks sa number of big swastika flags draped the speaker’s desk. They 5 fanaticism, and their their ideolozy Stubborn in Harbor Committee to At- committee, interviewed Federation Geo. Richardson’s credentials. Wegotiations had heen carried on extensively with civic officials for the restoration of pay cuts inflicted on the firemen since 1932 and prom- ised by the present incumbent, May- or McGeer. The strike vote taken which was 95 per cent in favor of Strike was taken as a measure to hasten the return of the pay cuts and in no way was the action con- trary to the constitution, stated Mr. Young. Peasants’ Union For Fight Against Fascism OSAKA, Japan—The keynote of the memorial meeting on the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Peasants’ Union was the call for Strenethening of the fight against fascism. Speakers expressed the necessity for unity of the anti- fascist front, immediate enactment of a Tenant Act and absolute op- POSition to mass taxation. The meetings, which had been Bostponed for some time due to Martial law, drew a large crowd of observers from yarious trade unions aS well as nearly four hundred dele- Bates from prefectural organizations of the Peasants’ Union. tempt Reconciliation Once More Legal opinion on the structure and activities of the Shipping Fed- eration of B.C. will be sought by Alderman P. G. Gibbens who at Monday's meeting of the Harbour and Utilities committee exclaimed, “I'd like to have the Shipping Fed- eration declared an illegal organiza- tion.”’ Renewed application of the Van- couver and District Waterfront Workers Association for the city to intercede on behalf of 500 of the organization’s members who have been blacklisted since the strike on the waterfront was called off on December 9 last, was the cause of the alderman’s sympathetic out- burst. Claiming that things on the water- front used to run smoothly and that the employers were not dealing with its former employees in a fair man- ner, and that the Shipping Fed- eration had the men by the throat, Ald. Gibbens stated, “I am going to obtain legal opinion on it my- Self,” when Ald. McDonald asked him to have the corporation coun- sel look into the matter. H. Ll. Gorey and Halford Wilson, who composed an aldermanic sub- officials recently and reported that some 500 of the strikers would never be re-employed. One more attempt at reconcili- ation of the employers and former employees will be made by civic of- ficials. Failing this, the Harbour Committee will recommend to the provincial and Federal labor depart- ments that an impartial commis- sion be appointed to bring about a settlement of the re-employment dispute. Ivan Emery, spokesman for the longshoremen, stated that the Fed- eration had been employing men from other sources rather than re- employing former strikers, which the Federation had promised to do. BRITISH MARINES FIGHT FOR SPAIN LONPON.—Because they wished to express their Solidarity with the battling Spanish workers in a tan- Sible way, two Sritish marines Jumped from the “Queen Elizabeth”’ in the Mediterranean and swam to the Spanish coast. The marines are A. E. Rose and D. B. Stewart. They had often ex- pressed their desire to help their Spanish comrades “beat the tar” out of the fascist mutineers. its activities behind the red-baiting title of American League Against Communism. It has the backing of the Hearst papers, the city and state chambers of commerce, the Indus- trial Assn. of San Brancisco and the subversive activities committee of the state American Legion. The executive director is Harry M. Con- nelly IT, former Salesman for Hearst’s New York American. ' PROTEST! jen masse against the McGeer- |Pattullo-King starvation - terror policy against the jobless, relief_| less youth ...at... ORANGE HALL Cor. Gore Ave. and Hastings TONIGHT, OCT. 23rd at 8 o’Clock | | | — Speakers — R. Molland Tom Ewan Malcolm Bruce Amplifiers will bring speeches to overflow crowd. | Auspices, Communist Party (B.C. Section) dangerous in childish in their argument, Nazis in B.C. are organizing. They spread fascist propaganda under the names of “Deutscher Bund,” ‘Canadian Society for German Culture’ and “Deutscher Schulverein’ (German School Club). The executives of these organizations consist of Ger- man-Canadians who belong to the NSDAP (Nazi Party of Germany). Their task is to win Germans living in Canada for Hitler and to advertise and popularise Hitlerism. They are direet agents of German fascism or, | as it was pointed out on the Nazi- | parteitag in Nuremberg (Germany). “These Nazis abroad are the ‘arms’ of the Hitler government outside of Germany.”’ Setting Up Fascist Clubs The ‘“Bundesleiter’’ of Western Canada resides in Regina. His name is Schoenfeldt. He ge orders direct from Germany. In BC. the Nazis succeeded in establishing two clubs at Kelowna and Vancouver. The Kelowna group is led by a person named Hoch, and Vancouver by one named Alleweldt. Other active Nazi Party members in Vancouver are: Avenarius, Ladner, Hammel Bron- ny, Baeumer, and Beck. They are coming out in the open now, holding meetings where discussion is strictly prohibited. Monday, Qctober 19, Started in with ‘Deutschland Uber- alles.” Then raising arms and sing- ing the “Horst Wessel’’ song. After that a few shallow and naive re- citals. Then the speaker, Mr. Carl Gotz, German Nazi teacher, who tours Canada. This speaker evaded all the things German people in Canada would like to know about Germany. There being no discussion, he got away with his wholly unsatis- factory address, A great deal of his statements were untrue. But that is exactly the way those Wazis act. EFFECTS OF WAR BEING RECOGNIZED Civil war in Spain has become a very serious thing—it is now begin- headlines, and it was reported that: “A Covent Garden firm said to- day: it quite impossible to say what will happen to the Christmas iS Worker, London, Ens) vincial police and badly beaten up. This merely delays them but they are forced to bum meals until they can catch another strike.” Strike Postponed The Warehousemen’s Union, Intl Longshoremen’s Assn. affiliate, has voted to postpone indefinitely its strike against wholesale grocers and feed companies, to remove the wholesalers’ to negotiate. A settlement is hoped for, but the union is prepared toe take a second strike vote Oct. 28. excuses for refusing After repeating that they would never yield to the closed shop de— mand, wholesale fish dealers have. given strike at San Francisco has been ended by a complete victory for the union. in, and the fish handlers’ Provincial Police Hound And Harass Penniless Youths ning to influence British business men. : HOPE, B.C. Oct. 18—Every day ©Crvil War may send up sherry |from 15 to 20 unemployed youths pices; Was one of wyesterday’s |are kicked off freight trains by pro- some of them fruit trade. We are hoping that | freizht out of town. Spain’s troubles will soon be over Almost all the youths haye been and that normal exports to this workings on the railways, havyinse country will be resumed.’—(Daily | been sent there when the relief camps were abolished.