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Under New Management Thoroughly Cleaned and Redecorated ROOMS 50 CENTS PER NIGHT UP Men’s Half Soles __.. 9Q¢@ Ladies’ Half Soles ee eee ee soc Ladies’ Heels, 15¢ - 202 Wen’s Heels for Vancouver TAILORS A. F. L. BREACH STILL UNHEALED WASHINGTON. — (FP)—Whether the breach between the American ederation of Labor executive coun- cil and the Committee for Industrial Organization can be healed re- mained a big question mark, as the council adjourned its Session, the last to be held before the Tampa convention opens Nov. 16, without lifting suspensions against 10 C.I.O. unions. A sub-committee was ap- pointed to negotiate with the CAkcO# whose chairman, John L. Lewis, is indisposed to appoint a committee or talk business in view of the con- tinued ban. Lewis has summoned a C1.O0. meeting for Noy. 9 at Pitts- burgh. HEARST PLAYS DOWN POLITICS WASHINGTON, D.G., Oct. 26.— Convinced that his creation, Gov. Landon ywill be thoroughly beaten for the presidency by Roosevelt, America’s Public Enemy Wo. j, William Randolph Hearst, has cabled his papers to play down politics until election time and to return to the old standbys, sex and erime. After devoting great space to boosting Landon in the hope that the people could be stampeded into yotine for him, the old reactionary publisher finds it expedient not to be caught on the wrong side of the fence on the morning of Nov. 4. VETS CIRCULATE ASSISTANCE FORMS Sponsored by a committee of ex-servicemen, with headquarters at 340 Cambie street, a petition is now being circulated which, when filled out will be sent on to the Veterans Assistance Gommission in Ottawa with the following sug- gestions: (a) The Federal Government to recognize the full responsibility to care for the returned men and women, (b) All unemployed and wunem-= ployable Veterans to be paid $1.10 per day with adequate allowances for their wives and dependents. (ec) Work to be provided for those physically able to perform Same, at sheltered trades, and at union rates of pay. Ex-service men who agree with the above and who can assist in filling some of the petitions are asked to write or call at the above address. SEY. 4848 24-HOUR ELEVATOR SERVICE 999 9O9G 0009S OO44050660 Boys’ and Girls’ in proportion. NEW METHOD SHO 337 CARRALL STREET 28 APOLLO CAF E. OYSTER AND CHOP HOUSE $4.50 Meal Ticket for $4.00 West Cordova St. THEO. ANGELL Prop. Start Rumors Against Union Drive Forges Ahead With 50 Locals Chartered CHICAGO. — (FP)—Union steel workers are greatly cheered by the opening of the steel bosses’ cam- paign of rumors against the drive of SWOC (Steel Workers Organ- izing Committee). This is the word at regional headquarters in Chi- cago. The first of the rumor bombard- ments was fired in the Sunday papers including the usually care- ful New York Times. The story quoted unnamed “steel executives” as saying that the union drive in steel has been a “complete failure.” Steel officials, also unnamed in the story, were said to estimate that only 4000 dues-paying members have been enrolled by SWOC so far. In successful union campaigns, the workers said, there is always 2 point when the employers hide their alarm by public statements minimizing the effect of the union drive. Almost 50 new locals have been chartered by the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers in the Chicago- Great Lakes region alone, which includes, however, Ganada and the region from the Mississippi to the coast as well. At a mass meeting in Indiana Harbor, formerly cowed and terror- ridden by the steel trust, 500 work- ers turned out despite the presence of known company spotters. Former Canadian Worker Satisfied Im Soviet Union (Excerpts from a letter from E. Limd, formerly of Vancouver, and for the past four years a resident of the Soviet Union). “I will take time now to write you as I am on my two and one- half months’ holiday with full pay. I am in the health department. Six months ago I received my diploma (Valskari), about the equivalent of an M.D. in Canada. As medical workers we receive special rights 2nd privileges, i.e. 215 to 3 months’ holiday each year with full pay and a yearly wage increase of from 13 to 25 per cent. “There is a shortage of medical workers here. Doctor’s work is very interesting. There is no ques- tioning of patients as to their fi- nancial situation to find out if you get paid or not, because everyone is entitled to free medical care. After a patient is cured he re- ceives a statement as to the num- ber of days he was sick. This he takes to his place of work and re- ceives full wages for the duration of his sickness. What a difference (ot “home” any more). “Conditions are improving here so fast it’s hard to believe. Wages are going up and the cost of living going down. New modern four- room houses are being built for workers. Ours is nearing comple- tion. There is no rent, light, fuel or water bills to be paid out of wages. I would not want to change places with my former self in Canada; only here can one have a real interest in his work.” H. GRIFFIN TOURS FOR SPAIN DEFENCE Following a successful tour of the Island, where he addressed meet- ings at Nanaimo, Cumberland, Ladysmith and Port Alberni in aid of the Spanish Defence Fund, Har- old Griffin, Vancouver journalist, is leaving this week-end to speak at a nuntber of Okanagan and MWraser Valley points. Meetings are being arranged for Kamloops, Kelowna, Vernon, Salmon Arm, Chilliwack and several of the smaller Interior towns. | “200 SEE YOUR | FOOD PREPARED at the PALACE CAFE 47 West Cordova Street WE SERVE \THE BEST COFFEE IN TOWN 100% UNION HOUSE from care of workers back home. Workers Open New Seamen’s Club Differing Angel Missions and British Sailors’ Societies, the above club will be a source of supply for Seamen’s Literature—a place where all seamen can come for advice regarding conditions aboard ships, and can be 2 from the Flying source of regular contact for them when away in foreign waters. Seamen! This is YOUR CLUE. Den’t forget, when you are in port to call into the Club at: Room 1A, 19/20 Old Hay- market, Liverpool. Send all communications te W. Webster at the above address. The above announcement is re- printed from “Ship and Dock Wews.” monthly publication of Mili- tant British Marine Transport Workers. All Glubs and Port Contacts are asked to pass the word along to all ships and throughout the docks, Hospital Bills Declare Strike NEW WESTMINSTER, Oct. 24. —Strike action 2was taken by nine men last week working out bills at the Royal Columbian hospital. These men have been credited with $3.20 per day, fifty cents of which is paid to them in cash. They asked the hospital manage- ment for an increase of fifty cents payable tm cash and a decrease of the same amount applicable on their bill, and for the asking were promptly dismissed, Six others who arrived next morning refused to start work, and after an interview with K. K. Reid, chairman of the hospital board, were told that owing to the state of the hospital’s finances nothing could be done for them. Some of the men have 24 cents carefare, others have been cut off relief, and the fifty cents cash they had been receiving did not allow them much to live on. from the fate of those which Were destroyed by the blind greed of their exploiting class. Today. not only the workers, but the intellectuals and artists of in- ternational prominence are enlisting in the sreat armies of revolt against war and fascism—against ware slay- ery and increasing degredation. It will strengthen the cause here and elsewhere to know how clear and strong is the clarion call for unity and action. Palme Dutt, in the opening sen- tence of his “Labor Monthly” fox September says: “In letters of flame the issue of the present era is being written in blood for all to read. The mur- derous war let loose in Spain con- firms once more the truth of Len- in’s dictum that the path of the proletariat, even in Western Bur- ope, also lays through heavy civil war. What the Communist teach- ing since the World War has not yet time to teach the masses of the workers, Fascism is now teaching in Spain. The Hitler ter- ror in Germany since 1933 has slain 10,000; it has condemned a quarter of a million of human be- ings to 600,000 years in imprison- ment. he brutal offensive of Fascist war in Europe is adyanc- ing in widening Waves, and every wealmess, every division and de lay in the popular ranks only pre- pares the way for its extension.” From the “‘New Masses’’ (Septem- ber) we read the last words written by the late Lincoln Steffins. Some will remember that this gentleman (lectured here a couple of years ago, and warned us then that fascism Was developing ‘rapidly, not only in Burope, but also in America, and advised us to unite in order to op- pose this enemy of peace and free- dom. Steffins’ wife sent the following message to the masses which had been written by request by her hus- band, and was found in his type- writer after his death: “J see and feel the People’s Front Fighters in Spain are fight- ing for me—and for all of us, and this is now the opening baitle of man for man. Perhaps it is the most decisive battle—anyway it is ours and we must Inow, and TI feel we do Imnow, that we must fight this to a finish.” Wrom Stuart Davis: “Victory for the People’s Front in Spain is the direct concern of every_ progressive American, be- cause their defeat would solidify those reactionary forces m the U-S.A. whose further develop- ment would result in Fascism.” Theodore Drieser: “AM those who love the idea of quality, who hate the forces which cause injustice, suffering and per- secution should rejoice in the cour- ageous battle of the Spanish work- ers against the brutal forces of Fascism.”’ Max Weber: ‘You tyrants of the world! 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