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B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS

October 30, 1986

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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, October 30, 1936

For a Grand Finish!

FNEE great Canada-wide press drive in aid ot the B.C. Work

rxs’ News and Zhe Clarion (Toronto) is nearing its end.

Despite the great demands made on the people who desire an
independent press, the results are more than encouraging.

Many organizations are exceeding their quotas; but there
are some that are falling behind. Some just fail to turn in what
they have collected with the idea of making a grandstand finish.

Wo one will despute the necessity of an independent people’s
press, a press beyond the influence of finance capital and its agents.
The need for reliable news of the great struggle bemg waged in
Spain between the forces of international fascist reaction and
those of democracy is recognized by all friends of liberty and
peace.

The B.C. Workers’ News and The Clarion are in the fore
front of the defence of the people’s liberties. They must be main-
tained, and the present drive bids fair to assure their continuous

- publication.

Owing to the lateness of many organizations and individual
supporters in swinging into action, the time for ending the drive
has been extended to November 18.

Let the forces of reaction know that there is a wide body of
public opinion behind the maintenance of an independent press.
All shoulders to the wheel and show that B.C., long noted for its
support of everything progressive, is again found not wanting!

During the next three weeks let us put the drive oyer with
a bang!

Exiling the Youth

HILE Gerry McGeer is flitting around the world—all at

the taxpayers’ expense—the rubber stamp gang that com-
pose the city council is dodging the responsibility of feeding the
unemployed youth.

Dodge after dodge, and scheme after scheme, is resorted to
in order to bunco the public and turn support away from the
hungry Canadian youth.

Latest swindle is the proposition to send the boys to the
hinterland on god-forsaken farms, there to worl their hearts out
for the coolie wage of $7.50 a month. The farmers need no help;
they have a hard time getting by themselves, and the bonus of
$5.00 a month to feed the youths just about represents the amount
of food the boys will get.

Eyer since work on the railways ended and the boys were
thrown on their own resources the authorities have been wriggling
and squirming to place the youth in a disadyantageous position.
This, with the use of terror, has failed in its objective. The youth
are asking for work at decent wages, not ¢7.50 a month, And
they are entitled to it. Meanwhile they should turn down all
such fake offers of the city and provineial governments which
are aimed at dispersing, disorganizing and isolating them.

For Unity And Organization

HEN unity of the labor movement is outraged by the sus-

pension from the American ederation of Labor otf one-third
of its membership, it would appear to any logical mind that the
only way to heal the breach thus caused is for the people who did
the ousting to rescind their action.

Yet to such a degree have the real issues been obscured by
stand-patters unwilling to state their real reasons for opposing
industrial organization of the unorganized mass-production im-
dustries, that propaganda aiming to put the onus for disunity on
the ousted unions supporting the Committee for Industrial Or-
ganization (C.1.0.) has actually received some credence among
the uninformed.

The record of the C.1.0. for labor unity has been as clear as
its stand has been emphatic. Unity in the A.F.of LL. was one of
the first and basie purposes to which it subseribed. Its aim has
been to bring the millions of unorganized into the A. of L.,
without disturbing existing craft unions. :

“There should be room for both craft and industrial organiza-
tions,” Chairman John L. Lewis of the C.1.O. has repeatedly
argued. All that has been asked is that industrial organizations

should be allowed to grow up in the A.¥F.of L. alongside the eratits.

Tn line with this purpose and in the interests of labor unity,
Lewis has repeatedly stated that the C.1.0. is willing to sit down
with the A.F.of L. leaders and reach an understanding as to which
industries should be permitted the industrial form so urgently
needed by the unorganized mass-production workers. .

But in its efforts to promote organization and unity, the
G@.1.O. has met with nothing but rebufis from the A.V.of Iu. ex
ecutive council, which has ¢aken an attitude of “crait splitting
or no organization.” a) ;

- When the C.1.O. persisted in organizing the unorganized—
into A.F.of L. unions—the councilés atttiude became one of “rule
or at least for negotiations, it decided to split the whole Federation
in half by suspending the C.1.O. unions.

For all the scrupulous care taken by
pnity, the council elected otherwise.
There is only one basis on which it can now restore the unity
it has disrupted—namely, rescinding of its splitting suspension
order and negotiations with the C.1L.O. permitting industrial or-
ganizations to grow in the A.F.of L. beside the existing eratt
er ruin.” Rejecting all proposals of the C.1.O. for united effort,
ynions.— Union News.”

THE PIPES OF SCOTLAND

go begging yesterday;

the C.1.0. to preserve

) {Z heard the pipes of Scotland
TI saw the drums of free men, lad, beg pennies i’ the way,
The drums 0’ brave ex-service men boom out in London town,
At mansion windows left and right to lure the coppers down.

At first the pipes of Scotland, they played a lonesome air

And then they played a ditty light tae soothe the fascists’ stare.
The lads, they bowed, I thank ye, sorr! And smiled and bowed again.
Ts this, IT groaned, whan tanker lairds hae made o’ Scottish men?

Are these the pipes of Scotland, the pride of old romance;

Are these the lads that helped tae drive the Kaiser oot of France;
Is this what’s come at very last o’ Scotland’s noble race?

How could the sons of sic great men hae come to sic disgrace?

But as the pipes of Scotland march, ah, noo, they ehange their key,
The drums boom out anither tune that makes me shout wl glee.
An’ wha’ d’ye think the Scotchmen play, right i’ the fascists’ face?
“The International Soviet shall be the human race.”

These ARE the pipes of Scotland, the darlings of romance,
Whose threat will keep Herr Hitler oot of Britain, Russia, France!
itor race o’ fascists, far and near!

tremble now, you ra 2
hp Scottish Highlands still breed men for thieves like you tae fear!

e bonnie pipes of Scotland won't beg your gifts away!
ha oie: oviet State they build will mind the pipers’ pay!
Will mind the shepherd on the heath, the worker i’ the mil,
then the State will be their ain free will!
—JOHN SINGINSHIELD.

t —

work for it

IT’S A GREAT
SYSTEM!

By JOHN PAINE
Federated Press

OB tt nt items te OY

Ads of a fencing company read:
“Reasonine= won't stop mobs. But
our Page Fence did. _-. We know
of no better way to invest part of

this year’s earnings.”
Maybe the fence wouldn't be
necessary if part of this years

earnings were invested in paying 2
living wage.
+ * = =
As between fences and wages,
Breadline Benny sez: “Maybe it de-
pends which side of the fence you

are on.’’

* %* * +
A Worcester, Mass., judge has
cited 1,500 textile workers for con-
tempt. That's a lot of contempt for
one judge.

* ok * =
Who says those Toledo cops who
took the Black Legion oath “in the
name of God and the Devil” are
just dumb flat-feet?
Maybe they took a
philosophy and read
unity of opposites.”’

* *

course ib
about “the

* =

R.O.T.CG. students at the Univer-—
sity of Califormia get “hypothetical”
questions in exams about breaking
up a waterfront strike.
Just like Hitler's poison gas, the
training is all meant in fun, of
course, and not intended for actual
use.

= = = =
The Japanese, in a recent drive
against “immoral foreigmers,’’ dis-
covered that several of their own
cops could yery easily be accused of
immorality.
There were no arrests made.
Clever, these Japanese!

Cs = =

Some Sense of Hunior!

A humorous Scotchman has said
that Hitler is a ‘tiresome Saint’ be-

cause he doesn’t smoke, Swear or
drink.
* * * =
The German nutritive guild

staged a whale dinner for leading
Nazis:

The big shots enjoyed it very
much, says a news dispatch from
Berlin.

We suppose the Nazis need whale
meat to be able to continue telling
the big whoppers we've been hear-
ing about the Reich.

* & =
Commenting on the fascists’ use
of Moors to bring “Christianity and
civilization’» to the people of Spain,
Father Luis Sarasola, member of
the Spanish delegation to the U.S.,
said: ‘‘Since when has the crescene
pecome the champion of the cross?”

* * * =

Wazi Cultural Note

The German people will be com-
pelled with “Joying force’ to read
Wazi authors.

“JT will eliminate lukewarm book-
dealers, and I will not tolerate 2
dictatorship of the buying public,”
proclaims Nazi President Johst. of
the Reich Chamber of Literature:

Spanish
Fascists

By HUGH SLATER
(Gibraltar)

Gibraltar gives the impression of
havine always been a furtive town.
The narrow main street is neither
Spanish nor English nor Moroccan
nor Indian though numbers of peo-
ple of each of these countries
wander up and down Jooking tired
and ill. The cafes, full of sailors, run
squalid cabaret performances with-
out vitality .or character of any
kind. In each one there is a large
black notice-board stating, in white
letters, that “nobody in uniform is
permitted to dance upon the stage—
by order of the Naval Authorities.”
But nowadays Gibraltar’s shitty
character is greatly intensified by
the presence of large numbers of
Spanish fascists — mostly. middle-
aged people dressed in black, who
spend their time eating and sgos-
siping in the overcrowded hotels:
Although these people are guests
in a foreign country they do not
hesitate to flaunt their political
opinions in the dining-rooms and
lounges. In the hotel, where we
stayed, one large woman with a
set of gold teeth kept herself cool
with an enormous fan striped with
the monarchist red-yellow-red col-
ors, while she boasted in a loud
voice of the killings the fascists had
carried out at Badajoz and Seville.
The wireless in the lounge was
tuned in to Seville most of the time.
The visitors sat around the loud-
speaker, applauding and chattering
at the tops of their voices. In this
way our hotel was turned into a
place where it is possible to attend
an openly political and public dem-
onstration against, the Spanish sov—
ernment at almost any time of the
night or day.

But one thing struck me as being
rather curious. Why, if these people
are so very fond of the fascists, do
they not live in fascist territory?
Why do they have to live in Gib-
raltar? Can it be that they have no

faith in the ability of their mer-
cenary troops to hola out against
the government forces? Or again, if

they are so enthusiastic about their

do they not go and
instead of sitting in
safety in a foreign country, eating,
sleeping, drinking: and talking?

Although Gibraltar is neutral
eround its authorities appear not to
be entirely unbiassed politically.
While these fascists are permitted
to live comfortably, loudly propagat-
ing their own particular political
opinions, others, whose views differ,

“cause’ why

are continually being interfered
with. The representative oft the
Wews Chronicle, for example, was

arrested the other day merely for
speaking to the sailors of the
Spanish government batt leship

‘With Spanish People’s Gov't

Industry Marches On

Remote even to travellers on caravan trails, Ulan-Bator, capital
of the Mongolian People’s Republic, now boasts an industrial com-
binat which includes leather, boot and shoe, cloth, fur, and other

factories. Tserna, a Mongolian woman, is shown at work in the
spinning department. The country, on which Japanese imperialism
casts an eager eye, has a defensive alliance with the Soviet Union.

Tom Mann Appeals For Unity

Tom Mann, well-known militant | Zealand, Africa or Australia, when
fighter for Trade Unionism, | prevention of an interventionist
renowned and cherished by the|war against the young Soviet
workers all over the world for his | Union was a serious issue, Tom

untirine activity in the interest of
the working people, has rallied to
the international fight im support
of the Spanish People’s struggle for
liberty. =

Water transport workers know
Tom Mann well. A docker himselt,
he was the leader of the big strike
of London dockers in 1889 and the
first President of the Dockers’
Union. In 1897 he initiated and. pre-
sided over a Congress of British,
Freneh, German, Spanish, Belgian
and Dutch seamen and dockers in
TLondon and was elected president of
the first international organization
of seamen and harbor workers ,the
International Federation of Sea-
men, Dockers and River Workers,
formed at this Congress.

Miners and Docliers Leader -

@ther group of transport workers
affiliated to this Intemational Fed-
eration later. From 1900 to 1910 Tom
Mann was in Australia and South
Africa and while there- helped to
lay down the foundation of a broad
workers’ movement. In 1911 he led
the miners’ strike in Wales, and the
ereat transport strike of Liverpool
where he was the Chairman of the
Central Strike Committee, and
wherever struggles of the workers
took place, either in China, New

Mann was there with all his enthu-
siasm and youthful energy to help
beat back the attacks of reaction.

His endeavors lately have been
mainly in the strugele against fas-
cism and for the establishment of
Unity of the workers and all pro-
gressive elements.

He now brings the experience of
a lifetime of struggle to bear on
the side of the Spanish People
fighting for democracy.

TOM MANN’S IESSAGE

“To remain quietly at our ordin-
ary work when the Spanish VWork-
ers, men and women, are fighting
with such wonderful courage, is
enough to drive good men mad.”

“Have we or have we not de-
nounced fascism a thousand times?
Then what is the argument against
supplying the Spanish Government
with all that it requires to carry on
the struggle successfully?

“Now is the time to show we

meant what we said about fas-
eism. I appeal to every Trade
Unionist, every co-operator, to de
cide at once to throw himself ac-
tively into the struggle in support
of the Spanish People..In doing so
we will receive the support of all
who love Peace and Freedom.”

By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN

Rivers of tears! Sorrow that has
no limit! A saturnalia of blood and
terror! An unimaginable scene of
devastation and carnage! That is
the trail left behind by the Spanish
fascists!

In Rota, a couple of miles up the
road to Huesea, 40 peasants, their
wives and children, were locked in
the church and the building set on
fire.

T saw the carbonized bodies, great
and small, in the ruined church of
Rota. Unrecognizably charred, the
mothers still held little charcoaled
bodies of their children in their
lifeless arms.

The Socialist member of Parlia-
ment, Fernandez Avilia, was taken
prisoner, led into the city by the
fascists. His hands and feet tied,
and then, in the presence of thou-
sands of spectators in front of the
Church of Our Lady of Mercy,
placed in the middle of the street
to let a tank run over him.

If you could see, as I have seen,
how poor and destitute these peas-
ants are! For ages they have been
oppressed and left to live a life
searcely human. These the fascists
slaughter.

For what? Because they dared to

“Jaime.”’

We came from Gibraltar with a
very strong: feeling that the fascists
are not people fighting for prin-
ciples in which they sincerely be-
lieve, but simply a gangs of selfish
degenerates. This impression is sup-
ported by the descriptions we heard
while we were there of the fascists’
treatment of the people cf La
Juina. There is a certain Dr. Juan
Garcia who has never participated
in politics on either side, but is
known in La Linea as “The Peo-
ple’s Doctor’ because of his prac-
tice of not charging anything to
those of his patients who cannot
afford to pay. Lhe fascists tortured
him until he vomited blood. They
then shot all his assistants before
his eyes. In order to avoid any
public demonstrations for his release
he has now been transferred, halt
mad, to the jail at San Roque.

An Enelish woman who had lived
in La Linea for many years told
me that under fascist rule the town
had become intolerable so she moved
to Gibraltar. Her old cook, whose
home was in La Linea, had to come

in to Gibraltar every day to do her
work. One day she got late, waiting
ijn the queue on the Spanish side

to have her papers scrutinised. She
tola the officials she was in a hurry.
For this “crime” she was given halt

Book Review

SHAKESPEARE—A MARXIST
INTERPRETATION—By A. A.
Smimoy.

When Major Hooper was speak-
ing in Vancouver on his tour of the
Soviet Union, he remarked at one
of his meetings that more Shakes-
peare was produced in Moscow than
in any of the other great capitals.
We added that the Russians admired
the Shakespearean drama. But if
Smirmoy’s brochure is any criterion
the Russians see a lot more in
Shakespeare than just good drama. _

The first chapter is devoted to a
brief and clear description of the
epoch that produced Shakespeare.
This was the epoch of the change
from feudal-aristocratic society to
the bourgeois-democratic. Shakes-
peare, the writer proyes by many
quotations, being strongly in favor
of the new system. He also quotes
Frederick Engel’s description of this
change: ‘‘the greatest progressive
revolution mankind had known up
to that time.”

“Shakespeare, a humanist and a
man of historic perspective, con-
centrates on moral, political and
philosophical questions of universal

Significance: he strives to change
the world,’ says sSmirmoy. He
analyzes quite a number of plays

and characters to substantiate this
elaim.

Contrary to wide opinion Shakes-
peare loved the common people and
admired their as
much as he despised those of the
feudal aristocrats. Where some of
his plays show a compromising at—
titude it was because the new sys-
tem, not yet stabilized, was in dan-
ger of reverting to the old, due to
the temporary ascendancy of the
nobility in English affairs.

“Smirnov claims that in spite of all
the eulogy they haye heaped upon
him the bourgeoisie “have never
been able to understand or accept
the ryolutionary elements in
Shakespeare’s work.

Altogether an invaluable book for
teachers to have, and one that will
be of rare interest to all who admire
Shakespear as a great dramatist, or
as a great poet, or for any other
reason.

(On sale at the New Age Book
Store, Pender and Homer streets.
Price 50 cents).

qualities quite

Reports persist in capitalist
journals that Joseph Stalin, general
secretary of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union is seriously ill.

They are no doubt taking their
cue from Coue, using the power of
auto-suggestion and saying, day
by day in every day, Stalin is grow-
ing worse and worse.

n Which Side Are You?

os
vote into power a liberal govern-

ment, which held out some hope at
least of the end of illiteracy, ignor-
ance, filth, disease and poverty.

Their bodies lie in thousands,
seattered in the marvelously fruit-
ful fields of Spain, on the land they
loved as life itself, {but which they
were never allowed to cultivate.

Except in the cities, you seldom
see a man, woman or child not in
rags. In this amazingly fertile land
millions are hungry, have never
eaten their fill.

Lest these masses rise some day,
the fascists have unleashed the ter-
ror designed to lay the people in
chains and turn their land into a
slave-camp.

The first Moors on this front,
115 in number, were captuded this
morning. All of them were weighed
down with gold. Asked where they
got it, they said that upon landing
from Africa at La Linea, each com-
pany was given a village to loot.

The gold they stole from churches
and convents. “And the people of
these villages? What became of
them?” they were asked. “We had
orders to kill them,” was the laconic
reply.

General Mola announced over the
radio from Burgos last night: “We
intend ot grind the bones and skulls
of the Reds in mortars to make ce-
ment for the rebuilding of our holy
churches.”

“And you? Whatgis your inten-
tion? Will you take revenge when
you enter Huesca?” I asked Garcia
Olliver, commander of the Mala-
testa battalion of the National Con-
federation of Labor.

“We will arrest and execute the
officers, who broke their oath of al-
legianee. That is the law. But we
will not take ‘revenge’ on innocent
eitizens,”’ he replied.

On The Toledo Front
Erom the suburbs of Toledo I

could see all the western sky illum—

ined by the fascist burning of farm-
the

ing ecommunicties, including
collective farm Humanitat.
Refugees, reaching here, report

no living soul remains at Humani-
tat. Men and women were shot or
beheaded, and their children, num-
bering about 80, were bunched in
the communal house, which was
then set afire.

havo brand-new Italian tri-motored
Savoia aeroplanes were brought
down in full view of thousands, as
loyalist pursuit planes shot them
full of holes. I saw one spiral down
in flames and explode in mid-air
as fragments of the steel body went
whistling through the sky.

Half the rebel tanks were put out
of action by the peasants, who left
their harvesting, now going on in

all this district, to crawl up during
the night between Sunday and Mon-

a litre of castor oil mixed with

petrol. Later her Enelish employer
had to take her to the Colonial| day, with packets of dynamite,
Hospital in Gibraltar, where she which blew the steel] machines into

smithereens. The peasants them-
selves paid with their lives for their
heroic enterprise.

Efforts of the foreign diplomats
(Editor’s note: Including the Am-
erican ambassador!) assembled at

now lies seriously ill and perman-
ently injured.

Two brokers were left struggling
in the water when their launch

sank.
First Broker: “Can you float | Hendaye, France, to bring the
alone?” Spanish government to abandon

aerial attacks on Seville (faseist

Second Broker: ‘“This is a helluva
headquarters of General de Liano

place to talk business.”

and Franco), because the most gor-
geous cathedral in the whole world
is there, would haye more effect if
these same ambassadors protested
the mass executions by fascists of
non-combatants, of whom more
than 200,000 have been Killed so far.
When un Feil to Fascism
The handful of Loyalist defenders
are keeping their work to die rather
than surrender. Their trenches bat-
tered by artillery, their communica—
tions with the rear subjected to a
perpetual rain of high explosive
aerial torpedoes which are dropped
from brand new, glittering German
Junker planes, their homes pulver-
ized by broadsides of rebel dread-
maughts, every hour attacked by
wave on waye of foreign legion-
naires, nevertheless, they are hold-
ing out.
The alarm sirens signal the ap-
proach of a rebel bombing squadron,
perfectly visible from my observa-
tion post in Behobie (France). The
machines circled over the city, then
suddenly there were 30 deafening
explosions in rapid succession. The
city became enveloped in a dense
eloud of yellow smoke.
Eleven »machines, “all German
Junkers, formed into squadron, and
descending until they were Over
Fort Martial, let go a crashing load
of death. The raucous voice of ma-
chine guns began. The battle was
on. All morning I watched, horror-
stricken ...
Shortly after mid-day, the sus-
pension of hostilities was broken
again with a sudden surprise at
tack by the fascist legionnaires,
against Puncha Hill. A veritable
eurtain of fire from the rebel ar-
tillery blotted out sight of the hill.
The fascist slowly conquered the
flanking hills through the afternoon
by hand-to-hand bayonet charges.
Instead of withdrawing, the Loyal-
ists formed a square to await the
attack, There must have been 100
of them, most of them wounded.
At a quarter to seven the attack
commenced. The Loyalists hurl
dynamite and hand grenades. They
are going to die!
T can see hte gleam of the fascist
bayonets round the government re-
doubt. Firing has stopped. The last
serious barrier has been taken. The
road to Irun lies open to the fas-
cists!
Tf the Madrdi forces had only half
the equipment the fascists have,
the rebellion would have been over
weeks ago, it is admitted on all
sides. The rebels are still receiving
German aeroplanes. Three more
arrived at Burgos in the course of
the day.
Their presence is explained by
General Mola as belonging to the
nei=-tn stork of a rich merchant in
Morocco. The name of this curious
merchant who has a stock of tri-
motored bombing planes equipped
with aerial torpedoes is not given.
General Franco’s broadcasts in-
sist that the French military helped
the Loyalists and even permitted
the workers’ militia to install ar-
tillery on Hrench territory. Evvery-
one who has been here knows this
js an outrageous falsehood. Offi-
cially, France looks on caoly as its

SHORT
JABS

By
OL’ BILL

How To Handle 72° S°Sicas
Premier Blum’s

Fascists. actions would
lead one to believe he does not know
how to deal with Fascism, has not
learned anything from the word
polities of the last few years. The”
fascist scoundrel, de la Roque, and

mitted every kind of seditious ang
treasonable crime in the last two-

tunately for France, has not bene

éthers of his gangsters have come |

and-a-half years. Mr. Blum, unfor |

man Social Democrats.

President Cardenas of Mexico pur-
Sued the same line as Blum in deal-
ing with Gen. Plutarcho Elias
Calles, would-be fascist dictator of
Mexico. But he was wise enough te
act on the insistent urging of the
Mexican Pederation of Labor. A few
months ago, Calles was arrested in
bed while reading “Mein Kampf?
the Hitler obscenity, and, along with -
four of his lieutenants, put on the
fastest plane in Mexico and shipped
to his reactionary, fascist friends in

fitted from the failure of the Ger |

ST TESTS ET ANSE NET ro

oT

the United States.

This is what should be done with
de la Roque, only he should be sent”
to Devyil’s Island (or the boneyard> j
and all the members of his organ- —
ization similarly dealt with.

if Blum wants to know also, how
to handle the Industrialists who are
responsible for the stmkes in the
French factories, this he can learn
too in America. In the early '90's—

Colorado, who, like Mayor Dore of
Seattle, was a friend of trade unton-
ism, called out the State militia toe
protect the striking miners of Crip-
ple Creek The sheriff and over a
thousand company thugs and gun-
men were arrested and shipped ont
of Coloradeo—and the miners won,

Tf Blum acts thus, democracy will
remain at the helm in France; if he ~
does not, France will follow Italy
and Germany into the hell of
Fascism,

= * * *

Perverted uae capitalist mind
Minds certainly a fit subject.
: of study for the psy~
chologist. Only capitalist-minded
heelers and scribes could openly
consider the sufferings of their. fel- ~
lowmen as “blessings.’’ A few days _
ago, Major Motherwell figured the
fishermen’s strike of last summer
“was a blessing in disguise’ from
the standpoint of the canners. Some
time ago, one of the sob-sisters of
the ‘“‘Sun’’ had an article in that rag
headed, ‘‘Port to Benefit If Lock-out
in South.’’ And some years ago, the
“Province,” in a news story of a
disastrous storm in which six Jap-
anese fishermen were drowned off
the Sandheads, had a subhead read-
ing, “‘Loss Fortunately Confined to
Foreign Element.”
Qnly a capitalist training and
capitalist demand e ould produce
such a mental outlook!
= * = =

An Authority “One of the can-

2 cerous spots in
Speaks. American civil
life is the

American newspaper,
There is not a newspaper owner of
wealth in this country today whe
did not acquire his wealth by bijack-
mail. There is not a newspaper in
this country where a fortune has
been developed that the fortune was
not developed by paying the work-

tions, the least amownt of money
that could be paid.”

When...
to put an end to child labor in this
country, it was the newspapers who
said it was the youths who “would
not grow to love their mothers if
they were not allowed to peddle
papers on the street. ... It is sup-
ported by business and it takes
money to do the dirty work of busi-
ness. _.. I worked for ten years as
a reporter...”

These quotations are taken from
a recent speech of Mayor Dore of
Seattle to the students at the U.of
W. Although his characteristics is
applied to the American Press, it is
equally true of the Canadian capi-
talist papers. They do the dirty
work of “‘business’’; they slander the
trade unionists why try to get @
little improvement in their wager
seales; they attack the anti-capital-
ists who desire to abolish the mis=
eries inflicted on society by thé
grasping plunderbund that battens
on the people today; and they do it

for pay, like every other stool-
pigeon and prostitute.
Every exploited worker, every

robbed and down-trodden farmer,
every liberal-minded intellectual and
professional should support thé
press that is not only free from,
but fichting, the interests whick
control the press that Mayor Dore
speaks of.
* = * *

In our part of fhe

world, the papers that
fill the bill in that con=
are the “B.C. Workers!
News” and the “Clarion”’ “Bust
ness” will not help finance them,
will not put up any $50,000 funds
or sponsor any radio broadcasts for
them, because ‘business’ is class-
conscious.
suffer from “business” and its
thieving and starvation policies will
support these papers, but many of
these sufferers need quite a little
encouragement. If you are one of
them get behind the October Drive:
Send your donations to Ol’ Bill and
boost that $100 quota. Only tyo
weeks to go!

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Watch here next week for the
story of “Three Women.”

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