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Demand the release of the Youth
who are imprisoned because they-
demand food, and compel the
boss class to give them relief?

Published Weekly

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1936

Single Copies: 5 Cents

SS VOL. IL, No. 42

-FULL NO. 94

IZE

Liberals Get
Benefits Of
Work, Wages

Matsqui Applicants Are
Browbeaten to Keep

Off Relief

MATSQUI, B.C. Oct. 28.—The
rettenness of municipal administra-
tion in this district is beine= well
€yidenced, since a relief investicator
has been employed. His duties ap-
pear to be to Keep four families off
relief each month in order to make
up his own salary.

Recently a farmer who had lost
his farm through inability to meet
payment and taxes, and was em-
Ployed on road relief work, was
eut off for two months because his
wife had, in her name, a few dollars
in the local bank, which had been
given to their child, by friends, to
buy clothes and school equipment.

Applicants for relief work are
being cross questioned, cajoled,
brow beaten and fooled, in an effort
to keep them from obtaining relief
work, S

One employee of the taxpayers,
who is also recosnized as a prom-
inent land holder in the district, has
secured a position as straw boss on
the new road now being built by
Contractor Arnoit, at a reported
Salary of $6 per day.

Others appiyine for work on the
Same road are questioned if they
are acquainted with some person,
usually a member of the Liberal
Association, and if they know a cer=
tain member of the council, another
Liberal.

i= the applicants can not prove
themselyes a Liberal they are told
to apply at the Municipal Hall,
ten miles over hill and dale. How
to get there is the applicant’s own
business. Hyidently the only persons
employed on the new road project,
are good party heelers. As is the
municipal stool-pigeon. Evidently
this is a sample of the promised
Work and wases profram.

‘Go To Hell’

Sick Man Told

Russell Has More Con-
cern For Job Than
People’s Welfare

“As far as I am concerned you
can go to hell,” stated J. Russell,
Provincial government relief investi-
Sator at Hamilton Hall, on Monday,
to Allan McKinnon, who asked him
what he was soinge to do now that
he has been refused relief.

McKinnon was declared unfit by
Provincial Wealth Clinic doctors
Jast winter when sent there upon
application for relief. He was given
three months’ relief at that time
only on the doctor’s recommendation
that he be taken care of, or sent to
the hospital

Two weeks ago he re-applied for
assistance and was stalled off until
Friday when he was again sent to
the health clinic for a medical ex-
amination, and again Doctors Simp-
son and McDonald found him unfit,
diagnosing his ailments as inflam-
matory rheumatism, weak heart, and
Stomach disorders, adding that he
would have no trouble about getting
relief.

Condition Serious

The man’s condition is considered
serious by the physicians who
warned him that unless he is very
careful, he would not have yery
Jong to live, as pleurisy or pneu-
monia would be too much of a shock
to his system and would prove fatal.

McKinnon has been a resident of
this province for the past ten years,
and until last year was the operator
of a filling station on (Seymour
street.

On Monday he went to Hamilton
Hall where Russell reviewed and
rejected his application, at the same
time giving no reasons for the re-
fusal but stated that he would lose
his job if he gaye the man relief,
and as far as he was concemed he
could go to hell.

‘The Rey. A. Roddan has promised
to aid in getting the man relief,

Worker In Quebec
Sends $10 For The
Spain Defence Fund

From far away Quebec, the home
of reaction, comes a ten dollar bill
for the Spanish Defence Fund. The
letter, in part, reads as follows:

“Please find enclosed $10 for
the Spanish Defence Fund, this is
my donation to the heroic defend-
ers of Spain.

“Sincerely,
Rimouski, Que.

This acknowledges receipt of the
money, which has been turned over
fe the Spanish Defence Committee,

F. BH. MeM-?

Dowt Want Fascism

When Sir Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts tauntingly tried to march
through London’s working-class and Jewish districts, 100,000 anti-
fascists turned out in a counter demonstration.- The fascist march
was banned after police proved unable to handle the situation.

Other Concessions

Won by Men

Settlement of the six weeks’ old
strike at Robertson’s Bakeries was
effected Tuesday with the signing of
@ union agreement by the manage-
ment of the company. The men re-
turned to work Thursday.

Wages in the case of some of the
employees in the Shop were doubled,
a raise of 100 per cent. Other con-
eessions won by the men are that
15 scabs hired to break the strike
will be discharged, recognition of
the union, a 48-hour week, no dis-
crimination, and the men to work on
a@ 30-day trial at set wages, pending
the pick-up of trade which depreci-
ated more than 75 ner cent during
the strike period. -

Thus terminates a strike which
the bakers and drivers claim was not
merely a dispute between them and
Robertson’s Bakeries, but also in-
volved the Western Canada Milling
Company and ’other large eastem
concerns.

Sisnal Victory Won

Appeals and threats which ap-
peared in large advertisements in
the daily press intended to stampede
the men back to work fell far short
of their objective, but on the con-
trary, only renewed the energy of
the strikers to shut off the balance
of trade unless the company were
willing to negotiate on some terms.

The strike was called on Septem-
ber 19 upon failure of the company
to fulfill their promises of a ten
and a five per cent pay increase,
made over a period of 18 months
when the price of bread was raised
on two occasions.

The men are elated-over their vic-
tory, and state that the way is now
open to unionize the entire industry.

Coincident with the settlement of
the strike, was the signing of a
union agreement by Cowan Dodson’s
Bakery, while Robertson’s strikers
Were negotiating terms with their
employers.

MeGavin'’s Bakery is also a union
shop, and others are in the process
of organization.

Labor Unions Give
Steel Moguls Jitters

PHILADELPHIA. — (FP) — Steel
moguls, jittery over labor organiza-
tion prospects, are asked by the
Natl. Metal Trades Association: ‘‘Are
you sure that the line contacts in
your plant transmit te you the in-
formation you should receive about
your workmen and their problems?’
The subtle warning to oil up the in-
dustrial espionage apparatus is part
of a program for “industrial co-
operation under progressive man-
asement.’”” Inspirational “‘messages’’
to the workers, of the type written
by the publicity man and Signed by
the president, are typical of the
Sunny side of the program.

Signed Union Agreement

Ends Ban On Robertson’s

Wage Increases And/FARM JOBS FOR
SINGLE JOBLESS

Arrests, Jailings Con-
tinue Despite Cabinet
Promises

VICTORIA, B.C. Oct. 28—Tem-
porary relief is held out as bait to
some 300 single unemployed in Van-
couver pending their placement on
prairie farms at $7.50 per month.

The Hon. G. S. Pearson, Minister
of Labor, told a delegation headed
by the Rev. Willard Brewing, who
appeared at the parliament build-
ings today on behalf of the men,
that there were thousands of farm
| jobs on the prairies, and the govern-
}ment was willing to render tem-
porary aid to the men.

Jack Phillips, representing
Single Unemployed Protective
sociation and the jobless men ar-
rested for selling flowers, was de-
barred from the cabinet meeting by
the labor minister on the grounds
that only “citizens’’ could be al-
lowed to present the case of the
men.

The delegation asked that prose-
cution of the men be suspended,
pending an agreement as to their
Status. The cabinet promised con-
Sideration of the request.

Arrests and jailing of single un-
employed men continued through-
out the weelx here, despite a promise
by the cabinet in Victoria to con-
Sider suspension of prosecution.

Approximately 190 men have been
convicted and sentenced to terms of
imprisonment ranging from 10 days
to three months, on various charges
of “obstruction” and “obtaining
meals by false pretences.”

Wo less than 300 men have been
arrested since police under instruc-
tions of the City Council started
their reign of terrorism against the
jobless for selling flowers on the
Streets without a license.

Of this number many have been
arrested on two or three occasions.
Wine men are still awaiting trial on
charges of “rioting” arising out of
the attack made on them by police
at Hamilton Hall, where they had
gone in support of a delegation.

The men have been represented
by Gordon Grant, legal ecounsei for
Canadian Labor Defence League.

Market Board Seize
Potatoes At Mission

MISSION, B.C., Oct. 28—On or-
ders of the B.C. Coast Vegetable
Marketing Board, all stores in this
city were searched and every sack
of potatoes was confiscated.

The potatoes were secured locally
from the farmers and used by them
in exchange for foodstuffs.

Now potatoes cannot be accepted
by the storekeepers, nor can the
farmer tender them in exchange
for other goods.

the
As-

New Zealand Seamen Want

Inquiry Of “Coffin Ships”

AUCKLAND (CGSH). — Under-
manned, loaded down to the scup-
pers and insured to the masthead, a
special type of “coffin ship’ is
operated by the New Zealand owners
in the coastwise trade which has al-
ready taken the lives of many sea-
men. Most of these ships are scows,
up to 30 years old, which the owners
have equipped with modern motors
too strong for the ‘rotten hulls
These ships are driven on rapid
Passages from port to port in the
interest of profit.

Despite their abominable condition
these ships get a so-called “Home

(Certificate from the government
which allows them to operate in the
coastal trade.

Under conditions such
accidents must happen
later. Only recently one of these
floating coffins, the “Kaia,” disap-
peared with all hands. As usual an
enquiry was made, and as usual this
enquiry revealed not the sea-un-
worthiness but collision with wreck-
age as the cause of the loss.

Through their Union, New Zea-
land seamen are demandine a real
enquiry into all circumstances and
with the representation of the

as these
sooner or

Union on the Enquiry Committee.

TwoArrested
AtEvictionOf
A.L.Sanberg

Thirty Police Vacate Sick
Man and Family
In Burnaby

BURNABY, B.G., Oct. 27.— Two
men, Phil Gibbons and James Nice,
were arrested here today on charges
of “obstructing” and ‘assault,’ re-
spectively, when the sheriff, assist-
ed by Provincial Police, carried out
the eviction of Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Sanberg from their home at 3318
Neville Stret.

Thirty Provincial Police, with six
cars and two motorcycles, arrived at
10 a.m. this morning, under com-
mand of Cpl. Dunn to enforce the
eviction being carried out without
molestation of an anti-eviction com-
mittee.

Sanberg, who has just been ‘re-
leased from hospital, stood in front
of his locked door, when the sheriff
demanded that he yacate the prem-
ises in the name of the law, this
Sanberg refused to do, askine= the
sheriff if he was working to protect
interests or people.

PICKETS ASSAULTED.
When Sanber= and Gibbons re-

fused to move the full force of
thirty policemen advanced across
the lawn and roughly pushed a

crowd of twenty-five citizens out
to the sidewall.
Gibbons and

dled roughly,

Sanberg were han-
and Gibbons thrown

to the ground, handcuffed, clubbed
and placed under arrest, charged
With “obstructing police’’ James
Wice. who came on the scene

about that time, was pounced upon
by five police, clubbed and placed
under arrest, charged with ‘assault
on police.’ Bail has been set at
$1500 in each case, and the Cana-
dian Labor Defence Teague enlisted
to defend the men.

The anti-eviction committee will
hold a protest meeting on Sunday,
at 2:30 p.m., in the Jubilee Hall.

SOVIET UNION
LODGES PROTEST

Japanese Increase Ten-
sion with Border

Viclations
MOSCOW, Oct. 28. — The Soviet

foreign office today authorized its
ambassador at Tokio to pretest to
the Japanese Government against an
invasion of Siberia by Japanese and
Manchukuoan troops.

The abrupt action increased ten-
sion between Japan and the Soviets,

as a result of recurrent frontier
clashes in the Far East in recent
months.

The Kremlin asserted two armed
detachments of Japanese and Man-
chukuoan troops crossed the fron-
tier into Siberia and attacked seven
Soviet patrols not fair from the vil-
lage of Touriedog, near Khabarovsk.

FISHERMAN DIES IN
COMOX SUNDAY

The Fishermen and Cannery
Workers’ Industrial Union re-
egrets to announce the death in
Comox Hospital on Sunday last
of one of their most loyal mem-
bers of Deep Bay local, O. Han-
mingson. Funeral services will be
held in Courtenay, on Friday,
October 30. :

ThroneSpeech
Is Evasive

Work and Wages, Un-

employment Are Not
Mentioned

VICTORIA, Oct. 28 —wWith all. the
pomp and mummeries that go with

Such doings, the legislature is
again in session.
The “Speech from the Throne”

was remarkable only for its evasive-
ness. The slight upturn in industry
in the province was attributed to
the government which offers no pro-
gram for unemployment. The old
“work and wages’ bunk appears in
another form, with vazue references
to a “useful and necessary pro-
Sram of public undertakings.

The CCF. opposition is sadly di-
vided as a result of the Connell bolt,
and unless the Warring groups fet
together Pattullo will have easy
Sailing.

ITALIAN WORKERS
WIN FIRST PRIZE

In the press drive for their paper
‘Il Layoratore,’ organ of the pro-
Sressive Italians in Canada, which
Jasted from August 15 to September
30, the local Italian Workers’ Club
captured first prize in the national
competition by obtaining 43 sub-
scriptions to the paper.

SPAIN DELEGATES
TO SPEAK HERE

Three Spanish emissaries, fresh
from the theatre of the civil war
now raging in Spain, and from
large meetings in New York, To-
rente and otner eastern cities,
are scheduled to speak for their
people at the Auditorium, Den-
man at Georgia Street, on Mon-
day November 9.

At the New York meeting, where
20,000 people attended, $10,000
was subscribed to assist the
Spanish government stamp out
the fascist rebellion. Five thou-
sand dollars in* pledges and sey-
eral items of jewelry were also
contributed.

Despite a downpour of rain,
11,000 Toronto citizens packed the
Arena Gardens in Toronto and
eontributed $4,000 to the cause of
the Spanish people.

The delegation is composed of:
Hon. Marcelino Domingo, Senora
Isabella de Palencia, and Rev.
Father Euis Sarasola, a Fran-
ciscan priest.

FAMILY OF FIVE
REFUSED RELIEF;
IN LAW'S TOILS

Vasrancy and Begging
Charges Laid To

Parents

Hailed into Police Gourt on Tues-
day, on a summons charging them
with ‘vagrancy’ and ‘begging,’ Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Puyda were re-
manded until the following Monday
for hearing, in the meantime they
must secure an affidavit from a
elerie or justice of the peace, from
the parish or district in which the
alms were solicited, stating that
they are destitute.

The parents with their five small
children were taken to police head-
quarters last Saturday, from the
Hastings street side of Woodward’s
store, where they were collecting
funds for their own maintenance.
They were later taken home by
police and no charges were laid
against them then. ,

Relief has been consistently re-
fused this family by autocratic of-
ficials, although they have been in
this province for over two years,
Mr. Puyda having worked on rail-
way extra gangs until laid off last
spring.

In order that their children
should not suffer unjustly and to
bring their plight forcibly to the
attention of the public, the parents
have taken their children, with
placards and collection cans onto
the downtown streets on three oc-
casions,

The family were arrested on ‘ob-
structing’ charges on September 19,
and were given Six months’ sus-
pended sentence a week later.

Relief Refused;
Ex - Serviceman
Takes His Life

Jack Garrity, whose body was
found by police last Saturday when
they smashed in a door of a room-
ing house at 208 Union street, was
refused relief by the local authori-
ties.

The deceased was an ex-service
man and a former inmate of Relief
Camp 205, White Rock, and other
camps throughout the province. He
came to town six weeks ago and at-
tempts to get on the relief rolls
met with failure.

Last Thursday night in company

with a few of his former * camp
mates, he told them that he was
leaving town, but little did his

friends think that Garrity, who was
a moody person, would retire to his
room and end his life with gas.

Spain and brave leader of

liberal press of America, is more

Speaks Sunday

A. A. MacLEoOD
who will speak on the World
Peace Congress, the Leasue of
Wations and Madrid, at Moose
Hall, Sunday, November ist at
2 p.m.

MADRID MAY BE
FASCISTS’ TOMB

Caballero Declares Govt.
Has Essentials For
Victory

MADRID, Oct.,. 28—Possibilities
that this city will become the tomb
of the fascist rebels is contained in
an announcement by Largo Cabal-
lero, premier of the Spanish Re-
public, that the sovernment has
everything essential for victory.

Government radio stations car-
ried the news to the population not
to be alarmed if many planes ap-
peared over the city. “They will be
our planes in ‘review formation’,”
stated the announcement.

Troops and civil population cried
with joy when informed of the
news.

Largo Caballero’s appeal to make
Madrid the temb of Spanish fascists
has been answered in part by the
world’s workers.

Radio reports from London an-
nounce that 19 rebel planes were
shot down out of control in Spain,
Monday.

Mutinies among rebel troops in
the north are assuming large scale
proportions. Moorish troops, unac-
eustomed to the rigorous winters in
the Spanish mountains are demand-
ing to be returned to Morocco.

TERRORISTS BURY
SOCIALIST ALIVE

OKLAHOMA CITY.—(FP)—T he
harrowing story of how Jack Bays,
prominent Oklahoma Socialist, was
buried alive inside a coffin for an
hour and a half, and then dug up
unconscious, is told by Oklahoma
Labor. Bays was the victim of a
secret terror society which resented
his outspoken views against fas-
cism. The order seeks to gain con-
trol of labor unions and church

and fraternal groups.

24-Hour Truce In Maritime
Dispute Averts Coast Strike

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29.—Ten-
Sion of the impending Pacific Coast
strike of 37,000 maritime workers
scheduled to take place Jast miud-
night, was eased today with a 24-
hour truce after an all night ses-
sion between ship-owners and a joint

Committee of the Maritime Wedera-
tion of the Pacific.

SN; stiations are progressing fav—
orably,”’ stated a communication to
all district council, and “unless by 9
p.m. no satisfac y arangement is
reached, the strike will take effect
at midnight.’

Four major West Coast steam-

ship companies remain the stumb-
ling block to a peaceful settlement
of the dispute, and if a strike is
called it will be against the Dollar,

American-Hawalian, Swayne & Hoyt

and Matson lines.

Tentative agreements
reached with the Sailors Union of
the Pacific, and the Marine VFire-
men. Other agreements are expected
with the Marine and Stew-
ards.

All unions demand that azgree-
ments be reached with all affiliated
unions of the Maritime Pederation
of the Pacific before any agree-
ments are signed.

Shipping companies term this the
stumbling block in the negotiations,
but should member unions sign sep-
arate agreements it would be just
What ship-owners want, to split the
Maritime Pederation wide open.

Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast J.L-A.
president, stated the terms favorable

have been

Cooks

but could not be accepted unless
working agreements have been

Signed with other unions.

S, HEED CABALLERO’S TRENCHANT APPEAL!
a on Aid =
pain, Defeat Fascism;

Our Turn May Be Next

ROM hesciged Madrid, freedom’s proudest citadel on earth

at this moment, comes a personal appeal to America from
the veteran trade union chief, Largo Caballero, now premier of
a brave people in their hour of greatest
need. This sioned article, forwarded through Pierre van Paassen,
Federated Press correspondent on the battlefront, to the labor and

than a newspaper scoop. It may

well become an historic document, for the forces commanded by
Caballero are fighting not only for Spain’s freedom, but in the
long run, for Franece’s, England’s and America’s.

1 By LARGO CABALLERO

Premier of the Spanish Republic

MADRiID.—(FP)
Paris)—Through the Federated
Press, I address myself to the
working class, the liberals and the
intellectuals of North America. The
monster of international fascism,
which has turned half the nations
of Hiurope into dead souls without
spirit or vision, is stretching out
its bloody claws to Spain as the
next prize.

A group of oath-breaking of
ficers, who have stolen the defen-—
Sive equipment of the Spanish.
state, are murdering, looting and
terrorizing the masses of Spain.
Deprived of the right to purchase:
weapons through an unjust inter—
national blockade, the forces of
freedom in our country neverthe—
less have twice hurled the enemy
back from the gates of Madrid_
For a third time, but now supported.
by tens of thousands of Moorish.
soldiers, foreign bombing planes,
artillery, tanks and machine guns,
the military fascists are closing in.
on the capital.

Will Sooner Perish

Comrades, Worth Americans,
sons of freedom, we can make
Madrid the tomb of fascism if you
help us! We have sworn that we
Shall sooner perish than become
Slaves. I abjure you: stand by us!
Do not believe our enemies who
seek to poison your minds with
atrocities committed by our heroic
militia! Believe me when Tf say. that
we have dealt at all times most
Senerously, too generously per-
haps, with our enemies. We have
heaped benefits upon the heads of
the very generals who are today
in arms against the republic and
who swore to uphold democratic
institutions,

Friends, each hour that passes
men and women in the jails of fas-
cism are being tortured and ex
ecuted for no other reason than
that they wanted to live a decent,
human life with bread, peace and
liberty for themselves and for their
ehildren. Friends, fascism is turn-
ing Spain into a cemetery. More
than 50,000 helpless non-combatants
have been slaughtered. Shall it so
on? You give the answer, workers
of North America! cae gee

Spread the Appeal!

I appeal to you to pave the way

for an understanding of our cause.

— (By Air to

In your factories, shops, forests
and mines, in your schools and
universities, spread the message

that fascism is busy assassinating:
a whole people. Pass the word
along: from Spain will begin the
victory over the sory monster that
seeks to turn mankind into the ab-
ject misery and slavery of the
middle ages. Let your voice be
heard, workers of North America!

You may depend on it, North

American friends, fascism will not
pass in Spain. There are still four
millions of us to fight to the last
drop of blood, for our own freedom,
for the well-being of our children,
but also for your sake. For if we
go down, your turn comes the
sooner.

I appeal to your working class
solidarity. I appeal to the instincts
of freedom in the great American
people. IT appeal to your hearts and

See HEED CABALLERO

Youngs Communists
Rally Support For
Single Unemployed

Reacting to a call from the Pro-
vincial Executive of the Youngs
Communist League the branches
throughout the city are holding a
series of mass meetings to culmin-
ate in a city-wide meeting at the
L0.0.F. Hall at Sixth and Main
Street on Friday evening, Nov. 6.
At the latter meetine prominent
C.C-F. and Communist youth speak—
ers will be present.

Public meetings have already
been held by the East End branch
at the Orange Hall and Ukrainian
Labor Temple. Fairview branch
held a public meeting in their hall
at 16th Ave. and Main, addressed
by J. Phillips of the SU.P.A., H
Christie of the ¥.C.L. as well as by
a youth just out of Oakalla. Point
Grey, Grandview and Mount Pleas-
ant branches will hold supporting
meetings during the next ten days.

The Young Communist League is
circularizing the most prominent
youth organizations asking that
they join them in their efforts to
secure justice for the single un-
| employed.

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