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oF
The Election of Roosevelt

LACK REACTION in the United States received a setback

: last Tuesday when the people defeated the Hearst-Landon-
Coughlin-Lembke-Al Smith-Liberty League-Black Legion attenipt
to gain control of Congress and the White House.

Roosevelt was re-elected by the largest majority ever received
by a presidential candidate. actors in his sweeping victory were
the determination of the people to have nothing to do with the
reactionary gang which had made the Kansas governor its eandi-
date, the support given to Roosevelt by organized labor, and the
engaging personality of the candidate. be :

The repudiation of the candidate of fascist reaction by the
voters does not mean, however, that reaction is made powerless.
Tt is good that it received the defeat at the polls. But its defeat
by no means signifies that the enemies of the people and democracy
will cease activity. The present’ struggle in Spain abund-
antly proves that. As soon as the Rights were deteated in the
Spanish elections, they began their gangsterist murders and

+ provocations, refusing to recognize the mandate given to the
People’s government, and plotted the open armed rebellion which
with the aid of foreign powers and with foreign troops they have
been carrying on for three and one-half months.

Tt would he folly, too, to think that Roosevelt will do anything
to curb the machinations of the gang he defeated at the polls.
During his occupancy of the White House he retreated before
every attack of big business reaction and permitted the Supreme
Court to annul his legislation without a struggle, although the
power to curb the power of the nine judges is in the hands of the
President and the Congress he controls. _

The struggle against rising fascism 10 the U.S. will haye to
be carried on without the help of Roosevelt. Reaction wall have
to be combatted every day, and to do it effectively requires unity
of all progressive forces and the building of a Farmer-Labor party
to assure the carrying on of the struggle in Congress, the State
legislatures and in municipal bodies.

The British Municipal Elections
HE LABOR PARTY suffered a defeat in the municipal

elections in England a few days ago. The capitalist press,
and the Conservative press in particular, is jubilant.

A defeat for such an important party as the British Labor
Party is extremely unfortunate. And yet nothing else could be
expected, for the policies and leadership of leaders of the party
such as Sir Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevan have brought the
party to such a pass that the workers and common people gen erally
do not regard it, as at present led and with its present policies,
as an alternative to the Conservative party. Bee

The Labor Party has consistently supported the fascist-inclined
Wational Government, and supports it today, on all major and
vital issues. It wavered on the question of the appleation ot
sanctions against Italy; and when the government hypoeritically
eame out for limited sanctions the Labor Party executive affected
to believe in the sincerity of Baldwin & Company while stubbornly
refusing to mobilize the masses in support of the application of
working-class sanctions. :

The Executive professed to believe in Hitler’ s ‘peace’ offers.
‘And, most criminal of all, it supports Baldwin’s fake neutrality
on the Spanish issue. The Labor Party leaders have rejected
working-class unity in favor of practical unity with the reactionary
government, which means unity with the forces of reaction, war

fascism. :
te face of all this, is it surprising that the Labor Party is
losing the support of the masses ? No doubt Citrine and Bevan
thought that the united front might lose them votes. They are
learning that their refusal of the united front 1s not only losing
them votes, but, if persisted in, will ruin their party, a calamity
that no creation of labor knights and lords will atone for.

Unionize the Port of Vancouver!

CTING on the basis of a ten-to-one vote on negotiating a
new agreement for Pacific longshoremen, the joint negoti-
ating committee of the maritime unions, which includes Dis-
trict 38 of the International Longshoremen’s Association, ordered
strike action on October 29 on the Pacifie Coast by all unions.
‘As a result of the stubborn action of the minority of the big
shipowners against conceeding to the just demands of the mari-
time workers, and utilizing the deadlock to torce bigger subsidies
out of the government, thirty-seven. thousand men haye been
‘forced into strike action on the Pacitic. ee

‘Aside from the workers directly involved on the Pacitie, a
similar number of marine workers are on sympathetic strike
in the Gulf and on the Atlantic seaboard, with a greater number
indirectly affected in relative industries—lumbering, shipyards,
teamsters, ete. In every Pacifie port the strike is on im all
reality—that is, except Vancouver.

The issues of the strike affect Vancouver! :

The new agreement will cover Vancouver, and the fight to
secure this agreement is the fight of Vancouver jointly with
the rest of the Pacific ports. Lhe strike order of District $8 vn-
cludes Vancouver and Victoria

Yet Vancouver I.L.A. Local 38-126 has barely reached a
technical declaration of strike action- Victoria 1.L.A. local has
responded to the strike call and is picketing the waterfront.
Vancouver I.L.A. officials are playing a Shipping Federation
game and working, consciously or unconsciously for turning Van-
couver into an open port for the Shippime Federation. Such a
situation would be a disgrace to all union men on the Pacite
Goast. These I.L.A. officials in Vancouver not only have done
nothing to further the interests ot their organizations, but worse,
they elected a “strike” committee and then proceeded to esoey)
all U.S. ships that this local worked that did not touch US.
ports, but which unloaded “railhead” cargo in Vancouver dis-
tinctly for U.S. Pacifie ports. ae é aoe

Later these officials had the “strike” commuttee abolished
altogether, and a “aonduct” committee set up with its power re
stricted and subordinated to themselves.

MEN AND MOUNTAINS
—By M. iin.

To write simply on any subject
it is necessary to have a mastery
of the subject, and to have the
ability to express knowledge in
plain, non-technical language. In a
previous work well known in this
country, the Soviet Primer, Tlin has
demonstrated this, and in this won-
derful story of man’s victory over
mature he has carried on in the
Same way.

Throughout the ages man has
been on earth he has had to wage
a continual struggle against the
forces of nature, a struggle for exist-
ence, of which nature, if not
checked, would have deprived him.

The victory Of humanity over na-
ture is far from being won out,
but in the Soviet Union socialist
science is winning battle after bat-
tle. It has already ascertained that
the deserts and famine areas were
not caused by “Sun spots,” nor vet
by “peasant psychology.” They re-
sulted from poor agriculture in days
gone by, and to the lack of social
planning in previous system of so-
ciety. Socialist science plans to re-
move the causes of famine, to con-
vert deserts into agricultural gar-
dens, by altering the course of great
rivers, by constructing enormous
reservoirs, and perhaps in the fut
ure by controlling the fall of rain.
Wothing is impossible to socialist
science because it moves to its goal
inspired by the desire for human
betterment; profit - making, the
yard-stick of all capitalist science,
has no place in its achievements.
Wo one brain is responsible for the
planning of science in the land of
the Soviets. No one brain is big
enough; it is the collective brain
ef hundreds and thousands of sci-
entists that is responsible.

Some Soviet scientists are breed-

ity, for “The fundamental laws of
inheritance are exactly the same
for flies and for elephants and for
horses and for peas and for wheat
and for human beings.’ With the

heritance it is expected to produce
domestic animals and foodstuffs,
of any size, shape, color, Sex, oF
quality desired. Already beyond the
Arctie Circle potatoes, turnips and
cabbages are being grown to feed
the workers there.

However, to derive the utmost
benefit from science the whole
structure of society must be al-
tered: everything must be changed,
including human nature.

It is seldom that a book is en-
countered worthy to be labelled
“masterpiece,” but “Man and Moun-
tains” is such a book. It should be
read by everybody. In a short pre-
face Maxim Gorky says it is “a
prose poem about what is actually
happening at the present time.”

Qn sale at the New Age Book-
shop, Price $2.50.—T.M.

The New Pictures

How the New Film Alliance sizes

them up:

Big Broadcast of 1937: Cast from
Leopold Stokowski, Philadelphia
Symphony leader, to Gracie Allen

makes a surprisingly good musical.

Daniel Boone: Gets by as a west-
erm. As history, it doesn’t stand a
chance.

The Bic Game: Hollywood gets
hold of a first-rate writer (Irwin
Shaw of the anti-war play, Bury the
Dead), and hides his light under a
bushel of nonsense about college
football. Regular fall routine.
Follow Your Heart: Kind of plot
that sits down and rests while the
east sings. Marion Talley’s sereen
debut not a great success.
Magnificent Brute: If you think
steel mills are “lovely,” and that
the men simply ‘‘adore’’ their work
and are treated like cute, though
naughty, children by the foreman,
then you'll be crazy about Victor
MacLaglen in this film. But if this
sounds Jike hokum, youll find the
picture pretty much soft soap for
U.S. Steel.

Help For Spain And Six
Months’ Subscription

Editor, B.C. Workers’ News:
Please find enclosed my subscrip-
tion for six months. I regret being
a little behind but you must put
it down ot old age and the difficulty
out in the country to find money.
T like the paper and the way you
speak up for the poor.
T am enclosing a mite for the poor
workers of Spain; it may help to
save the day.
Yours sincerely,

Sam Ligeins.

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| Book Review| 19

understanding of the laws of in-|

Years Of Soviet Power

By BECKIE BUBAY EWEN

“The U:S.S.R- is a Socialist State
of workers and peasants,’ so pro-
claims Article 1 of the New Soviet
Constitution. The nineteen years of
struggle of the workers and peas-
ants of the Soviet Wnion has
brought about this realization. A
whole people, 160 millions, have been
elevated from acute poverty, i-
literacy, race hatred and exploita-
tion into a socialist classless society.

Two Worlds

November 7, 1936, gives evidence
to an ever sharper degree, to the
mighty contrast between two worlds.
On the one hand the capitalist
world, where unemployment is still
rife, where millions battle for bread
and the young generation faces de-
struction. Wages fall while living
eosts rise—and the danger of war
like the sword of Damocles hangs
over the lives of millions.

In countries like Germany, Italy,
the Balkans, fascism has wreaked
untold liavoe. Want and terror stallx
the land and its best sons and
daughters lie dead in the cemeteries,
or rot in concentration camps, while
the war sabers of fascism rattle in
their readiness for attack and de-
struction.

What a contrast does the socialist
world of the Soviet Union afford to
this! Nineteen years of Soviet power
has Jed to the establishment of
socialism in the Soviet Union. The
capitalist and kulak classes have
been eradicated from the Soviet
seene. New socialist cities, factories,
collective farms on an unprecedent-
ed scale have been set up—the toil-
ers lot has been improved from day
to day. There is worl for all—a re-
markable rise in living Standards,
tremendous educational and cul-
tural development, a happy youth,
a freed womanhood, all facilities of
child welfare, races, nations of di-
verse customs and religions, living
and working in harmony, side by
Side, their full national aspirations
fulfilled.

The success of the first Five Year
Plan, and remarkable accomplish-
ments of the four years of the
second has already put into effect
Stalin’s words: “Socialism means
not poverty and privation, but the
abolition of poverty and privation,
the organization of a well to do and
cultured life for all members of
society.”

Soviet Democracy is Genuine
3 Democracy

The triumph of socialism over all
eapitalist forms and elements in the
U.S.S-R. laid the basis for the new
Soviet Constitution. At a time when
fascist forces mobilize throughout
capitalism, destroying every vestige
of liberty in the countries over
which they have control, and in
other countries striving to curtail
every democratic right and to foist

fascism onto the people—at this
time when bourgeois democracy
battles for its very existence, SO-

VIET DEMOCRACY EXTENDS TO
ALL STRATA OF THE POPULA-
TION, TO ALL POINTS OF THE
TERRITORY THAT MAKES UP
THE U.S.S.R. The new Soviet Con-
stitution grants to all its citizens
the right to work and receive -pay-
ment in accordance with work
performed, a seven-hour day, the
right to rest through paid vacations,
full education, full equality for men
and women, for all nations and
races. It grants complete freedom of
speech, press and assembly by put-
ting at the disposal of the toilers,
all the printing presses, newspapers
and radios, the right of organiza-
tion into trade unions, ete., the in-
Violability of the person from ar-
rest except by court decision, the
right of asylum of those persecuted
abroad for defending the toilers’ in-
terests, In the U.S:S.R. there is
now universal franchise to all citi-
zens over 18, direct elections, secret
ballot, equal representation and
right of recall of elected representa-
tives. WHERE ELSE CAN SUCH
DEMOCRACY BE FOUND?
Communist Party Leads to
These Achievements

This democracy, these achieve-
ments could only be brought about
through the leadership of the Com-
munist Party of the Soviet Union,
and its leaders, Lenin and Stalin,
through the great mobilization of
world support organized by Commu-
nist International and its Commu-
nist Parties throughout the world.
The workers of the entire world
now know that socialism is a real-
ity and a success, a living example

for all countries to follow. They
know now that only socialism can
bring genuine democracy. “We do

not,” says Stalin, “build this society
in order to restrict personal liberty,
but in order that the human in-
dividual may feel really free. We

build it for the sake of real personal

ferences.

vember §.

Victoria and unoticial delegates f
all have unanimously endorsed the spirit of umity and desire
for action that characterized these conferences. The central point
of these conferences was to establish full jurisdiction of the
i-iA. in the Port of Wancouyer.

The officials of Local 38-126 neither desire nor work for this
jurisdiction, and consequently oppose the work of these con-

haye already been held and representatives of the I.L.A. trom

rom Wancouyer attended and

A third conference will be held this coming Sunday, No-
In spite of local I.L.A. sabotage the conference is
assured of the support of many rank and file [-L.A. men. These
rank and file I.L.A. men know that only through militant action

liberty without any quotation
marks. It is difficult to me to im-
agine that ‘personal liberty is en-

joved by an unemployed person who
oes about hungry and cannot find
employment. Real liberty can exist
only, where exploitation has been
abolished; where there is no oppres-
sion of some by others; where there
is no unemployment and poverty,
where a man is not haunted by the
fear of being tomorrow deprived of
work, of home and of bread. Only
in such a society is real, and not
paper, personal and all other liberty
possible” (Stalin—Interview with
Mr. Roy Howard). It is the Party
of Lenin and Stalin that has built
socialism and whose tactics is build-
ing the front of the people against
reaction, the world over.
Socialism Means Peace

While the main capitalist nations
are feverishly creating the condi-
tions for war—headed by the fascist
war incendiaries Germany, Italy and
Japan; the Soviet Union pursues
persistently its peace policy. A so-
Cialist Society whose main aim is
prospertiy and happiness for its
people, who has no need for agrand-

disment or other people’s  terri-
fories, has as its foundation the
policy of peace. The U-S.S.R. has

therefore not only spread the philo-
sophy of peace amone its own peo-
ple, but has persistently fought for
this in its foreign policy. The Soviet
Union has striven with might and
main to brine pressure to bear on
the League of Nations for the pres-
ervation of world peace and for col-

lective actions against agsressor
nations.
The forces of reaction in the

Capitalist world hate and fear the
Socialist U-S.S-R. They see in its
achievements a threat to their whole
capitalist fabric. That is why the
fascist nations are mobilizing their
fascist bloc for a new world war—
they desire to attack the U-.S.S.R.
and to prevent all the progressive
currents that it has unleashed—

they desire to destroy

ter-reyolutionary elements,

the Soyiet masses.
Communist Party Urges
Immediate Unity in the Struggle
The struggle in Spain today

Montreal fascist bands

meetings of
Spanish government,

lence and practise it

the single boys demanding
and settle the problem of

THE HOUR, not only

all vestiges
of democracy within capitalist coun-
tries so that capitalist rule may be
perpetuated and the peoples of the
world be reduced to the positions of
real slavery. In this vicious scheme,
they ally themselves with alk coun-
such as
the Trotskyists who plan the as-
sassination of the great leaders of

is
precisely on these issues—shall fas-
cism or democracy triumph? These
issues are very real to the people
of Canada and British Columbia. In
with the
support of the authorities prevent
representatives of the
threaten ‘Yyio-
lence to radicals, bait Jews. In B.C.,
the MciInneses and the agents of
shipping interests preach open vio-
on workers’
leaders (Hmery). The provincial and
city authorities jail by the hundred
relief
unem-
ployment wtih batons and tear gas?!
UNITY IS THE VITAL NEED OF
on the im-
mediate daily issues, BUT AGAINST
THE WHOLE PROGRAM OF FAS-
CISM, REACTION AND WAR OF

By
OL’ BILL

A GEL d and 11 of the C.P.of C. in
Lead! the Salmon Arm district
don’t want this column to cease.
They think it has some value, his-
torically and
like the exposure of the fascist
mouthpiece, McInnes . . - so well
in fact, that they send in $5.00
over and above the quota they have
to raise. A young girl up the Coast
sends in two-bits “i just made
eutting hair.” Go thou and do
likewise for the last lap!
3 _ Alas, the poor camel!
Pow Walk Wot the camel that
2 foes ten days with-
out a drink, but the poor, long-=
suffering camel from the dry and
arid deserts of Trail, the camel
that has its back broken by the
last straw being laid on in bales.
S. G. Blaylock, general manager
of B.C.s biggest industrial plant
bemoans the hardships of busi-

THE CAPITALIST CLASS. THE messes like his and sees nothing
DEFENSE OF ‘THE SPANISH gbene oi him but the breadline or
GOVERNAGEINT IS OUR) DE: | "Sets Sewers ony the se
FENSE. That is why the Commu- Wencouwer Tees =

nist Party urges today more than
trade unions,
farmers, all sections of the common
with them in
FRONT FOR

ever that the C-C.B.

people get together
one PEOPLE'S
PEACE AND PROGRESS.

The Soviet Union points the way
peace and prosperity.
The unity of the common people of
of the world is the
on
the the Soviet Union, for the pres-
and

to socialism,

Canada and
best guarantee against ~ attack

ervation of democratic rights

away what little profit is left in
many industries,” sighs this modern
Job, so it is time for us ordinary
people to shed such tears as we
have left, to pour out gobs of sym-
pathy for the down-trodden, tax~

dated M. & 8. Go.
Last year (1935) the Consolidated
only made $4,306,559 in profits, a

not per cent) per) $25.00 share. A
Shylock rate of $2644 per cent
They paid $1,150,000 in taxes which

The members of units 10

educationally and ~

ridden G.P-R. sideline, the Consoli-

measly percentage of $6.61 per (no,

pte ee

These oticials ; eee
They allege that Local 38-126 1s too weak to do anything

or unions ‘not on the job.”

Whatever their motives may be, the fact remaims that im
the efforts of many I.L.A. rank and file members and
Tndustrial Union and other unions
88-126 are wilfully
and the orders of

spite of ee
appeals from the Seatarers rial |
for militant action, the officials of Local
sabotaging the strike of the maritime worlers
District 38, I-L.A.

Long before negotiations finally reached a deadlock, and an-
would call for drastic action, long-
shoremen, seamen, lumber workers, fishermen and workers from
relative industries held a conference to devise ways and means orp
of unionizing the Port of Vancouver. Two of these conferences 5.C.

ticipating a situation that

follow a typical dogin-the-manger attitude.
j itself,
and refuse point blank to accept assistance from longshoremen

with their brothers in the U.S. will the I.L.A. in Vancouver be
come a real force for union conditions.

They know that as a part of the I.L.A. and with a victory in
the present struggle, the I.L.A. can become a real union in Van-
couver. They also know that separated from the struggle ot their
brothers south of the line, their union will go down to deteat
before the attacks of the Shipping Federation which, with its
agents inside and outside of Local 55-126, are working for an
open port. 3
Sunday's conference, with the full support of all maritime
unions. of unions in relative industries, and with T.L.A. men
who desire to follow the lead of District 38 I.L.A. against the
wishes of a small coterie of reactionaries, will set itself the job
of placing the I.L.A. on the watertront 100 per cent by mobilizing
maritime workers for real strike action.—T.£.

for the coming of socialism.

Health Insurance Act And
| How It Works In Practice

C

By TOM EWEN

The “Health Insuranee Act” in-
ausgurated during the last session of
the B.C, Legislature is now the law
of the land, productive of consider-
able reaction and discontent.

The statutory ‘‘contributions”’ de-
ducted by employers from their
workers, ranging from 35c to 75c per
week are raising a storm of protest
in logging camps, department stores,
and business enterprises of one sort
or another. The average worker can-
not understand just how such arhi-
trary checkoffs from his or her pay
envelope can be termed ‘“‘contribu-
tioms,’”” nor can they see very clearly
just what benefits are to accrue
from these ‘‘contributions.”” They
can see, however, that such deduc-
tions constitute an annual wage cut
ranging from $25.00 to $50.00 and
over, with no deep-goinge feeling that
their health and well being has been
in any way insured against the
changing rigors of industrial life or
statutory impoverishment.

“Beneficiaries” Pay

Most people today coming under
the broad category of the workings
class desire some system of health
insurance. Six years of un-
precedented economic crisis have
worked havoc among wide sections
of the toiling people. Unemploy-
ment and its consequent poverty
have left a deep imprint upon adult
and child populations in most B.C.
communities. The reports of various
medical boards and eminent doctors
bear eloquent testimony to the
wanton sacrifice of health and life
on the altar of profit. It was out of
Such conditions that the need and
desire for an adequate Health In-
surance System for B.C. developed,
and which prompted the lPattullo
Government to legislate the present
“Health Insurance’ caricature into
beings. Aside from the questionable
value of the “Insurance” provisions
to those within its scope, THE
VERY PEOPLE WHO STAND IN
MOST NEED OF HEALTH IN-
SURANCE ARE EXCLUDED. Agri-
cultural workers; domestic servants;
easual employees; part time em-
ployees, ete, are all excluded from
the “benefits” of the B.C. Health
Insurance Act. Greater precaution
is made within the Act to exclude
people from the business of insuring:
their health and well being than to
bring them under its protecting (?-

ernor in Council consisting of five
persons is constituted to administer
the Act. The chairman of the Com-
mission is appointed for a term of
seven years and will receive a sal-
ary ranging from five to seyen
thousand dollars per annum. The
other four appointees on the Com-
mission will devote as much of their
time as is necessary to the service
of the Commission, and will receive
anything up to twenty-five hundred
dollars per annum. Out of these
four one may be appointed a vice-
chairman, which will entitle him to
three thousand dollars per year.
Five people at least in B.C. are
thus reasonably “‘insured”’ under the
provisions of the Act.

A “Technical Adyisory Council’’
of six people may also be appointed.
These shall include the Provincial
Health Officer, a member of the
Workmen’s Compensation, Board,
and a Medical Doctor. These are
appointed for a term of five years
and shall “be paid out of the fund,
the amount of the travelling and
other personal expenses necessarily
incurred by them im the discharge
of their official duties.’’ A director
of Medical Services shall also be
appointed at a fixed salary. Seven
other persons are therefore reason-
ably sure of being “insured” under
the provisions of the Act. Bene-
ficiaries do not mind administrative
costs if the acerued benefits come
somewhere near, in relative import-
amce, to the ‘‘cost’” of administra-
rtion, Many workers faced with the
compulsory necessity of “‘contribut-
ing” 2 per cent and over from their
pay envelopes haye a feeling that
the administration will be another
parking space for liberal heelers,

Eeonomy the Watchword

The Commission has a wide range
of duties; it shall make such regu-
lations it deems necessary to ad-
minister and enforce _the Act; it
shall see to it that sick people hay-
ing claims as insured persons shall
recuperate sufficiently rapidly to
file their claims or take the chance
of being gypped out of their rights
under the Act; and to superyise gen-
erally the “Health Insurance Act”
in such a manner that the cost of
keeping people alive and well will
never exceed (to the State) the
minimum cost of burying them.
The duties of the Commission as set

= = ; : forth in Sec. 29 of the Act, give
shelter. This fact hardly reflects |4mpie indication that ‘‘@conomy™
credit on the originators of the Act, |.4q not the spirit of the good
nor shows any sreat concern OD | Samaritan will be the motivating
their part for the health and well| force in the execution of these
being of the people of B.C. What anaes

concern is shown is tempered by the
eyer present question of COST,
which the present Health “Insur-
ance’ Act, like kindred experiments,
has been fastened upon the allegea
“beneficiaries.”

Administration

(Continued in next issue)

TORONTO. — (FP) — Stock Ex
changse gamblers may eneounter a
picket line around their headquar-
ters if Toronto asbestos workers and

A “Health Insurance Commission’ |laborers are not given their de-
appointed by the Lieutenant-Goy- | mands.
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SPAIN SPEAKS

Hear the Delegation from Spain!

HONGRABLE MARCELINO DOMINGO—President, Republican
Party of Spain and former Minister of Education.
SENORA ISABELLA DE PALENCIA—Spanish Ambassador-elect
to Sweden and delegate to Assembly of the League of Nations.
A. A. MacLEOD—WNational Chairman Canadian League Against
War and Fascism. :
AT THE

AUDITORIUM

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 95, 8 P.M.

Auspices: Spanish Defence Committee

WELCOME THE SPANISH DELEGATION AT THE
C.P.R. DEPOT ON SUNDAY, NOV. 8th, at 9 A.M.

the anti-labor Blaylock thinks
should have gone into the pockets
of the shareholders, mostly the
C.P.R. This would have raised their
Shylock profit rate to over 33 per |
cent, which means that they would
get the total value of their $16,-
000,000 poison plant returned te
them in three years. The workers
who produced the taxes as well as
the profits would not benefit either
way. '

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Offer. the ball is over.”
What “ball’? Does he think that
the one hundred thousand B.C,
workers and farmers and their
wives and kiddies who have been
starving to death for the last six
years, living on a “skinned-to-the-

‘We must realize,”

in a joy festival that has been a
long continuous dance? The only
dance they have been taking part
in has been a dance of death,
-If Blaylock wants “economy” let
him and his boss and partner, the
glorified panhandler, Sir Edward
Beatty, do the economizing. I am
willing to make Blaylock a sporting
offer; if he turns the profits of the
Trail Smelter over to the “B.C,
Workers’ News,” we will gladly pay
the taxes and relieve his mind of
that worry, and we would pay with
pleasure if the money went to feed
the brave youngsters who are
filling the Vancouver jail today for
selling flowers on the streets.
A well-functioning union at Trail
would also help Blaylock some and
the Trail smeltermen might again
be able to send $500 to help the
striking miners of Fernie and Coal
Creek as they did in the days whsn
Ginger Goodwin was leader of their
union.
sé In Vienna, in 1931, ft
Three 55 had the pleasure of
Women. seeing a Soviet film
for the first time, “‘The Blue Ex-
press,” a story of the Chinese Revo-

lution. For me, no matter whet
improvements will ever be made in
Soviet films; no matter what

changes are made, technically or in
personal artistry, “The Blue Ex-
press” will always remain my ideal
of a picture. But it will never be
shown in Canada short of the estab-
lishment of a Soviet government

This, however, will not prevent
me from heading for the Little
Theatre some time during the com
ing week. This film, which his-
torically fixes the part played by the
working-class women of Soviet
Russia in the successes of the Revo-
lution, is in every way an improve-
ment on the previous work of the
Soviet producers and players. All
women still suffering from. capital
ist slavery here should go and learn
from ‘Three Women” how the
Soviet women won the greatest
freedom yet enjoyed by the human

race.
= i was asked twice
A Witness yesterday why

From U.S.S.R. Angus MacInnis
was refused admittance te the
Soyiet Union, Why I should be
asked, I don’t know, but I sup-
pose Mr. MacInnis was mot ad-
mitted because his passports were
not in order, 2 condition that was
entirely in his own hands.

Tom Barnard has just come back
from a trip there. He had no trouble
whatever and he has some very in=
teresting things to tell. Ata time
when the Vancouver press reported
Stalin to be in the Gaucuses dying;
Barnard met and shook hands with
him at a football match in Moscow,
looking healthy enough for another
fifty years.

Tom, being an ex-servicemen, was
naturally interested in the Red
Army and attended the manoeuvres
at Minsk that made such an im
pression on the representatives of
many of the imperialist nations. He
also was amongst the few who were
able to get into the court-room dur-
ing the trial of the eounter-revolu-
tionary. Trotskyites. But you had
better go to the Colonial Theatre
or the Labor Temple, 805 Pender
Bast, on the evening of November
8th and hear his story from his owt

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lips.

says Blaylock, “that ~ {

bone-economy” have been indulging ~