2 Page Two B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Wovember 13, Forced To Suspend, ‘Always Ready Appeals For Assistance Orders For 2,000 Copies Needed! The issuance of the “Always Ready” magaizne for chil- dren has had to be suspended for a time due to lack of response to the proposal that the magazine be sent out on the basis 6f cash orders only. The management, however, at the insistence of the chil- aren themselves, has decided to appeal to the workingmen’s arganizations throughout the country for help in getting the distribution organized, which will enable the magazine 40 appear again, beginning with the Christmas number. To make this possible, orders for at least 2.000 magazines, paid up in advance, will have to be sent in by November 30. : The “Always Ready?’ management appeals to the work- ingmen’s organizations throughout the country and to the women’s organizations particularly, not to let the only labor magazine for children go out of existence, but to take in hand themselves the task the children’s groups (they of collecting the orders from can pay at 1 cent per week) and to place their orders with the management of the magazine. Send all orders to Room 11, 18 Grenville Street, Toronto. LARGE AUDIENCE (Continued from page 1) $1500 had been contributed. Ajthougzh Senor Domingo spoke n Spanish, his speech being trans- fated by Senora de Palencia, there was no mistaking his remarkable oratorieal ability. “Jy, defence of democracy, the Spanish people defend a universal idea. World democracy will be the victim if Spanish democracy is de- feated. The dictatorial powers are united to enchain us. BUT SPAIN WILL BE THE GRAVE OF FAS- GISM. The great mistake of the fascist nations was when they ex- pected to find a weak democracy in Spain,” he said in conclusion of a brilliant speech, while the audience rose to its feet and cheered him to the echo: “We are not defending land but an idea. Long live demecracy,” he con- eluded, In her speech Senora de Palencia @utlined clearly conditions leading up to the fascist uprisng against the government. She charged that the non-intervention pact Was a2 monstrous agreement putting a con- stitutionally elected government on the same basis as disloyal generals. Tascist forces, she said, had tre- ceived from fascist nations all the Modern factors of war, while the government, lacking these things, was prevented from obtaining them. “Although we have no arms, We gre still fighting, hoping to wear out our enemies,’ she declared amid applause. Democracy vs. Fascism the Issue She denied that the delegation aad come here with the purpose of mducing the Canadian government Eo send arms to Spain. They were here at the invitation of the Cana- Gian Committee to aid Spanish dem- ocracy. “We are simple Spaniards representing a ljepitimate sgovern- ment.” ‘We are not Communists,” she said. “The word Communist is used only to frighten people, to mislead them, The people of Spain are fight- jng for three things, democracy, jiberty and peace.” Immediately upon the conelusion of the meeting, held under the au- | spices of the Vancouver Spanish Defence Committee, the delegates, aecompanied by A. A. MacLeod, left for Seattle... HELD OVER! For One Week Gnly! 5 Shows Daily RUSSIAN DIALOGUE ENGLISH TITLE 7 MUSIC D SHOSTAMOVITCH oars (hindayTy) BABOCUKIN: EEE EINRERESDISTIeaLe SED ° Wow WORK bGEELD FRBUNE INSISTENT THOUSANDS DEMAND IP! Afternoon 25¢c Evening 30c LITTLE THEATRE OPEN LETTER TO CARIBOO To All Workers and Farmers in the Cariboo: You have done well to build up your press in this recent drive. The task now is to maintain and eyen increase that circulation. It can easily be done. This opportunity is taken to thank all those who actiye- ly helped to make the press drive so successful in our district. Wo ereater demonstration of your solidarity can be shown with your Spanish working class brothers and sisters; who are so bravely defend- ing their rights with their very lives, than by building up and main- taining your right—a press of your own, in your own interests. The workers’ greatest need is unity, and your press contributes more to the uniting of the working Class than any other factor. It not only keeps you_ informed, but it is the basis of all unity. Your press is your most vital, most important democratic pos- sion, guard it with everything you have, is the earnest appeal of,— Your Newsboy. Cariboo, Nov. 10. VICIOUS AUTHOR NOW CONVERTED “Daily News’’ Editorial Writer Visited Soviet Union CHIGAGO. —(FP)—He came to Russia, he saw and was conquered. That is the frank confession Of Victor Yarros, former editorial writer for the Chicago “Daily News” and author of a book denouncing the Bolshevik regime in Russia. He went with Dr Rachel Yarros, his wife, to the Soviet Union last sum- mer and he was, he told the Chicaso City Club, October 26, “impressed and thrilled,” though he still has some reservations. With his approval the City Club Bulletin reported his talk in the fol- lowing words: “Byery door was opened to him and he talked freely with people in all walks of life, from hotel cham-— bermaids and chauffeurs to high officials of the state. He said he was impressed first by the fact there is no unemployment in Russia. When a boy or girl finishes his edu- cation a job is waiting for him; he does not wait for the job. “There is no such thing as pri- vate charity in Russia, he said. The eovernment undertakes to care for all who are in need. Medical care free to all, as education. It was truly inspiring, he said, to see a whole nation at school. Free edu- cation extends even to advanced training in such professions as jaw, medicine and engineering. “The purpose of the press, as wel cate, he said. Sensationalism 1s as of all the magazines, is to edu- unknown. Russia also a nation of debaters, Mr. Yarros found. Every question may be freely debated and any person may be eriticized whether he be a factory boss or Stalin him- is iS is nee Cars Idle: | | Patrons Shiver There's big profits in transporta- tion, and operating expenses are kept down to a Minimum, provid- ing some 2,400 people can be { jammed into a two-car train and a single street car, or wait until such times as the E.C. Eleetric gets around to dispatching more cars to take care of the situation. That's exactly what happened Monday night after the meeting in the Auditorium. As the crowds poured out of the building, they were confronted with taking either of the two cars which were already jeaded beyond capacity and still waiting for more passengers, or Wait out in the cold. Many motormen and conductors are only working part time, and street cars are standing idle in the car barn, yet people are subjected to this sort of treatment. The service was worse that parti- cular night than is usual when meetings or sports are held in the Auditorium. Perhaps the B.C. Elec- tric’s sympathies for fascism in Spain had something to do with it. Words of Wise Men Fascist Father Coughlin, in Aneust: “I will discontinue radio broadeastinge if I do not swing 9,000,000 votes to Lemke.” Dirty Willie Hearst, November 2: “The race will not be close at all. Landon will be overwhelmingly elected and I'll stake my reputation as a prophet on that.” H. L. Mencken, March: “The Re- publicans can beat Roosevelt with a Ghinaman or even a Republican.” To which may be added the Lit- erary Digest poll. "WE SHALL PASS’ CRY LOYALISTS Cabinet Now Includes All Parties Fighting For Democracy MADRID (FP) — With republican forces increasingly supplied more modern war equipment, a sroup of militiamen recruited from: the printing trades have put for- ward the slogan: “Pasaremos’ (We Shall Pass) in place of the defensive slogan, ‘No Pasaran’” (They Shall Not Pass). To the list of courageous and re- markable women whom the crisis in Spain has brought to the world’s attention is now added Wederica Montseny, novelist and prominent Anarcho-Syndicalist writer, of Cata- Jonia, who becomes minister of health in the new Madrid cabinet. The new cabinet, which brings into the government for the first time representatives of every ele- ment fighting for the defence of the republics, includes four representa- tives of the National Confederation of Labor and the Anarcho-Syndi- calist tendency. Hitherto their tra- ditional abstention from polities had kept them aloof from governmental participation. ‘Their present deci- sion is historic in its implications. Other syndicalists receiving port- folios are Juan Peiro, industry; Gar- cia Oliver, justice; and Juan Lopez, commerce. Now provincial autono- mists, Basque Catholics, left repub- licans, socialists, communists, and anarcho-syndicalists together direct war policies as the suburbs of Ma- drid become the battlefront. Other women playing an import= ant role in the defence of the re= public are Margarita Nelken and Tsobel de Palencia, Socialist depu- ties (the latter is now touring the U.S. and Canada) and the Commu- nist deputy, Dolores TIrriburi, bet- ter known as La Pasionaria. Wife of an Asturian miner and leader in the 1934 strugel in that province, Tia Pasionaria is at the front, pas- sionately exhorting the militia to even greater heroism. The corres- pondent, M. BH. Halton, has recount- ed how through her efforts three machine-gun posts were recaptured in a recent engagement. HOW TO RUIN AN self. Wen and women have complete equality, Mr. Yarros noted. The abolition of restrictions on minori- ties was another development that Wr. Warros said he had been unpre- pared for. So certain is the goyv- ernment of the loyalty of the people Commercial Dr. & Georgia St. F Street Gars: Nos. 4 or 14 PEN ee Like Hell and 918 Granville Street 7 Sin PES pS SSRIS PS a THIS ube Westinghouse’ - lop yen | New Small MEIKLE ELECTRIC 1010 Dayie Street Radios and Tubes 9OH909909 0099609 it’s Put it back DOMINION HAT CO. Manufacturers of Custom Built Hats Also Modern Cleaning & Blocking Plant WEEK’S -T -Tube Silver Marshall Cabinet - - - - 1987 Model Radios Down Payment - - Tested Free in Your Ho that in the proposed new eonstitu- tion the mght of any minority group to secede from the union has been written in.” Yours get one from Vancouver, B.C. sues & SPECIALS! from $45.50 up. Easy Terms. & RADIC SERVICE Phone Sey. 9025 me. b $$4440000400-6060 ORGANIZATION (A GUARANTEED METHOD) 1. Miss as many meetings as pos- sible; if you do attend, come late. > We sure to find fault “with other members who are trying to promote the work of the organiza- tion. 3. Decline all offices, as it 1S easier to criticize than to work. 4. Get sore if you are not put of a committee or, if appointed, do not fake any interest and do no work. 5. If asked your opinion, say you haye none, but later tell others what ought to be done, 6. Do as little as possible and when others roll up their sleeves to help matters, howl because of the “clique” running things. 7 Don't bother about getting new members; let others do it. 8. Start a whispering campaign in order to discredit honest and sin- Hs | cere members who are working day * [eee night to strengthen the organi- zation. 9. Keep in arrears, don’t pay dues, and watch tite orSanization So to smash. E a WORKERS ILL-FED SHANGHAT, China.—Living con- ditions of the workers of Shanghai have become so bad that even the Wedical Association has been foreed to take cognizance of them. According to a report issued by the Association, Chinese work- ers in Shanghai are greatly under nourished | | | | with | Joint Press A Smashing Success Prize Awards te ke Made at Wind-up Dance in ; Orange Hall The joint B.C. Workers’ drive will officially close at a dance to be held in the Orange is. been a huge success, not only from a financial viewpoint, for circulatien increases have been made far exceeding Hall Wednesday, November that of any previcus drive. The Central Press Drive Committee requests that Mass Organizations, Trade Unions and District Press Committees each select one of their members to be present at the November These representatives of the different organizations will Orange Halil, Wednesday, constitute the committee in All prizes will be awarded both to organizations and indi- viduals at this affair. The next issue of the B.C. complete story of the standing of each organization and individual, as well as a list of the prize winners. rive is News-Clarion Weekly press The October drive has 18 at 6:30 p.m. charge of all prize awards. Woeorkers’*News will carry a Health Insurance Act And How It Works In Practice (Continued from last issue) “Contriputions~ The employers are authorized un- der the Act to deduct from the wages of his employees a Sum ap- proximatinge 2 per cent which “‘shall not be less than 35¢ per CONTRI- BUTION WEEK,” and “shall not exceed 75c per contribution week.” In cases where a worker may have half a dozen bosses in one week in search for ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,’’ the Act pro- vides that he will not be assessed more than thirty six dollars in any one year, of which sum he will be legally relieved by his numerous casual employers. These casual em- ployers, all lumped together, are liable only to a total contribution of eighteen dollars per year, for his welfare. It is a forez=one conclusion, that being a ‘“‘easual” employee, he will be mulcted the full statutory amount of fifty-four dollars. Exemptions from these contri- butions and from the provisions of the Act may include workers re- ceiving salaries over eighteen hun- dred dollars per year; workers cov- ered by company union insurance schemes; workers who are members “inegood standing’ of the Christian Science Chureh ,etc. In all other cases the ‘contributions’ are com- pulsory (2) (you must lay aside Webster and take up Pattullo), and are obligatory since the employer is empowered to deduct them from your paycheck. Non-payment of these contributions carry penalties ranging from ten to five hundred dollars, and “each day’s continuance of any such violation shall constitute A new and distinct offence.” Benefits The benefits under the “Health Insurance Act” are varied; pre-natal and maternity treatment for women with surgical and specialist treat— ment merits the widest approval and support; hospitalization, s-ray, diagnostic and other limited serv- ices are provided. Yet the “Health Insurance Act’’ is only a skeleton of what is needed to assure the people of a rich Province a minimum of medical aid and attention when needed. In the citation of benefits the Commission has wide powers of limitation. It is typically capitalist to prescribe that a person shall re: ceive hospital maintenance “for not more than ten consecutive weeks for any one illness.’ It is held to he utopian to insist that a person should receive medical and hospital treatment until he or she is well and strong. By setting a time limit on sickness and accident in relation to “‘benefits’’ the Health Insurance Act becomes a heartless absurdity, with a counting-house cbjective. These formulations negate the good features of the Act and require drastic amendment. Sickness and in- jury are not matters that can be les- islated, nor can “cost” be the cen- tral factor in their reduction to a minimum. It is precisely this feat- ure of the Act that has embittered sO many people against its pro- visions, plus the faet that it reduces medical science and medical slall, remuneratively speaking, to the status of common labor. Through any one, or a combination of all of the methods embodied in the Act for determining what a doctor shall be paid, no doctor shall be paid, “more than five dollars and fifty cents per annum per insured per- son eligible to receive benefits.” One ean hardly blame the bulk of the medical profession for disap- proving of such “Health Insurance,” or of giving indigent patients scant attention. The humanitarian char- acteristics of the Medical profession has sustained a severe blow by the Health Insurance Act, but in the jargon of the Pattullo Government, the medical profession must accept the $5.50 per annum per person oT be “penalized” for refusing. The B.G. Health Insurance Act as it Stands is 2 striking monument to capitalistic “incentive,” and pro- vides a sturdy safeguard against the medical profession becoming too concerned in human welt: The question is beine asked, is to be done about it? Lh TKLONDI > from 7 9999999999 9099O90909 e AED OF portant essential is the transforma- tion of the present Skeleton of 2 Wealth Insurancé Act INTO A GENUINE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT COVERING ALL CATE- GORIBS OF PEOPLE UNABLE TO PROVIDE NECESSARY AND ESSENTIAL MEDICAL AND HOS- PITAL TREATMENT FOR THEM- SELVES AND FAMILIES IN THE EVENT OF ACCIDENT OR SICK NESS. Amendments to bring in all these categories of workers at pres- ent exempted by the provisions of the Act should be forwarded to the legislators in Victoria. Amendments that will terminate the present “contributions” deducted from the pay envelopes of workers for the creation of a Health Insur- ance, Fund, and said Fund to be built and maintained BY A DIRECT CHARGE ON INDUSTRY AND THROUGH A CAPITAL LEVY, placing the burden where it can and should be borne—on the back of the rich. Amendments that will provide, that the only qualification for all medical, surgical, hospitalization, orc other scientific treatment, IS THAT THE PERSON IS SICK OR IN- JURED AND IN NEED OF SAME: Amendments that will give rea- sonable assuranee to the medical profession, that short of the Social- ization of Medicine, their remunera-— tion will be determined by the yard- stick of service to the sick and in- jured, and not by the pecksniffiam pennywise rule of the Victorian. changers. , : But Trade Unions, mass organiza- tions, factory workers, confronted with the payment of the first “con- tributions” Should act now. Protest eyery deduction made from your pay envelope to this eye-sore of a Bill. Formulate needed amendments and send them to the Pattullo Goy-— ernment and to the G.C.F. M.L.A.’s in Victoria. The latter having the assurance of your support will be better able to press for the needed changes, and more likely to Secure them if mass support accompanies their efforts: , -There is no longer any argument about the need of a genuine Health Insurance Bill, this is conceded by the evidence of half a decade of extreme poverty and its con- sequences’on one hand, and on the i936 —s Q.RebBpeer The Ruiing Clawss = ae By REDFIELD “Tell him he’ll find half a chicken in the garbage pail.” The New Pictures How the New Film Alliance sizes them up: LIBELED LADY: Sparkes merrily in the light of four stars, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, William Powell. THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE: Not particularly true to history, but an exciting account of events preluding the famous ride of the 600 into the Valley of Death. EAST MEETS WEST: George Ar- liss as a sultan who outwits the British in their colonial aspirations (could they really be fooled?) LEGION OF TERROR: How Black Legion and Klan organiza- tions can gain a foothold on Ameri- can soil and terrorize whole com- munities by control of jobs, news- papers and lynch mobs. Will give you a jolt. LADIES IN LOVE: Too many stars can spoil the heayenly broth. Joan Bennett, Janet Gaynor, Lor- etta Young and Simone Simon fight for husbands. Not up to expecta- tions. KAIFENG, Honan Province, China. — Drought conditions in Kaifene are becoming increasinely worse. According to reports there is at present a total of five million refu- gees. The areas affected include 51 hsiens with an area of more than 100,000 square miles. ho BALLROOM * 6 Nights a Week x Prize Drawing Monday and Friday 3 ) RENDEZVOUS | Cor. Hastings & Homer OLD-TIME DANCING —/ IT PAYS ... to relax with a book. SOUTH MAIN Exchange 4191 Main Street e BROADWAY WEST 8027 Broadway West 6 WEST END A. T. Rowell 420 Robson Street ANTI-JAP FEELING RUNS HIGH IN CANTON PROV. CANTON, China —Anti-Japanese feeling in this city is still running high. The following slogans ‘were posted around the city in com- memoration of the fifth anniver- sary of the Mukden Incident other by the imitation at health in- surance by the Pattullo government. Throush the concerted efforts of workers’ organizations in the trade unions and through parliamentary eroups, allied with many members of the medical profession, A GENU- IND HEALTH INSURANCE BILL CAN BE EVOLVED THAT WILL PLACE THE BURDEN OF COST WHERE IT RIGHTFULLY BE- LONGS—on the back of those whose excess profits are the root cause or the mass poverty and exploitation that makes such legislation a burn- ine necessity. Tm all the modern States, sickness and injury Sustained in industry directly or indirectly, is a STATE matter. The Pattullo sovernment recognized this fact (n principle) when it evolved the present Health Insurance Act. What it did not rec- ognize, was the fact that it (the eovernment) could not caricature this principle in reality and at the same time fill the requisites of the people of B.C. FORWARD AMENDMENTS THAT WiLL PUT REAL SUB- STANCE AND OBJECTIVENESS INTO THE B.C. HEALTH IN- SURANCE ACT. Appellate Court Reverses Decision CHICAGO.—(FP)—Im a decision of crucial importance, the Illinois appellate court, reyersing a state in- junction judge in 4 United Shoe & Leather Workers’ Union picket- ing case, held that there is such a thing as peaceful picketing and ing is not necessarily a conspiracy to injure the employer's business. Employers will probably appeal to KE FRIDAY and SATURDAY, NOV. 13th & 14th to 12 p.m. MASS MEETING Friday, November 13th at 8 p-m. DANCE Saturday, November i4th, 9 to 12 p.m. ORANGE HALL Corner Gore and Hastings PRESS the state supreme court. >Oeo