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VOL. I., No. 44

Sailors Block Move

Atlantic Coast Men Want
Same Conditions as
on Pacific

VICTORIA, Noy. 11.—lLongshore-
men were effectively stopped today
from beardine the American Mail
Liner President Jefferson by the
erew, who chased the longshore
Seabs off the ship.

The vessel has been here for the
past week, and no efforts were made
to unload her cargo. until today, but
with the crew refusing to give steam:
and not allowing anyone else on
board, and a larse throngs of sympa-—
thetic longshoremien on the docks,
the attempts were abandoned.

Vancouver, where scab deep-sea
Men are workins, was mentioned as
& possible port of call for unloading
the cargo, but the crew refused to
take the ship in.

The Jefferson proceeded to Seattle
With her cargo still in her hold.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12. — As
the maritime strike of the Pacific
Goast enters its third week and the
tie-up of more than 150 vessels Zot
under way, widespread support
comes from the Atlantic and Gulf
Coast ports.

Forced to strike when the ship-
Owners broke off negotiations and
launched a policy designed to tie up
Shippine for at least four months,
marine unions have maintained a
constant vigil with strone picket
lines from Alaska to San Diezo and
Honolulu.

More than $3,000 workers are out
in one of the greatest maritime
#eneral strikes in American history.
On the east coast the seamen and
longshoremen Who at first yoted
to strike in sympathy are now
turning their attention to demanding
the same working conditions as pre-
vailed on the Pacifie Coast prior
to the strike.

Vancouver maritime workers are
bendinse every effort to assist their
brothers across the line, that is,
With the exception of the scabs
who broke the strike here last sum-
mer.

A series of conferences haye been
called by representatives of the ma-
rine unions in an endeavor to find
Some way of aidine the U.S. strik—
ers. Nothing definite has been
agreed on, with the exception that

-cargo shipped in here by rail and
leaded on ships is declared “hot.”

BUCK RETURNS
FROM EUROPE

Will Tour Dominion For
Cause of Loyalist
Spain

TORONTO, Noy. 10.—Tim Buck,
Seneral secretary of the Commu-
nist Party of Canada, arrived back
from a three-week sojourn in war-
torn Spain today, and will immedi-
ately start on a tour of the Do-
Minion to raise funds for the loyal-
ist cause.

The Communist leader spent sey-—
eral days in the trenches with the
loyal Spanish militia, and even
had the pleasure of takine= some
Shots at the fascists.

Threats of his arrest, when he
Janded on Canadian soil, started by
“Phe Globe’ and blared forth in all
the Canadian dailies, failed to
materialize, because all the neces-
Sary Passports and permission was
Sranted Buck before he left Can-
ada, according to Norman Ireed,
Provincial secretary of the party.

Buck will start his tour here with
& meeting in the Mutual street
Arena. Places and dates of his
itinerary will be announced later.

Wo immediate end to the war in
Spain was seen by Tim Buck, who
Stated that while Madrid may . fall
to the fascists the struggle for
democracy will continue.

Fascists Aim To

Blackmail France
And Great Britain

WASHINGTON — (BP)—FPascist
Italy and Nazi Germany aim,
through the new  Italo-German
esreement, to blackmail France and
Great Britain into political and
economic concessions, according to
the current bulletin of the Foreign
Policy Association. The agreement
Provides for collaboration of the
two countries in all matters ‘‘affect-
ing peace and their parallel inter-
ests, defense of Buropean civiliza-
ion against communism, economic
Cooperation in the Danubian re-
Sion, Wazi recognition of the con-
quest of Ethiopia for which she is
to receive concessions there, and
maintenance of Spanish territorial
integrity.”

Matthew Woll Protests

NEW YORK —(CGP)—America’s
broadcasting networks <- have re-
ceived letters of protest from Chair-
man Matthew Woll of the Labor
Chest for Relief and Liberation of
Workers of Hurope concerning re-
ports of plans to bring Nazi youth
breadcasts to America. :

_ To Discharge Cargo

Rioting Trial
Continues At
Assize Court

Maze Of Contradictory
Evidence Heard At

Proceedings

Evidence in the case of nine un-
employed men facing charges of
“riotinge”’ arising out of a pbdlice at-
tack on them at Hamilton Hall on
Tuesday, Oct. 13, now bein= heard
in the Assize Court before Mr. Jus-
tice Manson, is of a contradictory
nature. :

Andrew Blygh, director of relief
at Hamilton Hall, gave the police
eredit for the common sense they

used, but at the same time stated
that sueh credit stopped when the
mé€n were attacked with tear gas
and clubs as they came out of the
hall.

Fred Grange, who is conducting
his own defence, was identified by
Fred Henry Fletelier at the Assize
Court, but could not identify him at
the preliminary hearing in the poa-
lice court.

Grange stated that possibly auto-
sugeestion or his subconscious
mind had been working in the time
between the preliminary. hearine
and the trials.

Witnesses are not definitely sure
of whether clubs were carried, or
who carried them; nor are they sure
ot who shouted commands, although
they state Grange was one, but did
not see him.

Axchibald Webb, clerk at the relief
office, stated he had heard Grange
Shout “Let's go! Let’s smash every-—
thine!” Under cross-examination,
Webb admitted that he had said at
the preliminary hearine that some-
ene had said those words, but last
Friday had changed that ‘‘someone”
to Grange.

The trials are continuing and the
Case is expected to so to the jury
mext week, Eight men are being de-
fended by Gordon Grant, counsel for
the Canadian Labor Defence League.

Fascist Groups
Busy In Interior

Fascist groups have been formed
in at least two Okanagan centres,
ixelowna and Vernon, and fascists
are orgzanizine in other parts of this
province, according to Harold Grif-
fin, Vancouver journalist, who has
just returned from a speaking tour
of the Interior.

Activities of fascists in BG.
seem to bear out recent reports in
The Mail and Empire, Toronto
Conservative organ, that strong
fascist groups have been established
in many Canadian cities, states
Griffin. Two branches of the organ-
ization have headquarters in Mont-
treal and Winnipeg, while provin-
cial groups are conducting carefully
Planned and secret recruiting cam-
Paigns throughout Canada.

Griffin addressed meetings at
Kelowna, Vernon, Salmon Arm,
Kamloops and Mission under au-
spices of the Spanish Defence Com-
mittee.

UNION CAFES

Two more city cafes have been
added to the list of unionized res-
taurants; they are The Busy Bee
on West ‘Cordova street, and the
King’s on Carrall street. These
cafes now display the union card of
the Hotel and Restaurant Em-
ployees.

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Isobel Ge Palencia,

publican leader.

Telling the Truth About Spain

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eS Seen

Over $1,500 was raised for medical supplies when the delegation
from the Spanish government spoke at the Auditorium and an over-
flow at the Moose Hall, Vancouver. Seated from left to right: Mme.
Minister-designate to Sweden;
Sarasola, Catholic priest and scholar, and Marcelino Domingo, Re-

Father Luis

SAN FRANCISCO—A minority
group of shipowners headed by T.
G. Plant of the American-Hawaiian
Line, are responsible for the present
tie-up of the marine industry on
this coast the unions Joint Nego-
tiating Committee charged in a Jet-
ter to Admiral Harry G, Hamlet,
Maritime

representative of the U-S.
Commission.

The charge was made as 26 major
lines, includine foreign operators,

agreed to grant longshoremen and
checkers a renewal of their agree-
ments, plus increased Wages and
preference of employment.

“This should convince the coim-
mission that a niinority group,
headed by T. G. Plant, desires a
tie-up in the maritime industry,
regardless of what may result,”

Minority Shipowners Held
To Blame In Coast Tie-up

the committee charged.

“When we also consider that
the foreign steamship lines men-
hioned cannot count on any part
of the hundred-million-dollar sub-
sidy to meet the extra operating
expense occasioned by this latest

offer, and that the steamship
lines moost determined there
shall not be a peaceful settle-

ment, except on their own ternis,
expect to receive subsidies that
will take care of all the extra
costs occasioned by the funda-
mental demands of the seafaring
unions, we can ascribe no other
motive for their attitude than +o
undermine and destroy our unions.

“®Phis, all the unions are firmly
determined shall not happen.”

CAMPAIGN 10
FREE JAILED
YOUTHS GROWS

Send Prisoners’ Mite to
Help in Struggle
Against Fascism

The 180 unemployed in Oakalla
Jail again showed their determina-
tion to carry on their militant strug—
gle, undaunted by prison bars, when
they sent out two dollars to the
Spanish meeting at the Auditorium.
They still refuse to accept farm
jobs or transportation instead of
Serving their prison terms.

Inaugurated by the S-U.P.A_ de-
fense committee, a wide defense
movement, organized to free them,
is springing up. Prominent citizens
are being interviewed and many
have promised their support. Rev.
Dr. Brewing, Dr. Lyle Telford, Dean
Armitage, Grant MacNeil, CCF M.P..
and the officers of the Canadian
Labor Defence League are taking a
leading part in building the broad
defence movement,

The flower selling campaign, now
discarded, helped to feed the men
and it was a splendid means of pub-
licising their plight to the citizens ot
Vancouver and of applying pressure
on the authorities.

The men, now numbering 150, are
Soliciting from door to door and can-
vassing the beer parlor patrons

Legislature Rejects Move
To Set Domestics’ Wages

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Harold Winch Moves For

Protection Of
Workers

VICTORIA, Nov. 10—Attempts
by Mrs. Dorothy Steeves, C.CF.
MiL,A. for Worth Vancouver, to
include the domestic servants in
the framework of the Minimum
Wage Act were defeated last night
in the Legislature.

Mrs. Steeves was urged by the
Hon. G. S$. Pearson, minister of
labor, to leave the act unchanged
in regards to the domestic servants.
Mr. Pearson stated that he has had
investigations made of the wages
paid, and found them generally
fair.

[ their causes and what attempts had
been taken ot settle them.
Marketing Investigation

Investigtaion of the B.C. Coast
Vegetable Marketing Board and
its operation will be conducted by
the legislature’s agriculture com=
mittee.

Clive Planta, Independent, Peace
River, sponsor of the resolution
withdrew his motion in favor of one
presented by the Hon. K. GC. Mac-
Donald, minister of agriculture,
wherein mention of charges was
deleted, leaying the motion one of

inquiry.

MARKET’S FUTURE
HANGS IN BALANCE

Fallen revenues of the CGity

Average wages paid to workers
of this category were cited by Mrs.
Steeves, at 20 cents per hour, she
suggested that Servants working
by the day should be covered by
the Act.

Right to Organize

A move to amend the existing
statutes, to give workers the right
to organize into trade unions of
their own choice, and require em-
ployers to recognize such unions,
was adjourned until the next ses-
Sion of the house.

The amendment of Mr. Winch
would define a strike and a lock
out, and the Department of Labor

Market were laid to the B.C. Coast
Vegetable Marketing Board by the
civic marketing committee Monday
afternoon, after hearing the report
of Market Manager McGuigan.

The report showed that up until
1935 there had been a surplus, and
during 1935 there was a deficit of
$523, and this year had shown a
loss of nearly $700 so far.

In view of the adverse report,
that unless a new and better site is
secured, the future of the present
City Market is a questionable one,
and the condition of the city’s fi-
Nancial standing does not give any
hope that any such undertaking

would be notified of the disputes,

will be embarked upon.

“VIGILANTE BANDS
GIVEN FREE HAND

SANTA ROSA, Cal—(P)-—Ga
forth and tar-and-feather some more,
the Santa Rosa vigilante band was
in effect advised,“as its members
were cleared of legal involyements.
Defense attorneys virtually ignored
the charges and devoted their ef_
forts to painting the victimized farm
labor organizers as Communists.

twice a week. The sum of $41 wus

collected from the beer Parlors on

Saturday night. Sunday’s church
Parades netted almost $80 in collec-
tions and donations. A check for
930.50 has been received from the
Women’s Auixliary of the Renfrew
CCF Club. New men are joining the
organization every day, and 150
single relief recipients attended the
organizational meeting held on Sun-
day at 64 East Hastings Street, and
voiced their determination to or-
Sanize every single man on relief
in Vancouver.
Demand Relief Increase. .

A recruiting committee of six was
struck off to work in co-operation
with the executive and to lay plans
tor further organizational meetings.
Work and wages, relief and clothing
were the three main topics of dis-
cussion. Harry Molland, Jack Pat-
terson and Wred Grange addressed
the meeting. The sentiment of the
assembly was overwhelmingly in
favor of work at decent Wages for
the single men, and, failing this,
an immediate increase in relief and
a Winter clothing allowance. The
rising cost of food was thoroughly
discussed and all agreed that the
food allowance was far from suf.
ficient. Antoher organizational meet-
ing will be held next Sunday, 3 p.m.
and will be addressed by Jack Phil-
lips.

Tae Day Refused..

A mass meeting, held in the Moase
Hall under CCF auspices, drew a
capacity crowd. Speakers included
Dr. Lyle Telford, Roger Bray, Rey.
Dean Armitage, Helen Gutteridge,
and Fred Grange, speaking for the
unemployed.

The Mothers’ Council was refused
permission to hold a tae day for the
boys when they appeared before the
city council on Tuesday. Civic fath-
ers claimed that the situation had
been cleared up and that there were
no more hungry men in Vancouver.

Cold Shoulder Given
Workers’ Delegates

WASHINGTON.—(FP)—Driven by
the risine cost of living to demand
WPA wage increases and other im-
Drovements, 500 Workers’ Alliance
delegates, some of them wearing
Roosevelt buttons, sot scanty con-
Sideration at the nation’s capital.
Their leaders, David A. Lasser and
Herbert Benjamin, were jailed while
in the picket line which paraded
past WPA headquarters.

W.P.A. Workers Enslaved

WASHINGTON. (BP) — Byi-
dence that WPA workers were be-
ing discharged from projects and
forced to pick cotton at 65 cents
per 100 Ibs, when standard rates
are nearer $i, has been cited by
Chairman Gardner Jackson of the
Watl. Committee on Rural Social

Planning.

Unemployed

Place Wreath
On Cenotaph

“Our Fathers Died That
We Might Not Be
Hungry’’

Led by Jack Patterson, Fred
Grange and a group of women from
the Mothers’ Council, 200 single un-
employed men marched from the
S.U.P-A, hall at 9:45 on Wednesday
and Jaid a wreath on the cenotaph.
Police and boy scouts stood at at-
tention while the boys, in orderly
ranks, marched around the ceno-
taph until they completely encircled
it. Hats and caps were removed and
a marshal called them to attention.
“Single Unempoyed .... Attention
-.. . ?”? Byery man squared his
shouders and bowed his head. A
moment's silence followed and then
Gordon Sanvidge, one of the young-
est members of the S.U.P.A., accom-
panied by two mothers, walked to
the cenotaph and laid the wreath,
inscribed with the following slogan:

“Our Fathers Died That We

Might Not Be Hungry! ... .
Snigle Unemployed Protective As-
sociation.”’

All stood with bowed heads for
two minutes and then marched back
to the hall The original plans were
for the unemployed to march with
the military but the committee in
charge would not give the men per-
mission. Major Benfield, in charge
of routing the parade, said he was
quite in favor of the boys partici-
pating but that he had been over-
ruled by his committee who were
“afraid of trouble.’

BIDS 10 HALT
EVICTIONS FAIL

Ald. L. McDonald Ruled
Out by Landlord

Supperters

“Protection of the landlords and
taxpayers” was used by members
of the civie police and traffic com-_
mittee Monday afternoon te rule
out of order Ald. Ll. D. McDonald’s
attempts to have all evictions
hoisted until March 31, 1937. 5

Another attempt was made by
McDonald to ‘have —recommenda-
tions made to the legislature to
delay the evictions until spring,
pointing out that the people on the
KGtsilano Indian Reserve would al-
so benefit from the act. ‘There
should be no evictions in the
winter time,’ the alderman ex
claimed, “the weather is bad and
the people have no place to go.”

Aldermen Gorey, Kirk and TLoat
were definitely against any such
measures that would ameliorate the
plight of the people faced with evic-
tion, but were decidedly in favor
of evictions being carried out. Ald.
Corey quibbled about legitimate
evictions while Ald. Loat stated it
was high time that someone on the
council rose to protect the land-
lords and taxpayers.

Youth Federation
Formed In Ottawa

OTTAWA, Ont.—(FP)—A Youth
Federation of Ottawa is being
formed by youth organizations of
the district, more than 60 of which
Were represented at a preliminary
conference last summer. The fed-
eration is expected to call for co-
operation with the Ottawa council
of the League of Nations Society in
Canada, particularly in organizing
a rally to hear reports from dele-
Sates to the recent World Youth
Congress held at Geneva.

WASHINGTON. — (FP) — The
Watl Labor Relations Board has
ordered the Crucible Steel Co. to
reinstate two union workers and
stop interfering with unionization.

C.J.O. Plans For
Union Conference

HAMILTON, Ont. — (FP) — The
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion is calling a conference of rep-
resentatives of steel workers at
Hamilton to lay down 3 program for
further unionization efforts. Local
unions of the Amalzamated As-
Sociation of Iron, Steel & Tin Work-
ers have been set up at Niagara
Falls, Welland, Hamilton, Toronto
and other points, Ernest Curtis, Ca-
nadian C.1.Q@. representative, de-
clares.

LID COMING OFF
CIVIC POLITICS:
TUCKER REPORT

Police Dept. Document
Full of Personal
Charges. —Mayor

Shrouded in mystery, and ecarry-
ing ominous portents of baring some
ugly facts concernine conditions in
the Police Department, the Police
Commission decided on Monday that
the ninety-five pase Tucker report
will mot be publicly considered until
Friday ... if then .

In the meantime the members of
the commission are studying the
contents to decide on what action
to take, and whether the report,
allegedly full of dynamite, will be
made public.

Rumors around the Gity Hall indi-
cate that the lid is coming off civic
polities.

Apparently Wx A. Tucker, ac-
countant, who was detailed to in-
vestigate filine and accounting sys-
temsS in the police station, found
Some juicy morsels that he thought
would be good to give an airing, for
Mayor McGeer and Magistrate H. S.
Woods declared that they found
everything but the report of the
filing and accountine systems.

_ Police Chief Foster stated at the
conclusion of the commission meet-
ing that it was a tabulation of un-
derworld gossip involving persons
outside of the department.

Mr. Tucker's dismissal for his in-
vestigation is being discussed at the
City Hall, unless he resigns in the
meantime. Another Mismissal for
Tucker from the civie political ma_
chine should not worry the investi-
gator.

Biased Magistrate
Cause For Remand

BURNABY, B.C., Noy. 10. — On
request of Garfied Kins, defence
counsel, for a new trial judge, the
case of James Nice, facing trial on
charges of “assaulting police,’”’ was
remanded until Saturday, Novy. 14.

Magistrate Gillis, a rabid labor-
hater, is reported ta have made the
remark to bondsmen to be careful
of Nice as he would jump bail, and
this was the reason why Mr. King
asked for a new trial judge. Magis-
trate He LL. Johnson Will hear the
case on Saturday.

Nice was arrested on Oct. 27 when
Sheriff I R. Cotton assisted by a
large police force evicted A. L. Sand_
berg from his home at 3318 Neville
St. A second man, Phil Gibbons,
was sentenced to thirty days on an
obstruction charge last week.

KENOSHA, Wis. — (FP)—Emil
Costello, CI@ leader in Wisconsin
and president of Kenosha’s biggest
union, was elected to the Wiscon-

Sin assembly as a Progressive.

Organized Wealth Rebuked
In Re-Election Of Roosevelt

Red Hunt Terminates

AUSTIN, Tex.—(FP)—The legis-
lative red hunt at the University of
Texas has fizzled out. It failed to
disclose any Communists and was
directed chiefly against a campus
Democratic group who supported
Pres. Roosevelt and wanted to tax
the sulphur trust. Finally the les-
islature refused to authorize fur-
ther inquiry.

UNION MODIFIES
A.F.L. PROPOSALS

NEW YORK—(FP)—Proposals
of the American Federation of
Labor executive council to settle

the editorial workers’ strike which
has elosed Hearst’s Seattle Post
Intelligencer are acceptable with
two modifications. The American
Wewspaper Guild asks that Presi-
dent William Green of the A.F. of
L. act as arbiter rather than nego-
tiator on a committee to which an
A.N.G. representative should be
added, and that two dismissed
Guild members be reinstated dur-
ing negotiations,

' John L. Lewis Appeals to
Workers to Organize
Themselves

WASHINGTON. (FP) — A
marked change in the attitude of
that portion of organized labor fol-
lowing John LL. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers, towards
President Roosevelt was seen in the

essage sent by Iewis to his staff
The

entatives in the field.
message said, in part:

“The election is a rebuke to the
insolence and arrogance of organ-
ized wealih. Its avarice and rapa-
city have been checked and must

be further restrained in the in-
terest of the people. The workers
of the country must organize
themselves to consolidate their
political victory and translate it
into material benefits and re-
forms.”

The shift in emphasis from de-
pendence upon the president to de-
pendence upon the orfsanized
strength of the workers is a new
development in the political line
comings from the United Mine
Workers’ office.

Large Audience Moved
By Spain’s Emissaries,

Give $1,512 To . Cause

Packed Overflow Meet-
* ing in Moose

Hall

A slight little woman with won-
derfully expressive hands roused an
audience of more than 2.500 to a
fever pitch of enthusiasm in the
Auditorium Monday night. When
she spoke of the fascist atrocities
committed in her beloved Spain her
voice trembled with emotion. When,
clear @nd challeneing, she flung
out over the sea of faces Tua Pas=
sionaria’s. words: “etter to die on
our feet than to live the rest of our
lives on our knees,” she epitomized
the courage of the Spanish people in
their struggle for democracy,

Defending Democracy and Peace

Senora Isabella de Palencia, Spane
ish ambassador-elect to Sweden and
one of the most eloquent speakers
ever to visit Vancouver, may have
been weary from her arduous tour
across Canada, but no weariness
Was evident in her voice as she
pleaded the cause of her people and
her country.

Tumultuous applause Sreeted her
Statement that ‘the triumph of the
sovernment will help peace through-
out the world. We in Spain are
dying to save the democracy of the
world.’

Qn the heflassed platform were
Senor Marcelino Domingo, president.
of the Left Republican Party, an@
Wather Duis Sarasola, accompany-
ing Senora de Palencia as official
delegates of ‘the Spanish Sovern.
ment, A. A. MacLeod, natione
chairman cf the Canadian Leasuys

Against War and Fascism, the
chairman, A. MM. Stephen, dis—
tinguished Canadian writer and

B.C. president of the League, and

people representative of all walks of

life in Vancouver, includine Dr.

Lyle Telford, CGF leader, Wather-

Cooper and Rev. Mr. Matheson.
Moose Hall Overflow

The Auditorium was filled to the:
rafters. Over in the Moose Hall, an-
other capacity audience listened in:
to loud-spedkers, cheering them--
Selves hoarse as speaker followed!
speaker to urge the aidin= of dem-
ocracy’s cause in Spain. The clear,
Scholarly voice of A. M. Stephen,
and A A. MacLeod, forceful, dyna—
mic, the impassioned tones of
Senora de Palencia and the states—
manlike presentation of Senor Do-
mingo.

“Democracy was not born
gilded chambers,” declared A. A-
MacLeod. “It was fousht for and
won by the people.”

: “Franco has declared that he
iS prepared to execute 300,000
Spaniards if necessary to domin-
ate Spain,” Senora de Palencia
asserted, adding: “And he is lkeep-
ing his word? _

There was sheer poetry in Senor
Domingo’s Statement that “the year
will pass centuries. The Pages of
history will live of the people who
know how to live and how to die
for democracy. Only those people
who know how to defend democ-
racy should have it.”

Priest Supports People

Father Sarasola, in his Speech
read out by A AS MacLeod, said:
alte ase a) Scandalous insult for the
rebels to bring murderous Moham-—

in

medans into the country to mas-
Sacre Christians, Between crime
and duty I cannot he neutral. My
duty is to Stand by the govern-
ment.”

A. A. Macleod Spoke of the

splendid work being done by Dr,
Norman Bethune, in Charge of the
Canadian medical unit which is be-
ing supported by contributions fron
Canada. He read a eable from Dr.
Bethune, appointed to tale charge
of evacuation of women, children
and wounded from Madrid, in
which an appeal for further funds
Was made.
Generous Contributions

Immediately representatives of
organizations rose to make their
donations and a procession of peoe
ple wended its way to the platforne
carrying cheques and bills, some
large, some small, but indicative or
the realization that the fight for
democracy in Spain is also the
fight for democracy here Workers
dug deep into their pockets. Unem-—
Ployed added their slender contri—
butions, important because they
represented the sacrifice of neces—
sities. At the end of half an hour
from the two audiences some

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See LARGE AUDIENCE

King Edward VIII

Opens Parliament

LONDON.— (FP)—King Edward
ViIIT opened parliament with his
first speech from the throne, dis-
cussing issues of war, peace and re~-
armament affecting the lives and
future of two billion persons op
the planet.

The throne speech indicated that
only strong Jabor pressure would
Sway the government from its pol-
icy of non-intervention in Spain,
which, in effect, means tolerating
violations of the neutrality pact by
fascist powers while placing an em-

bargo against aid to the legitimate
government of the republic.

he