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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, November 20, 1936

Open the Gates
OW that Mr. Rogers, federal minister of labor, has decided
that single unemployed men are to be provided relief, re-

gardless of domicile,
prison sentences because they
released.

The mass pressure which forced the hand of the federal gov-
ernment must be increased to compel the release of the men who
led the struggle for relief or work and wages. Grange and Molland
were each given a vicious sentence of two years in the penitentiary
well-known Iiberal politician, despite

by Judge Manson,
statenient of the jury that the co

were protesting were vile. With the feeding of the single unem-
ployed men must come the unconditional release’ of all workers
yho are now behind prison bars.
League is appealing the savage sentences against Grange and
Molland and conducting a campaign for the release of nearly 200
men who were sent to prison by the Liberal politicians before
Mr. Rogers tacitly admitted that the claims of the men were just.

All possible support should

release of the imprisoned men whose only crime was their strugele

to live.

Turn on
police administration ha
Tucker report.
keep the lid clamped down.

head of the police force, and s:
corruption would only bring jo

world. Of course the press prostitute lies. What the underworld
fears is a thorough investigation and the Sun is trying to block

it in defendnig and protecting

The dismissal of Tucker and the well-organized attempt to
the purpose of covering up the rotten
McGeer administration. Nor does the so-called investigation look

diseredit him is all for

any too good. In the frst place
the same man who }
Liberal heeler all his lite.

the city to assist in keeping the lid on,

counsel.

Already citizens’ committees are being formed to see to it
; the wolves as he was aiter his report
Tucker has the goods on the gratters

that Tucker is not thrown to
on the relief administration.
and he : ;
charges. The citizens of Vanco}
whitewashing farees and this ti

f A LL the high-sounding blather of the mayor about “our” good

The capitalist press is frantic in its attempt to
The Sun newspaper is still appealing
to the people to have confidence in the ‘officer and gentleman”
and says that an exposure of the alleged

“investigated” the first relief camp strike, a
High-powered lawyers are hired by

must be given all possible aid in
Vancouver are sick

it logically followes that all men serving
tried to live should be forthwith

the
nditions against which the accused

The Canadian Labor Defence

be given to the campaign for the

the Light

s been blown sky-high by the

y to the gentlemen of the under-

the underworld.

the man selected to conduct it is

while Tucker is not proyided

substantiating his
and tired of cynical
me they want the lid lifted.

Tim Buck, Back From Spain,
Gives Eye-witness Picture

—__—.

More Roman Catholics
in Royalist Ranks Than
in Fascist

TORONTO. — (FP) — Returning
from an extended visit to Spain, Tim
Buck, Canadian Communist leader,
told Toront reporters of the bray-
ery, determination and high morale
of the Spanish people fighting to
maintain the government they elect-
ed to office Jast February. A ma-
jority of the Catholic people are
backing the government, he de-
clared. im

Gommenting on the magnificent
defense of Madrid, Buck said it was
giving time for the loyalists to con-
solidate and reorganize industries 10
the eastern Mediterranean area.
Walf of Spain, including the most
important industrial and agricul-
tural centres, remain in republican
hands.

Gatholics For Democracy.

“Phere can be no worse slan-
der,’ Buck commented, “than the
propaganda that all Spanish Ro-
man Catholics and priests are
fighting against the government.
As 2 matter of fact, there are more
Gatholics in the loyalist ranks,
counting only those fighting in the

trenches, than all the Roman
Gatholices in the Fascist move-
ment in Spain. IL have myself

seen men telling their beads at

the front, ‘We're the real Cath-
olics, they have told me again
and again.. ‘We're fighting for

and

the people and for liberty

decency.” ”

Buck told of seeing captured Ger-
man and Italian tanks and guns in
the streets of Madrid and of talking
with an anti-Nazi German who
swvitnessed the capture of the Bal-
earic island Iviza. The troops who
took it were highly-trained Italians,
wearing blackshirt uniforms.

Anybody who believes the Spanish
government is Communist, he said,
is “hopelessly wrong.’ The govern-
jnent against which the fascist gen-
erals took up arms had no Commun-
ists in the cabinet, and the present
government has only two. Spaniards
see the war as an inyasion of their
country by Moors and foreign lezion-
naires. For weeks they believed
implicitly that the democratic
countries of Europe would come to
their aid.

CHICAGO.—(©P)—“It is well that
President Green should be a member
of the musicians union,” commented
Regional Director Van A, Bitimer of
the SWOC (Steel Workers’ Organiz-
ing Committee), himself a United
Mine Worker. “Mr. Green has con-
finued to fiddle while Rome burns
and the workers in the mass-produc-
tion industries remained unorgan-
ized.”

WASHINGTON.—(P)—The Na-
tional Labor Relations Board has
certified the United Electrical &
Radio Workers of America as the

Fur Workers Renew —
Their Strike Activity

WINNIPEG, Man.—(F'P)—Mem-
bers of the International Fur Work
ers’ Union pressed their strike with
renewed activity after hearing their
officials report that attempts at
negotiations on the part of the pro-
vineial government had failed be-
cause of the ebstinacy of employers:

Labor Takes
No Action On
Tucker Case

Executive to Investigate
Cost of Bread and

Ingredients

President Colin McDonald quash-
ed a resolution, Tuesday night, in
the Trades and Labor Council which
was introduced by Alec Fordyce,
Bricklayers’ delegate, condemning
Mayor McGeer and the Police Com-
mission for their treatment of W. A-
Tucker and his report, The city
council was also eriticized for ap-
pointing one man to carry out the
investigation.

Tucker was cited by President Me-
Donald as the toughest and hardest
official to do business with while in
the relief office, and in the chair-
man’s opinion any action on the
matter should be left over until the
delegates have had time to study

the report. Debate on the question
ended with the passage of Birt
Showlers motion to table the
matter.

The executive was charged with
the task of investigating the cost

of bread and its ingredients. Dele-
gate Jack Flynn, who introduced the
motion, stated that the wages of the
workers had not advanced mater-
jally with the increased cost.
Delegate Jack Stevenson stated
that housewives in his neizhorhood
had organized themselves to com-
bat food increases. He was of the
opinion that union members’ wives
should do their own baking; how-
ever, no action was taken by dele-
gates until an investigation has been

made.

Daylight delivery of milk in
North Vancouver shortly was Tre-
ported by Birt Showler, as some

progress had been made in conver-
sation with the commissioner.
Delegates rescinded a former mo-
tion and aided their committee to
circularize the unions for funds for
Spain. Acknowledgement of $94 for
‘Spain from Division 101, Street Car-
men, was contained in a letter from
R. J. Tallon, who stated that the
money had been forwarded to Walter
Scheyenels of the International Fed-

7 XY
Hollywood Shorts
+ vf

By JOHN R. CHAPLIN.

HOLLYWOOD, Cal. — (FP) — New
York's Cinema de Paris, Wilmarte
dan Cameo, playing foreign films,
have pledged themselves to Show no
Wazi-produced pictures, in order to
avoid a threatened boycott. ... Al-
gerian authorities have banned the
Soviet “‘Chapayev.”

Quick to accuse labor organiza-
tions of violence, the New York
police department has 150 detectives
guarding the picture houses recently
stink-bombed. Projectionists’ local
headquarters were raided, with 37
arrested, but all were released after
questioning. ... Maureen O'Sullivan,
Esther Muir and Margaret Dumont
will all be foils to the mad Marx
Brothers in their new picture, “A
Day at the Races.” ... Due to an
agreement with the maritime unions,
Paramount is able to go on filming
“Souls at Sea,’’ and M.G.M. to shoot
“Captains Gourageous’ despite the
waterfront tieup.

First step in the wunionizing of
laboratory workers has met success.
Warners’ Witaphone laboratory in
Brooklyn has gone under a closed
shop regime. .. . Tenth anniversary
of Amkino’s release of Soviet films
in the U.S: is marked by the release
of “The Nightingale,” first all-color
Soviet picture. ... <4 Absent from the
twenty-fifth anniversary edition of
Hearst’s Los Angeles Evening Her-
ald-Express was any message from
the Big Boss, W. R. H. Jr., how-
ever, sent greetings.

Sonewriters’ Guild and Cartoon-
ists’ Guild are the latest labor organ-
izations in Hollywood. Both are
makine headway and in a straight
labor direction. .. . Kick of the week
Si a story from London, where, at
a@ presentation of “‘Oedipus Rex,”
the audience called “‘Author! Au-
thor!” The producer took the stage
and announced that “Mr. Sophocles
for certain reasons cannot appear
tonight.” And the audience never
caught on. Dear! Dear!

Fishermen Fined
For Intimidation

Although no conclusive evidence
was brought forth at the trial, that
he had made any threats of violence
or had intimidated scas in any way,
E. L. “Tim” Hornbrook, member of
the Fishermen’s and Cannery Work-
ers’ Industrial Union, was fined $50
by Judge J. N. lls in County
Court, Tuesday.

Similar charges against Axel An-
derson were dismissed.

Keen interest in the trial was
shown by a large number of fisher-
men from the various unions that
participated in the strike of last
summer. The capacity of the eourt
was taxed, and at the conclusion of
the trial workers rushed forward
with offers to pay the fine. Horn-
prook’s defence assured the payment
of the fine.

Scabs disclosed that they were not
afraid of Hornbrook, who was al-

lezed to have twice circled their
boat, and threatened them on July
17, but of the organized strength of
the fishermen.

The intimidation charge was laid
by G. HM. Johnson and Oscar Knut-
son during the strike of last sum-
mer, when the scabs were transport-
ing salmon from WNelson’s camp to
Nami cannery after they found the
camp picketted.

Gordon Grant, counsel for the
Canadian Labor Defence League, de-
fended Hornbrook.

The Red Army Studies

Technical and cultural education are a regular part of the training
of Soviet armed forces. These soldiers are visiting a metallurgical

plant to learn more about the industrial progress of their country.

Im view of the widely déssem-
inated propaganda of the higher
hierachy of the Roman Catholic
church, headed by the reactionary
Pope, the following statement by
a Roman Catholic priest is of
especial interest. The statement
was issued shortly after Father
Sarasola arrived in America to
participate in a campaign on be-
half of the people of Spain.—EHd.

“The Gatholic religion is not the
issue in Spain and the church is
freer under the Republic than she
ever was under the monarchy; and
very much miore free than under a
Franco fascist regime where she
would. be subordinated to the State
as in Germany and Italy.”

Domingo Not Socialist.

With Father Sarasola on the tour
is Marcelino Domingo, called by
The Tablet as “Socialist.” Senor Do-
mingo, it is stated by Fred Hodg-
son, executive secretary of the com-—-
mittee sponsoring the tour, is lead-
er of the Left Republican Party
which is not even mildly socialist.
The third member of the delegation
is Senora Isabel de Palencia, repre-
sentative of the Spanish govern-
ment several times in the League of
Wations Assembly, author and jour-
nalist. She is the wife of the charge
d@affairs at the Spanish Imbassy
in Riga, Tatyia, and she has a sis-
ter who is teaching in an Amer-
jean university. She has travelled
in the United States, lecturing on
Spanish art and literature.

“Rather Sarasola happened to
come on this tour because he is one
of the myrial Spanish priests who
are Supporting the government,”
Senor Domingo said over the long
distance telephone from Montreal.

“7 first met him years ago when
Tt was engaged in dramatizing the
life of St. Hrancis of Assissi, and,
as Father Sarasola, is one of the
greatest authorities on St. Francis,
T naturally went to him. I can state
that he is a Franciscan priest in
good standing. He is a great Chris-
fion and Catholic, and as such can
only be a supporter of the legitimate,
legally, elected governments of
Spain.

“The Catholic press is trying to
give this strugele in Spain a reli-
gious significance and this is en-

tirely false,” Father Sarasola said.

today.

Sarasola Assails Lies
In Catholic Journals

“This war in Spain is an attempt to
place the Spanish people in a posi-
tion of slavery under fascism as in
Italy and Germany: he clearest
proof that this war is not religious
is the fact that Franco has to de-
pend on infidel Moors from Moroc-
eo. Since when has the crescent be-
come the champion of the cross?

Catholics With Government.

“The Catholic people of Spain
are overwhelmingly on the side of
the government,” Father Sarasola
said, “but particularly in my own
Basque province where not even the
bishops are united on the rebel
side as the newspapers say. One
bishop wept and pleaded with the
fascist butchers for the lives of his
spiritual children before they were
lined up and _ shot. Priests and
bishops in rebel territory do not
dare express opposition to fascism.
Priests have been executed by the
fascists.

‘When the Spanish Cortes assem-
bled last the leader of the Basque
Nationalists, a Catholic party, and
himself a fervent Catholic; Don
Jose Antonio Aguirre, declared that
his party stood at the side of the
Republican and working-class par-
ties to defeat fascism.

“No true Gatholic can be a fas-
cist,” declared Father Sarasola,
“snd the Catholic newspapers are
not telling the truth about Spain
The Catholic press of my
country lied about Germany and
did not print the statements of the
German bishops against Hitler.
Neither did they give any news of
the persecution of religious orders in
Germany and the attempt of Hitler
to brand priests and nuns as moral
degenerates.

“The Spanish struggle is one of
the people fighting against still
more threats of social injustice
from the tremendously wealthy and
the rich landowners, backers of the
fascists. I do not want to discuss
the Catholicism of these rich peo-

ple. I only know one things, that is
the ferocious egoism of these
people.” *

WASHINGTON. (FP) —In the
costliest campaign in U.S. history,
Republicans spent $7,483,718 from
January i to October 31, and Dem-
ocrats $3,430,494.

Who is knocking at my door?
Said the rich shipowmner.

Said the rich shipowmner.

Said Barnacle Bill the sailor,

Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
I’ve sailed your scows
Through wind and fog,
Wve made you fat
As a corn-fed hog,
And Ili live ne more
Like a hungry dog,

Tll tell Scharrenberg on you, _
Said the rich shipowner.

Yl tell Green and Furuseth, too,
Said the rich shipowner.

Said Barnacle Bill the sailor,

Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
We've set our sails

We've bet our shirts
On a union horse;

Said the rich shipowner.
Said the rich shipowner.
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.

Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
Your bloody threats
May come to pass,
But union men
Are a solid mass,
And you can’t defeat
The working class,

You're 2 Red and a Communist,
Said the rich shipowner.

Wou’re a bearded Bolshevik,
Said the rich shipowner.

Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.

Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
We want our share
Of bread and cheese,
And 2 decent shirt
So a man don’t freeze.
You can eall it anything
You please,

ate pargaining qnit at the

eration of Trade Unions.

Whai’s this noise and what's it for?
I want good grub and want more pay,

‘And more time off and a lot more Say,

Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.

Make up your mind and make it up quick,

We're rank and file and we'll make it stick,
And chartered our course;

To hell with your Vigilante force,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.

Vl ship scabs and PH break your Tanks,

Pll call troops and they'll bring their tanks,

You'll do your worst, so do as you like,

But don’t forget the General Strike,

Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.

There’s plenty of grub and goods for all,

Wet jobs are scarce and the pay is small,

Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.

The Awakening Of Barnacle Bill

it’s my world; it belongs to me,
Said the rich shipowner.
You've no right to dictate to me,
Said the rich shipowner.
You're a parasite and a swindler, too,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
The world don’t need the likes of you,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
Wou've sucked the blood
Of the working guys,
But millions of men
Are getting wise,
And we'll take no more
Of your tricks and lies,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.

{J am culture and civilization,
Said the rich shipowner.
Banish me and you wreck creation,
Said the rich shipowner.
You're the profiteer who starves our kids,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
Your capitalist system is on the skids,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
Your day has come,
You’ve met your fate.
We'll launch a better
Ship of state,
We'll vote a Farmer-
Labor slate,
Said Barnacle Bill the asilor.

1 Yili beat drums and declare war,

Said the rich shipowner.
You've been fooled that way before,
Said the rich shipowner.
Tf you start a war, you'll fight it, too,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
We'll spill no guts for the likes of you,
Said Barnacle Bilt the sailor.
We'll take the mills,
The ships, the land;
We'll guide them all
With labors hand;
Your rule will fall,
And ours will stand,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.

Woe is me, it’s the end of man,
Said the rich shipowner:
PU kill all of you I can,
Said the rich shipowner-.
If blood must be, its you, not me,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor,
Who'll bear the guilt for the blood that’s spilt,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
You've run the show
In your own mad way;
It’s the workers’ turn
To have their say.
We're nearing the dawn
Of a better day,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
= —Michael Quin in “Sunday Worker.”

| Book Review|

Britain Without Capitalism”

Opponents of Socialism very often
‘“clinch” their argument by saying
With a great air of finality, “After
all, you can’t do without capital.”
They overlook the fact that it is
possible to do without the capitalists
who at present own capital:

This book is an examination of the
capitalist system of production and
distribution as exemplified in Eng-
Jand, and a comparison of it with
how production and distribution
could and would be carried on in @
Socialist Soviet England. It is not
the product of Utopian dreamers;
it is written by “A Group of Econo-
mists, Scientists and Technicians,”
who have chosen to remain anony-
mous. A reading of any one of the
468 pages taken at random is con-
vineine proof that the writers are
experts in their respective lines.
They are samples of the scientists
of today, whose number is increas-
ing, who are rebelling at the fetters
capitalism places upon their capabili-
ties, and who want to use their
training for human betterment in-
stead of producing some deadly ex-
plosive or poison gas, and who are
willing to accept the political leader-
ship of the workingclass.

They see plainly that capitalism
must be replaced by Socialism if
humanity is to receive the full bene-
fit of science. They differ altogeether
from the technocrats, the specialists
who want to reform capitalist pro-
duction, with the producers herded
at the bottom of the system, as they
are today, and with the capitalists
lording it over them at the top, as
they do today.

A list of the chapters will give
the best idea as to the ground cov-
ered in this book: The Economic
System as a Whole; Transport; Dis-
tribution; Building; Coal and Power;
Agriculture; Chemical Industry; Tex-
tiles; Iron and steel; Science and
Education. Under each of these
headings the authors picture how it
is possible to remould life, but, as
they always point out, it is néeces—
sary first of all to have Soviet
Power.

(New Age Book Store,
Pender; price, $2.50.)

Two Minutes
Of Silence

By “RAMBLER~-’

Wovember iith, 1918.—A lull in
the slaughter, while the capitalist
counted his profits from the blood
of Our youth. :

November lith, 1936.—Before a
granite symbol, mingled with those
who lost their husbands, sSweet-
hearts, or brothers, stands the
munition baron, the financier, the
politician, the grafter and others
who were the winners of the last
war and who are still living in
silken ease at the expense of the
blood that flowed on the fields of
France.

In front of them are the militia.
Youth clad for the slaughter. There
is pomp and ceremony. Speches are
made; patriotic songs are sung.
Bugles sound the last post. The
death of my comrades is being glori-
fied. For what purpose? To im-
press the youth of today. Do these
parades at the cenotaph help to pre-
vent war? I think not. They tend
to glorify war in the eyes of the
children.

I haye seen men going up the
road at night to the line of death.
I have seen their mangled limbs in
the mud and filth, and heard them
gasping as their lungs were being
burned out by modern processes.

Did these men believe that they
were dying in a war to end wars?
They did not. They had no choice.
If propaganda did not take them
from their homes, then they were
taken by force and sent to face the
enemy. They never realized that
their enemy was behind. They were
pitted against machinery and gas,
against progress and civilization,
and forced to their death in order
that a few should have profit and
power.

While the cenotaph parade is go-
ing on munition factories are hum-
ming, preparing more modern means
to destroy. The owners of produc-
tion are dictating foreign policy and
setting up puppets with sadistic
minds as dictators. The enemies of
democracy are dropping improved
bombs from modern aeroplanes into

350 West

Spanish streets, blowing to pieces
little innocent children, while the
world looks on.

Two minutes’ silence each year

will not prevent children bein= sac-
rificed.

Two minutes of time each day te-
Ward abolishing wars will guaran-
tee NO MORE WARK, the greatest
monument we could erect to the
living as well as to those who died.

C.L.D.L EXTENDS
THANKS

The District Committee of the
Canadian Labor Defence League
wishes to thank the workers of
Spences Bridge for a donation of
$10.00 towards the defence of the
single unemployed.

WANTED.

OP Bill wants to know if
any other old-timer ean let
him have a Ioan of “Econ-
omic Causes of War.” by
Peter Leckie. Bring or send
to this office. It is wanted
for party purposes.

AUSTIN, Minn. — (PP)—Running
in a sticker campaign against the

judge who sentenced him fer con-
tempt, Business Agent Joe Voorhees
of the Independent Union of All
Workers rolled up over 3,000 votes.
Voorhees had bannered a non-union
shop in Austin and got four months
for it, after the judge had enjoined

Coa
By
OL’ BILL
Miss Agnes Mac-— -
Observer.  _ phail, Canada’s fe-
A Lightning male Cincinnatus,
has been to Soviet
Russia. The capitalist press is

pleased to give prominence to her
impressions, quite naturally. sinee
she apparently does not like life in
the Soviet Union. The Toronto
“Globe” quotes her as saying, “The
Standard of living is far below our
level in this country.”

We have heard this from so many
other quick-time investigators of
the new society of the workers, that
we are compelled to gBive some
thought to the subject. When Miss
Agnes Macphail speaks of a stan-
dard of living just what can she
mean by “below our level in this
country?”

Is she thinking of the family con-
sisting of 42 man and wife and six
ehildren in South Vancouver, re-
ported in the press some time ago,
who lived over a week-end on four
pounds of potatoes? Maybe she has
in mind the gargantuan feastinges
indulged in by the young lads whe
are compelled to sell flowers on our
streets or the sumptuous repasts
that decorate the groaning tables of
over one-tenth of our Canadian
population, urban and rural, now
existing on relief—whose closest ap-
proach to opulence is a roast cut
from right between the horns. ”

Miss Macphail and

others from this

continent who crit-

icize the sumptu-

ary styles of the people of the Soviet

Union are actually chauvinistic.

They imagine the Soviet workers _
have a low standard of living be-

eause they don’t eat pie or angel

cake made from adulterated flour or
some other concoction doctored witk
ecopperas or arsenic to prevent it
from polluting the atmosphere.

The Soviet workers have more
food, more regular food, purer food,
and never need live in fear that the
supply is going to be cut off through
loss of their job . Tom Barnard tolG ©
us a week ago that in six weeks ~
spent in the Soviet Union he put on —
ten pounds weight and he is at least
as reliable as Miss Macphail. I, my-
self, can endorse his words from my
own experience even at a time when
they were only beginning to find
their bearings after successfully
laying the industrial basis for their
great country.

Today the workers of the Soviet
Union live twice or three times as
well as they did under the Tsar,
which is the only valid standard. of
comparison, while in capitalist
countries, through the privation,
hunger and destitution consequent
on unemployment, the mass of the
people display all the ontward signs
of physical degeneration.

Standards of
Living.

: : Some years ago the
Enlightening British covernment
Comparison, Was so alarmed by
the fact that four
out of every six aplicants for the
army, at Edinburgh, were rejected
by the medical officers as unfit ta
be made into soldiers, that a Royal
Commission was appointed to find
out the reason. The finding of that
august body was—malnutrition. In
other words, starvation. :

In the “B.C. Workers’ News” last
week you probably read of the re-
port of Military Commissar Romany-
chey on the Moscow draft for the
Red Army this year. He stressed
the excellent condition of the re-
cruits; many have secondary and
university educations; many are well
uequainted with classic and modern
literature; none of them are illiter=
ate. This latter statement reminds
me that of the draftees called up by
Unele Sam in 1916, 24 per cent were
illiterate,

The other comments of the com-
missar remind me that the standard
of life is not determined solely by
the amount of pork and beans on @
plate. There are other things that
help to make life worth living, al-
though a wide acquaintance with
classic and modern literature could
not make life more enjoyable in the
20c a day slaye camps, but only
make the sufferings more poignant.

In the Soviet Union,
Do We with the economic
Have Pie? problem solved, the

whole range of litera-
ture and art is opened to the work-
ers. The opera houses are filled by
them. Wow many of the readers
of this column have heard an opera
in the last year—-two years —Tfive
years? The Soviet workers do not
have pie, but they have all these
other things. We have the pie (or
do we?), but we have none of the
other things. Agnes Macphail may
have them, the Canadian working
elass does not.

In Leipzig, home of

Something the ereat German
Conservatory of Mu-

For Hitler. “
sic, stood a statue of

Mendelssohn, composer of the be=
witchinely beautiful melody “Spring
Song.’ He was one of Germany’s
greatest musicians. The status has
just been torn down and destroyed
by order of the Nazi dictatorship be-
cause he was a Jew.

We would just like to draw Hit-
jer’s attention to a book by a Preneh
professor, Regis Michaud, of the
University of Mlinois, “Modern
Thought and Literature in France.”
Qn page 226 of the book Hitler may
read, ‘Note that the leading French
philosopher (Bergson), the foremost
French novelist (Proust), the chief
French controversialist (Benda) and
the favorite French essayist (fau-
rois) are Jews or half-Jews.” Pro-
fessor Michaud is not a Jew, and
has lectured at the Sorbonne and

legal picketing,

the leading American universities.

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