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VOL. IL, No. 46

FULL NO. 98

trike Leader

PUBLIC SUPPORT
BEHIND TUCKER
FOR CLEAN-UP

Investigator Charges Po-
litical Set-Up to White-
wash Report

‘Citizens are swinging their sup-
port in behind W. A. Tucker to see
that the whole filthy mess which in-
volves police and civic officials is
aired and cleaned up.

Mr. Tucker, who was fired by the
police commission after making a
report of conditions in the police ad-
ministration, has the support of Ald.
MecDonaid, Dr. Lyle Telford, C.C.k.
head, Rey. R. J. Mcintyre and well-
attended public meetines of citizens

At a meeting in Grandview Acad-
emy property owned by Mayor Mc-
Geer was mentioned by Tucker as
beings protected by police.

Speakine of the enquiry headed by
MacDonald, Mr. Tucker said, “It’s
@ political set-up to whitewash my
report.”

The Greycourt Hotel, Con Jones
and other such places mentioned
in the report have been heard by
W. A. MacDonald, but as usual the
police officials deny the allegations
that houses of yice have been re-
ceivine police protection.

No counsel has been provided
Tucker, who remains adamant in his
Stand that he will not aid the en-
quiry uniil he is allowed legal coun-
sel of his own choice to represent
him. ~

At the enquiry session, Tucker has
been completely igmored by R. L.
Maitland and W. A. MacDonald.

Aid. McDonald, candidate for
mayer, speaing at a meeting in sup-
port of Lucker stated he is going
to “stick with the investigation un-
til the whole sewer pot is cleaned
up.”’ He also promised an investi-
gation into the Jubilee mess.

Strikebreaker
Agency Issues
Union Books

Free Fare, Union Wages
Offered on Atlantic
Seaboard

CHICA GO. — (FP P)—Responding to
ads in The Chicago Tribune for able-
bodied seamen for the east coast,
sailors went to the Great Northern
Motel and found an agency hirine
strike-breakers to Iman vessels
Picketed by rank-and-file members
ef the International Seamen’s Union
at Atlantic ports.

The sailors, some of whom signed
up to see what the game was and to
spread union propaganda among the
Strike-breakers, were astounded
when they learned that the agency
would issue them paid-up union
books in the International Seamen’s
Union, whose higher officials are
opposing the strike.

Union scale of wages was also
promised and transportation free to
the Atlantic seaboard.

Inquiry at the International Sea-
men’s Union offices in Chicago de-
veloped a run-around. One interna-
tional officer was in New York, his
secretary said, and nobody else could
talk for him, but she gave a phone
number for another officer. Inquiry
at the second number ended in a
blank wall. The officer himself was
not in and nobody connected with
the union was in and nobody Knew
where anybody could be found.

The ad for seamen in the Chicago
papers carried no hint of labor trou-
ble, unlike the Cleyeland ads, which
plainly stated its existence.

Fascists Halted In March On Madrid

In 2 counter-assault which amazed the world, democracy’s brave defenders in Spain checked the
mercenary invaders at the very gates of the capital. These auto trucks, loaded with supplies for General

Branco, didn’t go any farther after loyalist guns beszan Syreeping the highway.

FASCIST REPTILE
GROWS IN CANADA

Evidence accumulates daily on
the growth of fascism in Ganada.
The following have been listed by
the Canadian League Against War
and Fascism as fascist organiza-
tions:

The Citizens’ League of B.G., and
Industrial Council, Incorporated,
hostile to the trade union movement,

The Knights of Confederation,
Calgary, Alberta.

The Nationalist Party of Canada,
founded by Mr. Webb, M.A., ex-
Mayor of Winnipeg, adopts the Hit-
ler program in full with brown
shirts and Wazi regalia.

Wationalist State Party. with
“white shirts.” Headquarters in To-
ronto.

Blue Shirts, Windsor, Ontario.

Wationalist Socialist Party of
Montreal. This body has the support
of the Catholic Church.

Montreal Labor Clubs. Operate
on terrorist basis. Employed to
break up meetings of workers’ or-
fanizations.

Friends of New Germany; part
of the Hitler machine in Canada.

Italian Fascist groups; part of
Mussolini's program for America
wherein he undertakes to buy up
American papers and supply
editors; establish Fascist organiza-
tions officered from abroad. This

body has, according to reports re-
cently secured, a large residence in
Toronto for headquarters.

Workers Win Demands

CENTRALIA, Ont.— (~P) — The
Agricultural and Cannery Workers’
Union, which struck for $8 an acre
for topping sugar beets, has won its
demands. Some of the strikers won
as much as $8.25 an acre. The
farmers are also providing the work-
ers with fuel. Beet workers claim
that the Canada Sugar Co. provides
better housing for cattle than for
its workers.

Split Threatened As A.F.L.
Prepares To Act On Boycott

TAMPA, Fla, — (FP) — As the
American Federation of Labor con-
vention weighed final action on the

- guestion of the Committee for In-

dustrial Organization, it faced the
possibility that the International
Pyporraphical Union and other in-
ternational unions might leave the
56-year-old federation in the hands
of eraft unionists and find a home
elsewhere.

The threat of breaking with the
AFiof kL. was voiced by President
Charles P. Howard of the Typos, a
visitor to Tampa, as feelings reach-
€d a new pitch as a result of a
convention decision to boycott the
label of the Amalzamated Clothing
Workers of America, CLO. member
and suspended A FofL. affiliate.

A 1933 Complaint.

The action was based officially on
complaint by the United Garment
Workers over the working out of an
arrangement whereby the A.C.W.A.
used, for a consideration, the label
of the former organization.

President Sidney Hillman of the
A-C.W.A., in a statement issued at
Wew York, said the arrangement

was not meant to be permanent
when made in 1933. He said it was
absurd for the union representing
85 per cent of the industry to be
forced to use the label of an organ-
ization which controlled no more
than 10 per cent of the men’s cloth-
ing trade. The U.GW. operates
chiefly in overall facteries.
Britons Condemn Fascism.

Previously the convention’s com-
mittee on legislation issued charges
that a giant conspiracy to protect
spies in industry and facilitate the
arming, of corporate employers was
on foot. The committee said at-
tempts were being made to choke off
the La Follette investigation of civil
liberties and industrial espionage by
eutting off appropriations.

The convention heard Edwin S§.
Smith, member of the National -La-
bor Relations Board, urge a vigorous
amendment to facilitate social legis-
lation. It also heard attacks on
Fascism by George Gibson and
William Kean, fraternal delegates
from the British Trades Union Con-
gress, and G. R. Brunet, Canadian
Trades and Labor Congress fraternal
delegate.

Every Day Of Defense A
Victory, Says Madrid

People United With In-
dustries Geared to
War Basis

NEW YORK —(fP)—‘‘Republican
Spain regards eyery additional day
of successful defense as vyictory,”’
Louis Fischer, noted correspondent,
has cabled Lhe Nation from Madrid.

Revealing that “the enemy is
showing signs of fatigue,” Mischer’s

Cable aids in understanding the
alarm mow felt in fascist circles,
within and without Spain, that Mad-=
rid cannot be taken with the forces
now at Franco’s disposal. Fischer
cabled his message just two days
before the Berlin and Rome govy-
ermments formally recognized the
rebels. Recognition is taken as a
prelude to more extensive and open
military intervention from abroad.

“In the last week,’’ Fischer
cabled, “the fascists have been har-
assed by loyal aviators and an ef-
fective tank attack. An expert has
estimated, on the basis of certainly
insufficient information, that
Franco’s 12,000 men who hoped to
occupy Madrid have lost 10 per cent
of their effectives in the last seven
days. Observation airplanes are un-
able to discover that any reinforce-
ments have been brought up to re-
plenish the insurgent columns,

“Franco evidently thought he
could take Madrid with the forces
at his disposal, but the strategy he
has employed, which showed his con-
tempt for his antagonists, now ex-
poses him to the danger of being
cut off from his bases in western
and northern Spain.

“Between Nov. 6 and 10, Madrid,
Shaken out of its letharey, went
fearlessly to work at the task of
defending itself. In innumerable
Streets sandbag barricades have
been erected and houses converted
into fortresses.

“The loyalists haye received as-
sistance of incomparable importance
from the international column of
foreign Socialists and Communists,
whose two units, now in the hot-
test part of the front line, have ac-
quitted themselves with wunprece-
dented valor. The international force
is growing steadily through the in-
flux of enthusiastic volunteers. The
many bombings have failed to affect
the morale of the population.”’

Sit-Down Strikers
Prepare To Stay

NEW YORK — (FP) — Protesting
the no-new-hiring rule, members of
the American Writers’ Union staged
a sit-down strike at New York City
federal writers’ project headquarters.
“We will stay at the project offices
for three weeks if necessary,’ said
the strikers as they prepared to take
in cote and supplies.

Botanical Gardens

MOSCOW. — (FP) — The Soviet
Academy of Science has completed
Plans for an All-Union botanical

garden to be opened in Moscow in
1340. It will occupy 1000 acres, an
area more than twice as large as
the famed Kew Gardens of London.
Trees and plants from all parts of
the world are to be represented in
their natural environment.

BERLIN.—(FP)—Statisties of un- |

employment admit there are 15,000
unemployed musicans, 2,000 actors,
1,400 singers in Germany. In the
legal profession there are 10,000 jur-
ists who are ex-seryicemen and out

of work,

AN OMISSION

In giving the names of
those who worked well in
the recent B.C. Workers’
News Press Drive the name
of one of the most faithful
workers was inadvertently
omitted.

He is Bob Vlahovich of
Unit 1. He sold a grand
total of 123 tickets.

NEITHER DECENT
NOR CHRISTIAN,
SAYS CLERGYMAN

Civilization Which Jails
Men Trying to Create
Jobs is Scored

“Any civilization which, haying
refused a man a job by which he
could earn a living, also refuses
him anything to eat, and then,
when he tries to creéfe a job for
himself, throws him into prison as
a criminal, is a bankrupt civiliza-
tien which has no claim to being
regarded as either decent or
Christian.”

So declared Rev. A. E, Cooke, of
St. John’s United Church, during
evening service last Sunday night,
referring to the single unemployed
workers who were jailed because
they sold flowers on the streets to
avoid starvation.

The same night more than 1000
jammed the Moose Hall auditorium
in a mass meeting to protect the
Savagze two-year penitentiary sen-
ten 8iven to Fred Grange and
Harry Moliand. The meetinge was
addressed hy Grant MacNeil, M.P.,
Rey. R. N. Matheson, Jack Patter-

son, recently acquitted of rioting
charges, and Jack Phillips of the
eA

Madrid Will
Never Fall

Canadian Dr. in Spain
Cables Instructions

Dr. Bethune, formerly a surgeon
in Sacred Heart Hospital, Montreal,
and now in Spain at the head of a
medical unit aiding the Spanish loy-
alists, cabled instructions to the
Canadian Committee to Aid Spanish
Democracy, declares his faith in
the ability of the heroic people of
Spain to defend and save the coun-
try and democracy from the fascist
despoilers and murderers.

A copy of his cable is printed be-
low.—Editor.

Valencia, Spain.
Committee Aid Spanish
Democracy,
73 Adelaide West, Toronto,
Telegrams received. Definite
Canadian project achieved today.
Government accepted proposal
and authorized proceed organiza-
tion Canadian blood transfusion
Service, entire Madrid front line,
central unified collection and
rapid distribution, formation of
regiment voluntary donors. Hun-
dreds dying of toss. Proceeding
Paris tomorrow purchase special
equipped car apparatus. Impos-
sible receive money Spain. Trans-
fer credit cable three thousand
dollars American Express, Paris.
Madrid will never fall. Wonder
ful fighting anti-Fascist spirit,
Written three letters, four cables,
from Madrid but delivery un-
certain. Writing again.
BETHUNE.

PEARSON RAVES
AGAINST A NON-
EXISTENT UNION

Slanders Militant Union-
ism in Opposition to

/ C.C.F. Bill

VICTORIA.—After being inflicted
with a wild, and at times incoher-
ent, diatribe from the minister of
labor, Pearson, the House, by a vote
of 30 to 8, rejected a bill introduced
by Harold Winch, G.C.E., designed
to remove some of the barriers
which prevent collective bargaining
and stand in the way of peaceful
picketin.

The speech of Pearsen was almost
in its entirety an attack against
honest, militant tradeunionism; the
only union he seemed to be willing
to tolerate is one whose leaders have
been corrupted into tools of the em-
ployers, or company unions.

The Workers’ Unity League, now
non-existent in B.G., its unions hay-—
Ing affiliated with the A.F:of L.
unions, was the special tarzet of his
Slanders. The C€.C.F. members, the
members of the Connell group and
Tom Uphill, Labor, were united in
support of the bill.

$

arns Labor Officials

H. Bridges Hints West

Coast Marine Unions

May Join The C.1.0.

R.R. Cratts May
Take Strike Vote

MONTREAL, Noy. 24—Cana-
dian railway employees are be-
coming more insistant in their
demands for the restoration of the
i0 per cent wage reduction and
“may be obliged to call a strike
vote to enforce the return of the
pay cut,” stated Howard Chase to
the Railway Wage Conciliation
Board here today.

Mr. Ghase, Assistant Grand
Chief Engineer of the Brother-
hood of Locomotive Engineers
(A-E.E.) told the board that it
was unfair for the employees of
the €:N-R. to contribute 10 per
cent of their wages to the main-
“tenance of the system in addition
to other charges made upon them.

Hearings are continuing under
the chairmanship of Mir. Justice
A. K. MacLean with Wy. Sanford
Evans, Winnipeg, and Fred Ban-
croft, Oakville, Ont., completing
the board.

Canada Drawn Into Arms
Vortex By Manufacturers

Hearst Management
Settles P.-I. Strike

SEATTLE, Nov. 26. — Settlement
of the Hearst-owned Seattle Post-
Intelligence strike was effected fo-
day after being shut down by the
American Newspaper Guild since
August 13.

While the Guild was not recog—
nized as a collective bargaining
union, no discrimination against the
strikers has been promised by the
Hearst management.

Frank Lynch and Everhart Arm-
strons, veteran newspaper men, whu
were fired for union activities and
central figures in the cause of the
strike, have mot been reinstated.
Their cases are still under advise-—
Ment of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board.

A 40-hour five-day week has been
agreed on, effective March IS 1936
aS was increases in wages. Publica-
tion will be resumed Monday.

DEATH SENTENCE
IS COMMUTED

No Foreigners Executed
—Reason for Sparing
Nazi’s Life

MOSCOW, Nov. 25.—Sentence of
death passed on Bmil Stickling,
German engineer, who was found
guilty of sabotage, was commuted
to ten years’ imprisonment,

The customary sentence of death
for the crimes against the state to
which the Nazi fully and freely con-
fessed, was seized upon by the Ger-
man government as another excuse
for the attack on the Soviet
Union.

The commutation of sentence was
not because of the threat of Hit-
ler, as it would have come anyway,
as no foreign saboteur, sentenced
to death, has ever been executed in
the Soviet Union. The provisions of
the law were adhered to, and the
prerogatives of commutation were
exercised in the case of Stickling as
in Similar cases.

Two Russian defendants, con-
victed and sentenced to death along
with Stickling, also had their sen-
tences commuted to ten years.

Dividends increased:
Not Workers’ Wages

OTTAWA, Ont.—(FPP)—Dividends
of Canadian corporations this year
will be second only to 1930 peak
payments, according to the Finan-
cial Post. Government investigations
have shown that many companies
Were paying 70 to 150 per cent on
actual investments at the time. Divi-
dend payments of listed corporations
exceed last year by 15 per cent.
Wage increases of even 5 per cent
are not frequent.

Cc. N. R. Employees
Win Wage Increases

PORT ARTHUR, Ont—FP)—The
Brotherhood of Railway and Steam-
ship Clerks has signed an agreement
with the Canadian National Rail-
Ways for higher wages and better
working conditions in 1937. Agree-
ments provide for 42 cents an hour
for day work and 44 cents for night
work. The union has
local parts 99 per cent.

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Country Transformed
From Agriculture to
War Supply Base
By ELIOT JANEWAY.

The world-wide armament boom
has brought a flush of prosperity to

the Canadian Mining industry.
Wickel,_copper, lead and zinc are
Canada’s Big Four, her principal

contribution to the next war. The
boom has taken a new tack; it has
been militarized. All four metals
have advanced in price recently.

Advances in metallurgical and
chemical technology have already
revolutionized military science. They
have also revolutionized Canadian
economy; they have transformed it
from an agrarian dominion into one
of the strategic supply bases of the
next war.

Metal’s Meteoric Rise.

Fifty years ago the annual value
of Canada’s mining industry was
$10,000,000; today it is nearly $350,-
000,000. Traditionally, Canada’s im-
portance in world markets has been
confined to her exports of wheat,
meat, Jumber and paper—crops, na-
tural resources and their derivatives
But in 1935 the $200,000,000 check
that Canadian metal mine-owners
Teceived for their exports exceeded
the combined value of all crop ex-
ports. And this year their export
income is expected to reach $225,-
000,000—a quarter of a billion —
which will put mining exports
ahead of lumber and paper exports.

The drive to war has pulled Gan-
ada into the armament vortex in
still another way. It has Started
an armament boom in Canada. Not
only Boeing and other American
aircraft firms with Canadian sub-
Sidiaries are expanding productive
facilities in anticipation of military
orders from Canada’s new military
budget.

Plums For War Makers.

The plum is evidently going to be
a juicy one, well worth plucking,
for Canadian Vickers is entering the
field. All over the world British and
American armament firms have
competed, overthrowing and buying
out governments, precipitating ‘“in-
icdents”” and actual Wars, militariz-
ing nations, subsidizine reaction
everywhere. This vicious struggle
has helped to Keep all of South
America and Europe in turmoil for
well over a Seneration. It is now
being extended to Canada.

MADRID. — (FP) — More persons
have been killed as 4 result of the
Fascist insurrection in Spain in
four months than during the entire
American Civil War, a correspon-
dent has computed.

Scores Strikebreaking
Tactics of Reactionary
Union Leaders On
East Coast

OUT TO WIN

SAN FRANCISCO. — (FP) — “Re-
member, there is a way out now.”

With this veiled threat, Harry.
Bridges warned the San FErancisco
Labor Council that if the American
Federation of Labor should continue
its “strikebreakineg tactics” against
the insurgent maritime unions in
the east,
whole may withdraw from the Wed=
eration and affiliate with the Com-
mittee for Industrial Organization.

Hiring Halls Main Issue.

“Settlement of this strike now de-
pends mainly on the question of
hiring halls,” he added. “Tt is about
time labor people recognized the
fundamental issues involved. For the.
past two years the seafaring crafts
have had control of their hiring
halls. The American - Hawaiian,

Matson and Dollar companies are so
blind, so punch-drunk, they want to.
take this right away from the mari-.
time unions.

They are asking us to arbitrate
maters settled by arbitration twa
years ago. We are econvyinced the
shipowners are waiting to break the
east coast situation and then move
in on us. We see our own mayor
lined up with the scab-herders,

We see the International Lone-
Shoremen’s Association, which is a-
racket on the Atlantic coast, play-
ing the game of the shipowners in
crushing the strikers back east.

We know the troops and machine
suns may move in here again, and
we know that won’t be any fun.
But we'd rather take a crack at the
machine suns than go back to con—
ditions as they were before 1934.

Vancouver Moves

Local 38-126 of the International
Longshoremen’s Association struck
their colors last Monday and de-
clared Vancouver a struck port in
sympathy with their brother unions
in the U.S.

Peaceful pickettine of all docks by
the I.L..4. members and allied unions
has been the order of the day.

The crew of the SS. Limerick of
the Union Steamship Co. of New
Zealand refused to five steam or

assist in any manner the discharge
of her carso.
A B.C. Marine Ways employee

called to operate the boilers refused
to work when he learned of condi-
tions. :
Between 30 and 40 longshoremen
are reported to haye come off the
job in response to appeals of the
Strikers. :
Members of the Canadian Water=
front Workers’ 4:ssociation are still
working ships and diverted carso.

Farm Scheme
Attracts Few
Jobless Men

Big Farmers F: iring Help
To Make Way For
Cheaper Labor

VICTORIA, Nov. 23.— Single un-
employed workers do not seem
Sreatly enamored of the “opportun—
ity’”’ to go out on farms at the wage
of $7.50 a month, for to date only
60 applicants for this kind of work
have been received. Only 15 of these
have been given jobs.

Kulak farmers are firing their
farm laborers to take advantage of

the newer and cheaper slavery
Scheme. The government doesn’t
favor this, as it throws into the

ranks of the unemployed aS many
as it gives employment to.

Green Warned By UMWA

To ‘Cease

And Desist’

WASHINGTON. == (EP) — Presi-
dent William Green of the American
Federation of Labor stands warned
by his own union—the United Mine
Workers of America—to “cease and
desist from his present acts and
associations” and to stop opposing
its policies.

The action was taken at a meet-
ing of the mine workers’ interna-
tional executive board, which said
Green would be made welcome if he
heeds the admonishment, but other-
wise would have to “assume the full
responsibility of his dislaytlty.”’

Green was charged with “acts

against his own union,’ with “eject—
ing his own union from his own
federation,” and with being “at this
moment in convention with the ad-
versaries of his own union.”

President John i. Lewis said the
mine workers’ constitution provided
for Suspension or expulsion of a
member violating the union’s rules.
Green, who is at the Tampa con-
vention, sent a letter denying the
charges against him and citings ser-
vices to the union, which services
terminated 12 years ago.

Green suspended the W.Ai.W.A. for
its part in organizing mass produc-
tion workers into industrial unions,

the marine unions as a