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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, December 4, 1936

Elect Progressives
FTER two years of what has been the most wasteful and
reactionary adininistration in the history of Vaneouver,
the voters in a few days will have an opportunity to throw the
whole McGeer gang out of office.

McGeer, with a prayer on his lips and a club in his hand,
with demogogic claptrap about the money changers, has run
Vancouver with a high hand. The city has been plunged six
million dollars further in the hole to satisty the shylocks of
high finance. Hundreds ot thousands of dollars were spent
to smash strikes and trade unionism. In fact the Shipping Fed-
eration and kindred bodies used the city treasury as if they
owned it, and made city government an appendage of their
colossal skin game. And now McGeer and his yes-men are sitting
on the lid of the Tucker charges. ®

During these two years only one man on the city council stood
up against McGeer, and that man was Alderman McDonald. He
alone struggled against the starvation of the unemployed and tried
to defend the interests of evicted families.

Against McGeer and his bunch of reactionaries McDonald
stands out as a progressive. He is a candidate for the mayoralty.
Against him are the already discredited Taylor and a couple
of Shipping Federation and banker stooges of the same stripe
as McGeer. :

McDonald on his progressive record and platform is entitled
to the support of all citizens who are fed up with cynical mal-
administration, who want honest, progressive, clean government,
and who want to deliver a blow at reaction.

MacDonald as mayor should be supported by a progressive
council and school board, and that means that the C.C.F. eandi-
dates should be elected. The time has come for a clean-cut
jn the city hall, for an end to the sort of municipal govren-
ment that tramples on the rights of the common people and
disgraces Vancouver.

Demand Payment in Full

HE decision otf the Single Unemployed Men to accept the

jobs im the forestry camps show decisively that they have

been in earnest in their demand for work and wages. But the

wages, 30 cents an hour, are not enough and must be imereased.

The worst feature of the camps is the government retusal

to pay all the wages to the men. Tt has been announced that

a part of the wages earned is to be held by the government so

that when they are fired or quit it will be doled out to them to
keep them oft reliet.

‘Sach yicious practice must be combated. The wages are too
low now; to refuse to pay in full is simply a gross violation
of a workers’ right to payment for labor performed. Tt is an
exceptionally mean and contemptible way ot placing a huge tax
on these workers to provide an unemployment relet fund—all
contributed out of their miserably low wages—against the con-
ingency of future unemployment. ; :
Behe sinele ee eloyed ne doing well to preserve their union
on the job, not only to raise the wages and compel the payee
of wages in full, but to prevent stomach-robbing and other forms

of chiseling in the camps-

More Aid for Franco :

T IS clear that on all major issues the leaders of the Van-
eouver Trades and Labor Council follow the lead of Green
and other reactionary heads of the A.F.of L., and not ibs jpad
of the progressives. At the recent convention of the A. OE r
Green did not permit a distinguished Spanish trade unionist,
Senora Isabelle de Palencia, to address the body of unionists.
Green is so “fair-minded” that he thought it would not be a
to hear the representative of the Spanish government unless the

fascist butcher, General Franco, could also be heard. . :

In the last meeting of the Trades and Labor Council the
president was instrumental in defeating a motion to poy
representatives trom the Spanish Aid Committee to speak a t e
interest of the Spanish people who are heroically belding back
the fascist rebels from turning Spain into another Germany or

re rse. * :

ee disgraceful that a central body ot organized labor sioud
thus aid the fascist butchers when it 15 So well known that 1
Franco, backed by Mussolini and Hitler, succeeds, trade union-
ism will be smashed im Spain. The Spanish Aid Committee 1n
its support of the Spanish workers are defending trade union
ism everywhere, and no amount ot Red-baiting by Trades an
Labor Couneil officials can make it otherwise.

Democracy in the Soviet Union
HE new constitution of the Soviet Union, a charter which pro-
vides greater democracy than has ever been known in history,
has thrown the capitalist press into confusion. Compelled to
admit its tremendous advance Bee newspaper makes a laugh-
sne-stock of itself im “interpreting 1t. ; :
ee The Sop seems to be Fused that the dictatorship of the
proletariat leads to greater democracy. The fact of the matter
is that ever since the defeat of the interventionist powers and
the white guards who were attempting capitalist restoration,
there has been a greater degree of demeocracy in the Soviet
Union than in any country in the world. But this democracy
for the majority took good care that the wings of the anti-social
elements, 2.¢e., the capitalists and their agents, were kept clipped.
Tt was precisely because these anti-social elements were sup-
pressed that they disappeared to the extent that the new and
more democratic constitution was possible. This extension of
democracy is portrayed in the capitalist press as a return to
capitalism, and that the new constitution is a sien that Commun-
ism has failed. FR ee fe
On the contrary, the new constitution 1s living proot ot the
victory of Socialism over all its enemies, while in every coe
country there is a growing abrogation of democratic rights an.
rivileges. Capitalist democracy, limited and precarious: a
is, has to be stubbornly defended against fascism. Only in the
Soviet Union is fascism impossible and the people in a position
to rise to ever greater material, cultural and democratic heights.

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| Book Review

SPAIN IN REVOLT—By Harry
Gannes and Theodore Repard.

This is unquestionably the most
informative book on this subject
that has yet appeared. Im the first
paragraph the authors say: “Spain
is becoming a pivot on which the
world may turn either its fascist or
democratic side to the rising sun of
the future,’’ and after reading the
book the reader cannot but agree.

“Spain in Revolt’ shows quite
conclusively how incorrect it is to
refer to the civil war as a “‘‘“Moorish
invasion.” It is true that the strug-
gle has developed into one for na-
tional independence, not against the
possibility of a Moorish government
being set up, but against Spain be-
ing divided into spheres of influence
by Italy and Germany. The Moorish
troops, like the Foreign Legion, are
merceneries who fight for loot, and
they were only brought into the
fight when the early attempt of the
Spanish fascist forces to seize power
were frustrated by the heroism of
the half-armed workers. :

Hyver since the flight of King AJ-
phonso XIII, in 1931, and the forma-
tion of the Second Spanish Repub-
lic, the fascists have been preparing
for a fascist state. Some of thre
Spanish fascists intrigued with Mus-
solini and some with Hitler, and this
book enumerates their various or-
ganizations and tells how Gil Robles
worked to unite all the MRightist
parties in preparation for a fascist
uprising. When the uprising began
in July 17 of this year seventy-five
per cent of the regulars went with
the fascists. Other forces such as
the Navy and Civil Guards were
also divided. The general strike of
1934 which developed into an insur-
rection, most strongly in the As-
turias, was wholly a movement
against the threat offered to democ-
racy by the growth of fascist influ-
ence in the government. :

Spanish fascism attempted to fol-
low the methods used by Italians
and German fascism, that is to ob-
tain control of the democratic gov-
ernment and then use the state
powers against the workers and
peasants. Failing in this it started
the present civil war. As the au-
thors express it: “The Civil War o1
1936 was but a continuation, in
sharper form, of the parliamentary
struggle which was waged between
the People’s Front and the C.E.D.A,
for the two preceding years.”

(For sale at the New Age Book
Store, 350 West Pender street.
Price $2.25) —T. M.

ODETS’ PLAY AT
' LABOR THEATRE

The Progressive Arts Players an-
nounce the re-appearance of ““Wait-
ing for Lefty,’ the famous play by
Clifford Odets that made such a sen-
sation earlier in the year and which
won honors at the Dominion Drama
Festival at Ottawa. Notwithstand-
ing the many times it has been
played by the group, hundreds of
people who failed to see “Lefty”
have asked for its revival locally.
Presented originally, for the first
time in Canada at the Labor The-
atre, corner of Hawkes avenue and
East Pender street, about a year
ago, the same auditorium will see
its revival on Friday and Saturday,
December 18 and 19, with substan-
tially the same cast.

The P.A. Players will present on
the same program another strong
play related to the present social
scene, ‘“‘Private Hicks,’ by Albert
Maltz, author of “Black Pit.” “Pri-
vate Hicks’’ is the prize winning
play of the contest sponsored by the
New Theatre League and the Amer-
ican League Against War and Fas-
cism for one-act anti-war and anti-
fascist plays. The play is likely to
provoke the same spirited contro-

versy over its theme—the use of
troops in suppressing strikes—as
greeted “Waiting for Lefty.”

A feature of the “Private Hicks”
production will be the striking
scenic setting designed for the Pro-
gressive Arts’ production by Peter
Purdy, an artist-desisner whose
theatre creations in London and
New York have received acclaim.

What Mr. Lefeaux Didn't
See In The Soviet Union

By BECKIE BUHAY EWEN.

In the November issue of The
Federationist there appeared an ac-
Count of a speech on the U.S.S.R. de-
livered by Wallis Lefeaux, being
deseribed as a “‘cold analysis of Rus-
Sian conditions.”

To me, it is surprising that a labor
man who, like Lefeaux, visited Rus-
Sia in 1920 and thus could not help
but see the vast changes for the
better that had taken place, could
state the following: “What I have
called attention to tonight is the
price which is being paid for the
change in Russia today, so that you
will not have a glorified idea of how
they are living. We will learn to
give credit to the masses in Russia
for the deprivation they have gone
through and are still going through.”

This is the only conclusion that
Mr. Lefeaux draws from his visit!
His speech by The Federationist ac-
count contains a number of contra-
dictions. In one breath he calls it
a “wonderful experiment’* and in
the other breath he says, “Since the
Golsheyvist revolution, the conditions
of the masses of Russian people,
and the amount of misery they have
sustained, from our point of yiew
of a living standard, I do not he-
lieve will ever be estimated. ...TI
am not going’ to express an opinion
whether the cost which has been in-
curred and is being met for what
they hope to obtain in the future, is
worth it or not.’’

Closed His Eyes

As one who has had the privilege
of visiting the U.S.S.R. three times
(1930, 19382 and 1933), I wish to put
forward my observations and they
will certainly differ radically from
those of Mr. Lefeaux. It seems to
me that Mr. Lefeaux has observed
the U-S.S-R. from the seat of a
“sight-seeing far,’ from Olympian
heights of pre-conceived Kautskyian

notions, and not from reality.
He gives no indication that the
mew Russia is a land of socialist

factories, schools, collective farms,
diverse cultural institutions — his
glance seems to have been a very
superticial one in which he missed
the soul of the new Russia, he talks
elibly of “‘self styled leaders,’’ when
it is obvious to all whose eves are
not fogged with prejudices, that
there are not a few leaders in the
U.S.S-R. bullying over 170 million

people, but capable, tireless, beloved
leaders, working together with 170
Million people in an epic of history
that has not only remade Russia,
but remakes the whole world! Thar
Mr, Lefeaux has not seen this is
not the misfortune of the Russian
people, but the misfortune of Mr.
Lefeaux!

My last yisit in the U_S.S.R- in the
summer of 1935 left me breathless
with amazement that so much im-
provement could be developed in
three short years. I found no par-
adise, far from it, but I found some-
thine portentous—that Mr. Lefeaux
fails to understand. Coming from
a land of depression, witnessing the
unemployment and despair of capi-
talist Europe, it was indeed refresh-
ing and inspiring to see this new
world where all were feverishly at
work, busily engaged in bettering
their own lives and that of their
fellows.

Some of the Gains

It is not important for Mr. Le-
feaux that during the five years of
the capitalist world erisis, in the
U.S.S.R., among 170 million people,
NO ONE HAS SOUGHT WORK IN
VAIN! That for every willing adult,
a job is found at the prevailing
trade union rates of pay, that the
seven-hour day is the general work-
ing day, and six hours in heavy in-
dustry: that each worker receives
a month’s vacation a year with pay,
and that young people training in
schools and colleges and technical
institutes have their maintenance

provided. Had be understood this,
and all the other social insurance
Jaws which proyide free medical
eare, protection of maternity with
full pay, child and old age welfare,
ete, he would not have “coldly”
quoted to ‘the Vancouver public,
nominal wages and nominal prices
which cannot convey the truth un-
Tess all these actual benefits are
taken into consideration!

Mr. Lefeaux speaks in lofty
pseudo Marxian fashion: The U.S:
SR. has “state capitalism, it re-
tains the capitalist monetary sSyS-
tem! No one denies that dealing
with a capitalist world, the U.S.S.R-
cannot of itself scrap the present
system. But capital in the U-S.S.R.
is not ‘capital’ in the Marxian
sense, that exists under capitalism,
for in the U.S.S.R. it is the means
of creating wealth for the masses

Youth Organizations Smack
Strongly Of Fascist Trend

At the Youth Council esting |

which was inaugurated in Victoria
last night, there appeared some 38
delegates from about 22 organiza-
tions. The initiative was taken some
time ago by some of the C.C.F. and
church youth groups, and was given
momentum after Ralph Dent had
returned from the Geneva Congress.

While regular youth groups were
fairly well represented, it was no-
ticeable that a large number of dele-
gates appeared with credentials
similarly typed and with closely re-
lated organizational nomenclature.
Hor instance there was the Youngs

Citizens’ League, Youth Action
Forum, Canadian Guard, Young
Anti-Oriental League, Canadian De-
fence League (Victoria Legion),
League Against War, Communism
and Fascism, Young Pacifists of
Ganada, and Young Democrats of
Canada.

The composition of the delegates
of ali these organizations appears
of the same type as that of the
members of the Youth Action
Forum, which originally was com-
posed of three youthful adventur-
ists and red-baiting disrupters, Neil
Butler, F. Hartnell and C. Thomas,
the latter an outcast from the
Young Communist League.

For some months these three,
aided by some unnamed satellites
have been bombarding the public
with letters to the editors of the
local dailies, containing some of the
vilest slanders and provocative
statements imaginable, very similar
to the ravings of Tom McInnes of
fascist ill-fame.

Attacks against Communism, So-
viet Russia and the Spanish defend-
ers of democracy, interspersed with
| attacks on individuals of the pro-

gressive trends and Communists,
~and even petulant tirades against
the editor of the “Times” for some
favorable comments on the struggles
of the Spanish Loyalists, have been
of daily occurrence, to the extent
that it is almost a major topic of
discussion amongst the people here.

In spite of the unfavorable re-
ception the letters evoke amongst
honest people, they continue, and
now a situation is arising Where
there is danger of their domination
of the Youth Council in its initial
stages.

Fortunately their attitude in all
matters, whether in their letters,
at meetings, or in their private con-
tacts, is so easily detected, they
have become not only known to
many and openly ridiculed and are
pecoming a laughing stock, but they
have raised against them many pro-
gressive and liberal people who have
become disgusted and not a little
disturbed by their anti-social,
chauvinistie tirades.

If these elements are genuinely in
favor of the struggle for retention of
democratic principles, against the
war-mongers, and the fascist scum
already prominent in Canada, they
Will have the support of all decent
citizens, but their open hostility to
Communism, Orientals and progres-
sives will soon isolate them, result-
ing in their complete liquidation or

open exposure. —H. EK.
Victoria, Nov. 27.

FROM A

Were are the perfect symbols.

You'll recall

Our long and narrow harbor, and the wall

Of mountains to the north. The frame.and stucco piers
Perched sprawling on the foreshore, and the tiers
Of dirty buildings straggling up the hill;

As you'll remember, we have with us still

The brothels and the bars on Water Street

Where men of every flag and color meet

And truncheons.

To slale the twin thirsts of the arid sea.

Sordid enough, when mist has veiled the hills
And culled man’s work from Nature’s. Each tide fills
The harbor with the sewage of the ebb;

Even the sea lies filthied in the web

Of human exploitation.

You might, if you take pain,

Recall St. Matthew’s Church in Chandler’s Lane,
Between a sporting-house and Mickey’s bar,
Set in the slums, as such things often are,

To cole cut God in thimble-cups and pills

Lest men should seek him on the brooding hills.

Well, yesterday

There was a riot on the waterfront;
The stevedores too long had borne the brunt
Of that drear struggle of the day to day

Against the slew, insidious decay

Of all the workers’ blood had spilled to win.
The strikers found their strike a deadly sin;
For when they marched in peaceable array
Past old St. Matthew’s, where their women pray
For bread and sausages, or leave to die,

Police rode on them, o’er them, and the sky
Rained weeping-gas and bullets. They replied
With stones and faggots. Cobbles pried

From out the right-of-way, and palings torn

The sailors came ashore.
The strike was broken,.and tonight's parade
Qf police and sailors was superfluous pains

TTER

Three stevedores were killed;

And that grande dame, the parson’s wife, was filled
With choler ‘gainst the strikers when the gas
Slew her canaries.
Between the light-house and the mountain shore
There sneaked a grey destroyer. Down she bore
Toward the harbor, and the workers fled

And left the police te glory and the dead.

Then from out the pass

Arrests were made.

To set a seal upon the workers’ chains,
A seal of law and order.

Tonight at vesper song

And fresh-faced

In hushed St. Matthew’s, all the police were there,

sailors bent the kmee in prayer

Thinking the while they'd sooner be in quod,
While Rector Sympkins thanked the harbors god
(Not him who brooded on the northern hills)

That law and order had restored the ills

The workers strike against.
Above the Bolshie menace.

He spoke of his

Think!
This dirty port

From off the church-yard fence. The long hot morn

The battle raged, of helpless fists upraised
Against cold steel and tear-gas, and the crazed

Rum-drunken lust of police with tommy-guns

And then he praised
Teartul-eyed,
eanaries. How they’d died

That freedom might endure in Canada!

and these aspiring hills

Environments past and present. Hope that thrills
A worker's heart who Imows his cause is just

And mans the picket-line.
For law and order, and marines and police
In name of love of country, justice, peace;
And last, St. Matthew’s, in historic role

Of gildings chains to slave 2 master’s soul!

Then bourgeois lust

This little seaport by our northern sea
Reflects our cosmos in epitome!

—J.R.

and not for making profits for capi-
talists. As to state capitalism—that
is the concentration of monopoly
finance and capital into the hands
of the government itself; surely it
is stretching economics and all revo-
lutionery philosophy to contend
that anything like that exists in the
U:SS:-R.-

Even Sidney Webb, who nobody
will accuse of being a Communist,
admits that the main feature of the
Soviet system is that the profit mo-
tive has been obliterated. He states:
“The criminal offense of profit mak-
ing in the U.S.S-R. includes two
operations which, in every other
country, are rewarded not only by
wealth, but also by public esteem.
These couple of crimes are respec-
tively stigmatized by the Russians
as “speculation’’ — meaning any
buying of commodities with the in-
tention of selling them again at a
higher price—or as “‘exploitation’’—_—
meaning any hiring of any person
(whatever the wage) for the purpose
of selling the product of that per-
son’s labor for the employer's pecun-
iary advantage. The essential change
brought about by Socialism and by
Communism, as the Russian under-
stands these terms, is thus, what Sir
William Beveridge has aptly termed
the “Marxian operation’’ on the
body politic; the complete extirpa-
tion, from the social organism of
the motive and stimulus of indivyi-
dual profit, whether obtained by
buying to sell again, or by making
gain out of the labor of one’s
hirelings.’’

How Production Works

One cannot view tne Soviet Union
just by wandering through the
streets( though even here one can
observe a lot), or by listing nominal
wages and prices. The Soviet sscene
is mot something statie—it changes
every day in accordance with the
collective creations of the people.
During the six months I spent there
prices went down radically and in
many industries wages rose. For
instance, average earnings were
this last month 21 per cent higher
then they were the previous year.
That which is going on in the
Soviet Union is a process one can
really see if you Stay there some
time, that every day 1s better than
the previous day in terms of living
standards and methods. All are par-
ticipating in this process. What can
be further removed from state
capitalism than this? The People’s
State, a Socialist Staie controls the
entire economic and political fabric
—through this control, it can as-

sure each branch of industry, each
collective, each institution, the
necessary resources in capital and
supplies. Each year the socialist

economic planned society improves
in scope and efficiency. The Soviet
Union thus becomes a huge co-
operative business concern—the big-
gest in the world—every part of
which works in harmony with every
other part. And the entire profit
of this concern belongs to its own-
ers—the people of the U.S.S-R.

Just a few examples of the things
IT myself saw. I had the opportunity

of visiting many factories, a few
collectives, many Schools, sanitor-
iums, cultural institutions, ete. In
all these the same feature prevail-
ed—the collective principle of fac-
tories, collectives, institutions being
built for the people who use them.
I remember the visit to the Kagano-
vitch Ball-Bearing Plant in Moscow,
a huge, airy structure, employing
thousands of workers. This factory,
like the hundreds of other five-year
plan plants, is a world in itself. It
embodies in it, not only the best
methods and equipment for working,
put has all the social and cultural
characteristics, that makes labor an
honor-in the U.S.S.R.

Gompared With Czardom

Beautifully decorated restaurants,
at which the workers get their
meals at cost price, up to date
library, large theatre and meetings
hall, cultural corners, recreation
rooms, mothers’ room, beautiful
nurseries, a Clinic, a staff of doctors
and nurses, etc. Adjoining, a little
way from the factory, are the new
workers’ apartments in most modem
setting. And here, like in every
factory or place we visited and
talked with the workers, they told
of the filthy old factories, the ten
and twelve hour work day, the ter-
ribly low wages, and the hovels and
illiteracy under Czarism! What a
contrast the new life is to them!

We spent a day at a collective
farm about 70 miles from Moscow-
Here the contrast between the new
and the old is even more marked.
Under Gzarism there were something
like 25 million tiny farms — inde-
scribable conditions of poverty, filth,
illiteracy and backwardness. Schools
practically unknown—the old ox and
plough the only method of farming.
The rich landlords who owned huge
estates of their own, lording it over
their millions of peasants in the
ecruelest fashion.

Today the agricultural life of the
{.S-S.R. has been transformed into
250,000 collectives, 5,000 state farms
with 4,000 machine and traction
stations using 300,000 tractors and
50,000 combines, 35,000 motor trucks.
Qn top of this the collective tarmer
now has his own special plot of
land and home and garden, and a
few animals for his own use. The
farm is being electrified, thousands
of schools, movies, theatres, libraries,
all forms of culture have been added
to his life. The new collective farm-
er is a different man today to his
father—his standard of living and
culture have gone up ereatly, and
his whole outlook on life has been
changed.

(Continued next week.)

LONDON. — @P)—Octsber unem-
ployment figures in Great Britain

are given out as 1,612,000.

SHORT
JABS

COD

By
OL’ BILL

B.C. Co yi, Every time a dis—
C. Collectric turbance of the

Once More. normal climatic

conditions occurs on the Goast, the
people of Vancouver take a sock on
the chin from the B.C. Gollectric.
A few years ago they let their dams
run empty and we had to live for
a month in Stygian darkness like
the Egyptians stricken by the Lerd;
later, a fresh wind blew down many
of their rotten poles, some of which.
had been standing for over 30 years
and were only held up by the wires,
and the light and power system was
disorganized for a couple of days.
Last year the “big snow’ was made
an alibi for the inefficiency that
left us without a car service for
three days in the Victoria and Joyce
Road district.

Last week it was fog; at least the
fog was blamed for the disorganiza—
tion that made Fast and South peo—
ple shiver in the cold at the con—
venience of the management of the
best street-car system we have in
Vancouver. Last Friday the writer
stood on the corner of Main and
Hastings waiting for a Victoria
Road car, from 11:55 p.m. to 12:25,
Four Fraser-Kerrisdale trains went
past but no Victoria. Then we re-
membered the Kerrisdale cars serve
the Shaughnessy Heights people,
ob Hill must have service and to
hell with the bohunks and reliefers
who live out Victoria and Joyce.

We have learned since, that the
fog was only partly responsible for
this state of affairs. The main cause
was the breakdown of one of the
machines in the Main Street junk-
pile. Since the “Great Collectrie”™
has no reserve machinery and the
damage cannot be made good till
after Christmas, the Vancouver
Christmas shoppers have an inter
esting time ahead. :

How During the “Knock
About Knock” competition

The Union? ;, the “Buzzer” we
heard one that did not win a dollar
but expressed the feelings of many
of the victims of the B.C) Gollectrie
profit lust. ‘Knock, knock!” **Who's
there?” ““Gypped.” “Gypped who?
“Gypped good by the B.C Gal-
lectric.”’ :

During the fog it appeared to
many of the passengers that the
streetcar men’s union is not fully
alive to its opportunities. If the
union had made a demand to put
two men on every “one-man” car
they would have had the full sup-
port of the people of Vancouver
It is nothing short of criminal on
the part of the B.C. Collectric to ask
men to Handle cars, collect fares
and attend to the boarding and
alighting of passengers under such
conditions. :

Go after every candidate for
mayor and alderman and make sure
they are not “yes-men” for Sir Her-
bert Holt and his grasping plunder-
bund,

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=F Wothing that Mal
mes colm Bruce or OF

2 Bill could write
Condemned. would be a better
condemnation of British imperial
ism in India than the following let
ter from the Calcutta “Statesman,”
which vies with the Bombay “Limes
of India” for the position of mouth-
piece of British rule in that un-
happy country. We print it, without
further comment, except emphasiz-
ing, as published in the weekly edi-
tion of that paper of October 15th,
1936:

To the Editor: Sir,—A starving
farmer from the country came te
Calcutta to bee for food and fell
ill. He lay down on the pavement
of Amherst Street and proceeded to
have dysentry. His clothes and thé
pavement became foul. No one at-
tended him or even filled his water
pot. Fearing cholera on the second

day of seeing him, IT phoned for the
infectious ambulance, which came
and removed him to hospital. The
Campbell Medica] Hospital declared
that they had no room for him and
another hospital gave a similar re-
ply. An officer of the Corporation
then gave instructions that the
wretch should be replaced where he
had been found, unwashed and no-
thing done for him. Conditions are
such, therefore, that an official has
no other choice but to place an in-
fectious case just at a place where
he will be of the GREATEST POS-
SIBLE DANGER TO THE PUB-
Lic, to die like a dog. Is Calcutta
really unable to afford a beggar
hospital? If so, at least shelters
could be constructed such as COWES
enjoy, WHERE THE POOR CAN
DIE WITHOUT SACRIFICE oF
THE LIVING. Large numbers of
beggars are entering Galcutta, due
to the floods and the instance given
above is of COMMON OGCUR-
RANCE in North Calcutta. Yours,
etc., E. M. Milford.

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azi professor
German zee Septcrs ott
Mathematics. English mathe-
matics, French mathematics, Jew-
ish mathematics and German
mathematics. German mathematics
are the best.” You may laugh at
that as I did at first, but there may
be something in it.

Perhaps it is German mathe-
matics that enables Hitler to say
there are no Nazi airmen, planes,
bombs or machine guns being used

enabled Hitler to count 40 million
“ya? yotes in the famous “election”
and to prove that there are no UD=
employed in Nazi Germany.

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