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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1936

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VOL. II., No. 48

FULL NO. 100

CCF Elect Three To City Council Of 8

JOBLESS JAILED
FOR COLLECTING
GAIN FREEDOM

Will Continue Struggle
In Forestry Work
Camps

Twenty-two members - of the
Single Unemployed Protective As-
sociation, who were arrested last
Saturday while out collecting funds
on the streets for those who have
mo relief although in the province
prior to Nov. i5th, had the charges
against them withdrawn when they
appeared in Police Court Wednes-
day.

Fourteen others arrested Monday
under similar circumstances also
had the charges against them with-
drawn on Thursday in police court.

Despite the miserably wet weather
last Saturday the boys collected
over $136 to help them in their
struggle to gain relief for those
eoming into Vancouver from other
provincial places in the interior.

The men have agreed to refrain
from further soliciting on the
streets, and to go out to the for-
estry jobs offered under the works
scheme where they will carry on
for payment of wages in full as the
first step in organizational work.

NEWSPAPER GUILD
CHALKS UP GAINS

NEW YORK.— IFP)—E£he lusty
young American Newspaper Guild
continues to chalk up gains. No

sooner had William Randolph Hearst
eried quits and accorded recognition
to the guildsmen on The Seattle
Post-tIntelligencer, than mirimum
wage rates and dismissal bonuses
were won from the Hearst-owned
Wew York Journal and San Fran-
cisco Examiner. The guild has also
won recognition from the San Fran-
eisco Ghronicle and signel new con-
tracts with the New York Daily
Wews and the Camden Courier-Post,

Peace Efforts
Are Endorsed

Women’s Labor League
Convention Moves
For Unity

Support of all efforts for peace
received the endorsement of dele-

fates at the eleyenth annual con-
vention of the Women’s Labor
League held in Clinton Hall, Van-

couver, last Saturday and Sunday.

Unity of all women on a common
Presram of progressive aims to bet-
ter the conditions amone working
WOmen Was Stressed. Campaigns for
higher relief and reduction in the
cost of staple foodstuffs will be sup-
ported. :

Steps will be undertaken to form
a federation of women’s organiza-
tions similar to the Progressive
Women’s Council functioning in To-
rente and doing good work. As a
move in this direction the branches
of the Women's Labor League will
be strenethened to take a keener
interest in the affairs of community
life.

Restriction of women’s rights
and liberties through reactionary
legislation will be opposed by the
league in co-operation with other
women’s organizations.

Resolutions endorsed by the con-
vention called fer the release of the
flower sellers. In the case of Grange
and Molland, who were sentenced to

two years, a new trial was de-
manded.
Other resolutions demanded in-

crease in old age pensions, reduc-
tion in the age limit to 60 years,
and relief for all needy persons at-
taining the age of 16.

Greetings were sent to the women
of Spain, the women of the U.S.S.R.
and to the jailed flower sellers.

Hraternal delegates attending the
convention were from the Mothers’
Council, women’s auxiliaries of in-
dustrial and Janguage organizations,
Canadian Wiabor Defence League,
and the League Against War and
Hascism.

U.S. Envoy to

Soviets

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strange.

Joseph E. Davies, of Wisconsin, new ambassador to the U.S.S.R.
He recently married Mrs. Marjorie Post-Hutton, who has $1,000,000
2 year in her own right, partly from the Post-Toastie millions of
her ex-husband. There were 25 servants at the Davies wedding, and
flowers alone cost $4,800—ali of which the Russians would think

Madrid Population Re-<
markably Calm Despite
Bombardment

TORONTO, Dee. §8—Despite aerial
bombardments of the city daily,
Madrid’s population remains ‘‘re-
markably quiet and calm and the
army's morale is high,” according to
advices received here by the Cana-

dian Committee to Aid Spanish
Democracy from Dr. Norman

Bethune, head of the Canadian med-
ieal unit with government forces on
the Madrid front.

“The covernment now has aerial
supremacy,’ states Bethune, ‘‘and
although the enemy are actually
In the suburbs, I do not think the
city will ever fall. However, all
the wounded may have to be
evacuated as Franco has  pro-
claimed they will be killed in their
beds.”’

The democratic Spanish govern-
ment has accepted Dr. Bethune's of-
fer on behalf of the Canadian com-
mittee to organize a blood transfu-
Sion seryice in Madrid. Because of

the inadequacy of the existing
Skeleton service, hundreds of men
were dying.

Dr. Bethune is now proceeding

WINNIPEG LABOR

DRAFTS PLANS

40-Hour Week; Free
Text Books for Needy
Sought

WINNIPEG, Man—(FP)—To in-
sure the right of labor to organize
and bargain collectively, a commit-
tee from the Dominion Trades and
Labor Congress and the Winnipes
Trades and Labor Council has sub-
mitted a draft bill for a new Mani-
toba industrial conditions act to the
provincial government.

James Graham of the Trades and
Labor Council urged an increase in
the minimum wage for men from
25 to 40 cents’ Since there is a ten=
dency to make 25 cents a maximuni
rather than a minimum wage. The
committee requested abolition of the
2 per cent wage tax with its dis-
regard of the principle of ‘ability
to pay.” To relieve unemployment,
the province was asked to limit
hours of labor to not more than
40 a week and eight a day. Free
text books for children of needy

Parents were also called for.

Intolerable Conditions In
Winnipeg’s Fur Industry

WINNIPEG. — (FP) — Intolerable
conditions in the fur industry con-
tinued to be disclosed before the
Jacobs commiittee investigating the
four-month-old strike in the indus-
try.

Hirst Wice - President Maurier
Reiss of the International Fur Work-
ers’ Union charged that workers
Were blacklisted for union activity,
or subjected to miserable working.
conditions at discriminatory wages
if suspected of interest in the union.
He further Charged that workers
were shadowed and if found attend-
ims Union meetings fired.

: OF some 400 workers involved
an _the first outbreak of the strike,
800 have returned to work in 28

Spanish Government Now Has
Aerial Supremacy — Bethune

Shops, havine won wage increases of
25 per cent, a 40-hour week, time-
and-a-half for overtime and other
gains.

The inquiry committee was form-
ed to attempt to effect a settlement
in the four shops still holding out.
Though 250 workers originally walk-
ed out of these four shops, the larg-
e@st in the vicinity, about 100 of
them have been placed in union
Shops since.

Sam Herbst, general organizer in
Canada for the American Federa-
tion of Labor, declared that over
$25,000 in strike benefits has been
spent by the LE.W.U. in Winnipee

Since the strike started.

with this work, in co-operation with
the Socorra Rojo International, lead-
ing sovernment medical organizatiou,
using moderm methods of collecting,
storing and transporting blood.
Eventually it is hoped to extend this
service to every front.

Already many thousands of dollars
have been sent from Canada and the
Canadian committee has undertaken
to raise $500 weekly to support its
medical unit.

Unions Honor
Slain Leaders

Funeral Cortege 5 Miles
Long Answer To
Gangsters

SEATTER, Dec. 7.—Striking mari-
time workers in Seattle marched in
a mass funeral procession this after-
noon in honor of two murdered
union men. The funeral corteze,
more than five blocks long, pro-
ceeded through downtown Seattle
amidst shopping throngs, after leay-
ing the hall of the Cannery Work-
Union at

ers’ and Farm Laborers’
200 South Wifth avenue.

The +-demonstration, maritime
union officials explalined, was to

show the public that the seven strik-
ing unions stand aS a man behind
the cannery workers’ union in its
fight for the union hiring hall prin-
ciple as opposed to the cannery
labor contractor system of recruit-
ing workers for Alaska salmon can-
neries.

The funeral was held for Virgil
Duyungan and Aurelio Simon, pres-
ident and secretary of the cannery
workers’ union, who were shot to
death last Tuesday in a Main street
cafe by a nephew of one of the labor
contractors.

The Maritime Federation, through
the Northwest joint strike commit-
tee, has declared it believes the
deaths of Duyungan and Simon to
be a gang-like attempt to smash the
hiring hall principle.

‘The Federation,’ the Northwest
joint strike committee said, “‘orgzan-
ized the Cannery Workers’ and
Farm Laborers’ Union, which took
the first steps to lift cannery labor
out of the peonage class into better
working conditions. It will not stand
by and see fellow laborers shot down
in cold blood.’

Steps are under way by the strike
committee to press for a full official
investigation of the deaths of
Duyungan and Simon.

MONTREAL (#P)—It pays to
be a stockholder in the Ganadian
Pacifie railway. There was an in-
erease of $153,840 in net profits in
October, 1936, compared with the
same month last year.

Canada’s Exports
To Great Britain
Highest Since ’29

OTTAWA, Ont. — (FP) — Almost
halé of Canada’s exports for the
month of October went to the United
Tangdom. The $47,700,000 of goods
Canada sold to the United Kingdon
is an increase of 11.3 per cent over
October, 1935. United States imports
from Canada, amounting to 44.5
millions, is an increase of 37.2 per
cent over October, 1935. The October
exports were the highest since No-
vember, 1929.

NO ARBITRATION
ON HIRING HALL
STATES BRIDGES

Demands Union Cards
Before Granting
Interview

Harry Bridges, militant president
of Pacific Coast longshoremen, held
eight thousand people in Suspense
when he spoke at a mass meeting
in the civic auditorium in Seattle
recently. The mass meeting was the
first chance the public in the
Worthwest had to hear the maritime
Strikers’ side of the story.

Bridges was welcomed by Seattle’s
labor mayor, John EF. Dore, as ‘the
sreatest labor leader IT have known,’’
and Bridges reciprocated by saying,
“we in San Irancisco are behind
Seattle when it comes to mayors.’’

Our Right to Live

Other speakers before the packed
audience included Harry Lundebere,
Sailors’ Union secretary; Harold
Pritchett, president of 72,000 lumber
workers; and Howard Costigan, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Washington
Commonweath Pederation.

Gridges used the occasion to ex-
plain to the publie the basic issue of
the maritime tie-up, the hiring hall.

“It is our wight to live,” saia
Bridges, “and we will not arbi-
trate it.”

He pointed out that it is not a

system to force employers, and that
it provides machinery for removal of
incompetent workmen, “It will raise
the morale of the workin: man
wherever it is used, and the past
two years have proven it to be sat-
isfactory to everybody.”
Guild Cards Requested

Gridges pionted out that there is
a deliberate and planned attempt to
smash the maritime unions. “The
shipowners want to smash us,’”’ he
said, “because our intention is to
spread, and to help all trade unions.
We want to make every Pacific

' Coast port 100 per cent union, and

inland. In San
spread to the

we are spreading
Francisco we have

| warehousemen and the flour mills.”

In an interview eranted to re-
porters shortly after.he addressed
longshoremen at a special meetings,
Bridges insisted on American News-
paper Guild cards before he would
consent to seeing reporters. “I’m a
union man,” said Bridges, “and IT
don’t talk to newspapermen unless
they, too, are union men.’ One re-
porter and one photographer ex-
hibited Guild cards and remained.
The rest, including newsmen sent
from the recently reopened Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, left without
securing the interview.

SOVIET AIRMEN
BREAK RECORDS

MOSCOW (®P)—The Soviet air-
men, Niukhtikoy and Lipkin, have
made new records, taking recently
a load of 10 tons 23,065 feet aloft.
On another occasion they rose 14-
800 feet carrying 650 sacks weigh-
ing 13 tons—almost equal to the
weight of a railway goods wagon.
The flight lasted 65 minutes.

Pacific Ship
Men Owe U.S.
$25,000,000

Strike Could Be Ended
by Government Threat
To Foreclose

WASHINGTON. — (MNS) — Con-
struction loans and ship sales owed
by steamship companies on the
Pacifie Coast to the U.S. govern-
ment were reyealed here as totalling
325,000,000.

Heading the list of debtors is the
Dollar Steamship Company, one of
the chief violators of the maritime
peace. This concern owes the tax
paying people $14,268,624, it was re-
vealed.

Oceanic Steamship Company is
next in rank, with $8,464,500
owed.

A threat to foreclose on the
debts if the just demands of the
unions for their own hiring halls.
Sliven them two years ago by the

President’s arbitration b oards: 8-
hour day aboard ship and eash for
overtime are not met would brine
the recalcitrant shipowners to
terms, union leaders agree.

Other debtor companies, who piled
up their obligations under the 1928
mail subsidy act are:

American Mail Line, Ltd. $745.—
000; Luckenbach Steamship Com-
pany, $541.000; Pacific - Atlantic
Steamship Company, $465,975: Ts-

coma Oriental Steamship Company,
$186,665; The Charles Nelson Steam-
ship Company (now in receive

$140,000; Swayne & Hoyt,
Pacific Coast Steamship Company,
$33,500: Christensen Steamship

Company, $128,295.

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ATTEMPTS 10
SPLIT ACC OF L
ARE DEFEATED

Reactionary Renegade
Indulges in Red-Bait-
ing Diatribe

Delegates who stand for progress
and unity defeated an attempt to
split away from the All-Canadian
‘Congress of Labor and affiliate
with a reactionary labor group in
the exhumed Ganadian Federation
of Labor by a vote of 36 to 26 at
the regular meeting of the National
Labor Council, A‘'G.Gi., of Van-
couver, Wednesday night.

Heading the move towards dis-
unity and smashing the A.C.G.L.
were McKinley and Gordon Gamp-
bell. The latter indulged in vicious
red-baiting in an attempt to prove
his arguments for the split.

The debate on the question was
Jong and acrimonious, but the anti-
splitters won out and decided to
remain within the A.C.C.L.

The revival of the Canadian Fed-
eration of Iiabor is the work of
chief splitters of the A-GC.C L.— Bur-
ford, McKinley, McCollum, and
other reactionaries — after they
were defeated in their attempt to
gain contro] of the national organi-
zation a few months ago.

Associated with them are Bob
Russell and Meikle, of Winnipeg,
both renegades, and leaders of
what is left of the O.B.U.

‘Election

of Five CCF

Candidates Partially
Blocks Reactionaries

Send Us Gas Masks,
Asks General Kleber

MADRID.—(FP)—A plea that
sympathizers in the U.S. and Gan-
ada send gas masks to Spain’s
men, wonien and children has been
issued by Gen. Enilio Kleber, Ga-
nadian commander of the govern-
ment’s Intl. Volunteers.

islebers remark that gas masks
would save thousands of lives re-
calls correspOndents’ frequently-
expressed fears that Franco, if
frustrated in his attempts to
sterm Madrid with artillery and
bombardment, would turn to gas-
He is reported to have large sup-
plies from foreign fascist sources.

TO BUILD AIRCRAFT

CROWLAND, Ont. (FP)—Rum-
ors are spreading that the Canadian
Car & Foundry Co. Ltd. closed
since 1918, will reopen and will pro-
duce Burnelli and Grumman planes.
It is reported that orders for the
Grumman fighitne plane and for
munitions to be filled at this plant
have already béen received from
Huropean sources. The plant once
employed 1,000 men.

Peace Near In Coast Tie-up
As Shippers Bolt Parleys

Bridges Outclasses Ship
OQwners President
In Debate

Feeling is general in all coast
ports that a settlement of the mari-
time strike is not far off. EH. F. Mc-
Grady, U.S. Assistant Secretary of
iabor, is continuing negotiations
today between the steam schooner
operators and the unions. Yesterday
the Masters, Mates and Pilots, by
referendum ballot, rejected the of-
fer of the shipowners, showing that
the rank and file are prepared to
carry on to victory.

Settlement of the dispute rests
largely now on a settlement with
the MM_&P. All others crafts in
the steam schooner ranks have had
their demands met, the question
of the hiring hall for Masters being
the only unsettled point. With this
demand met, it is felt that all de-
mands of the different crafts of
the Sailors Union of the Pacific
would be met.

Actual holdouts against full
settlement of all maritime union de-
mands have been only four U.-S.
companies, the Dollar, Matson, Mc-
Cormack, and Hawaiian American
lines.

Stormy petrel of this group is
T. G (Tea Gas) Plant, president
of the American Hawaiian line, and
chairman of the negotiations com-
mittee of the shipowners. It is re-
ported, on good authority, that a
move was started rast week to oust
Plant. Latest reports are that two
of the holdouts have bolted from
the solid four, leaving only the Dol-
lar and American lines blocking a
settlement.

Whether Plant has been ousted,
has not been ascertained as we go
to press, but in introducing the
speakers at the debate in ’Frisco
early this week, Mayor Dore, chair-
man, introduced, as president of the
American Hawaiian line, a Mr. Lap-
ham.

The debate attended by an audi-
ence of 12,000 was between Harry
Bridges and Mr. Lapham. Bridges
“put it all over’’ the shipowners’
representative, putting up an irre-
futable case for the unions.

There is a general understanding
that the shipowners are ready to
settle, and are taking steps to push
aside the one or two companies who
stand in the way. That this is
maturing is suggested in the state-
ment of Harry Lundberg’s made
yesterday, “Now, we can get some—
place.”

Organization Of
Miners Forces A
5% Wage Boost

KIRKLAND, Ont.—(fP)—Organi-
zation of miners in this district into

the Intl. Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers is going ahead.
Threat of organization has brought

a 5¢-an-hour increase in wages from
all the companies except Teck
Hughes. Canadian Organizer George
Anderson has protested to the min-
ister of labor at Ottawa against the
company’s use of spies and inter-
ference with the right to organize.

Stay-In Strikes
In Many Factories

NEW YORK. — (FP)—Advancing
hosts of labor, conscious of their
right to a better standard of living,
are pressing militantly for their de-
mands on many fronts. At Ottawa,
Ill., 1,300 striking employees played
ecards and talked in the WLibbey-
OQwens-Ford Glass Co. plant; as a
protest against a $4,000,000 Chrysler
order sent there to undermine the
strike and their fellow-workers on
Strike against the Pittsburgh Plate
Co.

At Detroit, a prolonged Midland
Steel Products Go. stay-in was af-
fecting the supply of auto frames at
Brigss, Chrysler and Ford's Lincoln
Zephyr division. Goodyear’s Plant
No. 1 at Akron was affected by a
sitdown for 24 hours, caused by the
company's refusal to discuss griev-
ances.

CADOMIN MINERS
RETURN TO WORK

Conciliation Board Will
Work Out Basis for

Settlement
CADOMIN, Alta. — (FP) — Three
hundred and fifty Cadomin coal

miners, out on strike for four weeks,
have returned to work while a con-
ciliation board, set up under the
Federal Industrial Disputes Act, will
work out a basis for the settlement
of the dispute.

The strike was called off when
Federal Fair Wage Officer Frederick
Harrison effected appointment of the
board and secured a promise from
the Cadomin Coal Co. to abide by its
decision.

The strike was caused by insist-
ence of the company on making spe-
cial considerations to certain em-
ployees in the distribution of work.
The union asked that work be dis-
tributed evenly.

McDonald Defeated By
G. C. Miller, Bank-

ers’ Stooge

VOTING WAS LIGHT

Reaction was partially blocked
at the civic polls Wednesday wath
the election of three GGE alder-
Manic canlidates out of a full slate
of eight.

The suecessful candidates are
R. P. Pettipiece, 11,765 votes: A. M.
Anderson, 10,619; and Alfred Hur-
ry, 10,125. They are elected for 2
one-year term.

L. DP. McDonald, progressive
mayoralty candidate, was defeated
by George ©. Miller, candidate of
the bankers, with a vote of 16,041
to McDonald’s 12,363. The other
two mayoralty candidates, Taylor
and Thompson, were hopelessly out—
classed.

Only two of the former aldermen
were returned to the Gity Gouncil,
Dhey are Halford Wilson and T. H.
Hark. Other successful candidates
were John Bennett, J. W. Cornett,
and Fred Crone, the latter of the
Crone Storage Co., whose trucks.
transported Provincial Police to.
break the strike of the longshore-
men last year. All except Kirk are.
elected for a two-year period.

Professor Frank Buck was the
only successful CGF candidate out
of four for the Board of School
Trustees.

©thers on the School Board are-
David Spencer, Miss A. B. Jamie—
son, Thomas Brooks, and R. He
Weelands; the last three were re-
elected.

The CCE was also successful in
electing Ronald Macaulay, its only
candidate, to the Parks Board. The-
others elected wree G. W. Thomp—
son, retired fire chief, Alex Mac—
Donald, and —E. G. Baynes.

Nazi Internal
Chaos Mounts

Saber-Rattling to Divert
Attention From Eco-
nomic Problems

WASHINGTON. — (FP) — Caught
on the horns of the dilemna of be-
ing forced to raise fatter hogs on
less feed, German farmers are turn=
ing to bootleszinge underweight
hogs, Pacts for Warmers, monthly
bulletin of Farm Research inc., re=-
ports. . M

Recently Nazi officials forbade
the marketing of hogs under a cers
tain weight in an effort to increase
the amount of meat and fats. At the
Same time imports of feed have
been curtailed in order that all ayail-—
able foreign exchange can go to the
purchase of the raw materials of
War.

As a result, German farmers have
been forced ‘‘to use feeds which
would not have been considered five
years ago,” according to the U.S,
Department of Agriculture. “They
are using processed roots and are
siloing potatoes. Statistically thse
feed situation appears to be worse
than last year. Stocks of feed grains
are 50 per cent smaller than a year

ago.”
Total meat supplies in Germany
are smaller, the Department of

Agriculture reports, supplies of meat
available for consumption declining
to 6.35 pounds per person in August.
With the decline in supplies, prices
of meat have risen, it is noted, af-

fecting the poorer classes of the
population most heavily.

For these reasons, Facts for
Farmers concludes, Germany con-

tinues “‘saber rattling” in an effort
to “divert attention from internal
problems.’”

Alaska’ Food Ships Delayed
To Discredit Marine Unions

SEATTLE, Dec. 7.—Strone objec- |

tion to the manner in which loadin=

of eovernment-chartered ships
Alaska is being handled was voiced
in the Northwest joint strike com-
mittee this afternoon. Exorbitant
cost to the government venture will
result unless present methods are
changed, the committee said.

While union men have been hired,
the committee said, the selection by
the unions of key men for the load-
ing of the ships has been opposed
Strenuously by officials worki
under Col. Otto Ohison of the Alaska
Railroad, in charge of the
sovernment shipping service to
Alaska. The result has been confu-
Sion and delay and unnecessary ex-
pense.

et
press
definite
movement of

who is

to the committee,” a
“that there are
hinder the
on the

appears
release said,
movements to
Alaska cargo

j

|

tO | make it

sovernment-chartered yessels. This
of course boosts the cost and will
possible for shipowners
later to say we botched the job.”

A special investigating committee
of the Northwest joint strike com-
mittee called at the Bell street ter-
minal Monday evening.

Monday night the committee found
that cargo had been mixed on the
Bell street terminal, necessitating
much extra labor. and that trucks
bringing cargo to the dock were
detained for hours because the dock
is too small and too crowded to allow
them to run in, deposit their loads
at the proper spot, and leave.

“Ail this confusion was caused,’
a spokesman for the investigating
committee said, “by fSovernment of-

ficials bungling the selection of a
crew, and by the selection of the
Bell street terminal, which is the

worst possible one in the harbor.”

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