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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, January 15, 1937

Unionize the Waterfront

He ISSUE of the J.L.A. strike in Vancouver indicates a

‘number of serious weaknesses which Vancouver longshore-
men would do well to study. Since its beginning an idea has pre
vailed generally in the ranks of the leading members of the T.L.A.
“that it would soon be settled,” and that “our conditions will be
won down below” (referring to possible agreements made in
’Frisco and covering B.C. ports). Needless to say, such a line is
disastrous to any strike, since it weakens militant organization
and action.

Secondly, the policy of the I.L.A. organization of the Van-
eouver waterfront—of bringing in the hundreds of non-union
men who have been working throughout the strike. This policy
has been kept a deep “secret,” known only to a few, who may have
their own reasons for keeping it so. One of the chief reasons for
this secrecy of organization and lack of open and aggressive effort
lies in the past, that the bulk of the strike committee still think in
terms of making local 38-126 conform: to the amount of work

available on coastwise shipping. That is, not to recruit any more
men into the I. L.A. than what they think the Shipping Federation
syill require under normal coastwise shipping eonditions. With
such a “secrecy” and such a lackadaisical policy of organization,
it is painfully obvious that the strike must drag out a protracted
existence, with the I.L.A. local holding little attraction for the
potential trade unionists now on the job.

Tt has been stated on good authority that the Shipping Federa-
tion haye already indicated to I.L.A. officials their agreement
to concede local 38-126 the coastwise work, and to reserve for
their Fink and company-union crews all deep-sea work. This
pnderstanding—even if not aythentic im every detail—hbars the
“y_& D.° union men from ever becoming part of the I.L.A., and
gives the I.L.A: the assurance that whatever agreements may be
reached, their services as company unions are considered as perma-
nent by the Shipping Federation.

For the 1.L.A. in Vancouver, this strike must be won before
an agreement is signed “down below,” not after. A frank open
declaration of policy, an aggressive campaign of organization,
svill add hundreds of new members to the 1.L.A. and establish
it on the Vancouver waterfront.

The bringing in of the blacklisted No. 1 men and the setting
of a “deadline” for entry into the I.L.A. will raise the strike to a
new and living level, and one that will command the support of
organized labor everywhere: A continuance of the present policy
of inaction and hole-in-corner politics will end in disastrous de-
feat, open up a long period of internecine and guerilla warfare
between the unions for jobs, give the Shipping Federation what
they hope for—a disunited labor movement, and fertilize the soil
for an isolated “Canadian” union on the Vancouver waterfront.

There is still time for action. Speculation on the end of the
strike is futile and dangerous. All obstacles that have been ere-
ated by “secret” organizing plans must be swept aside. To end a
strike the way it should end, it must be made effective. Lo make
it effective, the I.L.A. must begin in earnest to “mionize the
yvaterfront!” Up to the present its policy has been one of inaction

and stupor. :

“Tmionize the waterfront” is a slogan we wholeheartedly en-
dorse. To make it a living reality, local 38-127 must begin to
put it into operation ; to convince the longshoremen on the picket
line and on the job that it can be made to serve the interests of
}oth, as against the interests of the Shipping Federation or any
one group of aspiring union ofucials.

a es)

Parliament Meets
HE SECOND session of the present Federal Parliament has
opened, and from all signs the King Government is going
to do the work of the Holts and the Beattys more openly and more
eynically than ever.

Already it has been intimated that relief grants are to be
reduced. while many millions more are to be expended for war
purposes. While denying military commitment to the British
government, there is abundant proof that King and his munisters
during their last visit to London, hitched Canada more closely
to the imperialist war chariot.

Capitalist parliaments are not yet wholly wnresponsive to
public pressure, and the people of Canada should flood the g@oy-
ernment with protests against the hunger and war program. Trade
nnions, working-class political parties and all progressive organiza-
tions and people should let King and his ministers know that
they are unalterably opposed to their proposals for increasing
the war machine while condemning unemployed workers to

oD be Co
greater suffering. oss ‘

Lenin, 1870-1924

| A LL OVER the world workers and all people who thirst for

liberty will commemorate the life of the great international
revolutionary leader who led the people of Russia to victory over
capitalism. When in November, 1917, capitalism was over-
thrown in Russia and the dictatorship of the proletariat estab-
lished, Lenin, leader of the Communist Party, was pictured in
the capitalist press and from rostrums as a madman, with predic-
tions of the early fall of the new state power.

Nearly two decades have passed and it is now generally and
everywhere acknowledged that the Soviet power is unshakable
and indestructible. Private property in the means of production
and the exploitation of man by man have been abolished once and
for all. Public, socialist ownership of the means of production
and a socialist economic system now prevail and constitute the
foundation of the workers’ and peasants’ state. The exploiters
have been destroyed as a class; there is no place for them in the
Soviet social system.

Through revolution, capitalist state intervention, counter-
revolution, civil war and Trotskyist-Gestapo counter-revolution
and assassination, the vanguard of the workers and peasants,
organized in a Communist Party, battled its way to socialist
construction and a better life. Its record is written in the new
Soviet Constitution which guarantees to every worker, farmer,
intellectual and all useful citizens the right to work and enjoy
democratic liberties unknown in any other country.

Lenin, great Marxist, teacher and organizer, builded well.
When struck down by the murderous hand of Social “revolution-
aries,” the firm and true hand of Stalin guided the ship of state.
Tn these days of capitalist efforts to preserve their disintegrating
system of exploitation by means of fascism, the great Soviet
Union stands out as a glorious example of what the human race
is capable of once it js freed from the shackles of wage bondage
and capitalist rule.

As the capitalist nations are rushing headlong to world war,
the Soviet Union is the great world leader in the cause ot presery-
ing the peace of the world. And long after capitalist statesmen are
foreotten except for their crimes, the name of Lenin will shine
in wndimmed lustre, as his life’s work brings results in the

mighty Soviet Union which his genius established, in the Com-
munist International which he founded, in the Communist Par-
Hes of the world which lead the great world struggle for unity

LENIN - -2

A Deathless Name

By T. A. EWEN.

In the year 1870, on Apr! 22nd,
the village of Simbirsx on the Volga
was enriched with a new citizen.
Doubtless Simbirsk went about its
business on that day without un-
toward excitement, while the rest
of the world was certainly quite un-
perturbed over the event. Perhaps
the neighbors commented on Marya
Alexandrovna’s new son, and per-
haps the little mother worried about
the extra mouth to feed in a grow-
ing family as she nursed the new-
born child ... this son that was to
become the living embodiment of
the revolutionary workingelass of
all lands. This son Lenin,
whose name was to become the
symbol] of all the exploited and op-
pressed toilers of the world, as well
as the liberator of his native land
from the yoke of Tzarist oppres-
sion.

Fifty-four years afterwards, when
death claimed this citizen of Sim-
pbirsk, the whole proletarian world

mourned an irreparable loss.
‘J.enin is dead.’ In hushed con-
vyersation ... in screaming headlines

— the dread message Swept over
continents and seas. Deep in the
mines, in logging camps, on ships,
on the waterfront of the world, in
the sweating hells of Bombay, Cal-
ecutta, Shanghai, and in the ghettos
of London and New York—“‘Lenin
is dead.”

The class-instincts of exploiter
and exploited reacted sharply in
fhe first hours of shock at this
message. The workingclass
even the most backward, felt some
thing of the magnitude of this great
Joss, and universally sorrowed. The
international bourgeoisie, habitual-
ly hypocritical, could not hide their
glee. “Now this madness which the
genius of Lenin had engineered in
Russia would be prought to an
end.”

Fondly they hoped that the 170
millions of people of the U.S.S-R.
that had been liberated from the
tyranny of capitalist exploitation
under the leadership and teachings
of Lenin, would again be delivered
to the rule of the landlords and
eapitalists as 4 result of his un-
timely passing- They reckoned
without knowledge of Lenin's gen-
jus and its heritage-

The Lenin That Was.

In 1848 Marx wrote into the “Com-—
munist. Manifesto” prophetic words
¢hat heralded a mass awakening of
¢he Huropean workingelass; “a spec-
tre is haunting Europe, the spectre
of Communism.” Seventy odd years
Jater, with the revolutionary and
scientific works of Marx as his
guide, Lenin clother this spectre
with virile flesh and blood. On the
unshakable foundation of reyvolu-
tionary Marxism, Lenin led the Rus-
sian peasants and workers over the
threshold of a Socialist state. For
a quarter of a century he taught
his people _ at home and from
exile, of their mighty resources and
potential power. For a quarter of a
eentury he prepared his people for
1917. and the great Socialist State
of Federated Soviet Republics is
monumental evidence of the genius
of a Leader. :

He led them through the years of
war-communism when the imper-
jalist wolves were banded together
on twenty-one fronts for the de-
struction of the first Soviet State.
fie led his people through the first
trying years of economic hardship
and slow recovery when the
ruin created by the interventionists
had to serve the economy of a vast
nation, and until the economic after-

math of famine and civil war could
be replaced by socialist construc-
tion.

We laid the foundation of a great
industrial state that was to bind the
poor peasant and the industrial
worker in one indivisable whole and
permit the unleashing of productive
force and creative enerey such as
the world has never seen. A foree
that has turned the creative genius
of a great nation to the common
food of humanity. A force that has
made sacred the right to work and
live, and ended forever the exploita-
tion of man by man.

Gonfidence Never Wavered

The years from 1887 to the day of
his death were years devoted to a
cause; the science of revolution and
the SUPREMACY OF THE TOIL--
ER. The translation of revolution—-
ary Marxism into life, and the blaz-
ing of a trail that has and will
change the whole course of human
development. Scorning the revision-
ists and Austro-Marxists in the
eamp of Kautsky, who reduced
revolutionary Marxism to a parlor
philosophy, and finally drovmed it
in the blood of the Vienna workers
in February of 1934; scorning the
Menshevik Trotsky, whose followers
even now, while they pollute the
name of Lenin by a Kautsky-like
adoption of his teachings, stoop to
every infamy . . even to assassi-
nation, to destroy his work. Hunted
by Tsarist police spies; imprisoned;
in exile from his native land; driven
from pillar to post; his faith in his
people never wavered. And living
to see his life’s work firmly estab-
lished in the soil and hearts of his

beloved Russia. An indomitable
courage. that analyzed instead of
succumbing to deteat. Such was
Lenin. A facile pen that trans-
mitted in simple language. the
monumental work of a mighty brain,

in Order that the oppressed of all
lands might easier find the path to
a better life and a real and lasting

liberty. Living works, printed in
every lanfuace, treasured by ywork-—
ers, bik white and yellow. A
priceles ft to posterity . =: from
an Internationalist who sa Fed-
eration Soviet S

of World
ing in peac and happin s
as we now and feel inspired by
the one he founded—the UT.S:S-R.-
Even while Lenin was giving the

See

against fascist reaction, hunger and war.

confidence in its ability and power,
he gathered together the revolution-
ary workers cast adrift from the
wreckage of the Second Interna-
tional, and in Mareh of 1919 found-
ed the Communist International.
The inheritor of all the glorious
traditions of the First International
founded by Marx, traditions that
link the Gommune of 1871 with Can-
ton and Soviet China, and where the
vWOices of the Communards renew
the challenge through the voice of

Dimitroff .. . the helmsman of the
Communist International. The life
of Lenin was a full life. A life of

sacrifice, singleness of purpose, un-
shakable courage and conviction.
The Lenin That Is.

“Tleninism is Marxism in the
epoch of imperialism and of the
proletarian revolution.”’ This quota-
tion, scientifically condensed and
correct, appeals readily to phrase-
mongers who seek to impress their
listeners with profundity, but lack
the desire or ability to enlighten.
First of all, Leninism, as some con-
tent, 1S not a Russian phenomena.
If it were the international bour-
geoisie would sleep casier. “‘Lenin-
ism,’’ says Stalin, “‘is an internation-
al phenomenon having its roots in
international development as a
whole.’ Truly, Leninism is the spirit
of the U.S.S_R. the spirit of
Socialist construction and peace.

But Geninism is also the essence
of combining revolutionary theory
and practice in working out the
every day problems of working peo-
ple seekine economic and political
betterment, whether they work in a
Bombay textile mill or a Canadian
coal mine

Leninism is the essence of toler-
ant patience. combined with the art
of listening to the viewpoint of your
fellow-toiler, and finding the com-
mon ground of agreement for united
effort against a common enemy.

Leninism is the opposite of dog-
matic sectarianism notwith-
standing the unfortunate fact that
dogmaic sectarianism is often par-
aded as “‘ILeninism.’’

Tkeninism is the ability to win the
,confidence and support of masses,
to lead them in struggle. to speal
for them and to them, but not at

them. Leave that to the “pure”
socialists; it has no relation to
Leninism.

Leninism is the ability to crystal-
lize every grievance of an exploit-
ed worker into mass actions, great
or small, to organize workers into
trade unions; to place the demo-
eratic machinery of organization
into their hands and teach them
how to wield it. Lo analyze defeat

and avoid recurrance of similar
errors.
[eninism teaches eriticul collec-

tive and self-analysis and castigates
“Jeaders”’ who blame the masses for
their (the Jeaders’) failures.

Leninism is the essence of the
Brotherhood of Man; of sex equal-
ity; of creative toil; of collectivism.
It is the antithesis of racial dis-
erimination and “rugged individual-
ism’’; it preserves nationalism only
when nationalism serves the cul-
tural and social well-being of a peo=
ple. Beyond that it is the irrecon-
cilable enemy of nationalism.

Leninism is Dimitroff in Leipzi¢
before the Nazi hangmen . the
accused becoming the accuser .
the enemies of the working-class
confounded before an impregnable
principle and courage. WLeninism 1s
the spirit that sustains Thalemann,
Rakosi, Antikainen . .. the tens of
thousands of working-class victims
in the concentration camps and pri-
sons of the Fascist lhomocides.
Leninism is the spirit of Passonaria
who said to the world, “WHEN YOU
Dif LIKE THEY DIE IN SPAIN,
YOU LIVE FOREVER.”

While we commemorate here in
British Columbia the thirteenth
anniversary of the passing of Lenin,
let us not forget that the workins-
elass of Ganada are also partici-
pants in the great heritage be-
queathed by Lenin. We have fash-
joned our Party, the Communist
Party of Canada, as a Party of
Lenin. We have grown in stature
and strength and reacted under the
blows dealt us with some of the
courage Lenin bequeathed to our
elass.

We have learned that the strug-
ple for Socialism and peace can only
progress when we accept the daily
struggle against hunger and ‘war
as the road to the ultimate goal.
Qur Party, rooted in the hearts of
tens of thousands of Canadian work-
ers will become a mighty Party of
Lenin, capable of fulfilling all the
tasks history imposes upon it; cap-
abe of translating into every mill,
Mine, camp and home, in city and
lonely hamlet, the irrefutable truth

Industrializing Armenia

Workers tend the furnace at a copper vitrio} plant in Allaverdy.
Soviet Armenia is rapidly becoming industrialized. Value of its in-
dustrial output has increased from 1-7 million rubles in 1919 to 145

million rubles in 1935.

Siberia -

By J. ROBERTS

Maybe you’ve heard of Siberia
as a cold, barren country? That's
the way I always pictured it any-
way, and when I had the oppor
tunity to travel through it for about
a month this summer, I was very
much surprised.

The country and climate is very
similar to our Northern Ontario,
and it struck me what a difference
exists in the development of the
two countries and what advances
will be made here in Canada when
under a Socialist society.

Six years ago there was no in-
dustry of any cacount in Siberia.
Wow, in these few short years, it
is completely transformed and 1m-
mense plants and mines are oper—
ating or being constructed every-
where. Especially was I struck by
the growth of two new cities, Novo-
sibirsk and Stalinsk.

Novosibirsk from a small town of
80,000 in 1928 has reached a popu-
jation of 380,000 and is now a
modern city. Many new factories,
knitting mills, machine works, etc.,
have been built and in 1936 alone 12
new schools were built accommodat-
ing 8,000 students.

Stalinsk, however, is a more
amazing feat. Six years ago only 2
vast stretch of timberland and bog
stood here. Then, Soviet science and
industry, under the careful leader-
ship of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union and on the initiative of
Joseph Stalin personally, went to

work to change the map. Coal and

iron deposits were found and plans
Jaia for the construction of a giant
steel mill:

A Centre of Industry

T couldn’t even begin to write of
the difficulties faced in the con-
struction of this new Socialist city
and the gigantic Stalinsk plant,
third largest in the world.

An entire book has been written
of the lives of the worxers, of the
heroism displayed in the construc-
tion in face of all difficulties and
the struggle against anti-Soviet
elements, sSabateurs and foreign
agents. They tried in every way
possible to prevent the building of
this plant. For they understood also
what a tremendous force such a
plant would be, turning bleak Si-
beria into an industrial centre,
puilding a fortress of steel in the
very path across which the Japa-
nese imperialists wish to march.

A new Socialist city has sprung
up with a population well over
200,000. New apartments have been
constructed and placed at a con-
siderable distance from the plant to
escape the noise and smoke, and
the first street car service in Si-
beria is now operating. Many new
schools have been built and also an
excellent and up-to-date theatre. A
large Park of Culture and Rest
with boating, swimming, etc., is in
full swing and close to the city.

Lying deep in the forest in one of
the nature’s beauty spots, is a chil-
dren’s camp where hundreds of
children rest and enjoy themselves
under the careful supervision of
doctors and nurses. All expense for
this camp is paid by the factory
and trade unions.

Youth’s Leading Kole

I was especially struck at seeing
the role played by youth in all of
this new life. During the difficult
days of construction about three-

— “OUTSIDE OF SOCLIALISA
THERE IS NO SALVATION FOR
MANKIND FROM WAR, HUN 7ER,
AND THE FURTHER DESTRUC-
TION OF MILLIONS AND MIL-
LIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS”
(Lenin). With the heritage of Marx,
Fmegels, Lenin and Stalin to guide
us, the future of OUR Canada is
assured,

® fourths of the workers were youth,

both young men and young women.

Today these youth are just as ac-
tive in ‘operating this immense
plant and in mastering the required
technique. Most of the engineers
and technicians are young people
who worked on construction of the
plant and grew up with it. Young
engineers, furnace tenders, laborers,
railroad workers, bus drivers, fore-
men, schoo] teachers—all are study-
ing. And all are studying with the
knowledge that the future is theirs,
that anything is possible for them
in this great land of Socialism.
Doctor, engineer, artist, aviator,
scientist, skilled mechanic or fac-
tory director—all ayenues are open
and all necessary advice and as-
sistance is gladly provided to en-
able the dreams and ambitions of
youth to come true.

I foung it very difficult at times
to explain to some of these youth
the position of many young people
in Canada. Because just as many
youth in Canada can scarcely be-
lieve that the position of youth
under Socialism is so bright, so also
in the Soviet Union many youth
find it difficult to understand why
young people who want to study
must leave school, that workers
are unemployed and especially that
teachers, skilled worxers, university
etaduates, etc., can find no use for
their training.

Hunger, Poverty Unknown

This situation is unknown to this
generation which has grown up in
the first Socialist state and so it
is hard for them to picture it.

And no wonder it is hard to pic-
ture. In a country such as Canada

*—Yrich in grains, with untold wealth

puried deep in the ground, with fac-
tories empty and machines idle—
why should such 2 condition exist?
Why should not our youth also
breathe the free air of a life worth
living? Why should thousands of
our best young men be herded into
labor camps or exiled to farms at
$7.50 a month?

Must the youth of Canada have
all their hopes, all their ambitions
for a happy and creative life
blighted?

Only one answer can come back!
The answer of a youth who will
fight to live, the answer of the de-
termined “On to Ottawa Boys,” of
the youth united behind the Social-
ist Youth Movement, the Co-oper-
ative Commonwealth Youth and
the Young Communist League.

We will make our own creative
work. We will devote our time, our
energy, and training, to create a
still more powerful movement of
Canadian youth, te sweep away all
that holds back progress, so that
this Ganada of ours, and all it con-
tains, will be a mighty force for
progress. So that we, Young
Canada, may also, like our brothers
in the Soviet Union, see before us
a future which is bright, a future
of Socialism.

PRO-FASCIST FILM
IS ABANDONED

HOLLY WOOD.—Plans of 20th
Gentury-Fox for making a pro
fascist film to be called “Siege of
the Alcazar” have been dropped. It
was intended to. glorify as heroes
the fascists who hid behind women
and children in the old Spanish
fortress. Abandonment of the project
can be ascribed to working class
and progressive opposition.

French, South American and
Mexican newspapers and journalists
notified the studio of the tremen-
dous antagonism such a film would
arouse among anti-fascists in their
countries.

Philanthropist.

To you is our melody sung.

“Go back!” they commanded

young Soviet Republic strength and |

For still vou went onward . .

You dreamed of a people triumphant—
A land that was joyful and free;

And stauneh vou set forth on the Jourmey
Whose end you were never to see.

They left vou for dead, in the dawn.
but vainly,
. and on!

To A Fallen Comrade

O YOU who have dreamed, in the darkness,
A. dream through the centuries-rung—
To vou who have fallen, im darlmess,

Then, deep in the dank of a dungeon,
They left you to languish and rot.
And still there was light in your darkness—

The Dream that you neyer. forgot.

And now, the

You marked not the dangers around you;
No fear kept your step from the fray.
Your only said: ‘“This way lies freedom !”
And bravely you went on your way.
They cursed you-——they beat you in fury— And see, now,

But even the x

-aliant erow weary ;

And even the proud bow their head. . -
brave heart is silent;

The dreamer—the dreamer is dead.

But only your poor pieces mortal
Hare sunk *neath the Stygian stream,—
Your soul is a stone in the Highway
That leads to the land of your Dream.

in millions we're marching,

And swells all-triumphant our song!
The Dream is in sight for the toilers,
And you, too, are marching along.

When
In Memory of a packing house

the

workers
at P. Burne
plant came out on strike the man—

ager gave a statement to the Press
in which he said the Company
wasn't fussy about keeping the plant

running as it doesn’t pay and P_
Burns only operates it to provide
the men with jobs. Kind, generous,
big-hearted, open-handed capital-

ists!

There is not much originality

about P. Burns’ high moguls. A
few years ago, Blake Wilson was

the big squeeze for the firm in
Vancouver. He was also the biz-
noise at the Blakeburn mine near
Princeton. The miners there went
on strike against the miserable,
degrading and dangerous condi-
tions under which they were forced
to work. f

Mr. Blake Wilson,
honored Yancouver citizen ang
moving spirit in the Citizens’
Leagues of his day, declared the
mine did not pay and he only kept
it open to provide the miners with
jobs. The working conditions were
not improved, and the men went
back to wor, only to be the victims.
later of one of the worst mining
disasters in the history of this Prov—
ince, when the lives of 46 miners
were snuffed out, just as Mr. Blake
Wilson might blow out a candle.
Blake Wilson was not tried for
murder as he should have been; but
he is dead now, and if the threats
of the preachers are true he is im
a hotter place than the burning:
mines of the Princeton district,

* * %

Wh But to returm
o Are the to P. Burns of

Philanthropists? toaqay and
their philanthropic business. In
the 8th Annual Report of the Com—
pany, sent to the shareholders on
April 3rd last, we get some idea
of just what this big-hearted gen—
erosity of P. Burns means, In the
eight years since the company was
organized “earnings” amount te
$4,887,554.00, despite the lean years:
of 1930-31-32. Qut of these “earn—
ings” they had to make good depre—
ciation and bond interest and pay
income tax. But the packing house
workers produced it all.
@ne and three-quarter million
dollars produced by the employees
of the Company went to repairing,
improving and extending the plants,
and one and one-quarter million
dollars invested in subsidiary com=—
panies (Palm Dairy, National Fruit.
Co. and Scott Fruit Ga.). ine
This philanthropic business has
been picking up every year since
the low peak of 1932, till last year
(1935), the workers in the packing”
houses and subsidiary concerns do—
nated $946,416.87. With the same
reservations regarding deprecia—
tion, interest and income taxes.
Now, who are the kind, generous,
big-hearted, open-handed philan—
thropists? The worxers who have
given all this wealth gratuitously
to the P. Burns shareholders, bond—
holders and tax-gatherers, or the
latter collection of leeches who -are
using every device to prevent them
bettering their working conditions,
and would sentence them to the
same fate as Blake Wilson brought
on the Blakeburn miners in 1928.

If you must eat meat, watch out
where you get it. Before you gO
into a butcher shop or meat store,
look for the pickets. Nor do yow
want to buy groceries from a place
where they sell scab butchermeat
or you will be scabbing on the strik—
ing butchers. If everybody gets
behind them they cannot lose?

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the highly

More Good The owners: of
i 3 the Empire
Philanthropists. Gotton mils at

Welland, Ont., are another group
of philanthropists. Although the
Female Minimum Wage Act of On-
tario calls for a minimum wage of
$10.00 for women, men with families
to feed have been working for these
kind mill-owners for as low as
$7.35 for a 50-hour weex; $9.00 was
consdiered a high way for men-_
Of course, they are on strike against
a company that refuses to raise
their wages to a decent level.

This is the industry that was the
subject of the Turgeon Govern-
Ment enquiry last summer, which
showed that some of the mills reap
150 per cent on their original capi-—
tal investment. At the same en-
quiry we learned that Sir Herbert
Holt and a few associates who in-
vested half a million dollars in that
industry in 1905, had up till the time
of the enquiry taken $15 millions
in profits—and still had their orig-
inal half million in the business.

The scandalous wages of these
Welland mill-workers explain the
growth of the Holt millions and the
only cure for such a social disease
is the Communist cne.

= * *
No Hone After the remilitariz—
F ation of the Rhineland
Among Hitler offered France
Thieves! a guaranteed peace
for 25 years. “on his
word of honor.” This honor of 2
fascist is like the “honor” that does
not obtain among thieves. How
much it is worth was seen again in
the Signing of the Anglo-Italian
agreement two weeks ago, which
contained a fascist undertaking not
to send any more Italians to heip
the Spanish fascists.

Before the ink was dry on the
paper, 10,000 more Italian traops
were on the way to Spain! The
“honorable” British rulers, 70
slouches at hypocrisy themselves,
are very wroth. But the heroic
Spanish people know how “honor-

able’? they all are!

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