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' Symbolized in
this happy laugh-
ing girl is all the
energy, the brighi
eutiook for the
future of the Sovy-
iet Union. The
Trotskyists
would sweep it all
away in order ts
justify their own
discredited theor-

ies.

Protests Gain BC Indians
Relief As Probe Sought

.C. Workers News

FULL NO. 109.

Published Weekly

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, FEB. 12, 1937

Single Copies: 5 Cents

VOL. Ill. No. 5

City Youth
Congress
To Meet

Important decision made this
week at YMCA headquarters by
the Youth Congress Organizational
committee was that of setting
March 27, 28 and 29 for youth or-
ganizations to convene sessions of
the first Greater Vancouver Youth
Coneress.

Listed on a tentative agenda for
discussion are, Youth and Peace;
Wouth and Employment; Youth and
Education,

The movement was started in Van-
eouver some time ago by a pro-
Visional committee formed upon re-
turn of BC delegates from the Ot-
tawa Youth Congress held last May.

Since then considerable work has
been done. :

#ndorsing aims of the Congress
are: Dr. G M. Weir, pro-
vincial secretary and minister of
education; Dr. L. S., KJinck, presi-
dent, UBC; Rey. Dr. Willard Breyw-
ing and other prominent people.

Among. oganizations affiliated are
YMCA, YWCA, League of Nations
society, Anglican Young People’s
association, Younes Communist
league, United Young People’s so-
ciety, Vancouver Jewish Youth fed-
eration, etc.

Kenneth  Woodsworth,

national

Secretary, Canadian Youth Con-
gress, will speak March 10 at a
youth rally.

AID RADIO FUND
Contribution of $41.22 to BE
Workers’ News Radio Fund was
received this week from Cumber-

land. This sum was collected by
BH. Ellis, J. Francioli, and MZ
Dillach-

CONFERENCE
WILL PROBE
LIVING COST

Ways and means of combatting
the rising cost of living and of
feoreing a reduction in the cost of
basic foodstuffs, will come under
discussion at the High Gost of Liv-
ing conterence to be
Orange HErll, Gore and Hastings
streets, Sunday, February i4, 10
am.

The conference is being called by
the CCE Industrial and Employ-
ment conference.

All CCE clubs, trades unions,
women’s organizations, mass, frat-
ermal and social organizations are
urged to send delegates. The con-
rerence committee states that
though many invitations have been
Sent out, a large number of organi-
zations have been missed, but all
are invited to send delegates,
whether they have received an in-
vitation or not.

Uphill Pledges
To Support CCF

CRANBROOK, BC, Feb. 11.—
According to Hareld Winch, CCF
MEA, a CCF club has been
formed at Fernie with 65 mem-
bers to which Tom Uphill, Labor
MESA, has declared unqualified
allegiance.

Arrangements for sale of labor
newspapers and periodicals at a
prominent newsstand in Cranbrook
heve been made, while efforts to in-
erease the circulation of The
Clarion, BC Workers’ News and
The Federationist are being made
by formation of a joint GCF-CP
literary club.

held at |-

City Asking
Federal
Intervention

Union Makes Agreement
With Eslinger

Interests

ROYAL CITY AID

Gity Council decided Tuesday
aiter a lengthy discussion to urge
the federal labor department to
appoint an arbitration beard
in the Burns lock-out Represen-
tations for the union were made
by Rev. Davidson, H. F- Garr,
and H. G. Ware.

Several attempts were made this
week by Local 95, Meat Cutters and
Packing House Employees’ Union
to arbitrate.

Dissatisfied with metheds now
used to bring about settlement a
request was made to Hon. Norman
Rogers, federal minister of labor,
to make a full investigation.

The letter signed by H. G. Ware,
president of the Meat Cutters
eredits the seven discharged execu—
tive members with an aggregate of
over 100 years’ service with Burns.

Ask Tag Day

Requests were also made for de-
cision on their application for a tag
day made two weeks ago- The mat—
ter was tabled on motion of Ald.
Pettipiece, who promised to bring
it in again at a more opportune
time.

Pickets were withdrawn from
Blackburn’s, Grand Union, and

Superior markets aiter receipt
of a letter from Mi. A. Eslinger,
operator of these stores, agreeing
te discontinue Burns’ products,

Qutstanding supporter is union
Local 94, Meat Gutters and Butcher
Workers, New Westminster. While
its membership is given as 100 it has
contributed over $600 to the strike
fund.

Wages Issue In Cumberland

Miners Call

For Increase

CUMBERLAND, BG, Feb. 11.—
UNMWA local here is making rep-
resentation to Canadian Collier-
jers (Dunsmuir) Ltd., for restor-
ation of the pay cut of Gle per
day imposed on the miners in
1926.

This decision was reached at a
special meeting of union members
here Sunday, called to hear the re-
port of their delegate to the Cal-

gary wage scale convention of Dis- |

trict 18 UMWA.

The company has been notified
of the Union’s desire to open ne-
gotiations on this point. The agrec-
Iment calls for 30 days’ notice from
either side prior to opening nego-
tiations to alter any provisions of
the agreement.

Living Costs Rise.

The mounting cost of living is a
live topic for discussion around
Gumberland. On the periodical bi-
monthly payday, miners’ wives meet
and complain that every pay day
their grocery bill is higher than the
last, and the problem of meeting
them is becoming harder.

Hotel board rose by $4-00 a month
in January.

Business men of Cumberland are
backing miners in their demands.

KELOWNA UA
IS FIGHTING
FOR JOBLESS

KELOWNA, BC, Feb. 11—Relef
conditions here have been improved
to some extent through efforts of
the Unemployed and Part Time
Workers’ Association, but relief of-
ficials have manouyred to impress
workers that improyements are not
due to organization.

Relief workers are asked if they
belong to the unemployed organi-
zation and advised to have nothing
to do with it. In other cases where
recipients come from another part
of the province threats to ship them
back have been held over their head.

Most resolutions and demands for
improvements in relief presented to
the council have either been flatly
refused or shelved for future re-
fusal,

Handicapped without a regular
meeting place, the association is
launching a campaign to raise suf
ficient funds to build its own hall.

Jews In London
Are Terrorized
By Blackshirts

LONDON, Feb. ii1.—Jews in
London’s Bast End are living “in
depths of fear and terror,’ D.
Frankel, MP for Mile End told
the House of Commons recently-
Jewish boys and girls are afraid
to walk to evening classes be-
eause of terrorism engaged in by
members of Mosiey’s Blackshirts.
Frankei declared that, under
Fascist influence, children were
being mduced to distribute Fas—
cist propaganda and te shout ob-
scene anti-Semitic slogans at
Jews. He demanded government
action to end the terrorism.

Mayo Miners
Call Strike

MAYO, YT, Feb. i emancine
lower board rates and higher
wages, all employees of the silver
mine here came out on strixe yes-
terday (Thursday).

Chief grievance is the nigh rates
eharged for board, in this camp
$2.85 a day-

Ranks are solid and the men de-
termined to gain their demands.

Miners are urged to stay away
from Mayo. Since a strike has been
declared any miners hired ‘“out-
Side” for this mine will be acting
as strikebreakers.

—o>

‘MEXICO MOVES
_TOWARD UNITY

Feb. 11.—A Peo-
Mexico is fore-
shadowed with the intimation that
jthe National Revolutionary party
| (PNR), largest single political organ-
ization in Mexico and party of Pres-
ident Cardenas, is ready to sign
the Popular front pact proposed by
| the Confederation of Mexican Work-
ers (CTM).

Impending of this important poli-
| tical development was made known
/when Vincente Lombardo Toledona,
CTM head. announced that the na-
tional execuitve committee of the
PNR had accepted the principle of
the Popular Front and would take
a vote on it at its next meeting.

Other signatories to the pact al-
ready include the Committee for
Organization of the National Peas-
ants’ Confederation and the Gom-
munist pary of Mexico.

FLASH!

According to late news
reports broadeast yesterday
(Thursday) France has in-
timated to Great Britain
that unless Germany and
Italy withdraw their armed
aid to Spanish Fascists,

MEXICO CITY,
j)ple's Front in

“She will act directly.”

Burns Arbitration Is Urge

Canadians Establish
Institute In Madri

FIRST UNIFIED BLOOD TRANSFUSION
WAR MEDICAL HISTORY

SERVICE IN

“Are you going to do anything
about it?”

This is the challenge thrown
down to those who have learned
to value liberty and democracy
by J. S. B. Maldane, eminent
British scientist now associated
with the Canadian medical unit
in Madrid.

“Here they lie—row on row—
Speniards, Englishmen, Germans,
Italians, Frenchmen, Belgians,
Seotchmen, Irishmen, Americans,”
Haldane related in a broadcast re-
cently. “Wounded soldiers of the
Greatest anti-Fascist army the
world has yet seen.

“They represent the united front
of international EEE SSS EISEA. And
they need your help.

“The Spanish people are going to
win,” he declared in another ad-
dress. “The only question is how

many will be murdered (murder is
the correct word) by German and
Italian bombs and shells before the
victory is won.

“If the Spanish government had
been allowed to buy arms or if the
rebels had not been given arms,
many people—ordinary people like
you and me—would be alive and
well today.”

iNew Institute
A graphic picture of work being

done behind the trenches and bar-
ricades barring Fascist entry into
Madrid is given by Dr.

ing the Canadian medical unit.
Speaking of the blood transfusion

Service he has been largely re-

sponsible for organizing and direct-

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See BETHUNE

Wild Enthusiasm Greets
Basque Seamen At Meet

CCF, CP Protest Pro-

posed Ean on Volun-
teers to Spain

Indicative of the depth of feeling
among all classes here for the
Struggle of the Spanish people
against Fascism was the wild en-
thusiasm with which 20 seamen
from SS Altobizkar Mendi, Spanish
merchant vessel in port, ‘were
ereeted Sunday night at the meet-
ing called in Moose Temple to pro-
test the King government’s pro-
posed ban on volunteers for Spain.

Well-dressed men and women
stood alongside men and women on
whom years of privyation and hard-
ship had left their mark to return
the fist-upclenched salute of Repub-
lican Spain.

Through an interpreter these
Basque sailors (of whom a Daily
Province reporter had written at
great lensth a few days previously.

Saying they were not interested in
Spanish polities and had refused
to discuss the Fascist revolt) in-
formed the large audience that
they were contributing the major
part of their wages to the Peo-
ple’s Front cause to defeat Fas-
cism.

“Wiva Tsspana! Viva Canada! Viva
Proletariat! Wiva Russia!’ the sea-
men cried as they left the hall.

(Continued on page 2)
See BAN

CCF Endorses

New Council

TORONTO, Ont-., Feb. 11—En-
dorsation of the recently-announced
plan of the Toronto regional CCF
council to form a GCE Gouncil on
Unemployment has been given by
Harvey Murphy, president of the
Ontario Federation on UWnemploy-
ment,

“I want te congratulate the CCF
for having taken this step,” Mur-
phy stated. “It shows a realization
of what can be accomplished
through mutual cooperation.

“The Ontario Federation on Un-
employment is now accomplishing
a great deal of good because it is
being supported by the united ef-
forts of a large number of people
and organizations,”’ he added.

Basgues ‘Thank
Irish For Help
To Gou’t Cause

DUBLIN, IFS, Feb- 11.—Presi-
dent Aquirre of the Basque au-
tonomous government has pub-
licly thanked the Irish Republican
Congress and its leader, Peadar
@’Donnell, for their aid to the
Loyalist cause in the Spanish civil
war. The Irish brigade of the In-
ternational Column fighting with
Basque forces against Fascists in
the north has been continuously
in action since December. Denis
Coady, Dublin non-party repub-
lican and a Catholic, was killed
and 12 Trishmen wounded in fierce
fighting recently on the Andula-
Sian front.

Mine Union
Comes To

Wells

WELLS, BC, Feb. 11—Despite
mine-owners’ threats of intimi-
Gation, miners here are eagerly
seeking membership in Wells
Miners’ Union, local 2531 Inter-

Worman |
Bethune, Canadian surgeon head- |

US Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins, prominent in GM strike-
Anaouncement Thursday of peace
pact between the UAWU and GM
marked “another milestone on
Labor's march.”

national Unien of Mill, Mine and
Smelter Workers, and are now
over 85 per cent organized.

Charter was installed and of
ficers elected last Sunday at an or-
ganizational meeting, when it was
reported that over 180 members 2re
now in the union, 65 percent of
whom joined prior to the meeting.

Organizers claim that as both the
Wells miners are paying dividends,
they should pay on the same wage
scale as Bridge River.

Wages of miners are $5 per day,
muckers $4, timbermen $4.50, while
men working outside are paid
as low as $3.60. In face of increased
cost of living these wages are con-
Sidered too low.

Bad hospitalization, poor drying
houses, and dirty bunk-houses are
grievances the new union will try
to rectify.

Among tasks given the new union
executive by the meeting was that
of renting or building a miners’
hall to hold union meetings, to in-
terest miners’ wives and form an
auxiliary.

BC Vessels
Tied Up
In US

Continuing their support for the
striking longshoremen of BC, Se-
attle longshoremen refused to dis-
charge the SS WNortholme, of the
Frank Waterhouse Company.

The WNortholme left Vancouver
early this week with a cargo loaded
by non-union longshoremen. After
being tied up in Seattle for nearly
a week, the vessel returmed to Van-
couver yesterday, with her cargo
still aboard.

Sailing of SS Rochelle of the
Kingsley Navigation Gompany has
been cancelled. The Rochelle, held
here during the recent strike with
a part cargo, completed her cargo
at Fraser Milis this week prepara-
tory to Sailing for San Francisco.

in an announcement from Seattle
Tuesday, Captain John Fox, head of
the Inland Boatmen’s Union. stated
that his union would tie up unfair
BC vessels as fast as they arrived
at American ports.

In addition to

the Northolme,
Capt Fox stated, “Other BC ves-
sels will be picketed, too, if they
send them into American waters,
and still continue to fight organi-
zation attempts by our union branch
in Vancouver.’

Gaptain Fox said tow boats also
come under the ban.

Besides tug boats, some 20 coastal
vessels are affected. “The men want
to join our union and we are go-
ing to see that they get to do it,”
Capt. Fox said. “We'll tie up their
boats on this side of the diuse to
help the men on the other.’

Seattle Hits
Labor Spies

SEATTLE, Feb. 11.—Campaign to
drive labor espionage out of this
city is planned following announce-
ment that two spies, employees of
Private detective agencies, have
been “spotted” in the ranks of
labor here.

I. A. Sandberg, Metal Trades of-
ficial, states the men will be ex-
posed and expelled from the union.

H. ©. Armstrong, Washington
Commonwealth Hederation state rep-
resentative, is introducing a bill re-
quiring rigid licensing of all private
detectives.

Six Women Nominated For

Soviet Union Tour

7 Nominatea?Mrs.

last Friday for
delegate to a
six-weeks’ invi-
tation tour of
the Soviet Un-
ion next May
were: Mrs- Rob-
ertson, =1C Cit:
Mrs. Mathe
son, Canadian
League Against
War and Fas-
cism; Mrs. M.

Lusk, YVancou-

Mrs. fT. Bradley vor wrothers
Council; Mrs.

T. Bradley, Ladies’ Auxiliary of

Union 171, B of GC J of A; Miss
Muriel Hepburn, Progressive Arts
Players; Mrs. F. M. Brown, CLDL;

S. Kerr, CCF. Subsequently
Mrs. Robertson withdrew in favor
of Mrs. Kerr, CCF nominee.
Nominations, which remain open
until Feb. 15th,
were made by a
women’s con-
ference
senting 33
ganizations.
Feb. 19
conference will
reconvene to
elect its dele-
gate.
Meanwhile,
friends, sup-
porters and the
public general-
ly are asked to
send endorse-

repre- §
or e-

the §

donation to-
wards travelling
expenses of the
Fehosen dele-

Mrs. Brown

ment of these
candidates and,
if possible, to’
enclose a smal]

irs. E. Kerr

gate. It is esti-
mated that $500
will be needed
to pay trans-
portation and
personal ex-
penses to and
from the bor-
ders of the US
SR. Women’s
organ izations
in the Soviet
Union will bear
the expenses of
the delegate
within the bor-
ders of the
country.

The conference on Feb. 19 can be
depended upon to select the best

Miss M. Hepburn

possible delegate for this tour. An

itinelary for BG. will be mapped
out by the Friends of the Soviet
Union for the delegate on return.
Organizations and groups through-
out P.C. that are
interesting in
hearings the re-
port are re-
quested to write
fo: Delegation
Committee,

Room 216, 319
Wrest Pender St.
Send in any

special ques-
tions for the
delegate to in-
vestigate in the
USSR. Send ali
contributions to

Same address.

Mrs. H. Mathieson

Starvation

Faced
Many Bands

Delegation From Lillooet

Enlists Progressive
Aid Here

NOTEBOOK STOLEN

Rooms in the city occupied by
Ghief William Adolph, Fountain,
BG, Felix Saul, Lillooet, BC, Louis
Bob, Lillooet, BG, members of an

Indian delegation from the Lyt-

m-Lillooet district, were entered
Thursday and a notebook con-
taining information relevant toe
their case stolen. Nothing else
was taken.

Telling a story of hardship and
privation, three Indians from the
Lytton-Lillooet district arrived in
Vancouver last week-end to see al-
leviation of their band’s plight.

Without money, they reached the:
city variously on foot, by team,
auto, and freight.

Progressive organizations in the
city—Vancouvyer Mothers’ Council,
CCF, CLDL, and CP of C—to which
they presented thein case, immedi—
ately undertook to take it up with

“We must have help or my peo-
ple will starve to death,” stated
stocky, soft-spoken Chief Walliam
Adolph of the Fountain, BG, band.

“How many Indians are there in

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See INDIANS

Health Plan

VICTORIA, BC, Feb. 11.—Under
fire from the medical profession,
business men, Vancouver Civic
FBederation and other unions and
groups, British Columbia’s Health
Imsurarnce measure has been in-
definitely postponed following 2
cabinet conference.

Ultimate future of the Act is un-
decided until return here of Premier
Pattullo from Ottawa early in
March. Meanwhile, levies scheduled
to go into effect in March, are held
awaiting return of Dr. G. M. Weir to
make formal announcement can-
celling them. ;

Doctors refused to work under
the Act as it was constituted prin-
cipally because those most in need
of medical attention were debarred,
and remuneration was insufficient
for added work. The medical pro-
fession is not opposed to health in=
surance but wants a scheme more
humanitarian in scope

Weir Warned

Civic Employees
warned Dr. Weir, provincial sec-
retary, that proposed charges for
doctors’ visits violates intention and
spirit of the Act and places the
Health Commission in a position of
“obtaining money under false pre-
tenses.”

The letter, sent over the signature
of W. J. Scribbens, secretary, states
all public wards in Vancouver hos-
pitals have been full for some time,
and therefore the commission is
unable to provide hospitalization.

Other organizations have sent
in protests and offered suggestions
for a more inclusive and workable
plan.

H. WINCH RAPS
DEFENSE PLAN
AT CRANBROOK

CRANBROOK, BC, Feb. 11.—De-
nunciation of the King government
“defense” estimates and a warn-
ing of Fascist tendencies featured
a speech here by Harold Winch,
MLA.

New ‘defense’ expenditures and
increased police costs, he charged,
were due to the power of the goy—
ernment being used against the
people.

in government intervention
against the inalienable right of
the workers to collective bargain-
ing lay Fascism. The right to col-
lective bargaining had been chal-
Jenged in BC by the P. Burns com-
pany.

“To the trade union movement fT
Say, if they get away with this,
what next?” Winch declared, re-
minding his audience that power of
parliament lay in contro] of the

economic field.

provincial and federal authorities

Is Postponed
Indefinitely

Federation

i