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February 19, 1937

British Gov’t Is Playing A
Crooked Game, Says Peer

Lord Strabolgi Exposes |

Cabinet’s Actions
On Spain

“The chief political lesson of the
Spanish war is that the govern-
ments of Italy and Germany are
mot to be trusted; and that our
own government is playing a
erooked game with the electors—

not. for the first time,’ declares
Lord Strabolgi, in the London
Daily Herald.

“The ‘volunteer’ question is now
acute, the British Labor peer con-
tinues,

“The only real volunteers are the
foreigners fighting on the side of
the Spanish government. The Rus-
sian government may have sent a
few specialists. But the infantry of
the International Columns are fac-
ine hardship and death in the cause
of freedom and democracy.

“They serve for a pittance and
against the will of their own govern—
ments.

“Wor the governments of Gerlin
and Rome to class these legionaries
with their own conscripts is hum-
bus. No man can leave Germany or
Italy without the leave of the au-
thorities. The Italian soldiers ac-
tually sailed in warships and the
German conscripts were escorted in
regular troopships by German men-
of-war.

' Not Volunteers

“Information which has come
through from Germany tends to
show that the German rank and file
sent to Spain are anything but vol-
unteers. However highly disciplined
they may be, these German con-
seripts are not fighting for the de
fence of the Fatherland. They wil
do their duty no doubt; but free men

fighting for everything they hold
dear are worth more than con-
seripts, every time.

“And now the 10,500 Italian ‘‘vol-
unteers’’-—a whole division with

their officers and staff! How many
are there of their own free will?

And what perfidy for these troops
to be sent during the negotiations
for the ‘“‘Gentleman’s Asreement’’

between Gritain and Italy!

“Either these troops were sent
With the knowledge and consent of
the British cabinet; in which case
the British nation has been double-
erossed; or they were sent without
the knowledge and consent of our
Government, in which case Mus\so-
lini has double-crossed both our
cabinet and our nation!”

OPINIONS

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those people who need protection
most. Something must be done for
them.”’ é

“Tt fails to provide for doctors’
transportation. They have to pro-
vide their own. Complete diagnostic
facilities and hospitalization must
_ and should be provided.”

Bert Gargrave, CCE provincial
secretary: “The CCF will press for
4 special session of the legislature,
when it proposes to present amend-
ments. We consider the present
4ime most opportune to force the
Zovernment’s hands in bringing out
the Bill.”

Tronic Gesture

Tom Ewen, CPofC: “The med-
ical profession’s evaluation of the
Act is an ironical gesture. It re-
duces. preservation of health and
medical aid for the sick to the
market place level. Yet, with all
its deficiencies, the Act should be
preserved and improved through

Testifies At Prison
Probe

Tim Buck,
Communist Party of Canada, ap-
pearing before the Archambault
Royal Commission on Prisons. He
told of what he termed an at-
tempt on his life during the

general secretary,

Kingston Penitentiary riots in

1932, when his cell was riddled

with bullets. “One bullet grazed
y hair,” Buck said.

|NewPact Won
B y ACWA

18.—(F'P)—De-

NEW YORK, Feb.
| clarine demands were presented “‘on
the theory that the workers in the
industry are entitled to a larger
share of the fruits of their indus-
try.” President Sidney Hillman of
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, has announeed that $30,-
000,000 will be added-to payrolls of
the industry as a result of nego-
tiations between the union and a
committee of manufacturers.

Hillman asserted such
ment would haye
if the workers in the trade had
been divided into many erat
unions. It was, he said, a victory
for the type of organization for
which the Committee for Industrial
Organization stands. Hillman is one
of the leaders of the CIG, to which
the ACWA is affiliated.

an agree-
been impossible

Peggy Harrison
Guest Speaker

Peggy Harrison, who has just
returned to Vancouver after an 18
months’ sojourn in the Soviet
Union, will be guest speaker at a
social afternoon Tuesday, February
23 at 2 pm in O’Brien Hall, 404
Homer Street, sponsored by the
Mothers’ Council.

Vicious Laws Keep Men
In Condition of
Slavery

JOHANNESBERG, Africa, Feb.
18.—In protest against impossible
working conditions and brutal treat-
ment a wave of native strikes has
broken South Africa. Not
the many laws, such as the Masters
and Servants Act, Pass Laws and
the Riotous Assemblies Act, which
serve to bind native workers to a

in even

system of slavery, prevented this
militant upsurge.
Near Germiston several hundred

native miners came out On strike

because the company forced them
to work longer One hundred
Wyassaland natives struck at Cape
Gement and police were called in
to “quell a disturbance’ caused by
300 native miners in Rhodesia.

In Johannesburg 800 laundry
workers struck after negotiations
failed. Many were arrested, but the
company opened negotiations with
the Laundry Workers! Union. At
Luipaardsylei several hundred gold
miners struck for increased wages
and better conditions. Police ar-
rested strike leaders and drove rank
and file back to work by brute
force.

hours.

“In his efforts to retain and im-
prove this Act, Dr. Weir, minister
of Education and Health, merits
the widest support from all sections
of the people.

“One salutary fact that all work-
ers and the people generally, should
keep in mind is that reactionary
forces blocking the Act and seeking
to have it scrapped are no friends
of the working people of British

necessary amendments.

Columbia.”

Song to a Young Worker

They have buried you, a few sorrowing,
Deep down where eyes cannot see

The tragedy of youth racked

And shattered by the tragedy of frustration;
A talent flung unopened to the shadows

That denied it growth; forbade the sun

Because it did not gleam with gold.

And yet, they did not see the smile
That came at last, smoothing
The lines despair had set on youth.

Almost as if you heard,
A song.

far off

Your ears attuned to melodies

Inswinging on the distant years;

Almost indeed, as if you saw

Dreams you might elsewise have created
Etched in crimson on the dawn.

—MICHABL O'MARA.

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Wave Of Native Strikes
Breaks In South Africa

| Alabama May
Ban Sitdowns

MONTGOMERY, Ala.,
(FP)—Alabama, where
elements are seeking to build a
haven for runaway anti-union in-
dustries from the north, will outlaw
sitdown strikes and provide for pay-
ment of damages by unions encour-
aging them, if a bill reported fayor-
ably by a state senate committee is
passed. The Alabama Federation of
Labor is fighting it.

Feb. 18.—
reactionary

New Progressive |
Paper For Ireland

BELFAST, Northern Ireland,
Feb. 18.—New progressive weekly
newspaper to be launched here is
the Irish Democrat, pledged to
oppose war and Fascism, support
democracy and the working class
movement. Shares in the promot-
ing company have been taken by
the Socialist Party of Northern
Ireland, Irish Communist Party,

trade unions and peace organi-
zations.

Catholics Urge -
Fascist ee)

MADRID, Feb. 18—The Roman
Catholic Church has called upon
the Basque government to support
the fascist cause, In spite of the
evidence furnished by six months
of war. Isidore Cardinal Tomas
Goma, primate of Spain, and arch-
bishop of Toledo, has urged Presi-
dent Jose Aguirre, head of the
Basque government, to swing over
to the rebel camp, and to fight
against the constitutional govyvern-
ment.

Trainmen Discuss
Demands At ’Peg

A conference of trainmen com-
posed of chairmen of each of the
Canadian locals, and chairmen of
each local grievance committee, is
being held in Winnipeg to discuss
issues of the rail dispute.

Local officials state that strike
ballots have not been received on
the coast as yet, but are expected
within a day or so. O@pinion is that
the referendum will go overwhelm-
ingly in fayor of strike action. It
is felt that nothing short of a tie-
up of Canada’s railroads will con-
vince companies that they can stall
no longer. A strike Is anticipated
that through powerful organiza-
tion and solidarity will break the
company hold over trainmen’s af-
fairs.

CCF In Montreal
Hits Trotskyists

VERDUN, Que., Feb. 18—A reso-
lution against Trotskyist disrupters,
recently passed by the CCF elub
here, is being sent for endorsation
to all clubs affiliated to the Montreal

district council, all Co-operative
Commonwealth Youth Movement
clubs.

The resolution reads:

“That this council of the CCE
and CCYM clubs do everything in
its power to discourage the
vitieSs of the disruptive
known as Trotskyists:”

KAMLOOPS MAN
GETS 30 DAYS

KAMLOOPS, BC, Feb: 18. — A
man named Wright, refused relief
on several occasions, has been sen-
tenced here to thirty days in jail,
after he smashed a plate glass win-
dow in Hudson’s Bay store.

Conditions in the relief camp
west of here, where Edward Sandry
droppen dead recently, are stated to
be deplorable.

Bunkhouses are fitted with 18
double-deck bunks for 36 men with
scarcely room for a man to squeeze
in between them, although health
regulations demand two feet of
space.

Articles of clothing hang across
the bunkhouses, adding to fire
hazards.

faction

“If something is not done to re-
duce the terrible burden of arma-
ments, it is bound to pull down the
standards of living for a generation
to come.” —Neville Chamberlain,
British chancellor of the exchequer.

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Application cards with the
name Western Canada Labor
Federation, and a clause provid-
ing that “the applicant will at
all times combat foreign influ-
ences working to the detriment
of Canadian workers in Ca-
nadian industries,” have been
distributed around WVancouver
this week.

That is the name Pete Thomp-
son, editor. of “Labor Truth,”
hid under after the members of
the ACCI, chased=him out of
the national council, Associated
with Pete in his anti-union ac-
tivities of the last few years
were such as Pat O'Donovan,
Harry Burgess, Geo. McAulay,
and other choice scabs. These
were all active in the service of
the shipowners during the mari-
time strike of 1935. Is it possible
that they are being put to use
again? The ILA has the Ship-
ping Federation worried. Is the
WCFIL coming to its aid once
more?

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They Ditched This Type
Long Ago Down The Coast

J. Z. Hall, assistant some-
thing-or-other of the Shipping
Federation of BC, made small
progress Wednesday night in

Signing the longshoremen of the
Union Steamship Company to
the new (Sic) union. (See story
On page i). Initiation $5, dues
$1.50 monthly. Hall said they
had a charter from Victoria, but
refused to produce it.

But the men just wouldn’t
bite.

Hall is going to try his luck
against two weeks hence, at an-
other meeting.

Prize information of the eve-
ning: After asking the audience
if they had any particular choice
for an official, and getting no
bite, Hall told them he knew a
very capable fellow with experi-
ence. ..

But the Union Steamship Co.
men know John Cook.

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carried. Articles and letters
omitted this week owing to lack
of space will also appear.

“Greater Promise”
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Engineers'
Favor Strike

Ballots. cast at Moncay’s meet-
ing of Local 882, International
Union of Operating Engineers,
were almost unanimous in favor
of strike unless Famous Players
Canadian Corporation Ltd, own-
ing and controlling first-run the-
atres, concludes satisfactory
agreements shortly with the un-
ion.

Delegate King told the Prades
and Labor council Tuesday that
negotiations had been proceeding
for two months past and were now
stalemated, with company repre-
sentative WV. Armand evidently
stalling until the heating season
is Over.

All engineers have been ordered,
commencing Monday, to work
eight consecutive hours, and then
to shut down the plant when leav-
ing the building. The union de-
mands fair worxing conditions and
wages. Their eight-hour work day
is spread over a period of fifteen
hours or more.

Ask Tag Day.

Delegates voted to support the
Meat Cutters’ request to City Coun-
eil for a tag day. Provincial gov-
ernment was requested to re-open
all wege orders in view of higher
living costs and no wage increases
have been made over a period of
years.

Council concurred with Inland
Boatmen’s Union request for one-
third share of work on government
subsidized ships, thus terminating
discussion which threatened to be-
come acrimonious and develop into
racial harangue.

Wash. Labor
Raps Bills

OLYMPIA, Wash. Feb. 18.—
Strenuous efforts are being made by
reactionaries in the legislature here

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to secure passing of Governor
Clarence D. Martin’s anti-strike,
compulsory arbitration, labor tribu-
mal bill.

The bill, introduced jointly in both
houses, provides for a labor tribunal
to which industrial disputes would
be compulsorily submitted. A 30-day
truce would be declared, during
which it would be unlawful to strike
or picket.

Another bill, introduced at the
request of Mrs. Edward Selvin,
chairman of the now defunct
“Women of Washineton.? proposes
incorporation of unions, denial of
the right to strike and would make
unions liable for business losses sus-
tained during strikes.

Organized labor, with full support
of the Washington Commonwealth
federation, is arousing mass pro-
tests against the bills and intro-
ducing counter-proposals.

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New Fil ms

THE GOOD EARTH: $3,000,000
transcription of Pearl Buck’s novel
of Chinese peasant life. Superb cast
headed by Paul Muni and Vienese
actress Luise Rainer. Stirring film
material, magnificent technical job.

ON THE AVENUE: The funny
Ritz Brothers weaving: in and out of
a trite story about rich girl vs. poor
song-and-dance man (Madeleine Car-
roll and Dick Powell to you) and
six—count ’em—songs by Irvine
Berlin.

CHAMPAGNE WALTZ: Rather
amusing conflict between champions
of old-time waltz and new-time
swing. Gives Gladys Swarthout good
opportunity for vocal maneuvers.

BELOVED VAGABOND: Return
of Maurice Chevalier, man of smiles
and songs, in English-made produc-
tion. Poor photography and unin-
teresting story make this a poor
ladder for Chevalier to climb back
into the Hollywood sun.

SINNER TAKE ALL: Whodunit
mystery with only one change in
routine: shows that not all cops and
detectives are flat-footed imbeciles.
Bruce Cabot and Margaret Lindsay.

Czechoslovakia
Welcomes Mann

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Feb.
18.—Thomas Mann, famous Ger-
man writer whom the Hitler gov-
ernment deprived of German citi-
zenship, recently arrived in Czecho-
slovakia and has been granted
citizenship of that country.

Before leaving Prague to take

up residence in Prosecj, Thomas
Mann was received by Edouard
Benes, president of Czechoslo-
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The Ruling Clawss

“Don? t argue with me — get out before I forget myself.”

Issued last week by German
Social-Democrat, Socialist-Labor
and. Communist leaders and prom-
inent liberals and non-party intel-
lectuals was the first broad united
front appeal for overthrow of the
Nazi regime.

Proclamation calls for struggle
against Nazi tyranny and outlines
measures for restoration of demo-
cratic principles to be adopted
following the overturn of Fascism.

Signatures include those of Albert
Grzesinki, former Berlin police head
and former Prussian minister of in-
ternal affairs. Emil Kirschmann,
former member of the Reichstag;
Rudolf Breitscheid, former Prussian
minister of internal affairs, All were
considered as conservative members
of the Social Democratic party.
Irom the more progressive wing
of the Social Democratic party the
signers were Siegfried Aughauser,
former member of the Reichstag and
head of the Office Employees’
Union; Toni Sender, former Reich-
stag member; Karl Boechel, former

German Anti-Fascists Ask
Unity in Opposing Nazism

»member of the Saxon diet, and Max

Braun, united front leader in Saar
Territory.

: Prominent Liberals
Qutstandinse liberal and socialist-
minded signers include Kurt Rosen-
feld, former Prussian minister of
justice; Professor Anna Siemsen and
Professor George Bernhardt, now
editor of Pariser Tages Zeitung,
anti-Fascist paper circulated illesally
in Germany.

Among noted writers signing are
Leon Feuchtwanger, Henrich Mann,
Klaus Mann, Arnold Zweis. Ernst
Toller, Egon Kisch, leadin= corre-
spondent for many European jour-
nals; Prefessor Alphonse Gold-
schmidt, economist: Professor BH. J.
Gimbel, who made a special study of
early Nazi assassinations, and Dr.
J. Schaxel, biologist, now working
in Moscow.

Communist signers are all former
members of the Reichstag. including
Wilhelm WPieck, Wilhelm Florin,
Walter Ulbricht and Franz Dahlem,
members of the Central committee.

HEALTH ACT

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for, but it is miles ahead of the
British Act, and is more compre-
hensive than the French Act the
two best known systems,” said
Bengough.

Speaking of the Canadian
caj Association he stated, “I don’t
believe you could collect enough
money from the workers to satisfy
them. I was in favor of charges for
first visits, but that’s out now.’’
Birt Showler’s motion requesting
the government to put the Act in-
to effect was passed unanimously.

Medi-

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News for the past year are now
on hand. Any organization, club
or society desirous of keeping a
reeord of labor history would do
well to order their copy now, as
there are only a limited number.

Price of these volumes is $2.50
with order, postage extra.

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ADMISSION: 25 CENTS

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editor, BC Workers’ News; will
speak on the New Theatre. Aus-
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Wednesday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m. Clin-
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Will stage “‘Private Hicks’ in aid
of Molland-Grange deefnse fund.
Tickets 25 cents at Room 28, 163
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