Direh. 8, 1985 Bb. Gs WORKERS’ NEWS Page Three | YOUTH COLUMN Dnited Front of Youth. } In B.C. : She Youngs Socialist League, the ung Communist League and the operative Commonwealth Youth ‘ye Come together in a united : int jn a united fight against the facks of the capitalist class on the ditions of the working class. This @ without doubt the most Signifi- 4 st step forward that the working i ‘ss youth of B. C. have taken for me time. The strong feeling for ity of action is best expressed in § following united front pragram: War and Fascism. To build up Canadian League of Youth ;2ainst War and Fascism and to port it in its forthcoming con- Fence. To co-operate with “it in campaign against the proposed eit of the German warship Karls- = }. Unemployment. lid unemployed mS ior the bettering of the condi- ns of the working class youth. }. Students. To build and sup- [rt the Student Leasue of Canada. organize Students in High ools. : “To have a united front com- @-tee which shall sit resularly. To form a District Council of ath of all organizations on a non- S-tisan basis, to take up youth Bes. -he specific issues on which an Wuediate campaign will be launch- P: are as follows: Disenfranchisement up workers, The abolition of the Chinese sSion Soup Kitchen. — Against the visit of the Karls- To help to of relief Ne wie. he following conditions will be jerved in the carrying out of the ited front: Publication of official reports : 1cernines all activities, by a joint @-sS committee to prevent the pos- @ility of garbled reports by irre- 4 snsible individuals. As the ¥.S.L. as an organiza- § 2 is opposed to demonstrations it Sunderstood that its name jwill not # used in any leafiet callings for 2h action. A call for volunteers youth organiza- |- Sportsmen To Visit U.S.S.R. Workers’ Sports Ass’n. Conducts Campaign VANCOUVER, March 5.—‘*Work- ers’ Sports Association” held a con- ference in Vaneouyer March 2nd. The campaign to send Canadian sportsmen to Soviet Russia was dis- cussed and it was decided to elect one delegate from the ranks of the B. CG. Workers’ Sports Association. Several articles have appeared in the press regarding this campaign and numerous athletes are anxious to go on the delegation. j ~~ SS BASEBALL AND FOOTBALL APPLICATIONS. Terminal Baseball League and “Vancouver Football Association haye made application to partici- pate, as well aS Vancouver and Cumberland Tennis Leagues. The quota for B. C. is four sportsmen. Finances are being raised by sale “of Supporters’ Certificates. Forty delegates attended the Conference representing eighteen organizations. The Conference protested the ef the Ikarlsruhe. visit is im order from either of the asso- ciated organizations in the united front. 38. That this united front be car- ried out in the spirit expressed in Chemodanov’s pamphiet, “Unite the Youth’’: “Jeet us unite our forces, let us cease during the time of joint ac- tions reciprocal attacks, so as to answer bloody fascism in a power- ful manner; let us declare to all that the present =eneration does not wish to serve and will not serve as can- non fodder for the benefit of Capi- talism.”’ This is the answer to B. C. youth to the erowing attacks of capital- ism. Forward to National United Front of Revolutionary Youth! JOINT PRESS COMMITTEE, WS, XeCL and CeCx telief Camp Youths Set At Liberty Jut Only to Either Steal, » Or Starve to Death ANADIAN LABOR DEFENSE DEFENDED TANCOUVER, March 5. — Four ing, workers, Piccard, Thier, Kay i MacInnis, who were arrected ir days ago on charges of having 1en meals without paying for them re this morning tried in police irt, Magistrate Mathieson pre- ing, These workers had been blacklist- in the Slave Camps because they iaid no longer stand the rotten id and accommodations. They were aied relief by the city of Vancou- r, and had been without food for 0 days, when the meals were or- red in the restaurant. Police “Advice” Phree of them were in a state of zgedness, their clothes being about rn out, as they appeared in court. hinking that they had no one to visethem or defend them, a police "seant advised them to plead uilty.” Iut this did not work. On nd was Tommy WNelson, districi retary of the CL.D.L., to defend =m. When the case was called Nelson, © the four, pleaded ‘not guilty.” 2€ magistrate then asked each one argeed as to their plea. Bach said sot guilty.” The trial then went Eat or Die Welson, for the accused, began to seribe the Relief Camps from zich the men were evicted. He is Stepped by the judge. Nelson en told the judge that the men ad been blacklisted, and were re- sed relief, that they had no choice t procure food in whatever man- r available, and that “‘self-preser- tion is the first law of nature’? and anscends all man-made laws. He ded that there were thousands of iemployed workers in the same ight as the accused. Do Not Go Back to Jail Two were found not guilty, while € other two were found suilty and ntenced to the time they had al- idy spent in jail, which meant that ey were at once released. [ff you don’t subscribe to this per, send in a sub now. LONGSHOREMEN MAINTAIN THE CONDITIONS WON Reactionary Tactics Of Shipping Federation Defeated VANCOUVER, March 5.—For the past four months the Vancouver waterfront has been faced with a “peak load’’ Many surplus men have been given work that the Jong- Shoremen felt should haye gone to the Affiliated Locals. The long- shoremen have put up a long, harc fight for control of this surplus work. The Shipping Federation have “checkmated” eyery attempt on the part of the longshoremen to bring about an amicable settlement. Last month the wheat trimmers were moved out of the basement. They were put upstairs with the longshoremen. Crombie then noti- fied the Union that the Basement Was reserved for the Shipping Fed- €ration’Ss own use. Several of the longshoremen wishing to find things out for themselves went down to the basement to look around. They were thrown out on the street, and told to stay out. Several motions were passed by the General Body that were never lived up to, due to a laxity on the part of some of the officials.