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PATTULLO’S NEW ATTACK

The sabotage by reformist leaders of the united front
struggle against the attacks on the living standards of
the workers has encouraged further attacks. The recent
move of the Pattullo govrnment to impose another tax upon
the workers of the province is a case in point. This latest
attack is toward an additional tax of 2 per cent on the wages
of the workers, even the miserable wage of $50 per month
not being exempt. :

- Had the reformist federal members not supported Ben-
nett in his Unemployment Bill swindle, but had joined with
the great mass of workers, organized and unorganized, in
struggle against it, the Bennett attack might have been
defeated, just as the united front struggle of the British
workers compelled the National Government to withdraw
their Bill to cut down on unemployment payments. :
Already in the provincial house there has been partial
support to the new tax attack by the C.C.F. member, Dorothy
Steeves. An aroused and fighting working class must con-
wince these reformist members that the workers will not be
satisfied with vague moonings about a “commonwealth” in
a nebulous future, nor with petty “amendments” to Pattullo’s
anti-working class bill when it is brought down. This was
the Woodsworth’s line in the federal house, but when Ben-
nett wanted their votes they fell in line with the lying excuse
that his Bill was a ‘‘step in the right direction.”

The only way for the C.C.F. members to serve the work-
ers on this question is to fight against any and every
attempt to further tax the workers, and to counter attack
the government and the capitalists hy fighting for the
abolition of the existing 1 per cent tax against wages al-
ready in effect, and against the infamous poll tax.

GREETINGS TO ‘THE WORKER’

This week “The Worker,”’ published in Toronto, will cele-
brate the thirteenth anniversary of its founding; and thou-
sands of workers who have benefitted by its guidance and
leadership will join in the celebration.

Founded in March 1922, “The Worker” has had a hard
struggle, but gradually the workers learned of its indis-
pensible qualities and it has grown. For thirteen years The
Worker, basing itself on the teachings of Marx, Engels
and Lenin, has battled against the widely diffused illusions
of reformism and fought for the immediate needs of the
workers and debt-ridden farmers on the Marxist-Leninist
line, never losing sight of the final aim—the establishing:
of the workers as the ruling class.

Tt foretold the collapse of “organized capitalism” and
“pjermanent stabilization” long before the collapse of 1929,
and while the reformists were relegating Marx and the class
struggle to the past as obsolete, and extolling Fordism and
class-collaboration.

After the crash and during the crisis, which still par-
alyzes the capitalist world, it led, and still leads, the struggle
against the efforts of the capitalists, their governments, and
their agents in the organizations of the working class to
“vestore’ capitalist prosperity by a further lowering of the
standard of living of the employed and part-time workers
and by the starvation of the unemployed.

“The Worker” has consistently fought against all at-

tempts at introducing Fascism in Canada, either by the or-
ganization of Fascist hooligan gangs or by further cen-
tralization of capitalist governmental power whether at-
tempted openly or camouflaged as retorm.
' Having no interest apart from the interests of the work-
ers, it made its advent into the class struggle and the lives
of the workers as a weekly with a few hundred loyal sub-
scribers. Since then it has become a twice-a-week publica-
tion; and this week, on its thirteenth anniversary, it will
advance another step by coming out three times a week.

The “B.G. Workers News” greets “The Worker,” its staff
and its readers, and looks hopefully forward to the day, in
the not far future, when we will have the satisfaction of
greeting it again, not as a three-times-a-week Worker, but
as a Daily Worker.

THE CAMPAIGN TO COMBAT FASCISM

That Canada is moving toward Fascism can not be de-
nied except by the blind or by those who desire its intro-
duction. The organization of fascist groupings is proceeding
in an underground fashion because of the widespread oppo-
sition of the masses. Only in the province of Quebec have
these sinister forces raised their ugly heads openly as
fascists.

In British Columbia there are various organizations of a
definitely fascist character. At present they do not openly
advocate fascism, but they preach the same demagogic ap-
peal to the middle class that characterized the utterances of
ee before he took over power and established his bloody
rule.

The “B.C. White League’ is one of those ' organized
gangs, and its purpose is to divert the victims of the eco-
nomic crisis from struggle against the common enemy—the
capitalist class—by a bitter chauvinist attack against Ori-
ental residents of the province as the cause of lack of em-
ployment, and because of their “intrusion” into the retail
business.

The growing strength of fascism is also indicated by
support of the “Province” and “Sun” newspapers to
proposed reception by the City Council to the ofifcers of
Nazi battleship, the Karlsruhe.

The broad mass fight against fascism in Canada is being
conducted by the Canadian League Against War and Fascism.
This nation-wide organization includes workers, farmers,
progressives, intellectuals and thousands of people of various
political beliefs, welding them into one solid front against
the advance of this menace of fascism.

The League is about to issue its magazine, “Fight,” and
extend its activities throughout the country, and has
launched a campaign for Five Thousand Dollars to carry
on the work.

Big financial interests support the fascist organizations,
just as Thyssen and Krupp supported Hitler; the League
receives support from people whose financial means are
limited, and even meagre,

_ This campaign should have the widest possible support.
Those wishing to contribute may send their contributions
to the head office of the League at 146 King Street, Toronto,
or to the office of the B.C. Workers News. and all contribu-

the
the:
the

By F. BIGGS
_ ‘The Communists disdain to con-
eeal their aims and views. They

openly declare that their ends can
be attained only by the forcible oyver-
throw of all existing social institu-
tions. Let the ruling class tremble
at a Gommunist revolution. The
projetarians haye nothing to lose
but their chains. They have a world
to win.

“Workingmen
unite!’

In these ringing works Karl Marx
and Frederick Engels, his co-worker,
close their monumental Manifesto of
the Communist Party, 1848, and this
trumpet-call to action should for-
ever dispel the opinion, all too prev-
alent, that Marxism is a dry-as-dust
philosophy, that Marx himself was
just a research scientist, a reyolu-
tionary theoretician.

The Communist Manifesto contains
in a condensed form the Material-
ist Conception of History, the Class
Struggle, Marxian Economics, and in
essence the United FProntof Labor,
and the Dictatorship of the Prole-
tariat. Upon this document is based
the program of the Communist In-
ternational, and therefore the pro-
¢ram of all the Communist Parties
in the world.

All History Is History of Class
Struggles

There were different theories be-
fore Marx, still in use in decadent
capitalist society, as to how human-
ity had arrived at its present stage.
There-was, for example, the God
theory, that all happenings on earth
were the workings of a Divine Plan,
were according to the whims of a
supernatural, man-like Deity- And
there was the Great Man Theory,
that human history was formed by
the actions of supermen, the mass of
the people existed mainly to act as
pawns in a game played for the
self-glorification of great conquer-
ors and “Strong” men. )

Marx, from his study of the evolu-
tion of the human race, formulated
a proposition to explain history,
which is:

“That
the prevailing
productionand exchange, and the so-
cial organization necessarily follow-
ing from it, form the base from
which is built up, and from which
alone can be explained, the political
and intellectual history of that
epoch; that consequently the whole
history of mankind (Since the dis-
solution of primitive tribal society,
holding land in common ownership)
lhas been a history of class struggles.

of all countries,

in every historical epoch,

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girls tore theirs up.

1—Biro Bidjan, the Jewish autonomous provimce in Siberia, is rapidly near-
ing its maturity and will in the future become a full-fledged Jewish

2—Cheleyansk, USSR textile town, is run by women who have been elected
to all the leading positions in the local Soviet.

3—The Red Salute, the uplifted clenched fist, was originated by the “Red
Front Fighters,” 2 mass organization which was declared illegal by the
Social Democratic government of Germany before Hitler came to power.
4—The final meeting of the First International founded by Marx was held
570 miles from Toronto, in Philadelphia.

5—The T. Baton Co., giant department store and mail order firm, is so
“srateful’” to its underpaid employees that it gave each one an enlarged
photograph of the Eaton family as a Christmas present. Many of the

between exploiting and exploited,
ruling and !oppressed classes; that
the history of these class struggles
form a series of evolutions in which,
nowadays, a Stage has been reached
where the exploited and oppressed
class—the proletariat—eannot attain
its emancipation from the sway of
the exploiting and ruling class—the
bourgeoisie — without at the same

THIS IS WHERE
THE MONEY GOES

OTTAWA, March 6.—The Federal
government has already spent the
sum of $63,626 on the Hope airport
alone, the Defense Minister told the
House of Commons.

The airport covers more than 70
acres of land. Sixty-four unemployed
are working in this slave camp, and
it was not stated what proportion of
this huge sum was paid to the re-
lief workers.

SWASTIKA IS ©
PULLED DOWN

BERLIN.—(ALP)—Young Catholic
athletes from Offenbach, who up to
now successfully prevented the co-
ordination of their organization en-
ergetically protested against the fly-
ing of the swastika on their sports
grounds and demanded the hoisting
of their Christian flag. When this
was not allowed the enraged youths
pulled down the swastika. Upon this
the district leaders of the N.S.L.A-P.
deprived them of the sports grounds.

COMMUNIST IN
CALGARY FIELD

CALGARY, Alta., Feb. 25.—(ALP)
—Pat Tenihan, well known in Cal-
gary 2s a working class fighter, has
been elected as the Communist can-
didate in the coming provincial elec-
tions. He was ehosen at an elec-
tion conference called by the Cal-
gary Gommunist Party and attend-

ed by aver 100 delegates and
visitors.
‘WORKER’ DELIVERY

CARDS ON HAND

Delivery cards to ‘be held by
customers of “The Worker’ are
now on hand.

A sample of the card was print-
ed in-“The Worker” of February
16th.

This card does away with booli-
keeping on the part of the agent.
All agents should secure a number
of these ecards for their regular
customers.

Order from J. Peters, 4114 Cor-
dova St. West, or from your local
agent.

WHERE THE WORKERS RULE |

Applied Science Helps

Soviet Workers

MOSGOWs. U-S:S-R. Meb. 23:—
(ALP)—About eight gallons of liquid
fuel can be obtained from one ton
of peat under laboratory conditions,
according to results obtained at the
Leningrad Industrial Institute. The
fuel is a mixture of zZasoline, kero-
erude oil for fuel for diesel
engines, etc. It is asserted that the
fuel so produced costs only half as
type obtained

sene,

much as the usual
from oil, and is in some cases su-
perior in practical value, particularly
the fraction used in diesel engines.

Growth of Moscow

River Transport
While it is becoming harder and
larder for Canadian working class
mothers to get hospital care when
their babies are born, a news item
states that
Russian moth-

VWaneouver paper
as many

in
six times

cae

ers have their babies in the hospital
now as did before the overthrow of
eapitalism.

Burnet,
of Nations Health
visit to Russia stated.

of the League
Section, after
“The Soviet

Professor

a

Union surpasses all other countries
in itS attention to Scientific dietary

for its workers and students.’ Com-| ers’ diet, it is to figure out the
pare this statement to the situation | minimum of nourishment to keep
in Canada. Here when medical men! them alive on melief,

In the Land of the
Workers

According to the Moscow Water
Transport organization, 322,000 pas-
sengers were carried in 1931, when
regular on the Moscow
River were first commenced, this
figure increasing to 2,600,000 in 1934.

It is now planned to extend the

services

services on the river from 85 kilo-
meters to 250 kilometers. With the
construction of the Yolga-Moscow
Canal, the Moscow River will be con-
nected through the largest rivers in
the country to the Caspian and Bal-
tic Seas.

Holland Trade With

Soviets Increasing

THE HAGUE, Feb. 22.—(ALP)—
Wigures issued taday show that Hol-
land’s trade with Soviet Russia in-
creased from 16,000,000 guilders in
1933 to 25,000,000 in 1934. Russian
orders placed in Holland last year
7,500,000 guilders worth of
rubber, 4,000,000 of tin, 3,000,000 of
tea and 5,500,000 of industrial prod-

included

ucts. The guilder or florin was
quoted in Toronto today at 65.15
cents.

get together on the subject of work-

Owing to lack of s

tions will be gladly acknowledged.

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and. the serial ‘‘Gestapo”’ are held over

Pace several} letters

time, and once and for all, emanci-
pating society at large from all ex-
ploitation, oppression, class distinc-
tions, and class struggles.”’
Communards Stormed Heaven.
Marx merely a bookish scientist!
Marx the theorist and Lenin the
practical man of action! What mis-
understanding! Marxism cannot be

A HALF-CENTURY of MARXI

divided into theory and action; ifs They called themselves Marxi

there is no action there is no Marx
ism. Marx himself did propaganda
amongst the Trade Unions, helped
them in their problems, encouraged
them to expand. They, he said,
formed a center of resistance against
the encroachments of capital.

We organized the First Interna—
tional Association of Workingmen,
1864, and when it died in 1876 it was
due to two things, the immaturity
of the proletariat of the time, and
the disruptive work inside the or-
ganization on the part of the An-
archists.

During the Paris Commune, 1871,
when the Parisian workers held con-
trol of the city for seventy-two
days against the repeated attacks of
the hireling troops of the bourgeoisie,
Marx enthusiastically threw his
whole influence behind the heroic
workers, even though he knew that
they must eventually be defeated in
their struggle. But win or lose, he
was with the workers of Paris. .

Members of the Communist League
filled a number of leading positions
in the workers’ administration, al-
though ‘they were not in a majority.
“The Communards are storming
Heaven!” Marx produly declared.
And it was after the experiences of
the Commune had been analyzed
that he was enabled to express
himself, more definitely, than in the
Communist Manifesto, on the sub-
ject of the Dictatorship of the Pro-
letariat.

In his eriticism of the program
drawn up at a convention of Social-
Democrats in Gotha, Germany, in
1875, he wrote: “Between capitalisi
and Communist society lies the
period of the revolutionary trans-
formation of the former into the
latter. To this also corresponds 2
transition period, in which the state
ean be no other than the revolution-
ary dictatorship of the proletariat.”

The dictatorship of the proletariat
is the “working-class organized as
the ruling class.” The Socialist
movement was growing in a number
of European countries.

Marx died in 1884, and the leader-
ship of the movement fell into the
hands of men who wanted to make
Socialism so respectable that it
would be acceptable to everybody
who believed that Socialism could
be reached by capturing control, dur-
ine elections, of the political institu-
tions of capitalists, and re-form
eapitalism legally, peacefully and in
a democratic manner.

to cancel the yisit of the F

during the strikes on the wa
last Summer to do them for

booze and gérge themselves

The threat of a strike b
example to the workers of Va

Canadian port. All opposed
rule of Hitler—and they are

Such entertainment const

the ship docks or anchors in

MOST IMPORTANT OF

was smashed and their wage

RECEPTION!

CEPTION AND HALF-HO
KEEP HITLER’S BLOO
OUT”
DOWN WITH FASCISM

SUPPORT MASS PROTEST

Because of the determined opposition of the waterfront
workers of Seattle the Nazi authorities have deemed it wise

The employers and big business men had ertough of fight

willing to sacrifice any more profits just to guzzle some

ficers. They can eat and swill without the Nazi butchers.

and angry opposition te the visit of the Karlsruhe to any

action of the authorities in permitting her to enter Van-
couver harbor. And still more furious at the City Council
for their proposal to entertain the officers of the ship.

Hitler rule, and if they get away with it, will encourage the
Canadian ruling class in taking further steps in the in-
troduction of fascism in Canada.

THE KARLSRUHE MUST BE KEPT OUT.
docks, every worker and all other haters of fascism must
join in mighty demonstration on the waterfront, whether

strate wherever the guzzling reception to the officers by
the City Council and other friends of fascism takes place.

front workers numbering nearly One Thousand men should
tie up the waterfront with a protest strike of at least a
half-hour’s duration as evidence of the hostility of the
Vancouver workers because of the treatment by the Hitler
government of the longshoremen of Hamburg and all other
German ports, many of whom were slaughtered, hundreds
sent fo concentration camps, while their powerful union

Organizations and individuals should rush strong pro-
tests to the Federal and Provincial governments, to the
City Councils of all port cities and towns of British Colum-
bia, and to the North German Lloyd Steamship Company,
agents of the Hitler government in Vancouver.

SUPPORT THE GREAT MASS PROTEST MOVE-
MENT LED BY THE LEAGUE AGAINST WAR AND
FASCISM AGAINST ANY SORT OF

COUNTER WITH A MIGHTY ANTI-FASCIST RE-

ascist battleship, Karlsruhe.

terfront of the Pacific Coast
a while, and they were un-

with a gang of Hitlers of-

y the Seattle workers is an
ncouyer. There is widespread

to the barbarous and bloody
legion—are resentful of the

itutes an endorsement of the

if she

the stream. And also demon-

ALL: The organized water-

s cut to the starvation point.

PRO-FASCIST

UR PROTEST STRIKES !!
DY-HANDED MURDERERS

late

be found in R- Palme Dutt’s

The Dictatorship of the Proletariat. |, the period of Imperialism (w.

and accepted some of his teachi
—parts about which they could ca
on very learned, high-brow dis
Sions—but they emphatically re.
ed all susgestion of the change cq
ing through a violent upheaval, 2
they refused to entertain
thousht of the dictatorship of
working-class.

All dictatorships were “wr
they said. They not only reje
these things, they sank to the dey 4
of deleting them from the publis] ||
works of Marx. Detailed inforr
tion of this contemptible tri
and betrayal of the working-class
Years of Marxism.” When
Second, Socialist, International >
formed in 1889, it was as a refort
organization. 2

Great Lenin Appezrs.

Left to the Socialist-reform
leadership of Europe Marxism wo
indeed have remained a dry-as-c
philosophy. But Marxism was |
left to them. It was rescued |
Lenin, and the workers of the we |
owe him eternal gratitude for
He alone of the working-class le {/
ers of that time really undersi
Marx, he alone had the coura;
tell the world what Marxism 1
was. It was precisely because Ma
ism is a2 philosophy of action u:
Lenin was 2 man of action. It
precisely because of his .com
understanding of Marxism, cou
with his unparalleled revolution? })
energy and fervor, that Lenin 1
to become the organizer of the
Sian revolution, a revolution so
cessful and so Marxian that Stal
Marxist-Leninist leader of tot
could say a while back: “There
no fortress that the Bolsheviks ¢
not take!” i

When Leninism is read, Marail |
is read. Lenin, in his writings, ¢ :
tinued the Marxian theories throt

Marx did not live to see). Inj.
writings on the Colonial quesi
and on the question of National

orities he used the Marxian
stick. He clarified, amplified,
simplified Marxian teachings

ticularly in relation to the Dict
ship of the Proietariat.

Lenin carried on Marxism whe
founded the Third Communisi
ternational, in 1919. Marx, En
Lenin, Stailn—the work of one co
plements the work of the others,
according to his particular time
sphere, with Marx being the oI
first light the candle which disc
the end of the exploitation of x
by man. and revealed a prosper
unlimited human progress in a |
less society—Communism.

The Disrupters and Distorte
_ In addition to the corruptio
Marxism by the leaders of Europ
social-democracy, there haye
many mis-interpretations and
erate distortions. The Mate
Conception of History was perver
into a theory of Hoconomic De

minism, that is, that the economy
factor is the sole motive element).
history. About this Engels said
it reduces Marxism to a mé
less absurdity. There were those °

“‘revised’’ Marx, and who were
thoroughly exposed and denoun
by Lenin. =

For some the Communist Mar ~
festo was too revolutionary; to othe =
it was “reformist,” because it e&

tained a program of See |:
the immediate needs of the worke

and this last was nothing but —
excuse to refrain from taking |
in the class struggle.

Marx’s saying that the Paris
mune proved that the working ¢
could not simply take hold of
ready-made state machinery of

|

apparatus of the capitalist class 4
erect a workers’ state. This ¥
distorted into meaning that
workers could not overthrow
italism.

The great social-democratic par
of Burope were led by men such
these. When faced with a decisi
struggle against capitalism
jeaders capitulated. What be
of the powerful social-democra
parties? Their skeleton bones
strewn across Italy, Austria
Germany, because the
when faced with a decisive strug¢
against capitalism capitulated—
Fascism. = : :

But even in those countr
Marxism is not dead. The Marz
Leninist parties, the Comm
parties, are gaining strength, @
organizing, in preparation for 4
day when they shall lead the
ploited workers and peasants “o¥

the top.’ :
By the bourgeoisie economist
those wise birds of high-finan

Marvism has been denied but ne
refuted. ‘“ILabor-power should no
resarded as a commodity,” they Ss!
with an air of profundity, which:
just as sensible as to say that wht
should not be regarded as a eral
or cabbage as a vegetable.

Jail Term Protest

Protests on behalf of the 28 men
now serving a 90-day sentence for
meals false pre-
tenses, were taken up Sunday by the
C.C.F. Unemployment Conference.

The meeting ordered a telegram
sent to Angus Macinnis, M.P., out-

obtainins under

lining the situation and asking him
to take up the matter with the Fed-
eral government. Premier Pattullo
is also bein= asked to make an in-

vestigation.

rer, and any entertainment of

erew by the City Council.

C.CF. Protest Visit of ‘WarsIruhe”

The Unemployment Conference ferced to get in bed beside the
protested the visit of the “dxarls- mother, where they were both
ruhe,” German cruiser, to Vancou-|| covered by~blankets supplied by

its

O Canada

TORONTO, March 1.—(ALP)—
While police officers from Clare-
mont Street Station looked on,
bailiffs today ripped doors and
windows off the house occupied
by an unemployed family. The
mother was ill ‘In bed and the
brutal bailiffs toolx her clothing
and bed clothing. :

One little girls clothes were
also taken and the child was

indignant neighbors.

Much has been heard of Trotzk
theory of Permaient Revolutic
There is no such thing. What
ealled such is a vile distortion of
statement of Marx about the Rey
lution in Permanence cooked up
the anti-working class—agent of t
bourzseoisie—Trotzky.

Socialism is no longer a thi
workers like to dream about. It
2 reality in the Soviet Union. Wo
Socialism is “just around the ¢
ner,’’ just beeause the workers
the world are uniting to overthr
all existing capitalist institutia
They are understanding that “
emancipation of the workings cl:
must be the act of the working eh;
itself’ And when a Communi
based upon abundance is establish
no matter to what heights of lea
ing the human race may attain,
matter what glorious social inst
tions man may erect. the corn

stone of such edifices will je)

Marxism.