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PROF. LASKI
ON THE
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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, April 2, 1937 :

The following quotations from a By W. BENNETT

speech delivered by Prof. Harold J- a i Five months ago,
Eden Lets the Cat Out Laski at a unity conference held With the appearance of the first Dinner Aa Butcher Franco
recently in London should prove of number of the “People’s Advocate,” Madrid? made arrangements

HAT the King government is preparing to drag Canada into
the next imperialist war at the side of Great Britam is be-
coming clearer with its every moye in domestic as well as foreign
affairs. The increase in appropriations for military preparations
under the deceptive and hypocritical pretense of “national de-
fence” is a part of the program of participation in foreign imperi-
‘alist war; for nearly two-thirds of the money appropriated is

it may be a good idea to take stock
of the efforts of the workers of BC
to build a press of their own; a
press that would enable them to
defeat the ulterior motives that
underlie the operation of the capi-
talist newspaper industry.

interest to the people of Sritish
Columbia in view of the stubborn
resistance to a united front by many
leaders of the CCF.

Laski has heen in the socialist
movement for more than 20 years

and is a prominent member of the
Labor party.—Editor,

to eat his Sunday dinner in Madrid-
He postponed it to Christmas, then
to a couple of weeks ago. If he has
no dinner other than the ones he
ate in Madrid, he must be darned
hungry by this time! If he ever
does eat a dinner in Madrid it will
be a one-course meal of hot lead.

It may surprise ma:
rp ny of our The

for ground forces, whereas for defence the chief expenditure would

be for submarines and airplanes.

While all this goes on, King continually assures the people
of Canada that his government has no war committments with

Great Britain. But the leading warmongers of Britain speak

Bey about a common war policy of the “motherland” and the
ominions as they go about their great building of armaments.
They have stated repeatedly that the chief item on the agenda

of the Imperial Conference next May will be “empire defense.”

Foreign Secretary Eden, speaking with the authority ot the
Baldwin government, declared a few days ago that Britain is pre-
And the whole history
of imperialistic Britain shows that the “occasion” arises whenever

paring to fight—‘if the occasion arises.”

jt suits the interests of the imperialists of Britain.

A talking point for the governments of the Dominions, acting
for their own imperialists, was furnished by Eden when he said
that Britain would fieht to defend the territories of the Domin-
fons. Most alarming was his statement that Britain would fieht
in defence of Nazi Germany—if she was the victim of unpro-|;>. >»
soked aggression.” This means that Britain is not only giving a
free hand to Hitler to attack the Soviet Union as he declared he

syould do in his Nurembure speech recently, but is prepared
actually assist him.

The condition “if she (Germany) were the yictim of unpro-

yoked aggression” is sheer hypocrisy. History does not record
puprovoked an attack

that Ethiopia was the aggressor, and Britain permitted him
get away with it!

It is quite easy for a government that has
ous Spanish generals, aided by Nazi Germany
in their
people, to agree with Hitler who undoubtedly
Soviet Union with aggression.

Against the sinister designs of the handful of war-promoting

Canadian imperialists and their military caste, the people of
Let Kang and his
and the
iknow that they do not
speak for the people of Canada, who will not stand for a tew
imperialists and their hireling politicians sending the flower of

Canada must make its emphatie protest felt.
ministers who are to attend the Imperial eonterence,
ywarmongering government of Baldwin:

Canadian manhood to mass slaughter as they did in 1914.

The Exhibition Scandal

Mo graft, thievery
conduct of public affairs

tion of fraud and theft on a grand seale in
administration of Exhibition affairs which,
Mr. Wardhaugh, head of the civic Internal
is appalling.

* That there was thieving

for four years for his part in it.
the real grafters went after the swag
When public clamor can no longer

stronger than ever.
business, he is released after
sentence. But the big fish carry

taxpayers become too : :
to “investigate” like the Tucker charges were investigated.

Administration of public affairs in B.C., and in Vancouver
particularly, is crooked, corrupt, and rotten to the core. This has
been proved over and over again. Yet when money 1s needed tor
‘nereased relief allowance tor the unemployed in face of the rising
the city council emits the old wheeze about not being

gost of living,
- able to find the necessary money.

Now that there is a group of three
put to the thieving and

prison.

Railwaymen Win

HE agreement reached between representatives of the eighteen
management of

G@anada’s two major railway systems is a victory for the railway

standard railway unions and the railway

swvorkers.

By their official ballot the railway
determination to have the ten per cent
return of this ten per cent steal, not in piece-ineal fashion over
long period, as proposed by the majority
Committee, but in full and within a reasonable

restored showed the railway

fiebt for and win them.

ganized ability to
many railroaders

Already among

preted as a to
that will bring the lving standards of Canada’s

cent deduction is still 17
syvorkers.

Trotskyists Give the Lead
HE capitalist press,

revolutionary Trotskyists, 1s again “interpreting

the Soviet Union. No longer able to deny its great material and
to mmake if appear
and the determined efforts of the
the Communist Party to smoke out the spies,
is evidence of tailure to

cultural advance, it secks by lies and slander
as if the new Stalin constitution
government and
proyvocateurs, saboteurs and wreckers
establish socialism.
Trotskyist and :
ried on their wrecking activities in idustry,
have entered the Communist Party.
capitalist press is alone the line
pened is that a new oligarchy
the Tsar.
The

Soviet Union has withstood harder

upon any people as Mussolini’s attack on
Ethiopia, unless it was the attacks by Britain on people in Africa
_and other defenceless peoples; and yet Mussolini took the position:

assisted the traitor-
and Fascist Italy,
reyolt against the legitimate government of the Spanish
would charge the

and corruption is being exposed in the
in Vancouver. The Harbour Board
scandal was no more than nushed up when there came the revela-
connection with the
in the language of
Audit Department,

going on was known as far back as
1930. And not so long ago an official was sent to the penitentiary
With this goat out of the way,

be disregarded, some small
fish is sent to jail, and when the public has forgotten about the |
serving but a small fraction of his
blithely and cynically on. The
method of operation is simplicity itself: When the all-too-patient
highly incensed a fake commission 1s set up

CCF aldermen the long-
euffering taxpayers and hungry poor will expect an end to be
general corruption that 1s rampant, and
the higher-ups who are the real criminals are exposed and sent to

unions demonstrated their
deduction from the basic
rage rate restored. The railway workers were out to secure the

report of the Conference
and specified time.
The railroaders’ determination to have the original wage rate
manacements that the unions are
awakening to a new consciousness of their rights and their or-

the victory is beimg imter-
prelude to the launching of new wage negotiations
railroaders up
to that of the U.S. which even with the full return of the ten per
per cent behind that of the US railway

taking the lead given by the counter-
events im

foreign muperialist agents not only have ear
=: but many ot them
The interpretation of the
siven by Trotsky, to wit, that
Socialism does Dot exist im the Soviet Union and all that has hap-
has arisen with Stalin 1 place ot

attacks than the

My presence on this platform with
Mr. Dutt symbolizes, I think, the
possibility of real unity within -the
labor movement. If there is anyone)
by whom my writings have been
more bitterly criticised in the last
ten or twelve years I do not know
him. But both Mr. Dutt and I real-
ize that, whatever our differences,
the situation today is too grave for
us to allow them to disturb an ur-
gently necessary collaboration
against the common foe. We may
eriticise one another's views; a
healthy freedom of discussion is the

as

Here’s Marusya Khakhalova, aged 18. She travelled 4000 miles on
skis in company with four other girls from UWlan-Ude, on the Chinese
border, to Moscow. The trip took four and a half months.

life-blood of the labor movement.

But, transcending our disagree-
ments, we have the sense that the
most urgent fact in the face of the
growing menace of Mascism is the
need to stand shoulder to shoulder
J am prepared to stand on
the same platform with Palme Dutt
or any other member of a working-
class party who is ready to fight
against the twin threats of war and
Fascism. I do not see how a con-
yvineed socialist can do otherwise-

Faced with the growing mass de-
mand for a united progressive front
against reaction in all its forms and

To

manifestations) opponents of the
as Unless the philosophy of the united, or people’s, front, in trying
British labor movement is built to make out a case for maintaining

the lamentable and dangerous di-
vision of the forces of progress
in the face of the growing boldness
of the forces of reaction, would be
amusing were it not for the danger
of the tragic consequences of their
persistent opposition.

In the Federationist of March 26,
Dr. Telford, after attempting to
justify the suspension of A. M.
Stephen from the €CE because he
Was associated with the League
Against War and Fascism (on the
ground that it is ““‘Communist-dom-

upon a full acceptance of Marx-
ism, there can be no real hope for
its Survival. Without that Marxist
basis, there can be no accurate
diagnosis of our situation; without
that accurate diagnosis, there can
be no successful strategy of action.
Wo doubt it is ugly to think of the
state-power as essentially the ex-
ecutive instrument of capitalist dis-
cipline. No doubt, also, it is un-
comfortable to think that class-war
is the most real phenomenon in
our daily lives. Without this under-

to

standing, foreign experience makes inated”) and for his advocacy of
it clear that we are heading for the People’s Front against reaction,
disaster. For the lesson of Marx- makes an effort, as feeble as it is

unconvincing, to show that whilst
a People’s Front is a fine thing,
the time is not ripe for it in Britisn
Golumbia. He seems to be alarmed
over the undeniable fact that the
idea of unity is penetrating the
GGF clubs, and takes umbrage at
the Communists for doing the
“nenetrating.”

For a People’s Front—But!
The good doctor must not think
that he can isolate the CCK from
the influence of world events and
developments. Te cannot expect
the Communists or anybody else to
regard the CCH’ membership as po-
litical babes in swaddling sectarian
elothes, or as children tied with
leading strings to a few individuals
who seek to keep them far in the
rear in the great struggles against
capitalism today and the greater
struggles of tomorrow, while seek-
ing escape from condemnation for
abstaining from the day-to-day
fight against reaction in monoton-
ous repetition of phrases about
Socialism at once or nothing. The
CCF is far too important a body to
leave out of consideration when
forming a united front, and must
be won for it.

@h yes, the doctor is in favor of
the People’s Front—that is, in prin-
ciple. But, according to him, “the
time is not ripe” for such a front
in Canada, least of all in British
Columbia. This argument, or eva-
sion of the question, has a familiar
ring. It will be recalled that the
reactionary top leadership of the
British Labor Party used the same
argument. And today when the
united front is forced upon the
British working-class by the grow-
ing menace of fascism and the dan-
ger of war, these leaders, no longer
able to say that the time is not
ripe, keep opposing it on principle.
Role of German Leaders
Telford is generous enough to say
that the Communists are—‘per-
haps’—honest and sincere in their
desire for unity, but he cannot
“quite rely’ on them. And, un-
fortunately for his argument, he
cites the German Social-Democrats’
rejection of the Communists’ unity

ism, borne out by the grim history
of the post-war years, is that only
a united working class can be the
spear-head of socialist defence and
socialist initiative.

Remain divided, and you court the
fate of Italy and Germany. Unite,
and at least you may hope to fight
with success for your freedom. That
is why, I suggest, the enemies of
labor are so desperately anxious to
prevent unity in our ranks. I can-
not see why we should adopt the
policy recommended to us by those
most anxious for our defeat. . .

Whether they (the Communists)
be seven thousand, or ten thousand,
T recognize that division from them
is’ a source of weakness, that in
the policy today of Pollitt, of Dutt,
of Dimitrov, there is a large com-=-
mon eround it is our business
jointly to occupy. I think that unity
means strength. I think it could
give the lead we require. I think
that lead would put new heart into
our movement; and out of that new
heart would come the energy and
the courage which would make us
the government of the country. ..- -
W have a long and grim road to
travel. We shall only reach its end
by recognizing that what is import-
ant is our agreement and not our
differences, our common objectives,
our common interests. On the in-
dustrial field the workers have pain-
fully come to see that their strength
lies in their solidarity. It muse be
our business to make them See that
this is true of the political field as
well,

We are at one of the turning
points of history, comparable in its
importance to the Reformation, the
French Revolution, the great vic-
tory of October, 1917. Let us re-learn
the history of those momentous
events. We are fighting not only
for our own emancipation; we are
fighting now for the liberties of
the world.

There is only one way to peace;
it is working-class unity now. There
is only one way to socialism; it is
a working-class unity today.

present pipings of the capitalist press or the hissing of the
Trotskyists. Led by the Communist Party, with Stalin as its
chosen leader, the Soviet Union will continue to plant the social-
ist heel on the heads of every Trotskyist reptile, native and
foreign, found within the borders of the country.

The Communist Party, too, will root out from its ranks any
of these Gestapo agents found in it. Such purgings are necessary
in order to prevent foreign fascist imperialist penetration of the
country and its institutions, and to consolidate the victory ot
Socialism which Trotsky and his counter- revolutionary col-
leagues and dupes declared could not be built in a single country,
but which declaration has been refuted by history, and the stub-
horn facts of Socialist achievement in the Soviet Union.

More Political Police
HE declaration of Lapointe, speaking for the federal govern-
ment, that a reserve force is to be established to strengthen
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, following closely upon the
announcement of war against Communism and the sit-down
strike. should cause grave concern to the entire labor movement.
The R.C.M_P. is well known as a strike-breaking and spy
ageney. Its murderous work in the Estevan, Sask., strike and in
the police riot in Regina on Dominion Day. 1935, is well xre-
membered.
The words “maintaining law and order” come out of the
mouth of Lapointe as glibly as they came trom the mouth ot Ben-
nett, which shows that the reserve force is to be used against
the workers of Canada in their struggles against the employers
over wages and conditions and against reaction generally.

The United front Essential
For Progress In Province

By MALCOLM BRUCE

proposals until the eleventh hour,
because the Communists previously
had condemned them.

The Social-Democrats
rejected the Communists’ unity
proposals until the eleventh hour,
but until AND AFTER the hour of
the Nazi triumph when their lead-
ers cravenly begged Hitler to in-
clude them in his government.

They continued to reject unity
after Hitler smashed their party,
after he had confiscated their
funds, destroyed their press, and
threw tens of thousands of social-
ists into concentration camps.

These Social-Democratic leaders
said the time for unity was not
“ripe” then, and many of them say
the same thing today when the
Gommunists are endeavoring to
rally and unite the scattered work-
ers for illegal struggle for the over-
throw of fascism.

Must Heed Warning

And why had the Communists
previously condemned those Social-
Democratic leaders? They con-
demned them, and justly, for their
permitting Hitler to form and arm
his fascist organization without op-
position while Social-Democratic
chiefs of police shot down workers
in the streets for demonstrating
against rising fascism and for po-
litical striixes against it.

And yet, the Communist Party of
Germany offered to abstain from
criticism if the Social-Democratic
jJeaders would join in an anti-fascist
front against the Nazi menace,
only to be again rebuffed by men
who thought the time “not ripe”
and that it couldn’t happen in Ger-
many.

We readily concede the honesty
and sincerity of Dr. Telford—and
no “perhaps” about it. But he must
shake himself out of his purblind
complacency and shed his faith in
mere British and Canadian demo-
cratic traditions as a bulwark
against the monster of fascism.

Cannot we in British Columbia
and throughout Canada take warn-
ing from the terrible consequences
of the rejection of the united front
by the Social-Democrats of Ger-
many and Austria? Must we go
through the torture and blood-
letting and murder of the working-
class that was experienced there?
Or will we do as the alert workers
and other progressive people of
France and Spain have done—
unite our forces?

Unity Will Be Achieved

In vain do the Canutes and Mrs:
Partingtons in the CCE leadership
rail against those “who, against
heavy odds, strive to gather to-
gether the forces of progress and
unite them into an unbreakable
and invincible barrier against re-
action in our province and country.
For they are working against the
progressive stream jand weaken-

not only

readers to learn that the “People’s
Advocate” is the fiftieth printed
paper to rise out of this need of the
workers of this province, the need
to give expression to their own
hopes and desires and to help fight
their battles with tne grasping lum-
bermen, mine-operators and can-
nery-owners.

A year before Vancouver came
into existence, our first labor paper
Was published in Victoria, the “in-
dustrial News.’ It was officially
the organ of the Knights of Labor,
the union organiation that preceded
the A F of L. The first paper in
Vancouver of a labor character
came a couple of years later, also
supporting the Knights of Labor.
It was called the “Chestnut.”

These early efforts were followed
by a slough of papers, the average
existence of which was about
twelve months. Some of them held
their ground, of course, for much
longer periods than a year. The
“Western Clarion’ was maintained,
intermittently, from i902 til] 1926;
the “B.G. Federationist” lasted 13
years; and three that are still being
published, “The Organizer,” organ
of the Amalgamated Civil Serv-
ants, the “Labor Statesman” of the
Vancouver T & L € and the Japa-
nese Camp and Milll Workers’ Un-
jon paper “Daily People” are re-
spectively 17, 14 and 13 years of
age. Besides these three latter there
are four others still being printed
in BG, two of which are distributed
free to union members. Amongst
those that are no more, were pa-

massive hammer-blows of
the Spanish people defending their
government against the Hun inva—
sion, is mot a defeat for Hranco
alone, but the people’s anSwer te
the fascist triumvirate, Mussolini,
Hitler and Baldwin. Mussolini was
a great success forcing eastor oil
down the throats of the real Italian
people, but he cannot inspire his
hungry hordes as the vision of free—
dom does the forces fighting on the
side of the Loyalists—Spanish, Ger—
man or Italian.

Iued by the brave Italian heirs to
the tradition of Garibaldi, these
heroic soldiers of humanity have
administered a dose of another
Kind of castor oil to the mongrel
socialist renegade, a trouncing that
is decisive in the struggle between
world-fascism and democracy, be-
tween black reaction and world
progress.

The crushing of the invading leg—
jons of Mussolini and Hitler, not
only justifies the faith reposed in
fhe Spanish Government by pro-
gressive people throughout the
world, but will be an inspiration to
them in their purpose of saving the
world from a new darx age-

. In the Alberta
An Opportunity { ecisiature re-

For Saying! Gently, one of
the Social Credit members, H. J.
Ash, quoted statistics to show that
the cost of maintaining a prisoner
in the provincial jail at Fort Sas—
katchewan is $253 per year; at
Isethbridge it is higher, $3569. This.
does not include the wages of the

pers that left their mark on the
people of this province, some of
them extending their influence
throughout the Dominion and even
into the US. Some of them were
pure and simple trade union papers,
some were political and others were
a mixture of both. Most of them
were avowedly socialist although
some of the socialism was ex-
tremely thin-

In the Nineties, three attempt
were made to establish new papers
the “BC Workman” in Victoria
and “The People’s Journal” and the
“Budget” in Vancouver. None of
them survived more than a few
months.

With the turn of the century,
Socialism began to make an im-
pression on the labor movement
and all the papers of that time re-
flect the new ideas with the excep-
tion of one purely trade paper, “The
Inde pendent.” The ‘Industrial
World” published by the Western
Federation of Miners at Rossland
and the “District Ledger,” organ of
the UMW=A in the Crow’s Nest
Pass were definitely socialist
sheets.

Qf the political journals the first
one saw the light of day in Van-
couver, the “Canadian Socialist.”
The second was published among

warders and man-hunters or the
overhead costs of running the bas—
tilles.

When reduced to a weekly cost
these figures are respectively $4.87
and $7.09. The single unemployed
of BG who are compelled to live on
$3.05 a week do not even get a
break, compared to the “criminals”
and the governments of Alberta
adn Saskatchewan could economize
by opening the jail doors and put—
ting all the prisoners on single un—
employed relief.

Speaking of single un—
Fate! employed, we are sorry
A Sad (7) to learn that poor
Eddie Windsor has almost reached
rock-bottom and has been com-—
pelled to embark on “a more frugal
mode of life.” He has decided to
eut his living expenses by $1500
monthly.

The unhappy fate of this poor
young unemployable, the depth of
suffering to which he has been rTe—
duced, will sound a well of sympa-—
thy in the hearts of other unem-~
ployable chips of the bulldog breed.
who have to live on the princely
resources of 17/6 ($4.20) a week,
or of the striking steel-workers in
Glasgow who have to xnock their
soul-cases out making cannons at
Beardmore’s Forge for $15 a week.

the Island miners at Nanaimo, the
“GJarion,” sponsored by the Revo-
lutionary Socialist Party of Wanai-
mo. These two were later amalga-
mated to become the “Western
Clarion” which, during part of the
war years when it was banned,
came out as “The Red Flag,” named
after Karl Liebknecht’s paper in
Germany in the days immediately
preceding the German Revolution.

Goeval with the socialists, the
trade unionists in Vancouver were
struggling to maintain an official
organ for the development of their
unions.

Then followed the
with the “Trade Unionist,” then
the “Western Wage-Harner.” Nei-
ther of these met with much suc-
cess, but when the BC Federation
of Labor launched the “British Co-
lumbia Federationist,” they em-

“Independent”

ing the progressive forces by keep-
ing them divided, confused and
comparatively helpless while the
dark forces of reaction are encour-

aged to take advantage of the
weasness to strike at existing:
democratic forms and privileges

and set up a fascist state which
the exploiters of labor, in their ef-
fort to save their system in its de-
cline, seek to set up-

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“Qne battleship could take care
of the needs of 10,000 families.”—
Rep. Herman P. Kopplemann
(D., Conn.)_

“There are groups who are very
eager to protect selfish interests
through the use of so-called
patriotism. ’—J. R. Welsh, Har-
vard University itmstructor.

“Hitler, recognizing that the
attributes of the God whom man-
kind recognizes are too catholic
and comprehensive to fit his nar-
row category, creates his own god
—a god fashioned in the hideous
Seabury.

“No group and no sovernnient
can properly prescribe precisely
what should constitute the body
of knowledge with which true
education is concerned. The truth
is found when men are free to
pursue it.’’—Pres. Franklin D-
Roosevelt.

barked on a venture that almost
became the first labor daily in
Canada. It would have been, too,
but for the OBU split.

Of the more recent attempts, we
need only refer to the “Tabor Ad-
vocate” and the “Challenge,” both
owned by Dr. Telford; the “Com-
monwealth,”’ ~The Federationist,”’
“the Labor Herald” published in
Prince Rupert, and the “Tumber-
Worker.” There are others but
space does not allow us to even
name them.

Most of them have passed into
the limbo of forgotten things, not-
withstanding the historic role they
played and they mostly passed for
the same reason—the reason that
mukes it necessary for the “Peo-
ple’s Advocate” on its initial ap-
pearance to be appealing for a
$2800 Press Donation from those
who endorse its policies.

This was the case with few ex-
ceptions. Almost all of these 50
labor papers had to draw their life-
blood out of the pockets of their
supporters in the form of donations
or contributions through mainte-
nance funds or press drives. Je bs
Morgan put up the money for Mus-
solini’s drive on Rome, but he will
not help our press drives. The war-
mongers, the fascists, the union-
smashers, the wage-cutters, will not
get behind this drive. Only those
who stand to benefit from the pro-
gressive policies of the “People’s
Advocate” will help to maintain it.
AND EVERY ONE OF THEM
SHOULD!

Whatever further reductions Mr-
Windsor, alias Wettin, may be
forced to make in his liying costs,
one thing is certain, every farthing:
he does spend on himself has been
gouged out of the blood and sweat
of Scots, English, Irish, Welsh and
colonial workers, and when they
decide to work only for themselves
he will find his “living costs” cut
down to where they belong — $3.05
a week.

The CPR only bu-
Who Runs eomes willing to i~

Canada? store the 10 per cent
wage cut imposed on its workers
three years ago, when confronted
with the threat of a general tie-up
of all its railroad operations.

On the other hand, it uses every
avenue of exploitation to swell the
dividend column in its annual re-
port. For this purpose everything
is legitimate from working a shake—
down on the Canadian Government
to further exploiting its employees
by selling them “House Party” trips
to the Ola Country. This trade is_
drummed up for their ocean liners
and bus and steamship connections
in Britain.

If an ordinary Canadian citizen
thought it was his duty to go over
to Spain to take an active part in
the struggle to protect democracy
from the fascist scoundrels, he
would be thrown into jail because
it is Wlegal; but even if it were
legal, he must first secure a pass-
post to leave the country. Any.
other ordinary citizen going to any”
other place is in the same fix, ex-
cept -

In the literature advertising these
“TTouse Parties” is one clause which
reads, ‘For employees who are Ca-
nadian or British subjects special
arrangements will be made to avoid
the necessity of passports.”

Now who runs Canada? It re-
minds us of the Irishman who, on
his second day in Canada, was told
jt was ‘Six o’clock CPR time.” To
which he replied, ‘“Jases, do they
own the time, too?’ ;

Do not forget
Two Hundred 4. neers etna

Dollars! the readers of
this column must play in raising
that $200, and the rewards that may
be theirs for a little wors. Read
the argument in another column
on the history of our press in BC.
So get behind Ol’ Billt :