April 9 1937 «

PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE

Page Three

Many Social Measures Are
Regar ded As ‘Merely Transitional; Says PP

Passed By NZ Labor Gov't

(Federated Press Gorecponde ee
WELLINGTON, NZ, April 8—
The cumulative effect of measures
adopted by the Socialist govern-
ment of New Zealand is substan-
tial, but they do not appear dras-
tic to a people accustomed for 40
years to experimental social legis-
jation in the interests of the

masses,

Reviewing the activities of the
New Zealand government for the
past year we find:

The government has nationalized
the central bank. It has set up a
marketing department, so far
mainly concerned with dairy pro-
ducts. It has set up a fair rents
board. It has established the 40-
hour week in most occupations. It
has raised wages and salaries of
Civil servants, railway employees,
teachers and office employees and

>all manual workers, regardless of

arbitration court awards or union
contracts (on the ground that de-
pression contracts were made under
duress and not valid). It is now
an offense to dismiss a worker in
order to deprive him of the bene-
fits of increased pay or reduced
working hours, the burden of proot
being placed on the boss.

The gevernment has established
price contro] over bread, flour,
wheat, gasoline, fertilizer, and
Some other essential commodities.
It has taken special power to pre
vent profiteering in all com-
modities. |

The marketing board fuarantees
@ price to the primary producer.
Such measures, along with a “con-
Scious monetary policy directed by
the state’ seems merely transitional
to the average New Zealander.

iabor Gains
In Denmark

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April
$8.—(FP).—Taking a tip from Lon-
don electors who recently returned
a Labor council to power with an
increased majority, Danish voters
in Jast month’s municipal elections
added to Labor's Strength, final
tabulations show.

Following are results in Gopen-
hagen, closely paralleled in other
cities: Labor party increased its
Seats from 35 to 37, out of a total
of 55. Radicals increased their seats
to 5, a gain of one seat over 1933,
and the Communist party also
gained one seat to place two Com-
munists on the council.

Gonservatives lost four seats and
a decisive blow was struck at Na-
tional Socialists, who failed to gain
a single seat.

OPPOSE RENT BOASTS

CHICAGO. — (FP) — Determined
that recently-won pay raises shall
not be handed over in toto to rent-
raising Jandlords, Chicagso labor and
tenant Sroups are organizine to
check rent boosts that are already
estimated at close to $50,000,000.

Will Use Planes

For Organization

LONDON, Ky., April 8.—(FP)
= Urplanes will be used by United
Mine Workers of America, District
19, to distribute copies of the

Harlan News Bulletin containing
membership application blanks, if
Sheriff Theodore Middleton of Har-
lan county and his deputies con-
tinue te interfere with union organ-
izers.

Trotsky’s Books
Are Circulated
In Italian Jails

ROME, Italy, April 8.—Books by
Leon Trotsky are on sale at book
Stores here, a circumstance that
may be contrasted with long
Sentences imposed by the special
courts for mere possession of any
publication connected with the
working class movement. Politi-
Cal prisoners in Italian prisons
are forbidden to read neither Fas-
cist newspapers, nor even the
Fascist sporting press, presum-
ably as a general measure of
severity, and yet books by Trot-
sky are permitted to enter freely.

US Not Seeking
Union Control

WASHINGTON, April 8.—(FP)—

Congressional leaders will meet
With President Roosevelt here,
upon his retum from Warm
Springs, to discuss the current

labor situation. Announcement fol-
lowed a statement by Secretary of
Labor Perkins that no federal legis-
lation, looking toward control of
labor unions, is in the congressional
offing.

MORE, COAL; FEWER MEN

HARRISBURG, (Pa. —(FPP)—The
complete 1936 report for the an-
thracite industry shows that more
coal was produced that year than
in 1935, but with fewer men at
work.

Leading Turkish Paper
Raps Fascist Aggression

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Stone Soviet Appeal
To Progressives
For Peace

PARIS, France, April 8.—Turkey
is the latest country in which apree-
ment is yoiced with world appeal
of intellectuals and cultural work-
ers against Fascism, The important
Turkish newspaper, Tan, devotes a
leadine article to support of the
appeal.

it points out the war idanger
hanging over the world, a danger
due to Fascism. It sharply criticizes

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Minnesota Lumberjacks
Hold First Convention

a <
Work of -Farmer-Labor

Governor Meets
Praise

DULUTH, Minn., April 8—(FP)
—WNot since the colorful days of
20 years aso have Minnesota’s
lumberjacks held such a meeting
as the Timber Workers’ union con-

vention, first to be held by the
powerful young union.

President Fred eaguier, slight,
middle-aged, part Indian, opened

the meet with a report of
union's growth. Praising the work
of Governor Elmer A. Benson,
Farmer-Labor, in the strike settle.
ment, Lequier said: “Our strike vic-
tory was made possible because of
the splendid support we received

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Particularly from Goy. Benson.
Through his efforts we got relief
for the strikers and were thus able
to conduct strike activities.

Convention passed resolutions
granting aid to Wisconsin and
Michigan unions in their efforts to
organize timbermen; asked for WPA.
projects during slack seasons; do-
nated funds to aid formation of a
Minnesota ambulance corps for the.
Spanish republic; favored a new
Wage scale, based upon hourly in-
Stead of monthly work as at pres-
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those statesmen who recently out
of fear of Communism, helped to
strengthen Fascism and now dis-
cover to their dismay that Wascist
weapons are directed mainly against
them.

Germany, it says, armed itself
ostensibly against Communism, “but
its weapons are now turned against
the liberals who were so indulgent
to it. Only now are the facts begin-
ning to dawn on the liberals, only
now are they besinnins to speak of
the danger of war.”

In conclusion Tan states: “The
authors of the appeal point out
that it is not too late to stop Fas-
cism, not too late to avert war. The
intellectuals of the ‘Soviet Union
have given a lead to progressive
man-Kind in their demand for peace,
for peace inviolable. This call for
Peace should be made audible in
€very country to statesmen, to Qp-
Ponents of Fascism.”’

Appeals For

China To
Unite

SHANGHAT, China, April 8—In
the national - revolutionary maga-
zine, Voice of China, Mme. Sun Yat-
set (Sun (Ching-ling), widow of the
founder of the Chinese republic,
appeals to the Chinese people for
determined and united resitance to
Japanese aggression.

Mme. Sun Yat-sen, beloved by the
masses, has fought continuously for
application of Sun Yat-sen’s policy
of democracy, struggle for national
liberation of China, co-operation
with Communists.

“The Chinese people are firmly
decided not to make further con-
cessions to Japanese imperialism
and are preparing to win back the
territories seized,”” she writes. “This
decision has the greatest political
importance in the life of China.

“The humiliating negotiations
with Japan must end. Unfortun-
ately some Chinese politicians over-
estimate the strength of Japanese
imperialism and under-estimate the
strength of the Chinese people. It
is necessary to consider that the
Japanese people are also against
war.”

Proceeding to the internal po-
litical situation of China, Mme. Sun
Yet-sen writes:

Bruce Analyzes BC Forces
For Progress and Reaction

Coninumer € - CCF Unity |
Is First Step for
Progress

(Second and final section of a
political report given by Malcolm
Bruce at the recent provincial
convention of the Gommunist
Party appears below.)

* = * +

A great immediate menace is the
development and concentration of
reaction, and the BG section of our
Party must be clear as to where the
main centre of reaction in our prov—
ince lies. Formerly we estimated
that it was in the Pattullo gov-
ernment and ‘the Liberal party
whieh formed it, and our heaviest
blows were administered to and
our main attack directed against
the Pattullo government ,with the
call for its downfall as our slogan.

It is true that the Pattullo gov-
ernment in administering the af
fairs of the province has acted on
many occasions in a reactionary
way, and some of its legislation
has been distinctly reactionary, as,
for example, the SPA. Numerous
instances as to its reactionary char-
acter can be cited—its subservience
to reaction in using police to smash
strikes and destroy trade union-
ism, its police terror in the Interior,
the oppressive features and mal-
administration of the marketing
laws, its attempt to “company
unionize” the Teachers’ Federation
of BG, its attempt to carry school
district consolidation to the point
of entire abolition of election of
school trustees and their substitu-
tion by government - appointed
heeler-dictators, are cases in point.

It is true that both King and
Pattullo have carried out the poli-
cies of finance capital. They found
this both profitable and, to the ex-
tent they did carry them out, pos-
sible, because of the disunity of the
people who suffer as a consequence
of these reactionary policies, and
who, if united in a progressive
front, could to a considerable ex-
tent have prevented the enactment
of much reactionary lesislation, as
well as have brought about the re-
peal, or at least the non-enforce-
ment, of many anti-labor and un-
democratic laws.

The repeal of Section 98 is an ex-
ample of what united mass pressure
ean effect, whereas apathy and dis-
unity of progressive people permit-
ted the Pattullo and King goyern-
ment to follow their class inclina-
tions and yield to the importunities,
inducements and threats of the
most reactionary section of the
ruling class.

From this it by no means follows
that our party should support the
Liberal party, or rely on it to defeat
reaction, or ever regard it as an
ally in the fight against reaction,
although certain sections may be
split off from it and included in a
people's front. We should, however,
strive unremittingly to win over
dissatisfied supporters, sections and
even associations—particularly of

the youth—of the MLiberal panty,
and to a lesser degree, because of
its more reactionary character, ele-
ments now supporting the Gonser-
vative party, to the progressive
people's front.

Tories Directing

Force of Reaction.

The centre and directing force of
reaction is the -Conservative party
which is headed by such arch-re-
actionanies as Dr. Patterson and the
lawyer Maitland. But the Conser-
vative party does not depend upon
itself alone. It depends upon such
organizations as the Citizens’
League and also upon many willing
allies from the leadership, local and
provincial, of the MULiberal party,
such as Attorney-General Sloan, and

so-called independents such as
Bruhn.
Closely allied with the CGonser-

vative party also are such organized
sroupings as the Young Citizens’
League at Victoria and the Young
Canadian Guard, both rabid pro-
Fascist bodies. It follows, then, that
our most telling blows must be
directed against the Conservative
Party and its reactionary allies and
supporters, from whatever party or
organization they are drawn.

Our Party must exert great ef-
forts toward preventing any con-

Laborde Entering
Mexican Election

MEXICQ CITY.—Hernan La-
Dorde, seneral Secretary, the
Communist party of Mexico, is a
candidate for deputy from the
federal district in the coneres-
sional elections next July.

Contederation of Me e@xican
Workers has announced its sup-
port for Laborde.

centration of reaction, particularly
one in the form of a coalition of the
Conservative party with the reac-
tionary wing of the Liberal party,
Already in the face of Srowing
CCF strength, a year ago, from
both Liberal and Conservative press
and politicians, such coalition of re-
action has been mooted.

While doing all possible to ob-
struct and prevent such a develop-
ment, we must not permit the de-
featism so often expressed by, CGH
leaders to go unchallenged. Those
leaders capitulate before growing
reaction on the theory that to unite
and struggte against it provokes it
and calls it into being. Rather must
we put forward, more energetically.
and skilfully than ever before, our
policy of a united front of all prog-
resSive people to prevent such con-
centration of reaction and to de-
feat it if formed.

People’s Front

Is Essential.

It is now quite generally under-
stood throughout our Party that in
building unity of all progressive
forces against reaction our first
efforts must be directed towards the
CCE, the trade unions, farmers,
and other mass organizations of the
working class.

Every member of our Party, and
as many outside our Party as we
can reach and influence, must learn
the Marxist-Leninist principle that
the proletariat alone can not over-
throw capitalism.

Weither can it alone meet the ad-
vance of fascism successfully. In
the struggle against reaction as in
the struggle for the conquest of
power, our revolutionary vanguard
must have allies drawn from the
middle class, from intellectuals and
professional people.

We must seek to contact and in-
fluence people in Liberal and Gon-
Servative organizations, in churches
and similar bodies ,in order to win
over individuals and sections from
them to the progressive struggle,
thus undermining and wea%xening

the mass base of reaction and
strenethening the progressive
front.

British Columbia, in common with
the rest of the imperialist world,
is a vast area in which the forces
of reaction and war on the one side
and the forces of progress, democ-
racy and peace on the other, are
fighting for mass support, and the
way the majority of the people will
go will be decisive.

We must carry on a relentless,
stubborn and skillful struggle for
winning the greatest possible num-
ber from these strata of the popu-
lation over to our side, the side of
struggle against reaction and war,
the side of the people and against
the exploiters and despoilers of the
people, against those who, to pro-
long that rule, would drive the
masses down deeper into misery,
destroy the measure of democracy
which exists, and enthrone reac-
tion.

In provincial politics the most
powerful mass movement to appear
in recent years is the CCF which
in the last provincial election polled
some 100,000 votes. Even if there
has been a noticeable decline in its
influence and mass appeal during
recent months, it still represents a
progressive mass movement of tre-
mendous significance which has
acted as a deterrant to reaction,
and which, if it can be drawn into a
united front with our party and re-
verts to its former federated basis,
abandons its sectarian, doctrinaire
attitude and policy, and adopts a
realistic, practical program which
Can be realized within the limita-
tions of capitalism, can be made
the basis for an all-inclusive labor
party which could be the core of a
people’s front in the strugele
against reaction, and assume the

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government of the province.

Standing alone, and with its pres-
€nt doctrinaire, ‘Socialism or noth-
ing”’ program, the CCE cannot hope
to defeat the Liberal party in the
next provincial election, much less
defeat a Liberal-Conservatiye coali-
tion or new pro-Fascist party sup-
ported by the most reactionary ele-
ments of both old parties such as
the recently-formed People’s League
of Alberta, and which utilize dema-
gosically the failures of the Pat-
tullo government to present itself
as-the sayiours of the people to
gain power.

As the vanguard of all anti-Fas-
cist forces in the province, our party
must continue to struggle for unity
With the CCE as a necessary step
to the forming of a farmer-labor
party and a progressive people’s
front. We must also assist in driy-
ing the Trotskyist disrupters out
of the ranks of the CCE which they
are wrecking.

Working jointly with CCE clubs

on immediate issues and in our
campaign generally for the united
front, we must patiently explain

that a united front or people’s front
would not mean the elimination of
the CCE, while combatting the
specious claim that the CCF itself
is the people’s front.

It is generally expected that the
Pattullo government will call an
election in the early summer. This
faces us with the task of organizing
the greatest possible number of pro-
gressive individuals and organiza-
tions for resistance to reaction. The
chief body with which we will have
to strive to reach an agreement is
the CCF. Earnest attempts have
been made by our party to estab-
lish friendly relations with the GCE
provincial] leaders. And while a
greater degree of mutual friendship
has been promoted, they, with the
exception of a small majority, are
adamant in their resolve to “go it
alone.’’

These opponents of unity fall
back uopn the false claim that the
CCE itself is the united front—if
only the exponents of unity will
join it. Our party must also reckon
With the excuse advanced by some
who fayor the united front if unity
with our party would not lose votes
in the elections. We must recognize
that this argument comes not only
from reactionary GCE leaders whose
only desires are to prevent unity
and further their own parliamentary
Careers; it comes also from many
who are honest and who have been
led to believe that, at this stage,
unity with our party would not as-
sure a larger anti-capitalist vote,
and especially a larger vote for
CCF candidates.

i=xperience has abundantly proved
that on the whole a united front
inereases the support for both the
CGE and the Communist party.
Regina, and Windsor can be cited
as proof of this. Moreover, both
Parties increase numerically and in
influence, as in France, while the
British Labor party is an example
of the apathy and impotence which
anti-unity sectarianism and timidity
leads to.

Would Inspire

People’s Confidence.

Then, too, a demonstration of
solidarity such as a united front of
the CCF, the Communist party, the
trade unions, etc., would inspire and
imbue with confidence great masses
of wavering, hesitant people who,
in labor’s divided state, remain aloof
from both the CCF and the Com-
munist party.

At no time in the history of our
country or province has our respon-
sibility to the working class and
its natural allies, the middle class
and farming population, been so
sreat. The rich and powerful re-
actionary groups are seeking: by all
means to win a majority of the peo-
ple of the province in order to have
@ mass base as democratic justifi-
Cation for their drive toward a re-
actionary sovernment and the abro-
gation of established democratic
rights,

In their efforts to this end they
seek to draw under their influence,
and organize and unite, all discon-
tented, and despairing, people. It
is our task to defeat their purpose.

The fight for influence over
those decisive masses is on. If we
do not win them, reaction will, and
the dark night of Fascist terror
Will settle down upon our country.

By correct, non-sectarian tactics,

Suided by Marxist-Leninist reyolu-
tionary theory, under the leader
ship of our Communist Interna-
tinal and the central leadership of
our Canadian party, together with
Our oOWn experience, devotion and
energy, we will overcome our sec-
tarian and other weaknesses and
Shortcomings, we will extend our
ranks and solidify them, and be-
come a real and powerful factor ik
the lives of the people of Britisn
Columbia which will lead to the
formation of a people's front goy-

Third Party
Oregon Plan

PORTLAND, Ore., April 8—(FP)
—Orezon Commonywealth Federa-
tion, counterpart of the larger and
better-known Washineton Common-
Wealth Federation, is calling a con-
ference of all progressive organiza-
tions in Orezon to decide whether
there shall be an Oregon progres-
Sive party. The conference will be
held in Portland April 23 and 24.

A district third party movement
has been lon= overdue in Oregon,
a state in which the overwhelming
progressive sentiment of the people
finds no representation.in either of
the two older parties.

SALEM, Ore., April 8.— (F#P)—
For the first time in 15 years a
state repealed its criminal syndical-

ism law when Governor Charles
Martin signed a repeal measure

which recently passed both houses
of the Oregon legislature by wide
majorities.

The campaign for repeal of the
repressive act has been waged for
several years by the American Givil
Liberties Union and other organi-
zations. The Oregon State Grange
has been a vigorous opponent of the
“crim-syn"’ act, and its support did
much to speed enactment of repeal.
Recently the U.S. Supreme Gourt
reversed the conviction of a Com-
munist, Dirk DeJonge, under the
act, and further discredited the
unpopular law.

ernment. which will cheek the ad-
vanee of reaction, confound and de-
feat the forces of reaction and set
the feet of the united masses on
the path that leads to the attain-
men of a greater democracy than
the world has hitherto known, the
democracy that has heen achieved
in the already established socialist
world under the leadership of our
Sreat comrade Stalin and the GP
of the Soviet Union.

Forward to unity, to a govern-
ment of the people’s front and to a
Soviet Canada in a world family of
Soviet States.

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