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Starvation, 4. -anadian Foreign Policy, Ask Higher, A May Day Message

Costs Rising

“We must organize to live,”’ Un-
employed Organizer Towle fold a
Special conference called Sunday at
Orange Halil to unify unemployed
froups throughout the province into
a federation.

Sheer staryation faces 7,969 fam-
ilies in BC, due to the steady rise in
food staples and refusal by author-
ities to increase relief, stated the
report given at the conference.

Fuel has gone up 75 per cent and
rents over 100 per cent. Due to lack
of food, twice the number of unem-
ployed are sick now as compared to
March of last year, were statements
from local and provincial delesates
Who carried official reports with
them.

Unemployed are again turnings to
organization after three years of
trying to get by on relief and ob-
taining the odd job, a young Van-
couver Island delegzate declared.

Committee sponsoring the confer-
ence estimated that 54 per cent in-
erease in relief was required to
maintain health, to which demand
the conference unanimously agreed.

Organize,
Says Hurry.

Alderman Hurry
conference and urged locals to
Strensthen organization “to get
what is needed.” he reminded them
that they had a chance to “oust the
gangsters in Victoria in the coming
election.”

Advocatins a four-day working
weelt at union rates for the unem-
ployed, Alderman Hurry received an
ovation when he stated that unity
Was needed and that he had no
hesitation in backing the united
front.

Aiderman Helena Gutteridge spoke
briefly, dwelling on the-necessity of
abolishine the present system as the
Only permanent way to end unem-
ployment. :

addressed the

Morgan, Hurry
For United Front.

Delegate from Victoria, Nigel
Morgan, gave a rousine speech on
need for action to Change present
deplorable conditions. We derided
the theory Which claimed that the
umited front loses votes at election
time. He reported that 500 of the
1300 jobless in Victoria were orean-
ized. W. Lestrange, Nanaimo, also
Spoke confidently of progress made
there.

A. M. Stephen, who. as president
of the Spanish Defense Committee.
had been invited, was given an en-
thusiastic welcome by the confer-
ence, Chairman Alex. WPordyce,

_trade unionist and delesate from

Advance CCF Club, introduced
Stephen by stating “the ban which
has been placed on one of our most
Valued comrades must be lifted.”
Stephen stated that he did not feel
he was out of the movement at all.

Provisional commitiee was elect-
ed to carry out plans to extend the
federated movement.

Credentials committee reported 76
delesates present from 45 sTroups
representine 30,000 people in the
province.

GM Provoked
Auto Strikes

DETROIT, Mich., April 15.—(P)
—General Motors, and not the Com-
munist party, provoked recent sit-
doym actions in ten GM plants,
William Weinstone, Michigan secre-
tary of the Communist party,
charged, in reply to Tory attempts
te raise a red scare in the auto
capital.

Weinstone said GM refused to
recosnize the shop steward system
in violation cf its agreement with
the United Automobile Workers of
America, deliberately intending to
provide fertile ground for provoking
workers into unauthorized strike ac-
tions. It-was done to influence the
State elections, embarrass Governor
Murphy in the Chrysler negotiations
and 32id the push for anti-strike
legislation, he said.

“The Communist party,” he con-
tinued, “is in fayor of reaching
trade union agreements with em-
ployers and living up to such agree-
ments. It does not believe in cali-
ing strikes for the sake of strikine.’’

New Books

(Federated Press)

With Japan confronted by a new
Military crisis and Germany arm-
ing more rapidly than ever, two
Tecent books assume timely import-
ance. The first, When Japan Goes
to War, by the Soviet economists
©. Tanin and E. Yohan (Imterna-
tional Publishers, New York, $3),
Contrasts Japan’s military needs in
the event of an invasion of Siberia
Witn the actual capacity of her
factories to produce armaments. The

result, according to the authors,
should be taken to heart by the

Japanese generals as a warnings not
to start a war. It would be more
than they could possibly handle.

The second book is Hitler Over
Russia, by Ermst Henri (Simon &
Schuster, New Work, $2.50). Where-
as the book on Japan is objective
and factual, tabulating Japan’s eco-
nomic strensth industry by in-
dustry, the Henri book is sensa-
tional and contains too much of the
author and not enough about Ger-
Man Fascism. It concludes that the
Strength of the Soviet economy and
the underground resistance of Ger-
man Jabor will be fatal to Hitler if
Gver he inyades Russia.

Based on League, Sought

League Against War and

Fascism, Opposing Any

Military Commitments at Imperial Meet,

Urges Free Hand For Canada

Commenting this week on the forthcoming Imperial] Con-
ference in London when questions of Canada’s foreign policy
and imperial defense commitments will come under discus-
sion, A. M. Stephen, provincia] president, Canadian League
Against War and Fascism, declared:

“The League proposes that
deluge the prime minister with
citizens expressing cGpposition
commitments at the Imperial]

immediate steps be taken to
letters from British Columbia
to his making any military
Conference and calling upon

him to declare Canada’s foreign policy as based upon main-
tenance of peace through a strong League of Nations.”

Following analysis of these vital?
issues was released for publication
this week by the League:

Recent action of the Canadian
parliament in approving a $35,000,-
600 appropriation for armaments
caused a wave of alarm to sweep
aeross Canada.

In his election appeal to the
Canadian people in 19385, the prime
minister promised to pursue a pol-
icy of peace in international affairs.
Armament appropriations constitute
a repudiation of that pledge; proof
that Mr. King has surrendered to
pressure of Canadian and British
reactionaries and is prepared to col-
laborte in war plans of the Baldwin
Sovernment.

This action represents a complete
reversal of the stand taken by Mr.
King in April, 1935, when, in ad-
dressing the house of commons, he
said:

“I am inclined to belieye that
much good could be done if this and
other countries were to take a more
definite stand on what they would
or would not do in the matter of
helping to preserve collective secur-
ity. There should be more definite
statenrents as to the attitude which
would be adopted toward any nation
which would threaten the security
of other nations or which was
proven by the facts to be guilty of
hayvine disturbed the peace of the
world.

“I think this country ought to
declare that any nation which
could be shown to have threatened
the peace of the world by violatine
a pact of eollective security should
Ibe denied any assistance in the
Shape of men or munitions, should
be denied any assistance in the na-
ture of food, should be denied any
assistance through credit.’

Several months after makine this
Statement, the Kang government re-
Pudiated Dr. Riddell’s proposal that
ei] sanctions should be applied:
against Mussolini who had been
“proven by the facts to be esuilty
of haying disturbed the peace of
the world.’ ‘ :

King Repudiated
Former Position

So completely did Mr. King re-
pudiate his 1935 position at the
Leasue of Nations assembly in
i936, that the British and French
press, particularly the pro-Fascist
Section of it, rejoiced in his state-
ments. One commented: ‘Canada
leads the way out from Geneva.”
Amother said: “Nothing but rags
and tatters is left of collective
security-”

Summing up Mr. King’s speech,
the Winnipes Free Press (a Liberal
party organ), said: “The effect of
the prime minister’s speech was to
commit Canada to these proposi-
tions:

i, That the Leasue of Nations
Should be permitted to continue in
existence provided it agrees not to
recognize or act upn the principle
that is its reason for existence.

2. That Canada will continue to
Subseribe to the obligations of the
Covenant provided it is understood
that she can repudiate them with-
out moral obliquity.

In his 1935 speech, Mr. Kine also
had some things to say about prof-
its in. the war industries. He said:
“I don’t think it is sufficient for
this country simply to say that it
supports the League of Nations in
its policy of disarmament. I think
we ought to name a concrete policy
in that regard. Maving observed
What has taken place in investiga-
tions in the United States, where
beyond all question it has been
shown that there are those who are
prepated to traffic in the manu-
facture and sale of munitions and
armaments for the sake of gain,
that there are large interests that
are €ven selling simultaneously to
countries that are at enmity with
each Other, it behooves this country
to begin immediately to investigate
the whole business of armament
manufacture and sale.

T should like to see a beginning
made in this country of a thorough
investigation into the whole busi-
mess of the manufacture and sale
and distribution of munitions of
War and armaments.”

But, when the question of an in-
vestigation was raised in the House
of Commons, January 25, 1937, Mr.
King went no further than to say
that the government was giving the
matter consideration.

International Nickel profits for
1936 amounted to $86,865,526 an in-
crease of nearly $11,000,000 over
1935. The people of Canada must
demand that an inyestigation be
carried out at once.

Mr, King leaves shortly for the
Imperial Conference. Qne of the
items on the agenda will be ‘“Im-
perial Defense.” Mr. King will be
asked by the reactionary British
Wational government to commit
this country to the Baldwin war
policy. His answer must be no! Let
Mr. King reaffirm the stand taken
by him in 1935. Let him agree to
commitments for peace but not for
war!

Clifford Odets

who won fame with his plays,
“Waiting For Lefty’ and “Till
The Day I Die,” has been placed
on Spanish Rebel Gen. Franco’s
“banned” list for his sympathies
with the People’s Front govern-
ment. He is now a screen writer
in Hollywood.

YCL To Convene
Here This Week

Sixth annual convention of the
Young Communist Leasue will open
Saturday, April 17, at Clinton Hall.

Main report will be siven Satur-
day afternoon on “A Better Life for
Be Youth,” by Maurice Rush, pro-
vincial Secretary Some 70 deleeates
are expected to attend the conven-
tion.

All youth are especially invited to
the social and dance to be held Sat-
urday evening.

Praises Soviet’s
New Constitution
“Unstinted praise was given by Mr.

Dayis, national personnel secretary,
YMCA, to the new Soviet constitu-

tion and conditions applying. to
youth in the Soviet Union, at a
luncheon attended by Vancouver

and New Westminster Youth Coun-
ceil last Saturday.

Demand Policy

Fer Peace

The prime minister must make it
clear to the Imperial Conference
that Canada will pursue an inde-
pendent foreign policy designed to
maintain peace through a strong
League of Nations. Such a policy
should be based upon the four
points of the international peace
campaien.

1. Recognition of the sanctity
of treaty obligations.

2. Reduction and limitation of
arms by international agreement
and the suppression of profit
from the manufacture and trade
in arms. - i]

3. Strengthening of the League
of Nations for the prevention and
stopping of war by the organiza-

tion of collective security and
mutual assistance.
4. Establishment within the

framework of the League of Na-
Gons of effective machinery for

remedying international condi-
tions which might lead to war.

The last war brought death to
62,000 young Canadians. It cost us
nearly five billion dollars and we
still pay at, the rate of $158,000,000
annually. Another war would mean
@ much greater destruction of life
and would result in economic ruin
for Canada,

Such a catastrophe can only be
averted by a powerful mobilization
of peace opinion throughout the
Dominion. We must leave no doubt
in the mind of Mr. King as to what
we expect him to do at the Imperial
Conference.

No commitments for war!

Neo participation in Imperial de-
fense! Z

Take the profits out of arma-
ments nov!

An independent foreign policy,
based upon the maintenance of
peace through a strong League of
Nations!

Keep Canada out of war by

helpings to keep war out of the
world

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BRITAIN, US,
MUST GUARD
DEMOCRACY

NEW YORK, April 15.— (PP) —
British people would not tolerate
interference with the authority of

parliament comparable to the power
ex€reised by the US Supreme Court
Over acts of congress, Herbert Mor-
vison, Labor member of parliament
and chairman of the London County
Couneil, said on arriving here-for a
Jecture tour in the US.

Saying he did not desire to inter-
fere in US affairs, Morrison limited
his remarks largely to Britain.

“In Britain,” he said, “parliament
is supreme. It can do anything it
likes. It can even abolish itself. The
only thing on which the courts may
pass 1s the meaning of laws passed
by parliament, but they cannot set
aside acts of parliament~’”

What the US and Britain do is
likely to determine the fate of de-
mocracy everywhere, he predicted.

Nye Urges
Peace Plan

NEW YORIsS, April 15 (d*P)—‘‘In
times of peace, prepare for peace,’’
Senator Gerald P. Nye told 1,500
Persons at an anti-war banquet at
WNew York, arranged by the Ameri-
ean League Against War and Fas-
eism to commemorate the 20th an-
niversary of the entry of the US
into the World War.

Nye said the objectives for which
the US entered the last war had
been lost and urged a peace pro-
sram for six points: 1) organize
against war; 2) quit the armaments
race by defining defense to that
degree necessary to repulse attack;
3) demilitarize American schools by
abandoning compulsory military
training; 4) take profits out of war
by providing drastic income tax
rates to prevail automatically with
the coming of war; 5) take profits
out of preparation for war by na-
tionalizing munitions industry and
stopping all foreigm trade in muni-
tions of War in bDeace time as well
as in war time; 6) write a neutrality
policy impartial as it may relate
to one and all nations that go to
war, without deception—a policy
to be primarily directed at the de-
struction of opportunity for exercis-
ing the American appetite for prof-
its from other people’s wars.

HEADS MEDICAL BUREAU

NEW YORK (FP)—Prof. Walter
Bradford Cannon, one of the fore-
most physiologists in the U.S. has
been appointed national chairman
of the Medical Bureau of the North
Amerncan Committee to Aid Span-
ish Democracy.

Relief Rate

Beant consideration was given to
the unemployed delegation which
presented a demand for 54 per cent
increase in relief to meet hish cost
of living, at the city hall, Monday.

Absorbed in the task of balanec-
ing the city budget, the full council
meeting decided to adjourn at noon,
but on the insistence of Alderman
Hhurry, Mayor Miller agreed to hear
the delegation.

Alderman R. P. Pettipiece object-
ed to hearing the delezation on the
Sround that the sub-committee ap-
Pointed to report on relief condi-
tions, of which he is chairman, had
been too busy to meet, and sug-
gested a postponement.

Motion of Alderman Wilson thar
the sub-committee meet then and
there carried.

Pettipiece, as chairman, constant-
ly interrupted delesates and once
demanded a written statement on
living costs. At one delegate, whu
said mass pressure was needed on
the city council to produce results,
he snorted:

“We cannot do the impossible.’”

M. Rush To Attend
Youth Congress

Youngs Communist League, an in-
tegral part of the recent Youth
Congress here, is sending Maurice
Rush as its representative to the
Canadian Youth Congress, which
meets in Montreal, May 23-25. A
committee headed by Vi McCrea has
for its objective the raisins of $100
by May 10.

“Maurice Rush is well fitted to
voice the demands of BC youth,”’ a
member of this committee stated
Thursday, “and we urge that solic-
iting sheets now being circulated to

raise funds, be sympatheically re-
eeived.’’

Headquarters is at Room 106,
603 West Hlastines Street.

Public Utilities Bills

Pass In California
SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 15.—
The Pacific Gas & Electric Corp.
and other big utilities corporations
here lost out in the state senate

when, despite heavy lobbying
against them, two bills pro-
viding for issuance of revenue

bonds for acquiring and construct-
ing publicly owned utilities, passed
the upper house and were sent to
ethe assembly.

Fascists Murder

Two Deported Men
NEW YORK, April 15. — (FP) —
Two Spanish trade unionists,
Leonico Martinez and Jose Cayal-
heiro, recently deported by the
Brazilian government to rebel ports,
were murdered on their arrival, ac-
cording to information received by
the American Committee for Pro-
tection of Foreign Born, Thirty
other Spanish and Portuguese anti-
Wascists are held in Sao Paolo
awaiting deportation.

American Volunteers Win

Fame In Madrid Defence

Lincoln Battalion Holds
Line Under Tank
Attack

VALENCIA, Spain, April 15.—
(By Cable to FPP)—The Fascist rout

in Spain which began with the
earlier failure of Franco’s German
troops in the Jarama valley, has

earned fame for the Abraham Lin-
coln battalion of American volun-
teers.

Americans found themselves in
the heat of the Jarama engagement
on February 16. Due to the curving
trench line, the Lincoln battalion
Was exposed lengthwise to sniping
from the highest rebel positions.

On the 21st, the Lincoln battalion
moved up to a key front-line posi-

tion and held the pivot trenches
where the fire was most furious.
The Americans would not budge,

despite bombardment from the air,
artillery shelling and the sheet fire
of 24 machinesuns. Two were killed
and 15 wounded.

On February 23, Americans went
over the top twice under withering
fire, when military operations made
it necessary to alter pivot trenches.
American casualties on that day
were 20 dead and 60 wounded. Prob-
ably no troops in this war faced
heavier fire. On the 27th, the bat-
talion went over the top again, ob-
taining its objectives at the cost of
12 killed and about 20 wounded.

Fighting like veterans now, but
weary, they were given a week's
rest. On March 16, the Americans

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Rebels Destroy
Spanish Co-ops

NEW YORK, April 15.—Co-
operatives are being destroyed
in Fascist-occupied Spain, but
are flourishing in Loyalist Spain,
US Cooperative League an-
nounces. In Cordoba and Gra-
nada provinces, Fascists closed
co-ops, shot technical officials.
“Co-operatives in the Loyalist
section have been delegated in-
creasing responsibility,” the
league announces. ‘The nation-
al food supply committee was
formed and operated on co-op-
erative plans and one member
of the board is a co-operative
representative.”

again distinguished themselves by
their courage and ability to lead and
act under difficulties. The rebels
launched a surprise attack headed
by tanks. The acting American com-
mander raced to staff headquarters
to report, while Machinegun Com-
mander Tomlinson took the situa-
tion in hand. Some dozens of Amer-
icans and Cubans successfully held
the entire line, keeping machine-
Suns playing and hand grenades
flying until reinforcements came

up. Rebel losses were heavy. It was
here that the Lincoln battalion lost
Tomlinson.

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SEY. 448

It is a far ery from the May Day of 1886, with its Haymarket
Martyrs in Chicago—the flower of the American working class,
to the shell-torn fields and cities of Spaim. Yet the link is imdis-
soluable in this fifty years of labor struggle.

The fight for the eight-hour day reached a climax in the
strike of May First, 1886. The Haymarket Square gave its
quota of toilers to the prisons of capitalism, and four of Labor’s
best sons were sent to the gallows in order that the hate and
greed of a growing capitalism might be momentarily appeased.

But the sacrifice gave Labor a mighty victory and a mighty
institutioa—May Day—the day of the toilers, a May Day that
binds the toilers of factory, mill, mine and farm in an unbrealk-
able bond of solidarity, a May Day that cuts across interantional
boundary lines, continents, and seas, and stimulates a deeper
consciousness of brotherhood between all members of a great
world family of toilers.

This May Day of 1937 and throughout the week, we appeal
to the working people of B.C., in cities, towns and on farms,
to rally to the support of our Spanish brothers and sisters, de-
fending their loved ones, their homes, their democratic institu-
tions against the bloodiest scourge the world has ever seen, a
murderous and brutal Fascism.

This May Day we must exert greater efforts on behalf of
Canada’s 1,100,000 men, women and children condemned to
idleness and the humiliation of subsistence on relief.

We must reaffirm our determination as a class, ot see that
work and wages, the prerequisite of a future, is provided to every
worker capable of useful work. For those incapaciated by sick-
ness, accident or malnutrition we must struggle for a maximum
of economic and social security.

For our farm population, harassed by unnatural and un-
necessary social and economic eyils, we must pledge this May
Day as the dawn of a new era of well-being on the farms.

On this May Day of 1937 we must review the iron battalions
of the working class, the trade unions, on parade, in meetings,
in the factories, turning their faces toward the unorganized
workers in a mighty campaign for Bill 62, embodying the Rights
of 1886; the right of an eight-hour day, collective bargaining,
the right to belong to unions of their own choosing, the richt to
penalize employers, individuals and corporations who would
deny to any section of the working class this inalienable right of
organization.

And on this May Day of 1937 a mighty collective united
effort on the part of all toilers, all lovers of democracy, for Peace.
For the preservation of our democratic right to work and strive
for Peace. For the building of a Peace Movement that will
effectively block the war plans of Imperialists, Canada’s breed
included, and for the building of a mighty bulwark against
bloody Fascism.

On this May Day 1937 we must review the gains of labor,
the measure of unity that has been achieved, the greater Unity
that still must be realized.

Our message to the toiling people of British Columbia, to
the fathers, mothers, sons and daughters of the working class
is to rekindle the spirit of 1886 and let the voices of its martyrs
ring down through the years to eyery factory and mine, in every
eity and town. Let their voices speak through ours to the work--
ers of the world.

Workers of the World, Unite — acainst Fascist reaction!

Out on the streets, on May Day!

Marcorm Brucr, Chairman, C.P.of B.C.
Tom Ewen, Acting Secretary.

Pep

Unions Forced Into
Fascist Structure

OSAKA, Japan, April 15.—Simul-
taneously with attempts of govern-
ment authorities to force the lead-
ership of the Japan Seamen’s union
and the New Japan Seamen’s union
to merge their organizations, Osaka

military police called officials of
the two unions to their head-
quarters, instructed them to make

the united union ‘a semi-military
organization so that all the members
can serve as soldiers in case of a
national emergency.”’

Dr. R. Dovetas

Phone Sey. 5577
Corner Richards and Hastings

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Idiot's Delight: Im accordance
With the government’s decree of
July 3, 1936, the Cafe Biland, Blu-
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a position to offer its Suests com-
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and admire our restaurant and tea-
Toom which have been equipped
With alarms and darkening devices.
Air raid drills every night. Anti-
aircraft defense, In case of an
emergency rush down into our ori-
ginal and attractive bomb-vroof cel-
lar-bar. Most extraordinary! The
real thing! (Advt. in a St. Gallen,
Switzerland, newspaper.)

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