J ie Terrific Bombardment Fails To Break Madrid’s Morale MADRID, Spain, April 29 (By cable to FP)—With the lilac trees in full bloom and the iously desperate, have unleashed a terrific entire war. A new atmosphere pervades the eplaced by an undercurrent of intense hatred people were killed during the week ending April 24 and April 30, 1937 PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE Page Three fronts relatively quiet, city. Somehow the air and determination. Over 100 many hundreds wounded. John L. Lewis Reports CIO Progress WASHINGTON, DG, April 29.— (UNS)—Reviewinge briefly the tre- mendous strides made by the Com- mittee for Industrial Oreanization in recent months, John L. Lewis, chairman of the CIO, told a hundred or more newspaper reporters at his recent press conference here, that 54 agreements covering 330,000 men had now been signed in steel, and that the drives in textiles, shoes, aluminum, oil and other industries are forging ahead. In textiles, the Viscose corpora- fion, employing 20,000 workers in three states has neeotiated an agree- ment with the Textile Workers Organizing Committee: Lewis said, and in the shoe industry, 30,000 Workers in the New England dis- trict are now members of the CIO United Shoe Workers’ Union. Many Unions Want Charters A drive to organize 50,000 alu- minum workers is also Settine un- Ger way, following the conference heid in New Kensington, Pa., re- cently. The American Radio Pelesraphist association is conduct. ing a2 Campaign in the Western Union and FPostal Telesraph> com- panies, and has 3,000 members in 25 locals at the present time, Lewis also announced. Certificates of affiliation for ap- proximately 300 miscellaneous union SToups in varied industries are he- in= prepared at CIO headquarters, and will be issued shortly. Requests fer charters continue to come in from ail over the country, he said, and will be taken up AS Soon as Possible. Answering queries concermine Premier Hepburn’s stand on the auto Strike in Qntario, Lewis said he thought the premier was “un- duly exercised’ and that he was “using up a lot of conversation in an irrational manner.” The decision of the Supreme Court upholding the Weaener Act, merely Sranted recosnition at last to what has lone been conceded academical- ly, Lewis declared. Against Incorporation Questioned on his position on the incorporation of trade unions, Levis explained how such a move could be used against unions in an ex- tremely detrimental way, and give untiriendly employers an additional means to attack Jabor organization, Such as by plantine Spies and pro- vocative agsents inside 4 local to try to induce unsuspecting members to take some action for which the national orsgnization could be held financially responsible. “If the object is to destroy trade unions, they should be incorpo- rated,” Lewis concluded. When asked if it was not true that trade unions in England were incorpo- Tated, Lewis replied emphatically that they were merely registered. The Republican Party and the Bap- Gist church could just as reason- ably be compelled to incorporate as 2 trade union, Lewis said. “GNION” DISCONTINUED . CHICA GO. — (@P) — The Interna- tional Harvest Company, in a letter to its 35,000 employees in 14 plants, announced that the “union’’ was be- ing discontinued and that it was now “for the employees themselves” to decide how they wished to bar- ain with the company. Westing- house Electric Washer ; $5.00 Down $5.00 Monthly val Meikle Electric & Radio Company 1010 DAVIE ST: — SEY. 9025 Driard 1025 West Pender Street (Cor. Burrard) BOY. 448 OTTO LIEN, Prop. i ; Franco’s Fascists, obv Shelling on Madrid—the most ferocious of the of gaiety is gone—r The city’s main streets, crowded afew days ago with people happy in the spring atmosphere, are now al- most empty. Queues still form in front of the movie theatre, but the leisurely pace of even a few days earlier is gone. The ‘success of the loyalist army on several fronts is making people realize that the Fasc- ists are desperate and may do any- thing. Gut the spirit of the people is indescribable—no terror, no fright, just anger. Today I saw a man hit in the Stomach by the debris of a building which had been struck by an 8-inch shell The™poor devil fell to the ground groaning. A crowd gather- ed. A woman bent over crying and shaking her fist in the direction of the Fascist batteries. Im contrast to the city atmos- phere is that which prevails at the front lines. I visited our anti- Bascist volunteers a few days ago. Battalion Commander Hogan said laughingly that life is like a nicnic now, for the Fascists never come out of their trenches. “The last week in Mebruary was pretty bad, but since then our only four casualties were boys getting sunburnt,” he told me. ‘We have to keep reminding ourselves that a war is really going on.” I told the boys of the shelling of Madrid. They cursed and vowed vengeance for the innocent women and children slaughtered. Madrid Hospitals Are Filled. The atmosphere at the American hospital also was vacation-like. The beautiful surroundings, the doctors and nurses say, make it like a sum- mer resort. Ail of this is in horrible contrast for the moment with scenes in Madrid’s hospitals, filled ‘with wounded and dying civilians—women and children many of them. A ii-year-old girl died while be- ing given a blood transfusion the day before I wrote these lines. An T-year-old girl was decapitated in the shelling of the city. These are merely two examples of the Fascist campaisn of horror against civilians. Soldiers in the Casa de Campo trenches can see shells pouring into Madrid, where many of them have Wives, Sisters and children. imagine their feelings, and you will under- Stand why the Fascists are being driven back. The present situation serves to bring out the disgusting and far irom humorous farce of “non-inter- vention.” Every breathing space Siven to the Fascists by interna- tional dilly-dallyine diplomacy means more time to Kill the babes and mothers of Madrid. Everything points to still more horrible shell- ings. The UGT trade union radio sta- tion has just broadcast all over Europe 2 moving statement. An eye-witmess to horrible killings which left pools of blood in the street, said: “You who work at Milan, you at Turin, you at Krupps, at Rheinmetall, in the Saar works, all of you—was yours the hand that helped make that shell that killed your comrade here? Did you share in the making of the shell that blew these women to pieces in the milk queue? ‘This same question 4S was addressed to Italy’s and Ger- many s armament workers may well be addressed to the peoples of demo- cratic countries who permit their Sovernments to withhold lezitimate aid to the Spanish government. By MAXWELL GC. CRANE. (Mederated Press) MADRID, Spain, April 29—(EP) — On the Escorial front the Zov- ernment has adyanced five miles through La Atalava to Las Navas, taking the railway station there. The rebels put up little resistance, and there was no evidence of a sec- ond line of defense. The government is consolidating its recently-taken POSitions on the Jarama and Guad- alajara fronts. On the southern Cordoba front, the government has retaken 150 square miles of ground, bringing the republican army within two miles of the towns of Penarroya and Huanteovejuna, ten miles apart. It is here that a former rebel attack was launched in an attempt to Sain possession of valuable mer- cory Mines in the Almaden district. The rebels are now desperately try- ing to hold Penarroya and Fuen- teovejuna for lead, zinc and coal mines—all useful in the manufac- ture of munitions. On the Aragon front, the fovern- ment has Huesca nearly encircled. A raid resulted in the taking of 160 Prisoners and much war matefial With no losses on the part of the loyalists. TORONTO ARTISTS STRIKE. TORONTO.—(FP)—Toronto artists are learning from their brothers in the auto industry. About 50 com- mercial artists have struck for a minimum weekly salary of $40, a 40- hour week, time and a half for over- time, union recognition and a two- week vacation yearly with pay. DONOVAN Typewriters Send for Catalorue. New & Second Hand Typewriters, Adding Ma- chines, Mimeograph Supplies. 508 W. Pender St. Sey. 9393 US Magnates Are Aiding Franco “ By HARRY RAYMOND. NEW YORIX, NY, April 29. —An American Fascist committee main- taining direct contact with the Span- ish Fascist General Nranco is oper ating today in New York under the Suidance of eight American citi- zens, all prominent in the bankine= and industrial world. The group, which calls itself The American Committee for Spanish Relief, and. has headquarters in the Vanderbilt hotel here, is defin- itely organized to spread anti-demo- eratie propaganda in the WUnited States and bolster financial aid for the battered Fascist armies in Spain. : Basil Harris, vice-president of the International Mercantile Mar- ine, and member of the reactionary Liberty League, is the committee's chairman. Other members of Broup are: Ogden Haeserty Hammond, for- mer ambassador to Spain and vice- president of the First National Bank of Jersey City. Friend of Hitler. Leon Fraser, director of the Gen- eral Electric Company, and friend of Adolph Hitler. Joseph Peter Grace, merchant and shipper, chairman of the board of the W. R. Grace Company. Kelly Graham, president of the First National Bank of Jersey City. Thomas Woodlock, Hitlerite and contributing editor of the Wall Street Journal. : Major General William N. Hask- ell, commander of the New York the Wascist fathers. Athens A nificant demonstrations against the Metaxas dictatorship, sharpened by issues growing out of the Greco- German trade Agreement, have taken place despite severity with which they have been attacked. Leaders of banned political parties, among them former Pre- mier Eleutherios Venizelos, were cheered by 20,000 persons at a requiem mass in Athens Cathedral, who shouted “Down with tyranny! Long live freedom!” Another demonstration occurred when the leader of the Social party, M. Kanellopoluos, was put on a ship for exile to an Aegean island. Wational Guard. Frederick H. Prince Jr., banker. A spokesman for the committee Said the group would be active only in “nationalist” territory, areas held by the Fascist armies in Spain, and Prices have been rising rapidly. Qn oil, bread and olives they have been doubled on account of exports to Germany to pay for armaments, Quality has fallen on the same products for the same reason and that it would collect money in the United States for food and supplies for General Franco. cheap substitutes, even for olive oil, have actually been imported from Germany. Forty Prisoners Shot Without RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 29—Forty men and women, whose only “crime” was membership in the National Liberation alliance, have been executed in the state of Matto Grosso without a trial or hearing, it was revealed here. The report of the execution of 40 members of the Brazilian People's Front was the first and only news that their families haye had since their arrest several months azo. These official murders were car- Tied out under the personal super- vision of Major Ribeiro de Costa. While the Vargas dictatorship at first attempted to deny this pop- ular indignation in Matto Grosso ran so high that the newly-ap- pointed General Pompeu Cayalcanti Was compelled to institute a public investigation which officially con- firmed the executions. Charges against the major, how- ever, were quashed by the special military tribunal which is now try- ing Luis Carlos Prestes, revered Brazilian leader, for alleged deser- tion from the army 12 years ago. N. Dakota Taxes Corporate Income BISMARCK, ND, April 29.—(FP) —North Dakota has an income tax on corporate income, but it took an extra session of the legislature and threats of vetoine= appropriations for state institutions by Governor William Langer to bring conserva- tive senators in line. Even then the tax was reduced from a proposed maximum of 714 per cent on cor- porate incomes over $15,000 to 6 per cent. “You tax farmers out of their homes; you even tax the bread out of their children’s mouths with a sales tax, yet you object to levying a reasonable tax on the net income of corporations whose profits are taken from the patronagse of people en relief,” Senator GC. W. Fine charged. Trial In Brazil Cartoon Artists Press Charges NEW YORK, NY, April 29.— Artists who make the miovie car- toons, Popeye, The Sailor Man and Betty Boop, voted last night to press charges against the Fleischer Studios, Inc., 1600 Broadway, for refusing to bar- gain collectively with the Com- mercial Artists’ and Designers’ Union. Danish Youth To Visit Spain --COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 29.—Youth representatives of the Academic League of Nations asso- ciation, the socialist clarte organ- ization, and other Danish student bodies will leave for the Spanish front lines soon on a mission of investigation. The youths will visit various re- publican institutions as guests of the Spanish students’ federation and will remain in Spain for at least two weeks. On their return to Denmark they will make public reports on the Situation in Spain. Fantastic Charge Made Against Jew BERLIN, Germany, April 29 —On fantastic charges of ‘systematic soiling of the German race,”’ Eugene Blumenthal, a Jew, has been sentenced by the Dusseldorf tribunal to four years’ imprison- ment. In addition to the jail term, he was deprived of citizenship rights for five years. ATHENS, Greece, April 29-—Sig- ~ Greeks Demonstrate In gainst Dictator — Farmer-Labor Bureau Formed WASHINGTON, DC, April 29. —A US national Farmer-Labor Party service bureau has been opened here, with the assistance of Senator Ernest Lundeen, Min- nesota Farmer - Laborite. The bureau will furnish information regarding programs and plat- forms, and lend every possible assistance to those interested in [eee erer party questions. Strike Wave Sweeps Japan TOKYO, Japan, April 29. — Byer Since the February 26 incident of a year ago, strikes have been increas- ing both in number and in number of workers involved. Figures for 1936 show that there were 1919 strikes, an increase of 360 over the preyious year. The terrific burden of taxation, constantly rising prices and extreme intensification of labor are basic causes for this increasing economic unrest, Malayan Coal Miners Strike SINGAPORE, Malaya, April 29.— One striker in the Batu Arane coal mines was killed, several were in- jured and 62 were arrested in a elash with police. Strikers, composed of 2000 Mala- yan and Chinese miners, asked for higher wages. They returned to work when a 10 per cent increase was granted after the clash. Girls Stage First Honolulu Sitdown HONOLULU, Hawaii, April 29.— Honolulu witnessed its first sit-down Sstrikek, when more than 25 girls employed in the American Sanitary Laundry sat down on the lawn and refused to go back to their manegles without an increase in pay. They won their strike. CIM To Campaign On Living Costs MEXICO CITY, DEF, April 29 —ar ter an exhaustive analysis showing that the recent price rises in Mexico are due mainly to upbridled specula- tion and deliberate manipulation on the part of Mexico's monopolists and Capitalist class in general, the Con- federation of Mexican Workers (CTM) will make the strugele against high prices an issue in its May Day demonstrations. MOSCOW .—{FP)—A delegation of Prench surgeons and bacteriologists have been visiting Moscow, con- ferring with Soviet specialists in sur- gery and bacteriology. Canadian, US Industrialists Have Imported New Brand Of Yellow Unionism From Europe An alien plan of organization is¢ being imported into this country, its aim to subvert labor. Company unionism might make some claim, at least, to be Cana- dian, though suckers and slavery. are as old as humanity—and as in- ternational. But the same cannot be said for the new form of “unionism” now that the CIO has company union- ism on the run. In Continental Europe, employ- ers have for decades been fighting organized labor with what are called ‘‘yellow unions.” These are distinct from company ppendere of employers and take in¢ all worsxers in an industry regard- less of the company they work for. They have few real members and low dues, and yet always seem to be well-financed. Their main pur- pose is to undermine the real union, to scab during strikes and gener- ally to promote the employer's in- terests under pretense of independ- ent unionism. Several varieties of yellow union- ism have already shown up in the American steel industry, to take the place of discredited company wun- ions. The “sugar-barrel” union in the Chicago area and the so-called y are in this category. So is the Four ’s in the lumber industry. Yellow unions have also cropped up among longshoremen on the west and Gulf coasts and other industries. Flint Alliance during the Genera] Motors strike was an embryo yellow union, claiming right to bargain collectively with the corporation to embarrass the real union, the Unit- ed Automobile Workers. When put to flight by genuine labor organization, company unions often put on the camouflage of “independent” yellow unionism. La- bor should beware of this alien unions in that they claim to be inde- American Union of Steel Workers importation. | the general upsurge One Million US Students Demonstrate For Peace By MARCUS FEINSTEIN NEW YORK, April 29.—(FP)— “Strike for Peace’’—the cry of 25,- 000 students in 1934, swelling to 175,- 000 in ’35 and to 500,000 in 736, grew into the determined roar of a united youth movement against war, as 1,000,000 high-school and college Students at 900 schools dedicated April 22 for the fourth consecutive year to a nation-wide strike. From youngsters not yet in their ‘teens to youns men and women in their twenties, from Maine to Cali- fornia, from Minnesota to Texas. they marched, demanding “Schools, not Battleships,’ and shouting “War is Hell, Down with War!’ Joined for the first time by Student YM and YWiCA’s and the National Student Federation of America, they were addressed by US Senator Gerald P. Nye at Prince- ton, NJ, by Bishop Francis McCon- nell in New York, by Eddie Cantor, Francis Lederer, and lionel Stander on the west coast, by Erika Mann, daughter ,of the famous writer, Thomas Mann, at Vassar, and by a host of other national figures. In most places, meetings and demon- Strations were held from 11 a.m. until noon. In Minnesota, Farmer-Labor Gov- ermor Elmer A. Benson issued a proclamation designatine April 22 as Peace Day and urged school author- ities to cooperate with students to the utmost. Support Spain In New York, Joseph P. Wash, vice-chairman of the United Student Peace Committee, declared: “Wwe are very gratified that the demonstra- tion showed Over-whelming sym- Pathy for the loyalist government in Spain and recognized that a vic- tory for the loyalists was tied up with keeping America out of war. We feel that the tremendous Student strike this year reflected in the labor movement.’’ Only two small disturbances were reported. A small sroup of So-called “Student Americaneers”’ attempted unsuccessfully to break up an Ohio State University demonsStration, and a Philadelphia magistrate fined three high-school Students $12.50 each for distributing leaflets, dubbed them ‘reyolutionists” and urged that they be “kicked around.” Thousands of the strikers took the American version of the Oxford Oath: “I refuse to support the United States S0vernment in any War it may conduct.” Others ywith- held from the absolute position. Sympathy for the democratically- elected government of Spain was nation-wide and many students went without their lunches. “We fast that Spain may eat,’’ they said. ‘Punished’ For Urging Unity LONDON, England, April 29, — There will be more chairmanships on the London County council for G. R. Strauss, MP, accounted one of LCC Labor TLeader Herbert Morrison’s ablest lieutenants. Strauss, formerly chairman of the Highways committee, vice-chairman of the Finance committee, is to be Punished for supporting the re- cently formed United Front between the IP, the Socialist League and the Communist party which is rapidly gaining popularity. He pointed out that Labor candidates in the recent LGC elections fared best where Comimunists were most active. So he is to be Punished, says the New Leader, IP organ. Shanghai Silk Workers Strike SHANGHAT, China, April 29 — Startins with a strike ealled in ten factories a month ago, the move- ment has spread among Shanghai suk workers until there are now 20,000 workers out, affecting 202 Plants. Not only weavers, but dyers and finishers are out. The ministry of labor has been attemptine to settle the strike. Workers rejected an employers’ offer to raise all wages of less than 18 yuan ($5.36) a month by 15 per cent, claiming that higher § silk Prices permit Sreater salary boosts. ir. Downing, Specialist. di Years’ experience in Perman- ent Waving White,Grey and Fine Hair. AN Downing Beauty Shop 130 W. Hastings St. PHONE - - SEY. 241 Canadian Metal Prices Soaring OTTAWA, Ont., April 29.— (FP)—Back of the red scare Which Qntario’s Premier Mitch- ell Hepburn tries to raise about unionization drives m Canada’s mines are some interesting fig- ures. Canadian metal miners? wages increased 314 per cent from 1933 to 1936. Prices of lead increased 83 per cent, copper 68 per cent, zinc 38 per cent, as- bestos 22 per cent, gold 21 per eent, silver 19 per cent. In some Ontario metal mines wages lately have been increased 40c a day. Protest Ban On US Paper SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 29. —Acting for the Communist Party of California, William Schneider man, state secretary, has sent the following letter to Hon. J. S. BPlliott, postmaster general, Ottawa, Canada, and to Hon. J. &. Iisley, minister of internal revenue, Ottawa, Canada. The letter reads: “We received a letter dated March 9 from the office of Prime Minister McKenzie Kins, regarding protest against the reported barring from the mails of the Western Worker, 2 legal mewspaper of a legally recog- nized political party in the United States. “The letter stated that the pro- test was referred to you. We have waited in yain for a reply, and therefore request information by re- turn mail as to what disposition was made of our protest. “Aidthough we are not too familiar With Canadian laws, we regard this arbitrary action as a violation of democratic rights, smacking of Hit- Jerism, and we demand that the order for the barring of the West- ern Worker from Canada be vre- Scinded.’’ Z The Western Worker was banned by post office officials in Vancou- ver some weeks ago, but, followings protest, copies have since been re- ceived regularly by BC subscribers. Rearmament Boosts Mineral Production CAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 29.—Rearmament has created a de- mand for two of the world’s rarest- minerals, tentalite and columbite. By stranse coincidence, finds of both of these have been struck in Southern Rhodesia. Until recently production of these semi-precious metals did not exceed 10 tons per annum. Now, the market yalue of 58 per cent pure concentrates ig $1500 per ton. 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