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May i4, i937 |

TRIBUTE TO
THE FALLEN

The following stirring tribute

**9 our comrades who fell in
the Great War’ was paid by
A. M. Stephen, noted Canadian
poet and author, provincial
president of the Canadian
League Against War and Fas-
cism, at the cenotaph here on
May Day. In a world menaced
by war, it is a memorable trib-
ute to the fallen from an out-
standing Canadian who himself
fought throughout the war and
now works in the vanguard for
peace.

In paying tribute to our comrades
who fell in the Great War, we re-
eall those years of agony and de-
struction between 1914 and 1918
during which they made the su-
preme sacrifice. We also recall the
fact that in the World War, as in
all wars in human history, the work-
ing class paid the price—fought the
battles and afterwards bore the
burden of depression, of unemploy-
ment and of general misery and
suffering.

In these days of uncertainty,
when war clouds are gathering over
Europe, we do not look forward
with satisfaction to any repetition
of the kind of war in which our
comrades died. We remember that
these, our comrades, died in the
belief that they were fighting a
war to end all wars.

Here, today, we dedicate ourselves
to maintain the peace of the world
for which they gave their lives.
They dreamed too, of a2 world made
safe for democracy. Today, democ-
racy is being attacked by the forces
of reaction and darkness.

Again we pledge ourselves toa
keep bright the ideals of our com-
rades-in-arms who lie buried far
aeross the sea in foreign soil. We
assure them today that they did
not die in vain. We shall preserve,
with our lives if necessary, the
democracy of which they dreamed
and for which they shed their blood
in Pianders Fields.

Books

by Eliot Janeway

THE DANGEROUS SEA—George
Slocombe—Macmillan Co., New
Work, $2.50.

THE ZERG@ HOUR — Richard
Freund—Oxford Press, New York,
$2.50.

Supplementing one another, two
recent studies of world affairs em-
phasize the need for a common
peace policy on the part of the
democracies against the Fascist
states. The Dangerous Sea, by
George Slocombe, a former foreign
correspondent for The London
Daily Herald, British Labor organ,
describes the Mediterranean crisis in
terms of the Ttalian and German
bids for power along its westerm
coast and the British and French
precautions along its eastern shore.

If war spreads from Europe to
Asia or to Africa, it must spread
through the Mediterranean. Slo-
combe’s book, therefore, makes re-
quired reading for those who want
to examine the germs of the coming
world war.

The principal merit of Richard
Freund’s book, The Zero Hour, also
lies in the bird’s-eye view it affords
of political antagonisms the world
over, Nascent nationalism in India
and China are described in terms of
their import upon the es i2ousacd
British power.

Japan Freund seems to hold in
unduly great respect. Whether her
heavy industries are, as he says,
“ready to compete with the older
industrial countries for the eastern
markets’? remains doubtful. Unlike
most surveys of world affairs, the
pook contains a self-explanatory
chapter entitled America in Dry
Dock, in which Freund concludes,

Along Whitehall, past un-

imposing Downing street,
where not long ago its chief
representative deposed a king,
British imperialism this week
rode on parade. In West-
minster Abbey, whose very
stones are pregnant with his-
tory, George VI was solemnly
declared, “King of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland
and of the British Dominions
beyond the seas, Defender of
the Faith, Hmperor of India,”
amid all the pageantry of a
bygone day.

Hundreds of thousands saw the
Coronation parade, cheered them-
selves hoarse as a tired-looking man
approaching middle age, undistin-
guished save for the fact he was
born a Windsor, rode by with the
peers, the: politicians and the

with indisputable evidence on his
side, that “economic forces may well
drive the Wnited States once more

potentates.

And in the cities of the Empire,
in Sydney, Wellington and Cape
Town; in Toronto, Winnipee and
Vancouver, hundreds of thousands
more, deprived of seeing the King
in person, but partially compensated
by the appearance of imperialism’s
local representatives (with pageantry
in proportion) likewise paid homage
to a colorful tradition.

And if some, the momentary emo-
tional stimulation past, sentimental
regard for tradition satisfied, return-
ed to cope with the problems of se-
curing a living feeling a sense of
unreality, who shall say they were
wrong? Perhaps it was unreal.

If some, away from the mass en-
thusiasm engendered by gaudy trap-
pings and patriotic airs, felt that
somehow the scenes they had wit-
nessed were out of place in the
twentieth century, that they belons-
ed instead in the pages of history,
who shall say these things belong
to the present?

The truth is that the British mon-
archy, once so endowed with auth-
ority, in the weaving of whose
legend so many have died, stands
before the world today, devoid of
meaning, stripped of power.

The pomp and pageantry Sur-
rounding it have lost none of their
propaganda value. But they con-
stitute only a gorgeous shell for the
dust of the legend within—the dust
of centuries wherein may be found
the footprints of Britain’s real rulers,
the directors of the Bank of Eneg-
jand and the financiers, the muni-
tions makers and the big industrial-

ists and the Conservative party
Jeaders who serve them, for the
nonce, as a democratic front. These

are the men who have ground the
power of Britain’s monarchy to dust,
the while they cynically wave its
trappings before the people.

Will the King, “the chosen of the
people,” represent the interests of
the people against the monopolistic
interests of the few who exploited

into international activity.’ All
friends of the peace movement in
Canada will do well to read The Zero
Hour. Freund has been forced to
emigrate first from Austria, the land
of his birth, and then from Ger-
many.

The Next Crisis

War and extensive war prepara-

“tions will continue to play a part in

stimulating demand for commodi-
ties. But the skyrocketing prices
that result from the feverish arma-
ment demand are a sure sign of
trouble ahead.

A general war would throw all
economic predictions out of focus.
But unless there is some sharp
change .in the present economic set-
up there is every reason to believe
that 1987 will see Great Britain and
probably alsa the United States
slipping helplessly into the morass
of the next depression.—Scott Near-
ing, writing on “The Coming
Slump.”’

“The boss must ride horses.”
“No, just the staff.”

the people yesterday, exploit them
today and who, circumstances per-
mitting, will exploit them still fur-
ther tomorrow—the few who even
exploit the monarchy itself to bol-
ster their hold upon the masses?

To these men the Coronation is
more than the mere ceremony of
initiating a new titular head for the
British Empire. It is also an oppor-
tunity for them to discuss with im-
perialists from the Dominions and
elsewhere how best they can consoli-
date their hold and extend it.

The King will not oppose these
interests. He will act on the advice
of his ministers who are, for the
present, at least, only the spokes-
men for the big interests who placed
them in power; the same spokesmen
who, with the aid of the elaborate
propaganda machine directed by big
business, recently demonstrated
quite conclusively who are the real
rulers of Britain.

If the King represents the inter-
ests of the ruling class of Britain,
then his discussions with his minis-
ters will not be centred around the
question of what course to follow,
but rather around the question of
how best to follow it. If he does
not represent the ruling class, if his
sympathies incline to the people, if,
as some members of the ruling class
have already hinted, he is not con-
sidered eminently suitable for the
exalted position he holds, then’ there
is always the memory of a king in
exile before both the throne and the
powers behind it.

Recently, in San Francisco, Lord
Marley, Socialist peer and chief
Labor whip in the House of Lords,
for long a navy officer and erst-
while gentleman-in-waiting to King
George V, asserted:

“Kine Hdward showed great in-
terest in the poverty-stricken condi-
tion of the workers. The government
felt that this was a criticism of their
jnaction in this matter. Therefore
they simply made use of the Mrs.
Simpson episode as a reason to force
his abdiction-

“The eovernment feared there
might be a falling off in popular
support of the Coronation, so they
adopted a plan of having more sol-
diers, more military bands, bigger
and better decorations. . As for
my American friends, I don’t de-
sire to see them overcharged for
seats to view the Coronation pro-
cession, overcharged for hotels and
generally exploited. My advice is:
Stay at home or go later, when you
will find normal conditions and see

the English people at their best.”

Behind Coronation Scenes

Behind the Coronation mask it has been forced to don is the
face of the real Britain — the voices of men, women and children
crying out tor economic justice and social rights, says this writer.

Tourists agencies, steamship lines,
hotels and all those who stand to
benefit from Coronation celebra-
tions, who are reaping a rich har-
vest from their commercialization of
a British tradition, are placing the
blame chiefly on Lord Marley for
the number of cancelled reservations
and the consequent decrease in their
profits.

Even so, the exorbitant prices
charged, the exploitation rampant,
have led Sir Stafford Cripps, head
of the militant Socialist League, to
characterize the Coronation as “‘one
of the most bare-faced rackets of
our times.”

*

All the elaborate propoganda of
the capitalist press, the sickly sen-
timentality, the appeals to patriot-
ism, of which Canada has had her
full share, cannot conceal the ob-
vious fact that the British people
are far from satisfied.

Flags cannot hide the poverty and
misery of the “depressed” areas.
Medals cannot compensate children
suffering from malnutrition for the
things denied them. The lavish ex-
penditure on the Coronation is cold
consolation to the millions who must
strugele to obtain even sufficient to
feed themselves and their children.

To those thousands of workers en-
gaged directly or indirectly in cater-
ing to the tourist trade, the Cor-
onation and its aftermath mean only
long hours worked at top speed.
There will be no respite for store
clerks, for hotel and restaurant
employees. Weither will there be
any increase in wages for them ,un-
less they strike and demand them,
nor any dividends on the huge prof-
its earned.

by Harold Griffin

Byvery attempt is being made to
show an untroubled surface to the
millions of overseas visitors, but all
indications are that this endeavor to
impress the world with Britain’s con-
tentment under the ‘benevolent’
national government, this blatant
effort at mass hypocrisy, will not
succeed.

Reactionary leaders of the British
Labor party attended the Corona-
tion ceremonies wearing dark lounge
suits, “to the disgust of the tradi-
tionalists,’”’ but the rank and file
members have not been deceived.

Here are two resolutions passed,
the first by Grimsby trades council,
the second by Neath trades council
and Labor party. They are typical
of hundreds of similar resolutions
that have swollen Sir Walter Cit-
rine’s mail in the past few weeks.

(1) “That the invitation to view
the Coronation received from the sec-
retary of the TUC be placed in the
waste-paper basket and that Sir
Walter Gitrine be notified accord-
ingly.”’

@) “That it would be more in
keeping for the TUC leaders to
direct their attention to working
class activities and less to the pomp,
ceremony and hypocrisy of the Cor-
onation.”’

The London bus strike, in itself
a portent of spreading economic un-
rest, has received considerable pub-
licity. Such incidents as the sing-
ing of the Internationale by a group
of workmen at Westminster Abbey
when the King inspected new build-
ing there have not been given such
publicity. but are none-the-less dis-
turbing to Britain’s ruling class
which sees in them an indication of
public feeling that not all the cheer-
ing and the flag-waying can sloss
over, presaging important. political
developments in the near future. ~

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Behind the Coronation mask it
has been forced to don is the face
of the real Britain—a hungry, lean
face scarred by the war, bleeding
yet from the hurt it suffered in the
erisis. Drowned by the cheering
and the blare of military bands are
the voices of men, women and chil-
dren crying out for economic jus-
tice and social rights. Behind the
mummery and pomp are the gather-
ine forces of the people, uniting at
long last under proven leadership
to secure those rights.

The crowning of George Vi will
prove to be only an incident in the
progress of the British people to-
ward a full realization of all that is
implied by British democracy.

Here and There

IN A WOMAN’S WORLD

By VICTORIA POST

A N ITEM in the news this week which should not be allowed to pass without com-
ston, of the first convention of ladies’ aux-

This convention, called under the auspices
marks another milestone in the course of

ment is the holding at Raymond, Washin
jliaries of unions affiliated with the AF of L.
of the Council of Women of Organized Labor,

trade unionism.

The majority
came from the states of Washington
and Oregon, but there were two dele-
gates from British Columbia—Mrs.
Macnab and Mrs. Muriel Bradley of
Tuocal 171, United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners.

An executive board of twenty was
elected by the 200-odd delegates at-
tending the convention, and Mrs.
Bradley wil] represent BC on this
board.

Among resolutions endorsed was
one presented by the BC delegates,
appealing for financial support to
enable the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners to put or-
ganizers in the field.

Plans will be laid next month for
the second convention to be held at
Tacoma in November.

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4 eee story of the children of Bil-

bao is one which tears at every
woman's heart, especially mothers
who know what it means to little
ones to be parted from the one
around whom their whole world re-
volves.

These children left behind the
loving guidance and care which can
only be given by a mother, but they

have also left behind some of the
horrors of war, the terrible crush-
ing fear of being trapped in the
hands of enemies, and the terror of
death from the skies, pouring on
them like a bolt from the blue.

They will grow up to remember
with bitterness what Fascism has
done for their mothers and fathers,
and will fight for the rest of their
lives to free their brothers and sis-
ters from the toils of this menace
to civilization

But they will also have an oppor-
tunity of learning in a realistic
manner what life under a progres-
sive democratic state means to hu-
manity. France has received these
lonely little refugees with open
arms, given them an opportunity to
find a home and start life with a
new perspective. We all know what
would have happened had these
wilchildren been left in Bilbao, but
it is nothing to what will ee se

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God Save the
King!

It looks to us as though those
who sing God Save the Kinz so
lustily are really leaving the job to

God and doing nothing about it
themselves.
For when His Majesty goes for

his pay envelope every Friday morn-
ing, what does he find in it? $38,-
942.30. That's all. There isn’t any
more. There used to be. But the
boss has lopped off a cool $5,769
weeky. You kick “when you're cut
$1 a week. How do you think the
Kine is feeling with a cut like that
—especially with the cost of living
the way it is in Emgland.

True, Her Majesty gets $6,731 and
the Princess Blizabeth something in
addition. But in her case the sum is
so small it can’t be divided on a2
weekly basis but is paid out in a
lump sum annually: $29,000. But it
is leaning too heavily on traditional
Scottish thrift to think that this
compensates for the wrong done
His Majesty.

God Save the King—clearly he is
getting too little to saye himself.
Daily Clarion, Toronto.

CHILDREN TO
RAISE FUNDS
FOR ORPHANS

Interesting of Canadian children
in the Spanish people’s fateful
struggle against international Fas-
cism, by acquaintinge them with
Spanish customs and history and in
this way winning their support, has
been undertaken by anti-Wascist
groups throughout the Dominion.

Twelve junior sections of Cana-
dian parent organizations through-
out Ganada are cooperating with the
Youth Committee to Aid Spanish
Democracy to equip a children’s
home for 50 Spanish orphans.

Girls and boys.in Toronto have
undertaken to raise $500 to provide
shelter for 25 children. One group
has pledged to raise enough money
for beds, another will buy equip-
ment for a playground, still another
for soap and tooth brushes.

All kinds of children are planning
affairs to raise money for these
purposes. Musical groups are pre-
paring for Spanish Nights, handi-
eraft groups are making dolls in
Spanish costumes for sale, Valencia
oranges, home-made candies and
cookies will be sold on Spain days.

Building of a model Spanish chil-
dren’s home by scores of children’s
groups is an outstanding feature
which will at once arouse interest
in the history, culture and welfare
of the boys and girls in war-torn
Spain.

Details of the qonaseil model
home are being sent to many sym-
pathetic sponsoring organizations to
obtain their cooperation.

HUGE INDIAN
MURAL IS US
PWA PROJECT

if Wascism is able to gain control
in Spain?

Still more, what will happen to
our own children in the near future
if the tide of Fascism is not stem-
med now before it overflows the
world?

* ¥* *
VEN nowadays, the children of
Canada are being bombarded
with pro-Fascist propaganda in the
“funnies” and thus, right from the
start, they are inculeated with ideas
which tend away from progress.

I am thinking particularly of two
funnies, “Little Orphan Annie” and
“Tarzan.” One of the characters in
the former states that he never
pays his workers any wages, it is
their happiness and privilege to
work for him. They don’t need any-
thing in life except the ability to
jabor. The cartoonist omitted, na-
turally, to show how much the
profiteer gained by such labor.

Tarzan is on a rescue expedition—
rushing to the aid of a treasure
hunter, who goes into unknown
dangers regardless of the lives and
welfare of his slaves, to get more
money to keep up the fight against
the working class.

Most of these funnies contain
very subtle propaganda, and the
youngsters take it al] in their

stride. Every mother should be wise
to these ideas and make every effort
to explain to the kiddies the full im-
port of what they read.
* ** *
HILDREWN are very much in the
news nowadays, and women are
realizing more every day the im-
portance of early training and com-
plete understanding of the child’s
nature.

Pre-school nurseries are being set
up in various cities, and we should
not rest until they”~ are set up in
every locality. These nurseries are
the answer to a working woman’s
prayer; they give her an opportunity
to carry on- her own work without

nervous exhaustion caused by
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Above all, they provide the children
with the individua] care and train-
ing which is so essential for proper
development.

A busy mother with two or three
young children has no time to sit
down and figure out why one of
her children is apparently more in-
telligent than another, or why one

appears to be selfish and takes
everything away from his younger
brother. Possibly the latter prob-

lem is answered by the fact that

Johnny is told often that Billy is }

smarter than he is, and Johnny
feels that he is loved by no-one,
so takes what he can get to try and
make up for his loneliness

Another problem is diet. In these
days of high prices and low wages,

it is difficult to give the kiddies in-

teresting food. The main thing is
not to let them get any suggestion
or hint that they might not like the
food you put before them; rather say
how nice it is and how much you
like it yourself.

When I was
hearing someone say,

a kid, I remember

animal,” and ever since then I have
never been able to reconcile myself

to eating such things as liver or

kidneys.

Childish impressions are

“T never eat
anything that comes from inside an

very
strong, and this point should always
be kept in mind when explaining

A full-blooded Ute Indian from
eastern Utah, Julius Twohy, is paint-
ing a gigantic mural on the 72-foot
long dining room wall at the Ta-
coma United States Hospital for In-
dians. He uses the picture lan-
guage of his ancestors.

Twohy has finished the drawing
of his native symbols — birds, men,
eanoes, tepees, lightning and rain-
storms—in heavy black outline. Fill-
ing in the figures with brilliant red,
blue, yellow and red-brown has be-
gun.

When completed, the huge yall
Will appear in massive form like the
famed bead work with which an-
eestors of the artist decorated their
bags and leather clothing.

To one wuno reads Indian lore,
Twohy’s painting tells in its march
across the wall the legend of the
Thunder Bird and its flight across
the mountains and plains from the
Pacific Northwest to the Great
Lakes.

Using the signs his father taught
him, Twohy has painted upon the
wall for the education of future In-
dian ‘children the laws laid down by
the Thunder Bird in its flight. In a
few places where traditional picture
language was lacking he invented
figures of his own.

This mural being

the only one of

painted in Ta-
coma is a WPA enterprise, and is
its kind in the

SOVIET OPENS
GREAT CANAL

It was a great occasion for
Moscow and the Soviet Union
at the opening of the Moscow-
Volga canal. Moscow became
a seaport, and a vast internal
waterway of tremendous im-
portance to the USSR was
opened up.

The new canal links the Baltic
and White seas on the north with
the Caspian sea on the south. Now
the timber of the north, the grain,
iron and steel of the south, and the
manufactured products of Moscow,
Leningrad and other cities can all
be interchanged by waterway. The
rich Jands of the Ukraine, acces-
sible now by another mode of trans-
portation to the north and south of
the Soviet Union, will become even
more valuable than before.

A flotilla of motor ships, led by
the Joseph Stalin, came up to the
Jandine stage in Moscow the open-
ing day of the canal.

At the same time the motor ships
landed at the Khimka river station
on the Moscow river, five other
sloops started on the canal to the
Volga river where they will sepa-
rate, going to each of the five seas
—the White, Baltic, Caspian, Azov
and Black. Two of the boats will be
earried overland by trucks to the
Don river which will connect them
with the Azoy and Black seas. A
canal has already been surveyed be-
tween the Volga and the Don,
which eventually will link Moscow,
through the Black sea, with the
Mediterranean.

The Moscow-Volega canal, al-
theugh not involving as much ex-
cavation as the Panama canal, is
greater in some ways. It is used
not only for a waterway, but has
immense power plants to generate
electricity. It will furnish a large
part of the water for Moscow’s pop-
ulation. From an architectural
Standpoint, it is a thing of beauty.
Like the Moscow subway, every
station on the canal is built dif-
ferently.

Science

Testing Berries

Before a cranberry is shipped it
must be tested for market fitness by
bouncing over a barrier. Decayed
cranberries will not bounce when
dropped a short distance. All grad-
ing is done by machinery and ber-
ries are given three or four chances
to pass the barrier.

Problems faced by agricultural
specialists is how to retain this
quality of bouncing in cranberries

after they have been in storage
from two to four months. Heaviest
demand comes between Thanks-
Sivins and Ghristmas.

After testing berries at various
temperatures, scientists have deter-
mined that they keep their color
best and deteriorate Iess at 36 de-
grees faht.

EMBASSY WARNS PUBLIC

WASHINGTON.—(#P)—The “Am-
erican GO FN EELS fer Spanish Re-
lief’ is ‘‘absoultely identified with
the cause represented by the rebels
in Spain,” the Spanish enbassy
Warned American sympathizers of
the Spanish republic who might be
misled by the name.

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