Sage Four Pm OP LE @S AD Vy OCA Ts Fascist Spy Ring In US Aids Rebels A secret letter to Dr. Eduardo Aunos, ring chieftain and minister under the Primo de Rivera dictator- ship, showed that a seven-man Junta directed the activities on 2 world-wide scale. The Junta is composed of “‘terri- May 21, 1937 REEVE BVHESBTHESB BSE BSEse Be Ve se sees NAZI AGENTS IN US Fight FOR LEADERSHIP SeSESSSSESBSe res BesBetvrseseds=u For a long time now, Nazis POLICE POSE AS | Agents Of — | PEOPLE'S FRONT LE SBmenaorBweawexnresrer nse seeBeBnsve=er=sé With mass opposition to the Chamber of Commerce is a base for the illeral, anti-democratic ac- tivity of the Fascist spies. The spy ring is headed by former Spanish Ambassador Juan Francisco de Cardenas. and includes Manuel Diaz and Marcelino Garcia, steam- children: 484 Hotchkiss machine suns. 3,000 Marine machine guns. 15,000 machime gun barrels. 10,000 barrels for light automa- tic Browning machine guns. 1,600 machine gun tripods. A congressional] investigation of a foreign espionage ring working on behalf of the Spanish Fascists is being pressed by Sen. Gerald Nye (Rep. ND) and Rep. John T. Bernard (Farmer-Labor, Minn.) as a result of the startling expose made by Harry Raymond in the Daily Worker, New York. in the US have held armed Photostatic of letters written by | of Yucatan to prevent Spanish | ship operators, with offices at 17 30 loading machines. torial chiefs” who have divided | Nazi regime rapidly growing, drills, ushered at mass meet- Bee oe soca Dera am the | ships from transporting food and | Battery Place, New York. 6,000 ammunition belts. OFOnS) eG Foes eee Fg _|mew ¢terroristic methods ings sported uniforms, sung Daily EES DEoaS ERNE EOS) clothes and medical supplies to Harry Raymond, Daily Worker 10,000 extractors. ene EES oy Beat have been adopted by the Ge- 2 ? tion supplied by spies in the US led! the Spanish people. staff writer, in a sensational series 3,000 handles and parts, com- Britain, one for France, Belsium 5 oR ¥, 2 “ij the Horst Wessel song, and to interception and capture by a Has conspired in New York | of articles, gives names, dates,| plete and incomplete. and Switzerland, one for Germany, |Stapo, Hitler’s secret police, =f have advised German-Ameri-| Fascist warship of the Mar Canta-| City to violate the American | Dlaces—facts proving beyond any) — 5,000 wrenches. Holland and the Scandinavian coun-|ijn an attempt to prevent Ger- y cans to enlist in the National | Price camryine food, clothing and| neutrality navs. shadow of a doubt that his state- 3,000 cartridge receivers. tries, one for Italy, and two for the |man anti-Fascists from or- ¢ Crerd medical supplies from supporters in Is using diplomatic passports | ments are true. 50 fons of side plates, slides, { SP2nish frontiers and coastlines: “| Fanizing, writes a German { ; the United States to Loyalists in| which they have no right to hold. Liberal members of Congress,| bolts, rear sights, springs, etc. _ tse Hench (SHy, Olean AS le 2 dent But the opinion has been preva-| Spain. Has set up a spy network | aroused by the expose in the Daily 5,000: serew drivers. implicated in several acts of sabo- | -0rresponcent. i lent that all this anti-American and anti-democratic activity has been the work of comic opera characters, who have periodically appeared on the American scene from nowhere. The origin of the brown network is not nowhere. It is Berlin. Hitler, the midget brunette Nordic, is the chief spinner. His lieutenant, Wil- helm Bohle, “Muhrer of All Germans in Foreign Lands,’ persistently meddles jn the affairs of the US and other democratic countries. It is Bohle'’s job to undermine demo- cratic institutions with the help of Nazi nationals in the United States, Canada, France, Czecho-Slovakia and South America. Wilhelm Bohle’s activity is only reveaiecd when his propogandists and agents begin to purge one an- other in good old Nazi fashion. x One year ago, Walter Kappe, edi- tor of the Deutscher Weckruf, was Wazi No. 1 in the United States. Im February, 1937, Eritz Kuhn and his Nazi troopers threw Kappe out of the Weckruf offices. Gomic opera? No. Why should one Nazi attack another? Fritz Kuhn, German-born, friend of Hut- ler, had strong reasons for wanting Walter Kappe removed. In the presidential election, Kappe backed Lemke. But two weeks be- fore the election, Kuhn arrived in this country and on the adyice of Hitler tried to swing Nazi support to Landon. The brown network split over the issue of American politics. It split again over graft. In July, 1936, Kuhn had sailed for Germany with money collected in the US for the Nazi Winter-help Fund in Ber- lin. The press in Germany ack- nowledged the receipt of $2,300. Kappe'’s Weckruf in New York pub- lished the figure collected as more than $3,000. A series of purges started. Kuhn purged Kappe. But in Chicago, Peter Gissibl, Chicago Nazi No. i, threw Kuhn out of a meeting hall. The brown network began to ex- plode, Nazi members with member- ship books numbered under 200 came down to the offices of the German-language liberal newSPpaper, the Deutsches Volksecho, and left documents proving that American Nazi activities originate in Berlin. * And sure enough, the “Huehrer of All Germans in Foreign lands,” Wilhelm Bohle, decided that the prown network had to be patched up; the Kappes, the Gissibls, the Kuhns had to get reconciled. Bohle sent his emissary, Grotte, to the US. Fritz Kuhn ealled Grotte a “Schweinhund,”” or pig-dog. Grotte was impressed with Kuhn’s strong- arm tactics and before returning to Germany he confirmed Kuhn as Nazi No. 1. Some of us may still feel like laughing. Some of us may tbe dis- posed to drop the matter by think- ine that there is nothing to fear. But the Nazi crushed labor and democracy in Germany. Kuhn is working for Wilhelm Bohle, Goeb- bels and Hitler, to crush free insti- tutions in the US and Canada. Against this brown network, this Fascist international, we must pit our strength and eternal vigilance. WASHINGTON,{FP)—The Wag- mer act decision has spurred the unionization trend in radio. Employ- ers have been making voluntary re- ductions in working hours in what is regarded as an attempt to beat union leaders to the gun. However, employees are carrying on their organization drive despite promises and proposals being offered by radio Its Dangerous Raymond's evidence this Fascist spy ring: Wanted to send “a speedy armed ship” to patrol the Strait The Case shows that| spreading to Vera Cruz, Mexico, and Havana, Cuba. Watched closely the movements of the Mar CGantabrico, Spanish mercy ship which was reported captured by the Franco rebels two months ago. All ships plying between Spanish government ports and North and South America are closely watched and their movements reported. Worker, have presented a resolu- tion calling for an investigation of the facts presented, and Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican, North Dakota, immediately demanded a “searching inyvestigation’’ into the work of the Fascist sples now sery- ing Franco in the United States. Joaquin Sunye, agent for Car- denas, arranged last month to buy the following materials for use For The CIO against Spanish men, women and Simultaneously with the expose in the Daily Worker, of the US spy ring, L’Humanite, French GCommu- nist daily, uncovered the existence of a similar ring in Paris with head- tage, including the bombing of an American ambulance in Marseilles en route to the Loyalists In Spain and the dynamiting of Spanish mer- chant vessels in French ports. quarters at the building of the Daily Herald, Buropean edition of the New York Herald-Tribune. Liberty League mouthpiece in New York. The French disclosures also re- vealed the world-wide ramifications of the spy net-work. The discredited ‘official’ Spanish Raised by CIO leader John IL. Lewis in his address at the 23rd convention of the Inter- a national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union held recently at Atlantic City were the fol- lowing salient points. He de- clared: 1. That the ten ClO unions were suspended “without warrant of the constitution and without legality in law.”” { 2. That since that time “the A.F. of L. has consistently opposed, cri- ticized and denounced the CIO.” 3. That President William Green of the AF ofl had been unwilling to permit even steel, let alone other mass production industries, to be organized on an industrial basis. 4, That steel workers wanted “a modern and progressive labor move- ment that will not subdivide them and weaken their strength.” Masses in motion, moving like rivers; Here a little trickle, there a little well: Raise the stagnant level, make tt move Rising tke rivers, flowing like streams; Cutting through canyons, tunnelling a Racing a rapids, leaping a fall. Here a little backwash, there a swirl of waters; Where's a rushing current, ready to rebel? Rain of new 1deas, rain of workers books, Turn the dried up channels into running brooks. Showering of music, drenching words and song, Pool united efforts, pour until they grow; Fill the people’s spirit, make it overflow. Masses tn motion, merging many gleams, MOVEMENT IN MAY By RUTH ERICKSON Occupy an inlet, join tt to the rest, Clean it out of rubbish, gtve it fuller zest. Rickety bridges, rip apart for rage; Burst the crumbling barriers, rotten with age. along. wall, Masses in motion, tipple of feet, People like waves, flooding the street. Towering commerce, crowding the bed, People—more people—surging ahead! People with banners, catching the light, Rivers of people, roaring their might. Washing the world, washing tt free, Deluging it with humanity. Masses tn motion, clearing the way, Bringing new life into our day. 5. That the CIO has organized a million and a quarter hitherto un- organized workers and 1s now en- tering on what might be termed the second phase of its organizational activities. Regional officers are he- ing set up in the major industrial centers and charters are being is- Here and There IN A WOMAN’S WORLD By VICTORIA POST sued to workers in miscellaneous in- dustries as contrasted with our pol- icy of concentrating for some time our efforts in certain basic mass production industries.” 6. That the CIO has ‘caught the imagination of the American work- man and offers him hope for the future,” at a time when AF of L executives “went about this coun- try whispering to all whom they met that the CIO campaign was 2 failure.” 7. That Green was guilty of “treason to the labor movement’ and “moral turpitude’ for opposing settlement of the General Motors strike with the CIO and by similar tactics in other situations. 8. That peace in the labor move- ment raised the question: “who created war? The C1O did not with- draw from the AF of L.” 9. That with the next economic collapse already being predicted by economists. ‘It is time for labor to organize and do something about it.” AST week Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested that housewives should have an 8-hour working day and re- ceive wages. This idea has aroused a storm of comment all over the United States and is worth thinking about. Why should housewives work 12 and 14 hours a day and not receive wages any more than anyone else? The work they do is the most un- inspiring and discouraging in the world. The moment any part of housework is done, it is immediately undone, and has to be done all over again the next day. Nothing tends to take the joy out of living than having to follow the Same routine of uninteresting jobs day after day. Then again, im- plements wear out and housewives have to manage with worn out tools or makeshifts which do not tend to lighten work or help in efficient planning of the daily round. Salesmen Train For Espionage T IS no wonder that women begin to lose interest in their appear- | ress: it is too much to expect of a woman who works right until bed- time to spend time, when she is just aching for sleep, on creaming ber hands and putting her hair in curl- ers. Women can't stop to take care of themselves when they're at work all day. Wearing rubber gloves may The Nazi German Labor Front has set up schools to train German travelling salesmen and commercial workers in foreign countries how to work efficiently as Nazi spies and agitators. The principal course in the school bears the imposing title of “The needed supper when he arrived? Many men consider when they have worked eight hours they have done their share and are ‘entitled to sit and rest for the evening, forget- ting that their wives have to begin work before them to get the break- fast, and still go on working longs after the men get home; getting supper ready, washing dishes, mend- ing, putting children to bed, and the hundred and one things which have to be done every day. * OMEN are usually referred to as the weaker sex, and yet are often the hardest workers. Life under the present system is a hard SCARCITY OF FOOD BRINGS BUT SLOGANS While Nazi arms’ eosts rise and Hitler sponsors the death-dealing drive against the Basque people, slogans of another sort attain greater and greater prominence in German life. “Wat less fat” is urged daily in papers, newsreels and on display graphs. “Save your coffee srounds,’’ is another slogan showing part of the price the German people are paying travelling salesman as a propagand- be good for hands, but it isn’t good jst of National-Socialist economic for dishes! Many a time I’ve thrown and nhilosophie ideology.” away my gloves and thought I'd sooner have ‘‘dishpan’’ hands than continually break dishes. IN the wages question the fact is that marriage should be a partnership and, if one partner re- To Think Now TOKYO.—(FP)—Under a Japanese law “thought offenders,” those who ceives wages, why shouldn’t the entertain ideas which are considered other? Most Women, if their hus- “dangerous” for the safety of the] bands eam sufficient, receive a state and publie order, will be placed dress allowance which is more or magnates. under protective surveillance. less wages, but in the majority of cases, all money coming into the you poor little billionairess.” family goes out in bare necessities. This doesn’t mean to say that be- cause such is the case now it will Zo on being so. Rather, it shows us that something is wrong basic- ally, and we must do whatever lies in our power to right it. Things are now at such a pitch that even if women do receive a dress allowance I’ve no doubt that they spend it on helping out the budget generally. * CTUALLY, I doubt if any wife or mother would take strict ad- vantage of the eight-hour day. What mother would quit work when the eight hours are up if her daughter wanted the dress she was making for the dance next day, or what wife would quit if her husband were late home from work and Alta. Oil Sands Cover Vast Area All the gold mines in Canada do not contain a fraction of the wealth that can be obtained from a differ- ent type of mine in the northwest- ern section of the province of Al- berta. Ten to fifteen thousand square miles of territory contain this treasure. It consists of a jelly- like petroleum filling the voids in vast deposits of sand, A good deal of the petroleum can be literally equeezed out of the mixture. But the large-scale method to pulverize the sand into a pulpy mass with water and naphtha. The then floats to the surface and can be readily drained off for refining. This oil-bearinge sand can be mined to a depth of over 1000 feet. It is esti- mated that one to two hundred bil- lion barrels of oil are available in is oil for the war plans of Hitler. “Bat fruit preserves instead of butter,” is still another, as the Wazis invent new substitutes and attempt to introduce new sources of cheap vegetable fats to replace what German credit under Nazi-ism can- not procure abroad. Germans are told to eat more fish, because there is less meat. House- wives claim that even such butter as they can obtain is adulterated, that sugar sweetens Jess, that clean- ing materials take the skin off their hands, that starch is hard to get, that cake is poor in quality, and that all of them cost more than formerly. Rare Books In Moscow Library MOSCOW.—In the steel vaults of the Public Library in Moscow named after Lenin lies one of the most valuable collections of manu- seripts in the world, rivalled only by those in the British Museum and the French National Library. Among the most famous of the library's manuscripts are the unique Archangel Gospel, dating back to 1092 and i6th Gentury Annal of Ivan the Terrible, as well as valu- able originals of Pushkin, Gogol and Gorky. MOSCOW —(FP)—The birth ‘rate is much greater than in 1936. In the first quarter this year, 32,632 babies were born, compared with 18,- 246 for the same period last year. Divorees were 61.3% fewer than during the first quarter of 1936. The Concise Oxford Dictionary Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, one, and before we can do any- thing about it, we must get together in our needs, try to discuss them constructively and arrive at some plan of action to right the wrongs. This plan of an eight-hour day With wages for housewives is work- able, but not under eonditions as they stand today. Creches, to look after the children, and communal kitchens are necessary for this plan; in fact, life must be run more or Jess on a hotel system in shifts with regular hours and rates of pay for every worker. Many people think that this system would do away with the family life, but rather it would increase the enjoy- ment of family life by enabling the worker to see more of his home and family, give him an opportunity to appreciate and participate the good things of life, without having to work so hard that he has no time or inclination for recreation. Ape sounds a yery complicated idea, but it is being put into practice in the Soviet Union, where workers are today reaping the bene- fit of their toil, not having to scrape along on mere pittances while the big bosses reap the profits. The So- viet workers have the right to work at the particular job they like best, the right to proper wages and Jeisure time and adequate time off for sickness with pay. Imagine how nice it would be to be able to live without worrying if the next pay cheque were going to be the last; without having to work till you feel like erying with fatigue, and to have the comforting feeling when you are ill that you will be The 5th Column Acts Gen. Queipo de Liano, Span- ish Fascist military leader and one of Franco’s leading aides, broadcast the following mes- sage to the Trotskyites dur- ing their- treacherous attack on the Catalan People’s Front: “We sympathize with you and will help you. Stand fast.” In spite of this open announce- ment of support by a Fascist leader the Trotskyites were put down in Barcelona and the People’s Hront— including all anti-lNascists—carried on the work of defeating Hitler and Mussolini and Franco. During the Barcelona rising the POUM- Trotskyites worked in very elose collaboration with cliques of uncontrolled anarchists among whom are many Hranco spies. The leader of the Catalonian Trotskyites, Andres Win, wrote an article in which he declared that “today it is still possible; tomorrow it will be too late,” and La Batalla, the Trotskyite sheet, demanded “a position of constant mobilization.” Wot content with the provocation in its paper, the central committee of the POUM declared “it is neces- sary to continue and intensify the offensive started.” The Fascist broadcasting station in Lisbon followed the central com- miittee’s statement with a call: “Con- tinue the attack; don’t cease firings.” A search was made of the build- ing in which La Battalla is pub- lished and government authorities found three machine-guns, and many hand grenades. The police arrested 86 Trotskyites. Mundo Obrero, organ of the Com- munist party of Spain, called for the immediate dissolution of the Trotskyite POUM and demanded the immediate expulsion from public organizations of all Trotskyite counter-reyvolutionaries. The Madrid organ of the Social- ist General Workers’ union voiced complete agreement with Mundo Obrero, as does Politica, voice of the Left Republicans. . British Youth Act Is Sought Britain may soon have its own Youth Act. British youth are on the mareh for passage of the Charter of Youth, following conclusion of the third convention of the National Assembly of Youth Organizations here. Similar in principle, if not in de- tail, to the American Youth Act, the Charter demands the raising of the age at which children are permitted to leave school, the abolition of child labor, the end of “dumping”’ of young workers at the age of 20, looked after with no need to worry about bills when you’re well. Such are the joys we can look for- ward to if we get together and fight for them collectively in High Cost of Living Conferences, Women's Aunxiliaries and the like. So let's go to it. Last week also in the Clarion, Alice Cooke gave us the recipe for communal! living, and the completed dish sounds very good to me, does it to you? US Germans Aid Spain Orphans Five hundred refugee children, left homeless by the terrible Ger- man and Italian attacks in the Basque country, will be brought to America by the Committee for Ger- man-American Relief for Spain im order “‘to redeem the honor of Ger- many and the humanitarian tradi- tion of the German people, dese- erated by Hitler's aviators in their massacre of the Catholie civilians of Guernica.” American citizens oft German extraction who comprise the committee are making neces sary arrangements for the trans- portation of 500 little Basque refu- gees to this country. The children are being temporarily quartered in France. Application has been made to the state department for a col- lective visa. 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The Charter pro- posals are similar to the sugges- In January a large number of persons were arrested in a small town north of Berlin. Most of them were past officials and members of the Social Democratic and Commun- ist parties. The arrests were Carried out as follows: The Gestapo first arrested one workman. A few hours after his arrest had become known two Ges- tapo agents went to the home of an- ether anti-Fascist, introduced them- selves as courtiers from Prague, and stated that they were to have visited the man who had just been arrested and to have delivered their anti-Mascist material to him. They produced the material, and asked the second man to take it over, adding that they had had his ad- dress in Prague. > = = In such cases these agents are usually asked to come in, as the matter is too dangerous for discus- sion on the public stairs of a block of lats. If the material were taken over the agents would leave the flat and arrest would follow. If there were any discussion and the anti- Fascist made statements revealing his attitude he was at once arrested by the two visiting officials. At the same time collectors from the Gestapo went to all persons sSus- pected of being opponents of the Nazis and tried to get subscriptions from them for the Spanish “revolu- tionaries,’ the Caballero sovern- ment. If anyone gave a subscrip- tion, or made any statement show- ing sympathy with the Spanish people, arrest usually followed. ae = * In one small district alone more than a hundred families were plunged into misfortune by these methods. They were robbed of their breadwinner, and it was impossible for relatives to do anything for the victims, since there is no justice in present-day Germany, however often the word may be on the lips of the Nazi leaders. The population is aware that these provocative devices are employed only because the government is afraid of the great danger it would run from these anti-Fascists in the event of war. It is therefore do- ing all it can to destroy these peo- ple who want peace and are pre- pared to fight for it. To this end the Oranienbure camp has now been reopened and is actually being ex- tended. TOLEDO. —{FP)—Former Police Set. Lyman G. Dear, admitted Black Legion brigadier-seneral, has been voted a regular police pension of $100 a month by the police board. IT PAYS - .. to relax with a book. Good fiction and used magazines can be had in the followings districts Mes 4 @ BROADWAY WEST The Bock Arcade 3027 Broadway West e@ WEST END A. T. Rowell 420 Rebson Street Largest Stock in Canada @ MAIN STREET A-1i Confectionery 3316 Main Street 2@ VICTORIA ROAD Victoria Magazine tions submitted to the World Youth Congress in Geneva last September. 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