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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, May 21, 1937

Silence Over Hedley

HE Big Shots seem to have secured an

agreement between the Liberal and Tory
parties that both will keep quiet about the Hed-
ley Mines swindle. The temptation to take ad-
yantage of the mess for political purposes must
have been very great to the Tory politicians,
but they couldn’t pursue it because big; shot
supporters of the Tory party as well as of the
Liberal party were into it up to their ears
themselves.

Accordingly, the papers of both capitalist
parties have nothing to say about it these days.
Eyerything is hushed up. The arrest of two
men who worked in the mine was made to fur-
nish a sub judice excuse tor putting the lid on.

A progressive government at Victoria would
be in a position to expose more of the dirty work
that went on im the game of fleecing the public.
But a Tory government would shield the fnan-
cial gangsters just as carefully as they were al-
lowed to carry on their erookedness for the last
year and more.

The-Tory Menace

ie the provincial elections of 1933 the people of
B.C. took a stride forward by throwing the
Tory Tolmie gang out of oftice. The great
popular vote for the CCF was further evidence
of the distance travelled by the people.

Pattullo betrayed the people who trusted him
by shamelessly bending to the will of the big
interests. So far had Pattullo, Pearson and
Sloan (when he was in the government) gone
over to open service to reaction that many of
the progressively inclined members and sup-
porters of the Liberal party were, and still are,
in a state of open revolt. Pattullo’s jettisoning
of the Health Insurance Bill at the bidding of
the big interests and the Medical Association
was about the last straw. But Pattullo and
his close associates have the machine, they have
the slush fund, and continue in the Liberal
saddle.

The great danger in this election is that the
people who swept Pattullo into office because of
his Work and Wages and other promises, and
who now feel outraged by the actions of the
Pattullo government will in their disgust turn
to the Tory party with its new falsetace and
demagogic promises.

Big busines with its open shop policy is not
entirely satisfied with a Liberal government,
for there are rebellious elements that Pattullo
finds difficult to control. What the Big Shots
want is a downright reactionary government,
in other words, a Tory government of the iron
heel, one that would staash, even more ruthless-
ly than did Pattullo, all militant unions and
force even more extreme exploitation and sup-
pression upon the people.

The greatest danger facing the people of B.C.
at this time is the Tory partys bid tor power
by a majority in the legislature, or, failing in
that, having a bloc sufficiently strong to be 10
a position to force a coalition with the reac

tionary wing of the Liberal party.

The Tory outfit, with their daggers beneath
the gloves of demagogic pretence, must be
turned back, definitely and conclusively.

Fake Election Issues

HE Tory and Liberal candidates and their

supporters are busy at the old game of
creating false issues in order to confuse the
electors and divert attention trom the real
issues. Lhe annexation of the Yukon, the
pogrom spirit bemg worked up against Orient-
als, chatter about prosperity and the restored
eredit of B.C., these are some of the things they
are trying to interest the people in.

The prosperity that has returned to B.C.
has not returned to the great mass of the people.
The increase in production and trade has not
improved the standard of living of the work
ers; all it means is that the owners of the indus-
tries, most of whom do not live in B.C. at all,
are reaping greater profits to drag out ot the
provinee, further despoiling the natural re-
sources and impoverishing the people.

As a matter of cold fact, the upturn in in-
Instry has lowered the standard of living of
the workers, because of the increased and still
increasing cost of living without a correspond-
ing rise in wages to meet it, which means
that real wages have fallen.

The cost of having restored the eredit of the
province simply means that the bondholders and
absentee owners of industry are assured that
they will get thei cut before the elementary
needs of the people are satisfied, that their in-
comes will not be further taxed and the com-
mon people will be compelled to continue carry-
ing the grievous tax burden.

What the workers, farmers and small busi-
ness men need is increased purchasing power
which calls for higher wages, greater returns
for primary products, and a lightening of the
load of taxation which is erushing the people
of our province.

Tn order to gain this merease of purchasing
power, it is necessary to have trade union organ-
ization. And in no province in Canada is gen-

wine unionism fought against as viciously and
as persistently as in B.C. Im this province
company unionism is forced down the throats
of workers, while company towns are permitted
to exist and flourish, controlling socially, econ-
omically and politically, the lives of the hapless
workers and preventing them exercising the ele
mentary and democratic right te organize into
unions of their own design, selection and
choosing.

The Pattullo government has been the plant
tool of the Shipping Federation, the mining
companies and the lumber barons in smashing
unions. The murderous attack upon the Cor-
bin miners, their wives and children; the use
of provincial police against the slave eamp
strikers, and in the waterfront strike of 1935;
the intimidation of lumber workers in the log
ging camps by provincial police; the diatribes
of Pearson against the Project Workers because
they dared to organize into a union—these and
other acts of the Pattullo government show con-
stant yielding to the pressure of big business.

The workers must once and for all put a
stop to the advance of reaction. Demoeratic
and civil rights, which have been abrogated,
must be restored. The immediate step to this
end is the election of Communist, Progressive,
C.G.F. and Labor candidates, who will fight to
secure progressive labor and social legislation
and hamstring reaction in the legislative
assembly.

No Support tor Whitham

N the struggle of the Communist Party to
form a united front with the CCF, the argu-
ment often used was that the Communists were
not sincere. Hyents, however, have abundantly
showed that they were sincere.

Tt is a regrettable fact that in North Van-
couver a delegation of Communists who visited
CCF headquarters to offer support in the cam-
paign met with insults and refusal of their prof-
tered assistance.

On top of that, the reactionary elements in the
CCF in North Vancouver are circulating a slan-
derous statement to the effect that the Commu-
nist Party is secretly opposing the CCF eandi-
date in that riding and is behind the candida-
ture of the alleged Socialist Whitham.

The Communist Party is not responsible for
nor does it support Whitham, who is a splitter
of the progressive vote, a stooge in the field for
no purpose other than that; and it ill becomes
members of the CCF campaign committee to
resort to slander in order to cover up their own
anti-unity position.

A Trotskyist Howl

ROTSKYISTS who machined themselves
into nominations under the CCF banner
affect to be surprised at the refusal of halls to
them by mass working-class organizations such
as the U-L.F.T.A. and the Canadian Labor De-

fense league.

Workine-class organizations the world over
are taking the same stand against these anti
working class elements. And the CCF ofticials
have had repeated notification that the Commu-
nists and all other honest, wideawake people
would in no circumstances tolerate, much less
endorse, Trotskyists whether they drape them-
selves in thé garments of the CCF or in the
tattered rags of the counter-reyolutionary, pro-
fascist scum that they are.

Trotskyism does not represent any tendency
or wing of the labor or progressive movement,
it is against progress, and the unity that can
effect it, at all times and everywhere. That
Trotskyites have wormed their way into the
CGF, even occupy prominent positions and, ip a
few instances, have secured nominations in the
provincial elections, is a stain upon the CCF
which should be wiped out by open repudiation
of them and their expulsion from the party.

The bitterest enemies of unity of anti-capi-
talist forces, the Trotskyists, were sheltered and
protected in the GCF by anti-unity leaders in
order, through the unholy alliance, to resist the
demand for unity that was becoming more power

ful and insistent within the CCF.

The halls referred to were rented in good faith
to the CCF as a working-class political party,
but when it was learned that the individuals
who were to use the hall were Trotskyists who
had wormed their way into the CCF, the agree-
ment was cancelled. Im this case it is nonsense
or worse to talk about ‘“‘free speech” in the ab-
stract. There can be no free speech for Trotsky-
ists any more than for other fascist elements.

Every facility should be provided OOF eandi-
dates with the exception of the Trotskyists who
should have been thrown out of the CCF long
ago. And if the CCF takes up the cudgels for
them it will only further tie the party to Trotsky-
ism and discredit the whole movement.

Health Insurance

HE Health Insurance legislation introduced

into the last provincial legislature by Hon.
Mr. Weir, although unsatisfactory in many re
spects, nevertheless was good social legislation
in principle and a step in the right direction.

Opposition and pressure from big corpora-
tions and the organized doctors was strong
enough to cause the government to suspend op-
erations of the Act and refer the matter to the
people by plebiscite on June 1.

The people should vote “Yes” on this ques-
tion, though it is put in general terms. Once
established, the law can be amended so as to
make it include all indigents and those for whom
such a measure is supposed to serve.

The best euarantee that improvements by
amendment can be made is to send the strongest
possible group of progressives into the next

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Spain Calls Britis

May 21, 193%

h Columbia

By TOM EWEN

Spain is still bleeding!

The Fascist barbarians of
Mussolini, Hitler and Franco
still pursue their murderous
raids upon a democratic peo-
ple. Villagers and towns=
people, defenceless women and
little children are murdered
in cold blood by the aerial vul-
tures of Fascism.

Daily we read of these raids con-
ducted with a systematic callous-
ness that is almost inhuman.
Madrid—Bilbao—death and de-
struction. The Four Horsemen—
Hunger, Fascism, War and Death,
ride roughshod over the people of
Spain, while we in British Colum-
bia seek refuge in our isolation and
democratie sense of security.

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Imperial Britain, under the jead
of the Baldwin national povern-
ment, gives aid and moral support,
to Mussolini, Hitler and Franco in
their ruthless attempts to subjugate
the Spanish people and place upon
them the yoke of Fascism. a

The blockade and non-interven-
tion pact—hypocritically paraded as
an aid to the Spanish people—in
actuality are helping the Fascists.
International law and the covenant
of the League of Nations are
cynically set aside under the pre-
text of averting war and Fascism
is permitted to proceed unhamper-
ed with its program of devastation.

The Foreign Enlistment Act of
the Mackenzie King government is
indicative of the extent to which
Ganada is still tied to the apron
strings of British foreign policy.
And British foreign policy in the
Spanish war against Fascism un-
dertakes to assure a victory for
Fascism.

Indignation of the great masses
of the British people and of the
whole peace-loving peoples of the
world is breaking through this Im-
perial ring of steel and hypocrisy
to bring aid to the heroic Spanish
people. The International Brigade
is a symbol of this worldwide sup-
port of the fight for peace and
democracy. Here, in these men of
many nationalities, are enshrined
the hopes and aspirations of all
humanity—to live in democratic
neighborliness and peace.

*
Four hundred Canadian boys
are in this International Brigade
—Communist, CCF, Liberal, Non-

Spain Week (

May 3sO-
June D

Partisan, Catholic, Gentile and
Jew—fighting shoulder to shoul-
der against the bloodiest scourge
the world has ever known. Al-
ready many of these Canadians
have paid the supreme sacrifice
on Spanish soil in order that
democracy and freedom may pre-
yail in the world—in their own
lands. ;

They—with the Blood Trans-
fusion unit under Dr. Norman
Bethune—ceall upon you in British
Golumbia to give greater aid to
them, and to Spain. More Canadian
medical units must be organized to
save life in Spain and more of Can-
ada’s sons must go to Spain to halt
the wanton destruction of life.

*

When the British skippers ran
their freighters laden with food
supplies for the brave Basque de-
fenders of Bilbao into port— right
under the guns of the allied fleets
of Imperialism—they wrote a
deathless page in British history,
the Britain of the working class.
They symbolized the granite hard
truth uttered by Joseph Stalin in
his message to the central commit-
tee of the © Pof Spain

“The liberation of Spain from the
yoke of the Fascist reactionaries is
not the private affair of the Span-
jards, but the common cause of all
advanced and progressive human-
ity

Let this message echo in very
town and hamlet of British Col-
umbia. Deep in the mines and
in the logging camps. Out on the
fishing grounds and far . back
into the hinterland

Spain is our business. Spain is
our fight. British Columbia will
stand by its sons on the fighting
line of democracy.

*

From May 30 to June 9 let Brit-
ish Columbia, with the rest of Can-
ada, institute a Spanish week A
week of active mobilization in aid
of Spain. Trade unions; language,
cultural and peace organizations;
church people and professional
groups of all kinds; farm organiza-
tions. All should concentrate during
this period on a real drive in aid of
Spain.

Organize mass

meetings, tag

days, special services in church,
demonstrations in school by the
children in support of their little
comrades in Spain ,menaced now by
Fascist bombs. Make it a real
British Columbia Spanish Week.

Spanish Aid commiuitees should
be set up in every community to
help in the organization of a second
medical unit to Spain and to assist
the Bethune unit with money and
medical supplies. To assist in the
mobilization of humane opinion
that will smash through the im-
perialist blockade and bring food,
clothing, medicine and medical sup-
plies to the Spanish people. A
drive in aid of Spain that will halt
the shipment of armaments direct
or indirect from Canada to the
Fascist governments of Japan,
Italy, Germany and the Spanish
rebels.

Make this week of May 30-
June 9 a week of mobilization in
defense of Spanish democracy to
the end that our own democracy
may live.

Talk Spain! aie the needs of
the people of Spain and the serious
international complications a topic
of conversation with your friends.

Act for Spain! Bring the peace-
loving people of your neighborhood
together and form committees to
work with and through a mighty
movement to aid Spanish democ-
racy.

Give until it hurts! Because it
Can never hurt so much as the
body of a little child mangled by a
Fascist bomb. Your dimes trans-
formed into medicine and blood
transfusion may Save the life of
a Spanish child or a Canadian lad
fighting the greatest battle of all
time.

Demand from your political rep-
resentatives and aspirants for the
legislature that they will fight with
you to preserve democracy in Can-
ada by lifting their voices in de-
fense of Spain. Make these poli-
ticians assist you in breaking
through the blockade against the
people of Spain in order that the

Coo
By
OL’ BILL
It is to be
The Almost hoped that
Perfect Drama those workers

in the field of
proletarian culture and their allies
who are attempting to mould @
stage that will reflect, artistically,
the actual conditions of life today
—the Progressive Arts Players, New
Theatre movement, Little Theatre
and so forth— were listening in te
at least some parts of the Corona-
tion mummeries, a week ago, not
the circus part of the show, but
the dramatization of it for the mil-
lions out of sight but mot out of
hearing.

This dramatization was an object
lesson to all our amateur Thespians,
surpassing in its impact on the
slaves of Empire any mere stage
production, even though bolstere@
up by a combination of genius like
the Bard of Ayon and Sir Henry
Irving.

I was compelled to this conclusion
listening to a part of the program
sponsored by the BBG, the almost
perfect drama. Qut of the fartlunge
corners of the Empire came voices
of welcome and loyalty to this new
symbol of class rule.

A 70-year-old Cockney who hac
lived through three events of a like
character, a Welsh coal-miner, an
old Scots woman, who knew the
Queen when she was a “wee lassie,”
a Belfast schoolboy, a Saskatchewan
farmer, a girl from French Canada,
45 planter from the West Indies, a
Boer gold-miner from the Rand, a
Maori member of the New Zealand
Parliament, an Indian Babu, an
Australian boundary rider and @

people of Canada may respond as
they desire to da.

Make this a week for Spain!
Make tke slogan of Werdun that
gave Canada so proud a place in

history relive in Spain with
greater emphasis — They shall
not pass!

Help your sons and the sons of
meny lands fighting side by side
with the sons of Spain drive the
Fascist menace from her soil. Help
Spain to live! :

Through the medium of the
Hitler-Lansbury talk, a cun-
ning diplomatic move is being
made by Nazi Germany to
further its aggressive aims.

Lansbury’s visit to Berlin has
presented Hitler with an opportun-
ity to once again try and throw
dust into the eyes of the people.
Under cover of hypocritical pre-
tences about being concerned with
peace, the Nazis are making use of
Lansbury as an instrument for at-
tempting to play upon Left opinion
in Britain to suit German Fascism’s
sinister purposes, .

It is already well known that the
whole trend of the National Goy-
ernment’s policy plays up to the
idea of a free hand for Hitler in
astern Europe.

The motive underlying Hitler's
latest move in meeting and convers-
ing with Lansbury is very definitely
to aim at bringing Labor and paci-
fist opinion in Britain in line with
this.

The comments made by the Nazi
press organs on the talk between
Hitler and Lansbury make this
erystal clear.

Abundant Proof
Of Aggression

The whole world has already had
abundant proof of German Fas-
cism’s aggressiveness. Time and
again Hitler has resorted to the
most blatant war provocation, and
has made no secret of his intentions
to conduct a war drive to the East.

Yet in spite of all this, Mr. Lans-
bury declares he got all that he
wanted from Hitler, and iS satisfied
that:

“Germany is willing to go with
a good heart into an international
conference which may help in keep-
ing the world at peace.”

What touching faith in the ruth-
Jess and bloodthirsty dictator who
bas violated treaty after treaty, and
who executes and puts to the tor-
ture the best sons of the German

people!
Hitler is after a conference all
right. But the type of conference

he wants is one consisting of im-
perialist powers calculated to assist
his war aims, with the Soviet
Union excluded from its proceed-
ings.

Lansbury’s admission that
question of Russia attending
proposed conference was never
sidered, testifies to the truth of this.

Such a conference would be used
by Hitler as a sounding-board to
raise once again Fascist Germany's
claims for a redistribution of the
colonies, the demand for which Hit-
Jer is busily driving forward as
hard as he can, with a special eye
on the Ukraine.

Hitler-Lansbury
Talk Swindle

Under the circumstances it is not
surprising that Hitler erected Lans-
bury very “cordially.”

Under the Nazi regime the in-
ternal situation of Germany is be-

the
the
con-

coming more and more desperate.
The economic and financial diffi-
culties facing the Nazis as a re-
sult of their colossal armaments
drive haye become exceedingly
acute.

legislature.

Hitler's hypocritical pretence of

Hitlers Manoeuvre

being for “peace’’ which Lansbury
now acts as a mouth-piece for, is
designed to procure assistance
which would enable Germany to
ease up on her economic difficulties
and thereby facilitate Hitler's war
plans.

One has only to look to Spain te
see what Hitler is up to. A German
army has invaded Spain and is
striving to throttle the Spanish
Republic, and yet Lansbury, in over
two hours’ talk with Hitler, never
mentions a word about it.

What a complete swindle the
Witler-Lansbury talk is. But it is a
swindle which should awaken feel-
ings of the deepest alarm in the
British Labor movement and rouse
all of us to still greater efforts to
defeat this latest plan of the Ias-
cist war-makers.

JENNY CLARK
FOR CARIBOO |

It is a straight two-party fight in
the Cariboo. The CCE nominee,
through technical and other diffi-
culties, failed to qualify. It is a
contest between Louis LeBourdais,

Liberal ‘Yes man’’ of the mining
companies, and Mrs. Jenny Clark,
Independent.

This working-class woman of the
Cariboo is neither CCF, Communist,
nor Socialist of any hue, but she is
a good fighter for the needs of the
common people in her constituency.
She will oppose any and all anti-
workingclass legislation.

She is prepared to help the miners
puild powerful unions to wrest from
the mining corporations a greater
share of the fabulous wealth pro-
duced by the miners. She will fight
for greater hospital and school
facilities in the Cariboo.

She will fight to bring the needs
of the farming communities in her
constituency to the forefront. Above
all she does not “yes, Sir’ the repre-
sentatives of Canada’s financial

barons. All these are good argu-
ments why Jenny Clark should be
elected.

The CP of BC urges all the pro-
gressive people in the Cariboo to
support Jenny Clark with their
votes and influence and see that
she is elected on June 1.

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SOINTULA

A Study In

Progress

By BECKIE EWEN

During my recent yisit to Soi-
tula, I was impressed by the amount
of self-saecrificing activity carried
on by many there in the interest
of the progressive movement with
its workers” halls, co-operative, and
strong labor sentiment.

The women especially play an
important part in these activities
and it was an inspiring sight for
me to see the large number of
women in the audiences I was in-
vited to address.

The women’s sewing circle has
raised hundreds of dollars for
Spain and every activity of the
progressive movement is supported
by them. A notable affair was the
women’s garden meeting, where, by
means of a raffle, $10 was raised
for the Communist election fund.
The women were also a driving
force in last year’s fishing strike.

Malcolm Island, where Sointula
is situated, is a beautiful spot, ap-
preciated by its population and
visitors alike, but capitalism has
cast its blight here as elsewhere
and mothers are confronted with
the same questions of a future for
the youth, how to Xeep them in-
terested in the labor movement,
manual and vyocational training,
sports activities and other problems.

* * =

Meetings which I attended, work-
ed out ways and means for the im-
provement of many things on the
island. The building of roads, for
instance. Imagine having to walk
miles along a cow trail in the rainy
season because the government has
built no roads. Or when sickness
strikes, the mearest doctor is at
Alert Bay and the only conveyance
is by boat during all Kinds of
weather.

All these issues are being prought
out in the present election cam-
paign, in which the majority of this
community is supporting Colin
Cameron, GCF candidate.

The international solidarity of
these folk! A meeting on Spain
draws them out in the pouring rain,
trudging miles to attend.

Burmese all said their little piece
in their own particular ‘bat,’ and,
at appropriate intervals, a few judi-
cious words were thrown in by pro-
consuls like Stanley Baldwin, Mac-

Kenzie King, Hertzog, Savage and
others.

None of them
A Competent mentioned the
Performance Capitalist system,

but their collec-
tive effort was directed towards its
perpetuation. Only the Welsh miner
referred to the misery of life under
that system, saying: “It is hard to
understand why there should be so
much magnificance and display or
wealth when one looks around and
sees the suffering and destitution of
the valleys of my native country.”

I said this was almost the perfect

Portuguese gun-smuggler and 2
Fascist Spanish manager from the
Rio Tinto mines the Empire would
have stood out in bolder relief and
the drama would haye been closer
to perfection.

And if a Bengal detenue from the
concentration camp at Chittagong
or the Andaman Islands, a striking
bus driver from Tondon, a disin-
herited Indian from the Cariboo liv-
ine on $3.50 a month relief and one
of the boys who were sent to jait
a couple of weeks ago for refusing
to die of starvation had been
brought up to the mike, the drama-
tization would have been plupertect.

@f course the event had its tragic
side, too. It wrote finish to the sale
of silk ‘“‘panties’” featuring the
Union Jack, prayer books issued by
the Oxford University Press, bound
in red, white and blue; and whether
this is tragedy or farce I don’t
know—$2.50 for a seat and no rain
checks.

“General’’ Qwen Duf-
Generals fy, the modern c¢ru-

i sader who left Old
Die in Bed Ireland with a small
Fascist band to fight for the Catho-
lic religion in Spain alongside of
Moorish Moslems and German
heathens, is now back im Treland,
but minus the greater part of his
followers.

Duffy and his followers have been
disillusioned regarding the service
they were performing for their re-
ligion and now claim that nobody
among the Fascist hordes was fight-
ing for the Catholic Chureh but
themselves, in fact, their Fascist
Spanish, Moorish, Italian, German
allies turned the machine guns on
them, probably to show how much
they loved Mother Church, too. This
experience will not turn O'Duffy
against his own brand of Fascism,
but it has had a healthy reaction
from some of the little band of
workers whom he had succeeded in
deceiving.

To men who have any honesty
and sincerity about them nothing

We women in Vancouver can

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Guest Speakers:

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Tickets on sale at 45 Sixth Street, New Westminster, and
Room 10, 163 W. Hastings St., Vancouver.

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serves so well to lay bare the yici-
ous character of Fascism as actual
contact with it. From another part
of the battlefront comes the story
of another Irishman who went to
Spain to defend the ideals that
shaped his life, the Rey. Robert
Hilliard, the “Boxing Curate’ of
Belfast, who represented Treland in
the Olympic Games at Berlin last
year. The weeks he spent in Nazi-
Jand during the Olympics convinced
him that Fascism had to be fought
if Civilization was ta be saved.

About the same time that the Fas-
cist O" Duffy arrived back in Treland,
friends of the Rey. Hilliard received
word that he had been killed fight-
ing on the side of the people of
Spain. He had gone right from the
demonstrations of Fascism in action
at its centre to prevent it spreading
further abroad, willing ta lay down
his life even for that purpose-

Among civilized and intelligent
people in Ireland, Hilliard’s name
swill be honored but that of O’Duity
will forever be erected with curses.

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