ee OOP ES ADVOCGATE Page Three Granby Has Reasons To Fear Union Mining, Smelting Co. Maintains Elaborate Blacklist When the greatest build-up for War comes from the world’s lead- ing statesmen with a resultant boom in base metals, it pays to be in the killing business, and Gran- by Consolidated, Mining, Smelting and Power company, whose spe- cialties are copper and anti-union- ism, is taking full advantage of the price of copper which has tripled since 1929, and of the fact that their huge plant in British Columbia can begin over-night to roll out metal and profits. Allenby has been a Shost town for the last seven years. But now 100 men are at work reconditionine the great mill there with its capacity oft 3000 tons daily, while a few miles away the company mine at Copper Mountain is beings put into Shape Dy 200 laborers and miners. True to its past, Granby Consoli- dated makes it known that it will not tolerate the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers; in other words, that it is prepared to re-enact the Anyox scene of 1934 for which it was responsible. A tall, husky miner, just returned from Allenby after making a 10-day Stake there, gave details of the new activity in this cempany town to the Advocate. Canadian born, slightly stooped and powder-marked by his occupa- tion, he asked that his name should not be mentioned because of a com- prehensive blacklist in use» by the mine-owning fraternity of this proy- ince. “Company stool pigeons in Al- lenby and Copper Mountain force aman to keep the transom of his bunk house shut,” he said. This miner told of his experiences with the company in Allenby in 1929. He had no difficulty in secur- ing 2 job a few days ago at the Royal Bank buildings, headquarters of Granby GConsolidated. “They check up on each man very carefully before hiring him,’ he Said, “and any Anyox striker does not stand a chance, but, of course. the strike breakers are taken on right away, although no wages are Stated,’’ he continued. Fare to Allenby is $6.35, a sum to be borrowed by many workers, but it does not deter quite a few miners from refusing to work for the $4.75 a day offered by the company when the union scale calls for $5.50. Gangs are coming and going continually for this reason- Day laborers are paid $3.20 a day and $35 a month is charged for room and board, $i a month for doctor, compensation charges, poll tax, plus the fact that a company town méans company stores with exhonmbtant prices, and, as our in- formant reported, “The company bosses say, “if you don’t like it, you know what you can do’.”’ Further conversation with our in- fomant brought out that a ereat deal of discontent exists even among the Anyox men who helped to break that strike, but who apparently have learned much in the last few years. He concluded: “It’s going to be a hard nut to crack, but I’ve been in tougher piaces and helped to build the union. Granby Consolidated will Set a shock sooner or later.’’ experiment ? Write for vidual tours, tour groups. specia] folders. or you May join our conducted FITS NOT FOR WOR -REARMAMENT PRO Western The Third Page Canada’s Leading Progressive Newspaper VANCOUVER, B.G., JUNE 4. 1937 Employees Of Pulp, Paper Mill In AFL —\ POWELL RIVER, BC, June 3.— Breaking one of the Strongest links in the chain of company towns which has cursed British Columbia for years, the Interna- tional Union of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, was planted firmly here last week, when Har- vey White, international officer of the union, completed the patient labors of local organizers extend- ing over a lone period. Long regarded as a stronghold of Canadian and American capital which dominated the lives of em- ployees, limiting their rights in many ways by intimidation, the com- plete unionization of Pewell River paper mills means to trade union officials the beginning of a big cam- paign against other company. towns, and to the rank and file a new im- petus to the economic struggles. The emphatic desire recorded by 1132 of the 1350 non-salaried Powell River employees to join the union, Was shown by a vote demanded by both the company and the interna- tional union. The end of their almost unchal- lenged domination in sight when results of active union organization became apparent to the company, the management solemnly issued a Circular Jetter to the workers stat- ing that they wished to assist in every way desires of their em- ployees. Giving an un-needed exhortation to “Vote according to your best judgment,” the circular informed employees that Thursday, May 27, lad been decided by the company for taking a secret ballot of all ex- cept salaried men, to determine their real wishes on the proposed establishment of a union in Powell River. Moreover, a properly sworn- in returning officer, not an em- ployee, would be in charge of the ballot box and the men could take an hour off to vote. The circular concluded with be- lated encouragement that there would be no discrimination. The vote set all the company’s doubts at rest. Later, a union ballot was taken by union representatives. Will Present Demands. Demands for wages increases and reduction of working hours were also decided upon at the union ballot and will be presented to the company. The union now has 14,000 mem- bers in the Pacific Coast states and plans an immediate organizational campaign in Ocean Falls, Port Alice, Port Mellon, Wood Fibre, all com- pany towns. 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Powell River Organized Spanish People’s Army Is Nearing First Anniversary MADRID, June 3.—(FP)—The the republican forces more ju last year when citizens, arme artillery and machine-guns of the r Ly ELECTED COLIN CAMERON CCE MUA-elect for Comox ap- pealed for support of all pro- gressives. He won. Que. Jobless Protest Cuts MONTREAL, Quebec, June Over 300 unemployed demonstrated before the city hall here last Week in protest agsainst the deliberate policy of the Duplessis government in gradually cutting down relief grants to the city of Montreal. The demonstration was an answer to the government's action in cut- tinge off relief some 5,000 women who were unmarried or who had husbands in prison or asylums. Charity organizations have al- Teady stated that it will be impos- sible for them to Provide for those already cut from the relief rolls ir- respective of approximately 35,000 other family heads. . City council has decided to con- finue giving relief with the city funds to those cut off. Since January relief rolls have been reduced by 9,163 family heads covering 26,000 persons. a 3. insane HARRISBURG, Pa. June 3. (FP)—A state corporation to own and control anthracite mines is rec- ommended as a solution to the boot- leg mine problem in a majority re- port of the anthracite coal commis- sion to the Pennsylvania legislature, which authorized Gov. Earle to ap- point the commission four months ago. making industry, prior to leaving Vancouver for Powell River. The agreement was signed by represent- atives of the pulp and sulphite union and officials of the BC Coast district council of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ Union. Under terms of the agreement, the pulp and sulphite union has juris- diction over all breakdown Plants and other branches of the paper in- dustry, with the exception of logging camps producing raw materials, which come under the jurisdiction of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ Union. GENUINE | KITCHEN RANGE AND | WATER HEATERS Manufactured only by LEADER BURNERS at RAY’S PATTERN WORKS 323 Alexander Avye., Vancouver | Phone: Doug. 390 | falling among strawberry barrows. in -Sovernment supporters are throwing By FRANK PITCAIRN. (Federated Press) Spanish war approaches the end of its first year with stifiably optimistic than at any tiime since the July night d with pistols, rushed literally from their beds to face the two batteries simultaneously are Madrid streets, strawberries come from the gardens in the Casa de Campo, which were behind Fascist trenches until just before the picking. That mile and a half advance in Casa de Campo had double Signifi- cance, apart from the intrinsic im- portance of positions won. It meant a breathing spell for Bilbao to five the regular people’s army a chance to form out of the old militia organ- izations. It meant that the front- line troops of the new republican army on the central fronts are cap- able of Carrying out a sustained at- tack on positions so strongly en- trenched and defended that problems of battle there differ in scale, but are himilar in kind to those on the Western front in the World War. The Casa de Campo battle, though of a Jess spectacular character than Guadalajara, did in fact mark a sort of coming of age of the army's new front-line troops. Historic Role of Internl. Brigade It is a matter of pride to be able to claim that in this reorganization, the assistance, experience and dis- ciplined courage of the International Volunteers Played an historic role, an angle sometimes apt to. be under- estimated in stories of actual en- sasaments in which they haye par- taken. Yet when the achievements of the Garibaldi, Thaelmann and Lincoln battalions come to be written. It will be seen that it is in relation to the formation of the whole ney demo- Cratie army of Spain that their Presence and their services stand out in highest relief. With the front-line troops in a condition of efficiency apparently ineredible a couple of months ago, and the rebels forced to the deéfen- sive on all fronts, except in Biscay, themselves into the task of building reserves corresponding to the Strength of the front-line troops. This task, ndéw in progress, marks the second stage on the way to or- Sanization of the mMan-power of the severnment of Spain into a coherent Striking force. Today you can see it Foinge on in every village and township in goy- ernment territory, and so far as Spanish man-power jis concerned: not even Franco, presumably, would deny that the numerical superiority of the government side is enormous. Officers’ schools are now function- ing well, turning out the necessary leaders for the new army—some of them men who held positions of command ever since the outbreak of the war, but who are now returning to school in order to ada genuine Inilitary technical education to the experience picked up in months of desperate Struggle. No one doubts that the new Ital- ian attack will not be long delayed, or that it will be a serious affair when it comes. But the military Strensth of the government in this eleventh month of war is more than rhetoric in yords. Enrique Lister, mason who eral, spoke a former stone- is now a divisional sen- of the enemy soldiers, declarine: “You have nothing to hope for. You will never advance beyond the point reached when we had neither on army nor arms. Come to us, and help us build the new Spain we have been defending these months.” ebels in the Montana barracks. Though cordite shells fired from é, ELECTED SAM GUTHRIE CCE MiULA-elect for Cowichan- Weweastlie also conducted his campaign on a unity basis. He won, too. Anti-Fascists Unite For Spain By PEARL BINDER LONDON, Eng., June 3.—Drama- tic news of the extent of active opposition to Franco inside the Pas- cist. countries officially supporting him, was revealed at the Paris Conference for the Co-ordination of Relief Work in Spain. Rudolf Leonhard, yeteran pres- ident of the German Society of Men of Letters and member of the International Peace Commission, re- ported that considerable sums of money are being secretly collected in Germany and smugeled out to aid women and children victims of Nazi aggression in Spain today, and that continual arrests are being in Hamburg where many workers are refusing to load arms ships being sent to help Franco. “Anti-Fascist Germans are fight- ing in Spain today for liberty in Germany, for liberty is one and in- divisible,” he declared. Portuguese delegates reported that Portugese industrial workers were deliberately making dud shells in the armament factories working for Franco, and also derailing trains earrying arms to the rebels. England has already raised £17,- 000 ($85,000) six ambulances and over 80 tons of food and clothing for relief work in Spain. America has raised no less than £250,000 ($1,250,000) for food and clothings. The USSR sends immense quan- tities of food and clothing and orphans of the civil war are being adopted by Soviet families. During the conference telegrams of greeting were received from dis- tinguished people all ~ over the world, a member from eminent Catholics. The Duchess of Atholl and the Archibishop of York were amongst those sending telegrams of support from England. 28 for $4.00 APOLLO CAFE OYSTER AND CHOP HOUSE $4.50 Meal Ticket West Cordova St. THEO. ANGELL Prop. BOOK SALE Now is the time to get your books, at bargain prices. Watch this ad each week during sale for outstand- ing buys... res. $8.00 Reporter In Spain, Frank Pitcairn, reg. $i __Sale WAST is France Faces the Future, Ralph Fox, reg. 75c_ Sale 50¢ Fundamental Problems of Marxism, Plekhavovy, reg. $1.50 Se en ee Sale $1.00 Dawn Over Samarkand, Kunitz, reg. $1.90__Sale $1.00 3; NEW AGE BOOKSHO June 4th to June 26th LENIN’S COLLECTED WORKS, 8 vols., Sale $6.95 350 W. Pender St. Phone Trin. 5753 Weir Warns Of Ontario Tory Threat TOFONTO, Ont., June 3. — More than 1000 people attending a meet- ing at Queens Park here heard speakers stress the need for a strong People’s Party in Ontario. The meeting, called by the To- rento Committee of the Communist Party as a protest against attacks on democracy by Premier Hepburn during the Oshawa and other af- fairs warned the listeners that noth- ing better could be expected from the Tories if they were returned to power under the next election cam- paign. Complimenting the Toronto Dis- trict Trades and Labor Council for its stand in endorsing the need for a FarmerLabor party in Ontario, School Trustee John Weir pointed out that such a party would be the Salvation of democracy in this province. Commends CCF Parley The recent CCH convention was also complimented by Trustee Weir for the new policy brought out in the convention, a policy which also realized the need for a Farmer-Labor Party: “But,’’ said the trustee, “the CCF must remember that it will take more than the forming of a name to make such a party possible. It will take a united front of all pro- Sressives in the provinec, including the Communist Party, CCE, trade unions and all other progressive bodies.”’ Trustee Weir pointed out that during one of his many slips that Hon. Earl Rowe, had stated that not only was he against the CIO, but also the AFofL. This, Weir declared, is the line that will be followed by the Tories if they are elected to power. CCF Re-Elects John Mitchel TORONTO, Ont., June 3.—John Mitchel will asain head the Ontario CCP, the fourth annual provincial convention of the party decided here by unanimous vote last week. Dr. Lorna Cotton’ led Graham Spry for the vice-presidenecy, and the following were elected to the provin- cial council: Graham Spry, WFileen Tallman, Ted Joliffe, Herbert Orloff, Margaret Sedgewick, Wm. Dennison, Bert Leavens (all of Toronto), D. Portelance (Schreiber), David Lewis (Ottawa), Jos. Corbett (London), James Gibson (Caledonia), ‘William Noble (Oshawa), Oliver Cromwell (Galt), John Walter (Kitchener), Herbert Taylor (Windsor), Sam Lawrence (Hamilton), John Peebles (Hamilton), Garfield Anderson (Wort William), J. A. Compton, Kingston). Lorna Cotton, Mitchell and Spry Were renamed delegates to the na- tional council. + NEW PEACE CENTRE. TORONTO, Ont. — New Peace Centre of the Canadian League Against War and Fascism here was officially opened by Miss Margaret Gould and Father Grahame. nt. C.C.F. o Maintain nion Ban Adopts Farmer - Labor Tag at Provincial | Convention By CARL HICHIN TORONTO, Ont., June 3.—On- fario’s section of the CCE will preempt the name ‘“Farmer- Labor Party of Ontario” as 2a sub-title but by reaifirming ‘“‘its independence of all other political parties whether Communist or capitalist” will continue to ignore popular demand and urgent need for an all-in progressive political movement, according: to decisions reached at the party’s fourth an- nual convention in Toronto. No change from past anti-unity policies on the political field was implied by the adoption of the new sub-name. This was made clear by the resolution ordering its adoption, explanatory remarks made by its Sponsor Graham Spry and declara- tion of ‘independence’ contained in the new election program for “fair taxes, fair prices and fair wages.” President Mitchell in reply to National Secretary David Lewis when Thomas A. Sutton, Hamilton, moved for “alternation of the pro- vincial constitution to admit the af- filiation of sympathetic trade unions.’’ “We are keeping our doors open for the trade unions . . . but refuse to weaken our program to take in unions,’ declared Mitchell. “I think Sutton is rigeht,’” declared Dewis. “The trade union develop- ments are creating the desire amongst trade unionists for inde- pendent political action. I think that probably provisions will have to be made for trade unions to af- filiate, “I am in favor of the resolution. Affiliation of unions with the CGF is entirely separate and distinct, from united front and anything like that.”’ The convention turned down North Toronto GGE club’s efforts to recommend to the party’s national convention consideration of a con- ference to “‘coordinate the activities of all progressive, labor, farmer and Socialist groups under one platform aS a united people’s movement,” and dodging decisive action, hoisted con- sideration of provision for trade unien affiliation to the party alone to the national convention to be held in Winnipeg in July. “Please realize that the issue in Ontario is not socialism,” pleaded 2. O'Leary, Ottawa, on behalf of the move towards a united people's political movement. “fhe issue in this province is strengthening of the unionization drive which will even- tually lead to independent political action.”’ “I'm sick and tired of this throw- ing the red herring. of Moscow over every progressive move,’’ almost shouted H. 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