rae He 4 4] eg ay a DV, O GATE ee Ss fas = ™SBAR ETO? —— ~' The People’s Advocate Sore = rf S Page Three Lessons of the Elections By Malcolm Bruce e PAGE SIX VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1937 SS Single Copies: 5 Cents VOL. Ill. No. 21 “FULL No. 125. Published Weekly 40 B.C. MEN FIG C.C.F. Bloc At Victoria Is Stronger Guthrie And Cameron Elected After Strong Unity Campaign SHEPHERD IN DELTA * When the eighth British Columbia legislature since Richard McBride introduced party politics in i903 meets in Victoria there will be a considerably strengthened CCIE bloc to press progressive legislation and fight reactionary measures which already loom on the political hori- zon as a result of Tory gains. Woahile the CCE failed to make f@ains ,in the actual number of) seats or votes won, it is strength- ened by the return after many years eof Hush Guthrie and the addition of Colin Cameron and Len Shepherd, to say little of the CCE’s enthusias- tic provincial leader, Dr. Lyle Tel- ford. It is noteworthy that the CCE’s only two gains from parties other than the BC Constructives were in GCowichan-Neweastle and Comox where the campaign was conducted on a unity basis. Elsewhere, those jJeaders of the CGE most vociferous in their opposition to unity of all progressive groups went down to de- feat. Defeat of Rev. Edwin Baker in Ney Westminster was disappointing to those who realize what decisive leadership could be given by a Com- munist in Victoria. While it is eyident that consider- able prejudice remains to be broken down, the fact that a Communist polled 549 votes in a city whose in- sularity and conservatism are a by- word in BC is in itself a sign of progress which will be accelerated with the development of union or- ganization in this important indus- trial centre. Winch, Telford Poll Huge Vote Bast Vancouver yoters gave fiery Harold Winch and effervescent Dr. Ibyle Telford victories as convincing as the defeats it administered to Jack Price and W. A. Pritchard, running as Constructive candidates. GGFE majorities were more than 5,000. Mrs. Dorothy Steeves, only suc- cessful CCE woman candidate, was re-elected in North Vancouver with an increased majority of 700. A. M. Stephen, storm centre of a controversy~within the CCF, on the allimport4ant question of unity, miss} yictory by a narrow margin chat strijmmi-Nanaimo. Credit for his learned ; “>> taken by the Con- He com = Giles, who split the har~ ee mer CCF executive te 4 Sats. M. E. James, whose the eafbution to the cause of progress | Waeveral columns of “red-baiting”’ letis in the reactionary Nanaimo Dai Herald, EYowinge are the voting figures Sf rings other than Vancouver re- farnae CCF or Labor members. : BURNABY 2 Fi Swinch! (CCE). -.-S... 5860 Tor ae rlevesis) -jcece- = Bek ws 3344 | ward-Glere (Cy... --+- aaa: - 2297 or Johnson (L) ...-...- 41001 Fxrcponald (Constr.) ..... 642 =) Wraiker (ind) ...-- 40... 332 7W- Walline (SG) 2... oe. 122 i, (Complete) f comMox Alin Cameron (CCF) ...--5.. 2259 4, A. Banna (12)° 3s ee 1793 /G. N. Money (€) -.---.-----+5, 984 (53 polls’ out of 54) Blection of Cameron coneded— ©CE gain from Liberal. COWICHAN-NEW CASTLE Samuel Guthrie (CCF) ........ 1465 PAgnold-slett. (15)i722 sc ea - + 1230 Wugh Savage (nd.) ...-.-.-- 1143 m PP) Deykin (C) -. 2.2.2 3--- -=- 634. (Complete, 13 polls) GCE eain from Independent.) DELTA ]%. A. Shepherd (CCE) .......- 2101 Arhtur Laing (i) -..-----.=--> 329 R. M. Grauer (€©) .--.-...---- 2449 R. B. Swailes (Constr.) .- .-.-- 554 (Complete) CCF gain from BC Constructive, FERNIE ‘ Thomas Uphill (Lab.) --.--.--- 1633 135% Harry W. Colgan (L) Here are six of British Columbia’s volunteers Canada’s finest tradiitons in the fight against in the Mackenzie-Papineau battalion, upholding international Fascism in Spain. TOP BOW, left to right: F. McNeil, L. Benham, “Tiny” Anderson. BOTTOM ROW, left to right: Danny McLeod, B. Hegerty, “Red” Bradley. Cafe Owners Are Offered Concessions Union Works For Higher Standard Throughout Industry “Our fight for union wages and conditions for employees and a lightening of the burden for many restaurant owners would be greatly assisted, were the city council to enforce its Own by-laws appertain- ing to the food industry,” said Bill Stewart, young business agent of local 28, Hotel and Restaurant Eim- ployees Union. Interviewed by the Advocate, Stewart informed of a conference held last Wednesday evening, be- tween four representatives of the Restaurant Owners’ Association and four executive members of local 28, tO arrive at an understanding that will ease the present intoler- able situation in the hotel and restaurant industry. A counter proposal was made by Association representatives at this conference, to the union wage now being paid by 19 restaurants in the city, of two dollars a week less, on grounds that many eating-house owners find it impossible to pay the union rate. After lengthy discussion and be- ing conyinced of a certain amount of justification in the owners’ case, union officials offered to meet them half-way by setting the scale one dollar lower, as a temporary mea- sure. A reply to this offer by the union, is expected within 48 hours. Business Agent Stewart told the Advocate that his union was trying to be fair in every way, and the offered reduction, while it was of a temporary nature, was proof of good faith with those owners who recognized the rights of employees. Union wages scale is $12 a week for waiters and waitresses at tables and dining rooms; $14 for counter waiters and Waitresses, including (Continued on page 2) See CAFES Jobless Air Relief Racket VICTORIA, BG June 3—Expo- sure of the city council’s methods in its treatment of the unemployed (Complete) ‘ Uphill elected. Unchanged. { C. McDonald\ Is Dead Here Golin McDonald, president of the Wancouver and New Westminster District Trades and Labor council, died suddenly Wednesday evening in General hospital. Unconscious for 13 hours, death rTesultea from head injures received in an automobile accident last week. The passing of Colin McDonald came as a, shock to his >==—associates in was undertaken’ af an open air meeting in Central Park here by Victoria and District Unemployed )Association last Sunday. Qne speaker Showed that the ity was exploiting the unemployed y forcing them to work out their lief at scab Wages, Where regular @nployees are paid $4 a day, job- 1és receive $3.20 for the same work. Vioreover, the provincial and fed- ert] governments put up 80 per cent of Ine relief allOwance and the city by. \ts methods doubly exploits those leas: able to bear it. A one period 38 men were paid $4.2\ a gay in Victoria for main- tena\ce pore but the crew has now beenjcut to 8 the balance beins the labor movenit — suppled by relisf recipients. eZ. Loyalists To Press Charges BERLEN, Germany, June 3.— According to despatches received here, General Emilio Mola, only competent Spanish Fascist com- mander, has been Killed in an air crash. He was directing the of- fensive against Bilbao. MADRID, Spain, June 3.—The Spanish People’s Army, strength- ened by the formation of the new Juan Weerin Cabinet, moved swiftly this week to prepare an early series of offensives against the armies of international Fascism. In Geneva Spain’s delegate, Julio Alvarez del Vayo, was set to press accusations before the League of Wations Council Monday that Ger- many and Italy were guilty of an aggression against the legitimate Spanish government. Spain will almost positively de- mand that League penalties, in- cluding sanctions, be applied against these nations, in accord- ance with the League Covenant. While the Basque Loyalists waged bitter warfare against the better armed forees of General Emilio Mola on the Bilbao front, to hold the Fascist drive on the Basque capital, a number of Government moves in Valencia cheered the Ma- drid populace with the prospect of early victories. Indalecio Prieto, powerful Minis- ter of Defence, conferred with Gen- eral Jose Miaja, who was replaced in complete civil and military au- thority on the Central—Madrid— front, and with Minister of the In- terior Julian Zugazagoitia, to estab- lish close collaboration of military and police forces. Work in the air, naval and army divisions of the Government war machine was speeding along with Inereased efficiency, under the pounding drive of Prieto, who is re- sponsible for the establishment of strong Loyalist air and naval fleets. Qn the recommendation of Gen. Miaja, Col. Vicente Rojo was named to the all-important post of Chief of Staff of the Army. Col. Rojo was in active command of the Ma- drid front alongside Gen. Miaja in the heroic defence of the Spanish capital. Assurance of support for the Government from the UGT trade unions was seen in the re-appoint- ment of Julio Alvarez del Vayo to the major post of War Commis- sar, that is, political leader of the armed forces. Ranks Solid In Cariboo Mine Strike Local Residents With Men in Demand For Recognition By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WELLS, BC, June 3.—Strikers’ ranks, both of Cariboo Quariz and Island Mountain, are solid, despite efforts of the operators to approach those miners who did not vote in the Strike ballot which showed 75 per cent in favor of strike action. Spirit and discipline of the men is excellent, there heine no seabs and no drinking and the support and cooperation of local residents has been won. Little mention has been made in all strike reports issued, of Superin- tendents Johnstone and Munn who precipitated the present strike and are strongly opposed to the miners who are determined to win a wage increase and recognition of their union from the operators. Fascists Plan Sask. Group REGINA, Sask., June 3.—At- tempts will be made this year to launch a Fascist organization in Sas- katchewan, according to Dr. A. M. Johnstone of Vidora, self-styled Fascist, in an interview with news- papermen here. Dr. Johnstone, whose articles in support of Fascism appearing in the Leader-Post, have aroused protest from progressive organizations, ad- mitted “that no active organization is being done except by correspona- ence, but there is a possibility that organization will be effected this summer.”” Tom Mooney ill; Condition Fair SAN FRANCISCO, June 3.—(FP) —Tom Mooney, famous labor prison- er, has been placed in the San Fran- cisco county hospital for treatment of recurring stomach ulcers. His condition is fair. People’s Army Studies In Trenches Learned How To Combat Tanks From Film By A. L. STRONG. (Federated Press) I have often been asked what is the sharpest single picture I bring with me from my weeks in Spain. That's easy. It is the picture of an underground school in the trenches, where the soldiers of Jister’s bri- gade were studying reading, writ- ing, arithmetic, secosraphy —all the ordinary grammar school subjects— while rifle bullets pattered on the sheltering sandbags. A school room in a front-trench dugout. Like most civilians I had thought that life in the front lines was chiefly fighting. A moment’s thought would have told me that it is chief- ly waiting. Waiting, always on Suard, for the attack from one side or other to begin. What shall this waiting period be filled with?—that determines the character of the army. The armies of the People’s Front are filling it with study. This fact alone shows their morale; they don’t intend to die or be defeated. They intend to live victorious in an educated Spain. Listers Brigade. lister’s brigade, where I saw the school;-ranks: as Brigade No. 1 of the new People’s Army. Living underground in crowded dugouts is not easy; but they turn it into an experiment in camping. They disin- fect the dugouts daily. They have fitted their underground holes up With old leather sofas, mattresses, cushions, rescued from houses de- stroyed by bombardment in Madrid. Every turn of the trench as it follows the curve of the hill has a street name, lettered on a rough board: Mexico Street, Bastile Street, Our Folks Street were among the names I saw. Every underground dugout is named for a hotel: Hotel Moscow, Hotel Morocco, Hotel Madrid. Verbal Fire. Tister is a Galician from the north- west corner of Spain. Stonemason by trade, he studied war manuals for a year before the Fascist revolt. “JT thought we'd have to defend ourselves some day,’’ he said. He entered the ranks as a private in the first days of the struggle and rose swiftly to be commander of many thousand men. Close by a machine-gun nest which looked out in two directions towards the enemy one hundred yards away, Lister picked up a big megaphone: “Propaganda for the Moors,” he smiled. ‘““‘We call across no man’s land and inyite them to come over and join us. They can take their choice, machine-sun or megaphone. We can use either.’’ Learned From Film. Lister's brigade developed the first anti-tank corps. “The tanks scared us terribly at first,” they told me. “Then we got a Soviet motion pic- ture film, “We Are From Kron- stadt,’ which showed Russian work- ers fighting tanks. We studied this picture again and again and learned just how to do it. Now one of our best fighters has four tanks in suc- cession to his credit; he just sneaked up to them one by one and threw in hand granades.”’ The regular Madrid newspapers— it may surprise you, but they still print about 15 different ones in Madrid, reduced to four pages each for want of paper—come into Lis- ter’s trenches. The boys who can read well, read aloud to the others. Cumberland U nited Mine Wo rker Demands Uniform Wage Scale Of > CUMBERLAND, BG, June 3. Acting on the theory that unions are organized to improve the living standard of the membership, the United Mine Workers of America, Nanaimo and Cumberland locals, met Jast week to agree upon a uniform wase scale and to present it to Cana- dian Collieries for immediate opera- tion. Discontent rows apace among miners here who are finding it in- creasinely difficud: to meet the ris- ing living cost, whieh only a wage ; inerease can alleviate. Other gsrievances are the speed-up systeni and the different rates paid by the company for identical work. Union officials report that on a pan wall in the mines, there may be from 6 to 10 men working, some gettine $4.50, others $5, $5.50 and $6, which tends to drive the pace and ereate friction among the workers. Lastly, union recognition is a goal that every local member demands from the company. Lhe fact that 909 meni belongs to the union: in mw | Cameron, s Union Company Nanaimo out of the 1100 who eligible, and only one man is of the union in Cumberland, cates the strong feeling in regard. The miners now have a champion of their rights in CGE MEA. During election campaign Cameron the miners for their support. Agreed, are Out indi- this Strone Colin the ked they said, provided you look after our interests when we elect you. Every miner has faith in the prom- ise made by Colin Cam — By HAROL bid for power in Spain in the and precipitated the bloody, Spanish people, Canadians wer to democracy. They are there now, some gade. command- ing the famous International Brigade in Spain. Gen. Kleber Has Colorful Background Gen. Emil Hieber, Leader of International Brigade Champion Of Freedom By CHAS. MARRIOTT. In Gen, Emil Kleber, command- ing the International Brigade, the world has one of its most brilliant and devoted champions of democ- racy and freedom. Eyer since Kleber became aware of the significance of the struggle between the forces of privilege and in no less than three countries. Ileber fought in the ranks of the Austrian army during the Great War. He was taken prisoner on tht Austro-Russian front. After the Russian masses captured power he resisted those who sought to incorporate the Austrian prisoners in the imperialist anti-Soviet forces and, in Siberia, he won a large force of Austrian prisoners over to the side of the Soviet government. Fought in Red Army Hieber fought bravely and well in the Soviet army which repelled the imperialist interventionists on a score of different fronts and after the final triumph of the Soviet peo- ple he returned to his native land and gave aid to the Socialist pro- eressive movement of Austria. A few years later Kleber read the news of the mighty revolt of the Chinese people against the imper- ialist oppression of China and the wealthy Chinese mandarins and Wwar-lords. He read of foreign 2un- boats bombarding Chinese’ ports and massacring men, women and children. He read of mass execu- tions of Chinese revoluntionary youth. He read of a tremendous mass upsurge of the Chinese people which was carrying everything be- fore it and drivines bacle the exploit- ers and oppressors. Eleber smelt the battle from afar. His passionate devotion to the cause of the common people, his thorougch internationalism and his restless en- ergies were expressed in the fact that he made his way to China and enlisted with the anti-imperialist forces. Tater, after the treacherous betrayal of Chiang Kai-shek, he was forced to flee Ghina, with a price on his head. kenzie-Papineau battalion in the glorious 5 = party, is an- reaction on the one hand and the other who has forces of equality and liberty on answered the the other, he has devoted himself call oe defend passionately to the cause of the Spanish free- latter. At the head of the battalions dom of the common people he has fousht Oni e of the Frigidaires, Oil Burners, Radios, { TERMS D GRIFFIN When, a year ago, international Fascism made its cynical name of “religion and order” ruthless conflict against the e quick to answer the challenge 400 of them, International Bri- _Some of them are veterans of the heroic defence of Ma— drid, were with the Brigade during those fateful weeks last: fall when Franco’s army pushed to the very gates of Madrid, when the International Bricade, flung into: the breach, hurled it back in con- fusion. Some of them haye yet to receive- their baptism of fire, but all are im-- bued with the same hatred of Pasc-— ism, all realize that in the world—. wide struggle between the forces of democracy and Fascism Spain today is the front line. “The cause for which we're fight— ing is just as much Canada’s as= Spain’s,” one of them wrote recent-— ly from Albacete and quoted from: Irwin Shaw's ‘Bury the Dead’ that - ‘a man can die happy only when the- cause he fights is his own.’” Forty BC Volunteers. Representing British Columbia im -the Mackenzie--Papineau battaliom are some forty men, many of then» ex-servicemen, aware that the calli to defend democracy is this time ne creation of the imperialist propa-— Banda machine. From the mines of the Cariboo; from the logging camps of Vancou- ver Island, from the workshops and factories of the city, they came uphold the finest traditions of Can- ada in Spain. There is B. WHegerty, an ex- serviceman who was working in the hardreck mines of the Cariboo not so long ago. Another hardrock miner is *Tiny’ Anderson, who has pros- pected all over the interior of this province. He was with the Qn-te- Ottawa trekkers. Today he is is Spain and under no illusions as to why he is there. Lhe On-to-Ottawa trek taught him something of ths ruthlessness of the ruling class. Bruce Ewen, a son of Tom Ewen, provin- cial secretary of the Communist leading figures in the Macken-: zie - Papineau battalion is Bob Kerr, prominent Vancouver Com- munist, whose political trainings makes him a valuable acquisition to the battaliom Still other BC volunteers are Fo MeWNeil, New Westminster longshore= man, who was for several years aw active member of the PSU, and whe visited the Soviet Union in 1932-33 Danny McLeod, logger and _L£x= soldier, of Vancouver: Vancouver ex-Seryiceman and lezzer and’ an active member of the Relie= Projector Workers’ Union; Willian “Red’’ Bradley, one of the best Brace Ewen known football players on 7 Coast. Prominent in ath! circles, he played centre-half Westminster Royals. Before deg to Vancouyer he played foripes peg Telephone and Red Fro: ae 20 (Continued 1 === See VOLUNTE____ e AR Brid g erore Cel GISTs. e & & Carrall Streets sncouver, B.C. GOL- Haass Installed Free — . J