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By Ford Thugs

ATTACK DELIBERATE

By FRANK WINN

DETROIT, Mich., June 10.
—(UNS)—The Ford myth of
benevolence and philanthropy
was shattered to bits on that
afternoon recently when paid
thugs and service men at-
tacked and unmercifully beat
organizers and members of
the United Automobile Work-
ers, both men and women.

Some 30 unionists were victims
of the deliberate and malicious at-
tack which was aimed first at or-
ganizers Richard 7T. Prankensteen
and Walter Reuther, who are now
under observation for possible in-
ternal injuries. Three others are
in the hospital, one with a possible
skuJl fracture. A Second is being
treated for head injuries, while a
third has two fractured Spinal
yertebrae.

Three separate inwestigations are
already under way- After taking
testimony from impartial witnesses,
prosecutor Duncan McCrea, chars-
ing that agents of the Ford Motor
company were guilty of unpro-
yoked assault, said that he would

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Sitdown Proved
Effective When

Customers Stood

PHILADELPHIA. (FP)—A
new wrinkle in sitdowns was
practiced here during the
United Cigar Stores strike to
impress business with the
strength of united labor action.
When Whelan g stores in-
sisted on continuing to sell un-
fair cigars, 10 sirilxers entered a
Whelan establishment at noon,
occupied all seats, ordered coffee
and doughnuts and leisurely ab-
sorbed them in the space of two
hours. Total cost of the lunch
was $2.05. Somebody had an extra
doughnut. Getting in just ahead
of the noonday rush at another
store, strikers were reinforced by
20 members of the American
Student Union, who brought their
| school books and quietly read
|| pages and pages of Principles of
|| Government Income and Modern
Buropean History.

Form Locals
Of Workers
Alliance

That the poverty of thousands of
Vancouver families can be alleviated
if a bola lead is given by capable
organizers in the rapidly .growing
unemployed movement here, is the
epinion of many men and women
who recall benefits obtained through
the strength of similar movements
in the past.

recommend the issuance of warrants
for their arrest.

Handbills Distributed

At the same time the UAW filed
charses before the Wational Labor
Relations Board accusing the Pord
Motor company of violating the
Wagener Act. Investigators for the
Lakolleite Civil Liberties Commiit-
tee, some of whoni were present at
¢he plant when the attack took
place, began a third investigation.

The attack took place when @
group of unionists headed by Reu-
ther and Frankensteen went to the
River Rouge plant to distribute
handbills. The distribuuion had been
authorized by a license from the
Dearborn city council. The union
had announced in advance that the
distribution would take place.

Four organizers who mounted a
a public highway, whieh leads to a
foot bridge that spans Miller road,
strip of Ford property across the
road from the plant, were ordered
off by Ford men, but before they
had a chance to walk more than -
two steps they were set upon,

isnocked down and kicked. Erass.

#smuckles and blackjacks were used °
by the thugs-

ATTACK WAS PLANNED.

Shortly after the attack started,
other unionists began arriving by
streetcar. Most of them were
women, members of the union and
of the women's auxiliary. As they
stepped down from the car they
were immediately attacked by serv-
ice men, who struck them, knocked
¢hem down and kicked them.

The attack was obviously delib-

In the United States jobless have
organized 1,700,000 strong in the
Workers’ Alliance, with local, state
and national headquarters, and, just
as employed workers are ‘Yfaising
their living standards through for-
mation of industrial unions, So un-
employed are obtaining more of life’s
necessities through this national
movement.

Encouraged by the success of the
Workers’ Alliance, local branches
have been organized in Vancouver
by aggressive groups who realize
that only the strength of organiza-
tion will win their demands.

Tentative plans of organization
have been drawn up and a program
calling for a public xvorks program,
immediate relief imereases and a
campaign for social and unemploy-
ment insurance adopted.

Pollowine is a list
branches:

Windermere, meeting at Winder-
mere Hall, corner of Windermere
and Fourth, Tuesday, June 22,
eR Tbyoeeks = Collingwood, meeting at
Garleton CCF Club, every I riday,
8 p.m.; Local No. 1, meeting at 49
West Fifth Ave. every Tuesday, at
7:30 p.m., to which address com-

of local

munications should be sent.
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China Builds
Up Defences

NANKEING, China, June 10.—Gen-
eral Liu Hsiang, warlord of Szech-
wan province, has accepted the re-
organization of his territory by the

erately planned. A spectator tool
the license number of the car that
earricd the men who attacked the:
organizers, and a cheex Showed it’
to be a Ford service car. When |
the attack began the service men
Headed straight for Frankenstein |
4nd Reuther.

Ford workers reported that just
before the fight started service men
by the dozens appeared in all de-
partments of the plant bordering
on Miller road where the attack
occurred, and walked ominously
about the machines to see that no
interest in
what was teking place outside.

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Priends of Malcolm TWinlayson,
yersatile member of the Progressive
Arts Players, will be interested to
know that he has opened a cigar
stand at 179 East Hastings, and
will wish him well in his yenture,

Lone a trade unionist, Finlayson
when unemployed was active in the
organization of the jobless and
Jater turned his attention to the
progressive drama, his best perform-
ance being as Charles Bevins in
Irwin Shaw's ‘Bury the Dead.”

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June ii, 1937

‘Unions Pledge
‘Assistance To

To Have Week On
North Arm

AMBITIOUS PROGRAM

A record number of under-
privileged children are as-
sured of at least one glorious
week at Jubilee Summer Camp
this year because of generous
co-operation of several influ-
ential trade union locals and
other organizations repre-
sented at the Summer Camp
conference held May 30.

The conference decided to open
the camp July 5, when girls aged
6 to 16 and boys 6 to 14, to the
number of 40 to 50 a week, will be
booked after being medically exam-—
ined by Dr. A. S. Murphy, himself
an enthusiastic supporter of the
summer camp-

Expert supervision over young
campers is assured by the volun-
teer services of a competent phys-
jeal instructor from the Vancouver
Sports Club, Mrs. Morrison, school
teacher, and Miss Peterson.

Pledge of the Bakers’ union to
send two of their members to assist
a number of women volunteers in
the well furnished camp kitchen is
a guarantee that feeding of the chil-
dren will be entirely satisfactory.

Unions Donate.

TWnions represented at the con-
ference were: Blectrical Workers,
Tronworkers, Engineers, Bakers,
Cannery Workers, Bridgemen, Car-
penters. This latter union donated
$39.40 to the summer camp fund
ard the sercetary will personally
pay fees for two children to spend
a week at camp, charges being $3.50

a child for one week, including
transportation.
Progressive organizations are

asked to press the city council to
reconsider its refusal to grant a
tag day for the summer camp
which, if granted, will take a load
off the committee’s shoulders.
‘The committee announces that
an office will shortly be opened for
registrations; meanwhile, those
wishing to register children may
communicate with Mrs. H. S. Ross,
3267 West Highth avenue, or J.
Stevenson, 3 Grosvenor ayenue.

Utah Miners’

Union Grows

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June
10.—(UNS)—Predicting that f he
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
CIO union, will be the largest labor
organization in Utah before July 1,
Bldred M. Royle, Utah district sec-
retary-treasurer of the union, has
declared that the 10,000 workers in
the state’s metal industry will soon
be ptactically 100 per cent organ-
jzed. More than half of them are
in Salt Lake county.

S. African Labor
Has Unity Pact

JOHANNESBURG, S. Africa.
Following a conference of represen-
tatives of the South Africa Trades
and Labor Council and the Cape Fed-
eration of Labor Unions, an agrec-
ment was reached which, it is hoped,
will pave the way for a greater
measure of unity between the two
podies. Agreement provides for hold-
ine: of a annual trade union congress
composed of representatives of trade
unions affiliated to both centres.

A joint national committee is also
to be established which shall be
only authorized between conferences
to speak on behalf of or express the
views of the South Afmcan trade
union movement on national and
international questions. Delegates
present at the conterence undertook
to recommend the adoption of the
agreement by the forthcoming an-
nual conferences of both trade union
centres.

We're Always Up To Sumpin
_-This Time It's Up To You

Can it be that Premier Pattullo is correct in his economic

analysis, that prosperity

has at last come around the corner

where we've waited so long and has coyly arrived in our

midst?
Johnny Bowles, advertising
ager of the Advocate, who haunts

advertisers in the daytime and lies ]

awake at
proaches

devising new ap-
to them, is on the point
breaking down and admitting
there may be something to this
prosperity myth, although the edi-
{orial staff has already assured him
there is not, pointing out the dan-
ver of his beings quoted in The Ped-
erationist as a Liberal enthusiast.

The point is that nobody has yet
claimed the $2 bill he left with an
advertiser last week to be handed
over to the first customer display-
jn= the current Copy of the weAS
which is strange when you consider
that many of our readers make pur-
chases there daily.

Were’s a tip. The firm handles a

night

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by everyone. So. what about it, you
cross-word puzzlers? The firm will
hold the money until claimed, but

we cannot guarantee to keep the
country ott the gold standard
indefinitely.

This next Saturday, June 12; an-=
other $2 bill will be deposited witli
another advertiser; but remember,
to claim it you Must carry the ew
rent issue of the Advocate.

A number of receipts for pur-
chases have already been turmed in
at the Advocate office, the largest
for a suit of clothes bought from
Regent Tailors, 324 Wrest Hastings;
the smallest for a package of Golden
Virginia tobacco purchased at the

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Trade Unions
Must Help
Jobless -

“Trade unions will have 10 recos-
nize sooner or later that the thou-
sands of unemployed trampins the
streets of Waneouver constitute a
menace to union living standards
and that it is their duty to marshal
these citizens who are ready. be-
cause of Sheer desperation, to work
for almost any wage,”’ stated Organ-
izer R. N. Towle at a recent meeting
of the CGE Industrial and Employ-
ment Conference here.

“Trade unionists should also rec-
ognize.”” Towle continued, “that it
was this conference which initiated
action against the high cost of liv-
ine and I am positive that our or
sanized protests kept the price or

bread down when master bakers
threatened a general rise.
Towle maintained that agitation

amone Delta farmers, together with
@ publicity campaign, was respons-
ible for a reduction in the price of
potatoes to $1.90, although the potato
board had stated the price would be
$5 a sack. .

In outlining some of the work
aecomplished by the conference,
Towle pointed out ihat pickets o1-
sanized by the conference had done
15,000 hours of picket duty around
35 Safeway and Pigsly-Wiggly stores
during the Burns strike, while com-
mittees set up by the conference
had raised both finances and food
for the strikers.

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been made available
mier to draw upon.

Until shown press statements
made by roll and Hepburn, many
were of the opinion that Roebuck
immediately would seize the oppor-
tunity to fight for the leadership of

for the pre-

the party on a ‘true reford Liberal”

stand,
After

ever,

seeing the statement how-
this group has jomed with
others in the belief that Roebuck
will wait until Hepburn has defi-
nitely split the Ontario party and
then will come forward as the heal-
er of the breach.”

In holding this- opinion, they
appear to be supported by the mild-
ness of the latest statements made
by Croll and Roebuck and by the
exceptional mildness of Roebuck's
letter to the premier when the for-
mer was ousted from the Ontario

cabinet.
Mr. Roebuck’s statement issued
after he had been pestered with

phone calls from Zuiberal party sup-
porters read in part:

“~T have no desire at this time
to enter a controversy With respect
to labor and economic questions,
unless it ean be shown to have some
jmmediate practical use.

“J am, however, 2 Liberal and
2s such am_ vitally interested in
the preservation of a political
party committed to Liberal views.

_ When a private individual
repudiates the leader of one or
other of the political parties, it is
a matter of comparatively small
importance, but when the head of
a provincial government openly
breaks with the leader of the
Canadian Liberal party, forces of

disintegration are set up which
cannot be disregarded.”
Perhaps Roebuck gave a forecast

of his intended role when he ended

his remarks: “If there is a labor
crisis in Ontario, I would s st
that a good alternative to preakins=
with him (Premier King) would be
to seek his advice.”

Croll’s statements Was brief. It
restated his claim to being “a re-
form Liberal’ and proclaimed jis

allegiance to the prime minister.

Life Insurance Officers’ banquet.

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bers in town, the immediate effect |
of Hepburn’s outburst was main- |
ly limited to his aiming for na-
tional ‘honors” aS a team mate of
Puplessis, to whoni he threw so
many bouquets during his Globe |
and Mail tirade recently at the

Five D ead As
Police Attack’
Steel Pickets

“Blot On The National
Conscience,’ Says
John Lewis

HUNDREDS INJURED
By CARL HAESSLER
Federated Press

CHICAGO, June 10.—(¥FP)
—_Memorial Day, sacred to the
men who fell for the Union in
the Civil War, was blood-
drenched this year by Chicago
police in a fearful massacre
of men who were marching
for their labor union near the
gate of the Republic Steel
plant in South Chicago.

Five workers are dead from police
eunfire, many hundreds are injured
and some of them are believed to
be dying. Among the casualties is
a 99-year-old boy. A few cops sut-
fered broken arms or legs. Not one
was hit by a bullet.

But Capt. Mooney of the police,
an officer with an evil reputation
even for Chicago, pleads in excus-
ing the murders: “We were fighting
for our lives.”

So wantonly brutal were the blue-

premises.

IN VANCOUVER ..

REGENT

coats that they dragsed wounded
workers over the battlefield by the
feet as though they were dead does.
They threw them heedlessly into po-
lice cars. They pursued and clubbed
down fleeing onlookers. They threat-
ened women and children into talk-
ing. They wanted to terrify the
workers so that they would never
retuim to picket the Republic gates.

But the next mornings the pickets
marched again,

“Planned Murder’

“The brutal massacre of the Chi-
cago steel workers Is a blot on the
national conscience,” thundered
CIO Chairman John LL, Lewis.

“The nation knows the Chicago
police force is corrupt. It is the
same foree that for years has pro-
tected the hoodlam and the thug.
It now aids the Republic Steel Com-
pany. This company and the police
force are guilty of pianned murder.

“Gan it be true that striking
workmen may be shot at will by the
yery agents of the law? Js the blood
of our American workers less valu-
able than that in Spain for which
we weep? Is labor to be protected
or is it to be butchered? The answer
js important—both to labor and
America.”

Primary demand of the union is
io be recogenized—in writinge—as the
barsaining ageney of its members,
the same terms conceded in April
by Carmegie-Illinois of US Steel.
The companies refuse to give recos-
nition in writing.

As an alternative the union asks
an election and if it wins the elec-
tion by getting a majority of the
votes cast it will be the representa-
tive not only of its members but of
all employees, under the Wagner
act.

Supt. Scapegoat

Of Texas Blast

NEW LONDON, Tex.. June 10. —
(EP)—Supt. W. C. Shaw is the scape-
goat in the New London school tras-
edy, He is 69, unemployed, and out.

E. W. Reagan. wealthy landown-
ey and president of the board, said:
“We believe our entire community

will have a more co-operative feel-

iny if you were replaced.”
Testimony at the court of inquiry
showed that Reagan himself was in-
strumental in tapping the wet sas
line, which was a direct contribut-
jne factor to the death of 450 school

BETHUNE

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the pace

For the same purpose, the Chil-
dren’s Recreational Council has
ealled a conference of children’s

leaders to plan affairs which will
also interest children in the Spanish
situation and win their co-operation
by the collection of small sums of
money.

Mrs. Ruth Drayton, secretary of
the council, has in mind a “Spanish
Party,” with costumes, Spanish
food and music, to raise funds; also
a competition among the ehildren to
puild the best model of the home
planned for the 25 orphans.

A display of posters direct from
Madrid may be seen at the Ukrain-

jan. Labor Temple, 805 Bast Pender.
where a lantern lecture will be siven
by A. M. Stephen, showing actual
war scenes in Spain. A choir wall
render the new song, “Non Pasaran,”
and all funds raised will be sent to
the ambulance committee by the
Ukrainian organization sponsoring
this affair which takes place Wriday,
June 11, 8 pm.

Coast Dockers
Assist Strikers

RICHMOND, Calif, June 10.—(FP)
—JIn a display of solidarity with 1300
Ford Motor Co. strikers, Pacitic
Coast longshoremen refused to load
Ford ears or trucks declaring them
hot carzo. A cargo of 42 Fords for
Seattle was left on the dock. Sea-
men also offered to cut off steam if

Friday, June 11, 8 pm, Capitol
Hill Community Hall, Hllesmere
avenue. Auspices: Capitol Hill
branch, CP of G. Grand dance in aid
of MckKenzie-Papineau ambulance
fund. Music by Mrs. McLeod’s or-
ehestra.

Sunday, June 13, § pm, Orange
Hall, 341 Gore avenue. Auspices:
CLDL. Mass meeting. Speakers:
Fred Wox on International develop-
ments and E. Cumber on The Strug-
gle for Relief

Sunday, June 13, 10:30 am, O’Brien
Hall, 404 Homer street. Industrial
and Employment Conference. Trade
unions invited to send delegates, or
members to attend unofficially. Con-
ference adjourns at 12 o'clock.

Sunday, June 13, 2:30 pm, O’Brien
Hall, 404 Homer street. Auspices:
Children’s Recreational Council.
Conference to discuss methods of
assistance for 25 Spanish orphans
adopted by the Wational Commit-
tee to Aid Spain.

iSvery third Thursday in the
month is business meetings of Domes-
tic Workers’ Union at Labor Head-
quarters, 529 Beatty street.

ORDER SPANISH STUDIED.

BERLIN, Germany. — The Nazi
minister of education has ordered
the study of the Spanish language
should be encouraged at all German

children and their teachers.

RADIO STRIKE WON.

PHILADELPHIA, — (RP) — Ac-

cepting a compromise on one point,
but winning every other demand.
8500 members of the United lectri-
cal and Radio Workers of America
have returned to their jobs at Phil-
eo Radio after being on strike since
April 30.

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