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"Vancouver, B.C., Friday, June 18, 1937

The Press and Hitler's Spies
HE DISCOMFITURE of Hitler and ot

Trotsky and his fellow fascist counter
revolutionary plotters, wreckers and assassins
is shared by the capitalist press which sees 10
discovery, conviction and execution of another
bunch of [itlerist spies a break-up of the
Soviet regime. In his hide-out in Mexico the
arch-traitor Trotsky, as is his practice, gave the
cue to the capitalist press when he screamed
that the shooting of his spies signalized the be-
ginning of the end of the Soviet power-

With Trotsky, as with Hitler, Hearst, and
the Vancouver Sun and News-Ierald, the wish
is father to the thought. Hyer since the over-
throw of capitalism im Russia nearly twenty
years ago, the enemies of the workers, inelud-
ing the paid propagandists and apologists ot
capitalism, predicted the downfall of the Sov-
jet government every time that the government
met with the inevitable difficulties that follow
fhe overthrow of a class and the administration
of a country by a class new to power and
faced with sabotage and wrecking by the dis-
possessed class.

But the Soviet Union survived. And the
capture and execution ofthe Trotskyist spies
of Hitler is not a manifestation of widespread
mass dissatisfaction with the Soviet regime
any more than the killing of the gangsters or
the Dillinger mob and the imprisonment of Al
Capone was a manifestation of imternal up-
heaval in the United States. ;

Tt means that the Soyiet Union is able to
ferret out the spies and wxeckers and remove
them. In this merciless rooting out of the nests
of spies and traitors the Soviet government has
the solid support of the mass of the 180 ynil-
lion people who are building socialism. It re-
veals, not a weakness of the Soviet power, but
jts strength and revolutionary vigilance.

Capitalist states, even when friendly rela-
tions between them exist, continually carry on
espionage on each other. How much sreater
must be the espionage carried on by the great
capitalist states in a country whose territory
they covet, whose people they wish tO enslave
and exploit, and whose political, social and
economic systems they wish to destroy ?

The worst and most inveterate enemies of
the Soviet Union and socialism are Japanese
jmperialism and German fascism ; and it is
with these predatory powers that the Trotsky-
ists allied themselves. The Soviet Union is
immeasurably stronger as 4 result of the dis-
covery and execution of the spies and wreckers.
As long as the Soviet Union is surrounded by
capitalist states, espionage will be earried on
against it, and foreion spies will find their way
jnto Soviet territory. This can be expected,
but the hunt for their Trotskyist allies will be
carried on with revolutionary determination
until the last traitor is exterminated.

The Fight Against Unionism

WN AN editorial which reeks of philistinism,

hypocrisy and canting humbug, appears
in the Sw newspaper of June 16, the big im-
terests, the open shoppers and promoters of
company unionism continue their anti-uniop
propaganda. The Sun graciously admuts that
it is “possible” that erieyances exist jn. the in-
-dusiries in the United States and Canada in
which strikes are takine place, but appears
confident that the strikers would have remained
quiet and at work, while the owners reaped
fabulous profits, were i¢ not for the “simuster’
activities of John L. Lewis, head of the Com-
mittee for Industrial Organization.

The Sun betrays its low estimate of the in-
telligence of the workers and their capacity
for organization and struggle when it says that
“one single man can sit back in a chair and
order 10,000 miners to sivike, 5 . 52 aloan iE,
Lewis can do nothing of the kind unless he 1s
expressing the will of the union members. And
when a uni0n official fails to act when action
is desired by the workers, they very often will
strike anyway, as the growing number of ~un=
official strikes” attests. When Lewis or any
other union official calls a strike he is but ex
ercisine the authority vested 12 him by the
men concerned.

The Sum, of course, has no fault to find with
the owner of industry wyvho ‘sits back im a
chair” and orders the wages oi the workers
reduced; nor does it say that the workers are
but trying to eet back the wages that were cut
during the depression and seeking wage 10>
ereases to meet the mounting cost of living.
What causes the greatest flow of crocodile tears
from the Sun is that Tabor is losing its ~hu-
manitarian qualities.” The qualities meant by
the Sun are the qualities of sweet content, ot
satisfaction with remaining im an unorganized,
helpless mass except for herding into company
anions set up by the posses, of meek and lowly
acquiescence in wage-cutting and speed-up, 10
slavish submission to a ruthless and insatiable
exploitation, and when Labor departs trom
that spirit it becomes “antisocial, feudal and
aristocratic.

Knowing the popular hatred of fascism, al-
though slyly favoring and adyoeating it itself,
the Sun ‘declares that the program. of Lewis
(the program of industrial unionism and
strugele) is “sheer fascism” and “downright
dictatorship, thus diverting attention from
the real and only source of danger of fascism
—-the finance capitalists who see in fascism a
more direct and effective means of crushing

June 18, 1987

the resistance of the workers to degrading ex-
ploitation in the period of the disintegration
and decline of capitalism.

The purpose of the Sun's attack on Lewis
and the CLO is clear. The workers are on the
march, not only in the United States, but in
Canada. The swing to industrial unionism is
indisputable. Organization is proceeding
apace. Already the CIO unions have wrested
wage increases and collective bargaining from
such powerful and arrogant corporations as
U.S. Steel. General Motors and others. The
workers of Oshawa, organized into a CIO
ymion, struck for and gained wage increases
and union recognition against the united front
of General Motors and Premier Hepburn and
the Ontario government. —

Unionism is growing in British Columbia
and the corporations do not like it. It is for
those resident and absentee bleeders of the
province that the Sun speaks, and its editorial
is a part of a sinister campaign that has for its
purpose the introduction of legislation at NVic-
toria similar to that proposed by Duplessis im
Quebee whereby trade unionism is virtually
outlawed and the fate of workers in industry
determined by a dictatorial Board appointed
by the government which is the tool of the
ereat corporations. The trade unions of B.C.
would do well to be on guard against such
legislation for which the Sun editorial paves
the way.

Fascist Police Methods

HE PATTULLO government have in their
four years of administration used the pro-
vineial police against the working class. Police
terror against striking workers has been car-
ried on in every strike of any consequence.
But it is not only in a strike situation that the
police interfere; in the interior of the province
even in times of industrial peace, they work to
prevent workers from exercising thei: leeal
and democratic rights to organize into trade
unions, to hold meetings and engage in other
activities.
Intimidation of the most brutal sort is used
in order to terrorize the workers. A flagrant
instance was the molesting of Arthur Evans
recently in Princeton where he was prevented
from holding a meeting for the purpose of rais-
ing money {0 assist im purchasing and equip-
pimg an ambulance to send to Spain for the
Canadian Mackenzie-Papineau battalion which
is assisting the brave Spanish people to erush
the revolting generals and invading fascist
hordes of Mussolini and Hitler.

Pattullo’s uniformed tools dog the steps of
working-class organizers, frighten the people
of the town into staying away from meetings.
And when those methods of intimidation fail,
they arrest on a trumped-up charge of yag-
raney the worker who is billed to speak, throw
him in jail until the time for holding the meet-
ing has passed, then order him out of town
or give him a jail sentence.

Nor is this all; in order to serve the mine
owners or other employers they try to implant
feay into the minds of the workers. To this end
workers’ homes have been raided at all hours
of the night, women and children terrorized
and working-class papers, periodicals and
books seized and confiscated without legal au-
thority. The mining bosses and other em-
ployers have the proyineial police, maintained
by the taxpayers at enormous cost, at their
beck and call to prevent working-class or-
ganization and keep the workers subjected to
the severest exploitation and the imposition of
rotten working conditions. The police inter-
ference with the peaceful and legal business
of working-class organizers is modelled after
the methods of Hitler and his Gestapo and
should not be tolerated one day longer by the
people of British Columbia.

The organized labor movement should move
to end the reien of terror in the interior. Tf it
does it will have the support of every defender
of civil liberty in the province.

Murder For Profits

N the book, Builders of British Columbia,

the author, Bill Bennett, tells among other
things, the story of the wanton destruction of
workers’ lives in the coal mimes of Vancouver
Island during the last fifty years. Tt is a story
of capitalist rapacity, of the sacrifice of human
life for dividends, and of the murderous use
of soldiers, police and gangster plugnglies
against the miners whenever they dared to
organize and struggle for a living wage and
for satety of life and limb in the underground
torture chambers where they toiled.

That the situation bas not improved is
shown by the murder of more miners in the
Nanaimo area last week. Deep in the worlaings
of a mine, they were trapped and killed by a
rush of welled-up water from a worked-out
section. The company could easily haye kept
the water pumped out, but that would have
eaten into their profits—and miners are many
and their lives are cheap. Of what conse-
quence to those profit-hunery exploiters are the
tears of working-class widows or the eries of
fatherless children ¢

The provincial government, and particularly
Pearson, Minister of Mines, share in the erime.
For it is the duty of that department to compel
the company to safeguard the lives of the min-
ers. This was not done amy more than it is
done in the logeine camps where the loss of lite
is appalling. The blood of those miners slain
drips from the hands of Pearson as it does
from the hands of the mine managers and
stockholders.

The Minister of Mines is n0w going to go
through the motions of an investi@ation—aiter
the damage is done. The people of B.C. are
disgusted with the farce of investigation, the
sole purpose of which is to @ive a clean bill of

health to the criminals. The miners of Na-
naimo and other coal mining towns haye or-
ganized themselves into strong unions, and

one of their jobs will be to see to it that Pear-
son entorces the satety provisions of the min-
ine laws.

Elections Prove Need
or Unity In B. C.

Tee following analysis of the recent p)
ronto, while somewhat late in the day, 1s pub
ers, disappointed over the failure of the CCF to see
in the accurate conclusions drawn by the writer, who is pro

party here.—ditors.

OW well the Communist
party estimated politi-
eal currents in the recent
provincial elections, how ac-
curately it foresaw dangers
facing the people of British
Columbia, is shown in pre-
election statements issued
by the Communist party
provincial executive and in Mal-
colm Bruce’s abalysis appearing
in a recent issue of the Advocate.
Return of the Pattullo govern-
ment with a reduced majority was
anticipated. Division in the gov-
ernment’s ranks over the question
of health insurance and other
legislation was obviously not to
the liking of the big financial in-
terests. While these interests had
no quarrel with Pattullo in his
smashing of the relief camp
workers, loggers, miners and
Jongshoremen’s strikes, neverthe-
Jess they. required more reaction-
ary decisiveness. Mence the in-
tense drive to secure a Tory come-
back which was successful to the
extent that the Tories with eight
seats now constitute the official
opposition.

Wiping out of the BC Gonstruc-
tive party led by Connell and his
little group who attempted to split
the GCF and throw their follow-
ers into the arms of the Tory
party is a gratifying feature. A
treacherous coterie of disrupters
has been decisively effaced from
jabor polities in BC. Any attempt
at a come-back is unlikely.

Social Credit was unable to es-
tablish itself as a political force
in this province. its spokesmen
gloried in the rise of Social Credit
in Ganada, particularly in Alberta,
and then proceeded in true oppor
fenist fashion to disown ‘:Alberta
Social Credit and the betrayal of
Aberhart” and to expound a So-
cial credit theory of their own
which lacked appeal to the BE
electorate.

While the crisis in the Alberta
Social Credit government has un-
doubtedly dampened the enthusi-
asm for new economic nostrums
as a substitute for immediate eco-
nomic needs, the BC Social Cred-
iters succeeded only in furthering:
confusion and splitting the pro-
gressive vote.

The CCE “held its own’ in the

number of candidates elected. Its
total vote was reduced from that
of 1933 by approximately five or
six thousand votes and it surren-
ders its position as the official op-
position to the Tories, to take
third place in the new legislature.

In Mackenzie and Victoria,
seats lost by the CCF, practically
no united front activities were
carried on. Provincial Secretary
Gargerave, contesting Mackenzie,
repudiated all appeals of the Com-
munists for unity. Statements are
attributed to Gargrave that,
rather than unite with the Com-
munist party, he would join the
Liberal party. The outcome of the
election in these constituencies
shows the results of this position.

Election of Colin Cameron in
Gomox and of Sam Guthrie in
Gowichan-Newcastle where strong
united front activity between the
CCE and the Communists in eco-
nomic and political struggles was
ergaged in, is a victory for the
united front.

Unionization of miners and log-
gers in these constituencies and
their struggles for higher wages
and improved working conditions
have laid a solid basis for united
front activity in the political field.
In these unionization campaigns
ihe role and work of the Com-
munists have been shown clearly
and the “red hogey” is no longer
4 useful weapon in rejecting
working-class support for a few
“respectable” votes.

Concentrated
.gainst Baker

It was no accident that the big
guns of the CCGE—Woodsworth,
Garland, Coldwell et al—-concen-
trated the greater part of their
efforts during the election cam-
paign upon two eonstiuencies,
Vancouver-Gentre, with its Trot-
syist standard-bearers, and New
Westminster, against the only
Communist candidate in the prov-
ince, Rev. Edwin Baker.

In practice, it would seem that
the CCE was more intent upon de-
feating the Gommunists and
“proving them in error’ than in
winning a number of seats which
could have been won had they ac-
cepted the granite-hard lessons of
the united front—the only weapon
with which the working and
middle-class electorate of BE

-ovin cial elections written by T. A. Ewen from To-
lished Gecause we believe many of our read-
ure greater representation, wll be interested
rincial secretary of the Communist

could haye delivered a decisive
blow to growing reaction.

The poor showing made by Rev.
Edwin Baker in New Westmin-
ster is no reflection upon the Com-
munist party as a force in pro-
yincial political life. The whole
attack of the CCF leaders who
placed a candidate in the field
after a Gommunist had been nom-—
inated was against the Commu-
nist party, rather than against the
parties of finance capital.

Desire of the CCF leadership in
its campaign against Baker was
to prove its contention that “unity
with the Communists is quite un—
necessary because the Commu-
nists have no votes.”

But, to “prove” this, the GCF
Jeadership had to adopt the role
of open splitters, a fact that will
not be lost upon the working peo-
ple of New Westminster. The
“victory” of ©CF-candidate Stan-
ley Blake over Baker will be
short-lived and will add no lustre
to the GCF in New Wrestmrainster.

Strugsle For

Unity Continues

Lessons of the provincial elec-
tions bring one fact into sharp re-
lief_that the struggle to build
unity must go on with greater in-
tensity than ever before. The
gains that have been made in
fhose constituencies where CCF
unity candidates have been elect-
ed are extremely important. They
ean be consolidated by the mobili-
zation of working-class action out-
side of parliament and give im-
petus to and gain support for
work of the labor bloc elected.

The struggle for unioniza-
tion in British Columbia’s basic
industries must proceed apace
and the speedy development of
independent political action by
the trade unions must become
the order of the day-

As the basic section of the
working class of BC, the trade
unions must begin to assume
their proper role in determin-
ing the political future of the
province, making their collec-
tive opinions and desires on
every issue known, playing 2
greater part in charting the
course of labor’s parliamentary
forces in British Columbia and
affecting legislation introduced
in the house.

Stephen

HB following letter wv

which he states ..-.- -
“Things have come to @
pretty pass when @ CCF
member has to seek honest
expression  0f opinion
through a medium other
than the official CCF or-
gan,” was received by the
People’s Advocate this weele
from A. M. Stephen, CCE
candidate for Alberni-Na-
naimo im the recent elec-
tions and provincial presi-
dent of Canadian League
Against War and Fascism.

—Hditors.

fe last issue of the Fed-
erationist, CCF official
organ; contained an analysis
of the recent elections. No
greater indictment of the
present CCF executive and
its policies has ever appeared
in print.

With supreme super-egotism
the executive takes to itself eredit
for the votes cast for CCE candi-
dates, knowing full well that the
protest against our present sys-
tem could only be registered by
the electorate through the medium
of a vote for the one party in the

field recognized as the mass
movement against the old line
Liberal and Conservative ma-
chines.

A vote against the old line
parties is not necessarily an en-
dorsation of the provincial execu
tive, which is an unknown quan-
tity to the vast majority of the
people in BC. Tf actual figures
were presented, in view of the fact
that some 50,000 voters were added
to the list since 41933 it would be
found that the, CCE has failed to
hold its own and has done this
to the extent of permitting the
resurrection of a Conservative op-
position at Victoria. With intel-
Jigent leadership during the last
year, there would have been 2
CCF government in this province
today.

The one consolation in the pres-
ent is the fact that the common
people are still sound in their in-
stinet for change in spite of what
the GCF leadership has done or
undone.

Straight Betrayal

But, the bitterness of the fac-
tion that controls the present €x-
ecutive exceeded itself in its anal-
ysis of the Wanaimo results. Don
Smith's gapacity for distortion of
fact achieved a tour-de-force in
this instance. When Dr. Lyle Tel-
ford ran against George Pearson
in Alberni-Nunaime in 1933, the
CCE was at the peak of its growth
and Hon. G. S. Pearson had not
the prestige of being a cabinet
minister. But Dr. Telford was

Writes on Nanaimo

beaten by some 700 of a majority.

In spite of the fact that almost
400 votes were stolen from me by
the BCG Gonstructive candidate,
I reduced the 1933 majority of
Hon. G. S. Pearson by several
hundred and polled approximately
3000 votes for a progressive CCE
policy of unity with all working-
class parties and groups. >

The story of the constituency of
Alberni-Nanaimo in this ‘election
is one of a straight betrayal of
the working-class, besides being
a complete abrogation of the
democratic rights of the rank and
file of the CCE. Probably this is
why the Federationist omitted the
fizures of the poll in this riding
from its published list alongside
of its fulsome article and analysis.

I was the unanimous choice,
without a dissenting voice, of the
CCF clubs of Alberni-Nanaimo at
their regular nominating conven-
tion. The clubs asked that ~ be
reinstated— that my suspension
for exercising freedom of speech
be lifted. I backed their request
by a letter to the executive.

But petty prejudice and red
tape in the executive prevailed
over the wishes of the rank and
file. I was refused assistance in
the form of speakers or literature,
although my campaign committee
had the money to pay for services
such as these.

In the Sun and Province, re-
peatedly during the campaign
there appeared statements from
the executive repudiating my
candidacy, while Mrs. Mary §E.
James, close associate of Mat-
thew Glenday, kept up 4 red-bait-
ing campaign against me in the
local Nanaimo press.

During the campaign IT fell ill
with pneumonia and was in bed
for over a week.

Unique Campaign

To their everlasting credit, there
were CCF candidates and speak-
ers who disregarded the wrecking
tactics of the executive and came
into the riding to help- Colin
Cameron, Sam Guthrie, Jas. Cam-
eron, Don Maxwell, left their own
constituencies and came TO our as-
sistance. Througnout the cam-
paign, James Cox, of Grandview,
rendered magnificent service to
our cause.

Tim Buck, Communist leader,
and Harold Griffin, assistant edi-
tor of the People’s Advocate, also
spoke in support of my candi-
dacy- I must also pay tribute to
the United Church ministers, the
Rev. Mr. Allen, Wansimo, and the
Rev. R. N. Matheson. Vancouver,
for their aid to our campaign.
The trades unions, the Industrial
and Mconomic council with its
many affiliated bodies, the Com-
munist party, the progressive
Ghurch groups ,the solid front of
the united CCF Clubs — these,
united and working together,
were the factors which made this
campaign unique in BC politics.

Let Don Smith and his col-
leagues note that the candidates
who stood for unity and for the

principles that I advocated were
elected in Comox, Cowichan, and
orth Vancouver. L. Shepherd,
too, was elected in Delta by a
united front committee. These
members of the legislature, four
in number, comprise a majority
of the elected CCF candidates.
Byery one of the violent anti-
unity candidates, who represent
Don Smith policies, went down to
defeat. This should be a lesson to
all who imagine that the CCF can
go forward to victory on a nar
row, sectarian basis.

This letter would have appeared
in the Federationist if that paper
represented the CCH rank and
file. But, at present, the regret-
table fact remains that the CCF
official organ is not a medium
for the progressive elements in
the movement but is merely the
mouthpiece of the clique within
the provincial executive.

However, the rank and file have
an opportunity at the forthcom-
ing convention. With a progres”
sive executive, the CCF can still
accomplish its destiny in BC.

OPEN NOTE TO
PREMIER KING

Proof that Canadian boys fight-
ing for Spain’s democracy are
closely following the political situ-
ation in their homeland, is fur-
nished by the following letter re-
ceived by “Friends of the Mac-
kenzie-Papineau battalion in
Spain,” 929 Bay street, Toronto:

Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion,
Lincoln Brigade,
17 Point 1 Albacete, Spain.

Q@pen Letter to the
Prime Minister of Canada;

We, the French-Canadians fight-
ine the Fascists in Spain, demand
of you that pressure be brought to
bear upon Premier Duplessis of
the Province of Quebec to discard
the padlock law he uses to sag the
people of our province.

We are sire that in such a mis-
sion the people of Canada would
support you as they supported
your grandfather in 1837.

We salute the memory of Wil-
liam Lyon Mackenzie, Louis Papi-
neau and Pierre Bedard, who
fought for the liberty of our peo-
ple. We, the descendants of the
Quebec patriots were born to be
ready at any time to fight traitors
like Franco and his kind.

We in the Mackenzie-Papineau
battalion and all anti-Pascist fight-
ers swear to double our enersy in
the struggle against Fascism here
in Spain and at home in Ganada

From the front line trenches we
assure you that Fascism shail not
pass.

Wours for the defeat of Fascism.

JOSEPH T. BEDARD.

nn
n

OL’ BILL

Mrs.
Addresses 4.

Wanted.

Campbell and
Stewart, who
made donations to
the Ol’ Bill quota in
the recent Press Drive, are asked
to send in their addresses as there
are photos of Ol’ Bill at the of-
fice for them.

Political officers —

Political are an innoya-
Commissars, ton in military

forces sincs
1917.

In the Red Armies of the
Soviet Union and China and the
Loyalist militia defendine democ-
racy in Spain, their function is
to inspire the fighters, to be at
the most dangerous positions, to
act aS vanguard leaders in all ths
pinches and to raise the political
level of their fellows. To fill that
job well means that they must at
all times be in full view and their
purpose be known to everybody.
Such an one was Ralph Fox; Bob
Kerr is another.

Fascist armies have their peli-
tical service too. But how differ-
ent! Over 100 documents, out of
2000 captured from the defeated
Fascists in the Guadalajara battle,
were placed before the League of
Nations by del Vayo, the Spanish
representative, at its recent ses-
sion. One of these, “Document 37,”’
is an order signed by the Fascist
General Coppi on Feb, 11 this year.
It reads: 5

“It is mecessary to establish
political services for every com-
pany. Carefully selected personnel
must be used for this service, who
should not be Known to anyons
and should be men in whose faith-
fulness and secrecy complete con-
fidence can be reposed. Their func-
tions are to watch and listen and
make detailed reports on every-
thing. I haye reasons for believing
that subversive cells and agents
provocateurs exist ins the region
whose mission is to make defeat-
ist propaganda among the troops.
It is necessary to be vigilant in
order to know everything—both
what the soldiers think and what
the peasants think. For this rea-
son the chosen personnel must
frequent canteens, meeting places,
taverns and inns, and listen to
everything said therein.” .

Thus stands out the difference
between two systems, one upright
in the sunlight, the other cowering
in the sewer!

eee

z 3 ome oubt has
Expleitation been expressed
Through by a reader about
Murder. the correctness of

the statement
made in thiS column a few weeks
ago that the clothing manufac-
turers in New York hire thugs and
gangsters to murder trade union
leaders; he thinks they are not
so brutal as that statement im-
plies. Well, it was quite a long

time ago and it would be difficult _

to lay hands on positive proof at
this time, but here is some recent
news that may dispel such doubts,

Two months ago a committee of
the US Senate, the Lafollette
Liberties Committee, collected evi-
dence from coal operators and
their hirelinges in Harlan County,
Kentucky, in which they admitted
under oath that thousands of dol-
lars were paid to a deputy-sheriff
named Unthank to be used to pre-
vent unionization of the Kentucky
coalfields.

George S. Ward, secretary of the

Harlan County Coal Operators’
Association admitted that Un-
thank’s wages as sheriff, $150 a

month, were paid by the Associa-
tion and that of the thousands of
dollars paid to him no accounting
was demanded nor was he asked
who his assistants were. The
money was to be spent in dealing
with CIO organizers who had ‘in-

yvaded’ Harlan County.
Three of the thugs told the
Committee how they had been

given 15 sticks of dynamite by
“on officer of the Harlan County
€oal Operators’ Association and
told to blow up a veteran organizer
of the UMWA, 72-year-old Law-
rence Dwyer.”

Dwyer was living in the Parrot
Hotel, Pineville, at the time and,
although the dynamiters did their
best, they only succeeded in blow-
ing out the side of the building,
their intended victim escaping:
with only a few scratches. Dwyer
told the Committee he “had been
ambushed so many times, I can't
recall them all.’’

This evidence is to be found in
the American press about the
middle of April and will be acces-
sible to anyone who desires to
know more about it when the La-
Wollette Committee makes its Te-
port to the Senate. The clothing
bosses are no less brutal than the
Harlan County Coal Operators and
this evidence proves that the capi-
talists are not averse to using
murder as a2 means to ensure the
most intense form of exploitation
of the workers—of all workers.

Secret Arms For
French Fascists

A mysterous traffic in arms be-
tween Italy and Switzerland has
been covered up by the Swiss po-
lice, but it is now common kEnowl-
edge that the weapons were sent
from Italy with the approval or
connivance of Italian officials,
and that the destination of these
weapons was not rebel Spain, but
the Fascist parties of Jacques
Doriot and Count De la Rocque
in France.

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