| Loyalists Have 500,000 Men Western Canada’s Leading Progressive ‘The People’s Advocate Newspap er VANCOUVER, B.C., JUNE 18, 1937 EC ML Canadian Soar b Profits y 14 Pct. Boom Stimulated by War Preparations Brings Golden Harvest to Canadian Big Business But Little to Workers TORONTO, Ont., June 17.—Canadian corporations will roll into the coffers of the rich a greater total of dividends this month than during any estimates made here. The Fin June in history, according to ancial Post’s compilation shows that 88 companies will] disburse a total of $70,000,000 or some 14.71 per cent more than for the same month Jast year. Corporations getting the cream of the business are those benefitting from the stepped-up price of gold, from war orders, and from higher prices as in the case of bakeries and chain stores. imperial Oil and subsidiaries will be responsible for $34,750,000 of the total. Another heavy contributor is International Nickel which hag upped its dividend rate 66 2-3 per cent during the past year, making a difference of $3,000,000 annually. wake Shore Mines is paying out a monus of $2,000,000 above the divi_ dend rate of a year ago and Hudson Bay Mining has increased its divi- dend rate 50 per cent. Aluminum, racing nickel in im- portance as a war material Jis doing nicely so Aluminum td. is paying off $3.50 a share on arrears. Bark- er's Bread is in the money since bread prices were jacked up and Loblaw Groceries are going in for bonuses on both their A and B Stock. As always during a saturnalia of dividend distributions among the rich, their spending is reflected in the roaring business done by the distilleries and brewers. Evidence of this is already at hand in the payment of an initial dividend of 30 cents on Melchers preferred stock and the start of dividends at the rate of 15 cents on common Shares of Reinhardt Brewery. Asks Removal Of General Supplied French Fascists With Government Planes PARIS, France; June 17. — The newspaper Paix et Liberte demands removal of Chief of Police Mar- chand as an enemy of the republic and of the French workine people. He was responsible for police bru- talities at Clichy last Mareh, The newspaper also demands dis- missal of the reactionary General Denain, who supplied the Croix de Feu with government planes at a subsidy which amounted to 45 per cent of the purchase price. General Denain paid an unauth- orized visit to Mussolini during the later’s sojourn in Libya. GENUINE: KITCHEN RANGE AND WATER HEATERS Manufactured only by LEADER BURNERS at RAY’S PATTERN WORKS 323 Alexander Ave., Vancouver Phone: Doug. 390 News Guild Decides To Join CIO Delay Motion Deteated By Big Vote By DOUGLAS JACOBS. ST. LOUIS, June 17.— (@P)—The American Newspaper Guild voted overwhelmingly on the second day of its convention here to join forces With the Committee for Industrial Organization and open its member- Ship to newspaper employees in the business, circulation and adyvertisine= departments. The yote, 11816 to 18%. came after attempts to delay action by a membership referendum had been defeated. A motion to consider CIO affiliation and jurisdiction over non- editorial employes separately was also voted down. There was no serious opposition to the international executive board recommendation to enter the CIO. When Carl Randau, president of the New York Guild, moved to “formu- late a constitutional provision for widening guild jurisdiction to Dbusi- ness, circulation, advertising and other unorganized newspaper work- ers, in order that the American Newspaper Guild may make applica- tion for formal affiliation with the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion,” the ensuing argument was concerned almost entirely with the question of whether immediate ac- tion Should be taken on broadening the membership base. Several of the delesates had not been instructed on the latter issue, and others had been instruct- ed to vote for CIO affiliation, but against taking in the office and ad- vertising employes. President Heywood Broun said that CIO affiliation and broadened jurisdiction go logically together, that you don’t go to a restaurant and order first corned beef and later cabbage_ The Washington and Indianapolis representatives led the fight for a referendum, while New York City, Cleveland and northern California members declared that delay was dangerous, and that the convention Was a democratically - constituted assembly, with full authority to take action. In the last 12-month period, the Guild has doubled its membership. In May, 1936, the guild had 5600 dues-paying members. That figure has reached 11,000 to date. From April, 1936, to April, 1937, the num- ber of locals grew from 56 to S8— with ten more receiving charters sinee April. Iowa Refuses To Expel CIO Miners SIOUX CITY, Iowa, June 17.— (FPP) — Voting 349 to 3, the Iowa State Federation of Labor conyen- tion refused to obey the order of President William Green of the American Federation of Labor to ex- pel unions affiliated with the Com- mittee for Industrial Org2nization. POPULAR FRONT GROWS. MANILLA, P.I., June 9.—A Popu- lar Front moyement is developing in the Philippines in opposition to the Fascist trends of the Quezon zgov- ernment. Summer BOOK SALE Sune ath to June 26th Man Changes His Skin (B. Jasien Land Lord and Peasant in China Civil War in the Taiga (I. Strod), reg. 25c China’s Red Army Marches (A. Smedley), reg. $1.60 .. Days With Lenin (Maxim Gorki), important—For the convenience tomers the store is now being ke to 10 p.m. six days per week. ski), reg. 2.00 Sale $1.25 (Chen Hanseng), reg. $2.00 -$1.00 Fes SSA yen SS Sale 15¢ ..Sale 51.00 reg. 25c Sale 15¢ of our library members and cus- pt open continuously from 9 a.m. NEW AGE BOOKSHO 350 W. Pender St. Phone Trin. 5753 Writers Form League After N.Y. Congress Make Common Cause ‘With the Labor Movement PLAYWRIGHT PRESIDENT By JOSEPH GOLLOMB. INEIW: YORK == “(WP) == Writers made common cause with labor, and with the world movement against Fascism, when, meeting at New York, they created a national body, the League of American Writ- ers, consisting of six regional £roups. Donald Osden Stewart, Hollywood playwright and humorist, was elect- ed president. Support of the anti-Fascist fight in Spain was a keynote of the con- §ress. Archibald Macieish, chair- Man of the opening meeting, de- clared that the Spanish anti-Fascists “are fighting our future battle in the battlefields of Spain now.” Four hundred novelists, dramat- ists, poets and critics attended the congress, which embraced the West- ern Writers’ Congress and regional Sroups in the middle west, middle Atlantie states, New England, south- west and the south. The sessions opened with a mass meeting in Carnegie Hall, at which 3000 attended and another thousand were turned away for lack of room. Ernest Hemingway, novelist, made the first speech in his career and declared himself actively in the fight against Wascism. Other writers who spoke on the Same platform and to the same ef- fect were Walter Duranty, Moscow correspondent of the New York Times, and Stewart. Greetings From Spain. Greetings to the congress voicing agreement with its views came from Dr. Albert Einstein, a Sroup of waiters fighting in the trenches in Spain and from heads of labor or- Sanizations. Later the writers met in closed Sessions to discuss problems affect- ing writers more specifically, but always the dominant theme was how the writer is to establish a vital contact with the main currents Of social and economic events to- day, especially with the upsurge of labor organization amon= American workers. ] Malcolm Cowley, literary editor of the New Republic, was elected league delegate to the international congress of writers in Madrid on June 20, which will hold its sessions literally under fire. The writers went back to their homes under instruction to enter as individuals and egsroups whatever labor struggle is closest. A national eouncil will watch events from headquarters in New York and mob- ilize component parts of the league in similar campaigns that require nation-wide action. Secret Radio Stirs Italy Authorities Unable To Trace Anti-Fascist Station MILAN, Italy.—(By mail.)—Ttaly, as well as Germany, has a secret broadeasting station, which the authorities would dearly love to dis- cover and silence. It specializes in spreading news about the anti.Fasc- ist struggle in Spain and the ac- tions~ of Mussolini’s government. The broadcast of the Valencia and Barcelona stations are also listened to eagerly and spread widely. The Fascist Corriere Istriano has published an official warning against listening to such broadcasts and this has been followed up by an “unofficial’’ recurrence of terror. Wandering gangs of Fascists, armed with clubs and castor oil, mal- treat any suspect of listening to anti-Fascist stations as well as work- ers wearing red ties or any article of red as part of their clothing. The club and the castor oil are symptomatic of the growing unrest induced by the rise in the cost of living, which is greater than offi- cial admissions, and by the sacri- fices in Spain. OPPOSE VON NEURATH VISIT. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia.—Several thousand students and workmen demonstrated here last week against the visit of Baron von -Neurath, German foreign minister. Chased by the police they ran through the streets shouting ““Down with Fasc- ism! Long live liberty!’ A HITS AT PRE Asks Duplessis to State Labor Aims Insurgent Union Nationale Memb er Declares Labor Labor Will Fight for Rights, Will Not Tolerate Any Form of Fascism MONTREAL, Que., June Candide Rochefort, to Prime Minister CCF Attack On Baker Rapped Buck Says Article In Alta Paper Distorted An editorial] attack by the Al- berta People’s: Weekly, CCE paper on Rey. Edwin Baker, Communist candidate in the recent British Co- lumbia elections, was this week branded by Tim Buck, secretary of the Communist Party of Canada, as founded on untruths and distortions. Referring to the Communist Can- didate, the editorial states that “‘the fact that he was a clergyman was exploited for all it was worth.” “Phis,"" Tim Buck pointed out, “Is rather misleadine. The Rey. Ead- win Baker was first popularized by. the CCF itself. He was nominated as Communist candidate under his own hame, Rey. Edwin Baker, and as such conducted his whole cam- paign.”’ The People’s Weekly then alleses that although Baker ‘was nom- inated by the Communists as a Communist candidate, his desiena- tion was changed to that of ‘“Peo- ple’s Candidate.” “Rey. Baker was nominated as a Communist candidate,” the Com- munist leader stated, “and conduct- ed his campaign as the Communist candidate. Then the editorial goes on to relate that Baker's ‘‘committee rooms were decorated with flags and at coronation time with pic- tures of the kine and queen.”’ “Absolutely untrue,’ declared Tim Buck, “There were no such pictures or flags or decorations. As a matter of fact, during the coronation per- iod a huge banner was extended from the committee rooms to the building across the street calling on the people to vote for our can- didate.”’ Protest Mooted US Appointment NEW YORK, June 17. — (FP) — Widespread protest has been arousea among liberal sroups by the report that Jefferson Catfey may be ap- pointed US ambassador to Brazil. His imperialistic record in Cuba and Columbia has made him so hated in Latin America that last year when there was tall of sending him to Mexico, the unions threatened a gen- eral strike. dictatorship will never be toler insurgent Union Nationale member of the provincial government, last week threw out a challenge Duplessis to make public his stand on the international trade-union movement in the province. a 17.—Declaring that a Fascist ated in the province of Quebec, Speaking at a trade union rally in Shawinigan, Mr. Rochefort declared that what is needed at the present moment is not Fascism, but an equitable distribution of things and the control of the trusts. “The international unions,” he Said, “are determined to fight those who will attempt in any possible way to force upon the people a real or disguised Fascism, Just as they will not tolerate the establishment of a Hascist dictatorship in our proy- ince. They do not like those laws of a Fascist tendency which permit the government to exercise control over the workers.”’ Condemn Tivo Acts. The laws referred to are the two acts recently passed by the pro- vineial fovernment entitled respec- tively, An Act Respectin= Work- men’s Wages and the Fair Wages Act. Both of these have been con- demned by the trade union move- ment as containing the germs off corporation and the totalitarian state. Chinese Back People’s Front ‘Spanish Struggle Ours,’ Says Red Army Leader PEIPING, China, June 17.—“‘Chin- ese soldiers of the Red Army are burning with a desire to fight the Hascist invaders of Spain,” Mao Tse- Tung, famous Chinese Communist Jeader and Soldier, told the North China Star in a recent interview. “The Chinese people are backing the people’s front in Spain,’ de- clared Mao Tse-Tung, “because Spain’s fight is also the fight of oppressed China.” The Chinese people’s leader out- lined the similarities between the difficulties facing the Spanish peo- ple and those which the Chinese Red Army. is confronted with. He .con- eluded with an expression of con- fidence in the ultimate victory of both nations. : Besides the North China Star 100 Chinese newspapers and periodicals the Spanish People’s Front. Dismissed For Loyalist Views PARIS, France, mander Tenrreiro, under-secretary in the ministry of marine in the Portugese Sovernment, has been dis- missed from his Post because of his sympathies with the Spanish Loyal- ists. June 27.—Com- Complete Union Shop For Movies By JOHN R Hollywood Strike Ends In Victory For Union - CHAPLIN, HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 17 — (FP) — The six-weeks’ movie strike ended in complete victory for the Federated Motion Picture Crafts, whose members went back to work last week-end under terms of an agreement Signed by Pat Casey, representing the producers. Painters, scenic artists and others resumed work under conditions as of | 2mployes. April 4, with the understanding that | recently the 100 per cent union shop will be in effect by July 1. All seabs were fired. Makeup men and hairdressers gain the same conditions, but a jurisdiec- tional vote is to be held under labor beard supervision between present locals of the International Brother hood of Painters and the Interna- tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage As the yoters have so been on strike, under the leadership of the brotherhood, it is expected the vote will be for the Painters rather than for the non- Striking TATSE. Working conditions and Wages are to be negotiated. The VOLE TO. ac- cept the settlement was virtually unanimous on the part of all crafts. The federation gets no formal rec- de- ognition, as such, but did not mand this. APOLLO CAFE 28 West Cordoya St. OYSTER AND CHOP HOUSE $4.50 Meal Ticket for $4.00 THEO. ANGELL Prop. in a copyright dispatch. are giving whole-hearted support to’ New Drive Is Launched By CIO Unions Machinery, Metal Trades To Be Covered NEW YORK, June 17. — (BP) — Covering: every section of the ma- chinery and metal working trades, four Committee for Industrial Or- Sanization unions have launched a drive to organize 1,000,000 US and Canadian workers in these indus- tries. The four groups are the United Filectrical and Radio Workers of America, the Steel Workers Organ- izing Committee, the United Auto- mobile Workers of America and the Industrial Union of Marine and Ship- building Workers of America. Granting 12 charters and full membership to 10,000 former mem- bers of the International ASsocia- tion of Machinists, the URE RW Seneral executive board names Jas. J. Matles, former TAM Srand lodge representative who led the move- ment into the CIO, director of or- Sanization. A “drive to organize 5005000 workers who have been placed in the jurisdiction of the UBERW will be launched by Matles. President Jas. Carey of the UEE&RW announced that, after a conference with other CIO unions, his organization was Ziven jurisdic- tion over Machinery and metal trades products, except where they. are part of the industrial setup of steel, autos or Shipbuilding, or in the railroads where the IAM is stronely organized. Japan Gains Iron Fields Rich Australian Deposit Is Obtained By Subterfuge MELBOURNE, Australia, June 17. —Intense irritation is developing in Australia over the manipulations by which Japan has acquired con- trol over vast iren fields in Yampi Sound on the northwest coast. Brasserts Limited) aceordins to the Melbourne Workers’ Voice, were paid to lend Japan their respectable British name to appear on the lease and cover the mining= operations. A direct and open lease to the Jap- anese company would have shaken the Lyons government. The islands in the sound extend a distance of 35 miles, and consti- tute an immensely rich iron deposit. Without any attempt at under- sround surveys, an estimated quan- tity of 100,000,000 tons of ore is in sight from the tops of the hills to the sea level . the full mas- nitude of the field cannot be esti- mated, but the deposit is consider- €d to be one of the largest and richest in the world.” The device by which Brasserts were paid to provide a British fac- ade for the operations of Japanese capital is a deception common to capitalist commerce. MORE JOBS IN FRANCE. PARIS, France.—The French min- ister of labor, Iebas, announces that employment in those indus- tries which have already adopted the forty-hour week is 103,717 high- er than last year. ‘eady Plan Offensive On All Fronts Indalecio Prieto, War Minister, Declared New Trained, Well-Equipped Army of Half Million Men Will Sweep Fascists Into Sea VALENCIA, Spain, June 17..-The Spanish Government will soon throw a powerful People’s Army of 500,000 men into the field in a smashing offensive on all fronts, Minister of Defence Indalecio Prieto this week told the United Press ® On the Cordoba front an initial offensive is already in progress. With superiority in man power held by the Loyalists since the out- break of the uprising, the Loyalists are now training and equippins what was once a courageous but disorganized mass of raw militia- men. Prieto has had a brilliant record as the key man in the war machine built up by the Spanish Republic in the war against the invading Fas- cist armies and the insurgents. Great progress had been made in the People’s Army in the almost four weeks since he took command. Prieto’s Statement, made after a Series of conferences ‘with the highest Loyalist commanders in the field, says: “Iam a full pacifist. But it has been my aim, in this national emer- gency, to create a great, powerful army capable of defending demo- cratic Spain from the military su- perior highly mechanized army of our opponents. “The need was to transform into such an army a mass of men pos- sessing much personal courage but lacking the full military efficiency needed to gain a decisive victory. “We are rapidly making this force of ours disciplined and irresistible, so that it may hasten the victory for our ideals and, bringing the war to an end, to insure our country absolute peace. “I must stress the point that in numbers our effectives are greatly superior to those of our enemy. : “We are rapidly approaching the Stage in which we shall be techni- cally superior also. Our effectives will soon total more than half 4 million. We also are preparing a great number of specialists—avi_ ators, artillery experts, engineers, dynamiters, radio telegraphers, bridge builders—with capable offi- cers to lead them.” = Prieto added that the Loyalist navy will soon be increased in Size and striking power. Deutschlande Fired First PARIS, France, June 17. —Ac- cording to a report in Le Matin, Paris pro-Fascist daily, a member of the crew of the Deutschland. bombing of which by Loyalist planes was made the excuse for bombardment of Almeria by Nazi Warships, has admitted that the Deutschland fired on the planes first with her anti-aircraft funs, It has been established that the Deutschland had no legal right to be in the rebel-held Port of Ibiza, which is in a section not assigned to the German navy for patrol. Nor Was the London committee ever informed by the German govern- ment that the Deutschland Was in Spanish waters on patrol duty, the Nazi pocket-warship having been in Spanish waters Tong before in- troduction of the patrol. Army Chief eleomed. VALENCIA, Spain, June 17.—Coj. Rojo, new chief of the Spanish gen- eral staff, has been welcomed to Valencia by the people as the right man for the job, He jis military technician of great value and gave valuable assistance during the de- fense of Madrid. Formerly a pro- fessor at the military academy in Toledo, he was also previously at- tached to the feneral staff of the Central Republican Army. DENTISTS LLEWELLYN Dr. R. Douglas Phone Sey. 5577 Corner Richards and Hastings . } A e se e e Semi-Display Classified \ { SCOTT BROS. MT. PLEASANT Groceries, Provisions ‘Fruits, B I L L I A R D H A L L Vegetables — Tobacecos and and BARBER SHOP : Cigarettes aie ee an Seeker Supplies 801 E. 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