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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, June 25, 1937

Trotskyism and the CCF

F ANYONE had doubts as to the penetra-
| Boats of the CCF by the Trotskyists, the
June 17th issue of The Federationsst, official
organ of the CCF in British Columbia, should
remove them. In that one issue there is an ar
ticle from the pen of Angus Melnnis, M.P., 1
which he ranges himself—and Ive ff edera-
tionist—alongside the Vancouver Sun, the
Province and the News-Herald and all other
enemies of the Soviet Union in bemoaning the
execution of spies and traitors.

He affects to be surprised that there can Pos
sibly be spies and traitors working against the
building of socialism and for the restoration of
capitalism. Because they are able men, he can=
not believe they would do such things. But
Hitler and his kind do not make agents out of
stupid men. MelInnis makes the false claim
that it was such men who built all that has
been accomplished in the Soviet Union. N oth-
ing is further from the truth. The people who
led in the building of socialism and the masses
who accepted their leadership are the people
who are not going to permit the Trotskyist
seum to undo all that has been done, and are
rooting them out and exterminating them. —

All the expressions of doubt and suspicion
that has been spread hx the Nazi press, by the
Trotskyist and capitalist press are trotted out
once more by MeInnis—the “secrecy of the

trials, the doubt as to their guilt, the speed.
with which they were brought to justice and
shot, ete. And from this he goes on to suggest
that there is no democracy in the Soviet Union,
that Stalin and the Communist Party are be
coming afraid of the masses, and comes to the
anti-Marsist conclusion that. the dictatorship
of the proletariat is not necessary im the build-
ine of socialism. :

Melnnis wants to know if the execution of
traitors is an indication of what Communist
Parties would do in other countries when capi
talism is overthrown. We-can assure McInnis
and all others who sympathize wath the dead
and living traitors, and whose tears mingle
with those of Hitler over their just fate, that
that is precisely what will happen. 5

The article closes with a sneering suggestion
of the need for a United Front in the Soviet
Union. They already have a united front there,
a united front of 180 millions of free people
who are micghcy enough to fake care of the
Hitlerist-Trotskyist gangs ot criminals. But

there is another

One Year

united front in the Soviet
Union, a united front of Trotskyist renegade
traitors with remmants of the old capitalist re-
gime and the agents of Japanese imperialism
and Hitler's Gestapo, a united front of reac
tion, assassination, wrecking and espionage.
Tt seems out of place, to say the least, for a
man in McInnis’ position who consistently
opposes a united front against reaction here in
Canada, to propose a united front in the Soviet
Union for the protection of the worse enemies
of socialism and the working-class of the world.

Even worse than the Melnnis article is one
reprinted from the New Leader of London,
England, and written by John Alpin, a Trots-
Iyist. The writer openly. supports the Trotsky-
ist party in Spain (POUM) and justifies the
rebellion at the rear im Bareelona which was
instisated, organized and led by Trotskyists 1
collaboration with Uncontrollables, Anarchists
and Franco’s Fifth Column.

Alpin distorts history and tries to draw a
parallel of the Bolshevik party during the
Kerensy regime in Russia and the Trotskyist
party in Spain today. He tries to compare the
government of March-November in Russia
with the government of Spain. Im this way
he justifies the assistance giyen to Franco and.
international fascism by the POUM, as if the
historical stage ni Russia in 1997 was the same
as the stage of development in Spain today.
Tn Russia they were advancing from the bour-
geois-demoecratic revolution to the socialist revo-
lution, whereas in Spain they are fighting
against the counter-revolution and faseist re-
action which if victorious would wipe out all
the gains made in the advance from semi-
feudalism to modern bourgeois parliamentary
democracy. ;

Tn Russia during the Kerensky regime while
the Bolsheviks were preparing the advance to
the overthrow of capitalism, they nevertheless
assisted the government in beating back the
counter-revolutionaries who who seeking a re-
turn of Tsarism. ‘The beating of the attempt
of the Tsarist Korniloff is a case in point.
But the Trotskyists organized in POUM are
not assisting in defeating the counter-reyolu-
tionary Franco and his fascist cohorts, but are
definitely and directly assisting them, all under
eover of left-revolutionary phrasemongerine
and calling for a proletarian revolution when
the situation calls now tor the defeat ot fascist
reaction. Thus does 7’he Federationist use its
columns to throw dust into the eyes of the
people and assist fascist reaction and counter-
reyolution.

The articles by McInnis and Alpin are not
all the rotten Trotskyist anti-unity, anti-Spain
and anti-Soviet Union propaganda in the June
17th issue of The Hederationst. There is a
letter by a Trotskyist who gloats over his resist-
ance to the building of a popular front against
reaction because it is “a form of capitalism,”
and a clumsy attempt at humor jn an aleged
interview with a bear called Trotsky. In this
sereed the Trotskyist agents of Hitler who were
shot are referred to as “>eds” and the claim
made that if all the traitors are shot there will
be no more reds in the Soviet Union.

The Federatiomst 11 providing a medium
of expression to the Trotskyists 1s not express-
ine the will of the ank and file of the CCF.
There have been many protests sent jn trom
clubs and members to the provincial executive

-@ain an inerease in wages

against The Federationist being used by the
JTrotskyists and made to serve the interests of
reaction. Lhe June 17 issue in particular is a
standing disgrace to any organization or party
of the working class. The CCF membership
knows that its editor, Don Smith, is a Trotsky-
ist, but the majority of the provincial execu-
tive tolerate and support him as they covered
up and condoned the spreading by Herguson
and other Trotskyists of the filthy leaflet slan-
dering the government of Spain. It is high
time that the CCF began a purge in its Own
ranks and cleans out the Trotskyist seum which
is blackening its name and disgracing it.

Over the Top!

HE Canadian people, with the exception

of a relatively small number, are in Syui-

pathy with and support the people of Spain in

their mighty struggle to prevent the yoke of

bloody fascism being placed on their necks.

The Canadian people know that the people of

Spain are fighting to preserve democracy

against fascism, and in so doing are defending

the rights and privileges of the people of
Canada as well.

Five hundred sons of Canada went to Spam
to assist in the great struggle. Some of them
have fallen. Others are being wounded. The
hard-pressed people’s government of Spain 1s
not in a position to furnish suiiicient care for
all these victims of Hitlers and Aussolini’s
murderous jnvasion. Io meet the crying need
for medical assistance to the members of the
Mackenzie-Papineau battalion the Communist
Party organized a campaign to raise sufficient
money to buy, equip and stati an ambulance to
be sent over to Spain.

The quota set for B.C. was $250, which
amount and more has already been raised. Phe
C.P. is continuing the eampaign until two am-
bulances will be sent. The splendid response
and co-operation of many people of various
shades of political belief and the rapidity with
which the quota was raised and inereased is
most encourage.

In addition to medical care the men of the
Mackenzie+ Papineau battalion need other
things, such as cigarettes, chocolates, toilet

articles, ete. Lo procure such necessities and
comforts the Friends of the Mackenzie-Papi-
neau battalion, with headquarters at 929 Bay
Street, Toronto, are collecting such articles and
money with which to buy more. It would be
better if the people of B.C. who wish to con-
tribute were to send money instead ot the
articles, thereby saving postal and express
charges.

The articles can be bought in Toronto and
placed on the ship svhich will soon leave for

Spain. :
Not only will the sending of such articles

add to the physical comfort of the men, but will
encourage and cheer them.

So rush money and goods to Friends of the
Mackenzie-Papineav. Battalion at 929 Bay St.,
Toronto, Ontario.

The Drive Toward Companu
Unionism
HE campaign against trade unionism, and
especially agaimst the unions affiliated
with the CIO, shows no signs of abatement.
Ture Apyocatr has repeatedly warned against
the persistent attacks against “foreign” unions
and “foreign agitators,” attacks inspired and
paid for by the employers, native and foreien,
for the purpose of preparing the ground for
“co-operative (company ) unions” throughout
British Columbia.

Only a few months ago Mr. Blaylock, boss

slave-driver in Trail, B.C. addressed a large -

eathering of fellow exploiters in Vancouver on
what a great thing his company union was, how
he had secured “peace in industry” and how
satisfied the workers are with the set-up. The
latest to extol the “benefits” of the company
ynion in Trail is the reactionary Tanancial
Post, Canada’s leading organ of finance capital.

Tn the Cariboo the miners jorganized in a
union affiliated with the CLO, are on strike to
and improvement
of working conditions.

Throuch the boss-controlled press and over
the radio, the mining barons have been con-
ducting a campaign of lies, misrepresentation
and slander against the miners. Their latest
stunt was au attempt to set up a “eo-operative’
union to break the strike and destroy the real
union.

Every worker who has worked in Trail
Inows what the company union is, how its
officers and committees are hand-picked by the
management, and that it is an auxiliary of the
company to prevent genuine trade unionism,
spy on the workers, inerease the speed-up and
intensify exploitation.

The company union is a curse and must be
fought relentlessly by the workers wherever and
whenever the bosses try to set one up- The
workers of Trail have strugeled for years to
get rid of the Blaylock-controlled organization.
Tt has been kept in existence by means ok 1D-
timidation aud discrimination, but its end is
not far off.

The miners in the Cariboo should watch
closely and deteat all efforts toward imposing
the company-organized fake union upon them.

ni

More Truth Than Poetry Department: “Al-
though Sir Edward Beatty is not announcing
too much prematurely, the advices received
here from Londen are that matters are well
framed up for such assistance to the projected
Pacific services to the Antipodes as will meet
formidable United States competition. —
Daily Province.

The Daily Province is boasting ot the British
National government’s victory in the Chelten-
ham by-election. Well, wed be pretty aston-
‘shed too, if Shaughnessy Heights voted Labor.

“A dvertisine’s biggest forthcoming problem
is what to do about the Dionnes. What if only
one really jikes Quaker Oats and each of the
others preters her own breakfast food? What
sf four out of five hate Lysol? Whatait only one
likes Wrigley’s ?’—Mark O7*Dea, New York
advertising’ man.

Letters From Spain

URING the past two or three months the People’s
ters from British Columbia members of the

famous International Brigade.

HrHER NELESON, form-
erly an organizer in the
Relief Project Workers union,
writes from Albacete, head-
quarters of the battalion:
“Since I left Vancouver I
have not had much time to
write to anyone because
there is so much to do and so
much to learn that one be-
grudges the time given to
anything not absolutely es-
sential.

“But our chief politico tells me
I am duty bound to write to the
paper, so here goes.

“There is no need for me to
stress the things at stake in this
struggle. You know them as well
as I do. But I must repeat that
there can be no neutral stand by
the workers and progressive follx
of Canada on the question of driy-
ins the WaScists from Spanish soil.

“T have not been up at the front
yet and can therefore sive no opin-
jon based on first hand experiences
of the front.

“Until recently the Canadian
comrades here have been merged
with the American and- British
battalions, some in training and
some at the front. But lately Cana-
dian companies haye been formed

«(now merged in the Mackenzie-
Papineau Battalion—Ed.) and the
boys give promise of being great
representatives of the people of
Canada in this armed strugsle for
liberty.

“Tt sure is a great joy to see the
workers of all nations rallying for
the defense of the hard-earned
rights of their comrades in Spain.
And it is a joy equally as great
to see the Spanish folk on the

n - Because of wide public
the Spanish people against Fascism.
Bethune and the staff of the Canadian medical
playing a prominent part, we reprint below ex tracts

move to unite not only their own
forces against the invaders, but
giving the alarm to the whole
world. How they do move!

“Sure and confident, they solve
one tremendous problem after an-
other, both on the field of battle
and in social and economic affairs.

“J will try and tell you a little
of our lives here.

“Hor the present I am attending
a school organized and run by the
International Brigade. The life
here moves at a faster tempo than
in the ordinary training camp and
you have to be on your toes from
morning fill night if you don’t
want to fall behind in your les-
sons. @f course, we indulge in a
siesta during the hot part of the
day—an old Spanish custom, you
know—and I find it an agreeable
one.

“The lessons cover all the as-
pects of modern wartare, besides
language study, political and cul-
tural lectures. When there is a
little time to spare we have lots
of singing. We also haye a can-
teen where wine of various sorts
from champagne to malaga is
served, but regulations in regard
to drinking are Strict, although
not unreasonable.

“The food is plentiful and nour-
ishing, but without any faney trim-
mings, such as pie and cake, but
we have lots of fresh fruit.

“Naturally, the bulk of our time
jis taken up by battalion and com-
pany manoeuvres.

“Altogether, there 1s nothing:
here in our present lives that, a
worker who has been used to or-
ganized activity in the movement
at home cannot easily accustom
himself to. It is a matter of
Jearming new tactics and they are

Advocate has received a number of let-
Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, a section of the
interest and sympathy in the struggle of
in which struggle Canada, as represented by Dr. Norman
unit and the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, 1s
from a few

of these letters.—E ditors.

being learned.

“Spain is a beehive of learning
and general preparedness.

“God help the Fascists, for it
won't be long now.”

*

CCOMPANYING the

following letter from Pat
MW.Guire at Albacete was a
copy of “Ihe Volunteer for
Inberty,” Vol. 1, No. 1, organ
of the International Brigade,
_“Thought maybe you'd
like a line or two from this
side.

“Joe Kelly, our old or-
ganizer for the RP'WU, is at
the front with the British
boys. Bob Kerr has come
back from the front and is a poli-
tical commissioner. He’s the right
guy for the job. Taffy Skinner is
with the Tom Mooney battalion.
I don’t know is he’s up at the
front or not. I was with him for
a short time.

“Wow, to come to the glad tid-
ings. Pete Neilson, ex-assistant
editor of the RP WU paper is, along
with myself, at an officers’ train-
ing school.

“Pete told me the other day he’d
like to be up against a bunch of
Mounties fighting for Franco. Lf
don’t think his wish will be real-
jzed. Too bad for the Mounties!

‘When a few of us from Van-
couver get together over here we
like to sit around and talk about
old times and wonder how the
RPWU and the SUPA are coming
along.

“Tf you organize against Fasc-
ism in Ganada, we'll do our best
here. It’s open season on Fascists
in this’ country. Salud.”

Professor Schmidt, at
46, Famous Explorer

HE great air expedition
to the North Pole marks
another brilliant victory for
Academician O. J. Schmidt,
outstanding Soviet polar ex-
plorer who became famous
throughout the world during
the heroic Chelyuskin epi-
sode.
Schmidt who is 46 years old be-

came an Arctic traveler and ex-
plorer comparatively recently. He,
himself, tells of this in “Lhe Voy-
age of the Ghelyuskin” (Vol. 1,
1934):

“Tn 1929, the Soviet government
decided to build a radio station and
a meteorological on

Franz Josef Land. An expedition
was equipped on the ice breaker
Sedov, and I was appointed chief,
with V. I. Voronin as captain of
the ice breaker. Professor R. L.
Samoilovich, Professor V. ¥. Wiese
and other Scientific workers par-
ticipated.

Moscow,

observatory

“As I had never before sailed in
the Arctic this voyage was an
‘arctic christening’ for me. Al-
though I had long been interested
in geosraphical exploration, I can-
not assert that my thoughts were
concentrated on the Arctic.

“Waving passed through the ice,
we reached Franz Josef land at
the end of July and solemnly rais-
ine the Soviet flag on it, we built
the first settlement there—a radio
station in Tranquility Bay. Not
limiting ourselves to the construc-
tion of the station, we crossed the
archipelago of Franz Josef Land
reaching a latitude of 82 deg. 14
min. north. At that time this was
a record for northern sailing in the
Buropean-Asiatie continent.”

In 1930, Sshmidt, again on the
ice breaker Sedov visited Franz Jo-
sef Land and from there directed
his course to Severnaya Zemlya.
Puring this voyage, considerable
changes were made in old maps
of the Arctic. The expedition dis-
covered new territory, including=
Wiese and Schmidt islands, and at
the same time made the discovery
that some islands marked on the

old maps were actually non-exis-
tent.
Favine reached Severnya Zem-

lya, Sehmidt here Janded a winter-
ing party headed by G. A -Usha-
kov, noted polar explorer and at
present chief of the Central Hy-
drometeorological Administration
under the Council of the USSR.
For two years the wintering party
carefully explored Severnaya Zem-
lya. which turned out to be a large
archipelago, and recorded its exact
position on the map-

These achievements of Soviet ex-
peditions in the Arctic permitted
Schmidt, after preparatory meas-
ures, to raise the question of ex-
ploring the Northern Sea Route
alone its entire leneth—from Mur-
mansk and Archangel to Bering
Strait with outiet to Petro-
pavlovsk-on-Kamchatka and on te
Wiadivostok—trom the point of
view of its Suitability for regular
commercial exploitation.

rabat

The distance from the shores of
Jeurope to Berine Strait aS

ered for the first time in 1878-1
by the Norwesian explorer WNorden-
skjold, but he was foreed to spend
one winter en route. In 1918, the
Norwesian explorer Amundsen

PROFESSOR SCHMIDT

—

was forced to spend two winters
en route.

In 1922,
the breaker Sibiryakoy, mnot-
withstanding very difficult condi-
tions, made the voyage from Arch-
angel to the Pacific Ocean around
the northeast shores of the USSR
in one nayigation season, for the
first time In history.

however, Schmidt on

ice

This daring feat of the polar ex-
plorers evoked great enthusiasm,
and leaders of the government and
the party warmly greeted the par-
ticipants of the yoyage, who were
awarded Orders.

Upon the return of the Sibirya-
koy voyagers to Moscow ,the Cen-
tral Administration of the North-
erm Sea Route under the Council
of People’s Commissars of the
USSR, was established and Os:
Schmidt was appointed its chief.

In 1933, the Northern Sea Route
Administration sent 13 expeditions
to the Arctic. Among them, for
the first time in history, were 4
commercial expedition of three
freighters, headed by the ice
preaker IKrassin, which sailed to
the mouth of the Lena River, and
an expedition from Leningrad to
Wiladivostok on the ice preaker
Ghelyuskin which aimed to repeat
the voyage of the Sibiryakov.

The Chelyuskin, aS we know,
did not reach the Pacific Ocean,
but was crushed by the ice on

February 13, 1934, in the Chukotsk
Sea, Nevertheless, the expedition
by reaching Bering Strait azain
furnished proof of the possibility
of sailing through the Northern
Sea Route.

On returning to the mainland,
Schmidt, with the constant sup-
port of the Party and the govern-
ment, developed work on the
Northern Sea Route, concentrating
his attention chiefly on incorporat-
ing this great water route into the
national economy of the USSR AS
a result, 85 Ships in 1934 sailed in
the Arctic, transporting §0,000 tons
of freight without accidents oF
shipwrecks. That year, the entire
Jeneth of the Northern Sea Route
from east to west was covered in
navigation season by the ice
Litke.

Polar airplanes, carrying
scouting work for the ships,
2.773 hours in 1934, covering
than 400,000 km.

In the 1935 navigation

one
breaker
out
flew
more

season,

planned exploitation of the North-
ern Sea Route was started. More
than 100 ships carrying 230,000
tons of cargo plied the Arctic, ful-
filling the government plan 113
per cent. Through voyages along
the Northern Sea Route were made
that year by four ships, two from
west to east and two in the oppo-
site direction. An expedition to
high latitudes on the ice breaker
Sadko in 1935 collected scientific
data and established a world record
for sailing the Arctic,
82 des. 41 min, north lati-
1935, polar flyers studied
eight new $570
km. in length, and during the nine
months of the aviation Season in
the north covered 1,150,000 km.,
transporting passengers, cargo and

free in
reaching:
tude. In

Arctic airlanes,

mail and carrying out ice scout-
ing for the ships.
In the 1936 navigation season,

160 ships, including a fleet of 14
Which made a yoyage over the
entire Northern Sea Route from
west to east, sailed the Soviet
Aretic. The chief of this through
voyage was again ©. J. Sehmidt,
who sailed on the flagship Litke.
During that navigation season, the
ships transported more than 370,-
000 tons of freight (770 million ton-
miles). Polar planes flew 11,000
hours in 1936, covering a tota] dis-
tance of several million kilometers.

After the navigation season of
1936, the government awarded
Orders to 139 polar workers “for
persistence and devotion in fulfill-
ing a most important task in the
northern seas.””’ Among those re-
warded, was ©. J. Schmidt, who
this time received the Order of the
Red Banner of Labor.

In 1937, it is planned to bring
transport of cargo over the North-
ern Sea Route up to 1,000 million
ton-miles, and to double the num-
ber of hours flown by the airplanes
of the Northern Sea Route Admin-
istration.

Along with the work on the
mastery of the water and air
routes of the Far North, detailed
study and radical reconstruction
are made of the economic and cul-
tural life of this enormous terri-
tory lying beyond the 62nd parallel
and amounting to 48 per cent of
the entire territory of the Soviet
Union. Ports have been built in
Tearka and on Dickson Island,
while construction of ports is be-
ing completed at the mouths of
the Lena, Kolyma, Indigarka riv-
ers and at Providence Bay in the
Gering Sea,

The network of radio stations
and light-houses has been enlarged.

Coal bases providing fuel for all

ships sailing the Arctic seas have
been established.
been
and

a number of wharves

pared with 1933.
of deposits
valuable metals, coal and
minerals has been started.

In 1937, 578 million rubles were
the budget of the
Administra-
for developing work in the
Tar North. In 1936 this figure was
485 million rubles, while in 1933 it

assigned by
Northern Sea Route
tion

amounted to 45 million rubles.

Transport has
organized on Siberian myers
have
ben built. In 1936, the volume of
fur shipments was trebled as com-
The exploitation
of polymetallic ores,
other

By
OL’ BILL

The sense of shame
Let Us is supposed to be &
Be Joyful. human quality. Ex-

perience, with both
men and animals, however, has
proved that supposition to be short
of the truth. It is not possibile to
say whether wild animals are
blessed with this attribute of homo
sapiens, but it is an undoubted
fact that domesticated animals,
particularly dogs and horses, haye
acted on occasion in such a man-
mer as to show that they felt
“ashamed” of something they had
done.

Qn the other hand, there are
what purport to be human beings,
particularly among politicians,
both of the imperialist and pump-
handle variety, who never display
that quality at any time.

Any one whose memory is long
enough to reach back to the middie
of last year must have some def-
inite opinions about the Jubilee
frost, about the miserable failure
it was financially and the near
scandal that hemmed it round
through the connection of some of
the officials with the Exhibition
thievery.

One would think that any ons
who was connected with the dis-
creditable junkettine of that odious
midway fizzle would feel ashamed
to propose any more monkey busi-
ness of the same kind. But no—for
here is the daddy of that Jubilee
racket, the reader of the Riot Act,
the Boisterous Noise that has
brought much tribulation to our
city in the last few years, urging
another “celebration” when the
CNR Hotel is opened by kind per-
mission of Sir Edward Beatty and
the grafters’ bridge is ready to
collect toll across the First Nar-
rows.

The horse that committed suicide
for shame, because of some ima~-
gined’ wrong-doing acted more like
a real human being that Mr Verry
McQueer.

*

The organiza-

“Specials” And tion of the
jron workers

Mob Law.
by the Cio in

the States is being met in some of
the steel towns by the local city
governments, creatures of the Steel
Trust, calling out special police
and organizing vigilantes. The ex-
cuse, of course, iS, that they arse
to maintain law and order but
their real purpose is to defeat the
strikers by the use of force and
violence. Where there are no
“specials” or “guards” there is no
“trouble,’ but when they are in-
troduced, mob violence, riot and
even murder inevitably follow, for
which they are in almost every
way responsible.

A classical demonstration of this
was given to American publicists
many years ago. In 1907 a strike
took place in the northern Min-
nesota irontields. Immediately, in
all the towns in the district, with
one exception, “specials” wers
hired “to protect’ the property of
the iron lords. In the little town of
Sparta, the local councilmen Were
workers or small business men
whose sympathies were with the
strikers and they refused the mins
owners permission toa bring any
special gun thugs into the town.
They took this line on the ground
that such specials always Gauss
trouble,

The struggle was long and bit-
ter and rioting and bloodshed oc-
cured daily in all the towns where
the specials were licensed, but in
Sparta during the ~shole course of
the strike only one man was ar-
rested and that was one of thse
“specials” who had sneaked in, got
drunk and tried to shoot-up the
town. He was promptly thrown in
jail by the police and there was
no more trouble. “Specials” are
the same today as they were then!

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Tf you desire to

Investigated ‘work in ary of
the 80 different

For a Job. branches of the

civil service your application must
be dealt with by the Civil Service
Commission of Canada. Thiet
august body examines all appli-
cants and apportions all jobs.

In their 28th annual report re-
cently published we learn that
60,752 men and women thought to
keep off the pbreadline by working
for Mackenzie King at salaries
ranging from $35 a month up.

Of these 5,395 were placed by
the Commission, 786 of them per-
manently, 162 in seasonal jobs and
4,947 femporarily these latter prob-
ably, the extra mail-earriers Who
bring Santa Claus during the rush
at the Post Office; 786 permanent
jobs for 60,752 seekers Proves that
we are over the hump and pros-
perity Is just around the corner.

The most interesting part of the
report, however, Shows that all
those workers seeking jobs from
$35 a month up, are investigated
by the Canadian Cossacks and the
“Commission again desires to e=
press its appreciation of the serv-
ice rendered by. the RCMP in this
connection, as well as for the
check made by the Finereprint
Service of the force to ascertain

whether or not the applicants had

a previous eriminal record.”