AN

—

See = 5 5
qjara—to win an empire.
pent a tew bours with these
donents of Roman Civilization.
‘cir mission, they said, was to
nge Spain from the evil of ma-
falism. (There was 2 time when
| Fascists tried to inculcate the
y spirit of idealism in Italy
4 doses of castor oil.)
reneral

PEOPLE’ S ADVOCATE

July 2, i987

ve been sent to Guad- battalion.

from: home.
in front of men; on
is an Italian stamp,

mark “Seville.”

Coppi had decided to

tdo all the Spanish Fascists in

inping and to take Madrid from

ge northeast. The dauntiess

Spionaries arrived at the front on not with figures,
Aarch “1. A week later, when

they saw the Republicans, they Committee, London.’

put up their jands in token of
surrender.

Two gentlemen, as we all know,
sisned an agreement,
decided that — gentiemanliness is
eentlemanliness.
Husiness. The Duce proceeded to

One of them

put business is

form military divisions in various

fowns in Italy. The military auth-
orities said they were mustering

Jsscons for Africa; and, in order
sare the feelings of the other
man, they tactfully ealled
Abyssinia.

dian trade unionists, partic-
ularly noticeable in British
Columbia, that every devel-
opment in
jJabor movement must have’
jts counterpart 10 Canada.
While there are good feat-
ures in this

re are als me bad Ones. :
pote ee some. jnterna- ideology 10 Canada was ©
{ional unions of the American a new high level.
Federation of Labor declared 1919 has” such a
their adherence to the principle trade unionism 10
of industrial organization, i.e. seen.

jndustry rather Successes of the clo

epg ere dispatched
think
for su’:

that
; pore the (to the Fascists)
H: title of ‘April 21st Divi-
5 whey arrived in Cadiz on
ombardia.
_‘sent on to Seville: They spent
week among the ‘Spanish WNa-
a {ionalists” — amons German ma-
-chine-gunners ang Moroccan rifle-
men. Then they were transported
io Burgo a’Osma and to Siguense.
“qn Siguense the general miade a
short but stirring speech.
Ttalians, on!” said he.
The brave Ttalians were forced
#o foot it for 30 kilomnetres—Saso-
jine couldn’t be spared. Then they
were
they discovered ¢hat they had to
face, not unarmed Ethiopians, but
men with guns. Whereupon they
forgot all about Cicero—and simply
y~ Surrendered. :

FIN they greet me they raise
their clenched fists and say
“uGamarada’” with peculiar gusto.
The prisoners are jn the uniform
of the Italian army- They received
their outfits in the town of Ave-

‘TRADE

organization by
than by eratt, it jndicated 2 final
realization by 2 great section of US
the AF of L that craft unionism
was obsolete and completely out
of joint with the technical and
industrial development that has
jaken place since the dawn of
frade unionism on a erait pasis.

2 ee eee
THE UPPER CRUST B

muary 25 two infantry divi-
from ithe
Gaeta, near Aaples, to
What is more natural
at, on February 1, they
rrive in Cadiz!

I dt i =
eroes belonge to the unit e arlier.

from there they

positions.”

4a real sense of real
tary occupation.

“Brave
handled because 2

sent reconnoitering- Here

lezitimate

ist publications,
the leading

of a putsch.

WHERE is a trend of en ane
thought among Cana- mittee for Indusirial

mass production

the American

successes in
procuring: higher
it was certainly

general trend trade unionist in

drove
Green and

without

jin the conquest of Aby
the 351ist battalion. When he was
given the job of conguering the
Spaniards he was pu

The Italian soldiers

\ N THAT really too
Catalonia and
it precipitate matters?
There were three days of
street fighting in
put preliminary manoeuvres
in the surrounding villages
were reported fu

soldiers; because eve
most critical hours,
Batalla and uncon
unau
Anarcho
podies, openly campaign:
the Jegitimate government in favor

tion) began to apply
ciple to unionization of

America and scored

of trade union oF

mass-production jndusty.

President
reactionary
of the executive council of the
AF of L to new acts 0
class petrayal and disruptio
constitutional

sion or precedent, Green first Sus"

lino in Italy, where two divisions

were formed. Their caps
pear a number. One of the prison-
ers, Speranza, 4 parber, took part

t in the 751s?

The letters

is to be sent

J hope that this envelope
be enclosed in another—addressed,
put to
Gentlemen of the Non-iIntervention

(Bxcerpts from an article written
for the New M

In the whole region an effort to
set up the framework of 2 police
system had been undertaken with
ities; as a mili—
Jt had to be so
feeble internal
policy had permitted the accum-
mulation of a2 formidable arsenal
in irresponsible hands far from the
front; because roving
umns,’ which were in.
more than pandit caravans,
been allowed to masq
Anarchist anti
n during the
the Trotskyist
trolled Anareh-
thorized by
-Syndicalist
ed against

y REDFIELD

!

AsSe2

Ga an

Be ee tor willbe anad as

hell.”

the world?
workers—brow-beaten,
starved,
They were to £0 out and die sim-
ply because the classical
tions of the pseudo-Caesar sound
fine on the Plaza de Wenezia in

ssinia,

get letters
{ have a letter here
the envelope
with the post-
mark “Pescaro,” and another p
The address is
500 2 v 48 OMS. The figures stand
for a military unit.
oms—also on other envelopes —
mean that the letter
to the expeditionary force in Spain.

writes. “Dear Son: Thanks for the
10 lire.
the fatherland, ang things are bad
here at home --

pricklayer Marroni gets five pese-
tas a day. He sayed up and sent
ten lire to his parents.
over a year in Apyssinia. There he
got fever, cursed life; and planted
[atin civilization.

hat Really Hap

porizing
one of undeclared war.

asses)

kk place in
how did occupy certain public puildings, the
illegally “armed bodies could eyn-
jeally pretend that this waS a Pro-

Barcelona vocation and attempt to justify

lly a week
Garbineers, an un-
published nat jonal news
agency item stated, had ar-
rived near the border “and

had taken up magnificent

“militia col-
fact nothing

jnternational
the CLO (Com-
Organiza-
theic
the great
industries
phenomenal
unionization
living standards,
good.
fad the approval of ever
Canada. Tempo
ganization
Never since
resurgence of
Canada been

jes of the

f workins-

——————

these men, whom
Rome has sent out to conquer
They are unfortunate
persecuted,
ragged and miserable.
quota-
Africa.

You are away defending
As a legionary of mighty Rome,

He was
Abruzzi.

He never reads

> 7

This situation, created by a tem: turbing-

public-order policy, was

when the police attempted to for

the skeleton of public control. But
it was in Barcelona itself that the
attempted putsch took place.

a fe THE capital the Trotskyist
P the time

OUM took open responsibility
for the attempted rising against
the sovernment; jin an effort to
implicate the Anarchists, to drag
them into the sdventure, it oper-
ated through an autonomous Anar-
ehist group, “the Friends of pur-
ruti.”

The same elements who for
months had been slandering the
government as counter-revolution-
ary because, said they, it with-
held arms from Aragon, the truly
revolutionary front, now appeared
in the streets with tanks, armored
cars, artillery, machine-guns, rifles
and millions of rounds of ammuni-
That these arms fad been

three

tion.
stolen from
for an attempt asainst the gov-
ernment was obvious.

To the proletariat of Catalonia,
to honest Anarenists themselves,
this aspect of the matter was dis-

UNION UNITY IN.

pended STO unions from the AF
of lL and finally attempted to
drive them out altogether by ©&
pulsion. victories of the clo and

unashamed splittings tactics of
Green, Hutcheson, Wharton and
company ereated 2 widespread

disgust with the AF of i.
While tens of thousands of
steel, rubber, auto, textile and
workers Were fizhtng with their
packs to the wall against all the
other forces of organized eapital,
Green Was busy jssuing plack
circulars, revoking charters, and
doing everything possible to as-
sure a victory for the bis indus-

trialists.
Uneompromising and adamant, Surse of tr
Green demands complete Sur through the

yender of the CIO and the rights

eaining 5° dearly won by ClO
workers. Lhe CIO, on the other
hand, is not thinking of sur-
render, but of greater organiza-
tion. At the moment in the
{United States, the CIO is travel-
ling towards the creation oa)
new trade union centre.

Changing Attitudes

In Canada.
The attitude of Canadian labor

generally towards the Ar of L
during the last twenty-five years
has changed from one extreme to
the other. When the Am of G
fought the economic patties of
the workers it was acceptable to
jhe mass of Canadian jabor as 2&2
medium of trade union organiza-
When it Jaunched into a4

of shameless class-col-
Jaboration, “eo-operation”’ and
“neace in industry” policies, it
athema to most workers:

hybrid

gle.

tion.
policy

was an

C4 ®

Dazzle with your Neon lights,
Flaunt the goods they cannot buy,
Your artificial rainbows flung

To mock the workers passing by;
Bemuse with celluloid

Distortions of the living truth
Upon your silver screens;

Splash your headlines, wave your flags,
Appeal to prejudice and greed,
But never let the people know
Why you do it, why you need
Tradition’s empty armor dressed
In modern clothes to back

Your arguments for privilege.

2

Divide the workers. Let them see
The foolishness of an ideal,

But never let them realize,

Never let them feel

What strength they have.

And fei back the clock,
Secure ye fits well with steel.
2 as :

ens j

4 paper. He doesn’t know what is
going on in Spain or
Heen sent near Madrid. Eyer since
he was a child h
war is a simple and natural busi-
mess. Today they are fiehting here- ber hadn’t a cent, so he was sent
were fighting im 3

why he has

e has heard that

Yesterday they

“yvere you glad you were sent

peen told that the Republicans kill
All their prisoners on the spot. And
now he beams with happiness 45
Y he smokes his cigarette.
he has fallen among human beings.

*
ASCUALE SPERANZA
parber from the little town of
“Why were you sent —
2» The bar-
ess smile. He is

you're over thirty-five
per smiles an artl

ened In

Could this be the work for the army.
of anyone but Fascists?
The moment was grave:
volunteers the Assault
Guards was issued. In a few hours
there were Six thousand applicants.
These men knew they
into battle under most difficult con-

as rebel under-
wi. support, that no one would have

ti-Fascists of

‘@ifth Column,”
cover agents are kno
And it was the an
Barcelona who restored order. By
sovernment
ments arrived, all was quiet.

Jn Barcelona
thousand
nine hundred dead.
putschists who
of the losses.
were undoubtedly
deceived men amons
went to the barricades.
risin= was clearly Pascist-inspired,
and national indignation against
ist agents of Franco

suffered the bulk
Unhappily,
some innocent,

¢he Trotsky
reached fever heat.

oe toward unification of

command waited on 4 firm
drive by the government to liquid-
the front and reserved ate the Trotskyist and autonomous
dies which still main-
¢ained their right to arms. still
denied the right of the ceniral gov-
ernment to lay do
public order,

Anarchist bo

wn the norms of
of war industry, and

jon fell rapidly in
working-class respect and numbers. ihe AF of L Pnet can only. widen

and its organizat

the last
years has witnessed a great UD=
ade unionism in and

Trades and

The period

Congress of Canada,
of organization and collective bar- stitutes the Canadian section of
Trade union unity
gh the Congress

the AF of L.
within and throu
has made great

Gonsiderin

hich has acted in the
¢t to trade union

movement, W
main as a deterren
unity, it can be said without con-
that the Trades and
ress of Canada and its
grown in strength

tradiction,

Labor Cong
affiliates have
and effectiveness as a centre of
collective effort in economic strus-

for its greater de-
this direction rests
with Canadian workers in spite of

The remedy
velopment

yellow-press
trary about
This being
even If appe
wish the Cl

aring to be natural, to
© into Ganada as 24
through which 4 difficult

stage of organization

PRIVI

a merry, knowing chap—an Italian
“Schweik.” He tells how every
little town had to provide ten oF
twenty soldiers. The richer people
pought themselves off, but the bar-

to capture Madrid. Hie had a wite
and four children. There is hunger
at home. He fought against the

Rome. +o ©Spain?”’ smiles wryly. Ethiopians. When the war was
Rafael Marroni is a mason from “Needs must the devil over, he was delishted—even when
Pesearo, aged twenty-two. Hus drives.’ He takes sreat pleasure a man is half-starved, life is still
rather is seventy, and disabled, in telling how bis pattalion com- life.

having lost a leg in the war. There mander hid bebind 4 rock when But his luck was out. He had
js a large family. His mother he heard the first shot. He had hardly time to See his children

when back he was sent to another
war.

“They packed us off to our unit
just like a lot of cattle” He com-
plains about the food: the Italian
officers pocket the money, andl
don't feed the men. As soon as it
dawned on him that nobody was
soing to kill jim, the -barber has-
tened to enquire: “How's the erub
Here?’ And he continues with

At Jast

is a

But nothing hap-
pened. ;

Minister of the Interior Angel
Galarza temporized and Premier
Tarso Caballero upheld him. The
CNT (Anarchist dominated ‘WNa-
tional Confederation of Labor)
had pursued an equivocal policy
throughout, evidently torn by in-

A eall

were going

their putsch on that ground. ditions, where Josses must be

Pighting occurred In many wvil- heavy. Clearly the proletariat of ternal dissention.

jJages to which it became necessary Barcelona Was not merely unsy™m- Had the government moved

to send public forces to establish pathetic to the uprising, but ready, swiftly on the heels of the attempt-
io fight it as another action of the ed rising, popular indignation

would have given it such powerful

dared to challenge jt. But it
chose to yield to the surly elements
reinforce- in the ranks of the Anarcho-
Syndiealists-

alone there were
casualties

with
It was the intervened.
things:

there
lessly exterminate
those who

But the

clean up the rear-cuard,

|T THIS point the Gommiunists
demanded. two

(1) That the government ruth-
the Fascists,
Trotskyists and @yncontrollables”
who had prepared and were still
preparing attacks upon it that it
eollect
the arms stolen from the front,

Italy by Ilya Ehrenberg

melancholy reminiscences: “Wee fot and

no wine.
oranses-
prought straight from Italy - - -
He abuses Caesar, the quarter
masters, life. He knew Italy before
Fascism came: and eould have lived
happily in his free Abruzzi—shay-

ing

stead of that, for some reason or
another, he is hawked all over the
world, to places where men fire
from big guns and make you put

up

*
bee third prisoner fascinates

Pavia.

We didn’t even set him
Only 2 beautiful flac. his

people and singing songs. in-

your hands and shout “‘Alalat’
he

me—Mario Stopini, a native of is
He is a jhouse-painter by

trade, but he did not pelone to the eal

Fascist party, and so he got no

work. eek

He got a
seventy-five centimes 2 day—the
generous
slaves of the empire.
dry bread.

AtalOMIAa Bre. Hownore

dole of three lire

erant received by the
He lived on
His hungry brothers

from the government.

The Republican and Socialist I

parties ranged jhemselves on the

side of the Communists and the
political
Lareo Caballero
pHecause it was incapable of deci-

jssue was drawn; the
zovernment fell

sive action.

fact, dedicated to a more vigorous
policy than its predecessor, but it
was made up of elements defimite-
ly committed to the program of a
parliamentary democratic republic.

The new government of Premier h
Negrin
instantly went to work.
represented as being more “mod-
erate”
Actually, the term “moderate” was
misused, substituted for the word
“responsible.”

was formed quietly and
It- was
one.

than the preceding

The new sovernment was, in

The presence of the CNT in the

previous sovernment had put 2

doubtful coloring on the govern-
ment’s aim-

Officially the republic had re-

mained the measure of the com-

mon aspirations

of the peoples

front, but in the CNT press there

and established revolutionary order
conducive to serious prosecution of

the war;

ocally denounce as

evaded.

trade union organization.

were often attacks on advocates
of the democratic republic, attacks

which labelled the latter ‘“counter-

(2) That the CNT either unequiv-
traitors the
men who had risen in armas against
the government, had hoarded arms
for that purpose and built up 4n
atmosphere conducive to attacks
on the government by 2 eounter-
revolutionary campaign, or resign

BRITIS

“Why cannot we have the ClO
here?” “let's get a CIO charter;”’
“to hell with the AF of L—we
want the CIO;” “send us ClO or-
ganizers,” are phrases frequently
heard expressing the feelings, that
if the CIO would only come to
Ganada all our troubles would be
over; that we could pass over some
of the difficult stages in building

With these concepts of the ClO,

particularly on the Pacific coast,

there has developed a hostility

the breach
splits in Canada, unless some

three

yities and take sober stock

where they are headed.

Labor
which con-

for hating the

despising Ivan unter of the
ternational Seamen’s Union,

Certainly these officials

ranting to the con- : :
“foreign domination.” in Canada, which 1s
jt is dangerous, what will happen should the

erendum on the CIO

doubt, and this applies to

can be Canadian sections

LEGE, 2

This bitter harvest you have scwh
This dark

Of bodies broken on the wheel.

These painted jips

That utter mockeries of love,

These workers dying of disease

Your science conquered long 280;
These starving children in your slums,
These bitter veterans who fought
To guard your profits from your kind;
Do you think they do not know, _

Do you think that they are blind?

Perhaps you hear
Tomorrow s sang
Arising from their dreams today,
This dream you fear

Of growmg slrong

To sweep Your privilege away.

__Flarotp GRIFFIN:

may haye equally good reasons for

President Ryan of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen’s Association.
have
earmed the contempt of all honest
men, But that is no reason why
the loggers, seamen or longshore-
men, by their own actions, should
assist Butcheson, Ryan or Hunter

to exclude them from the AE of lu
precisely

secure @
majority, of which there seems nO

to

and lead to further

of

our trade unionists halt their acti-

of

Loggers on poth sides of the line
may have plenty of justification
arch-swindler,
racketeer and reactionary Hutche-

gains.
= the existence of a son, president of the United
“National” trade union Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners. The maritime workers

In-
or

ref-

the

of these unicns-

revolutionary

spire confidence.
front there is every reason to exX-
pect that the cabinet change will
pe productive of a more vigorous

Abroad, this could scarcely in-
Qn the home

national unity on ¢he basis of a
relentless persecution of the wat-

COLUMBIA

.

Such affiliation to the CIO and
preaking with the AF of Lis just
what the Boss Logsers, the Ship-
ping Federation of B.C., the mining
barons are waiting for. Then they
can enlist the aid of Pattullo and
Tory reaction in a wild Hepburnian
campaign against “foreign agita-
tors,’ “CIO communism,” “out-
side domination” and what not.

Reaction Seeks

Company Unions.

The “financial Post,” orsan of
finance capital” and pig business
has been grinding on this for
weeks, preparins the eround
against the day when the CIloO will
be imported through a referendum,
for a great crop of company unions.

“Tabor’s Utopia’ in Trail where
hard-rock miners and smelter
workers have been saddled with
company unionism for 20 years, 1S
a sample of what is hoped for in
every mining and logging camp.

used to dole out the bread to them:
jn thin slices.
Then he
“Please send me to Abyssinia as 2
house-painter.”
came
quest sranted.”” The house-painter
was dumped on the Lombardia. —
When the vessel sot out into the
open sea the
told; “You are going to Spain.” As

into the jjouse-pamter’s eyes. He
with eyes that have not yet learn-
fully shapes jndistinet words. He

eheated. He sobs and says:

“T wanted to throw myself oyer-
poard.”’ The Spaniards console him,
and he smiles: he is mot used to
human
gets up, and asks: “Could I stay
ere and paint the walls.
house-painter.
yourselves . - 2? And then remem-
perine the little jlouse in Pavia he
Starts erying asain:
pecome of my little brothers now?”

Sons of a beautiful land, 2 land
famed of old for its love of liberty,
they sit here dejected, like crim-
_inals.

shoulder.
other a little — kindred tongues,
kindred peoples. The
“says: owe shall never have that
here, you understand?” He searehes
for words to console the prisoner.
qt won't always be like that in
your country, either. But you must
fight, fight - - = We repeats this
svord many times, as 4 hope, as 2
protherly consolation; he repeats it
solemnly and
sacred premise.

They send abroad marble pavilions
covered with zold leaf, numbers
and numbers of exhibits; models

sisters were crying all around
—he was the eldest, ad it was
duty to feed the others. He

Serawled a letter:

In reply a letter

with the intimation, “Re-_

Jegionaries were
remembers this, tears come
a clumsy, raw-looking fellow,

to see, and a mouth which pain-

es like a big child that has been

sympathy. Suddenly he

Im a

I'm a worker like

‘what will

*

LOOK at these men, having
Jearned now what their lot is.

A Republican soldier gives the
ouse-painter & friendly pat on the
They understand each

Spaniard

tenderly, like 2

The Italians organize exhibitions.

of fine schools, plans of model
roads, diagrams to show the felic-
ity of the Ttalian people. But now
they have let the eat out of the
bas.

In the year. 1987 the Italian Pasc-
ists sent to the Tberian Peninsula
an exhibition that is unique; they
sent human beings. The exhibition
is open in Guadalajara, in Madrid,
in Valencia. Hundreds, of prison-
ers are there to show what the
Fascists have done to the Italian
people-

And in case our British Columbia
GIO enthusiasts forget, Messts-
Fauteheson, Hunter and Ryan will
have no seruples about granting
charters to such company unions,
because they will have an identity
of interest with the bosses in this
business of union “recoenition-”

Bringing the principles of the
CIo into British Columbia by ref-
erendum rather than through the
provisions jaid down in the con-
stitution of the Trades and Labor
Congress of Canada is much the
easiest Way, and by the same
token, the most dangerous. The
old adage of “come easy—szo easy”
fits pertectly.

Some trade unionists—and Com-
munists at that—arsgue that if it is
all right to join the ClO in the
USA it must be alright here. They
forget that a whole set of condi-
tions exist in the USA which do
not obtain here-

(Gontinued on page 6)

“This is the limit—now he’s fired the hou