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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, July 16, 1937

Forward to Unity!

MPATIENT with the sectarian, go-it-alone
policy of the CCF, with resistance to unity
of all working-class parties and other organiza-
tions of the workers, and determined that all
sections of the working-class movement shall
be drawn into united struggle against capitalist
reaction, the trade unions of Ontario have
moved in the direction of welding the forces
of labor into a mighty political force.

Leaving the CCF in its sectarian rut, but in-
viting it to become a part of the united move-
ment, the Toronto District Trades and Labor

Council (AF of L) has initiated a movement,
long advocated by the Communist Party, for
effecting unity of labor parties and trade
pnions in the political arena.

Beginning in the municipal fields, but with
similar developments eyident throughout the
province and poimting to entering provincial
and federal polities, the Trades and Labor
Council called a meeting to which 45 Toronto
international unions sent delegates, and a
Labor Representation Association was formed
for the purpose of forming 2 political united
labor front.

Such a development is necessary and inevit-
able since the CCF departed from the feder-
ated basis upon which it was founded, refuses
to accept aftiliation of other working class
parties and trade unions, for it cannot be ex-
pected that workers ygio are prepared to joi
jn a struggle against capitalism upon a mini-
mum program to meet immediate needs, but
who are not yet ready to accept socialism, wall
join or support the CCE, whose idea of unity
is limited to acceptance only of those who en-
dorse its program in its entirety.

Tmless the leaders who are trying to hold
back the rising tide of mass demand for unity
change their line, they will be engulfed, and
this is particularly true in British Columbia.
Here the successes in 1933 which were attri-
butable to the appearance of the CCE as a fed-
erated body which would gather the scattered |
and divided forces of labor together and unite
them, have turned the heads of the leaders who
think the CCF can hold that mass support as

an individual membership organization.

Tt should he plain to all that the narrow, sec
tarian character given to the CCE by its back-
ward leaders is driving away from it the sup-
port it once s0 enthusiastically received. The
masses who want to fight for a better living
within capitalism are pressing for an all-in-
elusive party of labor, and will not be held back
by a handful of political Bourbons.

Recruiting Canadian Bombers

/ ee Canadian government may pass For-
eion Enlistment Acts to prevent Canadi-
ans from going to Spain to assist the constitu
tional, democratically elected Spanish govern-
ment and the Spanish people in their struggle
against native traitors and foreign faseist 1m-
yasion, but they are quite willing that Cana-
dians be taken to England to be trained as
bombers of people in future imperialist wars.

Permission has been given to British author-
ities to recruit Canadians to be trained in the
Air Service, 90 percent of those recruited to
either stay in England or go to some foreign
country to pursue thewr calling!

This means either that they are to be used
to bomb villages in India, Arabs in Palestine,
or other colonial and semi-colonial peoples who

may be struggling for independence from the
galling British yoke, or in some great war 10

the interest of British and Canadian imperi-
alists.

Tt is clear that the King government is still
tied up with the British War Oifice despite all
the official asseverations to the contrary-
These ties, in the form of commitments, must
be broken by the power of mass protest by the
war-hating Canadian people.

W ork or Relief

ITH all the ballyhooing about the city

furnishing part-time work at 50 cents an
hour for men on relief, no provision has been
made for she hundreds of single unemployed
men who were thrown out of work when the
Relief Project camps were closed down. In
fact they are specifically excluded from this
publie work.

When the camps were closed the Pattullo
eovernment refused to grant relief, and washed
their hands of all responsibility, declaring that
there was plenty of work if the men would
look for it. The old “return to prosperity ”’
bunk. Hundreds of the men did leave Van-
couver, many going as tar east as Winnipes.
But the crop failure on the prairies dashed all
hopes of procuring work. With the CPR and
CNR laying off men by the hundreds, the un-
employment situation has become worse.

The authorities seek to throw dust into the
eyes of the publie by stating that the destitute
single unemployed men are floaters who came
in from other provinces. This isn’t true, for
the majority of the men have been in BC for
many years; some were born here.

Even if it is ethical, humane and Christian
to starve meu to death for the crime of choos-
ine to be born im some other provinee, surely
the non-aliens, those born in BC, should be
kept alive. But they are eondemned to star=
vation along with the rest.

These sincle unemployed men must be given
relief or given work on the same basis and at
the same rate of wages as the men with de-
pendents. It may mean less money for the
Pattullo crowd and the Mayor, Pettipiece and
other aldermen of Vancouver to squander on
joyrides and junkets, but the terrible plight
of these unemployed men, reduced to begeary,
crime or starvation, is a terrible one and a
standing diserace to British Columbia and
Vancouver.

Soviet Heroes of the Air

HE great flight of the Soviet flyers from -

Moscow to Southern California which
broke the non-stop record by nearly 1,000 miles
has aroused the admiration of the world.

All who admire courage and ability make
no effort to hide their appreciation; even the
haters of the Soyiet Union and of Socialism,
while in secret foaming at the mouth in jealous
rage oyer the achievement, in their savage
hearts respect the great Socialists of the Air.

What now beccmes of the claim that under
Socialism there is no incentive2 It did not
need the great flights over the top of the world
to prove that only in a socialist society is there
real incentive--

The Soviet heroes of the air, together with
180 million free people, are joint owners of the
wealth and resources of their vast socialist
country and take pride in advancing not only
aviation, but every other science, industry and
the material and cultural lite of the people.

The great history-making flight contributes
ereatly to world peace in that it was such a
demonstration of might that Hitler and Japa-
nese imperialists, chief promoters of war
against the Soyiet Union, will hesitate before
they unleash their dogs of war.

They realize that their capitals and imdus-
trial centres are within 800 miles of Soviet
air bases, aud if the one tries to conquer and
annex the rich Ukraine or the other territory
of Siberia, or both attack simultaneously, the
Soviet Union will strike back with terrible ef-
ficiency. : é

Tn capitalist countries such power in the air
as possessed by the Soviet Union would be a
terrible menace; the Soviet Union’s power in
ihe air, and its Red Army, js a powertul de-
terrant to the fascist and other warmongers.

Socialism-or-Nothing Theory

BEFORE the convention,
CCF members and clubs
were free to support and
work with the League
Against War and Fascism,
and many of them did so.
The recent convention, however,
refused to grant a continuation of
this freedom, on the ground that
such support as had been given
was at the expense of the party.
in the resolution rejecting support
to the League there is this clause:
“Whereas we believe that war
and fascism can only be avoided
by removing the cause—the capl-
talist system, and the ©CE is
pledged to remove that cause
, .. therefore the convention de-
elares that so far as the CCE is
concerned the fight against war
and fascism shall be earried on
by our own organization.”

The quotation just given ex-
presses the passive, do-nothing
policy of the right wing leaders
af the CCE. True, there are many
af us who realize that war and
@ascism as well as countless other
gvils are results of capitalism, and
¢@herefore we want eapitalism Te-
gioved. But until the possibilities
for its removal are present, and
while capitalism is imposing ever
greater miseries upon the people,
what are we to do? :

Are we to refuse to fight aaginst
the impositions of eapitalism, fold
our arms, and say that we will do
nothing until the time is ripe for
socialism? To do so is to capitu-
jate before the daily onslaughts of
capitalism and to refuse to take
part in the very struggles that pre-
pare the people for its removal. —

We are confronted by the twin
menaces of war and fascism now.
Capitalism does not wait in these
matters, and so long as capitalism
rules we must fight against all
measures that are detrimental to

the interests of the mass of the
population.

Rejecting the fight in deeds
against war and fascism and fal-
ling back on abstractions and
general declarations and saying
that the CCF will fight against
them in its own way, Viz., with
paper resolutions and propaganda
in general, means that there will
be no fight against them at all by
those leaders.

Those who are responsible for
the GC's disassociating itself
from support of the League
Against War and Fascism, that is,
refusing to fight against these
twin menaces today, in essence
take the position that fascism is
inevitable and that war cannot be
prevented under capitalism. What
4 comfort this fatalistic stand
must be to the warmongers and
the promoters of fascism!

But is it not well known that
the triple alliance of trade ynions
in Great Britain compelled the
Lloyd George government in 1920
to call off its war of intervention
against the Soviet Republic? And
as far as fascism being inevitable
is concerned we would like tor re—
mind the GCF that that was the
position the Social Democratic
parties of Germany and Austria
took when the Communist parties
proposed the united front of
struggle against the rising fascist
movements in those countries.
And with what results?

On the other hand, when the
fascist movement in France under
the leadership of Colonel de la
Rocque, who was the front, face
and tool of the bankers and big
industrialists, became bold and
menacing, the Socialist Party of
France, remembering the fate of
the Social Democratic parties of
Germany and Austria, abandoned
its policy of opposition to and re-
jection of the proposals of the

Gommunist Party for 2 united
front.

And the result in France? Fas-
cism was checked and its organi-
zations declared illegal. And need
T remind the CCF leaders of the
struggle in Spain, of the unity
which is making possible so glori-
ous a stand for world democracy
against international fascism?

What would the
Spain be today had the Socialist
leaders there continued to reject
the united front proposals of the
Communists, had those leaders
said that nothing could be done
until capitalism was removed?

If the Socialist leaders had taken
the position of the CCE opponents
of unity the iron jackboot of
Franco - Hitler- Mussolini fascism
would now be on the necks of the
Spanish people as it is on the
necks of the German and Ttalian
people.

Fascists Dort
Like Free News

W spite of the almost unbeliey-

able censorship imposed on the
Italian press, news continues to
seep over the border and Fascist
officials are faced with “items”
bobbing up throughout the demo-
cratic press. From the
British “News Review” dated
June 17, the following is obtained:

“At Massa Garrara an army of
i) al mothers assembled with their
pbabies outside the Town Hall,
shouted for their sons to be
prought back home from Spain.”

“When the reveille was sounded
one morning at Faenza, officers
were amazed to find that of the
65 ‘volunteers’ in iraining for
Spanish service only three turned
up.”

world’s

situation in -

A Blow to Fascist Hopes

fee Supreme Court of the
Soviet Union sentenced a
group of eight spies and
wreckers, with Tukhachey-
sky at the head, to death.
This group was guilty of
military treason, sabotaging
the defence of the Soviet
Union, espionage in the in-
terests of fascist Germany,
and for the military defeat
of the Soviet Union.

The exposure and rendering
harmless of this gang has dealt
a heayy blow to the Fascist
espionage service. The hysterical
outeries of the Nazi press about
these Fascist spies and wreckers
having been seized and dealt with
only shows how heavily they were
hit by this loss of their infamous
agents on whom the gentlemen of

Berlin had placed such great
hopes.

The silly remarks of Wascist
seribes about ‘Crisis of the So-
viet Wnion” cannot conceal the
helpless rage of the war incen-
diaries at the fact that the Soviet
Union has again frustrated one of
their most dangerous plots. It is
just this fact which shows the
growing power and invincibility of
the Soviet Union and her Red
Army.

By smashing the Fascist espion-
age nest in the country, the So-
viet Union has rendered invalu-
able service to the cause of world
peace and progress.

This fact should be borne in
mind by all those anti-Fascists,
democrats and socialists who, on
similar occasions, cannot refrain
from diverse slanders against the
Soviet Union and who'are forget-
ting that this brings grist to the
mills of fascism.

That capitalist and, above all,
Fascist States are sending in spies
and wreckers to the Soviet Union
is only too natural. If we keep
in mind that the countries adja-
cent to Fascist Germany, as, for
instance Hrance, Czechoslovakia,
Austria, Denmark, Holland, Bel-
gium, ete, constitute veritable
haunts of agents of the Gestapo

and German General Staff, then it
is not in the least surprising that
Hitler Germany is trying to ex
tend all the more her network of
espionage and sabotage over the
Soviet Union.

Every normal person will under-
stand that it is not the Soviet
Union which is to be blamed for
this. But there are hypocrites
who would like to create the im-
pression with naive people that

*the existence of foreign spies in

the Soviet Union constitutes par-
ticular shortcomings of the Soviet
system.

When the organs of the Soviet
Unions expose, seize and convict
such a scoundrel and punish him
as he deserves without any con-—
sideration for the high office he
held, then these Pharisees have
not a good word to say for the
Soviet Union; they begin to mur-—
mur that the Soviet Union is deal-
ing too harshly with them, and
Similar stuff.

Instead, they should bear in
mind that the system under
which the highest office does
not save criminals from just
punishment is greatly superior,
politically and morally, to the
system under which justice
usually stops at a full purse, or
a prominent social position.

Instead of hypocritically lament-

ing, they should express thanks
for the existence of a country
which, by nipping in the bud the
plot of Fascists and their agents,
also saves them from Fascist con-
centration camp and bloody
slaughter of war.

However, people who are among
the real friends of the Soviet
Union also expressed Surprise at
the fact that among the gang of
spies and wreckers, hired by for-
eign fascism, there were also per-
sons who formerly held important
posts in the Soviet Union and Red
Army.

Some of them can perhaps not
immediately understand how these
persons could sink to such depths
and become such nefarious scoun-
drels. To understand this, it is
again necessary to remember
what was revealed during the last
trials of the Trotskyist bandits.

Then it was shown that this

criminal lot—blinded by their hat-
red against the Seviet Union, and
in their endeaver to annihilate
her by al) means — fully entered
their services for wrecking and
espionage under the organization
of foreign fascism.

It was shown that the Trotsky-
ists were basing themselves on the
Military defeat of the Soviet
Union, on the partition of her ter-
ritory and the restoration of capi-
talism. Im view of this, their alli-
ance with foreign Fascist espion-
age and wrecking organizations
are fully comprehensible.

Trotskyism has the same aim as
fascism, and is the same in the
choice of its methods. Trotskyist
and Fascist spies in this way be-
come identical. Trotskyism be-
came the meeting-place for all
sorts of elements who were poli-
tically and morally decayed, who
became capable of the most
shameless treachery.

This group of Fascist spies,
with Tulkhachevsky at the head,
who were shot, were especially
characteristic in this respect.
They were composed of former
nobles and officers of the old
Tsarist army, former Social
Revolutionaries and old. Trot-
skyists, and they had, in com-
mon with the Fascists, the Trot-
skyist aim of restoring capital-
ism in the Soyiet Union. This,
and their moral decay, let to
treason.

It is certainly not a pleasant
fact that such wretches exist, just
as there is nothing pleasant in the
existence of poisonous snakes.
But the decisive fact is that une
Soviet Union, and its security
organs, Know how to deal ener
getically and thoroughly with this
Fascist gang. Hitler and Goebbels
have every reason for their la-
mentation. The poisonous weed
which they tried to plant in the
Soviet garden is being pulled up
by the root. ,

But all honest men and women
ean only be thankful to the Soviet
Union for its rigorous steps
against these Fascist spies. They
can be fully convinced of this:
The Soviet Union and her Red
Army are and will remain an in-
vineible bulwark of world peace

and progress.

Socialist Merry-Go-Round

ONSIDER the case ae tween the Spanish Communists

Norman Thomas. Imme-
diately after his return from
Spain, not long ago, Thomas
wrote a column for the So-
cialist Call (June 19) in
which he denounced the
Spanish Trotskyists in
strong and bitter terms. He
said the POUM’s putsch
“played into the hands of
fascism in Europe.’ He
called the rising “an example of
left-wing infantilism at a critical
moment.’ He said that its effect
upon working-class and anti-fas-
cist sentiment in Europe was “dis-
astrous.” He said that “Bilbao
need never have been so sorely
pressed if a proper offensive could
have been begun in time on the
Aragon front.” There was, how-
ever, no such offensive; according
to Thomas, “one factor in the de-
lay was the rising in Catalonia for
which the Anarchists and the PO
UM were responsible.”

That was Norman Thomas
standing erect.

Within two weeks, Thomas
moved completely around and

landed on his head. In the name
of the National Executive Commit-
tee of the Socialist Party he dis-
patched telegrams to the Labor
ana Socialist (Second) Interna-
tional, former Premier Largo Cab-
allero, Premier Juan Negrin and
the Socialist Party of Spain,
which read: “Urgently request
Labor and Socialist International
in joint conference with Comin-
tern insist that all working class
organizations protect civil liberties
of other workers loyally fighting
fascism and cease organized re-
pression against CNT, FAK PO
UM, Left Socialists.”

Slander is the word for it. Only
a small portion of these charges
can be substantiated—exactly that
portion about which Thomas him-
self, two weeks earlier, had given
such eloquent testimony. It is
true that the Spanish government
has, after much delay, taken de-
cisive action against the leaders
of the Trotskyist POUM for rea-
sons discussed by James Haw-
thorne in this issue. It is abso-
lutely false to state that there is
any ‘organized repression’ against
either the Syndicalist CNT or the
Anarchist FAL or the Left So-
cialists. What‘are the facts?

Only a short time ago, the “‘So-
cialist Call” treated Largo Cabal-
lero with contempt and hostility.
That was when Cabatlero worked
in harmony with the Spanish Com-
munists. Today, because Cabal-
lero is at odds with the govern-
ment, he is considered a martyr
by the very people who yesterday
denounced him. That is unscrup-
ulous factionalism at the expense
of the Spanish cause.

Caballero is not the only left
Socialist in Spain. Julio Alvarez
del Vayo, Foreign Minister in the
Gaballero government, is a much
more virile and able left Socialist.
Del Vayo has not followed Cabal-
lero into embittered impotence. On
June 15, the Communist organ,
“Wrente Rojo,’ published an
article by Del Yayo supporting the
organic unification of the Com-
munist and Socialist parties. Yes,
the very Communist Party which
Worman Thomas ridicules as “to
the right of the left Republicans.”
Del Vayo attended the recent plen-
um of the Spanish Communist
Party, a symbol of solidarity be-

and Socialists.

In fact, the UGT (General Work-
ers’ Union), of wnuich Caballero is
secretary, was forced to repudiate
Gaballero’s policies. At the time of
the cabinet crisis, the UGT an-
nounced that it would not support
any cabinet which Caballero did
not head, A few days later, the
voice of the masses in the organi-
zation began to be heard, and the
UGT reversed its former position
completely.

Neither are the Anarchists and
Syndicalists suffering “organized
repression.” They are not repre-
sented in the present government;
they refused repeated pleas to par-
ticipate. They made their choice,
but against the wishes of the Com-
munists and Socialists. Since then,
the CNT has drawn up a program
for winning the war which the
Spanish Communist Party greeted
as a genuine basis for a joint anti-
fascist program. The CNT pro-
gram explicity denounces those
who would call the present gov-
ernment “counter-revolutionary.”

Thomas’ telegram is intended to
defend the ‘Trotskyites and no
others. It is intended to befuddle
the uninformed and the unwary.
Wo other interpretation can be
placed on this distortion of easily
ascertained facts. Thomas is the
American counterpart of those
“conciliators” in Spain mentioned
by Hawthorne. They condemn the

putsch as counter-revolutionary,
yet defend the right of the Trot-
skyites to organize counter-revolu-
tion. They admit that the putsch-
ists played into the hands of the
fascists, yet refuse to take action
to prevent the repetition of such
a putsch. And this in the midst
of a terrible and savage war!

Was it “organized repression”
for the people’s front to defend
itself? Is it “organized repression”
for the government to punish the
leaders and participants in the
erime? Is it “organized repres-
sion” to prevent another outbreak
which would play into the hands
of the fascists in Hurope, react dis-
astrously upon working-class and
anti-fascist sentiment in Europe,
and lead to another and more Ca-
tastrophie Bilbao?

The telegram is not without an
element of double-dealing. Very
carefully, it demands that the civil
liberties of “workers loyally fight-
ing fascism™ be protected. The
POUM is smuggled in among those
who come under this category.
This is somewhat less than candid.
The POUM was able to stage a
rebellion because it withheld and
hid arms from the front. Instead
of fighting fascism, its Main em-
phasis was against the “enemy at
home,” against the people’s front.
To oppose their repression on the
grounds that they are “loyally
fighting fascism” is to stand the
truth on its head.—New Masses.

OPEN FORUM

He Feels Like
A New Man

Editor, People’s Advocate:

Dear Sir,—As a reader of the
PA, which I follow very closely,
and as a member, or rather pris-
oner, in this one-time company
town of Powell River, I am sure
you will be interested in the im-
mense changes that have taken
place here since the inception of
the union.

Tt used to be that every one was
careful to restrict himself to non-
committal subjects. Today, the
workers gather in groups, feeling
a new sense of power and inde-
pendence. Questions of union
policy, Spain, the struggle of the
workers in the CIO, and all topics
which concern workers generally
are discussed.

T am boosting the PA wherever
I can. Forward to freedom! In
unity there is strength. A. 5S.
Powell River, BC.

In Memoriam

Would Be Better

Editor, People’s Advocate:

Dear Sir,—Please insert the fol-
lowing in your next issue:

“To Mr. Imar Beamish, recently
expelled member of Wells Local
No. 253, International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
for his excellent work in removing
reactionaries from the union
ranks. Mr. Beamish’s work has
been invaluable to the Wells min-
ers’ union. M.M.& S-W.U.

(Editor’s Wote—For informa-
tion of those readers of the PA
who have not followed recent de-
velopments in the Cariboo strike,
Beamish is a scab who, at instiga-—
tion of mine operators in Wells,
opened an office to recruit scabs
in order to break the strike of the

gold miners. Very few men have
responded to this tactic).

He Answers
The Herald

Editor, People’s Advocate:

Dear Sir,—The Morning News-
Herald states that the unemployed
in-large numbers have lost all am-
bition to set on their feet again.
When it is considered that the
present relief scales were origin-
ally set to cope with an emergency
situation; that there was little ex-
pectation that relief would be
over so protracted a period and
that the cost of food would rise the
way it has and no increase in re
lief, it is a wonder that the unem-
ployed are living at all.

Let it be stated that the above
paper when speaking of people not
being anxious to get on their own
feet, it means they are too lazy
to work.

The so-called lack of ambition
in question is the devastating ef-
fect of the ravages of relief mal-
nutrition and it is absurd to imply
that the sufferers of this dis-
tressing condition have no desire
for employment.

Such implications are a menace,
preventing measures being taken
to restore to life and health those
who are run down as 4 result of
subsistence on deficient emer
gency relief. M. E.
Vancouver, BC.

Now We're
All Happy.

Editor, People's Advocate:

Dear Sir: Just a line to tell
you how very much we enjoy your
wonderful paper, which is so full
of news. Be sure and send it
regularly to my new address.

McCurdo, BC. ~ R. W.

July 16, 1987

oo®
By
OL’ BILL
The Chamber of
A Bourgeois Commerce of
Reward. Schenecs.

tady, NY, is
at present engaged in a campaign
to raise $25,000 to erect a monu~-
ment to the memory of G. P. Stein-
metz. The money is ta be col-
lected largely by cadging pennies
and nickels from school children
who are taught that Steinmetz was
a poor boy who rose to fame and
fortune because of “our free Amer-
ican institutions.”

Charles Proteus Steinmetz was &
German immigrant who had al-
ready a wide knowledge of elec- ~
trical science before he landed in
the US. He was also a Social-
ist. His ambition was to improve
the life of his fellow-men by bring~
ing science to the aid of produc-
tion and getting rid of the cancer
of class rule,

He had no desire to make money.
We only wanted free play for his
knowledge, so he entered into &
contract with the General Electric
company, whieh practically owns
the town of Schnectady, to work
without wages so long as he was
left free to follow his own bent.
He was to be entitled to draw from
the cashier such monies as he
needed for his living, without
question, and as he lived very mod-
estly this did not amount to a great
deal.

He was nota P. T. Barnum
“electrical wizard,’ like Edison,
put a real genius who ranked high
amone the world’s great scientists
and all the fruits of his labor, the
patents on all his discoveries and
inventions, worth many millions of
dollars, became the property of the
GEC.

Just before his death he offered
his services to the Soviet Union,
and had already tendered valuable
advice to Ienin on his program of
electrification of the workers’
fatherland.

It is a scathing commentary on
capitalist ethics and generosity that
the GEC which exploited his
genius is not putung up the price
of this monument, but that it has
to be erected by the workers of
Schenectady, the class to which
Steinmetz belonged and whom he
represented on the town council
for many years.

To the bourgeoisie, Steinmetz
was a mystery; it was inconcely-
able to them how anyone could
work for nothing. John Reed re-
plied to these people in a letter
he wrote to the editor of the New
York Times, which they refused
to publish, but which is printed in
Granville Hicks’ biography of
Reed, “The Making of a Reyvyolu-
tionary,’ which everyone should
read. Reed was accused by that
paper of getting rich on “Moscow
gold.””’

“There is no money,” he wrote;
“in speaking to working class aud-
fences or writing in working class
papers, which are the only aud-
jences and papers open to the ad-
vocacy of the truth. All per-
sons who work for an unselfish
purpose for little or nothing are
incomprehensible to persons who
never work for nothing and can be
hired to work for anything.”

*

The remarks of
J. HB. McGraw
in a letter toe
the Editor in
the Advocate last week resarding
the ‘political opportunist’ state
ment of Ansus McInnes should be
driven home for the benefit of @
large section of the members of
the CCF who do not know the his-
tory of the rankest specimen of the
breed in our labor movement to-
day.

“Political
Opportunist.”

The political skuliduggery of
1930 does not cover the case by any
means. MeInnes used his union,
Division 101 of the Street Rallway-
men, as a stepping stone for his
own advancement,
and efforts of his fellow-unionists
were largely responsible fer his
election to the city council. In
this position he performed at alt
times as a stooge for the BC HElec-
trie. The street carmen were OD-
posed to the extension of one-man
cars; McInnes yoted for the com-
pany’s request to put them on
Povwell-Victoria-Joyce.

When Bingham’s Cossacks were
clubbing the unemployed in the
streets McInnes declared in the
council that “he had no fault te
find with the action of the police,”
which attitude of mind was Un-
doubtedly responsible for Mayor
Malkin’s invitation to Murrin, “If
you have any more men like Alder-
man McInnes we will welcome
them on the council.’ Such 2
recommendation for a labor man
is brand enoush—for real Jabor
men.

We are willing to bet that Colin
Cameron who was accused of being
a “political opportunist” by Me-
Innes has no such inglorious Tec
ord. The impressions he has
made seem to have been on the
workers not the bosses’ flunkeys-

The CCF members should inves-
tisate this for themselves. It is
entirely a matter of public record,
and can be verified apart from the
militant workers whom McInnes
has consigned to the “dungeneap.”
Maybe this spelling of his name is
wrong, but that is the way it was
spelled in the Liberal adyertise-
ments,

for the votes*