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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1937

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Opposition
Growing To
Duplessis

Stanley Ryerson S ees
People’s Movement
Arising

WORK FOR UNITY

MONTREAL, Que., July 15.
—Quebee stands in need of
a broad people’s “movement
united around a program de-
fending the right of organiza-
tion of the workers, the demo-

¢ratic =ights of the masses of

people, and opposing the drive
of the Tory regime toward
complete abolition of unem-
ployment relief.

This is the opinion of Stanley
Ryerson, secretary of the provin-
cial committee of the Quebee Com-
munist party, as expressed in a re-
cent analysis of the rapidly chane-
in political scene in Brench Ganada.

“There are many hopeful signs
at the present moment which jus-
tify our belief in the Possibility of
effectively barring the further ad-

Vance of reaction in Quebec,” he
says.
Three outstanding events, Ss.

Ryerson believes point to this
possibility: the rising initiative of
the trade union movement; the
Great rally of 10,000 people which
welcomed Doctor Bethune back to
Montreal: and the fact that, for
the first time since reaction carried
the elections in Quebec last August,
Benuine liberal and Progressive
-Opinion jis beginning to find 4 voice,
preparing to publish papers of its
Own and to play a political role.

“Candide Rochefort’s recent
Statement is one example of this
trend within the Union Wationale
itself It is an €xpression of the
desire among large masses of
Beople for a truly democratic and
united opposition ito Duplessis.

“New movements alone this line
are in the process of formation. If
they are to be effective and re-
Main free from control by reac-
tionary financial interests which
will seek to seize hold of them, the
organized labor movement must
play its part in Siving a construc-
tive lead to the movement of op-
Position around issues of relief,
ubionization trade union and
democratic rights. To this end 4
powerful, all inclusive Labor party.
in Quebec and a strong Commun-
ist party are an indispensable
need,’ Ryerson states.

Port Mann Labor
Supporter Dead

PORT MANN, BG. July 15 —5. Dp.
Eldrick, well known here in the
labor movement, died Jast Week.
An active supporter of the labor
press, Hidrick was a sales agent for
the Advocate.

Nasi Goods
Sold Under
False Name

League Urges
German Trade
Boycott Here

TORONTO, Ont., July 15. — Nazi
contro] of imports from Canada
have cu; Canadian sales to about
10 per cent of what they were in
1928 while keeping German sales
to Canada about 50 per cent of what
they were formerly, according to a
press release by the trade union
section of the League Against War
and Fascism here.

It is time, the Statement makes
clear, for Canadians to impose a
complete boycott on Nazi trade
Which is an instrument of Wazi sup-
pression at home and of war abroad.

German products are being sold
under false pretenses at present.
Evidence of this is the importation
of 500,000 tons of German coal, not
one ton of which was sold as such,
most being mixed with a slight per-
centage of Welsh coal and masquer-
ading as a British product. Cheap
cotton gloves are another large
German import, 61 per cent of all
gloves coming inte Canada.

Canadian laws do not require a
label statins country of origin in
this case. In other cases German
labels state only the city or Province
in which they are made in order to
escape consumer vigilance. Another
trick is to ship through a neighbor-
ing country. Export of German furs
has dropped, but Canadian imports
from Belgium have STOwn accord-
ingly.

German imports from CGanada
are now largely of materials useful
in war.

Says Duplessis
Friend of Trusts

QUEBEC Crry, Que., July 15. —
Dr. Phillippe Hamel. leader of Que-
bec’s National Union rebel Sroup,

last week in a radio address, Strongs-
ly attacked Premier Maurice Du-
plessis, Scoring the latter for not
fulfillins his promises to take action
against the trusts.

The premier, Dr. Hamel charged,
Was a “friend of the trusts,’”” which
had admittedly provided funds for
his electoral Ccampaien.

Will Burn 70 P.c.
Of Coffee Crop

RIO DE JANETRO, Brazil, July 15.
—The National Coffee Department
of the Brazil sovernment this week
announced it will buy 70 ber cent.
of the coffee crop this year to burn
in order to maintain prices.

Of a bumper Crop estimated at
26,000,000 sacks, the £overnment
will burn 10,000,000 Sacks at a daily

cost to the taxpayers of some
$600,000.
Since 1931 $250,000,00 has been

spent by the Fovernment in destroy-
ing “surplus” Production of Brazil's

chief crop.

Canada Buys War Materials

Third Largest
From US

Purchaser
During June

WASHINGTON, DC, July 15.—Canada Was the third

largest purchaser of war

implements from the United States

during the month of June this year, it is revealed here. The

Netherlands were first with
446; Great Britain second with $471,,-
634; and Canada third with $160,-
740. .

Most of the money spent by these
countries was devoted to aireraft,
engines and equipment. Under the
neutrality law requirin= rezistra-
tion of certain exports, all aircraft
are classed as implements of war.

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Constitution
MILTON, Ont., July 15.—The So-
viet Union’s new constitution has
beth the constitutions of Great
Britain and United States “knocked
into a cocked hat when it comes to
true democracy,” Rev. Albert Bel-
don of Whitefield Tabernacle in
London, Eng, told an audience here
Jast week at St. David’s Church.
Speaking on “Europe, War or
Peace?” Dr. Beldon stated: :
“It is the first constitution ever
to guarantee its people education,
religion and, most of all, employ-
ment, and IT am of the opinion
that should it be successful it will
five communism an altogether dif-

Republican|Leaders Of

Victory In
Spain Vital

Essential To Minorities,
Says British Labor
Peer

SPEAKS IN CITY

An appeal to all those con-
cerned in the fate of democ-
racy to support the People’s
Front government of Spain in
its struggle against interna-
tional Fascism was made by

Lord Marley, deputy speaker
of the House of Lords and
chief Labor whip, to a large
audience at the Jewish com-
munity centre here Sunday.

“There isn’t one of wus here
who should not be doing his ut-
most to secure victory for the
democratic government of Spain,”
he declared:

Defeat of Mascism in Spain, said
Lord Marley, was absolutely vital to
every minority in Europe. Despite
the fact that Czechoslovakia had
treated its German minority well,
WNazi agents were engaged in stir-
ring up trouble there and in Ger-
many itself public opinion was being
inflamed against Czechoslovakia by
false stories appearing in the Nazi
press.

He saw a dangerous Situation in
Poland which had treated its Ger-
man minority badly. This might
easily provide the excuse for Ger-
man aggression and setting up of a
Nazi Zovernment.

Lord Marley, who is a member of
the British general Staff, was raised
to the peerage in 1930 and was
formerly under-secretary of state for
War. With Lady Marley he is on
an extensive tour of Canada and the
United States under auspices of
world-wide organizations.

Non-Jews themselves, Lord and
Lady Marley have been ‘prominent
in work for rehabilitating Jews in
Eastern Europe. Lord Marley heads
the British parliamentary council
of the ORT (Organization for Recon-
Struction and Training) which is
composed of members of the House
of Lords and Commons. He is also
an executive member of the British
League Against War and Fascism.

The greater part of Lord Marley’s
address was devoted to work of the

ORT among Jews in Eastern
Europe,

“In Latvia, Lithuania, Rumania
and Poland, there are 30,000,000

Jews,” he stated. “Halt of them are
destitute, reliant on charity for
even the bare necessities of life.
Their condition is srowing steadily
worse.”’

The People’s Front government
of France had made an offer for
rehabilitation of Polish Jews in
New Caledonia and Madagascar
and was sympathetic to the worl
of the ORT, he added.

Soviet Russia had also given every
Support to the work. 350,000 Jews
had been settled on the land and
46 per cent of the Jews in the So-
viet Union were engaged in heayy
or light industry.

“The Jewish people in Russia. are
making a great success of their
work on collective farms. T[ have
visited these farms and factories of
the ORT in Russia And seen what
splendid progress is being made.
There is no need to send money over
there. The Jewish people are raisine=
their own standard of living and
improving the Standard of living
In the country as a whole in con-
sequence,”’ Lord Marley stated.

The ORT was now concentrating

principally on training Jews for
work which would remove them
from their vulnerable Position in
retail distribution trades. Their re-
habilitation in industry and agricul-
ture in the various eountries of
Eastern Burope would, he believed,
better enable those countries to
ward off the menace of Fascism.

NEW YORK —(FP)—The Book
and Magazine Guild of America,
consisting of executive and profes-
sional workers in the publishing jn-
dustry, has affiliated with the
United Office and Professional
Workers of America, new affiliate
of the CIO.

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POUM Are
Arrested

Taken When.
Rising Planned
To Aid Fascists

VALENCIA, Spain, July 15. —
Trotskyist leaders of the POUNM,
working in collaboration “with
agents of Genera lfranco, Fascist
chief, were rounded up in Madrid
when it was learned they planned
an uprising in the streets of the
city. Two hundred were arrested.

The counter-reyvolution in Madrid
was planned for a given moment,
but was exposed and squelched by
the government. The Trotskyists
participated in the POUM with the
reactionary Spanish aristocracy and
the Fascist FPalange.

A document, written in invisible
ink on the back of a map of Madrid,
and decoded by. Loyalists, reads:

“Generalissimo Franco. Private.
Your order about the penetration of
our people into the ranks of the
POUM Successfully being fulfilled.
We lack a leader of propaganda
who'd begin this work independent-
ly of us in order to act in Sreater
safety.”

Protest Sent To Ottawa
Against Sale Of

Resources

FURTHER DEALS

Recent purchases by “pow-
erful Japanese capitalists” of
extensive mineral and timber
rights British Columbia, in-
volving millions of dollars, are
arousing considerable protest.

It is no secret that Japan-
ese imperialists are seeking
new sources of raw materials
for Nippon’s tremendous war ma-_
chine. Already they have obtained
contro] of rich mineral deposits in
Australia, using a British company.
as a front, and their penetration
into British Golumbia is occasion-
ing concern among progressive
people here who see these raw ma-
terials being used to further Jap-
anese ambitions to dominate the
Pacific.

Doriot Beaten

In view of recent Japanese pro-
Vocation along the Soviet-Man-
chukuo frontier and her current at-
tempts to encroach still more on an
aroused China, these purchases be-
come increasingly significant.

Legion Protests.
Britannia branch of the Canadian

In Election

——

Renegade Communist Is
Forced to Resign

> in the municipal by-election in St.

Seat Legion has already. Protested to

Hon. Tan Mackenzie, federal min-

PARIS, France, July 15—7The | i8ter of national defense, and in-
French people showed anew their | Structed S. W. Norman Saunders,

branch secretary, to condemn sale
of British Columbia properties to
Japanese capitalists on the ground
that these properties’ are vital to
Canada's national defense.

adherence to the People’s Front, in
the midst of the Confusion created
by the conservative Senate's action
bringing about the fall of the Blum
cabinet.

Jacques Doriot, renegade from the These Japanese purchases in-
Communist party and Fascist col- clude:
laborator with de la Roeque, leader Iron Duke property on Louise

Island in the Queen Charlotte, ore
reserves of which are estimated at
anything up to 10,000,000 ‘tons,
averasing between 65 and 70 per
cent magnetite.

of the Croix de Fen,
defeated by

Was decisively
a Communist candidate

Denis.

His decisive defeat, afier action
had been taken against him for cor-
ruption in municipal administration,
resulted also in his desisnine= his
Seat in the Chamber of Deputies,

Timber properties at Port Mc-
Weil, northeast Vancouver Island,
and Cowichan, with a total of some
700,000,000 feet. No prices have been
announced on any of these Prop-
erties. :

In addition, Japanese interests
have contracted for three years’

Fascist Schools
In California

Smelting Company and now it is
announced that 500 tons of concen-
trates from BC Nickel mine will be
shipped to Japan this month.
Also announced this week was
the fact that Japanese experiments
with nickel refining had proven
satisfactory and that a formal con-
tract will be signed this fall for

SAN DPRANCISCO, Calif., July 15.
—The Westem Worker charges that
the Italian Sovernment “unofficial-
ly” maintains 38 Pascist S chools
with a boasted membership of 12,0u0
Italian children, ases ranging from
6 to 15, in California, Textbooks
are imported from Italy and are

exactly as approved by the official
Rome educational syndicate.

nickel concentrates to be supplied
to Japan over a period of years,

Gallacher Protests Increase
Communist MP Reveals
How Indemnity Is Spent

LONDON, Eng., July 15.—Ohiecting: to a decision of the
House of Commons to raise members’ salaries from $2,000 to
53.000 per year on the grounds that workers’ wages in Britain
were on the average lower than ten dollars a week, William

Gallacher, Communist MP, told ag
Canadian interviewer recently. pow | z 5
he allots his Parliamentary  in- Brazil People’s
demnity,

“Tt comes to just under $40 a Leader Escapes
week,” he said. “T five $20 of that

to my two sisters and my daughter
in Fife. That leaves me $20 a week
and it’s enough. T Sive $5 a week
to the Communist Party, as a small
contribution toward building the
Socialist commonwealth of the fu-
ture, when there'll be plenty for all.

“T pay $3 a week for rent. I make Captain Durval de Barros, who
my Own breakfast and supper inj} Stood trial with Luiz Carlos Pres-
my room. For lunch I go to a poor tes Brazil’s “Iknights of Hope” for
man’s restaurant near the house of | leading the revolt against fascist,
commons and set an adequate lunch broimperialist rezime of President

RIO de JANERIO, Brazil, July 15.
—One of the leaders of the Brazilian
national liberation uprising of No-
vember, 1935, has escaped from pris-
on, where he was Serving a 12-year
term, it is revealed here.

for 35 cents. I have about $3 a weelk Getallio Vargas,, was admitted by
for Clothes, books. Stamps and en-| the Government to have escaped
tertainment.” from its hands.

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Smoxe curtain above East Anglian fields during rehearsals for Hendon’s
Spectacular air pageant.

Link Political Murders
French Police Believe
Fascist Ring Culpable

ONDON, Eng. — (By mail.) — Opinion js hardening in
L circles linked with the French Surete that Professor
Carlo Rosselli, editor of the anti-Fascist paper, Justice and
Liberty, and organizer of the Garibaldi Battalion of the
International Brigades in Spain, murdered early this month in
France, died at the hands of the Same gang which assas-

sinated the Russian banker and emigre, Navachrin and Mile.
©Letifia, French secret agent recent-
ly murdered in the Paris Metro.

The Week, confidential British
news service, in reference to the

Japanese CP Is

production of Granby Mining and }

sensational killing which claimed
Rosselli and his brother Nello,
points out that all the murders bear
Striking similarities.

All three victims were people
who had, for some reason or other,
erossed the path of the Italian es-
pionage system in France; all the
murders were, from the point of
view of the criminal, “perfect mur-
ders,” worked out by experts after
detailed and prolonged preparation.

Hurthermore, there is reason to
believe that the plan to murder
Professor Rosselli was not alto-
gether unknown to certain high offi-
cials of the Doriot French Popular
party which, it is known, is riddled
with both German and TItalian
secret agents.

Gaining Strength

TOKIO, Japan, July 15.—Attempits
to stamp out the Communist Party
met with the appearance of success
for several years, but the party is
@aining in strength and activity,
Shiono, Minister of Justice, told
the convention of police chiefs here
recently.

The law for the control of sub-
versive literature, passed last year,
had not coped with this activity
while the Communists were work-

ing among the masses to win them
Wage increases to counter the sharp
rise in living prices.

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