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i up at this conference are: inaugura-
| tion of a public works program
) which will help veterans to retain
z self_respect, increase of relief for
» indigents and a solution to the prob-
) lem of transients.

| charity organizations.

; Support Sought

and sawmills will be thoroughly
| canvassed for support to the Trades
>) Union Bill ,endorsed by the Trades

4 Council, Lumber & Sawmill Work-
"ers, this week.

Jof the workers to organize into

S employers who attempt to intimi-
= date their employees, will be intro-
»duced by Harold Winch, MLA, at
‘the first meet of the new legis-
Wiature.

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Campaign
For Scheme

Bitter Opposition To
Any Form Of
Charity

PLAN CONFERENCE

“Just because the veterans
have outlined a real scheme
for rehabilitation of fit men
who have fought for their
country, is no suarantee that
it will be put into operation,”
Stated ex-service men’s leaders this
week to the PA.

The campaign for a just turnover
tax on recorded huge profits ob-

Veterans Press For Tax On Profits

Plan for

Solution of Transient Problem is Advanced Here

(The following plan, of interest
to readers, should not be confused
with the relief Program of the
Communist party, which demands
full federal responsibility for all
transients, with consequent
changes in the BNA Act.—Ed.)

By FRED TYLER

Britisn Columbia people have
SrOwn accustomed to having hun-
dreds of transient workers flock to
this province during the winter
months partly because of a more
friendly climate and the growing
insecurity of life in the Prairie proy-
inces and also because, as every
clear-thinking person realizes, un-
employment on a large scale is
with us for a long time to come.

Prior to 1930 no legislation deal-
ing with relief measures was on fed-
eral or provincial statute books.
The Municipality Act provided that
local councils Should, out of local
taxes, provide for destitute resi-
dents.

In 1930 there was enaxted the
Unemployment and Farm Relief
Act which later was displaced: by
the Relief Act, based on the as-
Sumption that relief is a local re-
sponsibility. Wnder this Act, the
federal government assists the pro.
vincial, which in turn assists the
municipal, by orders-in-council on
a ratio of 3-3-3. In all cases the
body issuing relief has the obliga-
tion of ascertaining residence quali-
fications for obtaining relief.

There are many anomalies arising
out of this ruling, chief of which is
the situation of a transient who is
unable by force of circumstances
to stay for one year, the minimum
qualifying period for relief, in one
province.

As Ottawa still assists in relief
costs, it would appear that, with-
out structural changes in the BNA
Act, machinery could be set up to
overcome the present predicament
of many transients, providing a
check on cases and preventing BC,
for instance, carrying the burden
of many transients that rightfully
belongs to other provinces. Here
is a solution:

Flan Proposed.
@) Registration and adjustment

of responsibility: Each person in-
cluded in Canadian census, 1934, as®
a wage earner, shal] register at the
nearest government employment of
fice whose officers shall verify the
residence or transient status of the
applicant.

(2) Issue of relief to destitute
Persons: Destitution shall be the
sole qualification needed for relief.

(3) Provincial financial responsi-
bility to afford relief: Until pro_
vincial accord is reached regarding
establishment of a uniform resi_
dence period throughout Canada,
present ruling shall be operative
and federal employment officers
shall receive from the province
monthly lists of transients assisted,
together with costs, and forward

them to Ottawa, along with data >,
from files from the actual province
to which applicant belomged prior
to receiving assistance.

(4) Collection from prowinces of
expenditure incurred by other proyv-
inces in feeding and housing trans-
ients: The central authority shall
reimburse to each province the full
amount of aid rendered to transi-_
ents, and withhold from the proy-
ince, from monthly grants in aid,
the actual amount incurred by a
distant province in giving relief to
its absent residents.

(5) Responsibility for determin-
Ing residence shall be federal: Ca-
nadian citizenship is national and
it therefore should be the right of

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Advocate

Leading Progressive

Newspaper

VANCOUVER, B.C.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1937

prayince to provide for a works
Program, in the opinion of veterans,
must be developed and made pop-
ular throughout the whole province.
Already, through a series of recent
meetings the proposed scheme has
been brought to the notice of large
numbers of people and is meeting

PROGRES

wtih ready support.

Fred Tyler, secretary of the Ex-
Service Men’s League, told the PA
that, in his opinion, the government
will endeavor to ignore the wide pe-
tition campaign initiated by the
ESL for a public works program
and will offer some form of charity.
in its place.

There is an intense hatred of any-
thing that tends to bring veterans
under control of institutions, said
Tyler. He thought that the fovern-
ment would meet stiff opposition
from men who were to be relegated
to flophouses and glorified billets,
but that a sound plan along lines
proposed by the veterans would
@ain their co-operation. =

There is a Homeless Men's Gom-
mittee composed of ministers and a
number of public-spirited men who
disagree with present policies of
the government, the PA learned. A
committee from the Si has made
arrangements with its chairman,
Rev. A. Roddan, for a conference at

veterans.
The three main points to be taken

Above all things, the PA was told,
veterans want to heep clear of all

For Labor Bill

British Columbia logging camps

and Labor Council, stated Tom
Bradley, secretary of the BG Coast

The bill, which calls for the right

unions of their own choice and pro-
vides for penalties against those

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Centre In US

Anti-Labor Groups Have
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PRAISES HITLER

By BILL REICH

DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 12.
(FP) .—Is Henry Ford provid-
ing the spearhead for Fascism
in the United States? This is
the question that thousands
of Detroit workers are asking.

The Ford service squad is the
largest secret Service department
in the world. It spies on Ford em-
Ployees not only when they are in
the plant but also in their homes,
clubs and places of amusement, It
hires thugs and ex-Ccriminals to in-
Umidate union members. It or-

incites other organizations to vig-
ilante action.

Workers in the Ford River Rouge
plant report that one out of every
ten persons employed there is con-
nected with the service department.

The service men are active in sey-
eral outright vigilante organiza-

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Bathing Beauties Parade in Realistic Float

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A sports procession through Moscow streets obtain ed many
ing blue cloth, in the centre of which stand girl athletes.

ADS WAY

—ANNIE BULLER

Annie |] Buller

Gives Praise
To Advocate

“Organization Is Good
Where Press
Strong’’

TOUR SUCCESSFUL

Before leaving for her cen-
tral office in Winnipeg, Annie
Buller, western manager for
the Clarion Weekly, called at
the editorial rooms of the RA
for the express purpose of giy-
ing a message to our readers
and to thank those press com-
mittees throughout the prov-

the dominion to determine resi-
dence responsibility in any part of
Canada; and without any enabling
act being necessary Ottawa can
collect from grants in aid to any
province, without offence to pro-
vincial rights, the costs incurred by
other provinces to inter-provincial
transients,

(6) Transients at large: Research
by federal officers shall establish
province to which person is a
charge.

It is felt that the above plan can
be operated now without constitu,
tional changes. Fach province will
find no injustice in its provisions
and supplicants for dominion assist-
ance can be persuaded to cooper-
ate.

Canadians
Pay Millions
In War Cost

Records Reveal Terrific
Debt Incurred
In War

FIGURES WITHHELD

OTTAWA, Ont., Aug. 12.—
For 23 years now, federal au-
thorities have carefully with-
held from the public detailed
and illuminating figures on
Canada’s total] War expendi-
ture and how millions of Ca-
nadians have Paid in a monetary
Sense (the cost in lives and tragedy
is incomputable) and are still pay-
ing for 1914-1918.

rom 1915 to 1936 Canada paid in
direct war expenditure a total of
$1,698,517,653, which includes the
2600,000,000 spent in repairines Hali_
fax after the explosion of 1917-18
and adjustments between Canada
and the allied governments.

Pensions paid for the same period
amount to $694 706,554. Re-estab-
lishment of soldiers to civil life has
So far cost $235,019,732 which covers
hospitalization, compensation loans
to veterans, gratuities, Canadian
Legion 8rants, ete.

ince for their cooperation dur-
ing her speaking and organiz-

unusual effects. One was by use of this wav-
It gives the impression of water in a swimming pool.

Editor Tells Of Progress

tions. Sam DTaylor, a “foreman” in
the River Rouge plant and recog-
nized as one of the recent assail_
ants of Walter Reuther and Rich-
ard Prankensteen, union organizers,
is president of the Knights of
Dearborn, an organization which
claims to “combat communism”’ and
“to foster true patriotism.” CG A.
Brooks, Dearborn police chief, is a
charter member of the organiza-
tion.

Arthur Nelson and Roy Irvin,
Ford employees, are leaders of the
fake Workers’ Gouncil for Social
Justice, which bars Jews from.
membership and is endorsed by
Father Coughlin.

The Friends of New Germany,
Wazi organization, has recently en-
rolled thousands of Ford employees
and distributes a Jarge amount of
anti-union and anti-Semetic litera-
ture. Fritz Kuhn, national orgen_
izer, was until recently a chemist at
the River Rouge plant. He has just
returned from Germany, where he
conferred with Propaganda Min-
ister Goebbels and other Nazi of-
ficials. Kuhn has free access to
every department in the Ford plant,
a privilege accorded only to leading
service men. Adolph Hitler's praises
for Henry Ford recently appeared
in all leading German papers.

British Co-Ops Gain One

New Member Every Minute

By MARC FEINSTEIN
Federated Press

. NEW YORK, Aug.
people in London, England,
society.

12.— (FP)

—One out of every seven

1 is a member of a co-operative
Hinglish co-ops are doing 14 per cent to 15

per cent

of the total retail trade of the British Isles, a sum which last

year reached just short of $1,500,-

000,000. Growing at the rate of one®

a minute, membership in British
Co-Ops reached the staggering total]
of 7,800,000. Members average a
dividend saving of from 10 per cent
to 12 per cent.

This encouraging picture of the
British co_operative movement was
brought to the US by Sydney Elliott,
editor of Reynolds News of London,
another co-operative enterprise and
a very successful one.

In an interview with the press at
the offices of the Co-operative
League of the USA, Elliott told how
the Co-operative Press Association
in 1929 bought Reynolds News to
answer the constant attacks made
on the co-operative movement in
England by private interests fear-
ful of its STowing strength. Pub-
lished on Sundays, Reynolds News
has grown from a circulation of
250,000 at the time of its purchase
to 500,000.

Elliott, author of The English Go-
operatives, recently published in
this country, told of close cO_opera-
tion bewteen the coO-Op movement
and trade unions. All co-op em-
ployees are required to join a union.

Contracts signed between the unions
and co-ops are usually designed to
be models for similar contracts in

private industry. The co-ops and

trade unions are co-operating in de-
veloping more industries in order

to absorb more labor into secure
positions.

Elliott

_ - - touring the United
States.
—SS SSS
NEW YORE. —(FP)—T wenty-one
US workers were killed in jabor
struggles during the first half of
1937, the Labor Research Associa-
tions’s list of labor martyrs shows.
During the whole of 1936, 14 worl:
ers lost their lives.

Estimate

400,000

Need Aid
1,000,000 People

Are Affected By
Prairie Drought

By J. P. BESPALKO
REGINA, Sask.,, Aug. 12.—
Some 400,000 persons will
need drought relief in western
Canada this winter, according

to recent admissions made by
government officials. It js

estimated that not less than one
million persons are affected by
drought this year.

The extent of the loss in cold

cash may be estimated from figures
given out by J. G. Gardiner, federal
minister of agriculture. In the three-
year period from 1926-28 inclusive,
prairie wheat erowers produced
crops valued at $1,180,000,000. In the
three-year period from 1929-31 in-
elusive the estimated value amount-
ed to only $350,000,000, or less than
one-third. ; .

This year it will be much less, for
Alberta and Saskatchewan will pro-
duce the smallest crops harvested
Since they were brought under ecul-
tivation.

The feed and fodder Situation
this year is “10 times worse than
it ever has been before,” J. J. Me-
Gurran, secretary of the Saskatche-
Wan Association of Rural Munici-
palities stated recently. He found
only two sections of the province
—Canora and Melfort—with any
hope for a crop.

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ational tour.

Giving her impressions of BC after
being absent for Over five years
from the province, Annie Buller
Stated that the lack of organization
among progressive people was, to
her, most noticeable.

Annie granted the Point that BC
people were to 2 remarkable extent
Tadieal, but declared that absence
of organization is due to the policy
of the CCF. She was of the opinion
that it is ‘suicidal for the CCE to
assert itself only at election times,
remaining inactive the rest of the
time. The CCE could be a real
champion of the people if it had a
Plan and proceeded to organize log-
gers, miners, fishermen and other
workers into their respective unions
and assisted them in their Struggles.

She stated that at all her meet-
ings she had raised the question of
Trotsky-Pascists in the CCE whose
purpose is to undermine this sreat
movement and sabotage all efforts
at unity with the Communist party
and other progressive organizations.
They must, she declared, be swept
from the CGE

Speaking of the press which is her
Special work, Annie had a high re-
Sard for the PA. As gq Provincial
Paper it is one of the best, she Said,
not only for its news Presentation,
but for the manner in which it is
hewing a path for all progressives
to follow.

Annie saw no barrier beiween the
Clarion Weekly and the PA, stating
that she had observed that where
there was a Sood press committee
and wide circulation of the two
papers, there was also healthy or-
ganization.

On questions of Spain, peace and
organization, the press plays a de-
cisive role, Annie declared, and she
wanted all réaders of the PA to ask
themselves this question, “How
Many hours have I put in over the
past six months in reaching new

people on these questions through
the medium of the progressive
press?’’

The price of war Staves runs to
34,811,287; $24,448,528 for adminis-
tration of soldiers’ settlement. In
respect to the last item it is neces-
Sary to add that the Sovernment in-
vested $128,000,000 in soldiers settle_
ment, of which $76,190,201 has been
lost and further losses regarded as
certain.

Thus the total Joss on
Settlement, with interest,
tO Over $100,000,000.

Pay With Borrowed Money

In addition to the huge expendi-
ture, the various interests now total
$1,953,464,614. A portion of this has
been paid yearly out of current
revenue, but a large part of it has
been capitalized, payment being:
made with borrowed money.

While finance Capital raked in
fabulous profits the burden of -the
War debts has been placed full on
the backs of the Masses. This is
shown in the rise of the national
debt, direct and guaranteed, to $4,-
602,550,255. This amounts to $363
per head for each of the country’s
11 million inhabitants. War ex
Penditure, exclusive of interest, has
boosted the national debt some
$2,700,000.

Taken all in all,
in human lives in the war between
the imperialist powers was over
60,000 men and women. In dollars
and cents, Canadians are still pay_
ing for that holocaust at the rate of
158,000,000 a year. ‘

SES

Soldiers’
amounts

Canada’s toll]

One-time business manager of the
Worker, predecessor of the Clarion,
Annie Buller stated that she had
seen how these papers had influ-
enced the course of events, aia)
now, especially in Ontario, the |}
Clarion is the official labor paper in |
the east, accepted by many trades
unions. The circulation of these ©
papers, Annie said. is 4 barometer
of progress in the Dominion.

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