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The People’s Advocate

Meet Urges

Leading Progressive Newspaper

Clean-up of

Western Canada’s

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1937

Campaign

Nippon Attempting To
Destroy Cultural
Centres

WARS ON CIVILIANS

By GRAGE GRANICH
Federated Press

SHANGHAI—(By Trans-
Pacific Clipper) .—A new ex-
ample of frightfulness has
been given to the world. Ti-
entsin and its environs are to-
day a shambles of horror and
destruction. Enraged by the resist-
ance of a small handful of Chinese

Tom Barnard
Raps Federal
Gov't Policy
Pe ee In

Province Are
Planned

OF 93 VETS

EMANDE

On
fi Lost In The Arctic

h —on— nee

60,000 Seek
Membership
In New IWF

International Offices
Are Opened In
Seattle

False Creek

Mt. Pleasant Gathering
Endorses Suggested
Program

PARK PROPOSED

First public meeting of the
recently -launched campaign
to clean up False Creek flats
was held under auspices of the
Broadway East branch of the
Communist party at the IOOF hall,
Sixth and Main, on Friday of last
week when some hundred people at-
tended.

Main speakers were Ald. A. Hurry
(CCE), John Jopson, Vancouver
treops to Japanese occupation of “f i E Ger
the Chinese city of Tientsin, Japa. PUBLIC INDIGNATION PCS ORONS [oan oy Se, Bakes, sacs:
nese bombers went into action inj; ae < ack
aia 2 he CP, and George Black, secretary,
relays, dropping intendiary bombs | British Columbia veterans’ SEATTLE, Wash.— (UNS) ee ee fanaa ean CP, and
it ae ae Gepeest eee of the organizations are planning Aug. 26. — Headquarters for under general discussion was a
e v Ww Po 3 . - 5 = oe =f >
; sae Pec ees ae che Sees meetings throughout the city the International Woodwork-

nese airdrome for replenishments.

For three hours these
rained death and devastation upon
the city. When they had finished
Tientsin lay in ruins, with countless
thousands of innocent civilians dead
among the wreckage.

Tales of horror ana atrocity pour
into Shanghai from Tientsin, as
eyewitnesses to the Slaughter who
ecaped the deadly holocaust Stream
into the city. At Kotzecha Hotune:
In the Chinese city of Tientsin,
Japanese soldiers were seen sprink-
ling kerosene on Chinese houses,
waich they subsequently set on fire.
Then without any warning they
machine-sunned the frightened peo-
ple, as they rushed from their burn-
ings homes.

Qn other streets of the city, Japa-
H nese soldiers and armed ronin

(Sanesters) roamed about, ruthlessly
and methodically killing; every Chi-

nese who crossed their path.
Wherever refugees Were encount-

ered, they became the targzet of the
merciless Japanese rifles and ma-
ehine guns.

More significant than the mere
4 destruction of villages and the
Slaughter of innocents is the delib-
erate Fascist purpose of utterly de-
molishine an entire national culture
and its institutions. This plan was
seen in operation in Shanghai in
1932, when the Japanese attacked
this city, and selected as its chief
victims the educated and literate
Chinese citizens.

Destroy Culture

Similarly, the Japanese have gone
into action in North China, primar
ily against every institution whieh
furthers and develops Chinese ecul-
ture. Nankai University in Tient-
Sin, the first Chinese university
which Successfully brought modern
technical development to the stu-.
dents of China, became an immedi-!
ate mark for Japanese attention. |
The first Japanese scouting plane |
dropped a pilot Hla= on the roof or
the library, as the target for suc-
ceedine waves of Japanese planes
and their incendiary bombs.

Spain witnessed one Guernica, but
in North China today, Japanese
Planes are ruthlessly bombing and
machine-eunnine= willagseé after vyil-!
lage in an effort to strike terror into
the mass of Chinese people.

Japan fully realizes that these peo-
ple are potentially their enemies,
easily transformed inio rovine
Suerilla bands, similar to the Man-
ehurian Volunteers and equally cap-
able of bringine their “civilizing
machine’? to a standstill. And Su
she creates dozens of Guernicas in
Worth China, to destroy and paralyze
by terror the enemy she fears. But
just as Guernica stiffened the re-
sistance of the people of Spain, so
these new horrors in North China
are welding the people of China into
ene powerful mass, which shall
eventually bring this Fascist ag-
€vTessor to account.

FOX’S
HOME BAKERY

Home Made Bread, Buns,

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planes

and in a number of cities and
towns in the province to de-
mand release of 53 ex-service
men sentenced last week to
SIx weeks in Oakalla jail for solicit-
ing funds on city streets after they
had been cut off relief. and to bring
the plight of unemployed veterans
before the public.

This was revealed last Sunday at
a mass protest meetine of veterans
held in Orange hall here When of-
ficers of the Canadian Lesion and
the Bx-Service Men’s Leasue spoke.

A dominant note was Struck by
Tom WGarnard, national executive
member of the Canadian Legion,
Who declared: :

“My very manhood crys out at
the sight of these veterans in saol_
What chance have old, burned-out
veterans got to hunt jobs. with
young bucks educated in Canadian

schools still idle because highly
technical industry cannot absorb
them.”

Condemnine the policy of pro-
erastnation followed by the Domin-
ion SOvernment, he commented

shrewdly, “The Sovernment has one
creative power. It can always create
committees and commissions.”’

The fovernment, he Stated, must
be proded into action. Those who
had fought for Canada in her time of
need were in need themselves today
and the government must come for-
Ward with a policy.

Urges Unity

A rousing plea for Solidarity
among veterans was made by J.
McClaren, president of the Ed-
monton branch of the Canadian
Legion, who stated that unemploy-
ment was a graye issue facine
veterans and that the Legion

; veterans in institutions Was a poor

must fight for ex-service men
whose plight was no fault of their
own.

C. Parnell, New Westminster, in-
formed the meeting that Similar
meetings were being Planned at New
Westminster and other Valley
towns.

A strong stand asainst acceptance
of charity was taken by Fred Tyler, |
president, Ex-Seryice Men’s League,
Who declared that offers of organ-
ized Charity to place unemployed

method of using charity funds, col-
lected from the €eneral public and
intended for social Welfare. and
only an encouragement to the gzoy—
ernment to shirk its responsibilities
to these men.

He offered details resardinge Poppy
Wunds and Returned Soldiers’ Clubs
to support his contention that a
large proportion of funds went in
administration expenses.

Pisures quoted by Tyler from of-

= % was ann d la friday
4A committee of the Friends of the See Ounce Jast Friday at a
2 ‘ 5 meeting of South Burnaby rate-
| Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion has see =
z ig | PAversS in Jubilee Labor hall at
been set up here with Mrs. Aili which members of the delegation
Malm as secretary. £ 5

Polar flight which brought him and his companions down somew
above with V. M. Molotov (right), chairman, and’ N. K. Antipoy
Council of People’s GCommissars of the USSR.

Sigmund Levanevsky is shown at the Moscow air port shortly before he left on

See
ss

the attempted Trans-

here in the Arctic. He appears
(centre), vice-chairman of the

Sointula Supports FMPB

Fishermen Donate $166
_ At Mrs. Ewen’s Meeting

By JANET TYNJALA
SOINTULA, BG, Aug. 26.—Fishermen here and from
nearby points crowded into the Workers’ hall to hear Mrs.
Beckie Ewen, provincial secretary of the Friends of the Mac-
kenzie-Papineau Battalion, on the occasion of her recent visit.
An estimated 350 people attended the meeting.
Total collection amounted to®
$166.96 including a donation of $33
from Finnish fishermen of the Pro-
vincial Canneries, $10.75 from Eiver-
Son's camp fishermen, $5 from the
Women's Labor League and $5 from
the Sointula Co-@perative. The rest
ef the collection was made up of
individual donations, many giving
ten and five-dollar bills.
At the conclusion of the meeting
a committee of three—Prank Kiyvi_
harju, John Anderson, Hino Ahola—
Was struck off to end a letter of
Steeting to the Mackenzie-Papineau
Battalion through Bob Kerr, its
political commissionér, on behalf of
those present.

Taxpayers To
Meet Fraser

Burnaby Delegation Will
Protest Arrears
Scheme

Commissioner Fraser will meet a
delegation of Burnaby ratepayers
next Wednesday. September i, it

E were elected.
Following are excerpts from the

letter sent to Bob Kerr:

We, the committee, set up by a
mass meeting of 350 people in Soin-
tula, BC, Saturday, August 14, after
hearing the speech of Mrs. Beckie
Ewen on Spain and of your glorious
work, wish to bring through the
Sreetings of our town and environs
to the Canadian boys in Spain,
particularly the boys of BC.

We pay our undying tribute to

Burnaby taxpayers are protesting
demands for cash Payment on tax
arrears before contracts to work out
the balance are sranted. They as-
sert that this is tantamount to
charging taxpayers for the privilege
of working out their arrears.

PAP Memorial

our fallen fighters, and realize that
the blood they have shed is not in
vain, but has been shed so that
democracy and liberty shall live in
Canada as well as in Spain.

We have formed in our com-
munity a section of the Priends of
the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion,

ficial balance sheets Showed that
two individuals in Returned Soldiers’
€lub received $3,050.16 to disburse
an additional $4,300. Total charges
of the institution “were $4,200, so
that it cost almost one dollar in
administration for every dollar dis-
bursed.

Brought In $26

The sum of $26 was realized at a
memorial performanice of one-act
plays for “Paddy” O'Neill, member
of the Progressive Arts Players
killed in Spain, staged by the PAP
at their clubrooms, 1273 Granville
Street, last Saturday. Half of the

Other speakers included A. W. and EVEL, ee ear oe
ayes nai arn In Our community, every fis a
ae ee Soin; on the fishing grounds, every lum-
ber worker in the camps around,
every small businessman with whom
Wwe come in contact will hear of
your deeds through us, and we
Shall give €very possible support to

Call Conference In
New. Westminster

NEW LICN HOTEL

122 EAST HASTINGS STREET

make the Labor Youth picnic, Sun-)

day, September 5. the best labor
pienic yet held in the district. Tony
Herman, active chairman of the

Picnic committee,
pool, north of Hastings Park. |

Pared,
Hitler’ which is proving a popular

to set up sub-conferences. The form

of organization will be discussed
and officers elected. ‘The meetine
will be open to the public.

Youth To Hold
Picnic On Sept. 5

No effort is being spared to

stated this week.

The venue will be Windermere

novelties
including

Many are being

a game of

pre-
‘Bait
This advertisement is not published

pastime on these occasions.

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proceeds will go to the Friends of
the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion,
the rest to the PAP maintenance
fund.

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or dispiayed by the Liquor
British Columbia.

Control

Seek To
Postpone
Elections

French Reaction
Fears Communist
Election Gains

PARIS, Hrance, Aus- 26.—Pro-
posal of M-. Filandin, chairman of
the so-called “Democratic Alliance”
that coming municipal and provin-
Cial elections which are to be held
in October, should be postponed in-
definitely is receivine support of
French reaction.

Viadimir D’Ormesson Writing in
“BKigaro,”’ warmly supports the idea
as does the Fascist deputy Henry
de Kerillis in the “Bsypoque.”’

Flandin presents the arsument
that the election agitation will
disturb the country and unsettle
the financial and economic progress
which is now being made in France.
De Wendelfi, the French heavy in-
dustrialist favored the idea at the
recent congress of the Marin sroup
in Nice.

Kerillis reveals that he urged
Laval in January, 1936, to postpone
the election to the Chamber of
Deputies because all indications
pointed to bic Communist election
victories

It is interesting to note thar
French reactionaries are. Opposing
the coming elections not only be-
cause of the successes they will
bring to the People’s Front, but
also because the elections are like-
ly to have an unfavorable result
for the right-wing.

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WON'T FINANCE SPLIT

TUCSON, Ariz.—(P)—Declaring
that it was not willing to pay the
American Federation of Labor to
fight the Committee for Industrial
Organization, the Tucson local of
the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
of America passed a resolution econ-

ers of America, newly affili-
ated CIO union, have been set
up in Suite 3136 at the Arcade
Building, Seattle, Wash., E. B.
Weber, international Secretary has
announced.

Applications for charters continue
to pour in, Weber says, working
the office force overtime. The
charters are being printed and will
be mailed out to the local unions
as quickly as they can be filled out.

Locals with a combined member-
ship of 60,000 have already filed
applications for the CIO union
charters, and reports indicate that
those which did not vote when the
referendum was taken, principally
in the Puget Sound area have since
been conducting their own official
ballot on affiliation with the CIO.

The affiliates of the Federation of
Woodworkers have been showing the
high officials of the Carpenters’
Union that they “really meant it
When they voted five to one to go
CIO,” Weber declared.

Vote of Canadian Locals

The CIO referendum of the Cana-
dian locals went even more strons-
ly for affiliation than the most op-
timistic had expected. In spite of
the prediction of officials of the
Carpenters’ Union, that the British
Columbia Council would Stay with
the AF ofL, it cast the strongest
vote of all In favor of the CIO.

4An official announcement of the
executive council gaye the vote as
1,220 for the CIO and 46 against.
A straw vote taken among a
Sroup of unorganized British Co-
lumbia timber workers came out
436 in fayor of the CIO and 23

against.
Plans for making
Worker, now printed in Aberdeen,
Wash., the official organ of the
new Woodworkers International was
discussed by the executive commit-
tee. It is proposed to have the of-
ficial newspaper published in Seattle
at International headquarters.

the Timber

The Timber Worker was the of-
ficial organ of the Hederation of
Woodworkers before the affiliation
with the CIO as an international
union. The Wederation which be-

longed to the AF of i through the
Car-
had a total

International Brotherhood or
penters and Joiners,

health and works proeram.

Position of the city council in re-
gard to local improvements was
brought out clearly by Ald. Hurry.

There was, he told the meeting,
no money available for such local
improvements, eyen though the situ-
ation menaced the health of the
residents of the whole district.

While expressing himself as being
in fayor of the program advocated
and stating that conditions should
have been remedied a Jong time ago,
he believed there was little likelihood
of the council talking action to rem-
edy the Situation.

On this point he was taken to task
by George Black.

“When the alderman comes up

for re-election will he base his ap-
peal on what he has been unable to

do of on what he has done?” he
demanded.
Ald. Hurry contended that it

would cost $250,000 to install an in-
cinerator. Black replied that rubbish
could be carried out to sea on tugs
as was being done elsewhere and
that this would not cost any large
sum. Ald. Hurry also contended that
it Was impossible to deal with the
Great Northern Railway because the
company was endeavoring to sell
the property. To this Black replied
that it was little wonder the com-
pany wanted to sell its property in
view of the smells from the present
dump.

Jopson expressed the desire of the
youth council to fulfill its pledge to
co-operate in slum-clearance work
and Lealess stressed the need for or-
Sanization if conditions were to be
bettered.

Proposed Program
After a lively discussion the fol-

lowing proposals were endorsed:
(1) A rat extermination c¢cam-
paign in all areas affected.
(2) Prohibiting dumping of all
garbage and refuse on the flats.

(3) Cleaning up of all vacant
lots and drainine of Stagnant
pools.

(4) Building of a recreation park
and children’s playground on the
south side of the tracks from
Brunswick to Scott streets.

(5) Renting for cultivation of all
cleared lots by the city at a nom-
inal sum.

AS an alternative to installation

membership of 100,000.

Just Arrived .. .

of an incinerator the meeting pro-

posed dumping of all refuse at sea.

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