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September 3, 1937

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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, September 3, 1937

Socialists Expel Trotskyists

FTER a long period of purblind complac-

ancy, the Socialist Party ot New Yorlk

has at last had its eyes opened to the real role
of Trotskyists in its ranks.

When the Trotskyists applied for member-
ship the SP made the grave mistake of re
garding them as a part of the labor movement
and took the vipers to the bosom of the party-

Since their admittance the'Trotskyists have
earried on disruption and used the SP to
fight against the united front just as the Trot-
skyists in the CCE do. During the period
since they entered the SP the party in the US
has lost almost 70 per cent of its membership.

Belated though it may be, the action of the
Gentral Committee of the SP of New York is
welcome news. The expulsion of the latest
batch of 70 was based on charges of conspiring
to wreck the party in order to build an Amer-
jean section of the Trotsky-Hitler “Fourth
Tnternational”’ of eounter-revolution, fascist
espionage and opposition to the united front
against fascism and reaction.

Jack Altman, Socialist Party executive
secretary, stated that:

“Trotskyists who have joined the
Socialist parties throughout the world
have in the past year been expelled in
almost every country as incompatible
. .. asa disruptive and undisciplined ele-
ment, unworthy of membership in a poli-
tical organization which takes seriously
its responsibility to the working class.”

Trotskyists in the CCF in BC have been

doing the same kind of disruptive work as their
fellow-enemies of labor and progress in the
US. They have been the chief promoters and
organizers of opposition to the united front.
In the last provincial convention they played
a leading role. Stupid ex-SPC doctrinaires
with their blind prejudice against Commun-
ism and Communists were their allies. :

Hi—A— in 5,

EDITORIAL FEATURES

Tt was this combination which carried on
the Red-baiting, slanderous attacks on the Com-
munist Party, withdrew endorsement of the
League Against War and Fascism and rejected
ihe Communist proposal for joint action on be-
half of the Spanish government and people.

Tt is Trotskyist influence which is respons-
ible for the disgraceful role of The Federation-
ist in calling for the liberation of the Trotsky-
ist agents of Franco in Spain who were caught
red-handed in counter-reyolutionary revolt in
Barcelona, while not a word appears in its eol-
umns ealline for the liberation of Prestes in
Brazil or of the heroie Communist leader,
Thaelmann, who has been tortured for four
years in Hitler’s prisons.

To the Trotskyists within the CCF and
holding important official positions in it can
be aseribed the condition in which the CCE
finds itself today.

The CCE ean, if it will, learn trom the
bitter experience of the Socialist Party in New
York, and purge from its ranks this poisonous
anti-working class element and bring the party

back to health, strength and usefulness through
united action together with all other progres-
sive organizations in the strugele against
reaction and for a better life for the oppressed
and suffering people of the province and ot
Canada as a whole.

Labor Day

EXT MONDAY will be observed through-

out Canada and the U.S. as Labor Day;
not the international Labor Day of the First
of May, but nevertheless a day legally oranted
to Labor throughout Canada and the United
States.

It is regrettable that m Vancouver, once
Canada’s stronghold of trade unionism, the day
will pass without organized labor taking ad-
vantage of the opportunity to mobilize the
workers and demonstrate its determination to
extend organization of the unorganized workers
and serve notice on the employers that the
rights of the workers to organize into bona tide
trade unions must not be interfered with.

As it is, in so far as organized labor and
the working class movement are concerned, this
Labor Day will be little else than an ordinary
legal holiday. This is due to inertia in the trade
inion movement, and can be remedied by a

quickening of the spirit which gave birth to
trade unionism and a revival of the militant,

organizing, struggling activities which
achieved so many glorious victories for or-

ganized labor in the past.

Oreanized labor is being challenged by the
organized employers. The right to organize at
all into unions of the workers’ own fashioning
or choosing: is in jeopardy. The mactivity of
organized labor on this Labor Day will encour-
age the bosses in their anti-union driye.

One of the thines needed is that the Trades
and Labor Couneil and unions of Vancouver
emulate the Trades Councils and unions of
Halifax. St. John and other cities and organize
a real wnion-recruitine campaign with the ob-
jective of donbling the number of trade union-
ists in Greater Vancouver, where there is an
insistent démand by the mnorganized for oi
ganization, a demand that is inadequately met.

Outside of Vancouver, in the coal and metal
mining districts, among lumber workers, pulp
and sulphite workers, ete., notable gains have
been made in forming trade unions and com-
pelling the employers to recognize, deal with
and make agreements with them.

While there is need for ever greater union
organization throughout the province, the
greatest need—and opportunity—tor ore@aniza-
tion is In Greater Vancouver.

Tf the opportunities presenting themselves
are fully taken advantage of, the trade union
movement will take on a new lease of life, will
become a potent forcé for improving the stan-
dards of living of the workers. And when
Labor Day, ‘September, 1955, comes around
Vancouver will not let it pass without a real
demonstration and celebration worthy of the
tradition of organized labor in British Co-
lumbia.

A Vicious Anti-Labor Proposal

ROM Victoria comes word that the govern-
ment is preparing to oppose the Trade
Union Bill, which is to be introduced by CCF
members during the first session of the next
leoislature.

The proposed bill would legalize the right of
workers to organize, and penalize employers for
interference in the organization activities of
the workers.

This bill has the backing of organized labor
and the people of the province generally, and

door

bx the same token the opposition of the diehard
employers of the Shipping Federation, the
boss loggers, mine owners and other reactionary
eroups. .

It appears that the government is willing
to grant to the workers the right to organize—
providing the workers guarantee in advance
that the union will not fight for its members,
will not strike nor in any way inconvenience
the employers or interfere with their profits.
In other words, if the union behayes like a
company union. In the usual canting, hypo
eritical way, the government poses as defenders
of the public from “ruimous industrial war-
fare.”

Ever working for the employers, the govern-
ment is scheming to sidetrack the Trade Union
Bill with a bill of its own, a bill more reac
tionary and anti-labor than anything yet de
vised by the Pattullo tools of the big interests.

What they are scheming to put over on the
workers of B.C. is a law on the Hitler model,
a law which would force arbitration if either
side to an industrial dispute applied.

While pretending not to abrogate the right
of the workers to strike, the government pro-
poses to make it compulsory for them to sub-
mit to ‘conciliation’ first.

But the government does not propose to
place such restrictions on the employers before
they ean declare a lockout or fire employees for
trade union organizational activity.

The workers of B.C. demand the enactment
of a law which guarantees the workers the
right to organize according to thei desires and
needs, which legalizes the right to strike and
penalizes any or all employers who deny these
rights.

The workers will not stand for any form of
compulsory arbitration or conciliation whose
purpose is to deprive the workers ot the ad-
vantage of surprise. Any attempt by the Pat-
tullo government to pass such an iniquitous
law must be met by the united opposition of
the labor movement and all allies who can be
mobilized on the side of labor against it-

Dangerous Thought Department—“1 have
been instructed to deny the Japanese troops im:
China carry any poison gas equipment, Japan-
ese Consul Ishii said. ‘Hyrthermore,” the
country around Nankow Pass is not suitable
for the use of gas.”—Victoria Tumes.

International Labor Movement Must Unite

.-- Dimitroff

WO years ago, in August, 1935,
i the Seventh Congress of the
Communist International, giving
an analysis of the international
situation and seeking ways and
means for the struggle of the
working class against the attacks
of Fascism, pointed out the indis-
soluble connection between the
strugele against Tascism and the
struggle for peace.

Fascism is war, declared the
Congress. Once Fascism accedes to
power against the wishes and in-
terests of the nation, it seeks a way
out of the growing jmternal diffi-
culties in ageression against other
countries and nations, in a redis-
tribution of the world by means
of a world war.

Peace means certain destruction
for Fascism, but the preservation
of international peace gives the en-
slaved masses in the Fascist coun-
tries the possibility of rallying
their forces and preparing the
overthrow the hated Fascist dic-
tatorship; the international work-
ing class gains time for the estab-
jishment of unity in its own ranks,
for the solid amalgamation of all
adherents of peace and the crea-
tion of an insurmountable barrier
against war.

When the Seventh Congress de-
scribed Fascism as the fomentor
of war, when it pointed out the
increasing danger of a new im-
perialist war and the necessity of
ereating a mighty united front for
the struggle against Fascism,
plenty of people—even within the
Labor moyement—did not hesitate
to accuse. us Communists of de-
liberately imputing such an im-
portant part to Fascism and exag-
gerating the danger of war for the
purposes of our own propaganda.

Some of these people did so as
conscious champions of the inter-
ests of the ruling class, and others
merely because of their political
short-sightedness. Wowever, the
Jast two years have made the ab-
surdity of such an accusation suf-
ficiently obvious. Both the friends
and the opponents of peace are
by now openly discussing the im-
minent danger of a new world war,
and it would be difficult to find
any serious people who would now
doubt that it is the Fascist gOv-
ernments and no others who act
as the champions of war.

In some countries the war is
actually going on already. The
Italian and German intervention-
ists have been carrying on a war
against the Spanish people for the
past year under the eyes of the
syvhole world. After the annexation
of Manchuria the Japanese Fascist
Military clique has again attacked
the Chinese people and is now
waging a new war in North China.

Manehuria, Abyssinia, Spain and
North China are stages on the
road to a new great war of pillage
on the part of Fascism. They are
not isolated acts. The Fascist ag-
eressors and fomentors of war
have formed a bloc uniting Berlin,
Rome and Tokyo. The German-
Japanese anti-Communist agree-
ment, which, is, a5 We kmow, an
agreement of a military nature
swhich Mussolini has also endorsed,
is already being applied in prac-
tice.

Under the flag of the struggle
against the Comintern and

against the “Red menace,” the

German, Italian and Japanese
conquerors are trying by means
of partial wars to occupy strate-
gic positions, take possession of
junctional points of land and sea
routes, and conquer sources of
the raw materials for armaments
neded for a further development
of imperialist war.

The Wascist aggressors and war-
mongers blackmail the West Huro-
pean states by threatening their
territorial interests. They are pre-
paring an attack on the Soviet
Union. They exploit to the utmost
the connivance of the ruling cir-
cles in Britain, Prance and the
United States of America.

Proposing that they should come
to an understanding among them-
selves concerning the plundering
of Spain, China and the small
countries, they spare no effort to
gain the goodwill of the British
Conservatives and a number of
Liberal and Labor leaders in order
to separate Britain from France
and the other democratic coun-
tries.

Holding out the same kinds of
tempting prospects, they are mak-
ing unbelievable efforts to bring
abcut an understanding with the
French reactionaries, in duce

France to repudiate the Franco-
Soviet pact and thus isolate that
country from the Soviet Union.

The Fascist states withdrew
from the League of Nations in
order to have a free hand for their
ageression. They are terrorizing
the weak countries by threatening
to attack them from without and
to organize conspiracies and rebel-
lions from within.

The Fascist fomentors of war
make use of treasonable elements,
and especially of Trotskyists, to
earry on disruptive and disorgan-
izing activities within the ranks of
the working class with the object
of breaking up the People's Front
in Spain and HMrance.

The recent rising in Barcelona
was a clear example of how the
Fascist wire-pullers use the Trot-
skyist organizations in order to
stab ‘the People’s Front in the
back. ° :

The Fascist fomentors of war
also turm to very good use the
activities of the opponents of the
unity of the international work-
ing Class withim the ranks of the
LSI and the IFTU, and are as-
siduously recruiting agents ev-
erywhere.

Special efforts were made by the

Fascist invaders—this was disclosed
at the recent trials of the Trotsky-
ists and spies—in order to send
saboteurs and spies to the USSR
and in order to use their Trotsky-
ist agents for disruptive activities
in the Soyiet Union, the great
country of Socialist achievements.
The Hascists reckoned that if they
succeeded in breaking the strength
of the Soviet Union, that faithful
guardian of peace, they would
have in the main ensured the suc-
cess of their plans of military ag-
gression. }

Hence one can easily understand
the furious howls with which the
Fascists and their accomplices re-
ceived the news that the organs of
the dictatorship of the working
class, supported by the whole So-
viet nation, had mercilesly de-
stroyed the traitors to the great
Socialist country.

Was the fact that the Japanese
militarists were allowed to invade
Manchuria not an encouragement
to the Fascistifomentors of war?
Was the complete lack of any de-
cisive opposition to the bloody
campaign of Mussolini against the
Abyssinian people not an encour-
agement to the Fascist aggressors?
Was the whole farce of ‘“non-inter-

vention in Spanish affairs’? played
for a whole year under the direc-
tion of the British government or
the present negotiations on belli-
gerent rights for Franco not an
actual approval of the war carried
on by the Fascist states against
the Spanish Republic?

Is the present complacent atti-
tude towards the insolent invaders
of China not a revolting encour-
agement of unchecked Japanese
militarism which is out to enslave
the great Chinese people?

How can the peoples of Britain,
france, the United States of Amer-
ica and of other non-Fascist states
remain indifferent to these facts—
how can they tolerate this: system-
atic connivance at and encourage-
ment of Fascist aggression which
facilitates the criminal machina-
tions of the Fascist fomentors of
a new world war?

These facts show up clearly the
tremendous historical responsibil-
ity falling on the shoulders of
those leaders of the LSI and TU
who obstinately stand in the way
of the united action of the inter-
national working: class, of the pur-
suance by its organizations of a

Fascism Exports Its Poison

VEVH WARTED by the

strength of the people’s
front in France, and by
British distaste for totali-
tarian doctrines, Hitler and
Mussolini have undertaken
to export fascism in new ways.
Dispatches from England reveal
interesting details that centre
round the recently expelled Wazi
journalists. Messrs. Crome, Wrede
and Langen improved their leisure
time by establishing five fascist
centres in merrie England. These
gatherings, often held at fashion-
able hotels,{have been known to
the British government since Oc-
tober 1935.

The wife of a cabinet minister
joined the German ambassador
and prominent members of influ-
ential circles to plan the work of
fascist espionage. The three Nazi
journalists were closely linked
with this activity. So elosely, in
fact, that the British Home Office
took the usual peace-time step of
expelling them. Since Joachim von
Ribbentrop was appointed ambas-
sador to Great Britain, the Na-
tional-Socialist Party has doubled
its foreign organization—and in
consequence the activity of fascist
groups on English soil has grown.
tremendously.

The Week, a well-informed Eng-
lish news service, reports that
more than sixty-five thousand
franes went from Berlin, via the
Wazi party of Luxemburg, to one
fascist organization in Britain.
This is said to have roused British
backers of fascism—Lancashire
cotton interests, two bankers, and
a large motor car manufacturer.
Not wishing to lose control of
their own movement through
heavy foreign subsidies, these
patriots put pressure on the cab-
inet to oust Hitler's agents.

The sums involved seem small,

however, when compared with re-
cent fascist exports to France,
where Colonel de la Rocque, chief

of the dissolved Croix de Feu,
somehow got his hands on nine
million frances to purchase the left
radical Petit Journal. For years
de la Rocque has been supported
by ex-Premier Andre ‘Tardieu.
Wow it is revealed that Mussolini
has been in direct contact with
the colonel, using members of
Jabotinsky’s fascist-inclined Zion-

ist-Revolutionist group as go-be-
tweens.
M. Jacques Doriot, deposed

mayor of St Penis, has likewise
turned to journalism. Doriot pur-

chased the ultra-reactionary Li-.

berte just before government in-
quiry into a coal scandal forced
his removal from office. Former
Premier Laval is said to have sup-
plied the purchase price. Another
curious angle to this deal is that
Liberte, with a rapidly falling cir-

culation now less than forty thou-
sand), owes an enormous debt to
the Semard printing works, and
M. Henri Simond, director of
Semard’s, has
Doriot to pay the sum in easy in-
stallments.

The Semard works are owned
by the Echo de Paris and M.
Beghin, publisher of the Paris
Soir. Until recently M. Simond
was proprietor of the Echo de
Paris. He resigned when the
Blane family, which owns 57 per
cent of the paper, demanded to
know why the Echo de Paris was
not returning a profit. M. Simond
did not care to explain that the
profits of the Semard printing
works were being used to carry
former mayor Doriot’s venture in
fascist journalism.

You Cheering
Market Trends...

Pocket your itching palms.

Sing the old sweet songs about
prosperity.

Draw your

across

the multitudinous sick, the too-
soon dying-

We will not be seduced.

headline curtains

The blood of the people is in the
steel.

The blood of the people is in the
coal and in the copper.

The gone forever heartbeats of the
people

are in the dynamos and in the
locomotives.

These are the people's.

They have bought them with their
bloed.
They have bought them with the
years they didn’t live.
—Joseph Kehoe.

agreed to allow

“militarists in Chima.

united co-ordinated international
policy against the Fascist foment-
ors of war and of the ereation of 2
powerful international peace front.

Fascist intervention in ~ Spain
has been considerably streneth-
ened. To it has now been added the
jJatest aggression of the Japanese
And yet it
should be clear that now, when the
Spanish people is making a su-
preme effort to repulse the ar-
tacks of the Fascist intervention-
ists, when the G@hinese people is
rising against the attack of the
Japanese miilitarists, the inter-
national working-class organiza-
tions must at last unite their e1
forts and resolutely take the field
in all their might for the defence
of international peace.

The situation has now arisen in
which the preservation of interna-
tional peace means in the _first
place the necessity to secure the
defeat of the Fascist invaders in
Spain and China. They must be
given a seyere lesson. They must
be made to feel very tangibly that

the international working class and ~

all progressive and civilized hu-
manity will nso longer tolerate
their miltary aggression and their
invasions of foreign territory and
are prepared to do everything in
order to prevent the Fascists from
carrying out their criminal plans
of launching another world war.

Ts it possible that the Labor and
Socialist International and the
International Federation of Trade
Unions will again limit themselves
to seneralized declarations and
pious wishes about peace, but will
in practice again avoid that joint
action of all organizations of the
international Labor movement
which is so necessary?

And yet joint action of the in-
ternational working-class organiza-
tions on national and international
seale is the only force which can
mobilize progressive humanity for

the struggle against war, bar the,

way to the fomentors of war and
influence the official policy of the
most important non-Fascist powers
in the direction of putting a check
on the excesses of the Fascist ag-
@ressors.

Qne cannot seriously tale ac-
tion for the preservation of in-
ternational peace unless one first
takes all the necessary steps. to
establish the united front of the
working class in each country
and to bring about united action
of the international organiza-
tions of the working class. it is
jmpossible to make a serious
fight for peace without mobiliz-
ing all the forces of the working
class movement and of the broad
popular miasses for the speedy ex’
pulsion of the Fascist invaders
from Spain and China.

The international Labor move-
ment now disposes over sufficient
forces and means to Stop the in-
tervention of German and Italian
Fascism in Spain and the invasion
of China by the Japanese military
and to safeguard international
peace. In order to achieve this,
however, it is necessary that the
tremendous forces and resources
of the international Labor move-

ment should be united and directed
towards an effective and unswerv-
ing struggle against Fascism and
war.

OL’ BILL

Who Is When Europe was
AM juried in the tomb

o 3 ?
Aggressor? of the Dark Ages
philosophy Was only another name
for religious dogma. Philosophie

® disputation and discussion centered =

around such knotty problems as®
“How many angels can dance on
the point of a needile?’’

All the priestly scholars in Europe
argued and debated this question,
which almost split the Catholic
church in twain.

We have emerged from the Dark
Ages; we have reached the peak
of civilized culture; if the priests
opened a discussion on that sub-
ject. today they would be laughed
to scorn. But before many- weeks
are gone we may witness a dis—
eussion equally puerile and futile,
for all our advancement in science
and philosophy.

Soon we may see the spectacle
ef batteries of lawyers, the elite
of capitalist brains from whose
ranks are chosen those who sit in
judgement, drawn from all comers
of the globe, gathered around the
mahogany tables in Geneva, ferret-
ing out of their owlish wisdom, or
lack of wisdom rather, the answer

to a question that the League of ~

Nations must answer: “Who is am
aggressor?”

Confronted with a concrete prob-
lem such as the League of Na-
tions §; faced with today in Spain
and China, any 10-year-old school-
boy would answer the question
offhand and correctly, but enough
of the Middle Ages mentality—the
class concept—still dominates the

Capitalist wiseacres. so that the
question ma ybe debated for
months and then remain un—
_ answered.
The Ieague has accomplished
one thing, however; it has made

the aggressors carry on war with-
out making an open declaration of
war.

Bullying, imperialist, Fascist na-
tions like Italy, Germany and Ja=
pan invade, in a piratical fashion,
Spain and China and if these na-
tions. with full moral justification,
declare war they become in the
eyes of the aforementioned “elite”
the aggressors. The ‘“‘elite”’ un-
doubtedly does not read the dic-
tionary!

It is not surprisine then, to fing
in a manifesto issued by over 806
Spanish intellectuals in support of
the legitimate geovernment of
Spain, names from every branch
of literature, art and science, but
not one lawyer.

*

Junking One result of the in-
Their vasion of Spain by the

hordes of Hitler and
Heroes! Mussolini has been
demonstrated in SGritain during

the past month.
iron ore, the raw material of the
iron and steel industry, has com-
pelled the Iron and Steel Iedera-
tion of that country to initiate &

“national scrap’ campaign, am
appeal for the patriotism of the
people to dig up all metal scrap

of the kind that Japan has been
buyine so much of in BC of late,
So acute has this need become
for the British iron industry that
one business paper, “The Mercen=

The shortage of 4

tile Guardian,” is led to make the

following suggestion: “Town coun=
cils might perhaps be strong
minded enough to throw into the
meltine-pot statues of forgotten
or discredited rulers and states
men, frock-coated aldermen and
other cumbersome junk.’’

Such is the measure and thé
worth of the appreciation the good
bourgeois shows to the individuals
who have placed his capitalist sys
tem in the dominant position it
cecupies today in society. These
are his aforetime gods. and since
he can get alone now without
them—to the serap-pile with them,

That the Canadian bourgeois 18
no different from his British
brother is proved by the recent
news item about the fate of the
erave of Sir John A. MacDonald,
“the father of our country,” 1B
Catarqui Cemetery, which the
owners of the cemetery threated
to seize because nothing has bees
paid for its maintenance for niné
years. :

x
Me About the beginning
Without of the century. a Van
ithou ceouver journalist, 4
God! MacGrescor Gordowt,

editor of a humorous paper called
“Phe Hornet,” achieyed a modle
eum of fame with his poem “Me
Und Gott.”

Wis inspiration came from tH®
last sword rattling emperor
Germany, Kaizer Willie. During
the ferment arising out of thé
Boer War that royal bully had
broadcast the information that the
affairs of the world were going @
be set right by himself and God

If MacGregor
write his

Gordon were @
poem today he would

lave to substitute Hitler for the

Hohenzollern degenerate and there
ywould be no room in it for © 54.

Goebbells and his propagands
battalions have played upon the
theme that Hitler is greater tat
God and so persistently that i¢ 18
beginning to be accepted by their
dupes as gospel truth.

The old customary announce
ments of death in the “Fateh,
Match and Dispatch Column,” that
told how the deceased died ‘firm

in the belief in God’ no longe
holds good in Naziland. Whet 4s
national-socialist dies | the en:

nouncement reads, “He died fire
sn the belief in Adolph Hitler.”
“believing in der Pulner.”