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League To
Take Lead
In City Meet

Peace Organizations
Pledge Campaign
Support
LABGR BACKS PLAN

Initiated by the Canadian
League for Peace and Democ-
racy in the city, a group of
well known prosressives met
in the Hotel Vancouver last
Monday to plan a province-
Wide campaign for peace as

British Colaumbia’s part
tional effort to press

in a na-
the federal

sovernment to take a positive Stand |

for world peace. ’

“The lukewarm position taken by
Premier Mackenzie King toward
practical proposals for fhe mainten-
amce of peace and his attitude at
the Imperial Conference is a chal-
lenge to all thinking people in the
Dominion and they must. make
Known their feelings in no uncer.
tain fashion,”’, stated Provincial
President A. M. Stephen, who led the
discussion. 2

Proposals read from a conference
call which will be sent to all orgsan-
izationS receptive to the idea of
peace were that the principle of col-
leciive security among democratic
nations as a front against interna-
tional Fascism, still Stands; that
treaty obligations must be observed
and the Jeasue of Nations as 4
peace apparatus. strensthened.

Stephen reported that all peace
organizations in the city weére~be-
hind the proposed conference which
Will be of a non-partisan character
and not dominated by any particular
body. Initial sponsors inelude Har-
old Winch, MIA: Mrs. D, -Steeves,
MGA; Mrs. Stuart Jamieson, Gar-
field King, Women’s International
Leasue for Peaee and Freedom,
and a number of trade unions and
other organizations.

A mass meeting at the Auditor-
ium, Qctober 29, at which Upton
Sinclair, Rhys Williams, Howard
Costigan and other great peace
speakers will contribute, will open
the campaign. Two days of con-
ference and committee work and
an election of delegates for the
national convention to be held in
Torente in November will follow.

4 plan to obtain assistance of all
newspaper editors in the province
Was submitted by Garfield Kine and
A. Holmes, who undertook to con-
tact daily and weekly papers. for
publication of campaign material

© Stewart, S. Shearer and J.
Maskell, representing strong trade
unions in the city, promised full co-
operation, Stating that the recently
concluded Trades and Labor Coan-
Sress had gone on record as support-
ing such campaigns. They also urged
that the question of an effective
boycott. on Fascist - manufactured
goods should be an important part
of the agenda.

Demonstratine the effectiveness of
mass pressure upon democratic gov-
ernments, A. M. Stephen, in his

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Canada’s

The People’s Advocate

Western

Leading= Progressive

Newspaper

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1937

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Mexican Gov’t

Thwarts Plot
Of Fascists

Sends: Pilots To Take
Private Planes To
Capital

GARRISON REPLACED

MEXICO CITY, DF, Sept.
30. — The government of
President Lazaro Cardenas
has begun a rapid movement
toe Wipe out the organized
armed forces of the country,
it is learned authoritatively
here. =

The war ministry has ordered the
38th infantry battalion to leave im-
mediately for San Luis Potosi to re-
place the federal force Stationed
there.

San Luis Potosi is the center of
the power of the reactionary General
Cedillo, who resigned under fire re-
cently from the ministry of agricul-
ture. He controls the state and it
is knOwn that he maintains a for-
midably equipped private army.

Only a few days earlier the gov-
ernment had relieved him of his air
Torce by sending itS own pilots to
take the planes to the capital and
incorporate them in the federal
army.

Bare Fascist Plot
Active Fascist agitation’ notice-
ably inereased after GCedillo’s resig-

believed certain that all reactionary.
forces were plotting the same type
of revolt as that carried out in Spain
to pave the way for Italian and
German intervention.

The president's action in the case
of the airplanes came only a few
days after El Machete, organ of the
Communist party, charsed that Ce-
dilio had been buying fourteen air-
Planes, beth bomber and pursuit, to
be used in rebellion against the sov—
ernment.

The latest move will displacé a

collaboration with Cedillo.

coneludine remarks, stated that it |

was a fairly well known fact that
Mackenzie King was prepared to
side in with the national government
of Britain at the recent Jmperial
Conference in an attempt to abolish
the Leasue of Nations, but he was
flooded with telezrams and protests
en reute to the conference, with the |
result that he modified his stand to:
“Canada could not commit herself
This fact
was confirmed by Hon. Vincent Mas-
S€y in a recent speech to the League |
of Nations.Society of Canada.

Wisconsin Raises
Inheritance Tax

MADISON, Wis., Sept. 30—G*P)—
legislature,
Special session by Governor
Philip F. LaF ollette to find $5,000,-
000 for emergency relief, has before j
it an administration proposal to |
raise the money through a 25 fo 30
per cent increase in the inheritance

F surtax, a 30 per cent surtax on gitts

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federal garrison which has been
Strongly suspected of working in
The 38th
battalion is known for its efficiency
in the service.

Alberta Loggers
~ Form CIO Local

WINFIELD, Alta., Sept. 30:—
Lumber workers here have set up

ja local of the International Wood-
} workers of America and, applied for

a charter.

Organization of the union followed
a meeting addressed by Bob Savage,
CIO organizer.

Organizer Savage states that a
charter has already been obtained
by the lumber workers in the Rock
Mountain House district and that

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dustry in Alberta is being enthusi-
astically welcomed by the workers.

“The drive,” be says, “will con-
tinue until the industry is thorough-
ly organized and an end put to the

ehiseling exploitation which now

exists.”

Miners Combat -
Mechanization

GILLESPIE, Tl. Sept. 30.—(FP)

Members of the United Mine
Workers’ and of the Progressive
Miners of America, between whom
there has been a long: standing feud
in Illinois, came together here with
representatives of the Workers Al-
liance to plan a campaign against
continued mechanization of coal
mines and the ensuing unemploy-
ment.

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Scene of Mussolin is Latest Invasion

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Above is shown a main‘street in Santander, seaport in north-western Spain. Isolated from the main
part of Republican Spain, it fell to the Fascists after a brave defense. Italian newspapers, abandon-
-« ing all pretense of non-intervention, boasted openly of the victory as a “triumph” of Italian arms.

“Wee Must Never Forget Their Sacrifices”

U.S.Youth Leader Praises

Canadian Spain Volunteers

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—(FP).—Back fr om service in the famous International Brigade

in Spain to carry on defense of the Spanish Loyalist cause among American students and
young people, Joseph P. Lash, executive sec retary of the American Student Union, hopes

to convey an idea of the heroism of Spanish youth to US colleze campuses.

Sign United

Front Pact

Agreement Reached Be-
tween Italian
Parties

PARIS, France, Sept. 36.—A Sreat
Stride forward towards complete
unification of all anti-Fascist forces
in Italy has been made by the con-
clusion of a united front agree-
ment between the Communist party
of Italy and the Socialist party., Rep-
resenting a considerable “advance
over the pact coneluded in 1934, the
present agreement was effected
after negotiations between the two
parties.

Very fruitful results, the agree-
ment states, have been yielded As
a result of the policy of “unity of
actior in Italy,’’ conducted for the
past three years by the Communist
and Socialist parties. This policy has
proved to be an indispensable in-
strument for the struggle of the
working class against Fascism and
war.

Firmly determined to consolidate
and develop what has been achieved,

the two parties have drawn up
jointly, a “new charter for unity
of action.’

Hold Pie Social
For Unemployed

a little of the hometife they once
enjoyed, a group of women members
of the Communist party here enter-

tained some 80 members of the Re-
lief Project Workers’ Union: at a
pie social in Orange Hall recentiy.

Speeches of thanks from union
members pointed out that such af-
fairs are greatly appreciated by

those who have few friends and no
home.

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REW LION HOTEL

122 EAST HASTINGS STREET

In an endeavor to give the boys~

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y “The-most dominant impression
anyone visiting Spain must carry
away,” he told Pederated, Press, “is
the magnificent unity and heroism
of the Spanish people behind their
Sovernment. The young people par-
ticularly, organized into the Unified
Socialist Youth and the all-inclusive
Spanish Youth Front, carry on the
Strugsie in a way that can only
shame us for not giving even great-
er help.”

Aftey training for a month with
the third North American battalion
In Spam. the Canadian Mackenzie-
Papineau battalion, Lash went to
Paris to attend an international stu-
dent congress. After returning to
Spain he was assigned to writine
and organizational tasks in Madrid,
where he stayed another two months
before returning to continue his
work here.

“Because I was withdrawn from
direct International Brigade work,”
he continued, “I am in a position to
state that no one who has not been
in Spain can have the slightest con-
ception of the heroism which is dis-

Vets Receive

$5 For Tattoo

Months Of Arduous Drill
Bring Only Meagre
Payment

Five dollars was all the payment
received by each rank and file mem-
ber of Vancouver's First Veterans’
Battalion after months of arduous
drill and preparation ang participa-
tion in the military tattoo staged
this summer, an indignant veteran
told the PA this week, flourishing
the battalion’s financial statement
issued to each member.

Gate receipts for five perform-
ance of the tattoo which brought in
@ sum of over $2,500 to the bat-
talion were dissipated in payments
for clothing and equipment, run-

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Brigade’s three battalions of Cana- | 12S ¢*Pemses, adyertisins and other
aiaaS ASA AtioanS Andi aaGs Amer_| things, not the least of which was

a Sum of $460 for band music.
In a cGireular letter to
strensth”’ it was stated that
“the Vancouver Tourist Association
has very kindly made a donation so
that a payment Can be made to those
taking part in the final perform-

icans.

“These men have traveled thou-
Sands of miles to Come into a situa-
tion of greatest personal deprivals.
They have found absolutely nothing
glamorous about the war, about poor

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their determination steadily in-

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turned in good condition.”

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cular which reads:

get the sacrifices they are makin=
and to redouble our contact with
them and our support of them.”

“The continued cooperation and
“esprit de corps’ of all ranks will
enable the battalion to increase its
strength and enhance its place of
honor in our city in the days ahead.”

CP Women Honor’
Mrs. Becky Ewen

in honor of
who leaves for
Was Ziven by 2
members of the
at the home of
Stewart last Sunday.

Social Democrats’
Membership Up

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. '0.
—{FP)—At a joint conference here
of northern labor movements, Prime
Minister Per Albin Hansson of A farewell banquet
Sweden reported that from 1912 to! Mrs. Becky Ewen,
1937 Social Democratic parties in | Toronto next week,
Denmark, Sweden, Finland and|sroup of women
Norway increased their membership | Communist- party
from 190,000 to 730,000. The voting | Mrs. C.

strength today is 3,250,000, SOE | Appreciation for the leadership
pared to 690,000 in 1912. In Sweden, | Siven by Mrs. Ewen in women’s
Social Democrats have 49 per cent | clas and for other yaluable work

of the seats in the chamber, in Den-!| was expressed by Mrs. 2. Harrison,
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To Consider
Public Works

Will Meet Delegation
From Workers’
Alliance

HOUSING PROGRAM

Proposing a conference of
CCF members of the legis-
lature, CCF aldermen, along
with a delegation from the
Workers’ Alliance, an organi-
zation of city project workers,
to discuss financing of a housing:
and public works, Doctor Lyle Tel-

ford, MLA, speaking on the high
Cost of living, Tuesday, at Maple
Hall, South Vancouver, declared

that positive action’ must be taken
by citizens in order to ain allevia-
tion from present intolerable condi-
tions.

Dwelling on the anomaly of semi-
Starvation in Canada, the land of
plenty, Dr. Telford attacked in char-
acteristic style the system which
Sends its one-time heroes fo jail for
refusing to starve quietly, while at
, the same time eraft and Patronage
continue in high places:

When asked at the conclusion
of his address whether the CCF

would support a trade union bill
Similar to Bill 62, in the next legis-
lature, Telford declared he “would
put up a consistent fight for such
a bill”

Requested by a worker to Visit a
neighboring: mill and five a talk on
the need for a trade anion bill, Tel-
ford stated that he was badly over-
worked at present, but would con-
tact Harold Winch, MUA, who had

more time, to Carry out this pro-
posal.

Mrs. C. Jones, Secretary, South
Hill CCE Club, stated that steps

would be taken by the club to ac-
quaint the CCF executive with the
Proposal to call a conference on the
housing and public works program
aS quickly as possible.

Nominations Won

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Sept. 30.—
(FP)—Trade union ~ officials . and
labor sympathizers here won Demo-
cratic nominations local office
in many towns in the western
Pennsylvania industrial belt.

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Will Retain
lts Identity

Wins Right To Nominate
Candidates For
Congress *

SPECIAL AREAS

NANKING, China, Sept. 30.
—The identity of the Com-
munist party of China has
been fully retained under the
agreement with the national
government, by which it is the
only recognized political party
in China aside from the ruling
Kuomintans, headed by
Chiang Kai Shek.

Part of the agreement consisted
in changing the name of the Ghinese
Red Army to the Wighth Route
Army, retaining its same comman-
ders but becoming a part of the na-
tional Chinese defense against Ja-
pan’s invasion. :

Leaders of the Kuomintane said
that the Communist Party. can also
nominate candidates for a People’s
Congress, a privilege“ hitherto for-
bidden im China despite the fact that
the CP has fought strenuously for it.

The position of the Gommunist
party in China today was outlined
to the press by Chin Tanghsien,
Seneral secretary, and General Yeh
Chien-hing, chief of staff of the new
Eighth Route Army.

Under it, the party will maintain
its headquarters in the area which
its army dominates. This area, in
Shensi and Kansu provinces, will
be organized into a special adminis-
trative area under the central gov-
ernment, “with due consideration to
the former status.”

China and America.

“Phe Communist party will always
remain the party of the Chinese pro-
letariat,” the party leaders said.

They characterized China’s resis-
fance to Japan as a revolution sim-
ilar to America’s struggle with Ene-
Jand. Chin warned of a dangerous
tendency to underestimate Japan’s
strength, declaring it a false hope
that a financial breakdown would be
effected in Japan within six months.
“Tt will undoubtedly take
longer that that,’’ he said:

The question of the GP nomina-
tion of candidates for the Congress
election, Chin said, would depend on
whether or not the election was a
real democratic one.
that there’ remain many political
differences, with the Kuomintang,
but that these differences are be-
ing deferred in favor of an all-China
fight against invasion.

Guild Raps Green

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—(#P)—Am-
erican Newspaper Guild officials
chided ALE of LL. President William
Green for his plan to set up federal
unions in the news field. The attack
comes, they declared, while the

guild is engaged in its biggest strug-

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strike.

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