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Men Insist
Organizers

Shall Stay

Many Join Union
After Foreman At
Bloedell Camp Voted
Down.

MEETING HELD

An effective reply to the
farcical appeal decision
handed down by Judge Len-
nox recently against Arne
Johnson, union organizer, was
Ziven by 150 loggers at
Bloedell’s camp 4 last week,
when they solidly backed the right
of three organizers of the Lumber
and Sawmill Workers’ union to
enter the camp on union business
in spite or opposition by the com-
pany.

Hiking into camp 4 from the
union boat at Campbell River, Tom
Bradley, Hans Peterson and Carl
Berg, union officials, immediately
made the round of the bunkhouses,
called the men to a meeting in the
recreation hall there. Within 30
minutes 150 men gathered to hear
Peterson talk, with Bradley as
chairman.

During the meeting the foreman
entered. Demanding to know who
had authorized the gathering, he
ordered the organizers to be out
of the camp the same evening.

Vote For Grganizers

A standing vote was taken and
the men rose unanimously to de-
cide that the organizers stay to
conduct union business and the
meeting to continue. Realizing that
the company was beaten, the fore-
man withdrew.

As a result of this meeting, the
first of its kind for a long period,
many new members signed into the
union and dues were collected to
date.

Union officials are elated at this
victory, especially because of the
particular company invyoived,
which, they state, discriminates
Strongly against union men and is
a leader in the boss loggers’ as-
sociation.

The desire to organize is strons
in the camps, officials stated, and,
with the elementary rights of de-
mocracy granted to the union, the
organization can be built and many
of the dictatorial practices of big
employers curtailed.

Outlook Bleak

For Farmers

US Asriculture Dept’s
Forecast Shows Lower
Sales While Expenses

Higher.

WASHINGTON, DC, Noy. is8.—
(FP)—Bleak is the word for the
1938 prospects for farm families,
according to the bureau of agricul-
tural economics of the United
States department of agriculture.

Total sales will be lower and
expenses will be higher, a study of
the farm situation shows. Not much {|
hope is held out for any increase
in the non-farm cash income.

“With net money incomes of
farm families in 1938 expected
to be a little lower than in i937,
and with prices of goods and ser-|
vices needed for living about the |
Same or a little higher, expenditure |
patterns in 1938, while not expected
to change much from those of the
last two years, probably will tend
toward economy rather than to-
Ward increased spending,’ is the
way the bureau breaks the news
gently. j
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BUCK HITS DUPLESSIS REACTIO

Of Union

Jobless To Keep Orz-
ganization On _ For=-

All Progressives

Urged to Defend
Rights, Liberties

Quebec Premier’s Action Declared Direct
Threat To Labor Movement: Alberta Leg-
islation Cited As Reason For Disallowance
Of Padlock Law.

ST. JAMES STREET BEHIND MOVE

TORONTO, Ont., Nov. 18.—Federal disallowance of the
notorious “padlock Jaw’? under which Premier Duplessis last
week banned the Clarte, French-Canadian progressive weekly
in Montreal, is urged by Tim Buck, general secretary of the
Communist party of Canada, Buck calls upon labor through-
out the Dominion to wire protests immediately to the Quebec
premier and Prime Minister King.

“The action of Duplessis is obviously a direct threat to the
labor movement. First of all the Clarte is not an official organ
of the Communist party: secondly, it is recognized as the
semi-official mouthpiece of a large section of the trade union
movement in Quebec.

“Obviously, when Duplessis informed Mr. Lucien Rodier,

panier, vice-president of the Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada, that ‘we have begun to apply this law and today’s

them that further measures are to be taken and they need
to look out.
Cites Earlier Threat

“Duplessis appeared even to emphasize the fact of this
threat to the trade union movement when he threatened them
in the following words: ‘I say there are Communists in your
organizations and they are occupying prominent positions.
We cannot endure this,

“The padlocking of Clarte is a feeler put out by Duplessis
on behalf of the sweatshop corporations who fear the rising
tide of trade unionism and militant class consciousness in
Quebec. If they succeed in this initial attack upon the labor
movement they will make a definite attempt to move on to a
direct attack against the trade union movement itself. It is
necessary that every democratic and progressive person and
organization not only in Quebec but throughout Canada takes
action in this matter.

Padlock Law Ultra Vires

“Duplessis’ ‘padlock law’ is even more ultra vires of pro-
vincial rights than the Aberhart legislation which Mackenzie
King has disallowed. A storm of protests from all over the
country against the padlocking of Clarte should be directed
not only to Duplessis but to the King government and particu-
larly Mr. Rogers, the minister of labor.

“Tf the King government is going to disallow any piece
of legislation which appears to infringe upon the privileges
of the bankers, the labor movement is in a strong positien
to demand that Mackenzie King raises at least a little finger
to maintain the law in defense of civil liberties also.”’

A statement issued by the Quebec .
Gorazcunict party declares: Hea rt Of Spain
Now Available

“& challenge to every honest
Canadian, that is what Duplessis’
outrageous and repeated violations
of democracy represents.

“The use of illegally enacted un-
constitutional laws to suppress the
labor-progressive weekly Clarte, is
a warning signal that the Hitlerite
path upon which reaction has em-
barked, is to be followed further
so long as public opinion is not
aroused to call a halt. The free
speech ban is a cynical attack on

The great film of the Spanish
war, The Heart of Spain, has just
been returned to the district office
of the Canadian League for Peace
and Democracy, after a tour
through northern BGC, and can be
immediately loaned, with an opera-
tor, to organizations, groups, trade
unions and clubs for showings to
memberships or in public halls.

legal] counsel for the international unions, and Raoul Tres)

closure is just the beginning of our activities, he is warning

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trade union rights, and the padlock
law is part of the advances toward
democracy’s destruction which the
financial powers are dictating to
Duplessis.

“In order to stave off the growth
of trade unionism, the winning of
wage increases for shamelessly ex-
ploited industrial workers, the most
elementary rights are to be sacri-
ficed.

“Iuabor Minister Tremblay de-
elared last week that henceforth
strikes would be outlawed in Que-
bee. Duplessis browbeats the inter-
national unions and proposes a
ban on the CIO, suppresses the
paper Clarte, which is not the or-
gan of the Commnuist party, but
which dared to expose the poverty
disgracing Quebec.

“The Quebec Communist party
calls upon the people in the prov-
ince and in the whole of Canada
to answer these scandalous at-
tacks on democratic liberty.

“Only the most energetic and
Widespread public opinion can
stop the destruction of civil and
trade union rights in Quebec and
the endangering of liberty through-
out the dominion.”

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Customs regulations demand that
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Figures Reflect
Labor Activities

OTTAWA, Ont., Nov. 18. — The
year 1937 will go down in the rec-
ords as a big year for industrial
disputes in Canada.

strikes were reported, compared

with 132 in the corresponding per-
iod in 1936, while 63,500 workers
were affected against 30,000, and
862,323 man-days were lost against
257,408.

The month of April showed the
most industrial trouble when 148,
600 man-days worlk were lost. This
is the period of the successful auto-
mobile workers’ strike in Oshawa.

There were 30 strikes and lock-
uts in October, involving 7,521
workers with a time loss of 55,692
man-days, compared with 34 dis-
putes in September, involving 7,007
workers with a time loss of 44,378
days.

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Reproduced
here is one

of the stirrings
posters used
in the Soviet
Union on the
occasion of
the celebration
of the 20th
anniversary of
the USSR.

An inscription
in Russian on the
posters reads:
“Under the

Banner of Lenin

and Stalin—
Forward to New

Victories.”

estry Camps Projects
Active.

HEAR LEADERS

Determination to maintain
organization in the forestry
camps to which they were go-
ing, and to seek assistance
from progressive bodies in
their demand for a genuine
public works program, was an-
mounced by leaders of the Reliet
Project Workers’ union at a mass
rally of tin-canners at the Royal
Theatre recently.

Declaring that the recent pro-
jonged struggle for a reopening of
the camps had severely tested the
union, “Doc” Campbell, union or-
ganizer, stressed the necessity of
having every man take out a union
card as a guarantee of future con-
cessions from authorities.

Protest was made by one speaker
against statements in the press to
the effect that the “tin-canners”
were discipiined,’ declared one
“should be treated as such.”

“Any policeman, if he is honest,
will admit that the ‘tin-canners’
were disciplend,’ declared one
speaker, who also claimed that the
camp boys were never considered
by the law as pilferers and hold-up
men

Reports of the establishment of
camp committees and holding of
union meetings at Qualicum Falls,
Campbell River and Green Tim-
bers, the first of the forestry
camps, were given by union leaders.

Nazis Check
Travel Abroad

Questionnaire Must Be
Filled In By Germans
Crossing Border, Report.
Submitted.

BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 18. —-
The Gestapo, Nazi secret state

Campaign Quota Topped

the good news of a successful
campaign to the PA this coming:
week, direct from the express of-
fice at which he left the parcels for
the national office in Toronto.

Those donations in the last few

days to catch the Christmas ship-
ment are the following: Mr Bris-
tow, Capitol Hill, from personal col-
lections, $9.50; Canadian Legion,
Prince Rupert, $5; Women’s Aux-
jliary, Canadian Legion, Prince
Rupert, $5; Employees of cold stor-
age plant, Prince Rupert, $9.50,
also donated previously, $3; Wom-
en’s Labor League, Prince Rupert,
$8; Mr. King, collected in Terrace,
BC, $10.90; Branch 23, CP, $4.80;
Branch 25, $3; Mr. Pepper, $2, Na-
naimo, South Wellington and Ex-
, tension, BG, $70; Women’s Labor
League, Capitol, $3; Friend, $5;
Sointula, $81.15; Vernon, $6.25; Har-
rison Mills, $11.35; Friend, is
Stewart, BC, $15; Finnish organi-
zation, $6.25; Vancouver Fast CP,
$3.02; Trial, BC, $6; Piledrivers’
Local, 12404, $3; Mrs. Campbell,
| $1; A. Barron, $2; S. Shearer, $1;
Prince Rupert, $1010; Local 28,
Hotel and Restaurant Employees,
$4.40; Anderson, 50 cents; ULETA,
Haney, $5.25; GC. Quick, $1; Scandi-
navians, $4.20; Vancouver Centre,
CP, $1.25; Wm. Duprey, $5; Grand-
view, CP, $245; Tom Nelson group,
| $4.22; Marsh, 25 cents; Beacons-
| field ULFTA, $1.45; Women’s sec-
,tion, ULFTA, New Westminster,
| $13.30; Polish Workers, $8.55: Jos
Beaumont, Victoria, $4; Prince Ru-
| pert, $7.90; Trades and Tabor
| Council, $5; R. Lilya, $1: W. Wil
; liams, $2; Vancouver Centre, CP
women, $8.90; Mission, $2: Mrs.
| Blake, $1; Hastings Hast sub com-
mittee, 90 cents, Vancouver East
CP, $1; W. Crashley, $1; Vancouver
Centre CP, $1.

Through the columns of the PA,
Chivers, on behalf of his hard
working committee, heartily thanks

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Prince Rupert Canadian
Legion Donates ToFMPB

British Columbia has gone over the top in its Christmas
gift campaign for the boys in Spain. Total subscriptions re-
ported this week were $1,100 in cash and $650 in goods.

J. C. Chivers, district organizer for the Friends of the
Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, himself an ex-service man
who knows what it is to wait patiently in the trenches, brought

Represent BC
At Conference

—_—

Nemetz, Hope, Dele-
gates to National Con-
vention Of League For
Peace, Democracy

Delegaes from British pees
to the national congress of the Ga-
nadian League for Peace and De-
mocracy which convenes November
19-20-21, are N. Nemetz, Vancou-
ver and J. Hope, Victoria.

Main objects of the conference,
in the words of A. M. Stephen, are
to make Canada a positive force
for peace in the world, to help
stop the aggression against Spain
and China, to build the forces for
peace in Canada.

Messages expressing approval of
the aims of the Congress and the
League include the following:

Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George,
former Premier Herriott of France,
Archibishop of York, Premier Ly-
ons of Australia, Lord Lytton, Pre-
mier Stauning of Denmark, Louis
Broucker, president of the Labor
and Socialist International; Philip
Noel-Baker, vice-president of the
IPC; Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-
Shek; and Mahatma Ghandi.

Endorse Boycott

CLOVERDALE, BC, Nov. 18—At
a meeting addressed by Tom Reid,
MP, here last week, a resolution
advocating support for the boycott
against Japan was endorsed by an
audience of some eighty people.

manner for the Canadian boys in

those donors who have expressed , Republican Spain fighting in the
their feelings in so tangible a | front lines for world democracy.

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police, has tightened up on its con-
trol over citizens journeying:
abroad. Tourists’ visas are subject-
ed to close scrutiny.

Every, German wishing to travel
outside of the country must an-
swer the following questionnaire:
“Where are you going? Why?
Whom are you visiting? Relatives?
If so, state which. Have these rela-
tives been in Germany? And if so,
where and when? What are their
political views? Was your invita-
tion by writing or by mouth ?”

Tf questions are satisfactorily
answered, instructions are issued
to the traveler as follows: (1)
Wearing of uniforms or badges is
forbidden abroad.2 () Immediately
on arrival, it must be ascertained
whether a representative of the
Wational-Socialist Party is there.
Otherwise, it is necessary to go at
once to the German consulate. (3)

Roosevelt Speech
Is Circulated
Secretly

LONDON, Eng., Noy. 18.—Cir-
culated secretly throughout Ger-
many during the past few days,
for the guillotine or concentra-
tion camp would follow detection,
has been the text of President
Reoosevelt’s Chicago speech in
which he suggested a “quaran-
tine” of aggressors. Issued by the
German party the pamphlets,
marked “Pass Me On to Your
Friends” emphasize the Presi-
dent’s reference to a few war-
minded governments which re-
fuse to abide by treaties.

Ask Building
Of Fish Wharf

Union fishermen on the Worth
Shore have applied to the commis-
sioner there for the early construc-
tion of a free fishermen’s wharf,
centrally located in North Vancon-
ver.

In a letter to the commissioner,

Upon return home, a written re-
port must be submitted to the
authorities.

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members of the wharf campaign
committee declare that little diffi-
culty would be found in financing
the construction of a wharf with
minimum moorage facility for 50
Sas boats, and that a number of
Worth Shore fishermen who are at
present unemployed could be put
to work on this project.

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