Lua aie | $78.76; | $68.81; Wingdam, $2845: Quesnel, Leading Progressive Newspap er VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1937 LIBERAL EDITOR HITS Finances Weaken Under Strain : . Japan Fighting Losing War As People Crushed By Debt Chinese Here Rallying Aid For Country $150,000 Collected In Four Canadian Cities for National Salvation Movement BOYCOTT SPREADS Throughout the Dominion of Canada Chinese are rally- ing to their invaded country’s aid, activities in which they have the support of the over- whelming majority of the Ca; nadian people, Won Toy, Chi- mese provincial executive member of the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy, reports. Won Toy recently returned from a vyisit to Biastern Canada. Gollections for the Chinese Wa- tional Salvation movement are pro- ceeding steadily. In Toronto Chi- nese have donated $50,000 to the fund, while Montreal Ghinese have contributed a like amount. Chinese in Winnipeg and Calgary have do- nated $30,000 and $25,000 respec- tively. Won Toy attended mass meetings in Calgary and Toronto at which members of legislative assemblies, churchmen and others denounced Japanese aggression. Statements made by Chinese leaders at these Meetings reflect the spirit of op- timism among the Chinese people who, now that China is united, are contident of ultimate victory, he declared. “Many stores in Toronto, both large and small, are displaying Signs: “We do not sell Japanese goods’,” Won Toy, who is actively engaged in the boycott campaign here, told a PA reporter this week. “Heart Of Spain’ Shown In North Released by the provincial office | of the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy this week is a statement showing receipts from the recent successful tour of north- ern British Columbia of “Heart of Spain,” acclaimed as one of the few great films of the Spanish | war. Receipts were: Smithers, Prince George, $29.91; Wells, $599.25; Barkerville, $22.60; Bralorne, a $60.48; Lillooet, $10. Further bookings of the film, in- cluding services of a lecturer and an operator, may be had by apply- _ing at the League office, 615. West West Hastings street. HEAR A. M. STEPHEN on CURRENT HISTORY Every Monday at 7:30 PM. — CK MO — woonb's . JEWELLERS LTD. “2539 MAINST. & 419 W.PENDER ST. al Fan. 1567 Trin.2834 Guaranteed Watch Repairs WATCHES FROM §2.50 LP 3-Year Guarantee _ A small deposit will hold any article until required. WALTHAM — ELGIN political contro] over minerals, the public utilities, Western nations played t ing the imperial game with zestful enthusiasm. The mainland of Asia offered Ja- pan the best field for imperialism. And on the Asiatic mainland Ghina was the big prize. Japan defeated China in the war of 1894-95: drove Russia out of Manchuria in the war of 1904-05; took Shantune away from Germany in 1914: and’ in 1915 presented to Yuan Shi-kai the fam- ous 21 demands that gave Japan virtual control over north and cen_ tral China. The Japanese army oc- cupied Manchuria in 1931-32. They have since been extending their con— trol over Chahar, Inner Mongolia and north China. Paper Conquest These achievements look very. solid on paper. And in one sense they are. Japan is, in effect, mas- ter of north China. But for this mastery she has paid a price: (a) the growing strength and arro- gance of a military caste that is trying to rule the roost at home in Japan; (2) outlays for conquest and imperial expansion that have raised taxes to the limit and driv- en entire sections of the Japanese population to the verge of des- peration; (3) fierce opposition that is raising anti-Japanese feel- ing among the Chinese masses to fever heat; and (4) a rapidly- growing Chinese business class whose economic interests are in conflict with those of the Japa- nese business enterprises in Ghina. This fourth item is looming large in the discussions about north China. The Japanese desire to develop north China—to build railways, open mines, establish power stations, con- struct factories. The Chinese capi- talists are also seeking a profitable market for their capital. To them, Japanese talk about economic co- operation is meaningless. Why should they cooperate? Why share profits with foreigners? Why not keep all of the profits from Chinese economic enterprise for the CGhi- nese? Lost Money, Prestige Japanese imperialists have had a comparatively easy time in estab- lishing a monopoly of profit-making in Formosa, Korea, and Manchuria. As they penetrate China proper their troubles increase. Chinese business- men are trained exploiters. They were adepts at profit-making when the Japanese were still barbarian tribesmen. They are strongly or- ganized. Behind them is a Chinese population of more than 400,000,000. Even in Manchuria the Japanese imperialists have lost money and prestige. In China they are up against unbeatable economic and historic forces. The business class is powerful. The population is hos- tile. The Soviet Union looms on the north. Britain and the United States both have extensive interests. Fur- thermore, at home in Japan, a group of businessmen, harassed by taxes, a large number of intellectuals, and a mass of farmers and workers are building a people’s front opposition to further imperial adventures. The imperial game is no longer worth playing. Until the Boer war .1899), it still yielded returns. Since 1910 it has been a dead loss every- where. For every yen of profit that the Japanese investors make in north China, Japanese taxpayers will pay three or four yen in higher taxes and boosted prices. Like Mus- solini in Ethiopia, the Japanese im- of Columbus, de Gama, Hendrick Hudson a got in late, but they were soon play-o+ | Japan Spreads Havoc In Shanghai 4 3 By SCOTT NEARING and pocket the profits. How easy the imperial game looked back in the pioneer days of colonial expansion! Get a colony; penetrate it economically: exploit the fertile land, the he game through the centuries that followed the voyaging nd their contemporaries. Japanese imperialists eke te —n— 1304, even more in prestige. of Shanghai. Originally intended as a diversion, Shanghai, which ended with strategic withdrawal of Chinese armies te winter lines further inland after an heroic defense for ninety-three ' days, has cost Japan more than the entire Japanese shells wrecked this street in the International Settlement Japan’s siege of Russo-Japanese war of IWA To Meet In Portland Three BC Locals Will Attend First Convention December Union Hits Operators Anarchic Distribution Methods Are Blamed For Situation In Shingle In- dustry. Anarchie methods of distributing orders for shingles are responsible for present wage cuts imposed on shingle weavers, with big opera- tors winning every advantage in the present state of over-produc- tion in the industry, declares the Lumber Worker, organ of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ union, this week. Wage cuts amounting to 5 cents per hour for day workers and big- ger cuts for packers and sawyers have been put into effegt by Capi- lano Shingle company, North Van- couver, Thurston and Flavelle, Port Moody, Brunette Mills, Fraser River. Abolition of past arrangements whereby orders were distributed on a@ Machine basis so that all opera- tors received proportionate allot- ments of the American orders, has enabled the. big firms to flood the market for the short period until the US quota is filled, then to store shingles in preparation to grab the US market when it reopens Jan. 1. perialists are chasing rainbows. 1837 The Birth of Canadian Democracy ByASaAWNTEny 43. oR Wan RSONS $1.00 Present surpluses are used as au excuse to cut wages. Regulations of working hours and wages, through strong organi- | zation throughout the industry tu | offset this exploitation, is the solu- |} tion offered by the Lumber Worker. H New West: Store: 741 Columbia St. Phone 2598 Members 3 5 5 BUT FRORIST Vancouver Store: 1181 Granville St. Phone Florist Tel = egraph D Vancouver, Victoria and Cowichan locals will send dele- gates to the first constitutional convention of the Interna- tional Woodworkers of America, GIO affiliate, at Portland,; 3, 4, 5, it is announced this week. « ; More than 500 regular delegates and between 100 and 150 fraternal delegates are expected to attend. Invitations to address the econ- vention have gone out to John I. Lewis, Harry Bridges, Howard Costigan, executive secretary of the Washington Commonwealth Fed- eration, Lieut. Governor Vic Meyers of Washington, Seattle Councilman Hugh De Lacey, and Governor Elmer Benson of Minnesota who is co-operating with 4,000 striking woodworkers in his state. At this conyention the first TWA constitution: will be ratified. Other items on the agenda include nom- ination of officers, review of work, growth of the [WA, renewal of con- tracts and unemployment. List California Nazi Supporters WASHINGTON, DGC, Noy. 25.— Representative Dickstein (Dem., WY), has listed in the congressional record names of 116 southern Galifornians who, he states, are leaders in a “Hitler movement” on the west coast in the United States. He predicts that the movement will spread to Canada. Wazi doctrines are spread under the leadership of Herman Schwinn who is directly under orders from German Consul General Von Kil linger of San Francisco. 7,060,000 Books LENINGRAD, USSR, Nov. 25.— Wine million publicamons are kept in the Saltykov-Snchedrin State Publie Library in Leningrad. 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Vancouver, B.C. TRINITY 5753 | ||{ Medical- Dental Building __ _ , 905 West Georgia St. J UPLESSIS Lashes Out In Defence Of Liberties Compares Quebec Gov’t To Louisiana Regime of Huey Long in Le Canada Article URGES UNITY By SYDNEY JORDAN MONTREAL, Que., Nov. 25. —Mirroring liberal] opinion in the province, an eloquent ap- peal to the people of Quebec not to succumb to the so-called anti-communist campaign of Duplessis has been sounded here by: Edmond Turcotte, outstanding Lib- eral and former editor of the of- ficial Quebee Liberal party organ, Le Canada, In a feature article in Le Canada, Tureotte declares that Duplessis is using communism as a smoke screen behind which he is trying to destroy the Catholic and inter- national unions. He accuses the Tory premier of aiding the trusts, Carrying Alex Fordyce Declares Exempted From Taxati Services ONE THIRD OF CIVIC REVENUE GOES TO BONDHOLDERS The People’s Advocate Western Canada’s Small Taxpayers Burden, Analysis Shows Balancing of Budget Impossible While Industrial Concerns Are on Although Utilizing NEW FIELD OF REVENUE DENIED By FRED veals. percentage is received by each Works, Scavenging Health Health, Cemetery (Net) Fire Parks, Parks, Relief Projects __ Parks, Hastings Park Relief, Relief, Old People’s Home Library. Police, General Socia] Services of dictating laws and policies for Quebec as Huey Long did in Louisiana, of bringing Fascism to Quebec. “Let us not be the dupes of the electoral “anti-communism” of Huey Long of Three Rivers (Pre- mier Duplessis) and of Adhemar of Montreal (Mayor Raynaut),” he says. The Wiberal writer, who last week attacked the padlock law and declared that the issue in Quebec today is freedom of speech, in an interview, deplored the fact that the labor movement here is divided and said that labor is now being pun- ished for this division. Citing an article in the Novem- ber issue of the Current History, entitled Fascism Comes to Quebec, he pointed to the fact that the writer of the article sees many similarities between Huey Long and Maurice Duplessis. Law Undefined “The province of Quebec is in the process of falling as low as Louisiana under Huey Long,” Tur- cotte said. “It is sad to Say, but it is the truth. One would have to be hynotized by the pseudo-social hocus-pocus of the National Union not to perceive this. What a great honor for the province of Quebec: to be governed like Louisiana, one of the most backward states in the American union!” The demagogues of ‘ational Union talked a great deal about fighting the trusts but in actual fact were doing nothing, Turcotte continued. As fog the padlock law, it was not aimed specifically at communism. As the article in Gur- rent History stated, “the National Union has decided to wipe out all trade unions,” and for this reason deliberately did not define com- munism in the padlock law. The flexibility with which the government intended to apply the law was indicated by T: Goonan, a member of the Quebec cabinet, when he said that “many people are Communists without realiz- ing it.” Quoting with approval Current History's statement that the gov- ernment at first fayored the WNa- tional Gatholic Syndicates, Turcotte said: “At present this is finished. The government has undertaken ‘to concentrate in its own hands the power of taking action on the industrial field.” And the reason— the reason is that the National Union, seeing the recruiting efforts of the Catholic Syndicates, is fear- ful that they are becoming as formidable as the international unions. “The workers are today being punished for their divisions! Now the National Union government in- tends even to deprive them of the right to issue competency cards. This is embryonic Fascism. This is a rough blueprint of State corporatism. Turcotte concluded with the hope that the workers will ‘unite them- selves against the tyranny of the National Union.” Interest and Exchange ices are not the real burden, people whose homes are taxed Terms brief this year Vanco vision in relations. mission handles 6.46 per cent tion and maintenance costs. it meets 4.22 per cent of costs. consisting of items as already McDonald Appeal Comes Up Dec. 1 With the hearing of the appeal of J. McDonald, ex-serviceman, set for December 1, the Canadian Labor Defense League, in an ef fort to raise funds for legal ex- penses in this case, has arranged entertainment at the following places: Victoria Road Community Hall, November 28, concert and play; Electrica] Inspection and Street Lightin Parks:7Generals ssi See es se eee é General and Unemployment Police; Justice etc. 25 ee ee Grants to Hospitals, Charities, ete... Schools, Operating and ‘Maintenance Water, Operating and Maintenance Water, Purchase of Water _ TYLER Of every dollar of revenue received by Vancouver city au- thorities 6.45 cents is spent on police administration, 6.25 cents on relief, .89 cents on interest and exchange, .55 cents on health, an analySis of civic administration costs, of partic- ular interest in view of the approaching civic elections, re- Following is a division of the civic dollar, showing what department : Works, Operating and Maintenance... Works, General Improvements Juvenile Court and Detention Home... Joint Sewerage Assessment, Op. and Maint... -25D Finance, Administration and General 3.84 Airport, Operating and Maintenance == a 13 68.07 Fixed*Charseés on Debt ee 31.93 100.00 It will be seen that unemployment relief and social] sery- but that fixed debt charges (monies borrowed for past civic improvements ) amounting to nearly one-third of the civic dollar, are being collected from to meet the obligations. New | fields of revenue are denied to Vancouver, and in its Better uver asks Victoria for a re- All Money Not Directly Disbursed In 1936 Ancome from. revenue was $13,598,085.66. This year revenue from al] sources is expected to be $14,175,254.37. Not all of civic revenue is disbursed under the direct super- vision of the city council, however, Vancouver police com- of municipal costs, hospitals and charities, part controlled by council, 5.47 per cent, and social services, 2.52 per cent. The city council does not con- trol its schools, but provides 19.93 per cent of all school opera- Neither does the city council contro] purchase of water or maintenance of sewers, although - Fixed charges on debt in 1936 were $4,447,415.15, this year are expected to be $4,429,277.22. Boe Of municipal expenditures totalling $13,926,382.53 in 1936, 31.93 per cent went to meet fixed charges on debt. This year, of all anticipated expenditures, only 32.19 per cent will lie under control of the council, the remaining 67.81 per cent given and fixed debt charges. An amendment to the social sery= ices item this year provides for a reduction from the 1936 figure of $351,566.08 to $88,000, decrease being due to structural changes in the British Columbia Acts covering such matters. Small Owners Need Relief Bighty-six per cent of all civic income is derived from real estate taxes, and necessity of relieving the Smal] home owner from oppressive tax burdens while increasing the quota levied on industrial com- panies doing business within urban areas is likely to become a major issue of the present election cam- paign. Royal Theatre, Wovember 28, concert and play. W. FF. Ma- honey will speak on the McDonald case at these affairs. Play will be Vancouver Theatre of Action’s dy- namic ‘Newsboy.’ Arrested for soliciting funds un- der auspices of the Ex-Seryvicemen’s League, Oct. 18, McDonald was con- victed by the court for not possess- ing a license for soliciting, despite the fact that Garfield King, counsel for the CLDL, proved conclusively that all organizations in the city which solicited funds, were with- out licenses. Discrimination is | charged by the CLDL. Labor candidate Alex Fordyce de elared this week: “The facts are that no city can hope to balance its budget when those who are its most useful citi- zens are carrying a load and those who are doing business in the civic arena are immune from muni- cipal levies, although they are using Streets, lights, sewers and other costly conveniences paid for out of city taxes. “Need for equitable distribution of the tax burdén so that those who can best afford to pay will con- tribute the larger portion has be— come urgent. Certainly, if elected, I shall work toward this end.” ~~ This advertisement 1s not published or disprayed by the Liguor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia.