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Production Stepped
Up By War Demands,
CCF Leader Tells
Committee.

PROBE, DELAYED

VICTORIA, B G, Dec. 2
Declaring that Japan wanted
nickel] from this mine and
that war demands for nickel
had stepped up production, Dr.
Lyle Telford, MLA, demanded

investigation of BC Nickel Mines
after describing the owning syndi-
eate, Colonel Victor Spencer, Ben
Smith and the late David Sloan as
an “unholy trinity’ before the
mining: committee of the legislature
this weelx.

Quoting from a letter writen by
C. D. Kaeding, consulting engineer
for the company, Telford backed
up his charge that Japan was
asking for nickel from the mine
and accused the syndicate of at-
tempting to squeeze out the smail
investor from the “bonanza.”

Replying on behalf of Spencer,
Wendell B. Farris, KC, denied al-_
legations made by Telford, sug-
gested that were it not for the pro-
tection afforded by the legislature,
he would be subjected to eriminal
libel action.

Justify Statement

“I am prepared to justify the
statement that BC WNickel bears
watching,” said the CCF leader.

Telford declared that while he
thought that BG Nickel was the

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third largest prospect on the North
American continent for nickel, “the
investing public has been very def-
initely swindled.” aS
Reading from a prospectus of
BC Nickel mine, issued, he Said, by
the BC Stock and Bond company
claiming that $2,000,000 will be
made available for the development
} of the mine, Telford declared that
court records showed only $668,000
available from sale of stock.

Farris told the committee that
as far as he knew, the BG Nickel
company knew nothing of the pros-
pectus referred to by T8lford and
that it did not convey the mean-
ing implied to it by him.

At the time that the agreement
Was made, said Farris, BC Nickel
was broke and Golonel Spencer,
Sen Smith and David Sloan under-
took to advance $175,000 cash. The
company had a share capital of
3,000,000 and this was advanced to
5,000,000, of which the Syndicate
ook 4,250,000 shares, but that in
Way of this year it was found there
vas not sufficient ore to justify
sreposed developments. Then the
syndicate decided to put it up to
minority shareholders for refinanc-
ng as the syndicate could put in no
more money.

The investigation has been ad-
journed to Wednesday next, Dec. 8.

CIO Commences
Drive In Hawaii

HONOLULU, TH, Dec. 2— (TINS)
—Hawaiian longshoremen who re-
‘ently received three charters from
he International TLongshoremen
ing Warehousemen’s Union, CIO
iliate, granting them jurisdiction
ver all Jongshoremen and dock
vorkers in the Territory, are hail-
ng the fact that they are “now
jart of the great CLO” and have
he backing of close to 4,000,000
mion members in the US.

| Charters have been granted and
nstalled at Port Allen, Hilo and
donolulu. Longshoremen in Honu-
ou, Kailua and Mehukona voted
‘manimously to accept affiliation
tmder the Hilo charter.

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on
CURRENT HISTORY
Every Monday at 7:30 P.M.

The Birth of

Canadian Democracy
By sLANULEY Bi RYERSON. $1.00

Just a hundred years ago the Ganadian people
waged a great fight against Feudalism and

government.

today.

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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3; 1937

QUE. MAY

Communist
Convention
Announced

200 Delegates Expected

To Attend Convention Of

British Columbia Party
In Vancouver

PUBLIC SESSIONS

More than two hundred
delegates from all parts of

the Family Compact.
1837, although defeated in a military sense.
really won the right to

This — the first serious study of Canadian
history in the light of Marxism — should he
read by every friend of democracy in Ganada

British Columbia are expected
to attend the district conven-
tion of the Communist party
of BC which will be held in the
Ukrainian Labor Temple, Heatley
and Pender, January 14 and 15,
it Was announced by Communist
party headquarters here this week.

The convention will open FHriday-
January 14, with a public mass
meeting, particulars of which will
be announced later. Saturday and
Sunday sessions of the convention
will also be open to the public.

In addition to fraternal delegates
from Washington and Alaska dis-
tricts of the Communist party of
the USA, a member of the political
bureau of the Canadian party and
@ representative British Columbian
from the Mackenzie-Papineau Bat-
talion of the International Brigade
are also expected to attend.

Work of the provincial party
will be reviewed in the light of de-
cisions made at the recent eighth
national convention of the Gom-
munist party of Ganada and plans
made for carrying these decisions
into the everyday life of the peo-
ple.

Marine Union
Averts Trap

Attempt of Ship-owners
Te Force Strike Action Is
Defeated by NMU In New
York

NEW YORK, Dec. 2—(FP)—-
Sitdeown action by the crew of the
huge Panama Pacific liner Penn-
sylvania was narrowly averted in
what Nation Maritime union offi-
cials called “a trap laid by the com-
pany to force the union into a
strike situation which would in-
volve the whole International Mer-
cantile Marine.”

A hurry-up call from the crew
brought Joseph Curran, NMU gen-
eral organizer, to the ship with a
plea for the crew to “be smarter
than the shipowners.” The plea was
heeded by the men, who returnea
to work.

The crew had threatened strike
action when it was learned that
the company planned to withhold
overtime pay accumulated on the
last trip to the Pacific coast and
back. Union officials got wind of
the company’s plan, attempted to
settle overtime claims in order that
the crew should not be forced to
act.

The union, which won a labor
board election several weeks ago
by a vote of 2,563 to 170, has been
negotiating with the IMM for a
contract.

“The company has been delib-
erately stalling on negotiations,”
Curran said, “hoping against hope
that the seamen could be induced
to strike and thereby give the
company grounds for asking con-
gress for coercive legislation. This
whole plan, we understand, wes
hatched at a secret meeting of
certain shipowners where it was
decided that the NMU had to be
licked—and in short order.”

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have just completed their military training cour

The Cardenas administration, havizg done more than an
to the landless, counts on the loyalty of an army increasingly
agrarians. Should there be a Fascist uprising against the

y previous Mexican government to give land

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Investigation Demanded

Fascists Penetrating US
National Guard, Says Post

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—(FP).—Fascism is boring from
within the New York National Guard. Their European col-
leagues already accustomed to intrigue and penetration in
the armed forces, Nazis are now bringing their doctrines of
race hatred and scorn of democracy into the military forces

of the United States.

Thirty officers and men in the.

uniform of the 144th Coast Artil-
lery attended a Fascist ball aboard
the training ship USS Tllinois on
Nov. 13, tied at a pier off River-
Side drive, when the ship was taken
over for the evening by the white
Russian newspaper, Rossiya. There
they rubbed shoulders with uni-
formed Fascists of yarious national-
ities. Anti-Semitice literature in sev-
eral languages was on sale.

These facts were reyealed in a
copyrighted story in The New Yorlkc
Post, which called on Lehman, as
commander-in-chief of the National
Guard and the Naval Militia, to
order an investigation.

The National Guard is part of the
country’s defenses,” commented the
Post. “To find that it is linked so
closely with Yorkville Nazi activ-
ities, to find a uniformed Suards-
Man in the Fascist singing chorus,
to find that Ukrainian Fascists are
joining the guard as fast as they
can be admitted, to find that the
Wazis have a program of infiltra-

tion into the guard, is a threat to
the usefulness of the guard in any
potential war situation.”

The 30 guardsmen are members
of the 244th Coast Artillery which
last spring drew the censure of the
state adjutant-general by openly
advertising in the Deutscher Weck-
ruf and Beobachter, Nazi paper, for

recruits of German origin. Adj.-
Gen. Walter G. Robinson has prom-
ised an investigation.

In European democratic coun-
tries, Fascist groups make it a2
matter of key importance to get
into the armed forces; first, to
Sabotage efforts to handle Fascist
disturbances, and eventually to
make use of the army, as in Spain,
against the constitutionally-elected
Fovernment.

NANKING, China, Dec. 2.— Dr.
Yu Bin, Catholic Archbishop of

Wanking, has issued a call to all
Chinese Catholics to fight against
Japanese

invasion.

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Weavers Seek
IWA Charter

Driver Hero

Of Accident

Verdict of Accidental
Death Is Returned At
Port Alberni Inquest On
Japanese

PORT ALBERNI, BG, Dec. 2—
Accidental death was the verdict
returned at the inquest here on
Morishigi Ushida, Japanese faller
employed by Export Logging com-
pany, who was killed when a log-
ging truck in which he was riding
left the road and overturned,

it was stated in evidence that
Ushida and two partners were on
their way out of the woods when
the loaded truck came along. The

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Decision To Form Local
Reached At Vancouver
Meeting

Decision to reorganize and apply
for a charter in the International
Woodworkers of America was made
by Vancouver shingle wweavers at
a meeting held Sunday at 130 West
Hastings street.

Held under auspices of the BC
Coast District Council, the meet-
ing declared in favor of setting up
a local following an address by
President J. Brown on the IwaA,
its relation to the CIO and AF of I.

Lioyd Whalen, international or-
ganizer for the IWA, enrolled 30
members and a temporary execu-

tive was elected.

three had jumped on the small

platform between the logs and the
cab, riding about a quarter mils
until the accident. Ushida ‘was
caught by the rolling logs when he
jumped off the wrong side of the
truck, his partners jumping clear.

Fred Heller, the truck driver,
testified that the steering geer had
locked leaving the truck out of
control. He was unaware of anyone
being on the truck at the time.

Finding the truck out of control,
Heller stated he shut off the switch
and lay on-the floor of the truck,
remembered nothing more until he
was pulled out of the cab by fel-
low workmen.

Examination of the truck showed

that the centre bolt of the left
front spring had sheared off, allow-
ing the wheel to move back and
lock the steering gear.

‘Duplessis Destroying Rights’

That enforcement of repressive
legislation by the Duplessis goy-
ernment in Quebec is a violation of
civil liberties is the opinion of two |
well known city pastors interview-
ed by the PA this week.

Said Rev. Dr. Gerald B. Switzer,
West Point Grey United Church:

“I am dismayed at the turn of
events in Quebec. Has il come to
this? Must part of Canada join
Germany, Italy and other Fascist
nations in a drive against fre=
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my opinion, the padlock law of the
Duplessis government is a serious
and utterly deplorable encroach-
ment on civil liberty and true de-
mocracy.”

Rev. Alfred E. Cooke, St. John’s
United Church:

“I think the action of forcing
this law through the Quebee legis-
lature is a deliberate violation of
the liberties of Canadian people.
Using the word communism as a
cloak, Duplessis is destroying ele-
mentary rights and freecom.”

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—  T. D. Bouchard

Liberal House Leader
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Actions Of The Duplessis

Goev’t

NAZIS ACTIVE

ST. HYACINTHE, Que..
Dec. 2.—That a definite Fas-
cist movement exists in the
province of Quebec was
charged at a public meeting
here by Mayor T. D. Bouch-
ard, mayor of St. Hyacinthe
and Liberal house leader.

“Members of the iIocal move-
ment,” he said, “have military ex-
ereises regularly, no doubt in prep:
aration for the complete reversal of
the government of liberty we have
enjoyed and, perhaps later, for civil
war.”

Mapor Bouchard warned that the
object the leaders of the anti-demo-
cratie thought were endeavoring to
establish in the province was a gov-
ernment of misery similar to those
in certain European countries.

He spoke on the “suppression”
of free speech and liberty in the
province, deploring the anti-demo-
cratic attitude of the present gov-
ernment.

TORONTO, Ont., Dec. 2.—In an
interview with the Daily Clarion
here Emery Samuel, 26-year-old
French Canadian lumberjack dele-
gate to the recent Canadian Gon-
gress for Peace and Democracy,
cited Mayor Bouchard’s charge, de-
Clared that “all kinds of little
Fascist groups are encouraged by
the government.”

Secret funds from Germany and
Italy were being used to build up
these groups, he asserted. Italian
and Wazi agents were working
with members of the government
to further Fascist aims.

Samuel commented on the fact
that Premier Duplessis had made
no reply to Mayor MBouchard’s
charge. ;

As evidence of the close coopera-
tion of the Duplessis government
with agents of the Rome-Berlin-
Tokyo alliance Samuel cited the
visit of Mayor Raynault of Moni-
real to Rome when he attended
Fascist gatherings and banquets
and openly praised Mussolini, and
the fish trade agreement recently
Signed separately between Quebec
and Italy.

“The majority of French-Cana-
dians regard enforcement of the
padlock law as an effort on the part
of Duplessis to make people for-
get his betrayal of French-Canada
and all his anti-trust promises of
the last election. Apart from a
small group, no one has been fooled
and no one has any illusions about
the padlock law,” Samuel stated.

REYKJAVIE, Ieeland, Dec. 2.
Following action of reactionary
Labor party leaders in breaking off
unity relations with the Gommun-
ist party of iceland, an extraordi-
nary session of the Labor party
Was called by former President of
the Athling Valdimarsson, at which
Valdimarsson was elected as leader
of negotiations. He proposes, in
the name of the pro-unity wing of
the Labor party, setting up of a
unity front with the CP with a
view to organizational fusion of the
two parties in 1938.

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twenty local unions. A trade
unionist of 49 y~ars’ stand-
ing, Fordyce has resided in
Vancouver since 1906, is
pledged to a progressive
four-point program.

Pledges Aid
To Alliance

Alex Fordyce Stresses
Need For Representation
Of Working People On

Council

Weed for militant representation
of working people on the city coun-
cil was stressed by Alec Fordyce,
labor aldermanic Candidate, at
Orange hall, Sunday, when he ad-
dressed a meeting of city project
workers called to hear the report
of the Workers’ Alliance delega-
tion which recently placed project
workers’ grievances before the pro-
vineial government at Victoria.

Applause greeted Fordyce’s prom-
ise, if elected, to press project
workers’ demands and to see that
they received more work at present
rates of pay.

Mrs. Susie Lane Clark, CGF can-
didate for parks board, met with
an enthusiastic response when she
pledged herself to aid workers on
city projects.

Ernest Robinson, CCE alder-
manic candidate, also addressed the
meeting.

Chairman G. Goulson, local 5,
Workers’ Alliance, Temarking on
the attendance at the meeting, said
it indicated that city project work-
ers, driven to desperation by the
callous attitude of civic and pro-
vincial authorities, fully vrealized
the need for organized effort to
win alleviation of their plight.

Report of the five delegates (see
PA, November 26) was unanimously.
adopted after full discussion.

Details of an alleged assault on
a relief official by a member of the
Workers’ Alliance were given by
J. HE. Godkin, who appealed for full
backing of the organization in
fighting the case, It was, he de-
clared, typical of the misery en-
dured by hundreds of unemployed
married men in Vancouver.

PTA Plans To
Supply Meals

BURNABY, BC, Dec—The mu-
nicipality has donated a cookstove
to assist the association’s plan to
supply hot meals to local children,
it was reported at the regular
monthly meeting of Hast Riverway
Parent-Teachers’ Association here.

The meeting completed arrange-
ments for the annual bazaar and
whist drive to be held December
10. Feature of the bazaar will bea
children’s concert directed by Prin-
, cipal Feakes of Riverway East pub-
lic school. Commissioner Bugh
Fraser and other municipal officials
will be guests.

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