Be In City N ext Week Writer, Now People’s Military Leader, Was Among First To Fight For Spain. NEW BOOK SOON Vancouver next week will have an opportunity to hear an internationally renowned writer, who is also an out standing figure in the Spanish war, when Ralph Bates, Eng- lish author and political com- missioner of the famous Fif- teenth Internationa] Brigade, speaks in the Victory Hall auditorium here on Thursday, December 16. One of the first to Shoulder a rifle for Spanish democracy, Bates fought in the ranks of the Spanish militia in those desperate early weeks of the war when sheer hero- ism alone saved the country from the vise of reaction, when military commanders debated before each battle how many men would go into the lines unarmed to watch their comrades fall and €rab their rifles to carry on. interviewed recently in Toronto, Bates related how he came to be one of the first British anti- fascists to fight in Spain. “I had gone up into the Catalan mountains, in the Pyrenees, to be- gin writing Rainbow Fish, in the early days of July, 1936,” he said. “The first I knew of the Fascist uprising was when a g0at-herd friend came te me and told me of fighting in the towns below. Tf asked him what the fightine was about and he said to me: ‘Don Rudolpho, it is an affair of princes and bishops against the people.’ “Only Thing I Could Do.” “I was a British democrat, resi- dent in Spain. I knew the people and loved them and did the only thing I could—put myself at the disposal of the Spanish govern- ment.” Today, at the age of 37, Ralph Baates is a military leader of the people. His books, Lean Men, Rainbow Fish and The Olive Field, are known to millions. Born in Swindon, in the west of England, he has been successively railway. clerk, jlongshoreman and ware- house clerk. Rainbow Fish, the book he went to the Pyrenees to write, was com- pleted during rest periods at the front. Now Bates is engaged on another, Oifensive, which will be based on the battle around Bru- nete and will deal principally with the Canadian and American bat- talions. Fight Wage Cuts NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—(FP)—The Amalgamated Clothing Workers will permit no wage cuts or break downs in labor standards because of the business slump, it was de- cided at a meeting of general exec- utive board members and other » leaders. DECEMBER = ~ | Bates Will | Western Canada’s Leading Progressive Newspaper VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1937 EC UNIONS OPEN CAMPAIGN Cooperation Of Farmers, _ Labor Urged Joint Action To Protect Common Welfare Need- ed, Non-Partisan Labor Leader Says MUTUAL INTERESTS STOUX FALLS, SD, Dec. 9. —Need for close co-operation between city workers and farmers was stressed at a re- cent meeting of South Dakota Conference for Progressive Legislation by EB. L. Oliver, executive vice-president of Labor’s Non-Partisan League, when he declared: “Those who try to make you be- lieve that the Wage earners are your enemies will tell you that the industrial workers must buy your products, and you must buy theirs; that you are interested in high prices for what you sell, and low prices for what you buy; that the Wwage-earners are likewise inter- ested in high wages and in low prices for the necessities of life.” “So, by the reasoning of the in- terests who oppose both farmers and wage earners these two groups of course should not form an al- lance. Let’s look at that reason- ing. “Every farmer buys the products of other farmers. Dairy farmers must buy flour; wheat farmers must buy wheat; livestock raisers must buy sugar, and so on. But does that make your interests dif- ferent from the interests of other farmers? Does that make you Want to force the prices of other farmers down below a decent liv- ing? Or do you farmers sit down together, regardless of your in- dividual product, working out your problems jointly? “And among the wage earners, even more than among farmers, it is true that each man must buy the products of other Wage earn- ers. . . . Does that make them eager to force down the Wages of those other workers? Or do they join together, in great national or- ganizations, to promote the welfare of all labor? “Why then, if farmers buying each other’s productS can co- operate, and wage earners buying each other’s products can co- operate—why are farmers and Wage earners prevented from co- operation simply because they buy €ach other’s products?” ST. PAUL, Minn. Dec. 9.—(FP) —Governor A. Benson has accept- ed a personal plea from Tom Mooney to be chief speaker at a monster mass meeting to be held shortly under the auspices of San Francisco labor in that city. - the magazine of progressive youth. Read P. M. 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I look wonderful there compared to my condition two days ago, hav- ing seen no washing water for 15 days, with sand and mud in my hair. “Qn our way to the billets some Catalonian artillerymen gave a group of us some coffee and a lift into town. Great guys those Cata- lonians. Paddy Hilton had pre- pared for us some french-fried bread and marmalade, after he had cleaned up the billets. These were old houses that had been “worked over” by Lawson’s anti-tank crew. You remember Lawson? “Well, after the last battle, I don’t think I can be killed as Tiny: Anderson and I were in the tough- est of spots and came through OK. “George Page had a terrifying experience the other day with a 1,000-pound Fascist bomb which buried him in the explosion. It was a close shave but luckily we got him out in time and he is OK Fascists In Panic “The Mac-Paps helped to break in a bunch of quite young Spanish recruits the last time we went over the top. It did our hearts good to see them come like heroes. The open up with everything they have at our slightest movements. “Saw some great dogfights in the air, with the Spanish boys gen- erally the winners. If the Spanish boys could learn infantry move- ments as quickly as their aviators catch on to downing Fascist planes, there would be nothing to this war. “Lew Summers was just over for a few minutes and the Vancouver Buys are grouping around to de- cide on sending mementos for the Vancouver FMPB committee to of- fer as prizes in future campaigns. “Our present location is very. much like the Fraser Valley. One cannot help wondering if the folks at home, living in peace, ever give serious thought to the devilish ma- ehines of war newly invented to perhaps blast Candians off the earth on a large scale. “From all reports the BC govern- ment is intent on making reds out of the unemployed boys. Theirs is a struggle for democracy and a Square deal as is the Spanish peo- ple’s. We are following closely the developments in BC and we hope the PA greatly increases in circu- lation. How about an 8-page paper and getting more outside corres- pondents to write in their stuff? “Well, I intend to see this thing through to the end. The Fascists keep on getting more men and arms and planes from Hitler and Mussolini and yet they cannot hold us back. After a winter of struggle today. eocky that me, as I hope we can lick them this wi This is what A. EB. “Yorkie” Burton, erstwhil organizer in BC, writes to Johnny Bowles, from the Albacete, Spain base Zeke Fascists are now so panicky, they ' Just a hundred years ago the Ganadian people waged a great fight against Feudalism and the Family Compact. 1837, although defeated in a military sense, really won the right to liberty and self- government. This — the first serious study of Canadian history in the light of Marxism read by every friend of democracy in Canada B.C. Man in Spain Looking Forward to Spring Return I think you can get your front room fixed up for nter and be home to take in English Bay for spring e unemployed leader and Communist party advertising manager of the People’s Advocate of the Mackenzie-Papineauy Battalion. | Winter Warfare Begins i te — Garbed in clothing far removed from that usually seen in military ranks, two loyalist campaigns, now that attacks on Madrid. soldiers discuss the political situation and past cold weather has brought a temporary halt in the Children Get School Bus Stay-Home School Strike Won By Deroche Parents DEROCHE, BC, Dec. 9. — Parents of thirteen children here who for some weeks past have conducted a stay-home strike because, although they reside five miles from the near- est school, the provincia] department of education refused to supply transportation, have finally won their strike. Twenty-eight children of school< age were directly or indirectly af- fected. When the parents kept their chil- dren from school the provincial de- partment of education sent an in- spector to investigate. To the in- spector’s expressed hope that they were not penalizing their children by keeping them from school the parents replied that they hoped the department of education woulda not continue to penalize the chil- dren by refusing to supply trans- portation to take them to school. They pointed out that under the school act they were entitled to either transportation or a new school. Following wide circulation of a petition in this district the depart- ment of education has now pro- vided a school bus. Seamen Seeking President’s Aid NEW YORK, Dec. 9— FP) President Roosevelt has been asked to intervene with immigration au- thorities in behalf of Norwegian, Swedish and Danish seamen threat- ~ ened with “dumping” in American ports. The request was sent.to him by the Scandinavian Seamen’s Club. Certain shipowners, operating Scandinavian ships, it was charged, were attempting to replace crews belonging to the SSC with new crews imported from abroad. “They have enacted this policy,” the club declared, “since the SSC succeeded we will have them running like} in improving conditions on our |} hell.” ships.” H The Birth of e Canadian Democracy Byes DANISH SD ARV EER SONG cease oo i eee $1.00 The Patriot-Rebels of should be Please note our New Address: 28 EAST HASTINGS ST. New Age Bookshop Vancouver, B.C. TRINITY 5753 Burns, White Lunch Unfair Publication of ‘‘We Do Not Patronize’’ List Is Urged by Sointula, Lund Fishermen Into the PA editorial offices one day this week strode two bronzed, broad-shouldered fishermen from up the coast. Introducing them- selves as Malcolm MacDonald of Lund, BC, and E. Ahola of Soin- tula, BC, they demanded to know why the People’s Advocate had not published anything recently on the fact that products of P. Burns company are still on the unfair list. “There are all kinds of fisher- men up the coast who don’t know that Burns’ products are still un- fair,” declared MacDonald, “and, if you don’t tell them, how are they going to know?” Their indignation inereased when they learned that White Guneh cafeterias in the city were also on the unfair list of the trades and labor council. “We might have gone in there to eat,” Ahola said. “You’d better let people know.” Ont. Nazis Active KITCHENER, Ont., Dec. 9, (FPP)—Nazi agents never cease in their activity to compel citizezns of German descent to join Nazi or- ganizations. Especially are citizens of Kitchener and Waterloo harass- ed, Rabbi Maurice Pisendrath of Toronto reports. He tells of hun- dreds of thousands of scurrilous printed attacks on the Jews being distributed in Ontario. 5000 Attend Labor Meet At Montreal Padlocking Of Fascist Paper Is Demanded As Unions Blast Premier Duplessis. CLARION SEIZED MONTREAL, Que., Dec. 9. —Roaring “A bas fascism! A bas fascism!” 5,000 trade unionists meeting in Atwater Market hall here last week took up the challenge to democratic liberties thrown dewn by Premier Maurice Duples- sis and his reactionary Union Nationale government. The meeting signalled the open- ing of the trade unions’ Campaign to secure disallowance of the no- torious padlock law passed by the Duplessis government, enforce- ment of which has already resulted in padlocking of the Clarte, French-Canadian Progressive weekly newspaper, seizure by Montreal police of copies of the Daily Clarion, Toronto, as they were unloaded from the train, and banning of Kamf, Toronto Jewish weekly, and Morning Freiheit, New York Jewish daily. Organized labor in Quebec is now Carrying the battle into Duples- sis’ camp and demanding padlock- ing of the Fasciste Ganadien, anti- Semitic, anti-democratic paper pub- lished in Montreal and reputedly financed by the Nazis. Publisher of the Hasciste Canadien is Adrien Areand, notorious Fascist and a member of the editorial board of Liillustration, generally looked upon as the personal organ of Premier Duplessis. At the Atwater Market hall meeting here David Wolfe of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union declared: ‘If Duplessis wants to padlock, let him padloci his own Mr. Arcand, publisher of the Hascist Canadien. Liberal Support R. J. Tallon, Trades and Labor Congress secretary, expressed the intention of the congress to organ- ize the basic industries of Canada. “Only when the mass of the peo- ple are organized can its voice be articulate and assure the correct functioning of a democracy,” he Said. Tallon’s speech was broadcast only after the censor had mutil- | ated it, deleting references to cer- tain reactionary sections of the Quebee clergy and to ‘capitalism breeding anarchy.” Present at the meeting was GC. J. Areand, former minister of labor, who backed the program of the international trade union move- ment and called for an intensive fight against anti-democratic ac- tions. His presence indicated that important leaders of the Iiberal party, anxious to preserve their party’s honesty, are prepared to Swing behind the workers of Que- bee in their campaign against re- action and the Duplessis sovern- ment. Fascist Attack ROME, Italy, Dec. 9—(FPP)—Be- cause Great Britain allowed 5000 Ethiopians, the remaining men of Haile Selassie’s army, to take ref- uge in Kenya, when they forced faced labor or massacre in their homeland, the Fascist paper, Azione Coliniale, openly attacks Great Britain. Grants Asylum STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 9.— (FP)—Sweden recognizes the right of asylum for political refugees. A new law redefining the rights of non-citizens resident in Sweden specifies that every foreigner who has fled from a country for politi- cal reasons is to be welcomed. | Famous English Author Will Speak In Vancouver The People’s Advocate ALP In NY Now Second Labor Party Emerges From Elections As Powerful Political Factor. 5 ON COUNCIL By MARC STONE. NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—(FP) —The American Labor party became the second political power in the new city council here as final tally in New York’s first experiment with proportiona] representation gave Tammany 14 members, ALP 5, Republicans 3 and City Fusion 3, with 1 Indepen- dent Democrat. Three addi- tional labor candidates were nosed out in the race of many independent candidates who divided the anti - Tammany vote. The five ALP members are: Manhattan: B. Charney Viadeck. business manager of the Jewish Daily Forward, member of the Wew York State Housing Authority and long an active worker in the labor movement; Bronx: Michael J. Quill, president of the Transport Workers’ Union; Salvatore Winfo, a vice-president of the MInterna— ional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union; Brooklyn: Louis Hollander, co-manager of the joint board of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers; Andrew B, Armstrong, mem- ber of Printing Pressmen’s. and Assistants’ Union Local 2, In addi- tion, Chas. Belous, though elected on the Fusion ticket in Queens, isa Labor party member and will vote with the Labor party bloc. Indicative of the Strong organi- zation built by the Labor party in the brief period since its formation in August, 1936, was the fact that all five ALP winners received the full quota of 75,000 votes. Only. three of the remaining twenty-one elected reached this figure. Hail Victory. Labor party leaders hailed the election as a victory’ for labor, Which established the party as a major political force, destined to greater power in the future as its organization and influence spread. The new council members are the first to be elected from the actual ranks of labor. Satisfaction in ALP cireles was tempered by the fact that Tammany secured con- trel of the council, though falling far short of the complete domina= tion it held in the old board of aldermen, where it controlled 62 out of 65 seats. “The American Labor party views the results of the first PR count with a great deal of Satisfaction, although it falls short of the de- sired result,” said a Labor party statement. “The individual yote for mayor indicated an anti-Tammany council. This goal was not achieved because of the numerous indepen- dent candidates who entered the race and diverted yotes from the Strongest anti-Tammany candi- dates. On the basis of this lesson, we expect to make the council truly representative of the pro- gressive voters in the next election two years from now by appealing for the support of one anti- Tammany bloc backed by all pro- gressives.” Aged Shere Woman Donates To FMPB SHERE, BC, Dec. 9—A Christ- mas parcel containing, among other things, three pairs of hand= knitted socks was recently for- Warded- to the ‘Toronto office, Friends of the MacKenzie-Papi- | neau Battalion, marked especially for “Yorkie” Burton, member of the Canadian battalion in Spain, the sender being Mrs. A. B. Mec- Millan, 75 years of age, an old age pensioner here. Valued at $5, the parcel repre- sented a financial sacrifice, comple- tion of the socks a great effort for so aged a person. The parcel was a token of the organizational work done by Burton who spent many months in the north country in the capacity of Communist or- ganizer. 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