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January 1-8.

Vancouver, BC.— Many local mer-
chants ban Burns’ products until
strike called by Local 95, Meat-
cutters and Packing House Em-
ployees Union, settled.

Wanderhoof, BC. — Goroner’s jury
eriticizes Indian School authori-
ties after 10-year old Indian boy
found frozen to death while’ flee-
ing from corporal punishment.

Wew York. — Lawrence Simpson,
anti-Fascist American seaman, re-
turns to United States after
world-wide protest wins his re-
lease from Nazi concentration
canips.

Oakland, Cal.—Earl King, B. G.
Ramsay and George Wallace, Ma-
rine Firemen’s Union officials,
convicted on second degree mur-
der charge, despite overwhelming
evidence to show the charge was
framed.

January 9-15

Vancouver, BC.—City Council ap-
proves relief works scheme.

Cumberland, BC.—J. W. Watson
and S. L. Robertson, progressive
candidates, elected. to council.
Progressives also capture three
school board and four parks board

seais.

Wanaimo, BC. — Progressive Civic
League elects W. C. Grieves as al-
derman.

Montreal, Que—Gity council refuses
te grant Maxim Gorki Club a li-
eense on ground that hall used for
“communistic purposes.”

Detroit, Mich. — Wational Guard
called cut to suppress auto
strikers.

London, Eng.— British national gov-
ernment resuscitates Foreign En-
listment Act of 1870.

Prague, Gzecho-Slovakia. — Hitler
accused of stirring up civil strife
in @zecho-Slovakia.

Mexico City— CIM (Confederation
of Mexican Workers) protests
granting of asylum rights to Leon
Trotsky.

danuary 16-22

Vanouyver, BC. — Hopes for early

Settlement of Burns strike fade
as Plant Manager Williamson re-
fuses to negotiate on reinstate-
ment of dismissed employees and
union recognition.
Relief Project Workers Union de
nies assertion by Hon. G. S. Pear-
son, minister of labor, that a gen-
eral strike of project workers
planned.

Victoria, BC. — Provinial govern-
ment orders probe of Burnaby
Home for the Friendless.

Ottawa, Ont. — Dominion govern-
ment votes $37,000,000 for defence.

Oakland, Cal—King, Ramsey, Con-
mer, refused new trial.

Paris, France.—Trade union rights,
40-hour week, paid holidays guar-
anteed by new legislation of Blum
government.

London, Eng.—Socialist League, In-
dependent Labor party and Com-
munist party reach agreement on

- unity policy.

January 23-29

Vancouver, BC—Local 95, Meatcut-
ters and Packing House Employ-
ees Union, asks provincial govern-
ment for board of arbitration.
Four hundred city jobless fight
for snow-clearing jobs.

Cloverdale, BC. — Joint efforts of
CGF and Communists result in
election of L. A. Shepherd to Sur-
rey council. J

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T. Ayling elected to Matsqui coun-
cil on progressive ticket.

Ottawa, Ont.—CCF will support any
group in the House prepared “to
travel at least part of the way,”
M. J. Coldwell, CCF MP for Rose-
town-Biggar, declares.

Washington, DC. — Rep. Samuel
Dickstein (Dem., NY) demands

congressional investigation of
Fascist organizations in United
States. Sm

Milan, Italy. — Fascist troops revolt
against being sent to Spain.
Wholesale arrests made.

Berlin, Germany.—Factory workers
arrested for collecting funds for
Loyalist Spain.

January 30-February 5

Vancouver, BC—Mr. Justice Man-
son’s dismissal of libel action
brought by Birt Showler, Team-
sters’ official, against Tom Mac-
Innes, Fascist radiorator, because
“the occasion of the address of
the defendant was privileged,”
protested by labor.

Twenty-five white waitresses laid
off from Chinese cafes under city
council ruling.

Fernie, BC. — Fernie and District
Unemployed Association reports
membership of 500.

London, Eng.—German Ambassa-

salute at British court.

Moscow, USSR. — Seventeen Trot-
skyist -wreckers convicted by
Soviet courts.

Mexico City—Communist party of
Mexico demands expulsion of
Leon Trotsky.

February 6-12
Vancouver, BC. — Lytton-Lillooet
Indians send delegation headed by
Chief William Adolf, Fountain,
BG, to seek aid from provincial
government. “We must have help
or my people will starve to death,”
Says Chief Adolf.
Basque seamen from ss Altobiz-
kar in port here affirm solidarity
with People’s Front government
of Spain.

Victoria, BC_—Health Insurance Act
has been postponed indefinitely.
Gumberland, BG—Miners ask wage

increases.

Ottawa, Ont. — Postal surplus for
1936 is announced as $3,000,000.
Montreal, Que. — Railway unions
hold firm for full restoration of

wage cuts.

New York.—Baron Rolf von Rein-
tenste charges 2,000 Nazi spies ac-
tive in United States.

“Detroit, Mich—Aute strike énds in
victory for 135,000 auto workers as
General Motors-United Automo-
bile Workers of America (CIO)

+ reach agreement.

Seattle, Wash.—Ss Northolme tied
up here in support of BC long-
shoremen.

Madrid, Spain. — Malaga falls
through treachery of generals
commanding defence. Thousands
of non-combatant refugees ma-
ehine-gunned by Fascists.
Ganadian medical unit in Spain
under Dr. Norman Bethune, Mont-
real surgeon, becomes officially
Instituto -Canadiense de Trans-
fusion de Sangre. The Institute
is now serving 100 hospitals and
casualty clearing stations and
supplying needs of cities from
Barcelona to Cordova.

London, Eng.—D. Frankel, member
for Mile Find, tells House of Com-
mons Mosley’s blackshirts are
terrorizing Jews in London’s Bast
End.

February 13-19

Vancouver, BC.—CCF rejects Com-
munist party proposals for unity
in provincial elections.

Trades and Labor Council de
mands enforcement of Health In-
surance Act.

Grainer Steamships and Butler
Towing company sign with In-
land Boatmen’s Union and ILA.

Victoria, BC —Judge J. C. McIntosh
appointed by provincial govern-
ment to hold enquiry into Burns
Strike. W. W. Lefeaux will rep-
resent employees.

Toronto, Ont.— Tim Buck, general
secretary, Communist party of
Canada, testifies before Archam-
bault Royal Commission on Pris-
ons that during Kingston Peniten-

tiary riots in 1932 his cell was

Mission, BC.—William Scott and FE.

Labor’s Objectives For 1938

By C. M. STEWART
The most important and im-
mediate task confronting the
trade union moyement of Brit-
ish Columbia is
that of oreaniz

ing the wunor
ganized.
At the las

eonyention of
the Trades and
Labor Congres
of Canada a de-
eision was mad
to set up an or-
ganizational de-§
partment, and
it is Most important that there
be no further delay on this mat-
ter.

The trade union movement
cannot aceept the excuse of Jacl:
of funds for this purpose; the
dominion executive of the con-=

nance this department and send
organizers into the field without
delay.

Our trade union movement
‘is Stronger and more united than
ever betore, but there are also
powerful forees at work to weak-
en our ranks. The recent ex-
posure of the fascist organiza-
tion headed by Colonel Edgett,
and the link-up of that oreaniza-
tion to the Canadian Federation
of Labor, should warn all work-
ers to be on guard.

It is the duty of every trade
unionist to expose this menace
and show honest workers who
are still in the CF of L that their
organization is no longer a trade
union but a strike-brealing agen-
ey. used by the worst reaction-

ary tools of fnanee capital. Dis-
ruption of the AF of L is one

Soress should devise plans to fi? of the methods beine used by

the vested interests in their at-
tempt to bring faseism to Can-
ada.

Without any loss of time,
steps should be taken to set in
motion the machinery for setting
up a provineial federation of
labor in order to unity the trade
union movement.

At present, there is no ~co-
hesion between organized labor
in such places as Prince Rupert,
Victoria and Vancouver and the
various loeals isolated in the in-
terior of this province.

When a BC Federation of
Labor is established, then there
will be a great strengthenine of
the ranks in that voice of or-
ganized labor will have full vol-
ume in the struggle a@ainst re-
action.

der Von Ribbentrop gives Nazi

riddled with bullets. “One bullet
grazed my hair,’ Buck said.

Oshawa, Ont.—UMWA employees of
General Motors here strike.

London, Eng-—‘The chief political
lesson of the Spanish war is that
the governments of Italy and Ger-
many are not to be trusted and
that our own government is play-
ing a double game with the elec-
tors—not for the first time,’’
writes Lord Strabolgi in Daily.
Herald.

Manchester, Eng.— Ten thousand
attended opening rally here of
newly-formed united front be-
tween Socialist League, DLP and
Communist party.

Paris, France— German Socialists,
Communists, liberals, appeal for
overthrow of Hitler regime.

Madrid, Spain. —Leading members
of Tratskyist POUM arrested on
charges of assisting Gen. Franco.
POUM radio station, newspaper,
Seized.

Burgos, Spain.—General Franco is-
sues announcement that Fascist
forces will be in Madrid “in two
or three days.”

February 20-26 -

Vancouver, BC.—By 805 to 543 votes
Street Railwaymen’s union ac-
cepts compromise offer of BC
Electric.

Mrs. Elizabeth Kerr, CCF member
and former newspaper woman,
elected to represent BC women on
tour of Soviet Union. >

New Westminster BC.—Rev. E. H.
Baker, CCE candidate here in
1935 federal elections quits CCF to
join Communist party. “Ms place
in vanguard of movement for
unity,” reads statement.

Pender Harbor, BC—Sixtw-two men
in project camp here strike,
charge discrimination.

Ottawa, Ont—Minister of Finance
Dunning announce budget deficit
—$35,000,000.

Wew. York—Copper hits seven-year
high of 15.17 cents on exchange.

Gibraltar—Five seamen on British
warship Royal Oak killed by Fas-
cist shell.

Helsingfors, Finland—Progressives
win majority in election. Kyosti
Kallio, Agrarian party, is new
premier. Fascist parties defeated.

Longview, Wash.—Harold Pritchett
heads Federation of Woodworkers
for second term.

Ferubary 27 - March 5
Vancouver, BC. — Domestic Work-
ers Union says day workers paid
as little as 10 cents an hour, de-
mand minimum wage.
Ald. L. D. McDonald dies from
pneumonia contracted while on
mercy errand for family on relief.
Winnipeg, Man—James Litterick,
first Communist to be elected to a
provincial legislature in Canada,
warns Premier Bracken to stop
flirting with Tories in maiden
speech, says Manitoba can have
stable government if progressive
steps taken to meet needs of the
people.

Ottawa, Ont. — Federal government
probe of Regina riot, July 1, 1935,
eost $58,000, it is announced.

Vienna, Austria. — Mystery plane
traces hammer and sickle design
in slry over this city.

Moscow, USSR. Soviet Union
mourns death of Sergei Ordjoni-
kidze, commissar of heavy indus-
try.

Madrid, Spain. — International Bri-
gades and Spanish people’s mil-
itia repulse fascist attempts to
sever vital Madrid-Valencia high-
way link at Jarama.

London, Eng.—Chancellor of the
Exchequer Neville Chamberlain
tells House of Commons Britain
will spend $5,000,000 every week-
day for the next five years on de-
fence and “it may be in the end
We shall find that even this has
not represented the total amount
this country has been compelled
to spend.”

International Committee for Non-
Intervention of 27 nations reaches
agreement after five months to
ban volunteers and munitions to

both government and fascists,
agrees to set up land and sea
patrols. Writes the New York
Times: “Hitler and Mussolini .. .
now believe that Franco has
enough ... help from outside to
enable him to become master of
Spain.’’

Addis Ababa, Ethiopio. — Marshal
Rodolfo Graziani, Viceroy of
Ethiopia, and General Aurelio
Liotta, chief of Italy’s Hast Afri-
Can air force, wounded by hand
Srenades thrown from crowd.

March 6-12

Vancouver, BC. — British Colum-
bia has raised $5,000 to aid Spain,
according to A. M. Stephen, pro-

vineial president, Canadian League
Against War and Fascism.

Seattle, Wash. — Hugh Delacy,
Washington Commonwealth Fed-
eration, elected to city council.
Progressive now hold two-thirds
majority.

Wanaimo, BC—United Mine Work-
ers open office here.

Edmonton, Alta. — John O'Sullivan,
veteran Communist, dies.

Detroit, Mich.—Auto workers strike

at Chrysler, Hudson, Packard
plants.
Washington, DC. — Dr. Townsend

goes to jail for one month for con-
tempt of House of Representa-
tives.

New York. — American labor ap-
plauds US Supreme Court deci-
Sion upholding constitutionality
of Wagner Act by 5-4 vote.

Madras, India. — Indian National
Congress party wins 715 of 1,585
seats in eleven provincial legisla-
tures of British India in first
elections held under new consti-
tution. Five thousand candidates
ran for office. Of India’s 350,000,-
000 people, approximately 35,000,-
000 were entitled to vote, 6,000,000
of them women.

Burgos, Spain. — General Franco ;

bans all films to which the follow-
ing screeen stars and writers have
contributed: Upton Sinclair, Clif-
ford Odets, Liam O'Flaherty, Dud-
ley Nichols, Humphrey Cobb, Paul
Muni, Luise Rainer.

Santiago, Ghile. First people’s
front to be forged in the
Americas, the People’s Front of
Chile emerges from the elections
with 66 of 143 seats in the Cham-
ber of Deputies and 10 of 45
Senate seats.

Brussels, Belgium.— Premier Paul
Van Zeeland (Labor-Catholic-Lib-
eral coalition) defeats WRexist
Leader Leon Degrelle in sensa-
tional by-election. »

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—lLuis Carlos
Prestes, leader of the Brazilian
National Liberation movement,
now held in jail by the Vargas
dictatorship, will be nominated as
presidential candidate in this
year’s elections.

March 13 - 19.

Vancouver, BC. — A. M. Stephen,
chairman, CCF radio and speak-
ers committee, suspended from
CCE executive for continued ad-
vocacy of unity of all progressive
groups.

Fred Grange and Harry Molland,
unemployed Jeaders, refused leave
to appeal two-year sentences.

Victoria, BC. — Inland Boatmen’s
Union signs agreement with Gon-
solidated Whaling Corporation.

Montreal, Que. — Railway unions
announce overwhelming vote in
favor of strike unless demands
met.

Quebee City. — Premier Duplessis’
“Act to Protect Quebec from Com-

' munist Propaganda:’ passes Que-
bee provincial legislature. Under
this law Communist candidates
are refused the right to contest
elections, ‘‘all centres where Gom-
munists meet’ will be padlocked
and police will disperse Commu-
nist meetings and act against
“agitators.” Labor denounces the
law as a threat to Canadian demo-
eratie liberties aimed, not at the
Communist party alone, but at
organized labor and all progress-
ives. It is pointed out that the
term “communism”’ is not defined
by the Act.

London, Eng.—Committee for Non-
Intervention institutes naval
blockade of Spain by fleets of
Great Powers.

Willie Gallacher, Communist MP,
denounces coronation as “‘political
rally of reaction.”

Paris, France. — Mar Cantabrico,
carrying supplies to Republican
government from New York to un-
named loyalist port, captured by
fascist warship in Bay of Biscay
on information supplied by fascist
spies in United States.

Valencia, Spain. “This is no
longer a civil war, but an heroic
defence of a whole people against
a foreign invasion,” states the
Franco - Belgian parliamentary
commission on its return from the
Guadalajara front.

March 20 - 26
Vancouver, BC. Miss Helena
Gutteridge (CCF) wins council
seat rendered yacant by death of

Ald. L. D. McDonald by 358 ma- |

jority over H. L. Corey:

Working class organizations re-
fused permits to hold Sunday «con-
certs.

Communist party provincial con-
vention here stresses need for
electoral unity to elect people’s
candidates and defeat reaction.
Evidence offered before Judge
McIntosh in the Burns strike
probe reveals that Plant Manager
Williamson declared he would
rather run the plant with two men
than recognize a union “with out-
side affiliations.’

Toronto, Ont. — Furniture workers
Win province-wide strike.

Washington, DC. — Committee for
Industrial Organization adopts
resolution stating: “‘The executive
officers of the Committee for In-
dustrial Organization are author-
ized to issue cetificates of affilia-
tion to national, international,
state, regional, city central bodies
and local groups wherever it is
deemed such action is advisable.”

Glasgow, Scotland. — Winety-five
thousand Scottish miners threaten
strike unless wage demands met.

Paris, France. — Fascist Croix de
Feu attacks workers’ meeting at
Clichy.

Madrid, Spain. — At Brihuega on
the Guadalajara front loyalists
route Franco’s Italian troops in
what Ernest Hemingway, US
writer, describes as a battle “des-
tined to take its place in military
history with other decisive battles
of the world.” The Garibaldi Bat-
talion of Italian anti-fascists play-
ed an important part in the vic-
tory. “The serub woods ... are
still full of the Italian dead .. .
where about 10,000 government
infantrymen routed three Italian
divisions of 5,000 men each,” Hem-
ingway writes.

April 3 - 9

Vancouver, BC. — Anna Louise

Strong, famous author and lec-
turer, tells city audience that
“formation of the people’s front
in major countries of the world
would stop the war in Spain to-
morrow.”
Representing 17,000 young people,
150 delegates met in convention
here to lay foundations for an all-
inclusive youth movement in Van-
couver and New Westminster.

Nanaimo, BC. — The CCE provin-
Cial executive is under fire from
15 Vancouver Island CCE clubs
for its suspension of A. M. Steph-
en.

Maillardville, B€—The Lumber and
Sawmill Workers’ Union charges
that a company spy system has
been instituted at Fraser Mills.

Madrid, Spain. — Fascist bombers
have killed 1,490 and wounded
another 3,488 people in this city,
it is announced.

London, Eng. — Following the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury's denuncia-
tion of Italian atrocities in Hithi-
opia, the Duke of Windsor at a
service here for Ethiopia’s war
dead states the Italian people
“have been seized by a spirit of
evil of superhuman nature .. -
The ruler of Italy supposes him-
self to be a Caesar, but he is the
true type of the Assyrian emp-

eror, Antochus, surnamed “The
Brilliant,” and nicknamed “The
Madman.” Ethiopia’s minister

to Britain charges Italy with
wholesale executions following an
attempt on the life of the Italian
viceroy, says his own two sons
and the son of another minister,
— ‘The fine flowers of Ethiopia's
enlightened intellectuals’’ — were
among those murdered.

New Westminster, BC —Brackman-
Ker Milling company’s employees
win recognition of ILA after brief
strike.

Many poultry farmers in Fraser
Valley facing ruin because of high
feed costs, low egg prices.

Sooke, BC.—Relief Project Work-
ers Union charges relief officials
sending sick men to project camps
following death of ex-servyiceman
in Camp 104 here.

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Prince Rupert, BC. — Married and
single relief recipients strike for
increased benefits.

Washington, DC. — US Senate ap-
proves $522,847,808 naval appro-
priation bill under which $130,-
000,000 will be spent on eight new
destroyers, four new submarines
and 81 other naval vessels, and
$27,000,000 on new planes. :

Shanghai, China. — Madame Sun
Yat-sen makes appeal to Chinese
people for unity against Japanese
aggressor.

April 10 - 16

Vancouver, BC. — Judge McIntosh
in Burns strike report upholds
right of employees to organize.
P. Burns company financial re-
port shows profit of $933,579 in
past year.

New Westminster, BC. — Commu-
nist party nominates Rev. E. H.
Baker as its candidate in the pro-
vineial elections.

Toronto, Ont. — Premier Mitchell
Hepburn threatens use of RCM
Police against Oshawa auto strik—
ers.

Cabinet ministers Croll and Roe-
buck split with Hepburn over
CIO@ strike policy.

April 17 - 23

Vancouver, BC—White Lunch em=

ployees strike for union recogpni-_
tion.
Trades and Labor Council sup-
ports fight of Domestic Workers
Union for Minimum wage and
hours.

Nanaimo, BC—UMWaA charter is
installed.

Fernie, BC —UMWA wins demands ;

from Crows Nest Pass Coal com-
pany.

Oshawa, Ont—UAWA, CIO affili-

_ ate, win first great victory in
Eastern Canada, affecting 3,700
strikers. .

Sydney, NSW, Australia. — First
Stay-in strike in Australian his-
tory won by 30 North Wallarah
coal miners who barricaded them-
selves in mine tunnel 180 feet
underground.

London, Eng—War expenditures of
national government bring in-
crease in income tax to 25 per
cent.

April 24-30

Vancouver, BC. Court fines three
Burns scabs for assault on striker.

Washington, DC —Angelo Herndon,
famed Negro Communist, freed
from 20-year prison sentence by
US Supreme Court.

Wew York. — Qne million students
demonstrated for peace in schools
throughout US.

London, Eng.—Busmen’s strike af-
fects ten counties. eee
London, Eng-—Captain David (Po-
tato) Jones of the Marie Llewellyn
becomes the toast of England. He
became known as Potato Jones
when a consular clerk at Saint-
Jean-de-Luz, France, nicknamed
three skippers, all named Jones,
of British ships attempting to run
the Fascist blockade of Bilbao,
Spain, by their cargoes—Potato
Jones, Ham and Ege Jones, Gorn-
cob Jones. Turning back of his
ship by the British destroyer
Brazen causes Major C. R. Attlee,
Labor parliamentary leader, to
remark in the House of Commons:
“The hopes of Franco depend on
starving women and children. The
British government is going to
help him in this. The greatest

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