Rome, Italy. — Antonio Gramsci,

Galcutta, India.—Twenty-five thou-

London, Hng.—Crowds lining Lon-

Berlin, Germany— Police raid all

Bilbao, Spain. Refugees are being

Albacete, Spain——British Columbia

Victoria, BC.— Premier Duff Pat-

McBride, BC. — Provincial police

Wew Westminster, BC.—Supporting

Toronto, Ont—Two thousand gar-

Pittsburg,

Akron,

Washington, DC—Army appropria-

Page Two

THE PEOPLE’S

ADVOCATE

December i7, 1937

In Berlin: Hitler and Mussolini discuss their notorious
Berlin-RomeTokyo alliance.

maritime nation in the world has
‘run up the white flag.” Potato
Jones himself is even more point-
ed. “Has our navy lost its guts?”

he demands.

Madrid, Spain. — Three thousand
Fascists bottled up in University
City as Loyalists slowly force be-

_ siegers back.
May 1-7

Vancouver, BCG. — Hight thousand

march in May Day parade.

Dewdney, BC-—CCF club asks CCE
provincial executive to withdraw

Stanley Blake as candidate in
Wew Westminster in order to pre-
vent split in progressive vote.
Montreal, Que—Principal Morgan
of McGill Universsity resigns 2s
protest against lack of academic
freedom.

founder and leader of Communist
party of Italy, dies in hospital as
result of constant torture by Fas-
cists during ten years’ imprison-
ment.

sand jute mill workers strike.

don streets greet parade of 5,000
pblackshirts headed by Sir Oswald
Mosley with clenched fist salute
of people’s front.

B'nai B'rith lodges, order organi-
zation dissolyed, confiscate funds
on pretext that the organization's
14,000 members “engaged in Com-
munistic propaganda.”

evacuated from this beleaguered
city under guns of British and
French warships as lack of muni-
tions hampers defenders.

volunteers in International Bri-
gades send May Day greetings:
“Do not be misled by the old idea
it can’t happen in democratic
Ganada, but learn to say with one
voice— CCF’, Labor, Communist
and all honest liberal and progres-
sive people—It shall not happen
here’.”

May $-14

tulle announces plan for British
Columbia (area 573,331 sq. miles)
to take over Yukon Territory
area 207,076 sq. miles) from fed-
eral government. Hederal govern-
ment willing to make annual
grant of $125,000 for five years to
aid in taking over. Once $200;000,-
000, the Yukon’s yearly gold out-
put has now dwindled to $100,000.

man fires on transients riding the
freight into Prince George in
search of work.

candidacy of Rey. E. H. Baker,
Tim Buck, Communist leader,
warns of danger of Tory bid for
power. Says Conservative party
masking reactionary policies un-
der mask of demagoguery. “Some
people think we have an unlimited

amount of time to accomplish |)

unity of all progressives,’ he de-
eclares. “The truth is we are work-
ing against time.”

ment workers receive wage in-
ereases as result of new union
agreement.

Pa. Police use gas
against steel strikers.

Ohio. — United Rubber
Workers of America sign conrtact
with Firestone Tire and Rubber
company providing for first stan-
dard 36-hour week ever adopted
in major US industry and for cut
to 24-hour week for eight weeks
before layoffs made.

tion bill providing for 1938 mili-
tary expenditures totalling $416,-
413,382 passes House of Repre-

mark coronation celebrations
here.
Iondon, Eng. — Coronation costs

estimated at $12,500,000.

Madrid, Spain—World appalled by
systematic devastation of Guerni-
ca, traditional capital of the
Basques, by Nazi Heinkel and
Junkers bombers. Of no military
importance, Guernica, now a
mass of blackened ruins, housed
10,000 souls, mostly non-combat-
ants. State news despatches:
“German planes came over in
waves, blasting the houses from
their foundations. with heavy
bombs, loosing showers of glitter-
ing two-pound aluminum incendi-
ary bombs to turn the “Holy City’
into a furnace. Skimming the roof
tops, fighting planes followed with
all machine guns spraying death,
harrying terrified peasants
through the fields, sending them
sprawling in their own blood. Over
800 men, women and children were
killed.” Canan Alberto Onoindia of
Valladolid Cathedral declared: “I
saw the bombing and burning of
Guernica, one of the terrible
erimes of this age. I walked
through streets thick with blood.
... There were bodies of old men,
women and children. And behind
the carnage of German aviators I
saw the blood-crazed Moors move
through another town at night,
raping wives and daughters of the
innocent. - Now I am going
to try to see the Pope and beg
him to intervene.”

Rio de Janeira, Brazil—President

Getulio Vargas, fearing opposition

to his dictatorial regime, relieves

Governor Flores da Cunha of Rio

Grande do Sul state of his office.
May 15 - 21>

Vancouver, BC. — Commenting on

the election campaign the People’s
Advocate warns: “With both the
GGF and the Conservatives con-
centrating all their verbal fire on
the Liberals, there is danger that
the greater Conservative threat to
progress will be ignored... .”
Trades and Labor Council places
all Burns products definitely on
unfair list following failure of
company to implement recommen-
dations of Mcintosh report and
reinstate dismissed employees. All
White Lunch cafeterias also
placed on unfair list.

ILocal 279, Retail Clerks Union,
formed.

Seattle, Wash.—Decision to launch

organizational drive in British Go-
lumbia reached by Pacific Coast
convention of International Long-
shoremen’s Association.

New York. — Dismissing rumors

that the CIO is promoting dic-
tatorship as “wild talk,” Sidney
Hillman, chairman, Textile Work-
ers Organizing Committee, states:
“Bar from promoting dictatorship,
the CIO is tending to make dic-
tatorship impossible by making
the rank and file of working peo-
ple articulate. Whatever tends to
improve the conditions of the
masses of people tends to make
dictatorship impossible. Employ-
ers who... answer labor organi-
zation with violence and repres-
sion ... are the people who are
making dictatorship possible.”

Pittsburg, Pa.—Of the 540,000 steel-

workers in the US, 325,000 are
now organized by the CIO’s Steel
Workers Organizing Committee
which has signed contracts with
90 companies, including all sub-
Sidiaries of US Steel corporation.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—dtLuis Carlos

Prestes and Arthur Ewart, former
Reichstag deputy, charged with
leading the 1935 revolt, have been
sentenced to 16 and 13 years’ im-
prisonment respectively. David
Levison, noted US labor attorney,
comments; “The entire proceed-

May

1937 IN REVIEW

July

wages and recognition of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers. Strike
called.

Hope, BC — RCMPolicemen inflicts
jnjuries on transient by beating
him with loaded riding crop while
eovered with revolver.

Toronto, Ont-——‘The time is ripe;
this is the decisive hour ito
erystalize into organizational re—
ality and independent progressive
people’s movement in Ontario,”
asserts Ald. Stewart Smith.

Montreal, Que.—Second Canadian
Youth Congress here is attended
by 735 delegates representing
492 organizations with a com-
bined membership of 500,000.
Highlight is participation of
French-Canadian Catholic youth
organizations. .

Detroit, Mich—Packard Motor Car
company signs with UAWA. Only
Ford now remains unorganized.

Hamburs, Germany.—sSeveral peo-
ple receive two to six-year prison
terms for listening in on Moscow
radio broadcast. -

Rome, Italy. — Demonstrations in
many Italian cities mark growing
unrest with Mussolini's continued
aid to Franco.

London, Eng.— Remarking on the
coronation in an article in the
Daily Worker, George Bernard
Shaw writes: “As I am by pro-
fession a creator of theatre illu-
sions, these amateur pageants
only bore me.. - ~”

Vancouver, BC.—Locals of Workers
Alliance formed.

Local 28, Hotel and Restaurant
Employees Union, prepares to
fight company unionism as
phoney United Hotel and Restau-
rant Employees of Canada
formed. :
More than 1,000 single unemployed
men in city face starvation as a
result of closing of camps, accord-
ing to Relief Project Workers
Union.

May 29-dJune 4

Wells, BC——Mine owners raise par-
rot cry of ‘alien agitators” in
strike here.

Detroit, Mich—UAWA organizers
attacked and brutally beaten by
Ford “service men” at Dearborn.

Chicago, Tll.—FPolice fire on Re-
public Steel strfkers, killing and
mortally wounding seven, wound-
ing scores.

Moscow, USSR. — Daring Soviet

Worth Pole fliers acclaimed by
whole world.

in provincial elections, Standing

of parties in new House is: Lib-

erals, 31; Conservatives, 8; CCF,

7; Labor, 1; Independent, 1. In the

last House party standing was:

Liberals, 35; Comstructive, 4;

CCF, 3; Independent, 2; Indepen-

dent Non-Partisan, 2; labor, 1;

Unionist, 1; Conservatives, 0.
258,056 persons voted as follows:
Liberals, 97,943; CCE, 75,294; Con-
servatives, 67,066; Constructives,
5,110; Social Gredit, 2,848; Labor,
1,787; Communist, 567; Socialist,
100; Imdependents, 7,341. Most
marked tendency revealed by the
election is the gain of reaction
through the Conservative party
which displaces the CCE as the
official opposition. 147,500 votes
favored health insurance; 103,300
were opposed.

Cumberland, BG.—Miners place de-
mands for uniform wage before
company. :

Wells, BC—After a meeting with
the strike committee Provincial
Fair Wage Officer Harrison states
miners’ demands are reasonable,
can see no reason why companies
should not meet them.

Toronto, Ont.—Of the 400 Canadians
composing the Mackenzie-Papi-
neau Battalion, unit of the Inter-
national Brigades in Spain, 40 are
from British Columbia.

Berlin, Germany.—Iin the latest of
its sensational pamphlets. the
underground anti-Nazi Freedom
party declares that the Nazis have
spent $12,400,000,000 on armaments
since January 1 this year and
that Germany's unconverted de-
ficit is now $14,000,000,000-

Moscow, USSR.—At age 77, Ekate-
rina Georgiev Djugashivill,
mother of Josef Stalin, dies in
Tiflis.

Burgos, Spain. — General Emilio
Mola, second in command of Fas-
cist forces to General Franco,
killed in plane crash.

Tokyo, Japan.— Prince Fumimaro
Konoye appointed premier of
Japan.

dune 12-18

Powell River, BC.—Three thousand
paperworkers organized into Pulp,
Sulphite and Papermakers Union
(AFL).

Princeton, BC. — Police prevent
Arthur Evans, leading Commu-
nist, from holding meeting on
Spain; give him 30 minutes to
leave town. Communist party pro-
tests to Premier Pattullo-

Wew York—A second US battalion,

Vancouver, Wash, — Giant trans-

polar plame of Soviet airmen,
Alexander Beliakov, Chkaloy, and
George Buidokoy, lands here 68
hours, 17 minutes after leaving
Moscow, only 592 miles short of
goal, San Francisco. From Bos-
ten, Rear Admiral Richard Byrd,
only man to fly over Worth and
South Poles, hails the flight as
“unsurpassed in the history of
aviation.”

Youngstown, Ohio—Two killed, 25
wounded, when police attack Re-
public steel strikers.

New York.—Paramount bans news-
reel record of Ghicago’s Memorial
Day massacre of Republic Steel
strikers as ‘too horrible to show
to public.”

Paris, France. — Socialist Premier
Leon Blum resigns, is succeeded
by Radical Socialist Camille
Chautemps. French People’s
Front remains unshaken.

Berlin, Germany. — Hitler violates
Wazi concordat with Vatican by
ordering Bavarian Minister of the
Interior Adolf Wagner to close all
Catholic public schools, dismiss
teachers. At WNuremburg Julius
Streicher saditsically observes:
“Every Catholic priest convicted
of immorality must be beheaded.”
Wazi press openly threatens
@zechoslowakia, Im Paris, the
powerful Communist newspaper,
L’Humanite, reports: “. ettaaS
insistently whispered that a Fas-
.cist putsch, backed by Fascist in-
tervention, is being prepared
against Czechoslovakia.”

June 26-July 2

Woodfibre, BC—Two hundred em-
ployees of BC Pulp and Paper
company enroll in Pulp, Sulphite
and Papermakers Union.

Toronto, Ont—Graham Spry, editor,
New Commonwealth, resigns all
CCF posts.

Lord Rothermere, pro-Fascist
publisher of London Daily Mail,
Said to be negotiating for control
of Eastern newspapers.

Trades and Labor Council sends
out calls for conference to launch
wide labor representation move-
ment with immediate objective of
securing “genuine labor represen-
tation of our municipal admini-
stration” for the protection of the
“welfare of the community at
large as well as of trade union-
ists.”

Moscow, USSR.— Soviet government
warns Japan against invasion of

In Pittsburgh: The American League for Peace and Democracy meets to express the desire of the

af

American people, and of the people everywhere, for peace.

London, Hng.— Fourteen years after

Geneva, Switzerland.— Alvarez del

Berlin,

Bermeo, Spain——Basque fishwives

formation of first of his three gov-
ernments, 69-year-old Premier
Stanley Baldwin resigns, is re-
placed by Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer Neville Chamberlain as
head of Britain’s reactionary Na-
tional government.

Vayo produces Spanish govern-
ment’s White Book before League
of Nations Council giving indis-
putable evidence of Italian and
German intervention in Spain.
Germany- Resentment
flares as Hitler attempts further
suppression of the Catholic
ehureh. Official figures reveal
1,000 lay brothers and an unstated
number of priests “awaiting trial
for immorality.” From Chicago
Cardinal Mundelein says: “Pér-
haps you will ask how it is that
a nation of 60,000,000 people, in-
tellizent people, will submit in
fear and servitude to an alien, an
Austrian paperhanger, and a poor
one at that, IT am told....” Pope
Pius XI ignores demands of Ger-
man press for apology.

throw dozens of Fascist ‘“volun-
teers’' into sea.

the George Washington, is being
formed in Spain. First US bat-
talion, the George Washington,
played a prominent part in the de-
fence of Madrid at Jarma this
spring.

Moscow, USSR.—Marshal Tukhach-
evsky and seven generals con-
victed of treason. Writes Clarion
Correspondent Pat Forkin: ““Be-
hind this trial of spies -. . lie the
intrigues and machinations of
Fascist powers exerting every
means at their command to bring
about the downfall of the worlds
first Socialist state. ... Pravda
comments editorially that these
spies were charged by a certain
Fascist state with the specific
task of undermining the Red
Army by any means.” World is
reminded of Stalin’s historic
speech in which he pointed out
that sending of spies and diver-
sionists is indispensable activity
of every bourgeois state and that
there is every ground for thinking
from a Marxist viewpoint that
“bourgeois states would send twice
and three times as many spies, di-
versionists and assassins to the
Soviet Union as to any bourgeois
State.”

Valencia, Spain——Defense Minister

Russian territory following sink-!

ing of Seviet gunboat in Amur
River.
July 3-9

Vancouver, BC—Fifth CCF conven-
tion here is marked by bitter at-
tacks on united front and Com-
munist party. Definite swing to
right taken over opposition of
progressive bloc of 60 delegates.
A. M. Stephen, suspended execu-
tive member, expelled. Red-bait-
ing led by Angus MacInnis, MP,
who advocates “throwing of Com-
munists on dung heap where they
belong.” Motion to co-operate
with Communist party in sending
ambulance to Spain defeated.
Gonyention also defeats motion to
give local autonomy to CCF clubs
on vital question of co-operation
with other progressive groups.
Present at the conference were
178 delegates representing 136
clubs, aS compared with 259 dele-
gates representing 175 clubs last
year.

Victoria, BC. — Japanese interests
purchase Iron Duke property on
Louise Island in the Queen Char-
lottes, ore reserves of which,

> averaging between 65 and 70 per
cent magnetic, are estimated at
10,000,000 tons. Japanese purchase

Prime Minister Neville Chamber-

Vancouver, BC.—Defeat of Fascism

“end war danger in Europe” by
sacrificing democracies’ interests
to conciliate Fascist bloc. De-
clared Lioyd George in House of
Commons: “Unless there is more
courage and steadfastness the
foreign policy of Britain is
doomed.”

lain présents government’s pro-
posal to carve Palestine into three
states. Willie Gallacher, Com-
munist MP, says proposal will.
‘not only prevent the people of
Palestine from realizing national
independence, but will also keep
open and intensify the enmity and
hatred between Arab and Jew so
sedulously fostered by British im-
perialism.” 0

Huge crowd in Trafalgar Square
chants: “Qne, two, three, four,
five; we want Mosley dead or
alive,’ as Sir Oswald Mosley,
blackshirt leader attempts to ad-
dress rally on his followers on
“the Red terror of the streets.”
Booing prevents Mosley from be-
ing heard, police charge crowd.

duly 10-16

in Spain is absolutely vital to
every minority in Europe, Tord
Marley, deputy speaker of House
of Lords and chief Labor whip,
tells city audience.
Three hundred unemployed ex

St. Paul, Minn-——Monroe Sweetland,

Valencia, Spain.—‘The only inter-

service men urge government to
institute public works scheme.
Word is received of death of two
BC members of Mackenzie-Papi-
neau Battalion— Thomas Nelson,
former provincial secretary of
Ganadian Labor Defence League,
and Joe Armitage, relief camp Or
ganizer who aided in laying foun—
dation of miners’ union an Na-
naimo.

Toronto, Ont—National Committee
of the Canadian League Against
War and Fascism criticizes Pre-
mier Mackenzie King over visit to
Hitler, calls upon him to return
to position he held in 1930, that
Canada must join with other
British dominions to make the
British Commonwealth of Nations
“a vital force for the maintenance
of peace by strengthening the
policy of collective security
through a strong League of Na-
tions.”

Washington, DC. — Ganada is re-
vealed as third largest purchaser
of war implements from US dur-
ing June. The Netherlands spent
$621,446; Great Britain, $471,634;
Ganada, $160,740.

Tokyo, Japan—Three million Japa-
nese reservists warned to be ready
for mobilization.

Wanking, China— Chiang Kai-shek
prepares to resist Japanese ag-
gression as millions rally under
Slogan advanced by Communist
party of China—Pight Against
Imperialism. EE

Mexico City. — Wational Reyolu-
tionary party of President Lazaro
Cardenas wins 160 of 173 seats in
Ghamber of Deputies.

Moscow, USSR. Second Soviet
transpolar flight ends at San
Francisco, Galifornia, as aviators
Mikhail Gromov, Andrey Yuma-
shey and Sergi Danilin make
longest non-stop flight in history
in their ANT-25 plane.

Madrid, Spain—Loyalists cut swath
ten miles wide, ten miles deep in
Fascist-held territory west of
Madrid in brilliant offensive
which demonstrates military ef-
fectiveness of Spanish People’s
Army under centralized com-
mand. Towns of Brunete and Vil-
lanueva de la Canada taken. Ca-
nadian, American and English
battalions share with crack Spa-
nish troops honors of historic of-
fensive.

July 17-23
Vancouver, BC: — Fifty-five “tin-
eanners’” arrested for soliciting

public assistance on Streets. Un-

employed veterans also out on

street corners with cans in order

to bring their plight before the
public.
Workers Alliance claims new civic
works scheme is causing intense
hardship to large families for
_ whom it provides a “totally inade-
quate allowance.”
Communist party of BC raises
$1005.81—four times the quota set
by the GP central committee—to-
ward sending of two ambulances
to Spain.
Langley, BC.—Langley Farmers and
Workers Association formed here.
Victoria, BC—local 65, Shipyard
Riggers and Workers’ Union, in-
stalled here.
Wew York.—Set up shortly over a
year ago the CLO now has 3,000,000

London, Eng. — Labor members’

Vancouver,

Toronto,

Peiping,

members in 85 affiilates covering
26 states.

Friends of the Mackenzie-Papi-
neau Battalion*here received word
that Stewart O’eNil, section
Jeader of the Canadian battalion,
ene of the leaders of the Qu-To—
Ottawa trek and former member
of the Irish Republican Army,
killed in Bruinete offensive. Also
Killed in this offensive was John
Deck, Vancouver longshoreman.
That Japan has deliberately pro-
voked current hostilities in North
China as part of her long-range
plan to conquer China is the opin-
ion expressed here of R. A. How-
ell, editor of China Today.

secretary, Oregon Commonwealth
Federation, tells farmer-labor
leaders here “chance for third
party action are as good in Gre-
gon anywhere right now.” QOr-
ganized two months ago as the’
Oregon Farmer-Labor party, the
organization has now adopted the
name CCF in order to coordinate
itself with the Commonwealth
parties of Washington, California
and British Columbia. it already
has its own bloc in the state
legislature.

vention the London Non-Inter-
vention Committee has prevented
is that of the League of Nations
for peace,” is the bitter comment
of President Azana here.

charges in House of Gommons
that Nazis have ringed Gibraltar
with heavy howitzers are not de-
nied by government,

duly 24 - 30
BC.—Tommy Sims of
New Westminster will drive one
of two ambulances being sent to
Spain by the Communist party of
Canada.

Blubber Bay, BC. — Failure of Pa-

cific Lime company to open nego-

tiations on wages and conditions ~

leads to strike of 150 employees,
members of the Lumber and Saw-
mill Workers Union, here. a

Ottawa, Ont.—While Canada’s trade

with Spain has dropped 45 per-
cent, trade with Portugal, through
which country arms and ammu-
nition pass to the fascists, is soar-
ing to unprecedented heights.
Ont.—Word received by
Friends of the Mackenzie-Papi-
neau Battalion here that Tom
Cacic, one of the eight Commu-
nist party leaders who served
prison terms in Kingston peni-
tentiary under Section 98, killed
in action on Madrid front. Until
deported to Jugo-Slavia he was
a member of the central com-
mittee of the Communist party
of Canada.

Tacoma, Wash. — Harold Pritchett,

33-year-old British Columbian, is
elected president of International
Woodworkers of American, 70,000
Strong CIO affiliate,

Washington) DG. — US Senate kills

President Roosevelt’s proposal to

enlarge Supreme Court ‘by vote of
70-20.

China. — General Sung
Cheh-yuan’s 29th Route Army re-
sists Japanese penetration of
Worth China.

duly 31 - August 6

Vancouver, BC.—‘‘I have seen the

practical advantages of the peo-
ple’s front in action in Spain.
Without the strength of unity no
Single party could have withstood
the onslaught of fascism. And
therefore, because I see in Canada
the first signs of fascism I realize
how urgent is the need for build-
ing a people’s front in this coun-
try,’ Dr. Norman Bethune, head
of the Canadian medical unit in
Spain, tells an audience of 3,000
in the Orpheum theatre.

Five hundred city project work-
ers have been enrolled by the
Workers’ Alliance,

Mrs. Elizabeth Kerr, prominent
CCE member, returns from the
USSR, says: “One can sum up
working conditions in the Soviet
Union by saying that the factories
are for the people and not the
people for the factories.”

Ladner, BC.—Potato growers an-
nmounce their intention of defying
the market board and marketing
their own potatoes. “What we
want is a voice in the control of
our own affairs,” states one grow-
er. “The board should be demo-
cratically elected by the growers
themselves ” :

Edmonton, Alta—Aberhart Social
Credit government passes bank
control legislation.

London, Eng. — Major Clement At-
lee, Opposition leader, demands
of the government as parliament
adjourms that the House be re-
convensd “before the government

 Repag TES a ge

Paris, France.—People’s Front gov-
ernment removes Jacques Doriot,
Fascist leader and mayor of St.

of mineral deposits in BC follows
recent Sale to Japanese capitalists
of $1,000,000 worth of timber on

ings were a cruel farce and a
mockery of justice.’
Moscow, USSR. — Mrs. Elizabeth

Indalecio Prieto says Spain will
soon be able to put trained army
of 500,000 men in field.

sentatives, goes to Senate.
Barcelona, Spain. — Trotskyist-in-
counter -

Berlin, Germany.— Coincident with

Dublin, IiS—General Owen O’DuL-

spired revolutionary

putsch held by POUM fails and
calm restored after 300 slain. Fas-
cist General Queipo de Llano
broadeasts to Trotskyists from
Seville: “Wesympathize with you
and will support you. Hold out!”
General Franco orders air force
to bomb all highways between Va-
Jencia and Barcelona.

the Trotskyist uprising against
the Gatalonian government, radio
here reports “that on May 3 the
Catalonian government was over-
thrown” and that “anarchistic
elements” are in power.

fy, leader of the Irish Free State’s
Fascist blueshirts, returns home
with remnant of his Irish brigade.
Wis disillusionment was final
when, on the Madrid front, his

London, Eng.— Coronation profits

Valencia, Spain. — Six-months old

Kerr, delegate representing wom-
en’s organizations in BC, touring
the Soviet Union with a Canadian
delegation, states after a viist to
President Michael Kalinin: “I
wish all progressive parties could
have listened to this straightfor-
ward commonsense and, answer-
ing its logic, weld themselves to-
gether in the face of the coming
provincial election.”

threatened by continuation of bus
strike as 25,000 busmen demand
74-hour day, slower schedules.
Tondon has 5,000 busses transport-
ing 5,000,000 daily.

People’s Front government of
Premier Largo Caballero falls. Dr.
Juan Negrin, 48-year-old Socialist
minister of finance in Caballero

Valencia, Spain. — WNazi 10,000-ton

waters under jurisdiction of
French nayal patrol.
Almeria, Spain—Ded by the Ad-

Denis from office on charges of
corruption.

“pocket battleship’’ Deutschland,
in port at Fascist-held Iviza in
the Balearics, fires on Loyalist
planes, is hit by bombs, killing 23:
wounding 70. Republican govern-
ment claims Deutschland was in

miral Scheer, sister ship to the
Deutschland, five Nazi warships
shell this port, killing and wound-
ing scores of women and children.
Writes United Press Correspon-
dent Irvin Pflaum: ‘“‘The explo-
sions sounded like a giant ma-
chine gun, Many houses had no
foundations and they collapsed
like cards under the big German

Melbourne, Australia. — Japan ac-
quires control of Yampi Sound
dronfields in Northwest, claimed
to be among world’s richest with
estimated 100,000,000 tons of ore.
British company used as front. ©

London, Eng— With 12,250 mem-
bers, the Communist party of
Great Britain has doubled its
membership since 1935.

June 19-25

Vancouver, BC.— Word is received
by Friends of the Mackenzie-
Papineau Battalion of death on
Jarama front, south of Madrid, of
Peter Johnson, Vancouver sea-
man, and Stephen Dasovic, mMem-
ber of Croatian organization here.
In City Council Ald. R. P. Petti-
piece terms unemployed “‘chisel-
lers-’

Langley, BC. — Farmers demand

Vencouver Island and Queen
Charlotte Islands.
A total of $124277,897 has been
paid in dividends by British Co-
lum mines in recent years, annual
report of mines department re-
veals. These dividends are given
as: Silver-lead-sinc, $70,861,364;
copper, $15,797,718; gold, $27,618,-
815. Since the white man’s advent
$1,479,344,609 in mineral wealth
has been wrested from province.
Wamu, BC.— Refusal of big can-
neries to negotiate with Fisher-

men’s Joint Committee forces
strike of 150 fishermen here.
Peiping, China. — Bitter fighting
breaks out between Japanese und
local Chinese forees following
Wanpinghsien incident which,
Chinese claim, was deliberately

created by the Japanese as a pre-|

brigade retreating, found itself government quietly forms new shells. On one street every house government action to cope with text for further encroachment on
under heavy fire from the Fas- cabinet. was in ruins although only two flood menace, ask $250,000 dyking Chinese territory. —
cist’s own lines, had to fight its May 22-28 shells struck there.” appropriation. Dublin, IFS. — Irish Free State Sees : z <3
7 i Wells, BCG. — Carib June 5-11 Wanaimo, BC.—Coroner’s jury finds voters ratify new constitution by sre coat = :
way through the Fascists to the B ariboo Gold Quartz J litary Ass Alls Saez

In London: Scrap iron to feed
tyomen and children go hungry.

686,042 votes to 528,296.
London, Eng.— Anthony Eden would

neglizence in Beban mine disaster
in which three men lost lives.

Victoria, BC. — Liberal government
of Premier Duff Pattullo returned

and Island mountain mine refuse
demands of 870 miners for higher

rear.
Anti - imperialist

demonstrations