_ments and sports equipment for Page Four SMES LIDS IDA Oia bap Sy 2 ADVOCATE December 23, 1937 Record Crop Is Garnered Collectivization, Modern Machinery Are Bringing Prosperity To Farmers In USSR MOSCOW. USSR, Dec. 22—The greatest crop in the country’s his- tory was gathered this fall in the Soviet Union. The roads were jammed with carts andtrucks, the markets could not hold all the products delivered—the grain, milk, meat, eggs, vegetables and fruits. The meat supply has doubled over jast year. Food is cheaper, cloth- ing is cheaper, and everyone is buying more. There was good weather this year, yes, but it took more than that to produce this abundance. The Soviet farmer has something far more dependable than the weather to thank for his happy condition today , , , and that is collectivization. Today 99 per cent of the land is cultivated by large-scale, socialized methods. Over 96 per cent is worked the quarter of a million collective farm households, and about 3 per cent by the large state farms. The collective farms are served by 2 system of over 5$$$ state operated machine and tractor sta- tions. These take care of most of the collectives, training their own members to operate the machinery, paying them regular wages, and charging the collectives a percent- age of the crop for the work. Under this system the collective farmers are able to use all the in- come that comes to them at the end of the year for their personal needs. None of it has to go back into improving the farm or for tools of “production.” As all the methods of modern machinery and science are increasingly applied to make the land yield more, grad- ually more and more land will be brought under cultivation. Agriculture is moving north and jand once thought useless is grad- ually being brought under cultiva- tion. There are schools every- where, old and young together, are studying on the collective farms. There is primary schooling for every child, and thousands of young farm people are going to higher technical schools and col- leges, learning to be engineers, doc- tors and artists. This is only the beginning—the beginning of a new life which of- fers a full measure of material things and of cultural growth not to a chosen few, not to the people of the cities alone, but to a whole people throughout a whole great nation. ; FMPB Plans New Drive New Shipment Of Goods To Canadian Volunteers In Spain Preposed For February TORONTO, Ont., Dec. 22—Fol- lowing its successful Christmas campaign, the Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau SBattalion is preparing: for another shipment to Ganadian volunteers in Spain around the middle of February. This shipment, it is expected, will consist of 200,000 cigarettes, 20,000 packages of cigarette and pipe to- bacco, several large crates of soap, 2000 pairs of socks, musical instru- each Canadian company and, for the Spanish children being looked after by the Mac-Paps, toys and candy. While welcoming all parcels, the national committee states it will concentrate on getting the goods in bulk and divide them equally among the boys in Spain. The Ontario provincial commit- tee of the women’s section ULFTA brought in 500 pairs of socks, the national committee of the Young Gommunist League has pledged an- other 100,000 cigarettes. From the “Hriends” in Winnipeg has come a contribution of $200, and from BG comes word of a big donation of tobacco from the project camps. Fine support has come from the Val D’Or miners, Quebec, the Port Arthur committee and from Saska- toon. ; Fish Union Aids In Winning Case Rather than face an Admiralty Gourt sitting in Vancouver, the Worth West Towing company, New Westminster, paid $700 damages to #. Poyry, fisherman, for loss of his boat, equipment and load of fish when the tug P.R.T., number one, ran down his boat in the Fraser River last summer. Poyry’s case was taken up by the Pacific Coast Fishermen’s union which briefed Garfield King and W. Ginn on his behalf. After months of delay, the company sent a check for $500 to Poyry, who re- ¢urned it as being insuficient. Steps were taken by the union to tie up the tug, with the result that the company paid the addi- tional $200 demanded for the dam- age. Condemn Act Resolutions passed by Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, Vancouver, protesting the Padlock Law in Quebec, were sent to Premier M. Duplessis and Prime Minister Mackenzie King last week. Another resolution condemning the compulsory arbitration clause in the Industrial Disputes Act was Hoe —o—i A Treat For The Kiddies th enh Goast Fishermen’s union and the Children of British Columbia fishermen received more than 100 presents from this tree set up by the Women’s Auxiliary of the Pacific iliary, which is a valuable addition to the two unions, is comiposed of Wives and daughters of union miembers. Salmon Purse Seiners. The aux Attempt to Trick Workers Plan To Aid Volunteers Returning Members Of MacPapineau Battalion Require Considerable Assistance TORONTO, Ont., Dec. 22.—Nec- essary assistance for men return- ing from Spain was discussed at 2 recent meeting of the Rehabilita- tion Committee of the Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion here, and a number of measures were decided upon. About 20 Canadian lads have al- ready returned. Many more can be expected in the near future, among whom will be wounded, men | broken in health, ali possibly re- quiring some rest to recuperate. For this purpose steps have been taken to inaugurate a drive for $10,000. This is urgently needed to provide men with partial mainten- ance, clothes, medical care, fares to home towns. Jack Steele, committee secretary, himself a veteran from Spain, has suggested tag days throughout Canada, pledges for contributions, socials and other affairs for this humanitarian work. Sign Union Pact NANAIMO, BG, Dec. 22——A union agreement has been signed by Mc- Gavin's bakery here which calls for wage increases in. some depart- ments. Trade Unions Fight For Rights tion and establishing itself in hold of reaction. Following tactics similar to those adopted by the financial in- terests of the countries which have already been brought under, the yoke of Fascism, finance capi- tal in Quebec is rapidly proceed- ing to throttle the press, revoke the constitutional rights of free speech and assembly and to de- stroy the democratic organizations of the people. The destruction of democracy in Canada, however, is not an iso- lated phenomenon peculiar to Quebee alone. On the contrary, the establishment of the reaction- ary government of the Union Wationale in office in Quebec is part of a general plan of Canadian finance capital to abolish democ- racy throughout Canada, in prov- the way for a Fascist dictator- ship on a Dominion scale. Neither is it an accident that Quebec was the first province in which the reactionary “Fifty big their program of forming a coali- tion of reaction and gaining com- plete control of provincial govern- mInents. Quebec has always been the most backward of the Canadian provinces, not because of any in- herent weaknesses of the Prench- Canadian pecple, but because of the whole historical development of French Canada- Feudal Remnants Remnants of mediaeval feudal- ism remained in Quebec for over a century following the SBritish conquest of 1759. The sweeping re- forms instituted by the Great French Revolution of 1789 which abolished feudalism in France and broke the state power of the church left French Canada almost unaffected as it was then under British rule. British rule in Quebec, however, differed from that in the rest of Canada in that the economics and social customs of feudalism were permitted to continue for many years. Indeed, some of them still remain. The Roman Catholic Chureh obtained concessions, in return for its support of the new rulers, that did not exist anywhere else in the British Empire. It was because of these privi- leges granted to the church, giving it the status of a semi-official state religion, together with other feudal remnants, that resulted in Quebec remaining the Most backward sec- tion of Ganada culturally, socially, economically and politically. The chureh retained large sec- tions of the most valuable land, including much of the island of Montreal from which huge profits are still being extracted in royal- ties. Public education as we know it does not exist in Quebec. All schools are administered by the church and the standard of educa- tion is far below that of the rest of Canada. Because of this low standard of education (20 per cent of the population is partially il- literate) the semi-official status of the church, and the language sep~ eration it was possible for the in- terests of Canada to maintain poli- tical and wage standards far be- low that of the rest of the Do- minion. Low Wages This is why the average annual wage in Quebee is only $777 as against $852, the national average. In some industries wages for adulis were recently as low as ioc an hour with much domestic sent to Premier T. D. Pattullo. capitalism still maintained, i.e. dis- ince after province and thus pave. Quebec is Battleground of Canadian Democracy @ : By FERGUS McKEAN Fascism today is advancing more rapdly in the province of Quebec than in any part of North America. Quebec, the first province in which reaction succeeded in forming a coali- power, has become the strong- tributing material to families to manufacture in the home at piece rates. 2 The relatively low standard of living is also expressed in the fact that Toronto alone has more auto- mobiles than the entire province of Quebec. In the political field, graft, cor- ruption and gangsterism have been prevalent. It is the one province in which women are still denied the franchise and an upper pro- senate, is still maintained. behind the rest of Canada as ex pressed in the fact Ontario, for in- stance, has 18 times the number of public libraries possessed by Que- bec. Social services also lagged far behind with the result the cities of Quebee and Montreal have a higher infant mortality rate than anywhere in the civilized world, shots” succeeded in implementing | being only surpassed by Madras and Bombay. Whereas the average rate for Canada is 73 deaths per thousand, in Quebec it is 105.7 and in Mont- real 113.7. In the working class district of Lachine it is 333, or one death out of every three live births. Threat to Profits The spread of trade unionism in Quebec was a threat to the profits of the financial overlords and also to the dominance of the Catholic hierarchy. In order to render trade union organization ineffective, the church in alliance with the own- ers of industry founded a trade union organization under church control with the priests acting as chaplains of the locals and con- trolling union policy. In this way Quebec remained a paradise for employers with cheap labor openly advertised by local boards of trade inviting outside capital to invest in the province. With the advent of the depres- sion, however, French-Canadian workers commenced to struggle for a higher standard of wages. Membership in International Unions increased and even clerical control of the unions of the Catho- lic Syndicates could not hold them back from strike action which finally culminated in the major strike of 10,000 workers of the textile mills of Sir Herbert Holt, organized in the Catholic unions, which broke out in the summer of this year. Reaction Unites In the political field centrol over the Hrench-Canadian masses com- menced to weaken in 1933. Fear- ing the development of an inde- pendent movement of the people the politically active, but reaction- ary Catholic order of Jesuits linked themselves to the new political movement known as the National Liberal Action party. This group constituted a left wing split irom the corrupt Liberal party which had been in office in Quebec for 40 years. During this period several Fas- cist and pro-Fascist political groups came into being. Racial differences were utilized to mislead the people in most instances, some of which were anti-British and all of which were anti-semitic. At the end of 1935, big business, working mainly through the Con- servative party as elsewhere in Ganada, saw the opportunity of forming a concentration of reac- tion through uniting the Conserva- tive party with the Wational Lib- eral Action party. The merger took the name of the Union Nationale. With the exposure of the finan- cial scandal of the Taschereai vineial house, counterpart of the | Culturally, the province lags far | FERGUS McKEAN government the Union Nationale capitalized on the disillusionment of the people by advancing a demagogic program of opposition to big business under the slogan “bust the trusts’ and rode into power. Once in power the Conser- vative leader, Duplessis, dispensed with the services of the progres- German Factories Filled W ith Spies By NORTON BELTH, Federated Press The elaborate show put on recently by Dr. Robert Ley’s German Labor Front for the e of the Duke of Windsor was without a doubt the greatest publicity stunt in Nazi history. to bring out workers by the factory-full, all happy and smiling and proud of the fact that their ——- CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING * fi ADVERTISING RATES Classifies, 5 lines 25c. Displar advertisements, 5c per colum=: inch. Monthly and contract rater on application. 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