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JANUARY 7, 1938 Single Copies: 5 Cents

VOL. III, No. 52

Ignores
Union’s
Request

Three Girls Fired By
Chanticleer Lunch;
Union Makes Appeal
To Victoria.

WANT UNION

With three waitresses fired
by the management of the
Chanticleer Lunch, city chain
cafe, because of. union activity,
and with Hon. G. S. Pearson,
provincial minister of labor,
refusing this week to consider
an appeal from the union to
send a conciliation commis-
sioner as provided in Bill 94,
“recently enacted labor legislation,
Bill Gateman, business agent, Hotel
and Restaurant Employees, local
28, charges that Pearson has emas-
culated the Act in its first test case.

in keeping with the provisions of
Bill 94, the majority of the Chanti-
eleer Lunch employees, who had
been members of Local 28 for some
time, signed a letter to the manage-
ment signifying their intention of
openly deputizing the AF af L union
as their representative.

Executive members of local 28
presented the Chanticleer manage-
ment with proposals for discussion
on Dec. 23, but on a plea of holiday
rush of business, the union agreed
to discuss-the matter Dec. 28.

“Plenty happened in those five

| days,’ reported Business Asent Bill
| “ateman, local 28, to the PA.
Ess, Three Fired ;

“First they fired three employees,
one-of them having done nine years’
continuous service with the firm,”
Gatemsan continued. “Next, the
manracement called a special meet-
ing of all Chanticleer and National
Gunch employees one day before
our union was to discuss an agree-
ment. For two and a half hours the
management bore down and finally
intim‘dated them into reiterating
that they belonged to the company’s
union, getting them to sign to this
effect.”

place, local 28 officials were con-
fronted. by Roy Long, counsel for
Chanticleer management, who de-
elared that all employees belonged
to the company union and that all
empleyees were being urged, and
Biven time off to hand in local 28
union cards.
Protest Violation

An explanatory letter was sent
by local 28 to Hon. G S. Pearson,
which protested violation of Bill 94
| by the Chanticleer Lunch manage—
ment in dismissing three employees
fer union activity, and for in-
» timidatory methods. The union re-

' quested that a conciliation commis-
sioner be appointed to deal with
the dispute.

The three-day limit called for in
» Bul 94 having expired, Gateman ob-
| t4imed telephone connection with
| Pearson. He stated over the phone
that he did not recognize the letter
irom local 28 as being authoritative,
» that such a letter must ceme from
| the employees affected.

Gateman declared to the PA that
Pearson was violating various

(Continued on page 5)
See LABGR

Ban Speech
By Cameron

CCF Member Told To
Step in Middle of Ad-
dress to Lads in Camp
Meeting.

—__—__

VICTORIA, BC, Jan. 6—Colin
Cameron, MLA (CCF, Comox), on
| invitation from the men, spoke at
| Mount Douglas Park forestry pro-

ject camp last week on the new

trades union bill. Cameron was in-
terrupted during his speech and
“informed by the camp foreman—“T
‘have orders not to let anyone ad-
dress the men.’

_ The speech was discontinued,
“#he speaker returning to Victoria
where he interviewed government
officials who permitted him to ad-
dress a meeting at the same camp
“next day.

facilities Cameron discussed the
Matter with members of the gov-
ernment and laid plans for an
educational campaign for the for-
estry camps.

With the cooperation of Victoria
night school, the provincial cor-
respondence department, and the
university extension lectures com-
Muttee, Cameron plans to get an
interesting educational series in

When the Thursday meeting took |

REFUSES TO

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fought its way through blizzards to pierce fascist lines at points in-
Gicated by arrows and capture Teruel. Territory indicated by shaded
area remains in government hands despite desperate fascist counter-
offensives which were repulsed with heavy losses.

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Loyalists’
Position
Stronger

Effectiveness Of New
Government Forces
Proven In Success At
Teruel.

SIEGE HORRORS

By JULIAN CASTRO
Federated Press

BARCELONA, Spain, Jan.
6.— (By wireless to PP).—The
great Loyalist offensive and
triumph at Teruel] is such a
military success that the
Spanish government has
passed from the defensive to
take up the initiative in the
year-and-a-half-lone struggle.

The “orfensive’” which General
Franco never tired of telling the
world about has passed into the
limbo of things that might have
been.

If Franco is to counter-attack to
win back lost territory, he will have
to ‘withdraw troops from other
fronts. This move would weaken
him. Besides, it is dangerous, be-
cause General Pozas and the
Gatalan army are defending the
Aragon front, while in the south the
brilliant Strategist, General Vin:
ecente Rojo, is giving him plenty o-
trouble.

Loyalist Spain is Swept by joyous
victory celebrations. At lLerida,
whose civilian population repeatedly
has been bombed by Fascist avia-
tion, there was a great demonstra-
tion in which the people and the
troops franternized. Joy passed all
bounds in Madrid, and when it be-
came known that the main prize in
(he Chilislimas lottery had fallen to
the government, the people shouted,

Profits Reach New High

minister of mines.

Mines Report Shows
Huge War Shipments

VICTORIA, BC, Jan. 6—Continued export of Canadian
metals for war purposes is reflected in the annual report re-
leased last week-end by Hon. W. J. Asseltine, provincial

With a total record production*
in new mineral wealth of $73,176,-
315 for 1937, new all-time highs
were set in gold, lead and zinc
production, while sharp increases
were recorded in copper and silver.

Value of lead production was
$21,393,240, an increase over the
1936 figure, $14,790,029, of $6,603,211.
Copper production was $4,895,520, as
compared with $1,971,848 in 1936,
an increase of $2,923,672.

Five thousand tons of copper
concentrates from the Copper
Mountain and Allenby mining
and milling operations of Gran-
by Consolidated Mining, Smelting
and Power Company were await-
ing shipment to Japan at Coquit-
la wthis week. Since the mines
were reopened in June last year
19,300 tons of copper concen-
trates have been produced.

An increase of $2,470,536 was re-
corded in lode and placer gold pro-
duction. The 1937 figure was $17,-
889,130, the 1936, $15,418,594.

But while dividends paic by the
BC mining industry in 1937 reached
a ten-year high total of $14,679,379,
returns to the thousands of miners
engaged in producing this wealth
did not inerease in face of rising
living costs.

At Wells, the one place in the
province where miners called a
major strike to implement their de-
mands for a larger share of these
swollen profits they were met with
bitter opposition by the companies

(Gontinued on page 5)
Ses MINES

Confirm Japan

Meehan Says

Seattle Tieup is Lockout,
States Union Leader To
Seamen’s Union in Van-
couver.

“Our union has got a good case
and is standing by it,” telephoned
Matt Meehan, Coast secretary of
the International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s Union, to Jim
Maskell, secretary Inland MBoat-
men’s Union in Vancouver this
week.

Maskell, who is in close touch
with union locals on the Pacific
Coast, was approached by the PA
for the real story behind the pres-
ent dispute which has tied up all
cargo activity on deep-sea, coastal
and Alaska ships in Seattle’s har-
bor, noon, Wednesday.

“It is certainly a lock-out de-
cided by the Waterfront Employ-
ers’ Association of the Pacific, of
which there is an employers’ local
in Seattle,’ stated Maskell em-
phatically.

Asked as to the reason for the
tie-up, Maskell declared that the
union was entirely within its rights
when it refused to allow members
to transfer cargo from, in this case,
the Border Prince of Vancouver,
BC, to another ship without first

Encroachments

Deep-sea fishermen in Vancouver
this week from Alaskan waters
confirmed reports that Japanese
fishermen are operating in the
Bristol Bay region of Southwest
Alaska. Five mother ships and a
fleet of smaller vessels, they stated,

had 25 miles of nets stretched
across Bristol Bay, near Dutch
Harbor.

Dispute over Japanese encroach-
ments threatening depletion of
salmon runs has caused the Roose-
velt administration to give its sup-

putting the cargo on the dock.

“This method of transferring
Cargo cannot be allowed by the
union for a good many reasons.
In any case the Pacific coast union
sees the danger in this situation
and has pledged to stand by tke
decision of the Seattle local,” Mas-
kell said.

“And believe me the ILWU
a powerful, united and responsible
body which voted over 90 per cent
to affiliate to the CIO,” he con-
tinued.

Meehan called the tie-up “a sit-
down strike on the part of the Em-

port to the bill introduced at the
special session which provides for |
gradual elimination of Japanese
and other alien fishing boats from |
American waters.

technical and stenographic courses,

ployers’ Association,” when it be-
came apparent that the men would
be forced to walk off. Meetings of
the men were held immediately
after the lock-out.

Victory Sure

is |

“This 1,500,000 pesetas will be turned
into arms and bullets for a new
Teruel!”’

The Barcelona municipal govern-
ment turned over many buildings
for the occupancy of the evacuated
Civil population of Teruel and is
caring for their needs. The refugees,
after living so long under a Fascist
occupation, are greatly touched by
the affectionate reception.

Correspondents at the front are
uniformly impressed by the inde-
seribable enthusiasm of the re-
publican troops. Especially ju-
bilant is the column of Asturian

k. soldiers, including the famous

“dinamiteros,’ who, black cigar

in mouth, lit their improvised

grenades and stormed Fascist
strongholds in the taking of

Teruel They are on their way

home to Asturias, they say, and

they are going by way of Zara-
goza, the next big Pascist-held city
to the west.

Fascists Demoralized

Of the more than 6,000 prisoners
taken at Teruel, several hundred
were the hated Civil Guards, who
in the early days of the war were
sent with a detachment of militia
to defend the city for the govern-
ment, but who instead, turned on
and slaughtered the over-trusting
militiamen. Retribution but no yen-
geance faced them, as they were
marched off to prison camps be-
tween lines of the silent and dis-
ciplined populace which had reason
for wanting to tear them limb from
limb. Dolores Ibarruri—the famous
La Pasionaria—addressed the pris-
oners, telling them they could get
mercy as well as justice.

Civilian survivors of the long
fascist occupation of Teruel were
full of stories of the horror of rebel
rule and told of the long list of
executions of persons charged with
being “‘‘dangerous Socialists’ and
the like.

Reports came to Barcelona of the
demoralization which mounted in
fascist territory with the loss of
Teruel. It seems to affect especi-
ally the functionaries who manage
| weanes's finances, for fascist au-
thorities at La Linea announced

(Continued on page 5)
See SPAIN

Beban, Chambers
Sign With UMWA

NANAIMO, BC, Jan. 6. — Van-
eouver Island coal miners face 1938
under the protection of 100 per cent
union conditions, with the signing
of an agreement between the United
Mine Workers and Beban and
Chambers mines the last day of the
| old year, approximately 60 men be-
ing involved.

Provisions in the agreement call
for recognition of the right of col-
lective bargaining, principle of the
clesed shop and acceptance of the
UMWA as the bargaining agent of
| all employees entitled to member-
| ship in this union. Preference will
| be given by the companies to former
| employees and local men for em-
ployment.

Japanese Are Seeking To —
Influence Public Opinion
‘Through Newspapers Here

To Attend

Communist
Convention

New Guerrilla Tactics
Adopted By Chinese
After Successes Shown

In North.

THREATEN LINES

Chiang Kai-shek Says
Confidence Of People In
Eventual Victory Is Un-
shaken.

HANKOW, China., Jan. 6.—
Confidence of China’s leaders
In eventual victory is un-
shaken as the country’s
armies turn to guerrilla war-
tare against the invaders, the
tactic first advocated and outlined
at Yenan by Mao ‘ise-tung, iumed

Communist leader, when he de-
clared:
“China’s- strategy must be al-

tered quickly if it is to combat
Japan with any success, Mass war-
fare must be adopted in which all
able-bodied men and women must
be trained and armed while the rich
support the government with their
finances and skill. Passive defenses
must be abandoned for counter at-
tacks and guerrilla warfare.”

In the north the First Division
of the Bighth Route Army under
Lin Piao, tormerly head of the Peo-
ple’s Anti-Japanese Military Acade-
my at Yenan, and the Second Divi-
Sion commanded by General Ho
Lung, continue their harassing tac-
tics against Japanese lines of com-
munication and isolated forces with
considerable success.

The Bighth Route Army, former-
jy the Red Army,4s-cemnmanded by-
Chu Teh, brilliant Gommunist miii-
tary leader.

Occupation Costly

In an Associated Press interview
at his field headquarters near Wu-
chang this week General Chiang
Kai-shek voiced China’s confidence. |

“You may be sure the Japanese
forces in China, which are pecom-
ing more and more dispersed and
further away from their bases,
will be continually harassed and
threatened by our forees whica
will attack the Japanese troops
in the rear and on the flanks.

Their occupation of China will be

a costly one,”he asserted.

Declaring the end of the war is
still far off, Chiang Kai-shek de-
elared that Chinese armies are now

TOM EWEN
Provincial Secretary

FERGUS McKEAN
Provincial Organizer

being reorganized and strength-
ened.

The Japanese blockade of the
coast, he said, would necessitate

the finding of other routes.

“There is nothing to prevent us
from resorting to the ancient but
primitive way of petting supplies
Over Obscure camel routes and in-
accessible frontiers,” he stated.

At Chunking, President Lin Sen
in a New Year's message declared
that while the situation was critical,
“Japan's agriculture, commerce and
industry have been practically hali-
ed as a result of the lack of man-
power caused by mobilization. Ja-

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See CHINA

Arrest 47

ARTHUR EVANS
Provincial Gommittee Member

Tincanners

Single Jobless Refused
Admission To Forest
Camps; In Semi-Starved
Condition.

Forty-seven single unemployed,
destitute men, refused relief and
admission to forestry project
eamps, were arrested outside Hud-
son’s Bay store, Granville street,
Monday. The semi-starved lads
were shaking tin cans and appeared |
indifferent when the police ee |

|

quickly arrived, so depressed was
their condition.

All were remanded by the court
for one week, contention of the men |
being that at least they would eat, |
with Prosecutor Osear Orr main-}
taining that it would cost the city |
less to house them in jail than to pay |
the usual 46 cents relief per day.

In a statement to the PA, John |
Matts, secretary of the Relief ae

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REV. A. EB. BAKER
Provincial Farm Grganizer

Delegates elected from branches
in all parts of British Columbia
will meet in Vancouver next weelk-
end when the annual provincial
convent.on of the Gritish Colum-
bia district of the Communist
Party ef Canada opens with a
public mass meeting in Wictory
Hall auditorium on Friday, Janu-
ary 14, at 8 p.m. Spealrers at this
meeting will include Zom Ewen,
provincial secretary, who will give
the main politica report, and

ject Workers’ union, stated that a
few of the arrested men had been
working during the summer months

but could not live on $25 a month, |

the rate sét against a money
éarmed by relief applica If a| Norman Freed, representing the
man earned $200, he was s central committee of the party.
to line of this amount for t | Delegates will register at the pro-
months. . ) Yimei2l office Friday.

News Columns Of Fraser
Valley Weekly Bought
For Dissemination Of
Propaganda.

LEAGUE PROTESTS

Trades Council Elects
Boycott Committee Of
Seven At Meeting This
Week.

‘Determined efforts to influ-
enee public opinion in British
Columbia’ are being made by
Japanese propagandists, ac-
cording to A. M. Stephen, pro-
vincial president of the League
for Peace and Democracy, this
week.

Stephen cited the instance of a
weekly paper published in the
Fraser Valley which recently car-
ried long articles ‘explaining the
real situation in China’? along the
lines followed by H. Nimichi, Japa-
nese consul here, in his numerous
public addresses. 7

“The league wrote to the publisher
protesting such deliberate distortion
of the truth and asked him if he
were willing to publish articles pro-
vided by the league piving the true
facts of the Japanese invasion of
China, Stephen said.

“The publisher phoned us up ~
linmediately and reveaied that the
articles we complained of were
furnished by certain Japanese and
had been paid for at full advertis-
ing rates. He promised to publish
any material we gave him and
has actually done so.”

Stephen asserted that a local ad-
vertising agency had been commis-
Sioned by Japanese imperialist sup-
porters to influence newspapers
here.

“Support for the boycott is grow-
ing so strong that strenuous efforts
are being made to offset its?
Stephen declared.

A committee of seven was elected
from the floor of the Trades and
Labor Council this week to work
out further plans after Sam Shearer,
Railway Carmen’s delegate, had
urged intensification of the Japa-
nese boycott.

Shearer pointed out that the
Trades and Labor Congress: had
Sone on record favoring the boycott,
that Winnipee and ‘Toronto or-
ganized labor bodies had really
begun to do something effective
along these lines, and it was time
to get some action here against
shipments of munitions to Japan
and sales of Japanese goods.

Members elected to the committee -
were: Bengough, Munro, Shearer,
Ward, Brydson, Douglas, Humph-
ries. An initial meeting of the com-
mittee was held after the council
meeting.

In Vancouver movie theatres this
week’s news reel pictures showing
Japanese troops in China were
greeted with jeers and catcalls.

Miners Meet
At Calgary

Overtime Rates and Uni-
form Wage Scale Are
Main Topics of Discus-
sion in Dist. 18.

CALGARY, Alta. Jan. 6.—Dis-
cussion on the advisability of over-
time and what rates should be set,
were discussed at a convention here
of United Mine Workers of
America, district 18, this week.

Some Alberta locals are for the
abolition of all overtime in the coal
mines, to create more work for un=
employed miners.

BC delegates from Cumberland
and Wanaimo offered resolutions
urging union officials to seek an in-
crease in overtime rates of pay, as
under present contracts moiners are
paid straight time for overtime.

One objective of the convention
is to obtain agreement on uniform
rates of pay and working conditions
in all mines under distriet 18.

Wage increases up to 20 per cent,
replacement of the system of cubie
measurement by tonnage measure-
ment, improvement of working con-
ditions and other important ques-

tions are scheduled to come up for
discussion,