ae i ouncil Hits Antiquated Streetcar The People’s Western Canada’s Leading Progressive Ne wspaper VANCOUVER, B.C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1938 ALSE CREEK HOUSING HEALTH MENACE Spanish President Visits Hospital Hi—n— it a President Manuel Azana of Spain (right) chats with a gunner recuperating in hospital L sh Ss machine- after being seriously injured by Shrapnel fire in a-front-line enzarement. Permitted Fascist Terrorism . London Police Brutality Condemned By Labor MP By RONALD GRIFFIN LONDON, Eng.— (By Mail).—"‘There is overwhelming evidence that over and over interfere against fascist terrori acted with merciless Severity against wor again the police have refused to sm. More than that, they have = = | en and women exercising their citizen’s right of publie speech in criticism of the fascist movement,” declared George R. Strauss, Labor fy Would Show Nazi Abuses Adopt LaGuardia’s Sug- gestion For Nazi Cham- ber Of Horrors At World Fair. ~ NEW, YORE, Jan. 13—(CP)— Mayor F H. LaGuardia’s suggestion that the coming World's Fair at Wew York contain a Chamber of Horrors illustrating Nazi abuses in Germany has been taken up by the Joint Boycott Council of the Ameri- Can Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee. The council has applied to Grover Whalen, president of the fair, to Jease a site on the fair's main thoroughfare for erection of the dis- play. It would inclide exhibitions of Nazi Germany’s “methods of brutality and oppression and propa- Ganda and its propaganda of incite- ment and war.” One wing would be devoted to a show of American- made substitutes for German goods, aiding the boycott. In its applica- tion, the council said the exhibition Was considered especially necessary to counteract the effect of the fair’s Nazi pavilion, for which Germany recently contracted. It wants to erect the Chamber of Horrors oppo- Site or near the Nazi pavilion. NEW YORK, Jan. 13—(FP)— William E. Dodd, Jr., 32-year-old son of the US ambassador to Ger- Many who resigned because he e€ouldn’t stomach Nazism, will run for Congress in 1938 in the Sth Virginia district as a New Deal Democrat. BE: R UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT | Broadway Hotel member for North Lambeth, in the house of commons recently when he moved: “That this Gouse views with alarm the extent te which the liberty of the subjects has suffered en- croachment with’n recent years, and records its opinion that such en- croachment threatens the mainten- ance and impedes the development of a healthy democracy.” The motion arose from the at- tempt made by Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists last fall to provoke disorder by staging a march through London Streets—the third in 1937. Thou- Sands of anti-fascists countered by erecting barricades of barbed wire, wood and brick across the route of march. Conservative, Liberal and Labor newspapers alike condemned the brutality of police who charged the crowd repeatedly to clear a path for the fascists. At London Bridge bleeding, unconscious men and women lay in the roadway after police had cleared a space for Mosley to speak. Police Wilitarism Strauss, in making his motion, as- serted that “the genial, helpful ‘bobby’ of the past is giving way to cold, hostile officialdom. “The man who earned the respect of foreigners,” he said “and of every decent Londoner is gradually disappearing. Militarism of the police is becoming increasingly evi- dent and no one resents this more than the decent element in the Lon- don police force. “I think, if the home secretary were wise, that he would be consid- erably worried about the general disrepute into which the London police are falling.” The motion was defeated, 124-92, after Conservatives and even some Labor members had risen to voice their disapproval of “howling mobs of Communists who attacked fas- cists On the march,” as one spokes- man for reaction put it. x Bright, Large Cosy Rooms With Bath and Telephone * Refreshment Parlors * “W here You Mee COR. HASTINGS & COLUMBIA STREETS Telephone Seymour 2391 t Your Friends” US Ambassador Warns Of Menace By NAT K. PERLOW Federated Press NE” YORK, Jan. 13.—‘Fascism is on the march today in | America. Millionaires are marching to the tune. It will come in this country unless a strong defense is set up by all liberal and progressive forces.” This was the warning de- livered by William B. Dodd, former US ambassador to Germany, in an interview with Federated Press, his first on returning from service as American envoy among the Nazis. With his vivid impressions of the inner workings of Nazism fresh in mind, Dodd was anxious above all else that America should escape the fate of European nations which have gone fascist. He has had Opportunity to gain inside knowledge of the bonds of Sympathy and hard cash which link some of America’s ruling families to the Nazis and is at last in a posi- tion to speak more openly than was possible before he resigned diplo- Mmatie status. “A clique of US industrialists is hell bent to bring a fascist state to supplement our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regimes in Ger- many and Italy,’ he said, He recalled that aboard Ship “a prominent executive of one of America’s largest financial] corpora- tions told me pointblank that if the progressive trend of the Roosevelt administration continued, he would be ready to take definite action to bring fascism into America.” Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fas- cism regimes into being in both Germany and Italy, he said. They extended aid to help fascism occupy the-seat of power and they are help- ing to keep it there. “Propagandists for fascist groups try to dismiss the fascist scare. We should be aware of the Symptoms. When industrialists ignore laws designed for social and economic progress, they will seek recourse with a fascist state when the institutions of our gov- Millionaires Marching to Fascist Tune ernment compel them to comply with the provisions,” he warned. Inside Germany, according to Dodd, a constant purge of the oppo- sition has been going on, marked by secret murders and the filling to ca- pacity of concentration camps. Much of the information has never leaked out to the world. Religious freedom and personal liberty have been suppressed. The dictatorship is. clamped down so tight that only a Severe economic crisis can shake it, the ex-envoy believes. “A wave of fear has gripped the people of Europe since the inception of fascism,” he commented. ‘They have stopped living. They only exist.” : Red Army Unit Cresses Snow iy fs campment near Moscow by one conditions. Members of a rifle platoon, each wearink skis, are drawn across oh — ne SS the frozen wastes at a military en- of the army’s new tanks during tactical manoeuyres under winter Cardinal Denounces Reaction ——— Says Catholic Church Too Often In Past Allied With Wrong Side. CHICAGO, UL, Jan. 13—(CrP) — “Selfish employers of labor who practice social injustice’ were roundly denounced by George Car- dinal Mundelein, head of the Catholie archdiocese of Chicago, in an address to the Holy Name So- ciety. The cardinal warned Catholics against being misled into the service of unserupulous reactionaries, de- claring: ‘The trouble with the Catholic Church in the past has been that we too often were allied with the wrong side. . . . Selfish employ- ers of labor have flattered the church by calling it the great con- Servative force, and then calleq upon it to act as a police force while they paid but a pittance of wages to those who worked for them.” The prince of the church, a close friend of President Roosevelt, pointed out that “the persecution of the church in Germany did not begin until they had first disbanded the Center party and until they had muzzled the Catholic press.” “Catholic action means just what it says—action, not tall,” said the cardinal, urgine his listeners to aid in combating injustice, such as mis- erable wages paid working girls. NEW LION HOTEL i22 EAST HASTINGS STREET Bernard, O’Connell Get Mention plause of their a premium,” as selected by include: and the Transport Workers Union, their officers and organizers, for winning brilliant labor victories and demonstrating that they are forces to be reckoned with. : “The American Labor party of New York and its officers, for their skillful and perspicacious campaign in the New York City elections, which gave labor polities a new dig- nity and standing. “The Textile Workers Organiz- ing Committee, headed by Sidney Hillman, for the intelligence and “The United Automobile Workers, courage it has used in its campaign of organization, and especially for showing, for the first time in labor history, that a map of trade union- ism does not have to omit the south. Mentions Benson, Murphy “Governor Elmer A. Benson of ‘Minnesota, for withdrawing the license of the Pinkerton agency for industrial espionage, and for show- ing what a Farmer-Labor fovernor can do in furthering a program of social legislation: and Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan, for keeping his head during the auto- mobile strike despite the enormous pressure exerted on him by business interests.” Others mentioned are ‘“‘the young Turks in Congress, some forty strong,’ led by Maury Maverick, Texas., and including Jerry O’Con- nell, John T. Bernard, Henry G Teigan, Thomas R. Amlie, Gerald J. Boileau, John M. Coffee, H. Jerry Vorhis and Robert G. Allen; Senator Robert M. LaFollette and Hilbert D. Thomas and their civil liberties staff; William E. Dodd, former US ambassador, for courageous duty ir JUSTE A REMINDER! to have lunch today at The Baltimore Cafe 100% Union “Always a Warm Welcome” 331 CARRALE ST. SEY. 31 ‘Three CIO Unions Named In Nation’s Honor Roll NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—(FP).—As usual, the annual honor rol] of American individuals and groups who “deserve the ap- countrymen in a world in which courage is at : The Nation, liberal] review. contains many names linked closely to the labor movement. Citations Cardinal Mundelein Germany; and Morris L. Ernst, Roger N. Baldwin, Arthur Garfield Hays and Norman Thomas for de fense of civil liberties. BAKERY High. 3244 716 East Hastings Street 4068 East Hastings Street 1709 Commercial Drive Se Quality Products at Moderate Prices Se We Deliver to East End and Grandview Homes Se ““Thrifty Housewives Shop at Hastings Bakery!’ 100% UNIONIZED Cleanup Of Creek Held Essential Samples Of Water Show Typhoid Germs Present In Quantity, Says Health Officer. CP CAMPAIGN With fourteen cases of ty- phoid reported to Medical Health Officer Dr. J. W. Mc- Intosh, Vancouver’s acute housing situation thrust itself once again before the city council Tuesday when removal of shacks and houseboats from the disease-infested area of False Creek was proposed by the health depart- ment as a precaution against an epi- demic sweeping the city. Verifying the recent report on housing conditions in the city turned in by Professor F. E. Buck, who headed the investigating committee, Dr. McIntosh stated that it would be necessary to evict nearly 500 adults and children from False Creek and the shores of Burrard Tnlet. Ald. Helena Gutteridge reminded her colleagues that many people for whom the city would otherwise be unable to provide houses, washed their dishes in the water of the ereek and were without sanitary conveniences of any kind. Ald. H. D. Wilson declared this was not the first time by any means that this matter had come up. He urged that a start to’ clean up the creek be made immediately. “Not only is it detrimental to health and shipping but one sees people selling crabs obtained from False Creek, which is certainly no bed of roses at low tide,” he said. Dr. Mcintosh, answering ques- tions from aldermen stated the city analyst reported that water samples showed presence of ty- phoid germs in great quantities and that adequate steps had been taken to prevent crab fiching and bathing in the infested waters. On a suggestion from Ald. T. N. Kirk that diversion of sewage from False Creek might cost one Million dollars, Aldermen Gutteridge and DeGraves insisted that Vancouver should eradicate the menace of ty- phoid from False Creek at any price. Agitation for the cleanup of this disease-ridden area has been kept up by local residents and organiza-— tions for a number of years, the most recent being the leaflet cam- paign of Vancouver Bast section of the Communist party in which most of the points raised by Dr. McIntosh were aired. Canadian Boys Are Defending Democracy In Spain Company _ Admitted Cars Not Modern BCElectrie. Remoner Old New Westminster Streetcars For Use In City. AUDACITY, SAYS. ALD’MAN CRONE Considerable support was forthcoming from the civic utilities committee Monday for a Trades and Labor Council resolution recently passed of the BC Electric company and heavy fire was directed at President W. Murrin for the present over. crowding of street cars, described by Aldeman T. Kirk, as “intolerable.” Several interjections of, “It’s” gen- eral,” greeted the suggestion by Ald. H. L. Corey that “maybe it is due to the Christmas rush,’’ Ald. H. Dp, Wilson, - committee chairman, de- claring that people are unable to ob-. tain seats on practically all lines during rush hours. Said Ald. Fred Grone: “Pye talked the situation over with Mr. Murrin and he has. ad-— mitted to me that our street cars are not modern, that they sway and are too high. : “They had the audacity to show us around the car barns to inspect the re-modelling of New West- minster street cars which must be at least 25 years old, and I sup- pose they will try and fix up the old Victoria cars’ also.” = Action Urged Crone continued with his report stating that Murrin claimed present duties on American-made street cars were prohibitive and that it was up to the minister of finance to make necessary adjustments to permit im- portations and relieve congestion. “I wrote to the minister of fin- ance,” said Crone, and he replied that no approaches had been made to him on this question.’ “Ald. Corey opined that street car systems were in a transitional stage and managements were not anxious to spend money. “It is like a man who wants to buy a car. Does he re-model or get a new car?’ he continued. Urging more patience with the company which, he claimed, was spending $5,000 on each street car remodelled, Mayor G. G. Miller de- clared: “There is this much in favor of the BE Electric—they employ quite a payroll on these car alterations and such things take time.” “They are not doing it fast enough,” said Ald. J. Bennett, who recommended that aldermen bring facts before the couneil in order that a case be presented to the company. Ald. Wilson appointed the Mayor and Ald. Crone to interview the company. Alliance Urges Jobless Program 4 NEW YORK, Jan. 13-—(EP)— Spurred by results of the official national unemployment census which shows 10,000,000 jobless =n the US, labor forces in New York and other cities are prepared for con- certed action to insure government responsibility for adequate work re- lief and re-employment. : With at least 1,000,000 jobless added to the rolls since the poll was taken, and with WPA economists predicting that between one and two million more would be chalked up by February 1, the movement calls for abandonment by congress of false “budget-balancing” commitments. The Workers Alliance is driving for upping WPA national rolls to 3,000,000. The alliance program also calls for a federal relief grant of $15 a family monthly to the states. Over 100 From BCS 52, the Flower of Canadian Youth Over 200 B. C. boys in Spain LOOK to Next shipment February 5. you for smokes. leaves our office Help make it a bumper one to cele- brate the victory of Teruel. 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