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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

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exercising their citizen’s right of publie speech in criticism
of the fascist movement,” declared George R. Strauss, Labor

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Would Show
Nazi Abuses

Adopt LaGuardia’s Sug-
gestion For Nazi Cham-
ber Of Horrors At World

Fair.

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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.

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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.

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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.” :

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Cardinal
Denounces
Reaction

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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.

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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

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‘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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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