Lod OS LT MEMES TUNNEY TERT ET Ae ‘Labor News. Highlights CKMO Sunday, 9:45 a.m. Canada’s Leading Progressive The People’s Advocate Western Newspaper Labor News : Highlights CKMO Sunday, 9:45 a.m. | FULL No. 158. <== Published Weekly pe VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1938 Single Copies: 5 Cents VOL. IV, No. 2. — }|/Oranges Gleamed 60 Miles Away But Blizzards Swept Teruel HIS despatch, by Ilya Bhrenberg, noted Soviet writer and outstanding among newspaper. correspondents Now in Spain, was written at the 4 start of the successful loyalist offensive against Teruel im which the Spanish People’s army proved, as Ehrenberg says, that “it has not only grown, it has matured.” the valley the Christmas roses are ene think of oranges here? Snow, icy wind. It is impossible to climb ‘the peak, the wind blows one over. Mountain peak. . down. My recollections of the war are always bound up with the crude, fantastic Spanish scenery. The fight around Brunete in the merciless glaring sun which burnt into the body. A sip of water was a treat. And now, one sought some corner here among the grim silent snow- covered hills, in which one could They fall, slip 7] warm one’s icy feet. I~ saw fighting here a year ago, TERUBL, Spain—(By Mail)—In blooming, the oranges gleam only Sixty miles from here. But how can The soldiers have just taken a too. Anarchist troops were facing Teruel then. They were indeed “anarchist” soldiers, Mexican cow- boys in a snowstorm and Kropot- kins with ammunition belts. Now a regiment commanded by the anarchist Vivancoz is going into action. They have become or- derly, they now understand the meaning of disciplines They have learned how to fight. Although the CNT in the hinter- land might still be swayed by preju- dices dated from the last century, its representatives at the front to- day understand the language of unity and discipline. The German bomber pilots and the Italian regi- ments have been good teachers. Spiriano Mera at Madrid, and Viv- ancoz here, can rightly be counted among the commanders of the peo- ple, like Modesto and Campesino, who are loved and appreciated. “Novices,” a company of new recruits. In the morning they were asked whether they would fight They marched off courageously and fought well. They took a hill in spite of the fierce machine-gun fire. New Army Created The enemy had not expected the attack. Had not Franco so often told the English that the Repub- lican army was useless in battle, and that he had come to believe it himself? The republicans today showed that they can not only de- fend themselves. The excellent pre- parations for the attack, the speedy transport of the troops are worthy of mention. The insurgent operations, which were postponed from day to day, which the swallows in Barcelona and Valencia mocked about from the roofs, are now out of the ques- tion. A new army had been created in six months. Gertain Huropean staffs of high repute could still learn from the way the general staff is working. The last lorries have disappeared ‘round the narrow mountain path. The thunder of the suns suddenly breaks the morning silence — the first intimation the fascists have of the offensive. Forty light bombers soar upwards. The soldiers near me are peasants from the Levante prov- inces. “Qurs!”’ they cry with the pride of a people who were recently with- out arms, and now see that they need not go to battle against the enemy armed only with a sickle and an axe. In spite of the low-lying clouds the pilots successfully bomb the barracks and station of Teruel, (Continued from Page 5) (See TERUEL) Trades Council Adopts Proposal Of Committee For Intensification Of Boycott. HEARS JAPANESE “Trade Union Committee Will Preserve Identity )} But Plans To Work With League. Intensification of the boycott on Japanese goods, the main recom- mendation of its boycott committee, Won unanimous support from the Trades and Labor Council Tuesday when Sam Shearer, Railway Car- men, convener of a committee elect- ed for this purpose, made a rousing speech on the possibilities of or- ganized boycott action. Bert Black, executive member, Canadian League for Peace and De- mocracy, spoke on the league’s pol- icy at the first meeting of the com- Mittee, Shearer stated, which helped 2reatly in the drawing up of a plan of action. The Railway Carmen delegate Stated that while his committee wou dicooperate with the League, its trade union -identity would be preserved in order to attract other supporters. The committee extended fra- ternal greetings to delegates pres- ent from the Japanese Mill Work- ers union, assuring them of friend- ship and declaring that the boy- cott was aimed to defeat Japanese imperialism, not the Japanese peo- ple. : A Japanese delegate, while not a mill worker, announced that he represented some 500 millworkers and spoke for ten minutes urging the council to reconsider its deci- Sion to intensify the boycott. Shearer States Position The council listened attentively to warnings that BC stood to lose eonsiderable trade by such action but was unconcerned on questions of imports and exports outlined in detail by the Japanese delegates. Smiles greeted a statement that much of the information received on the war in China came from Chi- nese sources and that “the Japanese Were poor propagandists.” Reiterating the boycott commit- _- tee’s position toward Japanese working people, Shearer also pointed out that the boycott would assist organized labor in Japan, which, he stated, was being pro- secuted for its opposition to the war of aggression. “We are every bit as anxious to impose an em- bargo on Canadian nickel as we are to boycott Japanese imports,” Shearer declared, Will Show China Film medical aid to China the provincial League for Peace and Democracy will shortly show China Strikes Back, described as “a box-office bombshell” by film critics in Van- couver and other BC cities. The Picture is the first ever taken of the famous 8th Route Army and its leaders. Announcement is also made that Dr. Heng Chi Tao will speak in Vancouver February 11. As a part of its campaign for | + Ferzus McKean bir who, at the ninth provincial con- vention of the Communist party concluded last Sunday, was un- animously elected new provincial secretary. To Intensify Organization Labor Condemns Stand Of Pearson In Dispute With Hotel, Restaurant Employees Charges levelled at Hon. G, S. Pearson, minister of labor, by offi- cials of Local 25. Hotel and Res- taurant Employees, that he is stall- ing settlement of the Chanticleer Tunch dispute, practically inviting employers to establish company unions, aroused delegates to the Trades and Labor Council last Tuesday to the dangerous situa- tion now developing. A motion to intensify the organizational drive Was passed unanimously. Reading extracts from latest letters sent by Pearson to Local 28, Business Agent Bill Gateman dem- onstrated the hollowness of argu- ments submitted by the minister of labor. “Funny how Pearson always finds himself giving the employer all the breaks,” remarked Bill Stewart, Local 25 secretary. “Pear- son actually told us that those em- ployees who claim they were fired illezally from the Chanticleer Lunch still have full recourse to the courts to settle the matter.” Stewart reminded delegates that original draft of the Act prepared by Minister of Labor Pearson was worded uncommonly like some clauses of the constitution drawn up by the Industrial Association of BG, copies of which were available. “Why did the boss loggers and Shipping Federation lobby for a hoisting of the act for one year. Tt was in order to obtain a breath- ing spell to set up their company unions, but the public demanded action,” Stewart declared in a rous- ing speech, adding, “It is for the same reason that Pearson is now stalling around.” Labor, CCF Unite In Demand For Government Embargo On Shipments Of War Materials S ‘Must Look To Enemies Within,’ Asserts Telford At City CCF Rally This Week. RAPS WAR CARGOES PH atensends- Barrie de Flanders Would Approve This Meeting,’ Says Tom Barnard. Scorching attacks on local war profiteers, rousing appeals for unity and a reasoned analysis of war causes, all were enthusiastically greeted by a capacity audience at the Moose Temple CCE rally in support of the Japanese boycott, Wednesday evening. Speakers were Dr. Lyle Telford, Sam Shearer, who was elected the day previous by 2 large majority at Trades and Labor Council to voice labor’s viewpoint, Mrs. Stuart Jamieson, Women’s League for Peace, Tom Barnard, nationally known war veteran. Still full of fight over nickel com- panies, Telford “went to town” on those individuals and concerns mak- ing profits out of China’s life or death struggle. “Our loca] Colonel is looking for nickel orders for war and then he expects us to patronize his store,” punned the Doctor to the delight of his audience. Democratic nations, he said, are on the side of Spain — dictatorships back war, quoting Roosevelt's say- ing that the common decencies must be maintained among nations. The six-inch guns in Stanley Park were described as “an insult to in- telligence” by the CCF leader, that “we should rather look for the deadly enemies within our own country.” “Canada would set a shining ex- ample to the world by placing an embargo on any munitions labelled for Japan,” he declared. Hits Nickel Exports In an outstanding speech, Sam Shearer pounded on the need for unity against reaction at home and for Canada to keep clean skirts in dealings with Japan. Reading figures from the Daily Clarion, Shearer showed the con- tinual upward trend of nickel ex- ports during the present armament boom. “If we cant force the federal gov- ernment to come out for an em- bargo, organized labor, CCF, Com- munist and all peace-loving people must be prepared to picket these ships of death in our port.” The au- dience greeted this proposal with tumultous applause. “T too want to see capitalism de- stroyed, but in the meantime, let us democrats march together, because I for one and Doctor Telford for an- other and many others do not relish being hanged from lamp posts.” In a thoughtful address Mrs. Jamieson advocated “long range plans” for the abolition of war, Meanwhile pledging assistance of her organization. She advocated placing nickel in the same category as drugs, to be controlled accordingly. Tom Bernard used the now fam- ous “Tanaka document” to prove aggression plans of Japan. He pledged to fight for peace in the name of thousands of young Ca- nadians lying buried in Flanders. Defence Hypocrisy Exposed Coast Defenses Said Against Same Power To Which Armaments Sold. PROFITS SCORED “Canada’s nickel million- aires , are traitors — Nathan Hales — who would sell our country just as the aristocrats and grandees of Spain sold out to Hitler and Mussolini,” as- serted Leslie Morris, member of the Communist party cen- tra] committee, in a speech to the ninth provincial conven- tion of which opened with a public meeting in Victory Hall last Friday. Frankly stating the Communist party’s position on national defense, raised that day in the Vancouver daily press, Morris declared the maintenance and broadening of de- mocracy in the Dominion, with Canada standing solidly for collec- tive security of democratic nations against fascist agpressors, was the only safeguard against war. Morris also stated his party's po- sition on Canada’s foreign policy and called upon Canadians to press the federal government to turn away from the “criminal policy of London to an independent one — towards Roosevelt's anti-fascist foreign policy.” Describing BC as the “window of the Pacific,’ Morris declared: “Canada is not immune from war. We want to defend our country, and such possibilities as bombard— ment and bombings must be gravely considered, but we must make sure that our internal, would-be fascists who now sell nickel and timber tracts to Japan, do not create another ‘fifth col- umn’ as did the fascists in Madrid.” The one great burning question today in Canada is unity of all opposed to fascism, this Communist leader stated to an attentive audi- ence. ; Morris maintained that millions had voted Liberal and even Con- servative in good faith and that a strong lead to these people could only be given when the Communist party and CCF rase above party differences giving an example of unity to set in motion 4 great peo- ple’s movement. “Wo united front would be worth its salt without inclusion of the Gommunist party,’ Morris declared, “and no united front can be con- sidered without the CCF,” he added. “Gold Dust Twins” Mitchell Hepburn and Premier Duplessis he described as “gold dust twins’’ who had sunk differ- ences between Orangemen and Catholics to block revision of the BNA Act in order to scuttle unem- ployment insurance and other so- cial legislation proposed by. the Mac- kenzie King government. Morris claimed it was possible now to make a turn toward united action and influence the Ottawa government to enact Unemploy- ment Insurance, annul the Que- bec padlock law, ‘Just as pressure and agitation smashed the infam- ous Section 98.” “Communists in BC must not only agitate for unity, they must plunge into the life of the province, tale up questions of debt, taxation, wages, enter into municipal and provincial elections and so work in a practical manner toward forma- tion of a democratic front,’ Morris advised. He gave as an illustra- tion the Oshawa automobile strike from which there developed a great democratic movement which swept many progressives into office. He advocated that every Commu- nist study the BNA Act, study Can- ada and British Columbia in order to familiarize themselves with to- day's major problems and be in a position to answer clearly. “The constitutional crisis is going to be solved one way or another and we must fight to get a confer- ence on revision of our constitution, and if this takes place, democracy will be helped—you know, like the conference R. B. Bennett advocated, to which he would invite the Com- munist party,” Morris said, amid laughter. Stating he based his assertion on the Marxist-Leninist theory, Morris declared the CCF cannot forever re- main isolated, that a process of change was taking place in which “advocates of unity should be on the qui vive not only to promote unity with the CCE but also with Liberal workers and their ‘left’ << Seen leaders.”’ Loyalists Aid Aged Civilian at Teruel Here an aged civilian is seen being assisted to safety by two soldiers of the loyalist army completing a house-to-house search for fascist snipers. Lenin Is Dead, Leninism Lives! NE LOYALTY unites the common people of the world at this moment of impending crisis caused by the arrogant and bloody aggression of fascist arms—and that is reverence of the name of Lenin. This man of the people, whose genius led a mighty people to freedom, died fourteen years ago. While his voice is stilled, the great principles of Marxism-Leninism will live forever, as the guide to practice, as the handbook of all peoples in their battle for full and complete peace and de- moecracy. “Lenin is dead; Leninism lives!” cried the people of the USSR on that bitter day when their teacher and leader passed ayvay, his death hurried by the bullet of the cowardly assassin. We can pick up that ery and echo it in our daily battle for bread, for freedom and for peace. To commemorate Lenin’s death, we must: —Renew our efforts to achieve that labor and peaple’s unity which he achieved so gloriously. —Build those unions which Lenin emphasized as the in- dispensable means of waging the daily fight for im- proved conditions. —Redouble our efforts to compel collective action by the democratic powers against the fascist invaders of Spain and China. —Join and build the party of Lenin, without which suc- cess iS impossible, the Communist party! King Relies On Popular Support Quebec Gov’t Threatens Jobless Insurance Plan _ OTTAWA. Ont., Jan. 20 (Special) Prime Minister King will go ahead with his unemployment insurance plan but constitutional problems raised by the ‘““Canada-be-damned, me- first” criticism of Premier Duplessis and the Quebec premier’s known efforts to line up the maritime provinces, have goOv- ernment members here distinctly worried. CCF Leader Voices Aims Coldwell Pledges CCF Support, Urges Unity of Progressives For Jobless Insurance TORONTO, Ont., Jan. 20—(Spe- cial) —CCF members will endeavor to secure enactment of unemploy- ment insurance legislation in the forthcoming sesssion of the federal house, declares M. J. Coldwell, MP, CCF national chairman in a speci- ally written article for the Daily Clarion here. - “CCF members in the House of Commons, and labor and farmer members prior to this parliament, have consistently advocated social security measures,” he writes, “par- ticularly unemployment insurance,” “The time to institute unemploy- ment insurance is during an up- Swing in the business cycle and thai opportunities to do so have been neglected by governments in the past is regrettable.” Asserting that “such measures eannot be delayed indefinitely by the most reactionary province,” Coldwell expresses the belief that social security legislation will loom large in the forthcoming session and urges united action of all progres- sive groups in support of unemploy- ment insurance and other measures, It is frankly admitted that the whole issue now rests mainly with the people, particularly those in On- tario and Quebec. Prime Minister King is said to be relying more and more on popular Support to overcome opposition. Minister of Labor, Norman Mcl. Rogers has completed the draft of the insurance plan, and Premier King, it is said, will send copies of it to the provinces within the next two weeks. It is understood that the draft bill and the accompanying corres- pondence will be so worded as to invite from the provinces any sug- gestions they may entertain on the act itself, so long as the effect of transferring the desired authority definitely to the dominion is not basically destroyed. When Premier King brings the re- solution before the house it will bring out into the open for the first time this century, definite debate upon the necessary ways to amend the B.N.A. Act. The minister of labor at that time, it is thought, would be in a good position if he can present to the house evidence of support for the principles of the bill coming from all sections of the country. Already, to strengthen his hand, expressions of approval have come from the Hamilton Trades and Labor Council, the Toronto Trades and Labor Council, the Steel Work- ers’ Union of Toronto, the Canadian Seamen’s Union, the Catholic Syn- dicates of Quebec, a majority of the provincial governments, and num- erous municipalities. OWER CITY PHONE RATE ISSUE REVIVED — Company Must Ask Concession Question Of Laying Of More Conduits To Come Before Council Soon. FINDINGS HIT Further immediate conces- sions will be sought from Van- couver city council by the BC Telephone company, W. R. Bradbury, organizer for lower telephone rates, stated this week to a PA reporter, “And it is up to the city to charge this ‘Shylock’ outfit a maximum price for use of any property be- longing to our citizens,” he added. Bradbury declared that present city telephone conduits are now filled up and that BC Telephone company would soon approach the city council for a concession to lay more conduits, “Our aldermen should remember that this company ignored over 20,- 000 signed protests at the new $2.50 flat rate, and charge accordingly,” ~ Bradbury maintained. “The city needs more money to carry on — All right! Let concession prices be an evening-up process against the new ‘holdup’ phone rate.” The findings of the Railway Gom- mission on the bitterly fought rate increase, were released last week “to inform a patient public that it was all right for them to pay the increase,” Bradbury remarked fa- cetiously. Stating he was “quite dissatis- ‘Tied’ with the findings and that his resentment was also felt by many citizens, Bradbury claimed that practically all figures used in the commission’s findings were sup- plied by the company. Reading from the Railway Com- Mmission’s report where it stated that Vancouver has more phones per unit of 100 population than any city in the British Empire, there- fore greatly increasing costs of maintenance, Bradbury declared himself as “too indignant to laugh.” “At that rate Henry Ford is worse off than a small garage owner!” By no means downecast at the findings, Bradbury claimed the pe- tition campaign had made people think of what they are up against, and that certaim reductions had been forced by pressure of the agi- tation. These were 10 cents off the flat rate originally proposed, and establishment of three-party lines in exchange areas at $2.20 rate. Reverting to city concessions soon to be asked for by BC Tele- phone company, Bradbury stated that a number of his friends had been complaining bitterly of what they termed a recent turn for the worse in telephone service. He wondered whether there was any connection between this and the company’s coming petition for more conduit facilities. Moot City Vet Centre Broadway Hall May Be Opened As Unemploy-- ment Centre For Vets, Says Tyler. Possibility that 47 West Broad- way, a hall rented by Vancouver Ex-Service Men’s League, may be used as an employment centre for veterans, is announced -this week by Fred Tyler, league secretary. All city veterans’ organizations are being approached on this ques- tion, Tyler stated, with a view to stimulation of public interest im ex- service men. Tentative discussion with the provincial representative of the Vet- erans’ Assistance Commission have taken place on the question of in- stallation of a telephone, Tyler re- ported. RPWU Planning February Meet Looking ahead to the time when forestry projects will be closed. down, the Relief Project Workers’ Union plans a conference in the middle of February, in Victoria, to which delegates from all projects are expected to attend.