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Increasing Numbers Of
Franco’s Spanish Troops
Cress Over To Loyalist
‘Lines.

FASCIST TERROR

By JULIAN CASTRO

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb.
10. — (FP).— As the Spanish
republican army after a year
and a half of war grows
stronger and begins to recon-
quer territory taken by the fas-
cists when the republic had no
means of defense, many inter-
esting things are occurring.
@ne is the increasing number of
men who formerly fought with the
rebels—some, through conviction,
ethers drafted by Franco—and who
have reacted to the foreign in-
vasion of Spain by coming across
te the government lines.
Some come, disillusioned with
fascism, and bringing stories of
the terror that reigns; sometimes
they have no families left. Others
come bringing arms, or tobacco, or
anything they can seize and smug-
gle across. -At first they came
stealthily, by night, but now they
are bolder, and often cross over in
daylight, cheering for the republic
and saying when they are wel
comed by the loyal soldiers: “Here
we can fight for something in
which we believe.”
Southern Spaniards have always
been famed for wit and resource-
fulness, and in the Andalusian
front recently, several men crossed
over from fascist lines.4n a mag-
nificent automobile. The loyal sol-
dgiers organized a celebration in
their honor. ad
Fascist Terror In Teruel
Another symptom showing that
all is not well in in fascist ter-
ritory is the posters which, from

_ time to time, appear upon the walis

of buildings. A number of days
after the capture of Teruel—when
in Franco’s Spain as in New York,
there was some doubt as to who
held that now famous town—a
poster appeared in the very center
of -Seville saying: “We want to
stop fighting. We are being de-
ceived; we Know that the govern-
ment troops have held Teruel since
the 2ist of December.” Another
poster called on all Spaniards to
unite to rid the country of foreign
invaders and “white” terror.
Ernest Hemingway has said that
when the government troops
marched into Teruel, some of the
inhabitants were afraid, because
they did not know of whom the
troops consisted, but when they
found that they were their own
countrymen, they received them
with joy.

These inhabitants of Teruel have
terrible stories to tell of the fascist
terror which reigned during the
early days of the rebellion, when
all members of trade unions or re-
publican parties were being perse-
euted, and many were executed—
some in the public square. One
priest dared lift his voice from the
pulpit, calling for the end of so
mmuch bloodshed. He did so only
once—his slain body was found a

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few days later.

Civil Rights Endangered, Says Woodsworth

Asks For Disallowance Of Padlock Law

OTTAWA, Ont——The government will consider disallowance of the iniquitous Quebec padlock law between now and the
end of March. The announcement was made to the House last Friday by Ministercof Justice Lapointe after several members,
notably J. S. Woedsworth and M. J. Coldwell, had assailed the government for its failure to safeguard citizens from an unconsti-
tutional law violating civil rights and liberties. Lapointe also promised an investigation into fascist activities in Canada—a probe
demanded at both the last meeting of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and the eighth national convention of the Com-

munist Party of Canada.

Indicative of wide protest from
progressive organizations and trade
unions throughout the Dominion
against the padlock law was Jus-
tice Minister Lapointe’s complaint
that he considered the large num-
ber of telegrams and resolutions
received “as prejudical to good goy-
ernment.”

He had, he told the House, only
just received a petition for dis-
allowance of the act. Disallowance
of a provincial statute had to take
place within one year of its enact-
ment and, in the case of the pad-
lock law, this period would expire
next July.

During further debate in the
House Wednesday Lapointe
promised consideration of a sug-
gestion made by Rt Hon. R. B.
Benneit that the government hear
legal arguments. before reaching
any decision on disallowance of the
padlock law.

“Applied Fifty Times.”

J. S. Woodsworth, CCF leader,
epened the attack on the padlock
law in his speech in the debate fol-
lowing the speech from the throne.

“Very shortly before the close of
the last session,” he stated, “I
brought to the attention of the
government the serious curtailment
cf our civil liberties through the
padlock law of Quebec I may say

that our worst apprehensions have }
been realized; for between Novem-/

ber 9, 1937, when the law was en-
acted, and January 27, 1938, the act
has been applied some fifty times.”
=When he brought the matter up
before, Woodsworth continued, the
minister of justice had pleaded
that the bill had not formally come
before him.

Woodsworth quoted from the
reply made by minister of justice
at the time. Lapointe said:

“Hor many years the power of
disallowance has not been resorted
to by the government of Canada.
...1do not think that in a federa-
tion such as this the power of dis-
allowance could easily be exercised
by the central government.”

“Since that time the power of
disallowance has been exercised by
the Dominion in the case of Al-
berta. If it can be done with re-
spect to Alberta when it concerns
financial measures, why not with
respect to Quebec when the matter
concerns the liberties of the citi-
zen?” Woodsworth demanded.

Warning that “everywhere de-
mocracy is being attacked,’ M. J.
Coldwell in his speech referred to
the growing menace of fascism in
Canada.

‘Who can say that a Canadian
form of nazism is not raising its
ugly head across the country?” he
asked. “The Montreal Gazette
published recently a picture of
Ganadian nazis drilling under the
direction of retired regular army
officers.

“We hear a great deal of the
dangers of communistic propa-
ganda,” Coldwell continued, “but to
my mind Canada faces a grave
danger today from nazi propaganda
and the fascist forces which are
being used by powerful interests.

Tt is obvious that these organiza-

tions have large sums of money
available for literature and wuni-

Over 200 From B.C. . . The Flower
of Canadian Youth — Are Defend-

ing Democracy in Spain.

BOB KERR

... Member of Ex-Service
Men’s League, Vancou-
ver, and political commis-
sar of the Mack-Pap Bat-
thanking
the people of British Co-

lumbia for the Xmas par-

talion, writes

eels which were received
at the front on January
22nd.

Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion
43 - 615 West Hastings Street

Vancouver

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18th Dominion Parliament, shown here at its opening by Lord Tweeds-
muir.

ILGWU Produces Pins And Needles.

Fascist Raid
Unsuccessful

Mexican Golden Shirts
Failed In Attempt To

Provoke Intervention Of

US

MEXICO CITY, DF, Feb. 10.—
“The Dorados (outlawed fascist
Golden Shirts) are trying to make
the American people think there is
unrest in Mexico. There is, how-
ever, no cause for alarm.”

This was the comment of Govy-
ernor Martin R. Gomez of Amauli-
pas on the clash last week between
government forces and a band of
Dorados on the international
bridge connecting Matamoros with
Brownsville, Texas.

The Dorados, bitterly hostile to
the progressive Cardenas adminis-
tration, attacked several Agrarian
border communities, resulting in
four deaths.

Rodriquez, head of the Golden
Shirt organization, which is linked
with Nazi and other groups in
Mexico and the US, is reported to
be in San Diego, Cal., discussing
plans for an attempted revolt
against the Cardenas government.

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Union Play Proves
Broadway Success

By GORDON BROOKS, Federated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 10—(FP)—A new lusty stage group
launched, a musical comedy makings Broadway history, and a
labor play about to be produced constitute the significant dent
which the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union has
made in New York theatrical life in the last two months.

The group is Labor Stage, out-
growth of the ILGWU’s educational
department. Its musical comedy,
“Pins and Needles,” is one of the
town’s smash hits, having played
to approximately 30,000 people
since November 27. It is to run
indefinitely at the Labor Stage
Theatre. :

A road company, now in rehear-
sal, is to tour prineipal eastern
cities in the spring. To keep up
with the labor news front, a second
edition will eventually be pro-
duced.

Labor Stage’s plans for next year
include a dramatization of Milien
Brand’s “Outward Room,” story of
the salutary effect of activity in
the labor movement on a woman
who was too much engrossed in
her personal problems.

The ILGWU can also boast of
having had 346 plays from twenty
states submitted in its recent con-
test. For the $2000 first prize, it
chose Francis Edwards Faragoh’s
“Sunup to Sundown,” a play about
child labor on a tobacco planta-
tion. New York will see it Feb-
ruary i in a commercial produc-

tion. Wellise Child’s’ “After the
Gleaners” won the $1000 second
prize. The play deals with hobo
life. :

Faragoh, in accepting the prize,
said, “I offer no solution here; if
the play helps to awaken people’s
interest in labcr, especially child
labor, I shall be satisfield.”

NANAIMO, BC.—Wilson’s bak-
eries here is now da “union shop,
bringing the total -of organized
bakeries in this district to five.

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"CHINA STRIKES BACK"

First Authentic Film of Scenes Behind the Battlefront in China

And Hear JOSHZPH HOWE HOPE
Chinese National Salvation Bureau, on

CRISIS IN THE FAR EAST

Orpheum Theaatre, Feb. 13

8 P.M.

TICKETS: 50c, 25¢c, obtainable in advance at Suite 17, 615 West
Trin. 6371, and M. A. Kelly,
Trinity 2418 (after Monday

Shipment To
Mac-Paps Late

Bob Kerr Cables Office
Of Friends Thanking
Supporters For Gifts
Sent.

That war-time conditions inter-
fered with timed arrangements for
delivery of Canada’s Christmas
gifts to her sons in Republican
Spain is shown by news just re-
ceived that they were not dis-
tributed to volunteers in the Cana-
dian battalion until January 22.
Bob Kerr, political commissioner
of the Mackenzie-Papineau Bat-
talion, cabled the national office of
the Friends thanking those who
made possible the shipment.

Wow on the high seas is the
February shipment of gifts to the
battalion which contains: 430,000
cigarettes, 6,500 packages of to-
bacco, 5,000 bars of chocolate, 1,500
pairs of socks, 500 lbs. of sugar,
6,000 bars of soap, and a number
of parcels for individuals.

Another $100 has been set aside
for the re-habilitation fund for
volunteers now returning sick or
wounded, and all friends and com- |
mittees in the province are kept
acquainted with the use which is
made of funds received.

Received this week were the fol-
lowing gifts: Local 252, Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers, Atlin, $50;
Salmon Arm, $4; Cedar Valley CP,
$9; Carlin CP, $8.30; Vancouver
Gentre, $5.55; Pacific Coast Fish-
ermen, $10; Hxtension, $20.45; Pro-
ject 104, $2.65 and tobacco to the
value of $22.45; Women’s section,
ULFTA, $25.21 and goods worth |
$24.75; Mount Pleasant PF MPB, $10;
D. Rush, $3; Project 10, $3; TWA,
$1; South Slocan, $7.10; Coalmont,
$6; Grassy Plains, $1.20; Bradner,
$10.15; Croatian Women’s section,
$7.25; Local 28, Hotel and Res-
taurant Employees Union, $1; New-
ton Station, knitted goods, $6.25;
Petrie-Fromberge FMPB, 313.653
White Lake, $30, obtained from a
social, main feature of which was
an amateur broadcast.

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Burns Men
Not Given
Employment

Promise Made To Mayor
Miller Not Fulfilled —
Union Local To Demand
Showdown

AGE LIMIT SET

Is Canada Packers, new Van-
couver packing house, playin
around with Mayor G C. Mil-
ler?
Local 95, Meateutters and
Packinghouse Employees’
Union, answered this question
in the affirmative when asked by
the PA this week. Trades and
Labor Council officials are taking
steps to ascertain definitely.
An important topic of conversa-
tion in trade union circles is the
situation in the meat packing in-
dustry of Vancouver. Locked out
Burns employees are now fully
acquainted with the setup in Can-
ada Packers. Haven’t they waited
for hours around the factory in
hopes of landing a job? Haven’t
they registered on special applica-
tion forms? And aren’t they still
waiting to be given jobs?
Wow they find out that Mayor
Miller, who recently called on the
Management, was told of a serious
shortage of experienced help in
the city. They learn that the prom-
ise made public three weeks ago
in the city hall by the chief mag-
istrate that the majority of Burns
men would be hired was in reality
a cruel hoax
“What's the big idea, anyway?”
Burns’ ex-employees ask when com-
paring notes, “Some of us are told
we are too old at 35, others at 40.”
Showdown Demanded
“We don’t object to others get-
ting jobs,” said one meatcutter.
“What we ask is that a decent per-
centage of Burns men shall be
taken on at Canada Packers. Ex-
perienced men are walking the
streets, after a judge told them
they were in the right in the Burns
dispute and that they should be re-
hired as quickly as possible.”
What is rousing the entire labor
movement in Vancouver to anger
is the growing realization that
registration of Burns locked-out
men by Canada Packers was to
supply the company with a black-
list furnished by the victims them-
selves.
Labor was prepared to believe
Mayor Miller’s recent statement
that “it is all nonsense that this
new concern will import families
from the prairies rather than hire
Burns ex-employees as I have their
word that no such thing is being
considered.”
But leaking through real estate
channels in the city is the news
that Canada Packers is*asking for
50 houses in vicinity of the plant.
This does not lend to the theory
that the whole story is a myth.
Local 95 intends to press for a
showdown on the real policy of
hiring pursued by this firm. Harry
Douglas, business agent for the
union, declares that smaller pack-
ing houses in BC are quite pre-
pared to play the game with labor,
both as to union agreements and
reeognition.

Will Hire Band

City council this week held that
the firemen’s band, which gives its
services free, should not clash with
the Musicians’ Union, members of
which obtain a living from band
playing.

“When the city needs a, band, we
will engage a band,” Mayor G. C.
Miller declared, in opposing the
idea that firemen should be grant-
ed time off for practice, which, he
said, sometimes amounted to 12 or
14 hours a week.

Boycott Japanese Goods.

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To Supply
Military
Machine

Shareholder Moves
For Halt In Nippon

Shipments at Meeting
In City.

‘MARKET FIRST?

Latest British Columbia
mine to reopen expressly for
the purpose of supplying the
requirements of Japan’s muni-
tion factories is the old Tide-
water copper mine, situated on
the west arm of Sidney Inlet,
west coast of Vancouver Island.
This property, owned by the Sid-
ney Inlet Mining company, has
been reopened by Japanese inter
ests for direct shipment of con-
centrates to Japan.

Considerable repair work is now
being done on mine buildings
closed since 1923 when the mine
was shut down after seven years
of continuous operations because
of the low price of copper.
Before the mine can commence
shipping to Japan there is also a
great deal of work to be done in
cleaning out old workings and in
further development

Shareholder

Raises Issue

“The first consideration is the
securing of a market for nickel
concentrates,” Col. Victor Spencer
told shareholders of BC Nickel
Mines at a special meeting held in
the Medical-Dental building last
Friday when the question of ship-
ments to Japan was raised by a
shareholder.

Gol. Spencer stated that con-
siderable tonnages of lead, copper
and other metals are being shipped
to Japan from Canada at the pres-
ent time and he felt that, “should
the occasion arise of the necessity
of stopping shipments to Japan
undoubtedly the authorities would
take the necessary steps.”

A motion was moved by a share-
holder that the company refuse to
contract with Japanese agents, but
was not approved by the majority.
Purpose of the meeting was to
consider liquidation of BC Wickel
Mines Ltd., and immediate forma-
tion of Pacific Nickel Mines, Ltd,
steps which were ratified by share-
holders.

Candidates
Endorsed

WCF Will Back Four In
Seattle Election; ‘Must
Defeat Dore,’ Declares
Costigan.

SEATTLE, Wash, Heb. 10:—
(Special)—Five hundred delegates
to the Washington Commonwealth
Federation all-city pre-election con-
vention this week welded progres-
sives of the city into a united cam-
paign to defeat reactionary Mayor
John EF. Dore for re-election at the

polls. :
The meet four candidates:
State Legislators Michael Smith

and James Sullivan for city coun-
cil and John G. Kennedy and Mrs.
Esther Worie for school board. In
the last legislature, Smith success-
fully led a fight to defeat the
criminal syndicalism law and Sul-
livan championed a pure food and
drug law.
Wo mayoralty candidate was
named for endorsement, but instead
many WCE affiliates voted, follow-
ing the session, to work for and
support the candidacy of TSieut,
Governor Victor A. Meyers for
mayor. 3
Howard Costigan, WCF executive
secretary, told the group, “Tt is as
important for Seattle to defeat
Dore as it is for Jersey Gity to

oust its fascist Mayor F. T- Hague.”

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