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Secretary of the Interior, addressing the people of
Britain and the dominions in a radio speech from
Washington under BB€ auspices; urges vigilance

wee by the world’s democracies to escape dictatorship.

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7Quebec Gov't Bars Closed Shop

minimums in force.

the Catholic Syndicates, expressed
astenishment that the government
would dare pass such legislation
without first submitting the amend-
ments to the workers for discus-
“sion.

“This is a dangerous precedent,
and we believe the provincial gov-
ernment ought to be the first to
observe the law,” declared Girard
Picard, general secretary of the
Bederation of Catholic Workers,
which claims a membership of
50,000. “Public officials should
serve to make peace and social jus-
tice reign, and not to provoke the
working class.”

Im the passing of the two new
amendments by a vote of 51 to 14
is seen the launching of fresh at-
tacks on the trade union move-
ment and wider application of the
padlock law, petition for disallow-
ance of which is now under con
sideration by the federal govern-
ment.

™T™ D. Bouchard, legislative lead-
er of the Liberal party in Quebec,
aitacked Premier Duplessis vigor-
ously during the debate on the
amendments. =

“T know the prime minister sees
Gommunists in large numbers
everywhere, even where there are
none,” he exclaimed.

Lakeman Hits
Coal Barons

Absentee Shareholders
Obtained Millions But
Communities Allowed To
Stagnate.

EDSON, Alta, March 3.
(Special)—Scoring company man-
agement of town Sites where :one
could see no difference between a
pack lane and a street, Jan Lake-
man, president of the Alberta Com-
muunist party, in a tour of coal min-
ing towns, urged miners to build
up their communities, which he
charged employers were deliberate-
ly allowing to stagnate.

Lakeman declared that it was not
a question of coal companies being
unable to afford decent streets and
houses. Millions of dollars had been
taken out in natural resources over
the past two decades to satisfy the
ereed of absentee stockholders.

Urging that unions be strength-
ened against the menace of fascism
in Canada as well as for higher
wages, Lakeman traced the devel-
Opment of fascist movements in
the dominion, particularly those or-
ganized bodies in the province of
Quebec.

Chairman at the meeting here
was BE. Gliffe, editor of the Jasper-
“Edson Signal, who stated that
while he was not a Communist, he
considered that Lakeman had a
message of interest for the people.

Alfred Charpentier, president of«

1Catholic Syndicates
Rap Amendments

MONTREAL, Que, March 3.— Both the Federation of
Catholic Workers and the Catholic Syndicates have joined the
international labor movement in protesting two amendments
passed by the Quebec legislature last Thursday.
ments make closed shops in the province illegal and exempt all
provincial government public works from previous fair wage

The amend-

200 Seamen
Join IBU

Union Organizer Smith
Charges Intimidation,

Interference in Union
Organization.
Despite efforts to intimidate

them, more than 200 seamen have
joined the Inland Boatmen’s Union
during the past few months, J. M.
Smith, union organizer, told a
People’s Advocate representative
this week.

Smith declared that he was con-
Stantly meeting with interference

in his legitimate work as a union
organizer and charged that Capt.
I. Rippon told police “that Smith
is on the dock too much.”

“As far as I am concerned,
when these officials take excep-
tion to my work my union knows
I am on the job,” Smith stated,
“but why should Police Inspector
McGowan of the CPR try to talk
me out of the I8U into the Broth-
erhood of Freight Handlers? It
looks as if there is an attempt to
keep seamen out of a union.”

One catering superintendent, said
Smith, is telling members of his
staff that they will lose seniority
and that Americans will get their
jobs if they join the IBU.

Aid China, Spain

GISCOMBE, BC, March 3.—Sym-
pathizers are planning a series of
whist Grives to be held in private
homes to raise funds for the Medi-
eal Aid to China Committee and
the Friends of the Mackenzic-
Papineau Battalion.

While there is not yet a branch
of the League for Peace and De-
mocracy here, sentiment is strong
for the boycott of Japanese goods.

Council Defeats
Discriminatory

Ban On Orientals’

Mayor Miller Charges

Ald. Halford Wilson

‘Looking For Publicity’ When Motion To

Restrict Oriental Merchants’

Brought Before Counc

Licenses
il.

COUNSEL SAYS PROPOSAL ILLEGAL
With Mayor G. C. Miller opining that Ald. H. DeGraves and

H. D. Wilson by their fulminati
in the city were “looking for p

ons against Japanese residents
ublicity,” and with Ald. T. H.

Kirk and John Bennett suggesting the whole question “should
be killed,” the city council last Monday, after listening unmoved
to allegations that Oriental businessmen constituted a menace

to the community, voted to issue licences to Orientals in the |

usual way.

The anti-Japanese issue raised by
Ald. Wilson in a recent resolution
calling for restriction of licences to
Oriental applicants, was effectively
answered in a lengthy letter from
Corporation Counsel D. EB. MceTapg-
gart which declared that such re-
striction would be “discriminatory
and not according to British law.”

McTaggert, warning that such
proposals would lead the city into
costly court cases, quoted Sir Mat-
thew Begbie, eminent jurist, to show
that under British law every person
had the right to exercise his ability,
and that restriction of licences even
to certain areas would be illegal
and constitute a prohibition.

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Mayor Raps Wilson

Protests arose from several al
derman who heard Ald.’ Wilson
compute figures on the Oriental
birthrate and relate at length al-
leged importations of Japanese
wives for Canadian-born Japanese.
Mayor Miller stated that he did not
know exactly what the speaker was
driving at, unless it were publicity.

Snapping his fingers at Ald. Wil-
son, urging him to continue the de-
bate, Ald. DeGraves heatedly. inter-
jected that if British Hast Indians
were forcibly stopped from coming
te BG, then the government could
take action againSt the Orientals.

‘No Oriental Control’

Gutteridge, DeGraves Clash
On City Cabaret Question

A puzzling interchange between CCE Alderman H~ Gut-

teridge and the Oriental-baitin

g Ald. H. DeGraves, who is

chairman of the Police Commission, took place in city council

Monday when the lone woman

councillor asked for ‘“informa-

tion as to whether responsible citizens frequented Oriental cab-

arets at night.”

“I can reassure the alderman
that the best people go to these
places as only the other night my-
self and a prominent leader from
one of our political parties visited
one of these places,” DeGraves an-
swered, “and I think there is more
rottenness practiced in some of our
so-called high class hotels than in
these cabarets.”

Said Ald. Gutteridge:

“I'm glad to know that you sac-
rifice some of your valuable time
to visit these places owned by Ori-
entals, especially when there is a
desire to restrict licences to these
people.”

“Small town stuff,’ snorted De-
Graves, “and you can’t name a cab-
aret in the city that is controlled
by Orientals.”

Assistance Of Victoria

Sought

City Fears Dictatorship
‘Because We Can't Carry On’

“I feel very keenly about the present financial situation of
our city and the way we are going it looks as though we are faced
with a dictatorship because we just can’t carry on. We must

face the provincial government

with the true situation,” Ald.

J. W. Cornett stated in city council Monday when letters re-
questing further srants were read out by the city clerk.

Another $6000 was requested by ,
the provincial laboratory, in addi- |
tion to the regular amount of
$14,000, to cope with alleged heavier
calls for analyses of TB and ven-
ereal specimens in the city.

Dubious methods of avoiding
this extra expense were put for-
ward by Ald. H. DeGraves, who
thought the General Hospital and
city analyists should be prepared
to cope with this task. Mayor G.
GC. Miller stated that this would be
a reversion to the old system and
more expensive. An appeal to the
department of health was decided
by vote.

The Good Roads League wanted
a erant of $3000, Ald. H. D. Wil-
son recommending that it be taken
up in the estimates. Ald. Cornett
took exception on the grounds that |

“we are only fooling ourselves by.
passing the buck.”

Ald. T. H. Kirk considered the
Good Roads League had outlived
its usefulness because government

departments now control this
sphere.
“Are we supporting another

board and providing a job for a
man in what amounts to nothing
but a joy-ride,” Kirk queried.

A delegation from the city coun-
ceil will confer with provincial goy-
ernment representatives some time
before April 1, when the whole
question of Vancouver’s finances
will come under discussion. Revi-
sion of existing arrangements will
be sought.

Anthony Eden,

Rden

signed.

former British foreign secretary

(right), who resigned over Premier Chamberlain’s
policy of surrender to Italy and Germany, and Vis-
count Cranbourne, under-secretary for foreign affairs, who also re-

Act As Fascist Agents

tion for its own ends.

Chinese militarists came to an

CTM Meets

In Mexico

Erection Of A People’s
Front Against Fascism
One of Many Questions
Discussed

MEXICO CITY, DF, March 3.—
(FP)—The first national congress
of the Mexican Federation of
Workers (CTM) began here last
week with over 400 delegates rep-
resenting 3594 trade union, farm
and professional groups in attend-
ance.

The delegates prepared to elect
@ new national executive commit-
tee, upon which will rest the bur-
den of responsibility for directing
activities of 85 per cent of the
country’s workers and farmers.
The congress was also scheduled to
discuss the question of a Mexican
Popular Front against fascism.

Invited to the congress were
Chairman John Ll. Lewis of the
CIO, General Secretary Leon Jou-
houx of the French General Con-
federation of Labor, trade union
leaders from Spain and lMatin
American countries and leaders of
the Amsterdam Trade Union Inter-
national.

It was expected that the Union
ef Mine and Metal Workers, the
chief national union outside the
CTM, would submit application for
membership.

Guards Liberties

MEXICO CITY, DF, March 3.—

(FP)—A bill introduced into the
Mexican congress by President
Cardenas calls for penalties for

high federal officials who would
“try to change or attack the re-
publican form of government,” or
who “infringe on the right of suf-
frage or violate civil liberties.”

Japan. Secret Service
Using Trotskyites

By V. K. NIKISAWA

Department No. 2 of the Japanese general staff (secret
service) is makings wide use of the Chinese Trotskyite organiza-
In Taiyuan, chief town of Shansi prov-
ince, the Trotskyites organized their own headquarters.

Local
agreement with them contain-
ing the condition that the entire
activity of the Trotskyites should
be under their control, while the
Trotskyite organization in Shansi
province would be headed by an
individual endorsed by the mili-
tarists, one who was undoubtedly
“tried and tested.” The Trotskyites
agreed to this.

Trotskyites are used to organize
yellow trade unions, the so-called
“Socialist Bederation” which is
waging a struggle against the
working class in China. Quite a
number of Chinese Communists
were betrayed by the Trotskyites.
Many Communists were executed.
Trotskyites, spies of Japan, or-
ganized the murder of Fan Chi-
min, commander of the Tenth
Corps of the Chinese Red Army.
MURDER, SLANDER
WEAPONS

Chief task received by Trotsky-
ites from the Japanese secret sery-
ice is to disrupt the national front
from within. To this end, the Jap-
anese secret service, through De-
partment No. 2 of the Japanese
general staff, transferrea the rene-
gade Huan pin ,leader of the Chi-
nese Trotskyites, to Shanghai.

Huan pin and Chiang Mu-tao re-
ceived an allowance of 50,000 dol-
lars a month from the Japanese
secret service in Northern China,
for organization of a so-called new
party and for carrying through of
their wrecking work. Chiang Mu-
tao, representative of the Trotslky-
ites, was included in the so-called

delegation of friendship with
Japan, and left with this delega
tion for Tokyo. The Trotskyites

Sui Lun-chang, Chen Hsui-dia and
Jen Che-siange (or Ye-tsin) are in
recéipt of Japanese money with
which they publish in Shanghai
special newspapers and journals
for the spreading of all kinds ci
slander against the Communist
party, Kuomintang and all anti-
Japanese mass organizations.

Therefore, one of the conditions
for victory of the Chinese people
in their struggle against Japanese
aggression is resolutely and ruth-
lessly to purge the state machine
and the entire rear of Trotskyites,
agents of the Japanese fascist se-
eret seryice. —

Chu Teh Writes To Indian National Congress

‘China Fighting Cause Of Ali Asian Peoples’

ADRAS, India, Mareh 3-——‘It
M the Japanese were successful
in subjecting China, none of the
peoples of Asia, could gain their
jiberation for many years, and per-
haps decades. Our struggle is your
struggle.”

This is what
mander-in-chief of the
Route army has written to
Jawaharlal Nehru, president of
the Indian National Congress, in a
letter appealing for Indian aid for
China, and particularly for the
partisan fighters behind Japanese
lines “who have no winter cloth-
ing, no blankets, no shoes and little
and often no food.

“Our problem is so gigantic that

Chu Teh, com-

Bighth

Chu Teh (left) and Mao Tse-tung

we are unable to help the volunteers
as they require,’ Chu Teh says.
“As Commander-in-Chief of the
Bighth Route army of the Chinese
people, I wish to tell you and the
Indian people; that China is not
subjected, not defeated, and that
we cannot and never will be sub-
jected. Our army will never retreat
from Worth China. We will remain
with the people, organizing and
arming them and waging a cease-
less wariare upon the Japanese 1m-
perialist armies of invasion until
the last of them are driven from
our country, including Manchuria.

“We are a well-disciplined, well-
trained iron army, and all our sol-

diers, from the new volunteers to

the commanders, have 2 high poli-
tical training. We are fully and
deeply conscious of the role that
we play in Asia today and in the
future.

“We know that we are fighting
not only the battle of the Chinese
mation and the Chinese people, but
the battle of the people of all Asia.
We know that we are a part of the
world army for the liberation of
oppressed mations and oppressed
classes.

Cengress Legislative Leader De-

Sail, commenting on the letter, de-
elared: “If India were free, she
would have sent her own quota of
reinforcements to China.”

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(Japanese

CHINA

Assurance

Is Shaken

Hinterland Of China
Rapidly Developing,
States Writer After
Tour.

SHANGHAI RUINS

By HAROLD GRIFFIN

iss

‘Under the hammer of war.
China is becoming a nation.
The impact of Japan’s invasion
has affected millions of people.
Untold families have been up-
rooted from their homes, It is
from these men who have lost
their homes, who have seen
their relatives killed and who wili
die rather than submit that Ghina’s
new army of the people is being:
ereated. Out of their travail the
Spirit of a new China is slowly be-
ing born. Eventually, it must
triumph.”

Dr. Anna Louise Strong, who has
just completed a several months’
tour of China’s vast hinterland,
made this statement to me last
Saturday afternoon when she
reached Vancouver aboard the Em-_
press of Japan. It drew thunder-
ous applause when she repeated it
later at a meeting held under aus-
pices of the Medical Aid to China
committee of the League for Peace
and Democracy in the Hotel Van-
couver.

in Hankow and Chungking high
government officials told the noted
writer and lecturer that China was
preparing for a war of long dura-
tion from which they were con-
fident she would emerge victorious.
Civie officials at Canton and mili-
tary leaders in the north expressed
the same confidence. Students and
soldiers, peasants and factory
workers tol@ her the same thing.
China will win ultimately, despite
initial reverses suffered by ill-
equipped provincial troops.

But in Tokio, where Dr. Strong
conversed with writers, with busi- ~
mnessmen and foreign residents; the
first doubts were cautiously ex-

pressed. She found Tokio full of
rumors. News of Japanese atroci-
ties in Nanking had seeped
through the strict censorship.

Many Japanese were aghast. They
considered the army at Nanking
had stained the nation’s honor.
They were astonished at China's
stubborn resistance. Their belief in
Japan’s “rights’ in China was
shaken. : i
GUERILLA WARFAR

“The Japanese claim to have
captured whole provinces in the
north,” Dr. Strong said. “Actual-.
ly, on railroads in these ‘captured’
areas, it is easier for Highth Route
army and partisan troops to cross
than for the Japanese to run
trains. Tracks and bridges are
destroyed and every troop train
has to fight its way through.”

Behind Japanese lines small mo-—
bile groups were waging incessant
warfare against the rear. Commu-
nication lines were cut, garrisons
and isolated troops wiped out by
regular Chinese forces and par-
tisans over whom the Japanese
could never win conclusive vic-
tories.

Dr..Strong spoke of the imdes-
eribable suffering of thousands of
peasants fighting to save their
homes. She told of one instance
where thirty of a group of par-
tisans who fought barefooted in
the snow-covered mountain passes
of the north against the invaders
froze their feet.

Shanghai she found a mass of
ruins. What buildings had not
been destroyed by bombardment
had been razed by fire. Only the
French concession and the interna-
tional settlement remained rela-
tively intact. Here and there large
factories, useful to the Japanese,
had been preserved, but from the
rest of the buildings the steel had
been removed and shipped to
Japan.

INTERIOR DEVELOPING

As the three main reasons for
China’s ultimate victory Dr. Strong
gave (1) Japan expected submis-
Sion and no fighting. She is get-
ting instead fighting and no sub-
mission. (2) China is rapidly be-
coming a unified country. (3)
Even in the farthest provinces 4
national consciousness 1S being
developed. eo

Under the stress of war China's
interior is being transformed. Ed-
ucation is being organized among
the people and a new university is
being built at Chungking. Two
great new roads, one south ‘to
Burma, the other northwest to the
Soviet Union, each 10,000 li (3,300
miles) long, are being puilt. Two
new railroads are also under con-

ruction. :
Sea this is aiding in uniting the
people and in puilding the new
China which eventually must cee
erge victorious from her BUUEE
with Japan,” Dr. Strong declare

In conclusion, she stressed t e
erying need for medical supplies,

eo the partisan
particularly Om, na
troops, the provincial troops

even the troops of the Highth
Route army-