THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE Page Five A =P | Bn] le | Bt] = ha | a= te S Cra on : u a “Gome out, you red rats,” a fascist radiorator taunted the Spanish loyalist fleet. The loyalists came out the next day when Franuco’s crack cruiser, the Baleares (above) was torpedoed by the loyalist Lepanto (below). {er Pak re Ua LI rive Gets Into Swing 7anc’vr East Accepts city Centre Challenge thallenges were hurled right and at a meeting of press com- ~tees in the German Workers’ 1 last week. Nobody was sore, —=—§ve Manager W. Ravenor told the vocate, but this was the keenest ich of boosters he had met since present drive for 700 subscrip- is for the People’s Advocate and rion Weekly. Their territory is acouver East electoral riding. .S§ an example to members, each amittee captain undertook to get new readers. Someone started ind the rest accepted the chal- ge. After agreeing to raise a total $227, the committee unanimously ided to beat Vancouver Centre, ich has boasted it will beat all ers, both on April 1 and atthe | of the three-month drive. virecting his remarks especially trade unionist supporters in the eting, the drive manager strove convey the idea to them that to sport these papers meant a ther strengthening of the trade on movement. Don’t go after subs mainly be- ise you want to help the press,” said, “but rather from the point view that you are defending trade ons and helping to defeat fas- n. Grandview Active foreign-born workers being con- itrated in Grandview area, and : fact that they know the effects fascism better than many native- mm Canadians, it was natural that ty set the pace at a press meet- ; held March 13. D9. Salonen, Grandview drive Mager, proposed a number of otas for various organizations totalled -0 as its quota; Russian Club, $380; cbian Glub, $25; Croatian Club, '3; other committees and clubs smised an aggregate of $252; shermen, $63. fhe meeting then elected a com- ttee and gave it instructions: to crpass, if possible, the grand con- *t organized at the Auditorium it year. Phe press committee of the Re- £ Project Workers’ union has rned in a number of subscrip- ns already. It pledges to raise 30 at least, and in the opinion of tvenor, the project boys present (Gontinued on page 6) See DEIVE y), New Age Bookshop — Gur New Location — 50-A EAST HASTINGS ST. e Tacts About Canada’s 50 Big Shots — “People vs. Monopoly” by Tim Buck 3uilders of B-C.—now Pamphiets and Books on Spain and China JOIN OUR LIBRARY! — SHOE REPATRS JHNSONS SHOE REPATRS— (All work guaranteed. Reasonable prices. 105644 W. Pender Street iOE REPATRS NEATLY DONE while you wait. Only the best ma- terials used. 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Brom the Nanaimo Friends com- mittee comes word that 30 women are busily clicking needles, intent upon each producing two pairs of socks. They bought their own wool and intend to have these gifts ready before March 28. Donations received this week are as follows: White Rock, $4; Project 18, $3.55; Women’s Auxiliary, Paci- fic Coast Fishermen’s Union, $2; Wingdam, $5; Project 14, $1; Henry Blackman, $5; Project 21, $3.65; Project 20, parcel, Fort Fraser; Sointula, $20; Quesnel, $2.25; Fer- nie, $31.65, for five Fernie boys in Spain; Britannia miner, $4; Trail, Italian miners, $7; Nanaimo com- mittee, $11. \C Friends Send Eighty Parcels Towards Easter Gifts Shipment Groups Meet At Kelowna Okanagan Conference Asks Jobless Insurance KELOWNA, BC, March 17. — Resolutions calling on the federal government to pass social: legisla- tion and declare an embargo on war materials to Japan were passed in a conference here last week at- tended by progressive and influen- tial organizations. Represented at the conference were: United Church of Canada; Communist Party of Canada; Ke- lowna CCE Club; Okanagan Indus- trial and Agricultural Workers’ As- sociation. Representatives from the city council and Junior Board of Trade were present. Mayor ©. L. Jones and Rey. W. W. McPherson spoke to resolutions which urged the government to amend the BNA act and pass neces- Sary legislation for the enactment of unemployment insurance at this session; called for disallowance of the Quebec padlock law at this ses- Sion; demanded an immediate em- bargo on metals to Japan. Plan New School LADNER, BC, March 17—An ex- tensive program of school construc- tion in this area will be submitted to ratepayers in a bylaw now being prepared, it is proposed to convert Delta Central School into a junior-senior high school and to construct a new elementary school at an estimated cost of $50,000. Libel Case Recalled Gilbanks Released From Oakalla After Serving Term Stewart Urges Union: Classes C. M. Stewart, chairman of the organizational committee of WVan- couver Trades and Labor Council, at Tuesday's meeting obtained en- dorsation for his motion that the Trades and Labor Congress put into effect its promise to establish an organizational department in the head office. His proposal that classes in trade unionism be im- mediately started by the council for the benefit of new, inexperienced members, was warmly applauded. “HASTINGS BAKERY High. 3244 716 East Hastings Street 4068 East Hastings Street 1709 Commercial Drive Quality Products at Mioderate Prices We Deliver Me East End and Grandview Homes e “Thrifty Housewives Shop at Hastings Bakery!’ Sal Phone Pair. 5179. 100% UNIONIZED George W. Gilbanks, who was released from Oakalla jail last Saturday after serving six months for defamatory libel, was sentenced last October after a four-day trial. The jury arrived at the verdict in eight minutes. Loyal friends of Gilbanks, a deeply religious man, maintained to the Advocate this week that he is not a person to knowingly slan- der anyone, and in this instance believes his inexperience led him to accept verbal statements against Chief of Police W. W. Foster from people who were not prepared to back them up in court. The court found that Gilbank’s charges that Col. Foster had accepted funds ille- gally in the Bessborough Armory deal were unfounded. The only incriminating document produced in court against Gilbanks were notes on the case in the de- fendant’s handwriting, obtained by a News-Herald reporter, who hand- ed them to the police chief. Gilbanks became interested in the late Wilfrid Tucker revelations and he decided to carry out fur- ther investigations on his own ac- count. Irresponsible Propaganda Council Condemns City Manager Plan Monday. Around The City Say Layoffs Planned Rumors and a semi-official an- ‘nouncement that 20 per cent of railway carmen employed by the Canadian National Railways in BG would soon be laid off were re- ported by the delegate from Local 280, Brotherhood of Railway Car- men of America to the trades council, Tuesday. Spanish Orphans’ Affair. R. Daniels, with ticket 118, won- the hand-crochet afghan last Fri- day at an affair organized by the Women’s Labor League, in aid of Spanish orphans. Meatcutters’ Drive Permission has been granted Local 95, Meatcutters and Packing- house Workers, to solicit loans from other locals in order to fi- mance an organizational drive on city packing plants. The Trades and Labor Congress will be urged to start a national drive to organ- ize packing plants throughout the Dominion. Donate to F riends. Sum of $10.91 was turned over to the Friends of the Mackenzie- Papineau Battalion, the proceeds of a whist drive and dance held under auspices of Raymur branch of the CP and the Workers’ Drama- tic Club, last week. T. Baldwin, with ticket 99, won the prize—a violin. YCL Convention. The seventh annual provincial convention of the Young Commun- ist League will be held in Victory Hall, 535 Homer street, Saturday and Sunday, Mareh 26-27. The public is invited to attend the open- ing sessions on Saturday to witness the Pageant of Youth, commencing 8:30 p.m. There will be pymnas- tics, folk dancing, wrestling and a big dance. Auto Mechanics Meet Another meeting of city auto mechanics to elect officers and make application for a charter to the international will be held with- in the next few days. More than 60 signed up at the first meeting and many more will be contacted, organizer for the machinists re- ported to the trades council Tues- day. Accept Affiliation Vancouver Trades and TLabor Council this week accepted affilia- tion of Local 130, Pursers and Chief Stewards. Aid Spain, China Finnish Canadian Labor Defense League, now disbanded in line with recent decisions of the organ- ization as a whole, has contributed $40 to the Spanish fund of the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy. Icor has donated $36.90 to the Chinese medical aid fund. Concert for Press Drive To aid the Advocate-Clarion sus- taining fund, the Italian press com- mittee will stage a concert and dramatic play, on Sunday, March 27, 8 p.m., at the Royal -Theatre. First class music and singing has been arranged. Silver collection. Mothers Aid Single Men. Vancouver Mothers’ Council has called a conference of all organiza- tions interested in single unem- starvation after April 1. It will be held in the Province Auditorium, Wednesday, April 13, 2 p.m. Com- munications should be sent in care of Mothers’ Council, 404 Homer street. Alliance To Confer. A full membership meeting of the Workers’ Alliance is called for Sunday, March 19, 2 pm., at O’Brien Hall, 404 Homer street. Future policy and reorganization will be taken up. Press Drive Dance Under auspices of the Relief Pro- ject Workers’ Union, a social and dance in aid of the Advocate and Clarion Weekly will be held in the Orange Hall, Friday, March 18, 8 p.m. Good music. Admission: Ladies, 10 cents; gents, 15 cents. ployed men, who are faced with |. Commissioned-ridden Burnaby and North Vancouver were held up as warning of Vancouver’s fate should the public suc- cumb to the city manager plan sponsored by the Vancouver Sun, and a scorching attack on this newspaper’s editorial policy was made by every alderman present at the city council meeting last © Armed with a brief, the result of week-end study of the question with the assistance of the city comptroller, Ald. H. J. DeGraves opened the debate, declaring that citizens now living under a com- missionership in the province were, to say the least, unhappy. He re- called the “small revolution” in South Vancouver some years ago which resulted in recall of Com- missioner Gillespie. : With copies of the brief for ref- erence,~ each alderman spoke at length in favor of democratic elec- tion as against the appointment of a dictatorial city manager. “The function of our mayor would be reduced to baby-kissing and welcoming visiting firemen,” Ald. H. D: Wilson declared. “Bor once I find myself in com- plete agreement with Aldermen Wilson and DeGraves onthis ques- tion,’ Ald. Helena Gutteridge stated. Turning to the reporters, she absolved them from , blame stating that in her opinion they “could write better editorials than a lot of half-cocked statements now being made by the Sun, because of their attendance at council meet- ings.” Ridiculous Comparisons. Ridiculing comparisons made by the Vancouver paper between Van- couver and Cincinnati, Ald. Gutte- Tidge stated that while the Amer- ican city had only a 16 mill rate, it does not levy for public schools or for unemployment relief, these two items representing one-third of Vancouver’s mill rate. Assessments in that city were 116 per cent high- er than in Vancouver. in addition to that difference, Cincinnati received considerable revenue from gasoline tax, inheri- tance tax, cigarette and sales tax, total receipts being $2,500,000 in 1936, with an additional grant from the government for construction purposes of $1,406,000. Said Ald. John Bennett: “A public official should be able to take constructive and helpful eriticism, but the Vancouver Sun has neither. If the high standard of journalism set by the Manches- ter Guardian and the Christian Science Monotor was emulated by certain city editors then our city could pull itself out of its by no means hopeless position.” Could Not Do Better. Stoutly maintaining that no city Manager could have done better than an elected council under the circumstances, Ald. Bennett de- clared he would stand or fall by the British electoral system. “We shouldn’t take the Sun edi- torial. too seriously,” opined Ald. Fred Crone, “because since the death of Robert Cromie the new management are now knockers of the city instead of boosters.” Ald. H. L. Corey declared his ac- quaintance with the problems of Cincinnati and had found that a state of corruption and graft, un- known to cities on this side of the line, necessitated extreme action. He maintained that the city man- ager there drew a salary of $25,000 a year. “Tt is the duty of this council to explain the dangers attending such campaigns organized in some of our papers, Ald. Corey warned, “because under the lash of an in- creased mill rate, people may grab at anything. I believe that if we had such a dictatorial appointment in the city, then there would be a little Mussolini in- Victoria and a Hitler at Ottawa.” Dyking Loan VICTORIA, BC, March 17.—In order that pumping equipment in the Coquitlam dyking district, which has failed for the last two seasons, may be repaired and re- conditioned, the provinciai govern- ment has advanced a loan of $12;500 to the district. Logger Dies CHILLIWACK, BC, March 17.—| fj Injured when a rolling timber threw him to the ground and passed over his body, Jack Toop, 28, died this week in hospital here. Toop was working with his brother Glen on Sumas mountain when the accident occurred. Surviving are his wife, his mother, four brothers and a sister. Oppose Merger KAMLOOPS, BC, March 17.— Kamloops Municipal Council has gone on record as opposing any amalgamation of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railway. Aldermen have unanimously endorsed a resolution to this effect. \ > () E> <> ) <> 0 GSE 0 <> () 4S 0 GS 0 Sar 0 SD 0) GSD OSE O EVERY SUNDAY at 9:45 A.M. over CKMO —— HAL GRIFFIN presenting Labor News Highlights THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE WEEKLY NEWS BROADCAST in Cooperation with Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas OGD () G> () () 4 ) <> () > () <> () > () ( ) GE () GED () > (.) > (:) GEE () GEE (C) GEE (:) GEE“ D () GSS (J) a 7 popular prices. Regent VANCOUVER’S SPAIN (Continued from page 1) All available forces are being re- leased for the front and other war activities. Premier Negrin, in a radio speech, candidly informed the peo- ple that they must combat the enemy with their own forces. He outlined the steps necessary to organize the republie’s war in- dustry and inerease production to overcome the fascists’ superiority in arms and war materials. “Just like yesterday, we aren’t depressed or frightened by the fact that the mechanized army of invad- ing powers is ruining another place,” declared Jesus Hernandez, minister of education, in a radio address from Madrid. “Only cowards can become deeply depressed by incidents during a war. The enemy can win all battles except one—the last.” Hernandez pointed out that the Spanish people faced a graver time at the beginning of the rebellion when Franco was marching on Ma- drid. Then they completely lacked arms. Even when the Italian in- vaders were routed at Guadalajara there was no unified command or fully organized, disciplined people’s army. Today, he said, the republic pos- Sesssed a better and larger army and greater war supplies. =e 3-Pce. Wicker Set Tapestry Bed Chesterfield Spring and Mattress — Ws W Now Showing .. . 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