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RoSuE Ss s5 MARCH 18, 1938

The British Columbia

Scene

A SITUATION that prom-
ises to be extremely cri-

tical in the near future is de-
veloping in British Columbia.
To go back a couple years,
G. G. McGeer in his mayoralty
campaign proclaimed repeat-
ed that Vancouver was bank-
rupt, and that his was the
hand that could and would
put Civie finances on a sound
basis. After he was elected he
further increased the city’s
indebtedness by issuing his
mo Bonds to build a city

The repetition of this bank-
ruptey talk by Mayor Miller
causes the situation to be
viewed from a new angle. Due
to mismanagement, civic fi-
mances are undoubtedly in a
very bad shape, but there is
also the probability that the
financial interests back of the
provincial and municipal goy-
ernments are deliberately
forcing the city into bank-
ruptecy so that, when they con-
sider the situation ripe, a re-
ceiver may be appointed to
take charge of all city affairs.
The city council would then
be replaced by the receiver
who would have the power of
a small-size dictator. The fas-
cization of municipal affairs
would begin. The city fathers
should stand on guard in de-
fence of democratic control of
city business.

Further indications that a
sinister plan is being evolved
behind the scenes, are to be
observed in the relief ques-
tion.

The Project Work Camps
are to be closed down this
summer, throwing the inmates
onto an already slutted labor
market. The other single un-
employed are to be dropped
from the relief rolls May 1,
and it is proposed to treat
childless young married cou-
ples in the same way. ®

If this is not a cooly planned
plot to create “labor disturb-
ances” whatis it? Large num-
bers of workingmen and wom-
en are being forced into a po-
sition where they will have to
take up an active struggle for
bread, or starve: They will
have no alternative but to or-
ganize and demonstrate: all
other gates leading to a liveli-
hood are being slammed in
their faces.

At this stage the authorities
would “view with alarm,” or
“regard with srave apprehen-
sion” the labor unrest they
haye themselves fomented,
and having created an excuse
for the use of the big stick
would proceed to use it ruth=
lessly.

The Labor Conciliation and
Arbitration Act was merely
an inkling of how Big Busi-
ness plans to curtail the liber-
ty of labor organizations. The
right to organize, recognized
by the Act, should be used to
the utmost right now, as it
may not be long before the
Act is amended by the dele-
tion of this clause, or replaced
by another outlawing all labor
organizations.

Fascism is by no means pe-
euliar to the Big Business in-
terests in Eastern Canada. All
over the country Big Business
is trimming its sails to the fas-
cist wind.

Speaking in Vancouver a
week ago, R. L. Calder, KC,
representing the Montreal
Civil Liberties Union, warned
that if the Quebec padlock law
is not disallowed we would
have a similar one in BC in
six months.

The fascist octopus is reach-
ing at BC, and there is only
one course for Labor to pur-
sue. That is to intensify the

campaign for the disallowance
of the padlock law, build up
its organizations to a point
where neither Pattullo, Pear-
son nor any other mouthpiece
of the financial interests would
dare to attempt to padlock BC

labor.

The Hounds of —
Fascism
ROM disagreement with
the Communist party line,

to opposition to the party, to
the counter - revolutionary
cesspool — this was the road
travelled by the Rykoy and
Bulkharin group of anti-Soviet
conspirators whose trial has
just ended.

As in the case of Zinoviev
and Kamaney, the latest group
of traitors to feel the weight
of Soviet justice had several
times in the past admitted
their deviations and on being
forgiven had promised to go
Straight in the future. But
their promises were given
only with a view to re-estab-
lishing themselves in positions
of trust from which they car-
ried on their intrigues with
Trotsky, with Hitler, with the
governments of Japan, Poland
and Great Britain.

Just why did these men con-
fess to their long list of crimes
against the Soviet people? The
answer is no puzzler, it is
quite clear. No man is ar-
rested in the Soviet Union
until his guilt is proven, a fact
which the prisoners knew.
They were well aware, too,
that by the time they were
brought to trial the evidence
would have been piling up
against them and denials of
guilt would be useless. And
again, they hoped by open
confession to throw them-
selves on the mercy of the
court and save their dirty
hides.

For such degenerates there
can not only be no pity but
not the slightest trace of sym-
pathy. Not one of them could
claim he acted through ignor-
ance; they were all the highly-
educated, “clever” kind. It
was their extreme cleverness
that prevented them from be-
ing uncovered sooner.

With their trial and punish-
ment the very heart and core
of Trotskyism has been cut
out. If there are any Trotsky-
ist stragglers left in the Soviet
Union it won’t be long before
they, too, are gathered in and
brought before the bar of Sov-
iet justice.

In Vancouver, the Trotsky-
ites take the same line toward
the labor movement here.
Having no program of their
own they spread slander and
distrust against labor leaders
hoping to wreck organizations
and prevent their growth.
And one doesn’t have to be a
member of the “Trotskyite
group to take a Trotskyite
line. The Trotskyist line of
disruption has been taken up
not only by avowed Trotsky-
ists, but by fascist elements
and individuals who, for reas-
ons of thwarted ambition or
wounded personal vanity, feel
they have a grievance.

No itme should be lost in
cleaning all wreckers and dis-
ruptive elements out of all
labor unions and political or-
ganizations in the city. Their
main alibi for disruptive work
is that it is for “the good of the
movement.” This was Trot-

sky’s excuse. But there is also
an old saying, “The devil can
quote scripture for his own
ends.”

March Anniversaries

ARCH means much more

to us than the advent of
spring. Karl Marx, the man
who brought socialism from a
hazy utopian theory to a defi-
nite science, died March 14,
1882. |

Qn March 18, 1871, the Paris
Commune was established.
Marx, although unable to be
present during the 72 days
that the Parisian workers held
power, kept in close touch
with them by mail from Lon-
don, England. He, and later
Lenin, drew many valuable
lessons from the Commune,
chief of which was that it
proved that the workers could
not use the ready-made state
machine of capitalism and
wield it in their own interests.
They had to have their own
state apparatus, which later
proved to be the Soviet form
of government, in order to
protect their ownership of the
means of production and dis-
tribution of the necessities of
life from internal and exter-
nal enemies.

Both Marx and Engels
wrote theoretically about the
dictatorship of the proletariat
in the Communist Manifesto
of 1848. The Commune later
proved the soundness of their
theory.

Long live the memory of
Marx, and of the Commune!
Long live the French People’s
Front of today, inheritors of
the highest traditions of the
Commune!

The Trotsky Trials and Labor

By T. Ewen

7#\HE trials of Bukharin and his associates for treason, terror, sabotage, murder, etc., and premeditated wrecking of a great
socialist state, bring home to us with shocking reality the extent and lengths to which such enemies of the people are pre-
pared to go. They contain a lesson for the revolutionary and progressive people of Canada. : mee : : :
The anti-social and anti-workingclass acts of these conspirators cover a long period of time, a period in which historical
developments, both in the USSR and throughout the capitalist world, has smashed to smithereens the last vestige of the

Trotskyist theory and program of the “permanent revolution.”

Twenty years of socialist con-
struction and the buildine of a
new order of society has dealt that
“theory” a death blow. For the
last decade Trotskyism has sat in
the councils of the enemies of the
people of all countries.

in the USSR the Trotskyists
have, as the reports of the trials

. That period, if

By Victoria Post

Y the time this column appears

in print, the women’s suffrage
bill will have been presented to
the Quebee Legislature for the
thirteenth time. Madame Pierre
Casgrain, president of the League
for Women’s Rights, and wife of
the House of Commons speaker,
expressed the fervent hope that
in this case thirteen would be the
lucky number, and since it was
being presented on March 17, St.
Patrick’s Day, “The better the
day, the better the deed.”

The bill has been rejected
twelve times and has only failed
to appear twice at all the sessions
Since 1932.

Quebec is the only province in
Canada where women have no
franchise. Last year they tried

to obtain the vote through an’

amendment to the Plectoral Act,
but failed. It is hoped this time
theyll be successful, because if
ever there was a place in which
women could be of assistance in
defence of civil rights, it is Que-
bee at the present time.
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. f ee active help and moral sup-
port given to trade unions in
labor struggles has been proved
again and again, and the endor-
sation by the Trades and Labor
Council of a resolution to start
@ women’s branch of the embargo-
boycott movement should give
great impetus to this campaign.

The main responsibility for the
boycott of Japanese goods lies
with the women who do most of
the buying ... and wear the silk
stockings!

Women also play a great part
in encouraging their menfolk to
support the embargo campaign
actively. Canada is mainly re-
sponsible for the slaughter of
Chinese women and children by
her export of nickel and scrap
iron. A mass demonstration is
being planned by the Joint Com-
mittee of the League for Peace
and Democracy and the Trades
and Labor Council, and women,
both in auxiliaries and out of
them, should see that all unions,
organizations and friends take
part in this expression of public
opinion.

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Ns of boycotts I had

supper with a friend the other
night, and noticed there was no
butter on the table. I was too
polite to enquire, but the husband
said, “Sorry, you don’t get any
butter. We’re boycotting it!” I
discovered that quite a number of
people in the city are doing this
as a protest against the high
price.

This high cost, together with
that of bread and milk, will be
subject for discussion at a con-
ference of housewives to be held
on March 28 in the Women’s
Building here.

From this conference will be
Set up a Housewives’ League,
much the same as the Toronto
League. Here’s your chance to
air all those grouches about high
cost.of living and really do some-
thing about it.

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TS THE latest report from New

York Consumers’ Union is the
surprising fact that Maxwell
House and Chase & Sanborn cof-
fees were among those considered
of only “fair quality.” Those
rated as of “good quality” in-
cluded Ben Hur, Hills Bros., Mar-
tinson’s, Red Circle, Royal Jewel,
Royal Scarlet and S. & W. The
special brands, such as Kaffe Hag
and Sanka, which are decaffein-
ated, were reported to be of poor
flaver. It is best to buy coffee
from. stores which have a big
turnover to ensure its freshness.
Tf this is impossible, then buy
coffee in the vacuum tins.

Se
HREE or four people have
taken issue with my com-
ments on the common or garden
variety “cold” and its cure.

See how this suits: Quit eating
for a day, and stay in bed if you
can or dare. Between naps, try
reading a snappy story or detec-
tive yarn. Take a little orange
juice if you must, and, above all,
do not worry. It works with quite
a few people.

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IN ONE German town every bride

is presented with a photograph
of Hitler. That isn’t a bad way
of making her content with her
husband!—Daily Star, Toronto.

ag Son So

show, Conspirea with foreign capi-
talist and fascist states for the
everthrow and destruction of the
Socialist state, and have not
stopped at cold-blooded murder
and assassination of leading Sov-
iet officials and authors. “Their
deliberate acts to bring about the
death of the beloved author and
writer, Maxim Gorky, leaves the
Senses Numb at the crimes con-
ceived by these twisted minds.

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4 BRS See is no longer a

programmatic platform upon
which the social progress of the
world’s people may be debated.
indeed it ever
existed, is long past. Trotskyism
is now the synthesis of everything
that is foul and abhorrent to civi-
lized progress. It isa deadly bac-
ceili poisoning the confidence and
unity of social relationships.

It joins with fascism on the
fizing line and in the rear
against the people. Sabotage, dis-
rup«.on and distrust are its weap-
ons. In the struggle for a united
people’s front against fascism,
Protskyism serves fascism by de-
manding Soviet power, thus be-
coming the agent provocateur of
fascism itself. Trotskyism bar-
ters peace, freedom and progress
for social enslavement, black re-
action and war. Judas-like, it re-
ceives its “thirty pieces of silver”
for services rendered .. . to
fascism.

It denies historical reality of
the building of Socialism in a
Single country (the USSR) by
Seeking to destroy that socialist
construction by every despicable
means,

Trotskyism outstrips the ef
forts of the capitalist class to di-
vide the ranks of the workers by
ingratiating itself within those
ranks and sowing distrust between
man and man.

Just as Trotskyism, in the period
of Socialist construction and
growing strength in the USSR,
has resorted to every inhuman de-
vice to serve its fascist pay-mas-
ters, so also in the capitalist
states, in Canada, it resorts to new
tricks, devised to weaken the srow-
ing unity of the people in the face
of deepening crisis. Under cover
of pretentious defence of the revo-
lutionary movement, it carries its
line of attack into the movement.

)
PIN AGUS leaders are no good’—
“You are alright, but your
leaders are haywire”’—"So-and-so
is a pie-card artist’—‘“He is only
in the movement for what he can
get out of it’—“They are living on

the fat of the land while you
starve’—"“A [eninist always ...
but this Canadian bunch is no
good.” And So on.

In trade unions, in mass or-
ganizations of any sort, in the CCE
or the Communist party, wherever
these statements are uttered, the
poisonous fangs of Trotskyism
have already struck.

Deliberate disruption and con-
fusion in place of unity. Discredit—-
ing the leadership in order to de-
stroy the unity of the rank and
file’ Destroying the movement
through the destruction of its in-
tegrity and morale. Weakening
the ranks of labor in order that
labors enemies may prevail to the
utmost degree. This is Trotsky-
ism—the same poison that is be-
ing tested in Moscow. The differ-
ence is only one of degree.

A recent editorial in the “Van-
couver Sun” under the Trotskyist
caption, “The Revolution Is Be-
trayed,” deals with the Bukharin
trials from the time-worn angle
of yellow-journalism. Tike Trot-
sky, “the wish” of the Sun scribe
is “father to the thought,” and asa
consequence some erroneous con-
elusions are drawn. Mainly, that
all is not well in Russia; that the
trials are a sign of the weakness
of the Soviet leadership, and ne-
cessary to bolster up a waning
prestige. If this were so, the ‘“‘Sun”
and the interests it serves would
have cause for greater journalistic
effort and jubilation.

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4 Rese USSR and its leadership,

the CPSU, are stronger today.
than ever before. Qne hundred
and eighty million people march
towards Socialism, sweeping every
obstacle aside, including fascist
inspired ‘Trotskyist tools from
their path as they go forward.
In the trials of these murderers
and saboteurs, the imperialist
war-mongers, who look with long-
ing eyes upon the territory and
resources of the USSR, are also
on trial. But only their poor tools
stand cringing before the bar of
working-class justice. Mephisto-
ples is in Mexico, and his aides are
housed in the staid sanctimonious,
hypocritical quarters of the diplo-
matie corps.

The “Sun’s” comiseration for
these ghouls is an editorial comedy
in many parts—with still some to
be written.

To Canadian labor, the lesson of
the Moscow trials can be con-
densed in a single sentence: Clean
this Trotskyist poison of disrup-
tion and disunity out of your ranks.
To grasp this simple lesson today.

Open

Attacks Move
Against Orientals

Editor, People’s Advocate:

Sir: All honor to Helena Gut-
teridge of Vancouver eity coun-
eil for her courage. Supported by
the Mayor and Aldermen Kirk
and Bennett, she dared to speak
and vote against the motion just
passed by that sapient committee
on trade licenses, aimed to ex-
clude, not by name, but by dis-
criminative refusal to grant a li-
cense, all Orientals from earning
an honest living according to
their trade or calling in Vancou-
ver, the commercial metropolis of
this province.

No such bylaw, putting persons
born in Vancouver on the servile
status of mere temporary tolera-
tion in the land of their birth or
adoption, can ever be enforced in
a land where the common law of
a free British people is inter-
preted and applied by His Majes-
ty’s free and unprejudiced courts
of judicature.

As Mayor Miller well said:
“Why not come out in the open
then?”

Yes. Why not say out loud,
what all know for the truth, viz.,
that British Columbia is rapidly
falling in line with Italy and Ger-
many, as being no longer a demo-
eratic state, but rather a dicta-
torial tyranny, a slave-holding
oligarchy, camouflaged under the
flag that has ever stood for free-
dom and equal rights, for all men
of whatsoever color or racial ex-
traction.

But Vancouver council can eyi-
dently go one better even than
Der Feuhrer or Il Duce, in their
treatment of mnon-Nordic, non-
Aryan races. They don’t kick
them out of Vancouver: they just
take away the “rice and ghee” by
which they live.

FF. W. Lb. MOORE,
Lieut—Col. (R.L.)
3249 Quadra St., Victoria, BC.

Comment On
Moscow Trials

Editor, People’s Advocate:

Dear Sir: We hear from those
who hate the Soviet union that it
is “so strange’ that the rebel-
traitors recently tried for their
erimes “confessed.” They main-
tain there is a concoction which
has the effect of making inno-
cents plead guilty.

I noticed, however, in the capi-
talist press that the persons who
have been selling secrets re
Woolwich arsenal pleaded guilty.
The three real estate brothers
of Yancouver recently pleaded
guilty, as did Richard Whitney,

mentioned in the Vancouver Sun,
March 14, as follows:
* . .. socially prominent New

Forum

Yorker and five times president
of the New York stock exchange,
who has pleaded guilty to a
charge of theft.”

Why did these people plead
guilty? Was it because they had
a certain medicine administered ?

Some of us remember Sir Roger
Casement during the world war.
After he had pleaded guilty to
being a traitor to England, he
was hanged. It seems it was quite
the proper thing to do at that
time. What difference in justice
is there between Casement and
those in Russia?

There is a lot of misplaced
sympathy with those responsible
for wars of aggression which
have resulted in hundreds of in-
nocents being slain. Yes! Rus-
Sia has done the right thing and*I
trust will keep on doing it.

There is one way to treat mad
dogs. Kill them as soon as pos-
sible. WILBEE SR.

Vancouver, BC.

A Tip For
Shere Readers

Editor, People’s Advocate:

Dear Sir: During the last few
months, two residents of this dis-
trict, R. WL’Estrange of Tete
Juane, and L. McCaffery of Shere,
who were believed by most people
around here to be interested and
sometimes active in the labor
movement, have been going from
house to house trying to destroy
the sentiment of people who are
in favor of the struggles of the
Spanish and Chinese peoples.
And, of course, they are denounc-
ing the Soviet government and
the Communist party. They claim
Japan is justifled in going into
China to set up a fascist govern-
ment, peddling the same line
against the Spanish government.

These individuals deliberately
arranged an opposition dance at
Tete Jaune, against a Medical Aid
for China dance, arranged at
Shere, causing it to be postponed
for two weeks. When the dance
was held, good support was re-
ceived from all around, except
from Tete Juane. Previously there
had always been good support
from this place.

Threats and slander haye been
directed against one of the most
progressive people in this district
by one of these mental degener-
ates, because this progressive re-
fused to subscribe to their
ideology.

Local citizens who, in the past,
regarded these individuals as So-
Cialists, are now wise to the fact
that they are in the opposition.

0. BH, BRUNING.

Shere, BC.

is to preserve the peace, freedom
and progress of our country to-
morrow. To fail to do so is to
leave the door open for the fascist
marauders to destroy our unity
and reduce our democratic or-
ganizations to adjuncts of ‘‘cor-
poratism.”’

Stage
and
Screen

By John R. Chaplin

H°” Associated Film Audiences
rate the new pictures:

REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK
FARM — Phoney treatment of a
beloved American children's
classic which hasn’t been done
Tight by since Mary Pickford
Made it in the silent days. But

“it's got Shirley Temple, if you

like that sort of thing,

HOLLYWOOD ROUNDUP —
Behind-the-scene stuft concerning
the rivalry of a stunt-man in
western pictures and the crooked
hero for whom he takes falls,
Weither here nor there.

BALLAD OF COSSACK GOL-
OTA—An excellent Soviet film
with Emelish titles portraying the
heroic action of two boys in help-
ing a. Ukrainian Village fight off
bandits and Polish mercenaries.

THE BIRTH OF A BABY — A
fine, dignified educational film
dealing Scientifically with the
problems of maternity, but one
which you may never get to see,
because your local or state cen-
sors will give it the old thumbs-
down.

WHO KILLED GAT, PRES-
TON—A mediocre mystery story
about a night club Singer who is
bumped off in the middle of her
number. For the large public
which feels that a bum mystery
picture is better than no mystery
picture at all.

PRISON NURSE — The ro-
mance of a nurse who goes inte
a prison to help fight a typhoid
epidemic and comes out with pri-
soner who was once a doctor.
It's not bad.

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OLLYWOOD—Direct aid from

President Roosevelt is the lat-
est plan evolved by studio labor
in trying to solve the “recession
blues” which have hit Hollywood.
An estimated 2000 people have
been let out of the studios within
the past three weeks, and a vir-
tual panic is on. Tom Gannon,
of the studio painters’ local, has
been sent to Washington to try
to get the president to allocate re-
lief for studio unemployed, and
to take steps to stabilize film pro-
duction during the year and alle-
Viate the terrible production
slumps that seasonally throw
hundreds out of work. Currently
less than 30 per cent of all union
carpenters usually employed in
the studios are actually at work;
2500 of the 3600 carpenters are
unemployed. ... Katharine Hep-
burn isn’t doing so well at the
box office, it is said, and she is
reported to have asked Columbia
to buy up the contract she has at
REO. She is doing a film for
Columbia now, ealled Holiday.
5 Harry Hershfield (of Abie
the Agent fame) is writing a life
of George Gershwin for Warner
Bros.

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Li the studios are casting
around for possible feature-
length cartoons as a result of the
huge success of Snow White.
Paramount is said to be readying
Rip Van Winkle, and there is
some talk of a Wizard of Oz.
Meantime, the Wizard of Oz will
be made as a regular talkie by
Meryyn LeRoy, with Judy Gar-
land and possibly Kenny Baker.
- Snow White is expected to
gross between seven and eight
million dollars, or about 50 per
cent more than the past record
of five million for a feature film.
- Scenario writer Dwight Tay-
lor is hiding his face these days:
he wrote The Awful Truth, but
insisted his name be left off, be-
cause he thought it was lous-ay.
It’s one of the current sockos.
- - - Nancy Carroll and Erie Lin-
den will play the west coast pro-
duction of Clifford Odets’ Golden
Boy, which Stella Adler, once of

the Group Theatre, will direct.

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RIEFLY: Morris Rysiind, who
wrote My Man Godfrey, is
scripting Room Service for the
Marx Brothers. ... John Garra-
dine’s favorite pastime on a night
off is to don Shakespearian cos-
tume and go about reciting the
plays of the bard in Hollywood
night clubs. The amazed patrons
little realize that, screen villian
that he is, he is one of our finest
Shakespearian actors. . . . Para-
mount has three scenarios on the
griddle for Gladys Swarthhout:
Show Business, Madame Butter-
fly, and Carmen. ... Cuts have
been made in The Buccaneer for
its British showings. Why? Be-
cause history books in England
don’t teach that there was a war
of 1812—they just overlook it.
So, far be it from Paramount to

try to enlighten them.

. been organized by. the local «

OL’ BIEL

Curbing
Juvenile 2 economist |
Delinquency? National
Relations Board in the US,
figures before the LaFollett
Liberties Senate Investi >
Committee, proving that t- |
dustmalists of that countr: [jy
the services of 40,000 labor
at-a cost of $80 million a yea’

Apparently the number oi §,|
is too small and the numl- Bi
dollars is too big for the ‘
families who control Americ i

dustry, because we see fr 4

moves on all sides to conve } m
boys of America into a gene» is
of Pinkertons. : E

Phe superintendent of si t2
in Chicago has recently orgz-
the “G-Boys” in the schot! B
that windy city, “to keep a vy) i
er eye open about the scho 7) jj
detect malicious destructior (_
is @ secret organization, taki) ¥
kids even from the kinderg:
The members receive instru}
in snooping and promotion: {
to those who secure the gre
number of convictions ag
their schoolmates.

The Canadian boys are no!
whit behind. Along with |{-
union-smashing Industrial 4
ciation, came the police-spon: —
“Junior G-Men” in Vanco
Now in that other centre of hz
of the labor movement, Trail]
Trail Junior Police Corps

of police, a link with the Gor
dated Mining and Smelting 1
pany.

This worthy laborer in the -
yard of the CPR Smelters, i
article in the Trail Times, ((
to establish an alibi for his |
liam J. Burns-Baldwin-Meltz
Sanization, that it is “to
juvenile delinquency,” that ‘‘n
bers will not be used to re}
license numbers of motor ve
violators nor will they be expe’
to act as police informers,”

WNone-the-less, among the
jects to be taught the boys in
frail Junior Police are: “‘Pi
work in its yarious branches,
cluding the aspects of detec
work, tracing of fugitives, iden
cation of individuals, finger-pr-
foot-prints, tracing vehicles, t
ing tools, firearms, investiga
of burglary, photographing e¢ |
inals, reason for: sketching
scene of a crime, etc”? A ,
other “hobbies” are tagged 03
bait. Physical exercises and °
lice drill are also on the progi

Not the curbing of juvenile
linguency, but implanting
mentality of a Gaston B. Me}
will be the practical result of s
training, a erop of labor sj
Blaylock will probably be
patron saint, and if the T
Junior Police are to have a ba
I would suggest a skunk ot
yellow field.

= . * *
We have entered on a
Press 1 ther Press Drive. Rec
Drive!

events in BGC, in Gane
and in the world at large are ar
ment enough for our papers in
effort to offset the banditry <
piracy, prizefighter statesm:
ship and shotgun diplomacy, Ia
ered over with hypocritical p
tence that monopoly rule has be
compelled to revert to, to ma
tain its privileges.

Three thousands dollars is a!
of money, but a modest sum 1
Side the $80 million our enemi
spend yearly on spies, to say nol
ing about what they spend
their press. Although we ha
not met up with the prosper
that Pattullo and Mayor Mill
speak of, we can make this wi
a little effort. In the last dri
the readers of this column rais
$92; let us make it three figur
this time! ;

In raising funds in this wi
Wwe sometimes meet with obje
tions—"Too many drives” ai
so on. If our papers were run £
profit, this would be a legitima
argument. But even capitalist z
pers put on “circulation drive:
the sole object of which is to i
erease the profits of the shar
holders.

Wor instance, the Vancouy
Sun is at present engaged in
circulation drive. The boys wi
deliver the Sun are instructed
make six calls a weelk on no
readers and in the mimeographi
“aid to salesmen” with which th
are supplied, there occurs the f
lowing paragraph:

“4a. In making your introduc
tion with your 6-Call Repor
Card in hand, tell the people tha
the Vancouver Sun has aske

~ you to call on them. If they as!
why, merely mention that we ar
asking for their support in th
present campaign against th
Oriental invasion of British Co
lumbia.”

Although the Sun manageme
is anxious to coin profits out |
race hatred and color prejudic
they are apparently too wise ~
give the fact wide publicity ;
they do not list this *campaigi
among the objects for which 7!
Sun stands in the four-page a
with which they have flooded B

We are against race hatre
whether inspired by Hitler or #1
Vancouver Sun, and if you wal
to help in this fight send your d
nations to this column, and mai
the $100 sure. 2°

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