The Peoples Advocate Western Canada’s Leading Progressive Newspaper LL No. 168. oS Published Weekly VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938 Single Copies: 5 Cents VOL. IV., No. 12 ‘leveral 4 Officers Fascists ~gov't Probe Might “Reveal Interesting sj, acts’ M. Rush Tells 1 wVieet. “CL CONVENES Bo} hat fascists are conducting ed ifi-democratic activities 183§bin local militia units was ne charge made by Maurice st #O, Provincial secretary of iny# YOuUng Communist League, ainigais address to the league's oe enth convention held last “Surday and Sunday in the hadi tory Hall here. a The young ists in Van- ver,” he de- #ed, “in seek- to establish se for them- es econcen- e€ mainly on ®@ militia.: Hre are offi-: 4 in the local a,htia who are§ ht bring to t some very eresting Sam here was need for decisive ac- by Canadian youth to stem the ‘f@ makers ‘who are busy ringing heir profits on the cash register iupplying Japan with the means Biestroy one! peaceful nation, in “Te future to turn upon another,” ih stated. : sS it not proper that we, the fag generation most bitterly af- ed by war, should concern our- 2S with what the Canadian peo- and its government can do to np out the fuse that has been oy the twentieth century mad- See YCL. (Continued on page 65) Maurice Rush tor lolland To | Get Parole “las Served Year Of wo-Year Jail Term | sews that Harry Molland, im- iioned leader of city single un- @ loyed, will be paroled April 13, %@ wired this week by Grant Mac- Sl (CCF, North Vancouver), nu Ottawa. No mention was e in the telegram of Fred Suge, who was sentenced with Villand. he CCF leader has made rep- S@entations to the federal depart- it over a period of months in B effort to secure the release of | @ih men. entenced to two years in New @stminster penitentiary, Decem- %, 1936, Grange and Molland ap- @iled, but in March, 1937, the tence was confirmed. Their ime”? was to lead a demonstra- HM. of jobless men to Hamilton mil to demand relief. 5 Vhile relief was granted to the @nonstrators and the forestry BS ject camps were opened up, no mency was given to the two ders. |anaimo Miners Aid Volunteers EYANAIMO, BC, March 31.—_Unit- Mine Workers of America local -e has voted $25 to the Friends the Mackenzie-Papineau Bat- fion’s rehabilitation fund for sick wounded yolunteers invalided @me from Spain. Sther recent donations to the tends from this district include > of $3 from Nanaimo District mrkers’ Union. , Fight Fascism SANTIAGO, Chile, March 31.— ‘his is not an election fight be- sen Right and Left, but a choice diween fascism and democracy,” d Agquirro Corda, leader of the aes party here which is af- lated to the People’s Front. “The pople’s Front is not against fam- © or fatherland, but rather calls }on every democratic organiza- ™m to join with it in the develop- Advocate News Broadcast On CKMO Tonight With tonight’s bresdeast over radio station CKMO The People’s Advocate, in co-operation with Dr. KR. Liewellyn Douglas, well- known Vancouver dentist, will inaugurate a new series of news broadcasts, providing readers with additional up-to-the-minute news of what is transpiring in the labor and progressive move- ment. Labor News Highlights will be on the air from 6 to 6:15 every Tuesday and Friday evening. More Japan Shipments Japanese May Open New Island Property VICTORIA, BC, March 31—Brit- ish Columbia’s war profiteers are feverishly extending their activities to furnish even greater quantities of war materials te Japan in her invasion of China. Reports here state that Japa- nese interests are considering the opening of another copper property on the west coast of Vancouver island. Japanese are already devel- oping the old Tidewater copper mine at Sidney Inlet and this week began installation of mine machinery. Several smaller mines in the Kootenays may also reopen to sup- ply Japan with concentrates. Want Milk Distributed As Utility Women’s Conference Hears Distribution Cost Of Milk Five Cents. 72 DELEGATES Distribution of Vancouver’s milk supply as a public utility, with freedom to choose either raw or pasteurized milk, was a proposal that obtained unani- mous support at a conference of 48 women’s organizations in the Women’s Building here Monday. Indignation against the rising cost of living was voiced by many delegates and an elected confer- ence committee was instructed to call a mass meeting on May 2 to take further action and to organize a Greater Vancouver Housewives’ League. Called by an initiative committee of ten, which appointed W. Purvis, Advocate staff writer, to present its plan of action and proposals, the conference endorsed the idea that a clean-up of the deplorable milk distributing system in the See MILE. (Continued on page 5) Obtain a WYFIP Medal John Peel had nothing on us. WYFIPS are on the scent. the new subscriptions. Leading WYEFIP is Ol’ Bill, who slipped the leash this week and now shows 29 per cent of his quota. The local hunt formed by the Re- lief Project Workers’ Union is sec- ond with 14 per cent. Vancouver Centre and Vencouver East hunts with 11 and 9 per cent, respectively, are coming along nice- ly, but there are still some outside hunts that have yet to give tongue. We're selecting for special men- tion Paul Bedner of the Commer- cial Hotel in Vancouver. Heeding our exhortation, ““‘Win Your Friends and Influence People—to Subscribe to the People’s Advocate and the Clarion Weekly,’ he has already turned in $5. The Press Drive committee, pnt of the nation.” r which includes all the chief WYFIP Hounders, is considering the strik- ing off of a medal for those desery- ing special mention. Design sug- gested is a Duplessis prostrate sur- mounted by a broken padlock, with something suited to British foreign policy on the reverse side. Our main difficulty is that none of the engravers we have approached can execute all the intricate twists and double faces in the foreign policy design. Relief Strike : CALGARY, Alta., March 31.—Re- lief recipients here plan to go on strike next Wednesday, April 6. Win Your Friends -- And Influence Them To Subscribe The newly-established WYFIP Hounders (BC Sub-Hunt) is over-running the country. From White Rock to Atlin, fom Port Alberni to Cranbrook, the Asa result, all we can get out of Bill Ravenor, Master of the WYFIP Hounders and organizer for the People’s Advocate-Clarion Press Drive committee, is something that sounds suspiciously like “Tallyho!” as he tallies Dr. Tao To Speak Here Chinese-Scholar Back From London Meet Distinguished Chinese patriot, Dr. Heng Chih Tao, just returned from the international peace con- ference in London, England, to complete his interrupted American tour, will address a public meeting at Denman street Auditorium Tues- day, April 19, 8 pm. Dr. Tao, who speak perfect Eng- lish, recently conferred with Dr. Wellington Koo, eminent Chinese statesman, and is fully conversant with the Huropean crisis as well as the Sino-Japanese conflict. He played a prominent part in the Zon- don congress, which was presided over by Lord Robert Gecil of Chel- wood, and which consolidated 122,- 000,000 people for continuation of the international Japanese boycott. Among the accomplishments of Dr. Tao is the production of six volumes of People’s Poetry and Songs. His chairman at the meet- ing here will be A. M. Stephen. Like this heavy armored truck bogged down in the mud of northern China, the Japanese military machine, harassed by Chinese guerilla tactics, has been brought to a virtual standstill : DEMAND ARMS FOR LOYALISTS City Rally For Spain Monday Stirred by the heroic struggle of the Spanish people anti-fascists the world over—trade unionists, members of the progressive political parties and non-party democrats alike—are demonstrating to demand of their govern- ments the granting of the right to purchase arms to the Republican government of Spain. As munitions artillery, planes and troops from Germany and Italy pour in to aid Franco sentiment in the democratic countries against the policy which denies the loyalists arms to defend themselves mounts high. On Monday next, April 4, at 2 p.m., m Powell Street Grounds, Vancouver democrats will have an opportunity to demonstrate their opposition to the King government’s ban on shipment of arms and munitions to Spain and its adherence to the pro-fascist British foreign policy. They will have an opportunity to de- mand that the ban be lifted immediately. Speakers at this rally, under Communist party auspices, will be Harold Winch, MILA, CCF; A. M. Stephen, League for Peace and Democracy; Tom Ewen, Communist party. City Seeks Relief Aid Crone, Corey-to Go To Victoria This Month Faced with an influx of several thousand unemployed men when project camps closeitdown in two weeks, Vancouver city council re- cently appealed to, the dominion government for consideration of its special problem, onty ‘to be an- swered by the federal minister of labor that it is not a federal re- sponsibility. The telegram from Hon. Norman Rogers to Acting Mayor J. -W. Gor- nett read: “Subject matter of your telegram discussed with Mayor Millér when in Ottawa. Dominion makes grant- in-aid direct to province, but does not control financial arrangements between provincial governments and municipalities. “At the moment the dominion is carrying out to the letter its com- mitments as contained in several former agreements, and its present relief legislation as entered into with the province after due study and deliberation of the problems confronting the province of British Columbia.” Wotwithstanding this telegram, Ald. H. DeGraves won support for his motion that Relief Adminis- trator Bone, Ald. H. L. Corey and Ald. Fred Crone should go to Vic- toria after April 1, “because our eity is in a different position to any other municipality in BC and should be given special considera- tion when disbursements from the new dominion $50,000 grant are made.’’ Ald. Corey stated that completion of the segregation of employables from unemployables and the trans- fer of single unemployed from provincial lists to city registers was expected daily and would afford a strong weapon with which to bar- gain with the government. CCF Convention CALGARY, Alta, March 31.—The national CCF convention will be held at Edmonton in July. Cod Probe Welcomed Fish Profiteers Mostly Whites, Union Declares “Tf Aldermen Wilson and De Graves would first make en- quiries at fishermen’s union headquarters, they wouldn’t have to resign from committees or be forced to retract statements, and that goes for Vancouver daily papers too.” Prepare For Big May Day Committee Anticipates Record Participation With Vancouver's May Day com- mittee working hard to make this historic celebration an event which will attract thousands of citizens in participation, a call to all progress- ive organizations was mailed this week requesting attendance of dele- | gates at a second conference, to be held Saturday, April 16, 7:30 pm, at O’Brien Hall, 404 Homer street. Several committees elected at the first conference held March 19, are making initial preparations, and a permit for the parade has been granted by the police department. The conference call draws atten- tion to the need for solidarity of progressive people on May Day, Stating: “May Day celebration this year should bring to the attention of organized labor and the people gen- erally the danger of world war and the immediate menace of fascism in Canada, as expressed in the Que- bec padlock law. “Our celebration this year should be a rallying point around which to mobilize the people of Vancouver in defence of our democratic rights, in protection of world peace. and to express solidarity with our broth- ers in other countries.” Lack of funds hampers plans in the making, Chairman Bill Stewart told the Advocate, and assistance will be appreciated at committee headquarters, Room 44, 615 West Hastings street. So desiares: Jack Gavin= secre- tary of the Pacific Fishermen’s union, replying to questions of al- leged domination of codfish prices by Japanese in Vancouver. Credence to charges made by Chris Johnson, city fish dealer, last Monday to the city council, was given by Ald. H. Wilson and Ald. HE. De Graves, who saw in these charges another opportunity to attack Japanese residents. They were instructed to investigate the situation at Campbell avenue fish wharf, Ald. De Graves withdraw- ing later when not permitted by the council to go to Seattle on the codfish price question. Johnson claimed that Japanese fixed the price of cod for Vancou- ver consumption at 6 cents for large fish and 7 cents for medium. But in a recent week they shipped 80,000 pounds of cod to Seattle at 3% cents a pound, which netted them 21% cents per pound. He also declared that Vancouver has the lowest fish consumption per head in Canada, but had this Seattle shipment been kept \here the gen- eral retail price could have been reduced to 5 cents per pound. Ale. Wilson said he had heard rumors of this Japanese control, pointing out that during Lent there was an increased demand for fish and that the retail price of 121% cents was an artificial one based on the supposed scarcity of fish. Both aldermen thought Johnson “a very reliable man.” The fishermen*s union secretary scored the obvious attempt to throw the blame on Japanese fish dealers alone. Gavin declared that investigation will show that two- thirds of Vancouver fish dealers are whites, and are therefore the controlling factor. See COD (Continued on page 6) AUSTRIA—FIRST STAGE OF THE ROSENBERG PLAN ° Hitler Dreams Of The Swastika Over All Europe ONDON, Eng., March 31.— Hitler has accom- plished the first stage of a against world peace. The absorption of Austria is the first item of the Nazis’ fundamental doctrine of foreign policy—the so-called Rosenberg plan. It goes on to prepare for a Germanic Union cover- ing from the Alps to the English Channel the whole of Central Europe. The Nazi dream is of a German Empire that will enslave Western Europe and powers. For the Rosenberg plan prescribes, in addition to the end of Austria: Detachment of the German part of Switzerland from the French part. Breaking up Czechoslovakia so that German Bo- hemia, Moravia and Silesia become part of the Ger- manic Union. Splitting off the Flemish part of Belgium, together with Brabart and Luxembourg. Holland to be incorporated in the German Empire, gigantic conspiracy paralyze all other Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania—the Baltic States to be incorporated. Seizure of Western Flanders and Lorraine from France, South Tyrol from Italy, South Styria from Jugoslavia, Schleswig from Denmark. Population of the new German Empire would be 100,000,000. France would be crushed by an almost three-fold strength of man-power. In Holland and Switzerland, it would outflank the concrete wall of French defences. Poland would be in its power. Great Britain would be 90 percent paralyzed mili- tarily. From the Belgian and Dutch north seacoast, it would end finally the epoch of splendid isolation of Britain. Long-range guns would be mounted in the im- mediate vicinity of the English Channel and air-force depots established on the coast. Should Britain protest, then it would once again be “perfidious Albion” and “Gott Strafe England”— but without the ratio of forces of 1914. When the Germanic Union dictates to Europe, says the Rosenberg Plan, then it will proceed to the second part of its task—the conquest of Russia and of the road to Asia. The Rosenberg Plan has never been published— though Alfred Rosenberg philosopher of Nazidom and of the race theory, and the one-time chief of the Nazi diplomatic service, has boasted of its scope. It formed the background of everything Hitler wrote about his foreign policy in Mein Kampf. Its main lines are embodied in the first lines of the official Nazi program: “We demand the union of all Germans... to form himself, the political a Great Germany. All those who are of German blood, whether they live under Danish, Polish, Czech, Italian or French suzeranity, are to be united in one German Reich.” The Nazis in Austria, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia have openly applied its demands to their own countries. Continued on page 6 — See HITLER ILITIA Scab Crew Damages BC Whaler Scabs Ousted, Pact With IBU Signed After Three-Week Struggle. DRYDOCK SHIP It doesn’t pay to hire a scab crew while trying to shirk re- sponsibilities and pay lower wages than are called for in a signed union agreement. The good ship SS. Grey, tender to a whaling fleet of six ships, lies in drydock with 4a cracked tail shaft, smashed rudder, hole in the bow and two damaged booms, the results of handling by a scab erew. After three weeks’ hard bargain- ing with the ship owners, the In- land Boatmen’s Union, with Secre- tary Jim Maskell in the lead, suc- ceeded in gaining recognition for the 1937 agreement not yet expired. The scabs were told to go and the regular wages and conditions re- stored. * Services of Dominion Fair Wage Officer F. HW. Harrison and Mr. Currie were obtained in the dis- pute, as the new provincial labor legislation did not apply. These officials readily saw the justice of the IBU demands and declared their position to be with the sea_ men. The settlement was made at Bellvue, Washington, Signed by W. Schupp for the company. The crew of the SS. Grey was solid in its demand for a dismissal of the incompetent scabs, and re- ported to its union of the large amount of liquor given to these strikebreakers to keep them aboard. Before the crew went back to work it demanded and received assur- ance from the company that sey- eral previously blacklisted men would be hired when the fleet goes out in April. Maskell told the Advocate that higher wages would be sought when the new agreement came up, on the grounds that the work is seasonal—April to September. Padlock Law Court Test ULFTA Takes Supreme Court Action Over Raid MONTREAL, Que., March 31,— Ukrainian Labor Farmer Temple Association (ULETA), here has taken action in the Supreme Court against Col. P: A. Pinze, provincial police director, to have the pad- locks removed from its premises which were raided by provincial police, January 25. Compensation of $2,000 and the return of 1,200 books is asked by this cultural organization, which declared in a petition that educa- tion on purely cultural subjects was grven on the premises. Police allege that Communism was being taught. Outcome of this test case is held important by democratic elements, particularly in view of the recent refusal by Premier Duplessis to attend a conference called by Hon. Ernest Lapointe, minister of jus- tice, to discuss the province’s pad- lock law. Irish Workers Back Boycott DUBLIN, IFS, Mareh 31. — A complete boycott of all Japanese goods entering the port of Dublin has been decided on by the Irish Seamen’s and Port Workers’ union. The Hands off China movement is making efforts here to have the government place an embargo on Japanese imports. Imports from Japan in 1936 to- talled $2,042,135, consisting mainly of artificial silk goods, canned fish and other foods, toys and cotton goods, and so on, while Irish ex- ports were only $685. Jobless Insurance OTTAWA, Ont., March 31. — Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the House of Commons Mon- day the government thought it “not desirable’ that a statement should be made at present as to whether unemployment insurance would be introduced this Session. The prime minister would not discuss the possibility of the do- minion proceeding with enactment of an insurance measure even if the provinces did not unanimously agzee.