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FRIDAY APR, 3, 1938

‘Pigs Is Pigs’
) A CAPTAIN of Police on the

Vancouver force has
demonstrated that the police
(or some of them) are phil-
osophers as well as guardians
of lor *n’ order.

It happened this way. Fol-
lowing a mass meeting, a dele-
gation of Vancouver citizens
waited upon the Italian Vice-
Consul to protest the actions
of the Italian government on
its shameless war of invasion
upon the people of Spain. The
delegation was headed by
A. M. Stephen, provincial
president of the League for
Peace and Democracy.

At the Italian consulate the
delegation was met with all
the arrogant froth of a vest-
pocket Mussolini. Bullying,
threatening, insulting lan-
Buage to a Canadian delega-
tion from the pig-sty of neo-
Roman “culture.” In the pro-
cess, the vice-consul tore the
documents expressing the
condemnation of Vancouver
people of the massacre of
Spanish people, from the
hands of Mr. Stephen, tore
them up, and stated his con-
tempt for Canadian democra-
ey and Canadian delegations.

The delegation then pro-
ceeded to the German Con-
sulate, but Il Duce had phoned
Der Fuehrer in the meantime
and the representative of
“Aryan Kultur” was not in.
He had remembered an urg-
ent engagement — perhaps
with a couple of other Nazis
in their official hangout at
16th and Main.

The delegation called at the
police station to lay charges
against the Italian Vice-Con-
sul for destruction of proper-
ty, other than what was desig-
mated for his office. The po-
lice, as usual in such cases,
hemmed and hawed and didn’t
think anything could be done.
“The matter was so trivial.”
Then a bright smile illumi-
“nated the rather kindly face
of the captain and brought
forth a gem of philosophy that
merits a PhD.

“Tf you boys insist in going
into a pig-sty, you mustn't be
surprised if you get messed
up.”

For once we are in agree-
ment with the police. A fas-
fist pig-sty that requires im-
mediate cleaning out.

Public Utilities
VENHAT the interest of the
Vancouver public in pub-
lic utilities is becoming great-
er is evidenced by the special
attention given to this ques-
tion by the city council. A
special committee of the city
council has been appointed to
investigate the establishing of
milk distribution as a public
utility.

Mayor Miller opposes the
scheme. He is in favor of con-
tinuing the present wasteful,
competitive method of dis-
tributing milk, with the cost
of duplication and overlap-
ping of delivery routes being
added onto the price paid by
the consumer. Mayor Miller
opposes the appointment of
the committee on milk be-
cause he thought it would be
just “kidding the troops.” But
although he is the first magis-
trate here, he is not yet city
manager or dictator, and if a
majority of the aldermen are
for city-controlled milk dis-
tribution, then the mayor, in
the interest of democratic
management of city affairs,
will have to acquiesce.

A special meeting of the
council will be held to discuss
purchase by the city of the
services now controlled by
the B.C. Electric, bus and
street car transportation, gas,
light and power. Those res-
ponsible for the suggestian
claim that the city’s charter
gives it power to make the
transfer.

The proposal will meet with
general approval. But we may
expect to hear many argu-
ments that municipal manage-
ment is never as efficient as
private ownership, and that

grait will become prevalent.
These arguments will not car-
Ty much weight. Under city
management, as well as priy-
ate, those responsible for ef-
ficiency can be discharged if
they do not produce it, and
grafters can be similarly dealt
with. Ifa city council neglects
to check these bad features,
then the citizens have the
privilege to elect a city coun-
cil that will attend to them.

The efficiency of the B.C.
Electric is the efficiency that
brings in profits—that is all.
Service to the people of Van-
couver and its environs is not
the reason why this company
operates.

Management by a city com-
mission should correct quick-
ly the madequate transporta-
tion service visible practically
at all hours of the day. And
then maybe, we would see the
last of those atrocities known
as one-man cars,

Unity Growing In
Ontario

IN THE fifteenth day of
| this month a conference
of trades unions will be held
in Toronto for the purpose of
forming an Ontario Federa-
tion of Labor.

The question has already
been mooted in the Province
of Quebec, but Ontario is mak-
ing the first definite organiza-
tional advance.

The formation of provincial
federations of organized labor
in the Hast has been hastened
by the rapid steps towards
fascization already taken by
Premier Duplessis, and the
open sympathy with the Du-
plessis policy shown by Pre-
mier Hepburn. A United
Front of Labor in Ontario
will upset Premier Hepburn’s
applecart if he moves sudden-
ly to padlock Ontario democ-
racy, and when the labor un-
ions unite the next logical step
would be unity between the
CCF and the Communist
party.

A provineial federation is
as urgently needed in BC as
in Ontario. Bis Business is
just as anti-labor here as it is
in Ontario. Pattullo is the
agent of Big Business here as
Hepburn is in Ontario.

Trade union unity must
come, or fascism will.

Going Up!

Hf price of pork, beef and
lamb rose sharply last
week. Lamb at twenty-one
cents per pound is as unat-
tainable for the common peo-
ple as turkey is at the Christ-
mas season. If prices continue
to rise, meats of all kinds, ex-
cept hamburger and hot dogs,
will be in the luxury class to
most wage-earners in the city.

Of course, we have the so-
cial welfare people who are
ever ready to suggest how to
cut down on the quantities
we eat, how to rob stomachs
at the price of general vitality.
One suggestion is that bread
should be buttered before it
is placed on the table. This
bright idea is to save on but-
ter. It’s a wonder they don’t
say dispensing with eating en-
tirely.

The Greater Vancouver
Housewives’ League has been
called into existence by the
high cost of living. Its work
is already cut out for it, but
this work will not be accom-
plished unless its numbers
and. influence grow large
enough to actually effect the
purchasing of particular com-
modities. It can reduce dras-
tically the demand for but-
ter, eggs, or meat, by a con-
eerted refusal to buy until
prices come down. This has
been accomplished in Toron-
to, and there is no reason why
it cannot be done in Vancou-
ver and other BC centres.

The London “Times” has
kept up its tradition of learn-
ing in a leader on the Mos-
cow Trials which has attract-
ed much interest. It says:
“Nations ... may find paral-
lels to these proceedings in
the records of their own pasts.
Elizabethan England, distin-
guished by a great outburst
of vigorous national life such
as its bitterest critics acknow-
ledged in the Russia of Stalin
... Lhe Elizabethan demean-
ed himself as does the Bolshe-
vist.” “I must confess to you,”
said the Earl of Essex at the
end of a flood of self-aecusa-
tion, “that I am the greatest,

the most vilest and most un-
thankful traitor that has ever
been in the land.”

An Editorial Reprinted From The Daily Clarion, Toronto

Canada’s Foreign Policy Must Be Changed

7§N\HE Hon. lan Mackenzie, in his speech in the house of commons last Thursday, outlined the government’s foreign policy.
Those who had expected that the sovernment would outline a clear-ut policy in support of collective security against
war and fascist aggression were bitterly disappointed.
Although the King government did not dare to openly endorse the pro-fascist foreign policies of the Chamberlain govern-
ment, it i$ crystal clear that King and his cabinet are still dragging Canada along in the wake of those Downing street policies

which have helped Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese warlords, those dangerous policies which have brought the world to the
very brink of a new world war.

On the one hand, the govern-
ment asks for 35 million dollars,
on top of the 36 million yoted last
year, for bombing planes, coastal
defences, anti-aircraft guns and
expansion of the air forces, navy
and militia —justifying these in-
ereased defense expenditures by
pointing to the danger confront-
ing Canada which arises from the
war-instigators of Berlin, Rome
and Tokio.

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peo this angle of the govern-

ment’s reasoning it can be
seen that King and his cabinet
“recognize” the fact that the ever-—
increasing aggression of the fas-
cist triple-alliance will, unless
halted by the democracies of the

world, eventually threaten the
territories and peoples of the
American continent.

Tf this is not so... then why

does the government lay so much
stress upon spending millions to
repulse invading air fleets and
navies on our Pacific and Atlantic
seaboards ?

And is there a thoughtful man
or woman anywhere in Canada
who hesitates even a moment in
answering the question: “Whom
are we defending our coasts and
security against?”

The answer is quite clear. It is
the fascist triple-alliance of Ber-
lin, Rome and Tokio, the bestial
murderers who are now devastat-
ing Barcelona, who are laying
China waste, who are making a
hell-prison of Austria — who
menace Worth American democ-
Tacy and democracy the world
Over.

On the other hand, the King
government clearly intends to con-
tinue to drag our country behind
those very policies which have en-
couraged, recognized and made
possible the predatory wars and
provocations of the fascist triple
alliance.

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ET there be no misunderstand-
ing! Let no one fall for the
transparent trick that aims to
“prove” that the organized labor
movement of Canada is in favor

By Victoria Post

A YOUNG man, flourishing a
cablegram in his hand, ap-
proached Benny Goodman late

one night when that famous
“swing” artist was packing up
his clarinet and said he had

something to tell him. Benny,
being an obliging guy who listens
to anybody, heard what the
young man had to say, and cast
a willing eye over the message.

It deseribed the plight of the
refugee women and childrn, flee-
ing from the terror of fascist
armies invading Catalonia.

Pulling out his cheque book,
Benny wrote a figure which made
the young man’s eyes nearly pop
out of his head, but that wasn’t
all.

“Now look,” said Benny, “this
isn’t going to feed everybody for
very long. Let’s do something on
a bigger scale. Lots of people in
the theatre, in music, will help.
We'll put on a big affair, get
these ‘people to perform and raise
much more money.”

The affair was organized in
Wew York, and more than $5,000
was sent to Spain as a result.
Sylvia Sydney, Constance Cum-
mings, Rex Ingram, Leon Barzin,
mational symphony conductor,
and many other well known art-
ists took part.

Since then many other similar
shows have been arranged. The
Hollywood Spanish Committee
has’ sent more than a dozen am-
bulaneces to Spain, one being
driven to New York, stopping at
every town, city or village on
the way to collect supplies and
funds for Spain.

OW Catalonia, with its teem-

ing thousands of refugees is
being cut off by Franco's Italian
and German armies. These help-
less women and children are be-
ing bombed mercilessly in a des-
perate effort to force the people
into submission. We know that
Spain will fight to the bitter end,

despite the fact that Franco
would have us believe that this
end is here, and now more than
ever we must rally to Spain's ald.

Protest to the MItalian and
German governments through

their consulates by phone, letter,
or personal delegation, and de-

mand that munitions and men be
stopped from entering Spain.

Raise funds for food and shel-
ter and medical supplies for refu-
gee women and children, and for
moral and physical support of the
combatant forces of the loyalist
armies, including our own Mac-
kenzie-Papineau Battalion.

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of stripping our country of her
means of defense and that labor
is not ready to spring to the de-
fense of Canada against fascist
invasion of our shores!

The labor movement of Canada
is ready and willing to defend Ca-
nadian democracy against foreign
fascist aggressors, just as it is ex
erting every effort to bring to
naught the schemes of the fascist-
minged Drews and Arcands who
are striving for the same ends: the
destruction of democracy and the
triumph of fascism all over the
world.

The labor movement defines its
attitude to the question of armia-
ments and defense estimates, tak—
ing into consideration the policies
now being followed by the King
government.

HE Hon. fan Mackenzie, how-
ever, did not mention the
opinions of our government in re-
gard to the Hitler invasion of
Austria. Why?

Prec:s-ly because the Kirg gov-
ernment has fallen in with the
Chamberlain policy of acquies-
eence to Hitler’s violation of
Austria’s independence. No other
answer is possible.

On Sunday, March 13, Hitler
troops invaded Austria while
Italian shock troops launchcd a
heavy attack upon Loyalist Spain
and the inhuman bombardments
of Barcelona began.

The world now knows that the
fascist dectators speeded up their
onslaught against peace and de
moecracy precisely because they
had been given a free hand by
Chamberlain.

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INCE then Chamberlain has
taken Herbert Channon and
Mr. Lennox-Boyd, two known fas-
cists, into his government.

Since then it has become known
that Chamberlain three times, be-
tween February 20 and March 11,
flatly rejected proposals of the
French government that Britain
and France would jointly waru
Hitler against encroaching upon
Austrian independence.

Since then the world has been
outraged ‘because Chamberlain’s
government ignored the out.
stretched hand of the United
States and the Soviet Union, while
continuing to intrigue with Mus-
solini and Hitler and move to-
wards a deal with Japan.

Chamberlain is betraying
British democracy.

Chamberlain is betraying the
peoples of the British empire.

Hitler Mussolini and the fas-
eists of Furope are being given
a free hand. Manchuria, Ethiopia,
Spain, China, have been sacri-
ficed to fascist barbarism.

Czechoslovakia is next in line to
be betrayed by Chamberlain.

France has been stabbed in the
back.

Instead of co-operating with the
Soviet Union, France, the United
States, Spain, China and the smal-
ler nations of Europe, the Gham-
berlain government is intriguing
with, and coming to agreements
with tthe war-instigator states.

This, in spite of the fact that
every Sane person knows that Hit-
ler aims to “clean up’ on con-
tinental Europe first and then
turn his fascist guns and bombing
planes upon England. This in face
of the fact that Mussolini is out
to make the Mediterranean a
fascist lake, to cut Britain’s com-
munications to India and Egypt
and the far east.

The British people are not in
favor of giving the fascists a
free hand. They are aware that
such a policy will cut England’s
throat.

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HAMBERLAIN, in tight cor

ner, is now trying to justify
his pro-fascist policy by spread-
ing the lie that the British do-
minions endorse his policy, that
Canada, Australia, New Zealand
and other British countries favor
giving Hitler a free band in
Czechoslovakia.

Yet, in the fact of this alarm-
ing situation, when the world
trembles on the rink of war, the
King government refuses to dis-
sociate itself and Canada from
the Chamberlain foreign policies
which have had such disastrous
consequences.

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AN MACKENZIE urges Canada

to stand behind Britain ... but
the truth is that Chamberlain
does not represent the real Bri-
tain at all! The British labor
movement is against Chamber-
lain’s pro-fascist policy and for
collective security. The British
Liberals and great sections of
Chamberlain’s own Conservative
party are also against his policies.
Chamberlain does not speak for
Britain by any means. Ian Mac-

kenzie is not speaking for the
peace-loving people of Canada
either when he demands that

Canada's foreign policies dovetail
with Chamberlain’s.betrayals.

The grandiloqguent words ut-
tered by the minister of defense
about the need to guard democ-
racy and peace sound hollow and
hypocritical when all of this is
considered.

There are yet other facets of
the present foreign policies of the
King government that deserve
consideration—those of the atti-
tude of our government to the
situation in China and Spaih.

Canada is virtually acting as a
munitions base for the Japanese
army of invasion.

a member

China is of the

League of Nations, entitled to aid
and support from Canada in her
hour of trial. But the King goy-
ernment chooses to leave China
to her fate ... and to make it
possible for corporations such as
International Nickel to make mil-
lions in war profits!

Canadians are in favor of ex
panding their country’s foreign
trade, but are against this in-
human war-traffic in base metals
to Japan which benefits the Japa-
mese war-lords and a few Cana-
dian millionaires ... while, at the
Same time the Canadian people
are asked to shoulder the burdens
entailed in fortifying the Pacific
coast against the very Japanese
war machine that is now kept go-
ing with Canadian metals! This
is the “logic” of the King “peace”
policy . .. a counterpart of the
policy followed by Chamberlain
towards Hitler in Europe! Aiding
those who are already sharpen-
ing their knives to cut our throats
on the morrow!

)

OR could Mackenzie, in his

lengthy speech find a word
to say about the horrible bom-
bardments of the civilian popula-
tion of Barcelona, or about the
fact that, under the infamous
“non -intervention”’ agreement,
thousands of German and italian
troops, hundreds of planes and
shiploads of munitions, have land-
ed in Spain during the past
month to reinforce Franco.

Actions speak louder than
words. Lhe King cabinet’s posi-
tion for the past period, and to-
day, dovetail into Chamberlain’s
scheme of things ... and aid the
fascist aggressors.

The Canadian people are not in
fayor of such policies. This can
be judged from hundreds of ex-
amples. Only the reactionary
newspapers of the ultra-reaction-
ary multi-millionaire circles have
had the gall to uphold the Cham-
berlain policies. Everyone knows
that The Toronto Telegram, The
Globe and Mail, The Montreal
Gazette and the fascist Arcand’s
lIllustration Nouvelle do not rep-
resent the opinions of the Cana-
dian people.

it is no accident that rabid
Tory jingoes such as T. L. Church,
MP, and outspoken fascists like
Colonel Drew, can find nothing
wrong with King’s present for-
eign policies, except that he is
not spending 10 times as much
money on armaments.

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HE Canadian labor movement

wants to, and is doing every-
thing to keep Canada out of war,
to guarantee that our soil will
never be dishonored with the
criminal brutalities of fascism.
Labor realizes that Canada can
be kept at peace ... only if war
is kept out of the world.

This means that the concrete
job of work to be done today is
to take such action as would
bring an end to the wars now go-
ing on in Spain and China, and
to halt Hitler aggression in cen-
tral Hurope. This means that all
who cherish peace and democ-
racy should rally firmly around
the greatest bulwark of peace—
the Soviet Union—which, by its
domestic and foreign policies,
gives courage and inspiration to
the workers and common people
of all countries.

@
HE forces of peace and democ-
Tracy are many times stronger
than the forces that drive to-
wards war.

Over in Britain a mighty move-
ment is gathering force to throw
overboard Chamberlain and his
pro-fascist policy. In China and
Spain the heroic workers, peas-
ants and common people are vali-
antly resisting the fascist invad-
ers and will surely defeat them
if the labor movement of the

world and all progressives do
their sacred duty.
A marked change is taking

place in the United States. The
government there, and the major-
ity of the people, realize that a
policy of isolation cannot pro-
tect America from fascist aggres-
sion ... but that the warmakers
must be quarantined. There are
still opportunities to bring the
peace forces of the world to-
gether, and to take those meas-
ures which alone would halt fas-
cist aggression—the measures of
collective security, the measures
to uphold international law, the
measures to aid the victims of un-
provoked fascist aggression.

R. J. Tallon, secretary of the
Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada, made organized labor’s

position clear on March 15 when
he called for determined action
on the part of world democracy
to prevent world war and further
fascist aggressions.

M. J. Coldwell, MP, national
chairman of the CCF, on March
18 gave voice to the sentiments
of millions of Canadians when he
drew the lessons from the peace
sentiments of Cordell Hull, US
secretary of state, and Maxim
Litvinov, minister of foreign afi-
fairs of the Soviet Union, saying
that these statements from repre-
sentatives of two powerful states
gave renewed hope for the
achievement of collective security
and the prevention of war.

Liberal opinion in favor of col-
lective security has been placed
before the nation and the govern-
ment in the news columns and
editorials of The Toronto Daily

Star and The Winnipeg Free
Press. Both of these influential
and authoritative newspapers
have severely condemned the

Chamberlain policy.

A. A. MacLeod, national chair-
man of the Canadian League for
Peace and Democracy, expressed
the viewpoint of the peace-loving
Ganadian people when he called
upon the government to dissoci-
ate itself from the Chamberlain
“appeasement” policy which is
leading the empire and the world
to war, and to take a firm stand
for collective security and peace.

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Hie issue stands clearly before
the Canadian people. We
must, shouder to shoulder with
the British people, and with the
forces of peace and democracy
throughout the world, fight
against the policies that are lead-
ing the world to a new world war.
We must strengthen our fight
against fascism, that worst enemy
of humanity. We must battle
against all those such as Cham-
berlain and King, who give com-
fort and aid to the fascist war-
instigators and betray democracy,

peace and collective security.

Every labor organizatin in the
dominion, every labor-progressive
individual should realize the ur-
gency of the present situation
... and without losing any more
precious time get into action to
arouse every man, woman and
youth from Halifax to Vancou-
ver to a realization of our duty.

United action on the part of the
Ganadian people, hundreds of im-
posing mass demonstrations and
meetings, discussions in every
labor -progressive organizations,
more aid to Spanish democracy
and the Chinese people to help
them smash the fascist invaders
—united pressure upon the King
government from all Canadians
who cherish peace and democ-
racy, demanding a break with the
pro-fascist Chamberlain policy
and the adoption of a policy of
collective security and co-opera-
tion with the democratic forces—
this is the need of the moment.

Stage
and
Screen

By John R. Chaplin

OW Associated Film Audiences
rates the new pictures:

BLUEBEARD'S HIGHTH
WifE: Unimpressive production
in which Claudette Colbert under-
takes to tame a wild millionaire
(Gary Cooper).

JOY OF LIVING: Irene Dunne
and Doug. Fairbanks, Jr., heading
a good cast in a comedy which
aims at the high mark set by
The Awful Truth, but fails to
score a bull’s eye. However,
there’ll be worse.

HER JUNGLE LOVE: Dorothy.
Lamour, fairest flower of the
tropics, plays ministering angel
to a couple of lost aviators and
proves she’s a white girl. Songs,
technicolor and a lot of slithering
crocodiles,

SKIT BATTALION: Rousing
portrayal of the Russian hero,
Toivo Antikainen, now serving
life term in a Finnish prison.
Good, red-blooded drama.

WHERE THE WEST BEGINS:
Fanecy-pants horse opera that
needs less singing and more
shooting, especially the producers.

TIP-OFF GIRLS: Well done.
Should rank as the consolation
picture on many a double-feature
bill. Old business of Gman
versus racketeer, and who do you
think gets the worst of it?

OLLYWOOD. — Far-reaching

and significant is the recent
decision handed down by Judge
Curtis Bok (son of Edward Bok,
and grandson of Cyrus H. K.
Curtis, famed capitalist publish-
ers) in reversing Pennsylvania
censors’ ban on the Soviet film,
Baltic Deputy. The film, you will
recall, was banned despite the
fact that chief censor, Mrs. A.
Mitchell Palmer, thought it con-
tained the “most magnificent act-
ing Ive ever seen. But I don’t
like Communists.” In authorizing
showings of Baltic Deputy, Judge
Bok who, though a millionaire,
is famed for his interest in social
experiment (he spent some time
in Russia a few years back)
pointed out that censorship is
contrary to American ideals of
free speech, and that the censors
are supposed to restrict them-
selves to matters involving public
morals. “Prejudice can wear the
mask of principle,’ he said, “and
we might at least feel a ring of
Sincerity in the censors’ position
if they also sought to bar some
of the emanations from MHolly-
wood—pathos that burns with the
slow fire of decay, adventure that
makes potential criminals of chil-
dren, false values that fan the
Communistic inpulses far more
than the hard vigor of an agi-
tator.’

By
OL’ BIEL

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«=, + 5, broke and the ¢ jx
Sanitaire” ernment stepped | |
and confiscated the oil wells tr |s
were only carrying out the 1] 4
of Mexico just as the Canad! Ԥ,
authorities were carrying i |
their law when they shot do,
the trekkers at Regina or gas! ||,
and clubbed the longshoremen *}
Ballantyne Pier.

Lombardo Tolendano, secrets
sof the Mexican Federation
Labor (CTM), is authority fori ;
statement that the foreign capi §
invested in Mexican oil was m¢
than paid back ten years ago a §
that low wages and taxes plac
these foreign exploitators in
favorable position in the wo
oil market. Only their greed ji ©
vented them granting the
creased wages. :

The capitalists are class ce
scious. Already steps have be
taken to bring the Mexican gi
ernment “to its senses.”” 4
purchase of Mexican silver
the US has been stopped 2 {
working hand in glove with Bi
ish oil thieves, proposals are 1»
ing discussed to seize Mexic
oil shipped abroad.

When confronted by the : |
complished fact of the rape ~
Austria by Hitler or the invasi”
of Spain by Mussolini, the tric
sters at the helms of the weste
democracies have the same ¢€!
swer, “It is too late to do ani
thing now.” But it is not too le
to put the screws on the tri -
democratic government of Me
ico. ‘“INon-intervention” was us!
in the attempt to destroy dema
racy in Spain, “intervention” |
to be used for the same purpo
in Mexico. |

When the Soviet workers we}
fighting to save their count)
from the wolves of imperialism
“cordon. sanitaire’ was set 1
around them which prevent
them even from getting medicil
and surgical supplies for the
sick and wounded. Another “cs
don sanitaire” will be establishe
but it will not be the Nazi at
Fascist homicidal maniacs wl
will be quarantined but the Me
ican people for the “cordon saq
taire” is one of those laws tht
are only for the poor. 5

The workers of Canada and tt
United States must put all the

weight behind their Mexica
brothers. j
e i
Harvey R. Ma
After Me millan, one of tt

The Deluge! pinors of the ani
union clause in Pearson's aut
labor bill, is a big noise in i
dustry. So it is quite natural i
him to defend the export of 5
logs and tell the board of trae
that it is “no more the concel
of the government what Ws
done with the timber on thé
Jands (crown grant) than it wi
the business of the governme)
to interfere with what a hom
owner did with his lawn.” At
at the University Institute ty
days later a forestry expert fro
Cornell University, Professor
B. Racknagel, told that augu
body that at the present rate
eutting, the coast fir stand WwW
only last about ten years longet
Whose business is that?

@
One-third of our quot
Press 34.59 per cent! But @
Drive. thanks for this exe

lent standing are due mostly
the boys in the VSC and the bo
ers and rasslers who helped the
to put on a card that had ever
thing on it except Joe Lou
They chipped in with $28.34. 4
old battling sidekicker of my o¥
from Westminster, Jim Bla
boosted the quota with anoth
fivespot. Iuet them be an inspit
tion to us to roll up that cent