nr et rage Four 5 O"CASEY ON MOSCOW TRIALS Says Ireland Had Her Traitors, Too Famous Author Exposes Distortions Made By Commentators On Trials oe ws ee Sean O’Casey, author of “Juno and the Pay- ioe re ough and the Stars” and “The Silver Tassie’ takes hatred of « a of the many writers who, seeking to qustify their re6br figs 7 / that the Soviet Union stands for, have distorted the (CNet trials at Moscow. O’ Casey draws a clear comparison with -April 22," THE PHOFZIr-s ADVOCATE CLASSIFIED §& ADVERTISING ADVERTISING RATES Classified, 3 lines 25c) Mion: and contract rates on applicat” BAKEREES i THOMPSONS BAKERY F Joyce Rd. carries full line of 4 cakes, bread. Baked on premise BEAUTY PARLORS. : at 5090 Joyce Road. FRIEDA BEAUTY SHOPPE | Centres Deny Pension To Royal City Vet’s Widow Struggled Along For 12 News From Provincial Council Raps Padlock Law Cumberland Merchants Back Japanese Boycott CUMBERLAND, BC, April 21.—(Special) —After repre- sentations had been made by the Cumberland local of the United Mine Workers of America to the Retail Merchants’ Association aN t daraabedioitcr Petition For Removal Of Magistrate Sih i Latinas aL Newest Permanent Wave — M 3 celling — All lines of Beauty GC}; ture. 684 Hast Hastings Stri Residents Of McBride the Baster _" Lebellion in, Trelan d 22 years ago, By SEAN O’CASEY ip TS strange to see people struggling desperately to make out be anything else than wha the Soviet trials to are. The latest Shaker-out of a geridge in a desperately-worded a mornings papers. At the head of the article, ¢ for treason and treachery.” So of the cross Over Mr. Muggerid mission to speak. rigible friends, ete, believes in their Validity, why this desperate effort to disprove them? “Nothing,” he Says, “like them has ever happened before — Robe- splerre’s slaughter of his associ- ates was a Straight-forward case of the paper makes the Russian sign ge before it sends him out on his t they actually show-up is a Mr. Malcolm Mug- rticle in one of London’s “Mr. Mug- some time and is well ac- of the political leaders now on trial confinement for months and in- tensive cross-examination, exhibit- ing an example of a breakdown under these circumstances by: tell- ing us that, after six months’ im- prisonment in a Geneva prison, Servetes begged the pardon of Cal- ake Serious Charges Against Police, Court Personnel. RELIEF CASE McBRIDE, BC, April 21— Serious charges against the police and local magistrate have been embodied in a pe- tition now being circulated among residents here. Representations haye been made to the attorney-general demanding a change in court personnel as the result of an alleged disgraceful scene in court. It is charged that a Civil case was mishandled. Resi- dents claim that scandalous condi- tions over a period of years have resulted from the administration of what is termed the “Kangaroo” court. Refusal by the local relief of- ficer to grant relief to a young full sympathy to support the issue. The union has appointed a com- mittee of five to supervise the boy- cott. A letter to Prime Minister Mac- Kenzie Kang urging his govern- ment to place an embargo on war shipments to Japan has been sent by the Retail Merchants Associa- tion. here urging members of the association to stop buying and selling goods made in Japan, the association declared itself with the boycott, while leaving it to the public o> as being in The city council, the board of trade and the union local have all endorsed resolutions urging repeal of the padlock law. The city council has also en- dorsed a resolution calling for an embargo on shipment of Ganadian war materials to Japan. ; Wagner Dam Breaks Bridge Washouts Near Fernie Disrupt Traffic FERNIE, BC, April 21—Bridge washouts near Morrisey, nine miles west of this city, caused considerable disruption in eastbound rail traffie this week.. Automobile traffic was also Years; Refused Pen- High. 5606. ig sion When Aid Was Needed. IGNORE EVIDENCE BICYCLES AND REPAIRS. BICYCLES, NEW AND USEI . Baby Carriages, Sulkies, Doll G” W. M. Ritchie, 1569 Gommerc kinds. Saws filed, xeys cut, ¢ Drive. High. 4123. 4 riages, Joycycies. Repairing of | q By GEORGE LANGSTAFE CAFES NEW WESTMINSTER, BC, April 21.—“I never thought I of Fresh Sea Food. Union Hou 20 Bast Hastings St. would experience such a fate,” Mrs. J. Gibbs, widow of an ex- service man, dead since 1921, told me this week. REX CAFE — JUICY STEAE Oysters, Chops, ete: One frie” tells another. 6 Hast Hastings CHIMNEY SWEEPING Mrs. Gibbs struggled alone with- out a pension for 12 years rather $1.50 Pipes, Furnace, Stove. Fraser 370. CLEANS MAIN FLU License; than be a burden, but in 1933 she found herself forced to apply to the government for aid. Private J, Gibbs at 54 years of age had served overseas 2 years in the 47th Bat- talion, having had previous mili- DANCING INSTRUCTION . i ] McKAY DANCE SGH. 3 5 5 1 i hr. baliroom or % br. ° y tap. 804 Hornby St., Sey. 564. 10 | Davie, Sey. 106. tary experience, only to suffer a lingering illmess which brought about his death in one year after DAIRIES { HILDAFREDS — 6493. FRASEI |;, rivalry for power with no ideolo. win. it's a silly thing to bring in | ™@n caused him to rum up a small/blocked by bridge washouts between here and Lizard Creel, | bis discharge from the army. aerend) Butter, Hees =. 2\weati gical frills. Tt is improbable that these middle-aged examples, about | Pil at the store, and two months j +76, miles to the west. On the basis of evidence submit-| fresh. is eae comparable could happen | which Mr. Muggeridge or I on any- later he managed to get a job in a Work trains and provincial goy- ted by a doctor, two nurses and a DENTISTS fe ee Connie in Russia and in | one knows next to nothing. or Saiee eh eS Sei ernment road crews were despatch-| Loop Creek here before flood wa-|™inister of religion, the JESUS ye SIPES, DENTIST. 2 prevailing there. Contemporary Examples. feanwhile, his mother succeede ed to make repairs, but there is pensions board found that Private Now, something comparable to what has happened in Russia hap- I can give him examples happen- ing in his own lifetime and in mine, in getting the relief officer to pay his bill at the store, not knowing still danger that melting snow on the mountains caused by the re- ters broke loose and swept through the centre of Malott, a town of some four hundred residents near J. Gibbs had died of cancer of the neck caused by his service in the Plate Specialist. Lowest Price {0 680 Robson St. Trinity 5716. DR. W. J. CURRY, DENTIST i Reece teland (Ouly a few years'| that our own hands eve Bansa, | “Tee Boe SOS Bel Sees 2 30% | gaat gost! o: Ailes spacass may | here. gicid- 301 Dominion Bank Buildin) 5 250; es under Muggeridge’s own | and our own eyes seen. The pole job finished, Ae youns | pring fresh washouts. Twenty-five homes and business| The Canadian Appeal Board at| Vancouver. Sey. 3001. ig nose, too. The contest in Ireland I knew a man who lived in| ™2n came back to McBride and buildings were washed into the, Ottawa chose to ignore the evi- DRUGS i over the terms of the treaty was, if ever there was one, an ideologi- Cal ‘strugele. " Over the ideological questions of the treaty, there were seventy-seven : ers é With the evidence to hand, it is Sone Be : official trials, was tame) came out again, and The prosecution found Je had no obvious that the Board of Appeal] 5 ¥DS. COW OR HORSE MANURE: some unofficial ones, the Carried on more vigorously then | case when it became obvious that e is neglecting its duty in view of for $3.00. T oil. Ph B latter strangely condoned by the ever, his fight as a Fenian. He was | had the relief officer granted re- Howard Osti an Sees Se Followinw gisass da Gas pen aa “U0. opsou. one Bay , Bench of Irish Catholic Bishops, | Tom Clarke, executed after Haster | lief when needed the question Siang. AER oad : 2 } in a letter sent to the press in Week, 1916. Daly was another. and | would not have arisen. : ELORISTS ; which they condemned killing : “On any application for pension, | done by the Republicans, while Sympahetically referring to the Same kind of killing by the Free Staters as “authorized murder.” So allowing, for the sake of argu- ment, the core of “ideology” in the present Russian trials, we find that something very comparable happened in Ireland only a few years ago. “Is there anything in the fantas- British jails for sixteen years, who was tortured in curious and cun- ning ways, but who never begged anyone’s pardon, but who, at last (probably when they thought he O'Donovan Rossa a third. Some of them went mad, but there is no record that I know of any one of them, even although their own church condemned them, becoming so braken as to Say that he had sinned. We have, too, the yesterday ex- amples of Dimitroff, and today’s example of Thaelmann, and of Ossietsky in Germany, and of Tom Mooney in the United States. This was immediately charged with un- lawfully, obtaining money, al- though he had no time to learn that his mother had obtained relief to pay the store bill. Friends of the family obtained Money to secure Lawyer P. Wil- son when it was seen that the lad was being urged to plead guilty “to avoid a long jail term.” He was promised suspended sentence on a plea of guilty. After accepting a fee of $75 to defend the ease the lawyer, a friend of the relief officer, advised the lad to plead guilty which he did, against the advice of friends. OKANAGAN, Wash. Resi- the breaking of Wagner Dam on dents here were barely warned of | Okanagan River and damage is es- timated to run into thousands of dollars, Effort To Smash Unions Federation. At the same~time Costigan an- Anti-New Deal Coalition SEATTLE, Wash., April 21—Belief that there will be an anti-New Deal political coalition ignoring party lines in the field for the fall elections was expressed this week by Howard Costigan, executive secretary of the Washington Commonwealth < nounced that a state convention | Cycle Fee dence of its travelling board, with the result that this deserving widow has not received the pen- Sion. the applicant shall be entitled to the benefit of the doubt; which Shall mean that it shall not be necessary for him to produce or adduce conclusive proof of his right to the pension applied for. But the body adjudicating on the claim shall be entitled to draw and Shall draw from all the circum- stances of the case.” Of a total of 9,085 pension ap- HOUGHLANDS DRUG STORE 45th & Wraser. Phone Fraser 28: Expert dispensary. ; ian «eA FERTILIZER — TOP SOIL GLENBURN FLORISTS—Flowen | for every occasion. .. . Funera ' wreaths, potted plants, weddinj if bouquets. 3736 Mast Hastings St High, 928. FOR SALE USED CARS — LATE MODELS= Priced arourd $150. Easy ter White Spot Service Station, 8097 Granville St, phone Marpole 683 - tic charges made?” asks the inno- suggestion of confinement and tor- | Observers declare they saw liquor | °f the federation and Labor’s Non- plicants, only 1,193 have been Res., Marpole 365-X. | cent Mr. M. eee eee 18 ture is but mean dust thrown into conveyed to the police barracks by ; Partisan League would probably granted pensions by the Appeal FOR RENT | 1 be something poured out of the mouths of the eriminals. Mr. M. goes on to argue that in the air on the- chance of it blind- ing the eyes of those who can see as well or better than Mr. Mug- geridge. the lawyer, who is stated to have assured the defence that “every- thing will turn out all right.” Confusion, obscene language and be held this summer with the ob- ject of uniting labor’s forces. “The drive of organized re- Protested Board. Of these 971 applicants were already receiving a pension, and only 68 new pensions were granted. Nearly all of these appli- NICE ROOM with soft chairs tu rent for meetings or clubs. 50 afternoons: $1.25 evenings. Lyce 5 [ are i : = 2 . 3 um Club, 702 Holden Bldgs. Ph Saal Gates a eee wave Per fear that the tale of the complete lack of order in which | action against the New Deal has Special Consideration cations were endorsed by the Sey. RSS 5 One in the councils of the Soviets up to | ce, oo Roe gee ee the taine, | fe magistrate, police and lawyer | been spurred by the defeat of the For Jobless Sought | ‘™velling pensions board. : sStalin’s accession to power, these and at confinement and apis were shouting simultaneously was] president’s reorganization bill,” “Compassionate grounds” is the FUEL men were actually plotting their own downfall—which, as Euclid “says, goes on Mr. M., is absurd. Euclid never said anything of the kind—it is Mr. M. who says this. Noble men who nobly con- won't do, Mr. Muggeridge says sim- ply that the trials are a “manifes- tation of proletarian mysticism”; that “they are like morality plays in which good triumphs over evil, of St. George slaying the dragon, the court scene to which the peti- tion refers. A ten-day sentence was imposed on the accused. Says Need For Costigan stated. “The split in the labor movement has given impetus to it. The forces that seek to turn history backwards are gathering with confidence. If nothing else unites the labor movement, this danger must and will.” Stating that while the new fifty- cent bicycle license fee might be all right for those who could af- ford it, an unemployed man ap- peared before social services com- mittee at the city hall, Monday, last resort, but apparently there is mo compassion left for a widow who was a true patriot. Youth Hostels HONEST VALUE FUELS—FATR: - 469. Edgings No. 1, $3.50 per cord’ } Slahs. Heavy Fir. $3.75 per cord : SODERHOLM — WOOD & COAT, Moving, Hauling, ete. Reasonable ! prices. Clinton Hall, High. 1486) i spire can be said (if Mr. M. be! of ine dragon having to get us to to request special consideration for FURRIERS right) to be plotting their own |p. siain once more.” Sent] Costigan pointed to the initiative |tne unemployed and their families To Be Opened downfall. Padraic Pearse, for in- Outlet Urg n FURRIERS stance, who plotted against English | power in Ireland, plotted his own downfall. Betrayed By Parnell. Did Mr. M. ever hear or read about the betrayal of Parnell (Ire- land again)? Will he venture to Will Mr. M. venture to main- So you pays your money and you takes your choice. But the mystic- ism seems to be in Mr. Mugge- ridge’s own brain. We holds that the Russians are a mystic people, just as many think of us, Irish, as a mystic people. But the fact is that the Russians and the Irish ABBOTSFORD, BG, April 21.— Frank Murphy of Pouce Coupe told an audience here this week of the urgent need for an outlet from the Peace River into British Co- lumbia, and of the determination of members of the Monkman Pass tion was passed by the Board of measure, sponsored by the Women of Washington and the Associated Farmers of Washington, so-called patriotic organizations, which is to be introduced into the state legis- lature, as one instance of efforts now being made to smash the trade unions. in this matter. The council was told that many jobless had to have bicycles in or- der to get odd jobs, and that after June, when the city bylaw becomes operative, many would find them- selves suffering a hardship. Aldermen decided finally that VICTORIA, BG, April 21—QOpen- ing of two suitable farm houses on the Saanich peninsula, between Vietoria and Sydney as youth hostels is announced this weel: by tan Bisenhardt, provincial director of physical education, who repre- FURS REPATRED & Remodeled— | Call for free estimates. S. Good= man, Furrier, 305 Dominion Bank Bldg. Phone Trin. 2140. GROCERIES WHITE CASH GROCERY — 4866) Rupert St. Phone Garl 15 for. Hats from Dominion Hat Mig. Base ae eau) Wo (Ret ayed' || ire essentially nota mystical race, | Association to put the road| ._0© measure, if successful, would |they consider such cases as they | sents the Canadian Youth Hostel] prompt delivery service. A com-| Parnell loved, honored and cherish | put a severely realistic people. The | tnrouch z virtually destroy all trade union | came up, and that nothing could | Association in BC. plete stock of Fresh Groceries. | ed their leader a the cee Be later events in both countries have x See worded resolution | 2227 Z2tion in Washington state. |/pe done until licenses were issued. The decision followed confer- HATS tuall fell in love wi y = 5 s “4, s g z | Sie = proved this up to the hilt. : 3 favoring the efforts of the associa- nese poe clauses craft union ences with John c Hanna of L WORKERS — 3 =5 | O'Shea? There may be a few mystics in strikes where other crafts are em- Seattle, representative of a youth ak KE Ux ee 4 tain that no envy or malice hid Russia as there are in Ieralnd, but we are dealing here with the race, ably look upon a man as a mystic Trade, to be forwarded to the As- ployed would be illegal. Organizing of unfair shops and boycotting of Employers would be permitted to Action Praised men from Wisconsin and Senator hostel organization Sound area. in the Puget area between Oxford street and Co., 12 East Hastings St. and 918 in the eee i oe on and not with a few units of the | S0ciated Boards of Trade of BC. unfair national products would METAS Tes Me Granville Street. Sey. 6686. i leagues before ey stood up to] — Sreri 7 rob- Ss ibi : Sau 2 mapa _ 5 i ae Reena a he eng | TAS Mr. Muggeridge would prob VERNON, BC, April 21—A 140- also be prohibited. (FP)—Progressive party congress- Request for a bus service for the HARDWARE 1 that this gang in their envy and foot span bridge is to be construct- MacPHATL HARDWARE LID. = hatred of their leader and in their | % 2° eee eae er eae ed over the Shuswap River at |Wscharge employees advocating Robert M. La¥ollette, all of whom | Burrard Inlet will be dealt with by | Wor a good deal. 6167 Fraser Ave. | plotting against him were actu- eselshe a eee Sugar Lake, it was announced here | better conditions, to hire non- signed a letter of greeting to the | a special committee of the city Phone Fraser 126. | ally plotting their own downfall? Opposition Deep-Seated. Dy efon, & 6) Weedanaib unionists and to lock out em- Spanish parliament, were praised | council considering other requests They didn’t believe they were, though some of them must have known that, in betraying Parnell, they were betraying Ireland. The The opposition to and envy of Lenin and Stalin by Trotsky was evident before even the Revolution of 1917 began. If Mr M. will ARMS FOR SPAIN ployees under guise of individual discharges. for their action in a statement is- sued by the Farmer-Labor Progres- ! sive Federation of Wisconsin. for transportation. Residents east of Hastings Park petitioned the com- mittee for the new service. HELP WANTED CARRIER BOYS AND STREET | salesmen. Apply at Room 10; 163 West Hastings, Saturday, 2-4 | only difference between Russia and read the book, The Russion Revo-