ig | : t ~IMMUNISTS PUBLISH POLITICAL RESOLUTION AMPAIGN FOR WORK, RECOVERY PROGRAM The People’s Advocate Western Canada’s Leading Progressive Newspaper a VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1938 Polit 7 sh oycott Has : “ffect Upon «|Japan Trade ad fath = tures Show Exports 4 US, France Have iS ts$eclined Over Year aS eriod olpe B® a MPAIGN STRONG 1 {(ONDON, Eng, May 12 — ~ §$ecial) — Trade returns are Winning to show the results - the boycott of Japanese soos. Japan's raw silk ship- 2 Wats for December, 1937, had ng =n by nearly 40 percent, as * pared with December of BE a Jiring the same period the its ,thly average of spot silk prices Soy over 20 per cent. The figures -t§ siven in the Monthly Circular E@ che Mitsubishi Economic Re- “=@ch Bureau for February, 1938, 3 ph, referring to the fall in raw ti prices, describes the Anti- ‘“egainese Boycott as one of the 48@a factors in precipitating the ine to the lowest average since me 1936. i) gures given in the League of @ ions March Bulletin of Statis- = show that, although the total . @ Japanese exports during the ©. eleven months of 1937 was ® er cent greater than during the my ious year, for December, 1937, af vas down by 6 per cent. In Ruary, 1938, it was 12 per fF. less than in January, 1937. Panese exports to America in leg ember, 1937, fell by 28 percent me igainst December, 1936. ith this encouragement, organi- ons in America are redoubling Er efforts for the boycott, and a it campaign is under way to B oce. ritish trade figures, however, ®v ne appreciable effect from F boycott. This is the more sur- & ing in view of the widespread “se 00rt for the boycott expressed svery part of the country. It Pos that in Britain great sym- Hiy has been aroused for China, effective individual boycott on against Japan has yet to be janized. Even the figures, for @ xple, for tinned fish from Ja- , Show no appreciable result. “Shere is no doub: that Japan is “ing the strain of the war and = boycott. In the first ten days iMarch her import surplus was million yen despite a decrease 35 million yen in her cotton and feolen imports (a sure sign of "Ringe living standards) and ‘@olesale prices rose from 245.3 ‘January to 258.3 in February. ©: London Daily Telegraph (Con- ivative) reports a shortage of iny types of goods. Studies Auto Test Yiderman Fred Crone will visit “Storia shortly with Arthur Rob- 2s, city garage superintendent, ‘@ confer with the provincial arch- ct regarding auto-testing equip- }nt to be installed in the provin- 1 government’s new automotive ilding to be erected at Georgia ¢nd Bidwell streets. "Set Memorial Day >WASHINGTON, DC, May 12.— ie House of Representatives has Wthorized President Roosevelt te Woclaim October 11, 1938, as Gen- al Pulaski’s memorial day. On is day the United States will pay hibute to Pulaski, a native of Po- )ad, who gave his life in the strug- e for American independence. Antipodes Have Milk Distribution Control Wellinston, Sydney Have Solved Milk Problem By Taking Over Distribution City milk supplies and distribution in New Zealand and Australia are being handled more efficiently through a zoning system and through direct intervention by local authorities, with a consequent saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars So stated H. B. Cowan, Canadian delegate to the Empire producers’ conference at Sydney, in an interview to the consumer. here this ‘week. In North Auckland, he says, the market delivery system and has so reduced cost of distribu- tion that a full cent per quart has been knocked off the price as a first benefit, solving a problem which, in many respects, is similar to the one in Vancouver. In Wellington, New Zealand, distribution costs have been substantially reduced by the city’s own distribution system, Cowan stated, and Sydney, with its population of 1,500,000 has given the milk council power to purchase all its cream and milk sold in the city for liquid consumption, thus settling many vex- ing questions. Press Drinks Spain Toast Del Vayo Keeps Word With Newspapermen BARCELONA, Spain, May 12.— (Delayed) — We drank Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez Del Vayo’s Wine today and it was the best wine I ever tasted. It was spark ling anti-fascist wine and thereby hangs a story—an epic of heroism. One month ago Spain’s brilliant foreign minister invited the repre- sentatives of the world press to return to his office today and have a cup of Malaga. It was his Span- ish way of informing the foreign journalists in those dark days of April that the people's government would continue at its post and “stay open for business.” He offered this invitation in the face of Mussolini's boasts that Bar- celona would be his in a few days and that would be the close of the war. I Know that some of,the news- paper men last month left Del- vayo'’Ss quarters wondering about that cup of wine. Today I saw them drink it. The faint of heart were proven wrong once more; those of us who knew what reserve of strength a people at bay possesses when fight- ing for freedom, had no doubts about today’s appointment a month ago. We knew it would be held and that the cup of wine doubly enjoyable. Delvayo today invited us to come again next month and the month after. He made us “a standing date”’ and today most of the weathercock newspapers haye again revised their judgments. Delvayo told us the military sit- uation is not materially changed by the fall of Benicarlo. Com- munications continue unhalted be- tween Valencia and MBarcelona. Government officials travel to and fro, carrying out their mandates. The armies of the center have put up a resistance equalling the armies of the east. Yet on both fronts Mussolini and Hitler keep pouring in men and materials. Everybody in Spain — and any informed person outside— knows it. The invaders are piling up armaments for another big push. There is no doubt about it: And the Republicans are digging in to withstand another big push. There is no doubt about that either. But as Delvayo said, “We held them back and we'll hold them back, and every day gained is a victory for us. This, in short, is the story of the cup of wine drunk at Delvayo’s quarters at noon today. i oe SAME FIRE QUALITY Marr bitte of PILSERER Proudly maintaining the Same fine quality that won | two first prizes at the F British Empire Brewers Exposition, London, 1936. VANCOUVER BREWERIES LIMITED | = HIS ADVERTISEMENT IS NOT PUBLISHED OR DISPLAYED BY THE LIQUOR CONTROL ! BOARD OR BY THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA would be} the milk council has zoned out Cowan stated that a number of producer-vendors have been allow- ed to continue to operate, but it is intended that ultimately there shall be only one distributing cen- tre for the whole of the city, to be operated under supervision of the) council. The marketing council of Mel- bourne, with a population of 1,200,- 000; has zoned all the milk distribu- tion routes. Distributors are not allowed to operate outside of the areas assigned to them, and in this way ereat economies are affected. Commenting on the remarks of H. B. Cowan, Mrs. M. Lusk, vice- president of the Greater Vancouver Housewives’ League, stated to the Advocate that such information is of huge importance to milk con- sumers, and that the executive com- mittee of the League would en- deavor to obtain more information on the subject. “This is precisely the stand taken at our conference on the milk dis- tribution system in Vancouver,” Mrs. Lusk declared, “and our brief to the city council was based on what is now a reality in the Anti- podes.”” Mrs. Lusk admitted the situation in Vancouver’s milk supply and dis- tribution was by no means easy to solve, and that so far very little encouragement had been forthcom- ing from the city council toward tackling the question. She claimed that with the rapid growth of the Housewives’ League the demand for saner distribution methods would be so great that the council would be forced to take steps and plan a new set-up. Creston Paper Changes Hands CRESTON, BC, May. 12. — The Creston Review, owned by Welson LL. Ball of Nelson, has been sold to Herbert K. Legg of Calgary, who will take over next month, it was announced this week. The Review was formerly owned by C. F. Hayes, who sold the paper to Ball last July. The new owner is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. Ship Gold To Canada LONDON, Eng. May. 12. France’s “Two Hundred Families” are shipping gold out of the coun- try in order to bring greater right- ist pressure on the government. Two shipments totalling $25,000,000 have been arranged in the past few days. The gold will be shipped to Britain and then reshipped to Canada. ARMS FOR SPAIN Ask for .. : LECKIE’ Loggers. eckie a strong boot. LECEKIE’S HAND-MADE (RED TOP) LOGGER BOOTS are es- pecially constructed to stand our severe weather conditions. If you want a long-wearing, comfortable boot insist on Leckie’s “Red Top” SOLID LEATHER WORK BOOTS LECKIE£’S SOLID LEATHER HAND-MADE WORK BOOTS are made by highly skilled shoemakers, S comfortable wear. Rigid construction, solid leather soles. - — LECKIE’S SHOES ARE MADE IN VANCOUVER — Sointula Co-operative Sointula, B.C. New Zealand Plans Pension Scheme Soon Prime Minister Savage Sends Details of Plan To Secretary of City Organization $30 MONTH AT 60 Thirty dollars per month old age pension for both husband and wife, as well as for single men and women at the age of 60 years, is the main provision of new social legislation pro- posed by New Zealand’s Labor Prime Minister, Right Honor- able M.\J. Savage, PC, in a recent nation-wide broadcast over government-owned sta- tions. Other provisions in the suggest- ed draft scheme include: Income from other sources, according to the suggested draft scheme, will be allowed up to the amount of $20 | per month for each person; there will be no means test for those Owning their homes, and also hav- ing very modest bank balances; in the event of the death of the pen- Sioner, his or her real and personal estate will not revert to the crown, as in Canada. Continuous residence for ten years immediately preceding the date of passing this act qualifies an applicant who comes under the scope of the Act, and who is Brit- ish or naturalized. The plan also includes: Universal free medical and hospital services, maintenance payment for unem- ployed and family allowance, in- crease in miners’ widows’, war vet- erence and in-validity pensions. In a letter to M. H. H. Wadding- ton, general secretary, Old Age Pensions Benevolent Association of BC, Prime Minister Savage states: “Qwing to the large amount of work involved in the WNational Health Insurance and Superannua- tion schemes, it has become neces- sary to postpone an introduction of the legislation until next ses- sion. Unfortunately we have been unable to devote to the schemes the consideration and investigation that they require. This session will end tomorrow, and during the recess a special parliamentary committee will examine and report on the best methods of social insurance in all its forms. We want the legislation to be as perfect as we can make it, and therefore we are mot rushing it before parliament.” Compared With Canadian Plan. Commenting on the liberality of the proposed New Zealand pen- Sions scheme and comparing it with the Canadian plain, Wadding- ton, who is well posted on pension matter, told the Advocate. “The present position of any per- son, who is a citizen and a British subject, resident in Canada for 20 years and having reached the age of 70, is that he may apply for a pension in the province in which he has resided for five years or more. If the pensioner owns a home, then the Canadian govern- ment claims the amount paid out in pension at the death of the pen- sioner, plus 5 percent compounded interest. “Should the pensioner be lucky enough to have a good-hearted friend or two who may help out of private channels, deductions are made immediately. Small sayings accounts are rigidly investigated. “The objective of the BC Old Age Pensions Association is to ob- tain a better deal for pensioners, by means of arousing the public to present injustices and obtaining amendments to the Pensions Act.” A B.C. PRODUCT RED TOP LOGGER ensuring you of long and . truly fascist invincibility. N 6 e e @ In a stirring appeal to the Canadian Aid Spain people, Tim Buck, general secretary of the Gommunist party, who recently returned from Europe, calls for even greater efforts to aid the Spanish people whose unconquerable will to victory has exposed the myth of Behind Javanese Lines Bethune Writes Of Journey To Northwestern Front Bighth Army officers do. We had each our own bedding roll, consist- ing of a pad and one feather-filled blanket like a big comforter as we call it. Plenty of food was brought along the way from sell- ers at each station. “At night we arrived at Cheng- chow, the junction part of the Pei- han Railway. This was heavily bombed last week and the city near the station was badly wrecked and 486 people killed. These bombed houses looked very familiar! “The train going west was full so we slept on the benches in an open shed in the station. © Every- body is extremely kind and cour- teous. My boots excite great curi- osity. They are one-half-knee-high loggers’ boots. They create great wonder and admiration and people come up constantly to feel them. “The next day we got on board a train to Sian, with a number of American missionaries going west. We passed a train which had been bombed, machine-gunned and burn- ed. (That thermite bomb certainly does a good job of taking paint off steel.) “This lower country is the beginning of the low SPECIAL! While You Wait... Heels - - - - Ladies’ Half-Soles - hills of 500 feet Men’s Half Soles and Rubber $1.00 G5¢ TORONTO, Ont, May 12—Below is a letter received from Dr. Norman Bethune, Montreal surgeon now heading the first American medical unit in China. “We left Hankow with a political commissar of the Highth Route Army—a young fellow 27 years of age, already with ten years’ experience in the army and who had been on the Great Trek. He was wearing a fine Japanese officer’s greatcoat, cap- tured at Tairyman,” Bethune writes. : “We travelled third class as all® of mud terraces like staircases. Per- fectly treeless, dry and very cold. The roads are always cut deep into the country and so lie below the surface of the land—sometimes 10 to 25 feet below the level of the Surrounding country. “We had an air-raid warning in the evening, and we all beat it out into the fields» The engine was uncoupled and ran 500 yards up the line. The Japanese 'plane came over and had a look but didn’t bomb. The line is crowded with military trains. “We were met by the Eighth Army representatives and taken to thetrenches, where we are now. We have just had chow-noodle soup, pork and eggs. Very good, and tea, of course, rather bitter, no sugar or milk. Watched the Bighth Army troops drilling. They are very young, look about 19 to 22 and in the pink of condition. Very smart drill and good discipline. Afterwards all played basketball— officers and men together. “We are destined to the north- eastern district of Shansi, behind the Japanese lines working with the armed partisans, who have no medical attention at all and no the trenches, where we arenow. 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Pender or Phone HIGH. 1486 ICKING Coal at City Prices Essential Legislation Outlined Alliance Of Hepburn, Duplessis Is Main Threat Of Reaction In Canada NEEDS STRESSED A federal work and recovery program patterned after that of the Roosevelt administra- tion, making the campaign for this the focal point around which to rally all progressive forces with a view to c i the Pattullo Soioinmaar = “ane the lead in demanding federal action. This is the immediate per- spective of the Communist party, according to a resolution released to the press this week by the Brit- ish Columbia provincial executive committee of the party. The resolution sets forth the following democratic issues “with out the satisfactory solution of which for the broad masses of the people our country is destined to become a source of ruin and de- cay.” —Constitutional changes, soyern- ing the relations of federal-pro- vincial finances, federal responsi- bility for modern Social legislation, federal definition of civil liberties and their safeguarding in the form of a Bill of Rights. i ae Eon and social in- surance on a federal scale. Batre regulation of industrial conditions to abolish lone hours and starvation wages and federal legislation to prohibit amalgama- tion of the railroads: A ees for rehabilitation of agriculture and for curbing of monopoly power to exploit and consumers. Ha cee of municipalities from costs of social services and re- organization of taxation as 4a whole on a more equitable basis, placing a responsibility for unem- ployment relief on the dominion government. Threat To Democracy The resolution warns that “the forces of reaction in Canada have produced the alliance — between Hepburn and Duplessis which con- stitutes the main danger to Cana- dian democracy against which all progressive and democratic Cana- dians must unite,’ and declares that this alliance is now threaten- ing to invade the field of federal politics by blocking any reform of the Canadian constitution. “While the Communist party has hitherto pointed to the Conserya- tive party as the main danger to democracy, it is clear that the Hepburn-Duplessis alliance arises not only from the Conservative party in the shape of Duplessis, but is also cutting across party lines and drawing into its sphere — reactionaries in both Conservative and Liberal parties,” the resolution states, pointing out that finance capital, by reasons of the program, policy, tactics and leadership of the Conservative party, is: prevent- ed from directing all its reaction- ary aims through that party, “Hinance capital is seeking to form a coalition of reactionary elements drawn from both Con- servative and Liberal parties,” the resolution continues. “The Hep- burn-Duplessis alliance is not some- thing of concern only to the peo- ple of the central provinces. This alliance directly affects, and will affect more so as time passes, the economic and political welfare of the people of Canada as a whole. Fundamental Needs “The Hepburn-Duplessis alliance sets its face against federal action on the two fundamental needs of the Ganadian masses, which must be satisfied if Canada is to remain a democratic country: —Redistribution of the national 1 income to better the living con= ditions of the vast majority of Canadians, along the lines of in- stituting a job and recovery Pro- gram, and raising the living stand- ards of the people by cutting down the one-third of the national in- come which now goes to the capl- talists. —Completion of the process of Z national unification, begun in 1837 by Mackenzie and Papineau, by the federal government being given power to enact national legis- lation to meet social and labor re-= quirements, such as unemployment and social insurance, health insur- ance, crop insurance, civil and trade union rights. “In the words of the brief sub- mitted to the Rowell Commission by the dominion committee of the Communist party, “In the alterna- tive we face the disaster of our country becoming a big business, fascist domain.” Gan Win Progress : conclusion, the resolution while the Pattullo gov- ernment is not linked up with the Hepburn-Duplessis alliance, _the war industry nature of British a See CAMPAIGN, (Gontinued on page 6) farmers In states that