THE PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE -D eports Canadians Captured Prov a Theatre shaken Off “Unfair List Eworkers Sign Pact 4] Employers; Ocean },Continues Burns ott. wLDER ISSUED eatre on Broadway gen off the “We do not ze” list at the Trades bor Council meeting y, Manager Callindine t= to recognize the #and promising that all work would be done the Building Trades he had previously ig- boycott committee. i Fon't Buy Japanese,’ the mtains a list ef Japanese sale in BC, with tips for Authoritative sts from prominent trade f are also quoted therein. 1 meeting of the boycott fe is called for Thursday, ;at the Labor Temple. e from Local 954, Glass- reported to the coun- aiter prolonged negotia- # iavorable agreement, main- tting lower paid workers, #: signed by employers. d shoe workers employed on aay from the union “if what was good for delegate told the ‘ind sulphite workers at © alls announce they will te boycott Burns products he facet that this company y buyer of paper from this e trades council was told ®2r from the local union. / With the right of em- =o join any union, but all of employees must be = y from tne waterfront. A anned by butcher workers * tponed until this report f. made, because travel by ® line was involved. eer from Langley Prairie Sing that local grocers had ed into selling Burns prod- ; read to the trades coun- writer Stating that Burns’ declared the labor dis- hs settled. Explanations of i: situation were ordered |6, Shipyard Laborers, the ent will be asked to abol- se of painting machines on s in drydock in future, as mingerous to health. Paint- Band would put these ships h better condition, the was told. Local 126 ap- me he one percent assessment @bi for organizational pur- = ociation will hold its usual i meeting Saturday, May pm, in Victory Hall, 535 130 W. Hastings St. SEYMOUR 241 En- Youth Meet for a conference of Western delegates, Here are some of the delegates from BC who left Monday with a a of truckloads of food to attend the third Canadian Youth Congress at Toronto. They are travelling by day coach, and will stop off at Winnipeg Included in the delegation are: John Stanton, Charles Dickens, Maurice Rush, 5. Martin, Miss Fleck, Miss K. Farquhar, J. Hundal, Ernie Bishop, T. Quchi, G. Tamaki, K. Shoyama and S. Higashi. | City News I] And Events Higher Fees Mooted Publie utilities, loan companies and similar concerns in Vancou- ver will pay higher license fees if a recommendation advanced by Li- cense Inspector H. A. Urquhart in the city council this week is adopted. The recommendation sug- gests that the present $100 masxi- mum license fee be removed in Such cases. The matter was re- ferred to the legal department for presentation to the council when charter amendments are considered next week. Mothers’ Council Meet Vancouver Mothers’ Council meets every Tuesday at 2:30 p.m, at the O'Brien Hall, 404 Homer Street. CP Branch Plans Social Mount Pleasant Branch of the Communist party will hold a social evening on Thursday, May 26, at & p.m., at 49 West 5th Avenue. Ali Advocate and Clarion readers are invited. Proceeds will go .te the press drive fund. Fishermen Holding Pienic All fishermen and friends are in- vVited to the annual picnic to be held on Keats Island on Sunday spon- sored by Gibsons Landing Local of the Pacific Coast Fishermen’s Union. Proceeds of the picnic will be divided equally between the union paper and the Advocate. Boats leave wharf 9 a.m. Wrong Credit Given In the Advocate’s report of Van- couver May Day celebrations it Was erroneously stated that the Surrey Workers’ Association en- tered the prize-winning float. Actu- ally, the award went to the New Westminster Labor Representation Association for its outstanding float, a monolithic design bearing the slogans, Peace, Unity, Strength, Labor. This float was also entered in a later local parade when it again won first prize. Government To Aid Veterans Four hundred employable first- line ex-servicemen, the majority of them residing in Vancouver, will be given food and shelter by the provincial government, according to an announcement made this week by Lieutenant-Colonel W. 5S. Buell of the Canadian Legion. Buell stated that this provision would not apply to ex-servicemen who haye recently come from the prairies to Vancouver. The pro- vincial government is taking the position that these veterans are the responsibility of the federal government. ‘verybody likes Old Style ad smooth, me ti HOME DELIVERY. VANCOUVER, B. Cc. 2 eo |e é ui can ey its friendly sparkle low goodness today. jHONE SEYMOUR 3277 FOR FREE CAPILANO BREWING Co., LTD. THE FAMOUS FORMULA OFTHE HOUSE OF LETHBRIDGE ‘dvertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control - -Board or bythe Government of British Columbia. —- —s Beer! Demand Insurance Act Unemployment Federation Mooted As Meet Is Called A conference on the question of formation of a BC Federa- tion on Unemployment to be held at Moose Hall, Sunday, June 19, has been called by the Continuation Committee of the Greater Vancouver Conference on Unemployment Insurance, a body which was elected at a conference on this proposed social legislation in February last Expressing dissatisfaction at the | failure of the federal government | to deal adequately with unemploy- ment in Canada, and at the fact that federal unemployment insur- ance has not yet been placed on the statute books, the conference eall proposes a federation of all organizations interested in this social problem. Organizations are invited to send two delegates to this conference, and, where possible, with power to act on any committee which may be appointed. Any proposals re- garding the structure, constitution or program of the proposed federa- tion should be forwarded te the secretary of the committee, Miss M. Dougan, 3147 East Georgia street, Vancouver, BC. Organizations unable to send delegates are invited to send reso- lutions and applications for affilia- tion. Browder To Make Radio Address NEW YORK, May 19. — Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist party of the United States, will speak over the WJZ network of the NBC on Wednes- day, May 25, 11:15 to 11:30 p.m., eastern daylight saving time. Browder will speak on political and economic issues facing the tenth national convention of the Amer- ican Communist party, which opens here Thursday, May 26. Wis broadcost, however, is op- tional for other NBC networks and will be carried only if sufficient re- quests are received. The CBC network will also carry the highlights of the opening day of the convention on a broadcast on May 26, 7:30 to 7:45 p.m., east- ern daylight saving time. Warn Miners QUESNEL, BC; May 19-—Men returning from Manson Creek, about 220 miles north of Vander- hoof on the CNR, are urging local workers to stay away from that place. They claim there is yet five to seven feet of snow and that 500 men are waiting for jobs. Wages are reduced to $2.50 per day, they state, and $1 per day is charged for meals. Royal City Meet An open-air meeting will be held at Albert-Crescent, north end of Pattullo Bridge, New Westminster, on Sunday, May 22, at 2 pm. The speaker will be Malcolm Bruce, central committee member of the Gommunist party, who will take as his subject “Whither Democ- racy?” YCL Summer School Opens Course Of Popular Lectures Arranged Harold Griffin, acting editor of The People’s Advocate, will give the initial lecture at the Young Communist League’s Lynn Valley Summer school which opens this Sunday, May 22. The school, to be held on Sun- days over a period of the next six weeks, is open to all younge peo- ple desiring to attend for the nominal registration fee of 10 cents and a 25-cent fee for the course of six lectures. The lecture program will be as follows: May 22—The Fascist Drive To War—Harold Griffin; May 29—Canadian History—Harold Griffin; June 5—The Rebellion of 1837—A. M. Stephen; June 12— Trade Unionism in Canada—vyvil- liam Stewart; June 19—The BNA Act—Fergus McKean; June 26— The Youth Movement in BC— Maurice Rush. Students will meet at North Vancouver ferry at 9 am., Sunday, for the trip to Lynn Valley. The lecture will be given in the early | part of the afternoon, after lunch, | and will be followed by sports, stu- dents returning to Vancouver after dinner, which will be served at the camp. All students are being asked to supply their own food and cook- ing utensils, tea and coffee being supplied by the camp committee. News Broadcast Popular Feature Labor News Highlights, the semi- weekly news broadcast of The People’s Advocate heard over station CKMO every Tuesday and Friday evening at six o'clock, has now well established itself on the air and is proving a popular radio feature with trade unionists in particular, according to Dr. R. Liewellyn Douglas, Vancouver den- tist with offices at Richards and Hastings, whose cooperation has made the broadcasts possible. Dr. Douglas, a strong supporter of the progressive movement, stated this week that he was well pleased with the program and that comments he had received fully justified the additional broadcast adopted two months ago when the program was changed from one to two fifteen-minute periods a week. THE “We Do Patronize a Union Teiaurant Se FOUR WHITE LUNCHES are on the Patronize List” of the Vancouver & New Westminster Trades and Labor Council ee) | Hotel & Restaurant Employees Union, Local 28 | Not ed False yen, Canadians “Wiped Out’ Was Claim But Jack Taylor Found Only Casualty One Volunteer Who Hurt Foot. HUGE CAMPAIGN TORONTO, Ont, May 19. — Replying to distorted state- ments appearing in daily news- papers last weel that 460 Ca- nadians had been captured by the fascists in the Castellon province, and that two Cana- dian companies were “wiped out,” Jack Taylor, representa- tive of the Friends of the Mac- Kenzie-Papineau Battalion in Spain, in a week-end cable from : Barcelona, stated: “Visited Mac-Paps last night in trenches far removed from sector mentioned in Canadian reports. De- spite recurrent fascist propaganda regarding capture, annihilation of brigade and battalion in past period, the boys are cheerful and determined as ever in pursuing their anti-fascist ideals as volun- teers in the republican army. Only casualty in the Mac-Paps and in the entire brigade since April 1 was when a Canadian boy dropped an ammunition box on his foot.” “On the march the Canadians often sing ‘Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag,’ the old army song, but when they come to the line, ‘as long as you've a lucifer to light your fag,’ they often pull a wry face—for they are frequent- ly without tobacco.” Bob Kerr, political commissar of the Canadian battalion in Spain, now back in Toronto after thirteen months, made this statement in a press interview here, when he stressed the need for a constant supply of tobacco and cigarettes. He stated that volunteers were lucky to get a ration of tobacco once in ten days, consisting of coarse ground leaf wrapped in Jeaves and familiarly known as “pillow slips.” More often they have to smoke bark from trees, he added. Kerr told of the appreciation of the volunteers for the hand-knited socks. Marches are sometimes lone and gruelling, and there is no wool in Spain. As to food, one can live on the army rations, Kerr declared. ‘But you have no idea what the little tid-bits you send from here mean to the ‘boys, whose regular break- fast is bread and coffee.’ Jack Chivers, provincial organ- izer for the Friends in’ BC, stated this week he had forwarded $150 to the national office for the June shipment of comforts to Canadian volunteers in Spain. With only one week to go, Chivers urged imme- diate action by the many commit- tees not yet heard from, to ensure a representative gift from BC. The following is a list of dona- tions received this week for the fund: United Mine Workers, Ymir local, $5; J. K., $5; Friend, $1; May Day Committee, of Vancouver, $50; Marpole branch of the Communist party, $4.50; Grassy Plains, BC, $2; M. M., $1; parcel of goods from Wanaimo. TORONTO, Ont., May 19. — A Dominion-wide campaign to involve all democratic forces to send 50,000 quarts of milk and 20,000 twenty- five-cent meals to Spain on June 20 is planned here as a result of the Emergency Aid to Spain conference held recently. Called by the national executive of the Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, the conference set June 10 to 20 as the period to reach its objective. It was further decided that Cana- dian organizations working- with the committee would make a united attempt to cable at least $1500 to Spain every month. This, it was stated, would increase present medical aid, foodstuffs and other necessities, as well as care for double the number of children in the two Canadian children’s homes in Spain. Malcolm Ross, secretary of the League for Peace and Democracy, was elected executive secretary of the committee and Norman Lee was elected chairman. A. M. 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Prices - _. $21.50 Co Regent Continued From 324 West Hastings St. Page One Tailors Sey. 5614 Toward A People’s Front “Treason To Canada” “QEEN in its true light, every honest Canadian can under- stand that the course of the Hep- burn-Duplessis bloc now represents treason to Canada,’ he added. “Thus the very course of reac- tion has made possible the open- ing of a new phase in the crystal- lization of the democratic people's front. z “Our party stands for the com- ada because it coincides with the path of democracy and economic improvement for the people,” Smith said amidst applause, : “We raise the slogan of ‘Demo- cratic National Unity for Security and Progress.’ All progressive striv- ings of the people for economic and social improvement meet on com- mon ground on the issue of nation- plete national unification of Can-al unification,’ Smith said. Padlock Law Main Immediate Issue “A LL phases of the mass work of the party must be directly linked up with the main task of building the democratic people’s front around this slogan of demo- eratic national unity for security and progress against the Hepburn- Duplessis bloc and its foster-child fascism,” Smith asserted. Unity With CCF OOPERATIVE action with the CCF movement on a local and provincial scale had become more vital than ever for the achievement of progressive desires and the de- feat of the reactionary designs of the Toronto- Quebec alliance, the speaker said. “Anti-unity groups in the CCE,” he warned, “having done their ut- most to split and prevent achieve- ment of unity in the municipal sphere, now seek to destroy the unity achieved in the Labor Repre-' sentation Association bodies. “The right wing, anti-unity lead- ers of the CCE in Ontario,” he “The campaign against the Que- bec padlock,’ the speaker placed as a “matter of most pressing, ur- gent importance.” “The defeat of the padlock law is the most immediate vital blow | that has to be delivered at the Hepburn -Duplessis alliance,’ he stressed. . said, “in their struggle agains unity have formed an alliance with pons counter-revolutionary Trotskyisni_ “The harboring of Trotskyist agents of fascism within any pro- gressive organization not only con- stitutes a danger for that organiza- tion, but for all progressive forces,” Smith warned. Turning again to emphasize the “vital importance” of unity, Ald. Smith repeated that “co-operative action with the CCE movement locally and provincially becomes ever more vital for the realization of ‘Democratic National Unity For Security and Progress.” Burnaby Joins Health Board BURNABY, BG, May 19.—Bur- naby municipality will become a member of the Metropolitan Health Board on June 1, it was indicated this week. Under the plan Burnaby will pay $4352, the provincial government and Rockefeller Foundation $5136 each to Burnaby’s health services, which will be enlarged. First addition to the present staff will be a health unit director, not yet named. yy tod Garfield A. King BARRISTER, ETC. 553 Granville St. Seymour 1324 Vancouver, B.C. % — > Leo Smuntam’s Band now at the ALEXANDRA BALLROOM Monday, Wednesday and Friday, OLD-TIME DANCE Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday MODERN DANCE For a good time be sure to visit these dances. Best music and the finest floor in-Canada. 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