-RMAN-CANADIAN WELFARE SOCIETY FORMED IN CITY iERMANS TO COMBAT NAZI ACTIVITIES — Western Canada’s Leading Progressive Newspaper Ihe People's Advocate VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1938 atement Of ‘orces With ‘ranco Given ians Now Have Three ivisions In Spain, » Plane Squadrons, wnks \ZI ‘TECHNICIANS’ JNDON, En., May 26.— latest, and, according to diplomatic correspondent ire Daily Herald here, the accurate statement of gn forces acting with Gen- | Franco’s armies in Spain, 5s land and air forces as fol- Land Forces lians, commanded by General > with General Manzini as 1d in command, form the ynary Army Corps of three itry divisions, three artillery aents, one group of tanks and 1ecessary supply and ausiliary e infantry divisions are: “Tittorio’” fore 36 battalions. In the two rides of the “‘Arrows’—Black ws Brigade and Blue Arrows ade—there are a few Span- e artillery regiments (General ea) are the ist, 2nd and 5th, guns ranging from 2.5" to 12”. e tank group (Col. Sabini) is nosed of three battalions, two ks, three of armoured cars. rman land forces as much do exist. There are several thou- German “technicians” (of- Ss, funners, etc.), but they are shed to the Spanish units. Air Forces Jian — (General Bernasconi, ; Garda, and (in Majorca) sral Veliani, alias Velarde. squadrons (96 planes) of heavy ia bombers. squadrons (80 planes) of fast ia 81 bombers. sroup (10 planes) of Breda 61 ts. squardons (285 planes) of Fiat Romeo pursuit planes. ssman—“‘Gondor’ Tegion (149 es). squadrons of Messerschmidt uit planes. squadrons of Heinkel 51 bomb- squadrons of Dornier 17 scouts. patrol Heinkel 45’s. 9 other planes, mostly Junkers Heinkel i111’s. 1@ commander of the Condor on is General Veidt, com- der of the sixth section of the nan air force. AMIETON, Ont, May 26. — Milton organizations campaign- for defeat of the Quebee pad- law have set an objective of 0 signatures to a petition de- ding its disallowance by the ral government. President Roosevelt seen here giving one of his radio speeches, has shown Canada what a determined national work and recovery program can do in pro- viding work for hundreds of thousands of unemployed and lifting the country from the rut of recession. : Asks Lot To Build House But Council Refuses Carpenters’ Request “Where are we going to? Talk about dictators, these bankers are dirty suckers.”’ This was how a city carpenter answered a letter from the city council refusing his request for the grant of a city tax sale lot on which he proposed to build a house. The council stated that this was not possible because such property was held against the city as secur- ity for loans by the banks. Declaring his inability to find another house after spending days trying to locate one, this carpenter offered to build a house which, he claimed, would produce revenue for the city in time. He also asked that his rent allowances be continued while he was building the house. Ald. H. L. Corey told the social services committee that while the applicant was a capable carpenter, it would be a precedent were the eouncil to accede to the request, and many more would apply. Jobless Sitdown CLEVELAND, O, May 26. — One hundred and fifty relief recipients staged a sitdown in the city hall here as a protest against the city eouncil's attitude toward Cleve- land’s 75,000 unemployed. The council yoted an emergancy ap- propriation of $80,000 to meet the relief situation temporarily after one thousand jobless invaded the eouncil chambers demanding a per- manent relief program. Ew body likes Old Style can enoy its friendly sparkle low goodness today. PHONE SEYMOUR 3277 FOR FREE and smooth, me HOME DELIVERY. CAPILANO BREWING CO., LTD. VANCOUVER, B. Cc. O13 Styl BEER Beer! ASTER THE FAMOUS FORMULA OF THE HOUSE OF LETHBRIDGE 3 advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. High Commissioner Reviews NZ Progress Unemployment Fell, Farm Returns Were Increased, Export Values Were Higher realized last year. Let me summarize in a para- Sraph some material evidences of prosperity. Export values rose to a new record. At 3$330.000,000 they compared with $285,000,000 a year earlier and $215,000,000 two years earlier. Imports were valued. at $270,000,- 000, compared with $210,000,000 and 3175,000,000. Qutwards and inwards trade increased by more than 50 per cent in two years. Nor is the fain all due to the welcome re- covery in farm produce prices. The volume of exports continued stead- ily to increase; it rose by more than 50 per cent in the decade to 1937. Banking figures refiect the Same prosperous trend. Unemploy- ment was substantially reduced— from 35,000 in November, 1936, to 19,000 a year later. Wages and sal- aries have been fully restored to pre-depression tlevels. A 40-hour week with a full holiday every Sat- urday has been generally estab- lished without loss of earnings. Higher prices, in New Zealand as elsewhere, are to be set off against nominal wase and salary rised. Yet a net increase of 9 per cent in real purchasing-power was recorded between June, 1935, and June, 1937. Guaranteed Prices. Last year was the first complete year in which producers of butter and cheese—and these account for two-fifths of New Zealand’s export values—had the advantage of the government's system of guaranteed prices. The whole of these products are owned by the government from the moment they are placed on a ship for export. They are shipped and marketed on government ac- count, with only the desire that the most dependable quality foodstuffs should be brought to consumers on more economical terms. The plan for guaranteed prices and quality production has worked, and con- tinues to work, well. Farmers have a security that they have never known before. Wages of farm em- ployees have been substantially im- proved. The minimum is $11.25 per week, increased by $4.25 per week where board is not provided. Pensions Higher. It is an essential part of the gov- ernment’s plans bearing on agricul- ture that not only should farmers and their employees be given im- proved and more secure conditions, but that the consumption of re- quired foodstuffs should be extend- ed. Thus the price of butter within Wew Zealand is fixed at a reason- able level, about 30 cents a pound retail, to cover the price which is now guaranteed to farmers. Consistent with its objective of ensuring human well-being, the government in New Zealand has Imade comparatively generous pro- vision for those citizens who are not able to work—‘comparitively,” I say, with the scant provision hitherto made, yet not on any lavish scale, nor certainly beyond the country’s ability to provide. For example, old-age pensions, pay- able to men at 65 and women at 60 years of age, are now 39.60 a week, giving $11.25 a week for an old | couple. By HON. W. (New Zealand High Commissioner) ; LONDON, Eng., May 26.—New Zealand is among the coun- tries that can look with satisfaction to the improved conditions ‘ The national prosperity is shown in the figures of production, trade and finance. J. JORDAN > Gestapo Agents Batfled LONDON, Eng., May 26—Avgents of the Gestapo—German secret police—active in Britain, are being out-manceuvred by an Enelishman who works in a little office here. He is C. B. Bonner, former schoolmaster, who publishes a monthly magazine called “Das Wahre Deutschland’ (“The True Germany”), containing articles by members of the German Freedom party, secret organization of Lib- eral-minded Germans which, de- spite the Wazi regime, still exists in Germany. So far-the party, which broad- casts in Germany from its own shortwave transmitter, has defied all efforts of German police to round it up. Gestapo agents in London are ceaselessly trying to discover clues here of the identity of anti-Nazis in Germany who month by month | succeed in smuggling out articles to Bonner. Dfysterious visitors call on Bon- mer and, on clumsy pretexts, try to get information. One was a2 woman who said she had recently been employed by a friend of Bonner’s in Germany. She gave complete and accurate de- tails of the friend and of his busi- mess and then, having as she thought inspired enough confidence, asked if he could put her in touch with an antiJNazi for whom the Gestapo is searching. A man posing as a refugee called to explain that he was publishing a book about what was happening in Germany. Could Bonner put him in touch with as many refugees as possible in London? Visitors like these find Bonner surprisingly unhelpful and the Gestapo goes on guessing how the German Freedom party maintans its communications with London. Start Work On Bis Bend Link REVELSTOERS, BC, May 26—QOn innstructions from Ottawa, work was commenced this week on the last link in the Big Bend section of the Trans-Canada highway. It was announced, however, that the project would give work only to men in this district and that no labor from elsewhere in BC would be employed. Women Organize TORONTO, Ont., May 26. — A new women’s organization, the Women’s Plectoral Association of Toronto, is in process of formation here. While frankly affirming its intention of taking an active part in politics, the association will be non-partisan in character. ARMS FOR SPAIN “We Do | Patronize a Union Restaurant . . . | THE FOUR WHITE LUNCHES are on the Se a Es 9 9 Patronize List of the Vancouver & New Westminster Trades : and Labor Council row Se) | Hotel & Restaurant Employees Union, Local 28 Not Company Union Is Rejected Employees Of Restmore Mattress Co. Vote 69-61 For Industrial Union. INTIMIDATION FAILS Despite the intimidating ef- fect of company officials pres- ent at the meeting, employees of the Restmore Mattress com- pany here voted last week to join an industrial union, after refusing a company union of- fered by the management. The first organizational meeting attended by 61 employees resulted in 59 signing application cards in the International Woodworkers, al- though it was made clear that the IWA was merely starting organi- zation and that the question of affiliation would be settled later by the members when they were suf-. ficiently organized. At this meeting C. M. Stewart, executive member of the Trades and Labor Council, and chairman of the organizing committee of that body, stated that he hoped that the new organization would align itself with the legitimate trade union movement. interfering with the normal de- velopment of the organization, the company called a special meeting where officials denounced “‘Ameri- Can unions,’ threatening to close the plant and ship mattresses from Quebec. There was also the sug- gestion of cancelling group insur- ance policies should the vote go for an “outside’’ rather than an “inside”’’ union. The vote was close, 69 for an industrial union to 61 against. Hm- ployees declare there would have been 380 per cent favorable vote were it not for the presence of company officials at the meeting. Another meeting will be called soon to decide the question of af- filiation. Eight Sent For Triai Arth. Roebuck Defends Lakeview Relief Workrs TORONTO, Ont., May 26—Eleven Lakeview relief workers charged with detaining R. S. Moore, relief administrator, on a public high- day were committed for trial when they appeared before a Brampton court. Arthur Roebuck, defense coun- sel, declared that the arrest of the eleven men for their participation in the struggle for increased re- lief or a work-and-wages program and “the motive of the crown’’ were based on “a political offense all the way through.” He contended that evidence showed that no violence had been applied to Moore’s car, let alone his person. Over 200 from B.C. ... the Flower of Canadian Youth Ministers ake Lead In Society Nazis Have Set Up City Open Branch; Propaganda Freely Distributed AGENTS ACTIVE Strong opposition to the spread of Wazi propaganda among Germans in the city is seen in the formation recently of the German-Canadian Wel- fare Society with a membership ef 500. Statements from leaders of this movement and the re- quirements for membership point to the beginning of a campaign against the brazen at- titude taken by local followers of Hitler, whose headquarters are at 16th and Main. Four ministers of German-speak- ing churches in the city are in- cluded among the founders and their congregations will comprise part of the membership. The ehurches are the German Luth- eran, German Baptist and the Mennonite. Progressive German workers stated this week to the Advocate that local Wazi leaders plan a mationalist rally at the end of June when they will have con- eluded an intensive campaign throughout Greater Vancouver ex tolling the Nazi foreign policy. Describing the interior of Nazi headquarters at 16th and Main, the Advocate was told that an over- Size portrait of Hitler greets one at the door, to which the stretched arm salute is invariably given. On Saturday nights local Nazis gather to celebrate. “The leaders seem always well supplied with money from overseas, with which they buy many follow-— ers," one young German stated to- the Advocate, “but they are very selective about membership, par- ticularly if a German has been brought up with Canadian ideals of citizenship.’ Among the initial signatories to the new democratic organization recently organized are Rev. A. R. Schormann, Rev. O. A. Schedler, Rev. H. RP. Neufeld, Rev. J. B. Weens, D. J. Quap, Emil Riemer, John Banerd, H. 8S. Schiewe, J. Ginter and D. J. Friesen. included in the bylaws is a pro- vision that the German-Canadian Welfare Society shall “refrain from taking any act or action in any political or other matter emanating from any foreign country or land, but shall solely and wholly confine its work and foster the good name of Canadian teachings or ideals as the case may arise, irrespective of race, creed, color or nationality.” Demand Gov’t Publish Report MONTREAL, Que. May 26. — Montreal Trades and Labor Coun- cil last week-end demanded imme- diate publication by Hon. Ernest Lapointe, federal minister of jus- tice, of the report on the probe into the smuggling of arms into Quebec by fascist organizations. The council declared that rumors ef fascist preparations for armed action had caused considerable un- rest in the province and urged that the facts be given to the public without delay. Defendmg Democracy in Spain! Rush all money for food TOMMY CHARCYUK Killed on Aragon front in March. His brother is im jail for anti-fascist activi- ties in Poland. He hated fascism and gave his life to help defeat it. leaving JUNE 1 for Mac-Pap Battalion. Parcels for individuals will be accepted. shipment 43—615 WEST HASTINGS ST. Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion TRINITY 4955 tees CeO de ae