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THE PEOPLE’S

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Page Five

Yephew Of
| CCF Leader
Is Wounded

Offer Writes From

Barcelona Hospital

Bed Urging Aid For
Mac-Paps

BIFTS APPRECIATED

Propped in a Barcelona hos-
tal bed after being badly
ounded in the foot, John Of
r, BC volunteer, nephew of

ir

'. Offer, prominent in* CCE
reles, writes to Jack Chivers,
sovincial organizer for the
siends of the Mackenzie-Pap-
eau Battalion. He tells of
»ctors and nurses who work
1 day and haif the night with
ssparately wounded men in
le base hospitals without ne-
‘ssary appliances and com-
rts.

Joe Kelly, another Yancouver
i, has not yet recovered from a
‘vere shrapnel wound, Offer
cites, and he reiterates the bit-
c ery: “it only the French border
sre opened, we could quickly
“2am up on the fascists.”

“Tf the people of Canada could
dy see the Mac-Paps they would
» proud of them. They are the
-st fighters in Spain. They are
early all good shots and many
-e expert machine gunners.”
Offer writes wistfully of the
wertagzse of news and -presents
om home. While he declares that
e situation makes it difficult for
1 the BC boys to get something
om shipments sent by the
‘ciends, he expresses the hope that
Canadian people will continue
keep up the supply of cigarettes
id other comforts.

-Jack Chivers reports the follow-
'¢ donations recieved this week:
‘xtension FMPB, $9.85 and parcel
ir Bob Turner; Mr. M., $2; Friend,
Prince George, $10; Miss Rose,
; Bralorne, $3; Lynn Valley, 75
mts, and a parcel for J. McKay;

orth Vancouver, $2.50; Mr. Haber- |}

ieht, $5; Marshall sroup, $1;
‘atsqui-Bradner CFP ,36; Wanaimo
MPB, $34.50; German People’s
lub, $4.15; Mr. T., $L

The district committee has sent
300 in cash and $200 worth of
50ds in time for the June ship-
ent.

summer School
Proves Popular

Tit’s hard to say which part of
he Young Communist League’s
won Valley summer school .pro-
Tam is most popular, the lectures
eries or the spontaneous extra-
urricular activities.

At each of the first two lectures
iven by MHaroid Griffin, acting
ditor of the Advocate, there was
n attendance of some 30 members
md friends, and a good turnout is
=pected for next Sundays lecture
y A. M. Stephen, provincial pres-
dent of the League for Peace and
Democracy.

All young people, whether mem-
yers of the WCL or not, are in-
rited to attend the camp. The
rroup meets at 9 am Sunday at
Yorth Vancouver ferry. Tf at
-ains, however, the camp will be
,ostponed.

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general secretary of the Com- ’

Earl Browder munist Party of the United

States, who addressed a mass

meeting of more than 20,000 at the Madison Square Garden meet which
opened the 10th national convention of the party in New York last week-

end.

The convention opened in a blaze of color, with a thousand young

Communists in uniform parading a March of the Flags, with singing of
the Star-Spangled Banner and the International, and with one hundred
veterans of the Spanish war taking a prominent part in the pageant.
From high baiconies the slogan blazed in red and gold, “Build the demo-

cratic front for jobs, security, democracy and peace.”’

In his. keynote

speech, Browder declared that the words of the Gommunist party would
reach throughout the land, “‘because the sparks of hope that their impact
strikes do not die, but burst into flames of light, which begin to show the

way for all. Only the blind are not yet aware of it.

Gur Communist

party,’ he Said, Ts taking the. lead in combatting the ideologies of re—
action and in fusing the best common interests of all the national groups
into the great democratic American tradition.’

W age Increase Sought

City Garment Workers
Plan To Present Pact

Local 276, International Ladies Garment Workers, is prepar-
jing a new agreement for presentation to Vancouver employers
in the near future, when Sam Herbst, business manager of the
union for Western Canada, will arrive to open negotiations.

Tentative clauses in the
agreement are said to be: Abolition
of all piece work; 40-hour week;
increase in wages.

Despite the skilled nature of this
trade which is of a highly sea-
sonal character, the average wage
is from $15 to $20 a week, and the
need for a better wage scale is
felt by union members in face of
rising living costs.

The last Local to be organized in
Canada, the Vancouver branch
embraces practically all skilled in
the trade, and for this reason it is
believed that the coming negotia-
tions will result in the signing of
an agreement satisfactory to the
membership.

Recently, Local 276 staged a raf-
fle to raise funds for Spanish and
Chinese war victims, the winning
ticket being held by May Wilson
of New YWestminster.

Twenty-four Lose
Lives In Woods

Crushed when a tractor from
which he had unhooked a load of
logs ran over him, Jung Fay, 67,
Chinese logger, was killed at the
Worthern Tie and Lumber com-

‘panys camp near Ladysmith last

Priday. He was bucking logs on
the mill landing, when the tractor,
slipping into gear, backed up and
crushed him.

It is understood that Jung Fay
has worked in coast camps for
many years. This brings fatalities
in BG woods since January i this
year to 24.

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Council Cuts
Street Lights

Alliance Protests
Coquitlam Action

MATLLARDVILLE, BC, June 2.
—Overruling objections from Coun-
ecillor Yates, Coquitlam municipal
council ordered all street electric
lights cut off in Coquitlam, Bur-
quitlam and Maillardyille for the
next three months as an “economy”
measure.

A delegation of the Women’s
Auxiliary of the Workers’ Alliance
attended the last council meeting to
protest this high-handed action, de-
scribed by Councillor Yates as be-
ing dangerous to residents in some
sections, but Reeve McDonald de-
elared the saving of $200 a month
iby this means justified the incon-
venience.

The reeve maintained that so
many people were on relief in Co-
quitlam who could not pay road
.tax, which includes school tax, that
the municipality was unable to pay
high school and technical school
dues to New Westminster, and that
the saving on street lighting made
up this deficit.

A strong delegation from the
Workers’ Alliance will attend the
next council meeting to press for
normal street lighting.

To Aid Mac-=Paps

VICTORIA, BC, June 2-——_The
Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau
Battalion re-organized this week
and began a drive to raise $50 to
help in the next shipment to Cana-
dian volunteers in Spain. Donations
in kind will also be collected.

Peace Meeting Calls For Boycott

Conference
Asks Japan
Embargo

Nearly 300 Delegates
At Northwest Peace
Democracy Meeting In
Seattle

BACK BOYCOTT

By VICTCRIA POST

SEATTLE, Wash, June 2. —
Two hundred and eighty-three
delegates representing organiz-
ations of a widely divergent na-
ture unanimously elected
Councilman Hugh de Lacy as
chairman at the Northwest
Congress for Peace and De-
mocracy held last weel-end.

Speakers at the various sessions
included Stanley F. Atwood, State
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion; Dr. Charles MacCaughey of
the Seattle-Tacoma Episcopal
Church; Rabbi Philip A. Langh of
Herzi Synagogue; Dr. Edwin Weis-
field, returned from Spain where
he has been working under the
direction of the American Commit-—
tee to Aid Spanish Democracy.

A delegation from the League
for Peace and Democracy in Van-
couver, BC, included A. M. Stephen,
provincial president; Kay Heath-
cote, provincial secretary; and Mrs.
Jean Pelton.

Collective security was the key-
note of the conference, emphasized
by all° the speakers and heartily
endorsed by delegates. After hearty
discussion the conference unani-
mously went in favor of boycot-
ting, not only goods made in Japan,
but those coming from unorgan-
ized and unfair factories of Gov-
ernor Martin in the State of Wash-
ington and all goods from New
Jersey until reactionary Mayor
Hague is deposed.

The labor commission discussed
an embargo on war materials be-
ing shipped to Japan, and resolved
that all unions and organizations
would work together to support
the desire of the Maritime Federa-
tion to refuse to handle such
goods. This action would have to
be supported by the Teamsters’
Union, and “it was the job of the
general public to force this latter
union into action.”’

° Telis of Spain’s Struggle

A moving story of the heroic
struggles of the Spanish people
was told by Dr. Edwin F. Weis-
field who went to Spain with three
other doctors.”

Speaking on the shortage of
supplies in the People’s Army,
Weisfield said there was one

blanket to every three men, one
wash bowl for an entire hospital,
three hotwater bags for 150 pa-
tients. The army had no steel hel-
mets, no overcoats until after the
cold weather.

Food for the government forces
was mainly bread, beans, rice and
corned beef. Their great need is
for medical supplies and the ability
to purchase sufficient materials for
war.

Over forty resolutions passed
unanimously by the conference in-
cluded endorsation of collective se-

eurity of democratic nations by,

way of sanctions and economic
action against aggressor nations;
urging of the United States gov-
ernment to support Mexico in its
stand for expropriation of it soil,
commendation of the USSR on its
continued action for world peace
and democracy.

People of democratic nations
were asked to picket and protest
against ships, trains and trucks
carrying war munitions and scrap
iron and Secretary Ickes was com-
mended on His recommendation to
the United States government not
to supply helium to Germany.

Assist Jobless

VICTORIA, BC, June 2:.—Vic-
toria Trades and Labor Council
endorsed the campaign of the
Vancouver Relief Project Workers’
Union to obtain a new deal for the
single unemployed, and voted $10
to assist the sitdowmners.

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Burnaby Meet Called

Called by Burnaby Workers’ Alli-
ance to unite local unemployed in a
struggle for more work or relief
to meet rising costs of living, a
mass Meeting will be held on Fri-
day, June 3, 8 p.m., at 4204 Georgia
street, North Burnaby. FPosters
announcing the meeting state that
rentals are taking the full 40 per
cent allowance in many cases.

Mrs. Steeves To Speak

All women in Collingwood area
whose husbands are on relief are
invited by the Workers’ Alliance
to attend a meeting on Friday,
June 10, 8:30 pm., at the CCE Hall,
3365 Kingsway. The inadequacy
of relief cheques will be taken up
by speakers, including Mrs. D. G.
Steeves, MLA, Mrs. M. lusk of the

Vancouver Mothers’ Council. Mrs.
Good will be chairman.
Advocate On Air
Labor Wews Highlights, the

twice-weekly news broadcast pre-
sented by the People’s Advocate
through the cooperation of Dr. R.
Liewellyn Douglas, well-known city
dentist with offices at Richards and
Hastings, is on the air over station
CKMO every Tuesday and Friday
evening at 6 o'clock.

Drawing Announced

At a. drawing held at Union Hall,
Nanaimo, on May 28, the following
tickets brought prizes to their
holders: 613-A, 3-B, 429-A,’ 126-B.
Proceeds of the draw were given
to the Advocate-Clarion press drive.

Dance To Aid Jobless

A dance in aid of the single un-
employed men will be held Friday,
June 3, at the Embassy Ballroom,
Davie street, sponsored by the Wo-

men’s Emergency Committee,
which is especially organized to
assist the single unemployed.

Mhusie will be furnished by Tartan
Mountaineers orchestra.

Press Drive Draw

Another press drive drawing was
held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Davison, Ferndale, last week, prize
winners being: Bertha Dec, Harri-
son Mills, 193, $5 in merchandise;
CG. W. Lowell, Deroche, 223, cushion;
Mrs. S. W. Burton, Dewdney, 250,
ham; Malcolm Fukami, Mission,

hand-knit socks; A. LL. Hranson,
Warrison Mills, 165, chocolates; M.
rH. Jack, Hatzic, 325, cigarette
holder.

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Extracts from the brief of the
Housewives’ Association of Canada
to the Rowell Commission were
read at an open meeting called by
Greater Vancouver Housewives’
deague at Moose Hall last Monday
and given full endorsation of the
meeting.

Dr. R. H. Fraser, executive sec-
retary of the Greater Vancouver
Health League gave an address on
“Nutrition as Applied to Milk,”
dealing with the controversial
question of pasteurization. In reply
to a question from Dr. HB. Nowell
concerning the destruction of the
TB germ under present pasteuriza-—
tion methods, Dr. Fraser stated
that under certain laboratory pro-
cesses this could be accomplished.

Miss Erna Whitman stressed the
need for members to acquaint their
friends and neighbors with the im-
portance of an established mem-
bership.

Entertainment, made possible by
the efforts of Convenor Mrs. GC. G.
Heatherington, proved a great suc-
cess, among those contributing be-
ing: Mrs. Dagny Hijorth, soprano;
Frank Kewley, pianist; Miss Billie
Jackson, elocutionist; Miss Mary
Adams School of the Dance pupils;
accompanist, Mrs. W. H. Cadman.

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