EVEN HUNDRED SALMON TROLLERS REPRESENTED [WO CANNERS MAKE PAC Canada’s Leading Progre Ihe Peoples Advocate Western Ssive Newspaper VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1938 ‘ity Will Discuss Finances »ecial Council Meeting called For Today To Sonsider New Tax Sources AMEND CHARTER At the insistence of Ald. Fred one in city council Monday, ‘was agreed that a special »eting be called today to dis- | : ss new taxation sources in _ effort to end the city’s con- ‘ued annual deficits, the ‘airman of the traific and po- ‘€ committee declaring that eemed to be a case of always ling hurried meetings just fore emergencies. nsertion of more revenue-raising ‘wers in the city charter at the solution is not to be found in ding new taxes on the people, t in the assumption of social “vices by the provincial and Do- nion governments. Today's meeting will be held to amine five suggestions: An in- 2ase in the property tax on build- rs, How limited to 50 per cent of sessed value; substitution of a siness ta= for the present licens- z-for-reyenue policy; imposition @ poll tax for women, Such as now collected from employed sn who do not own property; osting water rates; a special *y on property for sewer service. 7ork Commenced On Civic Projects From a total of 3600 city relief cipients included in the scheme proximately 250 were assigned onday to Parks Board improve- ent projects. Wearly half the =n were distributed among regu- c park maintenance gangs. The mainder, divided into small oupSs, were given jobs in various rts of the city. Another 250 started work on ednesday under the civic board works. They were assigned to neral maintenance work. About 0 men will so to work for Great- Vancouver and District Joint werage and Drainage Board. Men ll work in five-day relays, each an being required to work five ys every month. lew Sino=Soviet Road Completed HANEOW, China, June 2—Great nificance is attached here to the mpletion, after months of labor, a new motor road connecting the by of Urga, in Outer Mongolia, to iInchow, in Kansu province. The “yw road is the last link in direct no-Soviet land communications. LOCAL ASK YOUR MERCHANT FOR | “Pride of the | | 2 3 West’’ z Overalls Chian g 2@ is? ek who this week took personal command of one million Chinese soldiers, including crack batta- lions, to block the Japanese drive on Hankow, temporary provision- al capital Fierce fighting raged around Lanfengz and Ningling. Terrorists Stir Strife Nazis Instructed To Provide ‘Incidents’ PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia; June 2.—Preistadt a little Austrian town on the Czechoslovak frontier, has become the headquarters for a ter- ror campaign. The Standarte Ii, 48 of the most ruthless gangsters of Austrian Nazi- dom, has been stationed there. They are well supplied with dyna- mite, bombs, hand-grenades — and orders to stir up trouble in Czecho- slovakia. On dark nights they will slip over the frontier one by one through the forests near Freistadt. While Henle!n, leader of the Czech Wazis, is pressing his de- mands on the government in Prague, the men of Standarte IT will engineer one “incident” after another to persuade the outside world that the Sudeten Germans are restless and the Czech govern- ment is powerless to keep order. Tt was Standarte If which direct- ed the campaign of terrorin Austria in 1934, leading to the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss. One of Standarte I’s methods is to have two or three members at- tract the attention of the police and, if possible, get arrested, while their accomplices are committing a ter- rorist act. They are released later as they have carefully prepared “proofs” of innocence. 1300 Arrested TOKYO, Japan, June 2. — More than 1300 opponents of Japan’s war on China have been arrested in this city during the past i8 months, a police report states. Madrid Living Symbol Of People’s Strength Beleaguered Spanish City Has Given Lead To World, Declares Correspondent By JOSEPH NORTH MADRID, Spain, June 2.— (Special) .—During one night not long ago the electrified battery on Mount Garabitas, most per- fected cannon in history, poured 400 shells into Madrid. That was at 3 a.m. But at dawn, when day begins in this Castillian city, scarcely any evidences of the bombardment met the eye. Few persons even mentioned it. That it had¢ taken a toll of dead and wounded nobody doubted. But everybody went to his job as usual, and every man’s job here is pointed toward one end—to win the war. That, and that alone, the Madrilenos feel, will halt these murders by night. And Madrid is organized to win this war. Only One Death In Air Raid There is nothing in history to equal the defense of Madrid—and yet it is no miracle. The common people did it. The moral is that every people, whether European, Asiatic or American, united in the will for democracy, can do it. It is to Madrid’s eternal credit that it has shown the way. This is a city no nazified mind can understand—and that is why nazi-ism is doomed. The front line and the rearguard blend. You can- not be sure which is which. It is one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Buildings gleam in the Spanish sun. Eight hundred thousand souls love this city so well that they absolutely refuse to leave it, despite the campaign for evacuation. The government did succeed in convincing 300,000 to move, but these were chiefly refu- gees from Toledo and other cities. For nearly two years the “lines haven’t changed. Loyalists have dug deeper, cemented their fortifi- cations, built front line refugios to prepare for any eventuality. i examined most closely the front at University City, probably most typical of the defense. We went through the medical school, which faces Hospital Clinics, Franco’s stronghold this side of the Man- zanares River. 50 Yards Apart At one time we were 50 yards from their trenches, looking over parapets through home-made peri- scopes. It was difficult to see through no-man’s land because the erimson poppies grew so high this spring. Fifty yards away men were peeping through periscopes our way, crouching in trenches, some reading the latest copies of Diaria de Burgos. The front is so near the rear that a soldier can walk home in 15 minutes. Civil Governor Gomez, a member of the Socialist party, told me that today there are very few queues for food in all Madrid. Qne thou- sand tons of food are being trans- ported to the city daily, mostly over the Valencia highway. Mad- rid’s 62,000 children under the age of five get nearly a pint of milk daily. As to the fronts about Madrid, it will be a tremendous job when Franco’s nazi advisers try once again to smash into the city. All trenches and fortifications have been greatly strengthened and the People’s Front is daily planning improvements. % CANT RIP -WONT RIP DISTRIBUTORS AT SOINTULA ae. Sointula Cooperative Store CASTELLON, Spain, June 2.— Fifty fascist planes rained 450 bombs on this provincial capital last week and the total killed was one man! The explanation of this startling fact reveals one of the most signi- ficant developments of modern warfare, not only for Castellon but for the rest of the world. The peo- ple of this city among the orange groves simply moved underground when the planes came within ear- shot. A city underground! This is the picture. Frustrated in their attempt to murder thousands, the fascist Ca- proni bombers made i3 visits to the city and wrecked the Hospital Provincia, a children’s sanctuary, which had not been completely evacuated, and killed many babies. But last week it was a different story. One of the worst air raids of the war found the city almost completely evacuated. in front of the houses in this city of 70,000, great heaps of brown clay are in the streets indicating the work of the inhabitants in con- structing “refugios’’ from air at- tacks. The proprietor of a coffee house i had stopped in asked proudly if TI had seen his new “refugio” yet. Before he drew the coffee he took me down the stairs twisting past three landings. Thirty feet below the ground he turned on the dim light electric bulb and said: “Down here we are safe.” Wo More ‘Lentitud’ All Castellon today was at work. Wot a block in the city was with- out men toiling and digging deep in the brown clay. They have not finished their job, but their aim is to have every house in town con- nected to the entrance of a 30-foot deep cave. We heard about Castelon as far south as Alicante when we flew in from France. The governor of Alicante was complaining that his people were not doing the job as well as those of Castellon. “The people of Alicante,” he said, “remember Saint Barbara only when there’s lightning.” He ex- plained that his people had not yet been hit as hard as those of Bar- celona, Valencia, Castellon or Sa- gunto. “Castellon,” he model.” : “The slogan for Spain today is every house a refugio!’’ said, “that’s a Padlock Law Denounced In House Debate CCF Members Demand Government Submit Quebec Legislation To Court ‘TERRORISM’ OTTAWA, Ont, June 2. — Cooperative Commonwealth Federation members in the House of Commons on Monday night launched a strong attack on the Quebec padlock law, de- manding that the government refer it to the Supreme Court to test its constitutionality, de- spite the attitude of Hon. Er- nest Lapointe, minister of jus- tice, who literally told CCF leader J. S. Woodsworth that what the government did was its own business. Justice Minister Iapointe de- clined to discuss the padlock law before the government had acted. The government, he stated, would take its own counsel. Grant MacNeil (CCE, North Van- eouver) declared that the law ne- gated fundamental Canadian civil rights, holding that it was a fleg- rant violation of federal jurisdic- tion. By its means, he said, a form of terrorism had been employed in Quebec, whereby premises were padlocked, books and publications seized and homes invaded, all with- out affording the victim recourse to court of law. : J. S. Woodsworth stressed the lack of definition of communism in the act which enabled the provin- cial povernment to denounce any oppenent as a communist. The CGF, he said, had been attacked by Premier Duplessis as “a commun- ist-inspired organization.” There was even the possibility that McGill University might be padlocked, the CCE leader stated, pointing out that the law had been used as a threat to prevent certain individuals from speaking there. City May Make Loan For Project City officials were advised this week by Hon. Ian Mackenzie that a $1,000,000 loan may be negotiated by the city through provisions of a new bill which, if passed, will provide for low-rate federal zgov- ernment loans for ‘“self-liquidat- ing”’ municipal projects. In replying to the minister of defense, Mayor G. C. Miller stated he was hopeful the city would be able to complete the $700,000 water main extension project to Point Grey, or sponsor $1,000,000 worth of local improvements. The loan bill just introduced into the House ef Commons is for $30,000,000. E. A. Cleveland, commissioner of Greater Vancouver Water District has been instructed to communi- cate with Ottawa if the water ex tension scheme can be financed under the new bill. ARMS FOR SPAIN WITH Season’s Bluebac Two Cents Increase Has Been Gained By Union During Four Years. SET 6-7 CENTS Two canneries, the Queen Charlotte Fisheries and the Colonial Packers, on Tuesday Signed agreements for blueback salmon prices only with the Pacific Coast Fishermen’s Un- ion here. Prices set were 6 and 7 cents for the month of June; 61-4 and 71-4 cents from July i to August 10; and 6 and 7 cents for the remaind- er of the season. This is the iourth consecutive year in which the Pacific Coast Fishermen’s Union has signed agreements for blueback salmon in the Gulf of Georgia. During this period prices to fish- ermen have been increased from 4 and 5 cents in 1935 to 6 and 7 cents this year, without any increase in the prices to consumers. The union represents 700 organ- ized blueback salmon trollers. Mrs. Jamieson Heads League Women’s League For Peace Holds Meeting Mrs. J. Stuart Jamieson was again chosen president of the Women’s International League for Peace, at its annual meeting. Other officers for the year in- cluded honorary president, Mrs. J. W. Woodsworth; first vice-pres- ident, Mrs. W. Planta; junior past president, Mrs. Rex Faton; second vice, Mrs. Ll... C. Temple; third vice, Mrs. H. S. Watkins; fourth vice, Miss M. Osterhout; fifth vice, Mrs. G. W. Knipe; recording secretary, Mrs. W. T. Norton; corresponding, Mrs. W. G. Brandreth; treasurer, Mrs. R. H. Manzer; press, Mrs. F. Detwiller; literature, Mrs. J. Bury; membership, Mrs. M. Dryer; radio, Mrs. W. Planta, and industrial peace, Mrs. R. P. Steéves. international headquarters cor- respondent is Mrs. Norman Brown; British Peace Movement, Miss K. Lane; Youth Council, Miss Flor- ence Leck; delegates to League of Progressive Women, Mrs. J. Doern and Mrs. S. J. Adams; delegates to Lecal Council, Mrs. C. H. Scott, Mrs. H. Wood, Mrs. L. C. Teeple and Mrs. R. P. Steeves, and dele- Bate to League of Nations execu- tive, Mrs. W. G Brandreth. Council Rejects Age Limit Move Confronted with the anomaly by Ald. H. D. Wilson that only two weeks ago the council ruled that a man of 54 years of age was not through on the labor market, alder- men turned down a recommenda- tion made by the city comptroller that applicants for civic service shall be under 40. The council agreed to the recommendation that murses at the General Hospital must now work five years instead of four to reach a maximum of $1500 a year. added value in O-