“FOUR-YEAR PLAN” OUTLINES OBJECTIVES NAZIS ACTIVE THROUGHOUT CANA Western Canada’s Progressive The People’s Advocate Leading Newspaper — — +: VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1938 Barrister Hits ‘Sham’ _Prosecution Garfield King Gives Rea- sons He Withdrew From Sinsle Jobless Defense. NOT COURT PROBLEM Declaring that no useful pur- pose could be served by his ap- pearance in police court to de- fend single unemployed ar- rested for solicitins finds on the street and charged with ob- structing police, Garfield King, city barrister who defended the first few cases to come before the court, has withdraywnu from the de fence because of “the obvious sham and insincerity about these prose— ecutions.” Im a letter to City Prosecutor Oscar Orr, Garfield Kine wrote this week: “I feel that no useful purpose would be served by my appearance, and I intend to withdraw from these cases for the following rea- sons: 1 associate myself with, and adept for application to these eases ,the observations of Chief Justice Martin in the case of Rex vs. Golden, where, under analogous circumstances he said- *. . . what really has happened is this, that the minor charge which could admit— tediy have been properly laid for breach of a by-law, under summary jurisdiction, has been translated and magnified into a national crime of a serious character, which mag— nification is in my opinion not only eppressive but illegal. . .? Pee is an obvious sham and insincerity about these prosecu- tions, the responsibility for which, ef course, is not yours or that of the police. That this is obvious must be apparent from the action of the magistrate in releasing sev-— eral of the men who had reasonable Prospects of jobs. I have not the slightest doubt that if work were available for all of these men, their immediate release would be most gladly effected. —The matter therefore resolves itself into a struggle between the men, on the one hand, whose demands for work or relief are well- known to all of us, and, on the other hand, the provincial and Dominion Sovernments who have adopted a policy cf masterful inactivity with respect to the needs of these men and hundreds of others in equally desperate circumstances. What the men have done is fundamentally a form of political protest. The ex- ecutive branches of government meet this protest by the oppressive agency of the police power. All I can do is to suggest that the magistrate recognize the “realities” of the situation, and refer this political problem to the proper forum, which is the parlia- ment of Canada—not the police court. Work Started On City Hall PORT ALBERNI, BC, June 9— Work has been commenced here on the construction of a new city hall a2t the corner of Gertrude and Johnson streets. Port Alberni has been without a city hall since the original building was destroyed by fire some years 2ezo0 and the council has met ever since in the Motion Block. Last January voters approved a $2500 money bylaw for construction of a new building. Proof Seventeen months ago the Deutsche Zeitung, Deutsche Bund as the basis of its Nazi activiti es in this. Full details of the plan are giv Wazi paper published in Winnipes, published a four-year plan adopted by the country. The preamble to the plan, ringed above in black, reads: “In accordance with the proclamation of our leader, Adolf Hitler (as implemented by Major-General H. Goering), we hereby make public the four-year plan of the Deutsche Bund in Canada. en in the story on this page. 2WMithwodkh, den 50. De; ember [956. Deutiche Seitung flir Canada Aus der deutschen Bewegung in C WHhtungl Deutjher Bund, Canada Venjahrs-Brolamation der Guudesleitung Ses Deutiden Bunds&es in Canasa Mnfadliefend an die Brorla ntahion unjeres SFiibrerS Woolf Sitler (Musfibrender: Gen- Sberft S. Gsring) wberbffentii- den wir biermit den Bierjah- tesplan de8 Deutiden Bundcs gir Sanada 1) Nrbeitsbhefdaffungsplan: - a) edem deutfden Fabrifan- fen und Gejaaji8mann (x Agency Sets Minimum Pay No Domestic Work At Less Than $12.50 INo domestic workers will be Sent from the government employ- ment office on Dunsmuir street to work for less than $12.50 per month, J. H. McVety, employment superintendent, told a special com- mittee appointed by the Council of Social Agencies which met recently in the offices of Vancouver Welfare Federation. Assistance of the police in inyves- tigation of doubtful advertisements for domestic workers, and for col- lection of wages held back was also assured by the employment of- ficial. A brief submitted by the Domes- tic Workers’ Union, dealing exten- Sively wtih working conditions of domestic workers, formed the basis of discussion, and the divi- sion of domestic workers into three categories of efficiency to establish wages was recommended by the committee. Union representatives Stated they would help in this clas- Sification. The committee will seek opinions as to benefits derived from the Washington State plan for domes- tics. Details of the Wisconsin State plan, the YWCA national code for domestics will also be sought. Represented on the special com- mittee is the YWCA, Employment Service of Canada, Domestic Work- ers’ Union, Local Council of Women, Vancouver City Council, Vancouver Council of Social Agen- cies. The Domestic Workers’ Union was complimented by the commit- tee for its extensive information and constructive suggestions. DEFEAT THE PADLOCK LAW. Pearson's Explanation Rejected Unions Oppose Changes In Hours Of Work Act Demand that there should be no interference with the Hours of Work Act, was the answer of the Trades and Labor Council to a letter from Hon. G. S. Pearson attempting to justity his re- cent exemption of the catering industry from the requirements of the Act. The minister of labor claimed that he was requested by people all over the province to extend the legal 12 hours spread for a work shift to 14 hours, and that “it will be for the good of the trade.” Bill Stewart, secretary of Hotel and Restaurant Employees, whose union was the first to pro- test the exemption, told the coun- cil that the intention of big hotel owners was to retain this exemp- tion the year round, instead of, as was claimed, only for the rush months. He declared that many abuses would arise which would intensify unemployment in the in- dustry, where an employee would be forced to hang around for i4 thes hours in order to obtain five or six hours’ work. : Delegate from the Jam and Gan- nery Workers’ local warned the council that his membership had suffered under exemptions from the Hours of Work Act. A motion was passed rejecting the defense of the minister of labor and requested him to contact the executive of the council in order to arrive at a better solution. Union Man Gives Instance Objects To ‘Red Tape’ Of City’s New Cycle Bylaw A delegate who has ridden a bicycle for 20 years in Vancou- ver told the Trades and Labor Couneil Tuesday that he had no objections to paying the license as protection of property, but he did object to “‘the red tape and nonsense” which some officials had apparently read into the new city bylaw. Describing the method of issuu- ing licenses, the delegate told the council that a whole line-up of ap- plicants were refused licenses be- cause mudguards were not painted white or a bell was missing. He told the clerk that he had his two bicycle lamps at home in Burnaby, but he had to go home from the centre of the city to affix his lamps in order to satisfy officials that he actually had them. Ald. Fred Crone was contacted by irate cyclists, the delegate de- elared, and allowances were made in Cases where it could be proved that people possesses lights. School- boys whose bicycles had black mud- Suards and missing bells were re- quired to obtain statements from parents that they would not ride after dark. ; OS 0 GE 0 GED. ©) SS OO SS ©) SS OS 0 SE O SSE OO SSS OO) GED O GEE 0 GED CO GED c Ae OG OSs Labor Backs ‘Sitdowners’ Trades Council Urges Unions To Contribute That organized labor is fully be- hind the struggle of the Single unemployed was shown in the gen- e€rous applause given at the end of of a short address by R. W. Camp- bell, sitdowners’ leader, to the Trades and Labor Council Tuesday, the first council meeting, since the post office and art gallery were o«- cupied. Besides donating $10, the council executive urged all affiliat— ed unions to assist financially. The council fully agreed with Campbell when he declared that it was the action of the single un- employed that had forced the gov- ernment to hasten its $2,000,000 appropriation for BC roads, and when the speaker stated that all the boys wanted was an opportun- ity to work, delepates voiced ap- proyval. “It costs $1,500 to hire special police,” Campbell told delegates, “but it certainly is not the police who are maintaining order. It is the organization of the men them- selves.” The young unemployed leader was particularly bitter at the charges laid against tincanners, stating that “obstructing the po- lice’ was-a criminal charge for which ~provincial authorities were responsible, and that had the proper charge—soliciting without a license—been laid, the city would have had to maintain the men while in jail. Campbell declared frankly that the men were finding it ineffective to keep “at long range arbitration with Victoria,” and said that the entire body of single unemployed would go to Victoria to force the issue with the provincial govern- ment. 4 A Network Centred In’ Consulates Control, Card=Index German = Canadians Sought By Deutsche Bund PUBLISH PAPER “In accordance with the proclamation of our leader, Adolf Hitler (as implemented by Major-General H. Goering) --- we command that members of the Deutsche Bund place themselves unconditionally be- hind their leaders in order that we May accomplish the task that we have placed before ourselves, without any omissions. ..” This is how the four-year plan for INazi activities through the medium of the Deutsche Bund in Canada opens. The plan was adopted 17 months ago, following the Nazi congress at Wuremberg, Germany, and was published in the Deutsche Zeitung, Nazi weekly published at Winnipeg. The tasks it set Nazis in this country, in order to undermine Canadian democracy, include: —To indoctrinate all German- Speaking people in Canada, par- ticularly the youth, with lWazi ideology; Dee promote the sale of German goods in Canada and to defeat the anti-Nazi boycott; —Teo distribute WNazi and to promote the Zeitung, a Nazi weekly in Winnipeg; Aw card-index and control all German-Canadians; —To collaborate with fascist— minded Canadian elements in propagating Nazi tenets among the Seneral Canadian public. An important auxiliary of the Deutsche Bund is the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labor Front). The Labor Front in Ganada is a direct part of the Labor Front in Germany. Its task in Canada is to combine German employers and German workers in common ef- forts to promote Hitler’s aims in this country. German employers in Canada are urged to give jobs to good Nazis, to employ only Ger- mans who are faithful to Hitler, and to fire and blacklist German workers who are anti-Nazi. Key Men Listed German consuls in Canada, four out of six of whom are full-time Salaried officers of the German Reich who do nothing else but promote Nazi aims in Ganada, closely supervise the work of both the Deutsche Bund and the Labor Front. , They are: general, Ottawa; consul, Montreal; H. U. Granow, vice-consul, Ottawa; G Kropp, consul, Toronto; Dr. H. Seelheim, consul, Winnipeg; Weinrich W. Mahler, consul, Vancouver. But the greater part of the Nazi network is hidden. The central nucleus of the net- work is Hitler’s own National So- cialist Party, which only the most devoted Nazis in Canada are per- mitted to join. The WNazi party works under various “covers.” German commercial and trans- portation companies in Canada pro- vide the main “covers.’’ There is the German State Rail- ways, in whose Toronto office the notorious WNazi agent and spy, Werner Haag, weaves his intrigues. There is the North-German Lloyd and the Hamburg-American steam- Ship lines, whose offices in this country are hotbeds of Nazi activ-— ity. Agencies of German optical, chemical, electrical, diesel engine, Fischer bearings, and dye manu- facturers are also used for Nazi purposes. literature Deutsche published EH. Windels, consul- Dr. H. Eckener, HEAR... Party, AND FERGUS a LESLIE MORRIS Member Central Committee, Communist Secretary B.C. Dist. Communist Party, just returned from Toronto. GIVE REPORT OF PLANNING, CENTRAL COMMITTEE, C.P.of C. McKEEN Democracy am Danger Auspices: VANCOUVER CITY COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY | EMPRESS THEATRE SUNDAY, JUNE 19th 8& P.M. CZ ©) SILVER COLLECTION MUSICAL SELECTIONS O43 0 GaP () EEE () Ga () GE ( ) GE () SESS (SESS OO SSD 0) SSE OO SSO Ss © Ga OO SEED ©) GE OO 4B OO SED © SD O GD. O) <> OO GED 0) GS OO GEE G4 ) eae 7 ) > () <> () GED () GEE () Ga () 4 ti 35 ce ee