Page Siz THE os OCP ies SS ADVOCATE June iT, 1938 Nickason In Legal Battle Promoter Moore Sues For $200 Vancouver's sensational young light-heayvyweight, Chuck Wicka- s50n, forsook the squared circle for the courtroom this week to engage in a legal battle with Ted Moore, city promoter, who is suing him for approximately $200. Moore, striving to maintain con- trol of Wickason who is now be- coming big time in the ring, asked the court to enforce a five-year contract entered into by Wickasoz on January 4, 1937. He alleged that Wickason broke this contract some eight months ago. The amount for which Moore is suing represents, according to the promoter, the cut due him from Wickason’s earnings. Judgment was reserved by Chief Justice Morrison. Farr Quits Britain In Huff LONDON.\——Tommy Farr, famed British heavyweight, left England for the United States’ in a huff Wednesday because the British Board of Boxing Control fined him $3750 for his failure to - meet Schmeling in a contracted fight. Tf he does not pay, Farr faces the loss of his British Empire title. Asked what he intended to do, particularly if the board insisted on collectings Farr stated: “That would be just too bad fer them— and for me.” Swartz Meets Price Ernie Swartz, the Blonde Bomb- shell to city fight fans, will meet Jack Price, Seattle, in a four-round prelim at the Auditorium next Wednesday, June 22. PICNIC at RENFREW PARK i7th Avenue & Slocan Street SUNDAY, JUNE 19th 1 PM. SPORTS GAMES REFRESHMENTS Come and Bring Your Friends! Joint Auspices: Norquay Branch CP. and Ukrainian Branch atte cooler advoeae Maillardville “Wants Athletic Centre last Saturday real feelings. strange MATILLARD ViIL_LLE.—Local fans enjoyed the fight-fest of their lives when Sponsors Henri local progressives, put on the second brawl within five weeks to get the community going on the idea c= building an athletic club. Dirty George Bunka smashed his stool to smithereens in peeve at Eirenchy Tarzan’s successful efforts to hold him to a draw, the crowd hoping fervently that their compatriot would kill the Ukrainian. murderous trick in the bag was brought out the referee tiring first and looking for someone to spell him off. Handsome Billy Masson, who got the verdict over Johnny Lamchuk’s underhand strategy, will win himseif a home in this town the way the madamoselles were rooting for him. Johnny didn’t like the verdict one little bit, and when he returned to retrieve his gum from a ring post the girls, thinking he was back after Referee Butler, Sabourin and George Langstaff, Every gave tongue to their Al Ford, himself a first-class lightweight, thoroughly enjoyed him- self as he acted as third man in a box fight between Maurice Deslaurier and the Cariboo Kid. He raised both their hands after seeing a really great match that had the fans tense. By Gadabout ERIPATETIC students of the Young Communist League’s Lynn Valley summer school are still wondering what hap- pened to Bill Stewart, secretary of Local 28, Hotel and Restau- rant Employees Union and the nemisis of local cafe owners. Bill was to have given a lecture on trade unionism at the weekend school last Sunday and was last seen in east Vancouver on Sat- urday night with enough material for five lectures under his arm. incidentally, we heard this week that a scout for a well-known sar- dine company is anxious te get in touch with Sid Zlotnick, educa- tional - director of the school. It seems that our scout was at North Vancouver ferry last Sunday night when a two-seater business coup rolied up. From within came sounds. (dt turned out ORANGE HALL BOXING and WRESTLING EXHIBITIONS — Vancouver Sports Club SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M. Only Shoe Repair Store in Vancouver with a Signed Agreement with the Union NEW METHOD SHOE - 337 Carrall St. later that this was only Fritz Zeis essaying a difficult yodelling song). Before our scout’s astonished gaze the coupe proceeded to disgorge ten YCL students with haversacks en suite and one infant. Our scout is anxious to learn the packing secret, he says. * * x > To raise this thing to a higher level, precisely to Hollyburn Ridge. We heartily concur in the protest of skiers and hikers against the proposed logging off of Hollyburn Ridge. it may be true that logging operations would not affect the majority of those lucky enough te Own cabins on the ridge, but the fire hazard would be greatly in- ereased. And the boys and girls who built those cabins were not in a position to squander thousands in erecting palatial summer homes like some mining and lumber mag- nates we could name. x * * * Man Mountain Dean, we hear, has announced. his candidacy for Georgia general assembly. Accord- ing to rumor, both he and the electorate are viewing with alarm. OLD-TIVIE DANCE EVERY SATURDAY — Swedish Community Halli 1320 ©. Bastings St. Helge Anderson’s Orchestra GIGANTIC CLEARANCE . « » Of Trade-In Chesterfields and Other Household Furniture =e 4 Chesterfield Suites 5 Chesterfield Suites 8 Chesterfield Suites 2 Mohair Chesterfield 3-Pce. Kroehler Bed Chesterfield first class condition Ice Refrigerator Ice Refrigerator Suites Gurney Oxford Range TREMENDOUS OVERSTOCK OF USED GOODS MUST BE SOLD! Hastings 21.00 27.50 29.50 39.50 (5.00 . 8.95 15.00 McClary Range, equipped with sawdust burner New Ranges from New Chesterfield Chairs Max Schmeling ‘Glorified Press Agent For Nazis’ By LEFTY People’s World Sports Columnist SAN FRANCISCO —The big gun bambardment is now on. Max Schmeling, the challenger for Joe Louis’ heavyweight crown, has epened his thick lips, exposing: a set of badly worn fangs and a deep love for Hitler which he keeps in his epiglottis and exposes only when newspapermen are around. The Worth American Newspaper Alliance has taken upon itself to act as Schmeling’s publicity agent and is now displaying a full-sized biography of the German fighter. The biography consists for the most part of remarks on “what Hit ler has done for Germany.’’ Schmeling, who won the world’s title from Jack Sharkey sittimg down im the centre of the ring and holding his mid-riff, is Bit ler’s idea of the Aryan sports- man. And; whether Schmeling cares to or not, one of his principal jobs while in this country has been to be a glorified press-agent for the Third Reich. A good many people think Schmeling is just a sportsman and shouldn’t be made the subject of political attacks. These are the same people who think Hitler’s ex- change ‘students are just students who come over here to learn Am- erican manufacturing and business methods and the like. = =. = This is a false conception. Ex- Change students and athletes are both selected for their propaganda value. We have talked with some of the former and they admitted that they were interviewed by high Nazi executives before they were allowed to come to this country. They earned the trip, not by scholastic attainments but by their Nazi Party work in the German colleges and their sole task in this country is to promote “goodwill” between the Third Reich and the United States. Schemlinehas the same task. And undoubtedly he finds numerous American newspaper services which are not above doing his dirty work for him if it results in an “ex- clusive” news story. The German athlete who will not allow himself to become a mouthpiece for Hitler’s militar- ism and racial arrogance quickly finds himself recalled and jailed. This was the real reason for the imprisonment of Baron von Cramim, the great German tennis player. INO propaganda in Schemling. Readjust your cheaters and look again. The man’s crawling with propaganda. Qur only hope is that Schmeling will end up this time horizontal instead of vertical. SB BeBwBVEXVuw=ssB eB se GT EewsBewraesss = Piano and Furniture Moving Ow] MESSENGER & TRANSFER TRINITY 4533 RBeEwSE Ve Bee we Sc se=er suse ser =a=u SPECIAL! While You Wait ... pL AABaABRame BABABDBBAESDD Heels - - Ladies’ Half- Soles - Over 200 from B:C-..... the Flower of Canadian Youth Labor Solidarity Sixty-Eight Unions In Mass Picket Of Theatre Sixty-eight union locals affiliated to the trades and labor council answered the call of Local 348, Motion Picture Projec- tionists’ Union, for a mass picket outside the Hollywood Theatre on West Broadway last Saturday. As a result of the picket only a©@ few score movyie-goers passed through the lines, while hundreds went elsewhere. The theatre management ap- proached the union following this display of labor solidarity, asking that pickets be withdrawn for a2 period of two weeks while negotia- tions were conducted. however, alternative but to reject them. The dispute is now in its fifth week, chief point at issue being the refusal of the owner to employ ~ that the union had ne = a union man or agree to his son, a licensed projectionist, union.- joining the Local 348 officials had no Knowi- edge of an injunction, reported to ‘tarist mind to the administration Men’s Half Soles and Rubber $1.00 G5e¢ Empire Shoe Repairs 66 East Hastings Street Terms proposed by the man-| have been granted, restraining the agement were so unsatisfactory | union from picketing. 3 Continued Continued Buck Spai stration which lasted for three | tion. weeks. Ladysmith CCE Club also sent a Tear gas bombs, from which | contribution. there was no escape, were fired into the cells. Bullets swept the corridors and ranges. To many people the question arises: What was the purpose of the attempt to murder Buck? it must be remembered that Buclx, together with Hill, Boychuk, Ewen, CGacie, Carr, Popovich and myself were in Kingston penitentiary be- cause we were Communists. There was great popular indigna- tion against their incarceration. To meet this it was necessary for the government to brand them as com- mon criminals, as incorrigible trouble makers. If a Communist was killed during a prison riot it would appear to the public that the Communists were leading it and the guards were merely per- forming their duty. it is not hard to understand the commission’s report in the light of O@rmond’s record. He is a Tory lawyer, a close associate of Ben- nett in Calgary, a product of mili- tary “education” and training. When, at the end of the World War, the Canadian soldiers had re- turned from France to England and were on the verge of mutiny, demanding to be sent home; it was Ormond who was selected to quell them. And he did it with a brutal- ity that might have been used later as a pattern by Mussolini, Hitler and Hranco. He brought this brutalized, mili- of prisons and attempted to mili- tarize them. But that is one thing convicts will not stand for, and Ormond resorted to brute force to enforce his will, and to lying to eover up his failure. One of the many commendable features of the report of the Archambault royal commission on penitentiaries is the recognition that all prisoners are not irre- claimable; that many are vyictims of circumstances and environment; that attempts should be made to reclaim them, especially the youth and first offenders; and that the only aim and method should not be punishment and brutal repression. Aid Sitdowners Local 69, Printing Pressmen’s Union, donated $10 to the sit- downers this week at a business meeting. The union secretary was instructed to write to. the city council urging that Jubilee Chil- dren’s Summer Camp be granted a tag day to provide for needy chil- dren whose parents cannot afford the minimum camp charges. oe ATS Defending Democracy in Spain! SHIPMENT URGENT! DONATIONS FOR JULY PLEASE RUSH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS LAGGING Papineau Room 43 Friends of the Mackenzie- 615 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, B. Cc. Phone Trinity 4955 Battalion On Wednesday, June 22, at 8 pm, in the grounds of Killarney, 2890 Point Grey Road, the League for Peace and Democracy is staging 2 Spanish fiesta in aid of the cam- paign. A principal objective of the cam- paign is the maintenance of the two children’s homes in Spain, housing 150 children, “kept up by Canadian support. Cost of keeping one child. is $8 a month and the league is now appealing to organ- izations and groups to adopt one oer more children. Continued Strike to the CIO.” A delegation will meet with the minister of labor today to make formal application for a concilia- tion commissioner. BLUBBER BAY, BC, June i6— (Special)—Striking employees of Pacific Lime company here main—- tain solid ranks to force the com- pany to change its attitude toward 23 blacklisted workers. Armed with axes, company offi- cials, with no warrants to show, battered down doors of Chinese bunkhouses, pushing resisting strik— ers into the hands of police to be hustled down the road, their be- longings left behind. Assistance from health authori- ties was given the company when an official from Powell River de- manded that he be allowed to in- spect the strikers’ tent colony situated at Lime Kiln Bay, half a mile from the plant. The inspector had to admit that sanitary condi- tions were within the law. Notices CARD OF THANKS A. Lawrie and family wish to thank their many friends for sym- pathy expressed in their recent bereavement. IN MEMORIAM In fond memory of Duke Levens, who died for democracy in Spain, a pal who will never be forgotten. —Doe Wilkes. (ir >» TOWN HALL Ballroom Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday OLD-TIME DANCE Wednesday, MODERN DANCE The most beautiful ballroom in Vancouver. Excellent Mfusic Admission 25c = An Ideal ASSOCIATED MILK 1000 Fair. m, HASTINGS BAKERY High. 3244 716 East Hastings Street 4068 East Hastings Street 1709 Commercial Drive Se Quality Products at Mioderate Prices We Deliver % East End and Grandview Homes e “‘Thritty Housewives Shop at Hastings Bakery!’ 100% UNIONIZED ua tualil er te i chigag Bieta Sauce staleay Pwed peso: {