NAZIS IN
CITY FAIL
IN RUSE

Leaders of the Nazi party in
Vancouver, following a prac-
'tice established throughout
Canada and the United States,
are offerings free trips to Ger-
many to certain German-Cana-
dians in the tity as an induce-
ment to join one of the three
Wazi organizations here.

The understanding is that those
accepting the offer will be care-
fully schooled in the Wazi ideolozy
while in Germany and carry on
Nazi propasandsa work on their re—
turn to this country. Should they
evince disapproval of Nazi meth-—
ods, then, of course, they would not
“return.

One prominent German resident
in Vancouver, whose name is with-
hela for Sins reasons, confided
to the Advocate this week that
“such an offer had been made to
-him. Since he has reason to be-
lieve that his anti-fascist sym-
“pathies are suspected by the Wazis
‘and that this is probably a ruse to
get him to Germany where no one
“would presume to enquire about
his disappearance, he declined the
: offer.

The atmosphere of fear and sus-

picion in which Vancouver’s Ger-
‘man residents live because of Nazi
‘threats is best illustrated by the
‘fact that many German-Candians,
‘formerly members of non-Nazi or-
‘Sanizations here, have dropped out
‘of these organizations in recent
‘months to join a Nazi organization
—although their hatred of Nazism
has, if anything, been strengthened
‘by coercive methods employed by
the Wazis.

“They have threatened my old
mother in Germany,” one German
toid an <Adyocate reporter this
week. Another coupie, until a short
time ago active in a German cul-
tural group where Hitler's stiff
armed admirers are not liked,
stated that they had joined -the
Wazi-party to ensure safety on
their projected visit to Germany.
They want to visit relatives, but
they also want to return to Canada.

OTTAWA, Ont., June 16—The
federal government is probing the
activities of Nazi agents in Canada,
it was learned here this week.

The government will investigate
fascist penetration of the militia
and will seek to uncover connec-
tions between Nazi groups in this
couniry and those in the United
States.

The probe follows continued de-
tTmands in the House of Commons
for government action.

TORONTO, Ont., June i16-—A
huge rally addressed by prominent
Jabor leaders was held in Queen's
Park here last Saturday to protest
the proposal of fascist organiza-
tions to hold a national conven-
tion in this city on June 30: Ban-
mers carried at the rally read:

“No Hitler convention wanted
here.”’

Japan Buys
Burns’ Meat

That Burns company is endeayor-
ing to offset heavy losses entailed
by Tabor’s boycott of its products
by shipping meat to feed Japan's
army and navy, was the charge
made by blacklisted ex-employees
to the Advocate this week.

Tons of meat are being loaded
on Maru boats, it was stated,
threugh contracts made with Burns
company at Calgary and these
shipments form the basis for re-
eent claims made by Burns that
the boycott is over. The men also
claimed that government inspec-
Ors were assisting in spreading a
story that the company’s business
is now back to normal.

Emquiries made by the Advo-
cate among a group of anti-im-
perialist Japanese in Vancouver
elicited the following statement:
“It is quite obvious that such ship-
ments of meat are not for the
civilian population, which is now
rationed severely. The meat will
z0 to feed officers mainly in the
army and navy.”

The boycott conrmittee of the
trades and labor council has been
informed of these shipments.

Miner Killed

PRINCETON, BC, June 16.—Ar-
Vid Eiricson, 45-year-old miner at
CSepper Mountain mine, was in-
Stantly killed when caught in a
iwo-ton rock fail here Wednesday.
Ericson came to Copper Mountain
froGm Congress mine, Bridge River,

SUPERIOR NEGOT

Piurder
Intended

That an attempt toe murder
Tim Buck, general secretary of
the Communist party, was made
in 1932 by firing shots imto his
prison cell, was admitted in the
penitentiary commission’s report
this week

THE

PEOPLE'S
ADVOCATE,

British Columbia’s Progressive Home Paper

VOL. IV. No. 23

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1938

eS] 5 Cents

Huge Send-Off
To Victoria For

Jobless Sunday

Council
Protests
Firings

PORT ALBERNIL BC, June
16—The city council, board of
trade and the Liberal Associa-
tion here protested this weelx
to Hon. G. S. Pearson for per-
mitting the managements of
APL and Bloedel mills to dis-
criminate against 75 employees
without intervention by the
conciliation commissioner de-
manded by the men.

At a mass meeting of mill work:
ers last Sunday, Rev. G Stevenson
of Port Aiberni condemned the
companies’ highhanded methods,
and called for reinstatement of the
men.

Declaring he had been warned
on his way to the meeting, which
was called by Local 85, Interna-
tional Woodworkers, that “snoop-
ers would see him,” Rey. Stevenson

Stated, “I went through the Great
War, and I am not afraid of
skunks.”’

The provincial minister of labor,
aiter telling a committee of dis-
criminated men last week that he
would heed the signatures of 100
men and appoint a conciliation
commissioner, has since gone back
on his word, stating that he must
have 51 percent of employees’ sig-
matures presented to him before
acting.

“Pearson’s name is becoming a
byword in the ‘Port’,’’ union offici-
als told the Advocate. They opined
that the boss loggers’ association
was bringing pressure to bear on
his department, causing him to go
back on his word in an effort to
avoid intervention in the dispute
before the requisite 15 days has
lapsed.

API mill workers, numberiny
350, over 51 percent of whom have
Signed for a commissioner have
shown that they favor the union,
and before Sunday, which termin-
ates the 15-day period, the required
number of signatures is expected

in Blodel’s, which employs 250
men.
Waiveiy enough, Hon. Pearson

shows willingness to stand by a
pledge purported te be signed by
employees, who were confronted
by plant foremen, wording of
which reads: “We the undersigned
will not join any union affiliated

(Continued on page 6)
See STRIKE.

Spain Week

CAMPAIGN MEETS WITH READY RESPONSE

ESPONSE to Spain’s plea for her thousands of homeless,

refugee children came this week from many parts of British
Columbia as people answered the appeal of the Spanish Aid
Committee of the League for Peace and Democracy for contri-
butions towards the national Spain Week campaign to send
50,000 quarts of milk and 20,000 twenty-five cent meals—the
equivalent ot $10,000—to Spain on June 20.

Sub-committees conducting local
drives reported a ready response
to the appeal from a public stirred
by the ruthless bombardment of
Spanish towns by German and Ital-
ian planes: ;

Hundreds of letters and collec-
tion cards were mailed last week-
end to individuals by the League
for Peace and Democracy. This
weelk, however, the league reported
that while the letters had been re-
ceived, the collection cards were
missing from a number of en-
velopes, which were sent unsealed.
Complaint was made to postal
authorities who denied having
tampered with the mail.

Wanaimo City Council at its last
meeting granted a tag day for
Spain at the request of the local

Peace Conference Committee, sec-
retary of which is George Les
Strange, executive member of the

Leasue for Peace and Democracy.
The tag day will be held Saturday,

June 25. Les Strange has also
mailed i160 letters to local resi-
dents.

Wanaimo District Workers’
Union, unemployed organization,
gave $5, and Brechin Parent
Teachers Association, $2, to the

Spain Week fund.

Vancouver organizations donat-
ing to the fund included: Carleton
CCF Club, Women’s Auxiliary of
the Fishermen’s Union and the
Serbian Workers’ Cultural Associa-

(Continued on page 6)
See SPAIN.

Vindicated

TiM

BUCK’S CHARGES UPHELD

By MALCOLM BRUCE.

EARLY six years after the great strike of October,

1932,

in Portsmouth (Kingston) penitentiary and the prison
demonstrations which followed it, during which an attempt
was made to murder Tim Buek, a royal commission has found

that “shots
his cell.

were deliberately

and unjustifiably fired” into

The commission’s report roundly condemns Major-General
Ormand, superintendent of penitentiaries, and brands him as

wholly unfit for the position he
holds. The report also condemns
penitentiary inspectors Craig and
Dawson and charges them with
dishonesty and misrepresentation
in their reports of the happenings
in the penitentiary at that time.

From the time of the strike and
“riot”? in 1932 until the defeat of
the Bennett government in 1935,
the government, Ormond and the
inspectors repeatedly lied about the
shooting at Buck.

First they denied that any bul-
lets were fired into his cell. Then
they said that the shots were fired
because Buck was “inciting to riot’
and they wanted to frighten him
into desisting.

Why were there demonstrations
in the prison following the strike?
The strike was successful in re-
moving 2 number of long standing

© grievances

and gaining conces-
sions.

Upon receiving assurances re-
garding improvements, the pris-
oners at nightfall filed out of the
shops. Ormond came down from
Ottawa. All prisoners were locked
up in their cells. They were un-
easy. Ormond made a speech in
which he promised that exercise
in the prison yard would be grant-
ed next day.

This promise, among others, was
broken. The men stayed in their
cells, fed through the bars, for
three days waiting for exercise.

Exasperated by Ormond’s atti-
tude and confined as they were,
most of the men began a demon-

(Continued on page 6)
See BUCK.

Rally At
Powell St
Planned

Leaving a full quota of sit-
downers in the post office and

art gallery to “hold the fort,”
a first contingent of one hun-
dred single unemployed will
leave Pier D on Sunday’s mid-
night boat for Victoria, in a
further effort to force government
recognition of their meat — ESE
and wages. —-

it is expected that thousands of
citizens will rally at the dock to
give them a rousing sendoff.

On Powell street grounds at 2
p.m. Sunday, a mass meeting will
be held} at which representatives
of the many organizations support-
ing the men’s demands will speak.

The men expect a hearty welcome
from residents in the capital, R. W.
Campbell, one ‘of the leaders, stated
to the Advocate, numerous organi-
zations having made preparations
to feed them.

More than 70 per
Sitdowners have been in BC for
more than five years, a survey
taken by Vancouver Youth Coun-
cil reveals.

The greatest number were born
in Canada, nevertheless they are
without homes, the survey report
states.

John Stanton, president, and J. S.
Hnudal, general secretary, of the
Youth Council, will present the re-
port to Hon. G S. Pearson, with
the request that an adequate works
program be inaugurated.

The Youth Council will also re-
quest that the names of tincanners
be struck from jail records. A
meeting of young people will be
held tonight at Collingwood United
Chureh to arrange supplies of food
and clothing for the unemployed.

cent of the

Fishermen To
Meet Sunday

All organized sections of fisher-
men, including Indian and Japa-
nese, will be represented at a dele-
gate conference to be held Sunday,
June 19, 2 p.m. at Hastings Audi-
torium, to decide further action for
Stabilization of fish prices:

With the gillnet season opening
June 26, it is expected that the con-
ference will demand of the canners
what prices they are prepared to
offer.

Many Organizations Demand Gov’t Action

Threat To Log Off Hollyburn Ridge Arouses Wide Indignation

INITED protest has been aroused
in Vancouver this week by the
announcement that FE. H: Heeps, of
Tos Angeles, who holds the timber
rights on beautiful Hollyburn
Ridge, is preparing to log off the
area.
Provincial government officials
were inclined to view the threat
as a bluff at first, holding that the
timber was of littie commercial
value. But Reeve Leyland of West
Vancouver disclosed that slashing
work was already being done and
that the contract for three miles
of road had been let.

He appealed to Hon. A. Wells
Gray, minister of lands, and the

three months ago.

provincial government to save the

ridge by purchasing it, and his ap-
peal was immediately backed by
the board of trade, tourist and
other organizations.

Mrss Dorothy Steeves, CCE MLA
for Worth Wancouver, wired the
government urging immediate ac-
tion. Protest was also made by the
CGommunist party, Fergus McKean,
provincial secretary, stating:

“It would be a erime against the
people of Vancouver to permit the
destruction of Hollyburn Ridge.
Wot only is it a natural beauty spot
of Vancouver and a great asset as
a tourist attraction, but because of
its ready accessibility it provides
a week-end playground for thou-
sands of our citizens who are un-

able to take vacations.’

Approximately 1000
skiers and some 200 cabin owners
on the ridge held a meeting on Sun-
day night, vigorously protesting
the threatened move to despoil “the
finest potential winter sports park
on the Pacific Coast.” The spokes-
men said that 40,000 ski enthusiasts
and sympathizers were prepared to
back any plan to convert the area
into a public park.

Earlier hopes that the govern-—
ment would agree to bear half the
purchase price were dashed when
it was indicated that the province
would take no action to save Holiy-—
burn because, if it adopted a gen-
eral: policy of purchasing scenic

organized

timber, the cost would be enormous.
The provincial government ad-
vanced the plea that it possesed no
funds for the purpose, Premier Pat-
tullo stating:

“We will go as far as we can,
but this seems to be a matter for
West Vancouver.’’

Reeve Leyland
phatically that it was not a mat-
ter concerning West VYancouver
only, but rather one of importance
to the whole lower mainland.

When &. H. Heeps offered to sell
the ridge about a year ago he asked
$125,000 and Hon. A. Wells Gray re-
ported this week that an offer to
exchange the timber for another
stand elsewhere in the province had
been refused.

replied em-

ATES WITH UNION

LOCKOUT
BY CHAIN
GROCERY

Reacting to publie sentiment,
the management of Superior
Stores yesterday reconsidered
its decision to dismiss eleven
store managers. when negotia-
tions towards a settlement of
the dispute were opened with
Local 279, International Retail
Clerks’? Union.

In an interview with Don
Maxwell, business agent for
loeal 279, the Advocate learn-
ed that a more reasonable atti-
tude had been adopted and
there was every hope for a
Satisfactory settlement.

€. M. Stewart, chairman of
the Trades and Labor Council
organizing committee, states
that Manager J: A. Benson
phoned to each of the fifteen
store managers in the city, giv-
ing an ultimatum that those
who had signed up in the
union over the week-end need
not turn up for work Monday
morning.

“The trades council was
ready to take swift action,”
Stewart stated.

Eleven Superior employees,
the majority of the chain’s
senior staff, had their places
filled by new non-union em-
ployees on Monday afternoon.

There are fifteen Superior
Stores in Vancouver.

‘|Communists _
Speak < Sunday

Leslie wipe ee western organizer,
for the Communist party and a
member of the party's Dominion
committee, and Fersus McKean,
provincial secretary of the CGom-
munist party, will be the speakers
at a public meeting to be held in
the Empress Theatre on Sunday,
June 19, at 8 pm.

The meeting will be held under
auspices of the Vancouver city
commiittees of the party.

Morris and McKean returned this
week from Toronto where they at-
tended a meeting of the Dominion
committee of the Communist party.

Also returned from Toronto this
week is Maurice Rush, provincial
secretary of the Youngs Commu-
nist League who went east as a
delegate to the third Canadian
Youth Congress and the YCL na-
tional convention. Rush will be in-
terviewed by Hal Griffin, acting
editor, on the Advocate’s news
broadcast over station CKMO at
6 pm this Friday.

Meet Plans

Federation

Full preparations for the confer-
ence on unemployment which takes
place Sunday, June 19, at 10 a.m. in
Moose Hall, have been made by the
Continuation Committee of the
Greater Vancouver Conference on
Unemployment Insurance, Secre—
tary Mildred Dougan told the Ad-
vocate this week. “‘Consideringe that
477 conference calls have been sent
out, and that unemployment is oc-
cupying the attention of all socially
minded people,’ she stated, “the
committee is confident that the ob-
jectives of the conference will be
realized, and wide representation
obtained.’

AS evidence of her optimism, she
showed the Advocate a letter from
Wanaimo [Local 7355, United Mine
Workers, requesting affiliation with
the BC Federation on Unemploy-
ment, which will be formed at the
conference on Sunday. The wnion’s
secretary, Ii. Boyd, gave assurance
that Nanaimo miners were fully
behind the proposed federation.

Speakers at the conference will
be Pred Tyler, Vancouver Dx-Serv-
ive Men’s League who is an au-
thority on unemployment and relief
problems; C. M. Stewart, executive
member of the Trades and Labor
Council; John Matts, secretary‘iof
the Relief Project Workers’ Unidn;
and FPersus McKean, provincial
secretary of the Communist party,
who will give the main report for-
the Continuations Committee.

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