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June 24, 1938

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Vancouver, B.C., Friday, June 24, 1938

Dismiss The Sadists
Im Uniform

(Ge sttc and grim news photos published in the
Vancouver papers give the lie to official state-
ments that the sitdown strikers were responsibie
for the damage done on Sunday morning to the
stores in downtown Vancouver.

Were there ever scenes of cold-blooded Selice

brutality,

unprovoked. and sadistic,

like those

snapped at the post office by the press photo-

graphers?

The people of Canada owe a debt of gratitude
to the Sun and Province newsmen for the manner
in which they recorded for all time the deliberate
cruelty of members of the RCMP and some of the

city police.

We remember how the cameramen

at the Chicago Memorial Day massacre gave to
the Senate committee cellulcid proof that the onus
of that bloody affair rested squarely on Chicagso’s

police.

Let it be engraved in letters of stone: The sit-
down strikers did not riot. They offered to leave
peaceably under arrest. What other course could
they pursue——except to scatter te the jungles and
give up the fight for young Canada’ s heritage—

jobs and security?

Sections of the police, whether under orders
or not, provoked violence with club and riding
crop and blackjack, and thereby are sclely re-
sponsible for the damage to store windows which

later occurred.

Blinded, retching and vomiting, the boys were
unarmed and helpless and could not riot had they
wished. They were deliberately and needlessly
clubbed ait the post office as they rushed from the

choking gas.

There was one huge city detective (his identity
is concealed by police officialdom) , whose sadistic
beating of Steve Brodie, after Mounties had been
stopped clubbing him, is pictorially recorded in

Monday’s Daily Province.

That man cannot be

trusted with the maintenance of law and order in

Vancouver.
and a thug.

His actions are those of a hooligan

He must be at once dismissed from Vancou-

ver’s police force.
demand it!

Civic duty and law and order

The actions of the members of the RCMP and
the city police who beat the boys must be aired
in public, as the Chicago Memorial Day affair and
the shooting at Tim Buck in Kingston Penitentiary
were and the guilty ones dismissed from public

service for all time!

The absence of damage and atrocity at the art

gallery, where Chief Constable

Foster was in

charge, proves that there was no need of the
sadism at the post office and the brutal ganging-

up on Brodie.

The public wants the truth! They must have it!

Vancouver citizens
sadists in uniform!

must be protected from

Vancouver’s Bloody
Sunday —A Portent
And a Warning

HE scandalous attack on

the Vancouver sitdowners
perpetrated by Premier Pat-
tullo in co-operation with Ot-
tawa has aroused the whole
country to indignation. The
boys in the Vancouver post
office and art gallery were
compelled to occupy those
buildings because their desti-
tution following the closing of
the forestry camps had to be
brought to the attention of the
whole country.

No one has been able to
deny the statements of the
boys and their myriad sym-
pathizers that in the weeks of
their occupation of the two
publie buildings, their con-
duct was exemplary. Discip-
line, disnity and restraint
marked their demonstration
throughout. Every means was
used, including marvellous
publicity methods, to stress
their demand for work at a
decent wage. They took up
the cause of the whole BC
people in their advocacy of
good roads —the absence of
which is a public dissrace
known to every BC citizen.

Premier Pattullo was fully
acquainted with this in all its
details. Not the boys alone,
not alone the labor movement,
but the citizens generally,
through their clergymen and
public people, raised the ques-
tion in all its urgency.

It is safe to say that the vast
majority of Vancouver citi-
zens and through them the
people of Canada, were with
the boys because in their
destitute bodies reposed the
fate of Young Canada.

Young Canada acquitted
itself in a proud and dignified
manner. Every Vancouver
paper testified to the courage
and dignity of the boys, un-
armed and helpless, during
the gas barrage and the
bloody, cowardly and unpro-
voked clubbing to which they
were subjected as they came
out retching and vomiting
from the post office.

Every stage of the entire af-
fair was a black disgrace on
the esecutcheon of official Van-
couver, aye, of official Canada.

Federal authorities and pro-
vincial spokesmen stalled,
evaded, lied and equivocated
from the first.

The only answer they could
give to the request for work
was—egas, bludgeons and ig-
nominy.

But—the people of Vancou-
ver, aroused as they have
never been before, came to
the aid of the boys, and in a
series of city-shaking demon-
strations showed in plain
terms their indignation and
dissust with the events of the
morning hours.

e
ANCOUVER’S Bloody
Sunday is a sign and a
portent. It indicates that Lib-
erals of the type of Pattullo

Bloody

Sunday
By MALCOLM BRUCE.

ATHER’S DAY, Sunday, June 19, in Vancouver was made into a Bloody Sunday by the

forces of law and order Geescieal by Prime Minister King

Mayor Miller.

Premier Pattullo and

It was not the first time that Pattullo stained his hands with the blood of the workers of

British Columbia.

The memory of the brutalities practised against the miners, their wives

and children in Corbin still rankles with all decent people in the province, and beyond its bor-

ders.
the longshore strike in 1935, when
strikers, returned soldiers and
Vancouyer citizens, without re-
gard for age or sex were clubbed,
beaten with whips, teargassed
and otherwise maltreated?

In all these the worst provoca-
teurs, the most sadistic and the
most hated of all the minions of
the capitalist state and the em-
ployers were the yellow-streaked
RCMP.

Hor their work on Bloody Sun-
day in Vancouver they have had
many rehearsals. Members of
that force murdered the peaceful,
unarmed miners parading peace-
fully in the streets of Estevan,
Sask. Members of the same
despicable outfit attacked the
trekkers and their sympathizers
on Dominion Day, 1935, in Re-
gina causing blood to flow and
property to be damaged.

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UL with all their crimes

against the people, the chief
blame must be placed on the goy-
ernment which gave them the or-
ders to attack the sitdowners
after they evacuated the post of-
fice building.

Bennett was responsible for the
Dominion Day police riots in Re-
gina, and Prime Minister King is
responsible for the orgy of tear-
gassing and blood-letting in Van-
ecouver on Bloody Sunday. Shar-
ing the guilt are Pattullo and
Miller.

There was no need for force
and violence against the occu-
pants of the post office. The sit-
downers at the art gallery were
also teargassed, but thanks to the
good sense of Chief Poster, whv
Was in charge there, no attack
made on the men forced by the
fumes out on to the street. Un-
molested, the sitdowners quickly
formed a parade and peacefully
marched to temporary quarters.
INo damage to property was done
although all- along the half-mile
march they were constantly pro-
voked by police.

At the post office, where the
RCMP were in charge, the men
when overcome by gas in the
building were clubbed and beaten
by police wearing gas proof
goggles. And when they emerged
from the building, blinded, they
were at once set upon by city
police, RCMP, and deputized
thugs raked out from the under-
world. Steve Brodie, leader of the
post office sitdowners, was espe-
cially picked out for a savage
beating.

@
12 THE whole purpose of the
police was to effect the evacu—
ation of the post office why did
they pursue the men through
streets and lanes for half a mile
from the scene?

Why was it necessary for them
to invade the headquarters of the
Relief Project Workers’ Union
and dump their loads of teargas
bombs there?

The authorities must havye
thought that the more the police
rioted and the more damage done
to property, the more chance
there would be to turn public
opinion against the unemployed.
They never made a greater mis-
take in their useless lives, nor a
greater political blunder, for the
support given the men and the
increase of indignation against

And who can forget, HOHE SD 1235 forgive,

FEW, days ago I had never
heard of Steve Brodie
Except as a fellow who said
he’d take a chance.
I don’t know him yet; but this
afternoon
I saw a picture in a news-
paper
Of a man sagging at the knees
like a fighter in the last
round,
A fighter
chance,
And a big man is beating him
down with a rubber hose,
Loaded too, I suess.
I don’t know the big fellow’s

that hasn’t had a

name. (1 wish I did).
But the other was Steve
Brodie.

Then I suddenly realized that
it wasn’t only Steve Brodie

And the boys at the Post Of
fice that got beat up yester-
day—

But it was me too, although
I wasn’t there.

So I eut out that picture and
put it in my pocket.

You and I, comrades, haven’t
any bandages this morning
like Steve Brodie has;

We didn’t suffer from teargas
and loaded sticks and boots.

We've been sleeping in beds
and eating resularly and
paying taxes

To keep the men that beat up
Steve Brodie—

But we were slugged yester-
day just as badly as he was.

I cut out that photosraph and
put it in my pocket

So I won't forget what they
did to you, and to me,

And to Steve Brodie.

=e mis.

the government and police has
been multiplied since the events
of Sunday morning.

Surely the promoters of police
riots cannot expect to stage an
orgy of blood-letting on the
streets and expect to find the
scene of carnage in immaculate
condition when they have done
their bloody work.

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ISTY-SEVEN years ago, after

the prototypes of Pattullo had
been butchering the Communards
in the streets of Paris, during
which sanguinary struggle build-
ings were damaged, Marx, in his
dGeathless “Civil War in H'rance,”
wrote:

“While tearing to pieces the
living body of the proletariat,
its rulers must no longer expect
to return to the intact archi-
tecture of their abodes ... the
bourgeoisie which looks com-
placently upon wholesale mas-
sacre is convulsed by horror at
the desecration of brick and
mortar.”

= DONeS HOnnS at Ballantyne Pier during

The Vancouver daily papers
which, to their credit, ran fairly
accurate stories and pictures of
the events at the post office and
in the streets are now trying to
Place the blame for the damage
to property on the defendes. The
Sun says, editorially:

“Nor was there any excuse
for the excessive vandalism
that prevailed after the evyic-
tions. There are thousands of
maen in every Canadian city
that have experienced adversity
without smashing windows.’
We would remind the Sun that

these men have endured eight
long years of adversity, including
their stay in the art gallery and
post office, without damaging
property. They have known noth-
ing but adversity during those
eight years; but blinding, suffo-
cating gas and the pain of split
sealps and bruised bodies is some-
thing more than “adversity”

Of those who condemn workers
when set upon by the armed
forces of the state and who in
their dire extremity attempt, in
sheer self-preservation, to defend
themselves Marx wrote:

“All this chorus of calumny
which the party of order never
fail, in their orgies of bleod, te
raise against their victims, only
preves that the bourgeois of
our days considers himself the
legitimate successor to the
baron of old who thought every
weapon in his own hand fair
against the plebian, while in the
hands of the plebian a weapon
of any Kind constituted in itself
a crime.”

S

ISTORY fecords another

Bloody Sunday, the one staged
by a Czar in January, 1905, when
starving workers and peasants
with their wives and children,
massed in thousands on a square
in what was then called Saint
Petersburg, petitioned the Tittle
Father (the Czar) for bread. The
reply they received was rifle fire,
and the blood of hundreds of
them reddened the cobble stones.
But that settled nothing except
the doom of autocracy and the
rule of force and terror, for
twelve years later the victims of
lead and the KEnout broke and
destroyed that rule forever and

“The seal of their reliance
and the gage of their defiance
was the bullet-riddled carcass
of a Czar.”

iron-heel Bennett who ordered
the murderous attack on the
trekkers at Regina on Dominion
Day, 1935, was spewed out of the
mouth of an outraged electorate
a few months later.

And the reactionary Pattullo,
the man responsible for the car-
nage at Corbin, at Ballantyne
Pier, and who shares the respon-
sibility for the disgraceful events
of June 19, the man who-has re-
nounced liberal principles and
practices and emulates Hepburn,
who began his reactionary career
by attacking the unions and be-
coming the tool of black reaction,
will also feel the heavy hand of
public condemnation for his foul
work on Sunday, June i9. Van-
eouver will be avenged for the
damage he has done to it and
for the disgrace he brought upon
its people.

ta A Woman?’s Diary

HE League of Women Shop-

pers recently held its annual
ball at Hotel Commodore in New
York when some of the best dress
designers in the city presented
the most unusual floor show yet
witnessed by the public.

Several of the dresses were
made of unbleached muslin, the
stuff you put on mattresses.
Others were made of window cur-
tain net, bought at 10c a yard.
Burlap was also used in many of
the models! These styles are the
real-honest-to-soodness lates fash-
jon, so you can keep up to date
nowadays and be right in the
swim of the boycott at the same
time.

Along with this extraordinary
collection, the usual summer ma-
terials were on show, linen, voile,
organdie, dotted swiss, rayons,

lawn pique, gingham, gabardine.

The cotton fad has gone so far
that ome of the de-luxe depart-
ment stores now specializes in
trousseaus made up in batiste.
This, you know, is the kind of
stuff you usually put on babies!

The theme song of New York’s
smart women is: “Save a Chinese
Child, and Keep Cool in Cot-
ton.”

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APAN undoubtedly has been
hard hit by the boycott and
is trying to regain its market on
this continent by manufacturing
new trinkets and toys which ap-
peal to the public. Be sure you
look for the label when tempted
to buy something pretty, and if
there’s no label, don’t take a
chance. You might be responsible
for the death of a Chinese baby.
Tf somebody (still!) tries to

by Victoria Post

tell you that those silk stockings
are made of “Chinese” silk, just
tell them politely to think again.
There is no silk exported from
China suitable for stockings.

A small amount of silk used
to be exported from Chinese con-
trolled territory, but this was not
suitable for stockings or under-
wear, and at the present time
hardly any silk is exported at all.
The Japanese are in control of
practically all the silk areas in
China and they, of course, treat
the Chinese workers as slaves.
By buying this silk, we would
only be filling the pockets of the
Japanese militarists and enabling
them to purchase more war ma-
terails. The Chinese people would
not progt in the slightest possible
way, except by having a few more
bombs dropped on them.

and his labor minister, Pear-
son, are prepared to go over
to the camp of bloody reac-
tion. Ottawa’s share of the
responsibility is plain to see.
Mackenzie King and Norman
Rogers co-operated to the full
in evicting the homeless boys,
and their mounted police
were the vanguard of the
clubbers who hospitalized 33
of the sitdowners.

Is Mackenzie King to repeat
Bennett's repudiated iron
oo Is Norman Rogers to
follow the footsteps of the
Pate Gideon Robertson? Is
Premier Pattullo to be per-

mitted to follow Premier Hep-
burn’s lead?

There is every sign that the
people of this country are de-
termined they shall not.

A great fountain of demo-
eratic feeling is welling up
among our people, as the
Vancouver citizenry have
shown. In many respects, the
Civic unity for the cause of
Youngs Canada in Vancouver
bears the earmarks of a demo-
eratic front against reaction
and for social justice. As the
core of that democratic unity
is the labor co-operation em-
bracing many unions, the

CCF and the Communist
party, there is every hove for
believing that Bloody Sunday,
as the Dominion Day riot in
Regina in 1935, will be the
commencement of a wave of
social feeling which will beat
back the reactionaries and
realize the demands of Young
Canada: Jobs and Security!

The government of BC and
the federal government are
in a weak position. The de-
mand must be pressed, more
firmly and energetically than
ever before:

PROVIDE JOBS OR RE-
SIGN!

By
OL’ BILL

Charlie McCarthy Mil-
Deadly ler, self-styled lover of
Parallel works of art, may be
interested to learn the result of
the second musical competition
for. the Eugene Ysaye iInterna-
tional Grand Prize.

Those who saw the last Soviet
films shown at the Globe, will re-
member the short of the Soviet
violinists from the Academy of
Music at Moscow who carried off
the first, third, fourth, fifth and
sixth prizes at the first HKugene
Ysaye memorial competition.

This year the competition was
for pianists. There were nearly a
hundred competitors from twenty—
two countries, twenty-four of
them from the fascists countries,
Germany and Italy. Eight world-
famous pianists acted as judzges—
and the Grand Prize again goes to
the Soviet Union, to the 21-year—
old Emil Guilels.

While on an unemployed dele
gation to the city council some
years ago, putting forward the
claims of the foreign-born work-
ers to work or relief, Charlie
MeCarthy Miller then an empty—
headed alderman, addressing me
asked, “Why don’t YOU go to
Russia?” I replied that I belong
ed here and meant to stay here
and help to make this as good a
country as Soviet Russia.

It’s a hard job, though. While-
the Soviet Union encourages and
develops all the artistic~-possibili-
ties in its youth, here in this coun-
try wooden-headed marionettes
like Vanecouver’s mayor, smother
eur youngsters with poison-tear
gas when they ask for work and
batter the artist out of them
with pick-handies if they make
any protest.

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Out Of Down in Florida a
The Past! kidnapper was sen-

tenced to death last
week. Kidnapping and holding for
ransom in civilized lands is con-
sidered to be of the same criminal
Stature as calculated, cold-blood-
ed murder, rape under certain cir-
cumstances and high treason, a2
crime which may only be atoned
by the perpetrator with his life.

With the Nazis, since they have
shed all the limitations of civili-
zation, the most heinous of crimes
become a state policy. To the re-
vival of feudal and pre-feudal in-
stitutions — the headsman’s axe,
the bonfire, the torture chamber,
jailing without trial, assassina-
tion, banditry and piracy — they
have now added kidnapping and
extortion of ransom.

A member of the Rothschild
family is being held by the Nazi
government for a ransom stated
to be from ten to twenty-five mil-
lion dollars. Hitler and his co-
horts must have experienced 2
fellow-feeling when they defend-
ed the kidnapper of the Lindbergh
baby and have now placed them-
selves on the same social plane
as the dregs of the American
underworld.

= * = =

More Truth The spectacle put

on by the Grits
Than Poetry ana Tories in the

House of Commons a couple of
weeks ago in which the leaders
of both parties accused each other
of corruption and bribery, was
only a lifting of the veil on the
everyday actions of the pork-—
barrel politicians.

If we were able to stand above
and outside of politics we could
burst our sides with laughter, but
since we are the suffering victims
of their corrupt manoeuvres the
spectacle assumes the form of a
disgusting tragedy.

The exposure of Ralph Webb,
the frothy-mouthed Tory, one-
time mayor of Winnipeg, who pro-
posed to throw all the Communists
into the Red River, only proved
the accusations made by the Com-
munists.

An old American Social Demo-
erat who used to soapbox on the
street - corners of Vancouver,
speaking of the Liberals and
Tories, used to say, “They lies
about themselves and tell the
truth about each other.’ He was
right.

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The London
The Two > fimes, belong-
Faced “Times ing to a brother
of Lord Astor of the Cliveden set,

demands self-determination for
national minorities in Czecho-
Slovakia.

Is the Times in favor of self-
determination for peoples in the
British Empire who are now de-
manding it—the Indians, the West
Indians in Jamaica and others?
These people have a right to self
determination because they are
living in their own homelands suf-
fering from imperialist rule, but

the Sudeten Germans are resident
in another people’s country and
have no more right to self-deter-
mination than have the Japanese
in BC.

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