THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE

Page Five

i july 22, 1938

ommunists

Residents Hit
False Creek

Sanitation

Declare Garbage Dump

Menace To Health Of
Entire Community In
Area.

'PETITION STARTED

Unhealthy conditions exist-
"og in False Creek area, in-
*ensified by hot weather, have
iroused nearby residents to

An initiatory com-
with headquarters at
37 East Georgia, has started

canvass for signatures te a peti-
sion demanding action from the city
ouncil in the matter.

The initiatory committee stated
©1 its circular issued this week that
- plans an open-air mass meeting
)t False Creek flats at the conclu-
Mion of the canvass, when a dele-
@ ation of property owners and other
2Sidents will be elected to present
sae petition to the city council, Ex-
ferpts from the circular, hundreds
~ £ which are being handed to resi-
ents, read:

“During the hot summer months
Pll residents in the ares adjoining
Mais public nuisance need no en-
> shtenment as to the conditions to
-e found at this dump, the obnoxi-
us odor from decayed vegetables
sod rottins garbage (including dead
= ogs, cats, goats, etce., the breeding
*round for rats, that carry the
iseases to the family cupboard of
*very home in the city), coupled
iith smoke from burning sacks and
-,et paper containers are some of
ae objectionable things we are all
amiliar with.

» “All authorities on health and hy-
jiene point out the dangers to
> ealth that lurk in this cesspool and
©ot even a city alderman would
bare to disagree with them on the
loint, yet this is the environment
1 which the parents in the Bast
“imd of Vancouver are expected to
2ar their children and youth with
ealthy minds and bodies. How
mg would such conditions be tol-
rated in Point Grey or Kerrisdale?
‘he people in this area must de-
tiand equal sanitation and health
rotection from their elected repre-
entatives on the city council.’’

sland Tus
Backs Down

VICTORIA, BC, July 14. — Pros-
ect of a picket line, 200-strong, in-
uced Island Tug and Barge com-
any to reconsider its decision to
reak an unexpired “gentlemen’s
eBreement” last week, after a two-
iay dispute over an attempted
vage cut, the Inland Boatmen’s
Jnion, secretary of which is Nor-
jan Coe, convinced the company’s
epresentative that he should meet
he negotiating committee.
Tuesday morning, delegates from
i> Anyoz, of the same fleet, insisted
m the ship’s articles being read to
hem as they “signed on.” This pre-
‘ented wage cuts on other vessels,
caintaining the agreement which
xpires September, 1938.

2romises To Aid
_ Monkman Project

Interviewed in Vancouver on his
iWrival here for ‘a brief vacation
his week, Premier Aberhart sta-
ed that the Monkman Pass High-
Yay project, now being construc-
ed by voluntary work of the set-
jers themselves, would receive fay-
‘Table consideration by the Al-
yerta government. The Premier
iinted that material assistance
vould shortly be forthcoming. A
urvey of the Alberta section of
he proposed route for the highway
S now being made by the Alberta
rovernment,

NEEDED ...
. . . by August 15

600

INillo Makela Dead

Was Second In Command —
Of Mac-Pap Battalion

TORONTO, Ont., July 21.—Signed by prominent Communists
here, the following memorial statement on the death from
wounds in Spain of Captain Nillo Makela of the Mackenzie-
Papineau Battalion was published in the Daily Clarion.

Matkela, who was second in com-
mand of the Ganadian battalion,
was wounded at Gandesa on the
Aragon front in March.

The statement read:

“Gur party lowers its banners be-
fore the fresh grave of one of the
best sons of the people, of the de-
voted Communist and champion
of democracy, Captain Willo Ma-
kela.

“On the scarred battlefields of
Spain, where true democrats battle
the fascist beast, our own Nillo Ma-
Kela demonstrated feats of prole-
tarian heroism that will forever re-
main a bright chapter in our his-
tory.

“Though a young man, Nillo had
in Canada taken part in many
struggles of the northern miners
and lumberjacks. He was party
onganizer for the Sudbury area for
some time.

“He went to Spain, as did hun-
dreds of members of our party,
showing in practice that we belong
to that section of the people who
practice what they preach. The de-
fence of democracy to us is not a
mere matter of lip service. As Willo
anda hundreds of our comrades in
Spain, we are prepared if need be
to give our lives in the struggle for
the liberty of the people.

“Comrade Makela joined the
Spanish Republican Army as a pri-

vate. In battle he has proven him-

self. He was promoted to the rank
of captain and was a beloved com-
mander of his troops, always where
the danger was thickest.

“Nillo died that democracy may
He is a living answer to all
other-
wise, Slander his party, the Com-

live.
those who deliberately, or
munist party, failing or refusing to
understand that our party
great champion of democracy,
true democracy for our people.

“We have sustained a grave loss
in the death of Captain Willo Ma-
Let us pledge at his grave-
Side to carry high the banner for
which he died. Let us redouble our
energies to help Spain and so aid
in the world. This aid
will be the most alive and most
we
could place on the grace of a great

kela.

democracy

beautiful wreath of flowers

Canadian and a beloved comrade.”’

Signatures attached to this state-
ment were those of Tim Buck, Sam
Carr, Stewart Smith, Norman Freed,
J. B. Salsberg,
William
Kashtan, Charles Stewart, Charles
Sims, Thomas Ewen, William Smith,

Ernest Hollwell,
Fred Rose, Alice Cook,

Paul Philips, and David Kashtan.

Financial Aid Sought

Miss Ruth McWilliams
Delegate To World Meet

Greater Vancouver Youth Council, which is playins an im-

portant role in the community,

is mobilizing its affiliates in a

financial campaign to send Miss Ruth MeWilliams, secondary
school teacher, to the World Youth Congress as its official

delegate.

Tt is estimated that 40,000,000
youth will be represented at this
congress to be held at the famous
Vassar Women’s College, New
York State, August 15-24. Canada
is expected to have 100 delerates
attending.

Because oificial Germany insist-
ed that all Russian youth repre-
Sentation be barred, there will be
no German youth delegates, the
presidium deciding that such pre-
judices had no place in as world
youth movement.

Among items on the large agenda
prepared are the fol-
Political and Economic
Organization for Peace; Status of

now being
lowing:

Youth and its Relation to Peace:
Religious and Philosophical Bases
of Peace.

im a circular on the importancs
of this congress, the Youth council
requests sympathetic organizations
and individuals to contact the sec-
at room 41, 448 Seymour

retary
street. Phone: Trinity 2034.

War Veteran
Found Dead

Was Jobless, Refused
Assistance By City

When his landlord went into the
stable adjoining 727 Princess street,
city, on Monday morning he found
Jack Kovish, 45-year-old single un-
employed man, hanging from the
rafters dead.

EKovish, an imperial war veteran,
had been despondent over the re—
fusal of relief authorities to grant
him assistance.

Out of work and destitute, Ko-
vish was told by relief authorities
that his case would be investigated.
But, despite the fact that references
he gave vouched for his need of aid,
he was refused relief.

Kovish was born in Russia and
came to Canada in 1905 with his
parents, who settled at Jasmin,
Sask. During the war he served
with the Jewish battalion in Pales-
tine under General Allenby and re-
turned to Canada suffering from
shell-shoek. He did not receive a
pension.

British Columbia’s Contribution to the
$3000 National Campaign to Aid
Returning Spanish Vets

— ES

DO YOUR BIT ...-
THEY HAVE DONE THEIRS!

Make Your Donation to the

Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion

ROOM 43, 615 WEST HASTINGS STREET
VANCOUVER, B.C.

Company To

Repay Money

Deductions Must Be
Repaid, Court Orders

Hundreds of fishermen and many

thousands of dollars will be paid

by Canadian Pishing company, un-

ion officials stated this week when
the Supreme Court of British Co-
lumbia upheld the claims of four
fishermen for return of monies
illerally deducted over a number
of years, purported to be under the
Compensation Act.

Officials of the Salmon Purse
Seiners’ Union of the Pacific, which
was mainly responsible for raising
the matter of these illegal deduc-
tions with union members, state
that $5,000 has already been paid
back te members and that investi-
gation of the company’s books will
go back to and including the year
1927.

Court action was resorted to some
months ago to enable counsel for
the fishermen to examine the com-
pany’s books, with the result that
a large number of illegal deduc-
tions were discovered.

Youns Communists
Appeal For Books

The Young Communist League
this week announced its plan to
hold a 10-day summer school course
in Marxism-Leninism shortly.

The curriculum outlined calls for
many textbooks and classics and
the YCL is appealing for the loan
of books on the understandins that
they will be returned in good con-
dition after the school finishes.

Books needed are: Leninism, by
J. Stalin; Eari Mar=’s Capital;
Handbook of Marxism, by Burns;
the ten volumes of Lenin’s Selected
Works; Dialectical Materialism, by
Adoratsky; Karl Marx, by Perchik;
Critique of the Gotha Program and
Civil War in France, by Karl Marx.

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[Building Of
Democratic
Front Urged

Communist Party Aims
For Membership Of
2500 Before End Of

Year.

McKEAN REPORTS

The popular movement which
sprang up to support single un-
employed in their recent spec-
tacular strugsle for work and
wages, was the example used
by Fergus McKean, provincial
secretary of the Communist
party, to shew party delegates
how big issues affect the people

and draw them together in a dem-
ocratic front against reaction.

Mclean gave the main report
last Saturday to an enlarged pro-
vincial committee meeting of the
Cotumunist Party at the Ukrainian
Labor Temple, delegates from Van-—
couver Island and the interior at-—
tendiig.

Reviewin= the provincial situa-
tion and development since the an-
nual convention of the party held
last anuary, McKean declared that
there had been a further con-
tration of reaction on the one hand,
and a consolidation of democratic
forces on the other.

Pattullo, McKean stated, was
being forced by big business in the
province toward the Hepburn-Du-
plessis axis of reaction. Gasual ob-
servation showed extensive Nazi
and Japanese imperialist penetra-
tion throughout the province, he
stated, and the percentage of mili-
tia officers and members of the of-
ficers’ Training Corps who were
linked with fascist organizations
revealed an alarming situation.

Examination of this drift to re-
action, however, showed that both
Liberals and Conservatives are di-
vided on many questions, many
middle-class people in Yictoria, for
instance, having taken a progsres-
Sive stand during the single men’s
struggle.

Hon. G S. Pearson’s interpre-
tation of the Conciliation and Ar-
bitration Act and the way it had
been used in a number of labor dis-
putes, demanded scrapping of the
Act, McKean declared, as it had
become plain to every thinkins
person that the Act was never in-
tended to assist labor.

McKean expressed disappoint-
ment at the failure of the CCE
Gurips its Kamloops convention to
broaden out from the old “Social-
ism or nothing’ position. He at~
tributed the disruptive tactics of
Trotskyists, who were there in
force, for the failure of the con-
vention to support the boycott of
Japanese-made goods.

Stresing that the main objective
of Communists was to bring into
political activity the largest number
of people, Leslie Morris, western
organizer for the Communist party,
addressed the conference at the
conclusion of Hergus McKean’s re-
port.

“The fight against fascism and
its ideas becomes a fight to pre-
serve democracy and the achieve-
ments made by the people through
the years,’ Morris stated, adding,
“every act that preserves a dem.
ocratic institution, no matter how
unimportant that institution, leads
to Socialism.”

On the danger of war and fas-
eism, Morris warned that there was
a feeling of false security abroad
as to therr nearness. He main-
tained that progressives everywhere
should translate a note of alarm
into actions of vigor to defeat fas-
cism.” We have not yet stopped
war shipments to Japan,’’ he said.

Making strong references to the
role played by Trotskyists, Morris
declared that international fas-
cism had suffered a servere set-
back when the Soviet Union had
dealt summarily with traitors with-
in the country. He warned his
audience, however, that the USSR
could not always be the sole ar-

the land of Socialism had undoubt-
edly saved the peace of the world
when she stood by Czecho-Slovakia
during the threatened Nazi inva-
sion recently, it must be remem-—
bered that wars were no longer
declared and the danger was always
imminent, he said.

Building of the provincial mem-
bership of the Communist party to
2,500 by the end of 1938, and an im-
mediate and strengthening of the
party organization, was the theme
of a report by Malcolm Bruce, cen-
tral committee member, at Satur-
day’s sessions of the conference.

Resolutions pledging the party
membership to work for the es-
tablishment of a democratic front,
and to build party organization,
were passed unanimously by the
conference.

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News Of
The City
In Brief

Stage Garden Party

A Chinese garden party will be
held Friday, July 22, at 8 pm, in
the grounds of Killarney, 2890 Point
Grey road. The atmosphere of the
Orient in a delightful Canadian set—
ting, featuring Chinese dances, will
be maintained. Songs and music
of New China, fortune telling in
the style of the ancient kingdom,
and dancing to a modern orchestra
will be other features. Admission
will be 25 cents, and proceeds vill
be donated to the Medical Aid for
China Committee.

CCF Anniversary Supper

An anniversary supper will be
given at the Progressive CCE Club,
2242 Commercial Drive, on Satur-
Gay, July 23. Supper will be served
at 6:30 pm, and will be followed by
bingo and whist. The annual pic-
nic of the club will be held at Maple
Ridge Park on Sunday, July 31.
Busses will leave the club room at
8:30 am. Further information can
be obtained by phoning Fair. 22841T,.

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Raffle Announced

A raffle of two oil paintings, held
July 18, at 38th and Victoria road,
in support of single unemployed,
was won by Mrs. Esmond with
ticlet 103.

YCL Plans Outings

The first of a series of outings as
part of the summer program of the
Young Communist League will take
place on Sunday, July 24, at Capi-
lano. All planning to go should be
at North Vancouver ferry promptly
at 9 am.

Announce Drawing

Winning number in the drawing
held at the home of Mrs. Cook,
Victoria road, on June 29, was tick-
et 01, held by Mrs. Pollock.

Pen Club Formed

For those boys and girls on land
and sea and lighthouses, a pen pals’
club has been formed. All letters
should be addressed to Sylvia Ros-
man, Youngs Communist League,
Room 53, 163 West Hastings street,
Vancouver, BC.

Women To Meet

A conference of women members
of the Communist party will be held
at O’Brien Hall, 6 pm, on August 3.
Called by the Women’s Commission
of the party, the conference will
tale up many issues including high
living costs and women's work in
the trade unions. Following the
conference, there will be an enter-
tainment.

OLD-TIME DANCE
EVERY SATURDAY —

Swedish
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Helge Anderson’s Orchestra

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Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
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Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
OLD-TIME DANCE

Wednesday, MODERN DANCE

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