REDIT AVAILABLE TO MUNICIPALITIES Vaunted DD) LSAMLOOPS, BC, July 28. te government is generous. Ii re one of the singie unem- 2d and your registration is ‘oved, provincial authorities Sive you $6.40 and allow you days to reach Kamloops. tween you and your destina- there will be some 250 miles ishways, good, bad and indif- it, but mostly bad and indif- it, which, according to the mment, are bordered by count- opportunities for energetic ‘= men. ssibly the sovernment has »slete confidence in its meteoro- al bureau. Possibly the govern- B: knew of the hot weather spell sdvance and allowed an extra 'days. But one thing the gov- nent is insistent upon, the se unemployed must not use » time-honored mede of travel > freight. ' the government doles out $640 the single unemployed, theo- tor Jobless Prove olitical Mirage By MICHAEL O'MARA Openings If you're a good hiker and can your 30 miles a day, you can make Kamloops in eight days, vided you dont stop too often to look for work on the way. retically speaking, must hike up and down the interminable, ex- ecrable roads of British Columbia looking for the work the local in- habitants have missed. The govern- ment has decreed and a new golden era of prosperity is upon us. But don’t ask the local inhabitants. They haven't heard about it yet. Six dollars and forty cents goes a long way when you're hiking. If yeu don’t collapse from hunger at the end of four or five days, it’s be- cause your shoes are worn through and you can’t go any farther with- eut shoes. if there’s an opportunity afford- ed the Single unemployed who ac- cept the fovernment’s dictum that they must provide their own means of transportation (sic) it’s a pain- ful one to study the bad condition of the roads at first-hand and re- flect on the urgent necessity for a public works program. ecial Offer Announced eaders Urged To Aid Joint Circulation Drive tstimatings that for every thousand Advocates and Clarion :klies circulated in the province, five thousand people are aenced for the cause of democracy and peace, the circulation 1agers of the two labor papers in a joint message this week > readers to win additional subseribers and see that renewals followed up from lists supplied. ‘ever before was there greater for a powerful labor press at the present time,” the mes- states. A number of important incial and national questions asted and their gravity shown, mn effort to stimulate readers sSist circulation growth. speciai club subscription is -ed, in which both papers will 1aailed for six months for $1.75, a saving of fifty cents on the re gular rates, until August 3i, when the special offer expires. Readers are asked to send in the names and addresses of prospec- tive subscribers, to -whom sample copies will be sent, and the pro- fress of the circulation campaign will be published periodically for the benefit of committees scattered throughout the province. bless Win Sifdown dministrator Tired Of Being Haunted By Pickets| SEATTLE, Wash, July 28—Unemployed in King county e won their demands after a 10-day sitdown in the County- 7 building here conducted by the Workers’ Alliance. five hundred members of the organization barricaded them- es in on the seventh floor of the building after County Social urity Administrator Kenneth R. Wadleigh refused to inter- vy a delegation. “Wilding Superintendent Joe e sympathized with the sit- ners, resolutely rejected all pro- Is to evict them by force. Ad- strator Wadleigh got very tired aving Workers Alliance pickets ying signs explaining their de- ds follow him wherever went, finally agreed to recognize erievance commiitees. He also agreed to abolition of re- lief camps for single unemployed men and the substitution for them of WPA flood and fire control he ‘camps at regular WPA rates of pay- > ell Your Neighbor Next Door a Subscription o the People’s Advocate . . . Use Blank Below O Y = SA080 fm Cne Year $ fF] Six Months - $1.00 DDRESS [| Three Months - 50c ITY PROVINCE lease write name in block letters. Mail to: Circulation lanager, Rm. 10, 163 West Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. ——, CAKE and PIE SPECIALS FOR THE WEEK-END “Something Different Every Week!” TROPICAL CAKE Crushed pineapple and crushed cherries in the mix and also in the fancy icing on top. Each os > TWO LAYER CAKES The ever-popular “double” — This week we offer one Gocoanut and one Butterscotch. BOTH for_____---_--____- > NEW! > RAISIN PIES Just right for the week-end picnic. Wine-inch size, each __ 29° At your grocer’s or delivered to your door. . . For service phone FAIRMONT 4. AN BAKERIES LIMITED SANADI ee ~ THE PEOPLES ADVOCATE British Columbia’s Progressive Home Paper VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938 WORLD PEACE DEPENDS ON WORKERS, SAYS BENGOUGH Tells Story Of Jamaica Negro Strike Lengshoremen, Paid 18 Cents A Day, Fought For Right To Bare Subsistence. MP HITS CONDITIONS Back from Jamaica, British West Indies, a young Canadian seaman this week told the Ad- vocate the story of the struggles of the negroes in this island colony for the right to a bare subsistence. “I saw the whole thing at Kingston last May,’ this seamon deciared, “or I wouldn’t have be- lieved such slavery and brutality existed.” Mass demonstrations, the loot- ings of stores was the result of sheer starvation, he said. iNinepence (18 cents) a day was all the workers were geiting be- fore the strike. A farthing was paid for each load the 200 long- Shoremen carried on their heads to the boats. The seaman stated that the negroes, who had little or no organization, were fairly sub- missive to this coolie wage until the number of staggered working days was cut to two per week, and until one company brought in its own loading coolies to displace island labor. “The blow-off came action,’’ he declared, “and like magic the streets were filled with demonstrators carrying slogans prepared by a hastily elected strike committee.”’ The waterfront workers’ strike spread like wildfire to the planta- tions where conditions were equal- ly as hard and, after mass meet- ings of sometimes 15,000, the strikers broke into food stores be- cause there was no strike relief. Island police and British sol- diers killed 12 men, but according to the seaman, the whole mass of the people was aroused and this, with the elementary justice of the demand for a few more pence a day, won the struggle. with this LONDON, England—(By Mail— In the House of Commons de- bate recently on Jamaica, Mal- colm MacDonald, Secretary of State for the Colonies, had a dif- ficult time explaining that colonial administration was not as bad as might be thought. He was forced to admit under crossfire of ques- tioning that: “During the last year or two there has been a series of disturb- ances, agitations and riots, and unhappily some of them culmin- ated in the shedding of blood. There has been a series of success- ful reassertions of authority by the local administrations.” Tabor M.P, M. Jones answered: “The conditions in Jamaica are a horrifying indictment of the neglect which governments have shown. The poverty is appalling, the food is poor, the sanitation is bad, the indirect taxation is heavy and the laborers are without land. Probes Food Costs PRGFESSGR JULIAN S. HUXLEY member of the Committee Against Malnutrition in Britain which, in a recent report, advocated full enguiry inte food distribution, establishment of centralized food depots, bakeries and abattoirs and appointment of a feod min- ister to control food boards. Sug- gestion was made by the com- mittee that there should be free or cheap distribution of mill and other foodstuffs to selected sec- tions of the community. Hitler Writes ‘Nazi Bible’ Fuehrer Atemots To Launch New Religion LONDON, Eng., July 28—Hitler is now putting the finishing touches to a second book which is to take the place of ‘“‘Mein Kampf.’ the Wazi bible, in an attempt to launch a new religion centred around the head of the Nazi state. Millions of copies will be printed and the book published in Germany and throughout Europe. In it Hitler lays down a new | form of religion, embracing all peo- | ples of pure Nordic stock, of which | he will be the spiritual founder. | The political implications of the book are tremendous, for it con- tains a broad hint at the division of spheres of influence in Burope between Italy and Germany. All other European countries will have to subordinate themselves to the two “leader nations’’ of the Latins and the WNordics. The book was begun some time ago when Hitler realized that the principal aims of the Nazi state, as laid down in “Mein Kampf,” had been achieved, that is, Germany’s economy had been prepared for war. Its appearance will probably mark a new turn in Germany's for- €ign policy, and for this reason the date of publication will be carefully ' chosen in relation to international affairs. ARMS FOR SPAIN Labor Leader Hits Fascist Dictatorships Comments on Successful Efforts Of Unions In France To Raise Living Standards. ADDRESSES LIONS The peace of the world de- pends largely on the workers, Perey Bengough, secretary of the Trades and Labor Council, recently returned from the In- ternational Tabor Conference held at Geneva, told the Lions’ Club at a Georgia Hotel lunech- eon Tuesday. Commenting on the role of this service club in his openings tfre- marks, Bengough declared that it was such organizations with their friendly attitude toward labor that helped to maintain democracy throughout the world. He stated that the fascist dictatorships were | definitely on the down-grade and that further’ upheavals could be expected in such countries- Creation of new buying power in Great Britain, with the develop- ment of unemployment and health insurance, slim clearance and road | building was pointed out by Ben- gough-as an example for Canada to follow. “There isn’t a chance in the world that the old country will rescind these measures,” he stated. France also was held up as a na- tion developing its industries and at the same time bettering the wages and conditions of its working people, the trades council secretary remarkins that while the dictator- ships might be providing work, yet their wages and working conditions were very bad. Urging the ions’ Club to render every assistance to any plans for putting city unemployed to work, | Bengough said that he felt sure his audience agreed with him that the jobless would much prefer to get work rather than live on re- lief. “Somehow we lack the initiative to develop. the great wealth of our province. When we have such re- sorts as Capilana Canyon to reach which requires almost an expedi- tion, Knowing that were it in Cali- fornia or Switzerland a large tour- ist trade would be developed by their governments, then we should begin to take steps to cash in on our tourist trade,’ Bengough stated. Dealing with the Geneva confer- ence, the trade union leader stated that it was a branch of the work done by the League of Wations and that a number of nations had implemented recommendations made on behalf of better wages and working conditions. This year, questionnaires had been sent to all affiliate nations, purpose of which was to ascertain approximate stan-~ dard of living and number of work— ing hours of the average wage- earner. Send Aid To China CLOVERDALE, BC, July 28— The local chapter of the King’s Daughters i§ appealing for linen and other material suitable for bandages and dressings, 4 bundle of which will be forwarded for shipment to China about July 30. E> (-) <> () GSS. 0 SSS OO GSD OO) SES CO) ESO SO Ga C S>- OO Ge OO SEES OO HIS BROADCOST, () <> () GE () GEE () GE () which Labor News Highlights NEWS-COMMENTARY Presented by The People’s Advocate Every FRIDAY over CKMO 6 P.M. will resume its twice-weekly sehedule in September, is made possible by the co-operation of Dr. R. Liewellyn Douglas, Richards at Hastings, Vancouver, B.C. DR. DOUGLAS () CD () ED () <> () ED () aD ( ‘ EEE () EEE () EIS () <> () GEE () a> 0) < BE 0) <> () GES () GSES () GES (C) <0) = OAN ACT OPENS WAY TO NEW JOBS | Projects Can Be Financed Federation President Says Full=Time Plan Of Public Works Is Possible. GIVES FIGURES Facts regarding recent fed- eral legislation which made loans available to all Canadian municipalities at two percent interest over a 20-year period were released to the press this week by Fred Tyler, president of the BC Federation on Un- employment. Tyler, commenting on the legis- lation, said that it might well be the means of providing gainful em- ployment for hundreds of thou- sands of Canadians now on relief. Loans made under the new legis- lation could be added to provincial monies available to make a 5-day week public works program pos- Sible, he stated. The federal government was pre- pared to loan money to municipali- ties on the basis of $2.89 a head, according to Tyler, who said that this would entitle the city of Van- ecouver to borrow $712,663.77. One clause in the new Municipal Assist ance Act, he pointed out, em- powered any municipality, regard- less of population,to borrow up to $200,000. The Act specified that such loans must be expended on self-liquid- ating works schemes which must be approved and guaranteed by the provincial governments concerned. Greater Vancouver and District Water Board, comprising the city of Vancouver, North Vancouver district West Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Wew Westminster, Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam with a total population of 313,620 (4931 census figures), was proposing to expend $700,000 for overhaul and expansion of its water supply sys- tem, Tyler stated. Working on the basis of $2.89 per eapita, other municipalities com- prising the water board should be able to borrow over $193,000 for other much-needed improvements and, if full advantage were taken of the federal sovernment’s scheme, a grand total of $2,112,663 could be obtained. JOBLESS WANT WORK Said Tyler: “The sincere desire of the job- less to obtain work rather than relief is championed by the BC Federation on Unemployment, and who will quarrel with the scheme offered by Ottawa.” . The federation’s president warned however, of the possibility that such funds might be used for another glorified relief project. He declared that the tendency of municipalities would be to abolish usual appro- priations for relief and that the recipient might find himself little, if any, better off. As an example, he showed how Alderman H. L. Corey's scheme, while purportedly paying 50 cents an hour for relief work, was so stringently limited in the number of days that the result was near-starvation. The fair wage clause and the eight-hour day were specified by Ottawa in the use of these loans, Tyler showed, but he pointed out that it would take wide public sup- port to keep relief authorities from reducing everything to ai relief basis. Interesting comparative figures compiled by the federation show that municipalities comprising the District Water Board in one year paid out in relief the sum of $1,- 823.448. Deducting 10 percent for chronic indigents, leaves $1,641,103, which added to the new federal money available sives a gross total of $3,753,767 available for a real full-time works plan. 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