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British Columbia’s Progressive Home Paper

The Peoples Advocate

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VOL. IV. Neo. 39.

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1938

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FULL No. 188

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Mine,

Union

industries.

The most important mining towns, notably Trail, stronghold

| of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting corporation, Evans de-

clared, were dominated by the companies, with consequent cur-

tailment of the workers’ right

to organize for betterment of

He spoke of the intimidation and dis-

crimination prevalent in Trail and others of these towns.
Where locals of the union existed wages and conditions were

considerably better than those in unorganized camps, he said.
Evans’ announcement of his recent flying trip to Zeballos,

PEACE MEETING

_PLANNED-FRIDAY.

Wationally known for his ex-
poses of fascist activities in Can-
ada, Fred Rose, of Montreal, au-
thor of ‘Fascism Over Canada,’
will be the principal speaker at a
peace raily to be held on Powell
street grounds at 8 p.m. this Fri-
day, August 5.

The rally will be held under
auspices of the Vancouver city
committee of the Communist
party.

Other speakers will include
Gharies Stewart, executive mem-

ber of Vancouver Trades and
Gabor Gouncil and A. M. Stephen,
provincial president of the League
for Peace and Democracy.

Arrangements have been made
for a public address system and
selections will be given by the
CCF band.

ANNOUNCE PRESS
CANVASS OF CITY

Monday, August 22, will be an
important date on the calendar of
the Advocate.

On that date every Communist
in the city of Vancouver will be
‘busy between the hours of 6 and
8 p.m. soliciting subscriptions for
British Columbia’s foremost labor-
progressive weekly in a mass Cam-
pairn organized by the Vancouver
City committee of the Communist
Party.

Communists, among the busiest
o£ busy people, unceasingly active
in building the trade unions, in
campaigning for public works
projects, in rallying the peace
Movement, in combatting fascism,
will concentrate their efforts on
August 22 on getting the Advocate
into hundreds of new homes as
part of an intensive campaign to

' British Columbia’s newest goldfield on Vancouver Island, and
Ris success in organizing the camp

in a tew days brought applause
from. delegates.

Proposals presented fal the con-
vention and received favorably
 Canea Tor -= monthly expenditure
of $400 for organizational purposes
and utilization of a public address
system and the union’s own organ
in the campaign. Final decision
will be made by the executive
board.

MRS. JEAN HOLE
TELLS OWN STORY

By KAY GREGORY

Last Friday her name made news
when she sat down in police court,
refusing to leave because she knew
police were waiting outside with
a warrant for her arrest

This Priday, this attractive young
woman, who cannot weigh more
than ii1€ ibs., will face charges of
striking a “police officer during the
fracas at Blubber Bay last week.

She is Mrs. Jean Hole, whose
husband is secretary of the Blub-
ber Bay local of the International
Woodworkers of America.

When I met her on Wednesday,
she looked anxious. “I’m worried
about my friends up there,” she
told me. “They depend so much on
Jack and me to help them and f
know the police have only arrested
us to keep us away from Blubber
Bay.”

Although the women “up there”
are unorganized, they are behind
their men one hundred percent.
“Tt's pretty hard for the strikers’
wives to stand by and see squads
of scabs being herded off the boat
by the police, to stand and take
insult after insult from the scabs’
wives, but they'll stick it—they
won't let their men down,” she
@c ciared.

Born in Regina, Mrs. Hole came
to Vancouver three years ago with
her husband and has never taken
any active part in strikes or labor
struggles until now. ‘im going
to do my best to get a women’s
auxiliary started when I get back,

(Gontinued on page 5)

double the circulation of the
paper before the end of this year-

See MRS. HOLE

Seeks To Organize Italians

Italian Fascist Active In Trail

TRATI,, BC, Aug. 4—(Special)—
The visit here of Victor Fabri,
Wancouver barrister and leading
Ttalian fascist, is connected with
the recent decision of the Italian
fascist organization in Wancouver
to send an organizer to set up
fascist groups among the large
italian population of this company-

Fabri, Canadian-born of Italian
Parents, is a member of the Par-
tido Wationalista del Fascismo

{National Fascist Party) in Van-,

eouver, which has a membership
of around 60.

Hie is a close friend of G. Bran-—
eucci, Italian consul in Vancouver,
and his sister is employed at the
consulate.

He was prominent at the ban-
quet staged in the Hotel Vancou-
ver some weeks ago by the Circola
Roma, Italian organization. This
banquet was attended by some 150
persons, many of whom openly
wore fascist emblems.

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UNION PACT
REJECTED BY
TROCADERO

Trocadero Cafe is definitely anti-
Of more than two dozen
eity cafes, managers of which re—
newed their union agreement with
Iocal 28, Hotel and Restaurant
Employees, T. Stamatis of the
Trocadero was the lone objector.
The case of this cafe is being in-
vestigated by the grievance com-
mittee of the Trades and Labor
Couneil.

Bill Gateman, conscientious busi-
mess agent of Local 28, declared
this week that Stamatis had taken
a dictatorial attitude.

The young business agent blamed
the Conciliation and Arbitration
Act for the attitude and labor
policy adopted by some employers.

union.

ORDERED
TO QUIT

HOUSES

BLUBBER BAY, Aug. 3.—
Wotices signed by plant super-
intendent O. S. Peele of Pacific
lime company have been post-
ed here.

They read: “All trespassers must
vacate forthwith. Anyone found
trespassing after noon on Aug. 3,
will be prosecuted.”

This has been interpreted as
meaning all strikers, a number of
whom have lived around the plant
for 10 and 15 years. These facts
will be stressed before Magistrate
Fillmore on Friday, Aug. 4, when
@ number of strikers will stand
trial, employees maintaining that
the company in its obstinate stand
against the union, is adopting vin-
dictive and intimidatory methods.

Lime Kiln Bay which adjoins
Pacific Lime company’s property
is owned by Tacoma Steel company
of Tacoma and enquiries made at
Davidson and company, agents
here, and the Lands Registry of
fice disclose no transfer, lease or
sale of the property to Pacific
Lime.

strikers have peen advised by
District Council, International
Woodworkers of America, to move
their picket camp to a point two

(Gontinued on page 5)
See STRIKE

CCF CANDIDATE DEFEATS MINISTER

REGINA, Sask, Aug. 4.—Joseph Burton, CCE candidate in the
Humbolt byelection, was declared elected with a 145 majority over
Hon. C. M. Dunn, provincial minister of highways in the Patterson
government, Thursday night. The CCF candidate polled 3908, his
Liberal opponent 3763 votes.

Dr. J. C. King, Liberal, resigned recently to provide a seat for

Dunn, whe was defeated in the recent provincial elections.

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BC Mine

Supplying Japanese
With War Metals

Magna tes

(This is the third in a series of articles revealing the alarm-
ing extent of Japanese espionage and economic penetration in

British Columbza).

By HAL GRIFFIN
pN FEBRUARY this year, Col. Victor Spencer, one
of the biggest mining magnates in British Co-
lumbia, stood up before the annual meeting of
BC Nickel.Mines (since reorganized as Pacific

Nickel Mines) in the

Vancouver,

Medical-Dental Building,
and told shareholders:

“‘The first consideration is the securing of a
market for nickel concentrates.’’
Today the directors of Pacific Nickel and numerous other

BC mining concerns are finding that market—in Japan. It is
of no concern to them, of course, that they are

of China.

profitable.

On February 9 last,

furnishings the Japanese military-fascist war
machine with the raw materials it requires to
carry its invasion ever deeper into the heart
They do not ponder for a moment
on the possibility that some day, if democratic
Canada continues to supply an aggressor coun-
iry with the means of realizing its nightmare
of Pacific domination,
will return in the form of bombs and bullets
used against the Canadian people.

They do not care, for the first consideration
is profits, the securing of markets at any price,
and it is a policy they are finding exceedingly

these same materials

in the House of Com-

mons, Hon. W. D. Huler, minister of trade,
used as his chief argument against application of an embargo
on export of Canadian war materials to Japan the fact, as he

(Continued on page 6) — See SHIPMENTS

Defies
Du plessis

x LESSARD

EF.

Quebec City carpenter, whose
home was padlocked two weeks
ago under the padlock law be
cause he was alleged to haye
“propagated communism.” Les-
sard, his wife and four children
were forced out by police with
drawn revolvers. Released on
$1200 bail, Lessard has declared
he will challenge the constitu-
tionality of the law in court.

NANAIMG PLANS
SPAIN TAG DAY

NANAIMO, BG, Aug. 3-—A tag
day in aid of Canadian volunteers
in Spain will be held here this
Saturday, August 6, under auspices
of the local cammiuittee, Friends of
the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion.

A display of Spanish government
posters and publications in the
local press is attracting wide at-
tention and a big collection is ex
pected in this miners’ town.

The rehabilitation and comforts
fund of the Friends will benefit
from this tag day.

SOINTULA, BC, Aug. 3—Cele-

bration of the first anniversary
of the Mackenzie-Papineau Bat-
talion was marked by a luncheon
in the Finnish Hall here Mrs.
Aili Malm, secretary of the local
Friends, had the support of the
Women’s Labor League and the
Finnish Organization in arrang-—
ing the luncheon. A sum of $27 for
the comforts fund was realized.

Ottawa Approves
Water Board Loan

The federal government has ap-
proved the application of Greater
Vancouver Water Board for a
$750,000 loan under the new Muni-
cipal Assistance Act, Hon. Tan Mac-
kenzie, minister of national de
fense, stated on arrival in Yancou-
ver Thursday.

The loan will be used for exten-
sion of the city’s water main sys-
tem.

‘deered millworkers,

EATEN STRIKERS WITH EVICTION

Mill, Smelter Workers
fenee ation Pledges Aiid
To BC Organizational Drive

BUTTE, Montana, Aug. 4— (Special) —The annual convention of the
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers held here this week

| gave lensthy consideration to the question of organizing hardrock miners
Full support of the organizational drive now being

conducted by the union in this province was pledsed by individual mem-
bers of the union’s executive board.

Arthur Evans, recently appointed sub-district organizer for
the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
represented BC at the convention and, in an able speech, out-
lined the problems confronting the union in the province.

While mining was a key industry in BC there was compara-
tively little organization among hardrock miners, he said, ex-
plaining the role British Columbia’s mining magnates were
' =nabled to play in supplying the Japanese war machine with
| assential metals because of a lack of organization in primary

WORK IS
REFUSED
JOBLESS

FALKLAND, BC, Aug. 3.—
Residents here are indignant at
the action of Fire Warden Jack
Templeton in refusing the serv-
ices of 37 single unemployed
who volunteered to fight a for-
est fire now raging in a valu-
able stand of spruce on the
mountain side, two miles from
here.

Rather than employ these job—
less men, the fire warden comman-
steadily em-
ployed, on penalty of $25 fine. The
fine was threatened when a dele—
gation of millworkers requested the
warden to reconsider his refusal to
use unemployed men.

Approximately 50 Salmon Arm
and Chase residents were later
transported to augment 285 fire
crew.

4 protest has been sent to Vic
teria.

ARMSTRONG, BC, Aug. 3.—

Single unemployed job seekers
found impoverished farmers elkings
out a living by work on the exhibi-
tion grounds race course here, the
work being staggered on a three
day-weekly relief system.

The hay crop is exceedingly
small and low prices have forced
farmers to abandon acres of lettuce
and other produce to rot.

Growers made liberal donations
of vegetables to the jobless who,
in groups of three, scoured the

ternative, a signed letter giving
DFODS of a search for work.

Charges by Hon. G S. Pearson
that single unemployed men are
moving about the interior in large
greups refusing to look for work
and that the Relief Project Work-
ers’ Union is influencing transients
to remain here are categorically
denied by union officials.

A meeting is scheduled for single
transients at 60 W. Cordova street,
Friday, as large numbers have been
dropped from relief rolls.

GROWERS CLAIM

COMBINE EXISTS

Allegations that a Vancouver
fruit and vegetable company had
bought out a number of the prin-
cipal wholesale houses in the city
and in Victoria with control of
other wholesale houses in the
Okanagan, thus obtaining a mon-
opoly of the fruit and vegetable
business in BC, were made by.
growers in Kamloops, Okanagan,
Kootenay and Fraser Valley dis-
tricts this week.

Tt was charged that the company
in question was operated by a
Similar Seattle company, which in
turm was a subsidiary of a Min-
neapolis corporation extending
over the entire Worth American
continent.

Demand for a probe under the
Combines Investigation Act has
been sent to Hon. Norman Rogers,
federal minister of labor.

Attempts To Burn Home

Poverty Drives

Veteran Insane

KELOWNA, BC, Aug. 4.—His
mind unbalanced by his constant
struggle against hardship and pri-
vation, an imperial war veteran
here attempted to burn down his
house and strangle his 15-year-old
son.

Police, called by alarmed neigh-
bors who heard cries coming from
the house, found the son trying to
prevent his father from setting fire
to a mattress. The father had hold
ef the boy by the neck and was
stransling him.

Investigation showed that the de—
mented ex-serviceman, his wife
and three children, were existing
on a relief allowance from which
authorities deducted

$13.50 a
month, the amount of the man’s
disability pension. Contention of

relief authorities in refusing as—
sistance was that the family was
the charge of the British gfovern-

ment
The veteran is now confined in
a mental asylum.