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Japanese

Economic

Penetration In BC

Provincial Convention Urges Federal

on from the Cowichan branch
ng the federal government,
mugh the department of na-
al defense, to institute restric-
S 2gainst the taking of photo-
ahs in strategic areas. It was
ted out that Japanese seamen,
ossession of\expensive cameras
> constantly reported to be
ne photosraphs of Vancouver
ad points.

elegates demanded that un-
iralized Japanese should be
‘ed from holding “timber lim-
mining claims and any natural
purces” in this province and
(ested the huge logein=e and
ing concessjons already ob-
sed by Japanese capitalist in-

aother resolution passed* urged
| government to require all im-
ed goods to be stamped with
mame of the country of origin.
delesate stated that Canadian
ion badges were being placed
Scigar boxes manufactured in
in and solid in this country.

*he convention went on record
being unanimously opposed to
Quebec padlock law as con-
ry te the democratic interests
the Canadian people.
all consideration of the Alaska-
.on Highway project was asked
mother resolution adopted. A
zestion from the Seattle post
testing the federal fSovernment
aeet with a similar commission
2 the United States to discuss
proposed highway was ap-
red.

IMPLOYMENT PROBLES!

nemployment among veterans
‘ipied much of delegates’ time.
aker after speaker arose to
iemn the federal government
its treatment of ex-servicemen
to demand action from the
igs in pressing for a better

fo man yho served the Empire,
er as a Canadian or an Im-
2], should be permitted to live
: state of destitution,” Robert
micol, provincial secretary, de-
ed.

feel that the sooner the Le-
1 takes a definite stand on this
tt urgent problem of unemploy-
it among yeterans, the better it
be for ail concerned. If we
honest and sincere in our in-
ions, we need never be ashamed
using all possible pressure in
suing our objectives.’
tacnicol stated that thousands
the men to whom such “glow-
promises were made when they
sted” were today living on
i allowance as low as 22 cents
ay.
‘A number of our units and
mibers are becoming impatient
th the cold reception given to
me ef our proposals by the
wers that be,’ he warned, urg-
- the convention to take 2

ong stand on unemployment.
OGRAM ADOPTED

t Saturdays sessions, a pro-
m presented by TL. A. Barnard,
\aimmG, and embracing far-
thing proposals was unani-
isly adopted by delegates.

included demands for:

Compulsory and contributory
ness, accident and unemploy-
it insurance under federal aus-
Ss.

Lowering of retirement age to
rears.

Raising of school age and giv-

he convention adopted a reso-¢

Unemployment Insurance, Public Works

Rev. F. Kerr Says:

Halt War
Supplies

To J apan

“Tt is not enough for us to con-
demn as barbarous Japanese
bombing of populous Chinese
cities. We must insist that no
materiais leave our shores for
Japan to use in armament build-
ing. We must see that bombing
planes are not fed by Canadian
fuel. Otherwise we become part-—
ners in one of the darkest crimes
in history.”’

In these words, Dr. F. W. Kerr
of St. Andrew's Church, Mont-
real, indicted the Canadian gov-
ernment for permitting the Jap-—
anese military-fascist war ma-
Chine to obtain essential ma-
terials from Canada when he
spoke at St. Andrew’s Wesley
United Church here on Sunday
morning.

Condemning the fascist coun-
tries aS aggressors against the
peace of the world, Rev. Mr.
Kerr declared, “The church must
give utterance to her abhorrence
of this sin of aggression, not only
in words but in national policy
as well.’

ing of free instruction to children
up to the age of 18.

4 Provision of 2 permanent pub-
lic works program by the federal
government.

5 Appointment of an economic
eouncil of experts to assist in
carrying out the program.

6 Shortening of the
week. 2

In discussion of this program,
one delegate declared that condi-
tions among thousands of ex
servicemen today were so bad that

working

“it would be better for some of

“us if we had never come back
from France.”’

Political aetion to obtain the de-
mands set forth was advocated by
many delegates, but it was finally
determined to leave the incoming
executive to decide what course
of action it would take.

The convention also demanded
that the recommendations of the
Veterans Assistance Commission
be implemented immediately and
asked that where a pension was
eut off after a veteran’s death,
payment should be continued to
the widow or dependents.

Amother resolution urged the
Legion to arrange for free medi-
eal and hospital treatment for in-
digent ex-Servicemen.

Wew president of the BC Com-
mand is William McKinstrey, Col-
lingwood Post, Vancouver, who
succeeds Gol. W. S. Buell. The lat-
ter declined
holding the presidency for the past
five years.

William. Matthew, New Westmin-
ster, treasurer for the past five
years, was elected vice-president,
and T. A. Barnard, Nanaimo, pro-
vincial representative on the Do-
minion council. :

Other officers elected were: KF.
A. Payne, Langley, second vice-
president; A. Baddeley, Seattle,
third vice-president, William Stone,

Victoria, treasurer. ~

otorists Don't Want

Em

eGraves Advises Council
To Drop Parking Meter Plan

Stating that he thought the council “was going to ram some-
is down the motorists’ throats which they don’t want,” Ald.
DeGraves violently opposed the suggestion of the fire, police
traffic committee on Monday that full information should
obtained and presented to the public in regard to establish-
if of parking meters in Vancouver.

is far as I’m concerned, the
ter can be stopped at once,’’
Said. “Since the matter was
eheqd fT have been bombarded
-letters from people who want
ell the things and TI think they
the only people who will be
rested.”

ter heated discussion as to
ther the council should formu-
a policy on this question be-

fore or after it obtained informa-
tion, terminating with the ques-
tion from Ald. Corey, “What came
first, the hen or the egg,” the
chairman was instructed to write
Seattle council for details of its
parking meter system. These will
be presented to the public so that
it fully understands the system,
before the council considers in-
stalling experimental meters here-

AGAINST

SPIES

GION ASKS ACTION

Teterans Protest

THE

PEOPLE'S
ADVOCATE

British Columbia’s Progressive Home Paper

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1938

Where Partisans Harass Japan

we

Chinese guerilla armies led by students are operating under the very walls of Peiping (above) des-
Bite boastful Japanese claims to have “conquered” the area. :

Students Prize Yenan Trainins

no perfume.

She must be, she’s as gay and

senting plays to the soldiers or

Japan can be conquered, and
themselves democratic political
way out of their poverty to a
ganda? Of course.

renomination after |

Winety per cent of the good art
ef ancient or modern times is

propaganda for some idea or other. |

Propaganda is the installation of
ideas, is the awakening of the im-
agination, is the stimulation to ac-
tion.
better propaganda it is.

Why They Came

I asked one girl to tell me about
herself and why she came to the
university. She told me she was
eighteen years of age and her
father was a magistrate in Honan
Province. There she was a student
in a girls middle school (prepara=
tory to the university). She read
about the Soviets and about their
college and became determined to
go. Theirs was the only college
which taught how to raise the liyv-
ing conditions of the people. And
that seemed to her to be the main
thing that China was waiting for.

So she came, with three of her
friends. They walked, like most of
the students from Sian—a long 225
miles. It took them two weeks. She
likes it here and is happy. Does
not mind the hardships. Liked this
school much better than her old
one. Why? “We learn from actual
experience here, not just -out of
books. In my other school, we learnt
only about the past. Here we learn
the realities of the present.”

Michael is my interpreter. He is
a graduate of the university who
is going on with further studies. I
asked him why he came up here.
We was a student of Medhurst col-
lege and intended to be an electrical
engineer. He lived in Shanghai and
was a member of the Boy Scouts.
He had first-hand experience of the
Japanese, as he stood on a bridge
with his friends and saw workers
shot down by machine-guns as they
left the factories rather than work

Yenan’s unique university.
pered pet of thousands, living in luxury.
Now she eats what the other students eat——millet and carrots——sleeps ona
hard brick kong with eight other girls in a cave, has no lipstick, no rouge,

And the better art it is, the’

By DR. NORMAN BETHUNE

She receives, as do all other students, the magnificent sum
of one dollar a month to buy soap and toothpaste. Is she happy?

as mischievous as a squirrel.

After she graduates she will enter the Art Academy here,
and from there will go with a company, either to the front, pre-

will tour the provinces, into the

small towns and villages, many of which have never seen a
theatre. Their plays will be written by themselves. They will
make all their own stage scenery. And they will walk on foot!

Their plays will show the danger that threatens China, how

how the peasants can gain for
rights, economic security, and a
happier life. Will it be propa-

for the Japanese.
j This made him determined to
fight for his country, so he came
here to learn how best to do that.
He first entered the North Shensi
public school, then the university.
He wants to be an airplane pilot.
The Pighth Army has no training
school for pilots, but sends them
away to other centres. Michael
must wait awhile, but to wait when
one is 18 is very hard.

Political Department

In the political department the
students study the principles of
political economics, of social sci-
ence, of dialectical materialism, of
the technic of organization of the
trade unions, of the peasants, of the
students, and spend a great deal of
time on the united front—how it is
to be consolidated and extended.

Ail studies are practical, e.g., the
students who return to the villages
are impressed that the way to gain
the confidence and following of the
people is to study what the people
need in that particular locality ard
how best they can be assisted in
satisfying those needs.

Local conditions vary; local needs
vary. The situation as presented
locally must be carefully studied
and analyzed. There must be no
separation of theory and fact. The
theory must fit the fact, and not
vice versa. Only in this way will
political theory be understood and
believed by the workers.

Every village presents a specific
problem; the villages of the north
differ from the villages of the
south. The relationship of the land-
lords to the poor peasants varies
from place to place.

Im one Iocation the exploitation
of the peasants by rent is the out-
standing fact, while in another,
where the peasants are more inde-

China’s Youth Dedicates Itself
To Cause Of National Freedom

(This is the third and concluding article in a series specially written for the People’s A de
vocate and Daily Clarion, Toronto, by Dr, Norman Bethune, famous Montreal surgeon, now in
charge of the American Medical Mission on the northwest front in China).

A FAMOUS movie actress from Shanghai is a student, with her mother, at
This girl, a few months ago, was the pam-
She could still do so if she cared.

pendent, the exploitation by taxes
is the chief feature to contest. A
village close to the frent and an-
other more to the rear must be ap-—
proached from a different angle.
The organization required in one
is different from that in another.
In the village close to the front the
workers are told about Japanese
barbarity, and they will be organ-—
ized into anti-Japanese peasant
unions to assist the army, bring it
food, carry back the wounded, and
volunteer for active service. Here,

too, are organized the Self Defense

Guards.

In the rear the work will be dif-—
ferent; assisting in the mobilizing
of recruits for the.army,
subscriptions for war bonds,
uniting the workers for anti-Japa-
nese activity, and in every way

possible arousing the people to a,

realization of their danger and how
that danger can be met.

The Principle

The principle to be kept in mind
always is:

“We must pay the closest atten-
tion to the material imterests of
the workers, assist them to improve
their lives and raise their standard
of living. When rents are too high,
we must help to get these rents
reduced; if working conditions are
bad, assist them in getting them
improved; if taxes are too high and
conditions in factories are bad, ad-
vise, lead, and educate the workers
in their struggle.”

Wow all this sounds serious and
rather intense. Yes, it is; they work
hard, but when they play, go to
their own theatre and roar with
laughter at their comrades on the
stage, or sitting in a great circle

| Sing together the ancient songs of

their country—with new words!—
then one sees their faces are the
faces of immemorial youth, gay,
serious, optimistic, clear-eyed, and
serene.

They know their future—danger-
ous and uncertain. But in all its
dark personal uncertainty there
shines the bright, unquenchable
light of their faith in the future
of the New China, and their stead-
fast purpose to dedicate their lives
to the national salvation.

Such youth as these will be the
saviors of their eountry, their
spirit will animate millions toe fol-
low them, wherever they may lead.

These are the dangerous enemies
of Japan, and it is such as these
will bring her to her knees.

]

raising |

Minister
Sees Union

Officials

Hon. Lucien Maynard
Discusses Alberta
Act With Loggers’
Union.

HERE ON VISIT

At the coast with his wife
and family for a short vacation,
Hon. Lucien Maynard, minis-
ter of municipalities and relief
in the Alberta cabinet, was a
visitor at the office of Local 71,
International Woodworkers’
Union, last Saturday.

The youngest cabinet minis-
ter in Canada, he gives the im-
pression of dynamic personal-
ity and, unlike most cabinet
ministers, is “one of the boys.”
He is a brother of George May-
nard, former business manager
of the BC Tumber Worker.

In conversation with officials of
local 71, Maynard was questioned
regarding the working of Bill 49,
the Alberta trade union bill which
became law on April 14, 1937. He
Stated that the legislation had met
with general approval and said
that so far there had been on dis-
putes under the act.

Expressing surprise at the atti-
tude ef BC employers and the
refusal of the department of
labor to enforce conciliation pro—
wisions under the Labor Concilia-

tion and Arbitration “Act, May-
mard stated, “Usually all that is
mecessary to haye Alberta em-
ployers abide by the act is to
send around an inspector.”

The Act, which, according to
Maynard, is working satisfactorily
in Alberta, is very Simple. Clauses
i and 2 give the name and defini-
tion of terms. Other clauses ere:

3 it shall be lawful for employ-
ees to form themselves into a trade
union.

4 it shall be lawful for employ-
ees to bargain collectively ‘with
their employer or employees, and
to eonduct such bargaining
through the employees’ trade
union, and through the duly cho-
sen officers of such union.

5 it shall be unlawful for any
employer hereafter to insert any
elause in any written contract of
employment, or to impose any con-
dition in any verbal contract of
employment, or to impose any con-
dition in any verbal contract of
employment, or to continue such
clause or condition hitherto in ef-
fect, where such clause or condi-
tion seeks to restrain any employee
from exercising his rights under
this Act and any such clause or
condition shall be null and void
and of no effect.

6 (a) Any person being an em-
ployer who intimidates any em-
ployee or threatens any employee,
or employees generally, with loss of
employment or discharges employ-
ees from employment or penalizes
or threatens to penalize any employ-—
ee or employees generally from be-
longing to a trade union, shall be
fZuilty of an offence and liable
upon summary conviction to a fine
not exceeding one hundred dollars
and costs in the case of a natural
person, for each such offence, or
in default of payment to a term
of imprisonment of not more than
thirty days, and in the case of a
body corperate, to a fine of not
exceeding one thousand dollars.

(b) Every person who is a dir-
ector of or has the management
of the business of a body corpor—
ate which commits any act in con-
travention of this section, shall
also be deemed to have committed
such act'unless he proves either
that he had no knowledge of the
commission of such act or that
he endeavoured to prevent the
commission of such act.

7 This Act shall come into force
on the day upon which it is as—
sented to.

Skeena Highway
Work Resumed

SMITHERS, BC Aug. 11—The
provincial department of public
works has resumed work on the
Skeena Highway. About 25 men
are employed, with camp estab-
lished near Usk.

A crew is also being employed
to replace the bridge over John
Brown creek near Moricetown. Al-
though billed only for repair work,
this bridge was found to be unsafe.

A program of extension and im-
provements to the roads at Drift-
wood Creek is being held up by
delay in receiving tents.

ARMS FOR SPAIN