RESOLUTION CENSURING GOW’T THROWN OUT

RUPERT

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938

Spy Chief |
Witness At
Dies Probe

ist of Names Given By
AFL Leader Was Fuil
Of Errors, Survey

Shows

FASCIST TESTIFIES

By HENRY FLEISHER

WASHINGTON, DC, Sept. 1
-Edward F. Sullivan, chief in-
=stigator for the Dies House
ommittee on Un-American ac-
vities, is a professional labor
YY, Examination of LaFollette
2nate Civil Liberties commit-
-e records has disclosed.

For spyings on union workers, re-
tas showed, Sullivan was paid
00 by Railway Audit and Inspec-
mM company in 1935.

It was also revealed that Wal-

2r S. Steele, another “investi-

ator’ for the Dies committee,

aS 2 representative of William

tudiley Pelley’s fascist ° Silver

hirt organization.

Steele, editor of the National Re-
iblic magazine. represented,
10ng other sroups, the American
Silante Intelligence Federation.

fhe Hst of “Communists” in the
©, presented to the Dies Com-
ttee by John P. Frey, aged AFT,
*tal trades leader, is packed with
"ers of every description.

& study of the documents in-
sted into the record revealed an
lazing lack of proof for Frey's
itements, frequently made with
aking hands uplifted and with
mbling voice.

\ study of the list of “280 Com-
mists’ on the Hst submitted by
ey Showed close to°20 duplica-
nS in names.

t included the names of a num-

of Communists, or labor jour-
ists, teachers and attorneys who
Te no connection with the Cro.

t included a number of mis-
lleg@ narses of allesed CIO or-
izations which do not exist.

me of the men charged with
turned

ons a “CTO Communist”

to be the head of an AFT, state
eration of labor. He denied
ipathy or membership in the

nimunist party.

large number of the names on
list were minor or part-time
OC organizers during the steel
fe in 1936 and 1937. One of
se men has been dead for sey—
months.

hile the alleged “Communists”
e aiding the steel campaign,
¥y, it is recalled, was doing his
_ to diseredit it—going so far
to offer an AFT charter to
pany unions at US Steel.

a interesting commentary on
yes list of “Communists’’ in the
' was the fact that many of
mames bore the same mis-
ling that appeared in an anti-
Story in the arch-reactionary
ago Tribue early in 1937.

id $500

r ‘Evidence’

IS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. i—
Ciates of Harry Bridges, Paci-
Coast CIO leader, here have
uced affidavits to show that
if IN. Markheim, chief witness
ast Bridges here before the
committee, has never met the
leader.

e affidavits declared that
cheim had been paid $500 by
Better America Federation to
= charges of “communism’’
ist Bridges. They also stated
Markheim had offered to re-
the sworn statement if the
would also give him $500.

ARMS FOR SPAIN

Steve Brodie Given

Fiat To Sue Gov’t
On Assault Charge

Right to sue the Dominion government for injuries received
at the hands of RCMP during the eviction of single unemployed

from the post office on July

19 was received this week by Steve

Brodie through his counsel, EK. A. Lucas.

Permission is eranted in the
form of a fiat, which states in part,
“Let right be done’’ and is Signea
by the King’s representative, the
Governor-General for Canada.

The case will come before the
Exchequer Court, but although
there is a session beginnings Sept.
i4, Lucas expressed the opinion
that the case would not be heard
until Pebruary next year.
two judges officiate at the
chequer Court of Canada and they
come West whenever there is a
case to be tried.

“We are quite ready to go ahead
now,” daicas told the Advocate
Tuesday, “but the sovernment has
to assemble its evidence and T
deubt very much if it will be ready
for the next session. We have re-
ceived splendid cooperation from
citizens on this case and I feel
the public will be vastly interested
in the result, regardless of the
time it takes to get soins.”

Expressing great interest in the
case himself Lucas, who is
ing with full support and coopera-

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erties Union, told the Advocate
that this was the first case he
could find in legal records dating
back to 1865 in which a man has
lodged a petition of right in BC
for personal injuries at the hands
of crown servants. It is an ancient
British practice, he Said, which al-
lows a man injured at the hands
ef the King or his servants to
present a4 petition of right. Per-
mission te sue the crown must, he
said, first be obtained by a fat
Signed by the King or his repre-
sentative by an Order-in-Council.

The right to bring a petition
against the crown was at present
narrowed down to very few in-
Stances, Lucas continued, but at
the recent convention of the Bar
Association, a committee reported

that “the Minister of Justice had
| been moved and progress had
been made towards allowing a

work-

tion of the Vancouver Civil Lib-)

man to sue the crown for any
wrong done by officers or servants
of the crown.’ This, Taucas main-
tained, would be a step in the
right direction for the people of
Canada.

Menace To Heal th

Conference Asks Immediate
End To Dumping On Flats

Demand that dumping in False Creek flats be stopped im-
mediately was made by the conference called under chairman-
ship of Dr. A. W. Barton, president, Federated Ratepayers, in
St. James’ Anglican Church last Friday.

The building of a playzround
Was a secondary consideration,
Said Dr. Barton, and it was more
important to clear wp the existing
health menace at once.

A committee, consisting Alec
Fordyce, Fred Tyler and Dr. Bar-
ton was appointed by the confer-
enee to interview Ald. H. De
Graves to discuss funds left over
from unexpended by-laws and re-
port to a mass meeting to be called
at a later date.

Dr. Barton was also instructed
to attend Vancouver Trades and
Labor Council to enlist its sup-
port.

Declaring he was opposed to pay-
ments of interest Dr. Barton told
the conference he did not pelieve
in obtaining loans while there was
$709,000 of unexpended by-law bal-
ances lying idle. Enough money
to do the necessary work could
be obtained from this soruce, he
said.

Empress Meet Planned

Loyalist Ambassador's Son,
Catholic Editor To Speak

Guest speakers at a meeting sponsored by the Canadian
Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy and the Youth Commit-
tee to Aid Spain, Thursday, September 22, in the Empress
Theatre here will be Manuel Azcarate, son of the Spanish am-
bassador to Britain, Jose Luis de la Lombana y Foncea, editor
of Euskadi, Basque National Catholic publication, and Con-
stance Kyle, an American social worker who has spent a year

in Spain.

Jose Luis de la Lombana y Fon-
cea is a doctor of law, has writ-
ten many books in addition to edit-
ing Buskadi. He fought with the
loyalist forees at Teruel and was
@ prisoner of the fascists for ten
months.

Manuel Azcarate, who speaks
English fluently, fought in the
leyalist armies both at Teruel and
Madrid.

Formerly of the University of
Tilinois, Constance Kyle went to
Spain under the direction of the
American Medical Bureau and the
Worth American Committee to Aid

Town Hall

MONDAY.
September 5th

at 9 p.m.

Spanish Democracy to supervise
relief for 600 Spanish chiidren in
ten American homes in Spain.
Donations received by Committee
to Aid Spanish Democracy in the
past two weeks: Soroptomist Club
$5; Mrs. Joubin $2; Mrs. Mossman,
Surrey $1.25; Mrs. Perkins, Gibsons
Landing, $2.70; Croation Workers
$2; BP. Yurisich WNelson, $5; Mr.
Berger $1; Swedish-Pinnish, 25c;

Mrs. Harris, $1; Mrs. Utterstrom,
Quesnell, 9; Mrs. Ronayne, Pem-
berton, fil; Mrs. Campbell, 80c; S.

Jablon, Sunbury, $16; J. Cinits, 30c;
Mrs. Malm, Sointula, 67c-

Celebration fo:

Federation
Will Present
Housing Plan

Pearson Is Scornful, But
Practical Schemes Are
Expected From This
Conference

ROAD PROJECT

Replying to an invitation
from the BC Federation on Un-
employment to address the con-
ference on Unemployment and
Social Welfare to be held in
Moose Hall, Sunday, Septem-
ber 18, Hon. G.S. Pearson, min-
ister of labor, has declined,
opining that “very little could
be expected from the delibera-
tions aS no new matter could
be -brought forward that had
not been studied.”

Fred Tyler, president of the fed-
eration, declares that the federa-
tion’s reply will be a “sound plan
of economic recovery, a three-year

hard-surfaced road plan based
upon evidence of its real self
liquidatine- nature, a housing

scheme for Vancouver and a Social
Security Act for BC.”

Delegates to the convention,
Which will commence at 8:45 a.m.,
will consider the Municipal Im-
provements Assistance Act, the
Wational Housing Act and federal-
Provincial social welfare policy.

Full details of the Municipal Im-
provements Assistance Act will be
explained by Fred Tyler, who in-
tends to produce charts and maps
Showing the need for completion
of southern BC highways and proyv—
ing that increased gasoline tax re-
ceipts and savings on truck haul-
age in place of freight rates would
make such a project selfliquidat-
ing. Tyler will offer the sugges-
tion that development of BC, par-
ticularly construction of hard-sur-
faced roads, will provide a practi-
cal work and wages program for
the unemployed youth of the proy-
ince.

Dr. A. F. Barton, president of the
Federated ratepayers will address
the conference, and the recent sur
vey on unemployment taken by
the Vancouver Youth Council will
be presented by John Stanton,
president of that organization.

DISCUSS HOUSING.

The nature of the new national
housing act which replaces the 1935
Dominion Housings Act will be ex-
Plained by Ald. Helena Gutteridge
who will show, utilizing plans
drawn up by local architec.S anu
details worked out by R. Lealess,
federation secretary, how this plan
can be applied to Vancouver.

Reports on social welfare will
bring out the fact that abnormal
social services costs are preventing
municipalities from attending to
their proper functions. A proposed
Social Security Act for BC will be

brought forward by the federa-
tion.
Lt. Col. Savory of the Imperial

Veterans and Ald. Knox of WNa-
naimo, will also address the con-
ference.

Invitations nave been issued to
all members of the Vancouver
School Board and Vancouver Wrel-
fare Pederation.

Dates Of Fall
Fair Announced

NEW WESTMINSTER, BC,
Sept. 1—Dates of fall fairs in the
Valley have been announced as
follows:

Langley, Sept. 7; Mission, Sept.

Port Moody, Sept. 9: Abbots-
ford, Sept. 13 and 14; Agassiz,
ept. 14; Haney, Sept. 15; Rich-
mond, Sept. 15; Matsqui, Sept. 16;
Burnaby, Sept. 19; Whonnock,
Sept. 22; Chilliwack Sept. 21 and
22; and Surrey, Sept. 23 and 24.

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Organized Labor!

GRAND

Libera

convention here last Friday.’

“I spent $200 of my own money
to find out if this were a Liberal
convention,” he exclaimed as he
turned to walk out. “I find it’s not.
Good day!”

While the resolution, sent to the
convention by Prince Rupert Dis-
trict Liberal Association, protested
Particularly the government's pol-
icy of “limiting opportunities to the
few, as exemplified by its refusal
to permit free participation in road
contracting, fish processing and
the brewing of beer,” its demand
for a policy “in kéeping with
changed conditions’’ gave evidence
of the deep-seated dissatisfaction

with the actions of the provincial
government among Liberals in
Premier Pattullo’s own constitu-
ency of Prince Rupert.

Declaring the government's pol-
icy to be “diametrically opposed to
the fundamental principles of Lib-
eralism,’’ the resolution concluded:

“This association recommends to

DELEGATE WALKS OUT OF CONVENTION
THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE

Is Demand
J obless Insurance,
Works Program

KELOWNA, BC, Sept. 1.—(Special).—Angered by the ac-
tion of the resolutions committee in throwing out what virtu-
ally amounted to a motion of censure on the Pattullo govern-

ments policies, George Nickerson, Prince Rupert delegate,
walked out of the concluding session of the Liberal provincial

the convention to be held at
Kelowna the adoption of a policy
which will extend to every citizen
the means of acquiring mastery of
his own capacity and of establish-
ing real equality of opportunity
for all.”’

Dr. W. J. Knox, convention
chainman, ruled that the resolution
could not be presented from the
floor without a two-thirds decision
of delegates to reject the recom-
mendation of the resolutions com-
mittee. Dr. Knox at the same time,
pointed out that such a vote would
be tantamount to an expression of
non-confidence in the resolutions
committee and, by a standing vote,
the recommendation was upheld.

The decision however, was by
mo means unanimous. From sey-

eral delegates there were cries
of “Let’s hear him” and ‘“Rail-
road!”

Tt was at this point that Wicker
son left the convention.

Education Costs Held Provincial Matter

Determination of delegates to
decide Liberal policies democrati-_
cally regardless of opposition from
government leaders was seen in
the closing debate on municipal
problems.

Unanimously favored by the
resolutions committee, a motion
was presented by HH. G Perry,
MILA (Prince George), urging the
government to stop grants to muni-
cipalities and assume instead ail
education costs. The resolution
also favored the continuance of
school boards with “adequate gfov-
ernment representation thereon~’’

“The municipalities are in a state

of bankruptcy,” Perry stated.
“They are facing ruin. In the past
only palliatives have been applied.
What is required now is a remedy.”

Premier Pattullo viewed the
question coldly. He opined that this
Should not be an immediate pro-
Sram, “but rather a distant mark
to shoot at.”’

“This subject,’ he stated, “is too
far-reaching in its implications to
be fully understood by this con-
vention.’’

The convention however, did not
agree with Him and the resolution
passed by an overwhelming major—

ity.

Admits Public Support For Jobless

Desire of delegates to hammer
out definite policies on the many
questions before them at the con-
vention was voiced by Mrs. FE.
Main, New Westminster delegate.

Dr. Knox, in opening the con-
vention, expressed the hope that
delegates would take opportunity
of the entertainment arranged for
them.

Drs. Main rose. “I would like to
know,” she asked, “if delezates
Came here to discuss the problems
of BC or attend the horse races?”

Considerable reference to the
Single unemployed was made in
his opening remarks by Premier
Pattullo, ineluding a suggestion

that the men should enrol in the
armed forces.

Waile asserting that the fsovern-
ment would “tolerate no further
Sitdowns” and claiming that past
demonstrations had been premedi-
tated, the Premier was forced to
edmit that the unemployed had

“Feceived considerable public sup-
port.”

He avoided reference to the
Labor Conciliation and Arbitration
Act, but dwelt instead upon ad-
vantages resulting from enactment
of minimum wage lesislation.

Defense, he Said, was essential
to the province because of forces
threatening world peace. — 5

“The sentiment of the people of
Be is in favor of increased de_
fenses because democracy is far
from safe,’ he stated. “We stand
firmly within the Empire, but we
also stand ready to help the United
States if they ever get into any
foreign difficulties.’

Premier Pattullo concluded his
address with a reference to the in-
comparable matural resources of
the province and the fine scenery
of Kelowna, a reference that drew
from delegates at the back of the
hall the remark, “‘We can’t live
On scenery.”’

Seventeen-Point Platform Adopted

A seventeen-plank platform had
been adopted by delegates at the
end of Friday morning’s session.
Included were demands for:

Inauguration of a provincial
health insuramce scheme as en-—
dorsed by electors in last year’s
plebiscite.

Early construction of the Yu-
kon-Alaska highway.

Construction and completion of
all main and primary highways
and improvements to subsidiary
roads.

Wational unemployment insur-
ance, the federal government to
assume responsibility for unem-
ployment relief and inaugurate a
public works program. Transient
unemployed to become the respon-
sibility of the federal government.

Reduction of eligibility age for
old age pensions and modification
of regulations.to “eliminate exist
ing hardships on the aged people

of Canada.’’

BISSONETTE’S SWING BAND
- =. REFFRESHMENTS .. .

Proceeds towards establishment of Youth

Centre in Vancouver.

Education =

SS

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Tickets at Room 53,
163 West Hastings St., and New Age Book
Shop, Vancouver.

Admission: 25c

Recreation =

National “‘compulsory, contribu-
tory insurance scheme for retire—
ment allowances,’ to be initiated
by the federal government.

Creation of a public utilities
commission by the provincial Zov-
ernment.

Complete cessation of Oriental
immigration into Canada and
steps to be taken “‘to the end that
any Orientals illegally residing in
Canada be returned to the land of
their origin.”

Government development of
Peace River oil lands to keep
them in the hands of the people
and prevent them from falling
into the) hands of large corpora-—
tions.

Perpetuation of forest wealth
and encouragement of a steel and
smelter industry in BC.

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