BRITISH COLUMBIA’S PROGRESSIVE HOME NEWSPAPER FOR PEACE, PROGRESS AND DEMOCRACY FULL No. 195. VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1938 THUGS DESTROY UN SEINERS, CANNERS SIGN UP Following strike and tying-up of the entire seine fleet last week, Local 141, Salmon Purse Seiners Union, for the first time in history this week obtained signed agreements ‘with the Salmon Canners Operating Committee representing all can- neries, obtaining union recogni- tion with no discrimination against Striking fishermen ard prices 2 cents above that offered by the canners at the time of the strike. Prices set for the West Coast were S cents each for chums, 5 cents a tb. for cohoes, and in Johnstone Straits, 10 cents each or more for chums. Pacific Coast Fishermen’s Union, whose members struck in sym- pathy with seiners, also obtained a@ Sigmed agreement with individual canneries operating in Bute, Toba and Loughborough Inlet. Prices for the season were set at 5 cents u« ib. for cohoe, 8 cents each for chums. Agreements also specify that Sroceries sold to fishermer by can-— mers must not be higher than i0 percent above wholesale prices in Vancouver. Prior to the strike settlement, ‘“INorpack i” owned by a small packer, left for Seattle with a load ef chums. immediately wiring the union in Seattie union officials here refused te give clearance papers to the Owner because the fish was at that me on the unfair list. @n arrival at Seattle, the owner could get no one to unload his “hot cargo” and frantic pleas tu the union are unavailing. Unien officials here are unable to obtain information as to what hap- pened to the cargo, but the owner has now agreed to obtain clear- ance papers for his boat from the union in future. Sointula Fishermen Give Mac-Paps $148 SOINTULA, BC, Oct. 6. Ted Gunrud, returned Spanish veteran, addressed three meetings here on his tour of the coast. Despite the strike, fishermen do- mated $148 to the Rehabilitation Fund of the Friends of the Mac- kenzie Papineau Battalion, S. Malm leading contributions with a $10 do- nation. rail Police Find — Stolen A uto At Bottom Of Creek TRAIL, BC, Oct. 6—(Special) —Thugs on Monday broke into and stole an automobile containing union equipment, owned by Arthur H. Evans, organizer in Western Canada for the Interna- tional Union of Mine, Mill and Veteran Organizer | ARTHUR E. EVANS He collected $47 from radie sta- tien CJAT in Trail, representing a Claim for costs incurred in ad- vertisinge and arranging a broad- cast which the station banned without even seeing a copy of the speech. The station, although privately owned, is part of the CBC netywork in BC and Evans has sent a/strong protest to the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- Gon at Ottawa. Mrs. D. Steeves, MLA, To Represent Union Following a request from Local 468 of the Bakery and Confection- ery VVorkers’ Union, the provincial government announced this week that Judge J. C. MeIntosh would head an arbitration-board to settle a dispute between the union and the Woman’s Bakery for union recognition. Mrs. Dorothy Steeves, CCE Mi.A. will represent the union, and T. H. Ainsworth manager of the Rolling Pin Bakery, the Woman's Bakery. Union officiais believe the board will open the case some time next -week. Comment On Green’s Statement City Union Leaders Back Congress Stand The Advocate on Thursday approached a number of trade union leaders in the city for their views on President William Green’s statement to the 58th annual convention of the Am- erican Federation of Labor that the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada would be expected to “purge” CIO unions. President A. E. Jamieson oi Vancouver Trades and Labor Council was away and neither Birt Showler of the Teamsters Union nor E. H. Morrison, secretary, Electrical Workers Union, could be reached. Following are statements made by those trade union leaders the Advocate was able to interview: William Stewart (Secretary of Local 28, Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, and member of Vancouver Trades and Labor Council executive). “The 54th convention of the Ca- 1adian Trades and Labor Congress (cook a definite stand in regard to inity, and I believe as far as Ca- jadian trade unionists are con- 2erned, this decision will stand up.” Henry Lundgren (Vice-president, Local 71, Inter- 1ational Woodworkers of America). “*Green’s threat to split the trade inion movement in Canada is cer- ain to meet with opposition from both CIi@q and AFL unions who @through unity have learnt to de- pend on one another. “The International Woodwork ers of America in British Colum- bia never has, nor does it intend to have any quarrel with AFT. unions in Canada. As proof of our sincerity in this respect our action in the case of the Restmore Fur- niture Workers who were organized by our union and lJater persuaded by our organizer to affiliate with the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners should be sufficient evi- oe h ot been any juris- There as n dictional dispute between the CIO and AFI in Canada. The 54th (Continued on page 5) See DEBATE Smelter Workers. © Tadanac police found the stolen car the following day at the bottom of Stony Creek. Evidence showed that it had been saturated with gasoline and pushed over the em- bankment. Fige completely de- stroyed the car and its contents. interviewed here, Evans com- mented laconically, “no arrests are expected.”’ On Tuesday, he said, a man called him on the phone, telling him “to get out of town’ before worse things happened. That Consolidated Mining and Smelting Corporation is alarmed by gains being made by the union’s or- ganizational drive was shown in the companys announcement of a 25-cent a day straight wage increase last weekend. ASK PROBE UF COMBINE LANGLEY PRATRIE, BG, Oct. 6.—Growers from all parts of the Fraser Valley packed the Athletic Hall here on Wednesday night to hear VW. Lawrence Dence, president ef Vancouver Hothouse Tomato Growers Cooperative Association make further charges against the combine stated to control fruit and vegetable marketing in BC. 4 resolution demanding that a commissioner be appointed -im- mediately under the Combines Investigation Act toe conduct an investigation inte the operations of the combine was passed unani- mously. Lewis Duncan, KC, of Toronto, was suggested as commissioner. Presenting a number of letters and telegrams from growers’ or- Ganizations at Oliver, Kelowna, Coldstream, Penticton and Kaleden supporting the demand for federal investigation, Dence said growers were “determined to obtain jus- tice.” The Wash combine, found guilty and fined heavily in 1926, Dence de— clared, had never been entirely dis- banded. Now, in new guise, “but still the wolf fattening on the sheep,’ it was operating in British Columbia again under different names. Dence stated that there was def inite evidence that making of secret rebates had become a prac- tice in some quarters. As a result of the operations of brokers and others, primary pro- ducers were unable to get even cost prices for their produce and those of them who were entirely dependent on the soil for their livelihood were being driven into bankruptcy. “We cannot permit this state of affairs to continue,” he exclaimed. “The plight of the producers in this and other provinces is approachinge the proportions of a national crisis.” NANAIMO, BC, Oct. 6. At a meeting here Wednesday, Vancou- ver Island growers voted full sup- port for demands that the federal government probe the combine they charged was operating in the in- dustry. PLC SAID READY 10 MEDIATE Rumors that the Pacific Lime Company at Blubber Bay is ready to open negotia- tions immediately, were cur- rent here Thursday, but officials of Local 71, In- ternational Woodworkers of America, stated they had re- ceived no word. The trial of Andy Williamson, company foreman, charzed with assaulting Art Aker, a striker, was halted today and a wire sent to At- torney-General Gordon Wismer re- guesting remand for a week. No reason was given by Williamson's counsel for the request. Ronald MeDonald, striking em- ployee at Blubber Bay, was sen- tenced by Magistrate GC I. Fill- more in District Police Gourt Mon- day to six months imprisonment with hard labor. Charged with assaulting Con- stable Raymond Elis, McDonald declared that he was not in the shed where the alleged beating took place and this was corroborated by other defense witnesses. Despite a statement by Joseph Jacobs, defense witness, that other persons assaulted Ellis and that Jacobs himself kicked him “four times in the back and stomach,”’ MeDonald was convicted and sen- tenced. SECRETARY CHARGED er AS MeLennan, former secre- tary of Local 71, TWA. charged with assaulting three strikebreakers on the SS Chelohsin, although he states he was with John Stanton, union counsel, and Grant MacNeil, CCF MP durine the entire trip, faced trial in District Police Court Sat_ urday. Constable Williamson, charged with brutally assaulting Robert Gardiner, striking employee of Pa- cific Lime Company, will come be- fore Magistrate Fillmore this Fri- day for decision as te which court will handle his case. Strikebreakers summonsed by the union will .come up for trial at Powell River Monday. A resolution from Local 2404, Pile Drivers, Bridge, Dock and Wohoart Builders demanding an investiga~ tion of provincial police and the Pacific Lime Company activities during the Blubber Bay strike was heartily endorsed by the Trades and Labor Council Tuesday. Harold Pritchett, international president of the Woodworkers, will address a meeting on the Blubber Bay situation at Powell River this Sunday. A series of meetings in Vancouver at which Pritchett will Speak, is be- ing arranged by the union. Dates will be announced later. Students Campaign For New Buildings Abandoning for the time being their campaign against increased fees, students at University of British Columbia settled down to a well-planned campaign for addi- tional accommodation. Declaring that the board of gov- ernors should “eut their suit ac- cording to -their cloth” and not over-tax students, the campaign committee stated its interview with the government early in the year was tantamount to a promise of new buildings. Of Nazi Agents Meet Demands Deportation In Canada Disgusted by the constant in- terruptions and unruly behaviour of several Wazis in the audience, indigmant anti-fascist Germans attending a meeting called by the German-Canadian People’s So- ciety at its Main street hall last Sunday, demanded deportation of all German Wazis in Canada. “How can such people be true to this country and true to Hitler at the same time?’’ one member of the audience asked in- dienantly. More than 100 German-Cana- dian residents of Vancouver at- tended the meeting to hear A. M. Stephen, provincial president of the Canadian Weague for Peace and Democracy, analyze Nazi Germany’s menacing role in European and world affairs and condemn Hitler as the enemy of democracy and democrats and of the German people. A resolution denouncing the betrayal of Czechoslovakia and calling upon Prime Minister Mackenzie King to convene par- liament without further delay was endorsed by the German- Canadian People’s Society last weekend. Guerillas Halt Japanese Drive, Inflict Defeats Japan Soldiers Side With China HANKOW, China, Oct. 6—A re port just received here tells of a tremendous anti-Japanese meeting in one of the Chinese-occupied towns in western Shansi Province On the occasion of the 7th anni- versary of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Several Japanese war prisoners addressed the meeting declaring they would join the Chinese troops for a joint struggle against Japa- nese imperialism. Japanese plans for invading South China are far from realiza— tion. Five months have elapsed Since the Japanese captured Amoy, but they are still unable to make any forward movement into the heart of South China. Chinese Suerilla detachments make con-— Stant attacks against the Japanese troops in the vicinity of Amoy, Japanese difficulties in southern China are aggravated by serious differences between the Japanese Army and Navy headquarters. Fol- lowing Japanese failures at the front and also as a result of dif- ferences with the Japanese Army headquarters, Admiral Miyada, com- manding the Japanese fleet operat- ing in South China waters, com- mitted suicide. Removal of General Matsui from his post as comman- der of Japanese troops in southern China is also said to have beer caused by Japanese failures at the Southern China front. _General Chen Cheng, commander of the Ninth Military Zone -inter- viewing a delegation of public or- Sanizations, on the Southern bank of the Yangste River, declared that Chinese troops were determinedly resisting the Japanese and that Japanese plans for an offensive on Hankow were failings. Since the beginning of the battles in the district of AGukiang, Japa- mese losses haye exceeded 70,000 lsilled and wounded. > DIVISION PLAN HIT Y SPAIN BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 6. — The Spanish Republic will not allow Fascist Ttaly and Nazi Germany, aided by the pro-fascist policies of Prime Minister Chamberlain and Daladier, to force upon it the fate of Czechoslovakia. Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo declared Thursday that the Spanish people, who have fought against ruthless foreign invasion for more than two years, defeating the better-armed legions of italy in face of tremendous handicaps, would fight until Spain was “free from foreign invasion.’ Del Vayo's “announcement fol- lowed reports that British and French governments, pursuing their policy of “appeasement” had suse gested a plan whereby Spain would be divided into two States, one a fascist dictatorship, the other a de- mocracy-. This plan, it was stated, had been rejected by the Spanish govern- ment According to advice received this week by Jack Chivers, provincial organizer for the Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion here the Spanish government’s famed international Brigade, including the Canadian Mackenize-Papineau Bat- talion, is being demobilized. Volunteers are expected to enter France in the next two or three weeks to await transportation back to the many countries from whence they came to defend democracy in Spain. Labor, Conservatives A\ssail Chamberlain LONDON, Eng., Oct. 6—While Prime Minister Chamber- lain’s shaken but still efficient Conservative machine assured him of a vote of confidence, 366-144, in the House of Commons Thursday, the fact that several Conservatives abstained from voting after bitterly assailing the sgovernment’s “apparent” policies is symptomatic of the deep-seated opposition to Cham- berlain’s actions throughout the ers and voters. ranks of Conservative support- Below are excerpts from the speeches made in the House by Chamberlain’s critics this weelr: > Duff Ccoper “It had come to Czechoslovakia as a shock of treachery and per- fidy that, with other enemies facing them, Great Britain turned against them. I have always thought that in any other international crisis our first duty was to make it plain exactly where we stood and what we would do. “All recommendations agreed that there was only one way war could be prevented and that was for Great Britain to make a firm stand and state she would be in that war and on the other side. “It was not for Czechoslovakia we should have been fightins if we had gone to war last week . . we Should have been fighting last week in order that one great power should not be allowed, in disregard of treaty obligations and against all morality, to dominate by brutal force the continent of Europe. “Sweet reasonableness has won nothing except terms which a eruel, revengeful enemy would have dictated to a beaten foe aiter a long war.’ Anthony Eden “War has been averted, not at our expense, or that of any ereat power, but at the cost of a grave injustice to a small, friendly nation, Czechoslovakia, which was not even heard in her own defense. “Whatever our sense of relief Over the preservation of peace, few can read these terms (of the Munich pact) without a sense of humiliation. “Tt is evident that there is a dif- ference of view as to whether events of the last few days con- stitute the beginning of better things or whether they only give us a breathing space, perhaps six months ahead, ‘before the next erisis is on us. “I would like to take the more optimistic yiew, but this year we have had many optimistic forecasts and they have all been falsified.” Winston Churchill “I foresee a policy of submis- Sion that will carry with it re— strictions on freedom of speech and discussion in parliament and the press. “The people should be told they have passed an awful milestone in their history. Democracies of the- west have suffered a defeat with out war. They have, for the time being, been weighed in the balance and found wanting, but by a su- preme effort they can recover. “We have sustained a total, un- mitigated defeat, and France has suffered even more than we have. “The terms of the Munich settle- ment are such that the German dictator, instead of snatching his victuals from the table, is content to have them seryed to him course by course. “I fear we shall find we have deeply compromised the safety and independence of Britain and France. Britain may yet find her- self the satellite of German domi- nation in Furope.” (Continued on page 5) See LABOR