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Vancouver, B. C., Friday, December 23, 1938

A Deplorable Action

T IS deplorable that the president of the

Trades and Labor Council of Vancouver
openly and publicly supported the candidates
of the notorious anti-labor Non-Partisan Asso-
ciation against Dr. Telford, the candidates of
the CCF, the trade unions and other progress-
ive organizations.

Tt is also deplorable, even disgraceful, for
William Offer, himself a candidate of the CCE
in the election and beaten by the candidate of
the Non-Partison Association, to defend the
action of president Jamieson in a meeting of
the Trades and Labor Council when the presi-
dent was faced with the possibility of a vote
of censure for his anti-labor activity on behalf
of the Non-Partisan clique.

How different the stand of Ronald Macaulay,
CCF candidate defeated for re-election to the
Parks Board. He supported the motion of well-
merited censure: But Offer, opposing his CCE
colleague, introduced an amendment which
“recognizes the right of anyone to express his
political opinions providing they do not invovle
this council,” thereby whitewashing Jamieson.

The very fact that Jamieson is known as the
president of the Trades and Labor Council
involved the council, and the candidates of re-
action were not slow to make use of that fact.
Yes, Jamieson has the right to express his
political opinions, whatever they may be. He
also has the right to scab and break strikes
directly together with his associates of the
reactionary INon-Partisan clique. But the
Trades and Labor Council has the right to
censure or even expel from office any of its
officials who engages in such work.

The reactionary Matthew Woll, a vice-presi-—
dent of the American Federation of Labor, was
eompelled to resign from membership in the
employees’ anti-labor National Civic Federa-
tion regardless of what his “rishts” were. The
action of Jamieson can not be compared to
support of a capitalist political party, for the
Non-Partisan Association is nota political par-
ty but an amalgam of the most reactionary
scum of the Liberal and Conservative parties
and fascist organizations, out-and-out fascists
like Colonel Edgett, and labor renegades like
Pettipiece. When Jamieson gave his support
to this despicable outfit, and thereby be-
smirched the name of the Trades and Labor
Council and the trade union movement, wheth-
sr he was acting officially or not, he, by that
action, and Offer by his defense of him, en-
dorsed the clubbing of the longshore strikers
and the smashing of their strike; they endorsed
the action of the Non-Partisan clique’s mayor
in setting his police to work clubbing and tear-
Bassing the unemployed boys in the Post Office
5n Vancouver's Bloody Sunday

To carry the “right” of a union official to
support a capitalist class political party which
supports the principle and practice of demo-
eratic government to the extent of granting
Aim the right to join or support fascist parties
or reactionary, pro - fascist, union - smashing
eoncentrations such as the WNon-Partisan Asso-
ciation is nothing less than downright treason
to the organized labor movement.

The action of Offer is all the more repre-
hensible in that he was a candidate of the CCF
of which the Non-Partisan gang is the deadly
enemy. His action merits the severest con-
demnation by the CCF, for no working-class
organization can afford to permit such support
for reaction and fascism as that shown by
Offer in the face of and in opposition to the
correct and manly position taken by his fellow
CCF member, Macaulay, on the same issue.

What About That $1000?

Soe two weeks ago during the heat of the
i» civic eleciton campaign, Col. Welson Spen-
eer, whom electors swept into the ashean on
yoting day, was quoted in the press as having
issued certain challenges.

Tt seems the gallant colonel, who has been
doing his level best to sell BC down the river
io Japan, was pinned down by a member ot
one of his audiences to admitting that his
name appeared on the directorships of several
Japanese companies exploiting BC mining
and timber resources.

Being finally forced to admit what he had
frenziedly tried to conceal, the colonel retired
in good order behind another barricade and
defied anyone to prove he held any shares
jn such companies.

Apparently he was trying to convince Van-
ecouver citizens—and it seems he succeeded—
¢hat he acted out of friendship to Japanese in-
¢erests in allowing his name to appear on their
books, something in the nature of a “front
man.’ And to “prove” that he did not hold
any shares, he offered, so it is said, $1000 to
anyone proving otherwise.

So last week the Advocate acecpted the
challenge. We printed under a main headline
a lengthy article in which we stated that Col.
Spencer, according to our information, held
40 shares in the Canamoku Company, known
$n Vancouver as the Canadian Lumber Com-
pany, as well as 100 shares in the N. S. McNeil
Trading Company, coutrolled by the Nippon
Soda Company, to cite only two examples.

That was a week ago and there has been no
reply from the colonel as yet. And what we
svould like to know now is—what about that
$1000? Or was Col. Spencer merely making
an election speech?

-then.

A Victory For Progress

By MALCOLM BRUCE
HE entire labor and progressive movement in Vancouver
and throughout the province has been encouraged and
stimulated by the election of Dr. Telford to the office of mayor
of the third most populous city in Canada.

There are those who seek to minimise the importance of
his election by claiming that it was a personal victory and was
made possible because of the split in the reactionary camp and
the candidacy of Colonel Spencer, and that because he ran as
an independent it does not represent a progressive gain.

It is true that the entrance of Spencer into the contest drew
votes from Miller; it is also true that many who voted for
Spencer did not know that he is an ultra-reactionary and tied

up with fascist organisations and
with Japanese imperialism and,
not yet quite ready to support
Telford. voted for Spencer in pro-
test against Miller. But were
Spencer not in the field, many of
these voters would have expressed
their protest by voting for Tel-
ford. it is by no means sure,
therefore, that had the contest
been solely between Telford and
Miller the latter would have won.

The ousting of the reactionary
labor-hating BC Electric stooge,
Miller, and the election of the
progressive Telford is a decisive
set-back for reaction. Miller con-
tinued the anti-trade union and
strike-breaking policies of Mc-
Geer. His use of the police on
Bloody Sunday, last June, when
the unemployed single men in the
Post Office “were clubbed and
eassed made his very name an
object of hatred to thousands of
eitizens. The use of his police
in arresting unemployed workers
for tincanning on the streets
when it was their only way to live
except by resort to crime damned
him in the eyes of all decent per-
sons.

It can be conceded that the

personal popularity of Telford
contributed considerable to his
success; ithe comparatively low

average vote received by the CCE
eandidates for the Council and
the School and Park Boards show
that. And despite the mistake of
the GCE, which after refusing to
unite with other progressive bod-
ies behind a single progressive
slate, withheld official support
from Telford, his victory brought
added prestige, influence and
strength to the CCE-
eo:

HE work of the new mayor

will be difficult in view of his
having to work with a reactionary
city council—only one, Miss Gut-
teridge, being progressive. The
forces represented by the so-called
Won-Partisan Association which
jave almost complete control of
the city council, and will do their
utmost to block any progressive
actions of the mayor, will endea-—
vour to compromise and discredit
him and that which he represents
before the voters: Already they
are fawning on him, proferring
their worse than worthless advice
and the Judas kiss.

In such a2 situation Telford must
have the assistance and support
of the entire labor movement and
of all progressive citizens, while
at the Same time his deeds as 2
public official should be subject to
friendly, constructive criticism
with a view to assisting him and
to bring credit not only to himself
and his administration, but to the
party of which he is a2 prominent
member and leader, to the work
ing class and the forces of pro-
gress generally.

Se

T MOUSE be borne in mind that

Telford will be mayor for a
two-year term; and during the
second year of that term he
should have more support in the
city council in order to further
eripple reaction and advance Van-
ecouyver alon= a progressive path.

To do this it is necessary that
ALL labor and progressive organ—
isations get together and unite
their forces in support of a singie
progressive slate of candidates for
next year’s civic elections and
sweep the reactionary remnants
of McGeerism and Millerism and
agents of the ‘“non-Partisan’’
clique out of the city council, the
School Board and the Parks
Board.

To bring about this unity of pro-
gressive forces the CCE can play
a great part, even a decisive one;
and by so doing can assure that
the partial loosening of the stran-
glehold which reaction has so long
hela on Vancouver, which partial
loosening was accomplished by
the election of Dr. Telford, will be
completed next year and Vancou-
ver will have both a progressive
mayor and a progressive city
couneil.

Twvo Letters On Palestine

‘Observer’ Questions
Bruce

Editor, People’s Advocate =

Tam a constant reader of your
progressive paper, and being of
Jewish faith, I wish to reply to
the article on Palestine by Mal
colm Bruce.

First, may I make clear that I
believe Zionism is not the solu-
tion to the Jewish problem. Tf
realize that as long as imperial-
ism, whether British or Moslem,
exists, there always will be blood-
shed. Capitalism is to blame.

Britain had motives when she
promised the Jews and Arabs
simultaneously, but when Mr.
Bruce stated the Balfour Declar-
ation was issued for support from
Jewish bankers, it both amuses
and annoys me. Surely Mr. Bruce
does not believe in the fallacy of
the tremendous power of the
Jewish bankers.

In Canada today there is not
one leading Jewish banker or in-
dustrialist. Banks, insurance
companies and big business are
all owned and controlled by
Christians. In the United States
there are wealthy Jews, but who
controls the House of Morgan,
Mellon, DuPont, Ford? Wot th=
Jews! There are Jewish bankers
—Kuhn, Loeb, Lehman, Warburg
—-but can they compare to the
Chase National or Rockefeller? I
am afraid not. Nevertheless, I
am not denying the fact that
there some rich Jews.

Arab hate and antagonism to-
ward the Jew always existed. The
Balfour Declaration just in-
creased it. What about the bloody
massacre of 1928? Did Hitler in-
stigate it? Hitler wasn’t in power
Italy and Germany today
are just. urging the Arabs on, and
they require little urging.

The Zionist today openly advo-
cates “live and let live.” Thev
don’t exploit the Arab—they try to
build up the country under tre-
mendous handicaps.

Schools, the city of Tel Aviv,
hospitals and the Hebrew Univer-
sity are examples of their efforts.
Arabs have the use of the hospi-
tals and clinics. Dhe Jews have
to pay dearly, both in lives and
cold cash, for each new acre
epened up. The Zionist will meet

the Arab half way, but what
about the Arab. He attacks, mur
ders, destroys and hates—is that
cooperation?

TI have to face facts, of Course.
There is also a Jewish fascist or-
ganization — the Revisionists,
which is aggressive toward the
Arab, but what is a hotheaded
Jew going to do when he sees
these pogroms—he fights back.

Suppose the Arabs gained con-
trol of the country. Can one be—
lieve that irrigation, sanitation,
collective farms, schools, hospi-
tals, cities and hambors would be
puilt? I am afraid the fascist
powers would make room for an-
other country in their anti-Com-
intern pact. Tihe Arabs and fas-
cists are cooperating remarkably
well today.

Until fascism is destroyed there
can be no sohition to the Jewish
problem. —“Observer.””

Bruce’s Rejoinder

Eiditor, People’s Advocate:

T am somewhat puzzled as to
why your correspondent, “@Obser-
ver,’’ who states he is of the Jew-
ish faith, displays So much resent—
ment at my article on ‘Palestine
and the Jewish Question,” in view
of his many admissions of the
correctness of the main points I
sought to make.

He admits that Zionism is net
the solution to the Jewish prob-
lem; that Britain had her own
motives (selfish, I presume) when
she promised Jews and Arabs
Palestine simultaneously; that
there are wealthy Jewish bank-
ers; that there is a Jewish fascist
organisation in Palestine, and
that until fascism is destroyed,
there can be no solution to the
Jewish problem.

What then does he take excep-
tion to? My reference ito Britain
having made through the Balfour
Declaration a bid for the support
of Jewish bankers in the struggle
against the Central powers in the
ereat war?

Because I stated
known fact he. by
brackets my assertion with the
rabid ravings of Hitler, Henry
Ford and other fascists and pro-
fascists. But will your correspon—

'Gent contend that British imper-

this well
implication,

jalism during the world war did
not desire the support of the
House of Rothschild and other
wealthy Jews, or that one of the
purposes of the Balfour Declara-
tion was to procure that support?
EI did not limit the purposes of
the Balfour Declaration to the bid
for the support of Jewish bank-
ers; I included the effort to get
Jewish workers into the army.

“Qbserver’ does what Marx
warned against, namely, he ig-
mores the class struggle within
Jewry and in ithe Moslem world.
He treats the Jews as a single
entity and the Arabs in the same
way.

All the atrocities the ascribes to
the Arabs; and although he ad-
mits that there is a Jewish fascist
organisation in Palestine, yet
there is no provocation or attacks
on Arab workers by Jews! Why
does he seek to whitewash and
pin lings on Palestinian fascists
just because they are Jews?

Fascists are provocateurs and
murderous gangsters whether
they be Jews or Arabs or of any
other race. He admits, with ob-
vious reluctance, that Jewish fas-
cists are “aggressive” toward the
Arabs, but makes excuses for that
‘“apgression” on the ground that
a “hotheaded Jew” cannot do
otherwise; that he is only “fight-
ing back.” Again placing the
whole blame on the Arabs and
exonerating ithe Jewish agents of
fascism.

The basis of the strife in Pales-
tine is not a vertical division of
the Jews and Arabs; it is the hor-
izontal division of Jewish and
Arab workers, lower middle class
and professionals together with
Arab workers and fellaheen, at
the bottom of the social Scale, and
the Jewish copitalists, financiers
and reactionary Zionist political
representatives of British imper-
jalism together with Arab land-
lords and tools of Nazi-Fascist
states at the top.

Against this upper reactionary
elass the exploited Jews and
Arabs unitedly must make com-
mon cause and together and in
cooperation work for the libera-
tion of Jew and Arab alike in Pal-
estine ana throughout the world.
Only in this way will the “Jewish
Problem” be solved.

One Big Happy Family

ALEING about family reun-

ions, lets look for a moment
at England’s aristocratic-pluto—
cracy who so nobly bear the bur-
den of Empire. Canada’s Family
Gompact of a century ago was a
piker outfit in comparison to the
ruling clique of “in-laws” holding
down official positions in England
today, and of which the Journal
de Geneve refers to in the follow—
ing note:

“The death a few months ago of
two peers, the Duke of Devon-
shire and Lord Harlech, as well as
that of Lord Stanley, brings to
light a queer enough theory in 4
democracy.

“Devonshire ex-colonial secre-
tary, was father of Lord Harting—
ton, then Dominions under-secre—
tary. The son of Lord Harlech
was Mr. Ormsby-Gore, then col-
onial secretary. Mr. Ormsby-Gore
is the brother-in-law of Lord
Cranborne (present foreign under-
secretary). Lord Cranborne is the
son of Lord Salisbury, ex-foreign
under-secretary. Lord Staniey,
who became Dominions secretary,
was the brother of Oliver Stanley,

president of the board of trade,
and their father is Lord Derby,
ex-war minister. Mr. Stanley is
the son-in-law of Lord London-
derry, ex-air minister.

American
Circus

American citizens are wondering
these days why they should bother
to tune in on Jack Benny for a
laugh when they can read about
the antics of the Dies Committee
on Un-American activities.

Recently, for example, with
Mrs. Hallie Flannigan, WPA of
ficial on the stand, Congressman
Starnes became interested in one
“Christopher Marlowe,” asking if
he was a Communist. While the
audience howled with laughter
Mrs. Flannigan said, “I was quot-
ing from Christopher Marlowe, a
ereat Elizabethan dramatist.”

The Congressman blush ed.

“Sir Samuel Hoare is the son-
intaw of Lord Beauchamp, and
Mr. Duff Cooper of the Duke of
Rutland. Sir Thomas Inskip’s wife
is the daughter of Lord Glasgow-
Tord Halifax is married to Lord
Onslow’s daughter and his MP
son is the husband of Lord Derby's
grand-daughter. Mr. Channon,
Lord Halifax's secretary, is mar-
ried to a daughter of Lord
Iveagh, amother of whose daugh-
ters is engaged to Mr. Lennox—
Boyd, an under-secretary. Lord
Feversham, a parliamentary sec-

retary, is son-in-law of Lord
Halifax.”’
Summing up, the Journal de

Geneve concludes:

“Among ministers and govern-
ment posts there are two dukes,
two marquesses, nine earls, nine
viscounts, twenty barons, and
more than a hundred baronets.
These titled people are all some—
how inter-related and related to
the great commoners of polktics,
finance and commerce”

The voice of the English people
will have a hard time making it-
self heard through that wet blan-
ket of officialdom.

December 23, 1935

SHORT JABS

A
Weekly

Commentary

By Oi’ Bill

= Members of Ol! Bill's International
Brigade Brisade are notified that if their tasks
Orders. are not yet completed, they have been
given a week’s grace. The closing date has been
advanced from Christmas to New Wear’s Eye, Hog-
manay to the Scotsmen.

The drawing for the bust of Lenin made by the
Leningrad Cultural Workers’ Union, which was do—
nated by my old friend Jack Chapple of Saimon
Arm, has also been advanced to December 3i. The
result, with the name of the winner, will be published
in this column the week following.
Jewish People Exiled Germans living in Enge—
FE land are beginning to ask

ramed. questions, the answers to
which may put a different complexion on the ex
planation of the Shooting of the Nazi secretary, von
Rath, in Paris by the Polish Jewish boy, Grynszpan-

The Hitler Nazi government will try to prove
that the boy was the paid agent of “a group of in-
ternational Jews.” But the real German people
remember that the Hiitler-Goering arson combina—
tion burned down the Reichstag building and at—
tempted to fasten the blame on innocent workers.
They remember how Dimitrov proved conclusively
that Goering and the stool-pigeon, van der Lubbe,
were the real criminals.

And they now ask themselves if it is not remark—
able that an obviously Jewish-looking boy of seven—
teen was permitted to enter the German Embassy
without any letter of introduction and led into the
room of a higher official on the simple pretence
that he wanted to show this official some documents.

They point out further that the passports of all
German Jews were cancelled on October 15, more
than three weeks before the killing of yon Rath-
Im the circumstances, a Jew with a passport in &
German embassy or consulate would have been sus—
pected by his presence alone.

Nazi Even the victory oyer de-
swe mocracy in Czechoslovakia,
Money-raising. obtained through the whole

hearted aid of Chamberlain, has not allayed the
discontent of the German people against short
commons. Last week Hitler himself admitted this
food shortage when he made the statement that
German has reached the limit of food producticn
and the Germans will have to make the best of it

Money is needed by the Nazis, and it was needed
on November 7. There are rich Jews. How to get
their wealth? The firebugs who concocted the
Reichstag fire to get rid of the Communists are
undoubtedly capable of arranging the “assassina-
tion” of “a blue-eyed, blond-haired Aryan,” terroriz
ing a simple Jewish boy to-do the shooting, working
up a wave of “justifiable indignation,” organizing
a pogrom on a defenseless people and finding thenz
the much-needed four hundred million dollars. f

The suggestion that the shooting of von Rath
was a Nazi plant is believed, in well-informed po-
litical circles in Tondon, to have a sound basis. This
feeling gains strength as we learn that for a week
before the shooting rumors were current in Paris
that “something was going to happen to the Jews.”
The latest move, the attempt of Hjalmar Schacht
at the London conference on “refugees,” to buy off
the world Jewish boycott which is of five years
standing, by allowing greater privileges to refugees,
is evidence that a train was laid of which the shoot—
ing of van Rath was only the detonator. An excuse
was necessary in the face of world opinion, and
just as the alleged persecution of the Sudeten Ger-
mans was used to grab off Czechoslovakia, so the
engineered death of a Nazi secretary was 2 reason
given to the world for robbing the Jews of all their
wealth.

= The Hitler-Chamberlain partner-
A Vicious ship, when examined historically,
Circle. begins long before the Munich
premiere. Munich, like a Hollywood picture, was a

long time in the making.

I was in Germany on election day, November 1932.
The Communists polled a larger vote than any other
party in Berlin and the same tendency showed in
the other leading industrial centres. Hitler-suffered:
an electoral defeat, and seeing the German workers
lining up against him came to an agreement with
Werr von Papen, ex-chancellor and vice-chancellor-
to-be of the Reich.

The agreement was ratified at the eastle of Kurt
von Schroeder, all-powerful banker, of the well
known German-Hungarian family, controller of the
majority of shares in the Stein Bank and the Stol-
berg Actien Geselischaft (a mining eorporation)-.
He was also one of the biggest factors in launching
the attack on democracy in Spain.

As co-administrator with him in these
Unholy two concerns was Mr. Merton, a man
Alliance. having preponderant influence in

Metallgeselischaft, A-G., a company closely linked
with the German chemical trust, I G Farben-
industrie.

Together with another mining company, Metail-
gesellschaft organized the EBuropean Pyrites Com-
pany in order to monopolize the pyrites market as
well as other material necessary for the manufacture
of munitions.

The other mining company was the famous Rio
Tinto Company Ltd., whose management and owners
are tied to Franco’s fascist murder bands in Spain.
One of the directors and administrators of this
traitorous corporation is Sir Joseph Francis, who
is one of the king-pins of British heavy industry,
particularly in the Birmingham Small Arms Com-—
pany (BSA) manufacturers of machine 2uns and
heavy arms, of which the chairman was the other

end of the Hitler-Chamberlain axis—Mr. Weville
Chamberlain.

Wo one, therefore, will be surprised
And Its to learn from the French press that
Product. control of the famous Skoda gun

factories in Czechoslovakia is passing out of the
hands of French capitalists, Schneider-Creuzot, the
French armaments firm having sold their interests
in Skoda to a newly-formed Anglo-German CormM-
pany.

Who are the Anglo-Germans interested in this
business of coining profit out of blood? Wickers—
Imperial Chemical Industries, on the Anglo side;
Krupp—i. G. Farbenindustrie, on the German side.
Imperial Chemical Industries has 50 million dollars
invested in the I. G. Farbenindustrie.

And who are the leading figures in these vampire
industries? Among them are Sir John Simon, Home
Secretary in the British Wational government, and
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who own 11,747 shares

in Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

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