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HASTINGS BAKERY High. 3244 716 East Hastings Street 4068 East Hastings Street 1709 Commercial Drive Quality Products at Moderate Prices We Deliver to East End and Grandview Homes A > «‘Thrifty Housewlves Shop at Hastings Bakery!’ let your PALER a axe x ee FOR: In Brief _ 1Pro- Recs Resume Season Schedule Recreation Centres throughout Wext meeting of the West ae | branch, Housewives’ League, Wi be held in the Community Center, | January | English Bay, on Friday, 27, at 8 pm. West End housewives|)mediately. are prged te attend. “The Gase of Tom Mooney” Will be subject cf Malcolm Bruce's ac- dress at the Victoria Drive Forum 5891 Victoria Drive, Sunday, Jani ary 15 at 8 pm. A Mid-Winter Festival and dane will be held in Hastings Audite- ium Friday, Jan. 20, under sponsa— ship of Scandinayian Central Con- mittee. Arranged on the festinl prepram is the Scandinavian PkI- harmonic Orchestra, organized lst fall by the committee, Norwegan mixed choir, several soloists, nd eontributions from the Swedsh Folkdance Club. The ccmmittee sponsoring the festival was organized some two years ago by the Scandinsian Workers’ Club under leadershs of August Wallin, now in Prince fup- ert, and is composed of fcen Scandinavian organizations :nd ledges. Officers elected at the semi- anual convention of the Wekers’ Alliance District Council on Sun- adsy January 7, at 49 Westhifth avenue were: A. Healy, 12: West Hstth avenue, president; J. iennie, 5108 Gladstone sireet. rarding secretary; J. Lake, 897 We Sev-— enth, financial secretary; C. OD. Swan, 1053 Nicola street, mblicity and grievance; and IT. Silia. 1946 Main street, organizer. The first meeting of theDistrict Gounecil will be heid onsunday, January 15, at 10 am, aii9 West Fifth avenue. Jubilee Children’s Sumpr Camp executive is sponsorinfS whist drive in Maple Hall, Pser ave— rue, Tuesday, January 2at 3 pm. Delegate meeting is sled for O'- Brien hall for Friday, Rbruary 3, and organizations are muested to send representatives (assist in plsnoning spring activit:. Embargo Council sets Mon- day, January i6, int eDaily Prov- ince Auditorium, Hings and Cambie streets, at 8 dD Coordinating Commitee to Aid China meets in St. Anlews Wesley Church, 1012 Welso: street, on Thursday, January 13t 5 pm. Italian Hall, 505E. Georgia street, is now open SuUrday nights for socials and darS sponsored by the Italian Demratic Club. Mothers’ Gouncil’s holding a roducts luncheon 7the Hudson's Bay store, fifth fioc On Saturday, January 21 at i12::pm. Tickets are 25 cents. LATEST S(IET FILM CONNG Highest of al] siet awards, the Order of Lenin jrarely awarded to films and film ©Ple. Of recent years, but threelms have won this high hono; The first two, both already fa?Us in America, were ‘Peter the TSt” and “Lenin In Octover’’—esg of them great historical films the now famous Soviet traditio; The third is “Country Bride Which opens at the Royal theé©, Sunday mid- night, January2. @2nd continues for 3 days onl) : This picture <25S witn the es- tablished traq22 of Soviet his- turical films a Presents, instead a light but Curate picture of modern life jA0dern Russia. A gay story! life and love on a collective fa in the Ukraine, poasting of aUSical score by the Soviet’s Num: One popular com- poser, Isaac unayevskey, “Coun- iy Bride,’ On the Order of Lenin for be the best picture of modern life -2® new order. itis presented h with English dia- 100% UNIONIZED logue titles. BOYCOTPEANESE GOODS i= Seymour 505 STANLEY HOTEL | Props.: Buck and Harry @™ 93/est Cordova St. | 541 EAST HASTINGS ST. SAD! A Valuable Book ola2sazine is SAVED if properly bound WE BIND books = periodicals. Music bound the igtaIen” way. Pictures enlarged and fri 2 --1.50 ARTISTIC BUST OF LENIN, modelled US.S.R._____ : Catalozue of Gramophone Records in Ukrat BUSss42, Swedish. German or Finnish mailed on request. The Art Boo! Shop PHONE HIGH. 3657 | Several of the popular classes in |\the city are held at the Vancouver Sports Club, Gore and Hastings, Templeton School, Danish MHall, First Baptist Church and the Ab- bett House. Schedules for these elasses can be obtained without ebligation from the Recreational Branch, Department of Education, | 604 Hall Building. In addition to conducting regular Genter activities, Director Ian Eis- enhardt’s Vancouver instructors have organized inter-Center bas- ketball and box-soecer competitions After a brief cessation of activities durins the holiday season, Greater Vancouver will resume full schedules beginning next weelk, according to an announce- ment from Pro-Rec headquarters. Gymnastie classes in the Hastings Auditorium will be the ‘first to get under way while other centres, set up for the bene- fit of local “young adults” of all ages, will begin activities im- for this month, and are now plan- {nine a volleyball league as well. All interested Pro-Rees and friends are invited to attend the free performance of Mme. Elfrida Webb's amateur stage plays in the West End “stable studio,” 1340 Burnaby Street at 8 pm Saturday, January 14. Of particular importance to ath- letic-minded men is the announced epening of Vancouver's first non- profit public athletic club at 804 West ts \nder by a group of Pro- Hees, headed by Paul de Buzogany. SCENE FROM SOVIET FILM _ |! Folk dances never before seen on the screen. The Ukrainian col- lective farmers celebrate a record harvest in a scene from “Country Bride,” prize-winning Soviet film which opens at the Royal Theatre midnight, January 22. Centinued World Acclaim Greets Release Of Mooney a process of cajolery, flattery, at-— tentiveness and worse, the crafty Kadwell began to win her over to the treasonable anti-Mooney “‘de- fence’ policy of the trio of mis- leaders. He took her to conventions in the East, to theatres, to parties, on extended motor trips, and con- vinced her that he was a friend of Mooney’s and to acceptance of his policies. And here are some of the re- sults: The agitation against Gov- ernor Young, who had refused a pardon and whom the labor mis- leaders were supporting for re- election, was discontinued; the pamphlets that Mooney wrote were not sent to the voters, and she refused to give out his call to the voters to defeat Young. At the 1930 convention of the International Brotherhood of Team- sters in Cincinnati, which she at- tended as a guest, she did not even ask for a donation for the defence. Qn their way back she saw Clar- ence Darrow who offered to intro— duce her to some wealthy persons in Chicago who believed in the in- nocence of Mooney and would most likely have made substantial dona- tions. She made no effort to see them, and no funds were secured. Im spite of her sabotage and the support given Young by the labor officials, Young was defeated in the primaries, largely through the ef-— forts of Mooney, working alone be- hind bars. When Mooney finally learned of the true situation he discharged her. Her parting treasonable act was to tie up the funds in the bank so that the work of her successor was paralysed for a time; she even removed the stationery from the office. e He reason for the commutation of Mooney’s death sentence to one of life imprisonment is not gen- erally known. At the time when the noose was Gangling at his neck, czarism had been overthrown in Russia and the revolutionary forces, led by the Bol- sheviks. were gathering in mass support and preparing to carry the bourgeois democratic revolution on to the proletarian revolution. The US ambassador to the provisional government at Petrograd was Day- id Francis, a multi-millionaire of St. Louis, Mo. Learning of the danger Mooney was in, and knowing that which many in America did not know at that time, namely, that he was framed because he was an honest, fearless and incorruptible leader and organizer of the workers, the Petrograd workers, led by the Bol- sheviks, came out in a mighty pro- test demonstration in the streets. Marching to the US embassy, they demanded of Francis that he cable President Wilson asking that Mooney’s life be spaerd. They let the quaking Francis know that the j moment they heard Mooney was hanged they would string him up in reprisal. It was thiS more than anything else that impelled Wilson ,to urge Governor Stevens to com- mute the sentence to one of life imprisonment. e Wha attorney, Davis, speaking over the air just be- fore Mooney spoke last Sunday, said that Mooney is a remarkable man, in prison or out of it. This I can endorse. When in 1926, accompanied by Edgar Owens, who had been one of the wictims of the Palmer raids in 1919, I visited Mooney, J. B. Mac- Wamara and Matt Schmitt in San Quentin prison, I was tremendously impressed with his strength of character, his indomitable spirit and fighting heart. His range of information on national and inter- national events was amazing. We naturally discussed his case. While courageously facing facts and with- out illusions, he was supremely confident that mass pressure of the workers assisted by progressive people and all haters of injustice would eventually bring about his release. But time after time during the one hour's conversation he would come back to the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, then under sentence of death. He seemec to feel that in his own case the prospects were good for release and vyindication; at least he had escaped the gallows. But in the case of Sacco and Van- zetti he knew that they were in danger of burning in the electric chair, which was itheir fate thirteen months later. Little did I think as I talked with him that twelve more years in prison lay before him. tC) - INCE his release he has already shown the stuff of which he is made, the stuff that sustained him in the shadow of death, the stuff that made him repeatedly reject parole which to one serving a life sentence in the corporation-ridden State of California would mean liv- ing daily and hourly under the eyes of police, unable to take part in the labor movement, and on a trumped- up charge of parole violation could be thrown back into prison without possibility of pardon. The stuff of which he is made is exemplified by his declaration that his main work during the years he has before him will be the struggle to free Billings, to unite the warring AFL and CIO and to fight for de- mocracy, against fascism and for the working class for which he un- complainingly endured so much. The case of Diooney symbolises the age-old struggle of labor and capital, of the oppressed against their oppressors. 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