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THE PEOPLE’S

ADVOCATE

January 13, 1939

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A Lead Fer Canada

= greatest American President in history
took on added stature with that splendid
speech to the opening of the United States
Congress and Senate last week.

Bold and inspiring, concrete to the core, it
was a real chart for the nation, an indication
that our democratic neighbor to the south is
aware of realities, prepared to cope with them,
eager to broaden that democracy which is the
guarantee of further progress in domestie and
international affairs.

Particularly significant was Roosevelt's
stress on the need of “making democracy
work” by increasing the standard of living.

There must have been many a Wall Street
tycoon shedding tears into his brandy glass
as the President enunciated the principle that
social security is the guarantee of national
security.

Vitally important, too, was the definite
break with the traditional isolation policy, the
recognition by the President that United
States would be forced to take a leading part
in defending democracy against fascist aggres-
sion, that this in turn meant abandoning a
passive position of resistance to one of positive
opposition to fascist attacks, and inferentially,
aid to Spain and China.

As Canadians listened to that great speech,
there must have been thousands who hoped
his ideas would find an expression in the
program of our own government which was
handed down at the opening of Parliament on
Thursday.

They may have found support in this hope
by the report that members of the Dominion
cabinet “listened with lively interest” to
Roosevelts message.

But although the King government showed
signs of stepping ahead with its announced
intention of initiating a broad public works
program, the speech from the throne was a
very pale and emaciated thing in comparison
to the New Deal policy.

Reasons for the difference are numerous,
of course. Canada is still tied, though some-
what loosely, to the Chamberlain policy, for
one thing. -

The basic reason, however, was indicated
by Roosevelt himself when he spoke of the
need for strengthening the US labor move-
ment, of extending union influence into all
branches of industry. The American Presi-
dent is well aware that his most powerful and
reliable support comes from the labor move-
ment, from the virile forces engendered by
the growth of the ClO.

Similarly in Canada, the weakness of the
Liberal government's policy is the weakness
of organized labor and the progressive move-
ment.

We need social reform, sweeping national
recovery measures. We need jobs and re-
covery, greater democracy, a positive foreign
policy that will break with Chamberlain,
stand up boldly against aggression.

But we won’t get these things until we go
after them in a practical, realistic fashion.
Roosevelt’s speech would therefore be a fruit-
ful source of study for Premier King, the gov-
ernment, and our progressive people.

Thanks For Leaving!

ICHARD BEDFORD BENNETT rode

magnificently into Vancouver last Sun-

day and departed three days later after an
almost hysterical farewell ceremony.

Some two thousand people with money to
throw away on Hotel Vancouver luncheons
packed in to shake hands with the ex-premier.
Every attempt was made to fool the public
into thinking this crowd of big shots in the
main constituted a cross-section of civic life.
Certainly the daily papers strove manfully to
create that impression.

Then the great man spoke. Sonorous
phrases about our great Canadian democracy,
on the need for “sacrifices” to maintain that
freedom. The “joker,” of course, was his ad-
vice on how democracy could be maintained
—preserve the “integrity” of the banks, re-
move the “burden” of taxation from the St.
James Street crowd of traitors.

No wonder the city’s economic royalists
shed a furtive tear, crowded forward to shake
Mr. Bennett's hand.

Those same policies put forward by the ex-
premier as his solution to economic and po-
litical burdens actually formed the keynote
of his program while in office and made it pos-
sible for Canada’s biggest industrialists to
actually increase their profits while millions
of Canadians were suffering from indescrib-
able hunger and want during the height of the
depression.

Stripped of all the ballyhoo and phoney
sentiment, the reception for Bennett was
merely a shrewd build-up for the particular
type of Tory reaction which the “Tron Heel”
ex-premier represents.

Certainly there was no justification for de-
scribing him as a statesman.

No, the real Canadians are not fond of Mr.
Bennett. On the contrary, they regard him
with nothing but contempt, and are perhaps
pleased at his departure for England, though
feeling somewhat sorry for the poor Eneglish-
men.

Mussolini’s ‘Success’ In Spain

By HARRY GANNES

INT 22ers press, which had been officially tipped off

to blazon an early Italian fascist victory in Spain, has
suddenly dampened its boasting.

Ever since the Ebro and Segre offensive began, and up to
a few days ago, Italian newspapers had admitted the offensive
was being conducted by Italian forces. Every fascist gain re-
ported was extolled as having been made by Italian divisions,
with the aid of Italian tanks supported by Italian aviation.

Why the precipitate slump in Italian fascist victory-bellow-
ing? Reason No. 1 is the fact that the much-advertised of-
fensive has proven a costly disappointment to its Rome-Berlin

organizers.

With this “push’’ replete with
dangers for the aggressors, Mus-
solini does not want to be caught
trying to explain another possible
Guadalajara — where the ftalian
troops in Spain received a crush-
ing defeat. Even Hranco head-
“quarters have admitted stiff
loyalist resistance and strong
counter-offensive-

EREHAPS one of the best com-

mentaries on the complete
upset in the time table of the fas-
Gist offensive and on the power
of loyalist resistance can be seen
in two revealing maps published
in the New York Times recently.

Using fascist data alone, the
Wew York Limes published a map
containing all of the fascist
boasts. The lines of the pictured
fescist -gains reached miles east
Gf Lerida and were cut deep be-
yond Borjas Blancas. Lo and be-
hold! Four days later the New
“Work organ of “all the news
that’s fit to print” published an-
other map Showing that the fas-
eists were still before Lerida, had

Wwe Love

By A. WALLIN

CLUMSY but consistent cam-

paign is being conducted re-
sularly in the Prince Rupert
Daily News, supposedly liberal
newspaper of this city, which, in
attempted to appear objective in
its criticism, always drags out
communism as being synonymous
with fascism, while fascism gets
41] the blame.

A lengthy editorial in the Jan-
uary 3 issue brings out the fol-
lowin= points:

“The fascist movement in Great
Britain did not get very far and
the Communist movement has
also languished. In this country
Communism is found to exist
chiefly among those who came
to Canada from Central EBurope
or among the most ignorant and
unfortunate of our citizens. It is
kept going largely by means of
tnsidious underground propa-
ganda ... key men at all import-
ant points in this country, who
will try to keep it alive, try to
make it respectable and await a
time when the country is under
stress of war or finance and then
become suddenly active with a
view to fomenting rebellion
against the powers of the day.”

The editorial goes further in-
to explaining how the Commun-—
ists utilize highly colored ac-
counts about the well being of
the Russian people under social-
ism and how they have even suc-
ceeded in deceiving sensible so-
Gialists into believing these stories.
Were is another paragraph from
the same editorial:

“The danger with most of these
movements, as also with the fas-
cists, is that there is so much
‘Hat is admirable about them that

Comments From Our

OFFER ANSWERS
EDITORIAL
Editor, People’s Advocate:

In your issue of December 25
you have an editorial criticizing
my action in the Trades and
Labor Council for offering a sub-
stitute motion against the motion
of censure on Mr. Jamieson’s ac-
tions on the WNon-Partisan plat-
form.

——

You quote my substitute mo-
tion correctly—“we recognize the
right of every person to express
their political opinions, providing
=¢ did not involve this Council.”

This in no way defended or at
iacked Mr. Jamieson, but it did
concede him the right of free-

Gom of speech and assembly, a
right which organized labor has
always fought for, and, if we do
not agree with the other person's
views, we tToust, if we are to be
consistent, concede him the same
rights and privileges we demand
for ourselves.

As a delegate I expressed in
that motion what I thought was
the general opinion of the men
whom I represented, the Civic
Employees’ Union, Local 28. How-
ever, after reading your editor-
ial, I decided to find eut defin-
itely whether I had represented
them correctly or not, as none
of us are infallible.

At the wunion’s last meeting,
January 6, which same happened
to be for the annual election of
officers and was well represent-

many miles to go to Borjas
Blancas, and had not taken
scores of villages that the Times’
map had already credited to
them.

©f course, the Times based its
first map, and to a large extent
the second, on data provided by
William FP. (Prevaricator) Carney,
its ecortespondent on the fascist
side. Incidentally, Carney ‘lolled
around San Sebastian, resort
town some 20G miles away from
the scene of the fighting.

USSOLINI, moreover, piped
down because he could not
present his vaunted “victories” in
Spain to argue Franco’s over
whelming domination. And the
Ghicaso Daily News Rome cor
respondent, Richard Movwrer,
sives two more probable reasons
for the Italian press’ sotto voce
when it comes to boasting about
Ttalian advances.

“The first,’ he wrote, “seems to
be to spare the feelings of Gen-
eral Franco and of the Spaniards
in Rebel Spain. of whom a con-

siderable number are Krown to
resent the presence of (Italian
forces. The second would ap-
pear to be motivated by the ap-
proach of British Prime Minister
GChamberlain’s yisit to Rome.”

Democratic Spain’s formidable
resistance to vastly superior mnili—
tary forees not only turned off
Mussolini's bragging but it also
has the blackshirted dictator wor-
ried about how far Chamberlain
can go in view of the war situa-—
tion.

Confirming the latter point, Mr.
Mowrer wrote:

“loyalist resistance in Cata-
lonia will therefore have an im-
portant bearing on the January
ecnversations.’’ >

Ss

EFRADINING from boasting
about non-existent victories
when the Italian army is actually
the main force in Franco’s offen-
sive is a costly concession for
Mussolini. He had hoped , by
face-saving gains, to smother ris-
ing popular Italian disgust over
the employment of Italian sol-
diers against the Spanish people.
Ghamberlain, too, we learn
from Tondon sources, is greatly
disturbed. because he was count—
jing on making his gamble against
Loyalist Spain at the Rome con-
ference.

Chamberlain's home front—the
popular uwpheaval against his pol-
jcy—is just as precarious as Mus-
solini’s battle lines on the Ebro
and Segre.

However, in the same manner
as Franco's desperate position be-
pind the lines drove him to his
most violent offensive,» Chamber—
jain’s fear. of repudiation of his
Munich policy by the people of
england tempts him to try his
greatest treachery.

Democracy, But...

Fz ot ss IIIS)

The Prince Rupert Daily
Wews goes on the rampage,
slaps fascism very gently on
the wrist but takes an under-
hand, hefty crack at the foun-

dations of freedom and de-

mocracy.

people are apt to be misled... .-

“Fascism also has much te
commend it, xor one can get
things done much better than
a committee, a parliament or
a soviet. The chief objection to
fascism is that under it there
can be no liberty, something
which British people value
above everything and for which
millions have fought and died.”

We admit that no genius manu-
factured this stew, but we must
see that the intentions are there.
The paper’s sympathies with fas-
cism are obvious and on the news
pages almost every day one can
see headlines about Franco's “vic-
tories” in Spain. There is a
common opinion here that the
Wews has no influence among the
people, but it is dangerous to
underestimate any propaganda,
no matter how clumsy it may be.

Since Communism stands on
the solid rock of science, there is
no hope of arguing it off its
foundations. Other methods have
to be tried and invariably the
“methods” are the weapons of
demagogy and falsification.

In the January 4 issue of the
same paper focal readers found
a string of lamentations about
the “purges being conducted in
countries under a dictatorship.”

ed, over 400 votes being regis-
tered, the above matter was dis-—
cussed fully and I demanded

either a vote of condemnation or
endorsation of my action.

As my union nas always sup-
perted the right of
and assembly, they wholeheart-
supported my action, and
furthermore, have returned me to
the Trades and Labor Council to
represent them for another year-
This, I think should be

free speech

edly

a con-

S—aibraibs alba aizalbcaisc abs alba eaib- ais
brdib=db~4 bei 410 it te

Nazi Lullab

Rockabye my babe and slumber,

Wot a Jew trom Alp to Humber,

Rabbi, Socialist or priest;

Wot a book from west to east,

Wot a scientist or scholar,

Wot a hamburg below a dollar.

Safe from democratic dangers,

Rest and grow to fight with
strangers.

Sieep and rest each litle fist,

Then awake and tug and twist;

Sturdy lez and arm and shoulder

Crawl to strengthen back and
chest,

Strong of body, strong of limb,

You will grow to fight for Him,

Perfect body, white and red—

But oh, that useless little head.

Arthur M. Saxe in

Wew Masses.
pei dsbe beta bases Rin Rin ed

This editorial, it was found, was
not so much interested in pre-
serving democracy as in taking
another slam at the Soviet Union.

“More than a million have been
executed, not counting the mil-
lions who were deliberately
starved to death during the fa-
mine, and their only crime was
disagreeing with the present gov-
ernment,” the editorial stated.

Perhaps it was just pure ig-
norance on the part of the in-
dignant editor, but more likely
it was only the voice of a faith-
ful servant of capitalism at
tempting to “out-Hearst”-
Wearst, for readers have never
noticed any indignation toward
the purges and atrocities com-
mitted against German Jews,
liberals and laber people by the
“Nazi regime.

By this time we are getting
used to distortions of Commun-—
ism. We are being pointed out
as monsters whose main aim it
is to intorduce a dictatorship with
ploodshed and without any econo-
mie plans for the future.

To point out that communist
jdeas are sane and that what
the Communists propose is the
elevation of the country to a point
where all natural resources Will
be utilized for the benefit of the
people would indeed be danger—
Gus. Therefore we can see in the
ranting of the Daily News a wish
to suppress the entire voice of

labor. The highly praised demo-
eracy, which the paper appears
tc be sponsoring, is actually

feared and despised.

The only answer is to raise the
voice of labor until it is louder
than the ferocious voice of re-
action.

Readers

elusive answer to your scurrilous,
deplorable editorial.

In conclusion might If point out
that as long as I am a delegate
to the Trades and Labor Coun-
eil, it being composed as it is of
persons of all political shades, f
shall endeavor to represent the
union which sends me and to
whom I am answerable for my
actions, and will refuse whilst
there to cater to any political
eroup irrespective of their eolor.

Trusting you will give this as
much publicity as you did your
editorial,

—Wiilliam R. Offer.
Editer’s Note:

Mr. Offer in his communication
misunderstands the issue. It is
not a question of abstract free-
dom of speech for labor officials.
Trrespective of the right or wrong
of it, no one had questioned the
right of the Non-Partisan group
to hold a meeting. And no one
questioned the “right” of a labor
cficial, in this case Jamieson.
President of the Vancouver
Trades and Labor Couneil, to pre-
side over, speak at or otherwise
lend his support to the meeting
of the rabid, pro-fascist, union-
smashing gang which staged it.
What was questioned is whether
an official of the trade union
movement should exercise the

right of free speech to assist such
a gang or should he have exer—
cised that right to denounce the
whole anti-labor outfit instead of
supporting them.

SHORT JABS

A
Weekly

Commentary

By Ol Bill

When the last acknowledgment was
made in this columm fer the Training
School of the Sth Route Army, the

Chinese

School

- sum collected had reached $52.75. At that time some

Chinese comrades took the list to collect what they
could among their friends.

While this was being done, Canton fell into the
hands of the Japanese invaders and communications
between Vancouver and Sian, the capital of the
Communist armies, was broken. This held up the
forwarding of our column’s contribution. A new
way of reaching Sian has now been opened and the
money has now gone to where it was intended.

During the interval a few more dollars have
dribbled in from the following friends of the Chinese
people: We Three, $1.50; Anonymous, Wictoria, $2.00;
Frank KEelland, $1.00; Jack MeKenzie, $1.00; A
Fisherman, per George Miller, $1.00. This brings
our total up to $59-25, just seventy-five cents short
of our objective. ’

This, however, is compensated by the sum raised
by our Chinese comrades, $19.75, bringing the total
up to $79.00. Converted into Chinese dollars at the
eurrent rate of exchange it means 400 Chinese dol-
lars for training guerilla tacticians to lead the fight
against Japanese fascist aggression.

Wow that Chiang Kai-shek has announced his
willinemess to adopt the tactics advocated by the
Communists and apply them particularly in the
Wanetse Valley operations, our modest contribution
will help considerably towards driving the fascist
brigands out of China.

‘Ri > mrench writers have a flare for
IS Pas trOP juesline with the names of
people they like and people they don’t like. Those
whom they don’t like have been the subject of this
propensity lately. Pressmen throughout the demo-
cratic world have quoted with admiration the little
twist of Chamberlain’s name that converted it into
“J’aime Berlin” (1 love Berlin).

Now another ‘“‘statesman” who aims at destroying
democratic France has had his moniker bent into
shape by Paris journalists, so that it describes him
toa “T.” The scoundrel, Ribbentrop, during his re-
cent visit to Paris, when he had to be smuggled
into the city by Daladier stooges, impressed the
newshawks so deeply that they christened him “Ris
pas trop’’ (pronounced ripatro), which means “don't
laugh much.”

Ribbentrop has a daughter, Bettina von Ribben-
trop. In 1936 she was injured in an automopile acci-
dent in Osterode in the Hartz Mountains. She suk
fered a double fracture of the skull which affected
her brain. Wazi specialists treated her and pro-
nounced her fully recovered. But she went off her
head again.

The surgeons of Nazi Germany are poor craftsmen
in comparison with the great surgeons and teachers
of anatomy, physiology and psychology of pre-Nazi
Germany and Austria, most of whom have been ~
exiled or driven into their graves in the purges of
intellectuals, Socialists, Communists and Jews, since
the outstanding men in the profession belonged to
these groups. The professors who made the Vienna
medical schools world-famous have been cleaned out
in the past year, a fact discovered by an American
doctor who visited Vienna last summer to bring
himself up to date in his work. On his return he
wrote that he had wasted his time as there is noth-
ing to be learned now in Vienna, and regretfully
deplored the disappearance of all his old teachers.

Nazi

But Ribbentrop’s daughter had to
= have the attention of the greatest
Gratitude specialists, and as the Hitlerites

eould do nothing for her, she was sent to Amster-
dam and placed in the care of Dr. Oljenick, who,
the Nazi surgeons assured von Ribbentrop, was one
of the top-ranking brain specialists in the world.
But Dr. Oljenick is a Jew, so Bettina von Ribben-
trop had to be disguised as Fraulein Henkel, Henkel
being her mother’s name. She is now cured—and by
a hated Jew.

In return for which, at the funeral of the Nazi
legation secretary, von Rath, who bit the dust in
Paris a couple of months ago “Ris-pas-trop”
screamed with envenomed rage, “Ties and calumny,
persecution and terror, are the weapons of interna-
tional Jewry.”

Quite in line with the miasmic ravings of the love-
thief, Goebbels, an Aryan who sports two Jewish
names, Joseph and Paul, while all other Aryans are
prohibited from have one- Says Goebbels, “A Jew
is for me an object of disgust. I vomit when I see
one.” Or like their maniacal Fuehrer, Hitler, who
calls the Jew the world’s greatest misfortune and
“a wrecker of culture.” Who SHOULD vomit?

6 >. “Canada’s part in the shipping of
Innocence airplanes which started for Tur-
key but landed in Spain was an innocent one, gov-
ernment officials said.’ So says the Ganadian press
of the part played by Canadian financiers and manu-—
facturers in shipping American planes to Franco.

The agents in the illegal shipping of planes to aid
the fascist brigands in Spain, Canadian Car and
Foundry Company, is the same innocent corporation
which stopped the shipment of 4000 boxcars to
Wiladivostok in 1917, because a workers’ government
had been placed in power there. These cars lay in
the railway yards here for seven or eight years until
they were finally sold for scrap.

Their willingness to ship planes to pirates and
bandits attempting to overthrow a constitutional
government and their unwillingness to ship boxcars
¢o another government fighting against the same
isind of bandits, is a measure of their “innocence.”

Wor can the Ganadian government be considered
innocent in this piratical venture. The sale of these
planes only became an item of public information
through the demands of the Roosevelt government
on our Department of National Revenue. Had the
US government not pressed the question we shouid
never have learned anything of it.

The Dominion government acted without loss of
time in clamping down on the sale of war material
to the Spanish government, to which they
are entitled in international law. But since the
strings are being pulled largely by the bankers and
financiers, of whom the Canadian Car and Foundry
Company is part, it is easy to understand what
interpretation they place on ‘neutrality.”

Wor do we forget that already this same 2ang of
finance barons donated ten million dollars to *Hran-—
co’s war chest, part of which probably went to pay
for these planes sole to Franco by the Canadian Car
and Foundry Company.

We must demand a thorough investigation and
exposure of this whole retten deal and the punish-
ment of every lawbreaker connected with it.

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