Pare Siz Fen 8 sh Re THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE TLC Urge Vancouver Unionists Again Support Drive To Rehabilitate Vets Delegates to the Trades and Labor Council Tuesday night endorsed their executive’s recommendation that the city coun- cil be asked to grant a tag day to aid returning Canadians who were members of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion in Spain. This came as a result of a motion by Charles Stewart, Street Railwaymen’s delegate, made at the previous meeting of Coun- cil, asking local unions to assist in the campaign of the Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion now engaged in a cam= paign for $10,000 rehabilitation fund. A tag day was asked of the city eouncil on December 12 by Rob- ert Kerr, former political commis- Sioner of the Mac-Paps. At that time the council tabled the application and the Trades CGouncil’s request is expected to carry some weight with the new city council and progressive mayor svhich may result in a tag day being granted Aid. H. D. Wilson pledged his support by letter in having con- tracts placed with firms employing qnion labor, but it was reported Aldermen Bennett and Cornett were opposed to the move. In order to voice the council’s wiews on the matter, President EH. A. Jamieson and Secretary P. R. Bengough will attend the next finance committee meeting. Endorsement was given the Re- lief Project Workers’ Union reso lution for a public works pro- gram since it was in line with the Trades and Labor Congress and Trades GCouncil’s resolution on the question. Revival of the Council’s Union Tabor Committee was placed in eharge of Delegate Edward Smith, and a letter from the Union Labor Gouncil stated the time was Oppor- ¢une for pressing union made goods in view of the boycott move- ment Ganadian Legion’s campaign for an addition to the Shaughnessy Society won approval after Presi- dent Jamieson spoke briefly on the work it is carrying on. Gharles Stewart informed dele gates that a meeting of the or ganizing committee of which he is chairman will be held in Labor Headquarters on January 25. “Drummond Wren, secretary of the Workers’ Educational Associa- tion, outlined to the delegates the work of his association and urged a similar one be organized here as @ prelude to extending the associa- tion further afield. He cited the case of a manufac- turer of clay sewer pipes who had effectively stalled his union em- ployees off with the pretext that foreign made pipes were cutting his prices. The Workers’ Educa- tion Association spiked the boss’s excuse by informing the employees that only one in 2 100 pipes were of foreign make and the tariff of 35 percent against such products prohibited their import. Delegates decided to hold a meeting Friday in Hotel and Res- taurant Employees’ Union Hall, Granville and Dunsmuir, and an- other on Sunday at Labor Head- quarters to discuss the question more thoroughly with Drummond WYren : Broadcasts of this organization were every Wednesday over CBR from 6 to 6:30 pm. and not as pre- viously announced by Trades Coun- cil officials. ; . | wo &. lac-Pap Tag D Machine Workers (CIO). Act and greeted Tom Mooney. | PLEDGE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY | Dr. Harry F. Ward Ceft), who presided at the annual conference of the American League for Peace and Democracy, confers with President James B. Carey, The congress held in Washington recently pledged to uphold the Wagner of the United PElectrical Radio and City Council Proposes Increase In Rent Allowance To Unemployed <> Increase in rent or shelter allowance was recommended by Ald. H. lL. Corey this week at a special meeting of the civic social services committee. families on relief who are obliged to rent homes at higher rental than then relief department allows, forcing them to make up the difference from their food allowances. This condition is made acute by the shortage of low rent houses suitable for habitation. The alderman, who is chairman of the social services committee was not favorable, however, to an increase over the present relief scale. The whole relief scheme is low? This would prove a boon to many NAZI PRESS IN CANADA LINKED — WITH GERMANY — Deutsche Zeitung ‘Glorifies’ Hitler’s Rule of Terror WINNIPEG, Manitoba. Copies of the Deutsche Zeitung, Nazi weekly published here, in addition to information avail— able in other Canadian cities, prove conclusively that its edi-— torial and news policy, as well! as its fimancial support, are directly tied to the Nazi propa— ganda machine in Germany. A feature article in the Winnipe= Tribune charged last week that records in the office of the proviz- cial secretary of Manitoba reveat definite connections between Naz propaganda here and the Nazi re- gime in Germany, adding that the “spearpoint of the Nazi propa- Banda drive not only in Manitoba; but for all Canada, is the Deutsche Zeitung, which has been demand- ing for years that Germans in Cam— ada be given the same minoritz= Tights of language schools, etc.,; as the French Canadians.” The Deutsche Zeitung, a i6-page weekly, is profusely illustrate® with pictures of Hitler, prints twe pages in English and carries rela- tively no advertising, Vicieously anti-Semitic, the Zei- tung “news” items are almost all datelined Germany or Austria. Its Canadian stories are almost exclusively concerned with acii— wities of Nazis in Canada, while its two English pages—an ef fort to influence Canadian-born youths of German parentazge— print pro-Nazi articles from Emns— land or rehash into the Emelish language stories published in German in the other pages. The November i6 issue of the Zei— tung carried a large announcement calling adherents to a “commem— oration” of the Nazi-Munich beer— —_, Hospital received Gouneil’s appro— COURT FREES and inadequate in the face of rising OTT WA HE RS hall putsch of 1923. Sponsor of the sval food prices, and should work be A A meeting, the paper proudly boast— ARMS FOR SPAIN available to these people they are ed, would be none other than Naze An appeal from the Symphony =e ee DONOVAN Typewriters CASH REGISTERS, All Makes ADDING MACHINES Terms if Desired 603 W. PENDEE St. SEY. 9383 =e $FSSSOOSSSSSSSSSOOSSOPOS OOO SOOO PLEO PSP OO OPV PO SO OS COME AND ENJOY THE FUN! at the STRIKEBREAKERS The lengthy series of court trials arising out of the police-provoked riot at Blubber Bay on September 17 came to a close this week in Gounty Court when Magistrate Ray Sargent dismissed all charges brought against strikebrealkers Early in the hearings the magis- trate ordered charges withdrawn in the cases of five scabs, agreeing to accept evidence only in the cases of ten others. Separate hearings were also con- ducted against W. Darling, charged with assault on Peter Bergman, who had entered into a discussion with a eroup of strikebreakers and was clubbed into unconscious— ness. Defense witnesses succeeded in no condition to accept and main- tain the efficiency expected of them. Allowances for Shelter and rent are also admittedly low, but an in- crease of one should be accom- panied with an inerease of the other. The committee studied a compre— hensive report written in conjunc- tion with WY. R. Bone, social serv- fee administrator, that stated the aim of the department should be to provide an allowance suffiicently large enough for a recipient to maintain himself and dependents on a standard which would create no undue hardships, yet small for a recipient to accept it as per- manent pension. Wearly ten percent of the 20,130 people on relief, excluding 3795 in- enough to not be an inducement ; OF NAZI PLANS OTTAWA, Ontario—A sensa- tion has been created in parlia- mentary circles here as govern- ment members and officials of the Department of External Af- fairs received reports from Washington that the Chamber- lain cabinet is prepared to go so far as to permit Hitler to estab- lish air bases in Canada. : Wews from Washington re- vealed that Joseph P. Kennedy, United States ambassador to the Gourt of St. James, recalled re cently from London to report on the Fluropean situation, is said to have made this statement to a Consul Wilhelm Roedde. The November 16 issue, describ- ing the meeting, spoke of Herr Roedde as a man who comes dir ect from the movement of Adolf Hitler and who also fought for the “cause” and that it was due te him that the commemoration meet— ing took place in Winnipeg- Herr Bernhardt Bott, the Zei- tung’s editor, is known to have visited Germany in 1937 where he is understood to have spent some months studying in the Nazi pro- pagenda school. 2 Since then, in addition to editing the paper, Bott has been actively engaged as one of the leaders of the Nazi Deutscher Bund, and has made speaking tours through west ern provinces. The Deutsche Zeitung has knows = sai = digent cases, were considered better | secret meeting of the Senate Mil- 3 : : ; jn convincing the magistrate that See, < s : = ‘ offices in Toronto, Windsor, Kit- ISHERMLET IS) D2 \T VCE the beating had been administered | Off om Telich: secon e so zene Nas ittee in the | chener, London, Hamilton and by another scab and that Darling | P ent records. cape Welland. HASTINGS AUDITORIUM 828 East Hastings Street FRIDAY, JANUARY 27th, 1939 ADMISSION 25c DOUG. RAYMOND’S ORCHESTRA Auspices — Pacific Coast Fishermen’s Union .-. - Salmon Purse Seiners Local 141 REFRESHMENTS had arrived on the scene later. Dismissal of cases came as no surprise to officials of the Inter- national Woodworkers of America, who had laid charges. Continued PEARSON to labor disputes the TWA leader js critical, referring particularly to Mr. Pearson’s handling of the Blubber Bay strike and the dis- pute at the Bloedel mill in June, 1938. “Both these incidents afforded, and still afford, a fine opportunity for the department to follow basic principles of civil liberties and trade union rights.” NEW YORE. Adolf Hitler’s ‘glamor girl friend, Leni Riefen- stahl, film actress, embarked Thursday for Germany and her Wazi friends, considerably huffed over her reception in Hollywood where she was given the cold shoulder by the film colony. Hopes are still held that Hugh Grixton, Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union member, and his son James, missing from their home since De- cember 19, may still be alive in the woods on Galvert Island. In Montreal the Zeitung office is in the heart of the Jewish district, displays prominently in its office window not only copies of the Zeitung but the notorious anti- Semitic Key to the Mystery, all of Adrien Arcand’s “literature” and all Trotskyite literature circuiat- Boycott Japanese Goods! ing in Canada. Lenin — a alah dad 9 an PUR ny Pentre Bia sisickabed? Abe = The final point in the brief pro- tests the regulations barring log- gers from voting on election day and asks for an assurance that ballot boxes will be supplied all camps and mills in the next elec- tion. “The department can count on the BC District Council’s coopera- . tion in ali the above matters,” the brief concludes, Council Officers Elected Memorial — (14th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF LENIN) VARIETY CONCERT | I This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Ciguor Gontrol Board or by the Government of British Columbia. 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