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| NOT TOO LATE
“TO SAVE PEACE
SAYS LOH TSE!

Chinese Women and

Children Become Jap
Military Objectives

“It is not too late to bring
peace into the world if the de-
mocracies move as fast as the
aggressors,’ Miss Loh Tsei,

' famous Chinese student lead-

er, told an audience which
packed the Lyric Theater last

- Sunday afternoon.

Two phases of China’s struggle
for freedom outlined by the beau-
ful young Chinese girl now tour

) ing the continent—that of the in-
» Vasion accompanied by its terror-
) ism and destruction and the re
) construction of a new Ching far

' behind the lines of battle.

Speaking with an intensity and
emotion that made listeners feel

that Japanese invaders were en-

s terins Burrard Inlet, the Chinese

) to fight,”

+ “Joan of Arc” declared:

“The Chinese are patient but pa-
tience has a limit so we decided
Said the student leader.
“All differences have been set aside

| and the Chinese people are unit-

_ ing under the leadership of Chiang
- Kai-Shek to drive the Japanese out

. of our country.”

Women ravished dozens of times
and then bayonetted, Chinese sol-

| diers used by the Japanese as liyv-
_ing targets for bayonetté practice

» and others burned alive after being

' of the horrors

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/has become a military
_ to the Japanese,” said Miss Loh.

soaked with gasoline, were some
which Japanese
troops were inflicting on the Chin-
ese people in their efforts to ter-

rorize them into submission_
“But it is having the opposite

effect,” she cried.

“Eyery Chinese mother and child
objective

An embargo on all raw mater-

/iais te Japan and a boycott of that

countries goods was advocated by

| Miss Loh Tsei while she asked that

every assistance be given for the

| international Peace Hospital in
_ charge of Dr. Norman Bethune.

She was preceded to the plat

| form by three Chinese Scouts bear

ing the fiags of Canada, United

| States and China. A group of Ghin-

ese girls sang O Canada followed
by the Chinese national anthem.

Boycott Japanese Goods!

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| POLAND’S ‘FIFTH COLUMNIST’

Foreign Minister Joseph Beck (left) and Count Edward Raczynski,
Polish envoy to Britain, as they conferred with British cabinet officials.
Both are known to have strong pro-Hitler leanings.

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MISSION, BC, April 27—A May
Day cc@nmittee meeting was held
in the Mission CCE Halli with dele—
gates from the Mission CGE Club,
Mission and Matsqui branches of
the Communist Party and the
Haney Section of the CP of GC,
Fishermen’s Union and the Kilgard
Brickworkers’ Union. Jack Little
of the Matsqui branch of the CP
ef C was elected chairman and
Mrs. Johnson of the CCF was elect
ed secretary.

Plans are under way to celebrate
May Day on Monday instead of
Sunday, April 30, as previously an-
nounced and among the names sus-
gested for speakers were William
Bennett of the Gommunist Party,
Harold Winch of the CCE and Wil
liam Stewart for the trade union
movement.

After the meeting a dance will
wind up the day's festivities and
the proceeds will be donated to the
Mac-Pap fund for wounded vet-

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SEATTLE, Wash.—Employers in the canned salmon indus-
try began to unbend this week under the pressure of maritime
union action forcing them to live up to agreements and pay.
union wages under union hours and working conditions. An
@apparent stalemate in negotiations

began to break up with the conclu-
Sive proof that banking interests,
Seeking to attack the New Deal,
were responsible for the adamant
stand of the salmon packers. These
developments occurred as follows:

1. The Alaska Fishermen’s Union
(CIO), key union in the negotia-
tions with the salmon packers, has
negotiated agreements for South-
western, Southeastern and Gook
dmlet areas of Alaska (practically
all of Alaska salmon-fishing
grounds).

2. Cannery workers, represented
by the United Cannery, Agricul-
tural, Packing and Allied Workers
ef America (CIO) began negotiat-
ing an industry-wide agreement
with Puget Sound, Columbia River
and San Francisco salmon packers
April 21. Packers had previously
declared they would negotiate an
industry-wide agreement.

The injunction brought against
the Maritime Federation of the
Pacific against picketing of ships
in Ketchikan, resulted in cessation
of picketing, but proved that the

shipowners’ interests were also
cringing under the lash of banking
interests. The injunction was

brought at the behest—not of the
Salmon packers—but of the ship—
owners.

The phoney union of Harry Lun-
deberg has been completely dis-
eredited and shoved out of the
picture. despite the anxiety of the
Salmon packers to use it as “juris-—
dictional”’ dispute. The Marine
Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and
Wipers Union (ARL) repudiated
the Lundeberg union as have all
honest workers in the maritime

industry.
“The Tundeberg union is as
phoney as a sixdollar bill,” de-

Clared Bruce Bannon, Secretary of
the Maritime Federation. ‘The
packers naturally liked it, but the
workers don’t. Out of 2,500 can-
nery tendermen overwhemingly be-
longing to the Alaska Hishermen’s
Union, Lundebere could not call 40
workers his own.”

Meanwhile, San Francisco sal-
mon packers have signed up with
the unions, and the SS Ghirnikoft
sailed April 23 for Alaska.

Wegotiations with the remaining
unions yet unsigned with the em-
ployers are under way at this time,
and the saimon season is expected
to get under way with but inci-
dental loss from the stalling tac-
tics of the employers. Workers’
solidarity did it.

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‘Hitler In ‘Hot Money’ Racket

lReichsbank Issues
Counterfeit Bills
On London Market

City Hall
ighlights
This Week

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4 ee daylight saving issue is
again jarring the quiet of
City Hall corridors as proponents
and opponents of the scheme
continue to barrage aldermen
with their separate views on the
question, with the likelihood that
the matter may be finally set
tled next Monday when Mayor
Telford arrives back from the

East.

Tuesday saw a sharp battle
over the question in Civic Hin-
ance Committee. A whole num-
ber of spokesmen were in at-
tendance with a number of bus-
iness clubs and organizations, the
Vancouver Stock Exchange, and
of course €. BH. Thompson of
Vancouver Motors, in favor, with
Trades Council delegates, thea-—
ter Owners and other groups op-
posed.

“The whole thing was started
by a car sales agency as a means
of selling their cars,” charged
Birt Showler of the Teamsters
Joint Council, referring to Van-
couver Motors. He said rail-
roads would continue on stan-
dard time and teamsters and rail-
waymen would have to abide by
the schedule.

Supporters want a plebiscite
on the matter, to be submitted
at the coming by-election on May
10. Opponents claim the matter
was disposed of in 1932 when
woters rejected daylight saving
by over a two to one majority.

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fae lineup for the May 10 civic

by-election was complete this
week as the CCF nominating con-
vention chose ex-Ald. Alfred
Hurry as its standard bearer in
the contest. Hurry was over-
whelmingly first choice among
Six nominees. Four other can-—
didates are definitely in the run-
ning—ex-Mayor George C. Miller,
Louis Rubinowitz, Alex Fordyce
and Peter McAllister.

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WO more organizations, the

Progressive Women's Feder-
ation and the Women’s New Era
League, have joined forces with
Ald. Helena Gutteridge in her
fight for the launching of a low-
rental housing program in letters
to City Council. Both urged
Council to take advantage of the
$1,325,000 in federal fnuds avail-
able for such a purpose.

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PARIS, France.—Adolf Hitler, world’s Public Enemy No. 1,
and his Nazi gangster “mob,” turned to a new field of criminal
activity last week by using the German Reichsbank to push
counterfeit banknotes on the London and Paris money markets.
Warning of this sensational development came from French
Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, who warned British and French
bankers of the phoney money racket in a circular letter.

“Germans are passing German
banknotes of a spécial type,” Rey-
maud’s letter stated in part. ‘All
these banknotes have three indel-
ible marks on each side, thank to
which the German banks them-
selves refuse them, since the signs
prove that they have been frau-

dently introduced back into Ger-
many.
“It appears from information

available that a large number of
these banknotes, in new packages,
are being sold on the English mar-
ket by the Reichsbank itself in or-
der to obtain foreign exchange.”

Reynaud’s revelation brought
further indication of the desper-
ate position of German finance and
economy and new proof of the
type of ethics prevailing among the
Nazi rulers.

The news came as a shock also
to Paris and london financial cir-
eles, and is expected to have con-
siderable effect in big business cir-
cles which had previously support-
ed the Nazi policies, with the pro-
bability fhat many would react vio-
lently against Hitler and his goy-
ernment apparatus which spon-
sors the circulation of “hot money.”

VICTORIA, April 27—May Day
will be celebrated here by a meet-
ing in the Chamber of Commerce
at 8 pm. The May Day commit
tee is composed of the CCF, GCom-
munist Party, Inland Boatmen’s
Union, International Woodwork-
ers of America and the Mothers’
Council.

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Will Ask Govw’t To
Issue Direct Aid
Pendins Work Plan

(Charges made in a News-
Herald story that single jobless
men who have just returned
from camps were planning
demonstrations on city streets
during the royal visit were em-
phatically denied by the Relief
Froject Workers’ Union dele-
gate to the Federation on Un-
employment Council meeting
Monday night in O’Brien Hall.

Seriousness of the _ situation,
however, was brought forcibly to
the attention of the meeting when
the delegate’ quoted government
statistics showing employment was
below last year’s figures while relief
rolls had shown a marked increase.

Government authorities will be
asked to continue direct relief for
Single men pending the inaugura-
tion of a works plan.

A committee of eight represent-
ative citizens had drafted a plan
for the civic cooperative scheme of
taking unemployed off the relief
rolis and will be presented to the
City Council on Mayor Telford’s
return. Action on the scheme was
deferred when presented to the
full committee of 20 some two
weeks ago.

Sub-committees have been set up
to look for factories or sites and
warehouses with a view to having
the unemployed establish self-help
groups on a voluntary basis where-
by they can trade the results of
their labor for goods they cannot
buy.

Aid for married relief recipients
is being sought to augment their
present relief income. Burnaby
Civic Improvement -Asscciation’s
delegate asked the meeting to ar-
range for free seed potatoes and
vegetable seed for the unemployed.

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