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FOR PEACE, PROGRESS AND DEMOCRACY

FULL No. 224.

VANCOUVER, B.C.,

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939

| EMBARGO |

noted democrat,

| A. BL Stephen,
' recently elected to head the BC

section of the newly-organized
Pacific Northwest Embargo Com-
mittee.

/COOPERATE FOR
JAPAN EMBARGO

Conference Urges
Extension Credits
» To Chinese People
| Another link in the chain of

international cooperation be-
S tween Canada and the United

)ageressors was forged Satur-
day when 170 delegates from
| Washington, Oregon and Bri-
)tish Columbia gathered in
| OOF Hall in Vancouver and
established an international
) Pacific
|. mittee.
| E§. W. Priestley of Seattle, Irvin
) Goodman, labor attorney of Port-
viand and A. M. Stephen, head of
sthe Vancouver China Aid Council,
"were elected as secretaries, charged
-with the task of organizing em-
)bargo and boycott councils in their
» respective districts.

Represented at the conference
4 when it was called to order were
243 organizations, whose member-
ship was well in excess of 288,000.
“Membership of organizations sup-
porting the conference numbered
over 450,000.

Alderman Helena Gutteridge wel-
comed the delegates and urged
)them to strike at the roots of war,
swhich was the desire for more ter-

ritory and profits for munition
‘makers.
Greetings from numerous or-

ganizations unable to send dele-
gates but in full accord with the
aims of the conference were read
-out.

Steps will be taken to coordin-
ate the activities of all boycott
committees operating throughout
Ganada with a view to establish-
ing a national boycett council
which will be ultimately linked
up internationally, delegates de-
cided.
| Wationalization of war industries
“was urged in a resolution as a
‘method of limiting war by taking
ithe profit incentive out of muni-
tiens manufacture.

The Canadian and United States
governments were urged in a night
ietter to place an embargo on all
goods to aggressor countries and
impose a super-tax on imports from
these countries.

Cancellation of credits to any of
the aggressor nations was asked in
another resolution, while credits be
established with China to allow
that country to purchase wheat and
other foodstuffs.

Personalities at the conference
were Howard Costigan, executive
Secretary of the Washington Com-
monwealth Federation; Bertel J.
McCarty, secretary of the Interna-
Zional Woodworkers of America;
Washington State Senator Atkinson
and many others from the min-
isterial and legal professions on
both sides of the line.

Delefates were entertained at
luncheon on Sunday at the KW
Oriental Gardens by the ladies of
the Chinese community, while in
the morning a special service was
held at Central Presbyterian
Ghureh. Rev. W. A. Gameron’s mes-
Sage was alone the lines of the
delesates’ discussions.

’ States for an embargo against}

Worthwest Embargo Com-/|

Mayor Telford To

At May Day Celebrations

Expect Thousands
To Participate In
Stop Hitler March

Am estimated ten to fifteen thousand Vancouver people are
expected to throng the streets Monday for the annual celebration
of May Day, headlined this year by participation of the city’s
own Mayor Lyle Telford who will be the main SPELESE at the

Stanley Park mass meeting.
Mayor Telford’s acceptance

of an invitation to participate

was received Wednesday by the May Day committee.
Presence of additional thousands of labor people in this year’s

TLC OFFICIAL
GREETS MAY DAY

“Make Vancouver
100 Percent Union”

“There’s every reason to be-
lieve that this May Day will
mark the beginning of a drive
te make Yancouver a i100 per-
cent union city,” declares Charles
Stewart, organizing committee
chairman of the Trades and
Labor Council, in Ris annual
May 1 message to organized
labor.

“Fets pledge ourselves this
May Day to make the Trades
Council organizing campaign 2
suecess and in the shortest
period of time recruit 20,000 new
members.

“In this way we will meet next
May Day with the assurance
that our trade union movement
has definitely checked the for-
ward march of reaction in B.C.”

© parade

is based on knowledge of
the growing seriousness of the in-
ternational as well as Canadian
Situation, May Day Secretary S.
Zlotnick declared Thursday.

Tabor’s marching thousands will
take the streets under the shadow
of looming world war, with the
memory of Spain and Czechoslo-
vakia’s betrayal, with the knowl
edge that reaction is consolidating
at home.

Labor’s answer is incorporated in
the main slogan of May Day for
19398—‘‘Stop Hitler and Save Peace.”

2

|| FASCIST CONSULATE PICKETED |

This slogan, whose theme will run
throughout the entire celebration,

May Day committee at the head of
the parade.

ied by the committee and fol-
lowed immediately by the Mu-
sicians’ Union band, the parade is
scheduled to leave Cambie Street
Grounds at 12:45 pm. pausing
briefly enroute down Cambie Street

(Continued on page 6)

See MAY DAY

Anti-Union Stooges Are
Defeated In Trail V ote

TRAIL, BC, April 27—S. G. Blaylock’s fight to maintain
control over his Worlkmen’s Cooperative Committee suffered a
sharp setback today as Trail workers defeated all anti-union
eandidates to the committee in the semi-annual smelter plant

elections.

Election of one more committee,to a head in recent months by the

member remained in doubt late
Thursday.

The VWorkmen’s Cooperative Com-
mittee is a2 company-sponsored set—
up functioning as a company union
and “fathered” in its early stages
by Blaylock, president and general
manager of the Consolidated Min-
ing and Smelting Company.

The existing setup has been the
subject of much dissatisfaction for
a considerable period of time, a dis—
satisfaction which has been brought

current unionizing drive of the In-
ternational Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers.

The company mnaagement had
attempted to make an issue of the
union versus the Workmen’s Com-
mittee in todays elections by hay-
ing its stooges run for office on
an anti-union platform. Their re—
jection by the workers was an in-
dication of the union’s growing pop-
ularity and strength.

Competition

Keen As

Drive Hits $1000 Mark

By WM. RAVENGCER
Competition between Vancouver press drive committees
reached a new high this week as the campaign for the People’s
Advocate and Clarion Weekly rounded out the third week and
climbed past the $1000 mark, including 447 new subscriptions.

South Vancouver, with nearly 51@province with 53.2 percent of its

percent of its pledge raised, nosed
into the lead over Hastings East
with 50.0 percent. Rivalry between

| Vancouver Genter and Grandview

continued unabated as the former
committee gained a slight lead to
attain 49.7 percent against Grand-
view’s 49.2.

Transportation committee reach-—
ed 124 percent with 39 subscrip-—
tions sold: needle trades attained
its full 100 percent to assist Van-
ecouver Center gain the lead while
W. Ghurch of West Find has raised
$25.50 as part of his personal
pledge.

The RPWU continues in the lead
throughout the province for the
highest amount of its pledge raised.
This week they added $20.05 from
Project No. 4 and $10 from Oyster
River camp to attain 131 percent.

Cumberland ranks second in the

$74 pledge raised and leads WNa-
naimo b ynearly 23 percent. Wa-
naimo has 30.5 while Alberni at
tained 26 percent.

Langley has far outdistanced all
other committees in the Fraser
Valley. It has 16 subscriptions and
41.3 percent to its credit. Other
committee results are: Mission 22.4;
Matsqui 16; Surrey 12.7; Haney 11;
Wew Westminster 10; South Burn-
ably has contributed $1.

Salmon Arm, assisted by its
committee at Blind Bay, has
reached 21.4 percent, is away out
in front of all other Okanagan Val-

ley points.

A vital factor in the press drive
is the amount obtained by the na-

tional groups with their large
pladge of $600. They have raised
nearly $104 or 17.3 percent. In this

will be inscribed on a giant banner.
to be borne by members of the}

Albanian residents of New York carry flags and signs denouncing
Mussolini as they parade before the Italian consulate at Rockefeller
Center in New York City.

CCF VICTORY
APPEARS SURE

Election of Mrs. Laura EH. Jamie-
Son, CCE candidate for Vancouver
Center on May 1, appeared a cer-
tainty this week as the contest for
the vacancy caused by the death
of Wred Crone, MA, winds up Fri-
day night with a rally in the Moose
Hail at 8 p.m.

The final appeal to the electorate
will be broadcast over CKMO from
the Moose Hall. Supporting speak-—
ers at the rally will be H. E.
Winch, Mrs. D. G. Steeves, and
Colin Cameron, MdLA’s. Arnold
Webster and E. F. Robinson will
also speak in support of the can-
didate.

Meetings and radio broadcasts all
week have kept Mrs. Jamieson on
the go, but she found a measure of
satisfaction in the interest shown

by her audiences and pledges of
support.
Qn the government side H. L.

Corey has not stirred any further
hopes in the breasts of the voters
for a “work and wages” program,

even the big guns of the Liberal
machine have not indicated any-
thing new to ease the burden on
the people or put the people to
work.

He has rested his record as a
member of the City Council and
of the social service committee
which decides on relief cases with
the electorate.

HH. D. Wilson, Conservative can-
didate, is not likely to cut any ice
because of his party affiliations.
The Conservatives have not made
any gains on the election field since
the Bennett regime was discredited
in 1935 and turned out of office.

Paper Workers Get
New Agreements

Agreements were renewed Mon-
day with the Powell River Paper
Company and Pacifie Malls Limited
by representatives of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Papermakers
and the Pulp and Sulphite Workers’
Union.

The agreement, which is effective
for one year, is said to contain only
a few minor changes from the ex-
isting contract, which expires April
30.

Wegotiations entered into 18
months ago established a basic
wage rate in the plants of 54 cents
per hour.

Wo announcement was made by
the officers as to the terms of the
agreement but it is believed no
change was made in the hourly
wage scale.

Scrap Iron
Shipment

Is Blocked

Prince Rupert
Scene of Action
Against Japan

Special to the Advocate

PRINCE RUPERT, BC, April
27—Scrap irom consigned to the
Active Trading Company and
Mailor S. Avery of Vancouver for
re-shipment to Japan has been
held up in this port since Fri-
day as a result of criticism lev-
elled at A. Campagnola, one of
the local shippers.

Campagnola is reported to have
abandoned further shipments on
failing to receive assurances from
the companies involved as to the
final destination of the consign-
ment.

The consignment consists of 12
tons and was to have been taken
te Vancouver by the SS WNorth-
Olm of the Waterhouse Line but
the coastal vessel was obliged to
Sail without the cargo.

The local Ghinese organization
through its trustees contacted all
local business people and the
trade union movement appeal-
ing for support in halting the
shipment of scrap iron from this
port to Japan where it would-
be made into shrapnel for the
bombing of Chinese cities.

There is a movement develop-
ing to keep a close vigilance on
all cargoes awaiting shipment
with a view to halting the traffic
in serap iron.

An excerpt from one of the
letters to the local papers states.
“It is manifestly suicidal for Ot-
tawa to talk of building defenses
on our coast while we ship mil-
lions in nickel and concentrates
for war purposes to the military
fascist dictatorship over in To-
kio.”

Roosevelt To Ask
For Written Reply

WASHINGTON, DC—W hile the

BRIDGE RIVER
MINERS VOTE
FOR ClO UNION

Three-to-One
Favors Affilation
With IUMMSW

Special to the Advocate
GOLDBRIDGE, BC, April
27—The drive to organize
BC’s hardrock mining industry
gained new strength this week
aS miners at the Pioneer, key
producer in the Bridge River

gold area, voted overwhelm-
ingly to affiliate with the CIO In-
ternational Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers.

Miners began immediately filing
application for membership fol-
lowing election of a- temporary ex-—
ecutive committee, and reports in-
dicate that 200 miners--all those
eligible for membership—will hold
IUMMSW cards within a short
time.

The move followed the resigna—
tion Saturday of the Cooperative
Committee due to failure of the
company union setup.

Sunday a mass meeting of min-
ers voted unanimously to affiliate
to_ “an__internatienal nion” jleay-
ing the final decision to a special
meetings Monday afternoon.

With 186 at Monday’s meeting
—the “swing” shift being under-
£round—the vote went three to
one in favor of the CIO union
aiter the men had been addressed
by Tom Ferkin, president of the
IUMMSW, BC District Council,
and Nigel Morgan, vice-president
of the CIO International Wood-
workers of America.

Forkin was making an organiz—
ing tour of the Bridge River and
Was invited to the meeting.

Dr. James, Pioneer managing di-
rector, spoke against “outside af
fiillation” but made no apparent at-
tempt to influence the vote.

Temporary officers elected were:
W. J. Cameron, president; D. Pat-
terson, vice-president: Grant Cam-
eron, secretary-treasurer.

District President Tom Forkin
interpreted the miners’ decision as
a clear vote of approval for the
policies of the international union.

“It was a clear expression of
their willingness to assist the
Campaign to unionize the BG
kardrock industry and incidental-
ly, will aid materially in pushing
organization in Trail to a success-
ful conclusion,” he said.

MOLLAND DENIES
STORY IN SUN

Alleged strikes and difficulties in
Project Camp 15 at Oyster River a
few weeks ago as told in a Van-
couver Sun story under the picture
of Harry Molland was termed ab-
solutely untrue by Molland in an
interview with the Advocate this
week. :

“There were never any threats to
stop work nor were there any dif-
ficulties attributed to the men,”
Molland declared, correcting the
account in the Sun, which inferred
be had acted against the “strike”
He resented the Sun siory on the
Brounds that it placed him in an
unfavorable light.

By accepting the
straw bosses job
Molland did not
Surrender any of
=his union principles
-and had there been
any threats of
strike he would be
the last one to at—
tempt to mislead
or defeat it.

All the men
were commended
2 for their splendid

world waited for Hitler’s broadcast
reply to President Roosevelt’s peace
proposals, the US President indi-
cated this weekend he would refuse
to consider the Nazi leader’s speech
as official, White House circles in-
dicate he would demand a written

work by the fore-
man at a social
evening; no one
was singled out for particular men-
tion. Molland stressed the fact the
men had done a g00d job in con-
structing eight miles of road by

MOLLAND

reply.

hand labor.

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