Page Six THE PEOPLES ADVOCATE June 2, 1939 Conference Urges Important Changes In Coal Mine Act (Special to the Advocate) NANAIMO, BC—A comprehensive program for stimulation of the BC coal industry coupled with proposals for amendments to the Coal Mines Act and Compensation Act has been adopted by the Vancouver Island Sub-District of the United Mine Work- ers of America following the recent conference of Cumberland locals. Wanaimo and A. definite coal marketing policy, which will seek to develop new markets for BC coal and take up the slack in unemployment among Nanaimo miners, has be- come the objective of a special - committee appointed to carry out the work. First step will be the organizing of representative committees from all Upper Island communities. City councils and boards of trade will be invited to take part. W. S. Atkinson, UATWA sub-dis- trict representative, will head the Special committee charged with carrying out the plan. Ed Boyd and Perey Lawson of the Nanaimo ic- eal, and James Robertson and John Bond, of the Cumberland lo cal, will also act with Atkinson. Payment of firebosses by the government, with the mining company to be assessed the amount necessary to meet the cost, is among the number of proposed amendments to the Coal Mines Act. Gther proposals, which will be presented to the Provincial Government, include a change in the hours of work clause allowing miners to be out of the mine 16 hours before re- entering; mine inspectors and union officials to have access to time books; weekly pay and two weeks’ holiday with pay; and im- proved safety first regulations. Proposed compensation changes include a, demand for full compen- sation until resumption of work, institution of an appeal board un- der the act; and compensation for children to be raised from $7.50 to $10 per month. The UMWA will also ask old age Pensions 2 60 years; and a gen- eral labor holiday on May Day. Two fraternal delegates, Sam Guthrie, MLA, and Colin Cameron, MILA, were seated at the confer- ence and addressed the sessions. Other delegates included Ed Webb, Thos. Ostle, P. Lawson, J. Wilson, J. White, A. B. Mawhin- ney, J. Forsythe, D. Armand, D. Radford and Ed Boyd, all from the Nanaimo local; and R. C. Coe, D. LTweedhope, J. Bond, J. Rob- ertson, A. Boothman, J. Naismith, J. Hill and G. Cherkosk, repre- senting the Cumberland local. > Probe Nazi Sabotage In California P lane Plants SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — Tight-lipped under questioning but admitting guardedly that a serious investigation was being made of Nazi sabotage in California airplane factories, Attorney General Frank Murphy and Chief G-Man J. Edgar Hoover were on the Pacific Coast this week on-trial flights, killing their crews, a mysterious mission believed to be concerned with Nazi espionage and sabotage in this area. Murphys and Hoover's arrival in iuos Angeles ccincided with the re— turn to San Francisco from Wash- ington of Harry Bridges, West Goast CLO director, the country last January with rev- elations that Pacific Coast airplane factories were honeycombed with Wazi agents and saboteurs engaged in the destruction of American war planes and other planes ordered by Great Britain and France. Murphy, after a brief tour of Los Anglese, was to fly to San Fran- eisco later. It was considered likely who startled | Bridges revealed. - “Company officials, local in- spectors and even local agents of | the Department of Justice have at least condoned the work of mem- bers of the German-American Bund and foreign espionage agents,” Bridges declared in a telegram to President Roosevelt. “These Wazi agents served the double purpose of smashing unions for their employers and smashing | United States airplanes for their 'foreign governments. Because of their usefulness to their employers, they have been retained and any protest by employees against their work in the plant has been followed by the discharge of the employee reporting the facts.” Bridges named the North America Aviation Company at Los Angeles and the Consolidated Aircraft Corp. at San Diego as two plants working that he would confer with Bridges while in the bay city. ; ; Weither Murphy nor Hoover would discuss the purpose of their visit but it was admitted _that Gc on government orders at which Men are actively investigating Nazi|wazi agents had been especially activities in airplane factories in | 4ctive. e ios Angeles and San Diego as a resuit of Bridges’ disclosures. It was intimated that Murphy may also undertake an investigation of hostile Japanese activities on the Pacifie coast. - In all, 142 planes, built by Cali- fornia airplane companies for the United States government or for friendly powers, have crashed in “Every man who has dared to complain about these Nazi activi- ties has been discharged,’ Bridges declared. “Most of them have laid the matter before their union and the GLO has thus gradually accum- ulated a great mass of evidence which we consider of vital im- portance to the defenses of the country.” US Newsmen Gird Forces Combat New Influence NEW YORK, NY—The American Newspaper Guild rallied its forces for a life-and-death struggle on two fronts with reac- tionary publishers who this week attempted a last-minute gang- up on organized newspapermen just as the latter were on the verge of a victory inthe great Chi-manager, prior to the installation cago strike. ¢ of John Brookes as head of Influences behind the new fight against the Guild were not defin- itely known, though it is believed they are a part of the reactionary coalition of big finance now direct- ing a broad offensive against CIO unions generally. seized upon a pretext last Wednes- day to break off strike negotia- tions into which they had been forced by the strikers and public opinion. The same day the Chat- tanooga Newspaper Guild went on strike against the News in that city when it was given 2 clearcut choice of whether to permit the dismissal of leaders in the midst of negotiations and thereby in effect abandon its right to collective bar- gaining, or to fight for that right It was the first strike of white eollar owerkers im the South. Spontaneous support was amiaz- ing and so compelling that the stockholders overruled the pub- lisher and negotiated an immedi- ate agreement which they re- pudiated before it could be sign- ed under pressure from unknown sources. The Chicago breakofi also con- stituted a repudiation. It was a reversal of earlier commitments made by J. V. Connolly, Hearst (earsts top holding company. The Chicago repudiation was coupled with a renewal of good violence against Guild picketers on the Evening American and Examiner. Kuhn Stole Money To Give Girl Friend NEW YORK, NY—Fritz Kuhn, personal representative of Hitler in United States, is in a New York jail this week waiting trial on grand larceny and forgery charges which may net him up to 50 years imprisonment. It was reliably reported here that a special investigation by a law enforcement agency of the city revealed that Kuhn had paid doc- tor bills out of the Bund treasury for certain of his lady friends. The probe was said to have shown that the Hitler agent, al- though married, is not living with his wife, but is constantly in com- pany with a mysterious blonde and other women. The doctor bills were learned to have been paid by eheck to certain unnamed doctors, or in payment for special medical attention to unnamed lady friends of Kuhn. } bor, as part of their education. REFUGEES VIEW U.S. WARSHIP REFUGEES from European countries, ducted under WPA auspices, walk the deck of the USS New York, anchored in Hudson Har- ose who are attending English and citizenship courses con- Continued enue amounted to 3621 £billion rubles, with expenditure at 348.8 billion rubles, leaving a balance of better than 13 billion rubles. The revenue, unlike other states where it is gotten through excessive taxation, is obtained in the Soviet Union through the accumulation of Soviet industry and agriculture. During the Second WFive-Year Plan, the budget allotment for na- tional economy was 183.7 billion rubles which was 3.4 times as much 'as was allotted during the First Five-year Plan (1928-32). For social and cultural expendi- tures the budget sum during the second plan was 73.2 billion rubles, oer 5.7 times as much as under the first plan. To this sum were added contri- butions from the social insurance fund and other sources, making the total expended for social and cul- tural purposes 110 billion rubles. This was itemized as follows: Public education, 65.9 billion rubles; public health, 28.9 billion rubles; in- valid and old age pensions, 16.1 bil- lion rubles. The budget also indicated a trend to render greater assistance in the development of formerly backward Soviet regions and republics. To prove this contention, the fol- lowing figures were cited: While the total budget increased by 64.1 per cent from 1933 to 1937, the budget of the Kirghiz Republic increased 267.7 per cent and the budget of the Kazak Republic in- creased 305.1 per cent. Zyerev assured his listeners that the domestic resources of the Soviet Union were ample to finance the impressive program of construc- tion, expansion of national economy, ings and country’s defense powers as envisaged by the third five-year plan. HWMe said that preliminary mates for the 1939 budget put revy- enue at 155.6 billion rubles or a 22 per cent increase over the previous year. In 1937, revenue was 96.6 billion rubles and expenditures were 93.9 billion. In 1938, according to preliminary figures, 124 billion. Your Dealers: development of cultural undertak- esti- revenue was 127.6 billion rubles, compared with an outlay of Shirts, Pants, Overalls Sointula, Dawson’s Landing jthe National Association of Manu- Bill Designed To Outlaw US Employers’ Lawlessness WASHINGTON, DC—Culminating two and one-half years of intensive investigation of anti-labor practices by the nation’s le .ding industrial corporations by the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, a Senate committee opened its second public hear- ing last week on proposed legisla-> tion to outlaw the most vicious of such practices. In a brief summary of the more important items disclosed in the 34 volumes of testimony, Senator ia Follette €Prog., Wis.) declared that ‘UNITY MESSAGE his committee had already listed | 1500 companies which had made CANYON, BC, June 1“Unity of use of professional strike-breaking | ai] progressive people is needed to and espionage agencies and pistes |jsceet and offset the growing re the 1937 strike in Republic Steel! action which the Leadership to “the continued provocation and | League is trying to mobilize to lawless activity of the private po-! contest the coming federal elec- lice of the corporation.” tion,” declared H. J. Lundgren at La Follette blasted recent pro-'a public meeting here last Satur- testations of “reform” made By ||eey: leading industrialists, including Tom The Kootenay labor man pointed Girdler, Republic Steel chief, Paul} out te his audience that Canada W. Litchfield, of Goodyear Tire and;is not immune from the dangers Rubber, and others. of war and fascism which threat The La Follette-Thamos bill! ens the peace ow Europe and the (S$-970), which is the outgrowth of| world, but could be made so the committee’s investigation, is de-| through unity of all progressive signed to outlaw the use of em-| SToups and individuals and repudi- ployers of labor spies and ctrike-| ation of the candidates of big bus- CANYON HEARS breakers and to prevent employers | iness. from using company guards except | The New Democracy sponsored on their own property or to by the Hon. W. D. Herridge was possess or use industrial munitions such as machine gums, tear gas and vomit gas. La Follette, in pointing out the need for such legislation, declared that E. T. Weir, head of the Na- tional Steel Company, which is a leading purchaser of industrial mu- nitions, has assumed leadership of a movement worthy of the support of all people, explained Lundgren. He believed it was not another political party but a sincere effort to unite the people around a single platform and candidate opposed ta fascism. The many questions asked the speaker showed the interest and eoncern which the audience have facturers in its propaganda efforts| f°r Present day topics. to defeat the attempt of labor to gain wider public support. Boycott Japanese Goods! —# BRITISH LABOR ‘CONDEMNS’ CONSCRIPTION But Upholds Ouster Of Stafford Cripps For Advocating Unity SOUTHPORT, Ens. — Ex pulsion of Sir Stafford Cripps, MP, by an executive ruling was confirmed by the annual Labor Party conference this week by a vote of 2,100,000 to 402,000 after the delegates had heard him defend his actions. With the highest body of the party turning down his appeal, Cripps and four others who were expelled by the executive for re fusing to refrain from supporting him appealed for readmission to the party ranks, stating they were prepared to sign the pledges which are binding on every party member. The five are Sir Stafford Cripps, George R. Strauss and Aneurin Bevan, MPs; Lieut-Commander E. P. Young and Robert Bruce. A resolution pledging the Labor party to oppose any and all forms of conscription was rejected by nearly 1,400,000 majority, but a pre posal condemning conscription was endorsed by the delegates and Similar action was taken at the Margate cooperative movement which is affiliated with the Labor party- The party conference also ap- proved a resolution condemning plans of the Chamberlain govern- ment to turn Palestine into an in- dependent state with an Arab majority. Said Philip WNoel-Baker: ‘All Chamberlain’s manifold humilia- tion at the hands of Hitler have not taught him We still has one foot in the eighteenth century and the other one in Berlin.” Boycott German Goods TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY WANTED—50 GIRLS FOR OF fice to office campaign. Neat appearance essential Good com- mission. Apply Room 43, 615 West Hastings. NOTE THE CHANGE! COMMUNIST PARTY BROADCAST EVERY FRIDAY CKiMiO 9:45 P.M. MALCOLM BRUCE Speaker Contributions to this broad- cast should be sent to Room 19, 163 West Hastings Street. Services of an imstructress for the Jubilee Children's Summer Camp at Orlohma Beach are sought by the committee in charge prior to the camp opening on July 3; A high school girl who has some knowledge of calisthenics and first aid and is willing to give her services free is preferred. Those interested and willing to give their services for the benefit of the children are asked to com- municate with Mrs. G. 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