THE PEOPL ES ADVOCATE Page Three SIGN | SSS = = SS : a < TRADE Pp ACT eitet Roosevelt and President Somoza of Nicaragua sign an agreement for financial, commercial and military aid to Wicaragua. Roosevelt and Somoza are seated. = LAID WASTE BY BOMBS after a rain of Japanese bombs. > —Wreckage of a hangar at the Chinese military air- drome at Nanchang, Capital of Hiangsi province, To Push Fight On Padlock ARRANGEMENTS ON ROYAL VISIT ANGER VICTORIA Small Businessmen Suffer Heavy Losses; Children Mistreated By LILLIAN COOPER VICTORIA BC June 8. Uhe enthusiasm and attendant ).0mp and ceremony that fea- (ured the visit of the King and \2ueen of England has subsided | siere, and by now a reaction of) /ndignation has set in through- ut the city and district at the _ cor arrangements for the royal | isit made by responsible officials. » Organizations, stores and indivi_ suals are busy countinge their losses S icurred because they were enter- - rising enough to prepare large Suantities of food on the strength Bi oa predicted shortage. This re = ited largely because of the lack | cooperation between the Cham-_ )=r of Commerce and the city ) tering committee—this commit- * having urged people to put up » od with no eheckup whatever. ty few of the countless box aches, sandwiches, etc. were sold. » 2 consequence charitable insti- | tions were offered so much food h Sy could not handle it all. Realtors who built rows ef seats Sng the procession route ineurred » © heaviest losses. The exorbitant fices charged per seat discour-— © sed the public from buying, and "™me dealers finally cut the price »¢wn te 25 cents per seat in an )fort to effect Sales, but with few ’ kers, | More than 1900 Gwners of homes ' Pressed their willingness to ac- /Mmmodate visitors as 4 result of © Campaisn conducted by the amber of Commerce yet very /¥ were called on to do so. i Standing |= Up-Isiand school children, I : packed together ) the heat that one can only : it was that the first tf orse, onl y tain even styal couple. a few were able to a glimpse of the at is expected ext week or so a ty such tragic mismanagement |‘Constitutiona lity’ Will Be Appealed Before H igher Court upholding the padlock law as mental in this Dominion.” forts on behalf of Muni Taub, young Montreal man ordered evict ed from his home on Charges of “communism” it was to test the Padlock lay, under which the eviction was or- ‘dered, that the Taub case was brought into court. Judge Greenshietds’ decision will be fought to the highest court, the CCLU announced. Following its special meeting, the organization issued this statement: “The Canadian CGCivil Liberties Union, Montreal branch, has de cided to continue its assistance to Muni Taub, defendant in the ease of Taub VY. Fineberg, in decidines which Justice Greenshields upheld the ~ constitutionality of the pad- lock law. “While naturally disappointed by the decision, the CCLU neverthe— less believes that the decision in no way invalidates the contention of the union that the padlock law is an undemocratic enactment that wiolates civil rights long regarded as fundamental. “The CCELU believes that the decision, if allowed to go unchal-— lenged, will present a grave threat to the civil rights of all Canadians for it contains impli- cations that should arouse ap- prehension throughout the Do- minion. In effect, the Chief Justice holds 'NION DRIVE that the legislature can legislate te prevent any action by virtue of its power to legislate in matters affecting property and civil rights. Thus the legislature would seem to have power to impose the will of the majority, as represented in the lesislature, without any regard for the rights of the minority. This would seem to constitute a denial of a basie tenet of democracy. “To all Canadians who have believed that the padlock law could not withstand its first test before the courts, the decision must have come with some sur- prise. It will not have been with- out some benefit to the cause of democracy in Canada, however, if it has the effect of bringins Canadians to a realization that the immediate retort of the C that the notorious legislation is enactment that violates civil li In a statement issued after an executive committee announced > fundamental civil rights must be Special to the Advocate MONTREAL, Que—Chief Justice Greenshields’ judgment “constitutional” this week drew anadian Civil Liberties Union nevertheless “an undemocratic berties long regarded as funda- emergency session, the CCLU that it would continue its ef- Suaranteedq constitutionally. “Phe Canadian Givil Liberties Union has advocated the amending of the British North America Act to inelude a ‘Bill of Rights” The decision makes such a ‘Bill of Rights’ more than ever mecessary. “The Canadian Givil Liberties Union plans to carry this issue to the highest tribunal in the land, and, at the same time, with the means at its disposal, to the people of this province and the rest of Canada. In this effort it seeks the Support of all Canadians who seel: the preservation of civil liberty.” QUE. LIBERALS SEEK ALLIANCE MONTREAL, Que.— Speculation is going on in political circles here as to the possibility of a rapproach— ment between Paul Gouin’s Action Liberale Nationale and the DLiberal Broup headed by Eduard Lacroix, federal member for Beauce con- stituency. The rumor that such a merger may materialize is lent credence by the widespread dissatisfaction in- Side the provincial Liberal organi- zation led by the old guard leader, Adelard Godbout. The Lacroix faction bolted the Liberal Party in 1934 to join forces with Paul Gouin prior to the double— cross handed the latter by present Premier Maurice Duplessis. In the present complicated po- litical tangle in the province, ob- Servers attach much significance to the development, since there is much need for an effective leader- ship of genuine Liberal forces within the Liberal Party and the ALN, which would develop unity of all progressives around a pro- fram of defeating Duplessis, com- batting the trusts and generally ad- vaneing the interests of the People. < LABOR RAPS INJUSTICES OF COMPENSATION Dependents of Men Killed On Job Not Elisible For Pension Injustices under the Work- men’s Compensation Act whereby workers’ widows are deprived of allowances throush technicalities in the act were aired in the Trades and Labor Council Tuesday night by Del- gate Ashton of the Civic Em- ployees’ Union. The matter will be taken up with the proper authorities by the ex ecutive board and all delesates who have personal knowledge of any other cases were asked to file them With the secretary. Delegate Ashton disclosed that a member of his union had contract— ed a blood poisoned thumb while engaged in sewer work and prior to his return to work the attending physician operated on his stomach, then when death Claimed the pa- tient pneumonia was Siven as the cause. As a result of these circumstances the widow has been denied any settlement by the Workmen’s Com-_ pensation Board. Two other delegates attested to the same state of affairs. Harry Douglas, Meat Cutters and Packing House Employees delegate, cited the case of his son having contract ed blood poisoning, but his death later was attributed to pneumonia. Perey Bengough, Trades Council secretary, stated there were many cases of a similar nature and the Trades and WLabor Council had Sought amendments to the act whereby the word “accident” would be eliminated from the cause, but So far had been unsuccessful. Deletion of the word “accident” would not impair but rather jm- Prove the act since a worker would be compensated for injury received while at work. Another instance was cited by Percy Bengough in the correspond- ence from J. A. MacInnis, Com- pensation Board lawyer, where a Single man had been killed at Bloedel, Stewart & Welsh’s logging camp and because of certain regu- lations in Clause 12 of the Com- pensation Act the funeral expenses had been paid by the board but no Settlement had been made with the deceased’s relatives. The remarks of the president and Secretary was that under these eT cumstances the married man was Placed at an unfair disadvantage to ain employment in the camps since it was much cheaper to kill a single man. —<¢) CHOSEN FOR WINNIPEG WILLIAM STEWART, board member of the Vancouver Trades Council, selected as official dele— gate to Winnipete Youth Con- gress. COUNCIL OKEHS YOUTH CONGRESS Official commendation of the presram and policies of the Gana- dian Youth Congress to be held in Winnipeg on June 30 to July 3 was given by the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council when delegates ratified the executive’s recom- mendation to send William Stewart as council delegate and raised his expense account from $50 to $65. Stewart is the youngest member of the Council executive, is a mem- ber of the organizing committee and president of his own union, the Hotel and Restaurant Him- ployees’ Union, Local 28. It is expected that some 40 dele- gates from British Columbia will head tow:Wrd Winnipeg to attend the fourth annual coneress. Among some of the youth leaders already Slated to FO are: John Stanton, na- tional vice-chairman; Jerry Hundal and Donald McBean representing the Vancouver and New West minster Youth Council; William MeConnell and John Prior, pro- vincial executives; Florence Leck, Women's International League for Peace; Hna Bruce, Provincial Rec- reational Centers; Margaret David- son, YWCA, and v. Bjarnason, Canadian Student Assembly. Boycott German Goods N ROYAL CITY EE STEW. WESTMINSTER, June 8. Beste unionists of this city have Vancouver and New West- ¢iSter Trades and Labor Council, | 2 Hughes, chairman of the com- He told the Advocate this week. he committee meets every J arsday in the Street Railway- 5 hall below the Russell Hotel _ only those Organizations elj- € to affiliate with the Trades Beil are ‘Ss. invited to send dele- 1 those trade unienS which now -pose the committee wil] re- © am invitation from Percy 0ush to affiliate With the cil as a result of a decision at last regular meeting of the ies Couneil in Vancouver. } of activity interest waned and _©Ommittee went out of exist— By HARRY GANNES 4 leas movies are perfecting the knack of making even drab 4nd some inconsequential his- torical events pulsate before our eyes on the silver screen. History is Made to relive for us. imagine, then, what the result can be when so dramatic and sig- nificant an episode as the in- trigues of Emperor Napoleon Trt in Mexico are given the best that Hollywood has in experience, technique, acting and direction. Juarez, the story of Mexico’s battle for national independence and democracy during the Amer- ican Civil War when the embryo Hitler, Napoleon TIT, sought to erash the Monroe Doctrine and establish European despotism in the Western Hemisphere, is a thrillin= cinema experience any way you look at it. ie IS one of the most human stories ever portrayed by the movies. The life and aspirations of the Mexican indians, just a facet of Juarez, symbolized in the leadership of President Benito Pablo Juarez. The love, the imperial hopes, morality and code of conduct of Maximillian and his ill-fated em- press, Carlotta, are absorbing. > The setting of the entire Pic- ture is epochal. To begin with, * there are the intrigues of Napo- leon ITJ, the sordid story of the French Empire of Napoleon the Little, which, though not treated in the picture, ultimately led to the debacle of the Franco-Prus- Sian War of 1870. Claude Rains’ interpretation of the ambitious and strutting usurper, Napoleon WT, is an illustration of the high attainment of the entire picture-_ <> While Huropean adventurers in- trigued for conquest of Mexico, the American people, under Lin- coln’s leadership, are in a death- battle against slavery. Meanwhile, British cunning dip- lomats enter, though they receive only a concluding ironical touch towards the close of the picture with its still warm lesson of “non- intervention.” x Im the midst of it all, Mexico’s peasants are fighting to wrest their “ancient Aztec lands from the feudal landlords who have tTade an alliance, in turn, with Maximillian, and the vice-presi- dential traitor (shades of John Wance Garner) to the hero of the film, Benito Pablo Juarez. Se EREAPS the historical milieu of Juarez can best be summed up by citing briefly Karl Marx’s Juarez’ - - Hollywood Pays Tribute To a People’s Struggle For Liberty ° summary of the period. Marx made a detailed study of these events which so stirred Europe as a by-product of American Civil War. It was “one of the most mon- strous enterprises ever chronicled in the annals of international bis- tory,” wrote Marx Therefore, we Can See that when choosing 2 his- torical subject of the &reatest sig- nificance to the Western Hemis- Phere now when fascism would attempt itself on 4 more gigantie scale to re-enact the intervention- ist ambitions and tragedy of Na- poleon TI, the authors chose dis— cerningely and daringly. Marx added that the events (now forming the subject-matter of the film Juarez) were “astound- @ See JUAREZ (Continued on Page 5) BAKERS MAKE GAINS IN FIGHT ON NIGHT WORK Woman’s Bakery Men Still Holding Lines — In Lengthy Strike Discontinuance of night work for bakers in the Cowan- Dodson Bakeries has rewarded the efforts of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers’ Union to have all night work in bake- ries abolished. The union was advised of the step this week, Jack Humphreys, union business agent, told delegates to the Trades and Labor Council Tuesday nizht. Bakers who went on strike No- vember ii following the refusal of the Woman’s Bakery Manager, J. © Brault, to recognize the ma- jority award of an arbitration board are still holding out, he re- ported. Letters. of support for the Trades and Labor Council’s appeal to not Patronize the Woman's Bakery continue to come in from Various quarters, showing that the business of this bakery has shrunk to a fraction of its former extent, Humphreys said. In his policy of bucking unionism the bakery manager has the sup- Port of the Ellison Milling Gom- pany, which practically owns the bakery, and there is every indica- tion that they will rather close up shop than deal with the union. However, a change may be noted after the injunction trial which is Slated for the Supreme Court Tues- day. if the injunction and claims for damages are dismissed, then there may be a change in the manager’s attitude toward the union although he has expressed himself to the ef- fect that “if he is fo0ing out of business he will go out his own way.” The Women’s Auxiliary of the Typoreraphical Union is Ziving the strikers some splendid support by informing store clerks of reasons for not purchasing the bakeries’ goods. The Royal Society of St George is giving moral Support as is the Progressive Women’s Fed_ eration, according to Jetters re- ceived by the Trades and Labor Council. While the strikers are assured of this moral support several unions have come through with contribu- tions to the strike fund, among them being the Taxi Drivers, Local isi, $10; Shipyard Laborers Hed- eral Union 126, $5: and Aeronauti- cal Employees, Local 756, $10. RUPERT MOVES FOR EMBARGO PRINCE RUPERT, BC, June 8. —Organization of an Embargo Council which will carry on a Planned campaign to curb the war makers by stopping the source of raw materials is the aim of a con- ference scheduled for Wednesday, June 21, in the Canadian Legion Hail here, called by a provisional committee. Public sentiment is favorably dis- posed to such an organization which can stop the shipment of war materials to Japan thus assist- ing the Chinese people to maintain their independence and peace. invitations haye been sent to 25 trade unions, lodges, churches and cooperative associations to send delegates prepared to endorse the principle and work actively for an embargo on all shipments to ag- Sressor countries. Boycott Japanese Goods!