THE PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE etal Miners Record Progres PACIFIC PEACE SOVIET CAR AT NY WORLD FAIR MEETING URGES AID TO CHINA *Frisco Parley Plans Coastwise Drive On War Exports to Japan Returning from San Fran- cisco, where he attended the West Coast conference for Peace and Security, George Les Strange, one of the four BC delegates, spoke enthusi- astically of conference proceed- ings when interviewed by the Advocate this week. Many colorful and stimulating addresses were heard by dele- gates, he said, including one from Major Evan S. Carlson, military expert, former US Marine Corps officer, and observer with the Bighth Route Armies of China during many decisive battles. While not underestimating the difficulties of conducting a war across the Pecific, Carlson warned delegates that they must act now fo avoid possibility of facing Japa- nese bayonets in a later day. ‘Using the islands of the Paci- fic as stepping stones it could be done by a Dation which possessed tremendous manpower and exten- sive natural resources,” Carison told the assembly. “China pos- sesses that manpower and those resources and if Japan is success- ful in her attempt toe conquer Ghina, these reservoirs of power will become available to her. There can be no doubt as to the use she will make of them.” Further point to these remarks was given by former Congress- man Byron Scott, who told the Gonference that unless America and Ganada acted immediately to stop the shipment of war materiais to Japan, the people of this con- tinent would have to fight against those same “weapons and ma- terials later. The conference, representative of the three US coast states and British Columbia, demanded pas- sage of the Shwellenbach resolu- Fair, represents the first time THIS SEVEN-PASSENGER limousine, a Soviet car now on display in the Soviet exhibit at the World’s has been seen in the United States. ; (Central China). In the beginning with the stubborn resistance of mand undertook a circuitous man- brigade and two infantry regiments were used for this maneuver, and operating in the direction of Sinyeh, occupied this town on May 10. tion outlawing the traffic in arms and war materials to Japan, and urged credits to China to provide for shipments of wheat and cotton surpluses. Another resolution provided for the extension of the boycott against Japanese goods, urging organisation and cooperation of small merchants and especially women consumers. Arrangements were drafted for establishment of local councils in all West Coast communities, work ing under direction of the San Francisco Committee Against War Shipments to Japan, to Carry on peace work and enlist aid of indi- viduals and organisations. Ihes Strange, who was elected leader of the Conference boycot: committee in panel discussion, was accompanied by Mrs. James Gray end Mrs. Gertrude Lanning of the WCTU, Mrs. Jean Pelton and Foon Sien of the China Aid Coun- cil Les Strange was a2 delegate from the Nanaimo Chinese Wa- tional Salvation Bureau_ Main conference sessions were presided over by W. Sawyer, pre- Sident of San Francisco Wational Lawyers Guild. Thereupon the flank of the Jap-— anese turned to the southeast with the object of striking at the flank of the Chinese troops, and occu- pied Tangho. By this time, the Chinese com- mand had strengthened its forces in the Nanyang district and launched a counter-offensive. On May i11,-the Japanese were dis- lodged from Sinyeh and on May j4 from Tangho. By developing 4n offensive, the Chinese units forced the Japanese to retreat also from Tungpeh. On May 19, Chinese forces occupied Tsaoyang- A de- tachment of 4,000 Japanese troops, retreating from Tsaoyaneg, moved jn a southerly direction, but was surrounded by Chinese units in the Tahungshan Mountains. On May 23, after a2 stubborn battle lasting all night, the Chinese units dislodged the Japanese from Suichow. In the days that followed, the Japanese attacked Suichow with the object of winning back the city, but failed in their objec- tive. Bheir attacks on the Tahung- shan mountain district met with a similar failure- As a result counter-offensive, Chinese Japanese the the of everyone! Werrows Bridge, There Will Be No “International Situation” International PICNIC Seymour Park--Sun. Aug. 6 __ but there will be a situation where Sports, Fun and Frolic can be enjoyed by Your admission ticket—25 cents—which includes transportation over the Second will also chance on prizes totalling $500.00. 3K WE’LL BE SEEING YOU! MOSCOW, USSR—In the second half of military operations in China developed in the simultaneously: Anlu, Suichow and Tungpe Review Of June Campaign Shows Chinese Forces Taking Offensive By N. Lyakhov, Soviet Military Expert May and the beginning of June, the most active district southwest of Hankow, in Hupeh Province of May the Japanese command organised an offensive in three directions h. After the attacking Japanese columns had met the Chinese troops and their advance halted, the Japanese com- give you a HK S > euver on its right flank. A cavalry plan of operations in the SS part of Hupeh province was a com- ‘plete failure. The Japanese divi- sions which had been operating here for several days withdrew a distance of more than 120 miles. The Sixteenth Japanese Division, which suffered the heaviest losses, was later recalled to Hankow to rest. The offensive launched by the Japanese at the end of May in the district south of Yochow, also end- ed in failure. Fierce fighting, last ing five days, developed here, but the Chinese units repulsed all the attacks of the enemy. Im an at tempt to penetrate the rear lines of the Chinese defense in th dis- trict south of Yochow, the Japa- nese Command tried to land troops on the southern shore of Lake Tung Ting. But, after convincing themselves of the futility of con- ducting further attacks in this dis- trict, the Japanese were forced to withdraw their troops to their original position. Guerilla warfare in the deep rear lines of the Japanese troops is de- veloping on an ever wider seale. According to a statement by Chow Hin-lai, Assistant Chief of the Political Department of the Mili- tary Council of China, Since the fall of Hankow 85 percent of the Japanese troops have been engaged in operations against the Chinese troops and guerilla detachments operating on the territory seized by the Japanese. Despite this, how- ever, the operations of the Japa- nese in the rear are not meeting with success. There are no less than 20 partisan bases in the Japa- nese rear lines, which organize the movements of the guerilla detach- ments. Small arsenals and handi- craft workshops haye been estab- lished at these bases where rifles, revolvers, hand grenades and cart- ridges are turned out. The reserves of guerilla forces concentrated CARPENTERS ASK UNION SUPPORT VICTORIA, July 13.—Interna- tional office of the United Broth- erhood of Garpenters and Joiners of America in Indianapolis was asked by the local union to reduce the initiation fee to $5 to facilitate the enrolling of new members into the union. A wire to this effect was dis- patched after 2 special business meeting Monday night to devise ways of increasing the member- ship and maintaining the mini- mum wage for union carpenters of 80 cents an hour, through reten- tion of the agreement with the Builders’ Exchange- This will necessitate the union again asking the Industrial and Conciliation Board to raise the now existing government wage minimum from 70 cents an hour to 80 cents. Union members invited William Page of the Vancouver Building Trades Council to assist then for two weeks in the organizational campaign. here undergo military training. Despite the fact that it is nearly two years ago since the Japanese have been the masters of Peiping, guerilla detachments are conduct- ing active operations in the im- mediate vicinity of the city, pene- trating the city in groups and in single numbers, destroying the Japanese barracks, ammunition de- pots, etc. Recently, a guerilla de- tachment of Chinese peasants routed a Japanese unit in Tung- chow situated 18 miles east of Peiping. The Japanese lost more than 100 men in this battle, and the Japanese punitive detachment sent in as reinforcements lost 300 soldiers. In the zone of Shanghai and Wanking, the two big cities im Central China, detachments of ths Fourth People’s Revolutionary Army, units from other regular Givisions of the Chinese Army and numerous guerilla detachments are operating in the Japanese rear. Fighting is developing near Shang- hai itself. On June 4, near Wooa- sung (six miles from Shanghai), an engagement took place between a Japanese unit and guerillas. Sev- eral tens of thousands of guerilla fighters have approached Hang- chow, landing on the shore to the east of the city, from whence they are moving to the Northwest in the direction of Shanghai. Fight- ing takes place every night near Hangechow and along the Hang- chow-Shanghai Railway. According to the data of the Chinese press, approximately 40,000 guerilla fighters are operating in the Hanking, Shanghai and Hang- chow districts. Even the Japanese press is unable to keep silent about the seriousness of the guerilla en- gagzements. The summaries printed in the Japanese newspapers every 10 days note the great number of engagements with the guerilla forces in the zone of the big cities in the rear lines of the Japanese. At present the Japanese Com- mand has undertaken new offen- sive operations in Worth China. Considerable forces have been con- centrated in the southwestern part of Shansi Province. An offensive is being conducted along the Chungtino mountain ridge. Stub- born fighting is now developing on this sector of the front, as the Japanese have met with strong re- sistance on the part of the Chi- nese troops operating here. The course of military operations CIO Union Drive | Gains Headway In| Trail, Gold Camps | +f British Columbia hardrock miners looked back for a momen this week over one year of union activity and found the result worth recording. : It was just a year ago that a small group of metal miners me in Vancouver—the date was July 4—to launch the campaigi— for a unionized industry under the banner of the CIO Interna tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. officers were appointed, a small contributions, and the drive TS officially under way- Within three weeks—July 25— the first major victory of the cam-— paign was scored when miners in the new gold camp at Zeballos on the West Coast signed up in the union close to 100 percent to form the Zeballos Local 450 of the ITUMMSW . Almost immediately the drive was extended to other districts. Headquarters for the up-country areas was established at Trail, smelter town of the CPR-con- trolled Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, and one of the main points of concentration. Union officers in Yancouver began publication of a bulletin for prov- ince-wide distribution, later to be supplemented by a second bulletin for the Trail and Kimberly workers. First open counter-thrust of the mine owners came within three months when a radio speech on the GIO, planned for release over Station CJAT at Trail by Organ- izer A. H. Evans, was banned. This was followed within a few days by an openly provocative act when the union publicity car was stolen in Trail and destroyed by running it over a cliff. Incidentai-— ly, Attorney-General Wismer prom- Organizer ang fund was raised by voluntar 7 company union setup—which wer favorable to the union. campaign in Trail had reach able to begin circulation of peti- as bargaining agent for the mer: its highest peak to date when 25 years saw some 2000- smeiter men and their wives turn out | to a meeting in Trail’s Butler Park to hear Organizer Evans and other union speakers. ff was the first union meeting in the CM&S sitrenghoid since the famous “Ginger’ Goodwin, later to become a martyr to BC Isbor struggle, succeeded in establish- 1916-17. While the Trail campaign we in progress, the union was als registering gains in other mininj camps. key producer in the Bridge Rive gold area, rejected union setup by a 3 to 1 vote an formed a local of the TUMMSY\ Then the hardrock men at Fail view Amalgamated joined tk union. Atlin gold camp was Re: tho reorganize and establish 4 active local. Tjhe Ymir local wo out on a wage dispute, and ai tempts made by the Pioneer mar ised a full investigation of the outrage at the time, but union of- ficials have yet to be notified of any arrests. Nevertheless, evidence that the drive was having its effect was provided on September 29 when the Trail management increased wages by 25 cents a day. During the next few months steady progress was recorded. The international headquarters of the union began $400 monthly contri- butions toward the drive, and changes began to take place in the personnel of the Trail Work agement ta discriminate agains @ union member were blocked an the worker reinstated. Based on only one year of aei vity, which shows four minbin camps organized and the Tre campaign nearing the top, the hur dreds of new members of the it ternational union in BC were ju tified this week in “pointing wit. pride. And labor observers ge! erally are expressing the opinic that before the second year rol past, the province’s increasing! important metal mining industt will be close to the 100 percer men’s Cooperative Committee—a closed shop mark. Building Dispute Settled As Union Lathers Engaged Ralph Drayton, contractor, lathers on an apartment Drayton phoned Union President Fontaine of the lJathers’ Union | Wednesday night to remove the. pickets after a lone union member was stripped of his signs. The union replied Thursday morning by, placing 40 pickets at the job and shorily after Drayton agreed to engage the union lathers. They will start work Monday. Ralph Drayton, lathing and plastering contractor, had nine non-union lathers, the only ones in the city not in the union, employed on the job. Two weeks ago Dray- ton had a green erew working for less than the minimum wage, but James Thompson, BG fair wage of- ficer, put a crimp in the contractor’s plans and pulled them off the job. Drayton then engaged his pres- ent non-union crew, and this was the reason for union men picketing the job. They have received encourage ment from numerous residents in the locality. Hiring of non-union lathers con- stitutes a threat to wages and work- ing conditions established by the union, asserted union officials. during May and the beginning of June show that the Japanese are unable to complete their offensive operations and that the fighting and maneuvering abilities of the Chinese Army are on a much higher level. Union lathers won out Thursday morning in a dispute wit over pbuilding under construction for D Turnbull at Thirteenth and Granville Street. employment of non-unic SOCREDS PLEDGE) HERRIDGE AID Pledge of full cooperation wit the Wew Democracy moyemel was given by the executive of th Social Credit League of Britis Columbia at a meeting in V2 couver Wednesday. Named as members of a con mittee to confer with provinei representatives of the New Demi eracy were A. D. Creer, presider of the Social Credit Leagut Major A. HH Jukes, member ¢ Victoria; William Savage, Dr. } H. Smith, Peer V. Paynter ar Paul McD. Kerr. ; The CGE provincial conventic ruling made by W. W. Lefeau provincial president and conve tion chairman, that individu clubs and members would be 4 lowed to cooperate with the Ne Democracy movement was WE comed by the Social Credit Leas’ executive. A provincial Social Credit © ference ,to be addressed by J. — Blackmore, member for Let bridge and leader of the Soe Credit group at Ottawa, will held shortly, it was announced. This advertisement is not 5 ~ See SS published or displayed b Government of British << SS: Se SSS y the Liquor Con Columbia. = rol Board or by the t the point where the union was | tions asking for the TUMMSW [| and on May 22 the drive reached ~ the first open union meeting in | ing a local of the uuion back in 7 On May 8 workers at Piones: | a compan. Ww ert