Crees Ot RCA RULE NET Teer BRITISH COLUMBIA’S PROG RESSIVE HOME NEWSPAPER FOR PEACE, PROGRESS AND DEMOCRACY onawesoeeeeere Dame FULL NO. 238. VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1939 Begin Work On $100,000 City Project North Vancouver Will Spend $70,000 On Works Scheme Throughout British Colum- bia the movement for public works and recovery, which spells jobs and a measure of security to thousands of citi- zens, is gathering momentum. This week several new projects were approved in various parts of the province, while. in Vancouver the names of 50 men were removed from relief rolls as they started work on the city’s $100,000 sewer project. Wext week another 50 men will begin work and later 30 more men will be taken on. Wew projects given government approval Thursday bring the total ef Vancouver’s works projects to $488,653, of which $265,559 will be spent in labor cosis. Projects approved were: i. Improvements on 38 city streets costing $83,333. 2. Park improvements, including forest protection in Stanley Park, to cost $83,333. 3. School ground improvements at Kerrisdale, Qord Nelson and ihangara schools and Yancouver Tech, costing $33,333. Worth Vancouver, it was an- mounced by Commissioner G W. Vanee this week, is planninze a] $70,000 works project, of which $2G,000 will be spent on development of Lynn Creek park, The provin- cial government will contribute not less than 20 percent to this works scheme which will give work to Some 100 men for four and ga haif months. Surrey municipal council made application this week for approval of $37,000 program of improvements toe seven parks and three beaches. Council proposes to spend $6,000 On Bear Creek park a project start éd by Surrey Works and Farmers’ Association last year with materials supplied by the municipality. Other applications for approval of works projects have been made by Saimon Arm, Delta, Port Coquitlam, Courtenay and Port Alberni. Nemichi To Go To Tokio Harokichi Wemichi, Japanese consul in Vancouver since 1936 and an officer in the intelligence de Pariment of the Japanese Foreign GOffice. will leave next month for > ew Projects VICTORIA, BC.—Possibility vent 5,000 Doukhobors being lic indignation throughout the next Monday. vincial government may take action to pre- their homes by the Sun Life Assurance Com- pany was seen here Thursday. This, the latest development in a case which has stirred pub- lowed announcement that Attorney-General Gordon Wismer will personally oppose the Sun Life Assurance Company’s application ‘for committal of Sheriff M. E. Harper of Nel- son for contempt of court when it is heard Company's charge against Sheriff Harper is that he failed to carry out a court order for eviction of the Doukhobors from their’ fore- closed lands. Harper’s defense is that whole- Sale eviction of the Doukhobors would re- quire between 200 and 300 police and that no such force is available at the present time. Taxpayers Must Foot Bill © If 5,000 Doukhobors Evicted that the pro-~ evicted from province, fol- was asked to homes. Property involved is 15,000 Doukhobor community lands in Winlaw and Slocan districts some 30 miles west of Nelson, literally hewn from the wilderness years ago by the first Doukhobor settlers. Life Assurance Company foreclosed on the lands, estimated to be worth $700,000, in January, when officials of the Doukhobor community failed to meet a $200,000 mort- gage. On June 23 the provincial government it is stated that the company intends to sell the lands back to individual Doukhobors after obtaining possession. At a meeting attended by 2000 Doukhobors in Brilliant this week, John Veregin and his great-srandmother, Evdokia Veregin, widow of the first Peter Veregin, teld the gathering they could pur- chase the foreclosed lands back from the (Continued on Page 6) — See GOVERNMENT of acres The Sun evict Doukhobors from their Negro Singer noted. who will sing at a Kenneth basso, “China Aid Week” garden party to be held at Mrs. J. Z. Hall’s “Killarney,” home this Saturday evening. Hold Picnic Spencer, Tokio, when he will undoubtedly Tender a full report of Japanese fascist activities in BC for his goy- e€rnment’s consideration and guid- ance, Wemichi, it is announced, has ben promoted to third department head of the East Asian office at Polio, possibly for his zealous work among Japanese in this province, many of whom have been in- timidated by his agents. He will be succeeded by Kenji Wakauchi in September On Sunday A free trip to San Francisco This is what some lucky individual is going to get in return for two bits invested in a ticket for the International Picnic to be held next Sunday at beautiful Seymour Park on the Worth Shore. The lucky ticket holder may well be you. Why not? If you don’t win the trip to San Francisco you may come away the proud possessor of a Worthern Electric radio worth Herridze Urzes Canada Break Japan Relations OTTAWA, Ont — Canada should take immediate steps to “compre- hensively terminate its economic Telations with Japan,’ Hon. W. D. Herridge, leader of the New De- mocracy movement, declared in 2 Statement this weelk_ “There is mo basis for friendly association between the democra- cies of the English and #rench- Speaking nations and the fascism of Japan,” he said. “The United States, by its de- mnunciation of the US-Japan com- mercial treaty, appears to acknowl edge that fact. Canada should be equally candid, in duty to ourselves, the Empire and our good neizhbor “Fer against Japan, the Tnited States and Ganada have a common izontier and must have a common policy.’ $109 or a $94 ABC electric washing machine. And, in any case, whether you win one of these or other prizes, you'll be sure of a real day’s Sneas| Attractions include sports ’n stuff for young and old, and if you don’t like the way the international situa-— tion’s shaping up, why, talce it out on the Dictipator, completely reno- vated by the sports committee after the drubbing he received at the Mac-Paps’ picnic which so aroused! the fascists’ ire a few weeks ago. We did hear rumors that one well- known fascist consul was so upset; about the whole thing that he plans to leave for home shortly. So, get your ticket without fail| today, at the New Age Bookshop, 50a Bast Hastings, or at the Peo- ple’s Advocate office. It includes return transportation from Hast ings and Cassiar to the grounds. Tf you don’t want to bring your own eats, there will be all kinds of tasty food available at reasonable prices, as the ad-men say. |Pledge Repudiated By New Democracy At City Meeting Pledges calling for New Democracy supported candidates to renounce their party affiliation Telford Prepares Charges Will Prefer Case Against Foster In Written Form uate developments in charges laid by Mayor Lyle Telford against various city police officers were: i. On receipt of a letter from Chief Foster’s counsel, Mayor Tel- ford stated he expected to have written charges against Foster completed today. Wrorld’s Fair with $50 for expenses. | 2. BC Command of the Ganadian Legion, in convention at Kamloops, expressed “resentment” at charges made against the chief constable. 3. it is reported that an outside magistrate may be brought in to conduct cases against Constables E. Pinkerton and H. Hamilton te obyvi- ate necessity of a Vancouver mag- istrate trying police officers with whom he is familiar. 4. The two suspended constables remanded Thursday by Magistrate Matheson, will stand trial in Van- couver police court Monday on charges of demanding and accept- ing bribes of bottles of rum from HB. MeckKibbon, taxi-driver. 5. Other charges, not criminal but disciplinary, were said to be under consideration by the mayor. 6 Investigation. of charges against Chief Foster, yet to be com- pleted by the mayor, and those against other members of the force will be publicly conducted Probe is expected to commence Monday or TPuesday. Will Discuss Unemployment Unemployment among ex-service- men will be one of the most im- portant issues to be discussed by the British Columbia command of the Canadian Gegion at its annual con- vention which opened at Kamloops Thursday. A number of resolutions describ- ing the matter as an acute prob- lem in BC because large numbers of men have been drawn westward by the mild Pacific-Coast climate, have been filed with convention of ficiais, ‘by Fred Clarke, chairman of New Democracy’s Vancouver Centre constituency committee, ment sponsored by Hon W. D. Herridge. Clarke stated that neither candidates nor supporters should be required to sign pledges renouncing their party affiliation. @ At a meeting held in the Gastie were repudiated Monday night as not being part of the move- Hotel’s Yukon Room for ex-ser- vicemen and their wives, Col. P. Byng Hall outlined the policies of New Democracy. During his dis- course he had Chairman Dunlop read out the pledge which has been 2 contentious point among those desirous of supporting the move ment but unprepared to renounce their party affiliation. “This pledge is not part of the New Democracy movement,” de- elared Clarke at the conclusion of Col. Hall’s address. Mr. Herridge never intended such a pledge to be issued. Otherwise it would be done on a national scale. This pledge is issued by a group working inde- pendently of the movement.’’ Similar oponion was voiced by if Japan Establishes - Secret Bases On Australian Coast SYDNEY, Australia. Commonwealth defense offi- cials are endeavoring to dis- cover and seize secret Japa- nese oi] and munitions bases known to have been estab- lished alongs the ‘western coast of Australia. _ Japanese pearling and fishing fleets operating off the coast have become in- creasingly daring in their raids on Australian fishing grounds. New South Wales fishermen a short time ago were threatened by Japanese armed trawlers within Aus- tralian waters. In Nazi Propaganda Min- ister Goebbels’ newspaper, Angriff, there appeared the following significant item wititen by Editor Hans Schwarz von Berk after his recent Australian tour: “The whole of northern Australia lies open. The vital eastern coast is no better protected. On the west coast is a vast territory where an enemy could land and construct de— pots before news reached the capital. . . = The islands under Japan’s mandate are relatively close.” Paul McD. Kerr, Social Credit can- didate in Vancouver Centre in the 1937 provincial elections, “I am in full sympathy with the New Demo- cracy movement, but I am not pre Pared to sign such a pledge,” he declared. Other members of the audience voiced disapproval of the pledge whieh resulted in a dicesion to evade it, only names and addresses of the audience being taken. What looked like a potential split in the movement was avoided when €ol. Hall agreed to join forces with the official New Democracy move- ment. At the close of the meeting Col. Hall was chosen chairman of the ex-servicemen’s committee. Would Oust Committee Resignation of the seven-man cooperative committee of the BE Plywoods mill was demand- ed this week in a petition signed by 125 men in the plant’s night shift after the committee had issued a statement assert- ing, “We believe that the find- ings of the company are quite satisfactory to the greater num- ber of the men employed.” This statement has blocked for the time being any attempts to reach agreement whereby 50 men discharged July 22 will be re-em- ployed. This was made clear by James Thompson, provincial labor department representative, when he declared that statements issued by the cooperative committee made it impossible for his department to act further. indicative of resentment against the present committee and demand for a new one is seen in the fact that 125 employees Signed the peti- tion within half an hour. It is ex pected the day shift will resister an equally large number of em- Ployees desirous of a change in committee personnel. Dissatisfaction is rife in the ply woods. plant over the company’s action in discharging 50 employees to forestall union organization and (Continued on Page 6) See PLYWOODS Meet Asks Measures On Silicosis Mines’ Presentation Of Case impresses Minister of Labor Several proposed amend- ments to the Workmen’s Gom- pensation Act advanced by miners and workers from im- portant BC metaliferous min- ing camps and smelters seeking compensation for workers contracting silicosis and meas- ures to eradicate iis causes were faborably received by Labor Minister George S. Pear- son, at a conference held in the city, Wednesday. “This is the most unusual of its kind i have ever attended in my life,” commented Pearson, who 2d- mitted he was struck by the effi- cient manner in which the man had prepared and Presented their case. Main amendment offered by mine delegates asked provision Similar to that in the British act, which Provides that wherever 3 worker is partially disabled through injury Or industrial disease, provided that disability prevents him from secur ing work in the industry, he must be recognized as being totally dis- abled and receive Aull compensa- tion. : Second proposal asked that 2 “worker be paid full compensation after having contracted Silicosis in BC, even though he had worked in mines in another province. Present clause in the Compensa— tion Act stipulating that a worker must have worked underground three months during 2 three-year period prior to his application for pension should be deleted, dele- gates stated. Setting aside of an unstated sun as a rehabilitation fund to provide an afflicted workman with funds to establish himself on the land or in business, or to allow him to return to ihs home was urged. Mines in South Africa, which once had the highest death toll from silicosis, through miners’ or- Sanization and agitation, now had the lowest death rate in the world, Pearson was told. This had been accomplished by installing proper ventilation to reduce silica haz ards. in South Africa teo, some $2000 (Continued on Page 6) See STICGSIS CCF Nominates In 14 Ridings _Nominated for Skeena federal Tiding at the GCE convention in Prince Rupert Saturday, George W. Weaver is the fourteenth CCE can- didate for the next federal election. Weaver is chairman of the CGR educational commiuttee and a mem- pee of the party’s provincial execu- ive. Only constituencies in which a CCE candidate has not been chosen are Victoria, where mnomniations wili take place August 10, and Kootenay East, where a labor can- didate, Fersus McKean, is already in the field. Progressives Aroused By Anti-Semitic Outbreak In East; Protest To Ottawa TORONTO, Ont. — Labor and progressive people here this weelk regarded with alarm reports from Laurentian district and WNova Scotia of the spread of anti- Semitism. Culminating in an open attack on Jewish women by two young Quebec boys Wednesday, anti- Semitism is being fostered in St. Agathe des Monts, Quebec, by surrepitious posting of anti-Jew- ish placards. “Jews are not wanted here, so scram while the going is good,” read some of the posters. Denying that the placards had emanated from the Catholic church, Canon J. B. Charland, priest of the village, nevertheless urged his parishioners to “remain masters in their own country.” in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Beckie Buhay, on a circulation ‘tour for the Clarion, received a threaten- ing letter from anti-Semetic sources. Strong measures are being de manded from authorities to sup- presS and punish all such evi- dences of racial hatred. Peter Bercovitch, MP for Cartier division of Montreal, has lodged protests with chureh and Civic officials Im a statement issued Tuesday, the Dominion committee of the Communist party declared: “Behind this anti- Canadian Campaign stand the conspiring fascist sroups, who seek to influ ence Canadian citizens with anti- Semitic cries in order to avert their eyes from the true causes of Canadian economic and social hardships which lie at the door of the big Monopolies in which not a Single Jewish Canadian is to be found as a leading figure” “The labor movement is the tra- ditional foe of racism. Tt knows that racism is inseparable from the suppression of labor’s Triehts- “We appeal to every labor and Progressive group to at once make their views known to the Prime Minister and the Minister ef Justice. Anti-Semitism must be nipped in the bud by govern- ment action. The labor move ment must quickly taice steps to educate its own members as to the fascist sources of Anti-Semi- ism and jts utterly anti-labor character.” d ?