THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE Page Three Exception aken To »tatement Cemmunism Springs From Traditions Of Canadian People “TORONTO, Ont. — Hon. W. i Herridge is taken to task = an editorial appearing this selx in the current issue of the arion, leading labor-progress- > weekly here. States the editorial: Speaking to the Thunder Bay Sides and Labor council the other ght, Hon. W. DD: Herridge, spokes fn for the New Democracy moyve- ent, among ether ‘things stated ht New Democracy's ideals, if put "So practice, would ‘drive from Waoads every foreign system from "= cism to communism’ ' Herridge may have thought this "= be necessary because of an at- Sapt to make New Democracy ap- fir to be ‘communist’ in character. fis part of the strategy of the re— Sionaries, to try to dampen any oeressive Movement and to scare peopie off by blasting the charge >‘commmunism.’ President Roose- et, President Cardenas of Mexico, E2mier Negrin of Spain, all have 'n called ‘communists’ from time -time. These men—of a type similar to »).t of Herridge, that is, enlighten- © bourgeois public men who are p20sed to reaction and fascism— “@ resent a growing movement of "jy ple who want action on the needs “4 the people, and want that action Si ried through in a manner con- E-ent with the traditions of par- -nentary democracy. They are not Eamunists. They are opposed to = cism. They will receive a © only as long as they consistently = at against monopoly for the peo- 's rights. Z ‘The Gommunists have made it indantly clear that they believe @ Socialism as the only permanent ation, and that a majority of people of Canada, eventually, “i come to see that historical ne * sity. Im the meantime, they are pared to cooperate with any Bup which earnestly fights ad- | cins fascism and reaction. Herridse is completely correct 2n he says that he is not a com- # nist. Wo thinking person would Rcibute that revolutionary work-— §-class philosophy to him. But Pis equally wrong when he lumps samunism and fascism together foreign doctrines equally opposed 9 Canadian institutions. \ Fascism wishes to destroy Ca- eiian democracy, including New amocracy, and to impose the Pvement, and any attempt to mis— Aoresent their purposes only brings me to the mill of those reaction- feS who fear all that New De- >eracy wants to accomplish.” | Ce ee pe JON’T DELAY A DAY’ _Monied interests mass them- ‘ves against the common people,” fyS the Dean of Canterbury, who Ses the people to defend their nndards of living and prevent in- ngement on “liberties of person, 2ech and press”... . “Do it now. -n’t delay a day. Speak immedi- sly te some friend. Pass this “aphiet on. Become a student of tl affairs. Educate yourself, Edu- te others +». YOU are one of those SSible million workers upon whose ll the advent of a new age rests. you Cannot make a million per- As act, you can at least make one yourself.” erhaps you are one of the seyv- al thousands of progressive people British Solumbia. Perhaps you = willing to aid in the wide dis- bution of “ACT NOW.” the price of this 64-page pamph- is only 10 cnets; and if every PSTessive person disposes of five piles among his neighbors it will @2 powerful infl : sure of BC. Bea eeeet the | BOGOK SHOP 50a EE. Bastinges St. Vancouver, B.C. il orders. Rm. 25, 163 W. Hastings Takes Issue With Herridge On Recent Speech >> SCREEN STARS arrive in Atlantic City to pr it order the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees to withdraw the charter it issued to the American Federation of Actors, expelled from the Associated Artists, to which the Sereen Actors Guild is associated. Hollywood Actors Interview AFL Executives z ess their demand on the AFL executive that Actors and Franco Minister Guarded Against IFS Demonstrations DUBLIN, IFS—(UACN) Five hundred city police were drafted for exira duty to guard General Franco’s minister to Hire when he presented his eredentials to Prime Minister De Valera. The precautions were -tak- en to guard against any dem- onsitrations for release of Frank Ryan, Republican leader and former member -of the International Brigade, now imprisoned at Burgos. Additional precautions were also taken by Keeping the news of the ceremony com- pletely secret. Only official eircles knew the ceremony was to take place. Meanwhile the campaign for Ryan’s release has as- sumed large proportions throughout the country. Boycott Test Won MANTA, Pi—The government: has virtually abandoned prosecu- tion of Antonio Bautista, chairman of the Congress for Democracy and Collective Security, for alleged violation of the penal code, which permits action to be taken against any individual who “by unlawful and unauthorized acts provokes or gives occasion for a war involving er liable to involve the Philippine Islands or exposes Filipino citizens to reprisals on their property or persons.” Prosecution of Bautista followed adoption of a resolution advocating a boycott cof Japanese goods by the Congress for Democracy and Col- jective Security at its first national convention recently. The resolu- tion was protested by Jitaro Kin- ata, Japanese consul-general in Manila “as tending to disturb the friendly relations between Japan and the Philippines.’ Government Attorney Grezorio S. Narvasa asked the court to dis- miss a complaint charging incite- ment to war or reprisals. The gov- ernment had already dropped a second charge of violation of Pres- ident Quezon’s neutrality prociam- ation. Baustista had the support of all progressive organizations in the Philippines and the defense was prepared, if necessary, to take the case to the United States: supreme court. The action was regarded as one that would establish a danger- ous precedent of which reaction- aries would make full use. Fish Trap Probe Opens Monday Wearings of the case for and against continuance of fish traps at Sooke will resume before Chief Justice Gordon McG. Slean, royal commissioner, in Vancouver Court— house next Monday at 10 am. Witnesses will be expected to pay their own expenses, states Vic. Hull, secretary, Pacific Coast Fisher— men’s Union, although it was at first intimated that these costs would be borne by the government. Presenting the case for fishermen who seek abolition of traps as an unfair and destructive method of fishing will be Jokn Stanton, union attorney, assisted by Grant Mac-— Weill, MP. Organizations demanding an end to the traps are Pacific Coast Fish- ermen, United Fishermen and Sal- mon Purse Seiners’ union, Prince Rupert Trollers’ Cooperative, North Island TTrollers’ Cooperative and EKuyoquot Trollers’ Cooperative as- sociations. tive partner of Germany and Italy,” the editorial states. “Very litle of this raw material has been sent her by the Axis powers, only 3.35 sper cent of her tetal imports of it in 1937 and 1.48 per cent of it in 1938 being their contribution. The bulk of it had come from other countries, from the United States and British countries chiefly. The United States supplied 57.07 per scent of this material and British countries 20.69 per cent of it last year. . The editerial continues: “But the values and volume of Similarly used imports from some British countries have been in- ereased. TIrenically then, the more Japan is helped by British coun-— tries to wage war, the plainer be- eoemes the threat it directs against them. The illogic of this is being realized, and some British countries are reducing their exports of war materials to Japan. But Ganada was not doing so. During the last two years it increased its export of raw materials essential to the mu- nitions upon which Japan “bases the might that ultimately may be a threat to the integrity of this Doeminion. “The volume of raw materials for munitions in the exports from Can-— ada to Japan is a trading anomaly. Of a total value of $19,539,000, ma- terials for munitions valued $i8- 378,000 last year. In other words, 94 per cent of Canada’s exports to Japan were for war munitions. The outstanding export was nickel, and amounted to $1.29 per cent of Ja- Exports To Japan Threat To Security Of Canada WINNIPEG, Man.—The extent and significance of Canada’s exports of war materials to Japan is clearly revealed in a recent editorial appearing in the Free Press here. : “If other countries did not supply Japan with the raw mate- rials essential to making her war munitions, she could hardly have continued to wage war in China nor could she be an effec- and other exports Similarly essen- tial in munitions manufacture gave Canada second rankings place ‘among British countries contribut ing to Japan’s war machine. “British Malaya, with its almost unprecedented source -of rubber, furnished Japan wtih exports val- ued at $23,380,000, which, however, was a reduction in value of $3,000.- 000 from the supply given in 1937. “In other materials Canada was the largest exporter amons British countries in 1938. It was so for aluminum, asbestos and zinc. -It Came second in the supply of cap- per and mica, and third in the supply of lead, which is so exten- Sively used for munitions such as rifle and machine gun bullets and on a large scale for explosives. Other raw materials exported by Canada to keep Japan’s war ma- chine going included tin, antimony, nrercury, scrap and old iron and steel, hides and skins. “These are valuable and whole Sale contributions to a military power which, as does Japan, re— Stricts more than 86 per cent of its imports to materials indispensible in the prosecution of aggressive war policies. Parliamentary state ments left the impression that Gan- ada’s exports to Japan partook of a More normal trading variety, and that itS exports of material for munitions had not increased. But Canada’s position in this regard has been tabulated by the Chinese Council for Hconomic Research at Washington, DC, and is stated to pan’s total nickel imports. "This! be: Nickel ee 6,047,759 91.29 4,053,352 70.61 Aluminum 6,019,652 45.97 3,453,056 71.81 Copper 2,204,753 9.04 714,720 3.54 Asbestos 1,337,147 100.00 1,362,962 100.00 ZAC. ee 1,027,550 36.77 1,169,799 23.55 Lead 957,149 20.74 4,297,536 55.75 WiCa) 5 21,750 Dan 8 ae eee Ee Scrap, Old Trin and Steel. 562,467 2.30 7435335 1.67 Hides and Skins _..W. 197,065 2.49 224,797 L.75 Total 13,375,232 6.00 16,026,057 5.05 Concluding, the Pree Press says: “This statement shows Ganada to be increasing its-aid in further- ing Japan’s war adventures. As an increase in exports, it has its national value. But its profits must be temporary. They are not those of a trade that is normal and healthy. What they give one set of interests may be expected to close the door in the Far East to many other normal trading inter- ests. “Canada may by aiding Japan in this way close to herself many doors which would otherwise be kept open to her export trade in the future. The whole of this prob- lem of supplying raw materials for munition-making to Japan at this time leaves implications eraver than is the illusory benefit to Ca- nadian exports at the moment. For, as has been pointed out, giving eco- momic aid to aggression may place Canada’s security at stake.” THE WEEK ABROAD Opposition. More than i@00 years ago, the manifesto begins, German peasant families settled in the South Tyrol, and though their country became italian 20 years ago, they remained Germans. Today Hitler has sold them, they are being forced to leave their mountain homes, “all have to leave, young and old, the old peasants with faces like those Albrecht Duerer drew. Men and things, Hitler has sold them.’ Not for money—this time his reward is a free port at Trieste. “It is not true,” the manifesto declares, Hitler needs a Mediterranean out- let at Trieste for the trade of his new Bohemian-Moravian ‘Protect- orate’. Hitler himself has destroyed that trade. He needs it as a base for further adventures in the Med- iterranean. This traffic in human souls is to help him with his spies and provocations to stir up war in those distant parts of the world which do not really vitally interest the German people but only such ray, Irish Communist leader. Democratic Republican movement in the tradition of Wolfe Tone, Mitehel, Connolly and Pearse. “This movement has as its best allies the working class and “the democratic masses of Hugiand,” he continued, “and any action which will alienate them will only play into the hands of the reactionaries, “The Nazis are taking every op- portunity to spread propaganda and are being assisted by peeple in high places here. How can these people be our allies? They can only be allies of the most reaction- ary forces in this country,” he con- tinued. Center and Communist party. Strongest of these is the Ricard- ist Republican party, founded with the objective of electing Ricardo Jimenez Qreamuno, veteran dem- ocrat of Costa Rica and three times president of the country, who is Supported by the majority of the Costa Rican population. Guauacasteca Fraternity party is a regional party with a great majority in Guanacasteca. It is headed by Dr. Vargas, representa- tive from this province to the Na- tional Congress. Germinal Genter organization with dencies. Communist party is solidly or- fanized, with branches through- out the country. During the last elections, it cast 11,000 of the 95,000 Is a workers’ socialist ten- wotes representing the total elec- “that, as the Nazis say.. Mann Makes Appeal To Germans On Tyrol PARIS, FRANCE—(ICN)—In the towns and villages of southern Germany the people are reading a new indictment of Hitler, occasioned by the uprooting of 250,000 Tyroleans from their century-old homes. Smuggled into the country, this mani- festo is headed: “Germans, Hitler Sells You!” Its author is Hein- rich Mann, chairman of the Committee of Action of German adventurers as Hitler. The out- come of the Trieste@South Tyrol deal will be to make Germany hat- ed all the more ... to plunge Ger- Imany into a war she’ will lose .~ Then Heinrich Mann recalls Schiller’s account of how earlier rulers of Germany bartered human beings. Hitler has stooped even lower than that. “INow he deais in babies and old men and women- cde uproots a whole people from the land which is their own, Maisso- lini keeps the land, but the people who have lived there for over a thousand years are given notice to quit. Wet Hitler is clamoring for ‘vital space’ for his excess pop- ulation turns out to be—a port. “We Germans see a symbol in the fate of those 250,000 Tyrol- eans,” the manifesto concludes. We mean just as little to the ‘Ger- man Fuehrer’ as they do. Sooner or later he -will sell us all. We must get rid of him while there is still time.’ Terrorist Campaign Of IRA Condemned DUBLIN, IFS—(ICN)—Irish workers here condemned the terroristic Campaign in England being conducted by the TRA, under fascist inspiration, at a meeting addressed by Sean Mur- “The Nazis can never be our allies,” declared Murray. ‘‘The division of Ireland into two parts can only be got rid of by the Murray emphasized that it was the extreme reactionary, pro-fasc- ist Craigavon party of northern ireland which, in.1913, deciared that 1 Home Rule were peranted iby the British parliament, they, would prefer to come under Ger- man rule. Undoubtedly, he said, the same sentiment was held by themtoday. The meeting endorsed Murray's condemnation of Chamberlain for his effort to appease the fascists. Demand was made for a really ef fective mutual pact between Bri- tain and the Soviet Union to save peace. Democratic Alliance Formed In Costa Rica SAN JOSE, Costa Rica.—All] prospective and liberal parties of Costa Rica have united into the Alianza Democratico Nacional (National Democratic Alliance) to seek victory for democracy in the coming election campaign. Parties composing this demo- cratic alliances are the Republican Fraternity party, Germinal torate. This democratic alliance has been brought into being under ex- tremely difficult conditions. While it has the sympathy and support of the majority of voters, it has to face the corrupt machine of the official party as well as the man- ocuyvres of President Cortes, who has shown in the past that he has no respect for electoral rights and who is determined to prevent the wictory of the democratic forces. Acknowledged to be under fasc- ist influence, _ the Gortes cabinet contains three profascist minis— ters, Aguilar Machado, Zuniza Montufar and Acosta. Claudio Cortes, brother of the president, is now enroute to Germany at the invitation bf Allgemeine Elektrizi- taets-Gesellschaet (AEG), the poyw- erful German electrical trust. sistance to mending the people for their port of China’s cause. complete enslavement. resolute resistance so as to to us by our ancestors. tinued until final victory over CHUNGKING, China.—Two years the stubborn defense of Shanghai gave in- spiration to the Chinese people in their re- invading Japanese armies. mark the second anniversary of the defense Chiang Kai-shek Jast week sent a message to the Chinese populatfén of Shanghai, com- Said he: “Before us are two paths. The first path leads to surrender to the enemy and our This is the path of traitors. The second path means to continue victory. This is the sacred mission entrusted “The workers must unite and support the armed resistance of China which will be con- achieved. By their revolutionary spirit and ago To Expressing resolute sup- = = prepared achieve final and economic national honor, the workers have rendered tremendous assistance to the Chinese Army, both during the fighting in Shanghai and af- terwards when they helped the Chinese Gov- ernment transfer the factories and plants to the hinterland.” confidence that Shanghai workers, observing their revolutionary tra- ditions, would also in the future fight against the enemy, Chiang Kai-shek stated: =Tocan assure my countrymen that we are in military, diplomatic, political spheres to surmount all diffi- culties and achieve final victory. The people of the country must remember that until the arrival of the day of final victory, we have to eur enemy is ours.” overcome great difficulties. know that Japan is suffering difficulties and deprivations which are ten-fold greater than However, we Resolute Resistance Will Bring Final Victory, Chiang Kai-shek Tells People Of Shan ighai ee